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Evening star., 1943-05-28
Senate Limits
President S Use
0fSpecia| Fund
House Reversed on
Dismissal of Three
Government Employees
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

The Senate today unexpected
ly passed the $143,630,591 urgent
deficiency bill, which carried an
Appropriations mitt e e
amendment sharply restricting
the Presidents use of the $780,
1921 balance in his emergency
funds.
Approved also was the committee
tempt to cut three Government en-
ployes from the Federal payroll
They are Goodwin B. Watson and
William E. Dodd, jr., of the Federal
Communications Commission, and
Robert Morss Lovett, Government
secretary in the Virgin Islands.
The ban on the Presidents emer-
gency fund and the retention of the
three employees now await final de-
termination by a conference COM
mittee.
Conferees also will be called on
finally to decide the future of the
National Resources Planning Board,
which weathered move in the Sen
ate yesterday to abolish it. The
chamber voted 100000 for the agen-
cy, which has been denied funds by
the House.
Doubt Case on Congress Power.
The House also has voted to take
the three names from the Govern
ment payroll on recommendation of
the Kerr subcommittee of the House
Appropriation Committee which in
qulred into longer list of Govern
ment workers who had been accused
of associations with alleged subver-
sivxe organizations or movements.
Senator La Toilette. Progressive, of
wisconsin told the Senate just be-
fore 1t eliminated the House pro-
vision that he has serious doubt
whether Congress has the constitu-
tional power to remove employees
from executive agencies in this
manner.
The approved Senate amendment
would prohibit the President from
transferring his emergency funds to
any agency except War and Navy,
If Congress has made appropriations
for the agency, or for functions of
any agency for which estimates have
been submitted by the budget and
for which Congress has failed to
make appropriations.
Senators Lucas, Democrat, of
Illinois, and Hayden. Democrat, of
Arizona, urged the conferees to give
the language careful scrutiny before
accepting it. They warned it might
60 further than the committee in
tended
Ship Canal Mentioned.
Senator Hayden suggested it might
be so construed as to enable the
President to go ahead with the
Florida ship canal, which is auth
orized, but for which no appropri-
alton is available.
This broad restriction was adopted
In the Senate Committee to take the
place of one the House already had
approved, merely preventing the
President from alloting emergency
funds to the Planning Board or the
Farm Security Administration. The
(See FUNDS. Page A-8J
Evening star., 1943-05-28
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GinRer Man (Kirk) $50
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ins; 4-year -olds and upward: about
silver Beam tKirk) ESQ $50 2.ao
Discretion tRoot) $50 2.4O
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Also tan-Dan.is. Ilka. Court Ball.
EurIy Results
And Tssnorrsw's Entries, Paxe Ais.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Jap5' Attu Positions
Are Split Further
By American Attack
Enemy Force Is Being
Broken Up Into Small
Points of Resistance

American troops have at
tackled the third main position
which the Japanese had held on
Attu Island south of Lake Cories
the Navy reported today, and in
dications were that the entire
enemy force on the island was
being rapidly broken up into very
small points of resistance.
Several important points were
taken along the ridge south OF
Chichagof corridor in hard hand
to-hand fighting.
Authorities said the Attu fight
might be won before the week end
or two or three more days might
be needed to clear up final pockets
OF enemy resistance.
Fighting to Clear Peaks.
The United States northern forces
have penetrated part of a ridge
a short distance southwest of Chi
chagof Harbor, the communique
said, and fighting continues to clear
the enemy from peaks in the vi
cinity.
The ground operations were sup
ported by Army heavy and medium
bombers and fighters. Medium
bombers and fighters also made
three attacks on Kiska, scoring nu-
merous hits.
The Navy issued no reports or
Attu fighting later than Wednesday
A spokesman said, however, that
every bit of information we have
indicates it is continuing"
There were indication in today's
war bulletin that Japanese opposi-
ton had pretty we'll lost its character
of organized fighting.
This is kind of situation in
which the Japanese soldier fights
most stubbornly, however, and the
job of American troops became in
creasingly one of hand to-hand
combat with bayonet and grenade.
Earlier this week the Navy had
disclosed the taking of Chichagot
Valley, the first of the three origi-
nal positions set up by the Japanese
on the northeastern tip of the
island to fall into American hands
Assaults on the force at the head
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Ki|day Bill 5he|ved
By Senate Military
Affairs Committee
Reynolds Says Action
On Draft Meqsure
Wos Unanimous

