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Evening star., 1944-03-21
$4,000, Fund
For School Lunches
Stricken From Bill
House Committee Also
Omits FSA Appropriation
In Agriculture Measure
BY the Lssociated Pres,

BY the Associated Press
The House Appropriations Com
mlttee today refused to recon-
mend inclusion of O,OOO, 900 for
operation of the school lunch
program in the $567 1895, ,779 Ag-
riculture Department supply bill
for the fiscal year starting July
l. The fund was mot author
lied by law" it said.
Elimination of the school lunch
item, which the House only recently
refused to sanction, and refusal to
provide funds for the Farm Security
Administration and for revival of
the crop insurance program, high
lighted the BILL which the commit
tee cut $93 3,520,737 below budget esti-
mates.
The budget for the coming year
had included an estimate of $50
100000 for continuance of the school
lunch program, with the under
standing it would be financed as in
the past, from the permanent ap-
preparation for expectation and
domestic consumption of agricul-
tural commodities.
Reorganization Cited.
In rejecting the FSA item, the
committee pointed out that legisla-
ton for reorganization of the
agency's functions is pending in the
House and until it is disposed of it
would not be appropriate to include
funds in the appropriation bill. The
budget included 100000 for ad-
ministration of FSA and an author
ization of $97 100000 of Reconstruc-
ton Finance Corp. funds for loans,
grants and rural rehabilitation.
The committee also turned down
proposals for expansion and con-
tinuance of the departments emer-
gency rubber project and for revival
of the crop insurance program,
The rubber project, which centered
around development of guayule as
a source of supply. will not achieve
results in time to be of material
advantage to the war effort" the
committee said, and should be
dropped until after the war. To
cover the cost of progressive and
final liquidation of the project dur
ing the next fiscal year, the COM
mittee reappropriated s3,952,585 of
available balances.
Inquiry Slated.
The action came as ve-member
House Agriculture Subcommittee
was preparing to start for California
and Texas to make a complete in
(see APPROPRIATIONS, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Committee Reyerses
Stand, Refuses 10
0. K. Cemetery Bill
Action Follows Protests
Thot Expansion Would
Peril Land Values

The House Military Affairs
Committee today refused to re-
port out a Senate-sponsored bill
providing for Federal acquisition
OF lib acres Of Federal and pri-
vate land to expand Arlington
National Cemetery.
The committee, meeting in ex-
ecutive session, thus reversed its
former decision. 1t acted after hear
ing Representative Smith, Demo-
crat, OF Virginia; the Arlington
County board and various Airing
ton leaders express vigorous opposi-
ton to the proposed Federal pur-
chase.
OF the lib acres under considera.
tion 81 are privately owned. The
land lies between Lee and Wash.
ington boulevards.
Mr.. Smith registered his protes,
after the Arlington County Board
and the Chamber of Commerce had
declared there was no need fol
taking the land. They also con-
tended the threat OF Federal acoui-
sition had lowered property values
and that part of the land made up
one OF the county's most poten-
TALLY valuable areas.
Oficials of the Park and Planning
Commission had argued that taking
the land would not mean eviction of
any families until after the war and
that only undeveloped land would
be acquired Immediately after the
bills passage.
The proposed legislation, besides
providing additional burial ground,
would have protected the cemetery
from encroachment by private spec
ulators.
1t would authorize the Secretaries
OF War and Navy to transfer to the
cemetery several tracts of Govern
ment land from time to time after
the war, as additional grounds might
be needed.
These lands include the area now
occupied by Arlington Farms DOR
mltories, an 86-acre cantonment
south of Arlington Farms, and the
plot on which the Marine Corps
Women's Reserve barracks are To-
Gated.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Seamen Visit White House
To Urge Fourth Term
B. the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press
Five members of the National
Maritime Union called at the White
House today TO deliver 400 letters
from members of the crew of the
transport John Ericsson, all of
which, the group announced, urged
a fourth term for President Roose-
welt.
The letters, in diverse languages
including Swedish, Spanish, Yiddish,
Dutch and Greek-Were handed to
Presidential Secretary Edwin M.
Watson.
Those who went to the White
House were Harry Rubin, Brooklyn,
an engineer; Joseph Santana, New
York, steward; Patrick Lawrenson,
seaman, Dublin, Ireland, and JOS
eph Sweat, Evansville. Ind, and
Hoyt S. Haddock, Fort Worth, Tex.
both legislative representatives OF
the union.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Stossen's Statement
Encourages Bockers

