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Robot Bombs Meet Match
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Less than c week after the intro duction of fIitler's boasted secret weapon, however, British and Allied defenses appeared to have developed Q technique for handling the pilot less bombers.
 Air ministry statements and eye witness accounts from the target areas revealed that Allied fighter pilots were decimating the robot fleets, picking them up aS they buz0ed in over the channel coast and disintegrating them with ma. chine gun and cannon fire.
 Massed anti-aircraft batteries studdtng the south coast also were credited with destroying many of the projectiles and a further toll was taken by coastal barrage hal- looms.
 U. s. Flying Fortresses and Liber- ators struck twice yesterday at the secret ramps in the Pas de Calais area of northern France from which the bombs were being laurched. RAF bombers followed up with another attack on the same aISh pCtOIe QuSk.
 Radio Berlin, apparently fishing Tor information on the sources of Its Six-day.old campaign, broadcast reports that paniv-stricken London CTS were fleeing their capital and that vast areas of southern England were tu flames from the bombing.
 One enemy account said the first refugees from England have arrived on the French and Belgian coasts" :" which crew the retort from BEG that "a lot of people are arriving on the French coast, but they are not refugees
 American fighter pilots Joined the RAF in hunting down Hitler's mechanical midgets and U. s, Ar Force headquarters announced that shooting down the doodle bugs" had become the "favorlte sport" of 9th Air Force pilots.
 In ore southern district, residents saw four robots destroyed by niaht fighters within a short time. and other accounts said many more were blasted out Of the air by Swarms of lighters that Ijed with each other to explode the bombs.
 One American Thunderbolt pilot erlroute to dive bomb Germans on the Normandy battlefields yesterday picked oil a robot on t.ae way out. nnd anoti'er was destroyed when 1t drifted into the center of a Thur derbolt formation returning from France.
 Among the victims of the robot offensive, however, was Lord Ed ward Hay, 55, of the grenadier guards, who was killed in the Lon- don area during a recent raid. Lord May, a brother of the Marquis of Tweedsdale. served on the British delegation to the Paris peace con- ference in l0l8-l9.
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Huge Force Of
 Bombers Blitz Reich
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the Luftwaffe into combat for a battle of attrition, under which the German air arm was not expected to long survive.
 Stockholm reported that g Am orleans bonbers of the fleet which raided Germany made force land- ings in Sweden-a record number for a single day. Sixteen landed in the Malmoe area, the others at various points along the coast. One report said six bombers caught on fire when they crashed, causing casualties.
 Unusual weather which almost eliminated Allied air support over the Normandy battlefront yester- day was reported clearing some- what today and resumption of at least limited activity was antici- pated.
 The principal aerial operations yesterday were directed against the robot plane launching platforms at Pas De Calais. American heavy bombers struck at the area twice in daylight and just before dusk a large force of RAT Lancasters, with a Spitflre escort, added their weight of bombs to the tiny canouhaged tracks and series of small build- ings, housing the one-ton pilotless planes.
 Smaller formations of medium and fighter bombers also were hurled against the launching platforms in daylight.
 The weather, which at no time
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 But we always found in the end that our respective interests were not very different"
 Lyttleton disclosed that the United States sent 5000 900, 900 worth of Lend-Lease supplies to Britain in 1943, or twice the amount of all ma terials furnished under reverse Lend Lease by Britain to the United States Lyttelton, speaking at an Ameri- can Chamber of Commerce lunch con said that the figure for the U. s. shipments last year did not include Lend-Lease supplies sent to other parts of the world for use by Brit ish forces.
 The production minister empha. sized that the $2,0oo, 100000 in re- verse Lend-Lease supplied to the U. S. represented well over half of Britains national debt" and de- nied that Britain was selling Arneri. can Lend-Lease materials.
 Some ill-disposed people who are determined to disturb Anglo-Ameri- can relations" Lyttelton said, have put about the charming story that we are selling Lend-Lease goods to third countries for cash and re- taining both cash and credit for having made the supplies available. 50 you won't mind my taking this opportunity of telling you that every possible precaution has been taken to prevent anything of the kind from happening"
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CContinued from Page D be far below the majority necessary Q nominate.
 '.Dewey's forces Jumped Ken 4zzchy's % votes in their column without taking the Kentucky dele- a8tion into consideration" Moore 6entinued.
 sLess than 24 hours after they made this claim the delegation voted to cast its 22 votes for Cover nor Willis of Kentucky, until re- leased. The Dewey people claimed H5 of the 33 Texas votes. A poll made yesterday assured Governor EFlcker of substantially more than Q majority of the Texas votes"
 Moore said similar errors had been made in computing Deweys strength in Maryland. Arizona, Vir- Rinia, Idaho and Oklahoma and that there were Many other similar instances.
