4 -MARION SUNDAYTR CHRONICLE-TRIBUNE 11, NO. 38 CHRONICLE-TRIBUNE, MARION, INDIANA, SUNDAY, MAR. 26, 1914 FAIR, WARMER TODAY PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS 8 MILES FROM RUMANIA Japanese Base Threatened By Allies British Forces Also Check Jap Drive into India 1 By The Assoriated Press) Allied troops pressed down on the North Burma Japanese base of Myitkyina from two directions while British soldiers checked three-fingered enemy penetration of India. Wake Island WAS raided for the 14th time since a Japanese force overpowered United States Marine garrison there early in the war. Big American Army Liberators were met by intense anti-; racks and storage tanks Thursaircraft fire, Ag they bombed barday.
Ponape, in the Eastern C'aroline I-lands, WAS raided Wednesday Thursday by cannon-fir-! ing Mitchells from Marshall Island airfields. Nearby, the tiny Ant islands were attacked for the second time this week. The Nipponeso were again hombed on four Marshall atolls they still hold. Bad weather restricted all oporations in the Southwest Pacific. American destroyers Shelled tiny Pityilu island in the Admiralty group, Nanking United positions at lorengau airdrome and 011 Hauwei Island.
Supply dumps were left in fames at Rabaul. New raids Britain. that in one of a serine of light included Kavieng, New Ireland: Alovishafen. New Guinca, and Buka and Karili in the Solo0300 islands. A spokesman for Admiral William F.
Halsey commented that "Virtual eradication of Japanese air power in this area leaves the enemy open for 011P continuous, relentless air and sea offensive." American Marauders. led by youthful Brig. Con. Frank Merrill, and the Chinese Thirty -eighth division encircled retreating Japanse and captured the village of Shaduzup in their drive toward Mogaung to sever rail connections south of Myitkyina. The ChineseAmerican force was "making slow but steady progress." Burmese and Gburka levies.
advancing toward Myitkyina Am the north, occupied Maihtongkha. Japanese abandoned the village. leaving it in flames. Stuff fighting was reported northeast. southeast and south of Imphal against three enemy col-1 umns trying to push toward that British base in India.
The anese. rolying on elephants to car-: l'V supplies through the jungles, lost five tanks in the first clash with British armored units. The invaders made slight progress in! spots. an Allied communique said, and n. spokesman remarked "the communiques are no more obscure than the military situation itself.
British southwest Burma sade small gains in their pu-h toward forces the port of Abyab. These and the India lave their backs toward each othor rections. and are headed in opposite di- Varying Chinese reaction to the enemy strike into India WAS reAreted in an abrupt drop in the black market value of the rupee I and in an army newspaper assertion the Japanese wore attempting I Turn to Page Eight Part of New Tax Bill in Effect First Collections Are Made Under Revenue Measure Today (By The Associated Press) The third wartime tax art begins dipping into the public's pocket today. Effective last midnight. postal rates went up to bring an estimated additional $96.000.000 A ear into the federal treasury.
Biggest change is an advance from 1 14 0 to three cents in the charge for local lottore. The three-cent rate is continued for letters going out of town. Next Saturday, taxes will go tip on movie tickets. telephone bills, whisky and score of other items. The levy on furs.
cosmetics, jewelry and luggage will go from 10 to 20 percent of the retail price. That on electric light bulbs from five to 20 percent of the manufacturers' price. The tax on charges for local telephone service will increase from 10 to 15 percent; on toll calls, from 20 to 23 percent. On whisky. the tax increase Amounts--to 75 cents A quart of proof.
It will be about 60 for the average bottle of lower proof. The Office of Price Administratimn has authorized bars to in-1 drinks crease the price of individual, ing on two the to four cents. size and hut an OPA spokesman in Washington suggested that many would prefer to absorb the increase rather than deal in cents. Bars legally my the size of drinks in order 10 keep their prices changed. OPA also authorized a one To Pare Eighty Draft Boards Also To Call Older Men New Orders Will Not Affect Inductions Already Planned 1 Washington, March.
25. (P) Speeded-up draft machinery push-' ed 'men 25 and under closer to; Army service tonight, but it meant no lessening of the induction pace for eligibles beyond that new program. intends to send to the armed, forces "all the bodied in this age group (22 through 25) and to limit defer- ago. Local boards were directed to review younger men first, but draft officials said men over 25. who have any' sort of occupational deferments will move right alone; on the selective service assembly line when that deferment expires.
