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LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 194424 PAGES PRICE 3 CENTS 'SST POST PATC NATIONAL SERVICEWmm PLAN U. S. RAIDERS LOSE 59 BIG BOMBERS IN GREATEST AIR BATTLE OF WAR; MORE THAN 100 NAZIS SHOT DOWN APPEAL TAKEN UP BY SENA TE GROUP FOR LEGISLATURE RECTEDJ3T02 Constitution Committee Vote Indicates Little PLANE ASSEMBLY St. Louis Ace Flying New 'Hot Fighter; Missourian Leads Unit RUSSIANS TAKE SARNY, 35 MILES WEST OF FORMER I PLANTS IN REICH HIT; 5 AMERICAN FIGHTERS MISSING CLAUSE ON EQUAL RIGHTS TENTATIVELY AGREED ON BY CONSTITUTION GROUP JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 12 (AP).

A DECLARATION that all men "are entitled to equal right and opportunity under the law" was tentatively agreed on by a Constitutional Convention committee today as a substitute for a proposal which would guarantee Negroes access to all public places. The subst itute was recommended by a subcommittee of the Hill of Rights Committee in a report which said: "These words give to all persons of every race, color and creed equal rights and opportunities under the law, without distinction on these or other grounds, so that each individual may secure these rights according to his own abiliity. "The law cannot give social equality to any person, but it can and should assure its own equal application to all persons and afford them equal opportunities for economic security so that they may attain such social status as may follow from their own efforts under such equality." Maj. James H. Howard One of Veterans Assembled From AH Over World Plane May Be Modified P-51.

By W. W. HKBC1IEB. LONDON, Jan. 12 (AP).

America's new long-range fighters, officially reported in yesterday's raids over Germany, have more than a dozen missions over Europe to their credit. They escorted heavy bombers more than 400 miles to Kiel and back on Dec. 13, 1943. (Other London dispatches said it was believed that the new fighter was the latest version of the P-51 Mustang with a Rolls-Royce Merlin motor.) Veteran pilots of the new fighter, including several aces imported from the Pacific and other theaters, describe it as the "hottest" plane they have flown against the enemy anywhere. Commander of the first group to go Into action is Lt.

Col. Kenneth R. Martin, 27 years old, of Kansas City, who led all the secret trial sessions. The brilliant staff under him Includes an. executive officer, two squadron commanders and a chief of operations who saw action in the Pacific and another squadron leader who was decorated by Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai- 6 YANKS DESTROY PILLBOX, TANKS IN 25 MINUTES Tank-Destroyer Crew Also Wrecks Half-Track and Munitions Truck.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (AP). A six-man tornado the crew of the American tank destroyer Jinx went into action or a for tified German position in Italy last September and within 25 minutes it had demolished a pillbox, five medium tanks, an armored half-track, an ammunition truck and a house. Not an American was injured. All six men now possess the Silver Star for their work.

They are Staff Sgt. Raymond (1. Murphy, Jacksonville, who was in command; Sgt. Edwin A. Yost, Gorham.

assistant leader; Cpl. Alvin B. Q. Johnson, Snyder, gunner; Pfc. Joseph R.

O'Bryan, New Haven, driver; and twin brothers, Pvt. Claude II. Stokes, assistant gunner and Pvt. Clyde T. Stokes, ammunition passer, both of McAlester, Ok.

The crew discovered a German strong point where a creek emptied into a river. The entire area was within range of enemy artillery in the hills across the river. But the six men moved out of concealment in trees around the position and speedily disposed of lt. ANOTHER ARGENTINA DECREE BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 12 (AP).

The Argentine Government has ordered the dissolution of all na tionalist organizations "in order to direct the internal life of the country." The action, taken last night under the terms of the same decree which recently dissolved political parties, was believed to affect at least seven large nationalist groups, including the Alianza de la Juventud Nacionalista, a militant pro-Nazi youth movement. Austin Revises Bill, but Won't Press It Unless Public. Demands It Many on Committee Against Plan. ROOSEVELT CALLS GREEN AND MURRAY AFL Head Says Proposal Wouldn't Prev ent Strikes, Would Under- mine Basic Concepts of WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (AP).

