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92d YEAR. No. 36,445.
_WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1944-TWENTY PAGES. **
rS THREE CENTS.
Allied Warships Help Turn Back
New Nazi Assault on Beachhead;
Front Lines Remain Unchanged
Americans Score
Further Gains in
Cassino Sector
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Feb. 12.—Allied warships
thundering into action have
helped repulse a new German
assault on the storm-swept in
vasion bridgehead below Rome,
and a headquarters officer de
clared today that despite Nazi
pressure the front lines there
have “remained relatively un
changed during the last few
day§.”
On the Cassino front to the east,
American forces made new gains
in bitter struggles within that town,
and in the hills to the west drove
within a mile of the Via Casilina,
the Germans’ only corridor into the
city.
Rain, snow, sleet and gales can
celed Allied air blows against the
Germans pressing against the inva
sion bridgehead, leaving the Ger
mans free to move up troops and
supplies harried only by naval and
land artillery bombardment.
Americans Repulse Attack.
The single Nazi attack yesterday
was flung unsuccessfully against
American troops in the area west of
Cisierna, where hard fighting con
tinues, Allied headquarters said.
Naval units including the British
cruisers Mauritius of 8,000 tons and
Dido of 5.450 tons moved close in
shore to shell the left flank of the
Germans as they attacked. The
Mauritius is equipped with nine and
the Dido with six 6-inch guns.
They can hurl shells 10 miles in
land.
Forty-five-mile gales were reported
sweeping the battlefield, holding air
activity to a minimum. Sixty-mile
gales roared over the front yes
terday.
Weather Impedes Operations.
"On all fronts operations were
impeded by rain, snow and sleet,”
the communique said.
(Kenneth L. Dixon, Associated
Press war, correspondent, in a
dispatch from Naples today, said
stormy weather which has been
favoring the Germans for the
last two days, appeared to have
given the 5th Army's amphibious
forces a break at least tempo
rarily by bogging down the
enemy's armored attacks.
(Allied airmen continued to
pace their advanced bases, hop
ing a rift in the cloudy skies
would permit them to unleash
their superior aerial power in
support of the beachhead, he re
ported. and there was some sign
that the airmen would get such
a chance before the day was over.
The sun’s rays were shining
through the overcast at intervals
hinting at clearer skies, he said.
(CBS Correspondent John
Daly said this morning that
“after four anxious days, the
core of the Allied beachhead be
low Rome remains secure.”
(Today's German communique
broadcast by Berlin said Nazi
artillery broke up heavy Allied
tank attacks against “new Ger
man lines near Aprilia,” knock
ing out 17 tanks.)
Resistance at Jail Broken.
The gains by American troops in
bitter fighting in Cassino included
the jail which the Germans had
converted into one of their main
fortresses, continuing to hold out in
its basement even after Allied artil
lery and tanks had leveled the struc
ture. The Germans are resisting
there no longer.
The American units also knocked
out a number of strong points in the
northern part of the town. Their
push in the hills to the west threat
ened to choke off the Nazi supply
route into Cassino.
Fighting in the mountains around
Cassino was impeded by heavy snow
fall, but more artillery was brought
up to back up the American in
fantry.
Three thousand Germans have
been captured on the beachhead and
on the main front in the last week,
for a total of 13,000 Nazis taken
since the invasion of Italy began last
September, headquarters announced.
That is the equivalent of about one
division. The enemy also has suf
fered heavy tolls of dead and
wounded.
Determined Local Attack.
In the Garigliano sector west of
Cassino the Germans put in a de
termined local attack against the
British near Mount Ornito, 3 miles
northeast of Castelforte. On the
(Continued on Page A-4, Column 1.)
Nazis Reported Angered
By Raid on St. Paul's
By the Associated Press.
MADRID, Feb. 12.—Italian sources
said today the Germans in Italy
were angered by the recent Fascist
raid on St. Paul’s Basilica in Rome
and that they had ordered the Fas
cists to withhold the proposed exe
cutions of Gen. Monti and other
officers seized when the basilica was
entered.
