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forecast for last night: early morn. in lower temperature. lowest, 57. Times photo LIGHTED UP? Joe Roncelli, accused of being first violator -of streetcar antismoking law, smoked cigarette during court recess. First Arrest Made Under Smoking Ban Accused of being the first violator of Los 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. Roncelli. a 34-year-old van company helper who lives at 1119 Trenton had the misfortune to be on a car operated by a police officer on his day off. The officer-motorman arrested Roncelli at Pico and Figueroa Sts. June 9 and the feverish argument resulted in two charges being filed -violation of the tobacco ordinance, which took effect May 26, and disturbing the peace.

At the arraignment Judge Byrne released Roncelli on his own recognizance and set his trial for 9:30 a.m., Aug. 2, in Division 7. Palm Tree Fire Perils District A miniature forest. fire of palm trees, fanned by a brisk southwest wind, threatened part of the Westlake district on Seventh St. at Wilshire Place during the noon hour yesterday.

Damage was minor. but at one time seven palm trees. roofs of two houses and a garage, fences and gardens were ablaze. Ralph Smith of 2884 Sunset Place suffered a broken left kneecap when he fell while scrambling over: high backvard fence to tell firemen on Seventh St. that his garage roof was burning.

Mrs. Harriet Burgess of 2909 W. Seventh St. discovered the fire. which apparently started from a cigarette tossed into rubble at the base of a 40-foot-high sentinel palm in the Seventh St.

parking beside the house at 698 Wilshire Place owned by Mrs. L. Miller. Roofs of Mrs. Burgess' home and of a house on the rear of Mrs.

Miller's lot were damaged. Four fire companies commanded by Battalion Chief W. E. Newcomb extinguished the flames. Legion to Merge Two Conventions A war efforts and rehabilita.

tion conference, which also will absorb the functions of the annual State convention, will be held in Los Angeles Aug. 15. 16 and 17. William P. Haughton.

Department Commander of the American Legion announced yesterday. Merger of the conference and convention. completely streamlined and for business only, will lack parades and other festivities which normally are part of a department convention. Los Anactes The Weather United States Weather Bureau Angeles and vicinity issued Fair today and tomorrow except Ing low clouds near coast and fog coastal valleys. Little change in Highest temperature yesterday, 80; -VOL.

LXIII By ThE with BILL HENRY MIDWEEK COMMUNIQUE The beginning of a new phase in the Normandy fighting and the outbreak of the long-threatened Russian push in the Kowel area brought. new threats to the Hitlerites this past. week. The start of two moves in Normandy, each described in the official communiques as a "maattack." marks the beginning of the offensive phase of the war in France. First two phases were preparatory and, to a degree, defensive.

They were (1) 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 La Haye du Puits and in the east around Caen mark the beginnings of the expansion phase- extending the beach-head area as a move to bring the enemy to grips and heat. him. Germany will need very strong forces to try to hold 15 to a limited area in 011t beach head, she'll need real strength to stop the onrushing tide in Italy, and there are indications that the German eastern 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 spotand is in genuine difficulty. All in -a good week, and events are mounting toward a climax in Europe. REACH HEAD -Belief among the experts has been that German collapse it comes at all soon-would' follow the defeat of Nazi armies in the first great battle between our invasion force and the German strategic reserves. Progress of the Normandy campaign is making the military experts wonder if there is ever going 10 be any such major pitched battle. Allied air activity has been sO effective in the destruction of bridges, railroads.

airfields and highways that Nazi reinforcements have been arriving piecemeal- so far, at least -and these have been used up in piecemeal batties, mostly in the Caen area. The result is that, so far as can he seen on the' surface. the Nazis are no nearer to organizing a major counterattack against us now than they were when we landed a month ago. As a result some experts now look forward 10 slow enemy disintegration rather than sudden enemy defeat. PACIFIC- is difficult to get the average Easterner to recognize the importance of the fighting on Saipan.

This is the first really decisive move in many months in the Central Pacific. First such move took place two vears ago when the enemy advance on Hawaii was stopped at Midway. The first step on the road back 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 activities have just amounted to stepping on the Japs' toes. Conquest of the Marianas will give us a base from which to start swinging- and I mean swinging hard. The Japs know it. That's why their fighting has been so fierce on Saipan. MAC ARTHUR-The man who travels fastest and says least is MacArthur--now well west of the major Navy forces to the north and not more than a good hop.

