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Tin tot? rrrrc ortr rrviv-di vjin 10 st. Louis GANTT MWEDS WIPE OUT GERMAN CAPT. FRANCISCUS, 5 OTHERS KILLED IN ARMY PLANE CRASH JAPS STORM CAPITAL OF CHEKIANG Drafted i WEDGE BERLIN DECLARES 3 SOVIET ARIES Russians Admit Being on Defensive There, but Report 'Enormous9 Losses for Nazis, Recapture of One Town. MOSCOW, May 25 (AP). Marshal Semyon Timoshenko's re newed offensive against Kharkov; has gained further ground, driving the Germans from another import, ant center tf resistance, front line -dispatches from the Ukraine reported today.

One wedge which the Germans hammered into the- Red Army's 1 Kharkov salient "at the cost of enormous losses" was wiped out in the new Soviet onset a communique declared. German losses ia dead alone were put at 750 men. Battlefronts reports' said previously occupied positions were being strengthened constantly, Ger man counterattacks repulsed, and ARE ENCIRCLED IN BARVENKOVA AREA -JJ k)J( 'K-v' i -A Associated rress Wirephoto. LOUIS TARTAGLIONE, his wife and children. From left, JOHN, 8 years old; ANNA, NICHOLAS, 10 months; MRS.

TARTAGLIONE, ANTHONY, LOUIS, CONCETTA, 2, and TARTAGLIONE. Press News Service Father, and His Father of Six Drafted; Wife Makes Protest Official of Board Says There Must Have Been Mixup. NEW YORK, May 25 (AP). The wife of Louis Tartaglione, 27 years old, has protested to President Roosevelt that her husband was drafted, although he is the father of six dependent children. The soldier is now on leave from Pendleton Field, Ore.

He returned to his Brooklyn home last Wednes day when he learned that his wife, who is expecting another child, was distressed by a belief that he had been sent overseas. An official of Tartaglione's local board said there must have been a mixup. When Tartaglione received his draft questionnaire last November, he struggled with it then took it his local board where it svas completed with the help of officials. On Dec. 18, he said, i he learned that he had been classified 1-A.

Tartaglione said he passed his induction physical examination, although under protest and was sworn in Feb. 24. He first went to Fort IMx, N. and then to Fort McClellan, where he said he applied in vain for a discharge because of dependents. Subsequently, he learned that he was to be transferred to the West Coast and telegraphed his 26-year- old wife, Caroline, that he was being sent "3000 miles away." Mrs.

Tartaglione became panicky and a few days later wrote to President Roosevelt enclosing pictures of five of the children. Meanwhile, Tartaglione, hearing of is wife's distress, borrowed $85 from the Red Cross and came home. He must leave New York Wednesday to return to Oregon. Col. Arthur V.

McDermott New York selective service director, said Tartaglione had received help from his local board in filling out the questionnaire, at which time he said his wife had quarreled with him and they were separated. The Continued on Page 2, Column 5. SUBMARINE SUNK BY U. S. BOMBER IN BRAZIL WATERS Vol.

94. No. 262 ROOSEVELT SEEKS 1185,10,000 CUT I WORK RELIEF Suggests BeMade by Congress Considers Plans to Extend Social Security Program. THOSE LESS THAN 65 MAY RECEIVE AID President Said to Favor Fund for Such Persons Heretofore Assisted by WPA. WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP).

flashing $185,000,000 from the total 6ause war conditions permit it. President Roosevelt asked Con fess today to appropriate for work relief in the year itarting July 1 plus $2,767,000 for idministrative expenses. He had estimated tentatively, In ha budget message to Congress fast January, mat $463,000,000 would be needed. The lower figure, he said in a message to the legislators, would permit an average monthly employment of about 400,000, although it is estimated that there are still unemployed. "Shortages of labor and material are rapidly developing," he told Congress, citing large war appropriations.

