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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-03
CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY

During Halloween week, the Girl Scouts of Juneau are celebrating the birthday of their founder. Juliette Gordon Low, born in Sa. vannah, Georgia, october 3l, 186J With the lighting of birthday
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-03
GRAVES IN JUNEAU

Earl F. Graves, Territorial Vet erinarian, is in Juneau, and is registered at the Hotel Juneau.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
RommeI Reported Out
In Defense Dispute
Uneonfirmed information
Reaches Allied Command
By The Assoc lated Press.

By The Assoc lated Press
SUPREME ALLIED HEADQUAR-
TIERS, June l3.-- Unconfrmed re-
ports reaching here today said
Marshal Erwin Rommel had been
removed from command of the
German 7th and 18th Mobile Armies.
formed for strategic counterattacks
against the invasion.
Rommel and his superior. Marshal
Karl Won RundStedt, the overall
German commander in the west, are
known to have been at odds over
defense plans.
The younger Rommel has been
reported anxious to throw every
thing into an attempt to break up
the Allied beachhead Won Rund-
Stedt, 69-year-old Prussian has fa-
vored policy Of holding back in
order TO wait and see if further
Allied landings are made elsewhere
in France or the Low Countries.
Rommel has been glamorized by
the Nazis as a master technician.
DESPITE his defeats in Africa. Won
rIuUOSIeul, OH TIE DGIleI mana, Is q
StrategiSt
Units OF both the 7th and the 18th
Armies, predominantlV armored
striking forces. have been reported
opposing the Allies in Normandy
Just before the invasion started a
week ago. Rommel's main force was
reported bivouacked around Aachen,
Western German rail center, near
The Belgian and French borders.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Nazis North Of Rome
Fight Bitterly, but
Allies Push THROUGH
Nearly All Of Western
Shore of Lake BoIsenu
Taken by 5th Army
By the Associated Press.

ROME, June 13.-The Ger
mans north of Rome fought bit
terly today along a new line of
defenses from Lake Bolsena to
the sea, but 5th Army troops
smashed through and occupied
nearly all the western shore of
the lake and all but wiped out a
strong point east of Orbetello,
II miles northwest of Rome.
Moving up both sides of Lake
Bolsena, Allied forces on the west
ern shore captured Valentano. juno
ton of three highways some 55 miles
north Of Rome and pushed on, near
ing Latera, miles farther north.
Northwest of the lake, South At
rican forces moving forward toward
Orvieto ran into a stiff battle in
Bagno Regio.
Rapid Advance Along Adriatic.
On the Tyrrhenian coast Ameri-
can doughboys encountered a new
series of dug-in defenses east OF
Orbetello and attacked through high
ground directly toward lateral high
way IA. which is about 80 road miles
from Rome at that point. In a
sharp and bloody engagement they
captured 142 prisoners from the
German 1920 Turcoman Division
and killed 100 more of the enemy.
The advance was considerably
more rapid on the Adriatic sector
where 9th Army troops crossed the
Saline River, some S miles north OF
captured Pescara, at several places
These Allied forces took Popoli
on the Rome-Pescara road 10 mile
north of Sulmona. where the ad
vance had halted only long enough
to take 20 prisoners.
South OF Terni, in the center O
the advance line, the enemy con.
tlnued to put up a fight, but som,
progress was made there. also.
Civitav vechia Port Being Restored.
The 5th Army forces in the Tibe,
Valley advanced TO the southwes
of CarSoli, reaching high grounc
across Highway No. and taking 6
number of prisoners.
1t was announced by the Allied
naval command that port party
was established at Civitavechia June
9 to begin restoring the facilitie.
which had been heavily battered by
Allied bombing and enemy demoli.
tlons. Many mines have been swep
up from the coast from Anzio north
ward.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

The shortage of help in Wash
lngtOn restaurants has become sc
critical that some eating places
have shut down. some are serving
only two meals day and others
have closed off part of their estab-
llShmentS, a survey revealed today
Restaurant officials reported an
overall manpoWer shortage of Is
per cent, pointed out that people
are having to wait longer for service
and predicted that unless the
restaurants are granted a high pri-
orlty for workers under the Job
control program effective here next
month "a lot of places are going
to shut down and service will be-
come very bad
LESCargOt, for II years a fash
lOnable French restaurant at ll20
Connecticut avenue NV. is closing
at the end of June, Mrs. Lily SAINT
myers, the proprietor, announced
today She said several parties
were interested in the establishment
but that no deal had been conSum-
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Postwar Civil Service
Program Considered

