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hind by the American spearhead battling on the heights in sight of Rome.
 Plunging across the Via Casilina near Valmontone, the Allies slashed the main road for the Nazis falling back from the main front.
 To the southeast, British forces are pounding up the highway and are nearing Ferentino, only IS miles from Valmontone, and French troops swung toward the highway from the west of this sector.
 United States infantrymen enter ed Velletri late yesterday after other Amercans had virtually en- circled this key base of the Ger man forces on the Appian Way Is miles from Rome.
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MOOSE WOMEN
 ELECT OFFICERS
 5AIuRDAy NIGHT

Women of the Moose will hold election of officers at their neX meeting on Saturday evening, June 3 at 8 o'clock at the Club Head quarters in the Seward Building.
 June is Membership Month and the entertainment committee is composed of Chairman Cora Costel- 10, assisted by Emily Schmitt and Esther Commit On the refresh ment committee will be Mae Mac Kinnon, chairman, with Mary Rhodes, Virginia Pusich, and Lu- cille Marshall
 Preceding the main meeting, an executive session will be held at 7.30 pm
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AUSTIN COMPANY FILES
 ARTICLES INCORPORATION
 Articles of incorporation were fil- ed in the Territorial Auditors office here today by The Austin Com psny, builders and contractors, of Cleveland, Ohio.
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Strong Opposition

Two miles to the northwest, Yan- kee troops are fighting on Monte Artemiso in view of Romes historic buildings, and are meeting with very obstinate opposition the communique said This force sneak ed beyond Velletri and seized the dominating heights of Mts. Peschic and Artemisio, catching the Ger mans by surprise.
 The German command declared that a dent in the Allies was achieved northeast of Velletri which had been sealed off and heavy casualties inflicted. The Der lin broadcast said the fighting was with very great fierceness or Thursday, especially at Velletri and Valmontone area, but that the AL lies have been held, excepting fol the smashing blows against the Nazi line guarding Rome, and the driving in of a wedge by the cap ture of Lariano village on the high way to Valmontone, four miles tC the northeast of Velletri.
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Simple, striking, yet magnifi- gently done again by MT. Man. gone, in pure fine wool, loose and boxy, yet subtly fitted
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Ruth Allen Will Be Wed to Roger
 Barr, Sacramento

Mrs. T. L. Allen left yesterday by steamer for the States, enroute to Sacramento, California, where she will attend the wedding of her daughter Ruth and Pvt. Roger J Barr, son of MT. and Mrs. Roger Barr of that city.
 The wedding will take place sometime during the latter part of June at the home of Dr. and Mrs John Turner, brother-in-law and sister of MT. Allen.
 Mrs. Allen will also visit in sev- eral of the Puget Sound cities and expects to return to Juneau about the middle of July.
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Your Dresses

In sheer, sheer wool by Anthony Blotta, broad of shoulder, nip ped in at the waist, long lines and pencil slim.
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FISH, WIlDLIFE HEADS
 SOUTH FOR CONFERENCE

To confer in Seattle with Roy Dillon, Chief of the Division of Administration for the Fish and Wildife Service from the Chicago office, Frank Hynes and Milton Furness are enroute to the States.
 MT. Hynes is Regional Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska and Furness is Administra- tive Officer for Alaska Region 6. They expect to return within two weeks.
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COMMUNION TO BE HELD SUNDAY AT
 LUTHERAN CHURCH