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Mar. 81 dP.-
Minnesota leaders of the campaign
to win the Republican presidential
nomination for 1t. Comdr. Harold
E. Stassen received with considera-
BILE enthusiasm today his statement
that he would not seek the nominal
ton but would accept it if offered.
Four of the States Is delegates to
the Republican National Conven-
ton already have been chosen. Two
Of them were instructed to vote for
the former Governor and two 9TH
ers, while uninstructed, have indi-
Gated they, too. will vote for him
as long as he has a chance to win.
Stassen supporters also announced
that a survey showed that all but
one or two of the 81 Republican
county conventions held in the
State over the week end had in
dorsed Comdr Stassen for the nom
ination.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
Representative Miller, Repub-
lican, of Missouri said today he
would produce two sailors who
would Substantiate a story that
an American task force was
trapped by the japanese in
Alaskan waters because of the
bungling" of the Federal Com
municationS Commission.
Mr.. Miller's assertion was made at
resumption of hearings by the Lea
Committee investigating the FEC as
he questioned Charles r. Denny,
chief counsel of the FEC, about the
task force report.
Mr.. Miller declared that Rear
Admiral Stanford C. Hooper, former
Pearl Harbor communications officer,
had been "silenced by executive
order" or he, too, could back up the
veracity of the report.
Speaking slowly and in deep tones,
Mr. Miller declared that amateurs
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Rocket Coast Area
OF France Raided by
j. ). Liberators
Little Ground Fire
And No Nozi Fighter
Opposition Encountered
BY the Associated, Press.

by lHe ASSOCIATED Press.
LONDON, Mar. 1.-Britain-
based Am erican LiberatorS
heavily bombarded the Pas-de-
Calais rocket coast" area across
the Channel today. 1t was the
second heavy attack on that
sector in three days.
The Liberator force, apparently
not large, took advantage of a solid
overcast to thwart antiaircraft op-
position that had been heavy last
Saturday, and the first bombers
back today reported little ground
fire and no Nazi fighters.
RAF Hits South France.
RAF heavy bombers in small force
struck the Angouleme explosive
works in Southern France last night
in a continuing campaign against
specialized factories, while Mos
quito planes bombed Western Ger
many for the 18th straight night.
German resistance was negligible
and not a plane was lost. Angou-
leme is go miles northeast of Bor-
deaux.
1t was the second blow against an
explosives works in three nights
SiX-ton factory busters" were
dropped on plant at Bergerac, in
the same area, Saturday night.
Other objectives hit in this spe-
cialized campaign have been the
Michelin rubber factory in South
ern France, struck March 10, and a
precision instrument plant at Hen
gelo, Holland hit by Mosquito
bombers by daylight Saturday.
Frankfurt Area Raided.
American Flying Fortresses and
Liberators, described by United
States Strategic Air Force an
nouncement as in medium sized
force, attacked military targets in
the Frankfurt area of Germany
yesterday as the high light of a
day that saw between 1000 and
2,l00 Allied planes cross the Channel.
United States communique last
night said six American bombers
and eight escorting fighters failed
to return from the 400-mile round
trip to the German industrial city.
Few enemy aircraft were encount-
cred.
The Owl said the Stockholm
newspaper Morgon Tidningen had
printed an article even before yes
terdays American attack calling
Frankfurt the worst bombed" city
in Germany, ranking it ahead of
Hamburg in that respect and de-
claring its population would be
evacuated.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Fire HuIts AirIiner's
Transatlantic FIioht
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 2l.-An Amer
ican Export Airlines flying ace was
forced down in Long Island Sound
off Port Washington Long Island,
today few minutes after it left the
marine terminal at La Guardia Field
on transatlantic flight.
The company said Capt. Charles
A. Thompson, in charge of the fight,
radioed TO the field that minor
fire had developed in one of the
planes engines and that he planned
to taxi back to the terminal.
Members of the crew extinguished
the fire, which caused only slight
damage, the company said The
number of passengers aboard the
flying boat could not be determined
immediately
Evening star., 1944-03-21
hopping Up Of Nazi,
Slowed in Cassino:
Battle in Fifth Day
Allies in Hills Near
Fortress Check Three
Enemy CounterbIows
! the Associated Press.


ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Naples, Mar. 21.-New Zealand
troops of the 5th Army have
wiped out part Of the remaining
German Notifications on the
western edge of Casino, but the
Nazis have been reinforced and
a grim struggle continues, Allied
headquarters announced today.
Many more German prisoners were
taken.
Fierce fighting continued for the
nth day for possession OF Casino
and vicinity without a decision" a
headquarters officer said. Within
the ruins of the town the enemy
succeeded in bringing up reinforce
ments Sunday night and mopping
up has been slow"
Dispatches from Casino said Ger
man troops fought their way back
into the wrecked Continental Hotel
today, and New Zealanders immedi-
ately went back to their old task of
Va yAAS W lOOG tllSi1 UuU.
The Nazis apparently moved back
into the hotel in the darkness of
early morning.
The Germans also chung firmly to
positions on the slopes of Mount
Casino, overlooking the town, in
cluding the strategic point they re-
gained in counterattack Sunday
it was announced, and are laying a
heavy artillery fire on Allied troops
from these places.
Hemmed in by these and other
enemy positions in the vicinity and
by the Rapido and Carl Rivers, the
5th Army forces have little room in
which to maneuver. Only frontal
attacks are possible, since the Ger
man positions cannot be outflanked
Counterattacks Repulsed.
Three enemy counterattacks on
one ridge on Mount Casino held by
the Allies were repulsed and three
other points remained in 5th Army
hands despite German attempts to
take them.
Desperately needed emergency
medical and food supplies again
were dropped to Allied troops cling
ing to positions halfway up Monas.
terry Hill. The supplies were car.
ried by A-36 Invaders that SKINNED
over the area and dropped So para.
chute bundles successfully.
These troops had reached a small
plateau halfway to the German.
held Benedictine Abbey, but roads tt
their position have been so mutilat.
ed by shellings that even pack train.
have been unable to make the as.
cent.
On the beachhead British troops
made two successful raids in force
on enemy positions near the western
end of the perimeter, inflictine
heavy casualties. Sharp patro
clashes occurred on the 9th Army
front.
In the air Allied medium bomber.
and fighters struck relentlessly a.
enemy port and rail communica.
tions yesterday and maintained day.
long dive-bombing attacks on troops
and gun positions on the beach
head and Casino fronts.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
; Cabinet Ministers
Resign in Paraguay

Ey the Associated Press.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Mar, al
Three members of the cabinet of
President Higinio Morinigo-Luis
Argana, minister of foreign affairs;
Rogelio Espinoza, finance, and Sig
fredo Grossbrown, education-re-
signed yesterday.
A communique announcing the
designations did not give the cause,
but said Morinigo hoped to solve the
cabinet crisis today.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Head Cold Causes President
To Cancel Press Meetinq

A head cold confined President
Roosevelt to the White House today
and caused him to cancel this after
moons press conference. The Chief
Executive has no temperature,
Stephen T. Early, press secretary,
declared.
Mr.. Early said that Vice Admiral
Ross T. McIntire, the Presidents
personal physician, gave him a
treatment this morning and advised
him to stay inside and see no one.
The President also remained away
from his Office yesterday.
The President was confined with
an attack of influenza for about two
weeks earlier this year.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
11-Day Easter Rest
To Be Taken by House
Senate May Follow Suit
March 81 to April II
BY the Associate ! Press,

BY the Associates Press.
Speaker Rayburn said today that
the House, after the strain of such
battles as the tax bill veto, service
men voting issue and subsidies, will
take an 11-day rest over Easter
from March 81 to April H.
There was some talk that the Sem
ate probably will follow suit.
Mr.. Rayburn said he was not cer-
tain yet whether there would be a
recess or whether the House would
meet every three days under an
agreement not to take up any con-
troversial legislation during the
Easter holiday.
Evening star., 1944-03-21
.Soviets Smash
Rumanian Units
In bessarabid
Drive to Within
so Miles of Prut
On Soroki Highway
BY the Associated Press

