Weather Forecast Tair; low near 31 tonight. Tomorrow Guide for Readers mostly cloudy and warmer. Page.! Page. After Dark_B-5 Obituary _A-8 Temperatures today—Highest, 41, at Amusements ..A-9 Radio .B-ll 12:01 a.m.; lowest, 31, at 8:55 ajn.; 36 Comics_B-10-11 Society .B-3 at 1:30 p.m. Yesterday—Highest, 49, at j Editorials .A-6 Sports..A-ll 4:20 p.m.; lowest, 26, at 7 a.m. Finance .A-13 Where to Oo_B-3 Lost and Found A-3i Woman’s Page A-12 Late New York Markets, Foge A-13. An Associated Press Newspaper 92d YEAR. No. 36,441. D. FEBRUARY WASHINGTON, C., TUESDAY, 8, 1944—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. *** »nd Buburbi THREE CENTS. K&™* Allies Fall Back South of Rome Soldier Ballot To Readjust Defense Positions Problem Goes To Conferees Before Intense German Barrage Modified Federal Plan Is Violent Adopted Fighting By Senate Continues 8,122 Japs Slain in Marshalls Along Plight of Nazis BULLETIN. Cassino Front The Senate this afternoon Against Loss of 286 Americans adopted a modified Federal By the Associated Press. Powerful Fleet, Air and Action ballot plan for servicemen Artillery In and attached it to the House- ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al- Soviet Trap giers, Feb. 8.—German artillery Credited for Ratio of 20 to 1 approved State control bill, and planes laid down an intense throwing the whole issue into By WILLIAM HIPPLE, ualties, 157 dead, 712 wounded and conference. barrage today in the 100 square Ending nearly Associated Press War Correspondent. 17 missing. However, the largest miles of beachhead below Rome Grows Worse three weeks of debate, the UNITED number of Japanese, 4.650. were STATES PACIFIC Senate voted, 46 to for the and Allied troops have further killed in this area. The 40, FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Army took “consolidated their positions” 173 prisoners. Bitter Battle limited Federal ballot form. Harbor, Feb. 8.—The most pow- Rages against heavier attacks to come. The 4th Marine Division, which The decision came a few erful American ever fleet thrown Namur Near minutes after a To the south violent fighting con- captured Roi, and adjacent Manganese coalition of into an air force which tinued inside Cassino and the nearb\ battle, objectives to the north, lost 129 dead. Republicans and Southern drove the from Other marine were Center of mountains, but the Americans still enemy the skies casualties 463 Nikopol Democrats failed. 41 to 45, in were unable and wounded and 65 In the to break the enemy's deadly accurate artillery missing. another to the steel Roi-Namur area BULLETIN. attempt scrap grip on that gateway to the :fire, struck with such co-ordi- 3,472 Japanese were Federal Liri killed and 91 taken ballot plan. The Valley leading to Rome. The nated fury in the Marshalls in- prisoner. LONDON <£>>._The Red Germans held same substitute failed last three-fourths of the The low American casualties con- has the Ger- vasion that only 286 invaders Army liquidated week, 46 to 42. city and a corridor leading to the j trasted strongly with the in- were slain—against at least 8,122 bloody man bridgehead at Nikopolr rear, although 500 had been taken vasion last November of the Gil- since Japanese. manganese center in the By J. A. O LEARY. prisoner January 26. berts, the island group to the south. No Dnieper bend, Moscow an- major action was reported in Even including 82 Americans There 1,026 men were killed and Administration Senators the Rome area where the nounced The Germans missing, that made it more than 20 2.557 wounded at Tarawa alone. In tonight. Niko- joined today with most Senate continued to mass reinforcements killed for the entire was Japanese each American. Gilberts operation, 1,092 pol bridgehead the last in another for a Republicans making major attempt to push the That ratio is the more remarkable Americans were killed and held 2,680 place by the Germans on to Allies into the sea. The concession the States in serv- campaign considering that this opening blow wounded. the east bank of the below the Eternal Dnieper. icemen's an City, which had at the Marshalls was struck at The figures for the Marshalls were voting by adopting started as a brilliant in amendment to success, had Kwajalein Atoll in the center and not final, including only casualties By EDDY GILMORE, Big Loss Excise Taxes Seen MESA Chief Due Here limit Federal bal- deteriorated into a serious defensive that the Japanese had been there reported as of the evening of Feb- Associated Press War Correspondent. lots overseas to those who cer- action. for 25 6. years. ruary It was expected the com- MOSCOW, Feb. 8.