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Portland Press Herald, Monday Morning, April. 6, 1942 Portland, Maine Navy's Strength In Pacific Greater Than Dec. 7, Legion Head Informed Stambaugh Reveals Knox' Assurance In Broadcast Asks Public To Help Stamp Out False Rumors, Axis Propaganda Chicago, April 5-(UP) commander of the American ing the public to help stop the mors, said tonight that he had that the United States naval greater than at the start of In a Blue network broadcast in which he cautioned against spreading Axis-inspired rumors of unconfirmed military losses, Stambaugh, read statement from Commander Ed USNR, special assistant to Secretary of Navy Frank Knox. "The Navy Department is aware of the many rumors which have arisen about the Japanese action at Pearl Harbor, rumors so fantastic. in some cases as to include the whispered statement that the Pacific Fleet was completely wiped out.

I am AUthorized by Secretary Knox to state for the first that of this date and for some time past, the Pacific fleet in ships, planes and men today Is even stronger than it was before December Seventh," Hayes' statement said. Stambaugh asked the public to join the American Legion in hushing false rumors in their respective communities. He also criticized the complacency of many individuals and said the belief that America could not pos- -Lynn U. Stambaugh, national Legion, in a radio address askcirculation of false war rubeen informed by the Navy strength in the Pacific was the war. (sibly lose a war was an "almost criminal delusion." The time has come when Americans can no longer shield themselves from the brutal fact that war means men wallowing in mud and screaming in pain: that war means struggling in raging seas xx that war means an American civil population pinched by sacrifice and harried by the knowledge that at any time death may rain from the skies." he said.

Stambaugh appealed to, the public to out Axis propaganda where you find it; to demand proof of rumors and outright lies when you hear them carelessly whispered the winds; to offer wise counsel to those who would sabotage our war effort merely because it is not being done their way; to give courage to those who have not seen the war and who fear that our task is too huge; and to promote the true American spirit by your own example in a time of grave national danger." Gallant Stand Of Rabaul Garrison Told By Survivors Slaughter Jap Invaders Until Driven Into Torment Of Jungle Retreat Port Moresby, April 5-(UP)--The story of the hopeless struggle of the outnumbered Australian garrison of Rabaul, New Britain Island, against Japanese forces Jan. 23. and of the privations the defenders suffered after they evacuated the town was revealed tonight for the first time. The story, ending two months of allence, was one of a merciless, unopposed aerial bombardment. blackpainted Japanese swarming from invasion craft, bodies of enemies up until they were used as barricades, a withdrawal by men staggering from exhaustion, days of beating tangled jungle and wading through slimy, crocodile-infested morasses.

10 To.1 Odds It was a story of admitted defeat, but it also was a story of a battle against 10 to 1 odds in which an estimated 2.000 casualties were inflicted on the enemy at cost" to the defenders. The invasion of the outpost began in the early morning hours Jan. 23 after unopposed enemy aircraft bombed the garrison and its force of 1,399 men for days. Australians, grouped on the slopes of Mount Vulcan to meet the invaders, knew the zero hour was at hand when there came a lull in the bombing and they heard Japanese voices in the darkness, followed by the grating of boat keels on the Raluana Beach. Although the Japanese, had blackened their faces and limbs so they would blend with the night, they made little attempt at silence and appeared confident that the aerial onslaught had crushed Australian resistance.

As the first hundreds of the estimated 15,000 invaders jumped ashore, they were caught in a merciless cross I fire. Those who survived dashed forward, seeking protection further inshore, but ran headlong into barbed wire maintained by the defenders despite the bombing attacks. Shrieks Drown Guns At one point, unit of 150 Australians held their ground and repulsed the initial landing attempt. Japanese shrieks sometimes almost drowned the noise of artillery. Australian survivors said.

Morning saw the water red with blood, and hundreds of bodies stacked grotesquely against the sagging barbed wire. Realizing the value of their corpses, the invaders stacked others against the wire to construct human barricade along the beach. Behind this protection they gathered forces and launched their final assault as Australians withdrew into the bush. Then came an epic march through the Jungle which taxed human courage and endurance. Men dropped, abandoning hope and weakly without them.

gesturing comrades to go on Comrades, themselves hard'y able to stumble on, carried the fallen on their backs. The march went on. Rations were cut to scrap of bully beef daily. Yet on this diet the Australians covered scores of miles through some of the worst Jungle-world-country where previously few, if any, white men ever set foot, and finally reached safety. (It was not revealed how many of the original garrison survived or how they eventually were rescued.

