The Iola Register from Iola, Kansas • 1

-m. STATE HISTORICAL TOPEKA KANSAS COUP OCX LTV IOJDA EGISTE SIX PAGES Successor to Tbs Iola Deilj Peris ter, Tae loU Daily Record, and Iola Daily Index. IOLA, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1944. TIi Weekly Rsitr, Established 7b Iola Daily lie sister, Eatabltabed 1897. VOLUME XLVII The Weather Raid Carolines 37 Times Since January U.

S. Pacific Fleet Headquar- ters. Pearl Harbor, arch 18. (AP) Japan's Caroline Islands, untouched by American bombers until mid-January, now have been raided 37 times in a gathering air offensive which already has proved the vulnerability of Truk and virtually wiped out the military town of Ponape. Truk has been raided three times, counting as two the successive strikes of carrier planes February 16 and 17.

Kusaie, the first Caroline base to be hit last January 17, has been attacked 16 times, Ponape 13, Oroluk three, and Pingelap twice. KANSAS Colder today with wind 25 to 35 miles per hoar and with light snow west and north and showers and thunderstorms southeast portion; clearing and much colder tonight with minimum temperatures 15 north, bordering to 20 southwest and 25 southeast portion; Sunday fair, warmer west portion in afternoon. Temperature highest for the 24 hours ending 5 p. m. yesterday, 63; lowest last night 33; normal for today 46; excess yesterday excess since January 1, 298 degrees; thi3 date last year highest 50; lowest 32.

Precipitation for the 24 hours hours ending at 8 a. m. today, 1.36; total for this year to date, 6.49; excess since January 1, 2.36 inches. Sunrise 7:23 a. set 7:32 p.

m. Thermograph Readings Ending 8 a. m. Today: Iola City Reaches Red Cross Fund Goal Iola edged ovsr the top in the Red Cross War Fund drive yesterday when cash turned in brought the citys total to $5,612.15 or $12.15 more than the assigned quota. A compilation completed th's morning by U.

D. Nevitt, county chairman, revealed that total Contributions In the county are now $10,072.85 or $1,227.15 less than the countys $11,303 goal. This morning all of the larger districts are over the top and it is possible that un-reported contributions may put others Close to their quotas. However, Mr. Nevitt said that it might be a tough job to secure the last $1,000 needed.

The Red Cross headquarters on West Madison will be closed tonight and campaign workers and contributors are asked to call at the county clerks office at the court house beginning morning. The phone is number 531. Price Check Next Week Survey Food Stores To See That OPA Regulations Are Observed Every grocery store in Allen county will be surveyed by price panel assistants of the local War Price and Rationing Board during the week of March 20 to 25 as part of a nationwide, emergency check of every food outlet in the United States, it was announced today. Mrs. R.

H. Carpenter, chairman of the price panel, explained the details of the survey and the method of carrying it out to a meeting of price panel assistants held yesterday afternoon. Sixteen price panel assistants living in various parts of the county will make the store contacts. Check for Compliance The panel assistants will check to see that every grocery store has its group sign and the appropriate price posters displayed. These include the OPA Community Ceiling price list which became effective March 15, the pork list and the beef list both dated Feb.

1. and the soap price list. The assistants will be asked to see that the selling price of meat in the meat trays is shown and that the selling price of other items is posted either on the item itself or on the shelf. The price panel assistants are representatives of the consumers of the community. They have no financial interest in the stores they check and they receive no pay for their work.

Many of these assistants have been working in Allen county since last July, checking the stores assigned to them. In almost every case they report that the merchants welcome their visits. Easy to Make Mistakes The merchants know that their investment in business is protected from post-war collapse by price control. They also know that in the shortage of help, the numerous regulations, and other problems, make it easy for mistakes in pricing to occur unintentionally, and they are glad to have this called to their attention. Any grocer or meat seller in the county who does not have the proper charts and other materials necessary for pricing according to the regulations should get in touch with the price clerk at the rationing board In Iola promptly.

HOME FRONT HERO Broadus, (AP) Rancher Henry Malley found himself snowed in as income tax day approached. So he rolled out his tractor, opened a blocked road, got to town and paid his tax. Surge on Toward Bessarabia Nazis Unable to Halt Powerful Red Army Drive: Allied Airmen Lash Out Over Reich By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE (Associated Press War Editor) Soviet tanks, cavalry and fhfantry struck through the broad Dniester river valley to within sight of Bessarabia today in the developing German disaster in southern Russia, while to the north German reports of heavy troop movements indicated a possible new Russian drive to knock Finland from, the war. Fleets of U.

