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An Associated Press Newspaper
92d YEAR. No. 36,526.
_WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1944—FORTY-SIX PAGES. ***
IMS THREE CENTS. EVISS”
OPA Makes All Meat Point-Free
Except Steaks and Beef Roasts
As Foreign and Army Needs Drop
Bowles Sees Status
Lasting at Least
3 or 4 Months
By MALCOLM LAMBORNE, Jr.
All meats except beefsteaks
and beef roasts become ration
free at midnight tonight. Price
Administrator Chester Bowles
announced today.
Disclosing the sudden move at a
special press conference, Mr. Bowles
revealed that lease-lend buying has
dropped sharply. This factor, com
bined with reduced Army and Navy
demand, crowding of storage space
and the hope that the action will
bring more meat to market this
summer, made the move possible,
he said.
The removaj of ration points, ef
fective for an indefinite period,
covers all cuts of pork, veal, lamb
and mutton and all beef except the
steaks and roasts; beef hamburgers,
beef stews,' all kinds of variety
meats, sausage, ready-to-eat meats,
canned meats and canned fish are
ration free.
85% of Meat Ration Free.
The action removes 85 per cent
of all meat from the ration list.
The only items which will require
expenditure of red ration stamps
and tokens in addition to beef
steaks and roasts are butter, mar
garine, cheese and cheese products
and. evaporated milk.
Because of the wide variety of
meats now becoming ration-free, Mr.
Bowles announced housewives will
have to stretch rod points over a
four-week period instead of the
present two-w-eek period. Beginning
Sunday OPA will validate 30 red
points every four weeks. Red stamps
R-8, S-8 and T-8 will be validated
Sunday, but no more red stamps
will be made valid until June 3.
Declaring the changes are “in line
with OPA’s policy of limiting ra
tioning to the very minimum,” Mr.
Bowles said that “I cannot say now
when or whether the meats we are
now making point free will again
have to be given point values. Much
depends upon the cattle feed situa
tion which, in turn, is dependent
In large measure on the weather.”
He indicated, however, that he
was fairly certain the new status
would endure for three or four
months at least.
Pork Particularly Plentiful.
Mr. Bowles pointed out that pork
Is particularly plentiful at this time
because lease-lend requirements
have dropped from 35 per cent to 7
per cent of our total pork supply.
The action in connection with beef,
he said, is related to Army and
Navy demands which are on "a cur
rent basis.” Points on lamb, mut
ton and veal are being removed as
production is greater than at this
time last year.
“The animal production now is of
record proportions.” Mr. Bowles
stated. “Whether it can be main
tained depends upon the amount of
feed and feed grains that must be
shared by meat animal herds with
dairy cows and poultry.”
He said the volume of beef
steaks and roasts now’ coming into
market is not large enough in re
lation to the demand to warrant
any point changes at this time.
Point values for beef steaks and
roasts continue at from seven to
thirteen points per pound.
items Becoming Ration Free.
The following items become point
free at midnight:
Beef—hamburger, stews and all
Other cuts except steaks and roast.
Pork—all pork and pork products,
fresh, frozen or smoked, however
packed.
Veal—all veal and veal products.
Lamb and mutton—all lamb and
mutton and all lamb and mutton
products.
Variety meats—all variety meats
Including liver, sweet breads and
tongue.
Sausage—all items.
Ready-to-eat-meats—all items, in
cluding boiled ham, boiled tongue,
dried beef, corned beef brisket, bar
becued pork and spareribs.
Canned meats—all meats in tin or
glass containers, including luncheon
meat, deviled and potted meats,
dried beef and chile con carne.
Canned flsh—bonito, mackerel,
oysters, salmon, sardines, shrimp,
tuna, yellowtail and all canned
products containing flsh.
Lou Boudreau Takes
Army Physical Test
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 3.—Lou Bou
dreau. youthful shortstop and man
ager of the Cleveland Indians, re
ported for his preinduction physical
examination today at the Armed
Forces Examination and Induction
Station in Chicago.