—The situa- tify their State ballots did not Patrols Probe Positions. | Unless President Bill Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, an- plete figures would vary little. tion Signs For WLB on arrive on Field last confronting 15 German di- Hearing voting day. dispatches night said nouncing the figures yesterday, re- From all sources, in explanation of German was thou- visions trapped in the Measure to Become Law Without The amendment, offered Sen- artillery pouring ported 1,148 Americans were wound- the success of the invasion, the Dnieper Permitting by sands of shells into the j bend grew more des- ator Ferguson, Republican, of Mich- beachhead, ed. The number of Japanese taken stress was on the preparatory at- steadily Penalties for Strikes as as 700 or Would Cost U. S. 87 Million igan. carried. 62 to 20. but was not throwing many 800 prisoner also was unusually large, tacks. perate today as the Red Army Signature a clear-cut test shells into a single area in 15 264. “I've never cut down between opposing seen anything like that thousands of the Axis By tht Associated Press. minutes. Nazi the $1,051,300,000 in excise tax in- Smith Heads forces, which is to come patrols meanwhile The 7th Division, which air and sea and narrowed Group of 10 expected Army bombardment," said troops the circles creases on first probed Allied positions all the The much-battered $2,315,200,- “shall take effect the later on the Taft substitute, spon- along captured Kwajalein Island and ad-i Comdr. Anthony Kimmins. British of death around the line. enemy 000 tax bill bore day of the first month which begins Coming to sored by 15 States' Senators. 'jacent islets in the southern part of! Royal Navy observer, who has been today Congress’ Explain Delay rights "From the mountain forces at Nikopol and not more than 10 days after the range be- the atoll, suffered the heaviest Cherkasy.1 official approval, but it appeared In Twenty-five Republican Senators cas-j (See MARSHALLSTpagtT\-57» At the same time Russian and date of enactment of the act.” Ending Walkouts tween the beachhead forces and | that President Roosevelt, who joined with one Progressive and 36 Rome German troops fought without Democrats the enemy stares down into quar- considers it Would Lose One-twelfth. By the Associated Press. to approve the Ferguson ter in the woefully inade- secret cor- outskirts of the rich man- motion. Six and 14 every military7 spot,” one can't follow the Nonsignature would make the ef- Matthew Smith, leader of the Republicans Frankfurt ganese center of Nikopol into which quate, predicted Democrats respondent wrote from the front. Pounded Announces Loss fective date April 1, rather than1 Mechanics opposed it. Navy the Red Army i course of letting it become law Education Society of The "To put it facetiously, this beach- penetrated yesterday, March 1. as enrollment clerks sayi Senate last week had adopted As the bewildered without his unless he America, was expected to come the head army is living in a goldfish Fascists’fell back, I signature the measure cannot reach the White: Danaher compromise, which au- other of here to to bowl.” Force troops Gen. Rodion Y. is willing for the Treasury to House before tomorrow, and if Mr.l today explain the tomatically would give a Federal By Strong Of Submarines Cisco War The Nazis have had time "to draw Malinovsky's 3d Ukrainian Army take a $87,000,000 loss in poten- Roosevelt holds it for 10 days with- Labor Board why penalties ballot to all servicemen overseas, but came to with armored reserves even from the in- grips the remnants tial revenue. out signing it, as provided in the should not be imposed on his required men in this country to of five fast-tiring divisions effec- their State terior of Germany and may be ex- Of Fortresses Time, the Constitution and a three- Constitution, it would take effect 10 organization for refusing to certify ballots were not And S-44 in Pacific tively trapped in the available before pected to continue to build up." As- j Dnieper line clause in the measure have days later (Sundays exceptedi, or terminate strikes promptly in they could use the sociated Press marshlands outside the city. 21. The result would be short Federal form. The Correspondent Daniel conspired to force Mr. Roosevelt February about 44 Ohio and war voting Liberators Head for Total of Craft One hundred miles north of Niko- Michigan effect of the de Luce said yesterday. He added Missing either to sign the bill—despite his loss of one-twelth of the $1,051.