The Paducah Sun-Democrat from Paducah, Kentucky • 1

cut: Lav Sc Per Copy Piiacah, Sunday Morning, January 23, 1944 4 Editions Daily 2 Sunday A if (T Eome uronse 0 1 TfT) Democrats Stake 4th Term Close It's The War! I itLUSSlS Allied Planes Hit Magdeburg In Great Force i Germans Are Outflanked By New Campaign Rally; WiU Meet In Chicago Postwar FLmniii Allies ClialkUp Victories Over Japs In Pacific -Aussies Toward Madang I On i is Rail. Hub EmIia-Lics Roads 1 National Committee Calls On Roosevelt To Continue As 'Great Humanitarian In War, Peace Tin Area Left Out Ou TV utathe Routes 3,000 Ships Are Involved In Battle WASHINGTON, Jan. 32 () The Amphibious Landing Said To Be 16 to 28 Miles South Of Rome Second Leningrad-Moscow Rail Line Cleared; Germans Give Up Democratic National Committee, turning its meeting into virtually a fourth term rally, called, 'on Presi tee, that Chicago would meet expenses of the convention. The Republicans, who will meet in Chicago in June, were guaranteed $75,000. It is understood, however, that civic leaders have given as ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, -New Sunday, Jan.

23-HdV-A jungle drive by LONDON. Jan. 22 (fl5) The central German industrial city of Magdeburg, twice destroyed by fire TJt towtv J. fax ro.v, SR. CORAL.

CABL.E3, Jan. 22 Prepare yourselves, you Psdui-ah, Jai Iield, west KentacJ-y and southern Illinois folk, ior a shock. dent Roosevelt today to "continue as 'the great world humanitarian Australians in the- Rama Valley centuries ago. once more was ablaze against the shipping' base of Ma- leader" -in both war and peace. I LONDON, Sunday, Jan.

23 JP a costly retreat of trapped After selecting Chicago as the na Japanese- under fire of strafing The Russians, pursuing the beaten German besiegers of Leningrad. Moscow line na Mga, Kurishi and Ovinlshche, which is shorter. However, the Russians were now driving for the double-tracked tional -convention and installing are not lo be on one of trios h.ae been hear- ino- En trmrVi tH nodt 1MB: planes on the nearby New Guineas youthful Robert E. Hannegan, hailed coast, ancra 15-to-8 air victory ovef tonight after a terrific hammering by the RAF which brought to a climax a mighty 26-hour aerial battle involving perhaps 3,000 Allied planes. Large sections of the city, a rail junction harboring a wide variety of war industries, were left In flames by a deluge of more than as st "Second Jim Farley as new surance more money will be forthcoming if this does not cover convention costs.

The Democratic committee left the date of the convention up to Hannegan, 40-year-old Missouri Irishman who succeeds Postmaster General Frank C. Walker as national chairman. He is expected to select a date in July. mainline through Kolpino-Tosno ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Jan. 22 1JP1 American and British troops by the thousands landed practically without opposition on the beaches south of Rome and moved inland today in dar- ing.

successful seaborne blow that completely surprised- the German and deeply outflanked -the powerful "Gustavo and "Adolf defense lines. 4 The Germans placed th scene 18 Rabaul, New Britain, were reported have closed to within six miles of the great rail hub of Kra-snogvar-deisk controlling the trunk railways to Estonia and Poland while other and Kalinin, the most efficient route today by headquarters. national chairman, the committee members roared approval for a resolution declaring the "liberal spirit between the Soviet Union's1 two The Aussles, veterans of the Afri forces to the east have cleared a second Leningrad-Moscow rail route largest cities. Swinging in from the east, where Mga was captured, can desert campaign, are pushing and far-sighted idealism" of Franklin D. Roosevelt "must be imprinted in the peace." 2,000 long tons of explosives and along the Fails river towards Kan- and are advancing to free the third.

