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mm, rir II I If I II WHS Ew ITB AIT New Florida's Reputation South Florida hea been tlrtt of tha nation's localities to feel the fist of thje FBI as Federal men gather evidence of blark-markft tirket operators. How It threatens Florida's reputation Is dramatically told In Pass In Review. Story on Editorial I'age 4. Wcalhcr And Tides Clearing by lata today. Generally fair and cooler tonight.

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Lauderdale restaurateurs, confounded by the cracking down of 18 District OPA representatives here, with threatened tightening of point allotments, today viewed possible necessity of closing restaurants with worried anxiety. While local tradespeople continue to undergo hearings before the local price panel at the instigation of attacked Berlin today for the third American attack in a week against the German capital. The Liberator and Fortress formations bombarded Berlin with more than 350,000 incendiary bombs and 10,000 explosive bombs. Tianino telaphoto. REDS CUT ODESSA-LW OW RAILROAD Map shows where the First Ukranian Army, commanded by Marshal Gregory K.

Zhukov, apparently has cut the Odessa-Lwow railroad at Volochisk, where fighting still is in prcgress. Occupation of Volochisk will mean that the Nazis will have to move their rail traffic into Southern Russia through Rumania. Twelve Nazi divisions reportedly have been routed in the hewest Russian offensive. Ford Protection In Aircraft Plant fh DETROIT, March 8. CP) A Ford Motor Company spokesman reported today a plant protection man was kicked and beaten in fishtmg which; he said, followed discharge of a worker for striking foreman in the Rouge Plant aircraft building, and suspcir-icn of two men for -smoking on the assembly line.

At the same time more than 2,000 employes in the production foundry of the Rouge Plant, mew- WEDNESDAY, MARCH ero ANZIO BEACHHEAD. Italy, March 8. PFC Paul O. Elder. 59 Kennedy Homss, Ft.

Lauderdale, knocked out a German Mark VI Tiger Tank with cne shot from a range of 50 yards, and at" the nest moment had his own tank destroyer shot from under him by a Nazi Covering tank fighting that swirled around a trapped British unit on the beachhead. His wife, Arlene Elder, tearfully listened to the following account cf her husband's heroism, when contacted at home today by The DAILY NEWS: A high-ranking officer who witnessed the feat of the doughboy, said "He had the guts to stick his guns, and he got him." The action occurred at daybreak, and Elder, a gunner on the tank destroyer, could see enemy tanks turning into a road that climbed to the crest of a hill, his story of the engagement: British Surrounded "The Germans had the British surrounded, and we went in to get them. It was about 5 or 5:30 o'clock, and just getting light. We knew the German tank had to come into an exposed position on the top of the hill, and we just cat there waiting for him. "'He never had a chance to use his own guns.

I fired one round and hit him right in the front. The tank seemed to shudder and stop. The crew made no effort to leave the tanki and we concluded that they were all killed by concussion. "Just at that moment, a tank which followed the Mark VI up the hill caught us in its' sights and we were knocked out. The shell hit us right in front, and the concussion was pretty bad.

Shrapnel was flying around inside the tank destroyer and fire broke out. Everybody in the crew but myself got burns, but I had my face in the sights and wore gloves, and I guess that saved me. "1 don't remember much what happened in the next few minutes. It was every man for himself. We piled out of the tank dsstroyer and jumped Into a ditch and pulled the wounded in after us," Electric Off, Everyone Late The streets of the city were slow to awaken this morning, as 10 a.

m. had much the appearance of an earlier hour, due to the slowed-up timepieces of residents whose electric clocks were thrown off schedule by a ''surge" caused when lightning struck a control switch at the substation at Sixth between 3 and 4 a. m. today. Last night's storm struck more severely the southern part of the county, where everythins was thrown out of kiltor nd commu nities were deprived cf current for two hoars, acccrding io Don Freeman, manager of the Florida Power liKht Co.

Providing county workers with good "use for beiru late this morning, Freeman explained that the system here is equipped with automatic circuit breakers, which, after a sliort interruption such as being struck by lightning, con tinue to operate. "However," said Freeman, "when the clocks stop, they always restart immediately." Retired Manufacturer, F. D. Brown, Dies Here Frank D. Brown, 1252 Rio Vista retired manufacturer cf Cincinnati and a prominent Ft.

