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GREECE’S KING
First Monarch At White
House Since British
Rulers’ Visit
BY RUTH COWAN
WASHINGTON, June 10 —(AP>—
King George II of' Greece was
greeted with full military honors
and a handshake by the President
and Mrs. Roosevelt when he and
his party arrived at the W h i te
House today after their trip from
Cairo. Egypt, part way by air.
The tall, slim monarch, who was
accompanied by Emanuel Tsoud
eros. Greek premier, had told re
porters before the ceremonies that
his countrymen “are in the fight
to stay.’’ He added “the Green
army, its air corps and more than
half of its original navy are fight
ing today in many theaters of the
war.’’
He said his mission here is to
arrange for direct shipment of
iease-lend supplies to the G reek
forces. “We have been getting ma
terials of war by way of the Brit
ish. but we feel that the demands
of our nation in the war and in
the reconstructioan period whicn
"ill follow can be met better by
direct American assistance.”
Although in recent months prime
ministers, dukes and princes have
visited the White House, this is
the first time since the American
trip of Britain's monarchs in 1939
that a king has been a guest and
the White House staff turned out
to watch the formal reception on
the south grounds.
Mrs. Henry Nesbit, the house
keeper, watched from a bench be
hind a hedge just outside the kit
chens where preparations were go
fog on for the small state dinner
fo honor of the king tonight. The
President’s secretarial staff came
°ut of the executive offices onto
the lawn. „
formal reception group in
ciuded. beside the president and
Roosevelt, cabinet members,
. ce President Wallace, the chief
Justice .chairmen of the House and
unate foreign affairs committees,
umpanies ot' soldiers, sailors and
•narines formed a guard of honor.
n shriek of sirens announced the
?.nival oi the king's party. In the
n!i CS1 roc*e king in a khaki
'. marshal's uniform, the Greek
?nme minister; the Greek minis
r' Cimon P. Diamantopoulos and
,m |,a*e Two; Co1- 3>
On a routine patrol flight watching for a Jap stab,
a navy bomber skirts a range of snow-covered mountains
on the south coast of Alaska near the Aleutian island
chain. Frequent bad weather hampers these flights.
Japan’s Midway Losses
Mount Into Thousands
PEARL HARBOR, June 10.
— UP* —Thousands of Japanese
perished in last week’s battle
off Midway Island, it was indi
cated by incomplete returns of
enemy ship losses as disclosed
today by Admiral Chester YV.
Nimitz, commander in chief of
the Pacific fleet. The enemy
casualty list will be large,
though as yet not completely
determined, according to these
returns.
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, June
10.—(if*—The Japanese force which
Americans defeated at Midway
was an armada of more than 30
warships and perhaps half of them
became casualties in the first three
days of battle, Admiral Chester W
N;mitz, commander of the United
States Pacific fleet, disclosed to
day.
Information released by Nimitz
indicated that thousands of the en
emy must have perished. Japanese
ships were sunk or damaged so
rapidly and the invading fleet was
on the run to such an extent that
the Nipponese did not stop to pick
up their men who had been cast
into the sea.
This huge invading force, it was
said, was in addition to the undis
closed number of ships sent
against Dutch Harbor about tns
T
same time.
The battle of Midway moved sc
rapidly that the final returns still
are not scored. It ended, for the
time being at least, Saturday night
when pursuing American forces
lost the Japanese fleet remnants in
the darkness.
Until the final accounting the
score, as reported by Admiral Ni
mitz, stands at two and perhaps
three Japanese aircraft carriers
sunk, with all of their planes; one
destroyer sunk and three battle^
ships and eight to eleven o*,hei
ships damaged.
Nimitz reported the loss of one
American destroyer, damage tc
one United States aircraft carrier
and the loss of an undisclosed num
ber of planes.