 The test of various Dewey and Brieker claims scarcely can come until the convention meets June 26. The resolutions committee meets here tomorrow to begin drafting the platform. Bricker's views will be Fcpresented and Dewey has said his would be offered, too. Kenneth Mc- AHeFy and Mary Donlon, members Df the New York convention deiega- 8|1n, have been assigned to the EsApiutlons committee to sponsor
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Walter WiHlcIleII
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for subversives-fo the price of . pint of anything. She's now Q lushr. Thrown out of her apartment the
 other day-drank up all her rent
 Bernard Baruch's definition Of
 being rich: Having one dollar more
 than you need The latest CBS censorship of a new song called
 Don't Change Horses" which Is
 o-Roosevelt Bert Wheeler'S
 popularity at the Copacabana {. The British-made film, ''The Yellow Canary" which takes neat crack at the anti-British sentiments of Readers Digest The two-weeks closing for "2l" so that the staff can holiday. First time the shutters will be used since speakeasy times. Frank Gervasi, ex-Collier's cor- respondent, spurning radio com mentator job to go overseas again The swimming pool at Fort Jackson, s. O., for use of officers only. And who do you think sit up on the life guard towers with large hats and arms folded acting as lifeguards? Naz war prisoners.
 Reporter Ray JOsephs' soon-due thriller book: Argentine Diary" crowded with low-down "A. The rumored probe of retail hooch shops, which supposedly have ample sup plies of laughing soup but sell only to people they know at black mar ket fees The night spot owner who may have to lose his prosper ous joynt, If he doesn't quit those gin rumlny game losses The book which attacks DUies and his committee published by the Catho- lie University Press (Washington) . The other, titled Martin Dies", Is by a Methodist, also scorcher "In Fact" for June 18th, which revealed zingy inside on the Vivien Kellems love letters to that Argen- tinaM boy friend The way we coddle Nazi prisoners over here and get tough with DeGaulle. The huge Varga Girl covering the Winter Garden, which reveals much undraped cuticle. There isn't a sug- gestion of neklxidness in the show . The newspaper which deletes wordage such as ''heinieS" or "krauts" and makes the staff call they jerries or Germans in stories '. The record for an entertainer staying abroad to arnuse our troops its nearly one year there for Joe sephine Delmar, darling, too [. The first batch of nylons, due soon, which will go to women in uniforms of the armed forces And the terrific unmasking of those alleged ly patriotic Mother groups "The Mother Racket" - in the July Wo- mans Home Companion, by Pa tricia Lochridge, ex-Girl Friday for Elmer Davis.
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(Continued from Page D them strongly, estimating they would add as much as $S50, 900, 900 a year to the nations clothing bill.
 Sen. Robert F. Wagner, D., N. r., said that If the controversy could not be settled at today's meeting, he and other senate conferees would take the issue back to the senate for a vote on whether 1t desires to press for acceptance in the face of strong house opposition.
 There was little likelihood that the house confereeS would accept them, since the lower chamber re- jected similar proposals by an over. whelming vote. The senate. how ever, adopted the Bankhead pro- posals by 6 39 to 35 count and it appeared more likely to reverse it's position rather than run into Q prolonged controversy that would delay recess plans.
 Victory
 The administration won a Vic. tory when the conferees agreed to eliminate an amendment provid- ing for court review of OPA regula- tions. Q proposal denounced by OPA Chief Chester BowleS as a legal booby trap that would turn price control into price chaos"
 Amendments accepted by the con- ferees also included:
 A one year extension in place of l8 months proposed by the senate, The price control act, basis for the OPA, is now scheduled to expire the end of this month.
 A ban on subsidy payments after June 30. lS45 unless specifically au- thorized by congress and restric- ton of subsidies to items now re- ceiving them-milk. beef and but ter.
 Rent control adjustments in areas where substantial hardship has been caused by tax increases or irl- creases or increased operating costs, and abandonment of rent controls where changing defense area coadi- tions make 1t possible.
 A provision that protests against all OPA orders. past. present or fu- ture, may be filed at any time with the OPA administrator, rather than within a 60-day period as pro- posed by the senate.
 A provision that OPA may not compel changes in established busi- ness practices except where the price administrator finds them to be necessary to prevent violation of price controls.
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(Continued from Page D cruisers and destroyers. and possi- ply battleships.
 Similarly, the strength of the American forces was indicated by the fact it was able to throw up enough planes and a Suff1clently heavy anti aircraft bayrage to pre- vent damage to all but one ship.
 With a good proportion of the Japanese task force planes appar- ently destroyed. the virtually un- damaged American fleet probably would have sought to close with the enemy unless the air battle was fought so late in the day that the Japanese were able to flee in the darkness.
