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The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
CHANGES IN RENT
RULES ANNOUNCED

Three changes in the rent regu-
1ations for housing, designed to lib
eralize existing provisions relating
to the eviction of tenants for occu-
pancy by purchasers, were an
nounced yesterday by the Area
OPA Rent office.
The changes, which became eff
fective Friday, follow:
The provision requiring 20 per
cent down payment on a house for
eviction Of a tenant for occupancy
by a purchaser has been liberaliz-
ed SO that now under certain cir
cumstances a part of the down
payment may be borrowed money.
The buyer must be able to show
that the money was borrowed IN
good faith and that he is not seek
ing to bypass the original intent
Of the 20 per cent down payment
provision by using borrowed funds.
This amount of down payment.
has been required to eliminate the
possibility of evasive sales in areas
where housing is inadequate.
Funds now may be borrowed on
other real estate for a part OF the
down payments, providing the val
ue of the security, plus any pay
ments made from funds not Dor
rowed, is equal to 20 per cent OF
the purchase price of the new
property.
The second regulation provides
that area rent directors are no
longer required to grant eviction
certificates with the choice of Ell
Their no waiting period or a three
month waiting period. They may
now, at their discretion, grant
eviction certificates with waiting
periods for less than three months.
Final chance is that the three
month waiting period after the is
suance of an eviction certificate by
sne rent director will now start
from the day the petition for the
certificate is filed by the landlord
with the rent director. Previously
the waiting period began with the
issuance date of the certificate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
NEW ASBESTOS YARN

NEW YORK, June 10-tR-A
new asbestos yarn which makes
asbestos clothing only half as
heavy as formerly was announced
today by the United States Rub
Der company. The yarn is made
by blending asbestos fibers with a
small percentage of cotton, the
latter giving added strength and
weaving qualities.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
T. E. Stancil Injured
In Fall From BicvcIe

; T. E. stancil, %. was injured
yesterday morning in a fall from
his bicycle when it skidded under
an automobile at the corner of
Third and Market streets.
Attendants at James Walker
Memorial hospital said Stancil was
admitted for observation for pos
sible leg and back INJURIES
Investigating Officers w. K.
Rhodes and E. F. Bradshaw re.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11
TOO SERIOUS

+ Some thief is taking shoe
rationing too seriously.
At least, "his'' household
should be glutted with the IS
pairs of children's house shoes
reported to police yesterday to
have been removed from the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
company's warehouse or ex-
press truck. The $50 case of
cloth material slippers was
consigned TO the Su-Ann Shoe
store.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-06-11

The nations traffic death toll for
the first four months Of 1914 was
7650E15 per cent higher than for
the same 1943 period.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
StiIWeII RoutS
JQpS i'm Burma
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-

SOUTHEAST ASIA HEADQUAR-
TIERS Handy, Ceylong, June II.
(UP) General Joseph
w. Stilwells Chinese troops, driving
steadily down the Maguang valley CT
northern Burma, have captured the
Japanese stronghold of Kamaing, l6
miles north of Moguang and the
enemy's main supply railway to
Mandalay, it was announced Satur?-
day.
The Chinese, VINO virtually had
isolated Kamaing by circling thru
the hills, broke through the enemy
defenses to consolidate their forces,
which already were nearing Mo-
guang.
A communique disclosed that the
second Chinese force, which cut
around the enemy stronghold,
captured the village of Perentu, 3l2
miles northwest of Mogaung, one
of the Japanese few all-weather
bases in northern Burma.
The Chinese conquest of Kjaming
came as American troops made new
gains in their thrust through the
northern section of Myitkyina, the
northern terminus of the railway
from Mandalay.
In India, the japanese continued
to fall back under heavy blows of
British Imperials and the communi-
que said the enemy forces had with
drawn from positions l6 miles
southeast of Kohima
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
4-H Campers Wait
Physical Tests

In order to prepare 80 Imperial
county All club members for a
trip from below sea level to 5000
feet elevation, club officials ar
ranged for them to have physical
examinations before they depart
for Camp Radford July 26, Assist
ant Farm Advisor H. Lee Lander
man said Saturday.
Before the youngsters attend
the annual camp this summer,
Landerman said, they must be
checked by their family physician,
the results charted on card we
provide them with, and the card
signed by the parents. DR.. Miriam
Hubbell, county health officer, will
examine those who will not be able
to see their physicians. The chill
dren in the eastern part of the
county will be examined at the FIT.
Yuma hospital"
These physical examinations are
among the pany requirements
which must be- fulfilled befre the
All club members will be admitted
to the camp.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Land Hits RuInor
Of Cut.Back
In Ships Output