Red army troops were only 12 miles northeast of Tosno with the cap The Moscow midnight bulletin, re Incendiaries dropped with saturating effect In 34 minutes by planes we, assembled here, realizing his karyo an inland; Jungle area about 40 miles south of Madang. Kittyhawks. and Thunderbolts sup ture or yoskresenskoye. to 28 miles south of Rome on a 30-mile flat coast between the Tiber which flew more than 500 miles to world leadership and knowing that our Allies are praying with us for corded by the Soviet monitor, said 70 towns and hamlets and over 2,500 Germans were killed in the years, the construction of hii.h the President tked for in report to Centre past week. About will be Invested each year, for 10 years or more, in these projects a huge sum in any man's langut.ce, running perhaps to over a period of 20 years.

calls for 34,000 miles of express roads, to have 300-foot rights of way, grade separations at all Intersections, no stop lights, four lae pavements separated by a dividing strip at least 15' feet wide, and continuously unobstructed view for at least 890 feet-almost three blocks ahead. i with the rail, of the long-held river mouth" and the resort town ported them by dive-bombing Japa Nazi strongpoint of Mga the Red army seized the key to the German nese positions. Nettuno, and they -admitted loss of With their business out of the way, the committee members settled down tonight to eat a $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinner, a traditional money-raising feast, and to hear addresses from Vice President Wallace and House Speaker Rayburn of Texas, both potential running mates for the President, provided he agrees to a fourth term nomination. Leningrad area. In one sector a Nettuno harbor.

These Aussies thus resumed i the continuation of his services both in war, and peace," the resolution concluded, "do how earnestly solicit him to continue as the great world humanitarian leader." group of "Germans fled in panic when a Soviet-advance surprised Allied headquarters merely aald drive which began last- September it was south of Rome but officially after the fall of Lae, 140 miles south them and on all sectors many pris fortifications southeast of Leningrad and raced ahead to wipe out Nasi troops still holding a 60-mlle stretch, of the rail line linking the old czartst and new Soviet capitals. described the assault as "another east of Madang, and carried from oners and- much booty werecap- Thus, the resolution stopped short phase In our objective to take- the Markham into the Ramu Val of calling for a fourth term In so Rome." The landings caught the Many' Germans laid down their This Nazi-held portion runs from ley to a point beyond Dumpu in October before ifr resolved itself into Nazis by "complete and reach their targets. The assault brought to at least tons the total weight of bombs hurled on Europe by Allied air armadas in two nights and a day. An RAF assault on Berlin Thursday night and an American heavy bomber pounding, of the "rocket gun coast" of France Friday were the other principal raids. While the RAF was pulverizing Magdeburg, capital of the Prussian province of Saxony lying on the left bank of the Elbe 83 miles southwest of Berlin, smaller fleets of four-englned Lancasters and plywood Mosquitos again visited bomb-scarred the vicinity of Koljino, 15 miles many Words but there was no mistaking that the committee members regarded it as a plea for the Presi constitute a grave to en patrol activity: Dumpu, near the The tironosed'svstam of hichwavs arms and surrendered in the forests west of less than 100 miles south of Leningrad as the southeast of Leningrad, to volkhovo.

The committee meeting moved along in complete harmony until all the scheduled business was concluded. Then, former Governor E. D. Rivers, national committeeman for Georgia, provoked a heated discussion by proposing that the com Ramu river, is 45 miles from emy communications, headquarter said. dent to run again, would, follow in general the routes of existing federal-aid highways, Liberation of the railway would provide a powerful supply backbone for Russians cleaned out the last pock Chicago won the convention with ets of surrounded Nasis.

