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VOL-76—NO. 334--WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1944 * FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867
Money Bills
Are Eyed By
Republicans
CUTTING drive seen
measures Supply Funds
for State, Justice And
Commerce Agencies
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13- UP) -
Two new appropriation bills carry
ing funds for four agencies offer
united House Republican bloc
fresh opportunity this week to
L-rv on a money-slashing drive
which its leaders would like to
develop mto a major political is
SUproviding appropriations for the
state Justice and Commerce De
triments and for the civil func
tions of the War Department in
fiscal 1945. they are expected to
reach the House floor Wednesday
or Thursday. .
Rep Taber (NY), ranking Re
publican on the appropriations
committee, indicated he would
carry on the curtailment drive
started last week when the House
considered the Treasury-Postoffice
supply bill. Taber and fellow-Re
publicans chopped nearly $300,000
from the Treasury-Postoffice bill.
Their attempts to slash an addi
tional §1.025.000 were unsuccessful.
What Taber referred to as his
"economy drive" was stopped by
only one vote. The balloting was
nontV linPS
Democratic legislators contended
that the Republican efforts to cut
the appropriations constituted
“false economy.
"j can see no better issue to
lake before the people than the
issue of trying to save taxpayers’
money through elimination of un
necessary expenditures of public
funds," the New Yorker said in
an interview.
”1 think some of our Demo
cratic colleagues are beginning to
realize that and I wouldn’t be
surprised to see some of them vot
ing with us in the future on these
appropriation cuts.”
Taber said he did now know what
specific items he would make the
target of his drive on the forth
coming bills but observed that
‘there are some items in there that
can stand reduction.”
The most likely target is the
fund in the State Department bill
for cooperation with other Amer
ican republics. Some legislators
have claimed that the United States
has spent money recklessly in its
good-neighbor program.
COMPROMISE VOTE
BILL UP AGAIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13— (ffl —
A thrice rejected measure to make
state absentee ballots the first
choice in voting by servicemen and
women overseas bobbed up again
today as a compromise measure
to end a Congressional wrangle
on the subject.
The bill, sponsored by Senator
Taft fR-Ohio), would allow use of
a Federal ballot by members of
the armed services only if they
fail to get a state ticket. It is
backed by most Republicans and
Southern ‘States Rights” Demo
crats in the senate.
Apparently it is due for another
scrutiny by Senate and House con
ferees who meet this week to seek
some common ground between the
Senate's insistence on a uniform
Federal ballot and the House de
termination to let tne t>rares
care of votes for the armed forces.
The Taft proposal was knocked
down three times by thr Senate
in the administration’s f-ial drive
to put through its Federal ballot
bill. But Senate conferee* indicat
ed tonight that the substance of
the Taft proposal might make up
the ultimate compromise.
Senator Green (D-Rl co-author
°f the administration’s Federal
ballot bill and chairman of the
Senate conferees, said the Taft
ainendment couldn’t be consider
ed in its original form but added:
"The conference could settle
°n something like it because the
conferees have the entire scope
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2 Trim DE’s, Honoring
War Heroes, Launched
At Tampa, Fla. Yafd
_ TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 13.—-C'Pi—
iwo trim destroyer escorts were
-<unch»'i f0;- •),<> Nsvy today aj the
Shipbuilding Co. yard, one
r'** them completing again the ros
'er of Navy’s five “Fighting
TU.ru," and the other dedicated
f° lr> Alabama >samsn who died
l-sroivniiy tj mor-ths ago on '-he
cruu.r San Francisco.
Tl'*y v«re rh* JSS Earl K. 01
Sltn and the USS Sinter, 30th and
'’•t v..„,is built /or the Navy by
T-e Tampa ynrd, and were Chris
loupd by tne mothers ot the Navy
xlerrtos -for whnm fhov are nanr.ofl
Exploding Glass
Bothers Drinkers
LONDON, Feb. 13.—UP)—
Bee-r drinkers in Britain are
being bothered by exploding
glasses.
It seemed like a gag at first
when the glasses, filled with
beer, began falling apart in
the hands of pub customers.
