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__ __ ™RECAST 1 REMEMBER WILMINGTON AND VICINITV: Partly ' BFMDT IIRDBAD cloudy with moderate temperatures to- ■ FLAAL I1AIIDUX1 day. I Temperatures yesterday: I _ _ _ _ _ __ -■ “■__ j_AND BATAAN | VOL. 77—NO. 171_ ' 'ESTABLISHED 1567 ~* Russians Extending F ronti e rs east PRUSSIA NEARED / Red Army Spearheads Hit Germans Hard Blows Over Wide Area LONDON, Friday, Aug. 11. _f/P;—Russian troops, at tacking a bitterly resisting enemy near the Niemen riv er in Lithuania, yesterday drove another spearhead to within 11 miles of the Ger man East Prussian border, while other Red army units far to the south crossed the historic Narew river in a gi gantic pincers move on that imperilled Nazi province. Berlin said a battle of "very great proportions” was raging on the East Prussian front, and again declared that the reinforced Ger man armies were ‘‘greatly out numbered” by the Russian legions. Of equal gravity to the Germans was the Soviet extension of a huge Red army bridgehead across the Vistula river south of Warsaw. Moscow's commuique announced LONDON, Friday, Aug. 11— —tRt—Shooting broke out in East Prussia, West Prussia and the danzig area when Nazi SS elite guardsmen attempted to arrest German army officers, the Moscow radio said early iwiaj . “Many SS men were killed,” the Moscow account recorded here by Reuters, said. the cutting of the Sandomierz-Kiel ce highway with the capture of Lagow, 20 miles east of Kielce, and 30 miles beyond the Vistula— last Axis water barrier before Ger many itself. With the seizure of 60 more lo calities in this key area the Rus sians now occupy nearly 1.50C square miles of territory beyond the Vistula and are within 75 miles of German Silesia. They are threat ening to collapse the enemy com munications network between be sieged Warsaw and Krakow, Ger man-held bastion in southern Po land, while other Red armies clean out a big area northeast of War saw, between the Polish capital and the southern side of the East Prus sian border. Opatow, junction town midway between Kielce and Sandomierz, also was threatened by Russian columns which seized Modliborzyce five miles southwest, and Gojcow, three miles on the south. Berlin broadcasts again told of fierce fighting against a Red army bridgehead across the Vistula only 30 miles southeast of Warsaw in the Warka sector. Moscow has nev er confirmed that crossing. In western Lithuania the Rus sians moved relentlessly forward on a broad front on both sides of the Niemen rivrer. Raseniai 53 "tiles northeast of Tilsit, was cap tured. Berlin said the town had been abandoned in flames. The battleline, moving through 40 localities, extended southward to Raudone, on the Niemen at a point enly 20 miles east of the Prussian border, crossed to the south bank at Blogoslavenstvo, and ran through Aszmuce and Valyule. Raptured Asmuce is three miles Northeast of Sakiai road junction and only two miles east of Sakiai, t only 11 miles from east Prussia. -V LULL BROKEN LONDON, Aug. 10.—(.£>)—Day pn' alerts today broke the brie! ™1 London enjoyed from th« Romans’ flying bombs as th< ■ sz;s fired robot salvoes front /;0SE the channel and provokec “tensive fire. JNazi l roopsr At Own Offi ST. MALO, France, Aug. 9.— —(Delayed) — UP) — German troops began shooting their own officers today in order to surrender as American dough boys in flaming hand-to-hand battles occupied all St. Malo except the port’s rocky citadel. Inside this battered granite fortress the enemy garrison still held out at 6 p. m. under the command of a fanatical leader, Col. Von Auloch, a tall, grayhaired man who was car rying out to the bitter end his threat to make +his 'fashion able beach resort a “new Stalingrad.” A veteran of the ' Russian front seemingly obsessed on the subject of Stalingrad, the commander had sworn his determination to turn St. Malo into a similar siege even if the hopeless fight cost *he lives of all his men and him self. French refugees and German prisoners said the colonel suf fered delusions as the result of a head wound received at Stalingrad and was embittered by the childre raid. Strea caded his me „ _ of TODT organization workers, marines, headquarters sol-' diers, ORKCK drivers, cooks, parachute troops, sailors and •‘punishmen* platoons,” a beat en, sweaty, dirty misfit group of soldiers who had lost most of their Nazi cockiness. Many are middleaged, many are wounded, many limp as they march to the rear. “Their commander just lin ed up every German in the port area, gave a machine gun to every fifth man and a rifle ,to the others and threw them all in to the frontline of combat,” said Capt. T. C. Roberts, West Hartford, Conn. “They are