Boudreau, 26, married and the
father of two children, has been in
1-A for several weeks.
Beginning his third season as
Cleveland manager, Boudreau for
merly played with Buffalo in the
Internationa! League alter being
graduated from the University of
Illinois in 1938.
Late Bulletin
Army Rejects Cammack
William Cammack, 18, co
heir with his brothers to a
83,000,000 fortune, who was
arrested on a charge of fail
ing to register for the draft,
was rejected by the Army to
day after a pre-induction
physical examination at Fort
Myer. The reason for his re
jection was not revealed by
military authorities.
(Earlier Story on Page B-l.)
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Navy Raid on Truk Increases
Jap Plane Toll to 232 in Week
Task Force Shoots Down 66 Craft,
Destroys 60 on Ground at Bastion
GEN. MACARTHUR REPORTS de
struction of 1,727 small Jap ships
in two years. Page A-9
By t he Associated Prass.
A mighty American naval
force, roaming the South Pacific
seas unchallenged by the Japa
nese Navy, has run its string of
air victories to 232 enemy planes
destroyed in a little more than a
week by smashing Truk Atoll,
Japan’s stronghold in the Caro
lines, with one of the heaviest
blows of the Pacific war.
An 800-ton blast by carrier-based
planes last Saturday, Sunday and
Monday wrecked Truk's defenses
and destroyed 60 parked planes.
Sixty-six more Japanese aircraft
were shot down.
On the preceding week end the
same task force supported 6th Army
invasion forces at Hollandia, Dutch
New Guinea, and accounted for 106
Japanese planes.
Truk's satellite bases at Satawan
and Ponape in the Eastern Carolines
were bombed and big guns from
battleships and cruisers added their
heavyweight explosives to the new
est assault.
30 Flyers Missing.
Not a warship was damaged and
air losses were confined to 30 flyers
missing. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
commander of the Pacific Fleet,
said yesterday in a Pearl Harbor
communique disclosing the newest
attacks.
Carrier planes, opening the second
such task force assault on Truk—
the first occurred February 16 and
17—shot down 60 Japanese planes
in combat Saturday and destroyed
60 more on the ground. Guns of
| the warships accounted for five
more The next day, while the
bombing of the big naval base was
pressed home, Truk was able to send
up only one plane and it was shot
down.
Sunday, during the second day’s
pounding of Truk, the airbase is
land of Satawan, more than 100
miles to the southeast, was shelled
by cruisers of Rear Admiral J. B.
Oldendorf. Monday, big battleships
of Vice Admiral W. A. Lee poured
their shells on Ponape, the often
raided island in the Eastern Caro
lines, 440 miles from Truk. Carrier
planes also attacked the base.
Admiral Nimitz’s communique also
reported that the warships shot
down five Japanese search planes on
April 26 “during the retirement from
the Hollandia area.” That date
would be April 27, east longitude or
Dutch New Guinea time. It pre
viously had been announced that
the task forces destroyed 101 planes
in softening-up attacks prior to the
Hollandia invasion, which Gen.
MacArthur opened April 22.
Liberators Blast Wake.
It also was announced at Pearl
Harbor yesterday that heavy Lib
erator bombers of the 7th Army Air
Force gave Japanese-held Wake Is
land, 2,300 miles west of Honolulu,
its heaviest pounding of the war
last Sunday.
. Flying through moderate anti
aircraft fire, the Navy said, the
bombers dropped 95 tons of explo
sives on defense installations. Al
though several enemy planes arose,
no interception was attempted and
all the raiding planes returned to
their base.
Wake, about 600 miles northeast
of the American base on Eniwetok
Atoll in the Marshalls, was last
raided April 19. Thirty tons of
bombs hit their targets in that
strike.
Allied Forces Seize
More Strong Points
North of Kohima
Other Troops Evacuate
Village* at Southern
End of Burma Front
«
By the Associated Press,
SOUTHEAST A SIA HEAD
QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, May
3.—Allied troops have captured
several additional enemy strong
points north of Kohima in as
saults designed to lessen Japa
nese pressure on that Indian
frontier base, Admiral Lord
Louis Mountbatten’s headquar
ters announced today.
