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IN TWO PARTS The Wcarhcr State Wathr Bureau frest in? Lo Anals end wirinlty Issued Ins Fnir today and tomorrow except early morrv Ing low clouds near coast and foq In loer conetal valleys. Little chanae in ttnnrwtur. Highest temperature yesterday. 80; lowest, 57. dime PART II LOCAL NEWS TIMES OFFICE 202 West First Street Los Angeles 53, Cal.

VOL. LXIII THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1944 CITY NEWS-EDITORIAL-SOCIETY 2 i i New Casualty Lists Issued Eighteen Southland Men Killed and 33 Others Wounded Contracts Boosted for Small Plants Lesser War Industries Here to Receive 200 Per Cent More Orders Under new agreements between Smaller War Plants Corporation and eight technical branches of Army procurement as well as the Treasury Department, War Department and Maritime Commission, Southern California's smaller industries will receive about 200 per cent more in future 1 contracts than heretofore. Jesse French I IT, director cf operations for the national announced the pro-gram here yesterday and eou-ipled it with an emphatic admon- ition to Southland plants em-) ploying fewer than 500 persons. Must Register "To share in this 'melon French said, "smaller plants must register with the local office. Unless we know their plant capacities, necessary guides to contract allocation, they will be passed by." According to Robert S.

Brevier, chief of the Ixs Angeles S.W.P.C., only 2500 of 6000 smaller plants in the area have registered. French said that one recent agreement is with 'the Treasury Department covering nonarma-iment items such as shoes and clothing for lend-lease or other 1 purposes. This, "he declared, will bring opportunities for smaller i business to share in some 000,000 yearly in contracts heretofore awarded mostly to large corporations. French said that under present allocations some 80 per cent of war contracts go to larger concerns. Referring to Maritime Com-: mission requisitions, he said that an office has been opened in 'Oakland for the specific purpose of referring such orders to Los Angeles and to Seattle on a Times vhoo TOO BAD, GIRLS Left to right, Elizobeth Wadlow, Dorothy Moon and Joyce MacDon-old, among a dozen girls who were en route to Texas for training as Women's Air Force Service Pilots and now are stranded in Hollywood upon learning the program has been discontinued temporarily, register their dismay over the lack of funds.

Dozen Would-Be Wasps Stranded, Fight Back "And it cost us all more deserted bv- their rich uncle" and a long way from home that's the plight, of a dozen attractive, girls at the women's division of the Hollywood Guild Canteen. "We're the victims of ihe cancellation of the Women's Air Force. Service Pilots training program," explained a comely miss who spoke for the group yesierday distractedly, but with determination to see that something is done about, the situation. Kn route to Avenger Field. Texas, for their course of Wasp training, ihey discovered that, the program had been discontinued at leat.

temporarily. And they were stranded! ''In order to qualify, I had to get a release from my job. not a leav of absence," wailed one. With BILL HENRY MIDWEEK COMMI'XIQCF The beginning of a new phase in the Norm.andy fighting and the outbreak of the long-threatened Russian push in the Kou el area brought, new threats to th Hitlerites this past week. Th start of two moves in Normandy, earh riecribed in the official communiques as a 'major attack.

marks the beginning of the offensive phae of the war in France. First two phases were preparatory anri, to a ricgi'ee. defensive. They were t1 capturing the beach head and making it secure, and 2) completing the beach head by the capture of a real harbor. The new moves in the west near I.

a Have riu Puits in the east around Caen mark the beginnings of the expansion phase extending the beach-head area as a move 10 bring ibe enemy to grips and beat him. Ormanv will need very strong forces to try 10 hold us to a limited area in our beach head, she'll nrH real strength to slop the onrushing tide in Italy, and there are indications that, the German past-ern front is really disintegrating. Good reason for Adolf to have sounded rather nervous yesterday. The campaign in the Pacific, is going well, progress in Burma-India is more than, anyone has a right to expect during the monsoon. China remains the only weak spot and is in genuine difficulty.

All in all a good week, and events are mounting toward a climax fn Kuropp. PFACH FA Relief among the experts has been that German collapse if it comes at all fonn would follow the defeat of Nazi armies in the firt great battle between our invasion force and the German strategic reserves. Progress of the Normandy campaign is making the military cxperts'wonder if there is ever going to be any such major pitched battle. Allied air activity has been so effective in the destruction of bridges, railroads, airfield? and highways that. Nazi reinforcement? have been arriving piecemeal so far, at least and thee have been used up in piecemeal bat-tips, mostly in the Caen area.