Sunday will be Trinity Sunday of the Church Year and the Sac- rament of the Altar will be ad- ministered at the worship service of the Lutheran Church. The two girls, Misses Harriet Maurstad and Lois Hared, who were confirmed last Sunday will participate in their first communion at this time.
 The pastor will preach the ser mon, Of. Through, and To God, and the senior choir will sing Ceorg Joseph's, Be Still, My Soul" The public is welcome to the service
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The annual deathrate for U. s troops overseas is one in 2,000, as compared with the World War rate of 15.6 per 1000.
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in northwest Leyte already had ef- fected a junction about two miles south of Limon after sweeping down either side of a reinforced enemy regiment on the Ormoc-L -Limon road. MacA-thur's communique said the division practically severed the road between Limon and Ormoc, 20 miles to the south, behind the enemy from both east and weSt yesterday.
 veterans of the 7th division, meantime, drove up the west coast of Leyte to Balogo, only 10 miles south of the sea and air base or Or- moo, after wiping out 60 per cent Of a small Japanese force which at- tempted a counter-attack.
 The two outflanking columns ot the 24th division were expected to complete the encirclement of the northern Japanese spearhead near Toliibn. While other elements Of Irving's force battled the enemy frontally on the Ormoc road near Linon, two miles to the north.
 United Press War Correspondent William 0. Wilson, with the 24th di- vision, reported that the Americans killed 1000 Japanese Tuesday in a fighting advance along the Ormoc road near Limon.
 American artillery was laying down terrific barrage in support
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more money.
 "1 knocked her on the jaw and got mad and cut her up. At first l wanted to dispose of the body, put decided I couldn't" he said.
 Attendants at the hotel identltleo wilson as the man, who with the young woman, rented a room there and registered MT and Mrs. O. S. Wilson of Studeville, Ind" Tipped Maid
 When Wilson left the room he tipped the maid $1 and told her ms "wife" didn't want to be disturbed. Later the maid entered the room and found the body.
 After chatting with a hotel clerk, Wilson said he left the building ana because he liked horror motion pie lures, took in showing Of Ihe Walking Dead"
 Then, Wilson said,s she met Mrs. Johnson.
 "She didn't want any money. l cut her up for cussedness," he said.
 Wilson, a six-footer, with Wavy brown hair and light mustache, said he was fry cook at Terminal Island, Cal. He said he had been discharged from the Navy in l94l after serving 10 years as pharma- cist's mate.
 q know all about that stuff" he told police, while he watched with interest as they tested his clothing for bloodstains. His fingerprints tallied with those in the two hotel rooms, police said.
 When he was picked up officers noted blood on his shoe soles and a splatter of blood on his mustache.
 Razer Blade Mrs. Johnsons body had been mutilated by razor blade, found in the room. An empty safety razor blade holder was found in his pocket. , A preliminary examination by coroner's surgeon indicated Wilson did not have sexual relations with Mrs. Johnson, police said.
 Booked on suspicion of murder, Wilson was then being questioned for further details of the gruesome crimes. Detectives said they would also question him for possible con- nection with other unsolved sex murders in the area, the most noted of which is that of pretty Georgette Bauerdorf, 20-year-old New York heiress who was strangled and her nude body left floating in her water | filled bathtub.
 However, detectives pointed out the differences in the crimes, espe- cially that fact that Miss Bauerdort was not slashed or cut. They said Wilson had denied he was 1mpli- cated.
 T know nothing about it." he said.
 Police records showed that Wilson had been arrested in March, 1943, on suspicion of rape in a downtown hotel, block from where his second victim was found.
 He was released when the woman refused to press charges. Later he served a nine-month jail sentence for burglary.
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Senate takes up the rivers and har- bors improvement bill. Sen. George D. Aiken, R., Vt., intends to offer an amendment providing for post war power development along the St. Lawrence seaway. Sen. John H. Overton, D., La, floor manager for the flood control and rivers and harbors bills, is strenuously opposed to the Aiken proposal.
 Barkley said he would leave it up to Overton which of the two bills the Senate should consider first. Overton, in an apparent effort to delay the fight until his flood con- tlol measure is out of the way, planned to put it ahead and hold commerce subcommittee hearings, meanwhile, on whether the St. Lawrence seaway program should be considered as treaty, requiring two-thirds vote in the Senate, or an agreement which could be ratified b. a majority vote in both Houses, Hearings start next Tuesday.
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(Continued from Page D boys had moved their clubhouse headquarters from one cellar to an- other during the last few months.
 The clubroom contained slingshots old lanterns, a mattress, wooden boxes, a fishing net, saws, and a small searchlight.
 Detectives were dispatched to the scene by Chief Inspector Joseph Bendler after John Stokes, an em- ploye of the Strickulis meat market phoned to report that one of the boys had entered his store and told him that boy had been shot il the cellar. A partition separates the back of the meat market cellar and the part in which the boys had their clubroom.
 Funeral services for the Peck boy will be held from the Stokes funeral home Saturday morning at 9:3O to St. Joseph's church at 10 where a requiem Mass will be celebrated. Burial will be in the family plot at Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. tonight and 2 p. m. tomorrow.
 Young Peck was an 9th grade student at St. Joseph's school, and member of troop 225, Boy Scouts of America.
 He is survived by his father and sister. Agatha. His mother died several months ago.
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FDR Denies PIosmo Rumor