Some of them undoubtedly will be given new deferments, especialIs those in agriculture where irreplaceable men are protected by! law. But all will be considered anew when their present deferments expire. Manpower Chairman V. Mcnu*tt today government agencies until March 29 to information 011 the deferment needs of the industries under their jurisdiction to set in motion the call-up of young workery, The requests will be considered by representatives of the War Production Board. Army.
Navy, selective service. Office of De. fense Transportation and other claimant agencies for manpower. Mcnu*tt told the agencies the ments only to those who are irreplaceable." ing over young coal4 A fight appeared, to be brewminers. Informed officials mated there are at least 40.000 miners under 26, abcut 25,000 of i them i.
the 22-25 age group, and said Secretary will take the position that! very few can be without dampering war production and railroading because of coal shortages. insist on deferments for 40.000 young men or even 25,000. it's likely there will be protests from other agencies which believe no men under 26 be deferred except highly-skilled technicians and other key men, the officials said. have confidence that the and ingenuity of American industry will measure un to this new challenge," War Production Board Chairman Donall Nelson said meanwhile in a letter to Rep. Fulbright A number of highly essential industries having a high proportion of men in the 18-26 class will be particularly hard hit.
Nelson added. including radio. radar, high octane. gas and rubber production units. Talk of the possibilities in a limited national service act to Assure replacements for young men called away from industry WAS heard around Congress after Nel-1 son's testimony that such legislation would help the manpower situation.
However. some members of the House military committee who favor a national service act expressed doubt that the commitTurn To Page Eight World Peace Plan Urged U. S. Group Advocates Immediate Forming of Peace Pact Washington. March.
25 (UP) The Commerce United committee States on Chamber post-war problems called tonight for immediate formation of an international commission to draft a world peace plan based 011 the principles of the four -power Moscow declaration- 3 The committee's seven point plan would make the United States and other United Nations "the trustees of the peace" until a formal post-war agreement could begin operating. It has been distributed to the chamber's 1.900 member organizations for 8 quick referen- The proposals reaffirmed the organization's support of the Mos- cow declaration and urged "an imniediate approach to problems that must be considered in fram. Casting the structure of permanent The committee. headed by Harper Sibley of Rochester N. former president of the chaniber, emphasized the need for prompt action and held that some those specific.
political. economic or social questions" could be colved "or at least definitely planned advance of the cessation of The other six recommendations proposed that: 1. The United States and other United Nations exercise interim "trustees of the peace" during the period -hotween cessation of hostilities and the establishTo -Pace Severe Blows to German Aerial Strength By Continued Raids Reported By War Experts London, March 25. (UP)-Unceasing day and night rafts by American and British bombers have dealt A body blow to Gerfighter production from which the Luftwaffe never will rerover, informed sources agreed today, the best evidence being the German airforce's own "pick and choose" defense against our attacking squadrons. fighters now carefully selectmae time and place to fend off Allied aerial blows against tierman production and no longer tear into our raiding squadrons with blind fury.
One source estimated enemy production losses at 80 percent in twin-engined fighters and 60 percent in single-engined fighters in the concentrated American raids between Feb. 20-25 and the many RAF and b. S. Army Air Force raids since. As result.
German assembly plants probably for months will not be capable of turning out enough planes to replace the losses of four day's heavy fighting in da Two daylight. other points summarize the Luftwaffe's present situation as a defensive -weapon: 1. This serious loss in potential; istrength has no immediate on front-line strength because Germans had enough planes in the "pipeline" between factory and air field for initial replacements. The air battles since then. however, may save seriously depleted this source of strergth.
2. The Germans probably have restored: production to some tent in blitzed assembly plants which were not totally demolished. In some of them production probany event. the restoration hardly ably can' not ever he restored. In compensated for further damage in recent raids.
And any rebuilt plant can be certain of future attack. Experienced observers believe the Germans ave working on the following principle: If the Allied bombing is to be exclusively through an overcast. it is preforable to risk an unchallanged bomb run on the theory that the attack will not be as deadly as a clearweather raid. Sending fleets of fighters up through the clouds at this time of year also risks heavy losses from icing. Navy Gunners' Actions Defended In Accidental Destruction Of 23 U.