Apparently they made westward trek of some 200 ml'es from Rabaul to the western end ol New Britain Island, whence they must have been rescued by boat, eventually reaching New Guinea. The two islands are separated by 50 miles of water at their nearest points. Guggenheim Foundation Permits Using Award Funds In War Work nouncing awards of 82 fellowships carrying stipends totaling $196,500, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation declared today that If any of the stipends would contribute to the war effort any fellow "may use the fellowship funds granted him while doing the work which the Government wants him to do. Awards were made to American and Canadian scholars and creative workers, with the largest group of fellows engaged in various fields of seience. Those named included Novelist John Dos Passos, Playwright Alexander Greendale, Dr.

Dixon Wecter, University of California professor who will write a history of the Roosevelt family in America, W. H. Auden, English poet, and Poet George Zabriskie, Caldwell, J. taxicab driver. Seven women were on the list of appointments, three of them fiction writers.

Two sculptors, five painters and four musical composers were given awards. The foundation trustees disclosed that several Guggenheim fellows appointed a year ago had been requisitioned by the Government and by agencies doing war work to carry on planning and research, In cases in which the work could not be financed by Government funds immediately available, the Foundation permitted use of the fellowship stipends. "The foundation's position is to contribute everything it can to the successtul prosecution of the war," the trustees declared in a statement, Dos Passos, Provincetown. writer, is to prepare a life of Thomas Jefferson. It was his second fellowship.

Other New England awards went to: Dr. Hugh C. Cutler, of Harvard University, for an attempt to determine the area in which corn originated. Dr. Richard E.

Schultes, of Harvard, for studies of the coonomic aspect of the flors of Southern Colombia and adjacent Ecuador: and an ethnobotanical study of the useful plants, cultivated and wild, among Indian tribes of the same area. Dr. Alfred W. Griswold, of Yale University, for a study, of the polit- New York, April 5- (AP) ical significance of American agricul- ture. Dr.

Max Harrison Demorest, of Wesleyan University, Middletown. for studies of the physics of ice, particularly glacial ice. Dr. Harold Stein Jantz, of Clark University. Worcester.

to study New England acquaintance with German thought and literature during the 17th and 18th centuries. Lloyd Z. Metzler, Harvard Instructor, for studies of cyclical fluctuations in income and investment. Dr. Clarence Dickinson Long.

Wesleyan University, for studies in the history of unemployment in the United States. Dr. Mark Schoret, of Harvard, for the preparation of a book on the relationship between ideas and forms in the poetry of William Blake, Dr. Maynard Mack, of Yale University. for the preparation of a critical edition of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man.

-Dr. Gordon N. Ray, of Harvard, for the preparation of a definitive edition of the letters and private papers of William Makepeace Thackeray. Dr. Edmund Taite Silk, of Yale, who will edit the commentary by Nicolas Trivet, medieval English chronicler.

on the last of the great Roman philosophers, Boethius. Dr. Rolf Singer, of Harvard, for studies of the mycological flora of sub-tropical America. Six Jilted Soldiers Cash Love Policies Hollywood, April 5-(AP) Six jilted soldiers from Camp Callan collected $15 each on their love insurance policies and sought to forget their broken hearts. today in the company of five movie Starlets.

The soldiers given the brush off by their girls back home were Corporals John Zane, Philadelphia: Louis Grossman, Muskegon, Richard Mills, Boonville, William Moore, Rockwell, Joe Neal of Dearborn, and First Class Private James A. Canfield of Birmingham, Ala. The actresses who accompanied them on a tour of Hollywood, the beaches and night clubs were Janet Blair, Helen Blizard, Marjorie Lord, Iris Adrian and Dorothy Moore. Peruvian Officials Leave For U.S. Lima, Peru, April 5-(UP) -Hector Boza, former Minister of Public Works and an expert mining engineer, left here today by airplane for Washington where he will be adviser to MinIster of Finance David Dasso's lendlease Aboard the same plane is Eduardo Dammert, en route to Akron, Ohio, for conferences in connection with establishment of a tire factory in Lima, Cease Armchair Strategy, Says McNutt In Radio Talk Urges Citizens To Have Confidence In Leaders, Give Them Tools Of War Fear Of Convict Kills Detective Man On Rampage Murders Three Detroit, April 5-- -(UP) -A detective's death was attributed indirectly today to the shock of learning that Dominick Piccone, 20, who had threatened to "get even" with the officer, had killed two men in a venge rampage.

