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Delaware's Morninjr Paper First with the Latest News United Press Associated Press International News Service Latest City Edition Clear. Continued cold. Weather Conditions. Tides, E'x, on Page 2.) VOL. 125 NO.

77 WILMINGTON. DELAWARE. THURSDAY. MARCH 30. 1944 TWENTY-TWO PACES PRICE THREE CENTS Draft Causes Severe Labor Shortage at Army Air Base SPLIT IN A.

L. P. OVER RED ISSUE HITS NEW DEAL ALLIES MASSING FORCE AT ANZIO, AXIS REPORTS PRUT CROSSED A TWO POINTS IN RED DRIVE TOWARD CZECH LINE Civilian Workers Needed at Once to Keep Planes in Air, Engineering Officer Of Ferrying Group Declares Even an Army post can have labor shortage because of the draft. That is the situation at the New Enemy Radio Asserts Castle Army Air Base, where large numbers of civilian workers are utilized. So many have been lost Sweden Reports Red-Finn Peace Parleys Resumed through induction into the armed forces that the base is "hard-pressed to find the personnel needed 'Right Wing' Statement Shows Concern On Effect of Schism on 4th Term Fall Campaign 'Leftists Led by Browder And Hillman, Capture Ma to keep our planes in the air," Lieut parts inspectors, and general maintenance employes.

Colonel Walker said that applicants not already qualified ma-fbe trained in a special Engineering Department School. Qualified workers, he said, will be placed on the job at once. Those requiring special training, he added, will be placed on a full-pay status while receiving the training. Emphasizing the serious need for additional civilian workers to offset military personnel shortages. Colonel Walker disclosed that some skilled mechanics have been forced to do unskilled work because of a lack of sufficient maintenance personnel.

"We've got to get those mechanics Col. Henry M. Walker, engineering New U. S. and British Offensive is Planned In Beachhead Sector Indian, New Zealand Troops Withdraw From Trap On Steep Side of Monastery Hill in Cassino Battle Area omcer oi tne second Ferrying Group declared last night.

Russians Battling In Czernowitz Suburbs; Kolomea, 30 Miles From Vital Pass, Falls; Bait a Taken Fleeing Nazis Fail To Destroy Bridge; German Positions About Odessa Are Seen Collapsing "We can't get the planes through if we don't have proper maintenance," he said. "It takes more than pilots to make these planes work Japs Force British Retreat Above Imphal Base in India Foe Also Pushes Closer to Kohima; Stilwell Troops Close on Enemy in Mogaung Valley; 30 Invader Planes Downed By DARRELL BERRIGAN United Press Correspondent NEW DELHI. March 29 Japanese troops invading India have forced a British withdrawal in the Ukhrul area, 34 miles northeast of Imphal, and another enemy column has driven even closer to Kohima. key communications center above the Manipur state capital. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's headquarters said today.

Elsewhere along the 140-mile border front the invaders were held in check. In northern Burma Lieut. -Gen. By EDWIN SHAN'KE STOCKHOLM. March 29 UPt A dramatic new turn in the Finnish-Russian Armistice negotiations appeared imminent tonight.

Reliable quarters said Juho K. Paasikivi, Finnish diplomat, was making a new contact with Soviet officials, perhaps in Moscow. Despite an almost airtight censorship, the Associated Press received advices that Paasikivi. who made the first contact with the Russians Feb. 16 in Stockholm, again had been enlisted as a peace emissary.

A reliable report to Stockholm said Paasikivi might be in Moscow, where ho was a former minister to tho U. S. S. R. from Finland.

A Reuters dispatch from Stockholm said it was strongly jority of Delegates to State Nominating Convention By The Associated Press NEW YORK, March 29 The eight year- old American Labor Party, whose 400,000 votes helped President Roosevelt win New York state's 47 electoral votes in 1940, Bplit today on the issue of Communism. The Right wing leadership, defeat- off the end of mops and back onto the jobs where they're so vitally needed," he said. Colonel Walker explained that persons hired by his department are under civil service and "have all the and to keep them in the air, you know." He issued an urgent appeal for civilian employes for the air base. Needed are men and women, young and old. experienced and inexperienced.