(The Japanese have admitted the
loss of one aircraft carrier, dam
age to another carrier and a cruis
er, and 35 planes missing. In turn
they asserted they had sunk two
19,900 - ton American aircraft car
riers, one transport and shot down
135 United States planes).
JAPAN’S VERSION
TOKYO (From Japanese Broad
casts), June 10.—UP)—The Japanese
imperial command today gave its
version of the naval battle of Mid
way; One Japanese aircraft car
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SCRAP SALVAGE
TO_BEGIN SOON
Used Rubber Is Probably
First On Collection Line
Up; State To Take Part
WASHINGTON, June 10.—(#)—A
nationwide scrap salvage cam
paign, involving collection of rub
ber, tin cans and fats and oil, will
be undertaken soon by the War
Production Board with an intensive
two-week scrap rubber drive as its
first phase, a WPB spokesman said
today.
Virtually all details of the gener
al program have been decided, it
was understood, but major prob
lems affecting the rubber collect
ion remain to be settled. These
were discussed at-a White House
conference this afternoon attended
by Donald M. Nelson, WPB chair
man; pexroieum uuuiuniaiui
old Ickes; Price Administrator
Leon Henderson and Archibald
MacLeish, head of the Office of
Facts and Figures.
WPB officials emphasized that
the two-week rubber drive repre
sented only one phase of the over
all scrap collection plan, which
contemplates a continuing drive for
the duration of the war to gather
in all materials important in the
war effort—including rubber.
When the salvage campaign
would begin remained uncertain,
but MacLeish said that a formal
statement probably would be is
sued.
Gasoline Rationing May
Be Carried To Mid-West
Washington, June 10.— vp) —
tup ensior‘ of gasoline rationing to
. midwest and rationing of
onsportation facilities were urged
, 01 e a Senate committee today
ji rePlenish the northeast’s dwind
suPPlies of petroleum pi'od
Headed by Mayor Fiorello H. La
A,,a:aia of New York, a group of
antic states mayors appeared
°ie a Seriate commerce sub
nnmittee and warned that unless
ean? were found promptly to
„ 7e Qdequate supplies of fuel oil
j' gasoline to the northeast be
Um . winter a serious situation
"«uld develop.
lank car, every truck,
barge must be rationed if
1 •
we are going to avoid catastrophe”
said the New York mayor.
“We must provide for the safety
and health of the people in the
northeastern area and we cannct
have a moratorium on time to do
it. No cost is too great to avoid
an outbreak of influenza or pneu
monia or the breakdown of indus
try.”
He said that only by rationing
of all available transportation facil
ities could the movement of es
sential petroleum products be ex
pedited into the area of acute
shortage.
Kenneth Huszagh, a New York
oil dealer, blamed the growing
crisis in the northeast on price
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WARLABORBOARD
TIRED OF DELAYS
Ready To Demand More
Speed In Mediation,
Fact Finding
WASHINGTON, June 10—W- A
majority of the War Labor Board,
irked at delays in its own ma
chinery, is ready to turn the heat
on mediation and fact-finding
panels to achieve speedier decis
ions in industrial disputes.
The subject, discussed informal
ly for weeks, came to a head at
an executive session of the board
yesterday when, it was authorita
tively reported, Dean Wayne L.
Morse declared his impatience
with delays in resolving such ma
jor cases as “Little Steel” and
General Motors corporation.
These cases involve wage de
mands which affect t he general
wage stabilization picture.
Morse, who is dean of the Uni
versity of Oregon Law school and
is a public member of the 12-man
board, was reliably quoted as say
ing both those disputes were re
garded as “pattern'” or “key”
cases and his investigation showed
at least 13 other cases were being
stalled until those two were de
cided. Robert J. Watt, AFL mem
ber of the board, was reported to
(Continued on Paire Three; Col. i)
WEATHER
FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA—Little change
in temperature with scattered
thundershowers Thursday.
(Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday):
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Temperature:
1:30 a. m. 78: 7:30 a. m. 78; 1:30 p. m.
79; 7:30 p. m. 74; maximum 80; minimum
74; mean 77; normal 76.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 91; 7:30 a. m. 94; 1:30 p. m.
82; 7:30 p. m. 93.
