Senate Votes Aid For Dependents Of Enlisted Men Measure Carries Section Providing Draft Act Reclassification; Sums Allowed for Wife or Parents 1942 WASHINGTON, June 4 The senate passed Thursday and sent to the house a measure providing cash allowances for the dependents of enlisted men in the armed forces, but delayed at least until Monday a showdown vote on the question of increasing the pay of buck privates and navy seamen to 50 monthly. Under the legislation approved by the senate without a record vote, any soldier, sailor, marine or coast guardsman receiving 78 monthly or less could assure his wife of at least 50 a month income. Would Contribute 22 Of this amount, the enlisted man would contribute 22 from his pay while the government would contribute 28. In addition, the government would contribute 12 monthly to the support of the first child and 10 monthly for each additional child. In another classification, the enlisted man could elect to contribute an additional 5 and the government would provide 15 more for one dependent parent, 25 for two parents and 5 for each additional brother, sister or grandchild. If the soldier had no wife or children, his contribution would be 22 in this classification. Linked with these dependency provisions, the measure carried a section authorizing the selective service, under the direction of the president, to set up classifications which would determine the order in which registrants would be called to active service. Holiday Death Toll Hits 78 1942 By United Press The Memorial day holiday exacted a toll of 78 lives in traffic accidents, drownings and miscellaneous mishaps throughout the nation, a survey showed Saturday night. Reduced travel by conservation conscious motorists was credited by safety authorities with holding the traffic fatality toll down. Gasoline rationing in the 17 state Atlantic coast area also was considered a safety factor. Last year the nation recorded 110 holiday traffic deaths. This year the survey showed at least 41. There were 26 drownings, and 11 persons were killed in miscellaneous accidents. Eight of the drownings occurred in Michigan. SHIPPING LOSS TOPS 400 MARK July 1942 By the Associated Press The toll of merchant shipping sunk by enemy submarines on the very doorstep of the Americas has topped the 400 mark and the western Atlantic has become the grave of more than 2000 seamen and passengers since Pearl Harbor. Figures tabulated by the Associated Press yesterday as the announced or reported wartime sinkings in those waters reached 401 showed that at least 1620 more crewmen or passengers were missing after attacks by the undersea raiders, while 11,766 persons have been rescued. For the 400th acknowledged victim, a U boat chose the smallest fry in the 233 days of their preying on allied or neutral shipping off American shores a 16 ton onion boat just out of Havana, the subs crew, apparently running out of rations, helped itself to 40,000 pounds of onions, canned goods and a quantity of Diesel oil from the vessel. Later yesterday the Mexican government announced the sinking Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico of the Mexican freighter Oaxaca, for the fifth Mexican victim of the war and the 401st on the grand total of allied or neutral ships destroyed. ONE PETAL Some day beneatlh a cool, green morning sky I shall climb lightly up a cherry tree And lie as still as cherry blossoms lie Until their fragrance is a part of me. I shall be intimate with wind and sun And learn what thrush and warbler have to say; I shall remember nothing left undone, For I shall be a scented cherry spray. And when the rimming hills have caught the fire That was the sun, to fling across the west, I shall want only what the leaves require. And what new budded leaf has need of rest? But after night has spread her damson gown And tied her starry scarf around her girth, If whispering thoughts release me, floating down My heart shall hold one petal from the earth. Eva Willes Wangsgaard From Poem a Day, California Syndicate.