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to organize the Utica Daily Press, of
which he was secretary-treasurer.
Mr.. Elwood was one OF the oldest
members Of the International Typo
graphical Union in the United
States, having joined in April, 1874.
He was a member of Columbia Typo
graphical Union, No. 101; Myron
Parker Lodge, F. A. A. NJ; Capital
Chapter, r. A. M; the Trestleboard
(Masonic) Club; Metropolitan Lodge,
I. o. o. F.; Stanton Park Citizens
Association, the National Association
Of Retired Federal Employees and the
Association Of Veteran Union Print
ers. He was a member also of the
Ninth Street Christian Church.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs.
Rexford L. Holmes and Mrs. Fred
erick Leslie Wight; a son, Ernest j.
Elwood, and five grandchildren and
three great grandchildren, all of
Washington.
Funeral services will be held at
1890 am. Monday at the Lee funeral
home. Burial will be in Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
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Commons 10 Invite
Congress Delegation

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 1l.-A delegation
OF members of the United States
Congress will be invited by Parlia-
ment to visit Great Britain as
guests of the British government
in the near future, it was disclosed
last night.
The invitation will be extended
by the House of Commons on its
next sitting day and it is understood
here that Congress will approve the
proposal as soon as it is received.
The delegation, size of which is
to be left to Congress, will include
Democrats, Republicans and men,
bers Of the minority parties in both
Houses.
The visit is scheduled to last sew
eral weeks and will include trips
to United States military stations
in Great Britain. Members of the
delegation also will be given the
opportunity Of studying the British
war effort at first hand, 1t was said.
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ment for some months. As regards
the two parachutists dropped in
Ireland last December, they were ap-
pretended within few hours. Two
other agents dropped here since the
war began met with similar fate.
The fifth, who arrived during the
first year of the war, remained at
large until December 3, 194l, but the
police we're aware of his presence
here almost from. the first moment
of landing, and successful activities
on his part were rendered impos-
sible.
The total number of persons, In
elusive Of these parachutists. sus-
pected of intentions to engage in
espionage, and now held in Irish
prisons, is 10 foreign and two Irish
nationals. These are the facts. and
1t is doubtful if any other country
can show such record Of care and
successful vigilance.
The British government have In
formed the Irish government that
they welcome the initiative Of tho
hAAiCi ASdlA N<ofNA al
the note and that they attached the
utmost importance to 1t.
The Irish government do not wish
to comment on this, except to re-
mark that 1t is perhaps not known
to the American Government that
the feelings of the Irish people to-
wards Britain have during the war
undergone considerable change
precisely because Britain has not
attempted to violate our neutrality.
To Safeguard U. S. Interests.
The Irish government feels sure
that the American Government
would agree that 1t would be re-
grettable If any incident now should
alter that happy result.
The Irish government are there
fore safeguarding. and will continue
to safeguard, the interests Of the
United States, but they must In all
the circumstances protect the neu-
trality of the Irish state and tho
democratic way of life Of the Irish
people. Their attitude will continue
to be determined not by fear of any
measures which could be employed
against them but by good will and
the fundamental friendship existing
between the two peoples.
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|0WI Domestic Branch
Pares Funds Request
Below Previous Slash
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