 The crushing blow to the Japa- nese aerial forces came almost simultaneously with the American land strikes across southern Saipan. where Seabee construction crews already were working on Aslito air drome and its 3600-foot runway, which if extended was believed large enough to accommodate the new B-2e Super-Fortresses.
 Veteran Marine and Army troops carried the advance through Saipan to gain control of the western shore of. Magacienne Bay. cutting oil the southeastern tip of the island above Nafutan Point and leaving only small enemy pockets east of Lake Susupe near the Charan Kanoa area.
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(Continued from Pege U advancing along the Tyrrhenian coast broke through strong enemy defenses about nine miles above Grosseto and French troops some 30 miles to the east captured Radico- fani and four neighboring towns along a l0-mife front.
 The advance brought the Ameri- can and French spearheads about 60 miles below Florence.
 On the Adriatic coastal sector, the Germans were pulling back swiftly, offering only sporadic re- sistance to the onrushing eth Army. Flying columns crossed the Tronto river and moved on to the Tesino river, seven miles farther north.
 Bad weather that limited aerial operations and left trucks and troop cars begged deep in mud appeared to be the maojr factor slowing the Allied adavnce on all fronts, and there was no indication that the enemy was yet ready to stand and fight in force.
 The Elba campaign, meanwhile, came to a blazing climax at noon today when the last NaM stragglers and Snipers were rounded up and killed or captured.
 Resistance Ended
 Formal resistance ended on the historic island at 10:30 a. m. yes- terday. however, when 8 band of 400 Nazis, their artillery silenced and all escape closed off by Allied naval patrols, hoisted the white flag over the Porto Longone citadel, on the east shore.
 The swift advance of the French Colonials and the airtight blockade maintained by the Allied air and sea forces prevented all but a handful of the enemy garrison fro mescap- ing to the mainland.
 In the final 24 hours of the cam paign the French smashed every German battery on the tiny island and bayoneted the Nazi's machine gunners and scattered riflemen from tehir hiding places in the hills.
 So rapid was their final thrust against Portoferraio and Porto Long, one that the enemy was unable to carry out any extensive demolitions. The famous villa at San Maritime where Napoleon spent his exile was taken intact and the French flag was raised over 1t yesterday for the first time since 1915.
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since the invasion has favored the Allies, was worse than ever yester- day. Three banks of clouds, plus 6 ground haze, almost completely shielded the German army, which without any help from the Luft- waffe was having difficulty moving endorsements and supplies along roads and rails controlled by Allied airmen.
 Despite the weather, some fighter bombers managed to drop through the cloud screen to tree-top level and bomb and strafe trains and vehicles. But the weather and in- tense flax at that height claimed IS of them.
 Altogether, the Americans dur ing the day lost 10 bonnbers and l6 fighters in the Pas De Calais attacks and strafing missions in France.
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Bay to prevent enemy ships from escaping to the Gulf of Finland.
 In addition, planes of the Red banner Baltic fleet sank at least l6 enemy ships, including six trans- ports, in the Gulf of Finland. Twen- ty.two German and Finnish planes were shot down in aerial combat.
 Columns
 One Soviet column captured Rok. kala, 10 miles southwest of Viipuri at the entrance to Viipuri Bay, paving the way for an amphiblous thrust across the mouth to the north coast thereby outfianking Viipuri from the west.
 A similar drive across the ice in 1940 brought the fall of Viipuri and, with 1t, F1nland's surrender after the short-lived "w1nter war" The fall of Viip,ri would throw open all industrial southern Finland in- cluding Helsinki, l30 miles to the west, to the invading Russians.
 More than 70 other towns and villages, including the Mannerhcitn line strongholds of Summa, l6 miles southeast, were overrun by the Russians in advances of up to IA miles yesterday along all the main Karelian Isthmus highways and railways converging on Viipuri.
 After toppling Sumnia, where one Of the fiercest battles of the l93s- l940 war was fought, the Soviets advanced another five miles along the main Leningrad-Viipuri high way and captured Huumola, II miles south southeast of the port
 Other forces under Marshal Leo- mid A. Govorov cleared the entire southern shores of Lakes Vuokas and Suvanto-A stretch of 35 miles and seized Ilyakylae, on the north west shore of vuoksi 27 miles almost due east of viipuri.
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Tension In Finland
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Tn the far Pacific, the Japanese were staggering under the WUrst aerial defeat since Midway. They lost more than 800 planes at Midway because of the sinking of their car- riers. but not that many in air combat.
 The presence of a Japanese task force, which had tried the expedient of shuttle operations between car- riers and island bases, led to the possibility of a major naval action for the first time in nearly two years. However, the. Japanese, handicapped by their heavy plane losses. probably will try to get out of range.
 On eaipan island the American forces were making good progress. They held about one.tliird of the strategically important island, 1900 miles from Tokyo and the Phillip plneg, including tho valuable Aallko "&& 4|#d.1 IT
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Defects In Ships Descibed
BY EDWARD e. ETsENHART