"To meet labor shortage the recruitment of workers from every available source will be required, and possibly even organized migration in some Instances." Many of the 3,000,000 now unemployed would be hired during the coming year, Roosevelt declared. Yet in a labor force exceeding he added, a substantial lumber would not be hired because of age, lack of skill or other handicaps, and some might be unable to migrate from regions with surplus labor to regions where workmen ire needed. Urges No Discrimination. In this connection, he said he eculd not emphasize too strongly "the need for industry to abandon prevailing practices of discrimination, racial and otherwise, in recruiting labor for war production." Looking farther ahead, the Pres ident said he was considering proposals to revise and extend the So cial Security program and expect ed to recommend to Congress leg islation "to extend the protection of our Social Security measures to provide alternative means of meet ing the needs presented by the residual group now being aided by the Work Projects Administra ton." The action which Congress takes on such proposals, he said, would determine the extent of moves toward further reduction or "the possible elimination" of the WPA. Plans for Workers.

The types of projects to be undertaken in the relief program for the 1943 fiscal year, Roosevelt said, would be those which can be prosecuted by day labor of the residual unemployed on WPA rules and which require a minimum of critical materials. Along with the $280,000,000 for fork relief, Roosevelt said WPA kad an estimated balance of Continued on Page 6, Column 4. Warmer THE TEMPERATURES. Jam. 63 9 a.

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5 jjjaet ganriae (tomorrow), the Mi88l88iPP at St of 8 1 St 23A teeU a ipi wl!" dat Including toreaatg 4 24 hnnr. to a. m. dock, 15. a fierce defense maintained against the Nazi flanking counteroffensive in the Izyum-Barvenkova sector to the south.

(The German high command reported that the bulk of three Russian armies had been encircled in the Izyum-Barvenkova region.) Observers here said the Kharkov battle, now in its fourteenth day, appeared to have settled into aa exchange -wf-savage blows Tesgftib- ling a slugging match between two heavyweights, with no sign yet of tiring or of decisive change. Battle at High Pitch. Masses of modern materiel, including medium and heavy tanks, the latest model planes and fast-firing guns were in action while the bulk of the infantry ot both sides was locked in battle. The Communist party newspaper Pravda quoted front line officers as agreeing Chat the fighting had reached extreme intensity. The dispatch described the strug- ele for one settlement n- hnniin PRESENT AS COURT Supreme Court Member Whose Opinions Were Suppressed Stays in Of flee, Won't Comment.

CONTINUES WORKING ON ANOTHER CASE Silent on His Future Plans Resigned as Chief Justice in Internal By the Jefferson City Correspond ent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON, CITY, May 25. Judge Ernest S. Gantt, who resigned as Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court en banc recently, but retained his office as a Judge, after a majority of the court suppressed two opinions he had written concerning an insurance fund case, did not take his seat on the bench when court en banc convened today for the May term. Instead, Judge Gantt remained in his office on the third floor of the Supreme Court Building, working on a case, while his six associates formally opened the May term of court and sat to hear arguments on appeals in the court en banc courtroom on the second floor.

Judge Gantt declined to comment to a Post-Dispatch reporter on his absence from the bench, and declined to say whether he would remain away from the banc sessions, which will continue for three days this week. He said he had nothing to say about the matter. A bitter internal quarrel among the Judges of the court was disclosed last May 5 when Judge Gantt's six associates, by a vote of four to two, suppressed two opinions by Gantt, one a dissenting and-the other a- reply opinion, and an opinion by Judge Ernest M. Tipton, answering Judge Gantt. The opinions were suppressed on the ground they contained matter that was "scandalous, impertinent and scurrilous." Judge Gantt was on the bench for several days in a recent sitting of Division No.

1 of the court, following the suppression of his opinions. HOUR'S STRIKE HALTS SOME CLEVELAND STREET CARS Tieup Follows Employes Failure to Get Paychecks on Time From City Treasury, CLEVELAND, May 25 (AP). Street car traffic on Cleveland's West Side was halted for more than an hour today by a walkout of city transit employes protesting against their failure to get paychecks on time from the city treasury. Dozens of street cars and busses were stopped, and other cars piled up behind them. Mayor Frank J.

Lausche ordered the arrest of agitators he said were responsible for the stoppage, and shortly before noon transit of ficials said normal operations had been resumed. The tieup came as many clerks were starting downtown for the opening of department steres, which operate here from noon to 9 p. m. on Mondays as an accommo dation to war workers. TAYERN KEEPER TO EE TRIED FOR REFUSING TO SERVE JEWS St.