At the same time, however, a com
munique said, Allied forces on the
southern end of the Burma front
evacuated the village of Paletwa ‘'in
readjusting” their positions in that
area.
Paletwa is situated on the Kala
| dan River about 100 miles north
of the Japanese-held port of Akyab
and about 35 miles northeast of
Buthedaung.
In Northern Burma, the commu
nique said, Allied forces have de
stroyed more enemy strong points
and Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell’s
American-Chinese troops are con
I tinuing to advance south and west
of Warong.
The Allied forces also pressed for
ward north and northeast of Imphal
in an advance which at one point
piled up more than 250 enemy dead
in recent operations, the bulletin
said. Bad weather hampered opera
tions south of Kohima.
The German radio today quoted
dispatches from Tokyo as declar
ing British troops had evacuated
Imphal and had taken up posi
tions just outside the town,
j “About 30,000 Allied troops are in
, this area.” said the broadcast,
1 which had no confirmation from
Allied quarters.)
In the Palel area, 28 miles south
of Imphal, where it was announced
j yesterday that the Japanese were
■ attacking strongly, today’s com
munique said Allied patrols were in
| contact with the enemy.
*a i oKio dispatch broadcast
by the Berlin radio yesterday
declared that 12,000 Allied troops
had begun a “wholesale, con
j fused retreat’’ from Palel and
| said the main fighting now
| centered around a point about 9
miles north a Palel. The same
broadcast claimed that 72 Allied
! planes, mostly transports, had
been destroyed over the Imphal
plain in the last two weeks.)
American four-engined bombers
| raided oil installations Monday at
Yenangyaung, northwest, of Magwe.
Monday night RAF heavy bombers
attacked rail yards at Maymo and
Mandalay.
British long-range fighters in
j daylight yesterday hit enemy com
i munications at Mandalay and other
: points in Burma,
j __
Hotel Fire Suspect
Indicted as Murderer
| By the Associater Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 3—Dis
trict Attorney Edmund Blown said
| the San Francisco County grand
| jury last night voted a 22-count
murder indictment which named
George Holman, 49, of San Francisco
as the man responsible for the New
Amsterdam Hotel fire the night of
March 27 in which 22 persons died.
New Allied Offensive
In Mediterranean
Forecast by Nazis
Germans' Defenses
On Dalmation Coast
Reported Bolstered
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 3.—New Allied
offensive operations in the Medi
terranean in conjunction with
the anticipated invasion of
Western Europe were forecast
today by the Germans, who were
reported reinforcing their de
fenses on the Dalmation coast
to meet a possible thrust into
the Balkans.
In a broadcast from Berlin, a
German military commentator de
clared large movements of Allied
troops and supplies observed in
Southern Italy “indicate the two
armies (5th and 8th) intend to
launch a fresh attack.”
The Germans intimated they ex
pected this attack to coincide with
the invasion assault from the west
and a renewal of the Russian drive
from the east.
Nazi Divisions Shifted.
Gen. Veledit, a member of the
military mission sent to London by
Marshal Tito of the Yugoslav Par
tisans, said the Germans in his
homeland "are frightened of an
Allied invasion from Italy and have
diverted four of their 14 divisions in
Yugoslavia to guard the Dalmatian
coast line.”
It is known that there is close
liaison between the Allied command
in Italy and Marshal Tito's forces
across the Adriatic. Small Allied
units have been reported operating
with the Partisans, and supplies
and equipment are being sent in.
Broadcasters Guessing.
As for the main invasion from the
West, Nazi broadcasters still are
filling the European air with un
supported guesses and theories as
well as high-flown “interpretations”
for their own people.
One German commentator, Lt.
Gen. Kurt Dittmar, conceded that
| the Allies had certain advantages—
I including "wide traffic lanes of the
sea offering many chances to spring
surprises, the fire power of a su
jperior fleet and superior air forces.”
