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FOOD FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM Don'l Vasle It! Final Edition Today's Latest News CENTRAL ILLINOIS HOME) JVEWSPAPER SINCE 1846 97TH YEAR. NO. 307. BLOOMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1943. TWELVE PAGES.

SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS VP) ASSOCIATED PRESS UB UNITED PRESS 1 Japanese Fleet Routed In Stab at Bougainville USolons Want Moscow Ideas in Connally Plan Mi ners Ignore Roosevelt Order to Resume Work JAPS KNOW THEY CAN'T STOP US-ADM. HALSEY ALUMINUM PLANT COSTS BILLION BUT IT WORKS Lewis Talks With Ickes On Contract enemy high command must be worrying tonight I would. They know we do not plan to stop here. They know they cannot halt us." Halsey praised the surface task force which bombarded upper and lower Bougainville before the Allied invasion of Empress Augusta bay Monday, and paid tribute to the air forces which rendered enemy air bases on the island WASHINGTON, D. C.

UP) It cost a billion dollars plus, but the aluminum for war program is over the top, producing 100 mil lion pounds in excess of requirements every three months. Arthur H. Bunker, director of the aluminum and magnesium division of the war production board Tuesday unfolded the hitherto se cret story of prodigious growth from a prewar midget to an industrial giant. Highlights of his report: When the rearmament program began in mid-1940, the United States produced a limited amount of aluminum unsuited to war needs, and almost no magnesium. Fabricating equipment could not be converted to military produc tion, and a billion dollar fabricating plant system was built from the ground up.

Plane production was measured in dozens per month; in October, 8,300 units were produced, each utilizing light metals. Bunker estimated the following production increases for 1943, as compared with 1939: Domestic bauxite, 1200 percent; aluminium tubing 1300; aluminum sheets, 70 percent; aluminum rod and wire 1200 percent; extruded shapes, 1000 percent; aluminum forgings 4500 percent. Aluminum supplies for the fourth quarter of 1943 were set at 871,200,000 pounds, almost 100 million pounds in excess of the 744 million pounds required. Lady Oakes Testifies Against De Marigny U. S.

Warships Chase Enemy Back to Rabaul ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHWEST PACIFIC. UPJ American warships defeated and chased off a Japanese surface force that attempted to interfere Tuesday with invasion operations st Bousainville island in tne boio- mons, a spokesman announced Wednesday. In what was described as "quite a heavy engagement," an enemy fleet believed to have been made up of cruisers and destroyers turned tail and fled northwest to ward Rabaul, New Britain, the big Japanese base toward which Gen Douglas MacArthur's forces were driving. Slight Damage. The battle, which took place at night, came a few hours after fleet units under Adm.

William F. Hal tey's south Pacific command and Allied planes ringed Bougainville with a series of naval and air bombardments to cover the landing by United States marines on Empress Augusta bay, along the west coast of the island. A communique said the sea-air attacks, made at a cost of only five pienes and slight fleet damage and casualties, "effectively neutralized" all of the nine major Japanese airdromes on Bougainville and the Shortland islands to the south. MacArthur had expressed hope the Japanese would be tempted to send out their fleet against the convoy landing on Bougainville to complete the conquest of the Solo mons and increase the threat to Rabaul, only 250 miles to the northwest. Another Defeat! He promised to "throw everything" available against them.

Results of the battle were not fully known but the fact that thp ships fled was indication they suf- lerea another bad beating. There were no new rpnorts the fighting on Bongainville. The communique, however, announced advances on both Treasury island and Choiseul, to the south. On 1 reasury, American and New Zealand ground forces reached Malsi, on tne northeast coast. killing 44 Japanese in beating off a counter attack un Choiseul, the troops, aided by planes, beat an npmv force at Sangigai, four miles from Their landing points, killing 72 and iorcmg tne rest to flee.

State Retail Sales Rise 13 Percent WASHINGTON, D. C. UP) ales of mdeDendent rptailprs in Illinois were 13 percent higher curing September than in the same month a year ago, and 7 percent above those of Aug. 1943. This information was continued in a bureau of census survey of 2 026 stores, representing all types except department stores.

Chicago led the buying parade ith a gain of 17 oereent over September 1942, and 10 percent aoove August. Independent retailers in Peoria, Decatur, East St. Louis and Aurora each rp. ported 13 percent sales gains over iseptemoer, 1342. Others were: Springfield, 11 percent; Blooming-ton.

