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'ASBURY PARK EVENING PRESS (THE EVENING NEWS), WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1945 Navy's Draft Cut in Half WASHINGTON. (A. The navy has halved its May draft call and wenay ask for still fewer men in June. This will reduce overall selecfive service calls 12 percent or more from the current rate of about 132,000 men a month. They had been scheduled to continue at that pace thru June.

Halving of the navy's requirements will put its May call at roughly 16,000 registrants. Officials who know these things advance of public announcements, but who cannot be quoted by name added that this quota may be cut further June and even more sharply thereafter, because the navy expects, to reach peak strength 3,600.000 men by July 1. After that calls will be solely on a replacement basis. An official navy' statement disclosed the impending cut, but gave no details. It said: "The navy's calls on selective have been and are being gradually reduced in order to conform to authorized strength, which Dais expected by July 1." It was learned, however.

that the first substantial cut is due next month. Two reasons are given for the reductions: 1. Enlistment of 17-year-olds in the navy has been at a higher rate than expected. 60 2. Peak strength is being achieved more rapidly than anticipated, indicating casualties may not have been as numerous as calculated.

Altho there has been some pressure on the army to reduce its to salvage more men for Industry, officials of that service thus far have stood firm in summoning 100.000 registrants a month thru June. Calls beyond that time have not been announced by either service. Reduction of the navy draft is expected to be reflected most in an easing of the call for men 30 thru 33. Officials cautioned, however, that with enlistment of 17- year-olds apparently on the uptrend. fewer 18-year-olds are availCable for drafting.

This means that monthly selecmitive service quotas must be filled by dipping commensurately into the older age groups. Selective service spokesmen are to predict how draft calls may be affected when Germany is defeated. They concede that any cut will ease the pressure first on men over 29, but they point out that the size of draft will depend largely on the number of veterans released by the army. Cops to Guard Boro Cemetery POINT PLEASANT. Boro council last night authorized police to apprehend children found playing in White Lawn cemetery.

Councilman George Falkinburg and Mayor Harry Roe reported complaints from neighbors, and the council requested that a neighbors notify police if children are seen playing in the cemetery. The application of Milton Fox to operate a turkey farm on Dorsett Dock road was approved. Carl Sculthorp, building inspecestor, reported building permits in March totaled $4,500. The matter of using A new dumping ground on property owned by James Henry James was discussed. Boro Clerk William Curran was authorized to ask Mr.

alames to be present at the April 17 to draw up an agreement. Members of council have been invited to attend, tree-planting ceremonies April 12 at p.m. at the Point Pleasant grammar school. sponsored by the ParentTeacher association. Trees will be in honor of men in service.

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Shaded area is German- Meat Officials Debate Use of Pork Supply WASHINGTON. (P)- The ent serious meat shortage may force an official decision soon whether Americans are 10 have more pork now and less next year or less now and more in 1946. The possibility that this country may have to slaughter breeding hogs in order to meet current needs disclosed today as: ones senator investigating food shortages expressed concern that any further cut in civilian supplies might spur black market operations; army said it needs 20 percent more food this year than last and that it will take 12 percent of the available supply, estimated at 280.000.000.000 pounds, and 3. United Nations representatives discussed ways of better sharing their food. The army's food estimate figures were given by Undersecretary of War Patterson, who said "the possibility of early victory in Europe holds little hope" for a cut in its needs.

Mr. Patterson asserted the problem of feeding liberated and occupied "will increase tremendously" areand that troops in Europe will require increasing quantities of such perishable as meats and fresh dairy products. No Army Stockpile Taking note in his statement of congressional criticism of army food-buying activities and complaints of hoarding, the undersecretary reiterated that "the army has no stockpile of It does, said, carry "minimum working reserves, just as wholesalers and retailers do to assure A steady movement of food to the consumer." Declaring the army has altered its claims to avoid serious impact on civilian supplies, Mr. Patterson said it does not subscribe to the theory that "military requirements must invariably be given first The question of diverting sows Migrant Labor Program Starts TRENTON. (AP) Harry C.

Harper, state commissioner of labor. said today the division of migrant labor in his department would begin to function at once and that all operators of camps housing migrant workers should apply immediately for a certificate of compliance. Mr. Harper said "it is apparent to all who have studied this problem, that if the migrant work is a necessary factor in the economic life of the state, then it is incumbent upon the state to provide for suitable and adequate regulation. "Effective enforcement of the migrant labor act will be dependent primarily upon the wholehearted cooperation of agriculture and industry employing migrants.