The detective, police Lieut. Homer S. Shearer, died last night in Highland Park Suburban Hospital with- out knowing that Piccone already was back in prison and under life sentence after killing third man. Piccone, when arrested by the detective in 1937 for kidnaping and attempted assault on schoolteacher, had warned Shearer "I'll get even with you for this." Shearer, recovering in the hospital from a stomach ailment, picked up a newspaper Wednesday, read that Piccone had slain two men and was still at large. He suffered a relapse, went into a coma.

Last night he suffered a hemorrhage and died. 'Shearer was struck by a mortal dread that Piccone would harm Mrs. Shearer or their two young sons, said -Patrolman E. Joseph Retford, another Highland Park officer who was with Shearer when the news came. Piccone was captured we tried to tell Shearer but it was too late.

He couldn't understand. Less than a week ago we thought he'd pe out of the hospital in no time," Retford said. Piccone was sentenced to life im prisonment Thursday, just 17 days after he finished a three and-a-half year term for the Highland Park crime. He admitted in part he had plotted the slaying of Cassius Barber. of Oxford, Mich.

"because I nad a grudge against and tha: he killed two others "because they got in my, way." Meanwhile, authorities prepared to arraign Piccone for the murder of his third victim, Carl McKenzie. Piccone confessed he shot and killed McKenzie Wednesday when the Jackson County farmer tried to question him. He was to be arraigned Monday and the charge will be held in reserve to be prosecuted in the event Piccone should be released from the life term imposed for the slaying of Barber and that of Barber's neighbor, Romaine C. Potter. Berlin Says Japs Land Near Akyab Claims Port Is Last Available To British New York, April 5-(UP) The Berlin Radio said tonight in its French language broadcast that Japanese troops have landed on the West Coast of Burma, 60 miles below the port of Akyab, erroneously reported taken by the Nipponese last week.

The radio, heard by the United Press Listening Post, said the Japanese aimed. to move up the coast and capture Akyab, which it claimed was the last port port in Burma, available to the British and that once it was taken, the British defenders 02 the Irrawaddy oil fields. North of Prome would be cut off from their supply line. Axis radios in recent days continually have claimed that the Japanese had captured Akyab or were moving on it. Chungking reported last week that it had been abandoned to the Japanese but it retracted the story the next day and said it was a mistake.

Akyab is 50 miles from the Indian border and 130 miles West of the oil fields. separated from them by rugged mountain range. There is pass through the range at the port of Kyaukpyu, 80 miles below Akyab and 20 miles below the point of the reported Japanese landing. It the Japanese marched up that pass they could outflank the British above Prome. Kressler To Handle Campaign For Davis Washington, April 5 (UP) Sen.

James J. Davis, announced tonight: that his campaign for nomination as Pennsylvania's Republican gubernatorial nominee will be handled by Kenneth F. Kressler of Easton, Penna. Kressler, Republican county chairman for the past 10 years, promised a and dignified campaign" based on "issues not personalities." explaining that: "The citizens the commonwealth, deeply interested in the successful prosecution of the war, and worried over the problems arising out of it, are in no mood to tolerate a campaign on any other basis." He said a meeting of county leaders for Eastern Pennsylvania will be held "within week," probably at Lancaster, and that western county representatives will confer at Pittsburgh on April 15. Davis candidacy, he said, has won "vigorous support from every walk of life: farmers, professional people, businessmen, workers in mill and factory, manufacturers men and women who comprise A true cross-section of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania." Rev.

Andrew Gillies Dies In Rochester Rochester, N. Y. April 5 (AP)The Rev. Andrew Gillies, 71, D. Minister Emeritus of Third Presbyterian Church and a well known writer on religious topics, died Saturday.

