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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-13

military leaders say there has not been shortage
of petroleum products on any fighting front.
That is the credit side of the ledger; want call
your attention to the debit side. referring the
in the rationing ledger This ugly racket has stolen
much two and one half million gallons of
gasoline day from the essential home front supply
left after military needs are filled.
The Sherwood organization along with other petroleum
companies, is waging campaign to help stamp out
this black market in gasoline coupons Without
toners the black market-which thrives primarily on
counterfeit stolen and illegally transferred coupons
would disappear The dishonest, unpatriotic black
ket racketers would be driven of business and
gasoline would be available for civilian rationing
We earnestly solicit the cooperation of every motorist If
you have legitimate essential need for more gasoline
put it up to the Ration Board not the black market
Please do not accept extra ration coupons from
anyone. Please write your license number on every
gasoline ration coupon just as soon as received.
have said that, the whole the gasoline rationing
program is succeeding. That is only possible because
of the splendid cooperation of millions of patriotic
Americans and thousands of conscientious gasoline
dealers. The Rationing Boards have had tremendous
job to do and they doing we'll BY sticking to the
rationing rules, we all helping to get this dirty
business of war with and get boys back home.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-13

Ever try to remember the names
Of those fantastic characters Garry
Moore talks about on the Moore
Durante airshow? They're Twinkle
toes Gooch, Rancid Crumknuckle,
Elvira Smoop, Arbutus Cronksquod-
git, Schmilldwidder Funk, and
Farnsfinsendindles Crud!
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-13

September will be a busy month
for Xavier Cugat, who's heard as
Your Dubonnet Date" maestro
over MBS Wednesday nights. He'll
make two one-week theater appear
ances, open at a smart Hollywood
night spot, and begin work in
Metros week End at the Wal
dorf."
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1944-07-13
TOTAL ASSETS. $780, 49.1s

LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of
individuals, partner
ships, and corpora
tions .......$ 81 ,485, 601.10
Time deposits of indi-
viduals, partnerships,
and corporations j. LAO, 1903. SIS
Deposits of United States
Government (includ-
ing postal savings) LAG, 965.48
Deposits of States and
political subdivisions 1876, 1886 .96
Deposits of banks 19,558.84
Other deposits Certified
and cashiers checks,
etc. ..... 10,795.11
Total Deposits $2,940,1 09.84
Other liabilities 800. 100000
Evening star., 1944-08-01

restaurant, where the proprietress
apologized for the slowness of the
service. showing q kitchen stove
deliberately wrecked by q German
grenade.
Roads were strewn with the
wreckage Of enemy tanks and hun
dreds Of dead horses. There were
few dead men. One of the most
thorough destruction Jobs I have
seen was the wreckage Of q horse
drawn convoy between Sartilly and
Avranches. It was destroyed by
air strafing.
Avranches Is the pivot point on
the border Of Normandy and Brit
tany, with direct, wide road to
Paris. The only fighting was in the
woods around the old Chateau
Baf1e. which had been German
headquarters for four years. The
steepled city Is on the heights Of
the hills that are the gateway Of
Normandy from the low country
where the campaign has been waged
since D-day.
Evening star., 1944-08-01
COP Demands Reconversion
Plan as Congress Reconvenes

Committee, Of which Senator George
is chairman.
Only q handful Of lawmakers were
on hand as gavels banged the Sen
ate and House to order at noon, the
members having been notified there
would be no important business at
hand until committees give prelim-
mary shape to postwar legislation.
. Approximately 100 Of the 432
House members were on hand, and
80 Of the 96 Senators were in their
seats.
The first act of the House was to
consider q marking time" resolu-
ton, to adjourn until Thursday
and then to Monday, skipping the
days between.
Speaker Rayburn, returning from
Texas, where he won Democratic
denomination to Congress, instruct
ed committee chairmen to get de-
mobilization. reconversion and re-
employment insurance legislation In
(See CCNCPEsS. Psoe A-21
Evening star., 1944-08-01
American Forces, After Break Through, Use
Same Tactics Nozis Employed at Sedon in 40

