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Navy New Ship Goal
Cut From 81 10 Z
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PresS.
The Navy today slashed from "a
warships to II a program of new
construction announced March s.
Instead of big new feet of war;
ships of all categories, including
battleships and cruisers and aggre-
eating 636,860 tons. the Navy said
only IL escort carriers of 10000
tons will be constructed.
In making the announcement the
Navy said the original program was
conceived as insurance" to meet
the possibility of additional losses as
the tempo of the Pacific war in
creased and the battle line ap-
preached closer to Japan.
When the program was initiated
it was estimated that, if the progress
of the war made it evident that the
additional ships would not be
needed, the program could then be
abandoned
1t was learned that a decision by
the joint Chiefs of Staff trimmed
the $1,000, 100000 investment in
fighting craft.
simultaneously, it was reported
that the Maritime Commission is
being questioned before the joint
Chiefs of Staff on the need for
building about 40 new tankers now
planned for delivery this year and
next.
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The White House said the mes

The White House said the mes
sage went out March 16.
Mr.. Daniels, continuing, said the
President also had asked the dele
gates to the San Francisco Con-
ference to hold their personal stats
to a compact group 80 we won't
have q strain on transportation
within the country or on hotel
facilities, SO we can take care of our
distinguished guests from other
countries"
Asked then If this step by the
President was based solely on the
need for tightening the burden on
hotels and transportation facilities,
Mr.. Daniels responded, We'll, so
far as the Ambassadors and Min
isters in the other countries are
concerned, it is felt at this time
that they ought to be on their own
jobs "
The colloquy ended at about that
point. Shortly thereafter, however,
news dispatch declaring that ofl-
cialdom had been alerted began to
gain circulation and then the calls
to the White House started.
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Submarine AIbacore Lost
On Patrol; IS in Crew

The submarine Albacore is over
due from patrol and presumed lost,
the Navy announced today. The
1,525-ton vessel, commissioned on
June l, 1912, was commanded by 1t.
Comdr. Hugh r. Rimmer, San
Francisco, Calf. The Navy said
the next of kin of the approximate
ly 65 officers and men aboard have
been notified.
The area in which the vessel was
operating was not disclosed, but it is
believed to- have been one of the
large fleet in the far reaches of the
Pacific.
The Albacore is the 35th SUBJ
marine which has failed to return
from patrol since Pearl Harbor, and
the 41st lost from all causes since
the beginning of the war. The AL
hacore was the 275th naval vessel
Of all types lost during the war.
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MAP on Page 81

f. the Associated Press.
PARIS, Mar. 27.-American 1st
Army tanks today burst into
Weilburg, 244 miles southwest of
Berlin, in a mighty breakout east
of the Rhine, and the Germans
said 1t. Gen. George S. Patton's
rampaging Sd Army had crashed
to Lohr, 225 miles from the Reich
capital.
1t. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges LIST
Army, using the greatest tank force
ever loosed on the western front,
had struck at least 43 miles east of
the Rhine and had emerged from
high hills near the Rhine onto the
fiat, sparsely wooded flatlands of
Central Germany-ideal for armored
maneuvers.
Lohr is 40 miles southeast of
Frankfurt-on the Main, where Gen
Patton's troops were fighting, and
81 miles northwest of the Bavarian
city of Wuerzburg. The dash ap-
peared to have cut the Stuttgart
Hanover highway, which Berlin
broadcast termed the most vita.
communication back of the 'front.'
so Miles Beyond Rhine.
Lohr is deep in Bavaria. rs miles
northwest of the Nazi shrine city
of Nuremberg (431 ,000) and 81 miles
northeast of Stuttgart (460,000). II
Evening star., 1945-03-27
District Firms Hit
Hard by Government
Labor Priorities
Privote Industry Hos
Little Chance to Get
Any Type Of Workers
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