Lauderdale resident for the cast 18 years, died last night at the Broward General Hospital He had been a member of the firm, Sauer- ston and Brown. He is survived by his wife. Ford Jeter Brown, prominent in music and church cucles of this city and by a brother Charles Brown of Indiana. The body will be shipped to Richmond, tomor row morning by ths Fannin F' Elder War Kil FULL SEA Broward Farms Welcome Rain After Drought Crops in Ft. Lauderdale and surrounding areas, much in need of rain, were revived temporarily last night when .47 inch of rain fell.

The rain began yesterday afternoon. "That rain, almost half an Arthur Woford, Ft. Lauderdale representative of the U. S. Weather Bureau, said, "is the most we have had for more than months.

The rain, although heavy in this area, was scattered." County Agent Lawton declared the rain would aid the growth of the crops by causing them to mature at a much more rapid rate. "But, we still need more rain," he asserted, "and there is still a considerable shortage of labor." Thause of young boys has not proven satisfactory during the past few months. County Agent Lawton said. "Some of them work, but the majority of them play." Other areas bid for the men who know how to farm the area, he said, and much food is going to waste. The tomatoes, beans and peppers grown in the Ft.

Lauderdale area represent a large proportion of the crops produced in the trade area of the state, but similar climatic conditions prevail elsewhere. With the citrus labor shortage growing more acute, the growers administrative and shippers advisory committees are exploring the question of draft deferment for needed workers. Americans, Chinese Fight Burma Japs NEW DELHI, March 8. tjpi American-trained Chinese troops and United States infantry who linked up yesterday in the Wa-lawbum area of Upper Burma are now fighting side by side. 'Lt.

Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters announced today. A communique said that Chinese forces have occupied Hpung-wye, three miles southwest of Maingkwan and captured Shing-ban, three miles to the south. Capture of Maingkwan, main Japanese base in the Hukawng valley, Wis reported yesterday.

Jaws of the trap in which the Japanese were forced by the encircling tactics of the Americans are beginning to close rapidly, the communique reported. Walawbum itself has been completely isolated by the U. S. troops, who have severed the enemy's main lines of communication -with other Japanese forces to the west and north. Fire Chief Okays Trash Burning Fire Chief C.

W. King announced today that he would rescind the order disallowing the issuance of permits to burn trash because of rain which alleviated the dry conditions presenting a'fire hazard. "However," said the Chief, "the dampness may only be temporary and I wish to caution everyone against taking chances with fire. No one is permitted to burn trash without a permit according to the city ordinancs! The Fire Depirtment today removed the painted blinds from the traffic light at the intersection of Andrews Ave and SW Second St. It is the only light from which the paint will be removed, ac cording to a request for greater visibility from the Police Depart ment to facilitate passage of traffic at that point.

"If it is necessary to cover the light again," said Chief King, "trs can do so in fVM ww- A I tAJ cover it" a FBESS forces of U. S. heavy bombers Nazi Divisions Regrouping To Protect Rome ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, March 8. Gunfire, mortar and grenade duels raged for the second straight night in shell-torn Cassino on the main Fifth Army front, headquarters announced today, and observers have spotted movements behind the German lines below Rome, possibly indicating a regrouping for a fourth all-out push against the Allied beachhead. New Zealand siege guns hammered at a German held rail station about a mile south of Cassino while American troops west of Cistema cn the beachhead engaged in a fierce machinegun and mortar duel with the Nazis, but there was no chanpe in positions.

The Germans Caac- ccncci- but futile tlfort to imiiuate positions near Corroceto, on the Rome side of the beachhead. Discussing the German movements behind the lines, headquarters said the Nazis "appear to be on the watch for any opening in our forward positions." Foul weather, however, continued to hamper the ground fighting and the communique declared that "heavy snow in the mountains and deep mud in the valleys have made all move, irsents difficult." Allied planes flew about 1,300 scrliCs yesterday, with heavy bombers blasting the Toulon naval base in southern France and medium bombers striking at rail yards in Rome. Five Nazi planes were destroyed for a loss cf five Allied craft. Wine Merchant Rotary Guest Jack Earl, wine company representative of San Fi-ancisco, was guest speaker today at Rotary Club meeting at Hotel Broward speaking on "Wine Today and Through the He was introduced by August Burghard. Earl, formerly with Ringling Brothers Circus is the tallest man in the world, measuring eight feet, six mches in height, and brought many laughs "from his audiences telling of some of his experiences before starting on his subject.