S. and British bombers struck against Europe by daylight today, with the Berlin radio reporting penetrations of southwestern Germany and fierce air battles. Allied air power in Italy lashed heavily against Nazi positions near the Anzio beachhead. 11 Miles from Dniester Moscow dispatches said the Russians were fighting through areas of mud and flooded streams in the push toward Bessarabia, after seizing towns only 11 miles from the Dniester. Bessarabia, which was Russian territory before World War was retaken from Rumania early in this war by the Russians who then lost it to the German-Ru-manian offensive launched in 1941.

The resurgent Red army offensive farther north in old Poland won the town of Dubno and sent Soviet forces advancing within 70 miles of the rail city of Lwow. A Berlin dispatch to a Swedish newspaper told of Russian troop movements near Kandalaksha behind the northern Finland front, and said the Finns also had been moving troops forward in this long-stagnant battle area. Russia possibly was getting set forcibly to put the Finns out of war if the offer of armistice falls through. In Helsinki there was still faint hope that the peace negotiations might yet be saved. The hard and furious battle for Cassino still raged in Italy, with Allied troops taking position after position from the stubborn Nazi de-, fenders hemmed into the southwest comer of the ruined town.

In the hills to the west, a German counterattack took one peak from Fifth army troops, but Indian forces retained their hold on two others. German prisoners said casualties in the terrific bombing of Cassino Wednesday had been severe, but that the Germans had taken refuge in deep shelters. A light German attack was broken up on the Anzio beachhead below Cisterna. Lt. Lucas Back in U.

S. From Italian Hospital Mrs. Mary Lucas, Gas City. ha3 been notified that her son, Lieut. E.

B. Lucas, who has been in a hospital in Italy is now in the United States. Lt. Lucas was a pilot for a B-17 bomber and on December 20 was forced to bail out in a flight over Italy. As a result of injuries received at that time he has been in a hospital since then.

Mrs. Lucas does not know whether his bomber was struck in combat or what forced her son to Jump from his plane. Lt. Lucas was bora in Gas City and attended grade school there. Later he moved to Osawatomie to live with his brother.

When he enlisted in 1941 he was living in Kansas City. He has been overseas about a year. Frame Simple Tax Law Quick Enactment Seen For Measure Freeing from Filing Tax Returns Washington, Mar. 18. (AP) Swift enactment was predicted today for a new streamliner tax bill which would fr6e approximately persons from the filing of income tax returns while making few changes in individual tax burdens.

House Ways and Means committee chairman Doughton and Rep. Carlson R-Kas.) and Rep. Robertson committee members, described the biU as a wonderful Job," and chairman George (D-Ga.) of the Senate Finance committee said the Senate would act "within 10 days after the measure comes from the House. The House committee brewed its balm for taxpayers Just two weeks after the historic veto" battle over the second wartime revenue measure. Not Much Change Doughton said the streamliner made no substantial chshges in present burdens for taxpayers that "nobody will be hurt much oi helped much," as to the size of their tax liability.

However, some tax- BABY-BONUS" BILL Washington, March 18 (AP) The new tax simplification legislation is a "baby bonus bUL The present exemption for married couples is $1,200 with an additional exemption of $350 for each child. Under the proposed bill, the married couple exemption would be $1,000, with $500 for each child. Thus, the exemption for a married couple with one child would be $1,500. with five children. $3,500, with ten children $6,000, etc.

As far as the law is concerned this could go on indefinitely. payers, notably married persons without children would pay more while couples with more than one child would pay a little less. It was estimated the plan would bring in some 153.0C0 new taxpayers, whose incomes are between $555 and $624 annually, and that the effects of the new exemptions and rates would be to funnel about $20,000,003 more annually into the treasury. The streamliner makes no change in the requirement that tax estimates and partial payments be made by this April 15 on 1944 income. Main rovisions If it becomes law, this is about what the bill would do: 1.

Beginning next January 1. the present 20 per cent withholding system against wages and salaries would be revised to deduct the full tax liability for persons earning up to $5,000, numbering about 30,000,000. 2. There would be no change in amounts held out of pay envelopes and salary checks this year, and the government itself would compute the taxes on 1944 income for those with wages and salaries under $5,000. The taxpayer, after the year end, simply would mail to the collector a copy of a withholding receipt, furnished by the employer, in place of the regular return, after writing on the back of the receipt the number of (Continued on Page 6.

