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Evening star., 1945-02-16
) Of As Stricken Penfagon
Diners Still in Hospital

Three of As persons made ill from
eating ham sauce at the Pentagon
Wednesday remained under treat
ment today at Walter Reed Hos
pital
Investigation disclosed that all 4s
persons who reported to dispensaries
at the Pentagon for treatment had
eaten ham sauce for spaghetti. OF
the number. 81 were civilians and
IA were Army personnel. Two
civilians and seven Army personnel
were sent to Walter Reed after
treatment at dispensaries.
The disorder was described as a
mild staphylococcus-type infec-
ton" Six thousand servings of the
spaghetti with the ham sauce was
served at the luncheon. The sauce
was made from baked ham, which
also was served for luncheon, but
apparently was not infected, because
none who ate the ham made COM
plants. The War Department said
all the food had been handled ac-
cording to strict sanitary regula-
tions.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Air Assault on Reich
Resumed After LuII
BY the Associated Press.

~~N~~~A~NSN
LONDON, Feb. 16.-The massive
Allied air assault on Germany was
reported resumed today after 9
breather last night from the often
sive which in two days rocked 1t
cities from the Rhine to the Russian
front.
At noon. the German radio an
nounced an Allied bomber formation
was approaching from over Holland
Italian based bombers also were de.
clared hitting from the south fol
the fourth straight day.
OF LOO United States Fortresses
and Liberators which hit Dresden
yesterday for the fourth time in 4e
hours and raided CottbuS, near the
Russian front, II were lost. Two
fighters also failed to return.
The only air activity reported dur
ing the night was widespread mine
laying by the RAF. An Air Ministry
communiQue did not name the
locale, but a German broadcast said
night bombers were over the Jut-
land area.
Inc cO-ofolnated attacks on NaZl
warmaking machinery reached an
unprecedented scale between Tues
day and Thursday nights when more
than 5,100 American and British
four -engined bombers from Britain
dumped more than $4,000 tons of
bombs on Germany.
The main weight Of these blows,
aiding the Russian smash toward
Berlin, was directed at Dresden,
Chemnitz and neighboring shelter
cities" in the southeast corner of
the Reich.
A Berlin broadcast said large
part of Dresden had been reduced
to rubble and that Chemnitz, equally
important to Nazi defenses, suffered
almost the same fate.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Progress Of War Dims
Work Bill Prospects
As Hearings Continue
BY J. A. O'LEARY.

The rapid trend of events in
the war appeared today to be
dimming the prospects for a
work-or-jail law, as the Sen
ate Military Affairs Committee
> made another effort to conclude
hearings on the measure.
Although supporters of the House
approved bill to let local draft
boards assign men to essential jobs
fear rapid exodus of workers from
war TO peace time jobs during the
interval between the defeat of Ger
many and Japan, this fear is not
shared by opponents of compulsory
assignment of workers.
When the committee gets down to
voting on alternative plans, probably
next week, indications are that
substitute, merely sanctioning and
strengthening the present War Man.
power Commission controls, stands
the best chance of approval.
Gen. Handy Questioned Further.
Such substitute has been laid be-
fore the committee by Senators Kill
gore of West Virginia and Wagner
of New York, Democrats, and is
supported by Senator Ferguson, Re-
publican, of Michigan.
The committee is scheduled to
resume the examination today of
1t. Gen. Thomas T. Handy, deputy
chief of staff, on the use being
made by the Army of its own man.
power pool, both military and
civilian.
In addition to the progress made
on the fighting fronts since the
work control bills were introduced
several weeks ago, the new reports
of reconversion plans now being
prepared by the War Production
Board are expected to lessen the
chances for passage of COM
pulSory work law.
Meanwhile, Senator Tydings,
Democrat, of Maryland, yesterday
introduced the amendment the farm
bloc Is expected to insist on when
ever a work-control bill is reported
out, designed to insure retention of
irreplaceable workers on the farms.
Farm States Complain.
Farm State legislators have COM
planned that draft boards are taking
necessary farm labor on the theory
that the need of the armed forces
for young men has become par
amount, despite Senator Tydings'
earlier amendment to the selective
service law giving them exemption.
The new bill would require ex-
emption without reference to the
relative essentially of the registrant
to agriculture as compared to any
other occupation, service or en-
deavor
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Inferior Department
Seeking Control Of
REA, Senator Says
B, the Associated Press.

