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I MOD PPVIPIII More PJien 30-33 So Be tdlei ur Lne Washington, D. Feb. 24 (P). Selective Service tonight ordered increased drafting of men 30 through 33 years old, by permitting their deferment only if they are to" an essential industry. C5 By LOWELL M.

LIMPUS Washington, D. Feb. 24. Gen. Eisenhower is making his first great effort to smash the Westwall this weekend as the Allies go storming in against Fortress Germany from all sides.

They're attacking everywhere, but the heaviest blows are falling at opposite ends of the north German plain, on the eastern and western fronts. The Allied supreme commander appears finally to be cutting ui i loose with everything he has as he hurls three entire groups of field armies at the Westwall, unleashing his might at the Rhine across the Cologne plain. Meanwhile the Russians are lunging forward again into the plains below Berlin, after mopping up a series of besieged strongpoints behind them. And simultaneously Gen. Clark is surging forward to keep the Germans busy in Italy.

Axis Rallied Well On fwo and Berlin Approaches. At the same time Allied air forces have thrown all their weight into the scales, culminating a week of the heaviest bombing in history with a final effort that writes new records across the flaming skies. It looks like the final, concerted rush to try to breach the walls of the crumpling fortress. And it is accompanied by a similar desperate lunge against two pockets of dogged Japs on bloody Iwo and in South Manila. The weekend offensives followed a period of comparatively few gains, as the Axis had rallied stubbornly in both theatres to slow the Allies.

The enemy had held pretty well on Iwo and the approaches to Berlin, and our. rapidly growing casualty lists were underscoring the price we're paying now for our prewar pacifism. The general picture was about as follows: 1. The war against Germany: Marshal Konev continued to hack away at the German lines below the capital, as he expanded the big bridgehead he had won on the enemy side of the Oder, but the Nazis fought hard to hold the threat- i i 1 I'SO MILES fl-JSONIGSBERQ KOVNO tr' Cn pol a irr Heretofore men 01 mat ace? only had to be "engaged in" such an industry. The new instructions to draft boards mean that a larger number of the approximately 1,500,000 men in that age bracket holding occupational deferments will enter military service this year, a Selective Service spokesman said.

30 of Tolal. While unable to estimate how many of the 30-33's will be needed to till the Army's mounting manpower demand, the spokesman called attention to testimony of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey last week that men over 30 would make up 30', oi the entire draft call by the end of this year. The local lxards were instructed that the 30-33 registrants, to be elieible for deferment, must be "necessary to and regularly engaged in an activity in war production or in support of the national health, safety or interest." Being "regularly engaged in" such activity continues to be the deferment rule for men aged 34 through 37. Need Combat Replacements.

"Physically fit men in the 30-through-37-year-old group especially those under the age of 34 are confronted with the prospect of induction to the extent necessary to fill the calls," the Selective Service announcement said. The agency emphasized the heavy demand for combat replacements, the virtual exhaustion of physically lit men in the 18-25 age group, and the "extremely limited" supply of men 26 through 29. "The prospect for registrants 18 through 29 is that they will be inducted unless the information submitted to local boards by employers indicates that they are indispensable and irreplaceable in an activity in war production or in support of the national health, safety and interest." Meat for Sale, A Million Lbs. One million pounds of meat, previously tied up by an OPA retraining order, yesterday was released for sale to retailers Monday at the premises of the Federated Meat Corporation, 352 Johnson Brooklyn. The meat, now en route, will be fold under terms of an order signed yesterday by Federal Judge Clarence G.

Galston in Brooklyn. It calls for the indiscriminate tale of the meat, with cooperative members of the Federated Meat Corp. receiving no preference over the counter nor under it either, for that matter. of 30 go Quits Movies For Mate and his wife, Joyce Reynolds band. Marine Lieut.

Robert Lewis, at Quantico, next week. They were married Jan. 11. The 20-year-old actress recently attained stardom in "Janie." Production plans for a sequel, "Janie Gets Married," have been canceled, the studio said. Smoke Out for summonses, including 13 the State Tax Commission of its own.

put cigarets back on the counters fiad broken down. He warned "under-the-counter" dealers to post price charts, or face prosecution. Others may display prices on cigaret racks. The tax commission's 10 raids were "scattered around Manhattan" and yielded 2,700 cartons of cigarets lacking state tax stamps or bearing uncanceled stamps. That was as far as the statement went.

Under the tax commission's gag rule on cigaret raid news, reporters were unable to learn whether retailers, or wholesalers, or both, were the targets. No addresses, of course. Marine Lieut. Robert Lewis HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 24 (IP).

Domestic life is more important than a movie career to Joyce Reynolds, at least right now. That's what she told Warner Brothers and the studio has agreed to cancel her contract, which had four more years to run. She plans to join her hus- OPA Raids 00 as Cigaret Culprits By JOHN CROSSON The OPA cut in on the cigaret raiding business yester ff MUNICl day and tagged 400 retailers accused of price gouging, as pulled off 10 highly secret raids LITHUANIA the Germans and Allies glared at and the Magmot Line. It was the Fugitive From F.D.R. for llir IIARWV rAni.SOV By HARRY CARLSON 13 Yrs.