No, 1) Flays New Draft Policy Says Synthetic Rubber Output Threatened By Drain of Key Workers Washington, March 18 (AP) Production of synethetic rubber is being held up by the shortage of workers, rubber director Bradley Dewey reported today in a plea for retention of the industrys young key technicians. Voicing the first official complaint of industries likely to be nit by the announced plan to take into the armed forces practically all of the 250,000 men under 26 who have been deferred for occupational reasons, Dewey said: If at this late date, the Industry finds itself in a position where its young, irreplaceable, highly-trained technical men are drafted, It will be impossible to operate some plants satisfactorily or to carry forward to completion some vital researches." FDR Takes Army View His assertions followed a hint from President Roosevelt that the chief executive is leaning toward the armed services view that vir-tualy all physically fit men under 26 must be drafted, that it is a case of men first and materials second. For the past ten days there has been an intensive, behind-the-scenes tug-of-war between the armed services and production officials over the new draft policy. Production officials had hoped to keep some 43,000 to 50.C03 key technicians but Mr. Roosevelt said yesterday that few under 26 are really Indispensable and the armed services view is that that is too great a percentage of deferment to maintain the needed combat force.

Fewer Passenger Tires About 22.000,000 synthetic rubbe: tires will be built for passenger cars this year, Dewey predicted, instead of the previously estimated to be necessary to replace the worn rubber on civilian automobiles. "A continuing shortage' for the average motorist was forecast, for only 7,000,000 of the tires scheduled can be built by mldytrir. Dewey emphasized that the passenger tire shortage is a matter of materials rather than manpower. Women workers, he said, can fabricate the lighter tires for private automobiles, but production is being deliberately held down to a month for the first half of this year to divert materials to heavier military and truck and bus tires. Manpower troubles which will be aggravated by tighter draft rules, Dewey said, are largely in synthetic rubber laboratories, the chemical operations of new plants, and fabrication of heavier tires.

PORCINE PURSUIT Chicago, (AP) Maybe the pigs wanted to acquire an education, but anyway they chased the students of suburban Lotus school both to and from class. The teacher, Miss Arlene Lewin, filed the proper complaint with the sheriffs office, and the farmer owner promised to restrain the quest for education. A Daring Coup in Burma Jap Supply Lines Cut By Strong Force of Glider-Borne British And American Troops By FRANK L. MARTIN On the India-Burma Frontier, March 18. (AP) American engineers and British infantrymen, landed by American gliders and transports, have carved out an air strip and land base behind Japanese lines in North Central Burma and placed a strong force squarely across supply lines linking the enemys northern and southern armies Details of this daring assault were disclosed today, nearly two weeks after the operation established a strong Allied position more than 103 miles south of where Lt.

Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, with his Chineso and American regiments, Is driving south to clear the way for a new supply line to China. British and Indian infantry forces were flown into the Burma Jungle from India bases by a special air commando task force, first proposed at the Quebec conference of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. A Special Air Unit Commanded by Col.

Philip G. Cochran, of Erie, the special air unit was whipped into shape by the United States army airforce as a solution to the problem of getting a strong ground force Into the heart of Burma without struggling through the mountainous Jungle. Cochran is known as the original of the cartoon strip character, Flip Corkin. The bold attack caught the Japanese completely by surprise. Allied forces established the air base and fanned out into a widening offensive east and west out of their new strongbox southwest of Myitkyina before the Japanese discovered that their supply lines between north and south Burma were in danger of being cut.

The first elements landed at night more than a week ago. Blast Enemy Air Force I was on the field when the first American gliders filled with British assault troops and American engineers took off. They were equipped with machinery to make a landing strip quickly to pave the way for the major attacking force waiting at bases on the Indian side. In preparation for the invasion, bombers and fighters from an American air base in India lashed at Japanese supply lines and troop concentrations and in one quick operation destroyed one-fifth of the enemys air strength in Burma. As soon as they landed in Burma, (Continued on Page 6, No.

3) W. A. White Will Filed Emporia, March 18. (AP) The late William Allen White, renowned editor, bequeathed his half of the Emporia Gazette to his widow, Sallie L. White, and $1,000 each to 14 Gazette employes with 20 years of service, under a will filed yesterday in Lyon county probate court.

Mrs. White and their son, W. L. White, already held a fourth interest each in the newspaper. Mrs.

White owned half of the Gazette building, and the will leaves her the other half. To the son goes the farm near El Dorado. The farm, the editor noted, was given to me by my father." He also expressed a wish that W. L. White would see that Peter Pan park in Emporia is maintained.