Japs on Lunghai Rail Line
Increase Threat to Loyang
By the Associated Press.
CHUNGKING, May 3.—Japanese
forces driving westward along the
Lunghai Railway were increasing
their# threat today to Loyang, six
times the capital of China and one
of the oldest cities in the country.
A Japanese column was reported
| less than 35 miles east of Loyang,
after advancing through Hulao Pass
midway between Loyang and
Chengsien, Japanese-held junction
of the Lunghai and Peiping-Han
kow north-south line.
A Chinese communique also said
Japanese forces striking westward
from North Anhwei Province had
made further gains in the general
direction of the Peiping-Hankow
artery. The Chinese hold on this
vital road now has been narrowed to
less than 120 miles.
The Chinese also announced they
had begun "large scale mobile war
fare” east of the rail line in Honan
.Province, in an apparent effort to
strike at the Japanese flanks.
Liberators Blast
French Coast
For Fourth Day
Raid Follows Heavy
RAF Night Attack on
Nazi Chemical Center
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 3. — American
Liberators bombed the Pas-de
Calais area of France for the
fourth consecutive day today
after RAF Mosquitos made a 30
minute attack on the German
chemical center of Leverkusen
last night and Italy-based bomb
ers blasted Genoa and communi
cations centers in Northern
Italy.
Today’s hammering of Nazi in
stallations blocking the shortest
invasion route to the continent car
ried the mighty two-directional air
offensive through the 19th consecu
tive day.
The 400-mile-an-hour Mosquitos
dropped many 4.000-pound block
busters on Leverkusen, which lies
just north of Cologne and is the
home of one of the largest chemical
works in Europe, employing 20,000
workers.
The Acheres railway yards in
Prance also were hit by Mosquitos
as British heavy bombers remained
idle for the first time in seven
nights.
* Piacenza Also Bombed.
Besides Genoa, second only to
Marseille as an important Medi
terranean port, the southern arm of
the Allied Air Force also struck at
Piacenza, Milan, Livoms and La
Spezia, in an extension of the wide
spread assaults made yesterday.
Six Allied planes were missing
from 1,800 sorties flown during the
day and night in the steadily rising
offensive the Mediterranean Air
Force la waging. One enemy plane
was daatroyed.
A Ministry of Economic Warfare
spokesman said today that rail tar
gets in Western Europe have been
bombed so effectively for the last
two months that the lines in North
ern France and Belgium no longer
are capable of bearing the peak
load necessary for the Germans to
repel invasion.
He said no freight between Co
logne and the Bay of Biscay in a
zone 100 miles deep was capable of
forming trains and that only mili
tary and coal traffic could be han
dled. He said 14-year-old boys,
women and one-armed former sol
diers were being used by the Ger
mans to run the trains.
Others Penetrate to Munich.
While the Mosquitos visited Ger
many last night for the first time
this month, Allied Intruders swept
over the continent as far as Munich;
and shot down five German planes.
Four of them were downed by one
Canadian Mosquito crew, setting a
record for this type of night opera
tion.
An Air Ministry communique said
mines also were strewn in enemy
waters and that no Allied planes
were missing.
The Acheres railyard, near Paris,
was last hit by RAF heavies on April
30 in the campaign to knock out
railroads supplying the enemy's
anti-invasion forces.
Halifaxes and Wellingtons carried
out the attacks on Genoa, which
now has been bombed five nights in
a row, and also hit Piacenza, which
links the main road from Turin
across Northern Italy to Venice with
a road from Milan to the east coast.
La Spezia, the North Italian naval
case, also was bombed yesterday for
the fourth time in as many days.
Widespread Assaults.
The raid of La Spezia—made by
American Liberators—came as part
of the widespread assaults in which
rail yards in Northern Italy were
attacked:
Italian-based Marauders for the
second straight day bombed rail
yards in the Greater Florence area.
The rail centers on which the
Liberators concentrated their bombs
yesterday included Castelmagglore
and Faenza, in the Bologne area;
Parma, 50 miles northwest of Bologna
on the route toward Milan, and Fa no,
on the east coast line between An
cona and Bimini. Piacenza, hit at
night, is 40 miles southeast of Milan.
