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Served by Leased Wire Ut 1 he ASSOCIATED PRESS nrMrMDFD WIDE WORLD HEMEMBEH With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR State and National News AND BATAAN —NO. 244 _L ~ ESTABLISHED 1867. 12,326 Young Americans Join Navy During ‘Aveng ‘ Pearl Harbor’ Exercises __ +___-_ 1 0 FROM WILMINGTON Southeastern North Caro lina Contributes 36 Rites Are At Postoffice OATH ADMINISTERED Speakers Unite To Vote Stern Need For Sacri fice In Day Of Need Thirty-six young men from eastern North Carolina yes terday took oath of enlist ment'into the Navy here as Wilmington joined the nation in observance of “Avenge Fear! Harbor Day” — a six month anniversary challenge to Japan’s treachery at Pearl Harbor. And. as the 36 men — com prising the largest single gr0Up ever enlisted here in one day for Naval service — accepted the oath of allegi ance. they were making a de late j-.fedgt that the lives lost by tinmans at Pearl Harbor would lie avenged. The solemn ceremony was held in front of the post office before more han 1.500. The oath of en listment was administered by Com mander J. A. Fields of the Naval Medical Corps. •You men who are about to en list in the Navy are keeping a ren dezvous for the dead of Pearl Harbor." Commander Fields as serted. "and you are making cer tain they will never be forgotten. You will make certain the J-ap. and his brothers in despotism and treachery, the German and Italian are tracked down and destroyed”. Under a blazing June sun, hun dreds of service men mingled with interested civilians during the program. The oath of enlistment was spoken at exactly 2:25 p-.m.? which was exactly six months to the hour from the time the first (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) t 7 PEARL HARBOR GETS 258 N, C. MEN Seven Cities In State Hold Mass Enlistments At 2:20 O’Clock Sunday KALEICH. June 7—(IP)—In seven North Carolina cities from the mountains to the sea, 258 North Carolinians joined the Navy today "ith the vow that those who gave their lives at Pearl Harbor 'had not died in vain. The mass enlistments at 2:20 p. m. were part of “Remember Pearl Harbor Day’’ ceremonies held in some 500 cities throughout the na tion. six months to the day and minute after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor last December 7. The 41 recruits sworn In hert "os addressed by Gov.emor Broughton and by Jcsephus Dan Ws, Navy secretary in World war one. Daniels told (he future Tars to remember Pearl Harbor not as a day of humiliation but as a day ln "Web ihe United States was Provoked into a war to save the "odd from tyranny. We seek justice as well as ven. “mnc°' Governor Broughton said. . e "ill not stop until the job h done. Both Broughton and Dan . told the recruits they had nard. gtim job to do. W Charlotte. 72 lecrults were in. Other North Carolina ,‘‘les reported the following to C1' Asheville 29. Greensboro 28. •f" Bern 11. Salisbury 41, and Wilmington 36. weather XYidt FORECAST: CAPnri • CAROLTNA AND SOUTH — Not much change In Perature Monday morning. I-ja Temperature:: S"i'" 30 m' ~3; 7:30 a- m- 72i 1;30 p. m. , i]rn'... P in. 79; maximum 83; min ' mean 76; normal 76. 1 -so . Humidity: r,!- 86: 7:30 a. m. 91; 1:30 p. m. ’ P. in. 76. Total - Precipitation: p m' . ■ !he 24 hours ending 7:30 of «,'■ 1 '“Ches. Total since the first month. 0.01 inches. 'From JiUES FOR TODAY: Coast = ^ '"*e Tables furnished by U. a. '* Geodetic Survey): Wi!min..r High Low ngton - 5:27a. 12:15a. Masonhr, , . 6:02p. 12:33p bor[> n,et - 3:28a. 9.37a. Stare, r 3:59p. 10:13p. : 6:00a: sunset 7:22p; moonrise mon- .,.! 2;45p< l( °ntinued on Page Two; Col. 8) ohot His Buddy! Sobbing his heart out, little Leonard Sokolowski, 10, of Chi cago, testifies at the inquest into the death of his four-year-old friend, Jinuny Nuter, whom he shot by accident. Leonard stated that he was playing with the g,un when it went off. “It didn't even have a firing mechanism,” he cried.