The park was established by the Whites as a memorial to their daughter, Mary White, who was injured fatally In a fall from her horse In May, 1921. The estate has not been appraised for tax purposes. Real property and personal property in Lyon and Butler county, Kansas, and Larimer county, Colorado, listed in probate court at present assessed value, and intangibles at actual cash value, totaled $68,505. An additional $65,000 in insurance is payable to Mrs. White.

The will provided an insurance trust for Charles B. Lindsay of Emporia and Robert G. Lindsay of Kansas City, brothers of Mrs. White, and also provided supplemental income for education of the Lindsay children. The will was drawn December 30, 1939, naming Mrs.

White executrix. Hint At Possible New Three-Power Parley London, March 18. (AP) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill may meet after the London visit of Edward R. Stettinius undersecretary of state, to iron out political questions, and the possibility of another three-power conference with Premier Stalin was suggested today by reports from non-British diplomats. Churchill in his speech Feb.

22 said no plans had yet been made for another three-power conference, but hinted at others to come. lie said there would be no differences between the Big Three if the leaders could sit down for discussions Americans Take Manus Airdome Crack Jap Defenses Around Town of Lor-engau; Jap Attacks End on Bougainville Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, March 18. (AP) The American drive on Man- us Island in the Admiralties has overrun Lorengaus airdrome and is cracking the Japanese defenses around the town itself, Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur announced today. Invading units of the first caval-ty division took the airdrome Thursday, day after they landed on Manus from nearby Los Negros island which the troopers already had captured.

Then they knocked down enemy pillbox defenses with mortar fire and tanks to push southward within 600 yards of Ia-rengaus skirts. Complete breakdown of the enemys offensive against the 37th and American divisions holding the beachhead perimeter at Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville island was reported from the Solomons. Drive Peters Out Tuesday The week-long Japanese drive aimed at the Allied airdromes on Empress Augusta Bay flickered out in fighting Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Fred Hampson, Associated Press war correspondent, said the dawn assault Wednesday cost the enemy 195 dead. MacArthur said the enemys formations in the Bougainville fighting had been "dispersed and decimated, and over 1,100 of his dead lie within our lines alone.

With Allied air and sea control over relief routes, the future appeared bleak for remaining Japanese troops believed concentrated in southern bougainville. Liebrator heavy bombers flew 2,400 mUes round-trip to 6tage a surprise night raid on Japanese installations at the one-time important Dutch naval base at Soerabaja, Java, in the Netherlands East Indies. Twenty-four tons of bombs were dropped. All planes returned safely. Wewak, the Japanese New Guinea base, was raided Thursday for the 6th consecutive day; 143 tons of bombs being dropped to bring the raid series total to 899.

The previous five attacks had cost the Japanese 65 intercepting planes. No enemy planes came up Thursday. Allied planes from Solomons airfields raided Rabaul, New Britain, five times Wednesday, hitting airdromes. supply areas and barges in the harbor with a total of 135 tons of explosives. Neosho Is Out Of Banks Here The Neosho river started to overflow about 9:00 oclock this morning.

swollen by an additional 1.36 inches of rain which fell during the night. At 9:30 a. m. the gauge at the West street bridge showed a depth of 15.15 feat or 1.15 feet more than the 14 feet shown at 7:00 a. m.

Flood stage is 15 ft. Mrs. C. C. Hicks, weather observer at the river, stated that 1.25 inches of rain fell there during the night and that the river was rising rapidly.

All the creeks In the county were reported to be bankful or overflowing. The ground is soaked with Tater and the rain which fell during the night is running off rapidly. So far this year the county has had a total of 6 49 inches of precipitation which is 2.36 inches above normal. More rain today or tomorrow could produce a flood of major proportions. At 11:30 this morning the river stood at 16 feet, having risen nearly a foot in the preceding two and a half hours.

Highway Patrol Chief Speaker At Kiwanis Col. Will Zurbucken, head of the Kansas highway patrol, was the guest speaker at the Iola Kiwanis club last night and warned that the U. S. is facing a severe shortage of automobiles. When the Japs struck Pearl Harbor, Col.

Zurbucken said, we had 30 million motor vehicles. These have now been reduced to 23 million and it is possible that 2 million more will be junked this year. The Col. urged that everyone use available motor equipment in such a way as to prolong its life as far as possible. Col.