hS Ine Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Mar. 21.-The Rec
Army has driven to within sc
miles of the Rumanian border
after capturing the highway
leading westward from Soroki in
Bessarabia and smashing two
Rumanian divisions hurled into
the gap in the Nazi defenses
front dispatches said today.
moscow considers the Prut
River the current Rumanian
border. The Russians in 1910
took over Bessarabian areas
which previously had been part
of Rumania.)
The Russians, who have swarmed
across the Dniester River into Bes-
sarabia on q 31-mile front, have
been able to bring tanks and heavy
artillery across in strength on Ger
man pontoons captured in Yampol,
Maj. Igor Agibalov reported in field
dispatch to the army newspaper
Red Star.
Dniester Crossings Expanded.
The dispatch added that the
Dniester crossings have been ex-
panded and several more cornmuni-
ties captured.
Red Star said German planes
were attacking the Dniester cross
ings, but indicated the Nazis had
no hope of halting the Soviet ad-
vance because of the large number
Of bridges thrown across the stream.
Pressing on from Soroki the
Soviets got a good grip on the
highway the dispatch said.
At the upper end of the Bessa-
rabian front, the Russians were re-
ported poised for a new great thrust
after the capture of Mogilev-Podol-
ski major base on the east bank
of the Dniester, which fell to the
Red Army Sunday.
81 Miles From Lwow.
Far to the north Of these opera
tions. the 1st Ukrainian Army under
Marshal Gregory zhukov was only
81 miles from Lwow, in prewar
Poland. and within sight of the
city of Brody.
1t was not clear whether the Rus
slams planned to storm Brody or
bypass 1t in their advance in Lwow
A Russian communique recorded
in London by the Soviet monitor
said that in the Novo- Ukrainka
sector, north of Odessa, the Russians
overwhelmed two Rumanian trench
lines and quoted prisoners as saying
the Germans had shot at least 17C
Rumanians for failing to hold. More
than "a localities were taken south
of Novo- Ukrainka in the drive which
is pushing the Germans back on
Odessa, the Russians said.
The communique said II German
ships, including a transport, were
sunk by Russian airmen in Crimean
ports, indicating that the Nazis per-
haps were trying to evacuate the
peninsula which has been walled
off by the Russians for months.
Only small number of Germans
escaped from Vinnitsa, go miles
northeast of Mogilev-P Podolski, which
was taken after one Soviet unit, in
a surprise thrust across the Bus
River, entered the town from the
south, outwitting the Nazis who
expected the main blow from the
north, the bulletin declared. Huge
stores of war material were captured
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Late Bulletin
Red Cross Drive Gains

Today's reports in the Red
Cross campaign sent the total
of contributions past the
halfway mark with an ag-
gregate of S1,374,758, or 51.59
per cent of the goal. Govern
ment and general business
divisions reported an addi-
tional S140,883 today.
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1944-03-21
II Jap Ships Sunk,
4 by Submarines
And 5 by Flyers
American Subs Account
For IS Vessels, While
J Are Begged by British
By the Associated Press


The sinking of at least 27 Jap
anese ships was announced to-
day by Allied headquarters-22
OF them by submarines-as indi-
cations mounted that one Of
Japan's by-passed fortresses in
the Marshall Islands was about
ready for the final assault.
American submarines accounted
for Is ships in Pacific and Far East
waters, the Navy announced, bring
ing to 642 the number of japanese
vessels sunk, probably sunk or dam
aged by undersea craft.
Included in the American sub
marines toll were transports, 2
tankers and IL freighters.
Jap Convoy Wiped Out.
Seven ships were sunk and three
damaged by submarines of islands
In the Netherlands Indies, the Brit
ish Admiralty said. A large river
steamer, a smaller vessel of un-
designated type and a supply ship
were the only victims specified.
A flve-ship convoy, including two
transports and three corvettes, got
within sight of Japan's bomb bat
tered base at Wewak, New Guinea
before it was obliterated by more
than 100 5th Air Force planes in a
furious four-day battle.
In the Central Pacific Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz brought in his
mighty battleship guns to assist
carrier-bas planes soften up Mill
Atoll, once one of Japan's strongest
bases in the Marshalls.
Continuance of the Mill assault
was indicated by the fact that Ad-
miral Nimitz, in announcing the
combined battleship- carrier plane
attack last Sunday, lifted for the
first time in more than a month
his policy Of not designating raid
targets in the Eastern Marshalls, be-
cause Allied positions in the West
ern and Central Marshalls have cut
the Japanese communication lines
and Toxic might not know all the
details of the Eastern Marshalls
condition
1900 Japanese Killed.
Pilots returning from the Wewak
convoy battle estimated about 1,5OO
Japanese were killed or drowned
The convoy apparently was attempt
ing to sneak into Wewak with rein
lforcements.
While planes poured ll3 tons OF
bombs into WeWak's defenses during
the ninth consecutive daily attack
destroyers steamed boldly into We
walks harbor to shell shore installa-
tions.
Other planes hit Rabaul, New
Britain, with go tons Of fire bombs
and raided Ponape, in the Eastern
Caroline Islands, and other targets
in the Marshalls.
American troops on Manus Island
in the Admiralties continued their
pursuit of survivors of the Japa-
nese force driven out of Lorengau
the enemy's headquarters in those
islands, last Saturday. The in
vaders estimated that $500 Japa-
nese were killed in the four-day
offensive which won Lorengau
township and airdrome
Evening star., 1944-03-21
Stirbey Terms Denied