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 MacArthur in 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 area for China several months. The B-29's, however, won't stay idle 100 long. MacArthur is due to continue toward the Philippines.

The Navy probably will head toward Formosa and the Chinese coast. When Nor. the mandy beach head expansion really 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 stretch of good weather would make a lot of difference in Europe.

Herr Ril1 Henry. Monday through Friday, KNX, 5:55 p.m. IN TWO PARTS Times PART II LOCAL NEWS TIMES OFFICE 202 West First Street Los Angeles 53, Cal. New Casualty Lists Issued Eighteen Southland Men Killed and 33 Others Wounded Eighteen more Southland men killed and 33 wounded were named in new casualty lists announced by Army and Navy authorities yesterday. DEAD Maj.

Gene L. Arth, 815 N. Normandie Ave. Staff-Sgt. Juan C.

Apodaca, 715 N. Record Drive. Pvt. John A. Conboy, 1920 E.

Third St. Sgt. Herbert T. Lisiecki, 1962 N. Cheremoya St.

Pfc. Carlos 0. Peters, 130 E. 25th St. Pfc.

Glen R. Sinclair, Long Beach. Sgt. William J. Bell.

Alhambra. Capt. Harry A. Stirwalt, Glendale. 1st Lt.

Firman E. Susank, Montrose. Tech. Sgt. Robert T.

Wedemeyer. Long Beach. 2nd Lt. Norman Wolff, 721 N. Beverly Drive.

Sat. Lyle L. Hulbert, Chatsworth. Put. Arthur S.

Renland, San Gabriel. Pfc. Mannel F. Ruiz. Brawley.

1st Lt. John E. Hodgins, Santa Monica, Staff-Sgt. Huffaker, Inglewood. 1'st Lt.

Arthur D. Rhodes, San Gabriel. Torpedoman's Mate Fran. cis William Dietlin, Torrance. WOUNDED Lt.

(jg) Chester Leroy Palmer, 8889 Venice Blvd. Motor Machinist's Mate Jack Leroy Parcells, 376 S. Ferris Ave. Chief Radioman William Edward Brock, 7910 Walnut Drive. Machinist's Mate Ervin Howard Mateer.

319 E. 92nd St. Master-Sgt. LeGrande Farley, 703 W. 55th St.

2nd Lt. Raymond D. Penhall, 6174 Allston St. Pfc. Kenneth I.

Witke, 5624 Marburn Ave. Capt. John W. Blaikie. 1744 W.

42nd St. Sgt. George W. Danielson, 334 N. Normandie Ave.

Pvt. William Portilla, 139 Rowan Ave. Staff-Sgt. Kenneth C. Stout.

3226 Vinton Ave. Cpl. Leo F. Falk, 803 N. St.

Andrews Place. 2nd Lt. Norris W. Houser. S.

Bronson Ave. Pfc. Alvin R. Peterson, 1435 W. 90th Place.

Pfc. Charles G. Renteria, 4645 Dozier Ave. Technician 5th Grade John W. Wagner, 5020 Navarro St.

Boatswain's Mate Keith Fenton Frazier, Maywood. Lt. Winston H. Clisham, Wilmington. Staff-Sgt.

Cecil G. Davis, Long Beach. Sgt. Roy C. Hon.

Canoga Park. Flight Officer Wilbur R. McAfee, Monterey Park. Technician 4th Grade Samiel Castellano Pasadena. Pfc.

James Corbett, 9006 Harratt St. Capt. Robert L. Durnerin, Santa Monica. Sgt.

Thomas F. Patella, 12803 Osborne Pacoima. Pfc. Tony 0. Rios, Santa Monica.

Sgt. Efren H. Seanez, San Bernardino. 2nd Lt. Paul R.

Suddath, Whittier. Pfc. Roy W. Bruner. Oxnard.

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

Santibanez, Anaheim. Pfc. Clarence C. Stevens, Azusa. Technician 5th Grade Carroll L.

Fink, Hemet. Long Beach Woman Dies of Auto Injuries Mrs. Lucretia Handley, 72. of 1054 Salt Lake Long Beach. died in Seaside Hospital yesterdav of injuries received when hit by an automobile at Hill St.

and Atlantic Long Beach. The motorist, William E. Burkholder. 2501 E. Anaheim Long Beach.

was handed a police citation for failure to yield the right. of war. Save This Paper The need for wastepaperparticularly old newspapers and magazines has never been more critical. Nearly all supplies for our fighting forces in every theater of war must be shipped in cardboard containers manufactured from wastepaper. Save vour copy of THE TIMES every day.

