davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Slight Cut in Food
For Civilians in 1914
Predicted by U. 5.
Estimote Says Military
And Leose-Lend Needs
Will Be Larger

The Agriculture Department
in the first official estimate of
overall food supplies for 1914
predicted today that total ci-
william stocks of foodstuffs may
be somewhat smaller than last
year despite indications of in
creased production.
The department said the estimate
is based on the fact that both mill
tary and lease lend requirement.
will be larger this year than in 1943
Shipments for European relief may
become a more important factor
than in the past" the department
reported.
Estimate Of Percentages.
Civilians may expect the follow
ing percentages OF foods. compared
with apparent consumption last
year:
Meat, 1o1 eggs, 1902; chickens, 90;
turkeys, 80; cheese, 80; condensed
and evaporated milk. II; fluid milk
and cream, 80; butter, 81; lard, 80;
margarine, 109; citrus fruits, 10;
canned fruits, 10: canned juices, 95;
frozen fruits, 1856; fresh vegetables
100; canned vegetables, 80; frozen
vegetables, 1877; sugar, 81; wheat
l02; rice, 100; corn, 1903; coffee, 139
and tea, 100.
In contrast to the department es-
innate of average supplies of meat
for this year the National Livestock
Producers Association predicted a
civilian famine" in pork and beet
within go days.
U. S. Policies Criticized.
That forecast was made at q
luncheon meeting of the association
yesterday at the Willard Hotel
where speeches backing up the
statement were made by Represent
ative Kleberg, Democrat, Of Texas
P. o. Wilson of Chicago, executive
director, and H. M. Conway, research
director for the association.
Criticizing the present govern
mental policies on livestock, they
laid most stress on the complaint
that from now on it will be practi-
cally impossible to refill cattle feed
lots. They reported liquidation
of cattle, sheep and hogs, prema-
turely.
THE curtailment in beef produc-
ton in the feedlot will become more
marked as the feeding season pro-
crosses" declared Mr. Wilson. "Alse
less beef will be produced this sea-
son in pasture and range areas
The only period later this year wher
we expect anything like adequate
beef supplies will be during the late
fall, when range cattle are marketed
and the slaughter of unfinished
cattle will take place. This will
assure only a temporary and sea.
sonal short supply of low-grade
beef during period of approx.
mately so days"
Evening star., 1944-02-08
BY DANIEL DE LUCE.

Associated Press Correspondent Represent
ing the Combined American Press.
WITH THE 5th ARMY ON THE
ANzIO BEACHHEAD, Feb. 7 de-
layed R.-Two German fighter
bombers in bright sunlight this aft
ernoon bombed crowded American
beachhead evacuation hospital, kill
ing % persons and wounding 63, in
cluding nurses.
Sixteen Of the dead and 43 OF the
wounded were members of the hos
pita's American personnel.
Two nurses were killed, three Sc
riously wounded, and one Red Cross
girl was wounded.
The figures were given by 1t. Col.
Hubert L. Blinkley, Denver, Colo,
hospital executive officer, who. es-
capped injury, but the death toll
already was mounting as he talked,
two hours after the raid at $50 pm.
Qn Washington the War De-
partment said the nurses were
the first to lose their lives
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Five Britons Reported
Doomed to Die in ItoIy

