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(Contlnued from Page D dual control of the nations food supply.
 The biggest change is expected in the Labor Department. Miss Perkins was the first woman mem- Der of a U. s. cabinet. Her admin istration began March 4, 1883.
 During the following 12 years the Labor Department steadily dimin- ished in aimportance until it almost ceased to exist as factor in gov ernment This remarkable shrink age took place at time when the nations policies, thinking and laws concerning labor were undergoing great changes.
 But as new agencies to deal with labor were established and great labor disputes snarled the nations economy, congress and the presi- dent were in consistent agreement that responsibility for administrat- i've action generally should be di- verted from Miss Penkins.
 It is believed that SchWellenbach would not have consented to leave his lifetime place on the bench to take over department with so lit tie significance. Therefore it is as- stunned MT. Truman will undertake to consolidate some of the various labor agencies in the Labor Depart ment
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 though cut-backS are occurring for many of the major firms, many openings exist in other concerns the area WING director stated.
 Speaking of possible action in re- gard to the 48-hour work-week, Mrs. Dewey said if cuts are deep enough there may be modification of the work-week regulations in some instances. She pointed out decrease in hours may be allowed for offices, and for certain depart ments of firms.
 Although women will not be bound after today by the hiring controls at the USES, they will not be allowed to shift from essential to non-essential jobs. All provisions of the stabilization plan will still hold, 1t was stressed. New women workers, however, will be able to take any job of their choosing.
 It was pointed out that women with statements of availability, new women workers, and those who look for jobs after a 60-day vacation" may be hired without referral after today.
 Paul Parsons, manager of the USES. reported today that traffic at the office has been increasing rap- idly, but that it has changed in character. The majority of callers previously were women. Now About 55 per cent are men. he stated
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With complete American conquest of OkinaWa now within sight, the Japanese threw more suicide planes against the American fleet off the island in hopeless effort to delay the inevitable.
 Two more light American war ships were damaged by suicide planes Tuesday. Adverse weather reduced the scale of the attacks, however. Eight enemy planes were shot down.
 American carrier planes struck back at Japanese bases in the Sakl- shima and Amami Islands south and north respectively of Okinawa the same day.
 Flies Swarm Castle
 A front dispatch from United Press War Correspondent Edward Thomas said the Marines who took ancient Shuri castle yesterday found it a booby- trapped pile of rubble swarming with flies and mosquitoes.
 Its massive underground caverns, where the Japanese held out for a lHolllll oA4, oS1 oAt AeN4AN bombardment and ceaseless frontal attacks had been sealed.
 In the courtyard, Marines found two huge bonfires still smouldering. Presumably containing Japanese military documents, they had been ignited only few hours before the Marines entered the castle grounds.
 De Valle said he still could not account for the way in which his First Division Marines had slogged nearly 2,0OO yards in three hours through mud sometimes up to their hips to reach the castle from the west.
 Staff Sergeant Walter Weed, a Marine combat correspondent who formerly worked for the Washing ton Post, said the Marines drove unchallenged past Beehive Hill and Shuri barracks, previously consid- cred enemy strong points.
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Jops Training Navy In Suicide Tactics

Guam, May 31. (UP)-Radie Tokyo said today that all branches of the Japanese Navy were being trained in suicide attacks and called on the entire population of Japan to prepare to repel American iu. vaders.
 Kusuo Oya. radio commentator, said. the shakeup in the Japanese Navy high command two days ago was designed to ready all branches of the Navy fo rsuicide tactics.
 Under the Naval Shakeup. Admiral Soemu Toyoda relinquished his post of -chief of the Navy and combined fleet to become chief of the Naval general staff. Vice Ad- miral Jisaburo Ozawa took over Toyoda's former posts.
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tCCEtinueC from Page D pound. Lard. shortening, salad and cooking oils were left at l points pound, margarine at 12 points and creamery butter at 24.
 Canned tomato juice and veget- able juice combinations containing 70 per cent tomato juice were set at two cans Cup to and including the No. ? l2 size) for one blue ra- ton stamp 10 points,. Cans bought singly, however, still require one blue stamp (except for the No. 10 size)
 This was the second two-cans- for stamp deal OPA has of- fered Green beans were first to gain that status last month.