LONDON, Mar. 81 (P,.-A Tass
report broadcast last night from
Moscow and recorded by the Soviet
monitor said no Russian armistice
conditions had been handed to
Prince Barbu Stirbey, reputed peace
envoy to Cairo, "or any other Ru-
manian representative"
Evening star., 1944-03-21
SextupIe Birth Reported

MANAGUA. Nicaragua, Mar 81
.tP).-Sextuplets, four boys and two
girls, were reported today to have
been born to Paula Esquivel in
Potosi, near Rivas No confirma-
ton was available Immediately.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
SENATE PASSES
HIGHWAYS BILL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15-lREA
bill authorizing the federal govern.
ment to spend 81, ATS. 100000 on a
three-year postwar highway pro-
gram passed the Senate by voice
vote late today.
1t was sent to the House where
prospects were strong that action
would be deferred until after the
congressional recess for the No
vember election.
The measure authorizes the gov
eminent to spend 5000, 100000 a
year for three postwar years or
main line federal highways, $125,.
900, 900 for urban and $125, 100000
for farm-to-market roads. all the
funds to be matched by the states
on $3.50 basis.
An exception was made in the
case of Arkansas, the bulk Of
whose gasoline and other revenues
from highway users are now pledg.
ed to the amortization of road
bonds.
The Senate adopted by a vote Of
30 to %, an amendment by Sena'
tor Mcclellan (Ark) to provide
that any state which has pledged
all of it's highway revenues to tine
payment of road Indebtedness may
receive it's share of the federal al.
locations, even though it can not
match all such sums.
At the same time. it rejected a
proposal by Senators Ferguson and
Vandenberg, Michigan Repub'
licans, to permit the use of federal
money in the purchasing of rights
of way for highways in and adj
jacent to cities.
Senators Maloney O-Conn) ano
Danaher (R-Conn) lost their fight
for another amendment to provide
that in the apportionment of fed
eral money, no state shall re-
ceive less than an amount equal to
60 per cent of the federal gasoline
tax revenue collected in the state
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16

The presence here, belatedly,
OF British foreign minister An
thony Eden, of Sir Alexander
Cadogan, British permanent
undersecretary of state for for
eign affairs, and of secretary of
the treasury Morgenthau.
The fact that Allied troops
are swiftly wedging apart the
inner defenses of Germany it.
self, which calls for immediate
Qualification of policies on oc.
cupying the Reich and keeping
it under a heavy Allied thumb
until Nazi militarism no longer
threatensto scourge the world,
Eden's 3,3OO-mile flight to
Quebec, it can be said, has no
connection with plans for pull
verifying Japan. Actually, those
plans had been fairly well
worked out before the Ameri.
can president and British
prime minister ever made their
second journey to this pictures
que capital of old French Cam
ada
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-09-16
Roosevelt Churchill Meet Ends

s. QUEBEC, Sept. l5.. .-(R)-A
joint news conference at noon
tomorrow will draw the curtain
on the eighth and perhaps final
war conference Of President
Roosevelt and Prime Minister
Churchill and clear the way for
future and probably imminent
deliberations on cracking Ger
man economic and political
power. e &
The military phases of the
Quebec conference already are
over, Plans have been approx
ed and sealed for capitalizing
on Unexpectedly quick and deci-
sive victories in the Pacific
and for grinding Japan into
submission.
Necessarily the president and
Prime Minister must keep 81
lem, in tomorrow's press con-
ference, on the precise nature
of those plans. But apparently,
for the first time, they. have
been based on specific COM
mitments that Britain will sy-