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A.LSchneider Explains Need
. of Additional Bus Serv
ice on Valley Schedule.
Residents of this area need
and demand additional bus serv
ice between Ashland and Med
ford to serve intermediate points
according to A. L. Schneider
manager for the Rogue Valley
Transit company, who present
ed evidence for his company this
morning ' in the hearing being
held here by the Public Utilities
commissioner on the 'company's
application for a permit to ren
der service on an alternate route
between Medford and Ashland.
- Schneider said that in spite
of the company's efforts to in
form the public that the firm
had no permit to carry Inter
'mediate passengers, the public
continued to buy tickets for
Camp White and then disem
bark at the intermediate points..
Greyhound Men Here
Conducting the hearing are
George H. Flagg, Salem, public
utilities commissioner; Arthur
T. Harvey, supervisor of trans
portation for the commission
and Don Burke, examiner, all
from Salem. Bill Bush is acting
as reporter.
Frank C. McColloch, Portland,
attorney for the Greyhound Bus
company, protestants, is conduct
ing the bus company's case and
here also are W. S. Egger, Port
land, Oregon supervisor for the
firm and M. C. Frailey, San
Francisco, general traffic man
ager for this district.
George Roberts is attorney for
the transit company and William
P. Ellis, Salem, Is representing
the interests of the Rogue River
Valley Traffic association and
the Fruitgrowers League. First
Lt. John L. Nice of Camp White
is attending as an army repre
sentative. New Route Sought
'Evidence presented during the
morning reviewed terms of per
mits issued in the past and now
in effect, proposed schedules to
be maintained on the new route
and tariffs. The proposed route
would leave the main highway
at Jackson Hot Springs, serve
Talent and re-enter the highway
at the Juncture of the old and
new roads. Schneider said that
68 families lived along that sec
tion of the route on the old
road, whereas but six homes
were on the new highway on
the comparable section. He gave
i figures on increased population
in the county and declared that
the transit company needed the
business of a route which would
have regular use to bolster the
fluctuating profit from the Camp
White route.
Under crossexaminatlon At
torney McColloch attempted to
show that the Greyhound line
had supported the transit com
pany's previous applications for
bus route permits under the spe
cific agreement that no inter
mediate service would be given.
EFf
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
War Food Administrator Mar
vin Jones today disclosed that
the War Department" probably
f will supply 100.000 prisoners for
farm work at the 1945 harvest
peak.
Last year about 70,000 pris
oners aided U S. farmers. The
additional 30.000 this year will
be made available from 100.000
German prisoners expected to
arrive in this country soon.
"Regardless of war develop
ments, another record output of
food and fiber crops is urgently
needed," Jones said. He added
that even more city people and
imported workers again will be
needed for emergency field and
harvest labor.
Tribuen To Give '
Tourney Score
' The Mail Tribune office
will be open Thursday night
from 8:30 until 9:30 to an
swer telephone calls on the
score of the Medford -Ver-nonia
basketball game, to be
played at the state tourna
ment at Salem. The office
will also beopen Friday night,
if Medford advances to the
semi-finals, but the hour of
plajr if not yet known.
New Crossings
- tA&ne ir.lt pitcto!
Berlin reports that American First
Army has forced two new Rhine
crossings north of Remagen Bridge
and rammed upwards of 50,000 men
Into the salient for a full-scale drive
against southern flank of Ruhr
basin. All enemy positions- were
cleaned out in the Wesel area in
north and a large Nazi force was
conroletelv cut off west of Remagea
SUGGESTED FOR
FEDERAL OFFICES
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
The house appropriations com
mittee recommended yesterday
that congress loosen its purse
strings and give the state de
partment more money to achieve
its foreign policy objectives.
x ne recommendation was
made In a bill to provide $259
109,700 for the state, Justice and
commerce departments and the
federal Judiciary during the
1946 fiscal yeah
The figure represented an in
crease of $23,225,608 over ap
propriations lor the current fis
cal year, and the state depart
ment alone received an Increase
of approximately that amount
The committee cut $13,620,100
from the total approved by the
budget bureau.
The committee endorsed the
department's foreign policy ob
jectives and said it was disin
clined "to restrict or delay their
attainment because of insuffic
ient appropriations."