Informants here represented the
Nazis as worried over reaction
abroad to a Vatican protest against
the raid, which violated the Vati
can’s extraterritoriality rights.
These sources said a number of
high former Italian officials had
been executed, including former
Sub-Secretary of War Squero and
an Admiral Montini.
ill
BRITISH NAVY AIDS FLANK—Battleship symbol indicates
naval bombardment which aided Allied left flank on Anzio
Nettuno beachhead in throwing back a new German assault.
Arrows from flags and Nazi symbols shows points of pressure on
beachhead. Allied headquarters said today papal grounds at
Castel Gandolfo are subject to bombing because Germans had
, installed themselves there. —A. P. Wirephoto.
Strong Nazi Defenses
Smashed by Soviets
In Taking Shepetovka
Noose Being Tightened
Around 100,000 Men
Trapped at Cherkasy
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 12.—Crashing |
through the strongest German;
fortifications on the eastern
front, Red Army forces have
captured the rail center of
Shepetovka and tightened their
noose around the Cherkasy
death trap 200 miles tc the east,
where remnants of 100.000 Nazi
troops are being liquidated.
Shepetovka, main distribution
point for German reserves and
supplies on the Ukrainian front for
the last two years, is the hub of a
network of rail lines feeding into
Poland, Rumania and Hungary. Its
capture by Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's
1st Ukrainian Army set up an ex
cellent base for new offensives to
ward Odessa and Warsaw, Moscow
dispatches said.
Nazis Wage Bitter Fight.
Vatutin and his veterans won a
citation from Premier Stalin in a
special order of the day for the
successful “outflanking maneuver
and frontal assault” which cap
tured Shepetovka.
The Germans waged a bitter
fight to hold the town. Fresh re
serves were rushed to augment the
garrison, which was bolstered by
an assault force of 120 tanks. A
fleet of armored trains covered the
approaches to the stronghold from
the north and west.
It was the first important Rus
sian success in this area since Va
tutin’s forces drove deep into Ger
man lines in old Poland to take
Rovno and Lutsk, announced just
a week ago. Vatutin’s army now
holds an 80-mile wide corridor ex
tending 100 miles inside old Poland
from the Korosten - Shepetovka
railway. The Rumanian frontier is
approximately 115 miles south of
Shepetovka.
25 German Supply Planes Downed.
Ten more towns were captured by
the Russians squeezing the trapped
Germans in the Cherkasy circle, the
Moscow war bulletin said. Red Air
Force pilots shot down 25 more Ger
(See RUSSIA, Page A-4J
250 Allied Planes Hil
Airdromes at Rabaul
In Heaviest Attack
Twenty Enemy Craft Shot
Down, Against Loss
Of Two Fighters^
By the Associatec Pres*.
GUADALCANAL, Feb. 12.—
Airplanes of almost every type—
from Corsair fighters to four
engined Liberator bombers—
hammered Rabaul’s three main
airdromes Wednesday in the
heaviest assault since the cur
rent Solomons-based air offen
sive against the enemy’s New
Britain stronghold began last
December 17.
Today's communique reported
South Pacific planes shot down 20
enemy aircraft, probably downed
seven more and damaged others on
the ground. Two Allied fighters were
lost.
More than 250 planes, the greatest
striking force ever to fly from new
Solomons bases, hit Rabaul in a co
ordinated strike extending from pre
dawn to midafternoon. Japaji has
lost more than 110 planes over Ra
baul thus far during February.
16 Hits Scored on Runways.
Marine Avenger torpedo planes
opened the Wednesday assault be
fore dawn by raking Lakunai Air
drome revetment areas with 3 tons
of bombs and numerous strafing at
tacks.
At 12:40 p.m., more than 80 Navy
and Marine Avengers and Daunt
less divebombers swooped in over
Vunakanau Airdrome. The Daunt
lesses hit large-caliber guns near the
runway, scored two direct hits on six
antiaircraft guns in one area and
raked 27 machine-gun positions.
