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FRIDAY. JUNE 2. 1944 a Black Market 280,000 JAPS CUBA CONTEST CLOSE RACE; U. S. Airmen Down 7,268 Jr -r JSgsx fPi SS- ITALY 1 ALLIES CUT ESCAPE ROAD Naples, June 2.

Arrows show where the Fifth army cut Via Casilina near Valmontone, and where Americans are fighting in the city of Velletri. POPE INVASION STARS FOR BRITISH TRUCKS Somewhere in England, vehicles are lined ud for white stars on all Allied Expeditionary Force, Foes In May LONDON, June 2. (JP) Fliers of the United States strategic air force In Europe during May loosed more than 63,000 tons of bombs on targets in Nazi-held Europe and destroyed 1,268 enemy aircraft in the air, it was announced officially Friday. Striking points from the invasion coast to the Balkans almost daily, the Planes in Britain and Italy amassed 49,811 sorties 30,106 by bombers, 19,705 by fighters. Losses amounted to 481 heavy bombers and 235 fightersat the ratio of 1.59 per cent of bombers dispatched and per cent of the fighters.

The USSAFE includes the Eighth Air force based in Britain and the Italy-based 15th Air force section of the Mediterranean Allied air-force, but not the latter's 12th Air force or RAF sections. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, June 2. (JP) The Mediterranean Allied Air force broke ail records for individual plane flights, bomb tonnage and target destruction during May, it was announced Friday. In the course of 59,000 sorties by American and British planes, 50,000 tons of bombs were dropped in Italy, Austria and the Balkans while tactical air force bombing and strafing accounted for 4,800 enemy vehicles damaged or destroyed behind the battlefront, headquarters said. Four hundred and thirty-nine enemy aircraft were de- stroyed in combat at a cost of 385 Allied planes, of which 171 were heavy bombers.

Powder Blast Kills 3 CHILDERSBURG, Ala, June 2. (IP) Three dead and 13 others injured was the toll Fri day of a fire in a building cf the smokeless powder plant at the Alabama Ordnance Works near here, Maj. John O'Connor, commanding officer of the works, announced. The dead were negroes. GRAU IN LEAD HAVANA, June 2.

The close contest for the Cuban presidency between Dr. Cprlos Saladrigas, supporter of President Batista, and Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, opposition leader, remained undecided Friday on the basis of incomplete returns from Havana province and fragmentary reports from others. The government coalition of four parties acknowledge that Grau was leading in three provinces, but claimed margins in the other three would elect Saladrigas. The opposition parties said they had leads in all provinces.

Both candidates claimed the elec tion in broadcasts Thursday night. Both groups agreed the gov ernment coalition was trailing in Havana city, where unoffi cial count of 460 out of 1,200 precincts gave Grau 67,970 votes, Salagridas 55,820. This appeared to endanger the chances of Alfredo Hornedo for mayor of Havana the sec- onayioan post importance He is opposing Raul Menocal, incumbent, whose supporters claimed an overwhelming vicr tory. After a peaceful election, spokesmen for Grau and his opposition parties applauded the government for the im partiality of police and sol diers during the voting. Newspapers of both factions hailed the election as free from pressure.

Inconclusive returns from suburban Marianao showed see-saw battle in the effort of Francisco Batista, younger brother of the president, to unseat Mayor Isidor Viera. pomerveil I apeaiC WEST POINT, N. June 2. (iP) Lieut. Gen.

Brehon B. Somervell, commanding general of the army service lorces, win address commence- mem exercises or me u. a. Military academy Tuesday when approximately 470 men will be commissioned second lieutenants in the army after a three-year, war-accelerated course. Among graduates will be 171 who will receive their wings, symbolic of full-fledged pilots in the air corps.

vehicles except ambulances and KAt cars. The MIAMI DAILY NEWS. HOUSE GROUP VOTES OK ON LEND-LEASE WASHINGTON, June 2. J) fThe house appropriations committee gave the lend-lease administration and the new world relief setup, known as UNRRA, a blanket approval Friday, recommending to the full membership the identical 1945 budget the agencies requested. The committee reported to the house legislation providing: For lend-lease.