The domestic branch of the
Office of War Information,
which complained last year it
would be unable to function on
the "skeletonized" budget ap-
proved by Congress, has decided
it can operate on even less
money in the next fiscal year, it
was learned today.
To the accompaniment of ora
torical blasts at the direction and
efficiency of owl, Congress last
June pared the domestic branch's
budget for the current fiscal year
from approximately $4,000 900 to
81, 100000. A budget calling for ap-
'proximately $2,350 900 has been pre-
pared for the fiscal year, beginning
July /.
Credit for cutting agency expenses
to the bone is given to George w.
Healy, jr., New Orleans newspaper
executive who has been domestic
director only since January. Asso-
ciates said the first thing Mr.. Healy
asked for was ''look at the bud
get" He eliminated some unneces-
sary functions that had escaped the
scrutiny of Congress.
Data Shown to Budget Office.
Mr.. Healy already has shown his
new figures to the Budget Bureau.
He said 1t will be tight fit to take
care of all his necessary activities
with the reduced amount, but he
believes it can be done.
Just how owl will fare when 1t
asks Congress for another year of
life Is difficult for officials to fore
see. There has been less criticism
of the domestic branch, however,
since Palmer Hoyt, Mr.. Healy's pred
ecessor. took over last summer.
The domestic branch not only
has lived within its small budget
this year, but has had enough left
over to take care of employe over
time payments, something. most
agencies have received extra funds
to do. Congress appropriated some
100000 in this years budget for
liquidation Of Owl functions it did
not like. Those activities were ter
minated at less expense, and there
were sufficient funds left to pay
overtime.
Uses Established Media.
Mr.. Healy explains that his
agency can operate far more eco
nomically than in the past because
it now uses established media
newspapers, radio, magazines and
the motion picture industry-for its
campaigns. For example, in the
early days, Owl made it's own war
campaign motion pictures. This
function alone cost about $1,750 900
year. Now it gets the big studios
to do the job free and only $4,000
a year is needed to maintain an in
dustry liaison Office.
The Owl official believes better
job is done under the new arrange
ment.
Mr.. Healy finds it difficult for his
branch to get by with any sizable
reduction in personnel. His new
payroll will number 549-four less
than at present
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Germans Increasing
Forces in Yugos|avia
To Peak Strength
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Mar. 11.-Increase of
German forces in Yugoslavia to a
new peak of strength was reported
in delayed dispatch today on the
heels of a Berlin statement that
Allied Commands had landed on
the Adriatic island of Lissa and that
other raids along the Dalmatian
coast might be expected.
Associated Press Correspondent
Daniel De Luce, in a dispatch from
Bari, Italy, dated March /, quoted
high officers of Marshal Tito's ma
tional liberation army as saying the
Nazis now had elements of 20 divi-
sions in Yugoslavia, but that their
winter offensive had failed in the
primary objective of crushing Tito's
forces.
The officers declared German oc-
cupation of nine important Dali
matian islands-Korcula, Brac, Hvar,
Sofia, Drvenik, Uljan and Pasman
in the Split area, and Kirk and
Cherso near Fiume, was accom-
plished at heavy cost in lives, but
failed to stop Allied supplies from
reaching the Partisans.
The Berlin radio, in a broadcast
unconfirmed by any Allied source.
asserted yesterday that British and
American Commands led by a
Gen. Churchill" had landed on
Lissa apparently with the objec-
tive Of securing the tiny isle as a
supply base for the Partisans.
The reference to Churchill sug-
gested that it might be Capt. Ran
dolph Churchill, 80, Prime Minis
ter Churchill's son, who recently
was reported to have parachuted
into Yugoslavia to confer with Tito.
Other Britons speculated Berlin
might have meant Brig. j. A.
Churchill, former aide de camp to
the King. who led a Commando raid
into Sicily.
The Bari dispatch said the Par
tisar officers declared that heavy
Allied air raids had whitfield down
German air strength in Dalmatia
and Bosnia to the lowest level of
the war, but that the Nazis were
building fighter bases deep in the
country in anticipation of mighty
bombings of Austria and Hungary
in the spring.
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First WAC Unit in Pacific
Goinq 10 Pearl Harbor

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Mar. 1.-THE first
Women's Army Corps unit to be
assigned to the Pacific area will be
sent to an Army air base near Pearl
Harbor soon, says Maj. Geraldine
May, WAC staff director for the
Air Transport Command.
81 There is no doubt as to the sort
OF welcome the women will get"
Maj. May declared yesterday. "The
news of the impending arrival of
WACS gave a big boost to morale
among the men stationed in
Hawaii.
The women will serve as stenogra-
phers, typists, clerks, craftsmen.
dlspatchers and Photographic labo-
sratory technicians.
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By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Mar. 1.-THE Irish In
Dublin were reported giving enthu-
siastic approval today to Eamon de
Valera's rejection Of United States
request for closing German and
japanese diplomatic Offices in Fire,
but the British press strongly de-
plored his action.
There is every reason to believe
that America does not intend to re-
gard the matter as closed" said the
London Daily Mirror. Britain, al
though not taking part in the pres
ent negotiations is expected to act
jointly with America in taking any
steps considered necessary"
Advices from Dublin, although
pointing out that the Irish people
were determinedly behind Mr.. de
Valera in desiring to continue their
neutrality, said Dubliners were
aware it would be possible for the
United States to apply economic
sanctions in an effort to force clos
ing Of the Axis listening posts in
Fire. A great part Of the country's
food is imported and 1t lacks ships.
One qualified Dublin source said
THE people in Fire are in no mood
at this stage Of the war to invite
possible Nazi raids against the coun-
try by such slap in Hitler's face"
'The governments reply repre-
sents the will of the Irish people, /"
said the Irish Free Press.
With American troops in North
ern Ireland and with western front
shipping plowing the Atlantic, the
question of enemy spy work is con-
sidered especially urgent at this
time and the London Daily Mail
declared:
Enemy agents in Dublin have for
too long been able to spy on us
almost on our own doorstep. They
jeopardize the safety of free nations,
among which Fire Is numbered"
In Belfast, staff members Of the
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Turkish Ambassador
To Britain RESIGNS
By the Associated Press.