A native of Glasgow. Scotland, Dr. Gillies was brought to this Country as an infant and was graduated in. 1895 from Wesleyan University, being ordained the same year. His first charge was in White River Junction, and he held subsequent pastorates in Montpelier, and, he held subsequent pastorates in Montpelier, Troy, N.

and New York City. Hilma Smith Becomes Bride Of Monroe Bean At Livermore Falls Photo by Jackson White Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Bean (Miss Hilma Smith) The marriage of Miss Hilma Smith, daughter of Mr. Mrs.

Guy C. Smith of Hollis, and Monroe Bean, son of Mrs. Charlotte Bean of Livermore Falls, was solemnized at 3.30 p. m. Saturday, at the home of the bride's parents.

The Rev. Harlan Skillin of West Buxton officiated, using the double ring service. The bride wore an afternoon dress of navy blue, with white trimmings and 8 corsage of American Beauty roses and Easter lilies Sre was attended by her two sisters, the Misses Lucy A. and Adena H. Smith, both of whom wore beige afternoon dresses, with corsages of sweet peas and jonquils.

Mr. Bean's attendants were his brother, Fred Bean of Woodland, and Robert Butler of Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Bean was graduated from Gorham Normal School in 1936 and is teaching at Gorham.

Mr. Bean was graduated from Gorham Normal School and is industrial arts teacher in Wells High School. Production Alone Will Not Win War, Survey Declares Foreign Policy Association Believes Non-Economic Factors Also Vital Washington, April 5- -(UP) -America's superior productive power and resources are not sufficient alone to defeat Japan, the Foreign Policy Association said tonight. Such an advantage can be decisive only if it is properly utilized as part of general strategy, the Association held in a survey prepared by Lawrence K. Rosinger, author and expert on Far Eastern Affairs.

ability to enlist the full support of a colonial ally, the imagination to seize the military opportunities as they offer themselves. the determination to root out potential Quislings, all these non-economic fac. tors not only are worth more than a million tons of steel but, where they are present, the flow of materials will very likely be at a maximum," it was said. Before Pearl Harbor, Rosinger asserted, a much weight was placed on Japan's deficiencies in important raw materials as a deterrent to war with Britain or the United States. "There is no reason to doubt, howlever, that ample forethought was given to accumulation of stocks," he said.

It would be a "serious mistake," he declared, to underestimate what the Japanese may be able to do with Southeast Asian raw materials. "It is sometimes suggested that the scorched-earth policy will prevent Japan from securing significant quantities of raw materials from Southeast Asia, but it must be remembered that a scorched -earth policy can truly be effective only if the people of the territory wage guerilla warfare the following the initial destruction, survey stated. "Guerilla warfare can be conducted successfully only by people who are deeply convinced that they are fighting for themselves. In Southeast Asia such warfare would require a clearcut pledge of independence to the inhabitants of areas already acquired, combined with important immediate concessions and future guarantees to populations still outside of Japanese control." Rosinger held that Japan's conquests in the south will not furnish a complete solution of her raw materials problem. He said production in these areas can be restored only through use of native labor secured either by forced labor at the minimum level of subsistence or at 8 higher level which would involve the delivery by Japan of various commodities, especially piece goods, "The first method could raise serious problems of native discontent, while the second would require Japan to use considerable shipping space, capital.

raw materials and labor for light industry and its products in the midst of war." he said. 434 Axis Nationals Leave Peru For U. S. Callao, -Peru, April 5-(UP) -A total of 434 Axis nationals, all unmarried men, sailed today aboard the U. S.

transport Etolin for San Francisco. Among the 434 were 240 Germans, 120 of whom were the crews of two German ships they scuttled in Callao in March, 1941, 77 Japanese and 17 Italians. It was understood that the AmerIcan ship. Arcadia, which is scheduled to sail April 15. for the United States, will carry scores more of Italian nationals rounded up by government authorities During an inspection of the aliens luggage, officials found sharp cutting Instruments.

propaganda, letters, notations, documents. foreign language books. liquor. photographic albums, cameras, and razor blades, all of which were confiscated. At San Francisco the Etolin's passengers will await transportation to Europe and the Far Enst.

Late Fire Calls- -Firemen were called to the Portland Truck Company at 10.25 a. m. Sunday when gasoline ignited in a pall. Box 415 was sounded with recall at 10.32. They were called to a grass fire at the rear of 613 Allen Avenue at 2.55 p.

m. Kansas City, April 5 (AP) Charles H. Price, 58, founder and chairman of the board of the Price Candy Company, died Sunday at his winter nome in Miami Beach, Fla. Army Spirit Is Lauded By High Military Officials Offensive Eagerly Awaited, Stimson Tells Nation In Ushering In Army Day Washington, April 5. (UP) Federcl Security Administrator Paul V.