The rail On the northeast New Guinea tne Kussians. and once again unite Troops who splashed ashore met "slight" resistance and are making coast) Japanese trapped below Ma the efforts of the two greatest cities mittee instruct a group, yet to be set way station at TStmo, 20 i miles north Ml Novgorod, and two other and, when fully improved, meet to optimum degree the of inter-regional and inter-city transportation," according to dang between American 1 invasion "satisfactory progress" in their drive inland, it was announced hours after oi tne soviet Union. up by Chalrmai Hannegan, to rec out making, any specific offer as to money, and over a surprise bid from Detroit; Mayor Edward Kelly of Chicago simply promised on behalf of a non-partisan citizens commit forces at Saidor and Australian unnamed stations were captured af Prom the southern shores of Lake the pre-dawn onslaught. ter a fierce battle, the- communique the captors of Slo wer reported to havt See DEMOCRATS, Page 17 Hmen, below toppled Novgorod. Admittedly a hazardous gamble, Berlin, and the Germans unwrapped said.

i been spotted by Airacobras Friday northward to the- Baltic the the great amphibious stroke that a new type of night raider to make Gains also were made in southern fleeing the 29 miles from Reiss point German army was trying to' avert ended the Italian deadlock was timed' their heaviest assault in a year 'White Russia where seven- commu to Gali. a major military, disaster. against London. Attempt To Pass Servicemen's perfectly with a new general Fifth Army offensive on the land front me retreating-, columns were MAP ON PAGE 18 1 A map of the proposed routes o'f inter-regional highways discussed in this article will be found on Page. 18 of this edition.

nities were taken as the forces of Gen. Konstantine Rokossovsky In many sectors their dead were being counted by- the--thousands and The widespread night opera strafed, "causing numerous casual in liberated Leningrad long-lines of and Boston attack planes reached out from Kalin-kovichi. thtough the Prlpet marshes. tions cost the British 52 bombers, one of the heaviest losses suffered by the RAF, although a total of prisoners aireaay were: moving bombed and strafed other trapped Ballot Bill Gaining Momentum The- Leningrad fighting saw the through the streets, it was disclosed elements in the villages of Gali and A survey of Existing highways day's greatest advances as Gen, Roanji. in' Soviet disptaches to Moscow.

It appeared certain that the Ger around 1.000 planes were believed to have been involved so that the losses were probably kept down to revealed that most the 3, Leonid A. Govorov's forces captured NAZIS ADMIT ITALIAN SITUATION IS SERIOUS STOCKHOLM, Jan. 22 (fPy-A German military spokesman tonight admitted the Allies had established a beachhead south of The American ground force miles of streets and hiehwavs In th! Komolovo and both six mans could' not escape losing many which have, fanned out north ot five per cent. country today are obsolete, an. miles northwest of- Krasnogvardeisk; Saidor are less than 50 miles from In an effort puny by comparison, required to give travel priority to state balloting material.

The secretary 's comment was made in a letter to Rep. Worley The Texan, chairman of the House in the north, after capturing Mga auwutiiy uiuusunu nines uui Madang, posing with -the. Ramu Rome and captured the town of considered really Worthy of th' vriday, the Russians opened the more than the skilled and 4,000 oaptured. already by the Russians, for the Red army had taken a strangle hold on too many chunks ot the 'vital rail network Hitler sent 90 planes against Britain in two waves, but only 30 reached to Nettuno with "gigantic air force rocles that roil -on them, v. To plan railway fronv Leningrad to Moscow Aussies a two-pointed menace thftt enemy, base.

itodon aUeast. 10 were.sht to' eliminate this condition. Presi- Via Mga, Volkhov, Vologda and Ya but contended German reserves were ready to mtet this threat to the Nazi rear. The Today, flip second 'Anniversary down by British night fighters and By ieetox -Leningrad -and ground defenses. They dropped 90 or the Japanese landing at Rabaul, Russians the Leningrad- to WASHINGTON, Jan.

