Evening World-Herald from Omaha, Nebraska • 1

Home Edition' The Weather Omaha Council Bluffs and Warmer Thursday afternoon Thursday night and riday forenoon today Gl: 1 30 86 (Weather in other cities on Page fuming Only Nebraska Newspaper with Wirephotos Seven News Services Cover the World Road to Victory The urgent need of waste fats puts the kitchens of America into the combat area OUR 58TH NO 265 OMAHA NEBRASKA THURSDAY JULY 15 TWENTY OUR PAGES THREE CENTS Claim Hit byBrown OPA Head Names Successor Sees Beef Increase (Tit ft DhUmrnt and Brown'll rjly will found nn Page JI) CornpllM frutn DIpat(he OPA Administrator i Brown allowed himself just time enough at press con ference to deny charges by Lou Maxon resigned deputy as he re ported that Chester Bowles Con necticut OPA head will become general manager predicted that beef hungry civilians will get in creased supplies and that OPA I may switch the rollback on coffee i to canned goods I And Nancy was swept into her arms as KBKa a wIMpMMMftMb boSKm OH iKrlfr fetra Mrs Moore stands weeping World Herald Photos by Earle Bunker Col Moore and Mrs Vida Comley her son is all right Vz jut aWB Ay3LW sSMmiW Ki LjiSI vvtwjSs e' i afl Egtsalfc SHlriH nBSMMI 'I Vz'' auHK yo0KKKHmb IMBIIi kBKUK jw jMMflB xMSrW' KMIHIHn J'''' MmtMflK MMHHWK 77 shKRSSeSk SkREkSu' 4 ervent Welcome to Villisca Greets Col Moore Back from War a Day Late rtv World Herald Slaff Member) Villisca Lt Col Bob He also said that the ban om A card pleasure driving in the east would be lifted "as soon as pos Denying allegation that OPA were attempting Jo "make over the American econ omy in Brown asserted: have never heard any such proposals by any individual and certainly there is absolutely no in tention on the part of this office to undertake such Asked ihe prospects of further gasoline restrictions in the mid west Brown said such action would be taken if it became ap parent that it would result in in creased supplies in the cast and equalizing of the "unfair on the Atlantic seaboard No Corn Price Hike Brown also stated that: 1 The price of corn will remain nt present levels He said corn is now moving to market under the present price regulation now tliat has been eliminated by the house agriculture commit to require higher prices as proposed by the senate 2 There is no "present to place ceiling at the live animal Jcvel on beef because OPA wants to give the industry "every chance to work out the and a beef ceiling would be diffi cult to work 3 He now is discussing with ood Administrator Marvin Jones a proposed maximum price on live hogs but declined to predict whether it would be put into effect 4 The oil situation better the war demand remaining the uncer tain factor in the situation Brown said he had always opposed the pleasure driving ban and unless absolutely feel ing Hint A card holders should be permit oct io use their small ra tions as they see fit Two Others Resign Brown declined to discuss "back ground and behind a statement by his one time close friend Lou Maxon who quit Wednesday night as deputy ad with the assertion that Houdini himself could not untangle red tape Coinciding with Maxon's resig nation those of Bernard Haley director of textile leather and apparel price divi sion and Dexter Al Kcezer in charge of professional services Baley previously was head of the economics department at Stanford: Kcezer a former president of Reed college Portland Orc Both asserted that their resigna tions were in no way connected with charges made by Maxon The News in Brief The War and oreign Moore officer hero of this town of 2 GOO came horn from Africa Thursday He stepped off the train arms burdened with a bulging flight bag his helmet his blankets A piping 7 year old's voice shrilled across the platform "Daddy Daddy! it cried Nancy his daughter ran across the platform arms out The bag the helmet the blanket thumped to the planking Nancy was swept into her arms She nestled there for the first time in 16 months her tiny face against his tropical sun dark ened cheek Nancy sobbed So did her mother who had come 4over So did her grandmother Mrs Jerrie Moore And tears trickled unshamedly down Col cheeks Moist too were the eyes of the little group of 50 people around the train Among them was Mrs Vida Comley asking with heartfelt anxiety about her son 1st Sgt George Comley He is fine Col Moore said Jules engel asking about his son Glen a prisoner of war of the Germans They moved uptown to the (Continued on Paee Column 3) Grocer aces OPA Charge Butcher Also Accused of Violations More Cheap Meat Seen Coffee Says OPA Must Decide Soon Pl a Union 1 to 16 A Kelloway said i failure to keep