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eminent was engineered by Axis
circles in nearby Argentina. which
still maintains relations with Ger
many and Japan.
Hull, at his press conference yes
terday, gave only indirect support
to the theory that economic sane
tons might be employed against
Bolivia, but it was learned later
that lend-lease supplies to that
country had been halted.
The foreign economic administra-
ton also was reported to have is
sued orders suspending present ar
rangementS for the export Of goods
to Bolivia until there is a recog-
nized government" In that country.
I'm the light Of existing condi-
tons, all export license applications
for shipments to Bolivia viii be
to determine that the particular ex-
portation Is in the interest of the
war effort of the United Nations, .
the order said.
Exporters are cautioned to use
due prudence in keeping themselves
informed concerning any exchange
control or import regulations gov
erning transactions with Bolivian
importers"
Four sites were suggested for the
proposed international conference:
Mexico City Moutevldeo, Santiago,
Chile and Lima Peru.
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Proposed International
Conference to StudyBoLiuia

Washington, Jan. IA - (U.PO -
A proposed international confer
ence to study the political COM
plexion Of the new Bolivian gov
eminent found growing support to-
day as the United States was re-
vealed to be using economic sane
tons in the political war against
Axis influences In Latin America.
The international meeting OF the
anti-Axis American republics was
advanced by Ezequiel Padilla, Mex
lean foreign minister, and Secre-
tary of State Cordell Hull said that
it would receive sympathetic consid-
Grafton by the United States.
Padilla declared that the meet
ing would expedite action of the 10
American republics that have
broken with the Axis on the ques-
ton OF recognizing the new revolu-
tionary regime set up in Bolivia by
what some quarters feel was the
aid Of Axis interest.
The United States hitherto took
the position that joint action should
be taken through normal diploma
tic channels, presumably after q
study by the inter- American defense
committee ct Montevideo. Many
responsible officials have felt that
the coup d'etat which overthrow
the former pro-Allied Bolivian gov
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Sick Boy
Needs PIosmo

Dallas, Tex, Jan. 14-UP)-
Solemn. brown-eyed Billy Meers,
four, wondered at his swelling fin
gers today as the public's interest
in him waned and doctors said he
did not have long to live unless
someone pays of his debt in blood.
officials at Baylor hospital, whose
supply of plasma had been tapped
heavily to keep the small boy alive,
said they could no longer gamble
on public interest.
Some day." a spokesman for the
hospital said, public interest will
die and Billy won't get plasma and
he'll Gle. There are hundreds of
chronic nephritis victims all over
the country and they die for lack
of plaSma."
Billy. who is i'll of the fatal kid
ney disease, owes the hospital so
pints of blood, debt someone else
must pay, to bring its blood piaSma
bank back to safe level.
Since September, the bank has
given him 227 pints of blood. Sun
day the hospital said it Could give
no more until 100 donors, giving a
pint of blood each, brought its sup
ply back to safe level. In four
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loft Warns
On Postwar

Boston. Jan. 14.-(UP)-U. S. Sen.
Robert A. Taft, r., Ohio, warned to-
day that unless the American people
think in terms of local self-govern-
ment after the war we shall find
ourselves a totalitarian state with
every detail of our lives planned by
benevolent, but arbitrary and in
efficient, bureau in Washington"
In an address prepared for the
Boston City club, Taft said that
while we talk Of free enterprise
and our soldiers battle against the
forces Of totalitarianism, the whole
thinking of the world has turned
from the liberalism embodied in the
Constitution to planning of the
lives OF other people"
While We talk glibly OF reestab-
fishing free enterprise after the
war; Taft said, I'VE face proposals
for government activity which can
only lead to q totalitarian state.
Spending plans would impose on in
dustry such a crushing burden OF
taxation that there would be no in
centive to continue working or to
take chance In any new project"
Taft cited shall business as a typ
ical example OF condition necessary
to a free enterprise system, which
has been hampered land may be
destroyed" unless it is protected by
federal legislation.
Calling for removal of wartime re-
strictions on business, Taft stressed
that not only price control and ra-
tioning must be abolished but also
some of the regulations in force
before the war. particularly those
requiring questionnaires.
Small business. he said, is the
basis Of Americas free enterprise
system.
IF this country becomes a coun-
try Of big business" Taft said, I'VE
are not great deal better off and
II we socialize the entire nation and
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Heroes And
Heroism At
.CerVuro
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD

UNITED Press Stah Correspondent
With the Fifth Army at Cervaro,
Jan. 13-UP)-The road to Cervaro
leads across white chalk hills, and
those brownish Splotches you see to
the right and the left were made by
American blood.
Today I entered the town just as
the Fifth army was repelling a saw
age German counter attack, and sat
down among the dead to hear from
the living the heroic story of how
we won this newestt milepost on the
road to Rome.
There are many dead here-more
than fell at San Pietro and San Wit
tore put together-and great num-
Der of them are Americans. There
has been no time In the fury of bat
tie to bury them so they lie where
they flel. Friendly doughboys have
paused to cover their faces with a
raincoat or a shirt. The Germans
lie uncovered, their fingers still
clutching shattered machine guns,
their faces frozen in the agony of
death.
Cervaro has the gastly look that
all fresh battlefields have. The Ger
mans broke off their counter attack
only a short time before I arrived
but they still are pumping mortar
and artillery shells into our lines.
We're only four miles from Cas-
Sino here and already our forces are
pushing beyond Cervaro toward that
strong point. 1t has taken much
courage and many lives to win this
foothold, for the Germans were con-
testing the ground desperately and
determinedly.
CervarO Overran
Our troops overran Cervaro In
three great leaps behind rolling
artillery barrages, 1t. Col. Lawrence
Powers, who directed the attack in
the field, told me. Powers, a West
Pointer, is from Flushing, N. Y.
Our troops came in SO close be-
hind each barrage," Powers said,
that they had to step so as not
to be hit by our shells and mortars.
las soon as one section was
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Gets Medal

New York, Jan. l4-(UP)-Chlns
a German shepherd dog which
joined the army in 1912, has re-
ceived the first distinguished serv.
ice cross ever awarded q dog for
courageous action" in attacking Al
enemy machine-gun nest during the
invasion Of Sicily and forcing the
enemy solniers to surrender. It waa
disclosed today.
Chips. raised by Mr.. and Mrs. Ed~
ward j. Wren Of PleasantvilIe. n. y.
also was awarded the silver star and
the purple heart. the latter medal
for a wound from which he since
has recovered.
The citations were made last sen-
TENDER, 1t was revealed by dogs for
defense, although the actual pre-
sentation Of the service cross did not
take place until Nov. 10, when Mai.
Lucian x. Truscott, commander ok
the Sd infantry division in Itaig.
honored chips for Courageous &c
ton in single handediy eliminatina
a dangerous machine-gun nest 50
causing surrender Of its crew.
Chips was with the first grouD a
troops who went ashore near xAca4s.
Sicily. last summer.
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Scion Urges
Food Stomp

Washington, Jan. IA CUP -
Sen. George D. Aiken. r., VT. urged
today enactment Of an "tanit-in-
fiationary" $42O, 600 900 food stamps
subsidy program to assure low
income groups an adequate wartime
diet.
Recommending the program as an
alternative to general consumer
subsidies, Aiken told senate agri-
culture subcommittee that the food
stamp plan would aid 10000. 900
people with incomes averaging ST.
100 a year or less.
These people are the ones who
really need and should have their
income supplemented in order to
maintain their health and a rea-
sonable degree of security and hap
pineSs." he said. This bill Is de-
signed TO help the ones who un-
fortunately cannot get cash bonuses
or increases In salaries"
Aiken said the program - spon-
sored by him and Sen. Robert NJ.
La Toilette, roy. Wis.-would meet
President Roosevelt's request in his
state of the union address for aid
to fixed income groups.
The stamp plan. he said, does not
preclude controlled" subsidies in
form of a support price system.
And, he added. both programs can
be financed within Mr.. RooSevelt's
estimate that good cost" legisla-
ton should cost about one per cent
Of the overall war expenditures-or
approximately $1,000, 100000.
The War Food Administration has
approved in principle but has de-
clined TO comment on its as an al
tentative to consumer subsidies,
which the Roosevelt administration
favors.
The Aiken-LaFollette bill would
set up a "basic food diet" and
would make stamps available to
those who needed additional funds
to supplement their present food
budget In order to attain the basic
diet. Stamps would be distributed
by local rationing boards. and would
be gid for food at the grocery
store. Grocerymen in turn would
cash IN the stamps for money.
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REDS drive NAILS INTO PANICKY FLIGHT
Last 2 German StronghoIds Storn1ed;
Pre- Invasion Air Assaults Resumed
BOMDERS ROAR
Over CALAIS,
FRANCE AREA

