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RENO GAZETTE A Newspaper For the Home Information and Enjoyment For Every Member of THE FAMILY WEATHER Partly cloudy with decreasing shower activities and cooler tonight; Saturday partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Nevada's Greatest Newspaper SIXTY-EIGHTH YEAR No. 1 32 RENO. NEVADA, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1944 20 PAGES 5 CENTS in feEKiuvuMuv xry L3 LrA i 1 Famed Highway Severed by U. S.

Troopers, Tanks Southern Front In Italy Crumbles Under Heavy Blows Labor Board Orders Held Not Reviewable Court of Appeals Decides It Cannot Change Decisions WASHINGTON, June 2. UP) Pope Voices Hope For Early Peace Pontiff Warns That Any Demand For Total Victory Will Prolong War LONDON, June 2. Pope Pius XII in a speech to the college of cardinals, expressed the hope today that peace soon would appear on Rome's hills and over the whole world but added that a demand for total victory might prolong the war. Drastic Controls Ordered for Labor Jobless Male Workers of Nation To Be Assigned to Vital Industry WASHINGTON, June 2. t.P Sweeping new controls over the nation's dwindling supply of male workers were ordered today by the war manpower comission to be placed in effect by July 1.

They provide that virtually every job-seeking man in America will he required to apply to the United States employment service for assignment to the war plant where he is most needed, regardless of where that plant may be located. Employers, on the other hand, will 4- i -J Wt' 1 mm -if www? In an Italian language broadcast the pontiff called on the victors to give hope and faith to the vanquished, and declared that "whoever would dare lift a hand against Rome would be guilty of matricide." Hull Would Aid Smaller Nations Tons of Bombs Blast Coast 5 4 JP- AFTER NAZIS VISITED LONDON A German air raid left this big crater in a street just outside St. James palace (not shown in picture) in London recently. AP wire-photo). GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES BURNING A LOT OF GAS Little Progress Being Made In Reduction of Federal Travel III Ill o-ic -jab Mi tit iAS 3 ESI tf Vi "1 iff -4 1 1 sr if 2 4 JSf 7 "-v vx jew And there is "nothing special" about the work of other agencies, it added, that would not permit "drastic reductions." These are some of the figures on which the committer based its reasoning: At the end of the last fiscal year, the government, exclusive of the war and navy departments, owned 19,161 passenger cars 1856 more than at' the close of the previous year.

It cost $3,941,477. including the price of 11,981,477 gallons of gasoline, to operate these cars on miles during the last year. Compared with the previous year, thecost was down $301,826. gal-lonage 1,812.117, and mileage, 12.772,280. In addition, the government pays employes on a mileage basis when they use their private cars on official business.

Figures for last year were not cited, but during the 1942 fiscal period the government spent $7,261,856 for 060.241 miles. 470 Graduate At West Point WEST POINT, N. June 2.VP) Lt. Gen. Brehon B.

Somervell, commanding general of the army service forces, will address commencement exercises of the United States military academy Tuesday when approximately 470 men will be commissioned second lieutenants in the army after a three-year, war-accelerated course. Among the graduating cadets will be 171 who will receive their wings, symbolic of full-fledged pilots in the air corps. All of the men originally were scheduled to graduate next June, but are members of the third wartime class to complete their studies in the shortened period and to receive bachelor of science degrees. Troops Massing For Biak Assault ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, June 2 OP) Massing of American reinforcements for an all-out assault on tough Biak island in the Schou-tens and pincer moves aimed at trapped Japanese on two other fronts were announced today. Under seventh fleet guns and without enemy aerial or naval m-terference, more Yanks landed Tuesday at Biak, enemy air base in Dutch New Guinea's Geelvink bay, who was invaded Saturday.