- plants. Ferguson amendment is pol the 1st and 2d Ukrainian to make the men that Allied supplies also were con- France to Join Raids Since Armies objections to it—to veto it, or to lose 300,000 excise tax raise. overseas also swear Pearl Harbor under Gens. Nikolai see Mr. Smith, who is of British their State tinuing to pour ashore despite long- Vatutin and revenue. Without waiting to what would birth, ballots had not arrived Ivan S. Konev is secretary of the as in on the range shelling from the Germans. On Enemy Targets Increased to 19 reduced the Nazi- This is true, legislators pointed happen to this legislation, Congress MESA, but, day Federal ballots are dis- held Cherkasy to British labor union practice, is the tributed. Two Thursts Checked. pocket approxi- out. because the bill provides that (See TAXES, Page A-5.) Ey the Associated Tress. Loss mately 40 square miles by recognized leader. Mr. de Luce wrote from the bridge- of the submarine Cisco capturing Accented By Lucas. LONDON. Feb. 8.—A large five fortified towns within its outer The MESA National Administra- head that two minor attempts by and S-44 was announced Majority Leader and Sen- force of today fringe. The Russians their tive Committee called Barkley the Germans to break Allied American Flying Fort- the planted off the strike ator through by Navy. within Cut in rood Lt. Kenneth A. Lucas, Democrat, of Illinois, resses raided Frankfurt artillery shelling range of Slight Walsh, yesterday and appointed a group of' outposts early yesterday were again The leading the fight for a Federal bal- submarines failed to return German airfields which heretofore 10, including Mr. Smith and MESA checked and the Nazis were thrown today and there was little doubt from lot, accepted the Ferguson patrols, presumably in the Pa- had offered the sole means of President to proposal, back. He said the Americans dealt that the escape George White, attend to obliteration of another cific, where submersibles to survivors of subject further discussion in con- have been the 100.000 troops For Civilians in 1944 District Pilot, Awarded today’s WLB hearing, which was with one German ference with quickly sortie great German a toll the House, manufacturing taking heavy of Japanese originally penned in this Russian called for 2:30 p.m. Both men are across no-man's land, while British I Senator center was well begun. shipping. death trap. I under subpoena. Taft, Republican, of after a two-hour Ohio, belittled its infantry, engage- The effect, however, While the Fortresses made their Cisco, one of the newest type Eighty Settlements Predicted U. S. Medal The board’s amounts to ment, wiped out the other penetra- Captured. by Congressional hearing daclaring it made no material American On the an to tion. 400-mile penetration of Germany- submarines, was commis- northern end of the 1,200- appeal public opinion, because change in the Green-Lucas bill. He it has sioned mile-long front troops of Gen. M. M. Estimate Indianan Also few direct enforcement pow- the Heavy artillery barrages continued under the protection of long-range only last May. It carried a Says Military Honored charged Army favors the Fed- Popov's 2d Baltic 80 ers of its own. It may withhold un- eral in the Cassino area, but field reports crew of about 65. The Army captured ballot, and that, in practical fighters, an independent force of 18-year-old settlements And Lease-Lend Needs At White ion benefits, a said the intensity of street north and northwest of House After vague term which operation. Federal ballots will be fighting S-44 had a crew Liberators crossed the Channel of about 45 men. Novosokolniki, a Russian might include wages as well as un- in the town itself slackened yes- to communi- Will distributed overseas before State The que and Be Larger DSC ion maintenance and the terday, with troops of both sides join swift flights of American Ma- announcement today raises to said, posed an immediate Receiving check-off. ballots will have had time to arrive. but has wearied battle. 