Hy the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. s,-The Nazi
DNB agency said today that six
escaped British prisoners of wal
had been arrested by Fascist police
in the Piedmont Alps of Northern
Italy and that five of them had
been sentenced to death.
The dispatch, which said that the
men had been hiding since the
Italian armistice, gave no reason
for the death sentence except that
they have been the terror of the
population"
The wireless dispatch was report
ed by United States Government,
monitors.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Allies Fall Back South Of Rome
To Readiust Defense Positions
Before Intense German Barraqe
Violent Fighting
Continues AIono
Casino Front
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Feb. 8.-German artillery
and planes laid down an intense
barrage today in the 100 square
miles of beachhead below Rome
and Allied troops have further
consolidated their positions
against heavier attacks to come
To the south violent fighting con.
tinued inside Casino and the nearby
mountains, but the Americans still
were unable to break the enemy's
steel grip on that gateway to the
Liri Valley leading to Rome. The
Germans held three-fourths of the
city and corridor leading to the
rear, although 500 had been taken
prisoner since January 26.
No major action was reported in
the Rome area where the Germans
continued to mass reinforcements
for major attempt to push the
Allies into the sea. The campaign
below the Eternal City, which had
started as brilliant success, had
deteriorated into a serious defensive
action
Patrols Probe Positions.
Field dispatches last night said
German artillery was pouring thou
sands of shells into the beachhead,
throwing as many as TOO or 300
shells into a single area in IS
minutes. Nazi patrols meanwhile
pfobed Allied positions all along the
line
From the mountain range be-
tween the beachhead forces and
Rome the enemy stares down into
every secret military spot, one cor
respondent wrote from the front.
ITO put it facetiously, this beach,
head army is living in a goldfish
bowl"
The Nazis have had time ito draw
armored reserves even from the in
terror of Germany and may be ex-
pected to continue to build up As
sociated Press Correspondent Daniel
de Luce said yesterday. He added
that Allied supplies also were con-
tinuing to pour ashore despite long
range shelling from the Germans.
Two Thursts Checked.
Mr.. de Luce wrote from the bridge
head that two minor attempts by
the Germans to break through Allied
outposts early yesterday were
checked and the Nazis were thrown
back. He said the Americans dealt
quickly with one German sortie
across no-man's land, while British
infantry. after a two-hour engage
ment, wiped out the other penetra-
ton.
Heavy artillery barrages continued
In the Casino area, but field reports
said the intensity of street fighting
in the town itself slackened yes
terday, with troops of both sides
wearied by battle.
The Americans made new gains on
Mount Casino, fighting up its north
ern slopes against numerous German
pillboxes and machine-gun nests.
The Germans resisted fiercely be-
cause the hill dominates Casino
and their corridor to it, There was
no indication here as to whether
the Germans were using the famous
monastery there as part of their
defenses.
NaZis Reinforced.
Correspondent Lynn Heinzerling
said, The Germans have been able
to reinforce their troops in town
and now are contending for every
block"
Almost every day a new German
unit is found among the troops op-
posing the 5th Army on this front" "
he added. Some Nazi engineering
units are even being employed as
infantry formations. Spearheading
the tenacious German defense are
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Murray and Mead
To Discuss Help
For Small Business

Senator Murray of Montana
and Senator Mead of New
York will discuss ways and
means of helping small busi-
ness, both at this time and
after the war. in the National
Radio Forum this evening.
Edward Boykin, director Of
the National Radio Forum,
will introduce the speakers.
The National Radio Forum
is a Blue Network feature,
arranged by The Evening
Star and broadcast locally
over The Evening Star Sta
ton, WMAL, at 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1944-02-08

the $l,051 300, 900 in excise tax in
creases shall take effect on the first
day Of the first month which begins
not more than 10 days after the
date of enactment of the act"
Would Lose One e-twelfth.
Nonsignature would make the ef-
fective date April l, rather than
March !, as enrolment clerks say
the measure cannot reach the White
House before tomorrow, and if Mr.
Roosevelt holds it for 10 days with
out signing it, as provided in the
Constitution, it would take effect 10
days later (Sundays excepted, OF
February 81. The result would be
loss of one-twelth of the $1,051,-
300 900 excise tax raise.
Without waiting to see what would
happen to this legislation, Congress
(See TAXES Page A-5O
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Congress Members in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 7 (P.-
Representatives Hebert, Democrat
OF Louisiana; Cole, Republican, Of
New York, and Hess, Republican, Of
Ohio, members of a House Nava1
Affairs Subcommittee, arrived here
yesterday on an inspection trip oi
United States naval facilities in the
Caribbean and South Atlantic.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Hitler Calls Dr.. Frank Home

LONDON. Feb. 8 (R.-Tass, official
Soviet news agency, said today that,
according to Stockholm reports, DR..
Hans Frank, German governor gen.
eral Of Poland, had been summoned
to Hitler's headquarters to report on
the political situation,
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Jake EorIy Reports
For Draft Physical
BY the Associated Prose

SPARTANBURG, S. c., Feb. g.
Jake Early, flrst-string catcher for
the Washington Nationals, reported
today at the Camp Croft induction
station for preinduction physical
examinations.
Early, who is %, came here from
mis- home town of Kings Mountain
N. c., has a son years old and a
daughter 19 months old.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
BY EDDY GILMORE.