Paul Woman Accused of Racial Discrimination; Soldier Makes Complaint ST. PAUL, May 25 (AP). Mrs May Perlstrom, manager of the Wagon Wheel, tavern and restaurant, was bound over to district court hert today on charges of ra cial discrimination after a prelim inary hearing on a complaint that she refused to serve four persons, one of them a Fort Snelling soldier, because they were Jews. Tht charge is a gross misdemeanor, carrying with it a maximum penalty of one year imprisonment, a $1000 fine, or both. Municipal Judge Robert V.

Rensch took under consideration a motion to dismiss a similar charge against her husband, on the ground that he was not involved in the incident Samuel Tucker, 27, Los Angeles, first class private in the medical detachment at Fort Snelling was one of the four complainants. Wed Girl He Hit With Auto. NEWARK, N. May 25 (AP). Mary Kica, was struck by an automobile Jan.

19 at a Newark intersection. The driver, Harry Gaw-dun, visited her often as she spent a week recovering In a hospital. They were married yesterday. HIV ENS CAPT. JOHN D.

FRANCISCUS, DRUNKEN CYCLIST ORDERED TO STAY OFF WHEEL A YEAR Fined Also for Careless Driving, and Must Sell Machine. Theodore Kreminskl, 25-year-old factory worker, was fined $25 and costs by Police Judge George J. Grellner today on his plea of guilty of riding his bicycle while intoxicated. The judge later suspended the fine on condition that Kreminski sell his wheel and not ride a bicycle for a year. Kreminski paid a $15 fine and costs for careless driving, a charge that also was placed against him yesterday after he rode his bicycle into the rear of an automobile at Nineteenth and North Market streets.

He told the judge the motorist stopped suddenly. After a conference with Kremin-ski's family, Judge Grellner suspended the fine for intoxication, but instructed Kreminski to keep him notified of his compliance with the parole requirements. Kreminski lives at 2244A North Market. HOLDS DOCTOR ISN'T LIABLE FOR PRE-B1RTH INJURY OF BABY Court Reverses $50,000 Judgment Given Tarents of Sub-Normal Child. TRENTON, N.

JM May 25 (AP). Dr. William Kline of New Brunswick won today in the Court of Errors and Appeals a reversal of a $50,000 judgment awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Stemmer Sr.

of New Brunswick, 'in connection with the premature birth of a boy, Jacob whose mentality never developed. The State's highest court ruled there was no common law or statute establishing the'rigth to collect damages for injuries suffered through negligence before birth, and, therefore, the decision must be in favor of the physician on the entire case. Mrs. Stemmer, now 53 years old, gave birth to the phild in May, 1935. She charged in the trial court that the child's condition resulted from X-ray treatments or dered by Dr.

Kline in the belief her pregnancy was a tumor. LONG LETTER 1942 FEET 150 Home Town Girls Send It to Texas Private. CAMP ROBINSON, Ark, May 25 When Private Edward R. Temple says he received a long letter from girl friends in ws home town, Longview, Tex, he means just that. He has a 50-pound letter, 1942 feet long, to which about 150 girl high school graduates contributed.

It is rolled on two rollers designed by a friend. Private Temple prom Ises to make "part" of his letter 1 1 I public when he finishes reading it St. Louis Realty Firm Vice-President Loses Life in Motor Failure Near Houlton, Me. Capt John D. Franciscus, real estate company officer and mem ber of a widely known St.

Louis family, was killed yesterday when a twin-engined Army transport plane on a routine flight crashed in a swamp near Houlton, Me, Five companions in the plane also were killed. A forest fire watcher who re ported the crash said he heard the pianes motors sputtering as it passed over his tower and then heard "a terrific crash." Bodies of the flyers and parts of the plane were scattered over 200 square yards of the swamp, searchers reported, but the ship did not burn. Names of Other. Victims. The War Department in Washington identified the otaer victims as Lieut.v Col.

Louis S. Gimbel of New York, son of the late part owner of Gimbel Bros, department store; First 'Lieut Clarence A. Wright, the pilot, whose widow lives in Arlington, Va, and his father, Charles A. Wright, in Clinton, Capt. Gilbert M.

Herbach, whose parents live in Philadelphia; Second Lieut. Earl R. Wilkinson, East Pembroke, N. and Staff Sergt. Fred Taylor, Chester, Pa.

