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Show Marines Root Out Japs on Peleliu I It's been more than six months since American troops first landed on Peleliu, but they're still killing Japs there, according to Marine Combat Correspondent David Stick. Consider that Peleliu is only six miles long and less than three miles wide; about the size of one of those "little lakes" up in Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, or a farm in Kansas, or the city of Miami Beach, Fla. The average marine stained here thinks this island is-land is just too small to hold comfortably com-fortably both American and Jap troops, yet the labyrinth of caves on "Bloody Nose Ridge," only 1,100 yards from the airstrip, provides a place of concealment for scores of Japs who've been hiding there since last September. ' FARM DRAFT: Revision Vetoed Declaring that "I do not believe . . . that congress intended to enact en-act legislation formulating the national na-tional policy that agricultural employment em-ployment was more essential than any other type of employment. . . . Pres. Harry S. Truman vetoed an amendment to the Selective Service Serv-ice bill under which all essential farm workers would have been deferred de-ferred regardless of their relative need by the services. Cause of the effort to secure blanket deferment for essential farm workers because of local boards' interpretations of its provisions provis-ions to mean that induction of such employees was permissible if their services were deemed of greater importance im-portance to' the military forces, the Tydings amendment thus remains the guiding principle of the farm draft. . With Democrats and Republicans alike calling for repassage of the measure over the President's veto to safeguard 1945 farm production, 185 congressmen voted to carry the bill over the chief executive's head, 57 short of the two-thirds majority ma-jority necessary. LABOR: New Rivalry Rivals at home, the AFL and CIO are shaping as rivals in international labor affairs, with the AFL bucking the CIO's backing of the world trade union congress, which timed its convention con-vention with the San Francisco security se-curity conference and sought to obtain ob-tain the latter's recognition as representative rep-resentative of labor. Claiming that the world trade union congress was dominated by communist elements "who are not free to determine their destiny," the AFL declared "we have declined to identify ourselves with a movement that is inspired by a political philosophy philos-ophy which is designed to subordinate subordi-nate and subjugate man and property prop-erty to the exclusive will of the state." Declaring that the International Federation of Trade Unions was more representative of world labor, the AFL called for a convention of this body to shape future policy upon reorganization of the different member mem-ber unions wrecked with the Nazi occupation of European countries. |