Limited Press Staff Correspondent) Washington June 20. - (UP) - A House Merchant Marine Sub- committee warned today that plate fractures on welded Liberty ships still are occurring and declared that a solution must be found Ito insure the safety of our merchant vessels and our merchant mariners"
 After more than year of investi- gation the subcommittee reported that major fractures had been found in four per cent of all Liberty type vessels and said that almost one out of every 10" had experienced either serious or potentially serious plate breaks.
 It noted however that only five of the vessels were lost and that cas- ualties were limited to Il persons still unaccounted for after taking to a hfeboat from one of the defective ships.
 The report acknowledge that mo definitive solution" to the problem had been found but called for greater efforts toward improvement of welding practices and the quality of steel plate and modifications in ship design to limit their suscepti. bility to fracture and to limit the ex- tent of their failures should frac- lures occur"
 The subcommittee said that the most important cause of the frac- lures was believed to be the exist ence of built-in- internal stresses and indicated that measures were being taken to reduce them to -"safe limits. This was believed to have been the cause for the failure of the tanker Schenectady which broke in two 8 few months after its launching at the Kaiser Company yards at Swan Island Portland Ore.
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 Any time you have only one party in this country we'll have what they've got in Russia and Ger. many.
 Wheeler denounced Soviet Premier Josef Stalin as "the most ruthless dictator in the world" saying that Americans have the right to criti- cize the Allies since the Allies do not hesitate to criticize the United States.
 T admire stalin from the stand point that he is for Russia first, " Wheeler said. He is looking out for Russian interests.
 T do not admire him for the things he has done, because in my judgment there Is not a more ruth. less dictator in the world. I cannot take to my breast a dictator and praise him when he Is my friend any more than I can praise him when he Is my enemy The fact that he happens to be on our side at the present time does not change his complexion to me"
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on their bases at Le Hacre and Boulogne.
 WeatheT Improving
 Flying weather appeared to be imparoving, but Allied fighter. bombesr yesterday encountered three layers of clouds and heavy ground haze, forcing them in many cases to drop well below 1000 meet to bomb the strafe enemy roads.
 A field dispatch from Dougald Werner, United Press War Cor correspondent at Ninth air force cd. vance headquarters in Normandy. disclosed that . breachhead airfield built by the Germans had been cap- tured.
 A number of advance landing areas built by American engineers also were in operation and have been used by Thuuderbolts and Mustangs as advance bases for dive bombing and patrol missions while still more were being constructed.
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ELEANOR POWELL EXPECTING