a copy of his re 15 16 1 1 confusion be definite pro ter would put on these animals if to fill up his Allies Advance on Catania Open Smash on Japs Guinea Hitler Yields Command National Wants Jeffers to Hoad OH Moro Strikers Back to Work Devon's Pay Is Abolished Rollback Substitute Praised 17 most daily he said A Kelloway secretary Omaha Livestock Exchange the shortage of grain will seriously turn form and work sheets affect livestock production but that with filing false statements tne government nao never tom met full story of this situation "Instead of giving the farmer the true picture they are going to! try to adjust production down 1 ward through price Kelloway said wonoer tne many 17 farmer has lost confidence What New he must have now is a ciear cut lights Statement on the facts of the feedp 21 day Cuts Traffic Lights to Save Gas New York (INS) To conserve casoline and rubber wasted by too starts and stops 1260 of York City's 17500 trariic will be eliminated from 7 to 7 a beginning Thurs ighL A criminal complaint charging A Greenbaum operator of the Greenbaum Market 40S North Six teenth street with violating OPA regulations by filing false returns was filed Thursday in federal court by Assistant United States Attorney William Meier A separate complaint charges butcher Sam Ep stein with selling meats and but ter without requiring sufficient points from customers and accept ing stamps not yet valid Earl Haffke OPA enforce ment attorney for the Omaha dis trict who signed the complaints said the cases were the first of their kind in Nebraska involving a retail grocery and meat market The alleged false return filed by Greenbaum was as of last May 1 at which time all retailers were re quired to report number of stamps on hand and in their ration bank accounts stocks on hand and total I sales in points during the preced ing week on meats fats fish and Coffee president of Stockvards company said there is question but what there will be more cattle marketed this year than in any other year in the past 10 said Coffee "the OPA must soon decide whether the consumers are to eat hamburger boiling beef and tough beefsteak or juicy cornfed steaks next ivi I OPA must also he Isaid it wants the extrapoundage that the cornbelt feed 1 ihe were encouraged i feedlots" Coffee said that IS cause of lack of a 17 gram has frightened many feed 16 tors They take the chance 2 ljof filling their lots again until they Sknow what the government in 21 1 tends to do on feed ceilings and 10 i the other problems on which con 12 flieting statements are issued al cheese On the basis of bus report Greenbaum is accused of demand ing and receiving 174S6S points in addition to those in stock when in truth lie owed 27239 points An order for the surrender of the ex cess points totaling 201107 was issued by Thursday by the OPA Greenbaum is accused also of I 4g( nr'il ennkesrnen for 1he live 1 i stock industry agreed with the 7 OPA Thursday that there will bernmore meat for consumers this fall I But it may be hamburger and boil 7ing beef from range stock rather 101 than cornfed beef steak they in dicated TInv the State Villisca Welcomes Col Moore State Crops Aided by Weather Local Move Cheap Beef Predicted Grocer aces OPA Charge Minne Iusa Gardeners Proud Sports Benson Ends Boys Le gion Bid Haegg Only ooling About Mile? Dodgers Kick Newsom Browns Sweet Ruby Beats Top Dogs Miscellaneous Amusements Comics eatures Crossword Puzzle Deaths Editorial inancial Market Men of War Pictures Wirephotos Radio Programs Rationing Calendar Records of a Day Varietv Want Ads 21 News 14 Special Writers Bernard Baruch Raymond Clapper Dr Irving Cutter rank Kent Westbrook Pegler Jake Rachman lsie Robinson Guy Williams Walter Winchell decisive Battle Looms for Catania as 1800 IOO 3d orces Jungle Units Mubo Sector His Old Home Town captured my desk with a bulletin time he was really ex Buyer Can Choos Own Contest Entry Believe Axis to Commit Powerful Units in Impending Conflict 'Ai I a CHI SnOaYf! Returns to Berlin as Red Drive alters Troops Advance for Alfred Carlentini meant the British Eighth Army By Victor Hass a short round balding soft spoken man with a pleasant voice You have to lean close to catch those liquid quiet Sicil ian syllables when he attempts to speak above the sharp chatter of automatic teletype ma chines His name is Alfred Carlen tini or many months now he has gone out of his way to deliver bulletins on important news breaks to The World Herald's war desk It part of his job as teletype operator He just does it Thursday morning he came to the war and this cited home he said "Huh "My home town Carlentini in was the British Eighth