S. Transports Memphis, March 25. closed today he was one of the transport planes last July at Gela. Officers Named By Canton i Glass Directors, Officials of Local Firm Re-Elected Directors and officers of the Canton Glass were re-elected Saturday following the forty annual meeting of stockholders of the Marion glass manufacturing concern. Reports submitted at the meeting disclosed 52 percent of the output during the last 12 months had gone to war And essential civilian uses while 48 percent had gone into civilian channels.
Company officials described business prospects for the ensuing year as Directors, all of whom were reelected. were Leonard Dreyfuss and Edith Nussbaum, both. of Now York City. Mark Levy, Chicago, and Ralph Roussler, Kightlinger, Lester Baker and William Condo. all of Marion.
The officers are Dreyfuss. president. Kightlinger. vice-president and general manager, and Baker, secretary and treasurer. P'resident Dreyfuss reappointed an executive committee composed cf Kightli ger.
Roessler and Thomas G. Wilson. president of the Marion National Bank with authority to act during his absence. A majority. of the stockholders attended the meeting held at the ment stated.
company offices, the (P)-A wounded Memphis sailor disNavy gunners who shot down 23. l'. S. Sicily. and he declared: "No one CA' blame the Navy gunners, for just a watch tick from death that night." The sailor, Gordon B.
Manley, boatswain's mite second class. later was wounded at Salerno and now is a Philadelphia hospital. Manley. declaring "no one seems to explain just what happened" that night, wrote an ACCOUI of the episode to Press Scimitar col.umnist Eldon Roark "in defense of the naval gunners." Part of his letter follows: "We had invaded the night before and our big guns had been hitting them (the enemy) all day knocking out tanks, shore hatteries, railroads. railroad guns, troops and trucks." I am speaking now of the warship I was had several air attacks that were rough that day.
Some time during the afternoon, 35 German bombers came after us. They got one of our cargo ships about 3 p. m. The burning ship exploded, making A mountain of smoke that spread slowly all over the bay, turning day into night. About D.
11. my gunnery officer passed word around telling us that there would he 200 of our transport planes over about 10 p.m. About 20 over. minutes the before German our bombers planes came in. The ship was burning there WAS 8 solid blanket of snioke over most of that part of the coast.
the Germans came in, guided by the fire. they dropped the sky full of flares until they spotted us. Then. boy. that IS where things really began to happen.
"Right in the middle of all of this. planes came over. the first we knew they were there. "My eyes were every place at or.ce. I spied A plane that looked large as the Columbia tower (in Memphis) about 30 feet above Turn TO Page Eight Plea For Increased Salvage Of Waste Paper Is Made In a telegram to local salvage officials last night.
Donald M. War Production Board chairman, stressed the increasing need for paper and urged, tnat city trucks be used for collections. Ed W. Camp, salvage chairman, pointed out that city since last June when the continucounty trucks have been used here! ing campaign began. and thanked city oflicials, members of the city, council.
city cmployes, county and school officials and for their cooperation. Nelson in his telegram pointed out that city and county equipment is the best and possibly the only solution of the difficult problem of transportation of household collections, in which view the local salvage chairman participated. "Shortages of manpower and the difficul-1 ty of securing gasoline and tires combine to make difficult the solution of the transportation problem by any other method." Camp said. and continued: "Scrap paper is bulky. its collection- is difficult and handling it is an intricate "The entire proceeds of Febru-1 ary and March collections are being donated by the Boy Scouts to the Red Cross drive.
The same procedure was adopted by the scouts in the war fund last fall. The Grant County Civilian I Defense Council does not benefit from the officials said. "The Civilian Defense Council is not interested in. the n.oney; we are interested in assisting in supplying the critical materials of war in the various scrap campaigns, and waste paper. we are most -eritical- 73 Bombers Over Berlin 2,800 Tons of Bombs Are Showered on Nazi Capital London, March 25.
(A -RAF bombers nearly 1,000 strong, beating through the fiercest defense the Germans yet have thrown about their capital, laced Berlin with fires and ruin for more than 2.800 tons of explosives last night, and punched lightly at other Nazi cities at a cost of 73 big planes. It was the heaviest loss ever sustained over Berlin presumably most of the bombers fell airway battles to or over the city -but the assault lifted to some 35,000 tons the weight of hombs hurled on the huh city of Germany since last Nov. 18. Last nights' bombweight on Berlin equalled the record mark poured down on it by the RAF Feh. 15.
