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^WDULDiftYOuX YOU'D BETTE? LET \ LJKETo USETHIS 1 \us USf TH|S ONE.-IT CUTS Gas Registration Nazi Attack in ONE? IT CUTS V 0FF M0*E BUT ,T WESNT J Big-Scale V^DEEPER ) \HUKT ASMUa^/ Is Crushed Starts Today at Reported by Russians; Schools Here Chinese Beat Japs Back to Burma Rationing Cards V--— !• To Be Issued to Battle Going On SOVIET RUSSIA Heavy Fighting A-to-L Group For Four Days, Continues With (Picture on Page A-5.) Hitler Declares THUMBNAIL GUIDE on what you Enemy Remnants need to know about gasoline ra- tioning. Page B-l By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. A third of the 125.000 automo- Russia’s Armies were reported 12.—The CHUNGKING, May bile owners eligible for registra- today to have crushed a big-scale main force of a Japanese inva- — tion under the gas rationing pro- German attack in the Crimea, sion which struck deep Morgenthau column, gram in Washington and vicinity frustrating a Nazi drive toward into China’s Yunnan Province, will go to public schools today to the great Caucasus oil fields after has been driven back to the list their fuel needs and to re- four days of heavy fighting. Burma frontier at Wanting, but ceive cards entitling them to said the Ger- continues with Soviet dispatches heavy fighting what the Federal Government to mans apparently were trying remnants of the shattered enemy thinks 1942 they will require during a develop their first full-fledged in the Chefang-Mengshih area, offensive. 47-day period beginning Friday. a said today. ijailitary spokesman The A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's field If fighting still is progressing in three-day registration, open today only to persons whose last headquarters said German and the Mangshih area, the Japanese names with letters from Rumanian troops, supported by remnants are still 55 miles within begin A to L. started this in some strong Nazi air force units, opened China on the Burma road. Mang- morning of the areas. at the attack on the Peninsula shih lies 30 miles beyond Chefang. nearby Registrars 28 schools In the District will be on last Friday. Other Chinese forces which had duty from 3 pm. to 8 pm. “The battle since then has been been by-passed in Central Burma Legislators Seek X Cards. In full swing,” Hitler’s headquarters continued their advance in which The Little Fellow Will Be if 't Both In the rotunda of the Capitol a 6ald. captured Maymyo and drove Lucky They Use they stall of 15 public school teachers, to the outskirts of ruined Man- A Berlin broadcast quoted a Ger- issuing cards to members of Con- northeastward in an man military spokesman as sayinq dalay, moving gress. reported that most of the action was “the effort to block the Japanese retreat. the Crimean great Born members were asking for and re- offensive since the winter The spokesman said the Japanese Blackout to Give Area Only Triplets operation Water Curtailment ceiving X cards for unlimited sup- reached 145 miles defensive.” had Kalewa, To British plies of gasoline on certification after a Couple “Hell Let Loose.” northwest of Mandalay, that the vehicles were used fdr northwesterly advance from Man- Taste of Real Raid official business. While a Soviet midday com- Expecting Quads Faces District Area, dalay. He said the Japanese were At the munique reported that “nothing im- By the Associated Presa. George Washington High attempting to encircle Chinese School in Alexandria portant occurred last night,” indi- ABINGDON, England, May 300 persons troops in that section. were waiting in a line that extended cating that the German assault had Problems 12—Shucks, they were only McCarran Warns On the Salween River front in Tonight for stopped at least temporarily, a Ber- I triplets! more than 150 yards away from the Shan states of Eastern Burma the when the lin military spokesman declared: After getting half of England building doors wersf another force of Chinese which Drill Slated Federal to “Hell has been let loose over the Emergency all excited on the basis of med- Expansion opened registrants at 9 am. A struck out from near Loilem was of these Bolshevik positions in the Kerch For Sometime Between ical reports and having neigh- majority revealed that they facing the Japanese across the river. Blamed Senator for used their cars peinsula.” bors knit layettes for quin- by in connection with All these Central Burma forces are their business "Squadron after squadron of Ger- TO P.M. and 2 A.M. tuplets—or quadruplets at least Increased and would ask for SPRING COMES TO THE RUSSIAN on the commanded Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Consumption extra man planes is racing over the Bol- FRONT—Activity by —three children were born to- allotments. One of them esti- where Junkers 87s are southern StilweU, U. S. A. mated he consumed shevik front, Russian front between Kharkov and Kerch (1), where The Metropolitan Area’s black- day to Mrs. Emily Woodley, 28, Warning of the possibility of 5,000 gallons of out dive-bombing attacks.” The government spokesman said gasoline a year in his carrying spring has firmed the terrain, was essayed today as out practice tonight—some time and her soldier-husband, Pvt. water curtailment here was regular work, preliminary he applauded Prime Minister almost 100 German sappers and infantry between 10 and 2 a.m.