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March 8, 1943

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DRAFT FOR MEN, 38, NOW UP TO ARMY; 4-H STATUS ENDED; WMC Orders Local Boards to Put All Men to 45 Into Regular Categories TO INDUCE FARMING TREND Service Eligibles Are Expected to Seek Rural Jobs by May 1 or Face Likely Call 4-H IS ENDED, DRAFT FOR MEN, 38, LOOMS

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

WMC orders abolition of 4-H classification in move to make 38-45 age-group available for induction when and if needed; reclassified men to be identified as 1-A(H), 2-B(H), etc; agr deferments to stand

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JAPANESE RETREAT ON SALWEEN FRONT; Withdrawal Follows Furious Chinese Assaults -- Foe Held on Yunnan-Burma Line JAPANESE RETREAT ON SALWEEN FRONT

By the Associated Press

Jap forces on Salween River west bank start gen retreat; Jap column striking northward from Tachupa checked; Chinese capture of Kiangtzuchen reptd; Jap forces reptd checked, Shihhuika area; Chinese attack foe near Niehchichao; Tokyo radio repts thousands of Chinese troops taken in mopping-up operations; Weihaiwei reptd under constant attack by Chinese guerrillas

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BRITISH CHECK MARETH LINE ATTACKS AND SEIZE INITIATIVE IN NORTH TUNISIA; SOVIET COLUMNS CONVERGE ON VYAZMA; ROMMEL BATTERED Eighth Army's Artillery Smashes Tank Waves Without Yielding ALLIED FIGHTERS IN FRAY American Raiding Party Retires From Pichon -- Patrols Only Two Miles From Gafsa ROMMEL BATTERED IN MARETH ATTACK

By the United Press

Brit 8th Army troops hurl back Ger tank waves; full-scale fighting continues, Brit 1st Army takes offensive stopping Ger attacks aimed at snarling Allied communications; US patrols retire from Pichon; other patrols advance within 2 mi of Gafsa; Allied fighter planes active, all fronts; Axis Tunis troops reptd reinforced via Sicily

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Notable Births

Susan Clark

1943Susan Clark, Canadian actress and producer[†]

Susan Clark is a Canadian actress. She made her big screen debut in the 1967 drama film Banning and the following year played the female lead in the crime thriller Coogan's Bluff. She later starred in films Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), Colossus: The Forbin Project (1971), Valdez Is Coming (1971), Skin Game (1971), Showdown (1973), The Midnight Man (1974), Airport 1975 (1975), Night Moves (1975), The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975), Murder by Decree (1979), Promises in the Dark (1979) and Porky's (1981).

Lynn Redgrave

1943Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (died 2010)[†]

Lynn Rachel Redgrave was a British and American actress. During a career that spanned five decades, she won two Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award.

Notable Deaths

Cipto Mangunkusumo

1943Cipto Mangunkusumo, Indonesian independence leader (born 1886)[†]

Cipto Mangunkusumo was a prominent Indonesian independence leader and Sukarno's political mentor. Together with Ernest Douwes Dekker and Soewardi Soerjaningrat, he was one of the three founders of the influential Indische Party, a political party disseminating the idea of self-government of the Dutch East Indies. After the party was labeled subversive by the colonial court of law in 1913, he and his fellow IP leaders were exiled to the Netherlands.