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Evening star., 1944-06-18
Congressional Reees!
Possible by Friday,
Leadership Believes
Both Branches Focine
Lost-Minute Rush to
HondIe Pending Bills
BY ]. A. O'LEARY.

Congress is facing its busiest
week of the year, with both
houses setting out tomorrow to
clean up II big appropriation
bills and extension of the Price
Control Act before taking a re-
cess for the Republican and
Democratic National Conven-
tions.
In it's third consecutive Saturday
session, the House yesterday passed
and sent to the Senate the $685.
165,535 second deficiency bill, last
of the money bills on it's calendar
but 10 earlier appropriation measures
are still at various stages of COM
pletion.
Despite this volume of last minute
must" business, leaders predicted
last night a recess would be pos
sible by Friday night, to continue
until about August l.
Near Deal on Termination.
There is still a chance for both
houses. to agree on war contract
termination bill on which the House
will vote tomorrow, but the broader
postwar rehabilitation bills still in
the Senate Military Affairs Com
mittee - involving unemployment
(See CONGRESS. Page A-l10
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Tonk Losses Triple Estimates
In Invasion, Output Stepped Up

The Army has ordered a large
increase in tank production and has
placed the program near the top
of urgent weapons as a result of
experience in the invasion where
tanks have been used up three
times faster than was anticipated
it was learned last night.
WPB Chairman Donald M. Nell
son reported the tank program was
ordered stepped up last week "as a
result of recent actions overseas
From another Official it was deter
minted that the expenditure OF
tanks in the Rome offensive and
in the invasion of France was
greater than had been expected.
Mr.. Nelson said there undoubt-
edly would be other changes in
emphasis in the total war program
because of experiences Allied forces
are receiving in battles now go
ing on.
1t was believed the tank produc-
ton program now will be placed on
Evening star., 1944-06-18
More Than DozenDead
In Midwest Tornadoes
BY the Associated Press,


WATERFOWL, S. Oak, June II
More than dozen persons are
dead, a score or more injured and
vast property damage was reported
as high winds and tornadoes swept
through Northeastern South Da-
kota and West Central Minnesota
late today.
The known dead were: John Nell
son. Bath, S. OAK; Harvey Zirbel
about 2, Florence, S. Oak; Mrs
Jennie Larson, Florence; Mrs. Ole
KJetland, Florence; Mrs. Jules Berk-
mir. Milbank, S. OAK. visiting al
Wilmot; Mrs. Irving Liebe, Wilmot,
daughter of Mrs Berknir; Earl Jar
man. Wilmot; Adolphson Jarman
brother of Earl; Vernon Gates, his
son and a boy named Mcdonald.
Several others were reported dead
in the Wilmot vicinity, but lack OF
communication facilities made iden-
tification impossible.
The storm hit hardest at Flor
ence, south of Wilmot, and Grace
vile and Beardsley in Minnesota.
The storm struck Florence, north
west of Watertown, shortly after 5
pm. A dozen dwellings. the Stand
ard Oil Company's bulk plant and
the feed mill and commercial ele-
vator of the Florence Cooperative
Elevator Company were reported
destroyed
Several South Dakota cOmmuni-
ties, known to have been visited by
the storm, were still cut off from
communication.
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Employers Ordered
To Hold Job Ceilings
ToMay 15-June 1Limi'
Monpower Commission
Rule Effective July !
Provides for Appeals
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG

The largest number of workers
on an employers payroll between
May Is and June /, 1914, will be-
come his employment top after
July l and he will not be able to
hire workers above that ceiling"
without specific authorization,
the Washington area War Man
power Commission announced
late yesterday.
These automatic ceilings, imposed
on all Washington area employers
are part of the new job-control
program here. They will stand
until August 81 when the ceilings
will be reviewed in the light of ex-
perience during this first period of
restriction, Acting Area VINO Di-
rector Ernest v. Connolly an
nounced.
If an employer figures his CELL
ing has been set too low to meet
present or future demands on his
plant. or If he has fallen below
the ceiling and needs workers, he
may apply any time to Washing
tons new Manpower Priorities Com
mittee for priority rating" Mr..
Connolly explained.
No One Need Be Fired.
Firms which have more workers
on their payroll on July / than they
had during the May 15-June period
will not have to give up the addi-
tional workers, but will not be al
lowed to hire any more employees
until they have come down to their
authorized ceiling or have had their
ceiling adjusted, Mr.. Connolly said.
After July l, every employer who
asks the United States Employment
Service for workers will have to file
this application. Once he has been
given his priority rating" and his
ceiling has been adjusted, every
order he puts into the USES will
state his employment ceiling and
how many workers he has employed
so that the USES will not give him
workers over his ceiling, the acting
director said.
The Manpower Priorities Commit
tee will meet tomorrow to start de-
Gliding how the system will be set
up and to begin rating Washington
plants for priorities on labor.
To get crack at this labor, en-
ployers can get their application
forms from the area VINO Office or
the two USES branches after June
26. Mr. Connolly said
Employers will have to state the
(See MANPOWER, Page A-7J
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level as high as that occupied by
landing craft and heavy artillery.
Top manpAwer referral will be given
the plants.
A number of tank plants shut
down will be reopened, a WPB Of
fetal said, although it has not been
determined definitely how many and
which ones will be affected.
Tank production was cut back
sharply more than year ago when
it was found that assembly Line
methods produced the vehicles
faster than it was thought they
would be required. 1t was one of
the first big cutbacks in the war
program
The official said the Nation was
fortunate in that there were ex-
cellent Standby" facilities avail
able for tank manufacture.
The stepped-up program is ex-
pected to place new and heavy de-
mands for steel, and probably will
cut sharply into the manufacture
of railroad locomotives, since some
of those facilities will be required
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Great RAF Fleet
Heads for Reich,
Possibly Berlin
BY the Associated Press.


SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Sunday, June 18,
British bombers struck back
at the Germans early today as
the Nazis continued to fire their
flying bombs at Southern Eng
land.
(The German radio said the
Berlin area was being raided)
A great fleet of Raj planes crossed
the east coast during the night
headed toward the Reich, after other
Allied bombers had delivered a
series of powerful blows throughout
the afternoon and early evening
against the Pas-de-C Calais coast of
Northern France from which the
Nazis are launching their pilotless
plane bombs.
While selected squadrons of
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| City SweItering
In Record Heat.
No Relief Yet

Washington sweltered last night
after the hottest day of the year.
Although the mercury was above
80 all afternoon and early evening,
no prostrations were reported to
police.
Peak temperature for 1914 was
reached at 3:45 pm. when the
Weather Bureau thermometer at
the National Airport registered "a.
Not until after pm. did the
mercury 60 below 90.
No relief was promised for today.
The official forecast was Partly
cloudy and not quite so warm; proh-
ably thunder shower in the after
noon"
A crowd of 1,500 went swimming
in the Glen Echo pool last night
and the pools at Potomac Park,
Anacostia and Takoma Park were
crowded in the afternoon. The
park pools were not open last night.
Evening star., 1944-06-18
War Loan Leaders to Stress
Invasion Costs as Drive Luqs

District Fifth War Loan lead
ers are planning to stress the
enormous costs of the European
invasion, in both men and ma
terials, to bring home to the
public the realization that the
current campaign is not meet
ing the pace set by our men
abroad.
District sales to individuals In
the fifth day OF the campaign
totalled only $4,000 900, or 1874 per
cent of the $6l 900 900 individual
goal, it was reported yesterday
not enough to build and equip three
of the feet of mine sweepers that
paved the way for the invasion
forces.
Included In the total reported
Evening star., 1944-06-18

yesterday was $6,200,00 in Series
"E" bonds, or 1872 per cent of a
$34 900 900 quota, not enough to pro-
vide one destroyer to guard the in
vasion supply lines across the Eng
lish channel.
Friday Sales Light.
Figures announced yesterday
showed only $l,3O0000 in individual
bond purchases for the fifth day
of the campaign, of which $500, ,00C
was the result of Series "E" bond
sales.
The overall quota for the Cap
ital Is $1O7, ,00O,0 900.
One woman buying 500 bond
at the air show asked how many
bombs for Japan it would buy. She
(See WAR RONDS Page All
Evening star., 1944-06-18
French Troops Deiea'
Stiff Opposition 10
Secure Fifth Of EIba
Allies on Mainland
Push Toward Nozis'
Line in Florence Area
By the Associated Press.