Buildings were fired. The Avengers
rendered the airstrip unserviceable
with 16 hits on the concrete run
ways and five on other areas.
About 20 Zeros dropped aerial
bombs among the attackers but
failed to press home their intercep
tion.
Twenty minutes later, more than
20 Mitchell medium bombers of the
13th Air Force plastered the same
Vunakanau area with 34 tons of ex
plosives, hitting the runways and
revetments, starting a number of
fires.
A cover of about 30 Corsair fight
ers held off 30 to 40 Japanese fighters
(See RABAUL, Page A-3.)
Papal Palace Area Below Rome
Subject to Raids. Allies Say
By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Feb. 12—Allied headquarters
today announced that the Germans
had installed themselves in the
papal palace grounds at Castel Gan
dolfo south of Rome and that the
premises therefore were subject to
Allied bombing.
The announcement said Castel
Gandolfo, the summer home of Pope
Pius XII, ‘‘now lies in the battle
area and contains a heavy satura
tion of German soldiers. Whenever
vital enemy targets appear they will
of necessity be bombed.”
(On Thursday the Vatican
radio said Castel Gandolfo, 15
miles from Vatican City and 25
miles inland from Anzio, had
been bombed for the third time.
The dispatch, quoting the news
paper Osservatore Romano, said
other Vatican property also had
been bombed. Yesterday Trans
ocean, German propaganda
agency, declared 500 persons had
been killed in the bombing at
Castel Gandolfo.
(The Vatican radio report said
the Propaganda College Building
was hit in the bombing, although
indicating the papal palace itself
was not touched. The Vatican
broadcast did not specify the na
tionality of the planes which did
the bombing.
(A Berlin broadcast today said
Pope Pius after the bombing
(See CASTEL GANDOLFO, Pg. A-4)
U. S. Liberators
Pound Defenses
In Calais Area
Attacks in Strength
Follow Fortress
Raid on Frankfurt
Bs the A.'sociated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 12.—American
Liberators swept over the French
invasion coast near Pas de Calais
in strength today, resuming a
pounding of Nazi defenses which
has been going on relentlessly
during 40 of the last 54 days.
Opening a daylight assault with
a cover of Thunderbolts and Mus
tangs against the neck of conti
nental land nearest Britain, the
Liberators carried out the 13th mis
sion of the American Air Force in
the last 16 days in the wake of
yesterday's heavy Flying Fortress
blow at Frankfurt and a Mosquito
mission by the RAF over Western
and Central Germany last night.
Shortly after the Liberators
struck, RAF fighters and* other
strong Allied formations winged out
to follow up the initial davllght
sorties which began with the dawn.
No enemy aircraft were encoun
tered by the Liberators or their
’ fighter escort, a United States Air
| Force communique said, and all the
I American planes returned.
weather Mops Big Bombers.
The Mosquitos returned without
loss from the night assault on un
identified targets, while the RAF's
heavy armadas continued to be
blanketed by bad weather which
has kept them grounded since their
last major assault on Berlin on
January 30.
About 20 German raiders, mean
while, crossed the southeast British
coast last night and dropped a few
bombs in London and on a south
eastern town. The four raiders
reaching London killed a few
persons.
i Thirty-seven Nazi planes were
downed yesterday during operations
in w’hich American fighters made
the greatest number of sorties ever
flown from British bases. Five
United States bombers and 15
fighters, one of them British, were
lost.
Although the number of Thunder
bolts, Lightnings and Mustangs sup
porting the heavy' bombers was not
disclosed, it must have exceeded the
700 which escorted the record fleet
of 800 bombers which pounded
Frankfurt January 29.
Americans Down 32 Planes.
Thirty-two of tl\e German planes
destroyed were knocked down by
i the American fighters, two were
dowmed by Norwegian pilots in sup
porting sweeps and the other three
were bagged by American Fortress
gunners. In the last six major op
erations American escort planes
have accounted for 130 of the 177
Germarf planes destroyed.