Our first job is one of education." The migrant labor act, enacted by the current legislature. establishes a division of migrant labor within the labor department, provides an advisory board, requires every labor camp to be certified. provides inspections relating to housing construction, sanitation. dispensing of food, health services. and the prevention of communicable diseases.

The bill also provides for construction and operation of camps by the migrant labor division. Lady Decies Dies LONDON. (P) The death of Lady Decies, wife of Lord Decies, 29-year-old RAF flying officer, was announced today St. Lucia in the British West Indies. Lord Decies is recovering from wounds suffered during the winter.

The couple was married in 1937. Lady Decies was the former Ann Trevor. an Australian. slaughter pens to help satisfy current meat needs is figuring prominently in a debate within the War Food administration over future livestock production programs. Some officials within WFA are urging a fall pig production goal of 37.000.000 head.

a 20 percent increase over last fall's small crop. These pigs, however, would not be ready for market, before the spring of 1946. Such an increase would have an adverse effect. on pork supplies this summer, because sows which otherwise could be sold for slaughter during the next few months would have to be held for breeding purposes. Final decision on the fall pig production goal may hinge in part on the outcome of current discussions among the United Nations.

These are seeking to determine whether available supplies are being so used as to meet military requirements and to provide a fair distribution among civilian groups. High-ranking British food officials are among those taking part in the closed-door talks. Estimates Greater A major problem among the United Nations is the fact that estimates of their canned requirements are 15 percent greatmeats. er than prospective supplies. This situation may bring some reshuff-1 ling in the distribution of supplies originating in Canada and Argentina.

It is possible, for example, that larger portion of Argentine canned meats may be diverted to the United Nations military forces. British civilians then would get less Argentine canned meat but more cured and frozen meats from Canada, Canada, by thus increas. ing shipments to Britain, would tend a to bring its civilian consumption more nearly into line with this country and Great Britain. Another question being debated within the WFA is whether the government price support under hogs should be increased. The support now is $12.50 a hundred pounds, Chicago basis, compared with $13.75 a year ago.

Casualties (Continued from Page 1) view avenue, Union Beach, in Eu- rope, High School Graduate Sergeant Russomano, who is 24 years old. was sent overseas last June. He entered the army in October. 1942. He is a graduate of Long Branch high school.

Besides his mother, he is survived by two brothers, Corp. Gerard Russomano, Germany, and Seaman First Class Dominick Russomano. with the navy in the Pacific, and a sister. Marian, at home. Young Popp had previously been wounded in Germany last Sept.

17. returning to active service Nov. 18 after being hospitalized for two months and one day. He had been awarded the Silver Star. On March 12 he had been in the armed forces for three years, and he had been overseas since May 6.

1944. Sergeant Popp was a graduate of Welch, W. high school, and Concord State Teachers college, Princeton. W. Va.

He had been awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded the first time. Besides his mother, he is survived by four sisters, Miss Irene Popp. Freehold. Miss Julia Popp. Fieldsboro.

N. Mrs. Mary Perkins, Silver Springs, and Mrs. Annie Roberts. Fieldsboro, and stepfather, Gabriel Toth.

Freehold. Sergeant Boyd is now receiving medical aid in an English hospital for a wounded left foot in an English hospital. In a letter to his father, dated March 21, he wrote: "I am getting along He entered service in June. 1940. He was in the third wave to land in France on D-day.

Hitler Hideout Captured by Yank Forces WITH THE U. S. 80TH DIVISION IN GERMANY. (AP) A mountain hideout of a thousand air rooms, where Hitler masterminded the conquest of France and Field Marshal von Rundstedt plotted his Ardennes offensive, has been captured by the Americans. In A class with Berchtesgaden.

the rock retreat called the Alderhorst, is at Zandenhim, west of the famed resort center of Bad Nauheim. Hitler spent much of his time there in 1940. accompanied by other Nazi bigwigs. The latest high ranking occupant was Field Marshal Kesselring, who succeed- Empire Set for Talks LONDON. (AP) Diplomatic representatives from Britain's dominions met today for "exploratory" discussions in preparation for the world security conference at San Francisco, which a Moscow communique said had been scheduled "at the right time from every point of view." An article in the Communist party newspaper Pravda, broadcast by the Moscow radio, declared the conference would be held "despite the thousands of intrigues and machinations of the German Fascists and advocates in their defense, and it will accomplish its David Zaslavsky, Pravda editorial writer, asserted the San Francisco conference, like the League of Nations, "is based above all on realistic "It is clear that if the strongest states of the world find a common platform for the protection of the peace there will be peace on earth." he said.