army and the bulletin said that Gen Sir Bernard Montgom forces had driven through both Carlentini and neighbor ing Lentini The two towns are approximately 20 miles south of Catania on east coast Al Carlentini who is 36 and lives with his wife and small daughter Phyllis at 2515 South Thirteenth street hasn't the re motest notion of how his family acquired a surname identical to the town in which he was born The best efforts of his father Carmelo Carlentini S22 Pierce street to climb far enough on the family tree to find out have been unavailing The Carlentinis immigrated to America in 1912 when Al was only 5L so he doesn't remem ber much about Carlentini ex cept that there are many strong beautiful old stone houses The Carlentinis owned a farm near the town but according to Al it with the The Carlentinis are interested in both sides of the Mediterra nean conflict because Al has a brother Sebaslino who is a staff sergeant with the Amer ican air corps in north Africa and mother has three broth ers in Sicily who have noTewer than 12 children between them all of military age Al know for sure but he thinks those 12 cousins may be fight ing with the Italians on Sicily But cousins orno there the least possible question about the Carlentinis praying for an allied victory Bank Clearing Gain Here Ranks Second Bank clearings in the week end ed Wednesday rose sharply above those for the like 1942 period with New York transactions the heavi est in two months Dun Brad street Inc reported Thursday New York exchanges rose 425 per cent Included in percentage increases over 1942 were: Omaha 391 Minneapolis 356 Kansas City 325 Blast Inland Along lank HitlerYields His Command A man found guilty of lying to ex as the po Bond Credit Ways Listed (Sicilian campaign map nn Page 11) Compiled from Cable Dispatches Crack British Eighth Army troops have stabbed four miles north of Augusta after beating back a heavy danger ous German armored attack and United States troops in southeastern i i 1 have plunged six or seven miles deeper inland it was an nounced Thursday The anticipated strong axis counterattacks against the swift allied invasion thrusts were apparently materializ ing Springing against tions around the Augusta naz i idge warns ramcr He Sets an Example of Contempt for Law (Map on Page 11) Complied from Cable Dispatches American and Australian jungle troops were closing in Thursday on the Mubo bastion keypoint in the Jap defense line before Sala maua in a sudden smash to oust the enemy from bases on the northeast New Guinea coast A special statement from Gen MacArthur's headquarters said "hat the jungle fighters keying their attack to the continuing all American drive against Munda on New Georgia island seven hun dred miles to the east were mov ing in on Mubo decisive ight Bloody Clashes Allied patrols were reported en gaged in bloody clashes with the Japanese riorth of Salus lake which is seven miles south of Salamaua the center of enemy strength in New Guinea Apparently the allies grouped in force following the landing at Nassau bay are prepared to over whelm the Mubo garrison and thus remove one of last major bar riers to the capture of Salamaua itself and its neighboring base of Lae Bitter jungle tighmg is pected to follow fall allied forces move in to drive Japs from their entrenched sitions Advance on Munda Meanwhile it was revealed Thursday that American ground forces have launched an all out drive against Munda air base on New Georgia island in the central Solomons Dispatches from Solo mons fighting front said that the enemy garrison appeared doomed to lose out within a few days Bombers ragged northward to at tack bases on Bougainville island and other planes destroyed two enemy barges and a small cargo vessel in the New Georgia area The Pacific offensive was given further impetus Admiral Ches ter Nimitz commander in chief of the Pacific fleet who said "new ships and planes and troops trained and fully equipped for bat tle now are coming into the Pa cific in satisfying numbers to in sure our retaining the A navy communique Thursday7 reported that an American light warship bombarded Jap defense positions in Gertrude cove on Kis ka island Wednesday7 making the fourth surface attack on the Aleu tian outpost in an eight day period British posi seaport of armored units actually penetrated to the harbor and isolated a British brigade in side the town before the Eighth Army counter blow drove them back The British then raced on to Brucoli four miles north of the seaport The allied communique asserted that gains" were scored in the last 21 hours and said the British had pushed in their drive toward