Mosquito pilots back from the
j Leverkusen raid said all the town's
defenses opened up as the bombers
| swept up over in clear weather.
Only Two Planes Lost.
United States headquarters an
nounced that in widespread oper
ations yesterday by medium, light
i and fighter-bombers and fighters
against a panorama of rail junctions
I and airfields in France, Belgium and
! Holland, only one fighter and one
i fighter bomber were lost,
j From dawn to dusk yesterday ex
plosives were loosed at a 2-ton-per
minute clip on invasion coast de
fenses and rail feeder lines by Allied
bombers of virtually all types. The
sky-filling forays went almost un
i challenged by the Germans.
Although an official estimate was
not available, it appeared that the
Tuesday attacks approximated those
of preceding days when sorties to
taled around 2,000 or 3,000 daily,
raising to possibly 7,000 the bomb
tonnage for May's opening 36 hours.
Allied Air Forces based in Britain
and the Mediterranean area drop
ped nearly 100,000 tons of bombs on
i German-held Europe in April dur
(See RAIDS, Page A-37)
CIO Opposes NLRB
Order to Speed Vote
At Montgomery Ward
Ruling on President's
Powers Due Monday;
Congress Pushes Probes
A new controversy was on tap
in the Montgomery Ward case
today, with CIO lyjion leaders
at the Government-controlled
plant in Chicago expressing dis
approval of the seven-day limit
fixed by the National Labor Re
lations Board for holding an
election to determine if a ma
jority of employes in the mail
order establishment desire to be
represented by the union.
The representation issue precipi
tated the trouble which led to Gov
ernment seizure of Montgomery
Ward last week, the company con
tending the CIO no longer had a
majority. The Labor Relations
Board yesterday ordered the election
to decide this point.
The union wants the election de
layed three weeks.
Court Ruling Due Monday.
Meanwhile, the legal fight over
the right of the President to order
seizure of the property ended in
Federal Court in Chicago with
Judge William H. Holly announcing
that he would give his decision next
Monday. In addition, plans went
forward here for separate Senate
and House investigations of the
matter, as demands echoed in Con
gress for legislative restrictions
against such confiscations.
The Associated Press reported
that spokesmen for the United Mail
Order, Warehouse and Retail Em
ployes said the Labor Relations
Board order directing the election
within seven days was “contrary” to
the board's practice of allowing at
least 21 days to prepare for the
ballot.
21-Day Delay Sought.
Leonard Levy, international vice
president of the union, said he will
ask that the collective bargaining
election be postponed at least 21
days.
"This Is the dirtiest deal the NLRB
ever dished out to labor,” declared
Miss Myrna Siegendorf, publicity di
rector for Local 20 of the union. "Of
course, we’ll protest. There's a reign
of terror at the plant right now. Al
though the Government has taken
over, the union contract has not
been extended, discharged strikers
have not been reinstated, grievances
have not been settled.
"To hold an election on such short
notice and in such an atmosphere is
ridiculous, an utter violation of all
NLRB precedents.”
Francis Heisler, union attorney,
asserted there had been an oral
understanding, after a hearing here
by an NLRB trial examiner, that the
election would not be ordered before
May 31 or later than June 7.
"Contrary to All Rules.”
"A decision from the board in
such a short time is unbelievable.”
Mr. Heisler said. "It is contrary to
all rules and is not conducive to
a fair determination of the issue.”
George J. Bott, NLRB regional
director, who will be in charge of
the ballot, announced he will meet
with union and company officials
to arrange details. Approximately
6,000 employes may be eligible to
vote and will ballot in two units.
One will include employes in the
mail-order house, the retail store
| and warehouse; the other will in
clude certain employes on the ad
j ministrative payroll, but excluding
I office workers. The union wanted
I all employes to vote as a unit . The
j company sought four groupings.
The company, at expiration of its
contract with the union last De
cember 8. had refused to renew the
pact, contending the CIO affiliate
did not represent a majority.