ns'oei"teu rTess war Correspondent.
MOSCOW, Feb. 8.-The situa-
ton confronting Is German di-
visions trapped in the Dnieper
bend grew steadily more des-
perate today as the Red Army
cut down thousands of the Axis
troops and narrowed the circles
of death around the enemy
forces at Nikopol and Cherkasy
At the same time Russian and
German troops fought without quar-
ter In the outskirts of the rich man
ganese center of Nikopol into which
the Red Army penetrated yesterday
AS the bewildered Fascists fell back,
other troops of Gen. Rodion Y
Malinovsky's Sd Ukrainian Army
came to grips with the remnants
OF five fast-tiring divisions effec-
lively trapped in the Dnieper
outside the city.
One hundred miles north of Niko-
pol the 1st and I'd Ukrainian Armies
under Gems Nikolai Vatutin and
Ivan S. Konev reduced the Nazi-
held Cherkasy pocket to approx
mately 40 square miles by capturing
flve fortified towns within its outer
fringe. The Russians planted their
artillery within Smelling range OF
German airf1elds which heretofore
had offered the sole means of escape
to survivors of the 100000 troops
penned in this Russian
death trap.
Eighty Settlements Captured.
On the northern end of the 1900
mile-long front troops of Gen. M. M
Popov's I'd Baltic Army captured 80
settlements north and northwest of
Novosokolniki, Russian communi-
que said, and posed an immediate
threat to the German-held Pskoy-
Warsaw trunk railway.
AS the battles in the Dnieper Bend
roared to climax. the Russians
were on the verge of reconquerine
one OF the most important military
prizes still in German hands. This
was the Nikopol-Krivoi Rog area
whose mines furnish the greater
part OF the manganese so vitally
needed for Germany's war machine
It's loss would be a staggering blow
to the Reich's steel industry.
Nikopols desperate defenders re-
sorted to every trick they knew to
stop the Soviet onslaught. They
were fighting with dug-in tanks and
self-propelled guns at the city's ap-
but were outflanked and
crushed at every point, the COM
said. Five outlying viii
lages were overrun as the Russians
smashed into the eastern suburbs
among them Novo-Pavlovka, 3 miles
from Nikopol's center. Rail escape
routes are in the hands of the Rus
slams, and Red Army artillery is
shelling main highways to the west
the communique disclosed.
On the northern end of the lone
front, Gen. Leonid A. Govoroy's
Leningrad army was hammerine
further into Estonia and dislodgine
the Germans from their positions
east of Lake Peipus.
Nikopol Streets Clogged.
One Soviet force pushed down the
Vitebsk railway below Leningrad to
capture Cholovo, % miles north OF
the rail junction of Batetskaya and
Pelkovo.
A front line dispatch said great
disorder prevailed in bottled-up Mix
opol, with the streets clogged with
loaded trucks and the cars of Ger
man officers as the Russians cut of
the garrison from escape to the west
while on the east other Red Army
units battered their way into tn.
city.
Evening star., 1944-02-08
MESA Chief Due Here
For WLB Hearing on
Penalties for Strikes
Smith Heads Group Of 10
Coming to Explain Delay
In Ending WoIkouts
By the Associated Press.


Matthew Smith, leader of the
Mechanics Education Society of
America, was expected to come
here today to explain to the
War Labor Board why penalties
should not be imposed on his
organization for refusing to
terminate strikes promptly in
about A Ohio and Michigan war
plants.
Mr.. Smith, who is of British birth,
is secretary of the MESA, but, as in
British labor union practice, is the
recognized leader.
The MESA National Administra-
tive Committee called off the strike
yesterday and appointed group OF
10, including Mr.. Smith and MESA
President George White, to attend
todays WLB hearing, which was
called for 2:30 pm. Both men are
under subpoena. --.... ~
The boards hearing amounts to
an appeal to public opinion, because
it has few direct enforcement pow
ers OF its own. 1t may withhold un-
ion benefits, vague term which
might include wages as well as un-
ion maintenance anG the check-off
but has not yet been defined in an
actual case. 1t may ask the selec-
tive service to reclassify strikers
holding occupational deferments.
Union Asks Representation.
If the Government takes over
struck plants, any individual who
encourages strike in any way is
subject to arrest and criminal prose
cution.
MESA's 110-member Executive
Board, in calling off the strike
temporarily said it had taken the
action pending report from Wash.
lngton as to whether there is any
disposition on the part of Govern.
ment agencies having to do with
labor matters to give adequate repre-.
sentation to unions not affiliated
to the AFL and CIO."
Referring to AFL and CIO repre-.
sentatlon on the WLB, Mr.. Smith
said the society is determined II
hight "a situation in which indie.
pendent unions are tried by oul
enemies" in Federal agency proce-
dure.
The walkout last Friday resulted
from a National Labor Relations
Board hearing at Toledo on a peti.
ton from the CIO-United Automo-
bile Workers for bargaining
agency election among workers in
the Willys-Overland Motor Co
toolroom. Mr.. Smith said toolroom
employees previously had designated
MESA their representative.
The resolution of the Executive
Board noted that the union ire
serves the right to defend its in.
terests by the full use of its eco
nomic strength"
Strike Called "Disastrous."
Representative Randolph. Demo-
crat, of West Virginia told the
House yesterday the MESA dispute
may prove to be the most dis
aStrous since America went to war
Without the parts made by the
workers involved. he declared, nc
airplane, landing barge or tank
engine can be completed" and "the
Evening star., 1944-02-08
New j. ). Warninu
Given 10 Finland
Hull Reveals UItimutum
To Get Out of War
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Secretary of State Hull disclosed
today that the United States had
recently renewed its warning to Fin
land to get out of the war or accept
the consequences of continuing as
an ally of Germany.
The action was the first taken by
this Government with respect to
Finland for some time and suggest
ed that the Firms might be under
an Allied diplomatic as we'll as mill
tary offensive to force them out OF
the war.
The Secretary was asked at press
conference for information on Stock
holm reports that there had recently
been an exchange of communica-
tions between the United States and
Finland.
This Government, Mr.. Hull replied
has recently taken occasion to say
to the Finnish government, as it has
on a number of other occasions, that
the responsibility for the conse-
quences of Finland's collaboration
with Germany and continuance in
state of war with a number OF
this country's allies, including the
Soviet Union and Great Britain
must be borne solely by the Finnish
government.
MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (P.-The Rus
SLAMS have served notice on Finland
that the bombing of Helsinki Sun
day night is only prelude to what
Is to come.
The hour of retribution is COM
Ing" declared an editorial in the
government organ Izvestia. "Soon
the Firms will regret that the war
is continuing. But if they don t
regret now they will regret doubly
tomorrow"
Evening star., 1944-02-08
Plight Of Nazis
In Soviet Trap
Grows Worse
Bitter Bottle Roees
Near Manganese
Center Of NikopoI
BULLETIN.

