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NEW YORK-UP-Funeraf sery-
ices for Ed L. Keen. pioneer Am
erican foreign correspondent and
vice president OF the United Press,
will be held Monday IN Piqua, o.
Keen died suddenly Thursday in
the barber shop OF a New York
hotel at the age OF 70. His widow.
Mrs. Carrie Colyin Keen. announced
that the body would be cremated
today and the ashes taken 10 Ohio
where she and her husband had
lived since 1889 when he retired
as Europen general manager of the
United Press.
WASHINGTON -AP- Colorful-
ly illustrated magazines, printed
for the government on high-quality
paper. today went into the records
OF congressional committee which
heard testimony that further dras-
tic cuts in newsprint use are in
eyitable. Harold Boeschenstein.
director of the production controls
Bureau of the War Production
Board (WPB) said reserve stocks
OF wood pulp VIII be exhausted by
spring and newsprint mills already
are operating % per cent below
capacity because OF a shortage of
raw materials and manpower.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF
cleverly hidden, delayed-action
mine killing scores. and perhaps
hundreds, in conquered Naples EN-
phasized anew today the caution
with which Allied forces must
move through former enemy ter.
-ritory. The Germans long have
been masters in planting explo-
sives to impede the progress OF a
pursuing army, but the havoc re-
ported wrought by yesterdays blast
surpassed any act OF destruction
the Nazis have previously achieved
in Absentia.
PORTLAND, Ore.-AP-The Sl0,-
100000 Columbia River salmon in
dustry, which was supposed to have
died of strangulation this year, is
very much alive. The Oregon ish
Commission said today the spring
run OF chinooks was above the av-
erage OF 2,225,0O0 pounds. Figures
also showed fish were getting over
Bonneville Dam en- 9Qute upstream.
In 1888, the year the dam was built.
many argued it would prevent fish
from getting to or from spawning
grounds. Since salmon generally
are assumed to live at sea four
years before returning to spawn,
the 1912 run, critics predicted,
would be the last.
NEW YORK-AP-Th Tokyo
radio in a domestic broadcast re-
corded by the Federal Communica-
tons Commission, said today that
American bombers flying from
bases in China under strong fight
er escort yesterday attacked the
Haiphong area of French Indo-Chi-
ma. but that damage was extreme
ly light"
MEXICO CITY-AP Sugar
cane and rice crops valued at ST..
100000 are threatened with de-
struction in Michoacan state be-
cause ashes from Paricutin volcano
cano have clogged irrigation ditch.
es, Gen. Lazaro Cardenas reported
today after tour of the area.
HEADQUARTERS OF THE U. S.
14th AIR FORCE, China up
The Flying Tiger-famed nickname
OF the American Volunteer Group
which wrote air history in China
before the United States entered
the war-has been adopted as the
official emblem of the AVG's sue.
cessor. the L. s. 14th Air Force.
NASSAU, Bahama s-AP-A final
magistrates court session tomor.
row will set the stage for Britain's
ancient rituals OF justice and Am
erica's modern criminology to
weigh the crowns case against AL
fred de Margny, charged with
Staying his father-in-law, Sir Harry
Cakes. The case is the first in
Nassau in which fingerprints, mi
croscopic and chemical analysis
and other modern methods have
figured American detectives gath
cred this evidence.
VI CIITNftfTnN
mems dependents stand a chance
of reaping a mild financial wind
fall from what some congressman
regard as a bid for the. soldier
vote. As the House Military Com.
mittee sought clearance for a vote
next Wednesday on legislation
that would make substantial in
creases in present allowances and
benefits, individual members began
attacking the committees scale as
too low.N
NEW China based
American hombers were reported
today to have pounded the Haip-
hong area OF French Indo-China for
40 minutes yesterday. The Tokyo
radio, heard by FEC. said damage
was extremely light. The raid
ers had a strong fighter ecort.
CLEVELAND. O.-INS-Propos-
rls to liberalize the Episcopal
Church's marriage laws were pu;
aside for another three years today
after the House of Deputies at the
54th triennial convention turned