Ninety-five per cent of all
Washington private employers
have virtually no chance to get
badly needed secretaries and
stenographers and only a slim
chance of getting other types of
workers because the Govern
ment has a higher priority for
labor. it was learned today.
With the exception of few Gov
ernment agencies in priority group
3, all Government agencies are in
group S. Only 100 private firms out
of an estimated 10000 here rate
priorities in groups l to S.
Under frightened restrictions effec-
tive this week, it was learned, the
United States Employment Service
cannot refer clerical workers to Jobs
below group 5 without written ex-
planation to the War Manpower
Commission. Manpower officials ad-
mitted this meant virtual halt on
supplying workers to the other es-
sential and locally needed firms here
VINO rate priority group b.
Group 6 Orders Heavy.
At the beginning of March, ac-
cording to USES figures, there were
more job orders on file for group 6
firms than for the first five groups
put together, excluding Government.
1t is virtually impossible, it was
! learned, to fill these orders because
all clerical workers and a substan-
tial proportion of the industrial
workers are siphoned off by Gov
ernment agencies.
Flooded with protests from pri-
vate employers who locate workers,
send them to the USES for proper
referral and then lose them to
Government, Area VINO Director
Ernest v. Connolly, it was learned,
has repeatedly urged the Man
power Priorities Committee to give
private employers a fair proportion
of the available supply.
He has also advocated setting up
a priority system for Government
agencies so that agencies which
are less essential to the war effort
would not have higher claim on
labor than essential private estab-
ishments.
No Response to Request.
So far, he not only has gotten no
response to his repeated request,
but in the past week the situation
has become more critical. Al
though the priority system has been
in effect for months, study of
February placement reports, it was
learned, showed that 80 per cent of
the placements among white COL
lar" workers here were for less
essential jobs.
AS a result, it was explained, the
Area Labor Management Commit
tee reaff1rmed its policy that no
stenographer, typist, secretary or
general clerical worker should be
referred to any priority group be-
low group S.
There are some exceptions but
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Americans Establish
Ryukyus Beaehhead,
JapCommuniqueS Says
Landings Unconfirmed
By Nimitz; New B-29
Kyushu Roid Reported
By the Associated Press.

~S NN-' NASSoSAs@NS~
GUAM, Mar. 27.-A japanese
imperial communique announced
without equivocation today that
American forces established
beachheads Sunday on the Ke-
rama Islands, just off Okinawa,
in the Ryukyus.
The customary claim of annihilat-
ing enemy landing forces was omit
ted in the communique broadcast
intercepted by the Federal Com
Commission.
The japanese report Of landings
has not BEEN confirmed by Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz's headquarters.
American communiques, however,
did report damaging blows to ia
pans underside by B-29s, B-24s and
fleet surface and aerial lombard
ments
Here are some of the blows dealt
the Japs:
|. Shore installations of Okinawa
Island were raked by Admiral Ray
mond A. Spruance's 5th Fleet guns
for three consecutive days. The
Tokyo radio said they had entered
the fourth day.
2. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitsch-
er's swift carrier planes. which re-
Gently raided the nearby home is
land of Kyushu, rip-sawed and
blasted Okinawa's air installations
The Tokyo radio said 1850 United
States carrier planes knitted into
Okinawa's vitals.
3. A large fleet of Marianas-based
B-29s raloed homeland airdromeS,
within easy airplane reach of Oki-
naWa
4. Planes operating from the
Philippines, Gen. Macarthur an
nounced today, continued to pound
Formosa's s air installations to the
south of Okinawa.
Bespeaking its fears, the Tokyo
radio said: Behind the large-scale
operations of the enemy forces there
Evening star., 1945-03-27
GoebbeIs' Aide Tells People
Not 10 Look for Miracle
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Mar. 27-The German
people were told today by an aide
of Propaganda Minister Paul Jo-
seph Goebbels that this was a week
of highest decision in which it would
be futile to look around for a
miracle from the outside"
Mind you," said the commenta-
tor, DR.. Otto Kiregk, on the German
home radio, this decision has to be
fought out"
1--WE had hoped to fight the bat
tie of decision far beyond the bor-
ders of the German lebensraum.
We have failed in this aim and now
the burden is even heavier because
We have to fight on German soil.
80 We walk into a week of high
est decision fully conscious of our
strength, knowing the Allies have
troubles in occupied territories and
that, If We keep up our resistance,
success will be ours in spite of ALL"
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By HAL BOYLE,


ON THE ROAD TO BERLIN,
Mar. 27.-This is the greatest
armored joyride in history-and
Adolf Hitler literally paved the
way to his own downfall.
The great single and double lane
highways he built in peace to shuttle
his armies out from the heart of
Germany to attack neighboring
countries are proving his undoing.
They are smooth concrete ave-
nues to Berlin and other great Ger
man cities over which the mightiest
masses of armor ever assembled in
the west are rolling at true blitz-
krieg pace in a dozen columns,
coming from so many directions the
Germans are powerlesS to Scrape
together enough troops to halt them
all.
The Yank columns have swept
through some towns SO fast that
the householders hadn't time to
Evening star., 1945-03-27
House Passes
Manpower Bill,
.167 10 160
Senute Also Nav
Act on Compromise
This Afternoon
BY j. A. OLEARY.