10; Rockford, Joliet, 4. Jewelry stores led in business increase with a gain of 32 percent, while household appliance dealers dropped 44 percent. Cost of Living Soars in France MADRID. UP) Prices have skyrocketed to such fabulous heights in France, Spanish press dispatches from Paris said Wednesday, that the present cost of a drink of wine in any cafe "would have fed a whole family in a good restaurant in 1939." A man's suit was said to cost 12.000 francs, a mediocre meal 500 francs, the cheapest watch 5,000 francs and the cheapest radio 0.000 francs. (Before the war the franc had value of about 2.8 cents in American money, but it is no longer quoted on the foreign exchange.) Former Pole Prisoners Fighting With Allies LONDON.

UP) Poles who were among the prisoners of war captured by the Allies in their cleanup of the German armies in Tunisia now are fighting on the side of the Allies as soldiers in Poland's forces in the middle east, Richard K. Law, minister of state, told commons Wednesday. Fair Toniqht; Colder Thursday COVERXMEVT WEATHER FORECAST. IT T.TVOrS: Fair Wednesday night and Tfttirslay: coider extreme north; continued south and CENTRAL portions Wednesday nipht. with freezing over the entire state; warmer Thursday.

HXTACRAPH WEATHER RECORD. Tuesday's maximum, 50; minimum. 34. Wednesday 6 a. rn.

11 a. ra. 2:30 p. m. Temperature 37 42 46 Sun sets Wednesday: 5:55.

Sua rises Thursday: 7:33. iPANTAGRAPH PHONES 6900-5 WASHINGTON, D. C. UP) A proposal to incorporate in the Connally peace resolution the Moscow agreement's endorsement of a general international security or ganization appeared headed for approval Wednesday by the for eign relations committee as a com' promise in the senate's postwar policy controversy. Chairman Connally (D.

Tex.) called the committee into extraordinary session after a group of 14 senators who have been seek ing to stiffen the terms of the peace resolution proposed amend ments attaching two paragraphs of the Moscow statement to the origi nal. The Substitute. One influential committee mem ber said all sides in the contro versy appeared ready to accept a part of the amendment putting the senate on record as recognizing as did the Moscow agreement the necessity of establishing, an international organization open to all peace loving states. The proposed substitute of the 14 senators who have been seek ing to "strengthen" the terms of the Connally resolution would in corporate in it, with slight changes, these declarations from the Mos cow conference: Consult Each Other. "That they (the United States, Great Britain, Russia and China) recognize the necessity of estab lishing at the earliest practicable date a general international or ganization, based on the principle of the sovereign equality of all peace loving states, and open to membership by all such states, large and small, for the main tenance of international peace and security.

"That for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security pending the re-establish ment of law and order and the inauguration of a system of general security, they will consult with one another and as occasion requires with other members of the United Nations with the view to joint action on behalf of the com munity of nations." Marauders Raid French Air Bases LONDON. U.P.) American Marauder medium bombers at tacked a cluster of German air fields in the St. Andre De L'Eure area some 50 miles west of Paris Wednesday to pace the resumption of offensive against the con tinent, long paralyzed by fog. Coastal observers saw two big air fleets sweep out from Britain, and the Cairo radio said Paris and Brest were bombed. American army headquarters, announcing the attack on the St.

Andre air bases, said the Maraud ers were escorted and covered by bpithre fighter planes. The two formations crossed Dover straits Wednesday morn ing in a sunny, cloudless sky and disappeared over the northwest coast of France. The planes flew so high that only their vapor trails were visible, but the thunder of their engines indicated they were heavy bombers, possibly American Flying Fortresses or Liberators. Sripsholm Docks In South Africa PORT ELIZABETH, UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. UP) The Swedish liner Gripsholm docked here shortly after 7 a.

m. Wednesday with 1,500 American repatriates returning home from internment in Japanese hands. The big vessel, her lights blaz ing above a gleaming white hull, slipped into historic Algoa bay at 9 p. m. Tuesday, but remained at anchor overnight, in the outer har bor, some two miles from shore.

The repatriates boarded the ship at Mormugao, Portuguese India, Oct. 19, after being brought there aboard the Japanese liner Teia Maru. Dewey Still 'No Candidate1 NEW YORK. HUE) Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey reasserted Wednesday that "I am not and shall not become a candidate for the Republican nomination in 1944." Asked by a reporter if he would decline the presidential nomination, Dewey said: "Nothing has happened to change anything I have said on that subject." of I Places 68,234 On Farm in 6 Months CHAMPAIGN, ILL. UP) The University of Illinois extension service in co-operation with the United States employment service placed 53,338 men, 9,912 women and 4,984 youths in farm jobs throughout the state in the last six months. Prof. J. E.