b, the Associated Press.
A Senator active in the Aubrey
Williams dispute said today he had
heard the Interior Department us
fishing around" to get control Of the
Rural Identification Administra-
tion if the Agriculture Department
loses 1t.
Asked not to be quoted by name
this Senator said his information
came from a high Government off,
cial.
His statement injected a new fac
tor in struggle involving the ques-
tions of Mr. Williams confirmation
as head OF the REA and the future
of the agency.
A group within the Senate Agri-
culture Committee, which is consid-
ering the nomination, is seeking to
get action first on proposal to take
the REA from Agriculture. A bill to
this end by Senators Shipstead, Re-
publican, Of Minnesota: Wheeler,
Democrat, of Montana, and Aiken,
Republican, of Vermont would re-
establish the REA as an independent
agency.
Senator Bilbo, Democrat, of Mis-
sissippi requested yesterday that the
hearings be continued until next
Monday and that DR.. Joseph Broadly
of Findlay, Ohio, and j. C. Hodges,
Birmingham businessman, be invited
to testify.
DR.. Broadly, former minister of a
Birmingham Presbyterian church,
had telegraphed Senator McKellar,
Democrat. of Tennessee, a foe of
confirmation, that Mr.. williams
denied the divinity of Christ after
the church educated him for the
ministry"
Chairman Thomas of the Agricul-
ture Committee termed Senator
Bilbo's move an injection of "the is
SUE OF Christ's divinity" into the
hearings. He showed reporters a
letter signed by the Rev. David S.
Burgess of New York, member of the
Board of Home Missions, Congrega-
tional and Christian Churches, call
ing DR.. Broady's telegram an "un-
Christian and un-American" attack
The letter also observed that Jews
and others would be barred from
Government posts if belief in the
divinity of Christ was a prerequisite
to holding them.
In a forenoon session yesterday
the committee heard Secretary of
Agriculture Wickard testify that he
would expect Mr.. Williams to lad
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Wallace
Continued From First Page.)

Banking Committee, told the House
yesterday that the issue it con-
fronts "is the trend toward social
ism, toward collectivism and de-
struction of the American way OF
life" He described Mr.. Wallace as
the symbol of the leftist move
ment."
On the other hand Representative
SABBATH, Democrat, of Illinois de-
clared the former Vice President is
"the friend of the common man.
Mr.. SABBATH said he knew no rea-
son why any one should oppose
this honest and able man" except
the cartels and big institutions
that cannot control him"
The test yesterday came on adop-
tion of the House rule by which the
George bill was presented on the
floor If the rule had been rejected
the bill would have gone back to
committee, and probably into a
pigeon hole.
Republican lines held solid in the
voting, which showed that 200 Dem
ocrats were joined by the two minor
party tone Progressive and one
American-LaboD members, for i'm
mediate consideration; while 10
Democrats-an from the South or
border States-aligned with 173 Re-
publicans in the effort to sweep the
bill off the floor.
The Democrats voting against the
rule were Abernathy of Louisiana,
Andrews of Alabama, Bell of Mis-
souri,, Boykin of Alabama, Cox OF
Georgia, Cravens of Arkansas,
Gathings of Arkansas. Gibson of
Georgia, Larcade of Louisiana, Nc
Gehee of Mississippi, Mckenzie of
Louisiana, Murray of Tennessee,
Norrell of Arkansas, Peterson Of
Georgia, Rankin of Mississippi,
Robertson of Virginia, Rowe of
Maryland, Slaughter of Missouri
and Smith of Virginia.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Western Front
Continued From First Page }

