S0MER81 fFAMOTS'lGRAF ZEPPELIN DESTROYED BY GERMANS 1 Gonnally Is Somerset County War' Casualties' 5 AMERICAN Food Probe to NY And Boston WASHINGTON, April 2 OP) Chairman Anderson (D-NM) announ ced tonight that the House food study committee will go to New York and Boston to investigate charges mat no per cent." of ine meat tnere is sold in the black market. MSoing The office of war information released names of several Somerset county men, killed and wounded to acticn in the European theater of operations. Road Block In Front Of Slavery Bill FBANCIS J. KELLT) April SMS1) James f. Byrnes' resignation-as war mobilization director today threw another, road block in front of legislation giving the holder of that office sweeping authority over the nation's manpower.
Behator Johnson whose suggestion for a compromise had pried the measure out of a deadlocked conference committee, turned Byrnes' resignation into an argument against it son, of Urt. I rsdale. B- D- 3- I trt IMrar- C. Martin, Emma A. Martin, Meyersdale, Ffc.
Robert D. Blough, husband Si I ella Blough, DavidsvUle. Pfc. S- E. Lenhart, son Gertrude Lenhart, Somerset, R.
p- 3. i Pfc Frank Naret, son of Mrs. -Frances Naret, Central City, v-1 i The committee, he, said, expects to be In Boston April 23 and in New "r'' i -r; "Hi-i" rkk.v;.,,., rm nmtmmimtmmm 'I York April 24-25. It will be Chicago April 16-17 and tin Cleveland April 18. "Charges have come from various sources, Anderson told newspaper' That Wjercent of the meat -handled in New York and Boston is in the black That's a pretty severe indictment of American business.
It is an astonishing charge. im incunea to oeueve us uu but we're RoinR to see whnt there is to it." The committee, at an executive session, decided on the swing into tne Interior and northeast, to track the problems to their In Chicago. Anderson Said, a special study will be made of cattle i feeder problems, with Special emphasis in Cleveland oil consumer problems. In additionto the black "market question, a study pf fish supplies will be made at Boston. Confer With Vinson' Prior to the trip, the committee expects to confer with Fred M.
Vinson nominated today to succeed James F. Byrnes as war mobilization director. also wiiy study the army's meat requirements. "Anderson said the group might make it' trip to- Minneapolis-to-look into the butter situation. Meanwhile, a cattle and beef indus- THE DESTRUCTION, ON HITLER'S ORDERS, of the world-famed dirigible Graf Zeppelin and the larger and newer sister ship Graf Zeppelin II was revealed on the entry of American forces into the city of I Frankfurt-on-Main, home base of the great airships.
Photo shows first GraZeppeUnJnferiiatJOjiaJj Ins And Outs Of Rundstedt Kesselring PACE SIX Medics Open GunsAgainst Blue Gross HARRISBURO. April 2 JP) The Pennsylvania a Late mecucai society tonight anounced opposition to pend ing legislation which a statement said was -backed bv the hospital service of Philadelphia to authorize combined hospital and medical insur ance. Lester H. Perry, executive secretary said the statement of opposition- by Dr. John JC Brennan.
of Ccranton, chairman A the board of trustees of the statemedical society, was directed agiinstbills submitted by Sen. Louis H. Farrell R-Phila. They are sen ate bills 558 and 559. The bills would Dlace under regu lation of the state insurance depart ment non-profit corporations organ ized to provide hospital, ana nospitai and medical service.
'They provide that not less than one-third or tne members of the board of directors shall consist' of doctors of medicine. A public hearing will be held by the Senate committee on public heal ta Wednesday night (8 p.m.). Farrell said he has received 200 to 300 splendid letters in favor of the bils end, only one against it from the state medical society;" Fatal As Socialized Medicine Dr. Brennan said the pronosed legislation would place doctors of Pennsylvania under the corporate aom.na- tion of the Pennsylvania Blue Cross Hospital Service) and "destroy our identity with the same dispatch and finality as socialized medicine uiiut-r governmental control." Philadelphia Blue Cross plan anoears innocent-enought on the sur face," Dr. Brennan said, "but beliind the scenes ft is being- manipulated by Individuals who have repeatedly shown a disinclination to cooperate with the.