$3,450,570,000. For UNRRA, $450,000,000 for this nation's participation in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation administration with additional, authority for the president to transfer to it $350,000,000 in lend-lease funds which might not be needed immediately. For the foreign economic administration, the agency charged with waging economic warfare against the enemy $19,5000,000, a reduction of $1,381,000, from the FEA's budget request. The appropriations are for the fiscal year which starts July 1. Lend-lease aid by the United States to the Allies now totals $24,225,000,000.

The committee declared that the guns, tanks and food distributed this way meant the difference between "a relatively ineffectual and an all-out utilization of the resources of our Allies in destroying the enemy." The committee stated it was faced with a situation similar to one which arose in the first World war. In the early fall of 1918, the report said, many persons thought Germany must surrender soon but. the house appropriataed $6,500,000,000 a bill that was signed only seven days before the armistice. "There was no choice then except to maintain full preparation and there is none now," the committee declared. Electoral Binder Asked In Texas HOUSTON, Texas, June Roosevelt supporters cir culated petitions Friday asking that voters in the Texas democratic primary be per mitted to demand legislation requiring presidential electors to support their party nominee.

Only 10 days remain to get about 90,000 signatures. The petition must be submitted to the state executive committee June 12. The committee must submit the question if the pe-tions are signed by 10 per cent of the voters in the last primary. The matter then would be considered by the next leg. islature.

Unless a special session is called, the law could not be passed before the presi dential election. McCormick Snubbed MELBOURNE, June 2. Customs Minister Keane said Friday the Australian government had refused the agent of CoL Robert R. McCormick, owner of the Chicago Tribune, permission to publish an edi tion of the Tribune in Austral ia for U. S.

troops. No reason was given for the rejection IS EPILEPSY INHERITED? WHAT CAUSES IT? A booklet containing th opinion! of fmou docton on thii internting subject will be lent FREE, while they Uet. to ny reader writing to the Educational Division, S3S Fifth Ave. New Torlt, N. F303.

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Mfr. mr II 99 its of if to a 1 4 June 2. British army invasion. Soldiers paint pointed stars are being JP Wlrepboto. SALIOR'SWIFE IN DEATH LEAP FROM BUILDING After giving a taxicab driver note to her sailor-husband, affirming her love for him, Mrs.

Violet June Evenson, 20, or ou Diti an expectant mother, leaped to her death at 11:20 a. m. Friday from the 10th floor of the Congress building. Hpf hnriv lanrtpH nn thA rnnf of a one-story extension. The taxicab driver.

Frank Vil- lanueha, told police that he had taken Mrs. Evenson, who I had complained of feeling ill, into the building and had ac companied her to a doctor office on the 10th floor. En I route she had given him the note and asked him to see that her husband received it. Mrs. Evenson did not go into the doctor's office, however.

When the elevator stopped et the 10th floor, she dashed out, followed by the driver, and ran to a door opening on a fire escape. She flung herself from the fire The note read, in part: "I have always been true to you and cannot live without you. Her husband, Norman J. Evenson, is stationed in Ml ami. The couple was married here.

Evenson is from Seattle. JOBS (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) which the USES refers work' ers first to the most essential industries. WMC said these steps would.be taken: 1. Establishment throughout the nation of the priority re ferral system which provides that employers shall hire all male workers only from those referred" by the USES or by "approved arrangements. 184 Areas Cited 2.

Setting employment cell ings, fixing the total number of men who may be employed in specified establishments, in the WMCs list of 184 labor shortage areas. 3. Establishment of man power priorities committees in all of these areas. These com mittees will decide which in dustries are entitled to pri omies. 4.

Intensification of recruit ing so that men may be trans ferred from labor surplus areas to those "where urgent war production requires more labor." Exceptions Noted McNutt said that "to the greatest degree consistent with the war. needs" workers and employers will be given "the maximum possible freedom" in choice of jobs or employes. But, he added, a worker may be referred to other unessen tial jobs only when: 1. He is not needed for any essential jobs the area. 2.