LONDON (P.-The Red
Army has liquidated the Ger
man bridgehead at Nikopol,
manganese center in the
Dnleper bend, Moscow an
nounced tonight. The Niko-
pol bridgehead was the last
place held by the Germans on
the east bank of the Dnieper.
Evening star., 1944-02-08

tSee ITALY, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1944-02-08

(See MARSHALLS, Page AS.
Evening star., 1944-02-08

tSee STRIKES, Page A-5J
Evening star., 1944-02-08

(See AWARDS, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1944-02-08

(See TAXES, Page A-5.)
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-06-07

"Tistega dne ste mi prisegli,
da ste pripravljeni storiti vse,
"a kar vas prosim. Nj res %
"Da," zasepece zena zaeude-
no.
"Dobro torej! Danes tirjam
svojo place. vi morate, kakor
ste rekli sami, cakati tri leta ma
Milica, a JAZZ Sc bonn pobrigal
"a svojega nesreenega junaka.
Pozneje maj Sc pa zgodi vasa
VOLTA. Prisezite mil"
Ursula zadrhti. Komaj dina
joe izusti S togoto:
"Prisegam."
"Hvalite Boga, da .je prisel
Ambroz O pravem casu," ker b
sicer postal krivopriseznics
pred Bogom in pred svetom.'
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-06-07
ZADNJA KMECKA
VOJSKA
Zgodovinska povest il leta 1873
Spisal August SENOA - liz Hrv. poslov. L. J.
Zgodovinska povest il leta 1873

