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Evening star., 1944-06-03
Meeting Called Here
Ito Decide on Use
I0f Job ReferraI Plan
By MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

War ManpoWer Director Nc
Mutt planned to explain his new
Nationwide job referral plan to
a group of Senators today while
the Washington area Labor
Management Committee sched-
uied a meeting to decide how
the plan should be applied here
Mr.. McNutt has called for adop-
tion of the new system of chan
neling male workers in all areas, but
each area labor management COM
mittee has to approve it individually
and adopt it to local conditions.
The Washington committee may
decide to extend the controls to
women as we'll as men and to in
clude establishments with less than
eight workers, since a large part of
Washington's labor force is en-
ployed in the smaller establish
ments, it was indicated.
Concession for Big Firms Seen.
When the plan is adopted here,
large, responsible establishments
may be permitted to hire their
workers without going through the
United States Employment Service
until they reach the employment
ceilings to be set by a Manpower
Priority Committee.
Establishments granted this privi-
lege, which lifts some OF the bur-
den of administering the new pro-
gram from USES, would be those
now complying with VINO stand
ards-that is, those on a 48-hour
week who refuse to hire workers
without job releases from their old
employers and make full use of the
labor they do hire. They probably
would be required, however, to make
periodic reports to the USES on
their turnover rate and the number
of workers hired.
The Manpower Priority Commit
tee would decide which establish
ments here should have first call
for labor, what employment ceiling
should be set for each plant and
how the dwindling labor supply
should be allocated.
The Manpower Priority Commit
tee would include representatives of
the War Production Board, Army,
Navy, Office of Defense Transporta-
ton, Selective Service, Smaller War
Plants Corp. and the Civil Service
Commission. with the USES speak
ing for the trades and service estab-
lishments not represented by other
agencies.
Reaction to Plan Mixed.
Mr.. McNuts session with the SEN
atorial group today follows mixed
reactions to the announcement of the
new plan, which is to 60 in effect
throughout the Nation by July /.
Senator johnson, Democrat, of
Colorado hailed the plan with the
statement that paul McNutt is on
the beam with his new regulations. !"
Senator Walgren, Democrat. of
Washington said he couldn't see the
necessity for such a step because he
wasn't sure that We have the man.
power emergency to justify it."
Senator George, Democrat, of
Georgia and chairman of the Senate
Postwar Planning Committee, said
he felt it might accomplish some
good" but added that 1t probably
would prove troublesome to admins
ter.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
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Evening star., 1944-06-03
Smallest Feed Stocks
Since 1887 Forecast
By u. 5. Farm Agency
BY the Associated Press.

American stocks of corn, oats
and barley-major livestock feed
grains-on July l are expected
by the Bureau of Agricultural
Economics to be the smallest
for that date since 1887, when
the country had to import large
quantities of grain to help meet
shortages caused by the drought
of 1886.
In report on the livestock feed
situation. the bureau said July
supplies of these grains would total
only between $4,000, 900 and 10000
600 tons.
Present short grain supplies re-
feet heavy use by a war-expanded
livestock industry. Because reserves
of feed have been virtually de-
pleted, farmers are reducing live
stock numbers, particularly hogs
and poultry.
Looking to the feeding season
ahead, the bureau said indications
are that there would be consider
ably less grain available for live
stock. Supplies will be determined
largely by this years production of
corn, oats, barley and wheat and
by grain imports.
The short feed supply situation
has been eased to some extent, the
report said, by favorable pasture
conditions this spring.
1t is too early, the bureau said,
to make any estimate as to this
years probable production of feed
grains.
Indications are, the report de-
clared, that the acreage seeded to
oats will be less than farmers had
planned on March l, due to un-
favorable weather conditions. Any
reduction in the oats acreage is ex-
pected, however, to be offset by in
creases in acreages of corn and
soybeans.
The present low level of food
grain supplies is matched. the bu-
reau said. by % per cent reduc-
ton in stocks of hay under those
of year ago.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Wife. of Greek Envoy
Christens Liberty Ship
BY the Associated Press.