Jailed (SEWS mao Staff Arlist) Arrow indicate Soviet Army drive aimed at tearing loote anchor mf German line and bringing about collapse of Germany' entire eastern battlefront. ened bastions in Pomerania and Bohemia, on both sides of the Red advance. But the end of the week saw reinforcements rolling up at besieged Poznan fell and Breslau was entered. Ike Appears fo Be Seeking the Payoff. Meanwhile the Americans roared into action all along the line on the western front, taking some of the pressure off the slowly advancing British.

Simpson's and Hodges' men lunged across the Roer and headed toward Cologne and the heart of the Ruhr industrial region, while Patton and Patch ripped into the Saar factory lands from both sides, with the former starting down the Moselle toward distant Kob. lenz and the Rhine. And down in Italy, the battle line swayed back and forth, as Clark's forces attacked across the mountains, recoiled and then attacked again, with the Brazilians helping to take a key peak. It seemed as though we were bidding for the payoff in the war with Germany. 2.

The war against Japan: It became plain during the week that U. S. Marines were involved in a seething hell-cauldron on the strategic island of Iwo. (We need to take this island because the Japs use it as a base from which to blast our B-29s, en route between Saipan and Tokyo.) It turned out to be just about the toughest problem we've tackled in the Pacific. The marines who charged ashore there encountered what was clearly a vastly improved system of defense and they were almost thrown back into the sea before they could get set.

Then they pressed slowly inland, despite heavy paying with American blood for every yard gained. And that battle was still far from over as the week epded, although the Navy was backing up the attack with its big guns. In Manila, MacArthur's men encountered similar ferocity as they gradually closed in on the trapped Japs in the southern part, where the defenders were making a shambles. Meanwhile the bulk of the Luzon, armies were forming against the scattered forces that Mac-Arthur outgeneralled when he raced in to seize the capital. Hitler's Job to Meet Big New Push.

Elsewhere the Japs weren't doing so well, with Tokyo still reeling from repeated aerial assaults and the U. S. fleets sweeping the seas around the homeland, waiting for the imperial navy to come out and meet the challenge. And the British pushed through western Burma, crossing the Irrawaddy to close in on the very edges of Mandalay. There wasn't much change in the situation in China.

Thus the week ended, with the Nazis and Japs waging desperate and fairly effective defensive battles in eastern Germany and Iwo Jima, while the Americans unleashed big new attacks all along the Westwall. And it was up to the harried Hitler to meet this latest menace. This week last year: MacArthur slashed in to grab the whole west end of New Guinea, while Nimitz began pounding the Marianas island bases around Saipan. The Germans gave up the Krivoi Rog iron works and-began a shaky retreat out of the Dnepr bend back to the Bug River. Five years ago: The Russians cracked through one end of the Mannerheim Line and this column observed that "Finland's back is at The OPA raias, announced OPA raias, announced by Daniel P.

Woolley, regional admin istrator, swept the city, but no seizures were made or summonses served. Instead, the flying squads investigators noted violators of OPA regulations and marked them down for court action next week. Woolley said his investigators found dealers charging as high as cents a pack for popular brand cigarets. They'll get a speedy slapping down, he said, and the drive against price-chiseling will on. Ordered to Post Prices.

The statement admitted by implication that Woolley's plan to Morland surrendered peaceably when the rangers finally slipped up on him. He gave them his rifle and was ready to plead guilty of pilfering from them when he was taken before U. S. Commissioner E. B.

Steele at Orfino. "You're also charged with failure to register for the draft," Steele told him. "To fight in a war?" asked Morland. "Yes," said Steele. "Who got us into that?" demanded Morland.

Trouble With His Teeth. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reportedly was looking for some other explanation for Mor-land's leaving his Kentucky home Lewiston, Idaho, Feb. 24 (U.R). William C. Morland, 44, who took to the hills in 1932 because he didn't like the new President, puzzled in his jail cell today over the changes that have taken place in the 13 years since he last talked to any for the wilds of Idaho.

He had served two prison terms in Arkansas, they said. Forest rangers in snow-shoes closed in on Morland's hideout deep in the mountains near the Idaho-Montana line after trailing him for several days. The little man he is slightly more than five feet tall was ragged, bearded and dirty. His lower teeth were missing and the rest were yellow and broken. His diet of raw meat and berries wasn't too good for his teeth, he said.

"Sometimes it was hell," he said. "Toothaches made life so miserable that I almost gave myself up several times when rangers got close to me." After he was cleaned up and returned to jail to await action by the federal grand jury in April, Morland said he was glad to be back among men. He wanted dental attention. He yanked out the lowers one by one with pieces of wire. one.

He was surprised, among other things, that the same man was still President. He didn't even know that the world was embroiled in another war. He was convinced that failure to register for selective service was a serious thing. He was held on a charge of draft evasion as well as stealing from Government forest rangers whom he had led a merry chase for years. Holdout for Hoover.

"I went into the hills when Roosevelt beat Hoover," the bearded, diminutive Morland said. "The federals have been after me ever since for borrowing clothes and stuff from their ranger stations. I didn't want to go to jail." Klast against the wall." Meanwhile, one another across the Westwall Winter of the "Phony War.".