Washington, Nov. 16-(UP) - President Roosevelt today de- nounced as "an unqualified false hood'' the vicious rumor-that blood plasma-is being sold to our wounded fighting men,"
 The president called on the na- tion to report to the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation the names of all persons who spread such a ru- mor. He acted on information from Basil O'Connor, National Chairman of the American Red Cross.
 MT. Roosevelt's statement said:
 From time to tme hear of new and ingenious ways the enemy is trying to hinder our war effort ei- ther by direct sabotage or indirect rumor mongering.
 "The latest and most vicious ru- nor which has come to my atten- tion is that blood plasma, given so spontaneously and periodically to the Red Cross by millions of Amer jeans, is being sold to our wounded fighting men.
 "This is an unqualified falsehood.
 Persons spreading such rumors should be reported to the FBI."
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 it's willingness to produce at 1942 prices.
 If prices get away from us dur ing the coming months, they are bound to rise with constantly in- creasing rapidity," said Bowles. Should this happen, the inevitable collapse might well carry with it our chances to build the kind of pros porous postwar economy on which our hearts and our determination are so properly set"
 Policy Outlined
 He outlined the OPA reconver- sion pricing policy as follows:
 First, we will hold manufactur- CTS prices at or close to early 1922 levels. We will require some ab- sorption of increased costs of labol and materials. We will allow price increases to the manufacturer only when really necessary to secure full production and reaSonabl profit.
 Commodore Arleigh A. Burke, famed for his action in the Pacific, told the conference that the Allies must invade Japan to defeat her |. Burke, who is chief of staff tC Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, de- scribed the second battle of the Philippines from which he has just returned He said the only way to defeat Nippon was to be prepared to kill 1O,O00,0O0 men which she is ready to sacrifice to continue the war.
 Rear Admiral Felix x. GygaX of the first naval district expressed to the conference the Navy's apprecia- tion of its contributions to the war effort. But let us not forget, :" he counseled, "that the battles of tomorrow must be won before vic- tory is ours let us not allow our recent good news to engender mood, highly dangerous mood, which says figuratively the worst must be over Now we can ease up bit.
 The greetings of Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal were read to the conference by Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, deputy chief of naval operations for air. The secretary thanked New England for its war record of producing almost 400 war ships and approximately 5000 Navy planes as well as food and weapons.
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born, we call in the pediatrician for consultation and six weeks later we have the infant in for an overhaul. We keep bringing him in regularly for the first year."
 The navy is proud of its babies Commodore Warner introduced me to two of his obstetricians, It. Norman Panschc and It. (jg.) Ed mund Daley and they said there was something about the navy.
 About a year ago." It. Pansch explained, civilian births began to level off and we began to think in the navy that we'd slow down, too. But business increased and it keeps on increasing"
 One of the fine things about the naval baby service, according to the Admiral in St. Louis and the Com modore and the lieutenants here, is its morale building effect. When a mans fighting in far places, it does him no harm to know that his wife and child at home are receiving the finest possible care.
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 Only sailor who ever got a serious fright from the naval dispenSary was one heading into the Pacific.
 "When his baby was born," It. Pansch said, "he received the usual wire about mother and child doing well. Then he got another wire from his favorite aunt about Don II be- ing born. Somewhere along the line that got spelled out, Don sec- ond, and the poor guy thought he was the father of twins"
 Only babies I saw were the ones fin pink and blue blankets brought into the dispensary for what Com modore Warner called their over- hauls. The actual births occur at hospitals, but what observed was enough to make me agree with the commodore. Navy babies are just plain beautiful, even when they weep.
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of the ground forces. Wilson said nearly 1000 shells were fired into Japanese positions Monday night alone, pinning the enemy in his fox holes an dpreventing any important counter attacks.