Hollywood. June 20-CUP)-Danc- ing star Eleanor Powell. who just completed starring role in "Sen. sations of 1914" revealed today that she expects to become a mother the first of the year.
 Miss Powell was married to screen actor Glenn Ford, now sergeant in the Marines, Oct. 2a, lee3.
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CANS ARE THROWN
 AWAY FOR RUBBISH

Naugatuck, June 20-There are still a number of tin cans still being discarded with rubbish here instead of being donated to the tin can sal- wage drive. Edward s. Muller. sal. wage coordinator for the local area, said today.
 He said he saw many cans ia the rubhssh collection last week. M
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The statue of King George TIT in the City Hall. Dublin, is to be re. placed by the statue of Thomas Da- vig, poet at present in the Munici- pal Art 0allszy,
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Salvador reports that government controls have decreased food prices
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Special vaults fer storing motion picture Aims will he built n Dublin,
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Reds Close On Viipuri

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U. s. Drove
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9th Army Captures

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Powerful Tank Forces

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FDR Foreign Stand Ropped

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Bricker Group

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' The former femme movie critic,
 who helps write, and edit malarkey
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-09
WEI PROGRAMS FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK
ARE DAILY UNLESS OTHERWISE SCHEDULED

9:00-Music
10:00-Front Line Features
l0:15-Morning Devotions
10:30-Shady Valley Folks
11:00-Arthur Gaeth
l1:45-News
12:OO-Boake Carter (Mon., Wed
and Fri. only
Afternoons
1:00-Ray Dady
1:30-Luncheon with Lopez
2:00-Cedric Foster
2:15-Saddle Pals
2:30-Mutual Goes Calling
3:00-Songs by Morton Downey
4:00-Women In the News
5:30-Songs of Good Cheer (Mon.,
Wed, Fri.)
5:45-Superman
Nights
6:OO-One Minute Prayer
6:01-News Headlines
6:05-Sports Parade
6:15-Dick Kuhn
7:00-Fulton Lewis, Jr.
7:15-Johnson Family
Extraordinarily Yours (Tue.,
Thur, Sat-
Old Corral (Mon, Wed, Fri.)
7:45-Manhunt (Mon. only
8:00-Cecil Brown (Mon., Wed,
Fri. only
8:30-Pick and Pat Time (Tues-
days only)
9:00-Gabriel Heater
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1944-03-09
Laughs Important To Men
At Front, Say Pick and Pat

We've played for servicemen in
tents, hospitals kitchens, yards, and
jungles, and no matter how serious
ly wounded or in danger they were
the boys could always take time off
to laugh" says Pick and Pat who
provide the blackface antics on Mu-
tuaPs variety series, Pick and Pat
Time" heard Tuesdays, 100000
p. m.
Zone thing that surprised us was
that the boys out in the wilds enjoy
the same type of jokes that an av-
erage American family Does" con-
tinues Pat when we first started
touring, we thought we'd be playing
to a specialized audience, but we
found out how wrong we were be-
fore we'd gotten past more than a
few one-night stands"
Before starting their present Mu-
tual series Pick and Pat made a five
month tour of the Army camps, 60
ing to Bermuda and through South
America. Travelling with a group
of other entertainers, they worked
from a basic 25-minute act that
could be changed on a moments no.