"If this common platform is not found, no clause in the constitution of any organization whatever will help." The Times, commenting editorially on rumors the conference might be postponed. said any delay would be "highly discouraging." The Times said President Roosevelt's declaration United States would not demand additional votes "will be generally welcomed as clearing the ground for Russian claim, which is advanced unhampered a consideration of the as a special case." A British foreign office spokesman said that the U. S. acted unilaterally in its decision. and that it was not due to any withdrawal of British support.

Circus Opens In Gotham NEW YORK. (P)-That combination of oddities and panoply unassumingly known as "The Greatest Show on Earth" opens its 1945 season here tonight in an atmosphere of mingled anxiety and traditional hoopla. Pink lemonade, clowns, refurbished adjectives press agents- all are for the gala opening of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey circus in that biggest of big tops, Madison Square Garden. Meanwhile the future of this year's "panoramic extravanga supreme" apparently hinges on the outcome of a court action in Hartford, where circus President Robert Ringling has testified that there is not "one chance in a thousand" the show will continue its key officials are imprisoned. The men were sentenced on involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the fire last July 6 which destroyed the main tent and took 168 lives.

But officials said the 47-day run in New York city was assured. Tonight's performance will be for key employes of 5.000 concerns which have accepted seventh war loan bond quotas totaling 000. In addition to the tried-andtrue animal and aerial acts. this year's show will feature new circus music by Deems Taylor. Russia has developed hard and soft wheat which can.

be grown on either irrigated or non-irrigated land. Puzzle 21 27 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 38 39 HORIZONTAL The sun Steeps Pigpen 12 Land measure 13 Eagle's nest 14 Part of foot 15 Fortified seaport in Luzon 17 Bird 19 Man's name 20 Martinique volcano 21 Heraldry grafted 23 Passing fancy 24 Prohibits 27 Ballad 28 Gain victory 29 To forgive 30 Roman numeral 31 Ill bred person 32 Twitching 33 state (abbr.) 34 A measure of Siam 36 Once around track 37 Large tub 38 Dash 39 To annoy 40 Business transaction 41 Bouganville native 43 Girl's nickname 44 Treats rudely 46 Antiseptic 49 Mongrel 50 Animate 52 To place 53 Before 54 Part of bicycle 55 Garden tool VERTICAL 1 A pouch 2 Anglo-Saxon coin 3 Lightness Phil. I. servant 5 Female ruff 6 Teutonic deity 7 Removed by rubbing 8 To fasten securely Modest Maidens CHILDRENS BOOKS 1000 "Do you have something that was banned in Boston recently?" Riviera Alive Woman News By RUTH COWAN (Substituting for Hal Boyle) ON THE RIVIERA. -Perhaps it's because everyone wears dark glasses, but this is truly a land of wonderful nonsensewhere anything can happen.

It's a land of secrets everybody knows, where you don't speak English. French or Italian, but doubletalk: a land of spies spying on spies, and more fun to watch than a circus. You can play a game by starting to spy on a chap who is spying on another fellow. After a while you turn around and say "boo" to the lad who by now should be following you. Then you both go for a drink--and swap lies.

Once I was having tea at a villa when the door bell rang sharply and there was considerable confusion upstairs. My host excused himseff and came back somewhat excited. He asked me to stand in a corner out of sight. Several persons, including a woman speaking high-pitched French, were ushered past and into another room. My host returned and said, "I'm terribly sorry, but I must ask you to leave quickly.

It just wouldn't do for an American war correspondent to be seen here." While I was wondering what it was all about--I had just arrived on the Riviera--another man came in and "Please follow me quickly." I went down a path to a gate in the garden and thru a lane to the main road. In a fork in the lane I saw a stubby man in a long overcoat and a soft-brimmed hat pulled low on his head- -and of course, dark glasses. As I passed he swung around to watch me. When glanced back he was still watching. I turned the corner, waited a few minutes, and time his retraced interest my steps.

had shifted again to the house which he could see thru a break in the trees. Later. when I saw my host again, I asked if he knew his villa was being watched. "Oh. yes." he replied.

been going on for some time. "German agents or French I inquired. "Probably both." he smiled. "and perhaps, some having a Americans." late breakfast with Dorothy McFarland of High Point. N.

at the American Red Cross hotel which she runs when a paratrooper came in. "There's a lot of excitement over at the Carlton." he said. "An MP chased a man in an American uniform who he thought was a spy into the bar. When the MP went in the fellow had disappeared." Someone suggested that perhaps With Spies, Writer Finds the fellow just went on thru and out the other door when he found how much he'd have to pay for a drink and we agreed that it was too early in the morning to start playing spies. But they do catch spies in this beautiful land.

