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FINAL EDITION ESTABLISHED 1867.
Senate Okehs
OPA Budget
Appropriation
f 125,000,000 Is Allotted
For Operation
Of Office
ALSO STOP DELAYS
Iring About Closer Tie-Up
Between Agriculture
And Prices
WASHINGTON, July 15.—
(/P)_The Senate today tenta
tively approved a $125,000,
)00 appropriation to operate
he Office of Price Adminis
ration during the current fis
:al vear.
The sum was $5,000,000
more than approved by the
appropriations committee, and
$50,000,000 more than was
voted by the House. Price Ad
ministrator Leon Henderson
orginally asked for $210,
000.000.
The Senate eliminated irom me
appropriation a committee - Ap
proved plan which would have re
juired the Secretary of Agrucul
ture to take a long series of pre
liminary steps before he and the
price administrator could agree on
any ceilings for processed farm
commodifies.
It adopted 37 to 16 a compromise
merely restating existing 1 a w
ivhich provides that Henderson and
secretary Wickard cannot stait
:ontrolling farm prices until they
lave reached 110 per cent of par
ty.
The committee proposal promo
ting any subsidy payments from
he appropriation to enforce price
:eilings was aproved.
Following an announcement tiiat,
le Defense Supplies Corporation
rould detray the increased cost of
ringing gasoline into eastern
tates. Senator Russell (D. • Ga.)
iMrew an amendment to a pend
ig appropriation bill which would
ave blocked enforcement of a 2
■2 cent increase in the ceiling
ice in states served by pipelines.
Before the amendment was with
ravn. however, several midwest
rn senators criticized the plan
lade public by Secretary of Com
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CHURCHILL ASKS
FOR WAR GOODS
Requests Decrease In Ship
f ment Of Non-Essential
Gifts, Suppiies
LONDON. Thursday. July 16—'.?)
In a letter to President Roose
?,P(r.1He Minister Churchill
a?ked today that the flow of in
hlldna-tglfo and suP°lies from
St3tes t0 Britain be
immished to save shipping space
lor tvar materials,
fo this end the foreign office
mounced h hereaft|r
Pace would be allocated onlv to
J'tect consignments through the
mencan Red Cross to the Brit
inta v °SS and Women’s Vol
thl
oiial service league
req^sTtf^5 "dshing £° make a
,ome sni-fthf United States for
•ia! neiriClbed gl£t ,0 meet a spe
lean Gfl c5’ apply 10 the Amer
tation ohL°mrtee f°r authori'
juired. h sh‘Ppmg rpace re
''l1 tailed Unlhaw °f what Church
materiaU" ,he- bro£herly flow of
authorized J!- lndlviduals and un
ither notehSr-°Upl represents an
h^tBritish beTt. tlghtenin§ of
lardshin’ Un0* necessarily mean
mp’ however, since the prim
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“tear f4. maximum 94;fijjiinimum
norma] 79, IB
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Head A.E.F. Units
Ma,i. Gen. M. W. Clark (top)
lias been placed in command of
all United States ground troops
in Britain, and Maj. Gen. J. C. H.
I.ee (bottom) has been given
charge of the Services of Supply
for American forces in Britain.
Gen. Clark is from Neiv York and
Gen. Lee comes from Junction
City, lias.
NAZI SABOTEUR’S
TESTIMONY HEARD
Military Commission List
ens To Statement From
One Of Accused
WASHINGTON, July 15—The
Military Commission trying eight
Nazis for their lives announced late
today that during the afternoon it
heard “a very long statement
which had been made by one of
ihe accused to the FBI.”
The prisoner was not identified,
but there has been speculation—in
tensified since the disclosure that
Colonel Carl L. Ristine had been
appointed as his special defense
counsel — that one of the eight,
George John Dasch, had been he'p
ful in the preparation of the gov
ernment’s case.
The reading of the statement re
quired the entire afternoon and will
continue tomorrow, said the an
nouncement by Major General
Frank R. McCoy, president of the
commission.
“The afternoon session was de
voted to the reading into evidence
of a very long statement which
had been made by one of the ac
cused to the FBI. The reading of
this statement will be continued to
morrow.” 3
ORTIZ SUCCUMBS
IN BUENOS AIRES
Former President Of Ar
gentine Republic Dies
At Age Of 55
BUENOS AIRES, July 15——
Roberto M. Ortiz, who had hoped
until three weks ago to return to
the active presidency and steer Ar
gentina on his pan-American good
neighbor course against Axis ag
gression, died today after a long
incapacitating complication of ill
ness, he was 55.