McNutt advised Americans tonight to "get out of your leave military strategy to the Army--and help win the war by Improving health and living conditions of the Nation. He spoke during an American Forum of the Air panel discussion on How Can The Citizen Help To Make A Better Army?" which was broadcast by the Mutual Network. one he said. "the citizen can stop trying to run that Army- and the Country -from nis armchair. "Wainwright, MacArthur, Stillweil and Marshall know the game of war.

If there are wide open places in the enemy's defense, you may count on it that they will put in. the telling blow- if you provide them with the strength to strike." He advised his listeners to eliminate "cheap, predatory honky-tonks" that prey upon visiting -soldiers, to provide adequate facilities for soldiers "to play, to meet their kind of people, to sleep and to check their things." Similar facilities are needed for war workers. housing, poor sanitation, Improper food. inadequate rest and recreation," he said, may mean the difference between victory and defeat." Others taking part in the discussion were Brig. Gen.

Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service: Brig. Gen. Frederick H. Osborn, chief of the Army's Special Service Branch; Warren Atherton, chairman of the American Legion's National Defense Committee, and William C.

Carr, secretary of the National Education Association's Education and Policies Commission. Atherton advocated immediate mobilization of all wealth, labor, industry and agriculture under a universal service ract. "Profiteering, racketeering, hoarding, gouging, syping, striking and slowing down are treachery and treason. he said. have already cost the lives of thousands of gunless, planeless soldiers and sailors.

If continued they will be paid for by death and defeat. Osborn suggested that the best contribution by citizens can be made through the Red Cross and the USO. The actual building of the Army, he said. can only be accomplished "the hard way- -hard marching, hard drilling, hard studying and hard training. Car said citizens should double the amount of time and money devoted to school health programs.

Colleges and high schools, he said, must pay more attention to teaching health, nutrition and safety, and should give more thorough physical examinations and better medical treatment "on a tree and compulsory basis." Hershey praised the "more than 000. of our citizens who have taken upon themselves the obligations that go with the duties of members of local boards and appeal boards." Thousands of doctors and dentists, he said. have given of their time and technical knowledge to make possible the physical examinations of millions of registrants. Birth Certificate Law Proposed Would Correct Record Difficulties Washington, April 5 (AP) Approximately 44,000,000 Americans who were born in states where birth records were not kept would be able to apply for Federal birth certificates under legislation now before the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Chairman Reynolds (D-NC), who introduced the measure, said it was urgently needed for two reasons: First.

to certify the citizenship of Americans who have been barred from jobs in restricted war industries because they were unable to produce birth certificates, and Second. to combat a racket which he said was springing up in the charging of exhorbitant fees for establishing American birth, Under his proposal, which Reynolds said had the support of the Army and the Department of Commerce, application could be made at any postoffice. for a "certified birth record" to be issued by the Director of the census. The fee would be $1. The certificate.

bearing the applicant's fingerprints, would be granted on submission of satisfactory proof of birth in this Country, such as an affidavit by the parents, the attending physician, or some other responsible source. Tendering of false evidence would be punishable by a fine up to $5,000 and imprisonment for five years. Canadian Shipmen Shut Down 2 Plants -Two shipbuilding companies halted work in their yards Saturday, making approximately 3,800 workers idle, when workmen complained against enforcement of new wage scale. Three Dominion labor conciliators are scheduled to confer with union leaders and company officials Monday. About 3,000 employes of the Davie Shipbuilding and 800 of the Morton Engineering Co.

were involved in the dispute. Workers said some pay checks were decreased as much as seven cents an hour, while others were increased as much as 21 cents an hour. The workers said they made their complaint when a telgeram from the Dominion Department of Labor told them the new wage scale should contain no wage reductions. The telegram, they claimed, also said the yards should remain open pending settlement of the matter. The workers said the companies decided nevertheless to close down temporarily.