—Central Press. FOURTEENTHS®* JOINS “V” FLEET Jeremiah Van Rensslair Is Sent From Ways In Sun day Afternoon Launching The S. S. Jeremiah Renssler, the fourteenth Liberty freighter to be sent from the ways of the North Carolina Shipbuilding c o mpany here to join the Maritime com mission’s growing Victory fleet slipped into the Cape Fear river at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the first late afternoon launching to be held since the company was founded here. In contrast to the Zebulon B. Vance, the first Liberty freighter launched here, the Rensslaer was a great deal nearer completion when launched, even to life boats swinging from the davits. A crowd of several hundred, in cluding Army and Navy officers, watched from the ground and from the launching stands as the Rens slaer moved slowly and gracefully down the w'ays. shading their eyes from the brilliance of the after 10.000-ton ship had shielded, them. Workmen standing under the curving bow of the ship patted it affectionately as it slid past and one scooped the froth from the broken bottle of champagne which (Continued on Page Three; Col. 3) * - CHALLENGE TO ENEMY Induction Ceremonies Held Throughout Country At Minute Of Attack KNOX PAYS TRIBUTE Governors Of Many States Preside; Novel Programs Feature The Occasion By The Associated Press Across the length and breadth of the nation Sunday 12,326 young Americans join ed the country’s sea forces as “avengers of Pearl Harbor” in a mass enlistment unparal lelled in the Navy’s history. It was timed to the minute six months after the Japanese attack on the Pacific island outpost last Dec. 7. Navy, Marine and Coast Guard recruits were sworn in simultaneously in a radio ceremony at 2:25 p. m. (EWT). The mass induction ceremonies occurred as the nation rejoiced ov er news of what appeared to be a major American Naval victory over the Japanese in mid-Pacific. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called the occasion one sym bolical of the nation’s determina tion to restore peace to the world “by administering just pun’shment to those who have brutally and wilfully transgressed all the laws of humanity.” Typical of some of the scheduled programs were the following: A street car transformed' into a warship led a downtown parade in Los Angeles where Lieut. J. J. Mc Cormick. wounded at Pearl Har bor. inducted 300 sailors. Vice Admiral J. W. Greenslade. commanding the 12th Naval Dis trict. declared in connection with a' ceremony inducting 200 San Fran cisco youths that “every one of us has got to fight and fight to the limit of his strength.” About 200 were sworn in on the Mall of Central park in New York city as a part of a communit;^ singled by Lucy Monroe to pro mote war bond sales. The “U. S. S. McKeever.” a re cruiting “ship” built near Detroit’s city hall in memory of a Detroiter who died on the destroyer Reuben James, was used for a ceremony involving about 100 Naval recruits. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) Vinson Declares U-Boat War Over Growing Pains M WASHINGTON. June 7.—(A*)—In a statement approved by the Navy, Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) of the House Naval committee declared tonight that “the anti . submarine warfare organization has now pass ed through its period of growing pains, is well established and is functioning efficiently.” “The enemy is building more submarines,” he said, “but he can not build them in the proportion we are increasing our means of combatting them. The Naval com mittee has full confidence that we shall defeat the submarine.” At executive sessions last week, Vinson’s committee discussed with high Naval officers the Navy’s (Continued on Page Three; Col. 7) NEW SHIP LOSSES REVEALED BY NAVY Merchantman Sunk In At lantic; Another Shelled In Caribbean Waters WASHINGTON, June 7—(/P)— ' The Navy announced tonight that a medium sized U. S. mer chant ship had been torpedoed in the Ailantic and a medium sized vessel of Norweigian regis try had been torpedoed and shelled an the Caribbean area. Survivors of both ships have been landed at an east coast port. AN EASTERN PORT, June 7 — (IP)—A Nazi submarine captain w ho seemed to have spent some time in the United States and was supplied with rum and cigarettes from Ger many and clothing from France was described today by the captain of a torpedoed medium-sized American merchantman. In an interview at Naval District headquarters, Capt. Alderman L. Scott, of Mobile, Ala., said the sub marine commander “seemed to feel sorry” for his victims after he tor pedoed their ship May 30. The ship sank in less than five minutes and the captain and 24 of his crew' drift ed 56 hours before they were picked up by a United Nations merchant ship and landed in an eastern port. Three of the engine room crew were killed by the torpedo explosion and four other crew members, in cluding the radio operator, were un able to get off the ship in time, he said. '' The U-boat captain gave the men on the liferafts rum and cigarettes made in Breman and Hamburg and to a survivor who jumped off with out clothes he gave a suit of over alls. The buttons were stamped in (Continued on Page Three; Col. 8) Strong Japanese Forces Pierce Chuhsien Defense CHUNGKING, June 7.