BY margin OF only seven votes,
the House today adopted the
compromise manpower bill, Civ
ing War Mobilization Director
Byrnes broad power to regulate
employment for the remainder
OF the war, including discretion
ary authority to freeze" work.
ers in essential plants.
The vote was 167 to 160
The conference agreement, de-
signed to end nearly three months
of congressional controversy, was
messaged Immediately to the Sen
ate, which may cast the deciding
vote later this afternoon or to-
morrow.
II the Senate approves it, the bill
will be ready to go to the White
House for the Presidents signature
Point of Order Overruled.
Before the House voted, opponents
failed in a move to block it on
point of order.
Speaker Rayburn overruled the
point, raised by Representative Har-
ness, Republican, of Indiana that
the conferees exceeded their au-
thority by writing a new bill that
goes beyond the provisions approved
originally by either the House or
Senate.
The Speaker cited occasions going
back to 1865 on which presiding Of
f1cers in the House have held trat
when one branch of Congress strikes
out all of the language adopted by
the other branch and adopts COM
plete substitute-as the Senate did
In this case-the conferees have
wide latitude to seek agreement on
any germane alternative plan.
However, Senators O'Mahoney Of
wyoming and Kilgore of West Vir-.
ginia, Democratic authors of the
milder bill the Senate approved two
weeks ago, are ready to make a last
ditch stand against the compromise
bill contending labor's record Of
production makes it unnecessary at
this stage of the war.
Odds Against Them.
The odds will be against them,
however, for several reasons First.
conference reports seldom are re-
Ijected, especially after one branch
ALREADY has acted. Second, several
Senators who helped fight for the
OMahoney-Kilgore bill originally,
will be backing the compromise.
They include Chairman Thomas.
Democrat, of Utah, who headed the
conferees, and Senators johnson,
Democrat, of Colorado, and Burton,
Republican, of Ohio.
The major difference between the
compronise and the Senate bill is
that it imposes penalties up to
$40, 900 fine or IL months in Jail, or
both, on employees and employers
alike, whereas the Senate placed
penalties on employers only.
The compromise does three things:
D Authorizes ceilings on the num-
Der of workers in any plant, 20 pro-
vides for the drafting of regulations
to govern hiring. rehiring and ac-
Eceptance of jobs by workers, 90 en-
powers War Mobilization Director
Byrnes to freeze" the employees in
any establishment when such action
is deemed necessary to keep war
production going.
The War Manpower Commission
has been endeavoring to carry out
the first two objectives by executive
order, but without enforcement
penalties. The freeze" authority is
new weapon
The compromise covers men and
women, without regard to age,
whereas the House labor draft bill
| ICoo NFANpOU1Ep pono AZ
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Late Bulletins N
Arqentino Declares War

BUENOS AIRES R-Ar-
gentina today declared a state
of war with the Axis. An
nouncement of the action
followed a two-hour cabinet
session climaxing long delib-
Grafton on the Mexico City
Conference requirement for
rejoining the American fam
lily of nations.
Nine Generals Confirmed
The Senate Military Affairs
Committee approved unani-
mOusly today the promotion
of nine Army officers to the
rank of full general. The ac-
tion was regarded as a vote
of confidence in Gen. George
C. Marshall, chief Of staff.
Evening star., 1945-03-27

is more than so miles beyond the
Rhine and $50 miles deep in the
heart of the Reich. 1t is 10 miles
east of Aschaffenburg, where Gen.
Patton's troops were pouring across
an intact Main River bridge. Lohr
lies more than halfway across Ger
many from Luxembourg to Czecho-
slovakia.
A drive across Southern Germany
to the Russian lines, some $50 miles
east, would throw a Gordon over the
top of the reported German noun
tain redoubt" in Southern Bavaria,
Northern Italy and Austria and bar
access to the fastness for hundreds
of thousands of Germans fighting
on the violently erupting western
and eastern fronts.
Gen. Patton's breakthrough gains
were shrouded by security black
out.
tBlue Network Correspondent
Herbert Clark said in a Paris
broadcast today that Allied
fighter pilots reported tanks of
Evening star., 1945-03-27
BY JAMES Y. NEWTON.