—will Arthur Woodley. gallons a week. to a long-heralded German offensive attempt. Primary object Churchill’s to p.m. given today by Chairman Mc- were said to have landed behind warning Germany “It's a boy” in B Cards Predominate. was to be the closest this area has yet triplicate. Carran of the Senate District Russian lines under fierce fire. conquer Crimea, open the way to the oil-rich Caucasus against the use of poison gas and In the actual condi- Arlington County, Va„ regis- Berlin acknowl- and to flank the British in Iran. The drive failed. said China might invoke a similar approached Committee. He gave as potential military quarters attempt trars reported that “B” cards were the Kerch to China has tions of an air raid, preparations reasons rate of edged the importance of London reported the Russians had driven back German warning Japan. pre- present consump- being Issued almost today indicated entirely. There front but shied at describing the viously charged that the Japanese today. tion, a were divisions on the Kerch Peninsula. The of Meet proportionately higher a few “X” and “A” cards re- a port also The time Goering May new action as the start of Ger- have both exact at which the employed poison gas and city rate expected during the summer quested, they said. man offensive.” held out. On the (2) the Russians said ex- bacterial warfare will be thrown into darkness for a “spring they against their months and an increase neces- A half hour will not traveling salesman, who was .Nazi casualties pected a new drive on Leningrad. —A. P. Wirephoto. armies. be determined Heavy. With Petain and sitated by Federal orginally issued a "B-3” Beaten until the last minute, civilian de- Laval; expansion. card, told Military advices reaching London Back 30 Miles. the chief fense officials said. ‘‘Already indications are that the registrar at one of the gaid the German onslaught col- He said the deepest Japanese schools Unlike the last that he might as well have the Red stub- penetration into Yunnan Province total blackout use of water will be curtailed this lapsed against Army’s no gasoline as to have 57 was practice, when chiefs of emergency 5. Break gallons a to a U. born defense and that counterat- 3 British point 12 miles northwest of Expected summer,’* said Senator McCarran. month. He Destroyers Allied Airmen Blast defense services were advised ahead was told that he could tacking Russian troops drove the LungUng, but that the invaders were of time to meet Defense Co-ordi- “And while it is true that such cur- apply for an "X” card if he invaders back into their original beaten back 30 miles in the Chinese came nator Young at the District control Swiss Quarters Hear tailment can be attributed in gen- under one of the classifications lines with heavy casualties. counteroffensive. eral to seasonal Sunk Nazi Bombs 3 More of center at a certain time, the chiefs demand, yet the listed. German infantrymen still held an by Ships At present, Chinese forces from Decisions Will Be Made increased use of water the Fed- will not be notified tonight until the by Twenty-five persons were advanced point in one sector, it was the north and south are trying to eral both in the Dis- in waiting signal for the yellow warning, pre- Government, line an hour and a half said, but now are being fiercely at- encircle the and the At Session Tomorrow before Japanese Japa- the trict and nearby Maryland and registration tacked the Russians. In Mediterranean Armada ceding blackout by about half began at the Cherry- by Hiding Jap nese are trying to do the same thing contribute to this dale an is Virginia, larger In Moscow the Russians said the hour, given. By the Associated Press. School, officials said. Senior | to the Chinese. “Who will succeed demand on an overtaxed already high school students from Wash- German offensive died overnight. remains to be seen,” the Phone Crush to Be Averted. BERN, Switzerland, May 12.