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(Continued from Page D hoped for his own career he would resign.
 since then he has volunteered a long statement, thus substantiat- ing what the attorney general has said about his insubordination.
 "This is inexcusable and under the circumstances my only alterna- tive is to remove him from office, which I have done today"
 No Comment
 Littell would not comment imme- diately on his removal. His office said he was 'in conference. At the Justice Department is was under stood that T. Edward Williams, gen. eral assistant to Littell in the lands division, would be named acting head of the division until he is nominated by the President and confirmed by the senate as the dismissed mans successor.
 In releasing the Presidents state- ment, Riddle said he would not dis cuss Littell'S reckless and unfound- ed statements or enter into any controversy with him in the public press"
 The White House did not com- ment on the Justice Department dispute but referred newspaper men to MT. Roosevelt's action of July 15, 194S. in putting an end to pub- lie feuding by Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of Con- merce Jesse Jones over foreign eco- homie matters.
 The President abolished the board of economic warfare, which Wal lace had headed. and relieved Jones Of many foreign economic responsi-
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Yugoslav partisan army corps under It. Gen. Kostanas
 Soviet shock troops famed out along the west bank, beating off re- pea6ed and desperate enemy coun- ter-attacks, while the main body of ToI1ukhin's tanks and mcehanized infantry speared 25 miles westward to capture Pecs. Scraping together every available reserve, the Ger mans and Hungarians put up a fer ociuus battle for Pecs, but were hammered back to the west after losing more shan 1900 dead.
 Vanguards
 Vanguards of Tolbukhins Army were reported pushing on in pursuit of the shattered enemy, now be- lieved falling back toward the south eastern shores of Lake Balaton. where German military strategists repeatedly have said the decisive battles of World War II would be fought.
 A German defeat at Lake Balaton would open the road to Vienna and all southwestern Germany, and Nazi commentators asserted that the Bal kan army of Field Marshal Maxi milan Won Weichs was rushing northward from Yugoslavia to join the battle there.
 Tt must be expected that the So- yiets, who have got considerable forces across the Danube, will con- tinue their onslaught" 8 German DINE News Agency commentator said. "A great battle is developing. ''
 The harassed German high conn., nand also faced the possibility, Ohowever, that Tolbukhins forces would swing northward to join Mar shal Podion Y. Malinovsky's second Ukrainian army at the gates of Budapest in grand assault to fin ish off the Hungarian capital be- fore the arrival of Won Weichs' 4 A
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into burning Beeck, another heav- ily-fortified bastion in the Sieg- fried line.
 Despite the eneny's stubborn re- sistance, however, United Press War Correspondent Edward V. Roberts reported from tie front that there were indications the Germans may intend to evacuate the Beeck-Lin- dern area for a stand in Linnich itself.
 Ninth Army Infantry also jumped off yesterday in . asurprise counter attack against German pillboxes north of Gereonsweiler, five miles east of Geilenkirchen and two miles southwest of LinnIch.
 PilIbOXeS Smashed
 Three pillboxes were knocked out in the first three hours, but oppo- sition then stiffened and later progress was slow.
 army broadened its hold on the
 Farther southeast, the Ninth west bank of the Roer river to five and a half miles below Julich.
 In the two weeks since the start of its big push, the Ninth army has advanced seven miles, captured more than 7,9OO prisoners, destroyed more thna 100 German tanks and repulSed B counter attacks.
 Two German Panzer divisions, two Panzer Grenaoier divisions and four infantry divisions were arrayed against the Ninth Army's compar- atively narrow sector of the front.
 Patton's Third Army troops in the Saar Basin began drawing up their siege lines around both Saarlautern and Memriz.
 Elements of the 10th armored di- vision advanced a half mile and reached high ground less than two miles west of Merzig, while the 90th Infantry Division seized hill rising up from the Saar River two miles south of Merzig.
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Anti Draft Feeling High
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 He told Commons that he didn't want a change in government" when he resigned. T wanted rein- forcements. That's what I want to- day"
 Repeating his assertion that Can- ada's voluntee system of obtaining combat troops was inadequate, Rals- ton revealed that some time age an appeal was made to home de- fense troops to go active. The campaign lasted three weeks, but ol total of 2,432 men, only 769 volun- teered for active service"
 While the parliamentary storm subsided, military and civilian re- action to compulsory combat duty continued at or near boiling point
 In Terrace, British Columbia, a home defense unit which had been prevented by other draftees from boarding a train for defense zone moved off without further inter- ference. Major General G. R Pearkes, commander in chief oi Canadas Pacific Coast Forces, ar- rived in Terrace by plane to take charge of the situation.
 Tense Situation
 Army authorities said the situa- ton was "tensep but "in hand'' anti-conscriptionists among Home Guard units planned to submit their grievances to Ottawa. One military spokesman said it was not clear whether Terrace demonstrators had ben provoked by the government conscription, decree or were memely blowing off stem" against army life in general.
 King spoke out vigorously in com mons yesterday against the opposi- tion,s reference to the Terrace demonstrations as 'mutiny". "1t most decidedly is not (mutiny), King declared.
 In Montreal, center of French speaking Quebec'S anti-draft popu. lation, a crowd estimated at S,50( paraded in the streets last night and smashed plate glass windows of the National Selective Service offices in St. James street.
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he is in the bath.
 Those pauses and heSitati0nS in lis speeches are mostly deliberate. Many editors have had quiet laugh as they listened to Churchill over the radio "groping" for a word which they knew was typed in the manuscript before him.
 Churchill and King Ge> rge/ get along very well and have sort of a mutual admiration society" The King admires Churchilrs oratory and the prime minister admires the Kings integrity and common sense
 Churchill and President Roosevelt have a great mutual regard. Roose- welt presented the prime minister with transport plane six months ago, and Churchill was one oi the first to congratulate the President on his election to a fourth term.