The result is that, so far as can he seen on the surface, the Nazis are no nearer to organiz-fng a major counterattack against vis now than they were when we landed a month ago. As a result some experts now look forward to slow enemy disintegration rather than sudden enemy defeat. PACIFIC It is difficult to zet. the average Ea-ierner to recognize the importance of the fighting on Saipan. This i ihe first really decisive move in many months in ihe Central Pacific.

First, such move took place two years ago when the enemy advance on Hawaii was stopped at Midway. The first step on the road bark began with the attack on the Gilberts. Conquest of the Marianas, of which the taking of Saipan is the first step, marks the first serious threat at. Japan itself. Preliminary artivities have just amounted to stepping on thp toes.

Conquest of the Marianas will give us a base from which to rtart swinging and I mean swinging hard. The know it. That's why their fighting has been so fierce on Saipan. MAC ARTHUR The man who fastest and says least is MacArihur now well west, of the major Navy forces to the north and not more than a good bop skip and jump from the Philippines. Chances are pretty good that as soon as naval forces of real striking power can be spared from the Marianas operation they'll join with MaeArthur in a new strike which will neutralize the Central Pacific situation and open the road for the attack on the Philippines.

PROSPECTS Not much chance of any great change in the China-Burma-India area for i-everal months. The R-20's, however, won't stay idle loo long. Mac Arthur i due to continue toward the Philippines. The Navy probably will head toward Formosa and the Chinese coast. When the Normandy beach head expansion teally gets under way that's the ideal time for another landing somewhere in Europe, or at least for keeping the threat of such a landing alive.

A Ft retch of good weather would make a lot of difference in Europe. Kighleen more Southland men killed and wounded were named in new casualty lists announced by Army and Navy authorities yesterday. DEAD Maj. (iftif Arth, 815 N. Nor- mandie Ave.

Staff-Sgt. Juan C. Apodaca, 715 N. Record Drive. Pvt.

John A. Con hoy', 1920 F. Third St. Sgt. Herbert t.isieckl, 1962 N.

Cheremoya St. i Pfc. Carlos O. retern, 130 E. 2.11 1 Pfc.

Glen R. Sinclair, Long Beach. Set. William Bell, Alhambra. Capt.

Harry A. Stirwalt, Glen-dale. tt T.t. Firman E. Snsank, Montrose.

Tech. Sgt. Rnhert T. Wede-, meyer. Long Reach.

2ni U. Norman Wolff, 721 N. Reverlv Drive. Sgt. Hulhert, Chats worth.

Pvt. Arthur S. Rrnland, San Pfc. Mannfl F. Rtii.

Rrawlpy. i 1st John E. Hodgins, Santa Monica. StalT-Sgt. 'Hufraker, Tngiewood.

fst 1t. Arthur D. Rhodes, San Gabriel. Torpedonian's Malf 3r Fran-lci William JHetlin, Torrance. WOUNDED l.t.

(jgl ChfMcr T.eroy Palmer, Venice Rlvri. Motor lachinist'! Mate Mr l.eroy Parcelli, 376 S. Ker-ris Ave. Chief Radioman William Fd-ward Brock. 7910 Walnut.

Drivp. Mate 1c Ervin Howard Maleer, 31 E. 2nd St. laster-Sgt. I.e(rande Farley, V.

St. 2nd l.t. Raymond IK Penhall. 6174 Allston St. Pfc.

Kenneth I Wilke, ,162 1 Mar burn apt. John W. Blaikie, 1741 W. 42nd St. Set.

George W. Danielson, 334 X. Xormandie Ave. Tvt. William PortiHa, 139 Rowan Ave.

Staff-Sg. Kenneth C. Stout, 3226 Vinton Ave. Cpl. Leo F.

Falk, S03 X. St. Andrews Place. 2nd lA. XorH W.

Houser. 1140'? S. Rronson Ave. Pfc. Alvin R.

Peterson, 1435 W. 90t Place. Pfc. i'harles Ci. Renteria, 4641 Dozier Ave.

Technician 5th Grade John W. Wagner, 5020 Navarro Boatswain's Mate 1c Keith F-nton Frazier, May wood. l.t. Winston H. Clisham, Wilmington.