— More Than 500 Officers Losses Raised spokesman system of distribution.” ington-Lee High School The Soviet midnight communique Enemy commented. With French-German acted as For many of the rank and file of negotia- The Nevada Senator registrars. had told of stubborn battles against The emphasized And Men Are Rescued To 23 or 24 Since Start spokesman drew attention to the protective services, the public tions reaching a state of urgency, the need for In the German offensive on the Kerch additional facilities Arlington County, the registra- strong enemy reserves in Burma and warning sounded by the sirens will Reichsmarshal Hermann Goer- but said tion centers Peninsula. From Vessels Of Coral Sea that in his opinion “the opened at 10 am. and Battle said the danger of invasion of Yun- be the only notification to go into will Advices Moscow ing may meet tomorrow with taxpayers of this city ought not to close at 8 pm. The same reaching said the nan Province hours still existed. action. This not only will give the Chief of State Petain and Chief be saddled with the in- will be observed Nazi attack was preceded by night By the Associated Press. By the Associated Press. expense tomorrow and Wang Shih-chien, Minister of In- civilian defenders an opportunity to mass air raids. Red Soviet of Government Laval to reach volved in expanding a system of Thursday. In Alexandria, will Star, LONDON, 12.—The British ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, act as they May formation, said the Chinese tactics they should trader actual air- water distribution which is close at 4 but army paper, said the Germans had final decisions, it was reported not pm., tomorrow Admiralty announced today that Australia, May 12.—Japan ap- in Burma and Yunnan were to raid conditions, but also will prevent the been dropping thousands of bombs | press in necessary so far as the normal de- Thursday hours there will be three British had been still was a dis- the I the today foreign destroyers parently paying Japanese relentlessly, giving jamming telephones. diplomatic mands of the city and its inhabi- from 4 pm. to 9 pm. In In the Crimea, particularly incendi- quarters. Fairfax sunk German bombs in the astrous for her de- them no pause for consolidation. He ! Under the cascade system, which tants are concerned.” County the hours are aries, but without important re- by price today 4 pm. to 9 added that air was is cut notification on These the each sults. Mediterranean, bringing to 77 feat in the Coral Sea as Gen. support of the thereby down, quarters predicted The Senate District chairman said pm. day. the number of British MacArthur’s greatest importance in order to the yellow warning went down the French would refuse to the The hours in Sappers Land Behind Russians. | destroyers Douglas headquar- accept the investigation now under way Montgomery County, achieve this objective. line through the deputy wardens to Md„ will be from The sunk in 32 months of the war. ters announced that Allied flyers Martinique negotiations as one of is expected to present to members 2 pm. to 7 p.m, military spokesman in Berlin their next in command and so on down Battles of the Senate daily and in Prince Georges said the were “the first The were the tracking the scattered, hid- Interlocking. the great with a resultant Appropriations Com- County, operations destroyers Lively, until every warden was notified. decisions, from 3 pm. to 8 offensive remnants of the The Army spokesman said the mittee the true picture involved pm. dally. great undertaking since Jackal and Kipling. ing great enemy Particularly in the suburban areas break of relations with the United the winter defensive.” invasion warfare in Burma and Yunnan in the request for additional funds. Warning to Tourists Reiterated. More than 500 officers and men armada and other units where switchboards are manually Provinces was fluid States. The Is As the He said “fierce mopping up oper- had and and that the Senator personally conduct- registration opened, the from the three ships were saved. damaged two, probably operated, this system was said to Office of ations on the central front” also Japanese lines were like a great (Secretary of State Hull said ing the water investigation. Price Administration re- Complements of the three ships three, more ships. have jammed the wires. iterated were of “no mean importance.” horeshoe linking captured Wyitkyina today that the conversations in its warning to tourists ail ] were believed to total about 600 This raised the count of To the The Kerch Peninsula is Japanese and Bhamo in North Burma with prevent clogging telephone Martinique are continuing, but Eastern Seaboard to get out important, officers and men. losses in the wardens and others in the he said, because it has been six-day battle in the Wanting and other points on the lines, declined any comment on them.) of the area before the strongly au tnree were new, me uveiy, to to rationing sea gateway northeast of Australia Burma Road. protective services were advised Order Curb Deliveries starts and the White fortified for the Russians as “a been in It was reported that Otto Abetz, House filed 1,920 tons, having completed and in its sequel, a ceaseless search use the telephone only when spe- springboard for major operations,” Another section of the fighting Adolf Hitler's representative in Paris, protests from