London, January IA. -
(UP) - Waves of medium
and fighter bombers resumed
their pre-invasion assault on
the French second front"
coast today in what appeared
to be the first large-scale
daylight air operation since
1,400 American planes hit
northwest Germany Tuesday.
Fighters and fighter bomb
erS opened the daylight at
tack with a sweep over the
Calais area. Several hours
later a big force of medium
bombers with a strong fighter
escort roared out through
low-hanging fog toward the
Pas De Calais area.
Informed sources reported that
the number Of German planes shot
down by American bombers and
fighters In Tuesdays mammoth air
battle over the Reich probably far
exceeded the 152 officially claimed.
U. 8. Army headquarters. in an
nouncing the official toll last night.
emphasized that 1t could be as
sumed a number Of additional air.
craft were destroyed by the 60 four
engined Flying Fortresses and Lib
orators and five American fighters
lost In the record attack.
The official toll also did not in
clude q number Of German fighters
which were seen to break off COM
bat badly damaged or afire, but
which were not seen to crash and
therefore could not be claimed as
'-kills.''
Twenty-Seven Of the German
planes definitely known to have
been destroyed were shot down by
American fighters, including the
new long-range P51B Mustang.
U. s. Army headquarters also
disclosed last night that new re-
connaissance photographs revealed
that the American bombers, pene-
trating within 80 miles of Berlin.
had inflicted the following dam
age on their principal targets:
FlugZuewerke AG Folke-Wulf 100
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Troops Goin
AtMounqdow

New Delhi. Jan. 14-(UP)-Allied
troops have thrust five miles south
eastward from captured Maungdaw,
So miles above the Burmese port of
Akyab, and are continuing a slow
advance despite Japanese counter
attacks the southeast Asia COM
mand announced today.
A communique said forward ele-
ments of Admiral Lord Louis
Mountbatten forces pushing into
western Burma had captured the
villages OF Kanyinda and Dilpara,
one and four miles respectively be-
yond Maungdaw.
japanese troops were reported
clinging Tremendously to strong
points along the western foothills of
the Mayu range. Allied positions.
however. were advanced slightly on
the east side Of the range itself, the
communique reported.
Maungdaw. the capture of which
was announced Tuesday, was the
advanced base of Marshal Viscount
Wavell's Hapless offensive which
carried within Is miles of Akyab in
1912.
Royal air force dive bombers of
the eastern air commands tactical
force was reported carrying out
daily attacks on the forward Jap
anese positions in close cooperation
with the ground drive.
On Monday night Raj heavy
bombers attacked detectives at
Akyab and Moulmein. The next
night medium bombers attacked
Bassein, starting large fires.
A large formation OF American
heavy bombers raided the Bankok
area of Thailand Monday night,
dropping demolition and incendiary
bombs IN rail yards and on air fields.
"A smaller formation bombed Akyab.
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U. 5. PLANES
BOMB 4MAJOR
AIR FIELDS
BY C. r. CUNNINGHAM
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent


UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Al
giers, January IA. - (UP) -
Strong American bombing
fleets, striking at the heart
of the Luftwaffe's fighter
strength in Italy, wrecked
four major airfelds in the
suburbs of Rome as Ameri-
can and French 5th Army
troops battered down savage
German resistance on the ap-
proaches to Casino, it was
announced today.
Spearheading a series of wide
ranging assaults against German
air bases and communications CEN
tiers throughout central Italy and
the Jugoslav coast yesterday, large
formations Of flying fortresses,
Mitchell medium bombers and Mar
auders hammered at the chain of
airf1eldS just south of Rome with
high explosives and augmentation
bombs.
A communiQue revealed that
lightning escorted fortresses opened
the aerial offensive with a concen-
trated attack on the Centocelle and
Guidonia airf1elds.
Forty German fighters rose to
intercept the traders, but the
fortress gunners sent three down
in flames and their lightning
escorts destroyed five more in a
series Of dogfights.
Not a single heavy bomber was
lost In the attack, although three
lightnings were reported missing.
A force of Mitchell raiders fol-
lowed the FortresSes into the at
tack, driving through heavy anti
aircraft fire to plaster both air.
dromes with augmentation bombs,
hitting many Nad fighters parked
around the fields.
The U. S. 18th Air Forces
Marauders rounded out the assault
with repeat raid on the Cento-
celle airdrome and on the two CT
ampino fields, nine miles south of
Rome.
Returning bomber crews reported
that their explosives ripped up the
Guidonia and Centoeele runways,
making them at least temporarily
useless. and spread destruction
through operational buildings and
barracks at all four fields.
The concerted attack, a head
quarters spokesman said, was "a
heavy blow at the heart of the
Luftwaffes fighter strength in
Italy"
American Liberator bombers
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Symphony Will Play
"Poehyderm Polka"