Besides pounding Frankfurt for
the second time in four days, the
Fortresses yesterday struck at un
specified objectives in Germany
while American Liberators and Ma
rauders and RAF and RAAF Mos
quitos lashed at the French in
vasion coast.
The Air Ministry announced that
night photography is making a grim
record of the RAF's saturation at
tacks against German industrial
centers. Photographs brought back
sometimes show the extent of fires
in the target area, searchlight con
centrations, flak battery positions
and occasionally record preliminary
bomb damage.
Automatic Process.
Night photography now is a com
pletely automatic process, it was
disclosed. A magnesium flash bomb,
timed to explode and illuminate
the target just before the bombs
strike. is installed in every
bomber.
From a military standpoint last
night's German raid on Britain was
a fizzle. 1
Here, however, are a couple of ex
periences not in the communique:
Ronald Simmons is 15. A bomb
shattered his home, pinning him
against a wall which was about to
collapse. While his father and neigh
bore were trying to extricate the
boy, a powerfully built man came
along, braced himself against the
wall and the boy was released—un
hurt.
The man walked away. No one
learned his name.
A bomb fell in another residential
district and two girls, one 5 and the
other a baby of a few months, were
blown out of their wrecked home
into the street. The little girl picked
up her baby sister—unhurt.
Rhodes Airfields Blasted
CAIRO, Egypt, Feb. 12 (JP).—Four
small enemy supply ships were sunk
at Siphnos, and Maritza and Calato
Airdromes on Rhodes were bombed
in Allied air operations over the
Aegean yesterday, it was announced
today. Intruders followed up tpe
attacks on Rhodes last night, the
communique said.
2,646 Declared Drowned
LONDON, Feb. 12 (A1).—A Berlin
broadcast declared today that 2,646
of 3,173 Italian prisoners were
drowned when a German transport
was sunk by a submarine torpedo
17 miles off Crete four days ago.
Daniel in the Lion's Den
Mercury Due to Drop
To Low of 15 Tonight;
Ice Perils Traffic
Motorists Cautioned
To Keep Safe Speed;
. Planes Resume Flights
ICY STREETS responsible for many
accidents on streets and bridges.
Page A-3
A low of 15 degrees tonight Is
the District area forecast, as
cessation of rain, sleet and light
snow today enabled airplanes to
resume operations and wit
nessed improvement in ice
coated streets and highways.
Bus and train dispatchers said
schedules are almost back to
normal.
The Weather Bureau said the
temperature would remain below
freezing throughout today and to
morrow. The mercury hovered
around 24 in the early hours today
Gusts here accompanied a warm
ing sun, some achieving a velocity ol
40 miles an hour, the forecaster said
He added the wind will not diminish
until late tonight, tomorrow being
fairly free of strong wind.
30 Accidents on Bridges.
Cold weather last night froze slush
and made pedestrian travel easier
but. motorists were cautioned to
reduce speed on some streets which
invited skidding. Police reported 30
accidents, only one resulting in
serious injury, on the Memorial and
Highway bridges last night.
Meanwhile, at least 12 deaths
were attributed to the storm which
swept the Nation yesterday. The
storm was blowing out to sea off the
East Coast today. The Midwest
was in the grip of subzero weather,
the Northeast and Southeast areas
had freezing temperatures and New
York City reported a coal shortage
so •'critical" that only Health De
partment certificates could be hon
ored, according to the Associated
Press.
Instruction for Sledders.
Meanwhile, sledders were urged
by Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer to restrict their operations to
some 30 streets roped off for that
purpose in various sectioas of the
city. Policemen are assigned to
these areas to insure additional
protection.
Lists L. the streets are obtainable
by phone from any police precinct
station. Mr. Van Duzer called at
tention to the death of two young
sters while sledding on unprotected
streets during the last snowstorm
here.
Roosevelt Speech Today
May Touch French Policy
By the Associated Press.
CepWBonles in connection with the
presentation of a destroyer-escort
to the French naval authorities will
be highlighted today by a five
minute address by President Roose
velt.
The White House did not disclose
the subject of Mr. Roosevelt’s
speech, which will be broadcast on
major networks between 4:30 and 5
p.m.