SOUTH PORTLAND, Me. June 3
The Liberty freighter Maoulis
which will be transferred to Greek
registry. was launched at the New
England Shipbuilding Corp. yards
yesterday.
Nine. Sappho Diamontopoulos
wife Of Cimon P. Diamantopoulos
Greek Ambassador to the United
States, christened the vessel, 177th
cargo carrier built at the yards.
The Maoulis is the second Liberty
ship built here and turned over to
Greek registry. the first being the
is. S. William H. Todd, named for
the founder and one time president
Iof Todd Shipyards Corp, of which
the N. E. S. C. is an affiliate. The
ship was later named the Amerikh.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Housing
Continued From First Page.)

Congress requiring payment OF "pre-
vailing rates of wages" on Govern
ment financed work. Some private
builders pay less than the union
wage scales.
Without entering into the merits
OF the prevailing wage act" Mr.. Lo-
craft said, I'VE wish to point out
that by abolishing the NCHA and
turning the job over to the private
builders one of two conditions will
occur: Either private builders will
be subjected to the prevailing wage
act as condition to buying or
leasing land acquired by the Gov
ernment, in which case many of the
claimed economies will vanish into
thin air; or Congress will, in effect,
be abolishing the prevailing wage
act with respect to low-cost hous-
ing. If it is prepared to take this
step, however, why not permit the
NCHA to disregard the act?"
Called Penny Wise"
Mr.. Locraft also protested that
one Of the means by which the
Home Builders Association suggests
it can produce housing at a lower
cost than the NCHA is the elimina-
ton of architectural services. Mr..
Locraft declared that not only is
the architectural cost a minor stem
in the total, but that many of the
more able" private developers have
found that to dispense with the
services of architects is "penny-wise
and pound-foolish."
Other important causes of the
high construction costs" of the
NCHA. he said, were the necessity
OF awarding lump-sum contracts,
the necessary maintenance of COM
petent STATS of legal and technical
advisers and inspectors and the vast
correspondence and numerous con-
ferences which these factors in
Volve. These are largely precau-
tionary measures of administration
for the protection Of the taxpayer" !"
he said.
Mr.. Locraft also declared that
SUM clearance was but one phase
OF a much broader problem which
we must face sooner or later-the
complete reconstruction and re-
planning of our cities. Our cities
were not we'll planned even for
horse-and-buggy days. We have
adapted them to the needs of the
automobile by endless compromise. >
Another witness, Benjamin c.
Marsh, executive secretary of the
Peoples Lobby, Inc, urged the SUBJ
committee to recommend a reduc-
tion of tax assessments on buildings
or the imposition of l per cent
excess tax on land values, as a
means of stimulating home owner
ship.
Al the opening of the session
Senator Burton, Republican. OF
Ohio, announced that he hoped to
complete the oral testimony before
his subcommittee at one more ses-
sion, tentatively set for next Satur-
day morning.
Evening star., 1944-06-03

ined by the industries Importance
to the war effort, the State director
added
He said he would delegate what
ever authority is conferred on him
to the four VINO local area directors
in Maryland in carrying the plan
into effect.
Experience in Maryland has
demonstrated that when immediate
authority to act is delegated to local
areas, the various manpower pro-
grams are more effectively op-
Grated"
Under the new national plan, con-
troll is extended to include 10000
more men in Maryland. Already,
325, 900 men engaged in essential
war plants were controlled under the
recently-inaugurated controlled re-
ferral plan in operation in Balti-
more, the VINO official reported.
RICHMOND, Va, June 3 (P.-
Employment ceilings establishing
maximum worker quotas will be ex-
tended to both the Front Royal
Winchester and Alexandria labor
market areas on July /, under the
new manpower control program,
Frank A. Cavedo, State manpower
director, has announced.
Reiterating that the program hav-
ing new controls on male workers
would be inaugurated throughout
Virginia, Mr.. Cavedo said the prior
ity referral provision of the new
program would make it mandatory
that virtually all job-seeking males
in Virginia apply to the United
States Employment Service in their
locality for assignment to the war
vital activity where most needed.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Womon's Nude Body Found