doctors of this Dr. Brennan said that' the Med ical Service Association of Pennsyl vania, carrying endorsem*nt oi tire state medical society, was the first pioneer low-cost hospital and medical service inn Pennsylvania after, observ ing success of the combined plan in Michigan and California. 'We tried to work with tne Blue Cross in Pittsburgh and other western Pennsylvania areas," the statement continued, "but from the very begin nine the Blue Cross- made it pain' fully evident that it sought not only a position oi dominance in tne iieiu of hospitalization but in the field of medical core." -i-- 20 DRAFTEES ARE CALLED Twenty Somerset -area men have been called by selective service board No. 2, and have- been-Jnducted-into the armed services- rney are: William R. Will.
Somerset, R. D- 5. Frank R. Boyd, III, Jerome. Lloyd Rhoads, Boswell R.
D. 2. Robert S. Shawley. Jenner.
Andrew Sepety, Holsopple, R. D. 2 William B. Frledline. Somerset.
Leonard W- Johnson. Boswell. R. 1. Abram N.
Durst. Somerset, R. D. 3 Edward S. Barron, Somerset, R.
James A. Lape, Johnstown, D. 3. f*ckene J. Mcore, Somerset, R.
D. 3. Ernest Tasln, Jerome. -Alexander Levadnuk, Jerome. Theodore G.
Baker, Jerome. Glenn K. Thomas, Holsopple, R. 2. Bernard R- Carlson.
Listie. Frank M. Slizewski, BosweU. Alfred F. Delaica, R.
Smith, Boswell. John W. Baker, Holsopple, R. D. 2.
PROTESTS WRONG TO SERVICEMEN WASHINGTON, April 2 (P) Rep. Philbln (D-Mass.) asserted today that approximately 20,000 servicemen overseas are-reported to have been denied government life insurance policies because of their physical condition. Philbin said in a statement he would introduce legislation to prohibit rejection of their applications for insurance, and added: "It is entirely indefensible that any boy who in risking life and limb fighting for his country -should be denied insurance coverage especially when he hag served under fire and has been rated physically fit for duty." Mrs. Churchill In Russia, MOSCOW. April 2 Winston Churchill arrived by plane today lor a visit to hospitals and ehlldren's arrived by plane today for a visit to hospitals and children's homes as head Of her own relief fund for Russia.
The British prime minister's wife reached Moscow after, an all night flight from Cairo. She will visit Stalingi ad and Rostov, where British funds will equip two 500-bed hospitals. APRIL 3 1945 tne. Dm. 4 "Mr.
Justice Byrnes is going back to civn lire," he observed in a senate is a time to freeze" other people to their jobs." The bill, all dead for days, would empower. the war mobilization director to freeze any or all, workers in their employment, to set employment ceilings for individual of business, and to regulate hiring of new workers. The measure provides penalties-of up to a year in jail and $10,000 fine for willful violations by either workers or employers. The compromise passed the House by a seven-vote margin, but the men who have been trying i to put it through the Senate have conceded their assignment is almost hopeless. Governor of Idaho Find House BOISE, Idaho.
AprU 2 (ff) Idaho's governor and first lady can't find a house to rent. 1 Inaugurated in January, Governor Charles C. tried leasing a houset jut the owners returned. So the governor and his wife are back in hoteU-T-- Since the legislature recently failed approve a bin appropriating money for a gdvernor's mansion, the state's leading citizen has resigned himself to house hunting. Rap on Hen House Door, Is Advice TUCSON, April 2 (JP) Some timely advice to the people planning to supplement red pcints with a httle poultry of their own was given out by Arizona university agricultural extension service-- "Be polite to your bids," bul letin states.