The Senate Military Affairs
Committee today tabled the
House-approved Kilday bill to
make the Statewide system Of
drafting men mandatory, and to
repeal the work-or fight orders
used to induce men to transfer
from non-essential to war jobs.
Chairman Reynolds said the COM
mittee was unanimous in motion
to table the measure. While it
would still be possible to take it
from the table later in the session,
the Senator pointed out that, in
practice, bills tabled are seldom re-
vived.
The main purpose of the bill,
sponsored by Representative Kilday,
Democrat, of Texas, was to avoid
taking married men from the local
draft board area, while an adjoin-
ing board in the same State still
had, unmarried men uncalled.
In opposing the measure. selec-
tive service officials argued they are
now trying to carry out the State
wide plan, as far as it is practical,
but that the language of the bill
would leave no leeway and would
retard the induction of men as
needed.
In a brief flied at the request of
the committee, Col. Lewis Sanders of
se.ective service pointed out that,
even if the war lasted 10 years there
would never be time when 1T could be
shown that every single man in
State had been called for induction
This would result not only from es-
sential occupational deferments, but
because new registrants are con-
stantly coming within the military
age brackets.
Col. Sanders argued that, if the
bill was strictly interpreted any mar
ried man called could get a court
stay against induction by showing
that there was one registrant still
uncalled in higher category in that
State -. ....
Senator Reynolds said committee
members agreed that the calling of
married men, particularly those with
dependents, should be put off until
they are needed, but they felt this
could be best accomplished by allow
ing selective service officials to make
constant checkups on the status of
deferred single men. The chairman
said the testimony was to the effect
that selective service follows that
procedure.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Red Forces Repu|se
German Infantry in
Kuban Delta Area
Lend and Air Bottles
Raging; Moscow Silent
On Big Offensive
MAP on Page Az
By the Associat ted Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, May 28.-Sharp
land and air battles are raging
in the Kuban Delta area after
a period of comparative quiet,
but neither official Russian dis
closures nor dispatches from the
front today confirmed German
reports that a Soviet Army of
100000 is attempting a big Of
fensive to Kerch Strait.
Both the midnight and the noon
communiques were silent on the
fighting northeast of Novorossisk,
where the German radio declared at
least 10 Russians divisions and a
great wedge of tanks was trying to
batter through narrow sector un-
der cover OF more than 200 planes.
The German broadcast said the
Russians scored temporary gains
yesterday, which were wiped out in
German counterattacks by nightfall
NaM Infantry Repulsed.
Front line dispatches, however,
declared the Red Army had repelled
big group of enemy infantry try
ing to improve its positions and said
the Red Air Force and the German
plane fleet were fighting great bat
ties in the same area
The Russians reported they ward
ed off the Nazis, downing 81 German
planes In one day while losing 13
Russian craft.
West of Rostov the Red Army was
reported to have taken the initiative
in violent local combats which re-
suited In the capture of an impor-
tant hill and general improvement
of the Russian position. The Ger
mans made repeated but vain at
tempts to recapture the hill, it was
said.
Artillery exchanges and scouting
forays marked yesterdays action
along other sectors of the battle
front. especially in the Smolensk,
Kalinin. Volkhov and Donets River
fronts, the latter south of Balakleva.
New Action Near Leningrad.
The Soviet noon communique told
of continued Russian activity in
those areas and west of Rostov,
and noted new STRINGS on the Len
ingrad front where eight German
planes we're reported shot down and
"a German outposts destroyed by
Red Army detachments which killed
about 200 of the enemy.
Long-range Red Army planes
blasted German airdromes and a
ship and planes in the Black Sea
fleet sank two enemy motor barges,
the noon war bulletin said without
going into detail on the engagement.
A Red Navy force has been watt
ing in the Black Sea for any attempt
to evacuate the Germans from Novo-
rossisk. A Russian drive into the
Taman Peninsula to the shores OF
Kerch Strait. across from the Cri-
mea would split the German forces
around Temryuk and pen in the
Axis Novorossisk defenders with
their escape possible only by the Red
Navy-guarded Black Sea route.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
BYRNES HEADS new OVERALL WAR AGENCY
ReveNe System
Goes Awry.for
Ft. Knox Soldier
BY the Associated Press.