Precipitation:
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 0.31 inches; total since the first
day of the month, or32 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY:
(From Tide Tables published by U. S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey):
High Low
Wilmington _ 8:00a. 2:48a.
8:30p. 2:56p.
Masonboro Inlet _ 5:50a. 11:53a
6:13p. -p.
Sunrise 5:00a; sunset 7:23p; moonrise
2:43a; moonset 5:27p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville, 8 a. m. Wednesday, 13.65 feet.
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i.
SMALL BUSINESS
MAY GET RELIEF
Possible Expenditure Of
$200,000,000 Annually
For Little Industry
NEW YORK, June 10-MP)—Gov
ernment expenditure of possibly
: $200,000,000 annually to preserve
! 24,000 small manufacturing plants
which may be closed by war re
strictions by Oct. 1 was urged to
night by Philip D. Reed, chief of
the Bureau of Industry branches,
War Production Board.
“The future of thousands of
small communities is dependent
upon the existence of these private
plants,’’ the General Electric board
chairman asserted in a prepared
address, “and if they cannot be
preserved during the war and re
vived when it is over, a tremen
dous and imponderable change^will
occur in the structure of the so
cial and economic life of America’’
He spoke at the commencement
exercises of the Polytechnic Insti
tute of Brooklyn.
Reed said one suggested remedy
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American Made Bombers
Raid Breton Airdrome
In Another. RAF Drive
LONDON, June 10. — OP) —
American-made Boston bomb
ers guarded by squadrons of
Spitfires hammered the Breton
coastal airfield of Lannion
this afternoon in resumption of
the RAF offensive blacked out
last night by bad weather.
Two German fighters were
destroyed and one of the Bos
tons lost. Earlier, a Spitfire
on patrol destroyed another
German fighter, a communi
que said.
It was authoritatively re
ported that a British fighter
shot a German bomber down
into the sea shortly before dark
off the southwest English coast.
Nazis Again
At Kharkov
In New Push
German Troops Begin An
other Offensive In Stra
tegic Southern Sector
RUSSIANS RESISTING
Inflict Hevay Losses On
Enemy In Struggle For
City Of Sevastopol
MOSCOW, Thursday, June 11—«P>
—German troops have started an
other offensive on the Kharkov
front after last month’s h eavy
fighting in which the Nazis had
claimed the “annihilation” of three
entire Red armies there, the So
viets announced early today.
A communique which told of a
further firm Russian defense of i
Sevastopol throughout yesterday
said:
“On the Kharkov sector of the
front a battle took place against
the German Fascist troops which
had taken the offensive.”
The communique did not indi
cate the outcome of the fighting
in this area, where the Russians
recently said they had thwarted
Nazi plans for a big spring drive
on Rostov, gateway to the Cau
casus.
More heavy losses were inflict
ed on the Nazis in their repeated
1 charges against Sevastopol, but the
Kharkov action may be the be
ginning of another large-s c a le
Nazi drive to reach the Caucasus
oil fields.
ihe communique gave no hint as
to the extent of the Kharkov fight,
ing which rolled along a 100-milc
front between May 12 and May
31. After the first major spring
action in that sector the Russians
declared they had killed or cap
tured 90,000 Germans. (The Nazis
themselves claimed to have de
stroyed three entire Russian
armies — totaling roughly 600,000
men—and that 240,000 were cap
tured).
Red airmen were credited in a
supplementary communique with
destroying or damaging 300 Ger
man trucks with troops and war
materials, two railway trains, a
hangar, and patrol boat Tuesday
on various sectors of the front.
Elsewhere, the Russians said,
no important changes had occur
red.
From all available reports the
major fight still centered around
Sevastopol, and at the end of six
days of increasingly savage war
fare the Russians were reported
holding their main lines.
The German besiegers won some
local successes at the price of
many casualties, Soviet military
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Roosevelt Thinks End
Of Road Now In Sight
WASHINGTON. June 10— (A1! —
President Roosevelt said today
that Australia and the United
States had “walked through dark
days together” but that victory is
at the end of the road and “we
cannot fail.”