Among the craftsmen needed by the engineering department are sheet metal workers, carpenters and woodworkers, welders, paint and dope handlers, aerial repairmen, cabinet makers, lathe and milling machine operators, parachute sewers and riggers, armament workers, en By The Associated Press LONDON. March 29 The Paris radio said tonight that the Allies had landed "considerable" reinforcements at the Anzio beachhead in Italy, including heavy artillery and armor, for a new offensive. Commentator Jean Paquis added that the offensive "is expected to be preceded by a powerful air privileges of that service." He said By TOM YARBROCGH Associated Press Correspondent LONDON. Thursday. March SO that older persons as well as young Joseph W.

Stilwell a Chine.se forces ones should apply. One of the best closed in from three sides on the workers at the base, he adaed. is Japs in the upper Mogaung Valley 72 years of age. Russian troops stormed across tho Prut River yesterday at two points- and American units established a ed in yesterday's primary election i Mrs. Carolyn H.

Reese, representa road block on the enemy's main tive of the Civil Service Co mm is- route of retreat, a headquarters gine installation mechanics, link trainer mechanics, hydraulics workers, electricians, aircraft and aircraft communique reported. POLICE, FIREMEN. TEACHERS LISTED AMONG INDUCTEES See AIR BASE Pace 2 See FINLAND Page for control of the state committee the body which nominates the party's Presidential candidate withdrew on the ground the Left wing victory meant "Earl Browder has captured the American Labor Party." Browder is general secretary of the Communist party in the United 10 to 1 Air Victory Fliers of the Southeast Asia Command scored a ten to one victory In air combats, shooting down at least 30 enemy planes at the cost of only three. LUFTWAFFE LURED one of them a bridge the Germans neglected to destroy and fought into the northern and wesem outskirts of Czernowitz fCernauti). capital of Bucovina, while upstream other units captured Kolomea, Prut River railway town in the Carpathian foothills on 30 miles from Czechoslovakia.

Moscow announced. Other Soviet gains were announced in Bessarabia and the southern Ukraine, notably the capture of ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Na- pies. March 29 A Indian and New Zealand troops have been with- drawn from the steeps 'eastern face: of Monastery Hill, and the bloody i struggle to take that formidable height, will have to be undertaken anew when the Allied drive for Cas- smo gains momentum again. Wiry Indian Gurkhas who clung; to their dangerous perch on Hang-j man's Hill 100 yards below the, ruined Benedictine Abbey for near- ly two weeks came back down last night and they were followed by the tough New Zealandrrs who held Hill 202 farther down the slope.

The British Inflicted heavy casu- States. on the Japanese before taking DELAWARE LEADS U. S. IN RED CROSS DRIVE DONATIONS A statement issued by the Right new posiuons souvn oi unrui. i- INTO DOGFIGHT; 391 alues enemy pressure showed no signs OC WCl I LSI I I DUdlUo oating.

The communique said that "some NAZIS SHOT DOWN i The Gurkhas, in their eagerness. I to conquer the forbidding, fortress-! Release Names of Men Entering the Services Veterinarian, 2 Executives Of Chemical Companies, 3 Athletes are Included EDUCATOR SCORES FEDERAL CONTROL OE SCHOOL POLICY Lanham Act System Vicious, Teachers Told By Dr. W. E. Givens Federal Aid to States Without Attempt to Rule Seen Need; Retirement Plan is Urged Balta in the Ukraine north of Odessa and a steady, bkvxiy tightening oi the pocket in the Kamenetc-Podoslt zone northeast of Csernowitz.