a sloppy army.” Many more prisoners have been taken today, raising the total for the four-day siege to at least 3,800, and another ), 000 wounded are reported in the large hospital within the city. Opening Of School Delayed Two Weeks Definite assurance that the opening of New Hanover county schools will be postponed at least two weeks until September 18 because of the infantile paralysis epidemic was giyen the public yesterday when the city-county board of health recommended the delay to the board of education. Only the formality of action by * ikn nnknnl knnvJ J__i. • ~“i »•** v«vij vw taut, remained to make the delayed date official. The health board, at its month ly meeting yesterday, took the steps to approve and adopt the rec ommendation which will go before the board of education at their next meeting. J. W. Grise, assistant superin tendent of schools, said last night that a date had not.been set.for a meeting of the board; however, he assumed that schools in this county will open in accordance with the request of the health authori ties. Dr. A. H. Elliot, city - county health officer, at the meeting stat ed that the ban on gatherings of children under 15 years of a g e stands as a health law, forbidding children to visit places of amuse ment, including picnics and other gatherings; to attend movie* or Sunday school; and operation of any day nurseries. This was confirmed- by Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, state health officer, who stated that Section 7154 of the Consolidated Statues of North Car (Continued on Page Seven; Col. 1) CONVICT ADMITS DROWNING HOAX ASHEVILLE, Aug. 10—Uft—Po lice officers said today that Joe E. Wilson, who escaped from Burnsville prison camp yesterday with a fellow convict, Toby Callo way, had admitted that a state ment made earlier today that he killed Calloway, and dumped his body in the French Broad river, was a hoax. Wilson's purpose in prepetrating the hoax was friendship for Cal loway, Chief C. W. Dermid said, explaining that Wilson wanted to give his companion a chance to escape and remain free, while au thorities believed him dead, Asheville police ana firemen had been engaged in dragging the French Broad in search for Cal loway’s body, after Wilson’s orig ! inal statement. Wilson was arrested this morning ; as the driver of an allegedly stolen I car and as an escaped convict. Calloway was still at large this afternoon. Sunday Schools Will Be Closed To Youngsters Effective August 13, Sun day school for all children under 15 years of age will be discontinued by all churches, in the city until the opening at ', city-county schools, the Rev. Carl H. Fisher, president of the Wilmington Ministeral as sociation, announced last night. Closing of Sunday schools is due to the epidemic of polio myelitis in North Carolina which total 502 cases to date. PLANNING EXPERT SEES HOME NEED The crying need for rebuilding many of Wilmington’s houses im mediately after the end of the war if economic conditions permit was cited yesterday by Walter Blucher, executive director of the American Society of Planning Offcials, who is here to confer with city of ficials and business me on the subject of industrial planning for the community. “I am impressed by the large number of houses which need re building in the city; the extent of rebulding will depend upon Wil mington’s postwar status, Blucher said. The planning expert toured the city yesterday, inspecting housing projects, docks, the shipyard, resi dential areas, and commercial areas in order to get a clear pic ture of the comparison of housing facilities and industrial expansion. Blucher will address a joint meet ing of the civic clubs this afternoon at one o’clock in St. Paul’s Parish hops'*. He is expecting to spend the remainder of the day formu lating opinions and accumulating data on Wilmington’s planning problems in the realm of business and industry. The city • council and the plan ning board honored the planning official last night at a dinner in the Governor Dudley restaurant. I Navy Man Rescued After Spending 31 Months Eluding Japs On Guam u. s. PACIFIC FLEET 1 headquarters, Pearl Har “or, July 15—(Delayed)—(A)— An American navy man who dodged the Japanese conquer ors of Guam for 31 months and I nved on the island all that I ''me like a hunted animal was | rescued by a U. S. warship ] duly io, ten days before the ; landings which restored that j Possession to America, i He is George Ray Tweed, 42, I 1 radioman from Portland, | Ore., who fled Agana town in | Sl> automobile with a buddy alter the Japanese came | ashore December 10, 1941. After the rescue he was mov od to Saipan and from there • plane to Pearl Harbor, *here he was