FORT KNOX. KY, May ga
soldier in the Armored Force Re-
placement Training Center walked
into a telephone booth and called
a Louisville number.
The soldier waited few moments,
smiled and started to hang up. Then
he listened attentively, frowned and
dropped 80 cents into the coin box.
Why'd you answer the phone?"
he growled. 1T cost me my last 80
cents!"
He left the booth and disgustedly
told another soldier. Il call my wife
this time each morning to wake her
up in time to get to work. You see,
we don't have anssalarm clock
can't buy one any place.
She's not supposed to answer the
phone. And I always hang up after
the operator tells me nobody
answers. That way it doesn't cost
anything. But this morning that
sleepy headed wife of mine answered
and the operator told me to deposit
80 cents"
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Giraud and De Gau|Ie
May Meet Tonight
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. May %. - Informed
quarters said today that Gen Charles
de Gaulle was expected to meet
Gen. Henri Giraud tonight in Algiers
to initiate talks which may bring
about union Of French elements
now fighting the Axis.
This was the first indication that
Gen. de Gaulle already had left
London for North Africa, although
dispatches from Algiers yesterday
intimated that meeting between
the two French leaders would take
place soon.
ALGIERS, May % R.-Gen.
Georges Catroux, liaison officer be-
tween Gen. Henri Giraud and Gen.
Charles de Gaulle, arrived today
from London to assist In the recep-
tion here soon of Gen. de Gaulle.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
YugosIavs Deny Crisis
Over Kings Romance
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 28.-Members Of
the Yugoslav government-in-exile
today ridiculed reports that cabinet
crisis had arisen over a romance be =.
tween King Peter of Yugoslavia and
Princess Alexandra of Greece.
They became unofficially engaged
last year without the usual state
formalities.
At that time, the Yugoslav gov.
ernment issued a statement declar.
ing that neither a formal engage
ment would be announced nor wo,,1d
any marriage take place during the
war out of consideration for the
conquered peoples of both countries
Government officials said there ha:
been no change in the situation sincs
then. 'N'o0
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Enemy Reports Hitting
Ramp Boats Off Tunisia
R~ fha Aseo~;AyaA pr>e

b the Associated Press.
Allied ramp boats or landing gear
were reported in Axis broadcasts to-
day to have been hit by German and
italian warplanes in raids on the
Tunsian harbors Of Bizerte and
SouSse.
Both ports are possible spring.
boards for any invasion of Italy's
outlying island defenses, Sardinia,
Sicily and, Pantelleria.
A French Language bulletin broad
cast from Rome and recorded by the
Associated Press said q small tanker
and ".moyens de debaIquement"-
literally. means of landing''-were
struck by the Axis explosives.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Carnegie Steel Indicted;
Jury Takes Recess
BY the Associated Press.

PITTSBURGH, May 2s.-A Fed
eral grand jury indicted the Car
negie-Illinois Steel Corp today on
charge of knowingly and WILL
fully" concealing material facts from
Government agencies in connection
with Senate committee investiga-
ton of complaints that the COM
pany furnished sub-specification
steel on war contracts.
The jury declined to indict four
Carnegie Illinois employees against
whom indictments were asked in
presentment filed with Judge Nelson
McVicar Yesterday.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Z German Ships Sunk
Off Crete by Greek Sub
By the Associated Press,

o5 tHe ASSOClated Press.
LONDON, May ga Greek sub
marine has sunk two small German
ships off Crete. Greek government
ln-exile communique said today.
The submarine Papanicolis was
operating with the British Royal
Navy when it intercepted a small
supply ship flying the German flag
the bulletin said. 1t sank the ship
with gunf1re. Then it met and sank
the second ship, the communique
declared, and rescued number of
survivors from both vessels.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Southwestern Germany
Is Shaken by Quoke
y the Associated Press.