BY The Associated Press.
ANKARA, Mar. 11.-Husein Rauf
Orbay, SO, Turkish Ambassador to
Britain, has resigned, it was an
nounced last night.
fTl1e announcement gave no
reason for Orbay's resignation,
but Britain and Turkey have
been at odds recently over the
rate of delivery of war materials
to Turkey)
Orbay, stocky, gray-haired
bachelor who speaks English with
the ease of his native tongue, was
appointed Ambassador to Britain In
February, 1912.
Evening star., 1944-03-11
Choutemps in Tonqier

NEW YORK, Mar. II R.-The
Paris radio said today that Camille
Chautemps, former French premier,
had arrived at Tangier in the inter-
national zone of Morocco and was
going either to Spain or Portugal
United States Government monitors
reported, He has been in French
North Africa.
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49, sAAA oaVNJ241o-
bile acci d e n t
n e ar Athens,
Ga, Thursday,
were to be held
at l pm. today
at G h a m b e r s.
Georgetown flu
n e r al ON e.
Burial will be at
Marshall, Va.
, The Rev. STAN
ley Ashton, rec
tor of St. George
E p i S C o p a |
Church, Arling-
ton, will ofnciate
at the services.
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= Mr. Brent and the former Mrs.
Violet Anderson, 3437 Eads street
NE, were married March 8 at Ar
lington. They were en- route to
Burlington, N. c., where Mr.. Brent
was to assume new post as
Government inspector of aircraft,
when the car crashed into a bridge.
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Michele MORGAN Noturu|ized

LOS ANGELES, Mar. IL R.-
Michele Morgan, French film actress,
was granted United States citizen
ship yesterday. Born in Neuilly,
France, "A years ago, Miss Morgan
came to Hollywood in 1910. She
was married in 1912 to Bill Marshall,
actor.
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SPSSAA IVA Wv
NV.
A native of
S t ock b r ridge,
N. Y, Mr.. FL
wood came to
Washington in
1901. He was
employed by the
Gov e rn m e n t
Printing Office
for 81 years
prior to his re-
tirement in 1923.
He formerly was
a prin ter in
U tica, N. Y,
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Veteran of 1898 Killed

PARSONS, w. Va, Mar. IL (P.-
Victor Emanuel Werium of Davis,
75-year-old Spanish-American war
veteran, was killed in an automobile
accident at Sparrows Point near
Baltimore yesterday.
Evening star., 1944-03-11
Robert Weekly Promoted

- Robert Weekly, 3421 North Sew
enteenth street, Arlington, former
Arlington County police officer. has
been promoted to petty officer, third
class, his family has been informed.
Mr.. Weekly enlisted in July.
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Double Rites Are Set Today
For Victims Of Car Crash

A double funeral for Hugh Brent,
40, of 1901 North Pollard street
Arlington, Va, and his bride of
less than week, who were killed
Evening star., 1944-03-11
Ernest J. E|wood, 81,
Retired Printer, Dies

Ernest j. Elwood, 81, retired
printer and proofreader in the Gov
ernment Printing Office, died yes
terday at the Home for Incurables.
271N TY,>kov, -&reo&
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DECLARED AXIS SPY BASE-Ireand (backed n)
the United States of being Axis spy lies
principal convoy lines from England ne sps)
AS distance circles reveal the Irish
Japanese officials is within relatively
vasion preparations anywhere Great Britain
land itself is concentration point for American troops
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Mrs. e. NelclOn

UTICA-Mrs. Anna Newton
passed away at Pontiac hospi-
tai, early Wednesday morning
following a long illness.
Mrs. Newton was born in
Oakland county on June 4, So
years ago, and lived her entire
life in Oakland county. For the
past rs years she has resided in
Troy. She was the daughter of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. John Stay
She is survived by her hus-
band, CLANCY; one son, Harold
Newton, and three grandsons,
James, Robert and Edward
Newton. Also surviving are
three sisters, Mrs. Harry Bias
sett, OF Detroit; Mrs. Andrew
Burr, and Mrs. Herman Zollner,
of Utica; one brother. John Stay,
of Seattle, Washington.
Funeral services will be con-
Quoted from the family home,
126 19-Mile road, Troy, Michi-
gan, Friday, March II, at 2 o.
clock, Rev. Howard Smell, of the
Troy Methodist church, officiat-
ing. Burial will take place in
the Union Corners cemetery, E.
A. Schwarzkoff of Utica in
charge.
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John j. FOrtOn

