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My idea of no place to go this
year is the republican or demo
cratic national convention, on the
basis of the present prospect Dele
gates might about as well send
in their votes by ordinary mail
.and save the expense aid the in
convenience of travel to Chicago.
For the top selections are all cut
.and dried, the only chance for a
' slipup being ' if Roosevelt's doc
tors would order him not to run,
which is quite improbable.
. Take the democracit convention:
it will be more completely domi
nated by Roosevelt and the White
' House gang than it was in 1940.1
Then Jim Farley held a protest
-.position of influence. Now he is
sidetracked with I just a state
chairmanship. The delegates ac
cepted Wallace for vice president.
but not without considerable gag
' sing. This year the delegates will
;take him or anyone else the high
command dictates with scarcely a
ripple of the adam's apple as they
swallow. The Roosevelts have be
1 come a dynasty. David Lawrence,
good Woodrow ; Wilson demo-
crat, had this to say in his column
the other night:
V "Eleven years ago when the
Rmsevelt i administration came
into power; . it talked a good deal
about driving the money changers
from the temple. It professed high
ideals. It spoke of itself as a
liberal' administration. But it has
turned out to be not a bit dif
ferent from its republican "prede-
cessors ready and anxious to
Use DOIlucai iunas ana puutit i
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' power, to perpetuate itself in of
lice." '
There will be the facade of sav
in the, country in1 wartime, but
;the fact still remains that the ins
; want to stay in power,
As for the republicans, Dewey
will win on the first or second
ballot The party bosses may let
the decision go to the second bal
lot to give Bricker and Stassen
a few grains of comfort, but not
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TrJVDON Mav 25-W-A five-
wnt-11 Arffani-ratinn ! KniU arrainH I
1h W.fnnr th United StatiHi.
Russia, the British common
, wealth and C h i n a and pooling
military power in a police-force
to keep the peace, was presented
to commons today! by Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden.
Eden said conversations with
- the other powers already was un
derway and would progress even
in the heat of climactic battles.
He disclaimed as Prime Minis-
ter Churchill did yesterday- any
intention to ."impose on others in
detail . our ideas," but offered
these as Britain's principles:
First the world organization
must be designed to prevent a
recurrence of aggression by Ger-
-tsnany and Japan and must be
fully equipped with force to meet
this purpose. jr -
Second to insure this, there
must be close political and mili-
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Nazi, Bulgaria
Relations Bad
: LONDON, May 25. - (P) - Five
German divisions . transferred
' from Serbia were reported in an
. unconfirmed dispatch from the Is
'tanbul newspaper La Turquie to-
. night to have met resistance when
they attempted to take over civil
administration of Bulgaria,
With only - two nasi divisions
' known to have been stationed in
! Bulgaria, the reinforcements were
I said to have arrived last Satur
' day. The dispatch did not bring
' out whether the Germans actually
I had seized control. , i
Relations between Russia and
Bulgaria were obviously tense as
'- Moscow sought prior to the com
ing offensives on the eastern
front to dissuade the nazis tired
Slavic satelUte from giving fur -
ther help to,Germany. 1
The Moscow radio broadcast an
; article from the official newspa-
per Izvestia accusing Bulgarian
authorities of "pushing their coun-
' try towards the brink of a nation
al catastrophe." j ,
Albany Pilot Dies
In Army Plane Crash
; OKLAHOMA CITY, May 25
P)-Eight persons were killed and
. five injured today; in the crash
nf a - combat maDoinz tme air-
' craft near Will Rogers army, air
field. CoL B. S. Thompson, base
rommander. said. T
The ship was coming in for a
' landing and the cause of the crash
bad not been determined. f
Included among the dead was
Lt Charleton C Hoefer, pilot
icute two, Albany, Ore. . ,
Prop
For
Alt
KINETY-rOURTH TEAS
Aiisio Allies I
6000 RAT
TT TO TThl
Hit Nazs
Allied Heavies
Break Through
Rocket Barrage.