ROME, June 17.-FreNch troops
landed today on Elba, five miles
west of the Italian mainland
and by nightfall had won con-
troll of one-fifth of that Ma
poleonic exile island againsi
German resistance which Allied
headquarters described as strong
at some places.
Nearby Pianosa was secured
quickly without opposition, but the
German garrison and coastal ar
tillery were making = tight for
Elba's 85 square miles.
Conquest of Elba would keep the
Allied sea flank abreast of the ad-
vance on the mainland, where Al
lied troops today rolled steadily for
ward toward the Germans Pisa
Florence -Rimini line.
Known as Detachment B." the
French attacking Elba were COM
manded by Gen. Jean de Lattre de
Tassigny and transported and sup
ported by American, British and
French naval units. Allied ali
forces, including French squadrons
bombed the island.
Two Landings Reported.
(The Berlin radio said the
landings were made both at the
south and north ends of the is
land. one of them just west of
its major city Of Porto Ferraio
A German communique told of
heavy fighting "still going on"
against weak German garri-
son" defending the island)
Fighter -bombers aided yesterday
in preparations for the landings
destroying a fuel dump, scoring siz
hits on islands radio station anc
striking at boats and dock installa.
tions at Porto Ferraio, Marino d
Campo and Porto Longone.
The island Is roughly opposite
Grosseto. near the west Italiar
coast, which fell to swiftly advanc.
ing 5th Army troops yesterday. Tht
city, nearly 100 airline miles from
Rome, is road junction and site
of German airfields.
8th Army Gains IL Miles.
British 9th Army troops drove /:
miles north of Orvieto and occupied
Monteleone, about As miles east oi
Grosseto. A bit farther east, ar.
mored elements pushing north from
Todi reached a point 13 miles south
of Perugia, reported held by the
Germans in some strength.
About IS miles to the east of tn,
Orvieto sector other 9th Army troop.
surged through Spoleto, Trevi ane
Foligno on Highway No. 3. Monte.
falco was also reported to hav,
fallen in this drive.
In the Adriatic sector the British
(See ITALY, Page A-4)
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HuIsey to Command Sd Fleet
Operating Against Japanese
AdmiroI's Victories
In Southern Area
Left Him JobIess
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Admiral william F. Halsey, jr.,
who formally relinquished his
command of the South Pacific
naval forces a few days ago,
yesterday was given a new COM
mand in the war against the
japanese. He was designated
commander of the Sd Fleet" !"
operating in the Pacific Ocean.
Announcing Admiral Halsey's new
assignment, Admiral Chester w.
Nimitz, Pacific commander in chief.
explained he had been relieved of
his old command "as the South
Pacific has become relatively quiet" !"
He will henceforth command the
(See HAISEY. page A-6.)
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Tito Drives Germans
Out of Three Towns
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 17.-Marshal Ti-
to's Partisan forces have driven the
Germans out of three Western
Bosnian towns-ProZor, Bravsko
and kljuc-With heavy losses and
the Nazis are rushing up reinforce
ments to stem the drive, according
to tonight's Yugoslav communique
recorded by the Ministry of Infor-
nation.
The war bulletin said 800 Ger
mans, Bulgarians and Quislings
were killed as the Partisans pressed
their Serbian offensive, and that
much material was captured.
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Two Russian Column!
Advance 10 Within
Is Miles Of viipuri
l20 KoreIion Villages
And Z Key Roll Towns
Are Token in Thrtsts
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, June 1.-THE Rus
slams smashed within Is miles
LOT Viipuri from two directions
today, capturing Perkjarvi or
the main railway Of the Karelian
Isthnus and Kuolemajarvi on
the coastal rail line, Moscow an
nounced tonight. The port OF
Viipuri itself was understood to
be in the process of evacuation.
The two important railway towns
on the most direct routes to Fin
lands second largest city were en-
veloped at Gen. Leonid A. Govorov's
troops occupied more than 100 popu-
lated places in another day of fierce
fighting, Moscow's broadcast COM
munique disclosed.
Both Perkjarvi and Kuolemaj jarvi
are just under Is miles from Viipuri,
which Finnish dispatches reaching
Stockholm said had been ordered
emptied OF civilians.
Front Is Widened.
Another wave of the Red Army,
sweeping up the eastern side of the
Isthmus despite the natural OBJ
stacles of lakes and marshes, cap
tured Raasuli on still another rail-
road, Moscow said, indicating that
the width Of the Finnish front had
been widened to more than 65 miles
Advance patrols and reconnais-
sance units probed even closer tc
Viipuri than Is miles. The thunder
of Soviet big guns could be plainly
heard in the Finnish port.
Gen. Govorov's infantry forces
said to total at least six divisions
were being supported by planes and
tanks and for the first time were
reported using rocket-flring can
non.
The Russians as well as the Firms
were bringing up fresh troops as
the battle area widened and the
tone of dispatches from Moscow
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Robot Plane Counter Invasion
OF Southern England Continues
Casualties Mount
As Croft Arrive
Every Few Minutes
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Sunday, June 18.-
More of the Germans winged
bombs, the so-called robot
planes, came hurting across the
Channel into Southern England
during the night as the Nazis'
counter invasion attack" moved
into its fourth consecutive day.
The pilotless, jet-propelled planes
we're disclosed yesterday to be an
astoundingly simple weapon - q
death-dealing, overgrown rocket
equipped with wings and loaded
with a ton of explosives.
In the newest attacks they came
over the coast low and singly every
few minutes. Several Of them flew
through some of the heaviest anti
aircraft fire of the war as Britain
Evening star., 1944-06-18
ID. {. Wafer System
Reorganization asked
In McCarran Report
Municipal Corporation
With BON on Free Woter'
To Bureaus Is Proposed
LARGER U. s. SHARE of District
budget ordered studied in Senate
| Story on page B-1.
BY DON S. WARREN.

