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Lower Clothing Price!
And Larger Stocks
by 0PA
Step Designed to Keep
Costs From Rising os
Wages Stond Still
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
OPA today promised more cuts
in the price of clothing and more
low-priced garments on dealers
shelves.
The new, twin assault on inflated
clothing prices will be followed by
clamping down on the price CELL
ings of garment makers and tight
ening price rules governing retail
stores, Price Administrator Chester
Bowles said.
AS the whole program takes effeot,
amy increases in the cost-of- living
index in the coming months will
stop completely" MIR. Bowles pre-
dicted.
The OPA thus evidently pinned
on the textile and garment trade
its entire hope of carrying out the
injunction of Economic Sterilization
Director Vinson, who asserted that
a small but disturbing" climb in
living costs must stop"
Mr.. Wilson'S instructions were
construed as a tip-off to an admin
istration decision not to drop the
Little Steel" pay formula before
Germany's collapse, but to give labor
unions assurance that the cost of
living would not climb while wages
stood still.
Garments to Be Tagged.
OPA's opening moves to make
good the Vinson pledge were an
nounced last night. They are:
First, a decision to set dollars
and-cents retail prices, which will
appear on easy-to-rea tickets on
each garment, on the 10000, 00C
items of children's clothing for
which the War Production Board
has made special allotment of ma
terial this quarter.
Second, an order intended to stop
"fancying-up" and "over- finishing
of simple materials, which Mr.
Bowles estimated. may save con-
sumers as much as $60,00o,0 900 a
year. This Is to be done by reducing
the margins of textile flnishers.
1t will be four or five months be-
fore the ceiling tagged children's
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Rule of Germany
By Allied Council
Believed Included
JOHN M. HIGHTOWER,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

A three-power agreement for
controlling Germany during mil
itary occupation has been signed
and referred to Washington,
London and Moscow for accept
ance.
1t is understood to call for a Su-
preme Allied Council to rule the
defeated Reich.
Undersecretary of State Stettinius
confirmed today that the Anglo
Soviet-American Advisory Commits
sion in London had forwarded its
recommendations to the three gov
ernments. He refused to discuss its
contents.
Acceptance Probable.
Acceptance is considered highly
probable because all points covered
in the agreement were referred to
the three Allied capitals before the
European Advisory Commission
made its own decisions.
While details are still secret, the
plan approved by the commission
is understood to call for the long
discussed three-way split of Reich
territory and even a three-way di-
vision of occupation troops in
Berlin itself. Full authority over
German affairs would be vested in
the Supreme Allied Council, of
which the American and British
members initially might be Gen.
Eisenhower and Field Marshal Sir
Bernard L. Montgomery, respec-
lively.
The Russians also are expected
to name an officer of the highest
rank. probably some one like Mar
shall Voroshilov, who has just been
released from his Supreme War
Council duties in Moscow, presum-
ably to take on important assign
ments in other fields.
France to Have Role.
While the overall control of Ger
many during military occupation
would be three-way split by the
great powers, the arrangement does
not preclude participation of French
and other Allied troops. In fact, il
is expected that France, particularly
Will be given important industrial
areas such as the Ruhr for long-term
occupation and undoubtedly have a