afternoon, watched 1900 enemy
troops march down the road with
hands over their heads to surrender
Smaller groups Of so were 50 com.
mon along the roads that no guard.
were provided and after being dis
armed the men were directed to the
nearest war prison inclosure.
At least half the prisoners arr
Turkestan Russians with strongly
Mongoloid features. They seemed
happy to escape German tyranny
How they got in the German army
Is still a mystery. All day long oul
armored division progresses like q
great liberation parade. The tank,
are blanketed with pink Lavender
hydrangeAs. Champagne flowed
like wster in the villages as the
French broke open long-hoarded
stores.
It was rather pathetic to see the
people Of Avranches standing on
the ruins Of their bomb-wrecked
homes, wildly cheering their de-
liverers. I had dinner In . village
Evening star., 1944-08-01
President Non1inutes StiIwen
To Be Four-Stur General
Will Hold Rank With
Marshall, Macarthur,
Eisenhower, Arnold
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today
nominated 1t. Gen. Joseph War
rem Stilwell, American COM
mander of Chinese forces in
Burma, to be full general in the
Army of the United States.
The proposed promotion, raising
Gen. Stilwell to a rank held by Gen
George C. Marshall, Gen. H. H.
Arnold, Gen. Douglas Macarthur
and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
suggested the probability of new and
more important work for Gen. Still
we'll in the Burma China area.
In the American military organ
ization, he holds the assignment of
commanding general of United
States Army Forces in the Burma
China theater. He also holds a top
flight position under lissimo
Chang Kai-shek of China and has
certain staff duties under the AL
lied commander in chief in South
east Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten.
Authorities here would not be
surprised if Gen. Stilwell's promo
ton is recommended to the Senate
today by the President, foreshadow-
ing an intensif1cation of Allied war
effort in the Southeast Asia area,
particularly by strengthening the
Organization of Chinese armies.
The problems in this connection are
twofold: Initially, the job is to
keep maximum amount of sup
plies flowing into China by air
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Philadelphia Transit PoroIyzed
AS 900 Suddenly Leave Jobs
Hiring Of Negroes Blamed as Work
Stoppoge Ties Up War Production Center

A spokesman for the Philadelphia
Transportation Co., operator of the
city's entire transportation system,
said the company believed the bus,
trolley and subway drivers quit in
protest against the hiring of Negro
operators.
Negroes were upgraded to plat
form (operative) jobs several weeks
ago In accordance with the WINGS
employment stabilization plan and
the farst group of eight was to have
made practice runs today for the
first time. The upgrading, brough,
about by the Presidents Fair EN-
|pl0yment Practice Committee, VA
protested by both the company and
the Transport Workers Union
tCIO.
A union spokesman emphasized
there was no strike. Many drivers
had reported In i'll. Others told re-
(See PHILADELPHIA, Page A-20
Evening star., 1944-08-01
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,
Star War Correspondent.

AVRANCHES, Normandy, Aug. l.
II witnessed yesterday what seemed
to be the chopping to pieces of an
army as the pincers of the Amer
ican armored divisions closed an
iron grip on the retreating remnants
of Germany's Normandy defense
forces.
History was repeating itself in
reverse. 1t. Gen. Omar Bradley's 8
LIST Army. after the Marigny -Periers
break-through. is using against the
Germans much the same tactics
they used against the French after
the 1910 breakthrough at Sedan.
Perhaps the main German body
still is intact and retreating south
of Avranches, which American
forces captured yesterday. but large
groups caught in the pincers are
surrenderfNg with hardly q shot.
At Sartilly crossroads, in the
Evening star., 1944-08-01
lute Bulletin
Dewey Pledges Best Peace

SPRINGFIELD, III. R.-In
his first train platform speech
Of the campaign, Gov Thomas
E. Dewey told q Springfield
crowd today that II he Is
elected "in the next four
years we shall build the best
peace the world has ever
seen." He said the Democratic
administration had been "de-
pending on one man Alone"
and asserted that America
will win the war because "our
strength depends on the
American people and on no
one man."
EARLIER Story on Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Byrd Report Charges
u. 5. Firms Compete
with Private Business
Immediate Control
Of ~ Corporations
By Congress Is Urged

by the ASSOclateo freSS,
The Byrd Economy Committee
said formally today that Govern
ment-owned corporations have
been set up in competition with
private business with little
thought as to their advantages
or disadvantages"
The report recommended that
operations of a such corporations,
having $50, 900, 900 900 of borrowing
power and $16,50o, ,oo0, 900 of liabili-
ties, be Immediately placed under
the overall control of Congress
Some should be liquidated at once,
it added.
Summarizing its findings after q
two-year study, the Joint House.
Senate Executive Committee headed
by Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir-
ginia said the corporations employed
10000 persons in this and other
countries, had outstanding loans of
Sc, SOC, ,O0O, 900 and had incurred orqf4
ating losses of $103 ,000, 900 tee] Vie
80, 1943.
Vast Network Built.
Government corporations seem to
have been created with little thought
as to their advantages or disad-
vantages," the report continued.
Prom simple beginnings, each
with q definite field, there has
grown up a vast network, the final
results of the operations of which
Evening star., 1944-08-01
By the Associated Press.