Members OF Congress interested in
civil service legislation were report
ed ready today to consider setting
up a postwar program to take care
of civil service employees who face
loss OF their jobs after the wal.
Legislators are considering the
possibility OF adopting a bill pro-
viding optional retirement for civil
service employees after 80 years of
service. The projected program
would place emphasis on persons of
advanced age, it was understood.
The Senate Civil Service Com
mittee. in executive session, ordered
favorable report on the optional
retirement meaSure-a bill which
has been pending for IL years.
The bill as reported carries two
amendments which reduces it to
the status Of war emergency
measure One limits the optional
retirement to three years after the
war, the other restricts the retire
ment to agencies where reduction
enforcement program is in effect.
1t is hoped to have printed copies
OF the report available tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Fotiteh Reported
Ordered to Give Up
His Post Here
BY HELEN LOMBARD.

Ambassador Constantin Fotitch
of YugoSlavia has received Or
ders from his country's Prime
Minister in London to surrender
his post in Washington to his
Counselor of Embassy, Ivan
FRANCES, it was learned today.
The order is surrounded by a set
of legal conditions which makes
M. Fotitch's compliance uncer-
tain, and may raise a delicate
problem. for the State Depart
ment.
Ambassador Fotitch said today
that he had received no official re-
quest for his resignation. although
he had received indications" that
it was forthcoming He refused to
comment on the situation, but said
that he would issue a statement to-
morrow.
The order to Ambas ssador Fotitch,
who has served here since 1885 and
is highly regarded in American off,
cial circles, came from Prime Min
Gee E0TTTrIy Dec
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Some D. 6. Restaurants Close,
Others Cut Hours in Help Crisis

mated She has been doing most
of the hard work herself, she said.
These other effects of the held
shortage were reported;
The S & w Cafeteria. in the
Washington Building, one of the
largest eating places in Washing
ton. will stop serving breakfasts
Monday. Instead of opening at 7
a m. it will open at 1890 am. S.
Grady Putnam, cafeteria spokes-
man, explained that the help pre-
fer a straight shift to a split shift
and more employees might stay on
the job.
Hogate's Restaurant, at Ninth
street and Maine avenue SW., has
closed its first floor and is serving
customers only on the second
floor, at least temporarily.
The Hot ShoppeS reported that
we are as short of help as We can
be and Still stay open Some
times Hot Shoppe managers have to
wash dishes and even cook. Host
esSeS have to wait on tables. and
See RESTAURANTS Page A-4J
Evening star., 1944-06-13
De Gau|Ie Committee
Recognized by -Four
Exile Governments
CzechosIovukio, Belgium,
Luxembourg Indorse
Generals Setup
By the Associated Press.

HS tut hShOCldLeu FTeSS.
LONDON, June 10. - Gen.
Charles de Gaulle today won
official recognition from the
exile governments of Czecho-
slovakia, Belgium, Poland and
Luxembourg for his Committee
of National Liberation as the
provisional government of the
French Republic. He is seeking
general United Nations acknowl-
edgement of the group as sole
authority for the country during
the period Of liberation.
Gen. De Gaulle was expected to
pay an early visit to France, where
the Allied invasion has spurred re-
sistance of the underground forces,
in the hope of winning public
support for his committee and to
strengthen his hand before leaving
for Washington to seek recognition
by the United States.
Nazi Edict BoomerangS.
Reports from Spain. meanwhile,
said German order that French
men caught with arms would be
shot had boomeranged and that
thousands of new recruits are join
ing the underground Many French
men who took their arms home after
the 1910 armistice have joined the
guerrillas, since they figured
search of their homes would mean
death anyhow, the dispatches said.
Vichy officials were reported hid
ing in all areas outside localities
garrisoned by the Germans, while
the underground organized for new
blows against the NaZiS.
Forts around Garonne in the Bor-
deaux area were packed with thou
sands of prisoners, word from Irun.
on the Spanish border. said. Trains
reaching the border brought reports
Of rail lines being knocked out by
saboteurs, and dynamiting of some
bridges.
One report from Spain said the
Nazls were adding rigid food con-
troll to repreSSive measures against
Occupied France.
The German controlled Paris radio
tCae EPENCu pooa hSA
Evening star., 1944-06-13
ltaIy-Based Bombers
Hammer Munich
And Innsbruck
Hundreds of Fortresses
From England BIost
AirfieIds in France
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, June 13.-United
States bombers from Italy struck
long-range targetssin Germany
today as hundreds of other war
planes on the western front pro-
vided closeup support of Amer
lean forces sweeping toward
Cherbourg on the Normandy
Peninsula.
Italy-based bombers in strong
force. escorted by fighters, pene-
trated into Germany from the
south, attacking targets in the
Munich area and at Innsbruck in
Old Austria.
Several hundred Flying Fortresses
from England set the pace of the
strategic attack by pounding Ger
man airdromes behind the battle
lines in France.
Five Airstrips on Beachhead.
Lighter planes gave the beach,
head forces tactical support by
smashing at targets on the Nor
mady Peninsula as we'll as far in
land.
Supreme headquarters of the Al
lied Expeditionary Force an
nounced that five landing strips
were in use on the Normandy
beachhead. Yesterdays sorties from
England and the beachhead totaled
more than 1000. In air-borne op-
erations last night skilled air per-
sonnel and combat troops were
flown to the beachhead.
Striking at the Munich area for
the second time within a week, 18th
Air Force bombers pounded air
dromes, factories and rail yards as
we'll as oil plants. Among the tar
gets were the airdrome att Ober-
pfaffenhofen, Is miles southwest of
Munich; a field used to assemble
ME-4l0 twin-engined fighters; the
Mllpertshofen ordnance depot at the
west side Of Munich. and two air.
See AERIAL, PAGE Az
Evening star., 1944-06-13
'SociaIized' Industry
Feared by Builders,
Leader Declares
Housing Subsidy Might Be
Followed by Many Others,
House Hearing Is Told