A Senate committeo went to work today on national service legislation requested by President Roosevelt amid widespread expressions of opposition and the declaration ef Senator Austin Vermont, author of a labor draft bill, that he would not push for its enactment unless he is convinced cf a united public demand for it. This must not come as a mandate from Congress to the people," Austin told the Military Affairs Committee, "It must arise from the people. This bill should move forward with the people." President Roosevelt yesterday put national service legislation government power to conscript civilian labor for essential jobs at the top of a five-point legislative program to hasten victory in the war. The President called to the White House today Phesident Philip Murray of the CIO and President William Green of the AFL, both of whom expressed opposition to his national service law proposal. Austin Says Polls Favor Uw.

Senator Austin, appearing be fore the committee less than 24 hours after the President's message was delivered, said polls, letters and other evidence showed many segments of the population favored a home-front service act. But, he told the committee, he has no intention of "forcing" the plan if anybody felt that any considerable portion of the nation does not want it. Austin outlined to the committee the measure which he revised yesterday after the President made his request. Many of the committee members, among them Chairman Reynolds North Carolina, were openly hontlle to the Idea of national rvlce. Reynold tiald the committee would hold at least three or four more meetings be fore acting.

Austin said that under the new bill employes who leave a war plant on strike could be forced by the Government to return to their jobs or be replaced by other workers, if the Government felt the strike impeded the war effort. He insisted the bill would not cancel the workers right to strike. It would, he said, prevent the shutdown of essential industries. Other Senators said later that they neneved tne measure would effectively stop strikes. The "benevolent character" of the measure.

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maximum this date. 38 normal minimum, 23 a- Weather in other cities--Page 4B. 22 Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and continued cold tonight, lowest temperature 15 to 18; tomorrow, fair and warmer. Missouri: Fair, somewhat colder in south and east central por-tions tonight; tomorrow, fair and warmer, except little change in temperature in extreme southeast portion.

Illinois: Fair tonight and tomorrow; cfcder In extreme south portion tonight. Time for service. POST-DISPATCH WCATHERBIRD farmer tomorrow afternoon. Sunset, sunrise (tomorrow), 8:19. Stage of the Mississippi at St.

Louis, 0.4 foot, a fall of 0.1; the Missouri at St. Charles, 7.9 feet, a rise of 0.2. fAH wear Her data, including forecast and temperatures, supplied by United tates Weather Bureau. DEWEY, WILLKIE EQUAL CHOICES IN POLL OF O. P.

Tl Each Gets 21 Votes in Ballot Taken by A. P. Bricker Next With 5 23 Say They Are Open-Minded. (Copyright, 1944. by the Associated rr.

CHICAGO, Jan. 12. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and Wendell Wlllkie topped possible contenders for the Republican presidential nomination today in a poll taken among members of the party's National Committee.

The test of sentiment also disclosed that a large number had not yet decided which candidate they would prefer. Tabulation of the survey made by the Associated Press during the committee's meeting here Monday and Tuesday showed these results: Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York 21 Wendell Willkie 21 Gov. John W.

Bricker of Ohio 5 Lt. Comdr. Harold E. Stassen Senator Robert Taft of Ohio-Gov. Dwight H.

Green of Illinois Gov. Earl Warren of California Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur Dewey or Willkie The poll also brought out that 23 still were open-minded on the subject. Left unanswered was a question, that would intrigue many politicians who voted for whom? A reply was precluded by the manner in which the referendum was handled. The reporters took sealed ballot boxes to the hotel rooms of committee men and women and' those who held proxies for members at the session.

The participants were given blank slips. On them they wrote the name of their favorite or recorded themselves as open-minded. Then they folded them and dropped them into the boxes much in the same fashion as in election voting booths. They were asked simply: man would you like to see nom inated by the Republican party?" Chairman Frank C. Walker of the Democratic National Commit tee, who arrived here today, indicated the Democrats would select Chicago for their convention and meet in the same stadium that will be the scene of the Republican convention starting June 26.