He was a critic of the “imperial
istic past” of the United States but
he was an early advocate of Pan
American solidarity, became an ar
dent “good nieghbor” and in de
ploring the “destructive forces”
loosed at Munich he called Adolf
Hitler “a guttersnipe.”
A chronic sufferer from diabetes,
he was forced to relinquish the ac
tive presidency two years ago, go
ing into seclusion nearly blind, and
was succeeded by Vice-President
Ramon S. Castillo, who took the
title of acting president.
The conservative Castillo’s inter
regnum administration held to
strict neutrality as one European
country after another and eventu
ally the United States and several
other American nations were
drawn into the war.
T0 date,1 neither Argentina nor
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FarmMeasure
Passes House
After Delay.
Two Months Deadlock Is
Broken By Senate Pro
posal On Program
GOES TO PRESIDENT
Will Allow Sale Of Wheat
Below Parity Value
Of Corn Crops
WASHINGTON, July 15—
(fP)—A two-month congres
sional deadlock over an agri
culture department program
to convert government-owned
surplus wheat to United
States war needs by feeding it
to livestock to produce meat,
eggs and milk came to an end
today as the House gave way
to a Senate proposal designed
to make the program effec
tive.
After rejecting a new compro
mise proposal offered by Chair
man Cannon (D.-Mo.) of its ap
propriations committee, the House
agreed to go along with the Senate
and allow the sale of 125,000,000
bushels of government - owned
wheat at 85 per cent of the parity
price of corn, or about 83 cents a
bushel, for livestock feed and in
dustrial uses.
Twice before, the House had vot
ed to bar such sales unless made
at the full parity price of wheat,
or about $1.35 a bushel.
The long overdue $805,000,000 Ag
riculture Department appropria
tion bill was then speedily passed
by the Senate ar 1 sent to the
White House. The grain-price issue
had arisen in connection with an
amendment.
There had been differences be
tween the two houses over funds
for the Farm Security Adminis
tration but compromise figures ap
proved by the House yesterday
were quickly agreed to by the Sen
ate.
The break in the House stand
came only after President Roose
velt and Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard had made repeated ap
peals for the Senate proposal.
They contended that the House
sales price figure would either
force advances in livestock feed
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CONTROL CAPRICES
MAY BE INCREASED
F. D. R. Expected To Also
Ask Some For Wage
Stabilization
An influential member of congress
said tonight that President Roose
velt soon would request more strin
gent price control legislation, in
cluding some form of wage stabil
ization.
The new proposals are to be
transmitted to congress within a
week or two, probably shortly aft
er the house passes the tax bill
next week, said the congressman,
who is an authority on the situa
tion but who preferred not to be
quoted by name.
“It’s been only a matter of
‘when’ for some time,” he re
marked.
Members of the house reported
they had been told unofficially not
to count too much on plans orig
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Acc’^d Helper
Walter Froehiing of Chicago is
among 14 persons arrested by the
FBI on charges that they were
associates and aides of eight Nazi
agents accused of lauding on the
Florida and Long Island coasts in
a plot to sabotage l'. war ef
forts. Attorney General Francis
Biddle said Froehiing admitted his
nephew, Herbert Haupt, one of the
agents, told him of landing from
a U-boat near Jacksonville, Fla.
‘SALES ENGINEERS’
PROFITING ON WAR
House Naval Group Inform
ed Of Tremendous Com
missions In View
The House Naval committee was *
informed today that three self
styles “sales engineers” stood to
Garner commissions on millions of
dollars of government war work
in a plant which the government
itself built.
The disclosure, drawing expres
sions of amazement and concern
from committee members, came
from J. B. Decker, vice-president
and general manager of the tri
umph explosive company at Elk
ton, Md.. where the government
spent $4,000,000 to supplement (he
company's f'aciliiies with factories
of its own.
Decker testified that triumph,
which operated the government
plant as well as its own, had a
contract with the Washington Sales
Engineering company of Shirley,
Olcott and Nichols entitling the
latter to one per cent of the
amount of Navy work secured for
the government-owned plant.
He said that triumph now held
war contracts for work to be per
formed in the government factor
ies amounting to approximately
$24,000,000 and that, “on the book
value” of its contract with Shirley7,
Olcott and Nichols, the Washing
ton firm would receive about $256,
000 in commissions.