some of the Southern 1940, and the other two, each of 1,695 of island to 23 cial services had to be called to the for a drive to the hideaways, or 24 front extended from Loilem to States against the probably reconquer a earlier. Normal and Laval met yesterday at Moulins, Until June 1 stringent regu- tons, year comple- ships in the from the scene of simulated incidents. Postponed Crimea. eight days Wanting, while another stretched on the French demarkation line, and lations. ment* of the smaller ships were 183 start of the Coral Sea battle The likewise was request- Restrictions on local delivery serv- The German and Rumanian through east from Loilem to the Salween public laid the for the In urging motorists to men, the Lively’s probably some- not to groundwork expected “get home yesterday. River. ed by Col. Lemuel Bolles ices, scheduled to take effect May 15, if possible before troops were declared to be facing what meeting with Marshal Goering. rationing starts,’* larger. make telephone calls during the the O. P. a numerically superior foe. Nevertheless, Japan’s plans have Heavy Pressure on Chiang. were postponed today until June 1 A. cautioned that the new "Yesterday afternoon a force con- four-hour period during which the Laval was said to have brought only been delayed and the threat TOKIO, (From Japanese Broad- the Office of program makes no provision for Ukraine Drive Doubted. sisting of four of our destroyers was blackout will come unless the calls Prance to the brink of the three big by Defense Transporta- still hangs over Australia that she casts), May 12 UP).—Gen. Sunroku driving cars long distances London military’ quarters said re- heavily attacked by German aircraft are absolutely necessary. Before and decisions—rejection of the American tion, Joseph B. except will try again to smash southward, Hata, commander in chief of Eastman, director, by application to local ports that a German army of 2,- in the Eastern Mediterranean,” said Jap- after the blackout, it was explained, proposals for clarifying the status of rationing Air Minister Arthur S. Drakeford anese armies in China, said in announced. boards. This will mean that 000,000 troops had launched an of- the communique. today arrangements and reports will keep Martinique, the degree of military visitor* warned. that the The it was will be permitted to fensive on the River front, (In Rome the Italian high com- Nanking Japanese already the wires humming. collaboration with the Axis, and at postponement, ex- obtain only telephone 21 of Two more were applying heavy pressure plained, was decided on to give in- gallons gasoline a month after in the Ukraine, were “completely mand announced that the action enemy transports—ship In response to complaints by lead- least a preliminary settlement of Generalissimo Kai- dustries affected more time in which Friday unless they can show causa unfounded." took place off the Gulf of Salum casualties 22 and 23—were hit yes- against Chiang ers that their emergency vehicles disputed points with Italy. shek’s forces in Northern and Cen- to revise schedules and work why they should be allowed extra Commenting on the Kerch Pe- as part of aerial activity described terday in the Solomon Islands, which were a dozen times on the These were delivery stopped reported to have been in ninsula a as intense over Mediter- inclose the Coral on tral China and that great attacks out plans for conservation of tires supplies connection with their battle, British spokesman the Sea the north, way to simulated emergency tasks the matters of “imperious concern” were and in wartime. business and are said the Nazi thrust may have been ranean and North Africa.) a communique from Gen. Mac- coming. Col Bolles advised air raid wardens which equipment given special con- Vichy announced led Marshal sideration. at least the to a of- The was first hit and sank. Arthur’s announced. vehicles since The restrictive order for prelude major Lively headquarters not to stop emergency (See A-3.) provides When the three de- BERN, Page In another development fensive because “the Germans real- remaining Paper Boosts Prices that was the job of regular and elimination of special deliveries, yesterday. Large Tanker May Be Victim. j Petroleum Co-ordinator Ickes ize they must clear the Kerch Pe- stroyers were subjected to further 12 call-backs and more than one de- sug- CANTON, Ohio, May (/P).