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, June :
P1.-The nude body of an unidenti-
fled woman, wrapped in blankets
and trussed with rope, was found
today in clump of weeds few feet
of River road by home hound war
worker. Coroner Arnold w. Devon
asserted the woman apparently was
killed some other place and carried
to the weed clump.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
All Maryland Monpower
To Go Under VINO ConfroI

BALTIMORE, June R.-Au
available manpower in Maryland
will be brought under the control
of the War Manpower Commission
by the new national priority referral
system to become effective July l
State VINO Director Lawrence B
Fenneman announced yesterday.
Labor allotments will be determ-
Evening star., 1944-06-03
!Cucumbers, Snop Beons
To Be Cheaper June 10
BY the Associated pr.xs

BY the Associated Press.
Cucumbers will cost the public an
average of about cents less a pound
beginning June 10 and snap beans
about a cent less, but cabbage will
be up about l cent a pound, the
ONCE OF Price Administration said
today.
The changes as compared with
May prices are effective Immediately
at country shipping points.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
Hull Urges AIbonions
To Unity Resistance
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of State Hull called on
the people OF Albania last night to
unity their resistance to Germany
"in order to hasten the day Of their
liberation"
Today Is the anniversary of the
imposition of a Fascist constitution
on the Albanian people.
Evening star., 1944-06-03
BY the Associated Press.

.
The Navy is spending more than
$1,000 a minute to keep its planes in
the air-knocking down enemy
flyers, bombing enemy bases AND
moving supplies and men about the
world
This was disclosed today in 9
compilation of statistics by Real
Admiral William Brent Young
chief of the Bureau of Supplies and
Accounts.
I'VE are spending $500, 900 day
to keep Navy planes flying" he said
80 " buying fuel at rate of almost
81. 900, 600, 600 worth a year"
Admiral Young, addressing en-
ployes of the bureau on his second
Evening star., 1944-06-03
FOUND

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Evening star., 1944-06-03
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Stuttgart Bombed
 By 1,5OO U. s. Planes

London, Aug. e--lUPl-MOre than l.500 American waTplapes defled bad weather and fierce enemy lighter opposition today to bomb the Ger man railway hub and industrial city Of Stuttgart, while 800 heavy bomb. CTS based in Italy attacked an oil refinery, an aircraft factory and two airdr0mes in the vicinity Of Buda" pest, Hungary.
 Liberators in the fleet from Italy attacked the oil refinery, second largest in Hungary, at Almas Fuzit0 on the Danube river, 30 miles west of Budapest. Flying Fortresses smashed the Messerschmitt fighter plane assembly plant at GyoT, be- tween Vienna and Budapest.
 The two airdr0mes, each with ip- stallatiOns for final assembly of Messerschmitts as well as flying fields, were at Veeses, nine miles southeast of Budapest. and T0kol, six miles south of Budapest. Other F0rtEesses also bombed railway yards at Br0d in Yugoslayia.
 The fleet from Italy encountered no enemy fighters, but the lorna. tons from England met the first serious opposition the Lliftwafte has offered for days,
 A fleet of 750 Flying F0riFesses and Liberat0rs, escorted by J5O TbupdeTb0lt, Mustang and Light"
 lC0nliuued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Camp Bon On Newspapers