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(Continued from Page l) quito bombers made a concentrated attack on Hanover, the Armada of Flying Fortresses and LiberatorS hammered oil refinery targets at Bohlen zeitz, Lutzendorf and Mers- eburg and the vital German rail supply lines leading through Saar- brucken, just behind the front.
 The weight of bombs dropped by the American borbers was the greatest for a single day in at least two months by the Eighth Air Force and one of the heaviest single days loads of the war.
 heavy bombers got an unobstructed
 For the first time in weeks, the view of the oil targets as they add ed another phase to the almost un- interrupted aerial assault Germany has been getting day and night for six days from American and Brit ish planes.
 All the refineries, including the giant Leuna plant at Merseburg, are clustered in an area within a few miles of Leipzig which has been hit several times this fall.
 The rail lines at Saarbrucken are one of the most vital supply routes for the German Army on the west ern front.
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 Prom his practice" the writ con- tinues, "he claims to earn approXi- mately $6,00O year He has been subjected during the past immediate years to considerable expenses for medical care and treatment because of sickness in his family, and has had to expend considerable sums in sanitarium and hospitals because of this circumstance" The sum of $1,- 851 represents accounts payable to doctors in and about Waterbury and in New York, the papers add.
 LiSed as dependents are 20- year-old son and 16-year-old daughter.
 Tn regard to Mrs. Weisman, At torney Bowling states she has q few shares of stock worth about $6Oo which are pledged on loan of approximately $425. It is pointed out she owns their home at 147 G: lumbia boulevard, valued at $10,000 but mortgage of $8,500 has been executed on the premises to local bank. Her 1941 Buick car is listed st $500. It is stated further her liabilities include 8 note for $1,500 and she has joint responsibility for the medical bills, in addition to the liability on the bank note.
 The 1943 income of Mrs. Weis- man on investments is listed at $88.
 The sum of 5000 has been of- fered in full compromise and set- clement of the obligation to the bank, Attorney Bowling states. He adds it appears to be for the best interest to accept the offer.
 The debt is one of several re- maining to the Merchants Trust Company. which in the past few years has asked the court num- Der of times to settle the long standing debts. In some of the cases the offers for compromise have been approved, but in several instances the court has rejected the offers and ordered the debts to continue in full force.
 In the latest motion, the bank receivers representative indicates no collection can be made from the business association nor from any holdings left by the deceased man The details on Attorney and Mrs Weisman were obtained in an effort to determine collectibility from them.
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 civilian populations against chem ical warfare was that use of gas invited reprisals. It probably would not require more than an indica- tion of public sanction to encour- age military leaders to recommend to MT. Roosevelt that gas be used, at least in clearing some Pacific Island en route to Japan.
 Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, commander of the famous task force 58, indicated at a press con- ference yesterday that he had no doubt that the Japanese would carry out their execution threat.
 "The Japanese are vicious brutes who revert to type on the battle field-like savages-even after you try to educate them," he said.
 The United States is not commit ted by treaty against use of gas and neither is Japan.
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 den experts, garden editors and gardeners, applauded. Then they started adopting resolutions, about which more later, and went out side for a closer look at that Agri- culture Department leg art. Just like Hollywood.
 Brunette in Shorts
 One of the photos showed bru- nette beauty in shorts, harvesting her tomato crop, another was titled, cutting a well-developed head of Broccoli" The third was called ''cabbages and queens," the queen wearing overalls and holding in ei- ther hand head of you-know- what. I was adni-ing these photo graphs when bumped into Ernest Moore of the Agriculture Depart ment. He said was I victory gar- dener? I said not exactly, but that I was interested in parsnips.
 "ParSnips?" he said. What you should get interested in is Okra. That is a vegetable. Most people do not like Okra because they think it is slick. That is because they do not know how to cook Okra. All you have to do is get your water hot and sprinkle in some salt ="
 Moore,s plugging of Okra q still claim it's slick) is typical. All the gardeners, representing such wide ly assorted organizations as the American Rose Society, the Boy Scouts, and the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.,, had their favorite veg etables. One of them urged Kohl Rabi. He said it rot only tasted good, but looked beautiful.
 Objection
 A lady gardener didn't exactly bop him with her umbrella, but she said he didn't know what he was talking about. Swiss Chard is the stuff, she said. It Is the only aesthe- tic vegetable, she added. The Kohl- Rabi man said, madam, he'd have to disagree. And I'd better, quick, get to the news of the conference:
 The delegates voted for practical gardening courses in public schools, more home canning, an end to federal confusion over victory gar- dening policies, and 10000, 900 vic- tory gardeners next year. Tonight think I'll have the 30-cent fresh vegetable plate with poached egg. = M
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Churchill Is 70 Years Old
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He rarely goes to bed before 12 or 1 o'clock, sometimes not until two. He can be seen wandering around in violent-colored dressing gown, usually garish red or blue.
 He is not a heavy eater but does have whisky with his meals. He is fond of champagne, especially likes brandy after dinner with cigar.
 Churchill's speeches for which he has become famous are dictat- ed anywhere and anytime the mood catches him sometimes while
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Medium Force of B-29s
 Strikes By Moonlight
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B. Philippines based American fighters sank 10 enemy transports and three destroyers attempting to reinforce the doomed Japanese gar rison on Leyte.
 4.-Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitsch- CT. commander of the famous task force 58, said the U. s. Navy has shot down more than 4,000 Japanese naval planes in the past year and half and had practically elimin- ated Japanese naval aviation"
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Shopping Hours for Christmos