Funds Recommended
An appropriation of $71,878,
400 was recommended for the
state department for the fiscal
year, exclusive of overtime pay
for employes, compared with a
corresponding figure of $47,070,
588 for the current year.
In its justice department re
commendations, the committee
departed from usual practice
and. increased the amount ap
proved by the budget bureau
The bureau had approved an
estimate of $92,322,500, compar
ed with $103,546,282 this year,
but the committee raised the to
tal to $93,468,900.
The bureau's estimate would
have forced the FBI to close five
field offices and drop 400 agents
and 200 clerks. However, the
committee said it was unwilling
to jeopardize the nation's inter
nal security program. It said it
had confidence in FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover and believed
he would not spend all of the
money unless he needed it.
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New Car Eligibility List
Cut Down to Eight Groups
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
This country which used to turn
out millions of automobiles
every year now has only 10,000
new cars left. So the office of
price administration today cut
from 26 to eight the categories
of persons eligible to buy new
automobiles.
The new cars are 1942 models,
the last produced by the auto
mobile Industry before it weni
100 per cent into the business
'of making weapons with which
to kill Germans and Japanese.
OPA Chief Chester Bowles
had a word of partial consola
tlon for persons cut out of the
new-car eligibility lists: they
will be eligible for 1942 used
cars.
Groups retained on the new
car eligibility list are:
1. Government employes en
gaged in fire-lighting, crime, da-
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14,
TO CAST EYE ON
Mayor Meeker Tells of Pos
sibilities of City in Ad
dress at Rotary Club.
"Medford people must raise
their sights and think in larger
terms than ever before In post
war days." C. A. Meeker, may
or of Medford told members of
the Medford Rotary club In an
address Tuesday. Speaking at
a luncheon meeting at the Hotel
Medford, Mayor Meeker pre
dicted a populaticn of 25,000
for this city for the near future.
Sale of city , lots, totaling
$10,500 since January 1 of this
year, 20 per cent higher school
registration and 850 more water
outlets in the past two years
tells the story of consistent
growth here, Meeker said. The
migration toward the northwest,
certain to come after the war,
will further strain existing util
ities here.
Among the urgently needed
post war projects the mayor in
cluded $175,000 expansion of
Medford's present inadequate
sewage disposal plant, $75,000
trunkline sewer line, park de
velopment on the site recently
donated to the city, modern
lighting on Main street, a new
bridge at Jackson street and an
enlarged library.
One single post war bond is
sue was recommended to meet
the cost of these essential proj
ects. Mayor Meeker urged the 17,-
000 "stockholders" of Medford's
$22,000,000 corporation not to
indulge in "peace meal" plan
ning for the post, war era. The
present highly favorable finan
cial position of the city was
outlined. ' The speaker ex-
pressed regret in the fact that
city governments are not per
mitted by law to set up reserves
for practical future municipal
planning and replacement of an
tiquated utilities.
The mayor was introduced by
Emerson Merrick, Rotary pro
gram chairman.
STILWELL ROAD LOADS
LESS THAN HOPED FOR
Chungking, March 14 (U.R)
War supplies being transported
into China over the Stilwell
road from Burma are smaller
than anticipated, but "quite a
tonnage" is being trucked into
Chungking, Brig. Gen. Mervin
Gross said today.
Gross, acting chief of staff of
U. 5. forces in China, told a
press conference that "actual
capacity of the road is lower
than was anticipated before its
opening due to over-estimates
and over-enthusiasm."
Gross said that air transport
of vital supplies Into China still
plays an important and -valu
able role.
SNOW IN GENERAL IN
MOUNTAINS OF COUNTY
Snow fell generally through
out the mountains of Jackson
county last night with prospects
of a further fall. Four inches of
new snow .fell at Prospect, and
at Fish Lake, the California
Oregon Power company, and the
Medford Irrigation district re
ported. In some of the moun
tain areas it was drizzling rain
this morning.
The heaviest snow covering
of the year was on the foothills
to the southeast today.
tection, mall transportation, and
enforcement of health and saf
ety laws.
2. Physicians, surgeons, and
mldwives, who are government-
ally licensed.
3. Farm veterinarians, regular
ly licensed.
4. Public health nurses but
not private nurses.
5. Ministers or "religious prac
tltioners other than ministers
authorized by organized relig
ious faiths."