A sparsely attended Congress
reconvened at noon today amid
new Republican demands for
prompt completion OF a legisla-
tive program to chart the way
to postwar economic stability.
Sixteen Republican Senators
meeting in informal conference
pledged unanimous support >of Sen
ator vandenberg Of Michigan in his
efforts to force demopilization and
reconversien measures out Of thu
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Senate Majority Leader Barkley
and Chairman Reynolds have sum-
moned the committee members tC
meet here Thursday to oct with
out delay on the measure. At tle
same time . move developed to take
part Of the reconyersicn program
out Of the hands OF the committee
and put 1t In charge Of the Finance
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Silent Robot in Use
By Nazis, Morrison
Hints 10 Commons
Security Minister Also
Knows About q Lot
Of Horrible Things
5y the Associated Press.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-While more
Nazi flying bombs burst on Eng
land, Herbert Stanley Morrison,
minister of home security, told
Commons today that he knew
about a lot of horrible things"
and limited that the Germans
had been able to give some de-
gree of silence to their robots.
His statement came in answer to
a question as to whether "a new kind
of bomb is coming over which is
more silent than the old one?"
Il have knowledge about a lot of
horrible things" Mr.. Morrison an
swered. These bombs vary in their
practice somewhat, and there have
been cases in which the noise has
not been audible"
New Danger Signals Planned.
He did not make it clear whether
he referred to new weapon in
audible throughout flight or to the
familiar robot bombs which cut of
their engines and glide in silently
for long distances-a fact previously
announced.
! Laborite Member Emanuel Shin
well Demanded to know if Mr.. Nor
rison was flippant in his statement
about horrible things
| The Minister of Home Security
answered: mo, there are all sorts of
possibilities. Any one doing
this job is living in world where
you are up against pretty horrible
actualities.
| The discussion followed Mr.. Nor
risons announcement that he was
ready to institute standard audible
imminent danger" signals to sup
plement sirens With half-minute
margin, neighborhood horns will
sound three 2-second blasts at 2
second intervals when a flying bomb
is nearby. A horn blast of 6 seconds
will be sounded for danger passed"
when the bomb has left the area.
Warning Voice Saves Lives.
A voice warning saved people in
bus queue today.
For Gods sake, get down." a
man cried.
The people in the line fell fiat
and suffered nothing worse than
shock and torn clothing when the
flying bomb hit nearby church.
Two persons were killed and four
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Big a Security Talks
Will Begin August "a,
Stettinius Announces
U. S. Delegation includes
Army and Navy Men
To Study Armed Peace

Acting Secretary of State Stet-
tinius announced today that the
four-power conversations on
postwar security plans will open
here Monday, August IA. At the
same time, he revealed that the
American delegation and prob.
ably the others will include mill
tary and naval men to discuss
details of using force to keer
peace.
Russia and China, Mr.. Stettinius
said, are expected to announce theil
delegations within the next few
days. The British government al.
ready has named Sir Alexander
Cadogan, permanent undersecretary
OF state, as the chief of its mission
Conversations among the Unitec
States, Great Britain and Russia
will be held first, Mr.. Stettinius said
Later. the two Anglo-Saxon powers
will hold similar conversations with
China.
The talks are scheduled in this
manner, 1t is known, because Russia
is not at war with Japan and does
not want to talk directly with China
about the Far Eastern situation.
Stettinius Heads U. S. Group.
Mr.. Stettinius, whose appointment
as head of the American group of
experts was announced last week by
Secretary Hull, declined to predict
exactly how long the negotiations
will last, saying that the countries
represented would take enough time
to do a thorough job. He added
however, that it was his personal
opinion that the conversations
should be completed within two or
three weeks.
Seventeen persons, in addition Il
Mr.. Stettinius, will serve on thu
American delegation at the meet.
ings, which will be held at Dunn.
barton Oaks in Georgetown, it wa.
announced. They represent a mix.
ture of economists, military ane
naval men and State Department,
political experts. All have beer
working for some time on postwar
problems. Not all will attend ever,
session, but they will be called IL
from time to time for consultation
Experts Named,
The Army experts will be e.. Gen
Stanley D. Ernbick, Mai. Gen
(See SENTIPTTV po0a 0l-
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Manuel Quezon Dies;
Philippines President
Fled 10 j. ). in 1912
Filipino Leader, Long
Ailing, Spent Much
Of His Time Here l.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SARANAC LAKE, N. Y, Aug.
Manuel Quezon, IS, exiled
President of the Philippine gov
ernment, which he had headed
since 1885, died today at a sum-
mer home here from tubercu-
losiS.
The magnetic Quezon, who fled
from his native Luzon In submA-
rme February 20, 1942, after the
Philippines fell to the Japanese
died at 1905 am.
He came here late in the spring
from Asheville. N. c., and lived with
his chief Of staff and ofncial fam
lily.
His widow and two daughters,
Maria Aurora and Marie Zenaida,
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Public Buildings Unit
Of FWA Reorganized
For Postwar Work
4 Deputy c Commissioners
Named; District Engineers
Get More Responsibility
By HAROLD b. ROGERS,