Tuesday Dec. 18th 9:30 AM. to g PM.
 Wednesday Dec. 2Oth 9:3O AM. to g PM. Thursday Dec. 2lst 9:3O AIM. to 9 ?. M. Friday Dec. 22nd 9:3O AM. to BPM. Saturday Dec. 23rd 9:3O AIM. to ' PM.
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Saturday Dec. End 9:3O AIM. to g PM. Thursday Dec. 7th l2 noon to PM. Saturday Dec. 9th 9:3O AIM. to g PM. Thursday Dec. 14th l2 noon to 9 PM. Saturday Dec. 18th 9:3O AIM. to 9 PM.
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bilities.
 In August. 1942, Mir. Roosevelt had asked government officials not to air their quarrels publicly but to submit their differences directly to him
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cover of darkness, but were destroy ed later.
 Returning pilots said the Japanese air cover for the convoy was not very determined and was beaten off easily. Seven planes were shot down during the two days, with the famed 18th fighter group of tho Fifth air forces gaining its tooth victim since 1t reached the Philippines Oct. 27.
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CHILDRENS ROBES To delight their young hearts! Tailored housecoa styles chenille, corduroy, silk quilted brushed rayon and part wool flannel Luscious shades of pink bue yellow, red and wine Sizes to 6x
 $198 to $5.98
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Planes Sink 13 Jop Ships