He reported that the Washington
company received a two and one
half per cent commission on con
tracts awarded for performance in
the plants which triumph itself
owns and estimated that business
amounted to approximately $14,
000.000.
Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) as
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Commando’s Trainer
Shows How It’s Done
*
NEW YORK, July 15.—(J>l—Those
polite lads from Hell’s Kitchen and
Port Said may now push over—
those who are left at least—for
their gouging, knee raising and
knife wielding is strictly Marquis
of Queensberry.
The new champion of “get him
before he gets you” displayed his
wares here. And even top ser
geants winced!
He is Major W. E. Fairbairn.
trainer of the British commandos,
on loan to the U. S. to show the
American soldier, sailor and ma
rine how to treat the Axis.
Major Fairbairn. mild looking
and mild talking British veteran
of 57 years, explained his method
,to an audience made up of every
branch of the service as he tossed
big strapping exponents of Judo
(Jiu-Jitsu) about the Hotel Astor’s
college room.
Before he got through the post
prandial exercises, the same room
looked like a picnic of the Don
neybrook Chowder and Marching
Society. Usually correct majors
from the air force were practic
ing on lieutenant commanders
from the Navy, ensigns were toss
ing chief petty officers about (and
vice versa) and civilians who’ve
been found wanting physically, in
sofar as Army service is con
cerned, were using uniformed men
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Nazis Force
Evacuation
Of Two Cities
Boguchar And Millerovo
Are Surrendered By
Russian Troops
‘MENACE IS GREAT’
Soviets Fight Off Renewed
Attacks Against
Voronezh
By EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW, Thursday, July
16. — (J-P) — Two German col
umns driving in separate sec
tors toward the steel city of
Stalingrad have forced Rus
sian troops to evacuate the
towns of Boguchar, on the
Don river in the north, and
Millerovo, on the Moscow
Rostov railway supply line
and only 175 miles from Stal
ingrad, the Russian high
command reported early to
day.
On the northern limits of the
battlefront, Soviet troops fought off
a renewed series of German at
tacks against Voronezh, the mid
night communique said. There
were no material changes in other
sectors of the long fighting line.
The official Russian press mean
while warned that the “menace is
great" on the approaches of the
Caucasus. *
Fighting in the Voronezh area is
“developing with increased feroc
ity,” the Russians said. "A num
ber of fortified positions have
changed hands several times.”
Soviet troops, counter - attacking
after German thrusts in several
sectors, have forced Nazi tank and
infantry units to withdraw with
heavy losses.
Several German reserve divi
sions have been rushed eastward
from France and Belgium, the
communique said, to fill the gaps
in the Russian front caused by tre
mendous Nazi casualties.
At Voronezh, where the Germans
made their first great plunge south
eastward almost two weeks ago,
eleventh-hour counter - attacks on
:he south side of the city pushed
.he Germans back to the point
vhere they crossed the Don, and
en the north approaches the Rus
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RUSSiAIS PTEADING
FOR SECOND FRONT
Qualified Sources Report
Reds Request Through
Envoy In Britain
By DREW MIDDLETON
LONDON. July 15.— OP)—Advo
cates of a second land front in
Europe to help Soviet Russia
pressed firmly tonight for quick
action while British sources report
ad definite and favorable progress
in the battle against Nazi subma
rines which looms as an important
Eactor in all second front consid
erations.
Qualified London sources who
feclined to permit use of their
aames said Russia was pleading
again through her envoy, Ivan
Vlaisky, for prompt help by a Brit
sh-American expedition to Europe
o take some of the tremendous
Mazi pressure off the Red Army.
The Russians in Moscow were
ndirectly presenting a case for a
second front with official reports
hat the Nazis, suffering huge loss
es in the battles in southern Rus
sia, had in the last few days iiuv
iedly transferred several divisions
Erom France and Belgium to the
Russian front.
One argument advanced by Sec
md fronters here is that if the
Germans can set the stage with vi
sories in southern Russia, the Jap
anese might attack in Siberia.
Germans Push Near Caucasus Oil
SOVIET RUSSIA
[o 200
STAtUTI MllfS
TURKEY
IRAN
New Nazi drives in the Rostov area (1) and fight
ing at Boguchar (2) bring the German menace closer to
Russia’s Caucasus oil fields. The struggle for Voronezh
(3) continued with indications (shaded arrows) that a
German triumph would bring a further drive to split
Moscow from the south and a push toward the Ural in
dustrial area. Russians claim they fought off new at
tacks in the Kalanin area (4) but the Germans said they
have scored new victories southwest of Rzhev.