As they moved up from the Bosnek beachhead, aircraft and ground fighters hammered at Japanese sniper and mortar positions on ridges commanding the beach for several miles and the coastal road leading to the island's three bpeaking as contending armies surged within sight of Rome, Pope Pius said 'that anyone lifting a hand against the eternal city would "have to bear a grave responsibility toward future generations." The pontiff said that many per- sons fear the theory of "full victory or complete destruction" and that this "operates with a bad influence as a stimulus prolonging the war and also on those, who following their internal impulse or for realistic considerations, would be inclined to a reasonable peace." Afear of the enemy's determination "to destroy national life down to the roots suffocates all other arguments and brings about a courage of desperation," he said. MOULD PRESERVE ROME "Those who feel this," the Pope continued, "advance as in a hypnotic sleep amid unspeakable sacrifices and compel all others to an extenuating and bloody struggle, the social, economic and spiritual consequences of which threaten to become the scourge of future times." He said that Rome was receiving "more considerate treatment" from air raiders. "We cherish the hope," the pope continued, "that this more just and moderate tendency will prevail and that the city will in all cases and at whatever cost be preserved from becoming a theater of war." He warned, however, that "we do not hesitate to repeat once more equal impartiality and dutiful firmness that whoever would lift a hand against Rome would be guilty of matricide before the present world and in front of the eternal judgment of God." GOOD RECEPTION The Associated Press listening post in London reorted that the reception was excellent. The pope's voice was described as being forceful, calm and clear. Listeners said the pontiff's "eloquence reached a peak of emphasis when he expressed the hope that Rome would be spared the horrors of war." Quoting an historian of the 19th century, the pontiff said Rome has good reasons before the world to be respected and left untouched.

Rome has known terrible days in its history, he continuedin the 16th century, in the 18th and on many other occasions. I "On all these occasions the popes of the times succeeded in avoiding catastrophe and rescued and opened their doors to refugees of all creeds of all nationalities," he said. "But what were the number of 6,000 or 7,000 refugees compared wjth the thousands of today? OFTEN INTERVENED "To the last of our energies, and helped by so many good people, we intervened often," the pope said. "In spite of the violations of our rights we have tried to help the population of Rome and its surroundings, supplying them with food "We have also started negotia- tions in order to bring food by way of the sea. But the consent of one belligerent still is awaited." Continuing, the pontiff said: "We have tried everything in order to spare Rome one of the darkest moments in its history.

It is our supreme duty to follow the rules of our Lord as Peter did. "In all the nations of the world there is a want for the future new order. But this new order must be supported by just and well balanced moral and material guarantees. "Hopes for a future peace would be better based and more realistic if there ere not so many religious movements which have departed from the Christian church and created separatist churches." a 56. m.

(JP) State Secretary To Press Program WASHINGTON, June 2. Secretary of State Hull appeared determined today to reinforce his plans for a postwar world security organization with the ideal of liberty "for aspiring peoples everywhere" and equality for all small nations. In some respects his concentration on this ideal seemed opposed to the remark of Prime Minister Churchill in parliament a week ago that the war is growing "less ideological in character." Further, Hull stated that it is United States policy to encourage "all nations to aspire to liberty," whereas Churchill told parliament he opposes the idea of interfering with governments just because tneir administration does not come -up to our If Hull intended his remarks, voiced at a news conference yesterday, to draw a distinction between his feelings and Churchill's appraisal, he apparently would take his place alongside President Roosevelt in seeming to differ with the line the British prime minister had followed. Although not commenting directly on Churchill's speech, the president said at a news conference Tuesday that in his mind, Spain has not cut down sufficiently on her trade with the Axis, while Churchill emphasized in his talk what Spain already had done to help the Allied cause. Hull's statements covered two main points: 1.

He reaffirmed the intention of this government "to see that all nations, especially the small nations, are kept on a position of equality with all others and that, in every practicable way, there will be cooperation." 2. He then hammered especial ly hard the point that the United States has a long record of "championship of liberty for everybody, encouraging them at all times and in all places." New Gas Scare For New Yorkers NEW YORK, June 2 JP)A gang of 25 men repairing a United Nations freighter at a Brooklyn pier, were overcome today in the unventilated 'hold as 195 persons crammed hospitals after being stricken by chlorine gas fumes which affected an estimated one thousand persons yesterday. The accidents were not related. Three men fainted and the rest of the repair crew became ill and dizzy as the oxygen supply in the ships hold was depleted. Those conscious were assisted up the hatchway to air.

Rescuers hoisted the remaining three by ropes to the deck of the ship. Ten were removed to local hospitals and 15 recovered at the scene. A police alarm brought police and fire rescue squads and ambulances from most of Brooklyn's hospitals, still apprehensive as a result of the freak accident which hit Brooklyn's shopping district yesterday when greenish-yellow fumes poured from a 220-pound steel cylinder of chlorine gas. No fatalities were reported but the department of hospitals said that eight persons were on serious lists. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS Naples, June 2.

