ROTATION Are S+dRlESHERE IN CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONECNo. 1Continued From Page One AFRICA: western desert air force went to the assistance yesterday of the Eighth Army column that had| swung around the southern end of the Mareth line and was engaging the enemy in the El Hamma region. The fliers were assigned a target of 20 enemy tanks concentrated in that region, and they took their fighter planes in low. Fifty-four sure hits were reported on nine tanks which either ere destroyed or put out of action for a long time.American pilots concentrated or e Axis reinforcement port of Sousse and Flving Fortresses sank nail merchant ship and hit a one. One heavy explosion was seen in the northern end of the and a large fire developed quicklyIn the El Hamma area Eighth Army pilots intercepted a formation of bomb-carrying Messer-rhmitts and shot down one, The E.1 others were forced to jettison ic-, their bombs.?h! := -Charles Lublow, 820 Maple-av; William Werner Smith, 322 Shel-by-st; Robert Donald Howald, 228 E. Monroe-st; Walter Joseph Koch, 77 Howard Place, Buffalo, N. Y.; James Roy Shock, 1221 Polk-st; Melvin Henry Lawrence, 618 McDonough-st; NorbeH Charles Krebs, 409 Cooke-st; Victor Eugene Eckert, 621 Clinton-st; James Claude Wilson, 1529 Hayes-av, and Louis Edward Swisher, 509 W. Adams-st.group of colored selectees from Local Selective Service Board No. 1 and No. 2, Erie-today was sent to Toledo for physical examinations.States even though the territory actually won might not be ol' major strategic importance.To launch such an enterprise it was believed here that Navy might strike more deeply into the Solomons archipelago by invading either the Munda area immediately beyond Guadalcanal attacking Bougainville, the big island at the Northwestern end of the chain.RUSSIANSChuguev that fresh German forces wore at the battlefront.In the Kuban valley, the Red Army maintained the tempo of its ucj renewed offensive, continuin: ;V-|their advance toward Novorossisk „ land Kerch strait.j A dispatch to Red Star, the Red id.! Army's official newspaper here, Uaid that in one sector of theI Smolensk area the advancing Russian troops liberated 12.000 citi zens whom the Germans had herd-[bJod together for shipment to Ger-any as laborers.The dispatch said, too, that having crossed the upper Dnieper riv. and reached several of the ‘earns west of it. the Russians had entered a new German defense 7.one of considerable depth with numerous firepoints, and fortifications largely built by forced labor.Both sides are introducing masses of new artillery and aviation power in the area as the battle mounts. Red Star declared.Howard’s room on the ninth floor of a fashionable hotel. The shots attracted other guests and bell hops who found the body. Mrs Howard gave her age as 44 and Simmons was between 55 and 60.Beyond claiming that Mrs. Simmons had threatened her life and ;he had struggled with her in self defense, Mrs. Howard refused to discuss the shooting. As-istant County Attorney O C. Lassiter said he had been unable to find any motive for an attack. Mrs; Howard said she had known Mrs. Simmons for years, having met her at horse shows.Mrs. Simmons’ husband refused to discuss the shooting.The Simmons' own the Simmons stables here and their horses have been exhibited throughout the country, winning many prizes.1VT o Continued From I InOo «3 Page One I MURDER |JAP ATTACKd Continued From | lNO. O Page One Ikind ever issued by a governor, came while Congress was deliberating on the demands of farm states for deferments to ease the farm manpower situation. The order was made against charges by farm bloc spokesmen that selective service headquarters had aggravated the farm labor problem by drafting essential workers.The controversy over Vivian action centered in the section of the law which delegates administrative responsibility to governors. Selective service officials at Washington, however, said the statute makes state draft directors the sole authority for ordering deferments.No. 7Continued From Page One DAVIS NAMEDviding for deferment of necessary farm workers, 550,000 have been deferred from military service this year.An estimated additional 3,000,-000 between the ages of 18 and 37 will be deferred by the end of the year under this present law, he said. Of these 3.000,000, President said, 400,000 would be single men and the rest married.The President said he thought these figures would be rather interesting to Congress, where legislation is pending providing for the deferment of all farm work-Nav.v Mothers Club, presented gifts to those joining the Navy.Accepted for the Navy were Robert Hughey Blakely. 