Trying to locate an American who had lived here thru the war, we went to a villa high on the cliff and found the place in an uproar. Admitted to the living room we found a number of men in French uniform and some in plainclothes. 1 was asked to sit down and found myself staring into the muzzle of a pistol. It was explained that 1 was a war correspondent, but that didn't improve my welcome, altho someone did shift the gun. We had walked right into a spy dragnet and there was nothing to do but stay put for awhile.

They got the wretch were I had a quick glimpse of him and for four hours I sat in that chair while he was encouraged to talk in a room upstairs. I lost interest in my dinner that night. I had learned that there is real meaning behind those big placards in U.S. army recreation and rest hotels along the Riviera "There spies in this -placards readineny area. discreet." Superfortresses Hit TokyoAgain GUAM.

(P)-Tokyo and surrounding areas were hammered by more than 300 Superfortresses today in the first three-way demolition raid on the island of Honshu. Specific objectives were not identified, altho headquarters of the 21st bomber command said that in addition to Tokyo. Shizuoka, 85 miles south of the capital city, Tachikawa, 20 miles west. and Koizumi, 20 miles north, were in target areas. Returning crewmen who raided Shizuoka said they encountered no flak and no fighter opposition.

Bombing was done by instrument since a thick cloud layer obscured targets. Some of the raiders went down for low- -level strafing attacks. Tokyo radio claimed three Superfortresses were shot down over the Tokyo bay area, but this was not confirmed. The enemy admitted Ares had been set in the Tokyo-Yokohama area and in sections north of Tokyo, but asserted concerted action extinguished them immediately. Massive sea walls now protect of the 1900 hurricane's Galveston.

from a recurrence Engineers May Open 'Gates' To Save Mississippi Valley NEW ORLEANS. (A)-Engineers today considered opening of the huge Morganza floodway to save the lower Mississippi valley from a flood comparable to the disastrous 1927 overflow. They planned to open the floodway for the first time as soon as possible within the next ten days. Families must move out of the area. Railroads and utility companies have to make their arrangements.

The floodway covers 630,000 acres thru its 100 miles course. To open it engineers will blast out a six mile section of Main river levee at the spillway head. Along the Mississippi's tributaries. hundreds of families were driven from homes as the streams headed toward record crests. Memphis U.

S. engineers reported early today water was pouring over the top of Jackson bayou levee on the White river in Arkansas and a break could come at any time. In other part of Woodruff, Prarie and Monroe, counties in Arkansas the lapped at the tops of sandbags while crews of laborers and war prisoners worked to save the levee system. The coast guard evacuated families from the lower St. Francis river in Arkansas.

Rescue squads were sent to Madison and Forest City. In Wynne the Red Cross erected 50 tents to care for refugees. In Natchitoches parish. Louisiana, their 90 families were driven from homes by backwaters from the and Cane rivers. More than 30.000 acres were inundated.

Thousands of head of livestock were lost. Waters of the Red river poured thru a weak spot in the levee eight miles south of Garland City, inundating 6.000 acres. Scores of families had to leave their Name Powers To Utility Post TRENTON. (P)-The gubernatorial nomination of Rep. D.

Lane Powers. Trenton Republican who has been a member of Congress 1933, for a three-year term since, three-man state board of public utility commissioners was confirmed last night by the state senate. The 49-year-old. congressman's nomination post was sent to the senate vesterday afternoon by Republican Gov. Walter E.

Edge and it was given a stamp of approval by the lawmakers several hours later. Mr. Powers. who in recent weeks as has a been probable prominently candidate mentioned. publican nomination for governor next year, plans to confer with Governor Edge before announcing when he will resign from congress to take the sttae post.

Mr. Powers. who receives 000 annually as a congressman, was named to succeed Crawford Jamieson, former Trenton, Democrat named by Charles Edison in 1942. Mr. Jamieson's term expires Friday, but hold over in office until Powers is ready to assume the post.

The naming of Mr. Powers returns control of the utilities board to the Republicans. The other members are Board President Joseph E. Conlon, South Orange Democrat. and John E.