CP The Germans' wall before Rome began to crumble today as the 5th army captured both Vellerri anil Valniontone. the tiro biggest I fortress cities guarding th Eternal city. The 5th army was firmly as tride the Via Casilina after cutting it near Valniontone, threatening to cut off whatever troop the Germans had been unable to withdraw of the nine division battling on the lower front. euem is an Appiau way junction 18 miles from Rome. Already American troops were fanning out beyond it into the Alhan hills, fighting within Bight of Rome's prized buildings.

ALLIED HEADQUARTER Naples, June 2. (JP) Strong U. J- tank and infantry forces were aH tride the famed Via Casilina ban ly 20 miles from Rome today sealing off the main escape rout trom the Germans crubling south ern front and other Americar spread out through the Alban hil alter piercing the center of th Nazi's final line below the city. TROOPS CLOSE IX The 5th army troops broke int Velletri in the center, on the A pian way 18 miles from Ronv fighting fiercely in the street against the cut-off enemy gam son. Beyond the by-passed towr U.

S. infantry battled on the Albar heights within sight of the eterna city. Americans severed the Via Casi lina near VaJmontone, and th' "heavily punished Hermann Goer ing armored division now is fight ing a rear guard action fart he; north and west." a battlefront dis patch said. The 8th army pounding up th' road the Nazis fought so fiercel. to maintain as an escape hatch fo their mauled divisions nearc Ferentino, leaving only 18 miles the highway in enemy hands, an French forces closed in from th west.

There was no confirmatioi here, however, for an Algier broadcast that Canadians had en tered Ferentino. junction of one the few remaining branch roads good highways farther east. U. S. infantrymen drove int' Velletri yesterday.

All the Ger mans' escape routes from thf town and vicinity have been seale off. STIFF OPPOSITION" Two miles to the northwest Yankee troops fighting on Monti Artemision in view of Rome's his-l toric buildings, were meeting "ver obstinate opposition," a communi-i que said. This force had snaked beyon Velletri and seized the dominat-l ing heights of Mts. Peschio anc Artcmisio, catching the German? by surprise. (The German high command de-l clared the dent the Allies achiever northeast of Velletri had beer "sealed off" with heavy casualtie-inflicted.

Berlin's broadcast sai: there was fighting of "very grea' fireceness" Thursday, especially ir the Velletri and Valniontone areas, but that the Allies had been heldj The smashing blows against thf Nazi line guarding Rome also drove in another wedge by capture of Lariano. a village on the high4 way to Valmontone, four mile? northeast of Velletri. Field Marshal Albert Kesse- (Turn to Page 6, Column 4) St. Louis Strikers Being Reclassified ST. LOUIS June 2 CPi Some of the 3500 street car operator? and bus drivers on a two-day strike which has affected 600,000 St.

Louisans will be classified 1-A to day, their draft boards have de cided. John J. Griffin of the executive committee of the Associated Draft Boards of St. Louis, called an emergency meeting last night, and at IIS Close lie ailljuuin.cu mai eight draft board chairmen had ordered immediate reclassification of strikers. Griffin said that when men given occupational deferments go on unauthorized strikes they "should be immediately considered as having quit jobs essential to the war effort and should be immediately classified in 1-A and inducted into the armed services regardless of age." The United States court of appeals fo: tne uistrict of Columbia ruled today that orders of the war labor board are not reviewable by the courts.

UNANIMOUS DECISION The ruling was on an appeal brought by the employers group of Motor Freight Carriers, an association of carriers and individuals who represent about three hundred trucking companies engaged in transporting freight in Boston and throughout New England. Three appeals court judges who heard the case, Miller, Edgerton and Arnold, held unanimously that, "it is clear and undisputed that no statute authorizes review of the war labor board's order." "History of the war labor disputes act," the opinion said, "implies a positive intention that these orders should not be reviewed. Aside from that important and probably conclusive fact, the question is whether general equitable principles authorized review. We think they do not. "Appellants (the employers group) cay in if they do not comply with the order the board may notify the president of their noncompliance and the president may take possession of their plants and facilities.

"We have no occasion to decide whether in our opinion this is true. In some instances concerns which have failed to comply with board orders have ultimately been taken over by presidential orders. In other instances concerns which have not been the subject of any board order have been taken over by presidential orders. ADVISORY ACTION "If it be true, as appelants suggest, that the president may ultimately take possession of their plants and facilities, that possibility is irrelevent not only because it is speculative but also because it is independent of the board's order. "Neither the broad constiutional power nor the broad statutory power of the president to take and use property in furtherance of the war effort depends upan any action of the war labor board.