19 the number threat to the German-held Pskov- not yet been defined in an Before the is by rauders and British and of submarines lost The Agriculture First Lt. Kenneth A. day over administra- Typhoons Warsaw trunk Department, Walsh, 29, actual case. It may ask the selec- The Americans made new gains on since the Pearl Harbor attack. It railway. tion supporters hope to attach this Hurricanes in concentrated pound- in the first official estimate of of 1222 Newton street N.E., ma- tive service to Mount Cassino. its north- also brings to 141 the number of As the battles in the reclassify strikers modified Federal ballot to fighting up ing of targets in Northern France. Dnieper Bend overall food for rine who battled plan the naval vessels lost. roared to a supplies 1944, pilot 50 Jap holding occupational deferments. ern slopes against numerous German Flying their fifth mission in eight However, the climax, the Russians House-approved State control bill and submarines have were on the predicted today that total ci- Zeros single-handed and knocked Union Asks and send it to pillboxes machine-gun nests. days, four waves of Maurauders to- sunk, probably verge of reconquering Representation. conference. The Germans resisted be- sunk or damaged a total of 572 one of the most vilian stocks of foodstuffs may down four, and Second Lt. If fiercely taling nearly 200 planes fanned out Jap- important military Army the Government takes over Senator Danaher, Republican, of cause the hill dominates anese of all prizes still in be somewhat smaller than last H. struck Cassino on missions over the Pas-de-Calais ships types. German hands. This Gerry Kisters, 24, an Indiana plants, any individual who Connecticut reminded Senator Taft and their corridor to it. was Lt. Comdr. Francis E. Brown of was the There area and returned without loss. Nikopol-Krivoi Rog area, year despite indications of in- cavalryman who was promoted encourages a strike in any way is of other provisions in the bill that no indication here as to whether Reno, Nev.. commanded the S-44, whose mines furnish the to They stirred up little fighter oppo- greater creased production. from the ranks for in subject arrest and criminal prose- require only the State ballot to be while the Cisco was gallantry the Germans were using the famous captained by part of the manganese so cution. counted if a sition. vitally- The department said the estimate the Sicilian campaign, today re- man sends home both monastery there as part of their Comdr. James W. Coe of Richmond, needed for Germany's war machine. the Strfte Frankfurt, a city of half a million is based on the fact that both mili- ceived the Nation's MESA's 110-member Executive and Federal forms. defenses. Ind. Its loss would be a highest near the junction of the Main and staggering blow tary and lease-lend Board, in calling off the strike Senator Taft replied that 99 out of Nazis Reinforced. to the Reich’s steel requirements award for bravery—the Congres- the Rhine Rivers, had been industry. will be this "temporarily,'’ said it had taken 100 servicemen who were handed already larger year than in 1943. sional Medal of the Correspondent Lynn Heinzerling Honor—from action the Federal ballot first severely damaged by previous heavy Five Britons Nikopols desperate defenders re- “Shipments for European relief may “pending a report from Wash- would not said, “The Germans have been able attacks. Reported sorted to trick President Roosevelt at the White as to fill out a State ballot every they knew to become a more important factor ington whether there is any reaching them to reinforce their troops in town the Soviet House. on a later date. Mosquitos Bomb Reich. Doomed to Die in stop onslaught. They than in the past,” the department disposition on the part of Govern- Although the Fed- and now are contending for every Italy were with ment eral ballot is confined to Ey the fighting dug-in tanks and reported. Lt. Kisters earlier in the was agencies having to do with block." The follow-up today Associated Press. day president emphasized self-propelled guns at the decorated with the labor matters to and members of Congress. State bal- Allied NEW city’s ap- Estimate of Distinguished | give adequate repre- "Almost every a new German determination to wipe out YORK, Feb. 8—The Nazi Percentages. lots cover day proaches, but were outflanked and Service Cross Gen. j sentation to unions not affiliated both those candidates an<| unit the with its railroad air- DNB agency said that six Civilians by George C. is found among the troops op- city yards, today crushed at the may expect the follow- to the AFL and State tickets. | British every point, com-: Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, at CIO.” posing the 5th Army on this front,” ! craft component factories and chem- escaped prisoners of war said. ing percentages of foods, compared munique Five outlying vil- the Pentagon. He thus became the to Other Concessions he added. “Some ical plants. had been arrested by Fascist j with Referring AFL and CIO repre- Made. Nazi engineering ; police lages were overrun as the apparent consumption last first in the Russians