The RAF bomber command sent out more than 1,000 planes in the night parade with some hitting at the Baltic Sea port of Kiel and other objectives. The Germans said Leipzig--a favorite diversionary target of previous Berlin raids--and Weimar also were hit and that 112 planes were downed. ered by Thunderbolt do fighters L'. S. Medium Marauders slashed at the rail city of Hirson in Northern France today.
continuing the air offensive against rail targets. Hirson. near the Belgian border, is a junction of lines leading to several French port cities. The Marauders smashed through A withering barrage of Aak and swarms of German fightA's. Three Marauders are missing from the mission as A result of what the described as the most intensive fighter opposition they had met in several weeks.
Four German planes were shot down by the Sunderbolt pilots while several niners were drowned by the Marauder gunners who said the Nazis came down at them out of the sun at a steep angle. An indication that new tions against Germany were UIder way tonight came from the German radio which broadcast that several nuisance planes are over Northeast Germany and are heading toward Central many." The Berlin blow climaxed one of the most terrific 60-hour bombing periods of the war leaving four of Germany's great war centers burning tonight. In addition to the capital they are the naval base of Kiel, the aircraft manufacturing And rail city of Frankfurt and the ball. bearing factory center of Schweinfurt. The Berlin raid was the fifth by, day or night more than since Wednesday in which either' single planes have attacks.
struck the Reich in In the 60 hours up to dawn today at least 10.000 U. S. tons of bombs have been unloaded on Gerand occupied territory by Allied planes. In those 60 hours nearly 1.000 sorties. (individual flights) have: been Pirate flown against To Page Germany.
Eighty from School Plans Announced Commencements Mapped by County Schools for April 9 Closing activitics for. Grant county schools were announced last night by county school officials, The activities include commence. i ment exorcises for seven county high schools. senior class plays and commencement exercises for eighth grade students. Shortening the school year for four high schools.
commencement exercises for Sweetser. Swayzee. Jefferson township and Van he held the week of April 9. Dr. William Gear Spencer.
president of Franklin College. will be the speaker for the four programs. Providing music will be divisions of the Grant county band. Sweetser's commencement will be I held April 10 at the school; Jefferson township at Taylor University 12; Van Buren school April 13, and Swayzee the schoo April 11. Ransom Bramblet.
principal of the Swayzee school. said this year they. would have their largest graduating class of 55 students. Eighth grade students at Rose. burg will he presented diplomas of graduation 10 high school during exercises April 11.
at the school. Dr. William F. McConn. president of Marion College.
will he the speaker. Officials said this was the first commencement to be held at the school in 12 years. Three other schools, which are considered city schools and have longer term. will hold graduation exerciser in May. Gas City' seniors commencement May with Raymond Schutz, Manchester College, as their speaker.
Exercises To. Pate I Balkans' Key City Faces Threat Russians Establish Wide Bridgehead on Dniester HUNGARIAN PREMIER. Dorme Sztu. jay was named premier in the now Hungarian puppet gorermment ac-. cording" to the German 1 Endapest Hungarian radio.
army Ho officer is and former hurR been Hungarian minister to Berlin. (AD' Wircphoto.) Await Approval On Remodeling At Hospital Bill Pending Would Aid Veterans Facility to Enlarge Buildings Proposed remodeling of present buildings, funds for' "which have! been included in the veterans' aid bill passed by the and now pending in the House, are expected to provide a total of 2.400 bed: at the Veterans' Facility here Col. H. H. medical officer in charve, said last night.
The official said the al some office at surveys of Washington present had facilities no, le 4 and plans fore being prepared, it is beliered. the remodeling program. Col Butts pointed out the re1 modeling of buildings now under supervision of the Veterans Administration would provide beds in a muci. shorter time than if now buildings were constructed. The central office expects to spend 1 a total of $20,000.000 on the Turn to Pace Hoosier Food Rise Is Seen Increase of 500,000 Acres in Crops Predicted Lafayette.
March 20. (A)- Hoosier farmers plan to devote 500,000 more acres of land to food production this year than in 1943 and to increase I planted crops by 3.4 percent over last vear. Purdue University statisticians disclosed today. Highlights of the latest report on Indiana farmers' 1944 plans included: Six percent more corn will be planted this year than last, one percent more soybeans, 10. percent more tobacco, with a five percent reduction in potatoes and 35 percent redution in barley.