—'The auxiliary police. an ninsula before was sunk. gested 8-point program to tine advancing from Tag- heavy' attack the Kipling The possible 24th cas- Canton next will livery to the same person on the Japanese Repository Monday Extra Caution Urged. oil as a on to Rostov." The also was same industry means of increas- anrog Jackal, badly hit, ualty was a large tanker on which, raise its sale Traffic Director Wil- Five Coal Miners Killed day by any rubber-tired ve- weekday street price He joined ing fuel in the East. A German communique indicated taken in tow, but had to be sunk by the hicle, It deliveries to hos- supplies In it i communique said, air raiders from 3 to 4 cents and its Sunday liam A. Van Duzer in urging all exempts he called that the Russians were the British this the Ad- armed among other things tat attempting morning, registered two hits or near misses from 5 to 7 cents. who are on the street the pitals and the forces of the price Home de- during In Blast Caused Dust the formation of a to land seaborne reinforcements to said. in the Islands of by and all de- subcommittee miralty Deboyne the will be 21 cents tor blackout to exercise extra caution emergency livery prices By the Associated Press. charged with the of check the assault, reporting that During the attacks British Beau- Louisiade a cluster of liveries made in the interest of life, responsibility group, tiny weekday issues, up 3 cents, and 6 to prevent blackout traffic acci- obtaining maximum German planes sank two Soviet FORT SMITH Ark., May 12.—An health and safety. efficiency in the See^DESROYERSTPage A-4.) rsee-AUSTRALIA, cents for the 1 cent. dents. use of tank cars. transports totaling 5,000 tons and Page~A^3J Sunday, up Drivers of emergency vehicles were explosion at the Peerless Coal Co. In announcing the postponement several small vessels In attacks off The O. P. A. estimated that a asked not to start out in the black- | mine at nearby Excelsior, in which of the effective date. Director East- the Kerch Peninsula and off the third of those who apply for cards out until their eyes are accustomed man expressed gratification over the southeast coast of the . five miners were killed and two to the darkness and pedestrians efforts being made by (See GASOLINE, Page A-4.) U. S. Newsman Chauffeurs Miles others newspapers 12,000,000 Men Involved. Jeep 1,300 were advised to wait five minutes seriously injured, apparently and other industries to make de- before moving about, the length of was caused by gas or dust, W. H. liveries conform to the order. At The southern front is the first to time it is thought necessary to ad- the same time, he the offer solid footing after the Russian Over Trails in Doomed Burma Lewis, mining company president, emphasized Train Bog Fleeing just the eyes to the blackness. As said necessity for maximum conserva- Engineer winter. Military observers long have today. DANIEL DE in the previous total blackout reg-j An official of the tion of facilities. forecast that Hitler would make his By LUCE, Salween line in January, and the investigation ac- existing transport Youth Associated Press War Correspondent. ular traffic will stop moving and cident. which occurred last Shot, Held first major move of the spring there. smiling Chinese I saw deploying night 11 (De- motorists and pedestrians are sup- Judicious concentration of CALCUTTA. India, May around Toungoo below Mandalay 1,500 feet underground, is planned power, to seek shelter. In layed).—Across cactus plains seared In were in posed by the Arkansas mine J. GUIDE FOR READERS Plot however, is obviously necessary. March, killed combat. inspector, Sabotage by desert heat, Possible flaws in the communica- W. the Premier Stalin's effectives through steamy jun- Some retreated Fitzjarrel. Page. Page. By Associated Press. Joseph out of the death will be gle swamps, hidden deep in black tions system studied during Those killed lived in Greenwood, Lost and are estimated by the Allied publica- pockets. Always there was a new Amusements, round, CLEVELAND. May 12.—The leech-infested mud the survivors of tonight’s test, it was said. Although Ark. were tion Free to total 350 divi- temporary line established farther They George Young, 53; B-20 A-3 United States District Attorney’s the little British in Arthur imperial army A-4.) Baggett, 32; Newt Durham, Comics .B-18-19 .. A-8 office sions and the Axis' 285—roughly back. Always it was weaker than (SeeBLACKOUT, Page Obituary announced today that Don- Burma are fighting on in the tough- 32; Wallace Smith, 45: and A. W. 7,000.000 men against 5,000.000. the previous line. Editorials_A-6 Radio_B-18 ald Kintner, 20, would be charged est evacuation of World War II. Hanna, 50. Harris McAlister, 30, Editorial Society _B-3 with are on two sabotage—the shooting of a The Germans engaged For hundreds of miles it was a and Harassed by enemy fighters and Greenwood, Tony Farrante, Articles ...A-7 Sports ...A-9-11 locomotive engineer in an effort to fronts in the Crimea. They are esti- case of fight, withdraw and fight Japanese Invade India, bombers which for seven 35, Excelsior, were severely burned. Finance_A-12 Where to Go, halt a trainload of war mated to have lost 50.000 men in vain nearly again. materials. weeks have been They were part of a 14-man crew Legal Notices, B-6 The maximum attempts to capture Sevastopol, the overwhelmingly penalty on con- stabbed at from ambush Every mile backward Allied air German Radio working in the slope mine, pro- B-17 Woman’s viction under this Red Fleet naval base on the south- supreme, Reports Page, charge is 30 years* support faded until in April there ducing bituminous coal. west coast. At Kerch face for- by blood-crazed bands of native By the Associated Pres*. B-14 imprisonment plus a $10,000 line. they literally was nothing left. tifications the Russians have been traitors, the haggard and weary Always LONDON, May 12.