Staff-Sgt. Ocil G. Davis, Long Beach. Sgt. Roy C.

Hon. Canoga Park. Flight Officer Wilhnr R. McAfee, Monterey Park. Technician 4th Grade Ramiel Catellano Pasadena.

Pfc. James J. CorbeM, P006 Harratt St. ('apt. Robert Durnerin, Santa Monica.

Sgt. Thomas F. Patella, 1203 Osborne Pacoima. Pfc. Tony O.

Rios, Santa Monica. Sst. Efren H. Seaneie, San Bernardino. 2nd Paul R.

Snddath, Whit-tier. Pfc. Roy W. Brnner. Oxnard.

Pvt. Johnny J. Oliver Baldwin Park. Pfc. Guadalupe E.

Santibanez. Anaheim. Pfc. Clarence C. Stevens.

A 7t is a. Technician 5th Grade Carroll Fink, Hemet. Long Beach Woman Dies of Auto Injuries Mrs. I.ucretia Handley, 72. of Salt Lake T.ong Reach, died in Seaside Hospital yesterday of injuries received when hit by an automobile at Hill St.

and Atlantic Long Reach. The motori-t, William K. Burk-holder. K. Anaheim Long Beach, was handed a police citation for failure to yield the jfight.

of way. I stark is four feet high, sell it to a junkman give it to one of the many organizations ron- ducting paper drives or ask one of the following charitable aeencies to send a pickup i truck to your home: I American lo AN-1'1T AsmiIiw HE-HUS nnwill Intntrif Arm, -l'i't Si Vinr.ni H. TR-PM7 than S50O of our own money to get ihe flying hours required." lamented another. "And what am 1 going to do with all those heavy socks 1 bought?" queried a third. Twelve of the girls, many of them from the Detroit area, have decided to "stick together." They have complained to Congressmen and a number of high-ranking government officials in Washington.

They are resolved to put up a fighi. Yesterday they were housp-hunting. and today they are investigating ihe chances of getting back onto a pay roll again. Meanwhile, they are guests at the guild, where they have been billeted their arrival here early this week in an Army transport plane. transferred to the custody of his mother, Mrs.

Barbara Hutton Grant. The O.P.A. reportedly was Investigating what mode of trans- 'portation Revemlow employed in fleeing with his son to Canada. The Federal functionaries 'were seeking to learn if an au- Tim phoo LIGHTED UP? Joe Ron celli, accused of being first violator -of streetcar onti-smoking low, smoked cigarette during court recess. First Arrest Made Under Smoking Ban Accused of being the first violator of Angeles' new ordinance prohibiting smoking anywhere on streetcars, Joe Peter Roncelli stood up boldly in Municipal Judge William M.

Byrne's court yesterday and pleaded innocent. I RoncPlli. a 34-year-old van company helper who lives at i 1110 Trenton had the misfortune to be on a car oper-: ated by a police officer on his 1 day off. The ofheor-motot man i arrested Roncelli at Pico and Figueroa Sis. June 9 and ihe feverish argument resulted in two charges being filed viola-j tion of the tobacco ordinance, hich took effect May 20, and 1 disturbinc the peace.

At. the arraignment Judge Byrne released Roncelli on his own recognizance and set hi? trial for 9:30 a Aug. 2, in Division T. Palm Tree Fire Perils District A miniature forest, fire of palm trpes, fanned by a brisk southwest wind, threatened part of the Wesilake district, on Sev- ienth St. at Wilshire Place dur- ing the noon hour yesterday.

Damage was minor, but. at one time seven palm trees, roof of two houses and a garage, fences and gardens were ablaze. Ralph Smi'h of 284 Sunset Place suffered a broken 'eft kneecap when he fell while 'scrambling over a high backyard fence to tell firemen on Seventh St. ihat his garage roof was burning. I Mrs.

Harriet Burse-is of 2909 W. Seventh St. discovered the fire, which apparently started from a cigarette tossed into at the hasp of a 40-foot-high sentinel palm in the Seventh St. parking beside the house ai fifl8 Vilhire Place owned by Mrs. 1,.

Miller. Roofs of Mrs. Rurgess' home 'and of a house on the rear of Mrs. Miller's lot were damaged, i Four fire companies commanded by Battalion Chief W. New-comb extinguished the flames.