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 Though there was a possibility that some Japanese might infiltrate the American lines of encirclement south of Limon and escape, Wilson indicated thta American command CTS anticipated no large-scale ate tempt to break out toward Ormoc.
 On the contrary, he said, Ameri- can officers were discussing the pos- sibility that small groups of Japan csc might attempt to seep through the American lines from the south to reinforce their trapped comrades.
 Northeast of Ormoc, elements of the 1st cavalry division overwhelm- ed numerous scattered enemy de- fensive positions and captured hills 4047 and 4018 and 3,815-foot Mt. Mamban along a five-mile front to mount new threat to the enemy's Ormoc corridor.
 American fighters strafed Japan csc barges and shore targets near Ormoc. But pilots said all were emp ty. The Japanese appeared to have abandoned at least temporarily, their attempts to reinforce the Leyte garrison, now estimated at five di- visions strong.
 Japanese planes steped up their harassing attacks on American ground installations, but five were shot down, two of them by anti aircraft guns.
 GA German DNB News Agency dispatch from Tokyo said the battle for Leyte is regarded in the Jap anese capital as decisive" for the whole course of the war and quoted Premier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso as saying that "both Japan and Amer ica have arrived at the crossroads" :"
 (The DNB dispatch estimated that Gen. Macarthur had seven divi- sions, possibly 105,000 men, on Leyte and that 1900 American planes are standing by in New Guinea waiting for operating facilities to be estab- lished on the island. Between 50 and 60 transports and 10 American battleships and cruisers also are in Leyte Gulf the dispatch said.
 GA Tokyo broadcast heard by Lon don Monitors and picked up in New York by CBS said the Japanese commander at Ormoc had ordered his troops to fight to the death, warning them that i've will not re- turn alive without recapuring Leyte.O
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 van; through Jaszbereny to Tar naors, Il miles southwest of the communications center.
 Capture of Hatvan not only would cut the direct rail and highway routes from Budapest to northeast ern Hungary but also endanger the the enemy forces in Czechoslovak1a
 Two big rail lines feed out from Hatvan, one going due north tc Czechoslovakia and the other east to Fuzesabony, 58 miles northeast oi Budapest, where Soviet troops were striking from three sides.
 The Russians advanced to within four miles of the latter road in oc- cupying Erdotelek, southwest o1 F'uzesabony.
 In northeastern Hungary, the So- viets continued their steady two-way drive against Miskolc, capturing Harsany, nine miles to the south west, and Tiszaszederkeny, 18 miles to the southeast.
 On the immediate eastern ap- dpJ1 UO 4'AeSAAAAO' sky's forces were slowly tightening their line around the capital and oc. cupied the towns of Mende, IL miles to the east, and Tapiosag, IA miles east northeast.
 (Mende is only two miles north. east of Gyomro, which Berlin com mentators have described as tht keystone of Budapest's southeastern defenSes.)
 The communique also disclosed that Soviet troops in Latvia carried out a surprise attack against tho Germans west of Jelgava, q mile! southwest of Riga.
 Aided by Red Army bombers anc and fighters and heavy artillery fire the ground troops wiped out Ger. man concentration of infantry anc tanks in a forest where they were preparing to launch an attack.
 The Germans suffered "enormou! losses, the communique said, anc the Soviet trops seizeod several fav. orable positions in the area.
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Continued from Page D said, but they came to the wrong place."
 Raft was rolling dice he'd never seen until that night, and if they were loaded he didn't know it."
 Besides, Gray continued, Raft won only $10,O00.
 And Shurin paid up without a beef" he said. "He just made some crack about it being his unlucky night.
 Raft makes $1OoO00 a picture, so why should he cheat, he doesn't need that kind of dough"
 Shurin told Hogan he lost 13 straight passes made by the Suave actor-and that he accepted it as bad luck. But two months ago, he said, feminine guest at the party told him the dice were loaded. She said hse knew all about 1t because her husband got cut in on his loss- es. Since then, she's decided to di-' vorce her husband and wanted to set Shurin straight" about the dice.
 Shurin said ten men and three women were gathered in circle on the floor when Raft made his pass es. He rolled four fours, four tens and five hines in succession with the unnamed lady'S husband fading him.
 The aircraft mogul said he didn't think the dice belonged to Raft. Some other male guest brought them, he thought.
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Missing Mon Found
 Decd; Dog Beside Him