London, Aug, Q. dUP)-The sale of all daily newspapers, except the Arny's Stars and Stripes, has been suspended in all U, S. Army camps in the European theater of war as part of a move under the soldier vote law designed to prevent presentation of biased news to troops prior to the elections.
 Hitherto, English newspapers have been available in most camps.
 The Stars and Stripes was not affected by the ban because, as an Army official said, it is our own and we are assured 1t is unbiased" !"
 b'6triet regulations have been laid down for the Stars and Stripes cons cerning the absolutely unbiased presentation Of all political mat ter" he said,
 The new ruling also bars British newspapers and magazines from Red Gross Clubs, Nevertheless, the sOldieF may still receive any pub lieation he desires by mail,
 AL present l2 magazines are aeF cepted for sale at the post exchanges without question because of their record of impartlaliiy, jt was said,
 The weekly pony editions Of the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, which are sold in post ekv phanges under the magaSine eatev gOry have, to date,l 'e0gtaiDed no politics" Q military source said,
 All commissioned and warrant officers have been forbidden 10 dls- auss politics with soldiers, although here Is no ban on such discussions lm0ng the troops tbemselYes,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
burlington WING Set-up
 Is Completed
NEA Radiotelephoto

A new nlanpOwer pFt0Flties c0m- mittee named for the T0rringt0n area will meet Friday night with Mrs. Mary M. Dewey, area War ManpOwer district, to organize a priorities system for Torrington. 1t was reported today.
 Mrs. Dewey. who last night was named chairman of the priorities committee, will set ceilings for Tor. ringtOn firms with the advice of the committee, selected by the Boston regional WING office.
 Members of the T0rringtOn prior ity committee were named as fol- lows: Bruce S. MaeMillan, district manager Of the Smaller War Plants Corp of Hartford: Major William O. Skinner, labor officer of the First Service Command headquart. CTS of the Army Air Force in Hart ford; Fred T. HOneyman, district manager of the Highway Transport Department of the Office Of De- fense Transportation in Hartford; Commander Samuel 1T. 0rdway, IT,, of the Third Naval district in New York City; Lieutenant Commander William B. Pape of the Seleetiye Service headquarters in West Hart. ford; Lieutenant John T. Brown of the Aircraft Resources Control 0f-
 lC0ntlnued on Page D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
BRITISH TAKE HEIGHT EAST. OF FLORENCE

Rome, Aug. 9. CUPD-British troops battling stubbornly resisting Ger mans captured a dominating height east of Florence and inched forward in the western suburbs today. but in the ancient renaissance capital itself activity was limited to patrols and sporadic small arms fire.
 With both side obviously reluctant to launch a pitched battle inside the museum-like city, the Eighth Arny's constant probing across the Arno river into the northern sec tion was aimed merely at checking to see that the Germans do not infiltrate back.
 The British patrols reported they have curious feeling Of invisibility as they steal through the streets Of North Florence, because the FloreT- tines pretend not to see them, fear ing German wrath later.
 The patrols said some parts of that sector have no water supply since the Germans blew mp a pump ing station. Florentines fortunate enough to have water have started a black market selling it at 20 lire pe- bottle.
 The fate of Florence probably will be decided in the loop of the Arn0 at Pontassieye to the east and sn the area between Empoli and M0ntelupo to the west, where vio- lent battles were raging.
 In the Arno loop, British troops captured Point 557. which is five miles southeast of Florence and three and a half miles southwest oi PontagsleYe, and subsequently, res pelled a strong German counter attack. On top of the hill was a monastery which the Germans had converted into a strong point and where the British took a number of prisoners.
 Front dispatches said the Ger mang were using self-propelled guns in this sector and they still have use of an excellent bridge crossing inc Arno at POntassleye. Tine Ger man bridgehead south of the Arno In this area extends from four
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
COPs Predict Win Of $ o.
 6 Senate Seats Ln Norember

Washington, Aug, B,-luPl-ThFee members Of the Republican senate eanpalgn committee said today thai the COP denitely would yin gye new senate seats tH the November election and had 2 good chance 0f winning six others and thereby gaining 8 majority
 Easing their predictions en cons dentlal reports from political obs servers in the field, Sens, v, w. Robertson, Wyrs Owen Brewster, Me, and Chapman RRyere0Mb, w. Va, pointed out that if the Repub5 lleans win those g seats, tbelF pFess ent strength Of 80 would be raised 10 %, a Illa J0rity 0f one, permitting them 70 Ea0Fganise the senate,
 Reorganization would place Re- DllblleRns in all committee ehalrs manships. Seniority would make the 7TsyeaF .0ld n0nsintefVentl0nlet Zen. Hiram W, Johnson Of call' f0Fnia chairman Of the foreign rec Iati0ns committee, and Sen. 0eFs ald ?. Nye ef North pnaketa also
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Execution or Officers Mcy Boomeronq