member of the Army to receive sentation on the WLB. Mr. Two other units are even as The daylight air offensive came Piedmont Alps of Northern year; Smith major concessions have being employed smashed into the eastern suburbs, both these decorations. Lt. said the after the RAF's Italy and that five of them had Meat. Walsh, society is determined to been made by administration infantry formations. Spearheading I Mosquitos bombed among them 101; eggs, 102: chickens, 92: forces, been sentenced Novo-Pavlovka, 3 miles who has 20 Jap planes to his credit, fight “a situation in which without the tenacious German defense are unspecified objectives in Western to death. turkeys, 89; cheese, 82; condensed inde- halting the determination from Nikopol's center. Rail has received escape already the Distin- pendent unions are tried our of Senators Germany last night for the sixth The dispatch, which said that routes are and evaporated milk, 77: fluid milk by States-rights to place TSee ITALY, Page A-5.) the! in the hands of the Rus- guished Cross for his enemies” in time in seven and Flying feats Federal agencv proce- additional curbs on the introduc- nights. men had been hiding since the sians’, and Red cream, 99; butter, 97; lard, 98; in Army artillery is the Solomons. dure. tion of a Federal Windows in English coastal towns Italian no reason, margarine, 109: citrus fruits, 110; voting form into armistice, gave shelling main highways to the west, rattled as canned The White House was The walkout last national elections. The are: New y big formations of daylight for the death sentence except that the communique disclosed. fruits, 70; canned juices, 95; ceremony Friday resulted changes U. bombers headed into frozen fresh witnessed by high officials of from a National Labor Elimination of the to vote Warning France and “they have been the terror of the On the northern end of the fruits, 136; vegetables, Army, Relations right long navy and Marine Board by on Germany throughout the day. population.” front, Gen. Leonid 100; canned vegetables, 90; frozen Corps and rela- hearing at Toledo on a peti- party designation the sim- A. Govorov's tives Frankfurt was The wireless 127; of the heroes. tion from the plified Federal ballot, it apparently bombed dispatch was report- Leningrad army was vegetables, sugar. 97; wheat, CIO-United Automo- making hammering bile necessary to write in the Given to Finland before noon. ed by United States Government further into Estonia 102: rice, 100; corn, 103; coffee, 139, President Reads Citation. Workers for a names of and dislodging bargaining the The attacks a monitors. and tea, 120. Lt. Kisters was agency election candidates the voter prefers for ended one-day lull the Germans from their positions the first to receive among workers in after an the the President, Senator and Hull Reveals Ultimatum intensive period of bom- east of Lake Peipus. In contrast to the department es- Congressional Medal. After the Willys-Overland Motor Co. Representa- bardment which the President read Lt. Kisters’ toolroom. Mr. Smith said time. during Amer- Nikopol Streets timate of average supplies of meat citation toolroom To Get Out of War ican Air Force Jake Clogged. he the ribbon employes had Elimination of provisions which launched nine major Early Reports One Soviet for this year the National Livestock looped holding the previously designated force pushed down the opponents of a Federal operations in 10 days. Producers Association a medal around his neck and his MESA their representative. ballot claimed By the Associated Press. Vitebsk railway below to predicted would For Draft Leningrad young wife fastened it. His The resolution of the enable military commanders Physical 22 civilian "famine” in pork and beef parents. Executive Secretary of State Hull disclosed capture Cholovo, miles north of to march their men By the Associated Press. within 60 days. Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Kisters of Board noted that the union "re- to polling places that the United States had in the rail junction of and in today Congress Members Rio S. Feb. Batetskaya serves the to military formation. Penalties SPARTANBURG, C.. 8.— Pelkovo. S. Bloomington, Ind., looked on proudly. right defend its in- recently renewed its warning to Fin- U. policies Criticized. have been inserted RIO DE Jake Early, first-string catcher for Lt. terests by the full use of its eco- for telling a man land to JANEIRO, Feb. 7 (>?>).