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m ,$3 i Im&-7? SKgl (The German - controlled Rome r*Ko mU today that "the German high command has deemed K advisable to halt operations south of Rom* for tin time being," the listening poet at Renters news *ency in London reported). Nasi artillery lobbed shells at the nerve center of Ansio sad other huarhhenri objectives, and 130 German planes hit at ground troops, but the Allies eodnterad with 1,600 aerial sorties, and gunfire against enemy tiwop and vehicle movements. A lull continue i in the fighting on the Cassino sector to the east. The Germans tried to infiltrate around Fifth army outposts on two peaks northwest of the town, but withdrew under cover of a smoke screen when Allied artillery opened fire. Otherwise headquarters reported only iwrmal patrolling from both fronts, with more snowfalls hampering movements in the moontains. British guns shelled enemy troops and vehicles near the Nazis' main concentration point of Carroceto. Allied group troops could see the Germans busily moving their forces in rear areas, iwticaHng KesMiring was preparing for a renewed assault after reprise of Us second major offensive last week-end. The enemy atro maintained steady pressure around the perimeter of the must flow- from 1944 assembly J hoes at an even faster pace than Wore, Donak) M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, told sadie listeners during a reoent jrutst appearance eif "Washington Beports on Rationing," public a vice radio program presented b}-i the Council on Candy as Food in the War Effort, an organisation sponsored by the National Confection, era' Association, the WPB chief ♦aid industry wfft not get the green light to resume large-scale manufacture of consumer goods "until tke war is much mora nearly won than it is todty." hut that tests at* beta* made in certain areas to see whether* small manufacturing concerts withouf war . contracts should be eneourared to uae idle, materials m producing kimple household items that are in heavy demand. -t GENERAL METTS MAKES PROTEST FARMER DRAFT Gen. J. Van B. Met**, Stat© Director of Selective Service, Mid Wednesday be would officially p roast in Washington any drafting1 of 'arm workers who may not be ible to qualify for deferment unler a 16-unit requirement recently naugurated by National Selective Service Headquarter*. * At the setae time Metis said be tad ordered North Carolina draft wards to delay the drafting of larmen under the new regulations rntil he can make his official proMetis said that when the' new ■equiremenSj^krere, announced by Jeneral Lewis B. Ht-nsey, Selective lerviee Director, the State Departnent of Agriculture "began sagir )li«4r North Carolina farme* "tn an iffort to determine hour'many Would neet Selective Servite qualifications or fanner deferment." Of 229 farms checked in Western Korth Carolina, only 1® franters »uld qualify with i« units of protection, be said. In the Piedmont lection, 513 would qualify.- A total rf 227 farms of 820 sampled ia the Red Crow operations or«r the entire work! daring 1»4I hare t«MM Itt actlrlUe* daring the flnt two jmn of _w*r. -: • -JiS ; As eves greater burden will be plaaedo* Red Crow mtrice* In 1144. Thoaeandi of Anorlean men and Congress Expected To Override Veto in Showdown Fight Withpr^ 4. The President proposals "would threaten the solvency of all business 'ud iti ability to proviso jobs whan the nt ends. Unlea tills Mil becomes law, the way will bo paved for many large corporations to make excess profits out of .th* war."* ; That there "are many good features of the biH which will be loot if it should fail to become law." The statement said more than 187,000,000 from excise taxes had been lost by refusal of the President to sign the bill before Ffcb. 19. f J
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