He would not predict the exact date for the Democratic gathering, but indicated it would be around mid-July. DEWEY KEEPS DOOR OPEN TO DRAFT HIM ALBANY. N. Jan. 12 (AP).

Belief that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey would consent to be drafted os Republican candidate for President mounted today after his failure, in answer to a direct question, to eliminate himself from consideration for the nomination. Twenty-one reporters shot questions for more than an hour yesterday at New York's Governor, who repeatedly has said he is not a "candidate" for the nomination. They received answers that sent them out of the conference con vinced that he has not closed the door against any move to draft him.

The exchange began with the Governor being informed of reports that J. Russel Sprague, National Republican Committeeman from New1 York, and State Chair- Continued on Page 5, Column 4. BIRTH INCREASE OF MILLION IN FIRST TWO YEARS OF WAR Peak Reached About a Year iter Pearl Harbor, Census Bureau Reports. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (AP).

In the first two years of war, one million more babies were born this country than in the last two years of peace. The Census Bureau, reporting this yesterday, added that the peak in new births was reached about a year after Pearl Harbor, with a gradual decline noted since last February. Last year broke all records for the number of births, tentatively estimated by the bureau at 3,200,000, compared with 3,040,000 in 1942. The provisional 1943 birth rate of 22.0 per 1000 population was a full point above the 1942 rate and 5.4 points above the depression era low reached in 1933. COM MN in Chance for Proposal at Convention.

TWO FROM COUNTY ONLY SUPPORTERS Chairman Says Group Will Try to Correct Evils in Two-House As sembly System. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 12. The proposal for a unicameral, or single chamber, Missouri legislature was rejected today by the Constitutional Convention's Committee on Legislative Department.

The question came up on a motion by Allen McReynolds of Carthage, that the committee in framing the legislative article of the Constitution proceed on the theory of a bicameral, or two-house, legislature. It was announced a vote against the motion would be a vote for a one-house legislature. The McReynolds motion passed by a vote of 13 to 2, only Stratford Lee Morton and Ethan A. H. Shep-ley, delegates from St, Louis County, favoring the unicameral proposal.

This vote, the first test of strength on the one-house issue, would seem rather effectively to dispose of the unicameral proposal. While it would be possible to bring the issue up on the floor of the convention when the committee makes its report later, the fact that only two committee members had voted for the plan would strongly indicate it had little chance in the convention. The committee chairman, George D. Clayton Jr. of Hannibal, said iiwould be the committee's purpose to try to correct in the Constitution such evils as have existed in the two-house system.

Previously he had said he favored a provision prohibiting secret legislative committee sessions, as well as a provision whereby a bill held in committee an unreasonable length of time could be forced out on the floor by a small number of legislators, instead of the majority now required for such a move. BOMBER RAID ON FORMOSA REPORTED BY TOKYO RADIO Japanese. Account Suva Takao on Went Coat Was lilt With Small Damage. NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (AP).

The Tokyo radio said today that several Allied bombers had attacked the vicinity of Takao on the western coast of Formosa last night. The radio claimed damage was small. Formosa, Japan's big Island colony 90 miles off the coast of China, was raided on Thanksgiving day by Mitchell bombers and Lightning fighters of Maj. Gen. Claire L.

Chennault's Fourteenth United States Air Force. That blow, also first announced by Tokyo, wna at rin agalnat the airbase at Shlnehlku on the northwest corner of the island and re sulted in the destruction of at least 31 enemy planes, without loss to the attackers. Army Frees Freddie Bartholomew. AMARILLO, Jan. 12 (AP).

A back injury suffered in an accident several years ago caused the medical discharge today of PFC Freddie Bartholomew, former motion picture actor, who was a student mechanic at the Ama nita Army air field. and more In speed, compared to the Liberty's 11. The Victory ship consequently will dare to sail without convoy protection. It will make the round trip from the East Coast to England in three weeks, where the Liberty takes nine. Only in construction will the Victory be slower.

One Liberty here was completed in 13 days. Normal time is closer to 30 days. The United Victory was on the ways 54 days. It will be 30 to 40 days more before completion. But the new ship is a more intricate piece of construction and the yard will not be fully converted to its production until three more Liberty vessels are launched.