Boston, Jan. 14.-UP)-A
Boston Symphony orchestra
audience will hear the "Pachy-
derm Polka" today for the first
time.
Two years ago, at the request
of the circus management, Igor
Stravinsky composed the Polka
for the Ringing Brothers ele-
plant ballet.
Conducting the Boston Or
chestra today in an all-Strav-
nisky program, the composer
will include the elephant mu-
sic. without viOlins, the Orches-
ira will render the composition
which StravinSky describes as
"a brilliant piece whose beauty
has been lost amid a chorus Of
peanut vendors"
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NoziS Desert


The Stockholm Aftonbladet, in a
dispatch reported to the owl last
night, said that assertions from
Germant merchant ships in the
North Sea have become so numer-
Gus that the ships Frequently have
crews of 14-year old boys.
German boys unloading tankers
in Oslo declared they hade re-
ceived the choice of ''the east front
or the sea-, the newspaper said.
The Stockholm Svenska Dagbladet
said that Nazi merchant crews for
merly were drafted from Nazi-oc-
cupied areas, but now increasing
ly consist of very old adm very
young Germans" because the deser-
tons had forced the Germans to
draft crews in Germany"
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Sales Tax
May Be
Next

Washington, Jan. 14-UP)-Pres-
ident RooSevelt's renewed demands
for more taxes and the equally firm
Congressional opposition to treasury
proposals raised the possibility to-
day of compromise involving a
modified sales tax.
Although there was no official con-
firmation that the administration
would recede from its strong anti
sales tax position, it became in
creaSingly apparent that a sales levy
was the only new burden that Con-
gresS would be ready to impose on
the public.
A straight SaleStax without ex-
emptions probably would have diff
cult Shedding in an election year but
it may be acceptable to both the
administration and majority in
Congress if the basic items involved
in the cost-of-living were left tax
free.
While demands for such a tax
were heard in both houses of Con-
gress, the Senate moved toward
final approval of a new revenue bill
which Mr.. Roosevelt opposed on
three counts in his budget message.
The president strongly protested
the bills $2,275, 500, 900 yield as in
sufficient to support the anti-infla-
ton program; opposed provision
to freeze the social security payroll
levy at one per cent for another
year, which would cut estimated
revenue by $1,400,000, 600; and de-
nounced amendments which would
destroy" effectiveness of the war
contract renegotiation law in cap
turing excess war profits.
The proposed social security freeze
is now before the House ways and
means committee. Chairman Ar
thur j. Altmeyer of the social Sc
(C0ntin1lai IN paOn A.
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Economy Solons Advocate
Cutting F: D. Rs Figures