6. Members of the armed
forces or state military forces
who need can for official busi
ness.
7. Taxicab owners for re
placements or approved fleet ad
ditions.
8. Owners of car-rental busi
nesses who need cars exclusive
ly for rental to persons in the
other seven categories.
Landslide of Bills Before ies
As Committees Strive iopllp
For Adjournment in Week
a
Salem, Ore., March 14 U.R) A lantIL of bills rolled into
both houses of the Oregon legislature today as members attempt
ed to clean committee calendars to permit adjournment late this
week.
The session reached its 66th
record set in 1939, and members
Speedy action on appropriation
possible.
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JAPANESE CITIES
Br United Press
Huge sections of Japan's three
largest cities Tokyo, Nagoya,
and Osaka lay in ruins today
from flaming incendiary attacks
by American Superfortresses
The Japanese also staggered un
der increasing allied blows in
their outlying island bases.
The latest mass raid by more
than 300 B-29's left five square
miles of Osaka, Japan's biggest
war production center, a solid sea
of flames visible 125 miles away.
The attack was the third great
Superfortress raid in five days
on Japan's homeland.
Vast Area Burned
In the other two assaults, sim
ilar forces of B-29's were re
vealed to have burned out 17
square miles of Tokyo and two
square miles of Nagoya. The to
tal area of devastation was
greater than all of New York's
Man'jittan Island.
In the Philippines, tank-paced
American troops swept up four
more villages on Mindanao and
moved more than two miles in
land from Zamboanga against In
creasing Japanese resistance.
Other American forces also
stepped up the campaign on Lu
zon and cut the main Japanese
line east of Manila, cleared the
entire western shore of Laguna
Bay and reopened Batangas Bay
to U. S. shipping.
London, March 14 (U.R)
Prime Minister Churchill chal
lenged Laborite Richard Stokes
in Commons today to repeat a
charge that he had lied about
the quality of British tanks,
and Stokes apologized.
Stokes gave the lie to Church
ill last night during Commons
debate on British tanks. A brist
ling Churchill rose in the house
today and invited Stakes to re
peat "his exact words here and
now." He observed that Stokes
had made the charges without
giving him notice and in his
absence.
Stokes admitted that he had
been guilty of using "unparlia
mentary language," apologized,
and said he was ready to con
cede that, he might have en
gaged in a "terminological inex
actitude." Internal Control
Pleases Italians
Roosevelt Claims
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
President Roosevelt said today
the Italian government has been
given more power over interna
affairs recently and that as a
result the Italians are much
more satisfied.
He supplied no details. But
when asked at his news confer
ence whether there was any
Impending change in the status
of Italy, the President said
there had been a recent ar
rangement to give Italy certain
other things, including more in
ternal control. He said he did
not know specifically what they
were.
The President was asked
what the difference would be
In the allies' post-surrender at
titude toward the Germans and
the Austrians.
SOMETHING WRONG
Hollywood, March 14 U.R
When a sailor wakes up $250
richer after an evening of wine
women and song, there's some
thing wrong. That s what Elec
trician's Mate 3c Jack Holmes
Gibson told police last night
when he turned over the money
to officers. He said a woman
companion had influenced him
to pick someone's pocket while
making merry the night before
Pn!liA war lnnlrintf tnr th Int.
17.
CHURCHILL MAKES
ACCUSER BACK UP
Tribune
United Praia
1945
day today, breaking the all-time
have gone 16 days without pay.
bills la making a quick windup
Each house had 30 bills on the
calendars today, with interest
centering on reapportionment,
tax and education, milk and wine
measures, and cigarette taxa
tion. Twelve new appropriation
bills were given the "speed-up"
treatment in the House and were
on today's calendar, while the
Senate rushed the first 13 bud
get bills to the governor for sig
nature and cut the red tape for
the remaining measures.
' School Bills Walt
Several school appropriation
measures (HB259-261) were held
In the joint Senate ways-means
and assessment-taxation commit
tees awaiting expected passage
In the upper house of related
school revenue bills for a five-
mill tax levy, 2-cent cigarette
tax and $8,000,000 excess income
tax diversion, plus a June 22
election for vote of the people.
The House Memorial (HJM9)
which petitioned the president to
revoke the order allowing loyal
Japanese to return to the coast,
was tabled by the House Resolu
tions Committee.