 Spinach was increased 10 points for both No. and ? 1-2 cans sending them up to 20 and 30 points respectively. Tomatoes were in- creased 10 points for the No. 2 size can. fixing it at 40 points.
 OPA said tomatoes have been selling faster than the supply can stand so the point increase was necessary ito slow them down"
 There were no point values on to- matoes last summer. OPA said as victory gardens begin producing the present high value probably vii. 1 fall.
 OPA also ordered a decrease from eight points to six in the ration value of four types of soft cheeses to assure free movement of available supplies. Other cileeses were not affected and OPA estimated only two per cent of the cheese made in this country was covered by the re- auctions. The four types were linn burger, Erie, camembert and lied erkranZ.
 Thomas told a reporter he had information" which convinced him that canned peaches, pears, pineap- pies, mixed fruits. fruit juices, corn peas, tomatoes and catsup no long, CT should be rationed
 He said he would call an eXecu- tive session of his committee early next week as a result of what he had learned. He said secret wit nesses will give the inside on the way OPA is operating
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When they reached the castle, Weed said, the Marines found fewer than 50 Japanese left to defend it and all were killed in a matter of minutes. The remainder of the Jap anese garrison still was resisting attacks from the north and east or had fled to the south.
 Marines suffered fewer than 50 casualties, most of them wounded, in capturing the castle. They met only sniper fire.
 Had the Japanese tried to defend the castle, the Marines might have lost 500 men, Del Vale said.
 AS many as 5000 to 5000 Japanese dead were believed still in the ruins of Shuri, most of them victims of the terrific American bombardment.
 Advanced elements of the Seventh Division moving down the east coast were reported only about two miles from the southern tip of the island.
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 On Mindanao MacArthur's troops hacked their way along the Kibawe- Talomo Trail in a move to cut of the Japanese escape route from the Davao sector. They were advancing southeast at point about 55 miles northwest of Davao. Heavy, medium and dive bombers supported the ground operations on Mindanao.
 Bad weather protected much bombed Formosa from the heavy planes, but 50 Mitchell Medium bombers and 20 Mustang fighter bombers got through to plaster al- cohol plants, railroads, and truck routes.
 For the second straight day the heavies hit the Indo-China coast and dropped 103 tons of bombs on the coastal rail line between Saigon and Phan Rang. The heavy bomb- CTS also flew low to strafe freight cars and buildings, an unusual role for the big planes.
 | New gains were made by Austra- llan troops in the Wewak sector of New Guinea, where one force drove four miles into the coastal foothills south of WeWak. Inland another four-mile gain was registered by units converging on the enemy from the west from east af Maprik.
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settle the Levant crisis)
 The situation in other Syrian towns, apart from Damascus and Hama, was reported quiet, but there was an acute food shortage in Aleppo.
 A fve-day general strike was called here in Lebanon to show the country's solidarity with the Syrians. No fighting has been re- ported in Lebanon so far. How ever, the Lebanese foreign minister discussed the situation with It. Gen. Etienne Paul Beynet, the French delegate-general in the Levant, for an hour and a half yesterday.
 During the shelling of Damascus before the truce yesterday, the Orient Palace hotel was hit. Rus sian Patriarch SergiuS. who is on his way to Jerusalem, was in the hotel at the time. but escaped injury. William Gillespie, Stamford, Conn.,, head of the Damascus OW1 office, had a narrow escape when bullets whizzed through this hotel room. The American consulate was dam aged slightly by sporadic gunf1re.
 Shells also landed on the central prison and several hundred prison CTS escaped. Col Airline Bey, head of the Syrian Gendarmerie, was wounded seriously in yesterdays fighting.
 The French were reported to have occupied the Syrian parlia- ment building in Damascus.
 French officials admitted they had lost contact with their outposts in the Djebel Druze. Syrians in the Hauran province were reported to have captured French garrisons throughout the province, and French officials said, we believe tbjS ic tr,re
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 The fugitive was believed still armed with the .38 caliber revolver with which he first tried to shoot young Sharp, just back from three years overseas. then slew the girl after she saved the youths life by shielding him with her body.