—A German Jerome N. Curtis, assistant dis- enemy and Burmese treach- riflemen of half a dozen one-time troops that van- trict said building ever since combined Soviet j radio broadcast Japanese attorney, Kintner would crack battalions of British armored ery increased. the be army and navy forces struck from guard troops has crossed Indian accused of hitting P. J. Becker, force The fall of the Caucasus December 29-31 to re- crews and wiry Sepoys from Rangoon March 8 frontier at several points was re- Downey Urges $300 Boost New York Central engineer with a Indian units are within doomed Burma. The British in Pay .22 gain peninsular positions they had approaching the ported today by . caliber bullet last Friday near ranks lost in October. a few scores of miles the moun- knew it as well as the officers. The German broadcast said light Elyria, Ohio. His fireman took over tainous Assam of India— on are forces also had taken con- the In the north the was frontier They kept fighting. They Japanese To U.S. Workers Under train’s controls and brought it a zone $3,000 frontier the in- Surrender isn’t in trol of the coastal between the to the reported levying a heavy toll on where Japanese fighting today. next station. Mr. Becker suf- vaders can must be held at their Burmese of and the Senator of fered a German man power and equipment and vocabulary. port Akyab Downey, Democrat, subject should be thoroughly inves- head wound but Is recover* in stubborn fighting. bay. What imperial troops reach the Indian port of Chittagong. , a member of the Senate tigated by the Civil Service Com- ing. The British Exchange Telegraph mittee.” “Kintner was Ukranian guerrillas were reported What happened in Burma consti- rugged Indian frontier will move Civil Service Committee, today In- interrupting tha said the Paris radio flow of officially to have Inflicted tues a for the their way on foot. Their 12-ton agency reported Under the bill, Federal and Dis- war materials to help the heavy military tragedy DANIEL DE LUCE. troduced a bill providing additional lasses on American Japanese troops "fighting in the Bay trict employes engaged on German cause, and he conceived the the 32d and 46th Hun- United Nations—as bitter in its way —A. P. Photo. tanks with the cheery piece- of Bengal area" had reached a compensation of $300 a the hour or at diem idea of garian Infantry Regiments and to as Singapore, Java, Manila and per- red desert rat insignia, their six- year during work, by per wrecking trains,” Mr. Curtis point 13 miles from the war and for six months there- rates would receive the additional said. have “wiped out a big punitive ex- haps as avoidable. j month in Central Burma observers wheeled and four-wheeled trucks, Chittagong. after for all civilian employes of the compensation on the basis D. W. pedition” a few days later. For the pitifully small handful of have had nothing but praise. their mobile anti-aircraft artillery, prorated Taylor, chief of police for If true, this would place the Jap- Federal and District governments of hours. Substi- the New The Soviet Information Bureau soldiers from two were to their field artillery can- regular working York Central, announced imperial imperial They ordered do what admittedly anese about 25 miles inside India whose pay is now less than $3,000. tutes would get an increase on the that home •aid the guerrillas liberated several I divisions who lost Lower Burma, events have proved impossible. not be handled over the 150 Sunday Kintner, whose is from the Burma border. The Paris "Many Government are basis of time worked. at Axis-occupied communities, took for the few Chinese Their casualties were miles of sandy wastes and employes proportional Elyria, admitted he “took a shot under-strength appalling. swampy radio, however, has been in- more than morasses to the highly drifting away to other better-paid Additional compensation would at the engineer” and also that he 100 prisoners and cap- divisions which stemmed the Japa- The majority of the stocky, sing- nearest Assam accurate concerning the Burma jobs because of the high cost of liv- not be allowed to increase the total had fired several shots into a tured weapons. nese conquest for more than a ing British I saw hiking Into the (See BURMA, A-3.) signal, Page campaign. ing,” Senator Downey said. "The salary beyond $3,000. tower mechanism last week.