More than 2.000 German dead were counted in the streets of Balta alone, a communique said, and many of several hundred prisoners proved enemy movement" had been detect-j ed in hilly country SO miles north-i east of Imphal. indicating that the i northern Japanese invasion column had pushed across the upper Somra i tracts to within 30 miles of Kohima, Manipur road center between Im-; phsl and the Assam-Bengal railway. The Tamu-Paiel road. Unking the Kabaw and Manipur valleys, has been cleared, it was announced, ex Ctato Roorhoc QC Dot Uke Monast'rv Hill which com-OldlC iXCdlsllCO OJ rLl. mands the valley for miles around First flnnnsitinn Within passed completely over two of their Pass completely over two or their" i I Wltn fNatlOnal AVerage objectives the night attack March WapV Mpt SIC Fnrtc 15 and landed on Hangman Hill! "CCr IVICl do I I I Three policemen, seven firemen.

ai oa.0, paKer strike at Brunswick wing liberal-labor committee, noting the party was organized in 1936 to support the New Deal and President Roosevelt said its immediate concern was what effect "the disappearance of the A. P. is i liberal-labor party may have on the Roosevelt strength in our state" should he seek re-election. Still Support Roosevelt "It will be our duty to rally the hundreds of thousands of voters in the Empire State who voted for the A. L.

P. in the past but who would shun a Communist-A. L. to the banner of President Roosevelt," the statement said. "If our task has been made definitely harder by the death of the A.

L. we shall have to apply ourselves to this task of saving New York far Roosevelt and for the New Deal with greater vigor and all-out devotion." I The Left wing also supported a fourth term for President Roosevelt, but tlie Right wing said in the pre-primary campaign "a political nomination tainted by the Communist stamp would prove a bear's hug and cept for a small enemy road block near PaleL 20 miles south of Imphal. two teachers from the same school. Lnairman UryeS WOrKerS 10 some parachutes drifted away from d-. I la the fourth border sector, opera- pair of brothers, a veterinarian.

Coo Tha Phonier ic Circ i Gurkhs the hands of uuwia Ml Ld nil Dy tions to drive the Invaders from the and a defendant in the Mantle Club wvw al me oermans. Kemoval or wounded I horatnre- no Rnmhsre Tiddim-lmpnal road were oontinu- ing satisfactorily. Nine FiCihterS Lost bv S1 Japanese resistance In the upper inducted into the armed forces In Countrv tf) Rparh dangerous operation, as in uoumryionedcn uuai movement b. dvv or n.ght brought a hail of lire from the Nazis The Delaware Chapter. American on the crest.

Hangmans Hill Cross, was believed to have called because a gallows once stood to be Nazi S3 Guards. Another 2.000 were declared slain in tno area south of Yannoiintsi at tho top of the Kame nets-Podolsk pocket. Ia the 'mm drives into Czernowitz, the Russians said they thrust across the bridge at the same tenve tank and motorized forces farther west were forcing the river. Then both, groups burst into the town, which sits on a bluff on the hght (south) bank. I'rge Czech t'prising No explanation was given why the Germans did not blow up the bridge, but the implication was that they were too hard-pressed to do so.

Czechoslovak patriots were summoned in a Moscow broadcast to rise against the Germans. "The Red Army stands less than Federal control of education is increasing without a corresponding in point of crumbling asChinese troops boards. launched a three-pronged attack on I Names of the men Inducted were enemy positions on Al HH1. south of released yesterday at Selective Serv- reached 85 per cent of its J701.000 tnere is a yards up the side of By V. W.

HFRCHER Afsociated Press Correspondent LONDON. Thursday. March 30 American Flying Fortresses bombed the Hkawnglaw River and east of ice headquarters. trie Monastery Hill, which Itself is crease in federal aid for elementary and secondary schools in such a way as to guarantee the right of educa R. M.

Carpenter. Jr, president yards high. War Fund Drive goal last night. Charles W. Baker, Jr, campaign chairman, announced, and accord- Both Hangman's Hill and Hill 202 the Brunswick area of central Ger the only motorabie road, which was cut by Brig.