LONDON, - May, 25
More than 6000 allied planes at
tacked German airdromes and
transportation centers on the
continent with over 8000 tons
of bombs today in a crushing
two-way assault during which
American Fortresses and 1ib-
erators, storming the west wall,
ran into an unprecedented" con-
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centra nun ui ej;iuuiij
of exploding' rockets
thrown up by suddenly increased
ground defenses.
At least 21 rail centers and 15
airfields upon which Germany
has been leaning heavily for
defense of fortress Europe were
pounded in this seventh day of
furious pre - Invasion air on
slaught, a day in which the at
tacks ranged from Toulon In
southern France to the German
capital itself.
From 750 to 1000 American hea-
vies based in Britain slammed ex
plosives on four air fields, nine
J . and other
r.t. n nnHhiiPrn Franw and
w
Belgium, another American day
light fleet from Italy attacked the
Mediterranean port of Toulon and
the rail center of Lyons, 200 miles
. it t 1LA M .1 i iL.
iaruier norui, uic iuuu vj uis
southeastern French defense zone
: a tJS straterle air force eom-
.i.,snunJwtjported that Jiine en-
I 1 91 s.itwJ I.
the sweep acainst the west wait
I mmlwmmi m 1m. Jkf fMV AhiHmB
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oomoers ana is wniers.
to ' this SSSault
the American
P'"lc ",u
down before the
strong anti-aircraft fire and a spec
tacular rocket defense.
The luftwaffe, frayed frem
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Congress OK's
LC Increase
WASHINGTON, May 23 - W)
Congress gave final approval to
day to legislation authorizing the
navy to spend $1,800,000,000 for
1,000,000 additional tons of land
ing craft
Navy Secretary. Forrestal said
the authorization would provide
the . means to . deal with "what
ever contingencies may develop?
fin the "vast amphibious opera
i tions wnich lie ahead." v
"The extent to which replace
ments will be required to cover
losses experienced in those oper
ations cannot be safely, predict
ed, Forrestal said in - request
ing the new fund.
He said 450,000 tons of land
ing craft and district craft to
service the fleet would be or
dered immediately. ; Previously,
congress had authorized 2,000,000
tons of such vessels and as of
April 1, all but 50,000 tons had
been built or were under con
tract
Yank Submarines Sink
15 More Enemy Shins
WASHINGTON, May 25.-UP)-
Cutting down the Japanese mer
chant fleet at the rate of better
than a ship A day, American sub
marines-have sunk 15 more en
m7 vessels. And to protect allied
1 snips from U-boats the navy has
a new weapon rockets. .
This was disclosed today in a
i communique listing the latest bag
by : American submersibles oper
ating in the Pacific,' and in the
first announcement : that rockets,
fired from torpedo bombers have
been used to destroy a German
undersea raider. ' rr:
"Attacking with rocket project
iles, developed by the US navy,
and backing up this new-style
onslaught with older weapons, the
American aircraft apparently de
stroyed the enemy without dam
age to themselves," the navy re-
ported in telling of the probable
sinking of "a big German U-boat
1 hi a matter of minutes.'
The communique telling of Am-
erican submarine successes added
another Japanese destroyer to the
48 Nipponese warships they al-
ready had been credited with
f sinking. It with the 14 ether ves
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4 S
mat
As ' a prelude to the sale of 10,000
ident or the American Lesion
rttst disabled veterans of the second world war. Kltchey was wounded while serving; with the navy,
and has been discharged. Looking on are Mrs. E. A. Lee, auxiliary poppy chairman for Salem, and
Verne Ostrander wbo served with the 91st la. the first world war
(Statesman photo) ' '
N
imitz Announces
Marcus -Wake Raids
I 1 By LEIF ERICKSON r .
US PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, May
26-P-CarTier-based aircraft of a Pacific fleet task force blasted
Marcus and Wake islands,: Japanese reconnaissance outposts in
the west central Pacific in an attack extending from last FVWav
to l-uesday. Adm. Chester Wimitx annotoce4
Only lour planes were lost in
oped a surprising weakness in theO
aerial defense of Marcus and ah
Utter ' lack of interception over
WakeJ! !" " : t
Marcus island, less than 1200;
miles' southeast of Tokyo, was
battered May 19 and 20 with
148 tons of explosives in 373
sorties. Although that alrbase
had not been attacked since'
last August Si, when a similar
carrier force worked It ever,:
f o;F eight hours, only two Jap
anese planes were seen. f
One of the aircraft a medium
bomber, was shot down near the
target I and the other strafed on
the ground. Airdrome installations
were hard hit supply dumps de
stroyed, gun positions and build
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Iceland Decides f
To Become Republic
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, (De-layed-May
24-(P)-One of the
oldest; democracies in the world
has decided to become the world's
youngest republic, the people of
Iceland, with probably the larg
est participation in a referendum
ever, recorded in any democratic
country, having voted to sever all
its ties with the Danish crown. 1
Votes tabulated today . showed
an overwhelming percentage of
the ; nation's eligible voters fa
vored the foundation of a repub
lic, which probably will be pro
claimed June 7, an Icelandic na
tional holiday.
L
sels sunk, brought to 41 the number-
of Japanese ships reported
sent to. the bottom by submarines
this, month.
-j Inclusion of the destroyer
fifth warship announced sunkjhis
month indicated strongly that
the Japanese are trying desper
ately, but unsuccessfully, to con
voy merchant craft in movement
of supplies and men to their gar
risons in the central -and south
west Pacific areas.
In addition to the destroyer, the
latest bag of the American sub
marines includes three tankers,
sorely needed In supplying fuel
for the enemy war machine, three
cargo .transports, seven cargo ves
sels and a small transport This
brought to 724 the number of
Japanese f ships sunk, probably
sunk or damaged by US submar
ines since the war started.-, For
several months report of their ac
tivates have omitted any mention
of ships probably sunk or dam
aged and If those categories were
included the totals probably
would reach close to 1,000 Jap
anese craft ; . -
Salem. Oregon, Tiidaj Morning, May S3. 1944
mm
Prelude to Floppy
poppies la Salem, which beslns
auxiliary, pins a poppy on the lapel
the twin slashes which, devel
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JapjAssaults
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD
QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, May
25-(Jpy-J apanese troops, battling
desperately to maintain their slip
ping grip on the north Burma
stronghold of Myitkyina, have at
tacked the allied-held airdrome
south of the city and have been
repulsed, and enemy assaults oat
many allied positions both in Bur
ma and in India have been thrown
back with heavy losses to the at
tackers, I an allied communique
announced today. ,
Driving on besieged Myitkyina
itself from, the northwest west
of the Mogaung river, the Chi
nese 22nd division advanced five
miles in one sector, while from
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Reds Contact
Japs for- US ; 5 1
4 WASHWGTON, May 25 P)
State department officials revealed
tonight that - the soviet union in
making representations to Japan
on behalf of war prisoners ? Is
acting' for the United States r as
well as for Great Britain.
British Foreign Secretary . Eden
told the House of Commons today
he had requested Russia to ap
proach Russia for alleviation ; of
conditions governing prisoners ox.
war. i - ' ; . :
Several days ago the state de
partment announced it had
ceived a note from the Japanese
saying; that under certain- condi
tions they would receive and dis
tribute to American prisoners in
the far east the 1500 tons of Red
Cross relief supplies piled up; in
Vladivostok. The state department
aid it. was studying the condi
tions laid, down by the Japanese
but has not revealed their nature.
Wind jWhips Up White
Caps on Dover Straight
LONDON, May 25-(ff)-A strong
southwesterly wind whipped up
white, caps in Dover strait to
night as i the weather turned sud
denly much cooler. . ' --.