place, although not a top place, in
the supreme Allied council organi-
zation.
One point made by authorities
here is that the agreements now
completed concern only the period
of military occupation and do not
prescribe the broad policies of Ger
man control which may follow upon
initial military control.
In London 1t was understood the
agreement had been signed by Sir
William Strang for Britain, Fedor
Gusev, Soviet Ambassador to Brit
ain, for Russia, and Philip Mosely
deputy to Ambassador John G.
Winant on the European Advisory
Commission, for the United States.
A reliable London source said the
most important provision of the
agreement was a unanimity rule,
which means that all major deci-
sions of the big three" on supreme
Allied control of Germany would
have to be reached unanimously.
1t was understood that France did
not sign the agreement because
Rene Massigli, French Ambassador
to Britain, has not yet taken his
seat on the European Advisory Com
mission.
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Guard Killed in Illinois
Prison Break ATTEMPT
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
JOLIET, Ill, Nov. pa guard
was killed and three convicts were
shot and wounded today as 10 pris-
oners, two of them veterans of the
Roger Touhy break in 1912, unsuc-
cessfully attempted to escape over
the walls of Statewide Penitentiary
The slain guard was Goethe
Skaags, shot above the heart.
Two of the convIcts were William
Stewart and Matthew Nelson, who
with Roger (the Terrible) Touhy
and four other desperate criminals
shot their way out of the huge prison
on October 9, 1912
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House Group Rejects
Roosevelt Request on
Soft Coal Legislation
Ways and Means Votes
Against Regulation; PIons
Security Tax Hearings
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Brushing aside a presidential
recommendation, the House
Ways and Means Committee
voted, Is to 9. today against con-
sidering legislation reviving reg
ulation of the bituminous coal
industry.
simultaneously. the committee
agreed to consider a measure to
freeze the social security tax at l
per cent against employe and en-
ployer, instead of allowing an auto
matte raise to 2 per cent against
each on January /. Hearings will
start Monday.
This decision made possible one
more battle between the White
House and administrationists on
Capitol Hill before the 18th Con-
gress expires.
Some already were predicting Mr.
Roosevelt would veto any legisla-
ton freezing the tax, on which Con-
gress thrice before has prevented a
rise. The automatic increase is pro-
vided in the basic social security
law.
Representative Knutson, Mime
sofa, ranking Republican on the
Ways and Means Committee, pre-
dicted, I'VE are going to bring out
a bill to freeze the tax"
I'LL
President Roosevelt had written
Representative Flanagan, Demo-
crat, of Virginia saying such legis-
lation will help stabilize the in
dustry and safeguard the interests
of thousands of producers, hun
dreds of thousands of mine work.
ers and millions of consumers.
Congress killed the coal law last
year
Also in the House. some members
of the Judiciary Committee con-
sidered forcing out constitutional
amendment to break up the Senate's
traditional two-thirds vote control
over treaties and give the House a
voice in the coming peace.
In the Senate a billion dollar floor
control measure, one of the bills on
the short session agenda, hit de-
bate-laden snag when Senators
LANCER, Republican, of North
Dakota, and Murray, Democrat. of
Montana, put in an amendment
which would authorize a Missouri
Valley Authority food control and
power project patterned after the
Tennessee Valley Authority.
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RJJI,LETIN.