— UP'—Jap anese forces, throwing their entire strength into an attack on Chuh sien, Chekiang province, have pen etrated the walled city where the Chinese defenders engaged them in a hand-to-hand struggle, it was an nounced tonight. Before making their stab yester day into the town 120 miles from the starting point of their offensive at Hangchow, the Japanese suc ceeded in taking one of their main objectives, the airfield which they apparently believed would be used for United States air raids on Tok yo. As the war with Japan entered its 60th month today, the Chinese found themselves battling not only on the east in Chekiang but also in Kiangsi to the west, and Hupeh to the north of Kiangsi where the Japanese were beginning a new drive. They were also engaging in incessant skirmishes in/Shansi in North China and combatting a Jap anese naval bombardment of the (Continued on Page Two; Col. <») GERMANS STRIKE FOR SEVASTOPOL Launch Heavy Air And Land Assault For Crimean Base BY HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Monday. June 8.—(/PI —The Germans have launched a mighty land and air assault upon Sevastopol, Black sea naval base and last Soviet stronghold in the Crimea, but the Russians announc ed today their forces were holding firm after absorbing three days of incessant battering. The fury of the Nazi air assault was indicated by the night com munique which listed 528 German planes destroyed in the week end (Conlinued on Paso Two; Col. 1) Halt Libyan Thrusts Marshal Rommel’s Armor ed Forces Reported Reel ing Back Toward Gap STILL FIGHT FIERCELY Battle Of Knightsbridge Is Most Furious Of 13 Day Engagement i By STEPHEN BARBER CAIRO, Egypt, June 7—(IPi-^Two savage German tank attack^, in the Libyan desert at Knightsbridge were repulsed by the British -find tonight the Nazis were reeling back south and west of Haihaat toward a gap in the minefields through which they hoped to es cape. Marshal Erwin Rommel was re ported in the Knightsbridge area 15 miles south of Tobruk directing his men personally and throwing the full weight of his remaining armored forces — over half of which have been w iped out— against the staunchly standing British. Harmat is six miles south of j Knightsbridge on the road to Bif Hacheim and lies within 15 miles of the base of the Axis salient ! through the minefields, about mid way between Ain El Gazala and Bir Hacheim. The new tank battle, now in its 13th furious day, was described as the largest and bitterest in the present Libyan campaign. The whole picture was one of wild and confused fighting in scorching heat. British infantry and artillery supported by armed forces hurled back the Knights bridge assault yesterday in which “the enemy launched his main armored forces at our troops,” the communique said. “Fierce fighting c n t i n u e d throughout the afternoon,” it add ed. “The enemy was driven bark westward. British and Indian troops who had established them selves inside the enemy positions west of Harmat on the night of June 5-6, held their ground a 11 day.” The British considered Harmat an extremely important position, since it was near the escape gap and might be used tc block any wholesale Axis exodus from the great triangle which has become a junkyard of burned-out tanks and vehicles and planes of both sides. Large scale maps found on the Axis prisoners gave rise to the belief that the Germans originally (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) MIDWAY BATTLE CONTINUES WITH FLEEING JAP FLEET; “MAY DECIDE PACIFIC WAR” The British Commandos Strike Again British Commandos leap from their invasion barge and wade ashore somewhere in the British Isles after returning from their raid on the Boulogne area in German occupied France. They reported that Germans'Tired upon Germans by mistake in their confused efforts to drive off the invaders. This picture was radioed from London. HEYDRICH RITES HELD AT PRAGUE * Czechs Forced To Attend Ceremonies Under Pain Of Worse Reprisals [ LONDON, June 7.