He is not able to accept essential work outside the area. 3. Undue hardship, special emergency circumstances or other good cause would pre vent acceptance of an essen tial job. DRAFTING and ART SUPPLIES OFFICE SUPPLIES and PRIHTMG "SEMlNOlX PAPER AND PRINTING Phones 2-fll 03-4201 419 N. Miami Ave.

Miami, Fla. 1 1 I MASSED FOR CHINA ATTACK WASHINGTON, June- 2. (JT) The Japanese have con centrated 280,000 troops to pry the Chinese loose from the Hankow-Canton railroad and to clear the way for new blows elsewhere In China, a Chung king military spokesman said Friday. In manifest alarm over Ja pan's widespread offensives in north-central and south China, Maj. Gen.

C. C. Tseng said the enemy had embarked on a new strategy: "As the Allies apply greater pressure against Ja pan, Japan will exert greater pressure against China." Greater pressure against Japan seemed imminent in the Central Pacific, on the strength of a three-day aerial offensive which took U. S. fliers to the Kuriles north of Japan, to Wake, Guam and the Caroline islands.

Such far-flung raids might be the forerunners of a new fleet-borne offensive in the Central Pacific. Tseng said 210,000 Japanese were concentrated near Hankow, 200 miles north of Chang- dha, while 70,000 were poised at Canton. He said the Japanese were massed on the Indo China-Yunnan border and were constructing a big air base near the frontier. Such concentrations would pose a threat to Kunming, major U. S.

airbase on the Burma road. In the Honan province fight ing to the northwest Chinese recaptured Sunghsien, 45 miles south of Loyang. The Japa nese meantime struck west toward Tungkwan. Maj. Gen.

Claire L. Chen- nault's headquarters confirmed a Japanese statement U. S. planes had, attacked Peiping, China ancient capital. In the Burma road battle, Chinese and American troops scored new gains in the drive to capture Myitkyina and Chi nese troops occupied more vil lages in their drive west to join the Burma Allied forces.

American reinforce poured into the Biak island beachhead for a renewed as sault to capture the island's three airdromes. FDR Discusses Refugee Havens WASHINGTON, June 2. (JP) President Roosevelt indi dated Friday that an unused army camp in this country may be converted into a tem porary haven for war refugees from abroad. The president said nothing definite has been done on the problem but that the humani tarian thing to do is to give assistance to helpless people anywhere in the world. He said officials have been studying taking one camp which the army does not need and maybe turning it into refugee camp.

In addition, he said, there were some resort areas on the east coast of Si cily, in Italy, and possibly other places in the Mediterranean region which could be used to house war refugees temporar ily. He emphasized that the ref ugees would be given only tern porary haven and would be expected to go home as soon as conditions permit after the war. Sedition Trial Plea Is Denied WASHINGTON. June 2. Judge Edward C.

Eicher, presiding at the mass sedition conspiracy trial, denied Friday a defense motion that deposi tions be taken from Rear Ad miral H. E. Kimmel and Ma Gen. W. C.

Short, navy and army commanders in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked. Eicher said the motion, filed in behalf of two of the 29 de fendants, failed to set forth facts to show the testimony would be "relevant to any is sues." He previously hati de nied a motion that Kimmel and Short be called as witnesses. Hannegan In Dark On Willkie Story SACRAMENTO. June 2. (JP) Nomination of Wen dell Willkie, as a running mate for President Roosevelt in the 1944 campaign has not been suggested to him by any Dem ocratic convention delegate, said Democratic a i a Chairman Robert E.

Hanne gan. Hannegan made the state ment Thursday night in reply to a question asking if he had heard of a movement to nom inate Willkie as vice president on the Democratic ticket. Ecuador To Consider Election After Coup Ecuador, June 2. (JP) Jose Maria Velasco Ibar ra, head of the provisional government of Ecuador, said Thursday night a congression al assembly would meet Aug. 10 to decide whether a presi dential election should be called or his' regime should continue in power.