Opposing any Government
participation in housing con-
struction, Robert P. Gerholz of
Flint, Mich, president of the
National Association of Home
Builders of the United States,
told a House District Subcom-
mittee today that his industry
feared "socialiZed' housing.
While we feel that the advan-
ta2es offered by private builders in
the matter of cost, quality, manage
ment and other factors are of tre-
mendous Importance he said,
over and above all these is our deep
conviction that the principle of
Government entering this field is
wrong and extremely dangerous
I'VE fear socialized housing will
be followed by socialized medicine,
food production and eventually a
completely subsidized American in
dustry destroying our unique
american system of private enter
prise.
StreSSeS Local Problem.
Mr.. Gerholz. who has. completed a
tour of the country to study hous-
ing conditions, stressed the i'm
portance of the controversy in
Washington over slum clearance as
part of the national problem.
1t must be disappointing to learn
here, as others have learned
throughout the country" he said,
that USHA housing was never
planned to spend the taxpayers S
contribution to house the neediest
family-that it was simply social
istic excursion into the broad field
privileged stratum in the upper
brackets of the lower income
group"
He urged passage of the Tydings-
Randolph private enterprise bill.
Controversy Over Costs Flares.
A controversy over the relative
cost of public and private housing
previously aired before a Senate
/ W ohC OIl dSdlll Dt-
fore the House group. Bernard E.
LoShbough, assistant to the execu-
tive officer of the National Capital
Housing Authority. replied to claims
by private builders that private en-
terprise here was building low-cost
houses more cheaply than NCHA.
He was challenged in the middle
of his testimony by James C. Wilkes,
counsel for the Home Builders ASSo-
citation, and by Preston Wire, private
builder.
MI Loshbough said the NCHA did
not claim that a public agency can
build housing cheaper than private
agencies and have never contended
that
Both public and private housing
are built by private contractors,
using the facilities of the same
building industry" he said In
general, any difference in cost would
be due to difference in the quality
and the character of the housing
See HOUSING, Page A-6D
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Enemy Air Equipment
10 Be Auctioned Here
In War Loan Drive
Highest Bidder in Bonds
To Get Plane Sections at
Shot From Sky Show