"Tap on the door before entering to let them know" you're coming. This prevents them from becoming frightened, and all adds up to more eggs." Never grease theuiepan. Good pastry greases its own pan. pour applies A Confident Of Frisco Meet April 2 (ffBe-li tiling reports that the San Francisco international conference might be postponed. Senator Connally (D-Tex) predicted today it will begin on schedule, April and "be a The Texan, chairman the foreign relations committee and one of the aelegates to the conference, made the forecast to reporters after a conference with Secretary of State Stettin-ius and Assistant Secretary Dean Acnesonr Connally's reference was to unoffi cial reports from London and In this country, that the divergence of policy among the major allies since the Yalta cnoference might lead to a postponement while they tried to iron out differences.
There may be still more direct Information on the tioint tomorrow. The state department announced that Stettinlus will, hold his regular news conference at that time. The split over an invitation to San Francisco for the Russian sponsored Warjaw regime in Poland undoubtedly will come up. Stettinius has said he will try to be preparedat that time to- answer some of numerous questions propounded last week on a recently-revealed- agreement that this country will back a Russiap demand for three votes in the general assembly of the proposed peace agency, provided the United States also gets three votes. OPA FIXES SOY BEANS CEILING WASHINGTON, April 2 T)-rOPA today announced ceiling prices' to be used at the beginning of the 1945 crop year for raw, unprocessed soy beans.
The prices; ljsted in a -notice to growers, are $110 a bushel for the S. No. 2 classes 1 (yellow) and 2 (green); and a bushel for the No. '2 grade, Classes 3 (brown), 4. (black) and 5 (mixed.) The quotations are for 60-pound bushels.
OPA stipulated that the same differential for grade and quaUty may be applied as were provided for the 1944 crop. New Whiskey Ration Period HARRISBIJRQ, AprU 2 () The liquor control board today declared i new whiskey rationing period from Monday, April 9 to Saturday, May 5 with the ration unchanged at one-fifth jyjdTO per cent, of normal purchases for retail licensees Tk "LrWe lt Iks" pipvll Its -v oommittee recommended to the congressional group that government subsidies on cnoice graaes oi oeei oe increased to encourage larger production without causing higher consumer prices. The Senate's food committee will resume Its public hearings tomorrow. Food In "Dead Storage" Senator. Wherry R-NeWurged that the Senate investigators look into the auestlon of how much food is in "dead storage." Addressing the senate, he said he had received letters from businessmen in the food trade reporting that the war food administration has thousands of tons of canned goods and other foods in warehouses.
Wherry said he was informed that much of this food has been in this "dead storage" for months and that large quantities have spoiled. Plan to Open Floodway to Avert Ruin NEW ORLEANS. April 2 UP) The U. S. army engineers set about in earnest today with tilans to open tne Morganza floodway on the Mississippi river north of Baton Rouge, to divert additional water to the gulf and ease the flood, strain on the seriously menaced lower valley levees, where breaks might cause great damage.
Colonel George Hudson, dls- 'trict engineer. 'announced that now in sight indicated use oi tne floodway within the next two weeks. This move, it was explained, would tend to control the river at Baton Rouge where the swollen stream is expected to rise nearly ten ieet aoove flnnd Ktiiirn Anril '18- and When all reparations are complet ed the fuse plug levee in a six-mile strip on the Mississippi win oe oiown and water diverted from Morganza to Klotz Springs, and down the Atchaf alaya basin to' the guif or Mexico. The engineers have been holding the river level to around 19 feet, two feet above flood stage, at New Orleans, ty use of the Bonnet Carre spillway which was placed in neration ten days ago. This takes water into Lake Pontchartraln.
More Lowlands Inundated On the heels of high winds and heavv DreciDitation over the weekend backwaters from the Mississippi and tit* tributaries were inundating addi tional lowlands. Residents and their cattle were being removed. Red Cross at Vicksburgxan nounced today plans for evacuating approximately 300 famir.es from the northern part of Warren county, because of backwaters irom tne Junction of 'the Mississippi and -aazoo a Twenty-five members of the MississiDDi state guard were called into service' to aid in the evacuations and army tents were requested tor the refugee. i'i OnvAmnr Jumps U1V1 OI bOUlSl' na, advised that "extremely high ater was in store, caied a meeting of thft state board of liquidation for to provide $100,000 for Tevee-patrol; Sandbagging and other levee maintenance against DeWitt Pyburn, state director 'or the department, or wonts, the worst flood since 1927 'the extreme lower valley. Meantime clear skies brought hope 'tbr reUef-in the upper Red river "basin and its tributaries in east south Arkansas and north Louisiana.