—UP)—The body of Reinhard Hey drier., the Gestape. hangman for whose assassination more than 200 Czechs thus far have been executed, was borne through the streets of Prague to day in. an official mourning cere mony which the whole population was commanded to attend under pain of further reprisals. From Smetana square under the grim ramparts of Hradshin caslie. the vast fortified palace of th e ancient kings of Bohemia, down the hill to the railway station, the streets were jammed—just as the German - controlled Prague radio had guessed they would be. . For three days, since he died of wounds inflicted by Czech patriots on May 27, Heydrich had lain in the old castle, an honor guard, at head and foot of his bier, candle light the only light in the gloomy room. The mourning ceremony, con ducted with all the unqualified somberness of the Gestapo, was merely the prelude to a state fun eral in Berlin ordered by Adolf Hit ler, and the rapid elevation of Hey drich to the eminence of a Nazi saint. Yesterday in Berlin the radio an nounced that Adolf Hitler had con ferred upon the sixth SS infantry standard the name of Heydrich in honor of the man who “succumbed to the wounds he had received for Germany.” The number of those executed in retaliation for Heydrich’s death meanwhile stood at 216, thirteen having been shot yesterday, includ ing a business man. an industrial ist and an architect who were re ported by the Prague radio to have (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) _V 10-YEAR-OLD GIRL STRUCK BY AUTO Accident Happens At 4th And Brunswick; Driver Of Car Not Held Ten-year-old Francis Wilkins, of 704 1-2 North Fourth street, re ceived minor injuries when struck by an automobile at 7:35 o’clock Sunday evening at the intersection of Fourth . and Brunswick streets. The small girl was treated for abrasions of the mouth, chin, legs and arms at the James Walker Memorial hospital and released. Police said the automobile, own ed by R. L. Harris, of 26 Terrace Walk, was being driven by G. G. Sellers, of Carolina Beach. Sellers told officers he was driv ing south on Fourth street at Brunswick when the girl ran from the west side of Fourth in front of the car. Officers said no charges ha d been preferred in the case. Where’s That Sub? An enemy sub had been report ed off the roast of New England shortly before this photo was taken, so these pilots plot the U hoat’s position on a chart while their planes are warmed up.—Of ficial l . S. Navy Photo. SYDNEY SHELLED BY ENEMY SUBS Attack Follows Sortie Into Harbor By Week; Dam-* age Is Slight ALL IED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Monday, June 8.—(#)— Enemy submarines shelled Sydney and its suburbs last night but there was no military damage and cas ualties were few. * The attack followed by one week a submarine sortie into Sydney harbor in which four of the ene my’s midget raiders were destroy ed. Their net damage was destruc tion of a worn-out ferry boat. Three and possibly four more Japanese submarines were destroy ed in the southwest Pacific last week. MIDWAY BATTLE CRIPPLES ENEMY U. S. Losses Small In Com parison With Japan’s, Nimitz Reports T By The Associated Press 'PEARL HARBOR, .Hawaii, June 7—The triumphant United States Pacific fleet, remembering its own Pearl Harbor, continued today to deal fire and steel vengeance to the remnants of a powerful Jap anese naval force which ventured too close to American territory and met disaster. Just six months from the day the Nipponese attacked Hawaii without warning, the American fleet was claiming ‘ a momentous victory in the making” in the bat tle of Midway island. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, fleet commander, significantly reported the sinking of two and perhaps three Japanese aircraft carriers and the destruction or damage of 11 to 13 other enemy warships. He added, also significantly, that all the planes on the two definite ly sunken carriers were lost, that one or two other enemy carriers were damaged and most of their aircraft gone. In the middle of his communique he auipDed that the victory had put the United States “midway” in its job of reducing the Japanese navy to impotence. Among the other Nipponese war ships listed by Nimitz as casual ties of the great battle were three battleships damaged, one heavily; four cruisers damaged, two badly; and three transports damaged. Some of the Japanese ships were so thoroughly battered that they may not be able to reach their bases, Nimitz added, and remark ed that the battik was not yet over. The American admiral reported one United States aircraft carrier had been hit and that some planes had been lost. He said casualties among his personnel were light. The fact that the only enemy ships definitely mentioned as sunk were aircraft carriers disclosed at least one detail of the battle. Loss of the carriers and many planes might leave the