ram naJpreJ ufuApo, lid "a
bavo, da sc malo raztrese."
Ana Sc dvigne in gre pr OF i
vratom, a Sc nitro umakne, vra-
ia Sc odpro in pred njiju stopi
gospod Ambroz. zenski Sc pre-
strasita.
"Hvaljen Jezus!' pozdravi
Ambroz z zacudenjem zenski,
"zdi sc mi, da sta Sc me ustra-
Sill. Nenadoma sem stopil v hi
so. Prisel sem pref, kakor sta
me pricakovali. Kaj ne? Eli to
je tako, pozunski zbor Sc je raz-
Sci, in evo me tukaj! Bill sem re
donna v Brezovici, obiskal sem
svoje posestvo pri Brezcu, vr-
| mil sem Sc tudi v Mokrice, da
YAM povem kaj vasi pravdi,
in nazadnje sem prisel semkaj
"a vami. Kje je Zofija?"
"V hisi je," odvrne Anka zme-
demo, "gtovo je pri kakem O.
pravilu.'
"Poiscite jo, gospa Anka.
Gospa Konjska pogleda "a hip
svojo mater in gre nato il sobe,
Ambroz pa Sc vsede ma stol.
"Gospa Ursula" izpregovori
in upre ostro svoj pogled v ze-
no, wi mozite Zofijo?'.
"Kdo YAM to pravi?" ostrmi
Ursula.
"Vasa rdecica, gospa, in Mar
ia v Mokricah, XII Sc je Mi pri-
tozila Zofija."
"Jaz mislim,' zajeclja vdova
ida je re zrela "a mozitev."
"a Milic, ubogi Milic, katere'
ga bo vasa naglica unieila, X
caka, Bog We kje, v trpljenju ir
XII ste mu prisegli? Kje innate
srce?"
"Ne grajajte me po krivici
gospod Ambroz," rece Ursula
"tri leta so re minula, a o Mi
lieu nj ne duha ne sluha in Sc
gotovo vec ne vrne. zal mi je
A cas- hiti in hci je re zrela. ze
linn, da Sc deklica omozi, nocem
: da mi vene neljubljena. Nj Ii tt
pametno?'
"Da, pamet brez srca, gospa
Srce mi polka, ko pomislim, ka
ka nesreca je zadela tega do
! brega mladenica, srce mi polka
ko vidim, kako vene Zofija q
MIN. Njegov zascitnik sem, is
: kal sem ga poVsodl. Vse brei
uspeha in ne bonn mogel iti
mirno vestjo grob. Toda NOR
da Sc zivi, morda!"
"Morda? Da vene Zofija s
tri leta?" vprasa vjedljivo He
ningovica.
Starec jo osine z ocesom il
dvignivsi Sc, rece svecano:
"Gospa Ursula! Sc spominja
te omega dneva ma Susjegradu
ko sem sc zaradi vas dvigni
, mad bana, ko sem "a vas tvega
: svojo cast, imetje, da, cello gla
vo? Sell spominjate?"
"Spominjam se," rece Ursul
: in prebledi.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-06-07
(Nadaljevanje)

Toliko YAM povem ma kratko,
da Sc potolazite. Vse kaze, da Sc
mas vitez ne DO povrnil, ker Je|
niegovo posestvo, XII mu ga IL
pravlja Ambroz, prezadolzeno,
kajti revez je najel posojilo "a
Mogajicevo odkupnino. Vase sr-
ce je torej lahko mirno in u
pam, da bono tudi nit, XII jo re
predem tri leta, dopredli do kon-
ca. Taha je, kakor slisim, pre-
strasila pravda, XII ste jo vno-
vic vlozili pri banu in katero
sc ne morejo vtikati njegovi po-
zunski prijatelji."
I'm Ambroz?'
"Ne bojim Sc ga" Sc nasme-
hne Anka. "Zdi sc mi, da tudi
sam dvomi O svojem ljubljencu,
ker je vse njegovo iskanje brez-
vspesno. Vendar moramo biti O.
prezni. S te strani mas DO bra
nil Stepko, XII je "a poroko 70
file Tahovim simon. Tako, je
gospa matt, vse pripravljeno.
Dosti dolgo ste cakali, toda ca
ka mas najtezavnejsa naloga, da
zlomimo Zofijin odpor. Ste jo
re ma kak nacin pregovorili? ?"
"Govorila sem j mozitvi
sploh. Toda Tahovega sina j
nisem omenila."
"In ona?"
"Spustila Sc je v jok, obrnila
obraz in rekla: Matt, rotln
vas, ne govorite mi tenn. Stro-
go Sc drzim vase dane besede
prisegli ste Milicu, da postane
moi moz, in JAZZ sem mu prise
gla, da postanem njegova zena
Drzim sc svoje in vase prisege,
ker mi je Bog prica, da ljubim
tega cloveka, tako, da noe in
dan mislim samo mani. Tri leta
ga re nosim v srcu in nositi ga
hocem Sc tri leta, nositi ga no.
Gem vecnor
"Hci, sem j odgovorila, glej
toliko casa lie re minulo, a nisi
Sc slisala MEM glasu in vse
kaze, da sc ne vrne, da je po-
ginil. Nj, matt zaplaka ona
'srce mi pravi, da nj - Toda
ako je mrtev? il recem. Prise
gla sem mu, da te mu dam, &c
Sc vrne; a nisem mu prisegla
da te ne dam nikomur, ako sc
ne vrne. Nocem, da ostanes sta.
ra devica, da postanes nuna. TIE.
ga Sc nj dozivela nobena He
ningovica. Nekaj casa Sc poca'
kan, a potem Sc bos morala u.
kloniti materini wolff, kakor "a
poveduje Bog. - Zofija je prer-
bledela, 81 pokrila rokama O.
braz in sla IL sobe. Vidis, taks-
ma je."
"Vsemu temu je kriva nasa
Marta" maine z roko Ana
"toda| pocakajte, matt, ko be
par tednov v moi Soil, postane
mehkejsa.'
"Dal Bog" konca Ursula.
"Grem po MO, peljati jo mo-
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