TWENTY-FIRST BOMBER
COMMAND, Saipan tP.-The
American super fortress raid
on Tokyo today apparently
took the Japanese by surprise,
the leader, Brig. Gen. Emmett
(Rosie) O'Donnell, said late
today on returning from the
attack. He said the Japanese
offered no fighter resistance
and antiaircraft fire was
meager and inaccurate. 1T
was one of the easiest missions
I've been on" Gen. O'Donnell
said.
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MAP on Page A-4.J

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Nov. 24VAllied ad-
vance units were reported today
to have crossed the flooded Rhine
east of Strasbourg, which French
and American troops had cap
tured except for a small but
powerfully defended bridgehead
at the western end of the main
bridge.
If the report is verified, the de-
tachments would be the first Allied
troops to cross the Reich's great
water barrier.
On the northern front, Field
Marshal Gen. Gerd Won Rundstedt
committed 10 or IL divisions to the
great battle of attrition on the
soggy Cologne Plain and behind
flame throWers and a drumfire ar
tillery barrage drove the British
I'd Army from the villages of Beck
and Hoven, miles northwest of
Geilenkirchen.
10th Nazi Tank Knocked Out.
The American 9th Army. fight
ing for. Julich on the turbulent
Roer River Is miles from Cologne,
knocked out its 10th German tank
in a seven-day battle on the right
flank of the British I'd Army
front. In Holland the British
inched to within mile and half
of Venlo. the Dutch road center on
the great bend of the Mas
tMeuse) River,
Berlin asserted earlier in the day
that the Allies attempted futilely
to seize one of the three Rhine
bridges outside Strasbourg, Alsa-
tan city of $4,000, connected by a
2-mile canal to the Rhine. The
reported crossing of the swift and
wide upper Rhine did not neces-
sarily constitute the spearhead of a
major drive across the border
stream.
In the attack on the British at
Hoven and Buck, half of the Ger
man divisions were armored The
British, under command of 1t. Gen
Sir Miles C. Dempsey, held on tt
high ground overlooking the Murm
Valley north of Hoven.
Yanks Are Checked.
Thanking the British to the south
the American 9th and 1st Army
offensives in the valley of the turbu-
lent Roer River slowed to a crawl OF
even were checked entirely while
the Germans threw waves of coun.
terattacks at Allied lines The fight
ing centered at the approaches Of
Julich, highway town on the Roer q
miles from Cologne
The American Sd Army beyond
Metz captured Oberluken and deep.
ened its northern wedge into Ger.
many with gains of to 4 miles
Yesterday. The front of 1t. Gen
George S. Patton, ir., edged slowly
toward the Saar industrial and raj
center of Saarbrucken, IS miles from
forward lines.
Snow, rain and fog slowed the
drives in the Vosges Mountains ane
beyond Belfort, where American anc
French units were striving to bag
thousands of Germans of the 18th
Army.
Earlier front reports said fighting
was in progress in the narrow
crooked streets at the center Of
Strasbourg.
In reaching the city, French tanks
and guns rolled through a ring Of
Continued on Page A-4, Col. L.
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Southwark
After Taking Limon;
jap Division Crushed
Macarthur Says Victory
May Lead TO Smashing Of
Entire Line in keyte
MAP on Page A-1S.)
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Philippines, Nov. "a.
infantrymen today
lunged southwark from Limon
after capturing that bastion of
the Japanese Yamashita line in
the climax to the longest and
bitterest fighting of the entire
Leyte Island campaign.
The japanese LIST Division has
been practically destroyed, Gen.
Macarthur said in announcing that
the American SD Division had
smashed into and through Limon
yesterday after a typhoon slowed the
battle for two weeks.
Easier country lies ahead, but 1t
was emphasized that his does not
mean the heavy fighting is over. The
terrain is such that the japanese
will be able to make defensive
stands and force the American
doughboys to dig them out of ma
chinegun nests and pillboxes.
Doughboys Advance.
Gen. Macarthur in his COM
munique said the American victory
at Limon may result in the roll
ing up on the entire Yahmashita
line upon which the enemy de-
ponds in his fight to hold Leyte
Island
The communique said the Amer
leans had advanced 1000 yards south
of Limon and had reached the near
by Leyte River.
1t fell to units under Col. John
A. Hettinger, Colorado Springs,
Colo, to break down the last Japa-
nese resistance in the battle for the
mountainous defile leading into the
Ormoc corridor.
The fight started after the Japa-
nese had landed heavy reinforce
ments at Ormoc October Is. The
opposing forces-great in number for
this type of warfare-launched al
most simultaneous attacks.
The weight of American arms
threw the enemy off balance and
forced him to take the defensive
In his communique announcing the
victory, Gen. Macarthur credited
Yank artillery and superior infantry
fire power with inf1icting terrific
losses" on the Japanese.
1t was the second japanese divi-
sion whose virtual humiliation has
been announced by Gen. Macarthur
Earlier he had reported the de-
struction of the japanese 10th
which had played a leading part in
the defeat of American forces at
Bataan.
u. S. Planes Active.
American planes ranged the air
and dealt other damaging blows to
the Japanese. Heavy bombers
blasted supply dumps at Ipil, south
of Ormoc, and destroyed large ware
houses. Fighter planes wrecked a
Japanese motor pool and strafeo
communication lines below Valencia
about IL airline miles south OF
Limon.
Light naval units maintained
vigilance against any enemy effort
to land reinforcements or supplies,
sinking small freighter, two lug
gers and three troop-laden barges
OF the Camotes Islands. Enemy air
action was Insignificant, Gen. Mac
Arthur said, and American patrols
shot down one plane.
On another sector, Associated
Press Correspondent Elmont Waite
said that units commanded by 1t.
Col. Isaac Gill, jr., of Rhode Island
had advanced south from Pinamo-
poan on the west side OF the Ormoc
road, almost reaching that highway.
Drenching rains, which have
slowed the battle tempo, continued.
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Late Bulletin
Reds Clear Sorre Island