Zurbucken said that so far four times as many people have been killed in highway and home accidents as we have lost through battle. Carelessness and wanton disregard for common sense rules are the major causes of these accidents which exact so heavy a toll. Neosho Falls Man Fined For Drunk Driving Lee Murray, Neosho Falls, pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon in the county court to a charge of drunk driving and was fined $100 and costs and sentenced to 10 days in the county jail by Judge Alta M. Dunlap. It was charged that Murray lost control of his car on the West street road on Thursday night, side swiped an approaching car and eventually landed in the ditch, causing considerable damage to his own vehicle.

Highway patrolman A1 Norton made the arrest. 0 i She WAH TODAY By DEWITT MACKENZIE It would be interesting to know what inspires the odd conclusion that Stalin ol Moscow, in recognizing the government under King Eman- uele, has jettisoned the Italian Communist party which demands the monarch's abdication. Theres nothing to support any such notion, so far as I can see. Stalin merely has signified that he thinks the Badoglio government under the king is better left to act for the time being. The Communist chief has in no way committed himself beyond the present emergency by recognition.

The marshal did agree at the Moscow conference of the Big Four America. Britain, Russia and China that Fascism should be 'destroyed and that the Italian people should be allowed to choose their own democratic form of government. However. it seems absurd to believe he deviates so far from ordinary hu- man nature that he wouldn't be happy to see a Communist government in Italy ultimately or in any other country, for that matter. Hes not going to stifle his own followers and doctrines.

So probably little Emanuele finds his throne an uneasy seat, despite the working agreement with America and Britain, and outright resumption of diplomatic relations with Moscow. And hes not the only king with troubles, for the fohr kingdoms of the neighboring Balkan peninsula Greece. Bulgaria, Jugoslavia and Rumania are shaking to their very foundations. Take the case of King George of Greece, who is a refugee in Cairo. The political trend among his people now is to kick him out once more and reestablish the republic.

When they called him back in 1935 he had a chance to rebuilt the glories of his throne, but he soon allowed the late General Metaxas to set up a dictatorship and take over the government. Now, the Greeks throughout history have hated dictators, but they would have forgiven George if he had disavowed the dictatorship when Metaxas died in 1941, and had taken over the active leadership of his people. All he had to do was mount a white charger and ride through Athens with a sword at his side and he would have been the hero of the public. But George didn't. He never has been a forceful personality.

His mother-in-law, the late Queen Marie of Rumania, discovered that when she did her utmost to get him back (Continued on Page 6. No. 2) lolan Commands Machine Gun Attack on Japs Cape Gloucester, New Britian, (delayed) Corporal Robert E. Womack, Iola, a 22-ycar-old Marine machine-gunner, took over command of two machine gun squads when his section leader was wounded in an attacic on the banks cf Un-namcd river and diiected the firing of 6X00 rounds of ammunition itno the Japanese lines. Comoral Womack and his gunners poured a hail of fire into the trees and pillboxes on the Jap side of the stream to protect bulldozer which was engaged in cutting a path for Marine medium tanks.

Under cover of the fire, the bulldozer completed its mission and the following day, the Marines crossed the river. Infantry and tanks worked as a team and drove the Japanese back more than a mile. Cpl. Womack is a veteran of Iceland and Guadalcanal. The son of Mr.

and Mrs. 'Charles M. Womack, 1011 No. Jefferson, Corporal Womack graduated from the Iola high school in 1940 and enlisted in the Marines in July of that year. (The above dispatch was received by The Register from Staff Sgt.

Jeremiah A. O'Leary, a Marine Corps combat correspondent.) James B. Duggan Dies At Daughters Home James B. Duggan died last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Pepper, 618 South Walnut street.

He was 79 years old. Mr. Duggan was born at Rlce-ville, Tennessee, and came to AUen county a3 a young man. He was a farmer and lived in the Prairie Hall neighborhood for 21 years and in the Fairview district, east of Mildred, for about 10 years. During the past seven years he and Mrs.

Duggan have lived with Mrs. Pepper, their daughter. He leaves his three son3, Roy Duggan, Portland, Homer and Elmer Duggan, Iola; 2 daughters, Mrs. Pepper and Mrs. Lee Thompson, Elsmore; five brothers, Ed, Evert and Russell Duggan who live on the west coast.

W. J. Duggan, Bronson, and Lewis Duggan, Iola; two sisters, Mrs. Elizabetn Thompson and Mrs. Sallie Rhoads of Oklahoma City.

Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Stanley F. Taylor at 2:30 p. m. Monday at the Baptist Temple.