interviewed "bile awaiting air transpor tation to California. THe Japanese detailed • 50- I man party to search lor him. Alter two years they officially listed him as dead, apparently to save face. Tweed related the Japanese decreed that all- Americans who surrendered within 30 days after their occupation of the island be taken to Japan and that holdout* thereafter would be killed. A lot of Americans gave up, he said. But Tweed and his buddy sped to a remote part of the island. His companion was killed and Tweed was left on his own. He holed up in a cave high on the face of a steep cliff, caught rain water for drinking and washing and made night forays for food. He lost 30 pounds while a fugitive but gained back ten in the first five days after his rescue and looked to be in surprisingly good physical condition. Dee pntense of the Japa nese showed in his eyes at the mention of the enemy. Tweed hadn’t given a thought as to what to do with 31 months of accumulated pay. “That’s too big to figure out,” he said. “All I know is it’s a big amount.” Tweed said he prayed with increasing frequency on Guam but “gave up hope after the first year.” He felt that sooner or later he would be caught. "The Japanese were fran tically searching for me,” he went on. “They kn^w I was a , radio material mai and were afraid I would bifild a trans mitter to communicate with (CexMnned an **age 7; Col. 3) rs Aircraft Cutbacks Ordered DRASTIC CHANGE MADE Liberators, Thunderbolts Commandos Affected By Curtailment WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. —(A5)—A sweeping aircraft cutback, affecting Liberator bombers, Commando trans ports and Thunderbolt fight srs, was ordered by the War department tonight to clear the way for the huge new B 29 and B-32 superbombers ind to release workers for more critical jobs. Twenty thousand workers will be affected immediately and an esti mated 100,Q00 more will be laid off by the end of this year, said the announcement released by the office of war information. The Andrew Higgins Construc tion Co., which lost its Liberty ship contract in 1942 before a ship was built, was cut entirely from production of the C-46 Commando transport before a plane was com pleted. Higgins’ subcontract work on planes will continue, and about half the 6,300 workers may be re tained. Cutbacks after the first of the year will take place in Commandc plane production at Buffalo, St. Louis and Louisville, Ky., but until that time, expanding schedules are to be met. Inability of the Luftwaffe to in xnut aa iicavj iuaaes as uaa ueei expected account for the cut ir transport planes, officials said, anc the growing emphasis on the Pa cific war was seen behind the shif from Liberators to the B-29 Su perfortress, and its big runninj mate, the B-31, by Consolidated. liberator production by Nortl ismerigan ;»t Balias, Texas, wil lie eliminated gradually. Production of the Liberator wil be reduced at Ford’s great Willow Run plant in Dtroit and the Vultec Aricraft Corporation plant in Sar Diego. A reduction of presently unknowr depth will be made in the subcon tract work for the P-47 Thunder bolt fighters done by Goodyear a' Akron, Ohio, OWI said. It will b( sufficient to “ease the manpowei situation in Akron.’’ These accompanying shifts o: sub-contract work are planned: 1. Work will be transferred from southern California plants tc Dallas to relieve the acute laboi shortage in southern California and to provide jobs for the released Dallas workers. 2. Parts production from Akron will be shifted in part to Evans ville, Ind., where the P-47 is being manufactured by Republic Aviatior corporation. ^ The latter switch is expected tc release 1,400 skilled makers oi heavy tires who are now working in Akron aircraft plants. It was expected that their return to tire companies would ease the critical shortage of heavy truck and bus tires. As against the 20,000 workers tc be released in the next 30 days, OWI said there were 34,000 air craft jobs waiting to be filed, by estimate of the War Manpowei Commission. Jobs are open in Sar Diego, Chicago, St. Louis, Tulsa Okla., Cleveland, New Orleans and Renton, Wash., for aircraft work ers, OWI said. TOBACCO PRICES REMAIN STABLE FLORENCE, S. C., Aug. 10.—(if Tobacco price averages remainec virtually unchanged today on tht border belt, although leaf grades were one to two cents lower anc lugs were up a cent, the W a i Food Administration reported. Cut ters remained firm. Offerings consisted mainly o low and fair cutters. Sales wer< heavy on some markets and ligh on others. Sales yesterday totallec 2,823,606 pounds at an averagi price of 42.87. Season’s sales ari 7,102,348 pounds at 43.05. Down a cent a pound were goo< lemon leaf and fair orange leai the WFA said. Low orange lea was up two cents. Advancing i cent were fair lemon cutters, fai lemon lugs, good orange and fia lemon lugs, fair lemon cutters am best thin nondescript. Low lemoj lugs advanced two cents. -V FIRE KEEPER DIES TRYON, Aug. 10.