INVASION BRINGS defeat of Japan
nearer, President says in launch
ing War Loan. Page A-4
Plans were being formulated
today for the auctioning of cap
tured enemy air combat equip
ment on exhibit at the Army Air
Forces Shot From the Sky
Show at the Monument
Grounds as Washington moved
into the second day of it's rec
ord Fifth War Loan campaign.
Included in the equipment to &C
to the highest bidder in War Bonds
will be propellers, entire wings OF
fighting planes and bombers, tail as
semblies and instrument panels
Both local and outside professional
auctioneers will be engaged to con-
duct the sales, John A. Reilly. chair
man of the District War Finance
Committee, announced.
Secretary of Commerce Jones is
scheduled to speak at the special
bona show program tonight which
will again feature the Flying
Varieties, Air Service Command
show. Music will be furnished by
the Navy School of Music Band.
Morgenthau Speaks in Texarkana.
The Fifth War Loan had its Of
fetal national opening last night in
a rally in Texarkana on the Texas
Arkansas border. The magnitude
of the war financing task was
stressed by Secretary of the Treas
ury Morgenthau, who pointed out
that the United States has spent
$500, 900 100000 on the war so far
and before the year is out another
s95 ,000, 100000 will be spent.
To march from Naples to Rome
cost s6,7O0,0Oo,O Mr.. Morgen-
thau said. Il leave it to you to
imagine what it will cost to march
from Rome to Berlin
The cost of taking the Marshall
Islands was $4,000 100000. I leave ii
to you to imagine what it will cost
us to go. from the Marshall Islands
to Tokyo"
Largest Single Sale.
The largest single sale in the Dis
trict drive for Sl07 100000 in War
Bonds was tabulated Yesterday
Civilian D-day.' when Robert
Eaves. assistant vice president ol
the international Harvester Co. anc
vice chairman of the corporations
division Of the drive. purchased 81
039 900 in bonds for his firm from,
Mr.. Reilly.
The bonds were purchased through
three local banks. the Second Ma
tional Bank. Riggs National Bank
Bank of Commerce & Savings anc
the American Security e. Trust Co
E. c. Davis, general secretary and
treasurer of the International Asso-
citation of Machinists. American
Federation of Labor, came in second
place with the purchase of S1.250.00O
See WAR LOAN, Page A-4D
Evening star., 1944-06-13
a Nozi Ships Reported
Sunk by Soboteurs

STOCKHOLM. June 13. - The
Free Danish Press Service reported
today that four German mine
sweepers were sunk yesterday by
saboteurs in the Svendborg Harbor,
at Fyen Island. Denmark
This presumably accounted for a
declaration of a state of emergency
at Svendborg, announced officially
by the Swedish news agency It'd
ningarnas Telegrambyra last night.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Tito FIees From YugosIovio
After Surprise Attack on & amp
YueosIov Portisons
Reported Defeated
In Bottle With Nozis
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

A secret carefully guarded fo1
three weeks that Marshal Tito
the Partisan leader, was COM
PEELED to flee Yugoslavia and
take temporary refuge at Bari
Italy, has finally leaked out. At
the same time it has been re-
liably reported that large part
of the Partisan forces have been
defeated after a two-day battle
with a German Alpine army
corps.
Marshal Tito is reported to have
returned to one of the Yugoslav
islands in the Adriatic. where he is
attempting to reorganize his head
quarters and again assume the di-
rection of his remaining military
contingents.
According to informa ton received
nere. German parachute battalion
On May Is raided Tito's headouar-
ters at Drvar, lumber camp in
Croatia, in surprise attack. Only
a few members of Tito's personal
-
Evening star., 1944-06-13
E. T. Weir, 68, Is Father

NEW YORK, June 13 (P).-The
office OF Ernest T Weir, 68-year-old
chairman Of the board of National
Steel Corp, announced yesterday
the birth of a son, David Manson
Weir, to Mrs Weir, Mr.. and Mrs.
Weir, the former Mary f. HAYWARD
were married in December l94l.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Knockout Blow
To Finland Seen
By End Of Month
Russians KureIiun
Offensive Surees On
Toward Viipuri
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. June 13.-As Soviet
troops Surged ahead in their
drive on Viipuri and the Finnish
capital of Helsinki, the opinion
was freely expressed in many
quarters in London today that
Finland might be knocked out of
the war by the end of this
month.
The latest Moscow communique
said the Firms were putting up
stubborn resistance from prepared
positions. but had failed to halt the
Red Armys Karelisn offensive. The
bulletin announced the seizure of
Raivola, about 40 miles from Viipuri,
and Kivennapa, about 10 miles
northeast of Raivola.
CA Stockholm dispatch broad
cast this morning by the British
radio and recorded by CHS said
the Firms, worried about the
Russian breakthroush,' had be-
gun evacuating Viipiri and va
rious regions in the path of the
advancing Russians)
Romania Blow Expected.
To the British people, the Soviet
Karelian Isthmus offensive came as
somewhat of surprise, for many
had believed that Stalin's strategy
would be to strike first in Romania
in the hope of shattering. the last
vestiges of Balkan allegiance to
Hitler.
1t was generally conceded. how
ever, that Moscow probably was
guided by more than easy expedi-
ency in lashing out at a subordinate
enemy. If they can neutralize Fin
land quickly, thus eliminating the
threat to the Reds northern flank,
the Russians naturally will be in
better position for drive against
the enemy elsewhere.
Furthermore. If able to base their
planes in Finland, the Russians
would strengthen their hand against
German positions in the Baltic
states. Soviet warships and subma-
rines would be free to work out of
the Gulf of Finland. which the
Germans have laced with elaborate
antiSubmarine nets.
Another obvious purpose of the
drive is to cut Germanys supply
lines to Far Northern Finland.
forcing the Nazis to use the more
dangerous rout around Norway and
making more hazardous German
iron ore shipment through the Gulf
of Bothnia.
Firms See Little Chance.
Reports from Stockholm and even
from Berlin say the Firms admit
frankly they stand little chance
against the Red Army offensive
launched two months after the Hell
sinki government rejected Moscow
armistice terms.
Finnish resistance Is pictured as
fierce but futile, with their light
artillery designed for mobile fight
ing little match for the heavy artil-
lery employed by the Russians.
Since the Russian Finnish War OF
1939-40 and the siege of Leningrao
the Firms have recouped, and theil
keen nationalism assures bitter op-
position to the Red Army drive. But
there is belief here that the Firms
have grown little soft in the last
two years, and that they are weary
of German oVerlOrdShip.
/ 1t seemed apparent that the Firms
would have to fight alone. The Ger
man divisions in Finland are said
to be slovenly and Indifferent and
prOba bly, Wfll be of little helm
Evening star., 1944-06-13
President Sees Hull,
Ending No Work
At Lunch RuIinq