Any action of the board would be in-formatorjt and 'at most, "Appellants demand that we annul and enjoin the board's order therefore amounts to a demand that we prevent the board from giving the president advice which appellants contend would be erroneous. A court might as well be asked to prevent the secretary of state or the attorney general from S'ivinp' duegeu erroneous advice. "The correctness of administrative advice cannot be review by the courts. They have neither the necessary authority nor the necessary qualifications for such work." The truckers group protested a board order that it give employes an increase of $2.75 a week and that time and a half be paid for work in excess of eight hours in any regular working dav. BOARD STRENGTHENED The truckers contended the board's findings were unlawful and violated executive orders of the president.

They asserted that it -ii i (Turn to Page 6, Column 2) Motorcars Jam Streets of City ST. LOUIS, June 2. (Another effort to settle a strike of 3500 street car and bus operators was made at a mass meeting today as sharing-the-ride St. Louis-ans again utilized virtually every automobile and truck to get several hundred thousand persons to work this morning. Converging on the downtown business district, the tremendous volume of traffic surpassed pr war days and created an unprecedented problem in traffic management.

that were eating the seeds he planted in his victory garden. "Why not use a scarecrow?" suggested the sergeant. "Scarecrow," said Hick, "These sparrows steal the seed out of the ground while I'm there planting them." be permitted to hire only those men referred to them by the USES. "The successful conduct of the war now requires the channeling of all available male labor in the nation to jobs of greater war production urgency, and the retention of such labor in those jobs," War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt declared in announcing the new program.

FARM HANDS EXEMPT It extends on a nation-wide basis the WMC's voluntary program already in effect in about a dozen area of critical labor shortage. "We propose," McNutt. declared, to accomplish the channeling "by a system of priority referral, effective throughout; the nation, but varying among communities by such adaptations as may be found desirable." Farm workers are not restricted, nor are businesses with eight or less employes. McNutt said the program would make it possible for a worker anywhere in the country to "take his most useful place on the industrial firing line," adding: "This is just as important as it is for us to get our soldiers onto the firing line when and where they are needed." He said one of the principal difficulties in recruitnig men for war jobs and retaining them is over-optimism with respect to an early ending of the war" this causing workers to look for peacetime employment. "I have been most disturbed by this attitude," he.

said. "The war is not nearly over and such sentiment is positively dangerous to the war effort." Production needs and manpower demands may be easing up in specific plants or areas due to cutbacks but "workers who may be released in such situations are sorely needed in other plants or other areas where war production schedules are being increased. Experience in the past has shown that this easing of manpower does not result in the filling of all labor demands in critical war industries." While some sources saw the expanded program as a move necessary because of the lack of national service legislation, McNutt said it had "no relation to any legisla tion." The WMC national management-labor policy committee has reaffirmed its conviction, he added, that the nation's manpower needs can best be met under programs voluntarily developed and adopted. He explained that while the program is on a voluntary basis sanctions can be imposed in cases of non-compliance. He said workers who refuse to cooperate would find it difficult without a clearance slip to get a job, while employes who do not participate will not have workers referred to them.

(Turn to Page 6, Column 1) Labor Organizer Ordered to Italy BOSTON, June 2 President William Green of the American Federation of Labor disclosed today that an American labor union representative would leave "in a few days to help reorganize the trade unions in the liberated portions of Italy and Sicily." Green made the announcement during a speech before the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union convention. He said he had appointed the garment workers' vice president, iuigi Antonini, head of the Italian-American labor council, to carry on the work. Balkan Front Move Forecast LONDON, June 2. CP) A Trans-ocean broadcast from Berlin speculated today that "the invasion of western Europe may be preceded by the owning of a Balkan front." In a broadcast recorded by the Associated Press, the German agency quoted dispatches from Syria and Lebanon via Ankara as saying that "the Anglo-Americans have concentrated troops in the Near East on a mounting basis during the last few weeks." Allies Deliver Sharp Attack LONDON, June 2 CP) Up to 1,500 American heavy bombers and fighters struck the heaviest single blow yet at the French invasion coast today and another great armada of four-engined planes from Italy bombed five railway yards in Hungary and Transylvania. Mediterranean air force headquarters reported "good" results in the assaults upon Miskolc, Scol-nok and Szeged in eastern Hungary and upon Cluj and Simerian in Transylvania, the mountainous Romanian province which Germany ceded partially to Hungary in 1940.