Oakland, Me, Nov. l6. UP)- With his faithful hunting dog asleep at his side, the body of AL bert E. Thibodeau, 47-year-old AL lagash fire warden who had been sought since Monday. was found early today near his truck where he had collapsed and died of heart disease.
 State guardSmen, woodsmen and Thibodeau's fellow pilots in Maine Civil Air Patrol unit had searched the wilderness near here since the warden disappeared while raccoon hunting.
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MAJOR EARTHQUAKE

Weston, Mass November 16. - CUP) A major earthquake 8,4l5 miles distant and probably in the vicinity of the Philippines has been reported by the Weston College Seismological Station.
 The Rev. Edward Powers, S. J., college seismologist, declared that the earthquake occurred at 5:0t D. m. (EWT) yesterday and could have caused considerable damage
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 controls will be relaxed whenever circumstances permit the govern ment to do SO without hampering the war effort or upsetting the stability of the national economy. Churchill told the house that the shortage of housing facilities also must be grappled with on an emer- gency as well as permanent basis. Conservative Lady AStor, one of Britain's staunchest "drys," inter- rupted at this point to ask the prime minister for assurance that houses will go ahead even of beer"
 "Yes." Churchill replied gravely, certainly, if it were proved that one necessarily excludes the other. :"
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(COntinlled from Page 1) social security payroll deductions at the present rate for another year.
 The current payroll assessment of one per cent on employers and em- ployes will be d ,ubled automatically Jan. 1 unless Vandenberg, as he has three times previously, is able to push through freezing legislation. Barkley said Vandenberg's propos- ition was discussed b. the steering committee but only as to the pro- gress being made to work out some agreement"
 "There has been some talk with the social security board about work ing out some different rate" Bark ley said. There has been no agree ment reached yet"
 Fight In Prospect
 Despite efforts to work out non controversial program. at least one fight appeared in prospect when the
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O cover the resolution.
 Counting Dies, the eight-man committee has lost full half Of its membership. Reps. John M. Cos tello, D., Calf, Joe Starnes, D.. Ala, and Fred E. Busbey R. Ill. were not reelected.
 All four were the targets of sharp criticism from the CIO Political Ac- tion Committee--the last organiza- tion to be investigated by the Dies group-and Costello, Starnes and Busbey were opposed by the PAC in this years campaigns.
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HILLARY BROOKS, ex-Powers model, has ben signed by RKO Ra- dio for "Theh Enchanted Cottage" :" She will portray in this moderniza- ton of the Sir Arthur Wing Pi. nero play. the financee of Robert YOllnp
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appointment and perify are raising their heads" she said, i've whc have marched with Adolf Hitler must multiply our support and our loyalty. It is clear that, internlaly and externally, we have entered the decisive phase of htis great bat tle."
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Gemonval.
 South of the Doubs, the French pushed through VermondanS, sev- eral miles northwest of Pont De Roides; Ecot, four miles northwest, and Ecurcey, two miles northeast.
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Egypt is supplying salt to ships for ballast.
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Dies Group Neors End

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Mon Admits Killing Two

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Tragic Death Of Peck Boy

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Price Status Must Be Held

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SCARFS The apple of his fashion eye! Scarfs galore all wool and part wool styles in plain color and smart plaids. Also, dress types of white rayon.
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