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.