When your THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1944 CITY NEWS EDITORIAL SOCIETY Contracts Boosted for Small Plants Lesser War Industries Here to Receive 200 Per Cent More Orders Under new agreements Corporation and eight technical ment as well as the Treasury ment and Maritime Commission, er industries will receive about 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 who struck and shut off all food and drink service at the Ambassador one week ago today. The case went to W.I.B. 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 the case was certified to the board, which shortly is expected to order the strikers to return 10 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 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, Eric Pepys and H. F.

C. Duberg. Federal men in the meetings were Conciliation Commissioners L. L. Livingstone and Adolph W.

Hoch of the Department of Labor and Art Smith of the W.L.B. staff. Ask $1 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 Board demanding that the employers agree also to force all 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 their pets or keep them on a leash while on the streets was defeated ed by a narrow margin City Council. The final recorded vote was nine votes in favor of the ordinance to five opposed but two of the five- Councilmen Allen and Harby-asked that their orig. inal vote of "aye" be changed to no when they saw that the ordinance was going to be defeated, so that they might be in a position today to ask for a reconsideration of the matter.

The ordinance needed 12 votes to carry because it carried an emergency clause which would have made it effective immediately. Rifle Bullet Wounds Altadena Youth While experimenting with one of the rifle cartridges he had collected as a hobby. William Freebourn, 15. son of Capt. W.

J. Freebourn, retired United States Army officer, 1864 Wagner Altadena, was seriously injured vesterday when the shell ploded and penetrated his abdo. men. He was taken to the Pasadena Army Regional Hospital, where it was reported fragments of the brass cartridge had punctured his liver and intestines. between Smaller War Plants branches of Army procureDepartment, War DepartSouthern California's small200 per cent more in future contracts than heretofore.

Jesse French III, director of operations for the national S.W.P.C., announced the program here yesterday and coupled it with an emphatic admonition to Southland plants 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 he passed by." According to Robert S. Brev. er.

chief of the Los 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 nonarmament items such as shoes and clothing for lend-lease or other purposes. This, he declared, will bring opportunities for smaller business to share in some 000,000 yearly in contracts heretofore awarded mostly to large corporationsid that under present allocations some 80 per cent of war contracts go to larger concerns. Referring to Maritime Commission 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 broader scale than formerly. Times photo TOO BAD, GIRLS -Left to right, Elizabeth Wadlow, Dorothy Moon and Joyce MacDonald, 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.

Mrs. Lobingier, Widow of Noted Physician, Dies Mrs. Kate Revnolds Lobingier. 89, widow of Dr. Andrew Stewart Lohingier, Los Angeles physician known for his leadership in the advancement of West Coast surgery and cancer research, died yesterday at A rest home at 1900 Longwood Ave.

Mrs. Lobingier. a founder and first president of the Women's City Club and twice president of the Friday Morning Club. for which she supervised activities connected with erecting a new club building. was known as a student.

of Greek and Shakespearean drama. Family of Educators Born in a family of educators near Hornersville, now Hornell. N.Y.. she attended her parents' and other classics to prepare for private school, read Livy, Virgil Vassar and was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She met.

Dr. Lobingier in his native Pennsylvania. After their marriage in Denver he continued medical practice in Colorado. They came to Los Angeles in 1902. Her club and social career paralleled the professional activity of her husband, who was a member of the first board of governors of the American College of Surgeons, president of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association and for many vears a lecturer at the University of Southern Cali- fornia.

President of Club He also was the biographer of Dr. John Jones, "father of Amercan surgerv." Mrs. Lobingier was president of the Friday Morning Club from 1917 to 1919 and from 1921 to 1924. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Gladys L.

Norris of 428 S. Mariposa a sister. Miss Emily Reynolds, of Beverly Glen West Los Angeles. and two granddaughters, Nancy and Gladys Virginia Norris. Funeral arrangements are being completed with Pierce Bros.

Mortuary, 720 W. Washington Blvd. Sailor Takes Own Life Over Matrimonial Rift Anthony Williams. 33. sailor stationed at San Diego Naval Training Base, died at St.