Reorganization OF the Dis
trict's hydra headed" water
supply and distribution system
to centralize control and man
agement in q new federally char
tered, quasi-municipal corpora
ton was proposed last night in
a report by a Senate subcom-
mittee headed by Senator Nc
Carran, Democrat, Of Nevada.
Under the plan, which Is based
on several years OF formal inquiry,
there would be no ..free" water,
except to churches and charitable
institutions: all Federal and Dis
trict Government agencies would
be charged for all water they re-
ceive. The revamped water system
would be treated as a self-sustain-
ing and regulated public utility.
There was a strong suggestion
that with efficient, centralized con-
troll over all phases of water sup
ply, distribution, billing and col
lecting, present bill-paying con-
sumers might anticipate sizeable
reduction in their bills.
Report Filed With Bilbo.
The report of the McCarran
group, which includes Senators
Clark, Democrat, of Idaho and Hol-
man, Republican, of Oregon, was
filed yesterday with Chairman
Bilbo of the Senate District Com
mittee. A lengthy bill to carry out
the recommendations OF the inves-
tigating subcommittee is to be in
troduced in the Senate tomorrow on
behalf of Senator McCarran, now In
Nevada.
The McCarran report and an ac-
companying statement filed by its
investigators, r. v. L. Wright, or
loan" from the Bureau of Recla-
nation, Interior Department, en-
phasized heavy costs were being
carried annually by District tax
payers because of the huge and in
creasing volume of water served
free to Federal institutions.
The subcommittee report stated
The Federal Government presently
is receiving more than 25,000. .00O
gallons of water per day, worth be-
tween 100000 and 100000 per year
THE Federal equity In the Dis
trict water system for funds
spent toward earlier developments)
amounts to approximately $10,000,-
(See WATER, Page Aid
Evening star., 1944-06-18
Some Cheeses Declared
Point-Free for 7 Weeks
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Office of Price Administra-
ton last night announced that all
rationed cheese except American
Cheddar cheese, Cheddar products
and other cheese in Group on the
ration chart will be point free for
the two weeks beginning at 1901
am. today.
OPA explained the temporary ac-
ton was taken with War Food Ad-
ministration approval, because in
the coming fortnight soft cheese
stocks will be at the highest level
of the year.
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Fierce jap Attack
Routed, Is Enemy
Tanks Destroyed
U. S. BoMBERs HAMMER
SORONG. destroying 50 Jap
planes. Page Az.