Eventually yard officials expect to reduce the time to 50 days a ship. The result will be a huge fleet of modern freighters. Oregon Shipbuilding alone has a contract for 105 of them. Other yards on east and west coasts will follow soon. HEAVY RUN OF HOGS CAUSES NEW STOCKYARDS EMBARGO Bar Until Sunday Noon Invoked After Three-Day Receipts of 68,000 Head.

With three-day receipts of 68,000 hogs severely overtaxing packers' facilities, the Hog Marketing Committee of the National Stockyards today ordered an embargo restricting the shipment of hogs to the market. The embargo, the third within a month, will become effective at noon tomorrow and will continue until noon Sunday. The heavy run of hogs this week and the continued congestion, especially floor weight hogs (weighing '200 to 300 pounds), resulted in the embargo, H. A. Powell, secretary of the St.

Louis Livestock Exchangraid-Mon-day the yards received 35,203 head for a new commercial record, and Tuesday's receipts were estimated at 18,000. Powell said that a carryover from yesterday of 13,500 and fresh a-rivals of 15.000 today led to the committee's decision to cut off further shipments. He estimated that 13,000 hogs, the majority of them floor weights, remained unsold at noon today and said the prospects for their sale today were poor. Approximately 14,000 hogs will be earned over for tomorrow's sales, he said, i DEMOCRATS LACK MAJORITY IN HOUSE FIRST TIME SINCE '3 1 Resignation of Gavagan to Take Judicial Bench Leaves Party With 217 Seats. WASHINGTON, Jan.

12 (AP). Democratic strength in the House today amounted only to numerical superiority as the resignation of Representative Gavagan of New York left the party without a majority of seats for the first time since 1931. Gavagan resigned to take a seat on the New York State Supreme Court hench to which he was elected Inst November. His renignntlon left the House lineup at 217 DemncmU, 208 Republicans, four minor party representatives and six vacancies. A House majority is 218.

Vatican Heating Flant Shut Down. NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (AP). The Vatican radio said today that Pope Pius XII had ordered the central heating systems in Vatican City shut down "owing to the serious times through which we are passing which demand great sacrifices and restrictions from everyone." POLISH BORDER Nazis Move Reinforce ments Into Ukraine and Counterattack, but Fail to Stop Soviet Ad- vances. By JAMES M.

LONG LONDON, Jan. 12 (AP). Russian troops of the First Ukraine Army have captured Sarny. tail-way junction 35 miles inalda old Poland, Marshal Stalin announced today. Stalin's order of the day described Sarny as "an Important strong point In the German defenses." The Soviet forces crossed the Slucz River yesterday and then took Sarny by assault, said' the order, broadcast by the Moscow radio and recorded by the Soviet monitor.

The key railway center, astride a north-south line and also on the Kiev line west to Warsaw, had virtually been encircled, and Soviet advance units already were pushing beyond Sarny. Towns on the railway north and south were taken yesterday, effectively breaking the Nazi supply route, end forcing the Germans to rely on the railway running through Brest-Litovsk, 135 miles farther west, for rail connections from the central to the southern fronts in 1 Russia. stryeisk, seven miles north cf Sarny, and Nenovichi, seven miles south, were seized yesterday. Stalin ordered a salute of 12 salvoes from 124 guns to be fired in Moscow tonight, and awarded the name "Sarny" to troops dis tinguishing themselves in the vic tory. Fall of Sarny meant Gen.

Nikolai Vatutin could use the rail cen ter as a pivot, with his right flank protected by the Pripet Marshes. for attacks toward the rail centers of Shepetovka, Rovno, Zhmerinka, and Proshurov. Counterattack. Dispatches from Moscow reported that the Germans had moved strong reinforcements Into the Dnieper bend and Ukraine bat-tie areas and were counterattacking. "On many sectors, offensive battles were assuming a more violent character," the -Army newspaper Red Star said, "the enemy has introduced new units to complete his defeated Infantry and tank divisions." In the upper Dnieper bend sector, the Germans by hard fighting and heavy losses still were holding open their narrow escape corridor from the Smela-Kanev area where they were being squeezed between the First and Second Ukrainian Armies.