Johnston, emergency farm labor supervisor, described the part the two services played in meeting Illinois farm labor shortages to farm bureau officials Tuesday. Cossacks Chase Germans Across Nogaisk Steppes MOSCOW. '(UP.) Cossack horsemen pounding across the Nogaisk steppes swept the remnants of beaten German armies into the great sand wastes bordering the Dnieper estuary Wednesday and the complete annihilation of the enemy was expected within the next several days. The Russians were cutting through the disorganized enemy columns with almost bewildering speed. They were hemming the survivors into the steadily narrowing corridor between the low er Dnieper and the Black sea for the coupe de grace.

Horsemen took over the pursuit in the Dnieper estuary region as the soft sands threatened to bog down tanks and motorized forces. The Germans put up their bit terest resistance in the bypassed region below the big manganese center of Nikopoi. There, they were fighting a desperate rear guard action while trying to evac uate the bulk of their shattered units across the Dnieper. Even in this area, however, the Russians were advancing irresis tibly and a large portion of the German force seemed doomed to destruction. Allied Planes Come to Aid Of Partisans LONDON.

i(UP) American and British planes have bombed Ger man landing parties on the Pel jeshac peninsula along the Yugo slav coast and attacked enemy concentrations at the harbor of Dubrovnik, a Yugoslav partisan communique said Wednesday. The attacks were reported as Yugoslav sources said Russia was preparing to supply the partisans with planes for offensive raids to augment an air force now being organized by former Yugoslavian government pilots with captured aircraft. The date of the Allied raids ttas not given. The Peljeshac penr insula lies some 50 miles southeast of Split, Adriatic port which has been attacked several times by Allied aircraft from Italy. The bombers also were said to have hit at Metkovich, inland river port.

Spaatz New Chief In Mediterranean WASHINGTON, D. C. UP) Formation of a new ail-American Mediterranean air command under Lt. Gen. Carl A.

Spaatz was interpreted here Wednesday as heralding the imminent whipsaw bombing of Germany on what may prove to be an unendurable scale. Significantly, the announcement was made at Algiers a few hours after a part of Spaatz' command the new 15th United States air force had battered the Messer-schmitt assembly plant at Wiener Neustadt with heavy bombers. Official comment was lacking on Tuesday's Algiers announcement, but one of the principal objectives of the campaign in Italy has been to acquire air bases within easy striking distance of central Europe and Germany's Balkan satellites. Sino-Jap Clash Near Burma Road NEW DELHI. UP) Japanese attempts to break up construction of a supply road from Assam in India to the Burma road were in dicated Wednesday in an Allied communique announcing that Chinese forces had clashed with 50 Japanese near that route.

The road is intended as a new supply line to China, and the Japanese apparently are seeking to pinch it off. The communique said one Japanese officer was killed in the clash and 10 enemy soldiers wounded, while four Chinese suffered wounds. Gravediggers Strike So Burials Postponed CHICAGO. UP) Fifteen burials at St. Adalbert's cemetery were postponed, and mourners and visitors observing All Soul's day were stopped outside the cemetery gates Tuesday when gravediggers there established a picket line and refused to allow vehicles to pass through the gates.

Pallbearers, undertakers and priests carried each of the 15 coffins to the cemetery vault, where they were, placed temporarily. Julius Szalkowski, cemetery superintendent, said the 70 employes were demanding a closed shop and a wage increase of from 75 to 95 cents an hour. The gravediggers are members of the Cemetery, union, local 106 (AFL)J WITH ADM. HALSEY, AD-VANCED HEADQUARTERS, SOUTH PACIFIC. j(UPJ Adm.

William F. Halsey, commander of Allied south Pacific forces, Wednesday described the invasion of Bougainville as "our greatest venture" in that area and said the Japanese "know they cannot halt us." "We have laid to our own satisfaction the myth of Japanese invincibility," Halsey said. "The GOP Wins In Eastern LOOSE HAIRS TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS SPRINGFIELD, ILL. (UP) A new tonsorial note for men was revealed here Wednesday the getting rid of those loose hairs which get down the back of your neck after a haircut. Benard Koch, a barber, has installed a vacuum cleaner to the ceiling of his shop.