But R. H. Foske, an expert on
tumblers, explained they ap
parently were defective.
If new glasses are over
toughened, he said, ‘‘a strain
is set up and they could ex
plode if put on a warm table.”
RFCN( READY
FOR TRANSITION
Agency Willing To Guar
antee Immediate Loans
For Reconversion
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 —UP)—
The RFC indicated tonight it is
ready to make or guarantee im
mediate loans to speed the indus
trial transition from war to peace
although it stressed that its pro
gram will be in cooperation with
private financing.
Charles B. Henderson, Recon
struction Finance Corporation
board chairman, made public a
letter addressed to managers of
the 31 RFC loan agencies in which
he said the RFC must “be pre
pared to carry out our responsi
bility to the national economy in
the exercise of otr statutory lend
ing powers for war demobiliza
tion, contract termination and re
conversion to peacetime opera
tions.”
ihe letter asked each of the
managers throughout the country
to “give careful and sympathetic
consideration to all inquiries fot
such financial assistance, whether
in the forms of loans, immediate
commitments for future loans or
preliminary negotiations looking
toward future commitments.
“I ask further,” Henderson’s
letter continued, “that you survey
your territory, contacting business
enterprises and individuals inter
ested in these problems in order
to ascertain what assistance may
be expected of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation and how it
can be most helpful.
“These activities should be car
ried on wherever possible, in con
junction with banks or other fi
nancial institutions since now, as
always, it is our desire that pri
vate financing be used, with or
without participation by RFC.”
Henderson said that RFC loans
and guarantees for defense and
war purposes now total nearly $2,
000,000,000 and he added that of
the 10,000 authorizations 9,000 in
volved amounts of $100,00 or less,
thus demonstrating “the vital part
all business has played in our war
effort.”
A spokesman for Henderson em
phasized that the program would
not be confined to present war in
dustries, although loans and appli
cations for new business enter
prises, he added, must demon
strate that they are sound eco
nomically, that they are needed
and that they will be successful.
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TEXTILE WORKERS
WILL END STRIKE
FALL RIVER, Mass., Feb. 13—
(#1—Eleven hundred members of
three striking textile unions tonight
voted unanimously to return to
work tomorrow morning in seven
mills that were seized by the Army
last week as a result of a nine
week walkout.
me vote ro return 10 wuik, wmui
will become effective tomorrow at
6 a.m., came only a few days aft
er the striking workers refused to
return to work when Col. Curtis
G. Pratt, Army representative, took
command of the mills upon a
presidential order.
Tonight’s vote was held by the
members of the three independent
craft unions of loom fixers, slash
er tenders and knot tiers, who
walked out on Dec. 13 in protest
against a seniority clause in a CIO
contract with the Fall River tex
tile manufacturers’ association.
The walkout, involved members
of the three unions and affected
7500 other employes.
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PROMOTED
HICKORY, Feb. 13—tfl'»—Phil L.
Barringer, son of Mrs. Perry L.
Barringer of Hickory, has been
promoted to the rank of captain
in the Medical Corps of the Ar
my. He is stationed at Camp Hood,
Texas.
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mother dies
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 13—UR—
Mrs. Virginia Brown, 35, died to
day 'it burns suffered while she
tossed her five children from a
second sicry window of her burn
ing '’.oir.e into the arms of neigh
bors. None of the ehiidren, who
rBnge from 10 months to seven
vppr old. was iniured.
Offensive Blows In Bridgehead Area
Are Being Struck By American Troops;
Rids Clear East Coast Of Lake Peipus
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LONDON, Feb.
troops have completely cleared the
Germans from the east coast of
Lake Peipus which forms the front
ier of Estonia, and have reached
a point 4 3miles from Pskov, Axis
pivot for all of northwestern Rus
sia, Moscow announced tonight.
More than 800 localities were
captured by Gen. Leonid A. Govo
rov’s troops in a five-day plunge
down the 50-mile length of Lake
Peipus, which begins 30 miles in
Land from the Gulf of Finland, a
oroadcast-communique recorded by
;he Soviet monitor disclosed.