The P'urdue agricultural statisticians, in cooperation with the U. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, also reported: Last fall a 31 percent larger acreage Was sceded to winter wheat. The hay acreage probably will be about four percent less than last year. Milk production. based 011 survers of crop reporters' farms, indicate output for each farm excoeds that of any other year on record by a substantial amount.
rop reporters with fewer than 385 gathered layers in their poultry 60.3 eggs for each 100 birds March 1, compared with 48.7. for the same date last year -more than for any other March 1 in the past 20 years of records. Magnesium Plant Fire Loss Heavy Los Angeles, March 25. (UP)A rapid series of explosions night ignited a large building of the Los Angeles Magnesium ing ('o. totally destroying one $200.000 unit of the sprawling war; plant and injuring four men.
I. J. Weinman, owner and manager of the plant. said cause of the explosions was unknown. "They might have started in Ithe magnesium grindings around some of the machines." he said.
The plant manufactures plane parts. Firemen worked desperately to prevent flames from spreading to a nearby building where large stocks of magnesium blocks were stored. Firecracker-like explosions continued hours after the fire started, throwing huge clouds of flamic and smoke-80 feet into the ACCUSED OF KILLING George Inzer, 20. Army paratrooper, is. held at Knoxrille, on churge that he struck and futally Hobert Ricker.
$7. construction worker. Inzer said he struck Ricker on the jaw after the latter said he "hoped Japan and Germany would win the war." $13,500 Still Is Needed By Red Cross Drive For Special War Fund Will Close at End of Week Approximately $13.500 remains to be obtained for the War Funds of the American Red Cross Grant county chapter volunteers this week. James Claxon. general chairman, reported last night.
Reports revealol that nearly $12.000 in contributions were senti to the officials Saturday, shaving the Grant county quota of 500. William Jones, heading the campaign in the county, reported that five Grant county. towne have topped their quotas so far in the drive which Wit opened March 1 And is scheduled to be closed next week. Matthews was the first town to reach its quota with residents contributing Van Buren, second, with gifts amounting to $354; Fairmount, Gas City, $2.294.17. and Jonesboro.
$806. Each had contributed more (Pleace Turn to Page Eighti Churchill Plans Talk Today Report Prime Minister to Disclose Plans for Invasion London. March 25. (A Minister Churchill is expected to deliver a pre-invasion fight talk in his address Sunday over British-! American radio hook-up. the full scope of his oratorical gifts to prepare the British and American people for the forthcoming grand assault and to dispel.
any doubt regarding the basic unity of the United Nations. The broadcast is scheduled for 3 11. Central War Time. and will be carried on all networks in the United British States. Broadcasting Co.
Churchill would broadcast whether or not London was subjected to an air raid during the speech. pointing out that British stations do not go off the air during raids. Churchill seldom uses the radio to break reserving that for appearances before Parliamont-and it seems logical to expect that his broadcast will be A pep talk to reassure the American people of Britain's determination to fight with all her resources to the final defeat of Japan if Germany collapses first. The timing of the appears especially coming directly after Chur tour of U'. S.
Army camps in Bain, at an. hour. of increased fighting in Burma and with the Balkans wav-. the ering Red and Army Finland rolls wanting back desceas man invaders. Funds Approved For Oil Plants Washington.
March 45. (UP)Senate and House conferees agreed today on legislation authorize expenditure of $30.000,000 for gov-; ernment construction of synthetic oil plants and for continuation of liquid fuels from farm products. The House will act Monday on the conference report and the ate is expected to follow suit Tues-. day or Wednesday. The program would include ex.
perimentation in extracting oil from oils sands and coal. and erection of full-scale pilot plants where. production and cost data ho obtained for use by private industry. This phase of the pros gram would hr administered by the Interior Department. London.
March 26. (A') -The Red army plunged to within eight miles of Rumania': eastern border yesterday and erected a 30- mile invasion bridgehead on the Dniester river just across from (zernowitz. Rumania's northern capital and key to the Balkans, Moscow announced today. Hurling the Germans back toward the Carpathian the Russians were only 18 miles from strategic Cuernowitz. and 17 miles from Hitler's rail backbonethe railway runthrough that city.