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29c A ri Super Market "na JPan VL the line 1 sodin chr, ornate in pttMNri port mli: the. Reduction of FPC Upheld WASHINGTON. AprU 2 (ky he Supreme court upheld in the main today federal power commission orders suosianuauy ru a interstate wholesale gas rates of. four companies seiving wiue mid-continent areas. Justice Douglas delivered the three opinions which affected the Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, Colorado Interstate Gas Company, Canadian River Gas company and Colorado Wyoming Gas company.
Douglas held in effect that the rates as affirmed are just and reasonable. He adhered to a principle prc-ylously-stated-by the court that thr-result obtained the controlling fac- tro and not the method of property valuation used to arrive at gas Charg es. Justice Jackson wrote a special opinion emphasizing again his conten tlons that the "entire rate basing method shouid.be rejected in pricing natural gas." He said "far-sighted gas rate regulation" would use price as tool to bring goods to market." Thomas H. Robinson, convicted as the kidnaper of Alice Speed stoll in Louisville, In 1943, failed to get the. court to reconsider its decision upholding his death penalty.
The court declined to take up. an appeal by 15 Utah residents who contended their rights of religious freedom were violated by their convictions at Salt Lake City of unlawful cohabitation. Each received a five year term. The court tock an unusual stefi it delivered an opinion clarifying a previous decision- It was done in the government's civil anti-trust suit against a group of major firms in the glass container industry. DUMBARTON OAKS WEEK OF PRAYER NEW YORK, April 2 (JP) President Roosevelt has expressed h6pe-thai Dumbarton Oaks week, April 16-22, will be observed by the entire" country "joining in prayers for the success of the united nations conference and for the firm establishment of vorld organization for permanent peace." Clark M.
Eichalberger, executive director of the American association for the united nations, made public a letter from the president today which expressed that 1 Farm Values Increase HARRISBURG, 'April 2 (P) Miles Hoist, secretary of Agriculture, reported today that farm real estate values In Pennsylvania Increased eleven per cent, for the year ended March 1 as compared to an advance 'of seven per cent, for the same period a year ago. The eleven per advance, he-said, was the same as for the country as a whole. Cook cheese at lew temperatures to prevent curdling, 'scorching or stringl-ness. Sen. Lister Hill (D.) Alabama A SPECIAL COMMITTEE, composed of the five senators pictured here, plans an early hop-off for Europe on a military investigation trfp with the hope of entering Berlin -with American soldiers.
Chandler, Hill, Bridges and Maybank are all members of the Senate Military Affairs committee, while Bridges and Russell are mem- bers of the upper house's appropriations "committee. The senators will make a special investigation of how much equipment will be used in the Japanese war after Germany is crushed. They will also make a study of the i method the Army will use to iransier materiel irom tne lfiuro-1 iiyU.JOMHllllili i iMiiiiliililiilllMUlllllllll I Miillinilillilillililinnni Tnr a rU8t i ran "AP Newsfeatures 1 Few armies have seen their high command shift as much as' German's Generals Von Rundstedt and Kesselring are striking examples of the upb and downs involved in master-minding for the supermen. Gen. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring laid the.
foundation for his erratic career in World War I when, with Goering, he fought in the au force. In 1936, at 49, he became the first chieof the luftwaffe's general staff, after several years in a Bavarian asylum. He soon resigned, angered at rejection of his plan for use of coordinated airground forces. But after 1939's army shakeup he was in- again cmei or operations In the STToigntrr-HoMarfd and Belgium: crumpling beneath air-ground assault, vindicated him and resulted in promotion -to his -present high rank. But when the battle of Britain was lost, Kesselring was again "out." His stock falling, he commanded aviation in central Russia, became luft-waffee chief in Italy in February, 1942, but struck.
a new low in prestige when Malta, withstood 1,300 thundering air assaults. He locked horns with Gen. Rommel, a subordinate officer who never obeyed -him, after a plan for air transport of troops to North Africa failed utterly. Shunted from his Mediterrean post, he held an air command on the Don front in Russia, and in 1943; returned as commander of forces In southern Italy as a subordinate, this time, to Rommel. He was reported seized, by the Gestapo July 24, 1944, by March of this year he was "ifi" as Wehrmacht chief in Italy.