LONDON Or ussian
forces have cleared the Ger
mans from the island of
Sarre, at the entrance to the
Gulf of Riga, Premier Stain
announced late today.
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
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MAP on Page A-3.J

BY the Associated Press.
TWENTY = FIRST BOMBER
COMMAND, Saipan, Nov. pa
mighty armada of B-29 Super
Fortresses today blasted Tokyo
with hundreds of tons of bombs,
opening what Gen. Henry H.
Arnold said was IAN attack
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Most Of Strasbourg is Captured;
Big 3 Agree onReich Occupation
British Driven
From 7 Towns
In Auchen Area
BULLETIN.

WITH LIST UNITED STATES
ARMY IN GERMANY o.
Doughboys of the 1st Army
today fought their way house
by house into Weisweiler, 2
miles east of EschWeiler,
against stubborn opposition.
Observed enemy movements
indicated the Nazis finally
were pulling out of Weisweiler
after the Americans fought
their way inside.
MARSHAL BLASKOWITZ reported
withdrawn as head of Nazi army
on western front. Page At
MAP on Page A
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(See LEASE-LEND, Page Aid
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tSee PRICES, Page A-4.)
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(See WAR BONDS, Page A-4o
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tSee STRIKE, Page AS
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Weather Forecast

Clear today; low tonight near 80. To
morrow fair and warmer.
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Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-11-24

Temperatures today-Highest, Al, at
noon; lowest, IS, at am Yes
terday-Highest, 48, at 80 pm; low
est, 81, at SIS am.
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A number of barges used by the
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GREEN ISLAND New Ireland Japs to evacuate some of
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SUMMER SCHOOL

Sessions from June II to July
%, also a session from June IL to
August Is. This intensive train
ing is open to grade, high school,
and college students.
Subjects are elective and the
cost is low. Make reservation
now for day or halliday session.
Fall term courses are open to
high school and college students.
For particulars without obliga-
ton, address DR.. Funk, Columbia
College, Ill South Potomac ST.,
Hagerstown, Maryland.
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JapS to eVacuate some of their
troops trapped on Bougainville and
Choiseul have been captured and
destroyed by New Zealand and
American forces which occupied this
island.
A key island in the Jap barge
system, this place was used as a
hideout by day for the barges bound
from the Northern Solomons to New
Ireland.
Rubber boats and other equip
ment have been found in some of the
sheltered coves which fringe the
island.
The landings here by the New
Zealand-American amphibious force
cuts off the last escape route for the
more than 10000 Japs to the south.
Chests, jewel boxes and numerous
other articles hand-worked from
mahogany will grace the homes of
Seabees after the war. Many mem
bers of the Navy Construction Bat
talon units here are spending their
free time carving.
The mahogany comes from trees
felled by bulldozers and dynamite
to make way for roads and other
installations.
American silver dollars have such
a fascination for New Zealand
troops that the supply once owned
by U. S. Seabees has been ex-
hausted.
Many of the Kiwis like to fasten
silver dollar on a chain or wear
it as an ornament Others use them
on wristbands. The rest apparently
just like to hear them jingle in their
pockets . and who doesn't?
New Zealand troops list the car
bine as their favorite among stand
ard American weapons used in
jungle fighting. The carbine, they
say, is the. best all-around weapon
for ngleAghting.
The Kiwis marvel at the lightness,
accuracy and fire power of the car
bine. Those in their own ranks who
carry American carbines are envied
A number of them express the
hope that the American government
will allow them to buy U. S. car
bines after the war for use in hunt
ing and in target shooting.
A Seabee was awakened last night
by the shaking of his jungle ham
mock. Thinking that a stray Jap
had sneaked through our picket
lines, he reached for his knife.
Just then the hammock was
pushed high in the air. The Seabee
ripped open his netting and jumped
out, ready for the enemy. But in
stead of Jap, it was one of the
many wild pigs which roam the
island. To the gibes of his mates,
the Seabee pulled his hammock
higher from the ground before
clambering back in.
Seabees and Marines are taking
kindly to the New Zealand troops
habit of serving tea in the middle of
the afternoon.
Though the weather is hot, the
scalding tea tastes like nectar as the
Kiwis pass it out in big mugs. Big
buckets of tea are left for each unit
Several war canoes have been
purchased from the natives by
American Seabees and New Zealand
troops.
Carrying eight men each, the
canoes have sharks head painted
across the bow. Astern is a fringe
that trails into the water. No one
has been able to find out what it
stands for, if, anything.
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Clothing Situation In France.