Biddle. Avery to Be Called.
On the congressional front, a Sen
ate judiciary subcommittee headed
by Senator McCarran, Democrat, of
Nevada arranged an initial meet
ing today and announced Attorney
General Biddle and Ward Chair
man Sewell Avery would be among
witnesses called for public hearings
starting next week.
In the House leaders cleared the
way for a vote tomorrow or Friday
on a resolution that would set up a
special seven-member committee to
conduct a concurrent inquiry.
Administration spokesmen con
j ceded it would get overwhelming
approval.
Pointing up angry speeches on the
! (See MONTGOME'Y'WARD, A-16.)
■. ■ ■ . I * .■■■■■„
Two Flyers Grounded
For Loose Talk Prior
To Attack on Berlin
By tte Associated Press.
UNITED STATES BOMBER
BASE IN BRITAIN, May 3.—
Two crewmep of an American
bomber who were reported to
have talked too much before
the last attack on Berlin have
been grounded and probably
will be court-martialed.
Their names were withheld.
It was reported that shortly be
fore the takeoff time they were
overheard to mention in a place
where the conversation might
be heard by the wrong people
that Berlin was the target.
Sedition Trial Halted
To Await Completion
Of Contempt Hearing
New Moves to Sever
Cases of 28 Defendants
Expected Next Week
By CARTER BROOKE JONES.
Chief Justice Edward C. Eicher
adjourned the mass sedition trial
in District Court today until 10
a.m. Monday, awaiting the com
pletion of a hearing before Jus
tice Jennings Bailey tomorrow of
a contempt citation against
James J. Laughlin, a defense at
torney in the sedition case.
Meanwhile, there was increasing
talk among defense attorneys that
fresh motions would be made next
week to sever the cases against
their clients from that of Edward
James Smythe and Edward Noble,
represented by Mr. Laughlin.
Members of defense counsel con
tend the Laughlin contempt pro
ceeding is likely to create prejudice
against the other 28 dei'endents.
1- ew Persons on Hand.
Only a handful of persons at
tended the brief process in Justice
Etcher's court. Most of the defend
ants were absent, though some of
those out on bond had come. The
marshal’s office had not been re
quired to bring in the accused men
in custody.
J. Austin Latimer, counsel for
James True and George E. Deather
age, asked the court if it would be
possible to hold the Laughlin con
tempt hearing in Justice Etcher's
courtroom rather than in the
smaller courtroom of Justice Bailey.
Mr. Latimer pointed out that all the
attorneys in the case wanted to at
tend the hearing.
"That is entirely up to Justice
Bailey,” Justice Eicher replied.
| "This court will make no sugges
! tion.”
Court Adjourned Quickly.
Another attorney was on his feet,
but Justice Eicher quickly adjourned
court.
Mr. Laughlin is cited to show
cause why he should not be held in
contempt of cOuit for his reflections
on Justice Eicher in a series of mo
! tions presented during the two
woeks of the sedition trial.
The task of choosing a jury in the
sedition case will begin Monday for
the sec.ond time, with members of
:the new May venire present. The
i old jury venire was dismissed Mon
day, the last day of the court term,
after the court and the attorneys
had struggled futilel.v to obtain a
jury from these panels.
Inquiry Request Goes to Committee.
Several defense efforts to bring
conduct of the trial to the attention
of Congress had resulted today in
referring the matter to a Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee, which was
asked to determine whether any in
vestigation or other action was justi
fied. Chairman McCarran referred
a petition by Albert W. Dilling, at
torney and former husband of the
defendant, Elizabeth Dilling, to a
i subcommittee consisting of Senators
Hatch, Democrat, of New Mexico;
Eastland, Democrat, of Mississippi,
and Danaher, Republican, of Con
necticut.
Mr. Dilling asked a congressional
i inquiry into the way Justice Eicher
I has run the trial. The attorney
charged in his petition that virtually
all defense motions had been denied
and prosecution motions upheld and
the defendants deprived of their
! constitutional rights. Senator Mc
I Carran said he doubted that the
committee had jurisdiction over con
duct of the trial, but had referred
I it to the subcommittee for further
study.