The . skr was overcast after a
sunny day and visibility was lim
ited to two or three miles. The
temperature was 45 at dusk and.
although the barometer was near
ly steady, the air seemed to hold
a threat ;of. rain.,' .,V-f-' ';t
High tide at Dover and Calais
tomorrow: 357 a.m. (9:27 pm.
Thursday, Eastern war time) and
3:43 p.-ros (:43 a. nV EWT);
NearMyi
tkyina
Thrown
Maim
Sale
today, Mrs. James A. Ganon, pres
of E. W. Rlchey, Jr, one of Salem's
and was wounded la France.
65 Carriers
Note in Fleet
WASHINGTON, Iay 15-JP)
Artemus L. Gates, assistant
secretary of the navy for the
air, disclosed tonight that : 65
aircraft carriers are la active
service In the fleet
Be gave the figure la an ad
dress prepared for the "March
f Time' program, and to pic-
bined fllxht deck area la eonal
' to that of 120 football fields, er
to an airstrip seven miles long.
;. Gates also disclosed that na
ry airplanes of all types "will
soon total some 27,700" and de
clared 1000-plane raids agalast
the Japanese by carrier-based
planes are "only the beginning.
Train Travel
In England
Apt to Halt
LONDON, May 25.-(AJ)-Thou-sands
of British families have
cancelled plans for the traditional
Whitsun holiday weekend travel
under the stern warning that train
service Is subject to stoppage
without notice as the hour for the
invasion of Hitler's Europe nears.
Germans tried to probe the se
crets of the gathering allied storm,
by E-boat patrol dashes across the
channel ' today and by spy-plane
coastal : raids. .' T
J A Tass dispatch from Moscow
said It was rumored in Berlin that
Hehrrich Himmler, German ges
tapo chief, had left suddenly for
France. , Virtually the entire nazi
hierarchy with the exception of
Hitler himself, have been report
ed r in France ' during the last
month, ' checking the defense sys
tem and t tightening control over
the restive population. - T 'i
- One explanation of Himmler's
reported eleventh hour trip was
that it was an attempt to counter
act the 'purposeful - broadcasts -of
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's in
vasion '.instructions to the Euro
pean underground. Js
a Meanwhile other German prop
aganda sought to ease the shocks
of continued nazi retreats in Italy
by proclaiming the imminence of
invasion from the west against
Which udl available , nazi forces
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Heniingway Does
iVeIWn Hospital
. LONDON, May 25 ,-KP)- Ernest
Hemingway, American author, who
suffered injuries in an automobile
accident here last night, was re
ported progressing well today - at
the London St . George's hospital
after a minor operation. 7
.Special examination disclosed
the author of numerous best sell
ers, including "Farewell to Arms'
and "For Whom the Bell Tolls,"
had no -skull fracture, although
the wound ' was sufficiently deep
to require stitching, surgeons , at
the hospital . said; y:j: ;
Hemingway was injured when
the car in which he was riding
with a British physician struck a
water tank. He arrived in London
about a week ago as a correspon
dent for Collier's magazine. '
F
Roosevelt
Called
On Strike
Spokane Plant s
Asks President
To Take OVer
SEATTLE, May 26-(-The
Spokane branch of the Timber
Products 'Manufacturers' Asso
ciation today telegraphed Pre
sident Roosevelt an j invitation
for the government to take over
their plants arid end the mill
walkouts which
have halted
ammunition
manufacture
boxes.
of
It was the hlcblight of the
workers ' currently spreading
demonstrations j against the war
labor board's rejection of their
wage increase demands. j
Meantime, J. B. Fitzgerald, secretary-manager
j of the lumber
men's industrial! relations commit
tee here, disputed assertions that
wages in the lumber land sawmill
industry are out of line with oth
er war industries and1 the the re
quested wage boost was within
the little steel formula. i
He said the average wage
paid la the logging and lumber
ing industry iri western Wash
ington and Oregon, (by lumber
commission and WLB testi
mony, increased from 82 cents
an hour January 1, . 1941, to
119.9 cents la May, 11943. or 4
per cent. The little steel formula
allowed a 15 per cent Increase
in the same period.! ' - .