-Gen. Frank Merrill's Marauders south of Shaduzup. Thobum Wiant. Associated Press Correspondent in the Mo- are on the eastern side of Monastery tion to all children. Dr.

Willard Earl many yeMerdav. and Nazi fighters for the first time since March 23 of the Phillies and of the Blue Rocks, who was inducted into the Army through New Castle County Local Board No. 1 is included in the lists. ing to incomplete telephone reports Hill, both well in advance of present the kiss of death to any national Givens of Washington. D.

C. execu tive secretary of the Natio 1 Edu cation Association, said yesterday. candidate who would accept it." The Left wing, headed by Rep. Vito See Bl" RM A Pag is leading the nation. Allied positions.

When the Gurkhas rose to give spritus battle over that The national average percentage announced by field radio that they vital aircraft factorv area, only to toward the country's $200,000,000 had reached Hangman's Hill in the be routed bv escorting Eighth Air goal is now 68.5 per cent, while the inky blackness of the first night of i Force fighters who shot down 39 of The three policemen inducted at Marcantonio and supported by Sidney Hillman, chairman of the C. I. average of the nine states making up the North Atlantic Area, which "There is no more vicious system of Federal control of education than that new taking place "under the Lanham Act to provide community facilities in areas of war activities. O. political action committee, claim ARMY DROPS UNIT the recent all-out attack.

Allied of- the Nazis. fleers at headquarters scarcely could Simultaneously American Liber-credit their ears. a tors bombed the Pas-de-Calais area With Allied troops Inside Cassino of the French coast, meeting ppo-Itself unable to go to the rescue, i sition only from moderate to heavy about the same time brought to 32 the number of men lost to the armed forces by the Wilmington police. Chief Frank J. Mahoney said last night.

The men are Clayton H. Wilson, 204 East Thirty-fifth Street, who went into the Navy: William F. Maguire. 405 Delaware Avenue, who also was inducted into th: Navy: and Frank Guessford. 517 North including school facilities," he told more than 350 teachers from city 50 kilometers from the Czechoslovak frontier." the broadcast said.

"The Red Army calls on you to fight. Form Partisan groups. Destroy communications vital to tha retreating Germans. Fight for liberty and victory The Prut crossing is a significant victory but does not, in the Russian view, place the Red Army inside Rumania as yet. since it is in tho portion of Bucovina ceded to Rus includes Delaware, is only 70 per cent.

New England states. New York, and New Jersey are the other states in the area, and Massachusetts, with 83 per cent of its quota reached, is close on the heels o. Delaware. SYSTEM ON EARM tne re was no point in holding the anti-aircraft fire. From all opera advanced positions any longer.

tions, nine American bombers and "Delaware Sets the Pace' Franklin Street, who entered the Army. INDUCTION DELAYS "Delaware has -et the pace let's Wlile a strong diversionary fire was laid down by Allied artillery at another point last night, the Gurkhas and New Zealanders slipped back down the hill without loss and rejoined their comrades. Allied troops still held Important Castle Hill just west of Cassino, the ed it won more than 600 seats on the 750-member committee. To Shun Convention In Washington today, the Dies Committee assailed Hillman' committee as representing "in its main outlines a subversive Communist campaign to subvert the Congress of the United States to its totalitarian program." Hillman issued a statement here declaring "the best proof that Mr. Dies can no longer mislead the people is written in the result of yesterday's A.

L. P. election. The A. L.

P. voters conclusively and overwhelmingly demonstrated the American people can no longer be swayed by the hysterical cry of Communism, LABOR PARTY Page 2 get it over the finish line first, Mr. Baker told workers whq reported nine fighters failed to return, it was announced. It was the third consecutive day of American operations aimed primarily at the German air force, and the communique said it was the 15th attack on Germany and the 24th on all enemy targets in this record-breaking month of March. Wild Dogfight Develop As the Fortresses struck at Brunswick, the Nazi fighter planes swarmed up like an angry hive of bees.