The announcement that Soviet
troops were nearing Pskov, gate
way to southern Estonia and La
tavia, came a short time after
Premier Marshal Stalin issued an
jrder of the day announcing the
capture of Luga, rail junction on
the Leningrad-Pskov-Warsaw rail
way 80 miles northeast of Pskov.
In the Ukraine the Russians took
Eour more localities, battering back
the exhausted remnants of 100,
D00 German troops trapped near
Korsun, and pinning them down
to an eight-mile-long corridor ex
tending from just south of Korsun
along a railway to Sotniki on the
-
Sotniki itself was captured, the
communique said, and Soviet ar
tillery was reported laying down
a withering fire over the remain
ing Axis positions.
German counter-attacks north
west of Zvenigorodka, 27 miles
southeast of Korsun, again were
declared beaten down with “heavy
losses on the enemy in manpower
and equipment” as the Nazis out
side the ring- continued their at
tempts to bring relief to their dy
ing companions.
The Berlin high command also
announced that Gen. Nikolai F.
Vatutin’s western Ukraine forces
again were attacking heavily in
aid Poland near Dubno, 83 miles
aortheast of the German strong
hold of Lwow. A break-through to
Lwow would cut the main supply
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LAWMAKER OFFERS
TAX SUGGESTION
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13— UP) —
Integration of the victory tax with
the regular normal inftome tax
and surtax and graduation of the
withholding tax to collect the ex
act amount on individual salaries
aach payday was advocated by
Rep. Disney (D-Okla) as a sim
plification move.
A members c' the House Ways
and Means Committee which has
announced it will consider ‘prompt
ly” proposals for clearing away
some of the confusion about indi
vidual income tax returns, Disney
also urged changes in the estimates
af income now required.
“One of the big sources of trou
ole, which has been annoying and
aarassing the taxpayers is the sys
lom of octimatps of income re
juired,” Disney said in a state
ment. “Under the same set of facts
my three experts, private or gov
ermental, will disagree on the
computation of the tax.
“One section of the bill which
is before the president for signa
ture corrects some of this trou
ble.” ..
He described as “exasperating
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GERMANS LAUNCH
YUGOSLAV DRIVE
fensive against the partisans in
Yugoslavia and have taken some
small towns, but are suffering
heavy losses in the continuing bat
tle headquarters of Partisan Mar
shal Josip Broz (Tito) reported to
night'in a broadcast. •
The Partisan communi<lue> de"
tailing combats at numerous
points and noting that Allied
planes had bombed German ship
ping in the Adriatic, reiterated
charges that forces of Gen. Draja
Mihailovic, war minister of King
Peter's exiled government, were
assisting the Germans in fighting
the Partisans.
It said that in one sector Mihai
lovic’s forces “are completely dis
integrated” and that “great num
bers mobilized by force among the
population joined our 16th Moslem
brigade.”
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Nazis Are Using
Famed Monastery
As A F o rtress
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al
giers, Feb. 13—MB—The Allied
command charged today that the
Germans had turned the famous
Benedictine monastery on Mt.
Cassino into a fortress, and there
fore it might be necessary to as
sault it.
The monastery is strategically
placed on the crest of Mt. Cas
sino, which overlooks the town of
Cassino and dominates tile road
to Rome which the Germans are
holding as a corridor into the
town.
American troops are within a
few hundred yards of the abbey,
but have not yet intentionally fir
ed upon it, a headquarters officer
said.
This officer explained in a state
ment:
The Germans still are putting
up fierce resistance on Abbey Hill.
Vatican authorities have asked
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menu¥senate
WILL BE VARIED
Legislation Involving Shad,
Fruit Fly, And Sheep
Are On Slate
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13— UP) —
Some very special legislation in
volving fresh shad, the Mediter
ranean frriit fly and the accidental
blitzing &C 499 Texas range sheep
is on the Senate’s menu this week.
With the soldier vote and food
subsidy headaches packed off to
conference committees, the law
makers are ready for a little
catch-as-catch-can legislating and
everybody gets to name his own
k.cket in a sort of interlude be
tween more weighty matters.