The loss jof the line would split the German eastern front. In A dav of victories extending from old P'oland to the Black Sea the Russians also toppled the west Ukraine stronghold of Pro-kurov, thousands of Germans in bitter street fighting. Other impressive successes scorled by the Russians on front CAtending from old Poland southeast to the Black Sea included a 20-mile gain south of -passed Tarnopol in Poland, the severing of the Byelisi-Iasi railway in central BescArabia as Soviet troops streamed southward toward the Danube, and the overrunning of a Nazi rail escape route in the Slobodzeya sector 110 miles northwest of Odessa, the communique said. Thousands of Germans were in the capture of Proskurov, 62 miles east of Tarnopol, and "enormous quantities of runs, tanks, trucks and other equipment seized as the retreating Germans even abandoned their light equipment in their Alight toward the Dniester--and possible entrapThe Russians now control almost 160 miles of the river. Sovict.
unite fanning out along the Dniestor between Mogilev Podol-ki and ing to hag (iermans falling Kamenets Podolosk, were attemptback from Proskurov. (Radio France at Algiers quoted Franz von Papen, German ambassador Turkey, AS having declared that the German army "perhaps" would abandon Bessarabia, establish a C'arpathian mountain defense line. and try to -plux the gap between the mountains and the Black Sea with German and satellite troops to defend the Rumanian Ploesti oil regions "at all Russian smash across the Dniester toward Czernowitz (Cernauti) was expected shortly. Seventy miles southeast of Czernowitz, Rumania'; third largest city. other Soviet units attacking westward in Bessarabia on A 65- mile front captured, Zagaikany, only eight miles from the Prut river, boundary, of Rumania proper.
Wheeling southward toward the Danube, Marshal Ivan S. Koner's Second U'kraine Army also outflanked the besieged railway junetion of Byeltsi (Balti) with the capture of Reutsel. right miles to the southwest. putting the Red army only 38 miles north of lasi Please Turn to Page Enhtr War Casualties Are Reported Marion Flier Missing; Gas City Soldier ils Wounded "Marion and Grant county We have dore a magnificent job. are': thankful to the people who have so thoughtfully saved their paper, and especially to the city onlicials, 1 members of the council.
and city employes who have $0 generously contributed their time, equipment and effort. believe that when f.gures have been compiled at the war's end. Grant county's salvage record will be among the most outstand- ing of the nation. For this we can public in general and the others, such as city, county, and school officials, all of whom have cooperated magnificently." ('amp pointed out: that county officials had made a colltribution of old courty records six wecks ago. and that county truck- salvage are assisting by in the bringing tin the collection denot accumulations of cans in the county, while garbPirate Turn To Page Eight! Waste Paper Regular collection will he made Monday in West Marion.
The territory includes the area West of Western avenue. All Types Needed All types of waste paper should be salvaged by residents here ineluding such articles an used and cards. newspapers, magazines, paper bags and corrugated boxes. One Marion soldier is missing in action. and a Grant county man has be wounded seriously.
according to information received last night by relatives. I Mrs. Elmer Eugere Estle. B60S South Adams street, was informed by the War Department that her husband. Set.
Exile, twenty. L. S. Air Cot was listed As missing March 6. He was a radio operator and gunner 0N1 Flying Fortress.
P'rt. Charles F. Williams, (as City. twenty-eight, Was wounded seriously Feb. 19 while in action in Italy, A telegram from the War Department to his wife, Grace.
revealed. Mrs. Willians said her hu band landed with the infantry in Italy Feh. v. Put.
Williams attended (ias City High School and before enlisting was employed at the P'aranite Wire and ('able Co. at Jonesboro, -Pyt. Williams entered service in July, 1945. and was sent to Camp Wolters. where he received both basic and advanced training.
He later was transferred to a camp 111 Maryland. Set. Estle left the United States for England Jan. 20. Iri letters to his wife ard to his mother, Mrs.
F.arl Rutherford. he not mentioned taking part in any raids jover Germany. Graduate of Marion High School and A former. employe at the Owens-Illinois Glass Co, at Gas City. Sgt.
Estle enlisted in the U.S. Army Dec. 11, 1942. He roceived preliminary training at Miami. Protte and Laredo, Sioux Falls, S.
and Alexander, La, 1.