Single and twin-motored Nazi House Subcommittee sia bv the Rumanians in 1940. Kolomea, 44 miles up the river from Czernowitz and on the left bank, was described by Marshal Stalin, who announced its fall, as "an important strongpoint in the German defenses at the foothills of the Carpathians." It once was Polish territorv. Seven Firemen Inducted The firemen are Raymond Lend-enman. 2905 BajTiard Boulevard: Maurice K. Clak, 603 East Twenty-second Street; George F.

Cunningham. 1622 Lancaster Avenue; and Edward W. Hazewsfci, 423 South Jackson Street: Norman Wilkinson. 122 West Twenty-ninth Street: Walter H. Sullivan.

405 West Eighth and nearby communities at a meeting arranged by the Wilmington Teachers' Association at Wilmington High School. The prominent educator discussed federal aid to education in addition to speaking on teacher retirement, single salary schedules, the status of teacher tenure, and education and the peace. He charged that under the Lanham Act engineers, architects, social workers, and auditors from the office of the Federal Works Administration deal directly with local school authorities and determine what the school policies of local communities will be "as if there were no state education departments." Discusses Morrill Acts There can. however, be federal aid Maps Bill to Force 4-F's Into Vital Jobs yesterday. "We are proud of the First State and its record of generous giving to worthy causes." he continued.

"We should certainly have real cause to be jubilant if we can maintain this pace we have set to make Delaware the first state over the top in the most important drive in the history of the American Red Cross." Among yesterday's contributors was "John the Hot Dog Man." perennial Red Cross supporter who has evolved several unique methods Both at Kolomea and Czernowitz. ant InVln 1 1 0A ITac Twelfth Street. All seven went into the, Russians cut the Lwow-Bucha-the Navy. rest rlway. Capture of Kolomea The two teachers are both from representee an ll-milo ga-n.

Service Chiefs Want Them In Reserve at Civilian Pay, Uniformed at Army Wage See ITALY Page PRESIDENT MAY NOT SIGN TR00P.V0TE MEASURE Congress to Remain In Session So It Can Become Law WASHINGTON, March 29 OJ.PJ Speculation that President Roosevelt may allow the soldier vote bill to become law without his signature was heightened today when Senate Democratic Leader Alben W. Bark-ley postponed start of the Senate's Easter recess until Saturday noon in order to meet all technicalities of the President's action on the bill. Congress originally planned to Newark High School. They are Roland P. Jackson, 33 West Cleve- to the states for education without The Russians steadily continued to clear the Germans away from the railway running southwest from Pervomisk to the Rumanian town of Iasi, evidently seeking to prepara of raising money for the Delaware See DRAFT LISTS Page 9 By The Associated Press Chapter.

He is John Sarmousakis. proprietor of a Fourth Street hot dog fighters met the bombers over occupied territory and harassed them to the target area, where a wild dogfight developed with the sky a mass of weaving and twisting planes. More than 200 American and German fighters took part in the deadly acrobatics over the Fortress targets in Germany. Mustangs and Thunderbolts, and Messerschroitts and Focke Wulfs twisted and dived at such chve range that Fortress gunners refrained from shooting for fear of hitting their own escort The sky was filled with the streak WASHINGTON. March 29 In PREMIER STALIN ILL, me line lor tneir own use.

stand. This time he received con two major manpower moves. Selec T-V. 1 i DCDI IM Dmn nt HlHie "tan poaiiniuintnegrMl tributions of $300 by canvassing tive Service today scrapped its i i-i ii imuiu uLn i ii semicircle around Odessa biuuuq appeared members of the American Hellenic Society here. federal control.

Dr. Givens declared, such as land-grant aids and the Morrill Acts. Bills now pending in Congress to authorize appropriation of t300.000.000 annually for apportionment to the states for more nearly equalizing elementary and secondary school opportunities "offer positive means of avoiding federal control of education." he said. He praised the support given the Senate bill by U. S.