Legion to Merge Two Conventions 1 A war efforts and rehabilitation conference, which also will iabs.rb the functions of the an-! nual State convention, ill be held in I Angeles Aug. 15. 16 and IT. William P. Haughton.

Department Commander of the i American Lesion announced yes- I ei day. Merger of the conference and convention, completely streamlined and for business only, will lack parades and other festivi- tie-- hich normally are part of a department convention. Men Expected to Resume Work at Ambassador An early return to work, pending a War Labor Board decision, appeared yesterday to be inevitable for the 500 A.F.L. union men Vho struck and shut off all food and drink service at the Ambassador one week ago today. The case went to W.L.R.

for a decision after several hours of conferences! by representatives of the unions and hotel with U.S. Conciliation Service commissioners. A deadlock ensued at the conferences and ihe case was certified to the board, which shortly is expected to order the strikers to return to work. It is one of the board's rules that it will not take up a case until strikers resume work under status quo at the time of the walkout. To Await Developments When John M.

Sargent and .1. W. Van Hook, union representatives, -were asked about the probability of such an order and what, they would do about it, Sargent said: "We will cross that bridge when and if we come to it." In the conferences on the employer side were Hamilton H. Cotton. J.

E. Benton. Erie Pepys and H. F. C.

Duberg. Federal men in the meetings were Conciliation Commissioners Ij. L. Livingstone and Ariolph W. Hoch of the Department of Labor and Art Smith of the W.L.B.

staff. Ask More Pay The strikers went out to get, roughly, $1 a day more pay for waiters. This was agreed to by the management within 24 hours after the walkout. The strike continued with officers of the five unions under the A.F.L. Culinary Crafts Joint Executive Rnarti demanding that the employers agree also to force all eligible employees into the appropriate one of the five unions.

The deadlock ensued when management refused to agree to this. Dog Ordinance Meets Defeat A city ordinance which would make it immediately mandatory for Los Angeles dog owners to pen up thpir pets or keep them on a leash while on the streets was defeated by a narrow margin in the City Council. The final recorded vote was nine votes in favor of the ordinance to five opposed but two of five Councilmen Allen anri asked that their orig-; inal vote of "aye" be changed to no when they saw that the or-idinance was going to be defeat-led, so that, they might be in a position today to ask for a re-j consideration of the matter. The ordinance needed 12 votes to car-; ry because it carried an emer-i gency clause which would have 1 made it effectivp immediatelv. Rifle Bullet Wounds I Altadena Youth While experimenting with one of the rifle cartridges he had collected as a hobby.

William Freebourn, 15. son of Capt. W. J. Frcebourn.

retired United States Army officer, 8f4 Wagner Altadena, was seriously injured yesterday when the shell exploded and penetrated his abdomen. He was taken to the Pasadena Army Regional Hospital, where it was reported fragments of the brass cartridge had punctured his liver and intestines. Preinduction Meeting Scheduled For men about to enter the armed forces, another preinduc-ition information meeting is 'scheduled for p.m. today at Manual Arts High School, 4131 S. Vermont under sponsor-; ship of the City War Council i and draft boards of South and i Souihw Los Angeles, COUNT'S TRIP TO CANADA UNDER INQUIRY BY O.P.A.

While his divorced parents re-, fore Lance was scheduled to be grouped their forces for possible further legal battle over his custody, 9-year-old Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow yesterday enjoyed investigation of the construction of a rowhoat at Vancouver, R.C.. according to news from the Canadian city. Mrs. Lobingier, Widow of Noted Physician, Dies Mrs. Kate Reynolds Lobingier, SO, widow of Dr.

Andrew Stewart Lobingier, Los Angeles physician known for his leader-j ship in the advancement of West Coast surgery and cancer research, died yesterday at a rest, home at 130Q Longwood Ave. Mrs a founder and first, president of ihe Women's City Club and twice president of the Friday Morning Club, for which she supervised activities connected wi'h erecting a new club building, was known as a student, of Greek and Shakespearean drama. I I Family of Fducalors Rorn in a family of educators inear Hornersville. now Hornell. 1 X.Y..

she attended her parents' 'private school, read Livy. Virgil and other classics to prepare for Vassar and was graduated with Phi Reta Kappa honors, i She met. Dr. Lobingier in his I native Pennsylvania. After their marriage in Denver he continued medical practice in Colorado.