Various groups in France-such
as postal service employees, police,
and young married couples - are
given priority to purchase e certain
amount of clothing, the French Press
and Information Service reports,
and there is almost nothing left for
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BEHIND
HOME PLATE
BY DOUG STEWART


sports editor of the Herald, sug-
gested to Eugene Raney, proprietor
of Raney's Coliseum, that a post
season bowling tournament be held
between the three service clubs
Kiwanis, Lions and Rotary Gene"
told him to go ahead with it and Of
fered to put up trophy each year,
to be awarded the winning team.
Frank Immediately went into hud-
die with Rufus Edwards, popular
manager of the Coliseum, and so
was born tournament that through
the years has provided some of the
friendliest, yet keenest competition
in local bowling circles.
This year was no exception and
each club was Dragging about its
champions and what it was going to
do to the other two clubs. Incident
ally, l hear Though can't prove iD
that Rufus telephoned all three club
managers and confdentially told
each one that he was pulling for his
club to win.
Now let's see what happened
when the three teams met last
Thursday night
The Kiwanis, who have yet to win
a leg, were supposed to be the un-
derdogs, but, though they finished
in third place, they put up ter
rife battle, thanks largely to the
work of Wittmer, Poffenberger and
Sager, who rolled up averages of
1888, 1926 and 1894 respectively,
finishing just II points behind the
highly touted Lions. incidentally,
Sager really came out of his shell,
piling up his highest average of the
year.
The Lions Club, even with Ross
Copley's 1858 whats wrong Ross,
slipping?) either couldn't stand the
pressure, or they must have had
their tails twisted (and not by Bud
Summers either), for they were
never in the running.
The other day I was in Mike
Ellinger's Office and as soon as /
opened the door I could tell that he
was bursting with pride (even be-
fore I notice. Gene Raney's
handsome trophy proudly displayed
for all to see). And well he might
be putting on a little dog" for not
only did Rotary run away with the
tournament, beating the Lions by
no less than 143 pins, but mike"
came through with an average of
ia, being topped only by Wagaman
with 117.4.
Down at the Municipal Stadium,
Herb Brett is daily putting his
squad through their PAGES and, with
couple of practice games played
this week, is getting fairly good
line on his players.
Tommy Lilies is due in this week
and two new right hand pitchers
have been signed and are expected
to report this week also.
Both Owner Sterling and Man
ager Brett are leaving no stone I'M
turned to get the best players avail
able, and the fact that members of
fhe Owls know that &C soon &C thaxy
are ready for higher company,
Owner Sterling gives them every
opportunity to make the grade Che
has just given Eric McNabb his
chance) makes promising rockies
want to get on the Hagerstown Ball
Club roster.
I might as well go out on limb
again this year, so I'll take the Owls
to cop the Interstate League Pen
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the remainder Of the POPULATION.

Put this down in your notebook.
Washington County will probably
have no more than a twenty per
cent turn out of voters in the pri-
mary, and, for that matter, the
whole state will probably have the
smallest primary vote in years.
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Vincent Zeigler, who entered the
Navy several months ago, is sta
toned in Philadelphia where he is
taking a special training course.
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Count on CUSTARDS for a nu-
tritious dessert. Make them now
while their chief ingredient, eggs,
is plentiful. Custard pie is always
a favorite.
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Leitersburg News


enlisted in the Navy and his wife
returned there with him, to remain
until June, when he expects to be
assigned to sea duty. Mrs. Fuss was
the former Miss Dolores Working.