— (tft -Williail Morris, 84, keeper of the famou 150-year-old fire in a mountai: home near Saluda, died at a hoj pital here today after a lengthy ill ness. The Morris home had bee: visited by many tourists wishing t see thl fire which was started b; the man’s ancestors. I FOR PARIS’OPENS CHARTRES; F.D.R., MA CARTHUR CONFER MAP NEW PLANS IN WAR ON JAPS Big Push Against Enemy Predicted At Parley Held In Honolulu HONOLULU, July 29. — (Delayed)—(#*) — President Roosevelt and top-flight Am erican commanders in the Pacific, including Gen. Doug las MacArthur, mapped plans for* smashing the Japanese into unconditional surrender at an historic three-day stra tegy conference here under the gently waving palms of Waikiki beach. It was the president’s first war time conference with the south west Pacific commander, whom he greeted with a cordial “It’s good to see you, Doug,” and together they went over every phase of the far- flung offensive in the west. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pa. cific fleet commander, and other top-ranking officers took part in the discussions, which ended to day and which were interlarded by a series of inspection trips that took Mr. Roosevelt to many parts of this bristling fortress is land. The president arrived three days ago, on July 26, aboard a new . super cruiser. He left the Marine base at San Diego, Calif., amid the utmost secrecy, shortly after . his radio speech of July 20 accept ing a fourth term nomination. At a news conference here to day Mrs, Roosevelt said he bad re ceived' a nice telegram from his vice president running mate. senator Harry j*. lruman oi Missouri, but declared he was too far away from politics to discuss the campaign. He said he will report to the nation at some future date on his trip to the Pacific, which' brought him into Pearl Harbor ten years to the the day from the time of his last visit. Obviously moved by the tre mendous amount of defense work that has been done since the Japa nese blasted Pearl Harbor into flaming wreckage two and a half years ago, Mr. Roosevelt said it was the “most amazing change" he ever had seen. After talking with Admiral Ni mitz and General MacArthur, who wore a leather field jacket when he went aboard the president’s ship to greet him, Mr. Roosevelt restated America's war aims: to liberate the Philippines and to force Japan into an unconditional surrender. “We are going back to the Philippines." Mr. . Roosevelt said, “and MacArthur is going to be,a part of the operation. You can’t say.” he added with a smile, “whether the general is going back directly or by way of North Afri ca—frut he is going back and we are going to give the islands their freedom.” . --V MARINE FLIER DIES DURHAM, Aug. 10.— (J) —Major Robert O. Hawkins, 26 of the United States Marine Corps, who was in jured last Sunday when his plane fell near the Chapel Hill airport, died this morning in the Chapel Hill Memorial hospital. The flier’s body will be sent to Bridgeport, Conn., for funeral services and in terment. Three Die, Two Wounded In BuncombeShootings . ashevil.ee, Aug. iu.—— Summoned by neighbors, mem bers of the sheriff’s department broke open the door of the Mack Thomas home in the Young’s Creek section near Candler, this morning and walked in on a scene of stark ' tragedy. Mrs- Mack Thomas, 22, wife 1 of a soldier and her mother-in law, Mrs. Etta Thomas, 40, were on the bloodsoak£d floor * dead, their heads battered by 1 some blunt instrument, Gail Thomas, 18 months old. her head gashed in a heavy blow, had crawled across the body 1 of her young mother, and a 5 brother, Bobbie, three years i old, was lying unconscious on the bed, a widening circle of blood from a head wound stain l ing the bedclothing, j Seeking identification of the r assailant, officers were told that Linton Morgan, 58, a tex-v U me woricer, and a frequent visitor at the house, had been seen in the vicinity of the Tho mas home loading a shotgun. A search for Morgan was start ed, but ended abruptly this af ternoon when the report of a single gunshot broke the si lence as members of the sher iff’s posse were closing in on the fugitive after a manhunt of several hours. A minute or two later Morgan was found dying in a roadway near his sister’s home. . He had fired the charge from a 12-gauge shot gun into his left breast, offi cers said. ' The children meanwhile had been taken, to St. Josephs hos- ’ pital. Tonight their condition was said to be ' very critical. They were suffering from skull fractures, concussion, shock and loss of blood. . No motive for the crime had been uncovered by police to night. American Liberators l Bombard Philippines GENERAL HEADQUARTERS SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Fri day, Aug. 11.