22 () A second, attempt to get a federal ser-vlcemen-hallot bill through Congress gathered momentum today amlji -increasing prospectant a parliamentary snarl oyeiv thar controversial subject. Briefly, this Is the' situation The House expects -tir-tak tips -probably Tuesday; an amended version of a Senate-approved bill Which recommends that the states -revise their voting machinery to permit absentee balloting by 'members of xiosing ur on ma appointed a national Inter-regionai Highway cpmmittee to serve in an tons of bombs on Britain. spokesman stressed the serious headquarters announced that Irhurs ness of the situation for the Gert day tow-flying Mitchell- medium bombers 1 the Solomons at mans by noting that "if the op Works Its chairman is eration succeeds it is calculated A German military spokesman quoted by the Berlin radio said that the planes used by the Germans were of a type "so far unknown to the enemy." He added that "noth tacked Vunakanau airdrome, de 'Thomas H. the eommls- to roll up the German front' in straying three grounded fighters southern Italy and capture Rome sioney of, the Public JBoads Admin istration It was the report of this comfalttee that President Roosevelt within a short time." ing further can be said for the time being about the strategic and tacti Escape A Presidential Veto the armed forces. sent, to.

cal purpose of this 'new attack Simultaneously, some senators and silencing; gun positions, V- Colonel Karnes Killed In Action; Was Bomber Pilot It' Is expected now that the new A glance, at the map of the proposed expressways reveals that this section of Kentucky and ern Illinois would be left untouched by the improvements planned. There excises will become effective March 1 elections, committee, said), neveriba-less, he would 'offer his bill, for a federal ballot, with permissive -use of state-ballots, as an amendment to the state ballot bill. Under the -new Senate bill service men and women would be given a short ballot on which to, mark their choices for President, vice president and members of Congress in the November election, but state and local election officials would have the final authority to decide which ballots are valid and countable. The latter provision was intended to allay fears of some southern Democratic senators and northern Republicans that a federal ballot commission might try to usurp state election control. Senator McClellan coauthor -of the Eastland-McClellan "states' rights" substitute which the Senate passed several weeks ago, said he wanted to make no positive commitment but thought the new bill a revision of the Green-Lucas measure, would meet the objections of some of the states' rights commenced enlisting support for another measure a "home rule" compromisealready approved 12 to 2 by the Senate elections committee.

The measure embodies only about one-fifth the $10,500,000,000 request Partisans Press Attack Against Main Rail Line Senate passage of this measure which fully occupied the stubborn German Tenth Army. Don Whitehead, Associated Press correspondent who accompanied the amphibious force as representative of the combined American press, wrote that the 2 a. m. landing, "was so easy and simply done and caught the Germans so completely by surprise that as I write this dispatch six hours after the landing, Amerl- would? be one east-west and two north-south routes through. Ken ed by the administration, and spec coupled with House passage of the earlier Senate-approved bill would cause a legislative tangle that might well be next to Impossible for a House-Senate conference committee to unravel, some lawmakers opined.

ulatlon of a veto was heard about Capitol Hill when Senate' revisions of the war contract renegotiation section brought from a Treasury spokesman a statement that the legislation should be labeled "A law tuckyi The. first would follow, in a general sense, the present route of U. S. Highway 66 from Ashland to Louisville One of the north-south routes would: follow S. 31-W from Louisville to Nashville, via Bowling Green, and7 the other would follow U.

S. 25 from Cincinnati to Knox- LONDON, Jan. 22 Of3) Yugoslav can troops are literally standing with their mouths open and shaking their Partisans have pressed their attack 'WASHINGTON. Jan. 22 A presidential veto of the new tax bill may have, been averted, it appeared today, by' Senate softening Of its earlier efforts to place rigid limitations on the laws governing recovery of war profits deemed excessive, i The Senate completed its wort on the measure yesterday, two months after House action, and conferees will meet Monday t'o begin adjustment of differences between the two chambers.

Tax specialists agreed the Treasury had lost approximately by failure to put in force on January 1 the elaborate list of added and new excises on so-called luxury items vand the boosted postal rates. When the House ways and means committee' initiated the legislation last summer it set. a goal of final enactment for December 20. ior tne reuei oi war profiteers. against the main rail line running heads utter amazement.