Catania The American Seventh Army striking into the Ragusa Vizzini area chewed off half a dozen miles captured important heights and an other airdrome Another Italian general and his staff of the 54th Napoli Division surrendered south of Vizzini NBC Correspondent Alfred Wagg reporting rom a British cruiser off eastern Sicily said the British had captured Lentini and Carlentini northwest of Augusta The report was unconfirmed but AP Correspondent Paul Kern Lee reporting from a British cruiser in Catania bay said as of Wednes day that naval shellings and air borne troops were expected to clean up the towns "soon" It was possible then that Wagg who filed his report Thursday had later information Decisive Some 275 allied bombers teamed for a smashing assault upon Mes sina great supply port op posite the mainland British and United States para chute and air borne troops dropped behind axis lines have carried out An infestation of blister beetles I has been noted in the Victory gar dens at the old Dundee golf course here 2S0 persons are raising pro jducc under the sponsorship of theDundee Kimanis club The beetles are about the size of a roach are brown with striped backs Voracious they will strip a potato vine down to the stem in two or three days Carl A Sipherd chairman of the Dundee gar den committee said Dr Tate chairman of the University7 of depart ment of entomology said the bugs are not uncommon and some re ports have come in this year of damage by them The young beetles feed on grass hopper eggs Hence 1he population fluctuates with the number of grasshoppers The adult beetles Dr Tate said feed on potato and tomato vines alfalfa almost anything that in a garden The best treatment he said Is to dust the plants with fluoral silicate tate highway patrolmen to obtaina license for his 14 year 'old son must spend Saturday and Sunday in jail County Judge Rob iert Troyer ruled Thursday doing this for the 1 3 he sees you get by with this MacA Report 'he will think for the rest of his (life that he can beat the Albert Alt 1513 South Twen ity ninth street technically was I charged with permitting a child to drive a car State highway patrol men said the youth had been re fused a license when he came alone to get one and again when he brought a prospective employer a representative of a cab However when the boy's father brought him to the patrol office a third time and said he was over 16 the license was issued Still doubting the boy was that old a patrolman checked school records then filed the charge British Repel Dangerous Nazi Smash Allies Open Offensive in New Guinea Li Close in on WSs' 't sy I KL Mfcz Kit 4 Be IBr 'fiiBiE MB Business Indicators Show Omaha Gains Continued Omaha business im provement is reflected a num ber of indicators the Chamber of Commerce industrial department reported The percentage gains: Batik clearings 18 bank debits 38 building permit valuations 205 electricity produced 9 water pumped 7 gas manufactured 5 livestock receipts 8 Enemy guns did not reply Dempsey Wins ull Custody of Children New Rochelle (INS) Jack Dempsey Thursday was awarded complete custody of his two young daughters the prize he sought in his recent battle in the divorce courts against the for mer Hannah Williams from whom he recently7 won a divorce on charges of Have Much of Him Army lier ound Dead After our Months Letter Won Contest The air corps reported Thurs day that the of Lt Wil liam Hugh Startzer 23 Scotts bluff pilot of an army bomber missing since March 3 has been found near Springerville Ariz His wife the former Billie Bryan of Scottsbluff was "'in ner of first prize of two hun dred dollars in The World Herald's Marriage Wait for contest Her husband had been missing almost three months when she wrote: he is gone then having been his wife I have much of him still Memories of the hours of happiness are so strong that I still hear him say never give up in this I I If he is gone then all that was is a memory ful filled not just a Lt Startzer was stationed at Lockbourne air base near Co lumbus He flew a lying ortress from Lockbourne to Portland Ore After the plane started the return trip it was not heard of again Seven other members of the crew and one officer soldier were aboard Last week the body of one of the men was found near Luke ield Aria setting in motion a search vbich finally located the plane Lt Startzer took his first flight training as a CPT stu dent at Scottsbluff Junior col lege received his commission as ill '2 Eli Mrs Hugh Startzer he is gone then all that was is a memory a second lieutenant at Luke field in 1941 The couple was married there in March 1942 He served as advanced