—UP)—American Liberator bombers raiding the Philippines for the first time in 27. months,* smashed Japan ese airdromes at Davao wiUi three successive night at tacks, headquarters announced today. . . • ; The last of the three assaults was during Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Results were not announced. Davao, principal city on Mindanao, main southern is land in the archipelago, was occupied by the Japanese in late December, 1941. The last American raid , on the Philippines was an at tack on Clark field,' some 70 miles northward of Manila, on April 15, -1942. The formation, from Australia, was led by Brig. Gen. Ralph Royce from Australia. Bataan had - capitulated six days earlier, but Corregidor was still holding out. Mindanao is within bombing range of newly-acquired Am erican airfields in the Schou- l ten islands, off Dutch New Guinea, approximately 800 miles southwest. The newest American beachhead at San sapor, at the top of New Gui nea, is slightly over 600 miles southeast of Mindanao. ] Gen. Douglas MacArthur ] meniioned the Philippines in his July 24 communique for ' the first time since the fall of ^ Corregidor, reporting the sink- C ing of a small vessel off Da- t vao. Yesterday, he reported t the bombing of a 2,000-ton ^ freighter off Davao. j Today's disclosure told of the ^ first assault against land ob- 1 jectives in the lost islands ( since Royce’s raid. Enemy resistance in the Dri niumor river battlefront of * British New Guinea has ceas ed, the communique reported. i “Remnants of the enemy’s de- i moralized forces which escap- , ed our encircling movements are fleeing south towards the ' Torricelli mountains or trying to make their way back to We- ' wak. Superbombers Hit Big Japanese Port WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—(A5)—The Superfortresses of America’s 20th Bomber Command, lashing at the vitals of Japan’s war machine, struck simultaneously today at talgets 3,500 miles apart—the enemy homeland port and industrial center of Nagaski and the great oil refining, area of Palembang on the island of Sumatra. The targets of this strategic mis--¥ sion of huge scope are among the most important in enemy territory. The Pladjoe oil refinery at Palem vapg is the largest in the Orient, and is believed to have been op erating at or near its pre war capa city of 18,000,000 barrels of crude oil a year. It is an important source of aviation gasoline. Nagasaki, bombed in the third Superfortress mission against the Japanese mainland, is a military port and shipbuilding center of key value to ■ the enemy military ma chine, and a center of engine, steel, ordnance, magneto, generator and aircraft production, chiefly by plants of the extensive Mitsubishi interests. It is located on, the.west side of Kyushu island in the- heavily industrialized area where the Su perfortresses previouslyhad hit the ‘ steel center of Yawata and the naval base at Sasebo. In othey missions against enemy territory, the Superfortresses have attacked targets at Bangkok, Thailand, and at Anshan, in the Mukden area of Manchuria, -where they hit coke ovens and other factories in a blow against Japan’s steel industry The forces which carried' out to day’s attack against Nagasaki from bases in China and against Palem bong from fields in southeast Asia, were described by" 20th‘ airforce headquarters as “medium sized”. Pending evaluation of operations reports, no detailed information about the attacks was available. Japs Turn, Flee. Instead Of Dying For Their Emperor U. S- PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Har bor Aug. 10—(fP)—The American rec’onques't of Guam produced something new— the Japanese ran for their lives when the end was near instead of dying for their emperor in a suicidal “banzai” charge. The last organized resistance on Guam was wiped out Wed nesday, Adm- Chester W. Nim itz announced today. The final enemy pocket was overwhelm ed near the northeast corner of the island. POINTS ON MEAT AGAIN CHANGED •WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. — (/P) Ration stamps will not be needed beginning Sunday in purchasing ut ility grades of lamb, beefsteaks and roasts, but. housewives will have to surrender points again for pork loins, hams and canned fish. The changes for the period from Sunday through September 2, were announce! by the Office of Price Administration