mach and Bollendorf. The 10th
(Onaway) Division of New England
Reserves gained half mile along
the German-held side of the Sure
River to point more than a mile
east of Echternach. Other 10th Di-
vision infantrymen gained nearly a
miles to point half mile north
west of Minden.
Maj. Gen. Harry J. Malony's Gath
Division, fighting a private war
with the 18th Panzer Division Is
miles southeast of Luxembourg City
repulsed two counterattacks around
Slnz and took several pilboxes.
IA the northern end of the Sd
Army front, the 4th Division beat
back a patrol of 40 German tommy
gunners which tried to seize a bridge
at Hermespand, 2 miles northeast OF
Pruem.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Chinese Forces Break
laps Grip on Vital
|Norih-South Railroad
Hy the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, Feb. Chinese
troops counterattacking in South
ern Human Province have broken
the Japanese hold on the Canton
Hankow Railway for almost Is
miles, an Army spokesman said
today.
Maj Gen. Kung Chi-kuang, the
Army spokesman, said the Chinese
now hold the area on the railway
between Pingshek in Kwangtung
Province and Liangtien to the north
across the border in Human.
In addition to this, he said, the
Chinese have broken loop the
Japanese had thrown east of the
railway, attempting to ring an area
Of some $4,000 square miles extend
ing from Hengyang, South Central
Human rail base, to Kukong, fallen
provisional capital of Kwangtung.
This loop, linked by the enemy
capture of the former United States
14th Air Force bases at Kanhsien,
Namyung and Suichwan, was
pierced by the Chinese capture of
Chihing, 80 miles east Of Kukong,
Gen. Kung declared.
A wide break in the enemy hold
on the Canton -Hankow railway
would retard enemy progress in
linking Canton and Hong Kong with
Manchuria and Korea. The Japa-
nese have been repairing and re-
building the lines for a through rail
connection.
The high command said the Chi
nese counterattack had reached
points miles northeast of Suich-
wan. But the Japanese, striking
toward Chihing, also made gains,
the Chinese said, winning s miles
along the Kwangtung -Kiangsi high
way 80 miles east of Kukong.
The Chinese said another attack
on their positions 91a miles east of
Chilling was being held. The Japa-
nese also attacked in Human Prov
ince east of the Canton HankoW
railway town of Chenhsien
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Steel Shortage Expected
To Reduce Production

The War Production Boards Re-
quirements Committee is expected
to issue an order tomorrow reduc-
ing both war and nonmilitary pro-
duction programs for the second
quarter of this year as result of a
5000, ,000-ton steel shortage.
All claimants on steel stand to
suffer, WPB Chairman J. A. Krug
told a press conference yesterday.
He said the industry needs 10000
additional workers and that it has
been placed on the production urg-
ency list which assures same priority
in labor recruiting as munitions
programs.
He pointed out that this under
scores. the need for manpower legis-
lation.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
BY HOWARD BLAKESLEE,
Associated Press Science Editor.

NEW YORK, Feb. ia new fly
ing instrument, which figures out
longitude and latitude mile by mile
as a plane flies and registers them
on the pilots instrument board,
was announced today by the Bendix
Aviation Corp, with Army and Navy
sanction and Air Technical Service
Command cooperation.
The Super Fortresses have been
using these instruments on their
flights to Japan.
This new robot brain" is about
the size Of quart milk bottle. The
bottle brain picks UP two facts
as the plane flies. One is the
pressure of the wind, force which
depends on and changes with the
planes speed. The brain changes
this pressure into speed, and mo-
ment by moment shows how far the
plane has flown.
The other fact is the planes
direction.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Conudu Ends Civil Defense

OTTAWA, Feb. Is (P).-Canada' s
Civil Defense Committee, formed
five years ago to serve in case OF
enemy air attacks on the Dominion
or in other emergencies, has been
disbanded, it was disclosed last
night. Remoteness of enemy air ac-
ton against Canada was given as
the reason.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Germans
Continued From First Page }

lister of interior and chief of Reich's
chancellery, it is decreed:
q. Military courts of summary
justice will be established In the
Reich's defense areas threatened by
the enemy.
Military courts of summary
justice will be presided over by a
judge who will be assisted by a
political leader or section leader of
the National Socialist party and an
officer Of the Wehrmacht, Waffen
IS or police.
Death Sentence Provided.
The Reieh's defense commissar
will appoint members of court and
q public prosecutor.
justice will be instructed to try all
crimes by which German fighting
strength or fighting determination
is endangered.
Procedure will be In accordance
with rules of the Reich's criminal
code.
"3. The sentence of the military
courts summary justice will be for
death, acquittal or transfer to regu-
lar judicial proceedings.
Decision of the court requires
confirmation by the Reichs defense
commissar, who viii also decide the
place. time and method of execu-
tion of sentence.
IF the Reich's defense commissar
cannot be reached and immediate
execution is absolutely necessary,
his function will be exercised by a
public prosecutor.
a. Regulations necessary in am.
pliflcation, alteration or execution
of this decree will be issued by the
Reich's minister of justice in agree
ment with the Reich's minister oi
interior and the chief of the party
chancellery.
S. This decree comes into force
with its public announcement ir
press and on radio"
The decree did not mention civil
ians specifically but the context
made it clear they were affected
Makeup of the courts places theil
control in the hands of the Nazis
although German Army officer
will sit on the court-martial boards
Evening star., 1945-02-16
japanese General
Of 78o4-5 Wur Dies
BY the Associated Press.