Rep. Warren Erwln, one of the
Memorial's sponsors, objected to
the postponing action.
Marine In Fav'or
Of Sending Japs
Back To Homeland
Gresham, Ore., March 14
(U.R) The action taken by the
Oregon Property Owners Pro
tective League at a mass meet
ing here was the first step in a
move to form a nation-wide anti
Japanese organization, A, E. Mc-
Croskay, Seattle - advertising
man and organizer of the Ore
gon group, said today, -
Five speakers 'at the mass
meeting exhorted assembled
farmers and townspeople to seek
removal of all Japanese-Americans
from the west coast. One
of the speakera was T. W. Pat
tee, a one-armed discharged ma
rine. . i :. . . .
"We should keep the Japan
ese away from our homes until
the war is over," Pattee de
clared, "and then citizens or
not citizens we should send
them to Japan."
OAKLAND DRYDOCK
CREW TO BE REDUCED
Oakland, Calif., March 14
flj.R) A lay-off of approximately
half the remaining 16.500 work
ers at the Moore Drydock Com
pany during the next four
months was anticipated today.
Some 8,500 workers will be
gradually dismissed as the new
ship construction program comes
to a close August 1, according to
officials. The remaining work
force of 8,000 will be kept busy
with ship repair work. Employes
at the yards have declined from
a high of 36,000 a year ago.
INSURANCE HEAD DIES
Belvedere, Calif., March 14
(U.R) Herman Albert Behrens,
60, prominent Chicago insurance
man and chairman of the board
of directors of the Continental
Casualty company, died today
following a heart attack. He is
survived by his wife, Grace.
"One-Man Army" Is Brutally
Treated In Jap Prison Camp
By Ben Gallob
United Press Staff
Correspondent .
Chicago, March 14 (U.R)
Capt. Arthur Wermuth, the one
man army of Bataan, has suf
fered brutal treatment by the
Japs since he was taken prisoner
nearly three years ago, Pfc. Louis
Zelis, 31, one of the prisoners
rescued from the Cabanatuan
prison camp, revealed today.
Zelis, who is home on fur
lough, said the Jap guards once
beat Wermuth until he was un
conscious because he demanded
better working conditions condi
tions for his men. Wermuth
spent several weeks in the hos
pital recovering from the brutal
attack, he said.
Zelis said he was a member
of Wermuth'i detail in the Ca
banatuan prison camp before the
captain was transferred to mil'
bid. He said It was believed that
Wermuth since had been taken
from Bilibld to Japan. Prisoners
long since had learned that the
next stop after Bilibld 'was the
Japanese homeland, Zeui laid.
Full Leased Wire
NO. 299.
TEETH FOR BILL
TO FORCE LABOR
Republicans and Pro-Labor
Democrats Foiled in Ef
fort to Kill Work or Jail.
Washington, March 14 U.R)
T h e administration t o ci a y
thwarted efforts of house repub
licans and pro-labor democrats
to kill the work-or-jail bill.
By a vote of 211 to 177 the
house approved a motion by
Rep. Adol' h J. Sabath. D., 111.,
to cut c. further debate and
vote on a resolution calling for
disagreement with the senate-
passed bill and appointment of
a joint senate-house conference
committee to settle differences
on manpower legislation be
tween the two houses.
Had the motion been defeated,
the way would have been open
for consideration of the milder
senate bill, and the house meas
ure bill would have been as
good as dead.
The house bill would provide
draft dodger penalties for de
ferred men 18 to 45 who re
fused to take or hold essential
jobs when ordered to do so by
selective service. The senate
bill would give statutory pow
ers to the war manpower com
mission voluntary manpower
program, and would penalize
labor hoarders and wasters
only.
BEEKEEPERS TO
MEET THURSDAY
A meeting of beekeepers will
be held at the court house audi
torium tomorrow at 8 p. m., ar
ranged jointly by James Stew-
art, secretary-treasurer of the
local Beekeepers' association
and the state department of agri
culture, ',
Objectives of the meeting are
to discuss the disease situation
and to arrange for an improved
inspection program. The meet
ing also will recommend some
one for deputy Inspector of this
district If a qualified man can
be found.
Representatives of the depart
ment of agriculture, responsible
for administration of the bee
law, will be present.