When he finishes a hair trim he pulls down the hose attachment and lets the machine do the work of the old brush. Germans Begin Retreat as Rome Line Sags (LATE BULLETIN.) LONDON. JTUD The Vichy radio reported Wednesday night that the Fifth army had launched a major offensive in the direction of the Gulf or Gaeta in the southwestern sector of the Italian front. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, IN ALGIERS. WPJ The German line below Rome is breaking before pounding Allied attacks and the enemy has begun an orderly retreat northward, it was announced Wednesday.

American spearheads, fighting through heavy Nazi tank attacks, plunged three miles deeper into enemy defenses in high ground, less than 90 miles south of Rome as the German line designed to delay the march on the Italian capital, began disintegrating. German Line Bogging. The steady advance by American forces of Lt. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army came as the British Eighth army seized a second bridgehead across the Trig- no river on the Adriatic end of the trans-Italy front and Allied aircraft destroyed 37 enemy planes in their biggest bag in weeks.

An Allied military commentator said the Allied pressure was beginning to tell and the German defenses were sagging although the enemy gave up reluctantly Out steadily his delaying actions all along the line. Fall Back to New Lines. The Germans abnearerl to lie dropping back into new mountain defenses above the Garigliano river where they will need additional troops for a longer line, the commentator said, adding the retreat probably was forced hv the continual heavy battle losses. Both Isernia and Venafro, central pivots of the German defenses, were brought within close artillery range by the advancing Ameri cans, who captured the key towns or uano, three miles northwest of Valle Agricola, and Pratella, two miles beyond Ailano. Cromwell After Money.

uons uuke Charges RENO. NEV. UP) npirs Doris Duke Cromwell declared in her divorce comDlaint that H. R. Cromwell has been interested primarily in getting his nanas on $7,000,000 of her to-bacco millions since thev seDarat- ed three years ago.

A bill of particulars attending her formal divorce papers, which were hied secretly Oct 25, set forth that Cromwell's for a financial settlement after their separation "have been so high that the Dlaintift has hfwn unwilling to assert thereto." Mrs. Cromwell, 30, charged Cromwell, 47 year old onetime United States minister to Canada, with extreme cruelty which has "seriously undermined" her health, and three years' separation. Reich Executes Three BERN. SWITZERLAND. UP) The Swiss telegraph agency said luesaay a story from Berlin that Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief, had announced the execution of two Drominent nersons for spreading defeatism in the reich, ana another man lor hoarding.

LATE BULLETIN. WASHINGTON, D. TCB John L. Lewis and Coal Administrator Harold L. Ickes were reported late Wednesday to have reached a tentative agreement under which striking United Mine Workers would go back to their jobs.

(By Associated WASHINGTON, D. The top authorities on both sides of the nation's latest coal mining crisis gathered around a big conference table in the interior department Wednesday as close to a half million workers in the far flung fields ignored President Roosevelt's call for a return to the government seized pits. United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis, talked alone early in the morning with Interior Secretary Ickes, conferred afterward with UMW's district presidents, and then returned with a group of aides to meet Ickes and the lat-ter's coal experts in a conference room just beneath the secretary1 office. Ickes, designated as United States mine boss when the government seized the struck mines for a second time Tuesday, was attended at this session by former Interior Undersecretary Abe For-tas, recently inducted into the navy but now on special leave.

Assistant Secretary Michael Strauss, and the leading legal minds of the solid fuels administration and the coal mines administration. Working on Contract. The latter agency was largely liquidated when Ickes restored the mines to their owners Oct. 12, but the legal staff had not been relieved of duty when the new crisix arose. None of those entering the conference room would discuss the business at hand, but the implications were that attempts were being made to get together on, contract which would send the idle miners back to work.

The quiet suspension of activity, begun two weeks ago in scattered wildcat walkouts stemming from continued absence of a working contract, spread to an estimated 460,000 hard and soft coal miners as conferences looking to some settlement went forward here between Lewis and Ickes. An early morning survey in Pennsylvania, a top producer of both anthracite and bituminous coal, showed no signs of a back to work movement in response to the President's appeal. Illinois Still Out. In West Virginia, there were no early reports of any mine crews going back to the pits. A Logan county union spokesman said 10 county locals had sent telegrams to President Roosevelt, Lewis and the war labor board stating they would not work until a contract is signed.

A survey of mines employing three fourths of Alabama's 22,000 miners showed no signs of resumption. The reports generally reflected a lack of any sort of demonstration in the fields, where the stars and stripes flew over deserted tipples. Indiana still had 7,000 idle, with no evidence of any action pending word from UMW'l policy committee. No major mine was opened in Ohio, as the day started. Workings in Kentucky, and Virginia, remained idle.