WASHINGTON, June II. CUP) -
War Shipping Administrator Emory
S. Land promised Saturday there
would be no cutback in the mari
time commissions shipbuilding pro-
gram and said rlmors to this affect
now being circulated were aimed
at "sabotaging the shipbuilding pro-
gram at the most crucial point in
the war"
AN epidemic of irresponsible
rumOrs seems to have invaded most
of the major shipyards of the
United States to the effect that
the maritime commissions con-
struction program is about to be
cut back. The persistence of such
rumOrs suggests to me that the
source might be interested in sabo-
taging the shipbuilding program at
the most crucial point in the war by
seeking to drive skilled workmen
frCm the shipyards to look for en-
ployment elsewhere" Land said.
Let me say emphatically that
the workload in the shipyards is to
be increased very shortly and not
decreased or cut back
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

CHICAGO, June II. (UP)
"A walkout of 600 workers
at the huge Dodge Chicago
plant of the ChrySler Corp, where
1900 horsepower engines are pro-
duced for the giant B-29 super
fortress, ended Saturday when the
striking employees agreed to return
to work pending negotiation of their
dispute involving a l0-cent-hourly
wage increase for tool grinder.
The strikers, VINO left their jobs
Friday night and early Saturday,
began returning to work after a
meeting at the headquarters of the
United Automobile Workers union
(CIO). At the meeting committee
was appointed to meet with COM
pany representatives to negotiate
the dispute.
Frank Blake, UAW international
representative, said the walkout
was unauthorized. Union officials
had urged the strikers to return
to work,
Walter A. Kalinowski, a spokes-
man for the strikers, said the dis
pute concerned the pay scale of
Arnold Butty, tool grinder. whom
he said was entitled to a 10-cent
increase for working on precision
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Ernie Pyle
Sees Beaches Covered With
Dead Men and Wreckage, All
Price of Invasion Landings

partly sunken barges, and the an
gled-up corners of jeeps, and small
landing craft half submerged. And
at low tice you could still see those
vicious six-pronged iron snares that
helped snag and wreck them.
On the beach itself, high and dry
were all kinds of wrecked vehicles.
There were tanks that had only
just made the beach before being
knocked out. There were jeepS that
had burned to a dull gray. There
were big derrickS on caterpillar
treads that didn't quite make it.
There were half-trackS carrying
office equipment that had been
made into shambleS by single
shell hit, their interiors still hold
ing their useless equipage OF smash
ed typewriters, telephones, office
files.
Lots UPSIDE-DOWN
There were Lots turned COM
pletely upside down, and lying on
their backs, and how they got that
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. s.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

NORMANDY BEACHHEAD, u
Dav Plus Two. (By Wireless, Delay
ed)-I took a walk along the his
toric coast of Normandy in the
country of France.
It was a lovely day for strollng
along the SeaShore. Men were Sleep
inc on the sand, some of them sleep
ing forever. Men were floating IN
the water, but they didn't know
they were in the water, for they
we're dead.
The water was full of squishy
little jellyfish about the size OF
YOUR hand. Millions of them. In the
center each of them had green
design exactly like four-leaf clov-
er. The good luck emblem. Sure.
He'll yes.
STUDIED DETAIL
walked for a mile and a half
along the waters edge of our many
miled invasion beach. You wanted
to walk slowly, for the detail on
that beach was infinite.
The wreckage was vast and star
tling. The awful waste and deStruc-
tion of war, even asioe from the loss
of human life, has always been one
of its outstanding features to those
who are in it. Anything and every
thing is eXpendable. And we did
expend on our beachhead in Nor
mandy curing those first few hours.
For a mile out from the beach
there were scores of tanks and
trucks and boats that you could
no longer see, for they were at the
bottom of the water-swamped by
overlooking, or hit by shells, or sunk
by mines. Most of their crews were
lost
You could see trucks tipped han
over and swamped, You could see
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

AS the attacking forces smashed
the Finnish defenSes on five separ-
ate sectors through the forest and
lake country for gains of five to
nine miles, long columns of trucks.
half-tracks and artillery filled the
narrow roads in carrying supplies
to swiftly moving troops.
AT the same time, front dispatch
es reported that reconnaissance pa
trols had stabbed behind the Fin
nish lines to disrupt communion
tions and attack enemy strong
points.
The Firms were reported evacuat-
ing the entire Karelian populace
and the Russians found many vii
lagos virtually without inhabitants.
observers at Stockholm said
that an order of the day issued by
Finnish Marshal Karl Mannerheim,
acknowledging the second large
scale Soviet attack in Karelia, in
dicated the Finnish military situa-
ton was becoming critical)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
FinIand's Envoy
To Washington
Gets Home Pass