Velasco Ibarra said his gov ernment, which won control in a revolutionary coup last Mon day, would respect all interna tional treaties contracted dur ing the regime of his ousted predecessor, Carlos Arroyo Del Rio. SERVICE and MAINTENANCE BRITISH WANT CLEARER U. 5. FRENCH POLICY LONDON, June 2. UP) Disclosure that the United States will not take part in coming conferences between Gen.

Charles de Gaulle and the British government brought a demand Friday from the Lon don Daily Mail that Washing ton clear up what was called "ambiguous" attitude toward the French Committee National Liberation. The paper said, British re fusal to recognize the committee was in deference to United States wishes. "Unless some sort of an agreement is reached with de Gaulle about the part the na tional committee is to play in the liberation of France there will almost certainly be con fusion worse confounded in liberated areas, said the News-Chronicle. The News-Chronicle's diplo matic correspondent wrote that any British-French agreement is not binding on Gen. Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Allied invasion commander, as military representative of one Al lied power he might be forced take political decisions which would conflict with the contractual obligations of another Allied power." Concern over apparent dif ferences in American and Brit ish foreign policy was ex pressed editorially by the Lon don Star, which caiiea ior a clearer understanding generally and particularly for an agreement on French relations. U.S. Workers Hit In Tire, Gas Use WASHINGTON, June 2 (iP) People on government business still are traveling annnonooo to 400.000.000 miles vear. the Bvrd economy com mittee declared Friday, and burning 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 gallons of gas. The committee continued: "The federal government is in the position of urging the state governments and its citizens to cut down on the use of automobiles, the consumption of gasoline and tires, while its own record is not as good as it might be." Man Starts Life Term As Slayer MASON, June 2.

(3) James Riley Gillihan, 47, a war worker, Friday awaited transfer to prison to serve a life sentence for the first degree murder March 30 of his stepdaughter, Margaret MC Cumber, 23. He sobbed as a statement he had made to prosecuting officials was read into the record describing relations he said existed between him and the victim. He contends he married his wife to be near her daughter. AH formerly lived in Sumner county, Tenn. DRESS Gang Broken ATLANTA, Gan June 2.

(UP) Officials continued in vestigating a huge black mar ket ring here Friday after seiz ing ration coupons worth 000 gallons of gasoline and 4,000,000 pounds of sugar. Among the arrests, believed members of a gang operating from Michigan to Florida, were: James J. uariengr. cr Albany. who according to Atlanta police was registered In a hotel as James of Benton Harbor, Mich.

In Columbus, Ga, two Michigan men were arrested in con nection with counterfeit ration coupons and were listed as George Turner, of Benton Harbor, Mich, and Joe Flemen- baum, of Eau Claire, Mich. YBO Insurance Agency, lac INSURANCE FOR EVERYTHING 401 Seybold Bids. Ph. 2-4751 To Correct Your Vision" HAVE YOUR EYES SCIENTIFICALLY EXAMINED TODAY DR. A H.TATE Regidertd Optometrist DUVAL JEWELRY CO.

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Metropolitan Life Insurance Co, researchers said Friday. More than three times as many youths under 20 were married in 1942 as in 1939, statisticians reported. During those four years "more than half of the boys marry ing at the ages of 16 and 17 took brides who their seniors." "At age 18 the-proportion was about one-third; and at 19 it was still more than one-quarter," they continued. The. statisticians also re corded a 65 per cent increase in marriages of men over 35 in 1942 as compared with 1939, and a 73 per cent increase in marriages of women over 35.

APPEAL rONTICED FROM PAGE ONE) have ultimately been taken over by presidential orders. In other instances concerns which have not been the subject of any board order have been taken over by presidential orders. If it be true that the presi dent may ultimately take pos session of their plants and facilities, that possibility Is ir relevant not only because it is speculative but also because it is independent of the board's order. "Neither the broad constitu tional power nor the broad statutory power of the presi dent to take and use -property in lurtnerance of the war ef fort depends upon any action of the War Labor Board. Any action of the board would be informatory and 'at most, ad visory.