BABY BODIES FOUND
Garden Grove, Cal March
14 (U.R) Police today Investi
gated the mystery of two in
fants' partly mummified bodies
that were found in a discarded
garbage can. The can was
shipped from Orange County,
Cal., sewer plant. It was being
stored in a local junkyard for
scrap metal treatment when the
bodies were found yesterday.
Their sex and age could not be
determined.
BLONDE SINGER DIVORCED
Hollywood, March 14 (U.R)
Gloria Betty Martin, blonde, 21-
year-old light opera singer, to
day divorced Aircraft Mechanic
Edward Tyler Martin, 33. Miss
Martin complained she found
a note to her husband from "an
other girl" and that Tyler had
"made silly investments."
Wermuth, a former Chicago
salesman, won the title of one-
man army before the fall of Ba
taan. He was credited with kill
ing 136 Japs before his outfit
surrendered.
"One day one of our details
was assigned to carry 800 pounds
ot fertilizer,, four men to a load.
Many of the men were sick and
dying and Capt. Wermuth got
sore and demanded that the
loads be lightened.
"One of the guards we had
nicknamed 'Smiley Joe' put a
Judo grip on Wermuth and
knocked him to the ground. The
rest of the guards then joined
him In kicking Wermuth until
he was ui conscious. He spent
several weeks in the hospital re
covering from the brutal attack
"But he continued fighting for
us when he got out, The first
thing he did was raise a rumpus
about our not having any shoes
Our feet were cut terribly by
the weight of the loads we car
ried over the rough ground
Wermuth raised so much hell
that wa got the ihocj, too."
Reds Cross
Head Direct for Berlin;
Rhine Bridge Destroyed
' By United Press
The red army has broken across the Oder river beyond Kuest.
rln and is driving down the direct road to Berlin, the soviet newt
paper Pravda said today. In the west the American 1st army ex
tended its Remagen bridgehead across the Rhine to within little
more than a mile of the superhighway leading to the Ruhr.
The Berlin radio reported without confirmation that German
planes had destroyed the Remagen bridge.
London, March 14 (U.R) The
ton bombs on tail targets in northwest Germany today In the lint
use of the giant missiles, the biggest bombs in the world.
Pravda's front line dispatch
source that the Russians have
Kuestrin.
ONLY 25 MILES FROM BERLIN
Nazi reports said Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov has thrown nine
divisions across the Oder between Kuestrin and Frankfurt. Ger
man broadcasts placed the Russians at one point within 25 milea
of Berlin.
The official overnight Moscow communique reported that the
2nd White Russian army to the north had jammed 100,000 Ger
mans into a pocket of 100 square miles around Danzig and Gdynia
on the Baltic. Moscow dispatches said the Russians were fighting
in the outskirts of Gdynia and the suburbs of Danzig. Both ports
were reported in flames from Russian shells and bombs.
PATTON'S MEN CLOSING IN
The spotlight on the western front remained focussed for the
moment on the Remagen bridgehead. On the other side of the
Rhine, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's 3rd army closed in from three
directions on a four mile square German Docket on the north bank
of the Mosel river.
Patton's troops took another 6,448 German prisoners yester
day. Only a few scattered units of the original 23,000 Germana
estimated to have been caught in the Eifel mountains were be
lieved remaining in the last pocket along the Mosel.
There were no reports of major fighting on the northern ee.
tors of the Rhine front, where the American 9th, Canadian 1st,
and British 2nd armies are massed. Both American and German
patrols on reconnaissance were reported crossing the Rhine by
uoai in ine bin army sector.
Seven Jackson county resi
dents received - honorable dis
charges from the armed services
recently through Jackson coun
ty draft board No. 2.
Robert A. Wilcox and E.
Lemmons, both of Medford,
were discharged from the army.
Wilcox, a first lieutenant in the
army air corps, was discharged
from Ft. George Wright, Wash.,
after being in the service since
April, 1943. He served overseas
as a bombardier. Lemmons en
listed at Ft. Bliss, Texas, four
years ago and was overseas
with- the 6th .infantry division
in the south Pacific for two
years. He is home at 1211 West
Main street with his wife Mary
Ellen Lemmons and their -year-old
twins Larry and Mary.