today in belatedly distributed August point charts which also list increases in the ration values on all kinds of cheese and on farm and process butter. Creamery butter, representing the bulk of the supply, continues at 16 points a pound. Utility grade beefsteaks and roasts are being taken off the ra tion lists and pork loins in line with restored to the lists in line with previously announced plans of OPA and the. War Food Administ- ation Utility grade popular cuts of iamb are being made point free, OPA explained, because with the same grade of beef available without points “it was judged that utility lamb might not move under a point value.” * --V Sweeper, Sub Chaser Lost In Enemy Action WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— MP1 — Loss of two American naval ves sels—the mine sweeper Osprey and the submarine chaser PC-1261—in European waters, was announced by the Navy today. No details were given as to how or where the two craft were sunk oy enemy action. The Tosses bring to 133 the num ber of American naval craft lost since the war started. In addition 32 are listed as overdue and pre sumed lost ana nine naval craft were destroyed to prevent their capture. MED FORCES STRIKE SWIFTLY Ine Spearhead Veers Off In Thrust At Orleans To Flank Capital SUPREME HEADQUAR ’ERS ALLIED EXPEDI 'IONARY FORCE, Friday, ^ug. 11.—(/P) — Lt. Gen. (mar N. Bradley, whose arm red columns were striking oward Chartres and the last 0-mile defense zone west of ’aris, suddenly sent one orce veering off in the di ection of Orleans early to lay, threatening to flank the French capital from the iouth, “The battle for Paris has be tun,” German broadcasts declar ;d as the swift-moving Allied for :es rolled toward the historic city’s )uter defense lines. (NBC Reporter David Anderson, Jroadcasting from a rolling Allied ransmitter in France, said the (rive already had reached within 10 miles of Orleans with the “Am Jricans at this moment” attacking ,-hateaudun. 70 miles from Paris.) Yet a third American column wa« >elieved rolling south toward Tors 18 miles southeast of Le Mans on he Loire river, possibly in support >f other forces which have stabbed hrough mine-fields and thin resis ;aace to Nantes and Angers, far her downstream on the Loire. The columns pressing due easi :oward Paris were deep into the !hahfe's "defense zone, which juards the last 50 miles to the :apital. (The Brazzaville radio, in a broadcast recorded by CBS, said that ^ according to some reports ‘Chartres is in Allied hands” but added the reports were not con firmed at Supreme Allied Head quarters.) There still was no evidence that Lt. Gen Bradley’s forces had met resistance or that the Germans were intending to put up any sort it a stand on the north bank of the Loire, barring the way to southern France. In the drive on Orleans, the Am ericans were heading for the gap oetwdffen the Seine and Loire rivers south of the capital, possibly in an attempt to head off 10 German divi iions reported fleeing northward from southwest France. Far behind these operations, the Americans cut loose a new central front attack on their left flank, pre sumably between Mortain and ifire, and rolled up gains of a mile and a half, first army head quarters said. This push seemed aimed at iron, hg out the German positions above Mortain, which the enemy still holds, and strengthening the Avranches corridor. (The ABSIE radio, American broadcasting station in Europe, de clared that the Canadians had cap tured Vimont, the Paris road block seven miles southwest of Caen which has held up the British drive along the short route to the capi tal. (The station said forward ele ments of the British army had reached Thur.y-Harcourt, the Orn* river bastion 14 miles southwest it Caen. The broadcast was record ed by CBS.) $35-A-Week Men Consider Appeal To FDR On Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.— —Proponents of the Murray • Kilgore demobilization bill were disclosed tonight to be considering an appeal to Pres ident Roosevelt in an effort to overcome Senate opposition to a provision calling for' postwar unemployment payments rang ing up to $35 a week. One of the group, who declin ed to allow the use of his name, said the Chief Executive might be asked to throw White House pressure behind the measure either by a personal appeal or by asking Senator Truman (D Mo) to take the floor in its be* half. Truman, the senator said, has been worknig behind-the scenes for the measure, which he supported in the military committee, but as Democratic vice presidential nominee, h# has avoided speech-making un til he has had a chance to .con fer with the President. I
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