remaining force with reduced or possibly inade quate aerial protection. Surface ships unprotected by planes oftpn (Continued on Page Three; Col. fi) U. S. And Britain Near Production Agreement - W WASHINGTON, June 6. —UP — Oliver Lyttelton, British minister of production, indicated today that the United States and Great Brit ain were near an agreement on joint war production efforts, and expected the arrangement would help ease the tight shipping situa tion. His discussions with Donald M. Nelson, American War production board chief, on a joint agency have reached a point, he told a press conference, where “you will hear more next week.” “We are trying to integrate the two programs so that we can pro duce the maximum effect on the enemy in the shortest time,” he asserted. “In doing this we want to ponserve shipping. It is a mat ter of prime importance to arrange our production so the least use is made of shipping.” The 48-year-old British produc tion minister left little doubt but what American and British produc tion was progressing satisfactorily and that shipping was the major concern. While there was no cur rent improvement in shipping, be told a questioner, “there is going (Continued on Page Two; Cou. 2) HAVE WITHDRAWN U. S. Losses Declared In* considerable Compared With Those Of Enemy A DECISIVE SETBACK Admiral King Says Bulk Of Foe’s Seapower Used In Engagement i __ By The Associated Press The Japanese hurled the bulk of their seapower into the still raging Pacific battle in which United States war ships and planes scored an in itial victory, sinking or dam aging 15 enemy ships in the repulse of the first attempt to occupy Midway island, out post of Hawaii. The enormous size of the invader’s force was disclosed in Washington last night by Admiral Ernest J. King, com mander-in-chief of the United States fleet, who made this cautious declaration: “I wouldn’t say they have been defeated yet. They have withdrawn.” WASHINGTON, June 7.— UP!—Ad miral Ernest J. King reported to day that American and Japanese battle actions were continuing in the North Pacific and west of Mid ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Monday, June 8.—(fP) —General MacArthur sent con gratulations today to Admiral j Chester YV. Nimitz, U. S. Pacific fleet commander, “for the .splen did victory at Midway which has aroused the greatest enthusiasm throughout this area.” way and that so far United Stages losses are “relatively inconsider able in comparison with those of the enemy.'’ The situation in the north Pacif ic. where the enemy attacked Dutch Harbor, A1 a s ka, last Wednesday is presently obscure, the fleet commander-in-chief said. “We have none too clear a pic ture of what is going on,’’ Admiral King told reporters, “but it is going on.” The great sea and air battle off Midway, which the Navy had anti cipated and for which it had dis posed its forces, he declared, mav decide the course of the war in tne Pacific, depending on the full ex tent of damage done to the Japa nese striking force. * He emphasized that the enemy’s ability to produce new ships is less than that of the United States. Again underscoring the impor tance of the Midway action which Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pa cific fleet chief has already de scribed as a victory in the making. King said that the Japanese had thrown the bulk of their sea power (Continued on Page Two; Cbl. 8) -v CHINESE HAPPY AT BATTLE NEWS British Also Take Comfort In Slashing Victory Over Japanese CHUNGKING, June 7.—<£•>—Ex citement over the United States Mid way victory reached a high pitch today. The news was placarded all over the city in big posters, and cheerful crowds greeted the announcement with tiie most enthusiastic outburst since the bcmbing of Tokyo on April 18. Chinese were inclined to. view the battle as the turning point of the war, and emphasized the impiortance of their country as the base of the eventual Allied counter-offensive W'hich they hoped would now be feasible. BRITISH SAIXTE LONDON, June 7—UP)—The Unit ed States Midway victory in what appears to be the greatest combined sea-air battle ever fought is saluted by the British as indisputable evi dence that Japan has lost offensive momentum. Qualified critics today stressed these conclusions fijom what they know of the engagement: 1. The United States Navy has profited to the fullest from the lessons Britain had to learn the hard way — that warships rule (Continued on Page Two; Cou. 2)
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