 In the latest telephone conversa- ton, Davis first asked if it were true that Lula Mae is dead" the same question he had asked twice previously. Reassured, Davis cried.
 T can't believe it. can't be- lieve it. I thought it was only a flesh wound"
 Then the anglisfed father asked, Where's the body" When told, he replied, "I'll be seeing you there" and added, but I couldn't stand to go to her funeral"
 Davis, whose wife was in pro- tective custody along with their two surviving daughters, Mildred, 19. and Wanda, IA, was asked if he meant to harm anyone else. He
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answered.:
 I've done all the harm that I can possibly do."
 The last word from Davis, whose tall attractive daughter had defied his wishes that she not date Sharp, came late yesterday in a telephone call to the home of family friend.
 Davis asked. How is Lula Mae getting along?" Earlier he had made the same query in a call to Sharp's home here. He hung up when told his deed.
 Mrs. Davis was grief stricken and embittered by her daughters mur- der.
 T hope they bring him in dead" the mother said. "He has brought this terrible tragedy on us all. know he planned 1t in advance"
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(Continued from Page D s3,500 and court interpreter, $5OO- a total of $155O0.
 Possibility that two interpreters will be given the COP instead of one each to each party is a likeli- hood in the final division it was stated.
 A favorable report on city pen sion bill is expected to be forthcom- ing today. The bill will be a re- vamped one of that submitted by the city pension commission and will likely call for annual payments by the city of S450,OOO The original bill called for contributions of $500, 900 for 10 years. It is expected that the bill will provide for grants to widows of firemen and police cen when it has been shown the latter died from causes other than those incurred in line of duty.
 The House has passed Rep Daniel J. Mahaney's bill providing for $l2,000 for repairs for the Waterbury Armory.
 Likelihood is foreseen of many small town court patronage desires being dumped in the lap of the gov- ernor rather than adoption by the legislature. The situation may be ironed out to some extent today in Hartford, but doubt was expressed as to any possibility of the entire situation being cleared before the official close of the legislature next week.
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Soong, a brother of Madame Chiang, headed the Chinese dele gation to the San Francisco world security conference. His formal ap- pointment as premier was expected to strengthen his hand in dealing with other members of the big five the United States. Britain, Rus sia and France.
 It also may clear the way for an agreement with Chinese Communist regime at Yepa~
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Continued from Page D Sicily or Italy before combat ex- tended to France and Germany. The divisional losses:
 Third - 34,224 including 6,240 killed, 24,739 wounded, and 3,191 missing
 45th-27, ,553, including 3,747 killed, 19.403 wounded, and 4,403 missing. 36th-27, ,343, including 3,974 killed, l9,050 wounded, and 4,3l7 missing. Ninth - 22,724, including 3,834 killed, 17,424 wounded, and 1,466 missing
 Fourth - 21,550. including 3,808
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CLOWN DROPS DEAD

New Bedford, Mass, May 3l. (UP)-Dressed in his clowns cos tune, Tom O'Connor, about 60. comic travelling with small carni- val sponsored by the American Le-
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killed, 16,951 wounded, and 791 miss ing.
 The 36th and 45th originally were composed of National Guard troops, the 36th from Texas and the 45th from Oklahoma, Texas, New Mex ico, and Colorado. The others were regular army divisions.
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zion, dropped dead on a North End street here last night of cerebral concussion.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-05-09
Schools Discontinue
War Worker Classes

The public schools are discontinue
ing their vocational classes for war
workers, carried on in cooperation
with the War Manpower Commits
sion since 1910, it was announced
today. The two centers may be re-
assigned to the use of students, it
was indicated.
The centers, the Old Harbor Ca
rage at Ninth and H streets S.W.
and the Dennison School, Thir-
teenth and S streets NV, have
trained 2l,678 adults as welders,
aircraft mechanics and radio tech
nicians in short, intensive courses
paid for with s1,074,000 allocated
by the United States Office of Edu-
cation. Congress failed to appro-
pirate funds to carry on the ma
tional program next year, and there
fore the schools will close their
centers May 81, Lawson j. Cantrell,
assistant superintendent in charge
of the program, said.