Now' he's Germany's western front com-mader. ari Rudolf Gem von Rundstedt, high priest of blitzkrieg jstrategyr directed the onslaught against Poland and exploded the "phony war" of, 1939-40 with a breakthrough at Sedan Made a field marshal general, he' was sent to the southern front when Germany invaded Russia, and performed brilliantly until Timoshenko's offensive upset the Nazis' Crimean apple-, cart. Then' he several other generals resigned or were dismissed because Hitler had decided to run the war by intitution. Pundstedt was "out" until Jan. 23, 1942, when he represented Hitler at a state funeral for Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau.
Later that vear. with France rumbling with revolt, it was Rundstedt Hitler picked; 1 to "be in Aviator Mattcrn ROCHESTER. April 2 iff) JameS Mattern, aviator who gained fame in 1933 by attempting a solo flight around "the world, arrived here today and Immediately went to St. Mary's hospital. Mrs.
Mattern, who accompanied him from their 'home in Burbank, declined to comment on Mattern's condition. i The upper part of the body is built around a bony cage called the thorax the walls of which are the ribs, i Sen. Richard B. Russell (D.) Georgia, 4- hi i fij.nivfiiinpa charge of all measures deemed necessary and take all decisions' in French territory." He remained in favor until the allied landings in Normandy as "supreme commander of the army groups" in charge of western defenses, with General Rommel- as a subordinate. But he fell out with Rommel over strategy to meet the invasion and was removed from the western command after the allied landings.
He- was reinstated as western cliief after the death of his successor. Gen. Guenther von Kluge, master of the first victorious sweep into Russia. But after his December Ardennes offensive and the allied breakthrough to the Rhine-and beyond, he. was "out" again, replaced by Gen.
Field "Marshal Kesselring. f1 W- WHITE i t- i i 25 0 of .1 mera fa Bind. 6 J93I. I' tfc1? lintel FIVE SENATORS HOPE TO ENTER BERLIN WITH YANKS Rrch Cfl "'6 Plant MHWHMWW-WfiggTW --unon that 1 the as a soJutj to lVeW llle Inch Vg and on," 0t.ve 1 1 eymnVT sanies TERMS OF 7TH WAR LOAN BONDS WASHINGTON, April 2 (P) Sec-retary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced today the terms of the four marketable securities to be offered in the Seventh war loan Urive starting May 14. At a recent news conference, Mor- genthau disclosed -the treasury had "been deliberately withholding the maturity dates of the securities be- valise postponement of the announcement had "dried up" trading in gov- ermnent bonds.
Morgenthau described -this as a healthy development. All aecurities will be dated June 1. 1945. y. -4 The 2 per cent, bonds will mature 'June 15, 1972 and may be redeemed at the 'Option of the United States 1 on and "after June 15, 1967.
They will be tasued In coupon and registered form at the option of the buyers, in denominations of $500 to 9M if it YEARS' PETROLEUM PROGRESS SINCE PEARL HARBOR i Naw Hampshire V. If if $'4 The 2'A per cent, bonds will mature T' June IS, 1962, and may be redeemed at the option of the United States on and after June 15, 19S9. They will be Issued In the same zorm ana Denomination as the 2 pet cent. -5 FLASH MOTOR OIL 1 The 1'per cent, bonds will mature TtoMnhm-15. 1950.
They also will be In coupon or registered form, 1500 to LUSRICATIOIJ SERVICE "The ths per cent, certificates of inH.MHnu will mature June 1, 1946, to the Pacific theater of f-acinc meater or pean and WW be In coupon form only, in Carolina Sen. Afbtrl B. Chandler (0.) ncwmroawqni 10.