No Ruiisinn report sug-Knteri flurmnn withdrawn! al though the peril to the Nazis in creased every hour. The Nazis were mustering all available tank and infantry reserves in an effort to stem the Russian advance, Red Star dispatches said, but at no point was the enemy able to stOD the Soviet drive, despite the heavy weight of armor thrown into the battle. Furious tank charges against troops to lien. Vatutin approaching the Odessa Warsaw railway were beaten back, -Red Star said, with guerrilla detach ments lending valuable aid to the Continued on Page 7, Column 4. 6.

INTEREST IN PIN-UP GIRLS REPORTED SLIPPING No Complaints Received When Army Paper Eliminates Such Pictures. NEW YORK, Jan. (AP). G. I.

Joe apparently is losing interest in pin-up girls, says Master Sgt. David Golding of the Stars and Stripes of the Mediterranean area, who discloses that the Army newspaper has eliminated such pictures without receiving a. single serviceman's complaint. Golding, who returned here to become Stars and Stripes' home-front correspondent, said the paper also had curtailed sports news and was devoting more space to home front and international affairs. He said he planned to report on developments in soldier voting, mustering out pay and postwar employment plans.

ROlDrERS LIKE CANDT Send "Sweets-from-Home" fine candles a special package made for overseas mailing. 39c at mavrakos. Adv.) 700 Fortresses and Lib erators in Attack That Obtained 'Excellent Results' Some of Craft Pass Over Berlin. LONDON, Jan. 12 (AP).

Fifty-nine American bombers and five fighters were lost In yesterday's raids on Germany, it was announced tonight. More than 10O enemy fighters were destroyed. More than 700 Flying Fortresses and Liberators took part in the attack, declared by the Germans previously to have been the greatest air battle of the war. The announcement said they attacked important fighter assembly plants in Germany "with excellent results." Thunderbolts, Lightnings and long-range fighters accompanied the heavy bombers on their mis sion. German Claims.

The Germans had announced earlier in the day that the United States Air Force lost 138 planes, including 124 four-engine bombers, in yesterday's assault on the continent. It was the greatest loss of bombers since the Schweinfurt attack of Oct 14, when 60 of the heavy craft were lost. Some of the American bombers roared, over Berlinv nd the Germans announced they used "new tactics" in warding off the Unite States planes. Text of Announcement. The text of the official announcement follows: "It is announced by headquarters of the European theater of operations.

United States Army, that formations of more than 700 U. S. A. F. Flying Fortresses and Liberators escorted by Thun-: derbolts, Lightnings and long-range fighters attacked important fighter assembly plants in Germany with excellent results on Tuesday.

"At OHchemlrben direct strikes were observed on machine shops and other factory installations manufacturing Focke-Wulf 190s. "At Halberstadt a Junkers 88 and Junkers 188 component plant was heavily hit. "At Brunswick, two of three main assembly buildings producing Messerschmitt 110s were destroyed and the third was badly damaged. "Other targets were also hit with good results. Opposition was strong and there were many fierce aerial combats.

Incomplete re ports showed that more than 100 enemy interceptors were destroyed by the attacking force. "From these operations 59 bomb ers and five fighters are niflstng." Dlvf rulonury Flight. The main force struck at Magde burg and Halberstadt, 100 miles southwest of the capital, while other heavyweights flew in a diversionary raid over Berlin itself, the Berlin correspondent of the Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Today's War News LONDON United States Eighth Air Force announces that 59 heavy bombers and five fighters wer lost in yesterday's raid on Ger many by a force of 700 Flying Fortresses and Liberators; more than 100 German fighters shot down and "excellent results" obtained in the bombing of aircraft plants at Ochersleben, Halberstadt and Brunswick. MOSCOW Russians announce capture of Sarny, 33 miles inside prewar Poland; Germans counterattacking without success in that and Dnieper bend areas.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers Flying Fortresses and R. A. F. Wellingtons bomb Piraeus, port of Athens, in day and night raids; Fifth Army advances in Italy (where Germans report loss of Cervaro). WASHINGTON Navy an nounces that American bombern have Mink two small Japanene cargo ships, damaged four others radio on Kwaljalein in the Marshall Islands.

ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD QUARTERS NEW GUINEA Australians using tanks defeat Japanese in Huon Peninsula fight and cross Buri River; Marines) smash two counterattacks near Borgen Bay, New Britain. By a Pont-Plnpntrh Stff Ptiotoirrn phr MAJ. JAMES H. HOWARD Of St. Louis, veteran of the American Volunteer Group in the Far East, who now is the leader of a squadron of new long-range lighters in action in the European the-ater.

shek for downing six Japanese planes while a member of the famous American Vounteer Group which fought in Burma and China. The A. V. G. veteran is Maj.

James H. Howard of St. Louis, who became an Army flyer after serving three years in the Navy. Other squadron commanders are Capt, Henry Lee Priser, Tucson, and Maj. George R.

Bickell, 27, former Wall Street clerk of Continued on Page 2, Column 1. PORT FOR ATHENS Many Fires Set in Piraeus Harbor Germans Give Up Cervaro 5th Army Front. on By JOSEPH DYNAN. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Al giers, Jan. 12 (AP).

Allied bombers, striking another dny-and- nlght doubleheader blow into the Balkans, battered Piraeus, the port of Athens in Greece, in heavy force yesterday, while aground the Fifth Army seized more heights in Italy, Allied headquar ters announced today. (The German communique said the Nazis had given up Cervaro, fortified village four miles east southeast of Cassino "after hard fighting," and also had lost a mountain top to the northeast. Cervaro was the last village out post guarding Cassino, the power ful Nazi stronghold blocking the road to Rome. Allied troops had closed in on the village from the hoiiUi and the northeast.) The one-two punch against Pir aeus was delivered by "a consider able force" of Flying Fortresses by day, followed by Royal Air Force Wellingtons last night. Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, was hammered Monday on the same pattern.

(The Cairo radio said that evacuation of Sofia now is under way on a large scale. The radio report ed the latest raids on Monday in flicted considerable damage to in dustrial districts and added that the government and ministries were understood to be leaving the city.) Fortress crewmen said many Continued on Page 6, Column 3. father of a baby he has never seen. "We are out here not fighting for a new idealistic world; we are fighting for the world we knew, the life we lived in the past," he said. "We are being sold out by the American people who are not honestly making an effort to maintain things as they were.

Yes, they'll work in a shipyard provided they receive five times the pay they deserve. I am only one in millions whose hopes are being crushed along with those of our men." Saying he knew he was "sticking my neck out" by writing to Compton, whom he does not know, the lieutenant asserted that "though my office and my commission mean much to me, they mean nothing in comparison to my loyalty to my country." BOMBED AV BYDAYANDNGHT First Victory Ship Is Launched; 3 Times as Fast as the Liberty 'We Are Being Sold Out' at Home, Navy Officer Writes on Strikes PORTLAND, Jan. 12 (AP) The nation's first Victory ship, one of the freighters expected to form the backbone of the United States' postwar merchant fleet, was launched here today. In a half-hour ceremony at Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation, the champion producer of Liberty ships, the vessel was christened United Vic-trry by Mrs.

Thomas Beck, wife of the president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. All Oregon observed the event. Gov. Earl Snell proclaimed it "United Victory Day" and urged "full appreciation of what this means to our war effort" and to postwar plans. Just what it means Is shown In wartime commission figures.

The Victory is faster and more rakish than the Liberty ship. It carries the same amount of cargo, but produces almost three times as much power, turning up 15 knots WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (AP). A letter from a Navy lieutenant on combat duty in the Pacific, denouncing strikes and asserting "we have a double battle one with our external enemies the other with our internal enemies" has been received by Representative Compton Connecticut, who said he would bring it to the attention of the House today. The officer, who was not named, said his position charged him with personnel problems aboard his ship.

He said news of the rail road and steel strike threats in the ship newspaper "had a direct deteriorating influence on the members of our crew. "Tears came into eyes that have survived great naval battles, men who have fought and killed what's the use? Where are we they asked," wrote the officer, who is married and the.