He discussed the origin of wine, tracing it back to Biblical times, and mentioned the many ways the wine industry is making important contributions towards furthering the war effort stating that the source of important war chemicals and medicine are obtained from the fermentation process. to 210 members, only six short of the Democrats' 216, and demonstrated to most politicians that the 1942 Republican swing still is continuing, so far as Congressional contests are concerned. More than that, however, lt showed; that the vote appeal of a war veteran without previous political experience may not be nearly as great as many politicians had believed. They received some Inklinj- ef this previously when Naval Lt. George W.

Andrews won the Democratic nomination by only a 44-vote margin over J. Hubert Farmer in a special election in the third Alabama dis trict to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Rcd. Henry SieanlL A srznd jury isves- into djirss cf tz. tia prry iii loci Orierew vfYi bf air LAUDERDALE. FLORIDA, MILES 100 Kremeorhuo Dnepfopctroiij VWP a 11 Man Beaten piling bers of the United Automobile Workers Union (CIO), returned to work today after a one-day walkout in a dispute over production rates.

The fighting in the aircraft building started after the discharge and suspension, the spokesman said, when about 250 assembly line workers stormed the labor relations office seeking an official they blamed for the dL-ciplinary actions. He escaped, the spokesman added, but a plant protection man who tried to quell the disturbance was knocked to the floor, kicked and beaten with paper weights. Joseph Twyman, president of UAW-CIO Local 600, said that two former Marines who have medicfcl discharges in World War II were dismissed for smoking cigarettes in a lavatory, because it was the second time they had been caught smoking. Equal Negro Pay Suit Dismissed MIAMI, March 8. LT) A suit charging the Dade County Board of Public Instruction with discriminating against Negro principals and teachers in the matter of salaries was ordered dismissed yesterday by Federal Judge John Holland.

He held there was no discrimination against Negro principals and teachers as a group 'under the beard's syctern of classifying and rating teacher personnel. The court likewise ruied it held no power to control the yardstick or procedure by which the board determines teacher wcith or salaries, but could rule only on the fairness cf the schedule and its applications. With Theme On Its Stomach' home products produced by citizens of the Broward County area and will be housed under one huge tent. In addition to such displays, 27 various types of amusement will litter the midway to entei'tam the entire family, from junior to grandmother. The Endy Brothers Shows.

with a fleet of 45 foot semi-trailer trucks loaded with fun will be present, glistening with stream- linings in red and gold on the modernistic midway of the 1944 Broward County Fair. A circus side show, where freaks and curiosities from all parts ef the world have bsen Fathered torsther, will appear both ycunj asi nvoiKoa; It V. JrI'V-W Melitopol, 25, in to It was the American heavy bombers' eighth big assault in ten days, and came after only one day's interval since the last heavy attack on the German capital. A United States Air Force announcement said: Strong forces of B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators of the Eighth Air Force, escorted by large formations of AAF and RAF fighters, attacked industrial targets in the Berlin district today, "More than 350,000 incendiary bombs and more than 10,000 high explosive bombs were dropped. It was the fourth operation by American aircraft over the Berlin district within eight days." Daylight Campaign The American daylight aerial campaign against Berlin started last Friday when Lightning fighters penetrated to the capital.

This was followed up Saturday by the American's first bomber attack, by one formation. Monday's big attack was made by a force estimated unofficially as upwards of 850 bombers. The German radio, as on Monday, reported heavy air battles in progress over northwestern Germany and west of Hannover. This aerial combat started about 1 p.m., said the radio, about half an hour after the American armada crossed the German frontier. At mid-morning radio stations had blacked out to avoid giving the invaders directional beams.

The attack kept the Allies' round-the-clock bombing cam paign going uninterruptedly after the RAF's second successive night attack on Nazi railroad centers in France. Sixth Hits Japs On Three Fronts By The Associated Press Sixth Army troops in the Southwest Pacific are filling in the details implied by Gen. Douglas MacArtliur's statement a week ago that "the end of the Bismarck campaign is now clearly in sight." Today's Allied communique reported Sixth Army units have gained control of Los Negros Island in the Admiralty group, have leap-frogged up the north coast of New Britain to within 170 airline miles of Rabaul and have driven up the south coast of New Britain to within 50 airline miles of Gasmata. Covered by an air umbrella but not by naval bombardment, First Division Marines attached to Lt. Gen.