Col, William Karnes, Paducah Army Air Force officer who served as pilot of a bomber and leader of a squadron of Liberators on many missions over Italy and other European territory, has been killed in action. The of the colonel's death was" received h.re Saturday night by his sister, Mrs. Rush Mc-Clure, Ellis Apartments, and Pierce IT th I from Budapest down through Za Subsequently, the Senate finance "I still don't believe it," a Fifth Into this picture, Secretary of War Stinison tossed another potential complication today with a warning that overseas mail to the servicemen' women might be delayed seriously; if the armed forces are ville. Army infantryman, veteran of other committee back-tracked on the re negotiation changes. Illinois would have two north- Chairman Dough ton greb to the port of Split on the Adriatic and have gone over to the offensive in bitter fighting in the mountains of Croatia, the Yugoslav liberation army communique said today.

south routes, one running from Chi. cagoHo Sti Lotils and the other nut amphibious operations told him. m-While landing craft swarmed onto 1 the beaches of Rome's one-time' bathing resorts. Allied airmen said German air activity was practically of the House ways, and means com nlng south from Milwaukee down E. Lackey.

The War Department mittee said today, "I think we will get out a bill the President will through' Illinois and across the Mis sissippi river at Cape Girardeau said Colonel Karnes was killed in a plane crash January 13 in Italy, but no details, were furnished. The Algiers radio declared the Partisans are battering the equiva non-existent. The battle-wise British and lean troops lost no time in taking I sign," and he voiced confidence the Senate and House could adjust quickly their varied versions of the two bills. jvioi inn Touie iwouia continue south on the western side of the Refugee Board Set Up By President For Rescue Of Oppressed WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 lent of 40 German divisions sorely Colonel Karnes had been in the Mississippi, but would cross back to advantage of the situation smashing straight inland toward tftu needed on other fronts, but this figure probably is too high.

An officer of the Partisans recently fixed the -eastern side at Memphis. Army since graduation from West Point In 1929. He completed four years of high school at St. Mary's This route would be the equiva- Appian Way and the roads leading to Severing of these routes, German strength in Yugoslavia at lent or thevMississippr parkway President Roosevelt created a war refugee board tonight and directed academy in 1925 and was enrolled 36 divisions while previous Lon State Bond Sales Total $11,038,000 which has been discussed for several at West Point a short time later. it to attempt the rescue of "th years; and which Wlckliffe, Clinton.

12 and 22 miles from the coast, -would trap the bulk of the German Tenth Army, 13 divisions strong, and don estimates have been that the forces under Marshal Josip Broz Following completion of training Parajnushiro Is Struck In New Series Of V. S. Bombing Attacks WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 W-A new Series of bombing attacks on Paramushlro apparently signalled today the revival of a campaign to cripple this strong Japanese navy base in the north Pacific. Bombers which the Navy frankly asserted were based.

In the Aleutians struck twice at the strongly fortified enemy position at the northern tip of the Kurile Island chain in which the mainland of Japan lies, The raids were reported today in a communique. victims of enemy oppression who at West Point, the colonel was sta are in imminent danger of death (Tito) are engaging 15 or 20 Ger Pulton and 'other towns in that areahave sought, arguing it ought "to follow- 0.. S. 51, Cairo to leave the path to Rome Itself virtually undefended. tloned In Hawaii for two years.

He then was transferred to the United The board consists of the secretaries of state, Treasury and war SUBSIDIES ARE BLASTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 WV-The American' Farm Bureau Federation fired a statistical blast at food subsidies today a report sent to all members of Congress asserting thati average weekly earnings of factory workers increased more than -68 per cent between January, 1942, and October, 1943, while the cost of living jumped only 23 per cent. i There appeared to be little chance i States but later returned to Hawaii who are empowered to appoint a that the enemy could bring other i for two more years service. He LOUISVILLE, Jan, 22 Sales of War Bonds, in Kentucky for the Fourth 'War' Loan drive which started this week totaled $11,038,000 tonight, S. Albert Phillips, chairman of the Kentucky War Finance Committee announced.

Kentucky's quota was set at full-lime executive director to ad minister the refugee assistance pro gram. married Miss Virginia Lackey daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Hern- man divisions. Whatever the Germans have in Yugoslavia, it appears the Partisans are keeping them so busy that they will be unable to get to the Italian or Russian front or the west coast invasion district.