48 Naval Ships Lost
Since October, 1941
(By The Associated Press)
The loss of 48 United States
naval craft In all categories
since the submarine-sinking of
the destroyer Reuben James in
the North Atlantic Oct. 30, 1941,
was revealed in an Associated
Press compilation of official an
nouncements today.
The tabulation:
Battleships: Arizona.
Aircraft carriers: Dexlngton
(finished off -»y U. S. destroyer).
Cruisers; Houston.
Destroyers: Reuben James;
Downes. Cassin, Peary, Jacob
Jones, Pope, Stewart (destroyed
to prevent capture); Edsall,
Pillsbury, Sturtevant (sunk by
an underwater explosion); Sims,
Hamman, one unidentified.
Submarines: S-26 (blackout
collision), Shark, Sealion (de
stroyed to prevent capture);
Perch.
Aircraft tenders: Uangley (fin
ished off by U. S. escort.)
Target ships: Utah.
f
Gunboats: Asheville, Minda
nao, Oahu, Luxon (destroyed to
prevent capture), Wake (cap
tured by Japanese.)
Transports: Liberty, Meigs.
Submarine tenders: Canopus
(destroyed to prevent capture).
Minesweepers: Penguin, Bit
tern (destroyed to prevent cap
ture), Finch, Pigeon, Quail (de
stroyed to prevent capture),
Tanager.
Minelayers: Oglala.
Navy oilers: Neches, Pecos,
Neosho (finished off by escort.)
Coast guard cutters: Alexan
der Hamilton (capsized under
tow and finished off by gunfire),
Acacia.
Torpedo boats: PT-35 (destroy
ed to prevent capture), unidenti
fied (abandoned during MacAr
thur’s trip from Philippines to
Australia.)
Patrol vessels: Cythera, VP
389.
Tugs: Mapa (destroyed to
prevent capture), Gannet.
Army Expects East Coast
Of America To Be Bombed,
Says Liason Officer Sides
RALEIGH, July 15—(£>)—'The
Army expects the east coast
of the United States to be
bombed and is speeding up in
struction of the civilian organi
zation, Lonnie Sides, liaison of
ficer of Fourth Region Civilian
Defense headquarters in At
lanta, said here today.
Sides attended a bomb recon
naissance school conducted by
the Army for civilian defense
officers of the Wilmington dis
trict this week. Instruction
was given on proceedure dur
ing high explosive bomb at
tacks. Heretofore instruction
had been largely on handling
incendiary bombs.
A second bomb reconnais
sance school will be held in
Chapel Hill in August in con
nection with the second series
of general civilian protection
schools to be conducted by the
Institute of Government in co
operation with the state office
of Civilian Defense, Sides stat
ed. State OCD Director Ben
Douglas and civilian protection
officers from 30 counties at
tended the Wilmington school.
Ever-Alert Coast Guardsman
Foils Landing Of Saboteurs
_' -x.--—-------—
WASHINGTON, July 15— (J>i —A
quick - witted Coast Guardsman,
stumbling through the fog, discov
ered the nocturnal landing of Nazi
saboteurs from a submarine on the
beach at Amagansett, Long Island,
it was disclosed officially today,
and started them down the path t0
their life-or-death trial now under
way.
As this story was unfolded, the
Military Commission trying the
eight Nazis announced that it had
devoted the afternoon to hearing
“a very long statement which had
been made by one of the accused
to the FBI.” The prisoner who i
a
made the statement was not iden
tified but there has been specula
tion that George John Dasch, one
of the defendants, helped the gov
ernment prepare its case.
The Office of War Information
made public the Coast Guard’s part
in the case, explaining that the de
tails came from the official files
of the Coast Guard, that the infor
mation was assembled before the
start of the trial, and that its dis
closure “does not violate the rules
of secrecy” imposed by the Mili
tary Commission.
The Guardsman. John C, Cullem,
21, had left his station for a mid
night patrol six miles east along
the lonely beach in the foggy-, night
and had covered but 300 yards
when he saw three men—one in
civilian clothes on the shore and
two in bathing suits, knee deep in
the water.
"What’s the trouble?” Cullen
called.
No answer.
“Who are you?” Cullen called
again.
Still no answer.