Walter Krueger's Sixth Army swarmed ashore Monday at Willaumez Peninsula on New Britain's north coEjt and immediately drove toward Talasea, five miles dis tant, where the Japanese once had an emergency landing strip. Rifle fire was the only opposi lion to the landing. Red Army Tarnapol LONDON, March 8. LB Overpowering heavy German counterattacks, Red Army troops driving toward Rumania are threatening to outflank the important junction city of Tarnopol on the Odessa-Warsaw railway, Moscow dispatches said today. Pressing forward over a countryside turned into a mire by early spring thaws, Russian spearheads yesterday captured the town of Igrovitsa, nine miles northwest of Tarnopol and only four miles from the Warsaw railway, a Russian communique Other forces operating east of Tarnopol actually severed the line in the places 20 miles apart.

Yesterday's advance by the forces under Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov liberated 230 more r-'licrf 'vericrn Larrinian coun try, announced. -it-Germans hurled strong infantry and tank forces asahist the Red Army, especially in the Staro-Konstantinov sector south of Shepetovka, but were hurled back, leaving more than 1,000 dead on the battlefield, the Russians said. The district center of Staraya Sinyava, 50 miles southest of Shepetovka and 30 miles northeast of Proskurov, was among the more important towns listed as taken. Capture of Staraya Sinyava not only cut the Staro-Konstantinov railway, but brought Soviet vanguards to within 25 miles of the Odessa-Warsaw line west of Zhmerinka.

Svinnaya, another town captured yesterday, is only four miles from Staro-Konstantinov. On the Baltic front, Moscow reported arrival of heavy German air reinforcements in the Narva sector, where Gen. Leonid A. Govorov was attempting to enlarge the Red Army bridgehead west of the Narova river. Hollywood Pool Sought By Navy A request received by the Hollywood City Commission from the Navy for the use of the municipal casino swimming pool exclusively, Monday through Friday weekly, would 'allow for public Use Saturdaj's and Sundays only, was held over for one week by the Commission last night.

A committee of City Attorney T. D. Ellis, City Manager A. G. Bair, Commissioner C.

B. Elliott and Mayor L. C. Boggs was appointed to investigate further the basis, on which the Navy wishes possession of the pool. A public hearing was set for next Tuesday night to give the Commission an opportunity to determine the reaction of the taxpayers to the Navy proposal.

In the request it was stipulated that the Navy be given possession April 1 on a rental basis, assuming costs of operation, improvements and maintenance. INSIDE THE NEWS Classified Ads 8, Comics Crossword Tuzzle David Lawrence 1 Editorial I Hollywood Nets Intematieria! Nst's Local News Local rews Palm Leaf Fan Fass in Review 1 1 National News il News Mi'1- JA Calendar Radio Ration Sports Social News State News The War Today. Today on the Hoias Washlsstaa News Menacin District OPA investigators who vfvarmed the citys stores, filling stations and restaurants since arriving last Friday, restaurant owners faced the gloomy outlook of having to close down within a $-hort tine if not given supplementary ration points to feed natrons. Elmer Rau, manager of the Tana Gardens, charged the OPA with an attempt to "scare away." "We haven't had much trouble in. the past," said Eau, "but if we are not allowed supplementary meat rationing, we'll have to close the doors by April 1." Bob Yates, co-owner of the Sea Horse, was equally voluble as he said, "There are a lot of young lawyers with OFA who Tion't know the restaurant business but are trying to tell us what we can do.

We should have 30,000 rationing points a week to supply this restaurant. Instead we are siven 15,000 per month. This type restriction is losing the very tiling vb'fc 'iisliting for. WtUare. been told to fall back on fish and poultry, but we can't always get that.

We may have to close the restaurant, perhaps even the bar, (because people aren't going to pay the ridiculous taxes imposed on liquor and entertainment." Brown's Restaurant merely states that they were allowed approximately one point per meal and were having a great deal of difficulty working on that basis. While restaurant owners fumed, it wm announced at the Ration Eoard by H. Talbott Elack. OPA that Hearing Commissioner Clement E. Sutton of the OPA Regional office of Atlanta would be here Monday and Tuesday to conduct suspension pro- ceedings against a score of local food and meat dealers, filling station owners and distributors for sale of commodities without rationing stamps or for invalid stamps.