John's Hospital, Santa Monica, vesterday shortly after he shot himself through the head with a rifle at 108 Thornton Venice, according to police, who said he left a note indicating he was despondent because his wife Ruth had threatened to seek a divorce. Training Course to Open A six-week free summer training course in business subjects will be given by the Metropolitan School of Business at Ven ice Blvd. and Olive St. beginning next Monday, Dozen Would-Be Wasps, Stranded, Fight Back Jobless. deserted by 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 the cancellation of the Women's Air Force Service Pilots training program." explained a comely miss who spoke for the group yesterday- distractedly, but with determination to see that something is done about the situation. En route to Avenger Field. Texas, for their course of Wasp training, they discovered that the program had been discontinued--at least. temporarily. And they were stranded! "In order to qualify, I had to get a release from my job.

not a leave of absence," wailed one. "And it cost US all more than $500 of our own money to get the flying hours required." lamented another. "And what am I going to do with all those heavy socks I 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 government officials in ranking ington. They are resolved to put up a fight.

Yesterday they were househunting, and today they are investigating the chances of getting back onto a pay roll again. Meanwhile. they are guests at the guild, where they have been billeted since their arrival here early this week in an Army transport plane. COUNT'S TRIP TO CANADA UNDER INQUIRY BY O.P.A. While his divorced parents regrouped their forces for possible further legal battle over his custody, 9-year-old Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow vesterday enjoyed investigation of the construction of a rowboat at Vancouver, B.C..

according to news from the Canadian city. The hoy was spirited out of the jurisdiction of California courts last week by Kurt von Haugwitz-Reventlow, his Danish-born father, a few days be. fore Lance was scheduled to be transferred to the custody of his mother, Mrs. Barbara Hutton Grant. The O.P.A.

reportedly was investigating what mode of transportation Reventlow employed in fleeing with his son to Canada. The Federal functionaries were seeking to learn if an automobile was used, where the gasoline rations were obtained. and if so. how and by whom the trip was classified as "necessary." (P) Wirephoto NOT WORRIED MUCH -Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, 9, object of custody dispute between father, Kurt von Haugwitz Reventlow, and mother, former Barbara Hutton. plays in boat with "Binkie," daughter of his father's present wife.

Prime Contracts French emphasized that the majority of contracts awarded under the new agreements will be prime rather than subcontracts let by large concerns to smaller ones. He said that basic changes brought about by the S.W.P.C. negotiations with government procurement agencies are highlighted 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 available to small concerns under the program, French estimated an increase nationally of from $125,000.000 to about 000,000 a month.

Bulk of War Orders Placed in California SAN FRANCISCO, July 5. (P) California has taken about two thirds of all war contracts placed in the 11 Western States since June 1, 1940. a tabulation by the California Chamber of Commerce showed. California contracts totaled $18,807,388.000 out of the 827,000 for the West. Aircraft contracts accounted for more than $10.000,000,000 in California, ships more than $4,000.000.000, and orders for supplies and ordnance the remainder.

Aircraft orders totaled 000.000 in Los Angeles County and $2.800.000,000 San Diego County: ships nearly 000 for Los Angeles County and $55,000,000 for San Diego Countv. Breakfast Club Honors Police Chief Presentation of the gold card of honorary membership in the Los Angeles Breakfast Club was made to Chief of Police C. B. 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 Bowron, who presented the award.

"I consider you the best Chief of Police in any city in America." "Hail to the Vets of World War Il" was the subject of an address given by Archie H. Greenberg, national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, Chairman of the meeting was Dr. Ernest G. Bashor, president stack is four feet high. sell it to a junkman- -give it.

to one of the many organizations conducting paper drives--or ask one of the following charitable agencies to send a pickup truck to your home: American Legion AN-6181 Assistance League HE-1185 Goodwill Industries CA-5131 Salvation Army MA-7775 St. Vincent de Paul TR-8147 Volunteers nf America TR-5554 of the City Health Commission, Preinduction Meeting Scheduled Missing Mate Back For men about to enter the Home, Wife Reports armed forces, another preinduction information meeting is scheduled for 8 p.m. today at Manual Arts High School, 4131 S. Vermont under sponsor. ship of the City War Council and draft boards of South and Southwest Los Angeles.

Harry Gettleman, 46, of 4508 Fourth was back home yes. terday after having been reported missing last Monday with $1100 in cash and $3000 in jewel. rV. his wife reported to police. Mrs.

Gettleman said her huse band had been visiting friends, 88 2.