John L. Lewis today served
notice on the Government that
a dispute existed between the
United Mine Workers and an
thracite operators and asked
that a strike poll of $4,000
miners be taken under the
Smith -Connally Act.
Mr.. Lewis served the notification
on the Labor Department., Com
merce Department, National Labor
Relations Board and War Labor
Board as the soft coal wage con-
ference studied a Government re-
quest that their contract be ex-
tended at least month beyond the
Saturday night deadline.
There are approximately 72,000
miners and $500 supervisory en-
ployes in the anthracite industry.
The strike vote will not apply to
10000 employees of mines of the
Reading Coal Co., which has been
operated by the Government since
a dispute interrupted production
last summer.
Conferences Open April 4.
The anthracite operators contract
with the mine workers expired April
80 and conferences looking toward
formulation of a new agreement
will open in New York City April 4.
In his notification to the labor
agencies, Mr.. Lewis said, TT has
become traditional in the industry
for anthracite operators to delay
and postpone final decisions con-
summating genuine collective bar
gaining contract pending the con-
clusion of a basic wage agreement
in the bituminous coal industry. Z"
"A stalemate in The current BIZ
luminous coal negotiations Mr..
Lewis continued, SIS public knowl-
edge and the United Mine workers
representatives In the anthracite
coal industry perforce must recog-
nize and face the situation as it
presently exists"
Mr.. Lewis promised that In the
anthracite negotiations I'VE will
work diligently and forthrightly for
the ensuing 80 days to prevent, if
possible. any interruption of coal
production so vital to the prosecu-
1Soo NTTNTTDC Do-~o A
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Government Offices
Report S255,019
In Red Cross Gifts
Campaign Donations
Now TotoI $2,402, 900,
SO Per Cent of Goal
BULLETIN.

Red Cross solicitors from
Government offices reported
gifts of $255, ,019 at the United
States Chamber of Commerce
this afternoon. bringing the
campaign total to $2,402 ,000-
or S8 per cent of the $2,700,900
quota. Most of the gains
came from War Department
employees, who reported $780,
537-10l per cent of their
quota.
The Red Cross marks Army
day" this afternoon when War
Department employees are ex-
pected to turn in nearly 100 per
cent of their $4,000 quota. The
total campaign now stands at
81, lat 900 10 per cent of the
So. zoe, 900 quota.
Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secre-
tary of War for Air, and Maj. Gen.
William R. Arnold, chief of Army
were scheduled to speak
to the report meeting of Government
Office solicitors at the United States
Chamber of Commerce.
Envoy to Speak.
Ambassador Wilhelm Morgen-
stierne of Norway will speak for the
Red Gross at about $50 o'clock to-
night during an Easter tribute to
Allied fighting men, sung by the
Washington Choral Society at Con-
stitution Hail. He will appeal for
the Red Cross as the agency fight
ing beside the servicemen. The audi
ence will be asked to contribute at
booths in the hall lobby.
Special guests at the performances
will be wounded veterans brought
from Walter Reed Hospital and the
Naval Medical Center at Bethesda,
Md, by Red Cross Gray Ladies and
members of the Motor Corps.
Meanwhile, solicitors in all divi-
sions are making a 'herculean" ef-
fort to reach their quota and over
subscribe it by Thursday, the clos
ing meeting in March. March was
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New Overseas Edition
Will Be Out Tomorrow

A new issue of The Stars
Overseas Edition will be ready
tomorrow. Free copies, with
envelopes for mailing, may be
obtained at The Stars busi-
ness counter and the Victory
Bond booth in Lansburgh's
Department Store.
The edition is strictly linn
tied. Please do not waste a
single copy.
Evening star., 1945-03-27
Stossen Winding Up
Pacific Naval Duties
By the Assocjated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 27-
Comdr. Harold E. Stassen, former
Minnesota Governor who has been
named delegate to the United Ma
tions Security Conference here April
rs, was back in the Pacific war area
today preparing to bring to an end
his duties as 5th Fleet flag secretary.
18th District headquarters an
nounced.
Evening star., 1945-03-27
Strike Poll Of 1900
Anthracite Miners
Is Asked by Lewis
Soft Cool Conference
Studies U. S. Proposal
For Extension of Contract
BULLETIN.

Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins will appear personally
before the soft coal wage con-
ference at 4 pm. today in an
effort to either get agreement
between miners and operators
on a new contract or to get
them to extend the present
wage agreement beyond the
Saturday night deadline.
Evening star., 1945-03-27

Nine additional men from
the District area haze been re-
ported killed in this Uar. See
"On the Honor Roll" Page AZ.
Evening star., 1945-03-27
Forecasts Enforced Surrender
After Allies Link Up With Reds
Germans Report
Sd Army Advance
ToLohr Area
BULLETINS.