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Agriculture
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5000 Planes Blast Reich

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Local Lawyer
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U. s. May Use Poison Gas

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FOR Fires
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The Nome nugget., 1944-03-31
BRITISH FORCE .SUJRRENDERS

NEW DELHI, India, Mar. 31. -tAP)-British forces surrender ed Tiddim, the forward base in the Chain hills in Burma, 100 miles below Imphal, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, British commander in India, told the Indian legislature.
 Japanese jungle fighters in par ties, spread over a front of nearly 200 miles, were consistently prob ing deeper into Indian territory, and had already penetrated the main communications to the vital Manipur plain.
 Auchenleck declared, however, Imphal itself is strongly defended, and declared such penetration was not likely to be of major i'm portance.
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FISHING PACT ARRANGED

NEW YORK Mar. 31.-(AP)- Renewal of the Russian-J Japanese fishing agreement to provide for Japan's fishing on the Siberian sea-coast has been arranged after almost three months of negotia- tions.
 NEG, in a broadcast from Mos COW, said permission for the Jap anese to fish in Soviet waters hts been a subject since 1886 for an annual agreement. Negotiations are usually a gauge of relations between the two countries.
 Last year the agreement was signed March 18th, nearly three months after the expiration date of the old agreement, December 31st.
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APPOINTED TO RANK OF COLONEL

CAMP YOUNG, Calif.-Peter Sather, Jr. assistant chief of staff GA Supply, of Headquar- ters California Arizona Maneuver Area here, has been promoted from the rank of lieutenant-colo- nel to full colonel.
 Born in Oksendalen, Norway, he was taken to Alaska by his parents, MT. and Mrs. P. E. Sa- ther of Nome. He attended school in Nome, and was ap- pointed to the U. S. Military Academy from Alaska in 1917, and was graduated and granted a lieutenant's commission in 1924
 A field artillery officer, he has served at Fort Sill, Okla; in the Philippines; Fort Lewis, Wash. ]; on ROTC duty at the University of Utah; Fort Leavenworth, Kan sas; at West Point; in Washing ton, D. C.; Camp Claiborne, La. ]; and in Sherman and Camp Maxey, both in Texas.
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ATTACKS MADE ON HATFIELD
 PALAU ISLAND

PEARL FfARBOR, Mar. 31.- (AP)--Strong Pacific fleet forces started heavy attacks on Japan ese-held Paiau Island, about lo50 miles west of Truk. and about the same distance northwest of the newly captured Manus, in the Ad- mirslty Islands. Admiral Chester ". NiYnitz announced.
 The attack started yesterday according to the communique, on Paisu, which is only 480 miles east of the Philippines and is still in progress.
 Japanese ships were observed fleeing from the Palau area be- fore units of our fleet reached there, in attacking position"
 The communique explained that the task force had been sighted by Jap searching planes enroute from the CarolineS to New Gui- nea.
 The mere fact that the enemy ships fled was definite indication that the American task forces were probably the same strength of aircraft carrier forces which had attacked Truk on February 18th and l7th, and the Marianas on February 22nd.
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Smash Japanese Bases At Truk

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Mar. 37. 7.r-tAP)-General MacAr- thurs heavy bombers smashed Japanese bases at Truk, in the Carolines, and at Hollandia, New Guinea. Wednesday and destroyed 72 enemy planes. This was the first bombing of Truk from U. s. bases in the south Pacific.
 Liberators and other heavys, pierced strong enemy .antiaircraft fire to score more than 200 di- rect hits in shop and hangar areas, parking areas and destroying '49 planes on the ground.
 90 Zeros challenged the raiders, with a probable loss of 20 Zeros.
 The .U.. s. attackers lost one plane over Hollandia. where the raid was made In two hot waves, by Liberators, smashing l08 planes on the ground, and down. ed 10 out of 40 interceptors, which the Japs were able to put into the air.
 On Thursday the heavy bomb  CTS of the 7th Air Force had at tackled the enemy bases in the central Pacific area.
 The communique also reported navy Catalinas struck at Woleai in the Carolines Tuesday and made direct hits on the seaplane base and airfield.
 Woleai is 380 miles south of Guam.
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APPOINTED
 