Arthur C. Kent, yeoman third
class of Ashland, was discharg
ed February 13 from the U. S.
navy receiving station barracks,
Lido Beach, Long Island, N. Y.
Kent had been in the navy three
and one-half years, six months
of which was spent in foreign
service. He is now with his wife
and parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
M. Kent, Ashland.
Another Ashland man to be
discharged was George H.
Peachey, who served as a ser
geant with the 18th infantry di
vision In Algiers, French Mor
occo, Normandy, Sicily and Tu
nisia. Kent was awarded the
purple heart and good conduct
medal. He was released from
the Baxter general hospital,
Spokane, Wash., March 1.
Two men from Rogue River
were given honorable dis
charges. Kent Clark was dis
charged at Camp Roberts, Calif.,
February 23 and is now living
with his grandmother at Rogue
River where he plans to finish
high school. James Pierce Scad
ding, Jr., CMM (PA) USN, was
retired from active duty with
the navy February 19 after ap
proximately 29 years with the
navy. Scadding enlisted August
10, 1916, and was released
from the receiving station at
Puget Sound naval yard, Brem
erton, Wash.
Leonard W. Carpenter, CM
2c, of Central Point received
his discharge March 9, at the
naval hospital, Seattle, after
serving with the navy for three
years. He is with his wife at
Central Point.
FCC NOMINEE
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
Charles R. Denny, Jr., general
counsel of the federal communi
cations commission, was nomi
nated by President Roosevelt to
day to succeed T. A. M. Craven
as a member of the FCC. Cra
yen's term expired last year.
TYPICAL NURSE WEDS
Alexandria, Va March 14
(U.R) Cadet Nurse Beulah Tyler
who portrays the typical cadet
nurse in the Ernie Pyle movie
"G. I. Joe," was revealed today
to have been married last Sal
urday to a navy lieutenant. The
bridegroom was Lt. (jg) Thomas
B. Settle, Jr., of Fincastle, Va
the son of a former state senator
Oder River,
Royal Air Force dropped !!
was the first report from a soviet
forced the Oder at captured
Communist Leader
Doesn't Have Vote
Right Says Biddle
Washlneton. March 14 nim
Communist Leader Earl Brow
der does not hnvn th rtafct a
vote, according to Attorney
uenerai rrancis Biddle.
This was revealed today with
publication of RHriio'. t..ti.
mony before the House Appro
priations committee on the jus
tice department budget for fis
cal 1946.
Rep. Robert F. Jones R., O.,
asked Biddle how many time
Browder has been pardoned.
Biddle repUed that Browder
has never been pardoned. He
was -convicted ;'of ' violating a
federal law and his sentenca
was commuted, Biddle said,
"Does he have the right to
vote?" Jones asked. "Did he
vote In this last election?"
"No," answered Biddle. "Ha
does not have the right ... he
was never narrinnri an a- a m.
store his rights of citizenship,
no rememoer.
FYS WILL FEEL
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
Enemy prisoners of war hence
forth are going to feel the pinch
of food shortages along with
American civilians.
The war department directed
today that foods which are plen
tiful should be substituted
wherever possible on prisoner
of war menus for foods that are
nara to get."
The substitutions, the war de
partment said, will extend to
meats and to all canned fruita
and vegetables, fruit preserves,
jellies and "all other items
which are critically short."
Nazi Collapse Not
To Alter Manpower
Washington, March 14 (U.R)'
Manpower needs will not
change much after the collapse
of Germany, War Manpower
Commissioner Paul V. McNutt
said today.
McNutt told the Joint con
gressional economy committee
that present estimates indicate
a continuing demand for gov
ernment personnel until at least
the end of the war against
Japan.
"Presumably there will be no
change In the manpower needs
of Industry or In the staffing of
the federal agencies," McNutt
said.
USO GROUP KILLED
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
Seven USO entertainers were
killed overseas March 3 In the
crash of an army transport
plane, it was reported today.
Details were not available and
names of the victims were with
held pending formal notifica
tion of the next of kin.
Radio Highlights
Washington, March 14 (U.R)
President Roosevelt will make
a brief radio appeal tor the Red
Cross next Tuesday night, March
20, the White House announced
today. Mr. Roosevelt will speak,
over all networks, from 6 to 6:0S
p. m.
FOOD SHORTAGE