Capt. Franciscus, whose home here Was on Whitebridge lane near Lindbergh boulevard, was commissioned a captain in the Army Air Force Ferry Command about two months ago, and was control officer at an airport in Montreal His wife, who was with him in Montreal with their two children, John Allen, 11 years old, and James Grover, 9, was notified of his death by an officer of the Ferry Command. She is the former Miss Loraine Grover, daughter of James H. Grover, president of St. Louis Union Trust Co.

Mrs. Fran ciscus and the two children were en route to St. Louis today. Vice-President of Firm. Capt.

Franciscus, who was vice-president of Franciscus-Maginn, was born in St. Louis and educated at Country Day School, the Princeton Preparatory School and Western Military Academy. He held a commercial pilot's license, and at one time owned his own plane. He was 34 years old. Surviving, in addition to his wife and children, are his mother, Mrs.

Katherine Lindsay Franciscus, 10 Lenox place; two Mrs. O. P. J. Falk, 3 Southmoor drive, Clayton, who was Veiled Prophet Queen in 1919, and Miss Jane Franciscus, who lives with her mother, and two brothers, James M.

Franciscus, a sergeant officer in the Canadian Air Force, and J. Lindsay Franciscus, 4950 Lindell boulevard. The body will be brought to St Louis for burial. ARMY TAKES OYER BUSSES; 1000 PERSONS ARE STRANDED Three lines' In Los Angeles San Diego Area Chartered for Troop Movement. LOS ANGELES, May 25 (AP).

Schedules of three Los Angeles-San Diego bus lines were disrupted yesterday when the Army asked the companies to supply busses for a troop movement Nearly 1000 persons were stranded at the San Diego terminal until a railroad put on extra cars and increased its runs to Los Angeles. Hundreds of service men on weekend leave in Long Beach from San Diego hitch-hiked back. Blind Youth Is Shell Gauger. BRIDGEPORT, May 25 (AP). Mike Starincak, has been working for the Remington Arms Co.

only three weeks, but It is to h.is bench that foremen take new employes for a demonstration of how the work of shell gauging should.be done. Starincak, 23 years old, has been blind since I birth and never had a job until PMm now. mented in Its opinion that Peyton "argued his case in a very interesting Oral arguments were not heard by the Supreme Court, the case being submitted on briefs. Dismissal of the suit was ordered by the district court on the ground that the receipt accepted by Peyton limited the express company's liability to $50. District courts usually do not have jurisdiction over cases Involving less than $3000.

The Circuit Court up held the decision. Peyton said the manuscript had been sent to Benchley, a prominent movie actor and writer, on Nov. 22, 1939, as part of a "build up" looking toward finding a publisher. The package was returned 28 days later. Family INVADERS BEATEN AT KINHWA.

-CHUNGKING SAYS Chinese Report Another Enemy Column Routed on Left Flank With 2000 Casualties. CHUNGKING, May 25 (API. A Chinese Central News bulletin from the Chekiang front said the Japanese launched a full-scale of fensive today, in an attempt to take Kinhwa, provisional capital of the seaboard province, but were repulsed with bloedy losses. A communique said Kinhwa still was in Chinese hands. The heart of the city had been bombed severely.

Other dispatches said the defenders had threwn back another Japanese column at Kienteh, inflicting 2000 casualties and putting the invaders to rout Kienteh, 28 miles north of Kinhwa and on the north bank of the Chientang River, represented the left flank of the Chinese, whose right wing had been driven out of the arc of Fuklang, Yiwu and Tungyang, 25 to 35 miles northeast and east of Kinhwa. -Sinteng, 47 miles northeast of Kienteh, is one of the bases from which the Japanese started their Chekiang offensive It was recaptured by the Chinese three days ago, a high command Communique said. Large sections of Chinese troops behind the Japanese lines began cutting and slashing at the enemy's supply and troop convoys in large-scale guerrilla operations. The Japanese were asserted to be throwing 100,000 men into the offensive. On the southwestern front In Yunnan Province, the communique sam, wie vomicae, wumuucu successes on the western side of the Salween River, recapturing points east of Tengyueh and con- Continued on Page 2, Column S.

persons were killed and 26 were missing, it was said. The Tokyo radio announced that Capt. Suga, 59 years old, one of the ranking captains of the Japanese merchant marine, killed himself in the old Japanese fashion of disem-bowelment in the Nagasaka offices of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, owners of the vessel. He was said to have taken the responsibility for the loss of the ship, but the radio declared that prompt measures taken by the captain kept flown the number of victims. BACK the dogged tenacity of German resistance.