Mr.. Cantrell indicated. however.
that until the new Bell Vocational
School is constructed he may con-
tinue the Old Harbor Garage as a
vocational center for white high
school students. DR.. Garnet C. Will
kinson, assistant superintendent in
charge of divisions 10 to 10, has
under consideration the continual
ton of the Dennison School for
night training for colored students.
The centers can be run under nor
NAL school appropriations made
from the George Deem Act and will
not require extra budget provisions,
Mr.. Cantrell said
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Wreath From Truman Put
On Grave Of Roosevelt
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK, N. Y, May 9.-In a
misty, rain drenched garden, a
-~rsath was laid yesterday on the
flower a0ked grave of the late
President Roosevelt We day
tribute from President Truman.
After announcing the European
victory to the Nation from Washing
ton and expressing the wish that
Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived to
witness this day." the President or
dered flowers placed at the grave on
the Roosevelt estate.
No music or ruf1e of drums broke
the stiffness as Maj. Gen. Francis v.
Wildly, superintendent of West Point
Military Academy, fulfilled the Pres
ident's request.
The only spoken words were those
Of the Rev. John D. Walthower,
West Point Protestant chaplain, who
prayed that the Nation reconsecrate
its effort to bring the late President s
dream to actuality."
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DAV Requests Office
In Residential Section

The Board of Zoning Adjustment
today took under Amusement a re-
quest of the Disabled American Vet
Grams, Inc, to establish its national
office at 1701 Eighteenth street NV.
The veterans maintained they were
entitled to enter the residential
neighborhood as philanthropic in
stitution.
The board also took under ad-
visement the application of the
Juanita K. Nye Council House, $50
Eighth street S.W, to convert a
two-story brick garage into a gym
nasium and assembly hall.
A number of colored residents Wig
orously protested the petition of
Lawrence E. Gichner, who is in the
sheet metal and roofing business. to
establish a dead-storage yard and
car storage at the rear of 1921 Eley-
enth street NV.
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Mrs. A. {. Watkins Head!
District pTA CONGRESS

Mrs. Arthur G. Watkins today was
elected president of the District
Congress of Parents and Teachers
at the concluding business session OF
the 32d annual convention at the
Departmental Auditorium. She sue
ceeds Mrs. Mackall Fetzer.
Mrs. Watkins, who was parlia-
mentarian of the congress during
the last year. is a former president
of the District Federation of
Women's Clubs.
The convention closes tonight with
an informal dinner at 7:30 O'Clock
at the Mayflower Hotel.
Other officers elected on the I'M
opposed slate were: Mrs. Mildred
S. Percy, Mrs. Florence Rogers, Mrs.
Leo Raywid and Mrs. Edward r.
Gray, respectively first. third, fifth
and seventh vice presidents, and
Mrs. Harold Pope. corresponding
secretary.
The other vice presidents have not
completed their terms,
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Ii. Stephen 7. Early, Jr.,
Placed in Walter Reed

1t. Stephen T. Early, jr., son of
the secretary to the late President
Roosevelt, arrived yesterday at Wal
ter Reed Hospital after having been
flown back to this country from
England, where he underwent treat
ment for bullet wound in the left
leg, received in an encounter with
three German soldiers.
He was transferred here from the
Mcclure General Hospital at Rich
mond, Va, and is listed as a patient
in the oral surgery ward, according
to hospital attaches. He is having
some dental work done and has re-
covered from the leg wound, it was
said.
1t. Early was in charge of
mortar emplacement when the three
Germans surprised his crew. In
the scuffle which followed he was
shot. He does not yet know what
happened to the Germans.
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requirements from 10000 to $4,000
pints of blood q week and that 10
Of the 80 Red Cross blood donor
stations Of the country will close
down May 10.