WASHINGTON, June II,
(UP)-Finland's refusal to
get out of the war against
Russia and the "inimical' activities
of her minister to Washington Sat-
urday left that nation on the brink
of ruptured relations with the
United States.
Both Finland, the only nation
that always paid her World war debt
installments, and Hjalmar j. Pro-
cope, an extremely popular men,
ber of the diplomatic corps here in
happier days, now are in i'll repute
in this country.
UNDER POLICE WATCH
Procope, his wife and two small
children, and three of his legation
counsellorS and their families are
under police surveillance in their
homes and unCer orders to leave the
country as soon as possible be-
cause of unnamed activities "inimi-
cal" to United States interests.
Passports were handed to the
Finnish representatives at pm.
Friday-just "a hours after Fin
land had paid the $148,445 06 semi
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. p
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
New ThrustS Doom
Nazi Carrisons
Invasion Gets
Backing Of
Interior Armv

A l. l. r ID S u P r E M f
HEADQUARTERS, June II.
(UP)-The Berlin radio said
Saturday night that Ameri-
can troops had driven to the
Outskirst of S. Lo, vital tran
sport hub in Normandy, and
were approaching the west
coast in a drive across the
Cherbourg peninsula below
the big port at Its tip.
Supreme headquarters here
had no official comment i'm
mediately on the Nazis re-
ports of smashing new sue
cesses by Lit. Gen. Omar N.
Bradley's invasion forces
reports which if true appear
ed to doom the German gar
rison at Cherbourg and open
the way for major allied sue.
ceSses.
An "army of French fore
es of the interior" has seized
full control in some areas of
France, a special allied COM
munique reported Saturday
as American forces battled
within seven miles of the
N or m a n peninsula w e $ t
coast in a drive to cut off
Cherbourg.
Special communique No. l from
an advanced command post, an
nounced at supreme headquarters
here, said guerilla operations against
the Germans in France were lin
full swing" and in the first week
of the invasion the army of French
patriots had played its assigned
role in the battle of liberation
CHERBOURG PERILED
The official acknowleo cement of
the interior campaign behind the
German battlefront conceded with
the disclosure that U. S. armored
forces striking north and west from
ST. Sauveur-Le Vicomte almost had
isolated Cherbourg
Headquarters spokesmen indicat-
Continued on Pg. 6, Gel. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
BY WALTER CRONKITE

LONDON, June II. CUP)-Brit-
ain already has the answer to Ger
many's robot bombers single day
after their sensational debut, air
experts believed Saturday, and a
sharp reduction in their activity
during tie night indicated that the
Nazi- touted secret weapon was be-
ing shackled.
One formation of a very strong
force of royal air force bomberS
over the continent Friday night at
tackled military installations" in
the Pas De Calais area presum-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
10000 Drivers
Of Trucks
Set Strike Date

CHICAGO, June II. tUP) - Mere
than 10000 over-the- road truck
drivers in eight midWestern states
will strike July l, the central states
drivers council OF the AFL team
sters union announced Saturday
The strike date was set by the
executive board of the council after
the drivers voted overwhelmingly in
favor of walkout in balloting
throughout the area last week end.
Dexter Lewis, director OF the
council, said the strike would tie
up inter-city truck shipments in the
area Immediately after it began
and would indirectly affect 100000
truckers within few days. 1t
probably will extend to states out
side of the region. he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
1000 Allied Planes Rake
Ruhr Valley Oil Plants

LONDON, June II. (UP)
A big force of British and
Canadian h eavy bombers,
possibly 1000 strong, attacked the
synthetic oil plant at Sterkrade, in
Germany's Ruhr valley, and mill
tary installations in France Friday
night, while Mosquitoes again hit
Berlin, dumping two-ton blockbust-
ers on the Nazi capital.
Despite adverse weather over the
channel, Thunderbolt dive-bombers
of the 9th airforce cut through a
thick grey haze Saturday morning
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Russians Crack
Finn DefenSeS

MOSCOW, June II. UP)-Red
army troops streamed northward
along a 65-mile front in the Karel-
ian Isthmus Saturday after break
ing through the second Finnish
defense line in rapidly developing
drive toward Viipuri.
can Helsinki dispatch reported
that the Firms had started a COM
plete evacuation of civilians from
Viipuri)
Gen. Leonid A. Govorov'S Lenin-
grad army steadily increasing the
tempo of its thrust toward Finland'S
third largest city. captured more
than 100 settlements and towns, in
cluding Luonatyoki, to bring the
Soviet forces within % miles south
east of Viipuri.
(The Swedish newspaper Dagens
Nyheter said the Russians had
reached the rail station of Perk-
jaervi on the Mannerheim line. five
miles north of Luonatyoki.)
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Governor Signs
Teachers Bill