Cases against filling station owners will be based on acceptance of unendorsed gas coupons and against distributors who delivered gas without requiring coupons upon delivery. Suspension Hearings Suspension hearings, said Black, be held in the Circuit Court "Chambers on Monday. On Tues-rinv annthpr room will1 be desig nated as Court will be in session. Maximum penalties which can be imposed is suspension from buying, selling or using rationed goods for 4ny length of time up until Dec. 31, 1944.

Cases will be presented hy Black, enforcement attorney from the Jacksonville District Office. In Washington, according to the Associated Press, reports circulated that the White House, in a gesture of conciliation toward Congress, would try to bring leaders of both parties together on continuing the present powers of the OPA beyond their i 5ft extiiration date. New York Democrat Senator Wagner announced that rrice Administrator Chester Bowles would meet informally Friday with members of the Senate Banking Committee to discuss the OPA extension plans. vartiKan movement appeared in the wind as a few senatorial leaders appeared to favor a "let's set togemer uiuvcmcv v.v... ithe President and Congress to re tain OPA for tne gooa ui me country and the war effort.

MATHEWS HONORED Directors of the cnameer a Commerce met this afternoon in voom 301 of the faTeex, unoics and adopted a resolution in memory of the late Col. George G. Mathews, one cf the city's fore- Viae I most pioneers -wiiosc vowm Veen fhourned throughout the city. Several guests oi me unam-br and Hunley Abbott, chairman of tee Chamber's Postwar Planning Committee wers present. The who-iin committes resorted! fcrTee process ir.vs izz SOLDIERS BALLOT MAILISG PLAN SET BY JUDGE ANDERSON Names of military service men who have requested ballots will be sent to County Judge Boyd H.

Anderson, who in turn will mail enclosures to men overseas. The enclosures for men unable to vote in this area consist of a ballot, both Democratic and Republican, and three other envelopes each of different size, and each carrying a large for purposes of identification. The ballot will be hi the smallest envelope, and placed in the and sealed, when the on is filled out and executed. Judge Anderson and the supervisor of registration, Mrs. Easter Gates, before opening the can check registration to determine whether ballots will be counted for federal olifices only, or for federal, state and local.

If the soldier or sailor is not registered his ballot will be counted for federal offices only. If he is registered, federal," state and local votes will be counted. School Board Receives $19,200 In Race Funds The Broward County Board of Public Instruction received two checks totaling $19,200 from race track receipts, U. J. Bennett disclosed today.

One check, amounting to $17,200, and the other of $2,000 bringing the total receipts of the school department to from the tracks this year. year's receipts netted and as a result a cigarette tax was added, "which probably will be' abolished this year," Mr. Bennett "predicted. "There seems no ctoubt about receiving the necessary $33,000." County Fair Opens 6An Army Marches Based around the theme, "An Army Marches On Its Stomach" the Broward County Fair, after a lapse of a year of inactivity due to war conditions, will begin a 10-day affair at 6 p. m.

tonight at the Fair Grounds, Andrews Ave. and the Federal HTy, Bert Gentsch, secretary and general manager of the Broward Agriculture Fair Association, said today. Poultry and agricultural exhibits will be based on the efforts cf farmers tn the county to supply the armed forces with the necessary food supplies to carry on the war, Gentsch said, and are expected to attract from 2.1! ccmcr3 the Exhibits festers f-rr. prodr ucts, livestock; and COP 'Business' Candidate Defeats Pacific War Hero In Colorado WASHINGTON, March 8. CP) A Republican business man's victory over a war hero opponent in a special Colorado Congressional election apparently demonstrated today that the Democrats must find something more than a candidate with a military background to stem an otherwise adverse voting tide.

Dean M. Gillespie, the Republican business man, defeated the Democratic nominee, Ma.j. Carl E. Wuertele, wounded and decorated Pacific flier, in a race to fill a vacancy caused by the death of Rep. Lawrence Lewis, Democrat, in the First Colorado District.

Wuertele conceded on the basis of unofficial returns giving his opponent a majority of nearly 3,539 votes. Gillespie's victory in a. normally Docrjtio district raifed Eepufc-Izzz ti Hos 4.