London, Aug. 9 --(UP)- Adolf Hitieris vindictive execution of eight high ranking army "traitors" will shake the German army to its core and may bring on the complete military collapse of the Reich in the very near future, Allied military intelligence sources predicted today.
 Public hanging of the eight 0fii. cers. including a field marshal, after a secret, two-day trial indicated, these sources said, that Hitler is deliberately making the German army the seapegoat for Germany's defeat in a last desperate attempt to save himself and his Nazi aides.
 The effect on the Wehrmacht. thousands of whose professional os- ficers know the war is lost and who probably sympathized with the July 20 attack on Hitler, was expected to become increasingly evident during the next three or four weeks, when Paris seems likely to fall.
 Some students of Germany be- Iieye 1t highly possible that the Wehrmacht's morale may deteriOr- ate SO rapidly as to bring about a final collapse in six to eight weeks.
 The Nazis, these sources said, now want to convince the German people that the party remained Steadfast to the end and would have won the war but for sabotage and betrayal in the highest army quarters-the exact reverse of the legend so eare- fully built up since 1918 that World War One was lost because the home front cracked while the army still was unbeaten.
 once the war is finally lost, the Nazis obviously intend to go unders ground. relying upon the hundreds of thousands of young men and women who have been conditioned to NaN doctrines for the past decade or more to keep resistance alive until they again can come into the open.
 Gestap0 Chief Heinrich HimTnleT is believed to have been eaFmaTked for the job of leading this under, ground army, and Allied military men recognize that the task Of roofing out and destroying t will occupy the military and secret por lice Of the Allied nations for some time after the peace,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Correspondent Finds Paris Road Full or Contrasts

On the Road to Paris, Aug, e,w iUPl-Paris Is the name that you see and hear and feel everywhere along this road which the swift American motorized advance Is making Q highway to victory,
 Paris read the bis sienb0aTds at the road intersections,
 4 German paTalroopeF stopped me on the road bteween Laval and Le Mans to offer snFrender and ask for water and information,
 Paris, yah," be said, 'il Is said that Paris will soon be declared an open city, You have reached Le Mans, yah, yah, The German army Is nov kaput lfinishadl,"
 Paris shouted Pvt Wayne Y, Redden Of the U, s, Army as ] found him edglng through the streets Of LOue 10 attack . German resistance pocket, "Paris, Tennessee That's where I'm from, brother"
 And then he shouted back over ms
 sYou ean tel the folks back in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Red Armies Open
 Big Battle For Riga

Moscow. Aug. e.-0UPD-Two Red armies opened the battle for Riga and frightened their encirciement of of the remnants of 20 to 90 Ger man divisions in the Baltic States today with convergtng drives through swamps and massive f0r- ests on the southeastern and s0uth- ern approaches to the Latyian capi- tai.
 Front dispatches said the list and 2nd Soviet Baltic armies already had won the first round by smash- ing the most poserful German at- tempt yet to break out of the Bal- tic trap and by knocking out more than three German divisions in fighting advance across the Aiyiek- stes river 65 miles southeast Of Riga.
 Despite their initial sethacks, the Germans continued to hurl reserves. including guards regiments, into battle to contest every yard of ground on the Luban plains marking the approaches tO Riga. Battles ragged for every strong point, dis- patches said, and in some sectors the Germans were counter-attack- ing a dozen or more times a day.
 Only by penetrating the mashes and forests lacing the Luban plains have the Russians been able to exe- cute sweeping fanking maneuyers
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