Boswell, Ocean City Republican. Mr. Conlon and Mr. Boswell. who also were appointed by Mr.

Edison, have long been at odds with Mr. Jamieson over matters of board policy. Mr. Powers, a native of Philadelphia, is a graduate of two years with vania Military, college at Chester, the U.S. army in the last war.

He was a member of the New Jersey assembly from 1928 to 1930. Wolverton Case To Be Studied (Special to The Press) MATAWAN A conference among members of the board of education and others concerned with the charges filed at the February school election by District Clerk Edwin H. Dominick, against Howard Wolverton, president of the Matawan Teachers association and a high school instructor, has been called for Monday night. Mr. Dominick accused Mr.

Wolverton of untrue statements in a news article he caused to be published during the election campaign. At a board meeting last night Myron B. Diggin, president, called attention to the fact that the case had been in abeyance for some time and urged immediate action. He was informed that Mr. Wolverton wanted five or six weeks in which to secure counsel.

Amos B. Henderson questioned the manner in which the original charges had been filed and if the board had accepted them legally. He was informed that the charges had been accepted by the board, and a committee appointed to arrange with Mr. Wolverton for a hearing. The conference on Monn will be closed to the public.

To Probe Truancy Franklin Anderson of the building and grounds committee reported a study of repairs suggested by Supervising Principal John S. MeCurdy, but was informed that funds are not available for many of the items at the present time. Mr. Anderson was instructed to obtain estimates on the work he desires and present them at the next meeting. The teachers committee was instructed to investigate a report from police concerning truancy.

Mr. Diggin said he was not satisfied with the present truant system and hoped the teachers committee would recommend changes. Press Crossword Woman Refuses To Discuss Birth NEWPORT, Ky. (P)-Mrs. Mildred Peters has returned home, but her husband, Carl, and police still are looking for the baby boy she says was born March 26.

the day she disappeared at the door of a maternity hospital. Police Chief Leo Livingston said the woman would not disclose the whereabouts of the baby or discuss her eight-day absence. Her only comment, he said, was: "The boy was born in Cincinnati last Monday. But I don't think you will find any birth record. His health is fine." The husband.

a steel plant foreman, told police he found his wife at home early yesterday, and that she told him she had returned the previous night. Her explanation he said, was that the baby "Is being cared for by John and Mary until I get strong enough to care for Fire in Chicken House A small fire in a chicken house near deCoppet lake east of Fitkin hospital, Neptune, resulted in a call yesterday afternoon for Unexcelled fire company. The firemen reported a small pile of shavings ablaze and there was no damage. 20 36 "We hope this is only a bad dream" UP TILL NOW, this is only a bad dream -because our trucks are still 46 9 River 10 Also 11 In addition 16 Anger 18 Old stringed instrument 20 Shallow vessel 21 The choicest part 22 Pertaining to marine warfare 23 Wooden pin 25 Competitor 26 Condition 28 Pale 29 To tear 31 Walking sticks 32 Impost 35 Wild state 36 Hawaiian wreath 37 To disappear 39 River of France 40 Mournful 42 To jump 43 A Christmas carol 44 High card 45 Prickly fruit envelope 46 The yellow bugle 47 One who advocates that which is newest 48 French for summer 51 A kind of fish Answers to Yesterday's Puzzle DAd DOPED DIE MODES PARSING BEARS EAR BOR POI DA RIP LABEL ARAR DAY PEAL FRA DO FEN GAM MURAL NOOSE SCADURE A PA BORDER AD DOR homes. The Red Cross rushed coast guard assault boats and tents to the scene.

The Bonnet Carre spillway, which was opened about two weeks ago and is now operating at nearly full force, continued to hold the Mississippi comparatively steady at New Orleans. However, Stephen T. Lichtblau. U. forecaster here said high water would prevail until mid-day and that stages would be camparable to the big 1927 flood.

When the Morganza floodway is opened, the surplus water will take a course to the gulf 150 miles shorter than the usual river route via Baton Rouge and New Orleans. The water is to be carried thru guide levees on a strip six miles wide and 20 miles long to the Atchafalaya, then it will down the Atchafalaya basin thru levees set 18 to 20 miles apart. The entire population of more than 100 persons at Bayou Cheney in St. Martin parish must move before the floodway i opened, but other than this only a scattering of families is affected. hanging together, and we can make deliveries of Pabst Blue Ribbon to our retailers on a regularly scheduled, restricted basis.

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