BY the Associated Press.
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR-
TERS, PEARL HARBOR, June II
Battling determined japanese
resistance, United States Ma
rines and Army troops have ex-
panded the beachhead on South.
ern Saipan to a maximum depth
of 2 miles along a 5Ka mile front
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz an.
nounced tonight in communi.
que.
In frenzied fighting through
Thursday night and Friday assault
forces captured the village ol
Himashisu, more than half wa!
across the island from the beach.
head.
These developments were re.
ported shortly after it was disclosed
that American warships had bonn.
barded Guam for the first time
since that former United States
outpost in the Marianas was cap
tured by the Japanese in Decem.
Der, 1941.
Jap Counterattack Repulsed.
Before dawn Friday. Jap defend
ers of Saipan, estimated to num-
Der 10000, launched 4 determined
counterattack. supported by tanks
but were hurled back.
Twenty-Five Jap tanks were de-
stroyed and the enemy cost In lives
was heavy.
American warships shelled enemy
strongpoints and carrier bombers
and fighters supported the ground
forces.
After repelling the Jap counter
thrusts, American assault troops
launched their offensive.
The fighting line now skirts the
western edge Of Aslito airdrome.
In the Friday push. forward
American echelons drove. into the
naval air base ct Aslito but later
had to be withdrawn under severe
enemy fire. =
Second Withdrawal.
This Is the second officially an
nounced withdrawal under enemy
pressure and highlights the ferocity
OF the struggle.
In dramatic single ship exploit
a World War destroyer, converted
into an attack troop transport,
caught Ave Jap coastal cargo ships
Thursday and sank all of them.
Before Fridays forward push
American forces already had cap
tured the sugar mill town Of Charan-
Kanoa and the small Charan- -Kanoa
airstrip along the western beach
Garapan, chief town, has been
brought under American artillery
fire.
Admiral Nimitz in an earlier COM
nunique which dealt with the Guam
bombardment also reported a series
of air strikes against the Kuriles
during which the enemy sent up
fighter interceptors.
Wednesday night japanese tor.
pedo planes attempted to attack the
aircraft carrier force supporting the
Marianas invasion, but were driven
of without damage to any American
ships.
Guam Heavily Bombarded.
The heavy bombardment of Guam
former American naval base III
miles south of Saipan, was carried
out Thursday.
While Saipan was the only Jap
anese Pacific base hit by American
amphibious forces during the week
Japan felt the weight of American
naval air power in heavier measure
than at any time since the start
OF the war. Powerful Navy task
forces, operating along a front OF
some $500 miles, smashed the Jap
anese from the Kuriles in the far
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Thousands Of Nazis Facing Trap;
Yanks Gain on Saipan> Shell Guam
u. S. 9th Division
Teams With SD
In Breok-throuqh
BULLETIN.

NEW YORK P).-CBS Cor
respondent Larry Lesueur re-
ported from France early to-
day that American troops
had reached the western side
of the Cherbourg Peninsula,
cutting of the port of Cher
bourg.
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(See ROBOTS, Page A-30
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Radio Programs, Pe. CO
Complete Index, Pe. Az
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(See AERIAL, Page A-10D
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(See RUSSIAN, Page All.
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(See HALSEY, page A-6.)
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(See SAIPAN, Page A-6.)
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Weather Forecast

Partly cloudy, cooler today, afternoon
thundershowers. Cloudy, cooler tomorrow.
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Temperatures yesterday - Highest,
81, at 3:45 pm; lowest, 50, at 5:45 am.
United States Weather Bureau Report.
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(See ITALY, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-06-18
BY the Associated Press.

(See INVASION, page AS
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-19
Clarence ROWLAND Rated
Best Posted Man In Ball

4O-odd years, should have every
thing his new position requires. He
has served at every type OF task
in the game-player, manager,
owner, president, scout and UNI
pire.
Much of his career was spent
in Chicago, where he saw service
with both the Cubs and White Sox.
He managed the White Sox to their
last worlds championship, when
they conquered the New York
Giants in 1917.
Rowland's career started at the
turn of the century when he quit
his job as a hotel bellhop in his
native Dubuque, Ia, to become a
phenomenal kid catcher. While in
his early 20's he became owner
of the Dubuque club, then in the
Three-I League, in 1908. He was
snatched from the Dubuque bush
es" by the late Charles A Com
iskey, owner of the White Sox, in
1915 to become manager of the
team without any previous major
league experience, and served four
years through 1918.
From 1923 to 1927, Rowland took
fling at umpiring in the Ameri-
can League, ana was known to
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-01-19

the fraternity as Ban Johnson S
friend" After the death of John
son, founder and president of the
league, Rowland became mem
Der of the Cubs baseball cabinet
in 1888. He served as president of
the Reading, Pa, club which the
Cubs operated a farm, and as
scout and reconnaissance man I'm
til he became president of the Los
Angeles Angels in 1871.
Rowland, fastidious, natty
dresser, is always remembered for
his green hats, which he wears at
a rakish angle with the brim on
the right side pulled up and left
side down. He's in his early COS,
but doesn't look or dress his age.
'He's been telling us he's so for
the past five years., commented
James P. Gallagher, general man.
ager of the Cubs, with a smile.
Gallagher. meeting with owner
Wrigley today, said there would
be no rush to find successor to
Rowland at Los Angels.
Rowland's success with the An
gels last season in winning the
Coast League championship with
a sensational surge, resulted in his
being voted the No. minor league
executive of 1943