Demand I Refused 'Appellants' demand that we annul and enjoin the -board's order amounts to a demand that we prevent the board from "giving the president ad vice which appellants contend would be A court might as well be asked to prevent the secretary of state or the attorney general from giv ing alleged advice. The correctness of admin istrative advice cannot be re viewed by the courts. They have neither the necessary au tnonty nor the necessary qualifications for such work The truckers group protested a board order that it give cm ployes an increase of $2.75 i week and time and a half be paid for work in excess of eight hours a day. The employers contended the board's findings were unlawful and violated executive orders of the president. They asserted it was impossible for them to fulfill the order and asserted "the industry is confronted with outright failure and dis solution." Other Suits Waiting WLB officials said the de cision strengthens the board's position, but does not neces sarily dispose of a group of other suits for review.

One was filed by Montgomery Ward and is now before the same circuit. The difference is that the decision Friday refers to WLB decisions made pursuant to the executive order establishing the board in January, 1942. The Ward suit seeks review of WLB orders made under the war labor disputes act, en acted about a year ago. The justice department as serts the WLB orders are not reviewable in either case, but the new decision is inconclu sive in relation to the war labor disputes act. (COXTINCED FROM PAGE OXE) present world and in front of the eternal judgment of God." The Associated Press listen ing post in London reported that radio reception was excellent.

The pope's voice was forceful, calm and clear. Lis teners said the pontiff's eloquence "reached a peak of emphasis when he expressed the hope that Rome would be spared the horrors of war." Rome has known terrible days in its history, he told the cardinals in the 16th cen tury, in the 18th and on many other occasions. On all these occasions the popes of the times succeeded in avoiding catastrophe and rescued and opened their doors to refugees of all creeds of all nationalities," he said. But what were the number of 6,000 or 7,000 refugees com pared with the thousands of today?" 'To the last of our energies, and helped by so many good people, we intervened often, the pope said. "In spite of the violations of our rights we have tried to help the popula tion of Rome and its sur roundings, supplying them with food.

"We have also started nego tiations in order to bring food by way of the sea. But the consent of one belligerent still is awaited. "We have tried everything in order to spare Rome one of the darkest moments in its history. It is our supreme duty to follow the rules of pur Lord as Peter did. "In all the nations of the world there is a want for the future new order.

But this new order must be supported by just and well balanced moral and material guarantees. Hopes for a future peace would be better based and more realistic if there were not so many religious movements which have departed from the Christian church and created separatist churches." WHIRLIGIG (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) until Stuart started-the car and then drove away, declining to give his name or accept pay for his services. NO PRIORITY NEEDED In these days it takes weeks for laundry service and months for telephone service. Truck deliveries of all sorts are cut to the quick. But a Whirly scout reports that at least one business repair service is on five-minute schedule.

The scout walked into a bar in Miami Beach and smelled rubber burning. The bartender rounded the end of the bar and pulled out an electric plug connected to a juke box. The scout ordered beer and had only taken a few swallows before a man entered and began to work on the box. "How did he know your juke box was out of order?" The owner re plied: "My cashier telephoned when we first smelled the smoke." Before the war. five minute repair service would nave been considered pretty good but now with gas ration ing, tire and manpower short ages, we just wonder, that's an we lust wonder.

CULINARY NOTEA trio of Miami Beach young women, thinking to raise the armed forces morale a little by invit ing three young officers to din ner in their apartment, ended up having dinner out with the officers in a neighborhood restaurant, a few nights ago. It seems the oil they were using to cook the mam course foamed up and permeated the kitchen with an odor reminiscent of a barber shop. Investigation showed that instead of a vegetable oil preparation. one of the "too many cooks had emptied a bottle of hair shampoo into the pan. Boy Escapes Death CHICAGO, June 2.

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