411V2 W. Jefferson-st; Clarence David, Jr., 715 S.vcamorc-st; Charles William Gundlaeh. 234 Finch-st; Richard Bernard Hohler, 1301 Milan-rd; James Woodburn Kollman, 1007 Clinton-st: James Henry Lange, 812 I-Iancock-st: James JosephMalahy, 1518 Brown-st: ArthurHarry Ziemke, 2930 Vcnice-rd; Andrew Jacob Meyers, Plum Brook Trailer Camp: DonaldThomas Meyers, Plum Brook Trailer Camp, and Ira Angus Ziemke, 1327 Harrison-st.Acting Corporal Stauffer was a member of Sandusky High’s undefeated and untied 1931 football cam, played center again in 1932 ■vhen the eleven lost two games i.v one-point margins, and then 11 1933 was awarded the outstanding lineman’s trophy, lie also was1 member of the basketball club, md graduated in 1934.Vincent Robert Burroughs, 505 IV. Adams-st, also left with the \rmy group today but went di-•ectly to Indianapolis. Paul Mos-;er, 422 Lawrcnce-st, will entrain 'or Camp Perry Saturday.Those leaving for the Carrfp Perry reception center were: E. Kenneth Stauffer. 1533 Clinton-st; Wilbur Harry Meinert, 1820 S. Central-av: William Edward But-1714 W. Madison-st: Eugene Frederick Fitzthum. 1404 Carr-st: William Robert Reamer, 817 Os-borne-st: Hugo George Steicrt,Jr., 1329 Prospect-st: Robert Edwin Uhl. 1429 Camp-st and Maxwell Milo McCrillis, 808 Maple-The President also said a good many thousands of experienced , farm workers now in the armed ; service probably would be furloughed during the year for a temporary return to their farm j duties. He continued to oppose the idea, however, of furloughing ' troops who have completed their training and are just about ready ' for combat service.Mr. Roosevelt also told press conference that the War ! Production Board had ordered ! more steel made available for pro- ( duction of farm machinery this year.He said that the WPB last year, in an effort to focus American production on war weapons, had 1 encouraged large manufacturers ; of farm machinery to convert to \ war production, leaving the farm ] machinery field to small plants. The WPB, he added, admits this was a mistake.Mr. Roosevelt made public the executive order under which the new food administration was established and in which he specified that Davis would be ‘‘directly responsible” to the chief executive. All of the powers given Wickard last December when he j was made the first food adminis- lt;trator were transferred to Davis.MANPOWER BILLSClarence Ray Blake. 3007 Vcnice-rd; Burnell John Nissen. 1515 Pearl-st; Carl Joseph Vassallo, 135 Grove-st, Bellevue: RobertDewev Roth, 624 E. Adams-st; Robert Earl Sechrisl, 1019 Sycamore Line: Charles Allen Coors, 432 E Jefferson-st; Samuel Collins Holland, 515 E. Monroe-st; Raymond Carl Fischer, 206 46th-st and Richard Lawrence Heidi, 137 W. Boalt-st.Marvin Leonard Miller. 321 Shelhy-sl; Leno Joseph Silvani, 1614 Milan-rd; Richard Paul Miller. 1028 Hayes-av: Jack LeonWoodruff, 1334 Fifth-st; Robert James Marlin. 1122 Fifth-st: Rol-land Fred Zoch, 1030 Clinton-st: Ronald Lee Fralic. RD No. 1. San. dusky: Kenneth Cooke Atkinson, 524 Jackson-st: Joseph Salvatore Spalla, 126 Chitlenden-av. Columbus. and Roland Marion Dahnke, 1213 Waverly -rd.Holland llenrv Brelz, 1505 Pierce-sl: Elsa Eugene May. O. S. ■ S. Home: John Russell Small, Jr.. 520 Central-av: William Lloyd Hughes, 1218 Polk-st; Eugeneemployes in industry, abolish so-called “featherbed” rules designed to spread employment, and curtail union- strike activities, got to the military committee nclusion of a clause to amend the selective service act.Intended, according to Smith to bring about the utmost utili/.a lion of available manpower without the necessity for national service legislatino, the bill norally would have gone to the bor committee except 1 clause requiring employe: make periodic reports to local lective service boards of employes violating the proposed \ Employes thus reported normally would lose their occupational deferment status and pre-umably exchange their work lothes for an army uniform.The three other proposals would require the deferment of bona fide farm workers, furlough back to the farm men already drafted from agriculture, and set up a system of national service under which manpower would 3 drafted not only for •med services but for industrial and other necessary home frontwork.RUML PLANthe second installment comesdue.”Lending agencies estimatethere will be 5,000,000 borrowers when taxpayers are compelled to pay their June 15 installments, Reed said. He supported theRuml “skip-a-year plan as the only method of placing the country's 40,000,000 income taxpayers on a current basis.More than twice as many persons are killed in the home as in industry in the United States.