Special Cable to The Star and Chicago
Daily News.
LONDON, Feb. 12.—President
Roosevelt is expected to announce
today United States recognition of
the French Committee of National
Liberation in Algiers as the provi
sional government of all French ter
ritories outside France and thus to
pave the way for permitting that
committee to enter France, when it
is liberated, as the provisional gov
ernment.
Turkish-British Talks
End, Policy Unchanged
By the Associated Press.
ANKARA. Feb. 10 (Delayed).
Military talks between the Turkish
general staff and the British mili
tary mission have been suspended
after more than a month of secret
sessions, it was disclosed today.
The suspension, however, will not
necessarily alter Turkey’s policy
toward the Allies and the war. Tur
key's foreign policy still is based on
a strong alliance with Britain and
a cautious attitude toward the war
Key Commerce Aide Quits Post;
Charges Plot Against Business
dj me A:*»ociaiec press.
William La Varre announced
his resignation today as chief;
of the American Republics Divi
sion of the Commerce Depart
ment in protest against what he
described as “subversive” activi- j
ties against American business
by the administration’s foreign
economic agencies.
Mr. La Varre, writer on Latin Amer
ican affairs for many years, has
been chief of the division since April,
1941.
Saying he had no quarrel with
Secretary of Commerce Jones or
other officials of his own depart
ment, La Varre directed individual
criticism against Vice President
Wallace, Leo Crowley, chief of the
Foreign Economic Administration,
and Milo Perkins, executive director
of the former Board of Economic
Warfare, now in private business.
"The record will show." Mr. La
Varre wrote, “that the Board of Eco
nomic Warfare, and, now, the Of
fice of Foreign Economic Adminis
tration, usurping the administration
of projects which Congress originally
delegated to the Department of
Commerce, under the guise of a war
necessity, have been waging a secret
war not against our national enemies
so much as against American busi
nessmen and the export industries
of the United States.
“Throughout these months of my
service in Washington I have ob
served a definite scheme for wreck
ing all American private enterprise
and personal initiative in inter
American, in fact international,
commerce and substitute the Soviet
form of State-owned commerce.”
The letter, dated February 9. was
addressed to Senator Byrd. Demo
crat, of Virginia, and asked the
Senator's advice on the form and
manner of his resignation. The
resignation itself, dated the next
day, was made effective next Tues
<See LaTvARRE, Page A-4.)
$3,100,C J Bond Sale
Leaves District Only
Short
93%' of Quota Attained;
Maryland Is Sixth State
To Oversubscribe Aim
Washington was only $6,800,
000 shy of achieving its $95,000,
000 Fourth War Loan quota on
the basis of sales through yes
terday, the District War Finance
Committee announced today.
Purchases reported vesterdav
amounting to $3,100,000 advanced
the grand total to 93 per cent of the
District goal. Bracket totals were
revised upward, as follows: Cor
porations and associations. $52,200.
000, or 124 per cent of ouota: indi
viduals $36,000,000 . 68 per cent, and
E bonds, $22,400,000. 74.6 per cent.
Sales yesterday were $1,400,000 to in
dividuals and $1,700,000 to “big
money” buyers.
The national drive has raised
$12,621,000,000, or 90 per cent, of the
$14,000,000,000 goal.
As the campaign nears its climax,
5,000 boys and girls conducting a
door-to-door canvass planned to
put in a busy week end in behalf of
Uncle Sam’s fighting men. Bad
weather has caused postponement
of a parade featuring 500 of these
messengers and the Metropolitan
Police Band, scheduled for today.
Maryland Over Top.
Meanwhile, the Treasury Depart
ment announced Maryland and
Wisconsin have gone over the top,
the sixth and seventh States to
equal or exceed quotas. Maryland’s
sales of $200,000,000 represented
105 per cent of quota. A contribut
ing factor was the activity of the
Maryland Federation of Women’s
Clubs. The club sold enough bonds,
it was announced, to buy nine
$300,000 heavy bombers, 28 medium
bombers costing $171,500 each and
15 fighter planes at $75,000 each.