Increase in Powers
For Capital Planners
Due for Close Study
Budget Bureau's Report
Asks Fullest Opportunity
For Civic Development
By J. A. O’LEARY.
The proposal of the Budget
Bureau to give the National
Capital Park and Planning Com
mission a stronger voice in the
affairs not only of the District
government but of Federal (
agencies that take a hand in the
development of Washington is
likely to receive long and close
scrutiny from Congress and
local civic groups before it be
comes a law.
The 45-page report Budget Direc
tor Harold D. Smith transmitted to
the President Monday is replete
with suggestions as to how the com
mission should be given the ‘‘full
est opportunity for positive plan
ning leadership in the development
and re-development of tne National
Capital area.”
The degree of support or opposi
tion the report stimulates probably
will depend on the exact new pow
ers delegated to the commission
when the budget findings are trans
lated into the draft of a bill. There-1
was no draft of a bill in the report.
Advisory Functions.
The few concrete recommenda
tions that directly affect the Dis
trict government, are not drastic
in nature, as set forth in Mr. Smith's
letter of transmittal, if the bill to
carry them out clearly defines them
as advisory functions.
Time after time, however, the re-!
port uses language which leaves the!
impression the budget investigators
have in mind clothing the Planning
Commission with a great deal more
power in dealing both with the
Commissioners and Federal depart
ments.
For example, the report closes
with the suggestion that if the
Planning Commission is “to dis
charge its obligation effectively,
much more is required than sitting
as a reviewing agency for the con
sideration of projects which are
presented by developmental agen
cies.” Only the draft of the bill will
show how much more than review
ing power is to be recommended.
The specific recommendations
are:
1. The Planning Commission
would take the place of the Zoning
Advisory Council, created by Con
gress in 1938, to make preliminary
studies of proposed amendments to
the city zoning plan. (The Plan
ning Commission’s director of plan
ning is already on the council, along
with an Assistant Engineer Com
missioner and the executive officer
of the Zoning Commission.)
2. The planning agency would
“advise” the Public Utilities Com
mission on “matters which are of
general interest in connection with
the planning and development of
the transportation system of the
District.”
3. The planning agency would “re
view” all changes in regulations
governing the sub-dividing of local
property and "advise" the Commis
sioners on the “relation of pro
posed changes to the general plan.”
Major Thoroughfare Plan.
4. The major thoroughfare plan
developed by the Planning Commis
; sion will be proposed for adoption
| as a whole by the District Commis
| sioners.
5 The planing agency will pre
pare an advisory program of cap
ital improvements, based on the
advance programs of Federal and
District agencies in the Capital area,
to aid budget and appropriating
authorities by relating individual
projects to the total requirements.
6. In addition to its present statu
tory responsibility for approving the
location of Federal buildings (except
the Capitol group, the planning
commission seeks similar authority
over municipal buildings “in the
central area,” except when Con
gress stipulates a location.
New Subdivisions.
In connection with No. 3—the
lay-out of new subdivisions, the
budget report states that efforts to
arrange for the presentation of
proposed subdivisions to the plan
ning agency “have not succeeded,
although for a time plats were sub
mitted on the basis of an informal
agreement.” Subdivisions are regu
(See PLANNING, Page A-16.)
Hill Easy Vidor,
Pepper Leads by
Wide Margin
Gurney Renominated;
Byrd Supporters
Making Florida Bid
By the Associated Brest.
Administration forces beat
back their Democratic critics in
Florida and Alabama senatorial
primaries while Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York gathered in
more convention support today
for the Republican presidential
nomination.
Senator Hill, Democratic whip,
was renominated in Alabama and
Senator Pepper ran up a substantial
lead in his five-way contest for
renomination in Florida. Both men
are administration stalwarts and
both were opposed by vigorous critics
of many of President Roosevelt's
policies. In their part of the country
nomination is as good as election.