The Algiers radio said Tito's present strength is 300,000, with new youthful volunteers joining daily. divisions southward from the Pol valley to protect Rome over the I bomb-blasted roads and However, a violent German counter- don Lackey, Paducahans, in A White House statement said 1929. the President's action was de Colonel Karnes, the final See ITALIAN, Page 17 two years In Hawaii, was stationed Meantime, in the south, other Al signed to bring about immediate rescue from the Nazis of "as many as possible of the persecuted minorities of Europe racial, religious in the general staff office, Wash Fulton, In' addition to meeting the heed for -better highways, the express roads- are advanced is a means of providing great employment during the postwar period, when it is rec ognlzed.the federal government will have to spqnsor projects to give work to the men returning from the armed forces and those released from war It is estl- mated that hundreds of thousands of men could be employed on these protects. 1 While the system would comprise only one per cent of the total road Mileage, in the country, the Presi- I nt r.ontinri)i that-, it wnnM Weather Forecast lied forces driving north and westward are aiming their ultimate blows at conquest of the enemy homeland. or political all civilian victims of PRODUCTION FAR OFF WASHINGTON, Jan.

32 () Production- czars of the War Pro-; duction Board today advised industry that manufacture of heavy civilian goods "is much farther away than has been generally supposed." AID FOR DRIVE ASKED FRANKFORT, Jan. 22 (PH-Support for the fund raising campaign of the National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis was urged by Gov. Simeon Willis today! ington; until after war started. He then asked for active duty and went overseas in June, 1943. He learned to fly while a student at West Point.

('He was' a son of Mr, and Mrs'. KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE: The Navy's disclosure that the enemy savagery." The White House said that Mr Roosevelt stressed that it was urg Fair and colder Sunday and Sunday starting point was in the Aleutians WALLACE, RAYBURN SPEAK WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 IP) House Speaker Rayburn and Vice President Wallace, praising the leadership of President Roosevelt, told' a Jackson Day dinner tonight the same kind of leadership must be maintained in the postwar period if this country Is to win the peace. miles from Paramushiro in night; Monday fair with rising tern- -pcrature. ILLINOIS: Fair Sunday and Sunday night, continued mild.

ent for action to be taken at once "to forestall the plan of the Nazis to exterminate all the Jews and William Ernest Karnes, Paducah. His mother died, in 1919 and his dlcated confidence that American forces have complete control of the air and sea In the north Pacific, as they do in the south, father in 1931. Allied Successes Make Franca: other persecuted minorities in Eur ope." I cent, of the total traffic. In cwaneeting 887 cities of 10,000 or more population, the routes would Position In Spain Host pifficidt Saturday's Temperatures Downtown: High 65, Low 37. U.

S. Engineers: 10 p. m. 62. i Year ago: High 55, Low 38.

River Stage Stage at 7 a. 15.95 rise of 0.45 foot in 24 hours. Sun And Moon Sun sets today rises tomorrow moon rises tonight 1:30. Hutson And Commodity Credit Corporation Stripped Of Power Over U.S. Food Production on one hand and domestic opposition on the other, The recent announcement that the Blue-Dlvlslon had bjen com He.

is survived by Ills widow, two William Karnes, 13. and Suzanne, A 7,: Oklahoma. City, a sisteri MrsWMcOlure; two brothers, J. R. Karnes, 8t.

Louis, and Robert A. Karnes, Oklahoma Oity, and his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hill, Ellis Col: Karnes commanded a group of, Liberators which; struck at Tatol airport near Athena; last December 13. i The' colonel was graduated from St.