~ tne Associated Press.
LONDON, May 2S.-The German
news agency DNB reported that an
earthquake shook large area in
southwestern Germany early today,
causing slight injuries to . number
Of persons near Stuttgart.
DNB'S report was broadcast by the
Berlin radio and recorded by the
Associated Press.
"A great number of chimneys
crashed and . number Of roofs were
torn away" -DNB said The shock
was felt throughout Wuerttemberg
aS wei as Alsace.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Shipyord Soved From Fire

OAKLAND, Calf, May % (P.-A
f1re which threatened the huge
Moore Drydock shipyards today was
brought under control after a fight
OF three hours. Damage was esti-
mated at $780, 900. The blaze was
kept from the shipyard.
Earlier Story on Pare B-5.)
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Markets at q Glance

NEW YORK, May % (R.-
Stocks: Mixed; short covering
stems early decline. Bonds: Ir-
regular; some rails in supply.
Cotton: Uneven; price fixing
and liquidation.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
GUIDE FOR READERS

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Comics --B-22-23
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Obituary ---A-l2
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Late News Bulletin
Nots1St. Louis Game Postponed

The baseball game scheduled here between the Mats
the St. Louis Browns postponed because of weather
carrasquel to have pitched tor the ors and oster
mueller for the Browns
Evening star., 1943-05-28

Chicago: Wheat-dropped u
"a; hedge selling. Corn-un-
changed at ceilings. Hogs-late
trade active, $40 cents up: top
$14.40: receipts curtailed. Cattle
most killing classes steady to
weak in preholiday trade.
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Major League Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE.

At Boston,
Cleveland - Ill 101 0
Boston - coo 900 0
Batteries-Salveson and Rosar; Chase
and Peacock.
At New York
Detroit ----- 600 900 0O1-1 81
New York. 900 10 COX 2 So
Batteries-Trout. Hen.haw (.) and Par
sons, Richards 90; Borowy and Dickey.
At Philadelphia
Chicago - O1O
Philadelphia 90
Batteries-Ross and Turner; Christo.
pher and Swift, WaEner (e).
st. Louis at Washington, Postponed,
Evening star., 1943-05-28

Page.
Radio ------B-23
Society -----B.3
Sports I-A-18-l9
Where to Go,
B-A
Woman's Page.
A-le
Evening star., 1943-05-28

(See BARRETT, Page A-8.)
Evening star., 1943-05-28

(See ATTU, Page A-8)
Evening star., 1943-05-28
Weather Report

From the United States weather Bureau Report.
Moderately warm tonight. Temperatures to-
day-Highest, rs, at pm; lowest, 50, at pm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-21

French commandos and hundreds of native guerillas joined in an offen- Sive to win Corsica as an Allied springboard for possible invasionS of south France and northern Italy.
 German forces on the island at last reports totaled only i2.000 men, but 1t presumably would be pos- Sible for German MahShal Erwin Rommel, commander of area, to put endorsements ashore through the Nazi-held port of Bastia on the northeast coast.
 French Commandos
 The landing of French com mandos on Corsica was announced by General Henri Honore Giraud, French commander in chief, in Q communique that reported events had taken "a favorable turn"
 On the Fifth Army front on the Italian mainland, American and British troops expanded their Sa- lerno- -Agropoli bridgehead and drove another four miles inland from Battipaglia to capture Eboli, Gen. eral Dwight D. Eisenhower's com munique reported.
 The British Eighth Army, which already had made Q junction with Lieutenant General Mark w. Clark's Fifth Army, continued to advance in the face of light resist ance," the communique said.
 While the direction of the Eighth Army's advance was not announced, 1t was presumed the Anglo Cana dian troops were pushing inland
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-21