The no business in lunch
room rule made for President
Roosevelt by his personal ply
sician, Vice Admiral Ross Nc
Intire, went into the discard
today when the President
scheduled a luncheon confer
ence with Secretary of State
Hull, who has just returned
from vacation.
The Presidents habit of
meeting some of his top ad-
visers at lunch daily was
broken up by Admiral McIntire
to give the President more time
to relax after the spring illness
which forced him to take a
whole weeks holiday from his
office.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Allies Report Gains
In North Burma Drive
Myitkyino Rifle Ronee
Occupied by Chinese
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press
NEW DELHI. June 13.-PreSS dis
patches from Lit Gen. Joseph w.
Stilwell's headquarters today said
Chinese troops have occupied the
rife range in Myitkyina. main Jap
anese base in North Burma. and
other Allied units have taken an
enemy strong point in the southern
part Of the town.
To the northwest, Kamaing Is
under attack by Chinese units which
have pressed down the Mogaung
Valley, and other elements are
strengthening a circle around the
town, these dispatches said.
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Belgian King Reported
Removed to Germany
By the Associated Press

BY me Abk0LI IaLeN PfehS.
LONDON, June 13-Belgian au-
thorities in London said TODAY thev
had learned that the Germans had
moved King Leopold from Brussels
to Germany as a security measure.
Since the Allied landings in Nor
mandy, they said, Leopold has been
confined to his palace under heavy
German guard on the ground he
was technically commander in chief
OF the Belgian Army and. there
fore, potential rallying point for
Belgian resistance.
Evening star., 1944-06-13

(See TITO, Page A-3D
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tSee FOTTTCH, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1944-06-13
Guide for Readers

An Associated Press Newspopel
Evening star., 1944-06-13

tSee FRENCH. Page A-5D
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Continued on Page AS, Column /.
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Weather Forecast

Fair. continued warm this afternoon
and tonight, Cooler, cloudy tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-06-13

Temperatures today-Highest. 80. at
l;30 pm; lowest, 68, at 5:l2 am Yes
terday-Highest, IS, at $40 pm; low
est. 81, at Sis am.
Evening star., 1944-06-13

See AERIAL. Page A.;
Evening star., 1944-06-13

INVASION BRINGS defeat of Japan
nearer, President says in launch
ing War Loan. Page "A
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-04-30
Smiles for Bic Tips

She smiled al all OF them be-
cause she had not long since
learned that the sWectcr the
smile the larger the tip. She
went ont occasionally. but none
Of these men had been her
dream prince. Not one OF them.
in fact. had ever been as much
as "A nightmare duke.
So She had waited. One year.
Two years. Three years. She
-nIppCd with her nlpperS- and
Cuucd all the cutlcles. She said
nothing 20 any one, but always
she was confident that the door
would open one afternoon and
hcI- dream prince would R-s44s
IN. nd II he staggered IN, mat
would be all right. too
Al last IL had happened. THE
man had sat himself in the
che at her table. How did She
know n was TIE man? That's
too tough for me TO answer.
Maybe it would have been just
a tough for Hortense But she
knew what she knew and can
any one know more ?