SACRAMENTO, June II. CUP) -
Gov. Earl Warren has signed into
la wa bill increasing pensions of
school teachers and setting up a
fund of $30000,000 to insure SOL
vency of the teacher retirement
fund
The governor also signed bill
appropriating $4,500,0O0 for increaS-
ed school grants during the next
year which indirectly permits teach
er salary raises made during the
past year to remain in effect.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

ter bombers, both capable of carry
ing six-ton -blockbusters. car
ried out the assault on the Fischer
Tropsch oil plant at Sterkrade, five
miles north of Duisburg Although
the raid was mace through a thick
covering of clouds, the bombers OBJ
tanned successful results in hitting
the plant, which has an annual cap
acity of i25.000 metric tons OF syn
thetic oil.
The British bombers, ~ of which
were lost during the night, also
hit military installations In the
Pas de Calais area.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

ROME, June IT, (UP) - French
troops landed successfully" Satur-
day on the island of Elba between
Corsica and Italy, where Napoleon
spent more than nine months in
exile. winning a springboard to sup
port the coastal flank of Allied
forces racing northward toward
Florence.
A special communique announced
the invasion of Elba by a French
army detachment commanded by
Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny.
The first official report was brief,
saying:
"On June II detachment of the
French Army b which Is command
ed by Gen de Lattre de Tassigny
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
French Forces
Luund on EIbQ

at the direction of the supreme Al
lied commander, landed successfully
on the island of Elba.'
Elba lies across the five-mile Pho
bino channel from the town OF the
same name on the Italian mainland,
which in turn is some 33 miles
northwest of Grosseto, captured by
the Allied fifth army in its swift
push toward the German line
through Pisa, Florence, and Ramini,
some IS miles beyond.
"The momentum of the Allied ad-
vance in Italy has been maintained.
a communique said, indicating that
the general sweep northward by
the 5th and 9th armies still virtu-
ally was unimpeded by the fleeing
Nazis.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Bond
So eS
Mount
County Tops
20 Per Cent
In First We ek

On the heels of the news
of the superfortresses bomb
ing of Japan, Ell Centre Chi
nese subscribed $4,000 to the Fifth
War Loan Drive Friday.
Total county sales Friday night
reached $626,845 or 20 per cent of
the countys quota as that days
campaign was the first to hit the
daily sales minimum required to
meet the county quota.
Herb Fawcett, who returned Fri
day night from Los Angeles bond
meeting, complimented Nah j..
Shong who led the personal solicita-
ton among the Chinese. Shong was
accompanied by city retail chair
man Bob Smith and Virginia Law
SON.
HITS DAILY QUOTA
Fridays sales of nearly $l2l 900
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

to hit German reinforcements and
supplies along the crucial west
coast peninsula highway 10 miles
south of the st. Sauveur-Le Vicomte
battlefield
The speedy U. S. planes concen-
trated around Lessay, five miles
south of the key high ground near
LIE Haye Du Puts, meeting virtual
ly no opposition.
Saturday Flying Fortresses and
Liberators hit six German airdromes
III southern Normandy, the Paris
area and near Boulogne
Long-range Halifax and Lancas-
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Nine Navy F|iers
Killed in Crash

SAN FRANCISCO, June IT. (UP)
Nine flyers were killed when a
navy seaplane exploded in midair
and crashed into San Francisco bay
two miles off Hunters Point late
Fricay, the navy announced Sat-
urday.
Identification of the dead was
withheld pending notification of
next of kin.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
Britain Finds
Roc ket Lair

ably the emplacements frcm which
the pilotless planes are launched.
HIT SECOND NIGHT
The "pilotless aircraft" as the
British called the flying torpedo or
new type rocket, streaked over
southern England again Friday
night, causing more casualties and
damage. But the attacks were on a
much smaller scale, and decidedly
less startling than the first strange
attacks "a hours earlier.
The German high command, con-
tinuing its propaganda offensive,
Continued on Pg. 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
-.s,.- s~-,ls
D AMBllNe iii
EpoRTER