The Mediterranean strikes wore in direct tactical support of the Russian armies massing in the Carpathian slopes. German troops and material had been funneled to the front over lines passing through the five tangled yards. The Britain-based planes struck the Pas-de-Calais department of France and reported no sign of German fighter opposition. Perhaps 3,000 tons of explosives were unloosed on the French fortifications, with the bombers ablo to carry maximum loads due to the short trip involved. Families in Line Of Target Fire SANTA ANA, June 2 CP) The narrow escape of two families who picknicked on a beacii in the direct line of fire from night target practice by a machine gun company drew a warning today from marine corps officials.

A. J. Cook, football coach at Santa Ana junior college, told newsmen yesterday that when tracer bullets struck all around them soon after they, arrived at the beach Wednesday night they realized they had inadvertently chosen restricted military zone. "Those tracer bullets looked as big as baseballs, and every one seemed to have our names on it," Cook related. "For ten minutes they kicked up sand all around us and hissed into the breakers." Strong Wind Over Channel LONDON, June 2 CP) A fresh southwest wind that increased strength in the morning hours cL-; 3L1Q11 IVlACiJ, MlIH.

UTt.H.riu JJfcH.l were cloudy. The weather was cool, with the 9 a. m. temperature Conditions were a little brighter, and visibility was better than yesterday. The cloud ceiling was higher and the barometer had risen slightly.

High tides at Calais will be at 10:36 p. m. tonight (4:36 p. eastern war time) and 11:09 a. tomorrow (5:09 a.

m. EWT). BID ACCEPTED CANBERRA, Australia, June 2. Acting Prime Minister Francis Forde today announced Australia had accepted President Roosevelt's invitation to attend an international monetary conference. say their feathered guests are expert dunkers.

The crackles carry bread crusts to the bird bath and wet them before eating. One bird, the minister says, takes extra hard pieces, soaks them and then turns them over on the other side before starting his meaL WASHINGTON, June 2. People on government business still are traveling 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 miles a year, the Byrd economy committee declared today, and burning 20,000,000 to 30 000.000 gallons of gas. Progress toward cutting down such travel, it added, is "neither substantial nor impressive." The committee, a joint" Senate-house group with treasury and budget bureau representation and headed by Senator Byrd (D-Va), continued: "It is apparent that the federal governments in the position of urging the state governments and its citizens to drastically cut down on the use of automobiles, the consumption of gasoline and tires, while its own record is not as good as it might be." Even in law enforcement and war agencies, the committee said in a report filed in the senate, there should be increased effort to reduce the number of cars owned and miles traveled. Haven Is Sought For War Refugees WASHINGTON, June 2 UP President Roosevelt indicated today that an unused army camp in this country may be converted into a temporary haven for war refugees from abroad.

The president said nothing definite has been done on the problem but that the humanitarian thing to do is to give assistance to helpless people anywhere in the world. He said officials have been studying taking one camp which the army does not need and maybe turning it into a refugee camp. In addition, he said, there were some resort areas on the east coast of Sicily, in Italy and possible other places in the Mediterranean region which could be used to house war refugees temporarily. He emphasized that the reiugees would be given only temporary haven and that they would be expected to go home as soon as conditions permit after the war. Highway Fund Wins Support WASHINGTON, June 2.

CP The house roads committee today approved a bill by hair-man Robinson (D-Utah) to authorize expenditure of for a vast postwar program of highway construction. The commmittee halved the $3,000,000,000 allocation proposed in previous Robinson bills on which it conducted hearings throughout the winter. The new bill also changed the matching system, dropping the old plan of 75 per cent from the federal government and 25 per cent from the states in favor of a sliding scale system of 60-40 the first year of work and 50-50 thereafter. Birds in Massachusetts Dunk Dry Bread in Water Scarecrows Fail to Halt Bird Activities in Garden UXBRIDGE, June 2 CP) The latest nature news crackles that dunk. The Rev.

and Mrs. Robert have been feeding a covey of the birds for more than a year now at the congregational parsonage and boih CHICAGO, June 2 LP Paul Hick, 19, called rolice Sgt. Walter Rentfliez and asked if it was legal for him to use a gun. "Not in the city limits. What do you want it for?" the officer asked.

Hick said he wanted to shoot the sparrows.