Senators Andrews (D-Fla) and
McCarran (D-Nev) are backing a
bill which would permit the sale
of shad in the District of Colum
bia during December. Seems that
years ago Congress got an dies
that spawning shad were being
caught in the Potomac around
Christmas time, hindering perpe
tuation of the species. Now the
fish and wildlife service has
found that shad don’t come up the
river before April. The prohibi
tion has been keeping Florida shad
off the Capital market, and An
drews didn't like that.
The Mediterranean fruit fly be
came a matter of Congressional
concern when the little varmints
started chewing up Florida grape
fruit in 1929, which was a bad
vear for all except fruit flies. The
government's fruit fly eradicators
worked so hard, in swatting the
flies it is claimed that they
caused about $10,000,000 damage
to the orchards, which the Treas
ury is now asked to pay.
An Army plane took off from a
ban Angelo, Tex., field Nov. 28,,
1942, for a little bombing practice.
One of the bombs accidentally fell
out over the Wade brothers ranch
;n Schleicher county, the owners
.aid, sounding taps for the 499
sheep, two miles of fence and
3,200 acres of grass, which was
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CUT IN CANNED
GOODS PREDICTED
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—OT)—Civil
ians are in for a 43 per cent cut
in canned fruits and a 19 per cent
cut in canned vegetables this year,
a War Food Administration offi
cial told the food processors’ con
vention today.
C. W. Kitchen, deputy director of
the office of distribution of the
WFA, said that a new order signed
last Friday allots civilians 17 mil
lion cases of 12 canned fruit items
for the 1944-45 season as against
30 million last year, and grants
them 104 million cases of 14 veg
etable items this year as com
pared with 128 million cases last
season.
Kitchen said these figures com
pared with a civilian use of 54 mil
lion cases of fruits and 143 million
cases of vegetables in the 1941-42
peak season.
“The projected vegetable supply
for civilian distribution .in the com
ing season,” he said, “will be
nearly 25 million cases less than
the supply available during the
current season.
Views Of GOP Candidates Vary
Widely On Different Problems
AH Are Agreed That FR’s
Administration Must
Come To End
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 — (£>—
Three potential Republican presi
dential candidates appeared in ac
cord today on the partisan con
tention that the Roosevelt admin
istration must come to an end if
American liberties are to be pre
served, but the pattern of their
thinking on many other issues
varies widely.
A survey of recent speeches «nd
other utterances of the trio—Wen
dell L. Willkie, Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York and Gov.
John W. Bricker of Ohio—indi
cates that if the Republicans
choose any among them the party
also will be committed to some
form of international cooperation
to preserve future peace.
Beyond that point their positions
often differ, with their views rang
ing all the way from Willkie’s
insistence that congress ought to
raise 16 billions in additional taxes
to Bricker’s contention that gov
ernmwit economy is more impor
tant now than higher taxation.
The three agree, however, that
the time has come for the Re
publicans to return to power, and
they all say the Republicans are
better equipped to guide the post
war transition to civilian pursuits
with Dewey observing that “there
are few thinking Americans who
wish to risk the peacetime chaos
of continued new deal govern
ment.”
Dewey, who has-said he is not
a candidate for the presidential
nomination but who is mentioned
as a “draft” possibility, has not
committed himself recently on
some pressing issues.
However, he is on record with
the statement that the proposed
Federal war ballot for service
men would conflict with the New
Willkie Confident Of Nomination
Wendell Willkie, GOP nominee for president in 1940, at a con
ference in Seattle with newsmen, expressed confidence he would
receive the Republican nomination for president in 1944. Comment
ing on the reign of the Democratic party, which he said is “rapidly
falling apart,” Willkie added “I’m going to break this power if I
can.” (AP Wirephoto).
Y.\'k State Constitution, but prom
ising State aid in getting ballots
to the armed forces.
Bricker said he favored state
absentee ballots but Willkie ob
served he - did not believe it is
practical under State statutes for
;very member of the armed ser
/ice to be given the opportunity
o vote and was therefore in favor
>f a Federal statute.