training instructor at Luke field until early this year when he was transferred to Lockbourne About a month ago Mrs Startzer was notified that even though missing her husband had been promoted to first lieu tenant There are three ways of seeing that your favorite retail store or store employe receives credit for the war bonds you pur chase during July If the store issues its own bonds you receive them imme diately7 and credit is automatic to the employe and store If the store takes your appli cation and money the seller and store will get credit and your bond will be mailed to you in a few days If you want to buy the bond yourself from the bank or post office you may ask for a re ceipt Give or mail the receipt to person you want to receive credit As added incentive all Nebras kans buying bonds in the seven (Continued on Page Column 2) The Weather (U Weather Bureau) Nebraska: Thunderstorms and cooler northwest and extreme west warmer east and south central Thursday night thun derstorms north central cooler west and north central little change in temperature southeast and extreme east riday fore noon Iowa: Warmer Thursday7 night and riday forenoon Temperatures Wednesday 12:30 80 1:30 81 2:30 84 3:30 83 4:30 85 5:30 88 6:30 85 7 30 84 8:30 80 9:30 77 10:30 73 11:30 70 Thursday 12:30 a 69 1:30 a 68 2:30 a 67 3:30 a 65 4:30 a 65 5:30 a 64 6:30 a 64 7:30 a 66 8:30 a 70 9:30 a 74 10:30 a 79 11:30 a 82 12:30 84 1:30 86 or the 24 hours ending 12 noon: high temperature 88 low 64: mean 74: normal 76 Total excess since January 183 High vear ago 100 low year ago 74 4 Record temperature this date: High 107 in 1934 low 56 in 1912 Relative humidity at 6:30 a 87 per cent at noon 45 per cent velocity at noon 17 miles an hour Compiled from Cable Dispatches Marshal Josef powerful red armies have halted the attack ing Germans everywhere in the Belgorod sector Russian frontline dispatches said Thursday while in London a highly placed diplomatic informant told the Associated Press that Adolf Hitler has already given up command of the German drive and returned to Berlin Last week Hitler was reported directing the powerful German drive against the advice of his gen erals Thursday for the first time the German high command admitted that the nazi drive had failed to gain any ground in the Orel and Belgorod sectors but said that heavy fighting is continuing The weather the Germans said is de teriorating The Russians said that the Ger mans have been dislodged from several positions near Belgorod and that the red counter attacks are gaining momentum daily AP Correspondent William Mc Gaffin quoted eyewitnesses who returned to Moscow from the Bel gorod sector as saying that all our experience on many fronts we have never seen German fire as in tensive as this The horizon liter ally seemed to be St Day Rain Seen This is St day And according to an old tradi tion if it rains it will continue to be rainy for 40 days The weather bureau predicted warmer weather for Nebras ka with winds reaching a velocity of from 25 to 35 miles an hour Thundershowers and cooler was the prediction for the northwest and extreme west however with somewhat warmer in the east and south central Thundershowers were indicated for the Omaha area Irving Greene Still Shows Improvement Irving Greene World Herald editorial staff member who under went a serious operation at St hospital Rochester Minn continues to show improvement successful operations the war bul letin said The Italian communique assert ed that parachute troops on Continued on Page 4 Column 1 Drive ar Ahead of Washington (IP) The Sicilian campaign is progressing far ahead of schedule but sharp lighting and heavy casualties must be expected when the imminent battle comes with strong axis forces on the is land Undersecretary of War Pat terson reported Thursday He said the current phase of the campaign calls for "consolida tion and enlargement of our beach heads reinforcing and supplying our troops advancing inland in preparation to meet the inevitable counterattack by mobile forces of the The invasion and ultimate con quest of Sicily he said would be a great step toward victory "but it be quick and easy Sicily after all is a long way from Berlin and Jt sure (THANK There was a time when news papers were quite rare and there were no newspaper boys like me to deliver the paper to your door every day But now nearly every family in Omaha and the surrounding territory is a Regu lar subscriber to The World Her ald Each week on riday or Satur day I call on all my subscribers to collect the small amount due on their newspaper bill grateful to all of you who pay on time It saves me a lot of trouble.