PARIS (P.-Gen Eisenhower
declared today that the main
German defense line in the
west had been broken and
that the enemy had suffered a
defeat which he cannot af-
ford.
The supreme commander
said he believes there would
be no negotiated uncOndi-
tional surrender in Germany,
but rather an imposed uncOn-
ditiOnal surrender when the
Allies in the west link up with
the Russian armies.
Germany has no strength to
make a future stand such as
had been made, he added.
He warned against expect
ing a straight Allied run to
Berlin. The Germans, he de-
clared, need more strength
than they now have in the
west to establish another line.
But he cautioned that the Al
lies own troubles were not
yet over.
WITH THE BRITISH I'd
ARMY EAST OF THE RHINE
R.-Enemy defenses have
been broken completely be-
yond Brunen, Is miles north
of Duisburg, and the British
I'd Army is racing eastward
tonight almost unopposed. A
security veil around the I'd
Army's movements hid the
extent of the gains.
Evening star., 1945-03-27

tSee JOBS, Page A-4.)
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See PACIFIC, Page A-5D
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tsee WESTERN FRONT, Page A-a3
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tSee MANPOWER, Page "A.
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(See RED CROSS. Page A-49
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Weather Forecast

Sunny, in 70s today; fair and mild to.
night and tomorrow.
Evening star., 1945-03-27

(See BOYLE, Page A-3D
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(See MINERS, Page A-4.)
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(See TANKS, Page A-5.)
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Temperatures today-High. II at 80
pm; low, 81, at l am. Yesterday
High. 70, at $40 pm; low, 45, at ITO
am.
Evening star., 1945-03-27

(See RUSSIA, Page A-5D
Evening star., 1945-07-01

Supreme Court after being intreete
duced by Mr.. Walker. Various cabi.g :
net officials and Government figures =
attended. te
Justice Rutledge then went to th6 y
Agriculture Department to ofiiciate
at his second oath administration 4
of the day--for Mr.. Anderson. ~
2,OO0 See Clark Take Oath.
Nearly 1000 persons packed the
Justice Department auditorium for
the ceremony at which Mr.. Clark
was sworn in. His 78-year-old
mother, his wife and children
looked on, as Associate Justice
Thurman Arnold Of the Court Of Ap-
peals administered the oath. e5,
Mr.. Anderson took the oath be-ts
fore crowd which included lead-s y
ing Government figures and lead-a =
ers OF several national farm organi.
zations. BsXi
The new Secretary was intro<v
duced by Speaker Rayburn OF the d
House Isl as
Mr.. Wizard was not present. He n
Is en- route to st. Louis where to- 8
morrow he will be sworn In as head a.
of the Rural Electrification Admipis- &
tration at that agency's headqdar-s
ters there. ssa-
j. B. Hutson was sworn In as Un-fi
ldersecretary of Agriculture shortly
after Mr.. Anderson took his oath. A.
career man In the Agriculture De-.
lpartment, Mr.. Hutson succeeds 7
| Grover B. Hill.
Evening star., 1945-07-01
D. {. Cancer Group TO Move
Quarters for Summer

The D. C. Cancer Campaign Com
mittee will move its headquarters
tomorrow for the summer from the
United States Chamber of Commerce
Building to an offlce in the American
Security and Trust Co. Building,
Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV, Eliot Wadsworth,
chairman, announced yesterday.
Contributions to the local cancer
control fund now total $37 900, half
of the $75, 900 quota Washington has
been asked to raise In the Ameri-
can Cancer Society's national drive
for 5000 900.
Contributions may be sent directly
to the committee or addressed SIM
ply to Cancer, Washington, D. c."
Evening star., 1945-07-01

last ofiice I am going to occupy" he
answered.
He referred to the labor-manage-
rnent charter of cooperation re-
Gently signed by the CIO, AFL and
United States Chamber Of Com
merce as "a very fine thing If 1t can
be implemented so as to be effec-
tive"
II think the basic fundamental
conditions surrounding cutbacks lin
war production) and reconversion
point to increasing labor difficulties. +"
Mr.. Schwellenbach declared. II know
that I cannot prevent all of the
difiicuities and strikes. My job is
to minimize to the greatest possible
extent the labor difIiculties in this
country In the next several years"