Latest tabulations showed 11
Maryland counties over the top of
their individual goals. They are
Montgomery, Allegany, Garrett,
1 Carroll, Howard, Baltimore, Har
jford, Charles, St. Mary’s, Caroline
i and Queen Anne’s.
Other States reporting to the
(See WAR BONDS, Page A-4.)
Democrats Will Open
National Convention
In Chicago July 19
Paul Porter Appointed
Publicity Director for
Approaching Campaign
By GOULD LINCOLN.
The Democratic National Con
vention for the nomination of
presidential and vice presiden
tial candidates and the adop
! tion of a party platform will
open in Chicago July 19.
The announcement of the date
was made by Democratic National
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan last
night. Mr. Hannegan said that he
believed the work of the convention
could be completed by the end of
the week of July 19. Four days, he
said, should be ample. Mr. Hanne
gan was authorized by the National
Committee at its recent meeting
here to fix the date of the conven
tion. The committee itself selected
Chicago as the convention city.
Porter New Press Chief.
Mr. Hannegan also announced ap
pointment of Paul Porter, first as
sistant to Economic Stabilization
Director Fred Vinson, as publicity
•irector for the Democratic Na
tional Committee. Mr. Porter suc
ceeds the veteran Charles Michel
son, who has been director of pub
licity for the Democratic party in
every national campaign since and
including 1932.
Mr. Porter came to Washington
in 1934 as publicity director for the
AAA, under Vice President Wallace,
then Secretary of Agriculture.
Mr. Michelson, who resigned as
publicity director last year, has been
pinch-hitting for the national com
mittee in recent months. He will
serve as an adviser.
Mr. Porter is 39 and was born in
Kentucky. He was graduated from
the University of Kentucky law
school and served as counsel for
newspapers in Georgia and Okla
homa before entering Government
service. He was in charge of the
rent control section of the Office of
Price Administration prior to be
coming Mr. Vinson's assistant.
The selection of Mr. Porter gives
further emphasis on youth by the
<3ee DEMOCRATS, Page A-2.)
Unusual Circumstances Kept
2 D. C Men Off Crashed Plane
RIVER YIELDS PIECES of wrecked
airliner; no bodies recovered. Story
on page A-3.
Two District men are alive today
because of freak circumstances
which kept them off 4Jie American
Airlines plane which crashed into
the Mississippi River near Memphis,
Tenn., Thursday night, carrying 24
persons to their deaths.
Walter H. Kilbourne, 47, of 3 West
Bradley lane, Chevy Chase, Md., was
forced to surrender his seat on the
plane.
Drew Pearson, radio commentator,
who lives in Georgetown, was saved
from the disaster by an old super
stitution, according to the Dallas
iTex.) News.
Mrs. Kilbourne revealed today her
husband telephoned at 5:15 am.
yesterday from Memphis to say he
had been compelled to leave the
plane at Little Rock, Ark., because
another passenger held a higher
priority.
She said: “I went to bed Thurs
day night with a troubled mind, call
it a premonition or what you will,
I knew he was leaving Dallas at
7:40 o’clock that night. I was wor
ried over his safety all night. He
said he took a later plane and was
grounded at Memphis. Knowing
the morning papers would recount
the fatal crash, he wanted to as
(See CRASH, Page A-3T)
Subsidy Forces
Sure They Can
Sustain Veto
Senate Approves
Bankhead Bill
By 43 to 28
Administration leaders at the
Capitol were confident today
that they can uphold an ex*
pected presidential veto of the
Bankhead bill to ban use of Fed
eral funds for consumer food
subsidies. The Senate passed
the bill yesterday, 43 to 28.
They pointed out that the op
ponents of subsidies failed to pile up
a two-thirds vote required to over
ride a veto. Senator Ellender, Dem
ocrat, of Louisiana, a subsidy advo
vate, declared:
“I have no doubt that the Presi
dent will direct that the subsidy
program be continued if his veto is
sustained, and I think it is going to
be sustained.”