Willkie and Bricker are on rec
)rd as pledging no change in the
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FINNISH ENVOYS
IN STOCKHOLM
Helsinki May Be Moving
Toward Accord With
The Russians
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 13.—(IP) —
Three of Finland’s leaders headed
by Juhu Paasikivi, “the ambassa
dor of peace,” were in Stockholm
tonight and the world watched for
a concrete sign whether Helsinki
was moving to an understanding
with Moscow.
“There is impenetrable secrecy
around government conferences
which are being held constantly,”
said Helsinki dispatches to the
Swedish press. “The few who
know what is developing are say
ing nothing.”
One rumor, which could not be
confirmed,. said contact between
Helsinki and Moscow had been es
tablished at least three days ago
and that Paasikivi was waiting to
take up from that point because of
the skill he has in dealing with
the Russians and the respect the
Russians hold for him. It was he
who negotiated the peace with the
Russians at the end of their winter
war in 1940.
Leo Ehrenrooth, Finnish minis
ter of the interior, arrived in
Stockholm by plane today, to join
Paasikivi and Eljas Erkko, former
foreign minister.
French Mystery Targets
Pounded By U. S., RAF
LONDON, Feb. 13.—(TP)—Flying Fortresses and Lib
erators in strong formations teamed with American Ma
rauders and RAF Typhoons today in an unprecedented of
fensive against the invasion coast of northern France,
dealing out probably the 'heaviest blow of recent weeks on
world’s most battered strips of
land.
Operating together for the first
time since Feb. 5, the big four
engined types plastered mystery
targets in an intensification of the
assault previously handled chiefly
by lighter RAF craft.
The American heavy bombers
were escorted by American Thun
derbolts and Mustangs. American
Marauders, escorted and support
ed by RAF domipion and Allied
fighters, and other Allied fighters
and British Typhoons also attack
ed military objectives in northern
France during the afternoon, a
joint British-American communi
que said.
Seven German aircraft were
brought down during the day, six
by escorting American fighter
planes, while four of the heavy
bombers and two fighters from
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BOMBERS HAMMER
SMOKING RABAUL
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Monday, Feb. 14.—UP)—Smoking
and bomb-packed Rabaul, Japan's
badly dented shield to Allied
drives toward Tokyo and way
points, was hit for the 12th time in
fourteen days of the stepped-up A1
lied aerial offensive when 134
tons of bombs were dropped on its
three airdromes.
Three enemy aircraft were shot
down out of a weak intercepting
force.
The Friday attack was announc
ed today by Gen. Douglas MacAr
thur.
Our bombers also hit a 3,000-ton
cargo ship at Wewak during a tho
rough bombing and strafing of that
northeastern New ^Huinea area,
and struck also at Kendari in the
Dutch Celebes, points on Portu
guese Timor and Buka passage be
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STILWEL PLEDGES
AGGRESSIVE DRIVE
CHUNGKING, Feb. 13—UP)—An
aggressive China-based land and
air offensive in support of an Am
erican thrust across the Pacific
to land ground and air forces on
the Chinese mainland was pledged
today by Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stil
well, commander-in-chief of Unit
ed States forces in India, China
and Burma.
Stilwell, now in the Ledo sector
of northern Burma with Chinese
and American forces, said every
facility and accomodation is be
ing prepared for the largest new
cargo carriers available. These
will fly far greater tonnages than
do the present historic air trans
ports which have made records
in this theater.
Stilwell’s statement took note of
the recent declaration of Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in
chief of the Pacific fleet, that
the Navy intends a drive to break
the Japanese blockade and land
American forces on the mainland
of China.
Strikes, Laxness At Home
Assailed By Local Soldier
A vitriolic letter written from
'somewhere in the South Pacific”
scoring strikes and general lax
ness on the home front has been
received by L. H. Hobbs of 214 N.
22nd Street from his son, Corpora]
Walter L. Hobbs.
The soldier writes that his senti
ments are his “honest opinion,
and, I feel free to say, also that
of 99 per cent of the boys over
here.
“There is a large group of loyal
citizens at home who have not yet
realized that there is a war on,”
he writes. “Without the support
of the home front, the armed
forces are absolutely helpless. This
business of strikes is one example
of the failure of the home front. |
“The main issue is this: ‘We,‘
he strikers, because of the rising
tost of living, are forced to lower
iur standard of living. We must
lave higher wages to live as we
used to. Then there are some
who strike for no .good reason at
all. Can’t they realize that the
ten million men in the Army had
to lower their standard of living?