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U.S. EMPLOYMENT
HITS NEW PEAK
53.300.000 Persons Are At
Work In Nation During
Month Of June
WASHINGTON, July 15-OR-To
tal employment in the United
States reached a new peak of 53,
300.000 in June, the works projects
administration reported today.
At the same time the WPA saio
there was a jump of 1.700,000 be
twen May and June in the number
employed.
The announcement followed
closely a report by Manpower
Chairman Paul V. McNutt that 12,
500.000 persons now were engaged
in work directly connected with
war production.
Despite the rise in employment,
however, an increase of 200,000 was
reported in the number of persons
listed as unemployed, due to the
fact that from May to June, the
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200 ‘SPITFIRES’
STRAFE GERMANS
Shoot Up Over 200 Miles
Of French Coast In At
tack On Nazi Camps
LONDON. July 15 — (JB — Two
hundred daring spitfire fighters
flying only a few feet above the
ground shot up 200 miles of the
French coast in a low-level at
tack today, blasting camps, gun
posts and scattering German
troops “all over the countryside.’’
A squadron of fighting French
airmen played a leading role in
the attack, the air ministry news
service said tonight, sweeping over
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Allies Pound
Axis Armies;
Hold Ground
Strike Suddenly In El Ala*
mein Sector; Capture
Number Of Enemy
RAF CONTINUES RAIDS
Destroy All But One Unit
In Desert Convoy Of
15 Cars And Tanks
By EDWARD KENNEDY
CAIRO, Egypt, July 15.—
(A5)—British forces striking
suddenly in the central sec
tor of the El Alamein battle
ground captured an “appreci
able” number of prisoners in
a sharp offensive tonight
while Australians on the cen
tral road were throwing back
a strong attempt by Nazi
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
to regain lost ground.
A considerable amount of
British armor was known to
have been massed in this cen
tral sector of the desert bat*
tleground some 80 miles west
of Alexandria.
The British hit the Axis In the
center while Marshal Erwin Rom
mel was fiercely engaged on the
coast road. There, too, he was re
pulsed and attacks in other sec
tors also were thrown back.
The RAF was considerably ac
tive, fighter bombers and light
bombers scoring many direct hits
on tanks.
The pilot of one light bomber
who destroyed an enemyotonk said
he saw it “turn inside cftit.”
The new Nazi effort to retake
the desert coastal ridge five miles
west of El Alamein began with a
sundown attack by motorized in
fantry and tanks yesterday, wore
on through the night and continued
until it was beaten off this eve
ning.
After being repulsed in a day.
light attack Monday with consid
erable losses, Marshal Erwin
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HOPEFULREPORTS
HEARD BY SOLONS
Synthetic Rubber Outlook
Appears Brighter Un
der New Methods
WASHINGTON, July 15— I/P) —
Congressional committees received
hopeful reports on the synthetic
rubber situation today, one of them
a statement that new processes
might lead eventually to an annual
production of 1,000,000 tons instead
of the 800,000 tons contemplated in
the government’s program.
This word came from W. S. Far.
ish, president of the Standard Oil
company (New Jersey). Newly de
veloped methods, he said, would
make it possible to turn out the
additional 200.000 tons, an extra
quantity which might go toward
filling essential civilian transporta
tion needs.
"This is good news,” he told a
House mines subcommittee, “but
it does not warrant undue optimism
on the part of American motorists.
There should be conservation of
rubber. Driving speeds should be
reduced to save wear on tires. Un
necessary driving should be elim
inated. We are not yet out of the
woods in this business of synthetic
rubber, and nothing should be done
to waste supplies that may turn
out to be critical.”
Secretary of Commerce Jesse
Jones relayed to the Senate bank
ing committee a statement from
the rubber industry trat “with a
minimum amount of natural rub
ber and a modest amount of scrap,
existing tires can, with careful
driving and constant attentions, be
kept going for two years or longer”
Retreading with thiokol, which
uses small amounts of critical ma
(Continued on Page Two; Col. S)
-V
Laval To Publish Texts
Of Warship Negotiation
PARIS, Occupied France, July
15.—(if)—Pierre Laval, chief of the
Vichy government, announced to
night he is planning to publish to
morrow full texts of French ne
gotiations with the United States,
Germany and Italy concerning
units of the French fleet at Alex
andria. 2
Acting Secretary of State Sum
ner Welles, in Washington, an
nounced Tuesday that France
tvyice had rejected American pro
posals to remove the warships in
the face of the German advance
toward Alexandria, £