ton by the High Command, the United States Senate Is considering a bill to prohibit the drafting of fathers The irony of itl Dur ing the Summer our armed forces have turned the tide of war, and the very first consideration before the returning Congress is to shut off the manpower necessary to end 1t The number of men needed by the Army and Navy is a mili- tary question-not political one. West Point and Annapolis certainly know more about the needs of war than Capitol Hill They ought to. They've spent @ lifetime studying war = not trying to get reelected every sixth year Our generals and admirals are interested in train ing fighting men not counting votes The American people de- mand that our war leaders be given everything they need - to pour re- Inducements into salerno and New Guinea.
 Some CongreSsmen appear to for- get that fathers marched from Bun- ker Hill to Chateau-Thierry. And grandfathers fought from Valley Forge to Messina !. The answer is clear. Congress must back up Stim- son and Knox and Eisenhower and Nimitz - as well as Macarthur ani Halsey If the Army and Navy are asking too much, the Senators can act against them after the war. But if the Senators give them too little, there won't be any Senate at all :. If the Army and Navy need fathers then the fathers must go And if necessary, so must the grandmothers!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-21

Continued from Page i) series of direct questions submitted by the magazine, in one of which he was asked whether he would be available for the io44 nomination. He replied:
 "1f the Republican party intends to drive heart and soul for liberal obiectives such as I seek Co outline. |. I shall give 1t my complete and undertaking service whether as the conventions nominee or as 8 worker in the ranks"
 What Willkie proposed in Look is to conduct Q liberal revival meet ing within the Republican party. He said the COP could win next year but must first win a victory with in itself" through action of the progressive and courageous party members" In re-establishing the party's great liberal traditions"
 Willlie called for "a rebirth of enterprise-a real enterprise" and added, i've must distinguish be- tween enterprise and private own- ership."
 Vested Interests
 "A corporation" he said, may be privately owned and still be the worst enemy of free enterprise. A free enterprise does not belong to a few at the top-that is a vested- interest system"
 The former Indiana lawyer and utilities Inagnate emphasized that 'this is where the liberal element in the Republican Party has such an enormous role to play"
 "Some of the talk we hear about free enterprise or private enter prise is just propaganda on the part of powerful groups who have not practiced real enterprise in Q generation, and have no intention of doing so."
 He charged that the Roosevelt administration had failed in its duty to prevent war profits "wheth- CT employer or employe, whether capital, labor or agriculture, and whether the profit be financial or political" He also warned of "po- iitical incompetence", denounced the new deals scarcity philosophy the blowing under of cotton and killing of pigs-and proposed a phil osophy of plenty.
 Willkie accused the Roosevelt ad- ministration of bungling foreign relations. He said the United States continued to send scrap, oil and other munitions to Japan long after the U. s. Embassy in Tokyo had warned the State Department what the Japanese were up to. He held that merely arming while re- jecting participation in world col iective security surely would get America into another war.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-21
Seizure Puts RAF In
 Easy Bombing Range
Continued from Page l)

from the west coast in an effort to complete occupation of all southern Italy below Q line from Salerno on the west coast to Bari on the east. Bari was captured last week by the British Fifth Corps after landing at Taranto on the south coast.
 Little Resistance
 Front dispatches said the Fifth Army was meeting little resistance in its drive eastward into the in- terior from its hard-won beachhead, but had run into stiff opposition north of Salerno, where the Ger mans were making Q stand on the approaches to the Naples Plain, some 20 to 25 miles below Naples itself.
 GA German communique broad- cast by the Berlin radio said Na1 troops repulsed Allied attacks in the Salerno and Potenza areaS).
 The country north of Salerno. with its narrow mountain roads, passes and defiles, is ideal for de- fense, but field reports emphasized that the invaders were making steady. though slow, progress. German transport continued to retreat northward from the central and southern sectors opposite the fifth army bridgehead under a rain of bombs and bullets from Allied planes. At least 60 vehicles were deS- troyed and more than 56 others were damaged yesterday.
 Heavy and medium bonlbers of the northwest African Air Forces concentrated the full weight of their offensive power on transport columns, troop positions. bridges and communications in the Naples area.
 Not a single German plane was encountered.
 French warsllipS were revealed to have landed Commando units and equipment at Ajaccio on the Cor sican west coast September l3. only five days after the Italian armistice took effect. Four days later, French destroyerS disembarked additional troops and supplies.