That the families of men whose
earnings were cut from $50 a
week to $50 a month almost over
night, are having to lower their
standards of living?
“Any normal person will tell
you that the life of one American
boy cannot be valued in dollars
and cents. But that is what they
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INITIATIVE REGAINED
Allies Are Reinforced Witt
Fresh Troops; Situation
Satisfactory
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Al
giers, Feb. 13—(/Pi—Allied troops
ir. the invasion bridgehead below
Rome have regained the initiative
in part at least from powerful
German forces pressing in upon
them, and are striking offensive
blows in a fierce see-saw strug
gle.
Reinforced with fresh troops, the
Allies hammered at the Germans
near Carroceto (Aprilia), and then
■ hrew back a German tank-sup
ported. counterattack, headquarters
announced, and the over-all situa
tion on the bridgehead is “gener
ally satisfactory.”
This renewed surge of Allied
initiative coincided with confident
expressions by Allied command
ers that the battle for Rome would
succeed, and an order of the day
by Lt.-Gen. Mark W. Clark, Fifth
Army commander, that the chance
had come to hand the Nazis a
great defeat.
Assault In Sun
The Allied command announced
that it might be necessary to as
sault the Benedictine abbey atop
Mt. Cassino because the Germans
had turned it into a fortress, but
there was no evidence that Ameri
can or British troops had yet at
tacked the massive structure domi
nating the Cassino battlefield.
(The Nazi-controlled Rome radio
asserted in a broadcast recorded
by CBS that “Allied artillery has
begun an intensive bombardment
ot the monastery.”)
A dispatch written at the Cas
sino battlefront at 6:45 p. m., Sun
day by Lynn Heinzerling, Asso
ciated Press war correspondent,
featured the declaration of three
battle-weary infantrymen that
“they ought to wipe that monas
tery off the hill” to eliminate the
German observers and gunners
shielded by its walls.
Fortresses Strike
Allied planes, including Flying
Fortresses and Liberators ordinar
ily reserved for long range strate
gic work except at times when the
ground forces are in need of all
available support, struck new and
heavy blows again yesterday just
behind Nazi lines around the
bridgehead.
The main clash on the Carroceto
sector opened Saturday with an
Allied attack making local gains
in the so-called factory area of
Carroceto. The Germans counter
attacked with armor including
flame-thrower tanks, but were
turned back with two tanks lost.
The food-processing factory there
changed hands three times, head
quarters said, and thus was pre
sumably in Allied hands.
New Strongpoints
American troops in the Cassino
area to the east wrested new
strongpoints from the Germans
Aside the town, and two miles to
The west of Cassino seized a 1,500
l'cot hill, kncking back a Nazi
counter-thrust.
The Germans still are resisting
fiercely on Mt. Cassino, dominat
ing the town from the northwest
and the corridor leading to it, and
headquarters announced the Nazis
had converted the famous monas
tery crowning the hill into a fort
ress, firing on U. S. forces a few
hundred^ yards away.
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far the Allies had tried to observe
a Vatican request to spare the
historic abbey, but that if the Ger
mans continued to use it as a
slrongpoint, means would have to
be taken to knock them out of it.
Prisoners Taken
More prisoners taken in the Cas
ino area included men of th*
German first parachute division,
last reported facing the British
army on the Adriatic sector. Ap
parently part of this division ha:
been shifted to the Fifth Armj
:ront to strengthen the German:
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German Intelligence
Agents In Istanbul
Surrender To British
ITANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 13.—
(/P)—Two more Nazi intelli
gence agents operating in Is
tanbul have gone over to the
British, it was learned today.
They are Karl Alois Von
Kleckowski, second in charge
of counter-espionage for the
Germans here, and Capt. Wil
helm Hamberger, a Gestapo
agent. Both are Austrians.
Last week a German clerk
to the military attache, identi
* fied by an Allied spokesman
as Erich Vermchren gave him
self up to the British.
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