Baron Kojiro Uchiyama, IS, re-
tired japanese general, died of q
heart attack at his home in Japan
Wednesday, the Domei news agency
reported today in a broadcast re-
corded by the Federal Communica-
tions Commission.
Baron Uchiyama was chief of
staff of the japanese Army's 1st
Division in the Sino-Japanese war
Iof 1894-95, was military attache to
embassies in France and Soviet Rus
sia, and aide de camp to the late
Emperor YoShihito
Evening star., 1945-02-16
U. S. Soldier Hanged
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, Paris, Feb. 16.-An American
soldier convicted by an Army court
martial of murder and assault was
hanged yesterday at Plabennec, on
the Brest Peninsula, it was an
nounced today. His name was not
disclosed.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Smallpox Hits CuIcuttu

BOMBAY, Feb. Is {R.-Residents
of Calcutta have been officially
warned to be vaccinated before
March TO or be liable to imprison-
ment and fine. The step was taken
by the Bengal government as the re-
suit of q smallpox epidemic in the
city which claimed 298 lives last
week.
Evening star., 1945-02-16
Marjorie Rombeou Hurt
With Sister in Crosh
BY the Associated Press

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 16.-Marjorie
Rambeau, veteran stage and film
actress, suffered possible skull
fracture, broken leg and other in
Juries today when her automobile
crashed into parked car and then
skidded for so feet, hitting a tree,
police reported
Her sister, Thelma Rambeau, re-
ceived a broken leg and other in
jurieS.
Evening star., 1945-02-16

minister the REA, but consult with
me" If he is confirmed.
The committee called Mr.. Wickard
to find out, as Senator Bilbo put it,
who would be the big boy" in REA
whether Mr.. Williams or Mr..
Wickard would determine policy,
Evening star., 1945-02-16

'Tis not for us to question why
'tis but for us to buy and buy more
War Bonds.
Evening star., 1945-02-16

war prosperity, these
companies need only the
continued support of
the public as express
sed in the wise and far
seeing Merchant Marine
Act Of 1886.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19
. BEHIND THE, SCENES
IN WASHINGTON .

will not be in production until
1916.
Every kind of incentive has
been tried. The presence of SOL
diers in uniform working in the
factoc' helps tremendously in
impressiving civilians with
the urgency of production. Each
days output is hauled away
from the factories as fast as pos
sible, to impress workers with
the fact that every tire is need
ed Immediately. Every tire
maker who works every day the
first three months of this year
gets certificate signed by Gen.
eral Brehon Somervell of the
Army Service Forces. There are
factory rallies, pep talks, post
ers, house organs, drives, con-
tests.
The results have been good.
Tire workers have responded
and production has scared, even
though this synthetic rubber is
hard to work and the big tires
are back breakers. Absenteeism
and labor turnover rates have
dropped. But just when the sew
en-day week instituted on Janu-
airy l was rolling nicely, a short
age Of carbon black developed
and the schedule had to be cut
back.
The wage issue is tough. In
May, 1943, the War Labor Board
granted a Little Steel Formula
increase of 3 cents an hour,
though cents an hour has been
asked. There was a short strike
in protest. But then the United
Rubber Workers, Clio, came in
with new demands for II cents
an hour increase in base rates.
There was a preliminary hear
ing on this demand before the
War Labor Board March 5, but
labor and management repre-
sentatives were both sent back
to prepare briefs which will be
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD Hollywood 5
first strip poker party, or rather
the first one to which press pho
tographers we're invited, was a
shivering success, we can report
today. We haven't seen so much
bare skin since Sally Rand
dropped her fans in our lap one
right at the San Diego EXPOSE
ton.
Four Hollywood starlets and
Dancer Renee De Marco were
Invested of practically every
thing, including their dignity,
before one of them, in nothing
but shorts, bra and a hat,
blushingly pleaded, Say when"
and Press Agent Russell Bird
we'll announced, IT h a is all,
boys"
participants acquiring
goose pimples in the late after
noon sun, gathered up their
clothing and agreed that when a
more fantastic press agent stunt
is dreamed up, Mr.. Birdwell will
dream 1t up.
"Renee De Marco, Americas
most famed dancer" the tele-
graph invitation read, will be
hostess at a strip poker party in
the back yard of her Beverly
Hills home. the slogan for which
is Take Off Your Clothes for the
United National Clothing Collec-
ton
Toni Seven, Ann Miller, Eve
lyn Ankers and Nina Foch, Hol-
lywood's youngest, prettiest and
lushest screen stars" the telc-
gram continued, will partici-
pate"
Miss De Marcos Beverly Hills
"home" was the Birdwell man
sion.
II loaned it to her for the aft
ernoon." he explained. Any
thing to please the clients"
Fifteen drooling cameramen
focused their cameras as the
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19
BY PETER EDISON
NEA Washington Correspondent

