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Honor four generals Luzon Hero PRODUCERS SEEK LAND AT WESEL TO D STRIKE PARIS, March 24. —(U.R)— Four American generals, one of whom HOLLYWOOD, March 24.—(IP)— Union leaders and had never jumped before and twc producers to- day looked to conferences in New who hitch-hiked along just for the York next week for settle- thrill, parachuted with the airborne possible the ment of the motion troops behind German lines 13-day-old pic- Gen. ture strike. near Wesel, Brig. Floyd Richard Parks chief of staff for the Air- Walsh, president of the AFL International Alliance of borne Division, revealed tonight. Theatrical "I’m sweating that one general Stage employes, left at noon for talks in out,” Parks said. He told corre- Wednesday New York at supreme headquar- with William Hutcheson, spondents president of the ters that he couldn’t identify the Carpenters’ union, whose local is the high U. S. officers yet. observing pick- et lines. He was It was Parks who first disclosed accompanied by Pat Casey, Producers’ labor rela- that the airborne pocket had been tions representatives. linked up with Field Marshal Sir The IATSE said it would ask Bernard L. Montgomery’s forces Hutcheson to withdraw which slashed across the Rhine. carpenters from the walkout. The big, bald-headed, apple-cheek- The AFL conference of studio ed man grinned with unconcealed which is as he said unions, opposing the pleasure it. IATSE for jurisdiction over 77 set "The Germans knew we were decorators, said it was sending but it was like Notre Dame coming, James Skelton, local business agent a school football playing high for the carpenters, and Joe Candia- he said. team,” no, international vice-president, to I Parks said that not a aingle New York by train tonight fori plane, glider or man was lost due the Hutcheson talks. to Luftwaffe opposition. For three After lengthy discussion of the solid days, he said, the RAF and strike situation by Walsh, Presi- U. S. Airforce had pasted flak po- dent E. J. Mannix of the Produ- In the of sitions, troop concentrations and presence more than 300 cers’ Association and President survivors of the special attention to infamous “March Herbert K. Sorrell of the confer- airports, giving of Death” in the fields. Philippines Brig ence of studio a the jet-plane Gen. Charles C. unions, spokesman Hillman pins a for airborne column was Silver Walsh said, “the way it looks The great Star and Purple Heart on now, the strike will continue at long enough to have stretched from Cpl. Russell L. Villiers of Bridge- least Cleveland to New York, Parks port, Conn., in ceremonies at San through next week.” F-ancisco, Calif. ___ said. The weather was the best Hillman lost his right leg on Luzon. possible. The wind was only 10 (International) CIO, LEGION CALL miles per hour and visibility per- fect as the gliders landed “right FOR JOB PROGRAM on the nose.” JAPANESE FORM from "We were afraid of Wesel,” (Continued Page One) said. “But it was be- Parks easy VOLUNTEER ARMY said that nothing effective has cause the heroic commandos, who been done thus far about poswar in the cleaned went during night, employ men. SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.— it out. The Legion presented its views _v- (IP)—Tokyo today announced Gov- in a “program for veterans” key- ernment orders for formation of ed to the proposition that there Problem Of a “people’s volunteer and Feeding army” must be jobs for all “if we are to quoted Premier Kuniaki Koiso: Nations preserve our free America.” Liberated “The time is for the here 100,000,- “We should do the veteran an ill 000 of to man In Critical State people Japan their favor.” the Legion said, “if we posts and participate.” employed him and left other mil- WASHINGTON, March 24. —UP) Tokyo domestic broadcasts and lions of workers out of jobs. That Domei news —One hundred million people de- agency dispatches, way lies economic collapse—state recorded by the Federal Communi- socialism or state pend on the United Nations for food capitalism.” cations Commission, said the But the it are as a result of liberation, British ques- veterans, said, tion of martial law for all of Ja- “the cream of America’s human sources said today. pan was before the house of peers. resources” and must have “first A study of the world food situa- The martial law proposal of call upon American business and tion by the British Information Koiso’s cabinet would empower industry.” Services released he said it had the armed forces to confiscate “They are the men we must em- reached a “most critical state.” any or all and ploy first,” the Legion said, “be- to ‘‘land, buildings Millions more will be added cause we cannot do without material” and assign any or all their the host to be fed, “for the great- ciizens to "military works.” courage, skill and initiative. They er the Allied miliary successes, As Koiso made his “volunteer” are the leaders of postwamAmer- the the problem grows,” greater plea to the invasion-jittery nation, ica—its strength and its hope.” it was stated. Vice Minister of War Lt. Gen. -V- While the war-ravaged nations T_ D.i_ r* Kenshiro Shibyama said "martial u/u nciuiiiccd set free are not entirely depend- uivumo law will not necessarily be pro- ent for all their food because of claimed together with the applica- i4f Convalescent Hospital their own production, they must tion of the emergency measure.” to import all supplies of expect Koiso declared the “tide of this MIAMI, Fla., March 24. —(A>)— certain items. critical war situation” could be Two Army air forces reurnees— -V- turned in only one way—by “mus- une in a wheel chair, the other British troops Near tering the people's total energies.” talking on an artificial leg—were -V-- bridegrooms today in weddings at Kyaukse Stronghold the Biltmore unit, AAF Regional Mighty Allied Push and Convalescent hospital, Coral CALCUTTA, March 24. —(U.R) — German War Sables. within May End British troops advanced to Lt. William R. Kraham, of Coop- four miles of the Japanese strong- (Continued from Page One) erstown, N. Y., whose left leg was hold of Kyaukse in central Bur- the Rhine was merely inciden- torn off in a crash landing of a ma, it was announced today, as tal to what is happening now. B-24 landing in France, was mar- other empire forces to the south- There have been disappoint- ried to Miss Ann Benninghoff of west hurled back a powerful Jap- ments and the inevitable mis- suburban Rocky River, Cleveland, anese attack on their outposts at calculations in these mass un- Dhio. Meiktila. The second time we Lt. Howard R. Elements of the 2nd British Di- dertakings. An hour earlier, were stalled was in December. Sole of Mass., sat vision, sweeping enemy elements Southbridge, Then the Germans broke in a wheel chair as he was mar- before them as they push south to create the Ardennes Elizabeth M. Davis from Mandalay, captured a village through ried to Miss But some of the luck and suf- four miles west of Kyaukse, thus bulge. bf Bedford, Mass. Lt. Cole some of the breaks were with the when he bailed eliminating a sizeable pocket of fered a broken leg Allies, as will be more widely in resistance on the Mandalay-Ran- but of his fighter plane south- known when the whole story can goon railway. The remainder of ern France. Japanese troops trapped between be told. -V- Field Marshal Sir Ber- Mandalay and the Myitnge river Watch drive in the Flowers to the south “are being mopped nard L. Montgomery’s Many Blooming north. His smoke-screened prepara- up”, a communique headquarters some At Greenfield Lake said. tions tipped the Germans be hit hard The Fourth Armored Division weeks ago they would didn’t know A profusion of flowers, provid- from Meiktila continued by Monty. But they operating the beret is ng a beautiful spectacle, are now to make successful strikes, the when. The man in Phalian n bloom at Greenfield Park. Dog- said. The armored driving now for the west communi(fue to Ber- vood and wisteria are featured column which took Wundwin, 18 plain, the broad highway tanks and :his year and the gardens have miles northeast of Meiktila, made lin. It is an area where been compared with Airlie, on northward. other armored vehicles can roam, further progress tVrightsville Sound. prowl, encircle and kill. On that The blossoms are expected to flat land they need not bother with -each their peak around Easter WEATHER roads. next Sunday, with the sunk- There is no reason to believe lay, ;n gardens one of the loveliest (Continued from Page One) that the Allies will sweep to Ber- places in this section. lin as easily or as fast as they WASHINGTON, March 24,—(JP)—Weath- Several islands have been plant- rolled to Paris and beyond last •r bureau report of temperature and bd and over 5,000 plants set out 24 hours 8 summer. But neither is it likely rainfall for the ending p.m. around the western half of the lake, In the principal cotton growing areas this time that the Allied spearhead war have and elsewhere: for lack of fuel, [n the post period, plans There is such a sublime sweetness about the Prec. will be stopped Station High I.ow been made to set-out over a quarter very thought of Easter, the loveliest of all Asheville_ 80 47 0.00 food or ammunition.

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