— A front line said Kisters—then a staff sergeant get out of the war or accept the dispatch great That forecast was made at a nomic in uniform to vote, or for whom ha Representatives Hebert, Democrat, Washington Nationals, reported disorder —was badly wounded in two strength." the consequences of continuing as prevailed in bottled-up Nik- luncheon meeting of the association putting should vote. of Louisiana; Cole, of today at the Camp Croft induction German Strike an ally of Germany. Republican, opol, with the streets clogged with yesterday at the Willard Hotel, guns out of .action iq Sicily Called “Disastrous.” New- York, and Hess, of station for preinduction physical in House Bill Before Senate. The action was the Republican, loaded trucks and the cars of Ger- July—the feat which won the first taken by examinations. where speeches backing up the Representative Randolph. Demo- l Ohio, members of a House Naval man medal. The President asked him if Shortly before the Senate this Government with respect to officers as the Russians cut off statement were made by Represent- crat. of West Virginia told the recessed Affairs Subcommittee, arrived here Early, who is came here from he was all now but yesterday, Federal Finland for some time and suggest- 28, the garrison from escape to the west ative Kleberg, Democrat, of Texas; right the lieu- House yesterday the MESA dispute ballot opponents yesterday on an of his home town of tenant said his won a ed that the Finns be under inspection trip Kings Mountain. while on the east other Red of right arm was not “may prove to be the most temporary victory, when t.hev might United Army P. O. Wilson Chicago, executive dis- States naval facilities in the N. C.. has a son 3 old and a units healed. finally succeeded. 50 to in an Allied diplomatic as well as mili- years battered their way into the director, and H. M. Conway, research completely astrous since America went to war." 38. having Caribbean and South Atlantic. 19 months His the tary offensive to force them oiit of daughter old. city. director for the association. citation related that he ac- Without the parts made by the House-approved State-control -1 companied an officer oh a mission workers bill laid before the Senate. the war. the involved, he declared, "no Criticizing present govern- in which one Senator The gun emplacement was airplane, landing barge or tank Barkley immediately coun- Secretary was asked at a press mental policies on livestock, they tered Nazi captured with a crew of four men engine can be and "the by offering the amended conference for information on Stock- Planes Bomb Anzio Beachhead laid most stress on the complaint completed” Green-Lucas measure as an Hospital; <8ee A-5.) i amend- holm reports that there had recently that from now on it will be practi- AWARDS, Page See STRIKES. Page A-5. > ment to that bill, which would put been an exchange of communica- cally impossible to refill cattle feed- the Federal-ballot issue back on tha tions between the United States and U. S. Nurses 22 Killed and lots. They “liquidation” Among 63 Wounded reported House doorstep. Finland. of and mrougn aireci enemy action in Lt. Col. Howard Patterson, chief cattle, sheep hogs, prema- Mrs. Roosevelt Make Associated Press Tour This Correspondent Represent- this war.) turely. May Government, Mr. Hull replied, surgeon and with the ing the Combined American Press. There formerly “The curtailment in beef produc- has recently taken occasion to say apparently was not the re- and WITH THE 5th ARMY ON THE Roosevelt Hospital in New York, was tion in the feedlot will become more Murray Mead to the Finnish government, as it has motest reason to doubt that it was Of Caribbean ANZIO a marked as the season Camps Feb. 7 a pro- Army on a number of BEACHHEAD, (De- deliberate attack. performing brain operation when feeding other occasions, that Mrs. Roosevelt is an- To Discuss layed) (IP).—Two German gresses," declared Mr. Wilson. “Also considering the people who have something to Help the responsibility for the conse- fighter- Anti-personnel bombs landed at the bombs struck. No one was in- less beef will be this sea- other overseas time to do with it” and not as bombers in bright sunlight this aft- the of the cross produced trip—this specifically quences of Finland’s collaboration very edge red sur- jured in the but its For Small Business ernoon bombed a operating tent, son in and range areas. the the Army or Navy. with Germany and continuance in crowded American mounting the hospital. It is 45 feet pasture "little places” in the Caribbean beachhead evacuation kill- canvas was liberally riddled. He fin- The only period later this1 year when Mrs. Roosevelt who often has