Qeubee, April 5 -(Canadian Press) Natives Killed In RAF Libyan Raids Rome, April 5 (Radiocast Recorded by UP, New York) A High Command communique said today that British raids on the Libyan ports of Benghazi and Derna inflicted wounds among some of the native population, but no military damage. One enemy plane was destroyed by anti-aircraft fire at Benghazi, while three others were downed by German pursuit planes, the communique said. Strong German units continued attacks on Malta, heavily bombing airport facilities at Venezia, Harfar and Lucca, and camaging parked planes and searchiight positions, it added. Washington, April 5. (UP) -Secretary of War Henry L.

Stimson and high-ranking Army officials declared eagerly wait the day when they may tonight that America's fighting men take the offensive in the struggle which will not end "until freedom and peace are made safe throughout the I world." Ushering in Monday's nationwide observance of Army Day, the officials voiced confidence in an ultimate Alled victory in addresses inaugurating the National Broadcasting Company's new Sunday afternoon "Army Hour" programs. Stimson said the keen fighting spirit displayed by American fighters on every front already has offset, many of the "inevitable disasters" which followed Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor. "Throughout the world, from the Arctic to the South Seas, from Asia, the Philippines and Australia to Iceland and the Indies, in North and South and Central America, American soldiers are already working, fighting and dying in the great struggle which is not to end until freedom and peace are made safe throughout the world," Stimson said. Immortal pages in the history of the American Army, he said, have been written by the soldiers in Bataan, and the Yankee airmen in the skies over Burma and the East Indies. their spirit inspiring our people," he said, "we can and will win this war.

if we on the home front follow their example, the malignant and skillful efforts of our enemies to divide us by spreading false SUSpicions and prejudices among our ranks will inevitably fail." Lieut. Gen. Leslie J. McNair, commanding general of the Army Ground Forces, said the United States got off to a "late start but will be in there with fighting finish and a vice torious peace." "Already, troops are going overseas better led and trained than in 1917, and the new units coming along behind them will be better and better," he said. are thinking today of our comrades overseas pulling for them all the way, impatient to join them." Following McNair's address, commanding generals of field armies in the Continental United States spoke from their regional headquarters.

Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commanding general of the First Army, in charge of Eastern Theater Operations, warned that the enemy will and probably increase attacks against coastal shipping and coastal cities. He said all American forces, linked closely with those of Canada, "are alert and work in close cooperation.

Lieut. Gen. Ben Lear, commanding officer of the Second Army, said his men are becoming "tough, rugged. confident. self-reliant, self-disciplined, unselfish and full of stamina." It is his fixed-belief.

he said, that the mothers and fathers of the Nation will have every reason for being proud of their sons "when those hardened soldiers are privileged to take the attack to the enemy. Lieut. Gen, Walter Kreuger, comI manding officer of the Third Army, I declared that his officers and men are "imbued with that faith, courage and grim determination to win which always has made the American soldier Lieut. Gen. John L.

Dewitt, head of the Western Defense Command and the Fourth Army, said the men undel him "are alert, in good shape and working hard." Fourth Army troops, he said, "are maintaining the traditions of the Army and the heritage of the people who broke the trail in 249 for a greater Country and a free home in which to He said the Army and Navy, and the people and industries of the West Coast "are united in the great effort involved in national offensive action and are ready for whatever task may be imposed to achieve early victory. British And Axis To Exchange Wounded London, April 5 (UP) -The British and Axis Governments have ordered their warships, submarines and planes in Mediterranean to give "safe conduct" to hospital ships carrying seriously wounded Italian and British troops to Smyrna, Turkey, for. the first exchange of prisoners in this war, it was announced today. Authoritative reports from Ankara said that the exchange, which will occur April 7 involves about 300 Italians and 60 British. In addition, about 500 Italian doctors and nurses and an unspecified number.

of captured British protective personnel will be turned over to their respective govern 102 Agencies In Post- War Study Federal, Private Groups Map Plans New York, April 5 (UP) -A survey made by the Twentieth Century Fund and made public tonight, reveals that 102 governmental and private agencies and business organizations are planning for post war conditions. The survey, prepared by Dr. George B. Galloway, lists as active in this work 35. government and 38 private agencies, 11 industrial and financial organizations, 16 trade associations and seven transportation groups, Among the government agencies mentioned in the survey are the Board of Economic Warfare, which is headed by Vice President Henry A.