The decision to curtail the pro-
gram came with the end Of hostin-
ties in Europe and Mr.. O'Connor
declared number Of laboratory
processing contracts are being can
celled and 400 nurses and As doctors
will be released for duty elsewhere.
The cities besides Washington
which have been selected to remain
in operation are Los Angeles, San
Farnisco, Oakland and San Diego,
Calf; Portland, Greg; Chicago,
New York City, Brooklyn, Boston
and Philadelphia.
It was said that the cities select
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ed to continue to provide blood have
demonstrated their ability to supply
the 45.000-pint quota. Mr.. o'Con-
nor urged the people In and near
these cities to continue their do
nations without slackening.
Baltimore Is one of the 10 cities
where the blood donor program will
end on May 10.
In his announcement Mr.. O'Con-
nor thanked those who have helped
to make the program a success and
pointed out that 46 per cent of the
blood collected to date came from
the cities where stations will be
closed.
Mr.. O'Connor is leaving imme-
diately for a five-week inspection
tour OF Red Cross operations at
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49 Navy Men Killed
As Mystery Blast
Skaters Patrol Boat
~ the Associated Press.

CAPE ELIZABETH, Me-, Nav o.
A Navy court of inquiry today was
investigating mysterious explo-
sion which shattered Navy eagle
boat and took the lives of 40 men 8
miles offshore April %.
Details of New England's/ worst
naval disaster of the war were re-
leased by the Navy last night as
Capt. Ernest j. Freeman, U. S. N. R.,
commanding officer of the United
States Naval Station, Portland, led
an investigation into the incident.
Surviving we're "the lucky 49,
only members of the crew of the
patrol ship PE-56 to escape.
They told vivid stories of the
sudden blast which came at 1914
pm, during noon lull in target
practice maneuvers off the entrance
to Portland Harbor.
Some were trapped below decks
Others struggled through debris
cluttered passageways and plunged
oversize into the frigid waters of
the Atlantic before the 430-ton ves-
sci sank.
Survivors Are Injured.
The few survivors whose numbed
hands still retained a hold on boxes,
oil drums and snoring floating amid
the wreckage when they were picked
up II minutes later, were reported
suffering from internal injuries,
cuts, shock and immersion.
Navel o,,fhnri&;ae e,;A 81 &t,o
40 men lost only two bodies were re-
covered. The other At were listed on
Navy records as missing" and pre-
sumed to be dead
Some survivors believed they saw
a submarine lurking nearby and
one was just as positive that it was
not a torpedo that struck the ship.
Some thought the explosion sound
ed like that created by a depth
charge or a mine.
Identify Two Bodies.
The boilers of the vessel had been
overhauled 10 days previously and
were described as in good condition.
The Navy identified the two re-
covered bodies as those of George
William Neugen, machinist's mate,
first class, U. S. N. r., Summerfield,
N c., and Paul Jaron Knapp, sea-
man, second class, U. S. N. r., Lake
Mahopac, N. Y.
A rescue destroyer dropped depth
charges where survivors reported
seeing a U-boat, but it was the eagle
crafts grave that was marked by
two huge oil sticks and a large
debris-filled area.
1t. q. g. John P. Scagnelli, Is,
New York, was the only one of the
ships six officers among the sur
vivors. and the sole survivor of the
&c men in the bow section.
One of the most shaken by his
narrow escape was Radarman John
A. Wisniewski, IS, Garfield Heights,
Ohio. Only few hours before sail
ing he had been advised that special
discharge papers were being proc
essed for him.
Edwin j. Schneider, 26, of New
York City, radioman third class,
was believed to have been aboard
the Eagle boat when it exploded and
sank, according to his mother, Mrs.
Lillian Koppman of 103 Kennedy
street NV. She is employed at the
War Production Board. He enlisted
in the Navy two years ago in New
York.
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D. {. Asked 10 Back
CurfaiIed Program
On Blood Donations

An appeal to continue blood do
nations here was issued today by
Basil O'Connor, chairman OF the
American Red Cross, in announc-
ing that Washington is among the
II cities of the country selected to
continue to maintain blood donor
stations.
MIR. O'Connor announced that the
Army and Navy have reduced their