LONDON, Mar. 31.-(AP)- Major General Ralph Royce was appointed deputy commander of the U. s. Ninth Air Force, under Major General Lewis Brereton.
 General Royce, who formerly commanded United States army forces in the Middle East as chief of staff in the U. s. air forces in the southwest Pacific, Twill take an important part in the planning of operations during the entry of Europe the announcement said
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MOVE INTO
 NEW POSITIONS

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NAPLES, Mar. 31.--(AP)-Ger- man troops moved into two new positions which were recently evacuated by the New Zealanders and Indian troops, on Monastery Hill.
 The Fifth Army still holds points inside the city.
 Small enemy groups attacked inside the Casino area, but tir operations again overshadowed the ground actions, and attacks were repulsed.
 On the Anzio beachhead 65 cas- ualties resulted as German planes bombed an allied hospital area headquarters said.
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MOVE NEARER TO HUNGARY

MOSCOW, Mar. 3l.-(AP)- Surging across the northern part of the Prut river through captur- ed Cernowitz, Marshal Zhukov's First Army of Ukraine, was mov- ing up into the Carpatilian noun tains, toward Hungary.
 Rumanian dispatches from the front declared Zhukov's van guard rolled through Delatyn, Is miles north of the Hungarian bor- der, where the pass of the Tar tars leads through the Carpa- thians into former Czechoslovak- ian territory which was given to Hungary when Hitler dismember- ed the Czechoslovakian state.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL VISITOR IN NOME

Henry Roden, attorney general for the Territory of Alaska, is a visitor in Nome at present. As a part of his visit here, MT. Roden has called a public meeting for Sunday afternoon, in tn eauditor- ium of the Dream Theatre, at which time he plans on discussing the issues in the coming primar- ies.. MT .Roden resides in Juneau, and is now touring the Territory on behalf of his seeking the posi- tion of Delegate to Congress in the primaries.
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 CREW Of 6
 PERISH
WASHINGTON, Mar.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 31' - (AP)- British fighter planes from an aircraft carrier, downed a United States transport plane and its crew of six, by error, in mid-Atlantic this week, the War De- partment and the British Admiralty announced si-
 multaneously.
 The fighters were pro- tectlve cover for a con- voy and apparently mis- took the four-engined C. 54 transport plane for a German FOcke-Wulf 200 bomber, when its identi- ficatiOn was not estab- lished as it approached the convoy.
 There were no passen- gers aboard, but the plane was loaded with cargo, which was being flown by a civilian con- tract crew, all of whom were lost.
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BRITISH DOWN US. PLANE
RUSSIANS SIGN OIL PROTOCOL

MOSCOW, Mar. 31.-tAP)-The Japanese government received a staggering blow from the west when the Soviet government an- nounced it had signed the Proto- col under which Tokyo agreed to surrender her oil and coal leases in northern Sakhalin Island.
 The Russians had contracted to furnish Japan with 50,000 tons of oil per years for five years be- ginning after the war, and in ad dition to pay to Japan, five mil lion rubles tabout $9,500,00O un- der terms signed yesterday
 Japan promised to hand over 10 Russia all property including equipment, materials and food, belonging to Jap concessionals in northern Sakhalin.
 The Japanese own the southern half of the island which they took from Russia in 1915. Russia stili owns the northern half.
 Sakhalin is a large island off the coast of Siberia.
 The oil and coal leases were originally to run until 1870.
 The Russians say they will SUD- ply Japan with oil from the Oh kinsky fields after the war, and promised the Japs free export on oil and coal from storerooms in concess oned territory in northern Sakhalin
 A view from London sees in the Jap surrender of the contract so far ahead of schedule constitutes strong evidence of Tokyo's desire to remain at peace with Russia.
 The islands coal and oil sup ply contributed heavily to Jap war economy.
 London interpreted the prenla- ture surrender as a sacrifice |, avert any dispute with Russia.