Support of the President figured
as a side issue in another senatorial
primary, in South Dakota, where
Republican Senator Gurney won re
nominatioh despite opposition claims
that he had “adopted much of the
New Deal philosophy.”
11 More Votes for Dewey.
It was in South Dakota that Gov.
Dewey picked up 11 additional con
vention votes. A slate favoring the
New Yorker defeated one supporting
Lt. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen by a
margin of about 3 to 2.
This brings the Dewey total of
" - ~ '
Senator's Constituent
Finds Way to Wire
Her Congratulations
When a Washington con
stituent of Senator Hill of
Alabama attempted today to
send him a telegram of con
gratulation on his victory
in yesterday’s primary, the
Western Union, acting un
der wartime restrictions, was
obliged to refuse to trans
mit the message.
The constituent, however,
is a woman with a talent for
having her own way.
She wired Senator Hill:
“Read the first and eighth
verses of the 98th Psalm.”
When the Senator consults
his Bible he will find: “Oh,
sing unto the Lord a new
song, for He hath done
marvelous things; His right
hand and His holy arm hath
gotten him a victory.” Also,
“Let the floods clap their
hands; let the hills be joyful
together.”
pledged or claimed delegates to 239,
with 530 needed to nominate at the
Chicago convention.
The line-up in the Senate primary
races:
Alabama—Senator Hill defeated
James A. Simpson, Birmingham at
torney, for renomination by 110,608
to 85.298, with 1,993 of the State’s
2,310 boxes, or precincts, unreported.
Senator Hill called his victory a
“verdict of the people of Alabama
sustaining and upholding the poli
cies and the principles of our great
Commander in Chief Franklin
Delano Roosevelt.”
Florida—Senator Pepper was mak
ing a strong fight to sidestep a run
off on May 23 which would be neces
sitated if he failed to win more than
50 per cent of the votes in the
preferential primary. Senator Pep
per had four opponents. With 1.035
precincts counted out of 1.496, the
incumbent had 134.246, while the
combined total of his opponents was
124.954.
South Dakota—Senator Gurney
was renominated over Lt. Gov. A. C.
Miller by a vote of about four to
three. Senator Gurney polled 32.041
to Mr. Miller’s 23.488. with all but
655 of the State’s 1,963 precincts
accounted for.
In South Dakota’s Democratic
primary all delegate candidates are
fourth term supporters. With their
eight votes, there are now 371
pledged or claimed for Mr. Roose
velt. It requires 589 to nominate.
Alabama—Democrats chose 24 un
pledged delegates.
Arkansas—Selection of the State
i Republican delegation of 12 was
! completed, but the convention turned
j down a proposal to instruct them for
Gov. Dewey. Two. previously elected
; by district conventions, are pledged
i to Gov. Dewey.
Florida—A group of Byrd-for
; President supporters was making a
bid to carry the State's banner to
| the Democratic National Conven
tion. The State has 18 convention
votes and a full ticket for the Vir
ginia Sneator was in the field of 49,
| although without Senator Byrd s
encouragement. Incomplete re
| turns showed that 12 pledged to
represent President Roosevelt and
6 pledged to Senator Byrd were
leading.
A long Florida ballot delayed re
ports on all of the State's contests.
Indiana—The State's 11 Congress
members—nine Republicans and two
Democrats—appeared assured of re
I nomination as incomplete primary
(See PRIMARIES,'Page~A^47)
Slight Nazi Penetrations
At Garigliano Wiped Out
B> the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Na
ples, May 3.—A German attack yes
terday in the Garigliano sector, on
the west flank of the Allied line
across Italy, succeeded in making
slight penetrations, but these were
quickly wiped out, it was announced
today.
Brisk patrol clashes were reported
on the Anzio beachhead, one south
east of Carroceto and another
southwest of Cisterna.
Allied forces who raided enemy
held Cerreto Alto, on the extreme
right flank of the beachhead peri
meter, returned with the informa
tion that a village on the nearby
coast apparently had been evacu
ated by the enemy.