Senator James measuring rod for deferment of farm workers, deciding to leave individual cases to the Judgment of start its recess tomorrow. Show Is Planned A Lindamere husband told offi local draft boards, and a House mili The change was occasioned by the fact that Mr. Roosevelt has until cials yesterdav that he and his DVB Says His Doctors Fear Red Leader May Suffer Collapse LISBON. March 29 iJP) A Berlin dispatch by the German agency DNB said today that Premier Marshal Stalin is ill, and "doctors fear he may have another collapse soon." "Stalin apparently had a collapse tary subcommittee agreed to draft legislation authorizing Army labor wife are "at odds" to see which will Friday midnight to sign or veto the bill. If he has done neither, it auto of tracer bullets and flames and smoke from planes spinning down to oe cojiapsmg as the Russian regiments rolled down on them from three main directions from Baltl Baltshi.

Balta. and Vozhesensk in advances that swept through 150 more towns and villages. In the battle of Czernowitz population Red Army Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov was fighting to liberate his own constituency, which See RUSSIA Page 4 battalions of 4-F's. raise the most for the war fund.

Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Boggs of 106 North Road, Lindamere, lost a son over The Army and Navy joined in ask ing legislation under which 4-F's be matically becomes law provided Congress is in session.

But. if Congress is not in session, such inaction then would constitute a pocket veto. seas. One of his last letters praised tween the ages of 18 and 37 could in defeat in the battle. Bomber crewmen said the American fighters appeared outnumbered, but that they did their job which was to keep the enemy away from the Fortresses.

On the way back from Brunswick be directed to go to work in essen the work of the Red Crass, which they have actively supported. White House Secretary Stephen T. tial industry at civilian pay or be inducted into, labor battalions at year as a captain in the Red Early said he thought Mr. Roosevelt and fainted while working late hours one night in February." the report said. "Doctors prescribed a long rest, so Stalin conferred with (Marshal Klementi) Vorshilov.

telling him that he would appreciate the Russian army's intensifying its advance in the fastest possible manner because he would not consider Cross drive. Mrs. Boggs conceived was undecided between a message to Congress on the bill and a public statement. the idea of an auction show, which raised This year she is chair See AIR RAIDS Page 9 man for her section and is not per Army pay but without veterans' benefits. The request was presented by Undersecretary of War Robert P.

Patterson and Ralph A. Bard, assistant Navy secretary, who asked prompt action to cope with a "critical" manpower problem. Chairman Cos- mitted to carry on such an activity FOUR BABIES B0R.N TO FORMER DANCER Three Girl and Boy Reported Doing Well, Father Happy NEW YORK. March 29 (JPh Four sturdy babies three girls and a boy were born today to Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Zarief. The hospital reported the mother, a former dancer, and the quadruplets as doing "exceptionally well." The children, born at Sloane Hospital for Women this morning, were New York's first quadruplets in vears. Two of the girls weighed five, pounds, one weighed four pounds. 12 ounces, and the boy four pounds, 13 ounces. The father appeared a little dazed, very happy but not surprised.

He had known, since last December, he said, that his 27-year-old wife. Eleanor, would have multiple births. Zarief is an assistant concert master with the Columbia Broadcasting System. Dr. Benjamin P.

Watson said the babies were born a month prematurely, but otherwise the birth was normal. HOPKINS UNDER KNIFE FOR ABDOMINAL AILMENT Presidential Adviser's Condition Is Reported 'Satisfactory ROCHESTER. Minn, March 29 (THS Harry Hopkins. Presidential i adviser." underwent an abdominal ooeration this morning at St. Mary's Hospital, and his condition late to-dav was reported "satisfactory." Hopkins arrived in Rochester several weeks ago for observation by phvsicians at the Mayo Clinic.

They said he was suffering from a "nutritional disturbance." The specific nature of the opera- tion was not disclosed by clinic pokesmen, who issued the report on his condition. TRAFFIC TOLL MOUNTS CHICAGO. March 29 JP Traffic deaths in the United States increased again in February the fifth month in a row to show an upward trend. The National Safety Council reported tonight fatalities last month numbered 1.800, a rise of 18 per cent over February, 1943. a rest before the worst of his task is over." There has been no confirmation from Moscow or other Allied quarters of this German report.