Wallace; the Labor Department's Post-War Division, the Federal Reserve System's Divisions of Research and Statistics, and the National Resources Planning Board. The Twentieth Century Fund is among the private agencies, which also include the Council for Democracy Rotary International, and the eral Council of Churches. Some of the business organizations are the General Electric Company, the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Association of Real Estate Boards. New Angle Tried In Mill Strike Independent Union To Get Proposal Allied Fliers Bag 155 Enemy Planes Blast Axis Airmen On All War Fronts By United Press United Nations fliers, according to various communiques issued Sunday, shot down at least 155 enemy planes during the last 48 hours. The total included only those planes reported on Sunday and were in addition to some reported on Saturday, such as the five German planes brought down by the RAF in daylight sweeps over Northern France.

The most crushing single defeat Axis fliers suffered was at Ceylon when the Japanese sent a great wave of planes over that island. Twentyseven of them were shot down, five were badly damaged, and probably destroyed, and 25 others went limping home suffering varying damage, The Russians announced the destruction of 102 German planes on the Great Eastern Front on Saturday alone. Malta's defenders shot down. seven planes on Saturday and Sunday and damaged six others. Over Australia, 19.

Japanese planes were destroyed over the week-end and 14 were damaged, many of them 80 seriously that they probably were unable to reach their bases. British Cotton Setup Altered Industry To Regain Distribution Control London, April (AP) British cotton manufacturers in collaboration with government departments have taken over distribution of raw cotton throughout industry, it was disclosed this week. The step resulted from the liquidation of the Government -sponsored $2,000,000 organization which had been operating the past year but which proved to be too cumbersome. Manufacturers volunteered their services in response to government appeals for cooperation and they now handle raw material from quay to. mill.

The changeover involved steps similar to those previously taken in most other industries to restore control over distribution to the trades' own organizations with the latter becoming directly responsible to government for efficient and economical operation. In this new set-ap the Government continues as the sole importer of raw cotton- this being regarded as inevitaule as long as rigid wartime allocation of shipping space is necessary. This new distribution plan WAS the only highlight of a week which saw the textile industry with full erder books but lacking materials and labor. Wavell Talked For Viceroy Of India London, Monday, 6 (AP) The News Chronicie said today speculation has risen in India over the possibility that Gen. Sir Archibald P.

Wavell would become viceroy to insure full control of all defense measures and with an Indian becoming defense member of the Executive Council. Confirmation was lacking here but the newspaper said "authoritative quarters emphasized that every reasonable proposal will be sympathetically, considered" Falll River, April 5- (AP) A new proposal was drafted late tonight for. presentation to the strike committee of the independent American Federation of Textile Operatives an effort to reach some agreement in a union jurisdictional dispute that has forced 18 mills to shutdown, leaving 18,000 workers idle for 12 days. An AFTO spokesman, who asked that his name be withheld, described the proposal as a totally new one" and asserted that he was optimistic that it would provide the basis for further negotiations, Federal Mediator Theodore W. Kheel was in New York City today conferring with Emile Rieve, president of the Textile Workers Union of America (CIO).

William J. Doster, chairman of the Emergency Committee of the independent AFTO. said that his group wou discuss the latest plan Monday morning at 9 o'clock. The nature the proposal and with what group it originated was not revealed. This development came after day of individual meeting of the rival unions in which numerous proposals were debated and rejected.

The AFTO is seeking bargaining rights for three key crafts whose workers forced the mills to close by walking out. while the CIO wants to bargain on an industcial basis. Three Killed In Bomber Crash Galveston, April 5- Three Army aviators were killed in the crash of an Army bomber pear Ellinger, Texas, today. Those killed were named as the pilot, Lieut. Richardson; Staff Sergt.

Addison, and Corp. Caddell. Full I names and home addresses were not available immediately, Local Couple Is Honored At Mr. and Mrs. Allen R.

Fardie, who will leave April 15 to reside at Bridgewater, were honored at a farewell party Sunday evening in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Howe of Morning Street. Mr.

Fardie is employed at a Portland Harbor Defense post, and Mrs. Fardo by Molko's Linen Shop, Gifts were presented to them. Easter decorations were used. Guests included Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Reagan, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Kitchen, Mr. and Mrs.

Eugene J. Houghton and Mr. and Mrs. Raymond E. Boudway.

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