Far-reaching reorganization of
the Public Buildings Admins
tration of the Federal Works
Agency was put into effect to-
day, not only to simplify opera
tions, but to prepare for postwar
operations here and throughout
the country.
AS ordered by W. E. Reynolds,
commissioner of public buildings,
and approved by the Federal works
administrator, Maj. Gen. Philip b.
Fleming, the realignment provides
for four new officials to be known
as deputy commissioners and gives
greatly enlarged responsibility to
the engineers in charge of the
agency's eight district Offices.
Today's changes are Tar from the
first in the old-line Government
agency. It was first established by
Congress in 1870 and has operated
within various other agencies, in
|cluding the former Supervising
Architects once of the Treasury
Department, the Procurement d.
vision Of the Treasury and later as
the Public Buildings Administra-
ton of FWA.
viii Direct Construction.
The revised organization will di-
rect and supervise much of the
postwar construction in the Dis
trict, including completion Of the
still unfinished General Accounting
Evening star., 1944-08-01
MAP on Page A-l.)

By the Associated Press.
SUPREME ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, Aug. 1.-American
tank columns stormed across the
Selune River from captured
Avranches today, carrying the
invasion into Brittany.
On the Allies east fiank-pointec
toward Paris-the British drove II
miles south of Caumont.
The Germans whole 80-mile front
appeared shattered and their dis
organized legions were surrender
ing in disconsolate droves.
In the central sector east of the
Wire River the British joined ur
with the American drive southeast
of captured Torigny and swept ovel
tough, wooded ridges across the
Souleuvre River only miles from
the key communications town Of
Wire.
On Move All Along Front.
Just south Of Caen Canadian
troops after q deadlock Of nearly q
week captured Tilly-la-Champagne
but later front dispatches said the
Germans had driven them out
again.
Already the unchecked American
armor had enveloped Pontaubault,
4 miles due south of Avranches, and
had overrun Ducey, S miles to the
southeast.
The Allies were on the move along
the whole Normandy front.
Some Yank units turned eastward
from the coast and approached
close to the north-south Percy
villedieu- u-les-Poeles !. road, taking
most Of the lateral Granville VILE
dieu highway, supreme headquart.
efs announced.
Villedieu itself was being hemmed
In BY American units closing ir
from both the north and west. The
Americans now were within 2 miles
OF that Normandy road hub city
which Is II miles northeast Of
Avranches. A front dispatch said
other units had smashed past the
town to the south. Still farther te
the northeast heavy fighting was
raging near Percy and northwest OF
Tessy-sur-Vire
Deepest British Penetration.
Driving across the Souleuvre
River less than 2 miles west of the
German stronghold of LIE Beny.
Bocage, the British had advanced
IL miles south of their Sunday
jump-of area around Caumont and
were about % miles inland from the
English Channel. This was the
deepest British penetration of the
invasion.
A British column to the westward
joined hands with American forces
at point southwest Of the Eveuue
forest, 6 miles southeast Of Torigni-
Survive.
1t. Gen. Omar N. Bradley's tank
advance beyond Avranches puts the
Americans in position to strike 100
miles across the Brittany PENN
sula base or to turn east toward the
interior Of France and Paris, 100
miles away.
The Americans had spanned the
last great natural barrier against a
Heak-through to the south and also
were emerging from the hedgerow
and grove country which has slowed
their progress, front dispatch said.
Sartilly, 6 miles northwest Of Av-
ranches, was consolidated in q rapid
mopup OF by-passed areas.
German prisoners poured in faster
(See INVASION pace 1-70
Evening star., 1944-08-01
By the Associated Press.