Mary's at 16 and SO when he finished at West Point. His grade at West Point was among the six highest In his class. had visited in Paducah only, once since his m- pletely withdrawn from the Russian Jan. 22J-(yp) Allied military successes and political unrest inside Spain are making the position of Generalissimo Francisco Franco increasingly difficult, in the opinion of diplomatic quarters here. One foreign source Informed Spanish developments said today some Spaniards fear for Spain's po 4nd Agriculture Department offi front and toe granting of an am nesty, to a number of.

political pris oners were interpreted, as gestures Lev CCC, had control over such powerful peace time agencies as the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, the Farm Security Administration and the Soil Conservation Service as well as supervision over price support programs for agricultural commodities. In today's order, the AAA, the in this direction. traverse more than one-third of all of the counties having 83 per cent of the urban population, 83 per cent of the industrial output by value, 45 per cent of the rural population, 43 per cent of the agricultural pro-: duction by value, and 65 per cent of all motor vehicles. The proposed lntcr-reglonal high-. ways are not td be the great tranS-A continental super-duper turnpikes discussed a few years back.

Com-, mLssioner MacDonald makes that clear by pointing out that the people who are traveling coast to coast in automobiles on a single day would hardly make a trainload. When they were systematically counted a few years their number averaged 300. Information gathered In studies of main highways in 17 of the most densely populated states revealed sltion in the postwar world if Franco The official Falange Party Is highly unpopular among the people and- has caused international embarrassment to Spain on two occas FSA and the SCS regained the status of independent agencies, responsible remains in power when Germany collapses. Mounting Allied successes' and growing tension in the face of the prospective Allied Invasion of Europe are encouraging anti-Franco cials, was made as the Senate planned to debate next week legislation extending the life of the CCC beyond February 17 and giving it an additional $500,000,000 to finance food subsidy and crop loan programs. A powerful anti-subsidy bloc in Congress Is insisting that the legislation carry a provision prohibiting future food subsidy programs.

Whether the WFA reorganization had any connection with the subsidy controversy was a question raised In various quarters. Jones, In announcing the changes, said they merely were designed to ions when Falangistaa created incidents ln British And. American 2. 29 it 53 21 WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-tfP) War Food Administrator Marvin Jones today stripped the $3,000,000,000 Commodity Credit Corporation and Its president, J.

B. Hutson, a native of Calloway countyi of Important power over the WFA's food production program. Control lost by the CCC and Its chlcfj was divided a new Office of Distribution, set up to replace the Food Distribution Administration, and A newly created Office of Price, with the latter getting important' farm price policy functions. Under the WFA set Up wiped out by Jones, the CCC and Hutson had become the top ranking agency and official In food production aspects of the wef food program. Hutson, as director of the Food Production Temperatures Elsewhere Station High- Atlanta 66 Atlantic City 50 Chicago ...44 Cincinnati 47 Denver ......52 Detroit 43 Fort Watrh .67 Galveston Jacksonville ...66 Kansas City Bl Key West A .67 Miami Paul ,,.:.40 New Orleans .68 New York 7.

47 San franclsco 63 consulates. Franco sent deep apologies to Spaniards, and Brltjsh 1 Fotetgrf both countries, and abolished the separate Falange militia, absorbing it in tne army, only to Jones or his Immediate Before the war, the AAA far overshadowed the CCC. Under the organization plans made by former Food Administrators Claude R. Wlckard and Chester C. Davis, and continued by Jones until today, the CCQ and Hutson were placed at the top of the food production programs.

The shake up, which came as a surprise to all but very few WFA -r Bolivia Regime Not, J'y HAVANA, 23 VP) Cuban Minister State Emeterlo Santo venia announced today that his government had decided not to recognize the new revolutionary government pi Bolivia, Minister Anthony Eden's blunt warning to Spain to cease assisting Germany added to fills feeling, it was said. As a countercheck to this growing movement, it is expected that Franco will continue announcing conrrs- that 86 per cent of all traffic was Spain itlll Is sending) considerable amounts of supplies to Germany and It is common knowledge' that German aaenta In Spanish Morocco and In Spain obtain Information "speed up WFA operations, through moving from one city to- another, or from city to country, or country to city. more clearly defining administrative responsibilities and procedures, and eliminating duplication." sionj dosigned to placate th Allies Administration, and he4 ot the (Washington on Allied raovexnen at Gibraltar,.