There were three new work stoppages in southern Illinois, involving members of the Progressive Mine Workers of America (AFL). This state, with a total of 40,000 organized miners, had no reports of any returns to work. Ickes Freezes Coal-Cuts Deliveries (By I'ntted Pros.) Late Tuesday, Secretary Ickes "froze" approximately 2,000,000 tons of coal in transit on railroads and restricted retail deliveries to those with less than 1(1 day's supply. Consumers with less man tnat amount will be permitted not more than one ton each. The measures to conserve coal supplies were taken as the prospects for full resumption of cosl production this week passed.

Even though Lewis orders his men back to work Wednesday, It is conceded that full production cannot be attained until next week State of Emergency Reported in Germany STOCKHOLM. UP) The Svenska Dagbladet, quoting reports from travelers rMrhinir ft.Ta! moe from Denmark, said Wednes day that serious disturbances have occurred in Germany snH tha state of emergency has been declared in many cities, including Berlin and Flensburs. on ih rtr- man-Danish border. Elections Seaboard Demos Beaten In New York, New Jersey (By Associated Press.) Triumphant in key eastern sea board contests, Republicans viewed the off year election returns Werfnsday as a signpost on the road which they hope will lead back to the White House in 1944 Democrats, beaten in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, confined their initial comment to congratulations to the winners. Voting, heavier than expected in seven states in view of the absentees in uniform and in war factories yielded these results: New York Republican Joe R.

Hanley was elected lieutenant governor over Democrat William N. Haskell, retired lieutenant gen eral, by more than 300,000 ma jority. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Wendell Willkie actively sup ported Hanley; President Roose velt and James A.

Farley backed Haskell, although the President's support was confined to a vote cast at his Hyde Park home. Death Blow Spangler. New Jersey Former Sen. Wal ter Jdge, Kepublican, defeated Vincent J. Murphy, Newark's norship despfte a better than i uuu majority xor lviurpny puea up in the Hague dominated Jersey City area.

Pennsylvania Acting Mayor Bernard Samuel of Philadelphia, Republican, was elected to a reg ular term in that office over the Democratic candidate, William C. Bullitt, former ambassador to Russia and to France, for whom President Roosevelt had spoken a good word. The state continued Republican. Kentucky This normally Dem ocratic state produced a real horse race for governor with Republican Simeon Willis trailing Democrat J. Lyter Donaldson by only a few thousand votes with hundreds of districts uncounted.

Harrison Spangler, Republican national chairman, saw in these returns a death blow to any fourth term movement for Mr. Roosevelt. State after state, he declared, has "rebuffed the New Deal." Virginia, Mississippi Go Demo. "Next November," he added, "these state voters will turn to a Republican President and a Republican congress to get our country back on the American road." Party leaders, were confounded in the New York state supreme court contest. Thomas A.

Aurelio, attacked by District Atty. Frank S. Hogan as having been sup ported by a big time slot machine operator, appeared the winner even though both major parties had repudiated him. The election was routine in Vir ginia and Mississippi, Democrats coasting in as expected in local contests. Southern Illinois Goes GOP (By Associated Fress.) Unofficial returns Wednesday indicated that 12 of the 13 southern Illinois counties with com mission government elected Republican commissioners in Tuesday's elections.

Voting was light and Republican candidates were unopposed in six counties. Union county, usually Demo cratic, gave George Hill a slight majority over E. G. Kerth, the Republican. Republican successes were reported in Alexander, Ed wards, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Monroe, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Wabash and Williamson counties.

Jackie Cooper V-12 On Notre Dame Campus SOUTH BEND, IND. UPJ Film Star Jackie Cooper has doffed grease paint for navy blues. He reported with 400 other enroll ees Tuesday at the V-12 train ing school on the Notre Dame campus. Cooper, who won fame as a child actor in "Skippy," has been a member of the naval reserve for 11 months. He is 21.

Mentions Letter Count Wrote Eldest Son LATE BULLETIN. NASSAU, BAHAMAS. fT) After a dramatic witness stand appearance by the, widow of the slain Sir Harry Oakes, the Crown concluded at 3:18 p. m. Wednesday Us case in Bahamas Supreme court against Alfred De Marigny, the son in law who is charged with murder.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS. UP) In the silence of a crowded court-n-ned bv the drama of the moment, the widow of Sir Harry Oakes told in tones sometimes halting, sometimes firm, Wednesday of a famjly break which followed Alfred De Marigny's marriage to the daughter of the man he now is accused of killing. Even the white wigged chief justice dropped his voice while Lady Eunice Oakes testified in the Bahamas Supreme court against her dashing, twice divorced son in law, who is charged with bludg-pnninff and burning the multi-mil lionaire Sir Harry to death last July. triprt to make the best of a bad situation," the mourning clad, broken woman said, alter tne handsome defendant married red haired Nancy Oakes, then 18 years old. Change Their Wills.