On a base - pay . basis, ; he said
the increase was from 674 to 90
cents an hour, an increase of 33 H
per cent. I
But Michael T. Costella, sec
retary ef the Paget Sound coun
cil of ' lumber and sawmill
workers. (AFL), coantered with
the assertion the 99 cent mini
mum Is net ht general effect,
"and plenty are only getting 79
r 75 cents." ) . j . .
The unionists asked the mini
mum rate bei boosted from 90
cents to $1.05 an hou. 1
At Everett, Wash, One mill re
sumed operations when workers
returned to their door; and veneer
department work from -fishing
trips." - f j 1
Additional walkouts, however.
were reported! at Albany,-Salem
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Old Type B, C Gas
Coupons SoonVoid
WASHTNGTQN, M a y 25-
Old type B-2 and G-l gasoline
ration coupons, which lack serial
numbers, will Hot be useable by
consumers on land . after, June 1,
the office of. price administration
announced, todgy. -
Supplemental rations renewed
since March lj have been issued
in the form of seriallyf numbered,
strip-type B-3 and C-3 coupons.
Holders of unused B-2, C-2 cou-
coupons can exchange them after
June 1 at local ration! boards. I
Filling stations, will have until
June 10 to turn In B-2, C-2 cou
pons presented them prior to
June 1. 'i . 1 -
County Court Starts Job
Of Going Over Budget
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i The county court Thursday aft
ernoon began the tedious task of
going through the proposed annu
al county budget item by item.
After a discussion lasting more
than two hours . on the expense
items listed by the county health
department, in "an effort to trim
off ,$6,398.45 the amount In ex
cess of the six per cent increase
oyer the health department's al
location last year of $12,859 the
court voted toi allow the depart
ment $18,000 from the county to
ward operating expenses.
: The health department had
asked $20,023.89 from the county
toward its overall ' expenses 'of
$47,160.50. Actually, this figure
represents an increase ; of only' a
little ' more than $2000 over the
total ' figures of operations last
year but, due to a re-distribution
of L costs amoug the contributing
agencies, the county's proportion
ate' share . would have i been $8,
333.45 over the six perl cent limit
and $7,169.89 more than last year's
approved amount. The approved
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Inside Cisterna
Allied Warplanes Pounding
Ketreating Germans; Tqke
Huge Toll of Men Material
! By EDWARD KENNEDY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, Bfay 25 (AP)
Americans bf the Anzio beachhead forces joined with Ameri
cans of the main Fifth army front in a dramatic, long
awaited meeting in the Pontine marshes below Rome today
after 14 days of a whirlwind offensive that had cracked
the back of the German defenses in Italy. ; n" " '
Tank-supported United States infantrymen crumpled
German positions at the heart of Cisterns, enemy strong
hold on the Appian Way, and were battling to Vipe out the
last sniper nests there athwart the road to Rome. Lt.
5
Reached
6th Army Fights
Way Through
Stiff Resistance
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Fri
day, May 26-rUS sixth army
'unit'-nave I battled ; their wmy
through stiff Japanese resistance
to reach the Maffin bay air
field on- Dutch New Guinea,
120 rrdles northwest of Hollan
dia, it was announced today by
headquarters
Today's report covered , an ad
vance scored Wednesday west of
the Tor river with the support
of Kittyhawk planes, tanks and
artillery.; , ; j
The destrncUen of 11 parked
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Explosion Hits
Pearl Harbor
US PACIFIC FLEET . HEAD
QUARTERS, tPearl Harbor; May
25-(ff)-An ammunition explosion
in Pearl Harbors killed and in
jured an unannounced number
of : men and wrecked several
small vessels Sunday, the navy
reported today. 1 '-;:' '-.;: ' V-A'
The blast occurred ; while, the
ammunition was being t. removed
from - a ; landing craft. It I was
moored- with sr group of sister
ships. " Presumably.' these ' were
wrecked. -. i ,-
Regarding , the casualties the
brief announcement said merely
that ' there waa "some :loaa of
life, and a number: of injuries.' -1
The cause or extent of the ex
plosion ' . was - not disclosed. A
board of inquiry, under the direc
tion of Rear Adm. John F. Shaf
roth, was investigating the blast
$18,000 , figure will ' be $4,369.46
over the six; per cent limit and
$5,141 more than last year's allo
cation. ---!' y 0 - .