% thS heoOSldtCu EICS6.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. L.
Hundreds of thousands of work.
bound Philadelphians were left
stranded on street corners to-
day by a sudden, unheralded
work stoppage that halted all
urban buses and streetcars and
virtually paralyzed the city's
subway and elevated lines.
Vital production was slowed In
plants throughout this metropolis o1
1000 900. termed by the War Man.
power Commission the second high
est war producing center in the Ma.
ton, as thousands stayed at home
and other thousands struggled ir
one, two and three hours late.
In Washington the War Labor
Board instructed its Philadelphia
officers to take jurisdiction in an
effort to settle the stoppage.
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Busch Reported Suicide
After Plot on Hitler
~ the Associated Press.

by the AStocioted PfetS.
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 1.-THE news
paper Aftonbladet reported today
that Marshal Ernest Busch, COM
mander of German armies retreating
from White Russia, committed sui
eide after the generals plot against
Adolf Hitler.
The report, carried under q Basle
(Switzerlan6 dateline, said the
marshal killed himself after under.
going third-degree treatment at
Hitler's headquarters. He previously
had been reported missing from the
Russian front, where his army group
has taken = severe mauling from the
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Bulletin
Finnish President Quits

LONDON R.-President
RistO Ryti Of Finland was re-
ported in a Reuters dispatch
from Stockholm today to
have resigned. The dispatch,
quoting reliable reports from
Helsinki, said the new Presi-
dent was Premier Linkomies.
Evening star., 1944-08-01

while clearing a land route through
Burma which must serve until such
time as the naval forces driving
across the Pacific from Guam and
New Guinea can open a China sea-
port on the Asiatic mainland.
Secondly, it is to bring about the
full training, and. so far as neces-
sary, the reorganization Of Chinese
military forces into powerful COM
bat team.
One of the main concerns OF the
Allied war leaders here has been
how to use Chinas vast manpower
(See STILWEIL, Page A-1O)
Evening star., 1944-08-01

and one son, Manuel, jr., were at the
bedside.
Long Sought Independence.
Since his arrival in the United
States he had used his waning en-
ergy to bring about defeat and oust-
er of the japanese.
He once told the Senate he hoped
America would adopt a new war
slogan - Remember the Philip
pines"
Beyond indications that funeral
services will be conducted in Wash
ington, there were no immediate
definite plans for burial.
Evening star., 1944-08-01
Sergio Osmeno to Succeed
Quezon in Presidency

President Quezon was afflicted
with a chronic bronchial condition
which invalided him much Of the
time since the fall of Manila. He
spent the cold months in Florida.
His first residence after coming
to Washington was Belmont, the
historic estate Of Brig. Gen. Patrick
Hurley near Leesburg. Later he
leased the Charles I. Corby estate
at Bethesda.
Much Of his time in his visits to
Evening star., 1944-08-01
SWAY Red Drive Menaces City;
y. S. Tanks Storm Into Brittany
Americans Cross
Selune River,
From Avronches
BULLETIN.

GAVRAY, France R.-
American infantry today cap
tured Breezy on the See River
and pushed 10 miles southeast
Of Avranches to capture two
key dams on the Selune River.
The total OF prisoners taken
In the present offensive
mounted to 1887.
Evening star., 1944-08-01

(See BYRD, Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1944-08-01

(See PBA, Page A-10J
Evening star., 1944-08-01

(See SOMERVELL, page AID
Evening star., 1944-08-01

(See QUEzON, Page A-l0.)
Evening star., 1944-08-01

(See INVASION, Page A-40
Evening star., 1944-08-01

tSee SECURITY, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1944-08-01

(See STILWELL, Page A-10J
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-22
WAS HIS FACE RED?

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. 81. (UP)
The Most Embarrassed Sergeant
OF World War II" was discovered
recently in Memphis. He was the
tough three-striper who suddenly
found himself engulfed in the rush
from a passenger train of about
1875 little Girl Scouts returning from
camp "Oho" yelled a group of
buck privates to the red-eared Sar-
gle, $50 that's the outfit you belong
tot"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-22
Cards of Thanks

WE WISH TO THANK our many
friends for their cards and letters
in our hour of need.
j. o. Murphy and Family.
1923
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-22

POST WAR SECURITY
Southern Utah lands. S100 starts
you. Units 10 to 80 acres. Abund-
ant shallow underground water.
Many new owners have secured
government loans for equipment
and development. Rural cleo
rification assured. Write for
free literature. Colonization De-
partment, Box $50, Cedar City,
Utah. 1923
Imperial Valley press., 1944-10-22

WOMAN WANTED to care for two
children nights while mother
works. SCI Park. 1924