They came to Los Angeles in 1002. Her club and social career paralleled ihe professional activity of her husband, who was a member of ihe first board of governors of the American College of Surgeons, president of the Pa'-if- ic Coast Stngical Association' and for many ears a lecturer at the 1'niversiiy of Southern Cali-; fornia. President of Clnh i He also was the biographer of Dr. father of Amer- surgery." Mrs. Lobingier was president of the FYiriav Morning Club from 1017 to 1011' and from 1121 to 1024.

She leaves a daughter. 'Mrs. Gladys L. Xorris of 42S S. Mart-' poa a sister.

Miss Emily- Reynolds, of Beverly Glen West Los Angeles, and two; granddaughters, Nancy and: Gladys Virginia orris. Funeral arrangements are be-, ing completed with Pierce Bros. Mortuary, 720 V. Washington Blvd. Sailor Takes Own Life Over Matrimonial Rift Anthony Williams.

sailor! stationed at San Diego Naval; Training Base, died at St. John Hospital. Santa Monica, yester-; day shortly after he shot himself through the head with a rifle at 10R Thornton Venice, ac cording to police, who said he, left a note indicating he was despondent because his wife Ruth had threatened to seek a i divorce. Training Course to Open A six-week free summer train-1 ing course in business subjects' will be given by the Metropoll-i 1 tan School of Business at ire Blvd. and Olive St.

beginning! next Monday. i i The boy was spirited out of tomobile was used, where the the jurisdiction of California 1 gasoline rations were obtained, courts last, week by Kurt von and if so. how and by whom the llaugwitz-Reventlow, his Dan- trip was classified as "neces-nsh-born father, a few davs be- sary." broader scale than formerly. Prime Contract French emphasized that the majority of contracts awarded the new agreements will be prime rather than subcon- tracts let, by large concerns to I smaller ones. He said that basic changes brought about by the S.W.P.C.

'negotiations with government procurement agencies are high-I lighted by the fact that the 'smaller plants office now may designate contractors and that procurement men must allocate according to such directives. In dollar volume of business i available to small concerns under the program, French estimated an increase nationallv of jfrom $125,000,000 to about a month. Bulk of War Orders Placed in California SAX FRANCISCO, July 5. JP) California has taken about two-I thirds of all war contracts placed I in the 11 Western States since June 1, 1940. a tabulation by the California Chamber of Com-; merce showed.

I California contracts totaled i nut of the for the West. Aircraft i contracts accounted for more than SI 0.000,000.000 in California. ships more than S4.000.000.000, land orders for supplies and ordinance the remainder. Aircraft orders totaled 000.000 in Los Angeles County I and S2.8O0.0O0.OO0 an San Dieso County: ships nearlv Sl.300.000.- i 000 for Los Angeles County and I s.m.OOO.OOO for San Diego Coun- ty. Breakfast Club i Honors PoliceChief Presentation of the gold card of honorary membership in the Los Angeles Breakfast Club was to Chief of Police C.

R. (Horrall yesterday at the club breakfast. "I have the fullest confidence in you and know that I can lean on you at all times." said Mayor I Bowron. who presented the 'award. "1 consider you the best Chief of Police in any city in America." "Hail to the Vets of World jWar IP' was the subject of an address given by Archie Greenberg.

national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, Chairman of the meeting was Dr. Ernest C. Bashor, president of the City Health Commission. Missing Mate Back Home, Wife Reports i Harry Gettleman, 46, of 4508 i Fourth was back home yes-iterday after having been report-j ed missing last Monday with SI 100 in cash and $3000 in jewel. ry, his wife reported to police.

Mrs. Cettlcman said her hu band had been visiting friends. Save This Paper I The need for wast epa per I particularly old newspapers i and magazines ha never been mote critical. Nearly all supplies for our fighting forces in ev ery theaier I of war must, bp shipped in cardboard containers manu-i factured from wastepancr. Save ynnr copy of THE TI.MKS evprv dav.

When ynnr NOT WORRIED MUCH Lance Haugwdz-Reventlow, 9, object of custody dispute between father, Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, and mother, former Barbarn Hutton. plays in boat with "Btnkie," daughter of his father's present wife. llawr Will HP'T. MItY through Friday, INX, p.m..