House vole Uue Monday.
Passage of the Bankhead bill left
the subsidy issue in the following
legislative status:
The Senate bill goes to the House
where it probably will be voted on
Monday. House leaders expect its
prompt acceptance. It then will go
to the White House for the expected
veto. The antisubsidy legislation,
as passed by the Senate, differs
from a House version passed some
three months ago in that it would
allow continuance of subsidy pay
ments through June 30. instead of
! cutting them off at once. . It also
carries a rider directing Federal
agencies to adjust milk prices up
ward to reflect increased production
costs since January' 1, 1941.
If and when the Bankhead bill is
vetoed, hurried legislation will be
necessary to extend the life of the
Commodity Credit Corp., main dis
penser of subsidies, which dies Feb
ruary 17 under existing legislation.
The CCC itself was not an issue
in the subsidy fight, and most of the
antisubsidy legislators favor it.
Therefore no trouble is foreseen in
rushing through promptly legislation
to continue its existence.
Coalition Passes Ban.
The Bankhead bill was passed yes
terday largely by a combination of
| Southern Democrats and Repub
licans. Sentiment against subsidies
is strong in many of the agricultural
Southern States where they are
viewed as a weapon to keep farm
prices down. Only three Republican
Senators voted in favor of subsidies,
and they were from predominantly
industrial States where their wage
earning constituents have a stake
in keeping _ food prices as low as
possible.
The three were Senators Vanden
berg and Ferguson of Michigan and
iDanaher of Connecticut. Senator
jVandenberg explained his vote by
saying the administration held that
the wage level could not be main
jtained if subsidies were prohibited,
and added:
“Whether we like it or not, it
seems to me that this puts us on
notice that the total prohibition
of consumer subsidies will result
in inevitable inflation on the wage
| front. I refuse to take any part
, of the responsibility for any such
, calamity or be any part of such
an alibi.”
Amendments Rejected.
i Before the final vote on the Bank
: head bill, the Senate rejected. 53
■ to 17, an amendment by Senator
Clark, Democrat, of Missouri which
I would have banned subsidies of all
; kinds, including "support floor
■ prices" on corn, cotton, sugar beeti
1 and other farm commodities.
The Senate also rejected, 46 to 29,
the so-called "stamp plan” for
granting food subsidies to low-in
come families, a project strongly
i backed by Senator La Follette, Pro
gressive. of Wisconsin and Senator
• Aiken, Republican, of Vermont.
The plan provided for a fund of
$500,000,000 — or one-third the
amount the administration asked
‘ for food subsidies—from which fam
1 i ilies with an income of $1,100 a year
• See SUBSIDIES^ Page A -27) ’
I ! -—
Axis Firms Expropriated
By Bolivian Government
; By the Associated Press.
LA PAZ, Bolivia. Feb. 12.—The
Bolivian government announced to
day that the expropriation of all
Axis firms had been decreed and
declared the action was "of public
necessity.”
The action was taken shortly be
fore the resignation of three officials
of the revolutionary Bolivian regime
in a shake-up which elevated Air
Force Chief Lt. Col. Alfredo Pacheco,
regarded as having pro-Allied sym
pathies, to the office of Minister of
the Interior.
Pacheco, whcr spent two years in
the United States studying aviation,
replaced Maj. Alberto Taborga as
Interior Minister; Rafael Otazo was
named Minister of Agriculture, re
placing Carlos Montenegro, and
Walter Guevara, 29, was appointed
Secretary General of the govern
ment, replacing Augusto Cespedes.
Band Musician Dies
!In Apartment Blaze
,By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 12.—Walter
Robert Price, 33, former trombonist
with the bands of Tommy Dorsey
and Charlie Barnet, died of suffoca
tion and burns last night when fire
of undetermined origin swept his
third-floor apartment.
Neighbors told police that' Mr.
Price's widow and child were vaca
tioning in Kent, Ohio.
Police said Mr. Price evidently
collapsed while trying to extinguish
the blaze.
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