Although the Russians encircled the Germans, they fought ror every house and pillbox until they finally succumbed under the weight of the Red army artillery and Infantry. The Germans had concentrated an infantry regiment at the contested point supported by 100 automatic riflemen and several batteries of mortars. A number of tanks were buried to serve as i 'Great Activity in Area' After Reported Rescue of 56 Men Said to Be U. S. Sailors.

FORT ALE ZA, Brazil, May 25 (AP). A "North American patrol plane" discovered and sank a submarine off the northeast coast of Brazil May 23, authorized sources announced today. "There has been great activity along the coast" these sources added. The submarine, while attempting to submerge, fired with its deck gun and machine guns. The plane unloaded all its bombs "on the submarine," the announcement said, and at the same time called for assistance.

Three other patrol planes arrived shortly. BUENOS AIRES, May 25 (AP). Rear Admiral Mario Fincati, Navy Minister confirmed today an announcement by the State Merchant Fleet that the Argentine freighter Rio Iguazu had rescued 56 survivors of, an unidentified vessel at sea. 1 He said he was unable to confirm a Rome radio report that the rescued men were part of the crew of a United States battleship of the Maryland class which the Italians asserted Friday was sunk by one of their submarines off the bulge of Brazil. The rescue ship, it was learned, had received permission to put in at-Recife, Brazil, and disembark the survivors.

According to one report, published by the newspaper Noticias Graficas, the men were from an American warship. The report based on anonymous merchant Continued on Page 2, Column 6. ANNOUNCING WARTIME RESTRICTION of POST-DISPATCH DELIVERIES AS a wartime measure, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch will restrict editions and de liveries, effective today. Complete details appear in an announcement on Page 4, Part 2, of this issue.

Alter me settlement was surrounded, the Germans dropped parachutists, munitions and food from planes and sent several doz en tanks by land in an effort to relieve the garrison. The Russians reported they crushed the resist-ance methodically and finally over- Continued on Page 6, Column 4. Today's War News MOSCOW Russians report their Kharkov offensive is progressing again after being held up by German counterattacks, but admit they are stiU on defensive in Izyum-Barvenkova area, south of Ukraine industrial center. BERLIN German high command says three Russian armies are encircled on Izyum-Barvenkova battlefield. FORTALEZA.

Brazil Snhmnrtn sunk by American patrol plane off northeastern Brazil coast. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA Allied shio. set on fire by diving Japanese plane, is later sunk by warship after removal of 100 survivors; Allied planes strike new blows at Japanese bases. CHUNGKING Chinese report they still hold Kinhwa, provisional capital of Chekiang Province, after repulsing Japanese attack in fierce fighting; enemy routed at Kientah, north of city, with 2000 casualties; defenders claim new gains In Yunnan. TOKYO Japanese report they are "storming Into" Kinhwa, and say their forces in Yunnan have crossed Salween River In advance toward Paoshan; damaging; of United States battleship of North Carolina class claimed in unconfirmed announcement NEW DELHI Gen.

SUlwell admits "hell of beating" in Burma but says United Nations forces can retake that country; details of American commander's escape. Suit Over Manuscript That Never Reached Benchley Is Reinstated Jap Liner Hits Jap Mine, Sinks; Captain Kills Self by Hara-Kiri WASHINGTON, May 25 (AP). The United States Supreme Court ruled today that the United States District Court of Waco, had acted incorrectly in dismissing a $750,000 damage suit brought by a Waco writer against "the Railway Express Agency, for failure to deliver the manuscript of a book called "Male and Female," which was addressed this way: "To "Mr. Robert Benchley "Address as unknown as he is well known "Hollywood, 'The suit was filed in the United States District Court by Robert L. Peyton, who acted throughout as his own attorney.

The Fifth United States Circuit Court com-' 1 TOKYO (from Japanese broadcasts), May 25 (AP). The sinking of the fast Japanese liner Nagasaki Maru, which helped In the seizure of the United States liner President Harrison at the outbreak of the Pacific war, and the resultant hara-kiri death of its captain, Genzaburo Suga, were announced today. I An official announcement said the Nagasaki Maru, 5268 tons, went i down May 13 near Nagasaki after I hitting a Japanese mine. Thirteen i.