The : action j was taken after Dr.
W. J. Stone, Marion county health
officer,' appeared before the court
and testified:' that cutting down
the amount requested .might crip
ple the activities of the agency in
the event of an epidemic, and that
it would also have the ' effect of
cutting down' federal aid, 20 per
cent of the .health departments
total operating: figures. r r " ..
. Judge Grant : Murphy proposed
that the county court allow $18,'
000 toward the over-all program
and that he endeavor to get .the
school board to increase its con
tribution of $5,064.31 by, $2,028..
99, the difference between the al
lowed county figure and that
which had been asked. Participat
lng agencies now contribute a to
tal of $27,138.51.
The court pared $2753.05 from
six of the other department bud
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Ba Field
No. 17'
Forces
Eugene Bacon of Danville, 111,
forecast that all the Germans left
in the city would be dead or cap
tured within a few. hours.
Tonight the united Fifth army
forces closed in along a 60-mile
flank of the hard-pressed ' Ger
man armies, which had relin
quished the. entire west coastal
area of Italy southward from the,
Molletta river, only a score of
miles below Rome. a
Allied Warplanes were pound
ing the retreating Germans cease
lessly, taking a terrific toll of men
and material.
The battle ef the beachhead,
which had raged Intermittent
ly for four monthaaSd 4be bat- ?
tie of the Hitler line, which re- ,
Jv quired only a few .days,, were "
finished, and the final, decisive ;
battle for Rome and the exter
mination la Italy appeared to
be already beginning. Y . V
Official reports indicated the
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Japanese Claim
Fall of Loyang,
CHUNKING, May 25 Hh The
Chinese high command announced
tonight, ; hours after a Japanese
claim to uive occupied Loyang,
that Chinese forces .still held tho
ancient walled city, stronghold of 1
the embattled defenders of north
western Honan province. -
However, the situation there
was confused. 'Tonight's Chines
communique covered only devel
opments through yesterday, when
It reported "further progress' for
the defenders in bloody counter
attacks. The Chinese usually are
slow in admitting loss of import
ant points, and it is noteworthy
mat the communique did not re-
fer to the situation in the city
after yesterday. -
"The battle for the defense of
Loyang further intensified yester
day, when Japanese shelled tb
city and enemy Infantry attacked
the, outskirts under 'cover of arm-
ored cars," the communique said.
; The Chinese engaged; th
enemy with grenades and bayo
nets, and repulsed them after con
tinual attacks. Bloody fighting
continued.1 " j
About' 60 . miles to the south
west of Loyang, .and ; 18 miles
south ; of Shunghsein 1,000 Jap
anese troops were annihilated in
bitter fighting, the Chinese Bulletin-
said.. , " ' it'
Fresh Troops
Ne w JJS Policy
WASHINGTON, May 25 H)
The sustained power - which has
kepi-American troops rolling in
the Italian offensive was attributed
by Secretary of War Stimson to
day to the new army policy of
immediate combat ' replacements.
Under the new system,". fresh '
troops are kept , in readiness im
mediately behind the fighting line
and casualties In front line units
arc replaced at 'once.:. . "': -?
The innovation, which officials
said has had a marked effect on
the morale of the fighting men,
was adopted only : recently after
the unit strength of the army was
completed.;- ?v'. V.'sHv I 1
Stimson, at a news conference,
called attention to the plan's sue-.
cess in the Italian drive as "a
demonstration of the importance of
the efforts to obtain for our army
young and vigorous, replacements
which the war department has
emphasized so strongly during re
cent months.'' : : ". , 1 V
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