But Nancy became pregnant even before she recovered from a near fatal attack of typhoid fever, Lady Oakes related and Sir Harry's resentment caused ill feeling between the baronet and De Marigny. She said that Nancy stuck with her husband and moved away from her family. Then, and the witnesses' voice now was firm and cold, De Marigny wrote to the eldest Oakes' son, Sir Sidney, "the most diabolical letter a man could write to a child of 15, about his parents." As a result of the bitter feeling, said the widow, "we both changed our wills in February, to protect the children against themselves until their arrival at the state of discretion. The filing of Sir Harry's will, disposing of a tremendous fortune, sometimes estimated to be worth as much as $200,000,000, revealed that Nancy received a full child's share. Letter Introduced.

A discussion of a surgical oper ation which Nancy underwent at West Palm Beach last spring had caused Lady Oakes to hesitate, and again her voice almost broke. "Before Nancy went to the hos pital," she said, "we learned that she was pregnant," and for her health, it had to be terminated. Alfred took her to the hospital at West Palm Beach because I could not accept the responsibility. Nancy had two operations to terminate this condition. Sir Harry was terribly resentful." A letter from De Marigny to Oakes' eldest son, now Sir Sidney, 16 years old, was introduced.

Lady Oakes said she found it in her son's pocket, while she Was getting his clothes ready for school. The defense has acknowledged that De Marigny wrote the letter. "You read this letter?" asked Hallinan. "I think it is the most diabolical letter a man could write to a child of 15 about his parents," Lady Oakes said. Hughes 'Uncertain' About 1944 Plans CHICAGO.

UP) Secretary of State Edward J. Hughes says, con cerning his political future, I haven't the least notion of what I'm going to do next spring." Resting at Passavant hospital, where he has undergone a check up, Hughes declined Tuesday to say whether he would seek the nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket next year. 15,736 COUNTY FAMILIES SIGN HOME PLEDGES Record best by far in OPA region 6 which includes seven states Page 3 Revenue Group Lets Withholding Rate Alone WASHINGTON, D. UP) The house ways and means com mittee decided Wednesday against making any change at this time in the 20 percent withholding rate against the taxable portions of wages and salaries. It decided also: 1.

To require the internal rev enue bureau to publish in the federal register the names of corpor ations gaming refunds under re lief provisions of the excess prof its tax, and the amounts. 2. Remove toilet soap from the new list of excises. This reduced the new tax bill by $6,000,000, leaving a total of $2,029,000,000 against an administration request for $10,500,000,000 in additional revenue. Excises on 'bther toilet preparations such as mouthwashes and dentrifrices, were not disturbed.

The committee instructed the congressional tax staff to prepare a new set of withholding exemp tions to more nearly approximate the correct withholding levy" un der the present 20 percent rate. Lafayette Leaves New York Pier NEW YORK. i(UP) The former French luxury liner Normandie, now the USS Lafayette, left her pier Wednesday for the first time in four years. Within those years the great ship had been seized by the Unit ed States government, almost de stroyed by fire, capsized at her dock, and refloated. Twenty tugs towed the grey liner at an estimated speed of two knots.

Aboard her were more than 200 civilian navy yard workers, a coast guard security detail, and 25 civilian salvage workers manning pumps. Largest Flying Boat Joins Navy BALTIMORE. UP) The 70 ton Mars, world's largest flying boat, joined the navy Wednesday after passing a series of gruelling tests like a thoroughbred. After verification of the tests results by the navy trial board, the giant four engined craft will become a "flying Liberty ship" in the navy's transport service. The big ship not only passed every test to which she was subjected but, her makers said, "exceeded performance demanded by a wide margin." Hits Beef Price Control WASHINGTON, D.

LV) Representative Kleberg Tex.) criticized Tuesday the government's livestock price control program, and predicted a serious shortage of beef would result from it by next month. OTetin LONDON. The largest force of American heavy bombers ever to operate out of British bases raided northwestern Germany Wednesday escorted by long range Thunderbolt and Lightning fighters. 1.