This assurance of solidarity and
confidence in victory was address
ed to Sir Owen Dixon, in accept
ing his credentials as the new Aus
tralian minister to the Un i t ed
States.
Sir Owen succeeds R. G. Casey,
recently sent to Cairo as British
empire minister in the M i d die
East.
NAZIS WIPE OUT CZECH
CITY TO A VENGE DEA TH
OF HITLER’S HANGMAN
' *
Britain’s King Guest
Of American Navy’s
Task Unit In England
Force On Hand To Help
Bottle Up Hitler’s
Dwindling Fleet
LONDON, Thursday, June 11.—
(/P)—A strong United States Navy
task force has joined tire British
home fleet for a share in the joh
[of keeping Hitler’s high seas fleet
r* -
Big Day For Bluejackets
And, Probably, For
Ruler As Well
UNITED STATES TASK FORCE
IN BRITAIN, Thursday, June 11.
—(£■)—For the first time in the
war the King of England has visit
ed United States warships in Brit
:,,_4-_ Tt„
irom smasning at
Allied shipping
lanes. The first
announcement of
the presence of
the United States
warships came
today with .the
disclosure that
King George VI
had inspected a
United States
battleship, cruiser
and destroyers.
The presence
of the big ships
was taken as an
indication that
the task force,
comma nded by
Rear Admiral
Robert Giffen,
was powerful
enough to offset
or deal single
handedly if nec
essary with Ger
many's m i g h t y
battleship Tirpitz
and cruiser Ad
GEORGE VI
was received
wth the old-time
nautical cere
mony of the
world's greatest
naval powers
blended with the
easy . democracy
of the nations
these ships de
fend.
King George VI
first was piped
aboard one ot the
United States’
most modern
cruisers, then
went in Hear Ad
miral Robert Gif
fin’s flagship
barge to a great
American battle
ship.
He made the
minute inspection
of a man who
knows ships and
has served
aboard them,
miral Hipper if they attempted to
sally out of their base at Trond
heim, Norway,
It was obvious that the Ameri
can force had been in British
waters for some time. The an
nouncement said it was greeted far
out at sea by the British cruiser
Edinburgh and escorted into port.
That historic duty was one of
the Edinburgh’s last. She was sunk
May 2 during an attack by Ger
man submarines, destroyers and
(Continued on Page Three: Col. 21
chatted and joked witn omcers aim
men alike, and ranged the ships
from officers’ wardrooms to sea
men’s messes and the sick bays.
He poked into big gun turrets and
watched the long naval rifles
swung and elevated.
“It was a great moment of naval
history," commented one observer.
“It meant the welding of the two
great navies in the world — right
in the face of the Axis.”
As the King was piped aboard
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ALLIED AIRPLANE
BOMBS SUBMARINE
Australian Command Also
Announces Another Big
Raid On Rabaul
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS. Alls
tralia, Thursday, June 11.—UP)—-An
Allied plane seriously damaged and
probably sank a Japanese subma
rine off the Australian coast, Gen
eral MacArthur’s headquarters an
nounced today.
The communique also announced
a new Allied raid on Rabaul, New
Britain, where a direct hit was
scored on three grounded bombers,
and explosives burst in the main
building area amid a large number
of other Japanese planes.
The announcement said the at
tack on the submarine brought the
Japanese total of undersea losses to
nine in recent days, including the
four midget craft sunk in Sydney
harbor.
Axis Forces Strike Bir Hacheim;
“Must Be Captured At Any Cost”
WITH THE BRITISH ARMY ON
THE BIR HACHEIM FRONT IN
THE -LIBYAN DESERT, June 10.
—(f)—A British armored column
with artillery and infantry collided
with Axis forces east of Bir Hach
eim at dawn today to relieve pres
sure on that besieged Free French
fortress which has withstood a
steady two-week battering.