Funeral services will be held
here Friday for John j. Forton,
age So years, a native Macomb
County resident, who died Tues
day at st. Joseph's hospital fol-
lowing a lengthy illness.
MIR. Forton, who lived on a
farm at 1889 Wolf road, was the
son of the late Theodore and
Anastasia Forton, and had spent
his entire life in this vicinity,
apart from army service in
World War I. He was a member
Of the American Legion and
Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
by trade was carpenter, in adj
dition to his farming work.
He is survived by his widow,
Ruth; two children, Joyce and
Ted; three brothers and four sis
tiers; Richard, Lawrence and
Nicholas, and Mrs. Fred Baum
gartner, Mrs. Liby Forton, Mrs.
Charles Campau and Mrs. Hen
ry Rattell.
The funeral will take place
Friday from the family resi-
dence at 10 a. m, with services
at St. Louis church at 1890 a.
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WV. Auxiliary
Presents Flags
Brownie Troops
Receive EmbIems

In continuance of their pro-
gram of presenting American
flags where needed to public
bodies, the A m ericanization
Committee of the Veterans OF
Foreign Wars Auxiliary chose
two Girl Scout Brownie troops
for this weeks program.
Mrs. O. d. Kimberlin, chair
man of the VIEW committee
yesterday presented a large flag
to Mrs. Rus sell Branyan' S
Brownie Troop, and on Friday
will make similar donation to
the Brownie group directed by
Mrs. Sam Levine.
The Women'S auxiliary re-
Gently presented an eXtra-l large
American flag 10 Macomb
County, in conjunction with a
special steel flagstaff from the
Veterans Of Foreign Wars Post.
The flag will be displayed at the
Roll of Honor memorial on the
southwest side of the County
Building. Mrs. Kimberlin APP
peared at Board Of Supervi-
sors meeting and made the pres
entation.
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Raj
Continued from Page II


portant industrial target, 800
miles southeast of Berlin and
$50 miles southeast of London,
was being ground to pieces by
the impact of the terrific load,
other British airmen hit at Mum
ich in southwest Germany, other
targets in southwest Germany
and smashed at railway objec-
tives in Amiens, France, with
their heavy bomberS.
Forty-one Britis h aircraft,
following up the blow at the air.
craft center of Brunswick yes
terday by the American Fortress
and Liberator fleets, were lost
in the huge night invasion of the
German air.
The weather prevented i'm
mediate observation Of the re-
suits, but towards the end of the
attack the glow Of large fires
were seen through the clouds"
the air ministry said in announc-
ing the Stuttgart attack.
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Ford
Continued from Page u

NSohthuCu iiuiu a8C
newly-elected president of Ford
Local 600, said they were in
veStigating the new suspensions
along with ten others and ten
discharges resulting from a
demonstration and unauthorized
strike in the aircraft engine
plant last week. Then Grant
added:
THE position OF the Local
and the International is that we
will conform to the no-Strike
pledge and anyone found partic-
ipating in a disturbance against
this pledge will not be given UNI
ion support.
A Ford spokesman said the
latest suspensions were handed
out after interviews with those
accused of participating in the
blockade, and lin the presence
and with the consent of officers
of Local 600 and the Interna-
tional Union" He estimated that
at least 90 per cent of those
questioned admitted a part in
the incident, which sharply cur
tailed production of Pratt g.
Whitney engines on three shifts.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-03-16
Martha Si,,allsS

Miss Martha Simms, age rs
years, of 202 Hubbard avenue,
died early today at her home
following a four years illness.
Miss Simms was the daughter
of native English parents, DAN
iel and Martha PARROT Simms,
and was born in BEDFORD, Mich.
AS young girl she came to this
city to live with Attorney and
Mrs. Frank Monfort and remain
ed here since that time. She en-
joyed a wide friendship among
the older generation.
She is survived by three Sis
tiers, Mrs. Ruth Starkey, of Mt.
Clemens; Mrs. Hattie Clench, Of
Huntingdon Woods, and Mrs.
Carrie Mcconnell, of Chicago,
and a brother, Warren, of De-
troit. Mrs. George Simms, Of
this city, is a sister-in-law.
The funeral will take place
at p. m, Saturday, with serv-
ices at the Duncan B. Hubbard
Funeral Chapel. Burial will be
in the Monfort family lot, Clin-
ton Grove Cemetery.
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Mrs. j. "A. PreUOSt