ALL FROZEN VEGETABLES, FRUITS OFF RA TION LISTS OP A Order is Effective Sunday; Low Point Values on Meat Cuts Remain; Butter To Stay at 16 Points a Pound VETERANS DENIED BEER Index of the News See TEACHER Page 12 SERGT. G. JONES KILLED IN ACTION Marine From City Died Feb. 22 In Marshall Islands Fighting Platoon Sergt. George T.

Jones. 24, U. S. M. C.

husband of Mrs. George T. Jones, 1405 Gilpin Avenue, has been reported killed in action by the Navy Department. No details were given other than that death had occurred Feb. 22 in the Marshall Islands.

Sergeant Jones had been in the Marine Corps for eight years, having enlisted in 1936. He had participated in all phases of Marine Corps activity, including service with the fleet, artillery and infantry. Prior to Pearl Harbor, he was stationed on Midway Island. Later, he was assigned to Marine recruiting in the Middle West, and was stationed for a time at the Marine base, Quantico, where he was an instructor at the Officers' Candidate School. Before leaving for the Pacific last April, he was stationed at Marine headquarters.

New River. S. C. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his parents. Mr.

and Mrs. Urban J. Jones of Philadelphia; one brother and two sisters. DUE FOR NAZI CAPTIVES tello (D-Calif of the House group promised legislation in line with their views would be drafted during the forthcoming Easter recess. A plan also was being discussed to require a farm worker classified as 4-F, physically unfit for military service, continue in farm work unless given permission by his draft board to change occupations.

Senator Russell (D-Gal said this Dealer Says Remaining Supply Is Earmarked for War Prisoners COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, March 29 See RED CROSS Page 2 BILL EXPATRIATES MEN WHO FLED DRAFT Those Who Left Country to Be Denied Reentry After War WASHINGTON. March 29 (JPy Legislation was passed by the House today to make those who fled the United States to escape military service "men without a country." The bill, sent to the Senate without dissent, expatriates such "evaders," and Chairman Sabath (D-Illi of the Rules Committee said there are "many" of them. The House Immigration Committee reported that in the vicinity of El Paso, Texas, more than 800 "draft delinquents" crossed the border into Mexico to avoid induction. Those and others who have done the same thing would be denied re by the War A beer distributor here said today he was unable to fill a request from an organization of war veter WASHINGTON. March 29 Wh i action was requested Ail frozen fruits and vegetables to- Food Administration.

Pagea Amusements 16-1? Births 4 Classified 19-20-21 Comics jg Deaths 4 Editorials Ernie Pyle Financial 19 Jack Stinnett Marquis Child Obituaries 4 Radio 11 Society News 8.9 Sports 14-15 Travel and Resort News 9 With the Service Men 18 Woman's Par It would be considered by the Senate agriculture committee. Russell and Senator Tydings (D-Md) announced Selective Service was scrapping its "unit system" for farm deferments after a conference with -Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. Selective Service director, and Marvin Jone war food administrator.

Farm Sure legislators have been day were made ration-free, effective Sunday, and present low point values on popular cuts of beef, veal, pork and lamb were ordered continued through April 29. Frozen fruits and vegetables technically stay on the list of rationed foods, but have a "point-free" rating. The move OPA explained, was taken to make as much cold storage space as possible available for meat. The The April ration table keeps butter at 16 points a pound, but reduces some ready-to-eat meats and processed foods. Canned peas, available In large supply, were put on the point-free list, dropping to sero from the present value of three points for a number two can, while carrots in num- See RATIONS Page ans from this war and the First World War for beer because his remaining supply was destined for German prisoners In the camp at Clarinda.

Ia. The distributor explained 15 per cent of his month's quota is earmarked for military use and the remaining 85 per cent is already used The organization is purchasing its beer elsewhere. entry into the V. S. forever.

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