Luck of the Irish
Hollywood was overrun with war
bond committees when Herb Faw-
cett, head of the Imperial county
committee, arrived in the movie
capital for the meetings and con-
ferenceS held in connection with
the visit of Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
The crowds were terrific.
FaWcett presented himself at the
door OF the banquet hall where the
big dinner for Morgenthau was to
take place.
Where is your ticket?" a door,
man asked.
II haven't a ticket" Fawcett said.
Didn't you get ticket which
was sent from the bond headquart-
terS?" the doCrman asked with a
froWn saved for gate craShers.
NO" Fawcett insisted, II receiv-
ed no ticket" but he went to dinner.
He talked his way in. He met the
same interference at the big war
bond doings at Hollywood Bowl
No ticket. But he went to the
doings. He talked his way in.
Leave it to the Irish and practi-
cally any Imperial Valley resident.
PS-The tickets arrived after
FaWcett returned to Ell Centro.
They would have been wasted even
if he had received them in time.
He doesn't need them.
Natural Grouping
Big eyed and interested, Meryal
Lee. tiny daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
T.. A. Fitzhugh, walked into a down.
tContinued on Pc, G. Col. II
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
-Soiipan
Battle
Sur9es
Japan's S Elite
Fighters
Fi9h+ for Life

PEARL HARBOR, June
II. (UP)-Two divisions of
Japanese trOops-sOme 2O,-
600 to 10000 of the emperor's elite
fighters-were locked in a death
struggle Saturday with the Ameri-
can invaders of Saipan in what
may become one of the most decis-
i've battles since U. S. marines STEM
med the enemys southwark drive
to Guadalcanal.
Reports from Saipan since the
fighting began four days ago gave
only the barest details in the see
saw battle. 1t was reported that
Americans, battling through intense
mortar and artillery fire, preached
Japanese lines north of the sugar.
mill town of Charan Kanoa to
bring their forces to less than five
miles from Garapan, largest city on
Saipan which lies 1449 miles south
east of Tokyo.
PLAN FOR SIEGE
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz said
he previously had assumed that
Saipan was strongly held. For this
reason American units are battling
with everything from tanks and
heavy artillery to knives and bare
hands in a do or die effort to eXter-
inmate the enemy.
Saipan, at the apex of a main
defense triangle south of Japan,
has been converted into a formi-
Gable fortress which probably will
take many days to conquer.
DRIVE INLAND
A front dispatch by United Press
Correspondent Richard w. john
ston said the troops were driving
inland over green, rolling hills after
capturing Charan Kanoa where they
routed a strong japanese rear
guarc in street. -to-Street fighting.
Admiral Chester w. Nimitz dis
closed that an estimated 10000
Japanese were defending the island
and pointed out that "our asSump-
ton that Saipan would be strongly
held because of its strategic loca-
ton in the Japanese defense SyS-
tenn has been proved correct"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
B-2q Engine TooIers End
Strike ! In Detroit Plant

The plant, the largest single war
factory in the country. employs
more than 10000 persons and COW
ers 500 acres.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

tools. Butty was oenied the raise,
Kalinowski said, and the other 1T
tool grinders walked out in pro-
test between 4 and pm. Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
WEATHER

Maximum Friday 82, minimum Saturday 40; s am.
Saturday GO, humidity 73; noon Saturday "a. hu-
mdity 81; pm. Friday 78, humidity 81.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

l. A. HAY-U. s. No. / S31 $3.50; u. S. No. 2 leafy
l. v. $3O.5O- 1885, No. 2 $1,000 $3l.OO; Sept. flax
$2.96N.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18
HOW BOND
SALES GO

Here is first week bond sales
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-18

tTOtal Cash, Checks and Drafts Sent
Through The Two I'll Centr0 Banksl
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-01-28

Coon sold 50,O0T eggs. 1000 pounds
-. BOILERS. and loco pounds ri hogs
Il, a".hctcd @OO pounds o. snap
acans. 2uu pounds ul tomatoes. 100
aGncara uI DcC;> and carrots. 1000
pound. %: turn.p 50. Il. and 300
pounds al rUtab"gas Five hundred
p'.ud> col grapes went la market. 80
bushels coy rantaloIpcS. ana 5000
Gu.nc %. WTtcrmciUnS.
NGi To this li.UD0 cabbage plants
1Hi i,ruu r"iIHrd plants. Then. the
rcvurl Shows 5000 pounl, al twnipS
r..E'G aoTrjs ot cul!ardS. and 6.uO0
ruGui. nl cabbage. Groom lsu mar
srirj straw berries 10 line tame of
about %.Ouu Quarts. The family COWS
contributed an extra ~ gallons uI
milk aui nrn pounds ut battle. .u.. ;nr
UtaTErt.
Along with all the trucl: crops.
Groom al" Grew 9.lUn pounds al to-
""r"". I;u bushels Of corn. and plenty