Mrs. Virginia Deneweth Pre-
vost, age 80 years, who in her
childhood observed the last Ma
comb County Indians who trad
ed at the Deneweth farm on the
Hall road, died at her home, 221
East Broadway, on Wednesday
morning following an illness.
Mrs. Provost was the widow
of Joseph A. Provost, local real
estate agent, who died in 1882.
The deceased woman was
born on the Hall road farm OF
her parents, Felix and Amelia
Deneweth, who had settled
there in 1855. She was one of IL
children, and she and her late
husband had II children. There
are II grandchildren and six
reat-grandchildren surviving.
Her father operated a grist
mill, the only one for miles
around, and the Deneweth farm
was a social and farming CEN
ter. Mrs. Provost often recall
ed the Indians who settled near
the farm, and used the large
outside ovens on the property
for baking. She was educated
in nearby schools and in 1879
was married to Joseph Provost,
then a theological student. For
the past As years she had lived
at 221 East Broadway. She was
formerly active in the Altar So
ciety of st. Peters Church, but
since the establishment of st.
Louis parish had been a men,
Der of that congregation by vir-
tue of residence in that area.
Of her IL children, two, Lii
liam and Arthur, predeceased
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Beet Growers
10 Meet Here
Acreage increase
Sought in Area l.

Spurred on by an appeal Of
the War Food Administration
for increased sugar beet acre.
age, the Mount Clemens Sugar
Beet Association will hold an
all-day meeting for district
farmers here Monday, with a
complimentary lunch served at
noon by the local sugar factory.
The informal discussion, with
several talks scheduled by gov
eminent and crop experts, will
take place at Barron Hall, above
the First National Bank build
ing, Gratiot and New street.
The area Of the local sugar
factory, operated by the Frank
lin County Sugar Beet Com
pany, comprises seven counties
besides Macomb: Monroe, Oak
land, Washtenaw, st. Clair, La
peer, Genesee and Wayne.
From this area the local fac
tory could handle as high as q
yield of 10000 acres, but due to
manpower shortages planting of
5000 to 5000 acres will be re-
garded as successful this year,
officials safe. The nations food
basket requires generous SUI
gar supply this year, due to hea-
Wy army, navy and Lend-Lease
demands.
Farmers who are unable to
attend the full session of Mon
days meeting, are urged to at
tend for an hour or two. The
meeting commences at 1890
a. m., and lunch will be served
at noon.
Movies to be shown by NJ. ].
Buschlein, Saginaw beet sugar
expert, will depict the latest ad-
vances in laborssaving machin-
cry, as we'll as Improved meth
DDS of growing, cultivating, top
ping and harvesting.
A. B. Love and Richard Bell,
of Michigan State College will
speak, and also Phil Goldsmith,
growers field secretary for East
ern Michigan.
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Junk License
Stotus Still
Is Unchanged

Two city commissioners who
last week refused to honor cit
liens petition 10 revoke the Ii
cense granted for junk yard on
Hubbard avenue, last night
stuck TO their guns before bar
rage of criticism voiced by Hub
bard district residents who OPP
posed the license action.
Neither Commissioner Fred j.
Breitmeyer or Thomas G.. Long
staff, who voted for the junk
yard license, would respond to
the plea of Commissioner Ed
ward ]. DuBay (64 Hubbard
avenue) that the matter be vot-
ed on again.
Rules Of procedure require
that only a commissioners who
voted for permit can make a
motion to bring it up again for
reconsideration.
After more than an hours de-
bate, the junk-yard license
granted to George Leroy, of
South Broadway, several weeks
ago, still remained in effect.
Citizens who protested left the
commission chambers intimating
they will seek to eliminate sthe
junk yard from their neighbor-
hood by court action.
Ivan A. Johnston, attorney,
appeared for Leroy. He point
ed out that the city may restrict
Vineyards to certain areas, but
may not prohibit such a business
under the constitution. He said
that the district adjoining the
railroad tracks was designated
by law some years ago as an
area suitable for such business,
and the proposed yard is within
this area. He stated that Leroy
has spent approximately $1,000
on the project since a license
was granted.
A number of Hubbard avenue
residents made strong pleas to
the city fathers to rescind their
action in granting Leroy a per-
NIT. They cited property de-
probation and nuisance aspects.