been a state of war wfith a number of hospital, square with bars 6 feet wide. area, where soldiers have been Senator Murray of Montana 22 and ished the we expect anything like adequate invited to visit South America, said this country's allies, the ing persons wounding 63, in- There was not a single major mil- operation. and Senator Mead of New including beef will be the late complaining of inaction, she paid she did not know whether her Soviet Union and Great cluding nurses. itary objective within a mile radius Only antipersonnel bombs were supplies during Britain, at her press conference today. Caribbean York will discuss ways and of the There dropped. There was some doubt fall, when range cattle are marketed trip might include small must be borne solely by the Finnish Sixteen of the dead and 43 of the hospital. also were If she the whether the and the slaughter of unfinished goes, President's wife islands in that or coastal countries. means of small busi- government. wounded were members of the hos- three other hospitals—all equally planes did any straf- helping cattle will take This will said, she will go “just simply to Miss Doris Fleeson, former Wash- pital’s American personnel. plainly marked with red crosses— ing.. Some said they did, others place. ness, both at this time and assure a and sea- visit” and not under the official jammed up against the victim of said they didn’t. The noise of anti- only temporary ington newspaperwoman and now Two nurses were three se- offices of after the war. in the National MOSCOW, Feb. 8 (/P).—'The Rus- killed, sonal short of the Red Cross, sponsor of for a na- the attack, making it literally im- aircraft guns made it hard to tell. supply low-grade foreign correspondent sians have served notice on Finland riously wounded, and one Red Cross beef a of her 25,000-mile tour of the South tional woman’s Radio Forum this evening. possible to mistake the sector for When the attack was over, the during period approxi- magazine, appeared that the bombing of Helsinki Sun- girl was wounded. 60 Pacific last fall. Transportation is at the conference Edward anything but a hospital zone. entire surviving personnel of the mately days.” press to describe Boykin, director of day night is only a prelude to what The were Lt. so “difficult,” she continued, that the of 5th figures given by Col. "One of them came in low hospital went into action. Nurses spirit Army soldiers and the National Radio is to come. Hubert L. quite she is uncertain whether she will Forum, Blinkley, Denver, Colo., across the whole worked with courageous Hitler Calls Dr. Frank Home go. nurses despite their ‘'beastly way” of "The hour of hospital area,” efficiency, will introduce the speakers. retribution is com- hospital executive officer, who, es- Newspaperwomen tried in vain to life in and their said Corpl. Jeff Young, truck driver, which won the praise of officers and Italy deaths "with- ing." declared an editorial in the but the LONDON Feb. 8 HP).—'Tass, official get Mrs. Roosevelt to say who The National Radio Forum caped injury, death toll of Dayton, Ohio, who had men. sug- out dignity.” just Soviet news government organ Izvestia. "Soon already was as he agency, said today that, gested the trip. She mentioned a Miss Fleeson said 5th is a Blue Network mounting talked, walked out of his tent as the planes ’’You couldn't get me to go home Army doc- feature, the Finns will regret that the war two hours after the raid at 3:30 according to Stockholm reports, Dr. mysterious “they” who believed tors had p.m. came in. "That knew what he now,” said Lt. of Du- boys told her they almost would by The is But pilot Gladys Joyce Hans Frank, German stationed ; arranged Evening continuing. if they don't (In Washington the War De- was governor gen- there might feel their job to have the Germans use doing, all right—he seemed to luth, Minn., grimly as a weary and prefer Star and broadcast regret now they will said the nurses eral of Poland, had been summoned was more if the Presi- locally regret doubly partment were aim right at the red cross. I dived silent group of nurses stood around appreciated poison gas to deadly booby traps and tomorrow.” the first to lose their to Hitler’s headquarters to on dent’s wife came to them. over The Star Sta- lives for a foxhole and just made it.” report greet mines which have killed American Evening (See HOSPITAL, Page A-5.) the situation. political I She identified them only as "all soldiers. | tion, WMAL, at 10:30 p.m. It lakes lhousands Dollars to 1 ram the Men Who U. S. More War of \ Fly Planes—Buy Bonds