tude when Treasury-Post ONCE APP
preparations are acted upon by the
committee within the next fortnight
there must be Sizeable cuts ''or
there will be a fight"
Committee Chairman Clarence
Cannon, D., Mo-. declared that the
time was past when congress was
compelled, because of the war situa-
ton, to make huge appropriations
swiftly and without close inspec-
ton"
I'VE can now proceed more leis-
urely and carefully scrutinize each
item" he said. This may lead to
some economies"
War appropriations and expendi-
lures also were promised close at
tention, particularly because some
$4,000. 10000 of war appropriations
already voted have not been obligat-
ed. Some 100000 900 600 of the
Presidents new budget was for war
purposes. Many congressman felt
there was little need to vote new
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Washington, Jan. i4.-(UP)-
Economy advocates in congress
promised today to wiring the water"
out of President Roosevelt's budget
proposals for non-war expenditures
and to study war financing to make
certain that every requested dollar
was needed.
A sizeable number of members OF
both parties In senate and house
centered criticism on the more than
"a, 900, 000. 900 sought by the President
for non-war purposes out Of total
Of 500. O00. 10000 in his new budget.
Rejecting economy bloc determ-
nation to vote new appropriations
only after careful scrutiny, Rep.
John Taber, r.. N. Y, ranking
minority member Of the house APP
preparations committee, declared
that estimates for agencies and de-
partments other than the Army and
Navy have q tremendous amount
Of water IN them which must be
squeezed out.
The administration, he said, Will
realize the meaning Of this atti-
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Prisoners captured by Soviet ska
battaions were quoted as saying
some German units only recently
arrived at the front had lost more
than 60 per cent Of their effectives.
The Red Army smashed through
the main defenseS to the VERY walls
of Mozyr and KalinkovicM yesterday
in q series Of lightning advances
from the north, east, south and
southwest, the Soviet high command
said in its midnight communique.
Later front reports said RokoSsoT~
SKY, Liberator or Stalingrad, made
short shrift Of the miniature Sieg-
fried line Of steel and concreta
which the Germans had built to pro-
tect Mozyr, on the south bank OF
the Pripet, and Kalinkovichi, rail-
road and highway junction on the
north bank six miles away.
Barrage
After a crushing aerial and artil-
lery barrage had knocked an initial
gap In the nine-mile German line,
Russian veterans Of the battles Of
the Desna and Dnieper - tankigts
armour busters and hand grena0ezS
= charged into the enemy defenses.
Decimating the German ranks.
the Soviets gained ground steadily
and widened the gap until the enemy
armor broke and began to flee west-
ward into the Pripet marshes with
the Russians in relentless pursuit.
The Russian breakthrough was de-
scribed in military circles as one Of
the outstanding successes yet wen
in the battle for communications
centers remaining In enemy hands.
Its tactical Importance cannot be-
overestimated, these sources said.
While Rokossovsky was reducing
the only German bastions left In
southern White Russia, Gen. Nikolaz
F. Vatutin's LIST Ukrainian army
swept II miles along the Kiev-War-
saw railway beyond Sarny to cap
ture Tutevichi, 48 miles inside old
Poland, drove to within IS miles
of the Nad administrative center
of Rovno and beat of fierce Ger.
man counter ATTACKS on the ap-
proacheS to Rumania.
Hundreds of Guns
A rolling artillery barrage from
hundreds Of guns massed around 3
5O-mile front before Mozyr and
Kalinkovichi, junction Of the Ccuel-
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Allies Drive
Against Jops

Advanced Allied Headquarters,
New Guinea, Jan. IA. (UP)-An
Allied land and air attack against
Japanese positions around the
Arawe Peninsula beachhead on New
Britain Island was disclosed in a
communique today.
Texas cavalry units, fighting as
infantry and supported by artillery,
attacked enemy defenses east Of the
beachhead as U. S. planes blasted
japanese positions on the south
west coast.
The communique said the Ameri-
can troops, who have been attack
ing enemy lines around the beach
head positions for several weeks,
were increasing their pressure.
The communique revealed no de-
tails of the attacks, but a spokes-
man at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
headquarters again denied japanese
claims that they had recaptured
Arawe.
mo developments were reported
through Wednesday which might
give any credence whatsoever to the
Tokyo claims" he said.
The communique said Allied light
and heavy bombers continued their
blasting OF airdromes from which
the japanese might throw fighter
planes to protect Rabaul, their Bas-
ton on the northern coast of New
Britain.
The heavy bombers struck at
Yunakanau, Lakunai and Tobera
airdromes at Rabaul, while torpedo
planes and dive-bombers dumped SO
tons of explosives on Cape st.
George, on the southern tip Of
New Ireland.
Fighter Shot Down
One japanese fighter was shot
down, four others probably destroyed
and three anti-aircraft positions
and several buildings destroyed at
Cape st. George. first take of point
for fighters intercepting Solomons-
based Allied planes in their Rabaul
raids.
"a Japanese naval correspondent,
In broadcast over the Tokyo radio
reported to the owl, said japanese
units at Rabaul would hold the key
base until the arrival Of actual
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