Burial will be at Highland cemetery. I I Severe Cold Due Tonight Snow and Freezing Rain Blanket State; Some Rivers Are Out Topeka, March 18. (AP) Snow and freezing rain fell over most of Kansas today Weatherman S. D. Flora reported, predicted a severe freeze over the entire state tonight and continued cold tomorrow.

Snow fell at Concordia and Good-land this morning and Phillipsburg reported a freezing rain. Dodge City had a trace of rain overnight and Wichita reported .68 of an inch, Topeka, .03, Goodland .02, Coffeyville .13, and Phillipsburg and Concordia a trace. Rain fell along the Marias des Cygnes last night. Flora said, with Garnett reporting 1.31 inches and Lacygne 1.21. He warned that the river would probably leave its banks near the Missouri line adding that the crest had passed upstream.

Temperatures this afternoon were expected to remain above freezing. Flora said, hovering near 40 over most of the state. Tonight a freeze was predicted with a low of 18 expected in the northeast, 15 in the northwest, and 20 in the south. Temperatures yesterday ranged from 50-60 with Dodge City reporting a high 66. Last night's reported low was 25 at Goodland with temperatures 25-30 in the north central and west and slightly above freezing in the eastern and south central parts of the state.

Flooding At El Dorado Some streams in Butler county were oyerflowing this morning following a 3-inch rain which started yesterday. Water from the Walnut river poured into east El Dorado and highway 56 there was flooded in places. Traffic continued to get through, however. The same road south of El Dorado was blocked (Continued on Page 6, No. 4) Dies to Follow Winchell On Radio on March 26 Washington, March 18.

(AP) Chairman Martin Dies of the house committee on un-American activities today accepted an invitation to follow Waiter Winchell on the radio the night of March 26. In announcing his acceptance, the Texas Democrat loosed a new blast in his feud with the columnist and commentator, hinting that he might return the compliment by inviting Winchell to be a guest of his committee under subpoena. believe me, that one year away from home would certainly make them appreciate America more. After being reclassified Hickey said that, while out of combat duty, he still wanted a job in the combat area. So he was sent to the beachhead, where he carries the mail by jeep to forward units.

I like this job, as the boys are always glad to see me and the letters from home that I bring certainly make them feel good. Hickey was just about to start college when he was inducted, and one of his worries, shared by many other young soldiers, is that the war may last so long he will be too old to continue his education. "I would like to know something about that plan where the government will help discharged soldiers continue their education," he said. Theres prohibition on the beachhead. Fifth army officials having forbidden the sale of liquor to all military personnel.

As always when you have prohibition, theres bootlegging but not much. It consists of the occasional sale of a bottle of wine by a civilian. The vast majority of soldiers havent had a drop of alcohol since they landed. The wine of the beachhead is a sort of frascati, golden, new and somewhat heafy. The wine is fortified, bringing its alcohol content from 10 per cent to 25 per cent.

On Its arrival on the front it is diluted with water, cutting the alcoholic content to ten per cent and retaining the taste. Ten Days That Stunned the azis Says Allies Should Occupy Germany For Maybe 50 Years" After War By EDWARD KENNEDY (Substituting for Hal Boyle) Anzio Beachhead. March 1. (Delayed). (AP) Few soldiers have very definite ideas on that frequently asked question of what ought to be done with the Germans after we win the war.

There is one here, however, who has a plan. He is Pvt. Robert B. Hickey of 201 21st Avenue North, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Hickey, who is 21, knows something about the unpleasant side of war. His father, a marine, was killed in the Pacific last year. He himself was blown out of a truck while he was in a tank destroyer unit on the Volturno front and suffered an Injury to his ankle which caused his transfer from combat duty. But there is no bitterness In his plan, he says. "Let the Germans go about their business and make a living, but keep all weapons away from them.

They have caused too much trouble in the world to be allowed to have weapons. The only way you can be sure they dont arm is to keep an occupying force there for at least 20 years and maybe 50 years. This occupying force should not persecute them, but be mighty sure they dont have any war weapons of any kind. Then Hickey added quickly: the boys who are fighting this- war should not be kept over here to do this occupation job. That should be done by new soldiers who should be taken In the army at 18 and serve overseas for one year.

They should continue their education while on duty In Oeraany, and. Shaded area on map Indicates area regained from Nazis along the southern Russian front within a 10-day period. Southwest of Uman Red troops have crashed across the Bug river, and have closed the harbor of Nikolaev, which leaves Odessa as the only remaining ort in southern Russia available to the Nazis..