WASHINGTON - A really
critical situation in heavy-duty
rubber tires and tubes is made
doubly bad by manpower
problem piled on top of made
quate manufacturing facilities.
Its elements include 100 per
cent industrial expansion over
pre-war levels, a shortage of
skilled workers which has ne
cessitated furloughing men al
ready drafted for the armed
services, a wage controversy
that i; long-standing, and man.
agement charges that labor is
producing at only about 80 per
cent efficiency.
Take these factors one at a
time.
In 1889 average factory en-
polyment in tire and tube pro-
duction was $4,000. 1t rose
steadily to $4,000 in January
1914, dropped off to $4,000 by
December, but in January Of
this y ar was $500. This IN
cludes 1900 ex-tire workers fur
Laughed from the Army for 90
days to help meet production
schedules. The furloughs may
have to be extended, one expert
enced tire worker being worth a
dozen green hands.
1000 MORE MEN NEEDED
There was an additional de-
mand for 1000 tire workers,
however, to obtain full employ
ment for three-shift operation Of
all the within existing walls"
tire-making machinery. Over
half of these 1000 have been
recruited. On top of this will
come demand for 5000 men
and 1000 women 10 man the
new tire-making facilities or
dered built by the War Produc-
ton Board within the next three
months. These new factories
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19
THE GIRLS OBLIGE
. BARBS

Men are known by the COM
pany they keep - women by the
clothes they keep on wearing.
An Indiana judge says women
forgive more often than men.
Perhaps because they have more
chances.
Most successful men are too
busy to think up secrets of sue
cess.
Yesterday is over - tomor-
row is still to come: today is the
day to buy more War Bonds!
Girls in an Eastern college say
they may take up pipe smoking.
The female of the species will b
sicker than the male.
A French artist says Ameri-
can girls are dolls. Just try stuff
ing one of them with sawdust.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19

The doctor argues thus: Most men at as have
completed their families and the greater port Of their
Ife's work. They've had about enough Of their fon,-
lilies, and vice They might we'll be satisfied
to poy for post benefits and happiness by spending
the rest Of their years in service with the present and
postwar ornies Food shelter and plenty Of cigorets
TRY and get enn, doc) should be ample recompense.
In short, soys the DOCTOR man killed in bottle
at so is no biological loss and precious little economic
loss while boy killed at loses his whole Iife in
GLIDING all the upbrneine and education put into it.
Dr. Hooton has some sound argument on his side
Some Of hstorys brightest pages we're written by
youngsters. The steamboat cotton gin, electric light
telephone, orpone photograph, and magnetic and
wireless teegrophy to handful Of historic in.
ventons, the work Of young men. And the world
Of orts offers hundreds of examples Of youthful
terpieces.
But it is also evident that some men have done
their best work when, according to Or. Hooton, they
should have been toto woshouts. Woshinetons greet.
ness wos just becoming opporent at IS. The verso
tile Franklin become greet statesman in his sew.
entes. Lincoln 81 when he came to the White
House. Or in our own day. there wos Franklin Roose-
Welt, who became President at ST. and Churchill,
made Prime Minister when he post IS.
But there is no need to 90 on. 1t would toke
week to make up even fairly representative list Of
contemporaries who, at 45.pIus, ore considerably
valuable thon cannon fodder.
Perhaps it might be we'll, oso to mention plan
now being worked on by group Of aging men which
would settle Dr. Hootons connon-fodder controversy
by doing away with war entirely.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-04-19
SHEEP IN WEREWoLvEs' CLOTHING

It was reasonable to suppose that Maj under
ground would develop in the wake Of the Allied 3D..
vance, that it would be mode up Of party fanatics,
and thot it would have the Hit|er-HnnIer blessing
From what can be Ieorned the Werewolf terror.
ist organization fills the bill.
But it scarcely seemed reasonable that the Nozs,
having launched such movement, would have the
bross to disown it, Thot, however, is what happened
- the very day otter they had identified the oreon-
izotion by nome.
This is on obvious, transparent naive attempt Of
the Maxi Ieoders to win little stoy Of execution To.
word the end, il would seem that the Nozis' once
shrewd propaganda is suffering the same dissolution
as the Wehmocht.