Axis land and air forces smash
ed against the stronghold yester
day with redoubled fury—on direct
orders from Berlin and Rome, it
was reported by prisoners taken
by the British.
Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso
lini—apparently annoyed by the
brilliant defense of the inland an
chor of the British desert line by
soldiers of a country they thought
they had made impotent, sent or
ders that the post must be taken at
any cost.
Right now I’m with a British
tank unit ranging ahead of the 25
pounders of an artillery detach
ment. Several miles across a no
man’s land ahead are German
tanks and German 88’s. Still farth
er in the haze is Bir Hacheim and
its gallant Free French who have
been almost encircled several
times but still is holding out grim
ly.
Two women are in the Oasis
stronghold which is surrounded by
a perimeter of land mines. One is
the wife of a French army doctor
who is herself a physician. The
other is an Australian nurse mar
ried to a French officer.
The only newspaperman with the
defenders is Jean Pierre Benard,
former Havas correspondent in
Washington from 1935 to 1937 who
now represents the official Free
French pr^ess service
He’s been there for three months
but has been unable to dispatch
a story since the big attacks be
gan.
As many as 50 Nazi junkers
bombers rained bombs on the Bir
Hacheim defenders yesterday. For
ty Stuka dive-bombers also assault
ed them without turning this Free
French flank.
Axis land forces led by big Ger
man-Italian tank formations drawn
from the battlefields farther north
did get inside the ring of mines
last Sunday, but the French artil
lery and machinegun fire repulsed
them.
The fact that the Axis forces now'
are between us and Bir Hacheim
doesn’t mean anything decisive in
this desert war. Because, west of
the French post, South African ar
mored units and the British king’s
dragoon guards are well behind
the Axis lines disrupting supplies
and fighting tank battles at every
opportunity.
Thirty miles to the north the
British Durham light infantry also
made a thrust from the Gazala line
and captured several hundred pris
oners behind the Axis lines there.
Those captured mostly were from
the Italian Pavia and Brescia di
visions.
Thus the desert merry-go-around
continues with the encirclers fre
quently becoming surrounded
themselves.
Officers on the spot said the next
few days, however, were expected
to be decisive at Bir Hacheim, and
with that in mind not only British
tank reinforcements were rushing
into the area, but the RAF also
has blasted Axis supply lines.
To the north there was little ac.
tivity in the “cauldron” area to
day. The Germans earlier had
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JAPS PUSH BEYOND
CITY OF CHUHS1EN
Are Now Within 170 Miles
Of Sister Force Moving
Eastward In Kiangsi
CHUNGKING. June 10—(/PI—Jap
anese forces which have lost thou
sands of men in attempts to cap
ture the key Chekiang province
rail center of Chuhsien were re
ported tonight to have by - passed
the city and pushed nearly 1 2
miles beyond it.
This Japanese army pushing
westward along the important Nan
chang- Hangchow railway thus
CHUNGKING, Thursday, June
11.— (/P)—A continuous stream
of,war supplies and other es
sential materials is pouring
into China from Kussia and sup
plies also- are being flown in
from India by the India Air
ways, a spokesman for the min
istry of finance told the Chi
nese today.
moved to within approximately 170
miles of a sister force moving east,
ward along the railway through
Kiangsi province.
However, as these spearheads
approached each other like the
points of calipers, the Chinese fell
in behind the advancing invaders
and cut at their flanks in heavy
fighting spread over a vast area.
Japanese gains apparently were
being made only at great cost.
The high command, without stat
ing whether Chuhsien had fallen
said that fierce fighting was raging
east of the town of Chengshan.
which is 12 miles west of Chuh
sien. Previously the Chinese had
told of inflicting casualties total
ling 18,000 on the Japanese as the
invaders failed to take the walled
city, virtually surrounded now for
more than a week.
The Japanese force in Kiangsi.
pushing eastward along the rail
way, meanwhile remained in the
vicinity of Tungsiang, 75 miles
southeast of Nanchang.
The Chinese command told of
heavy fighting on the flank of this
western enemy column, centering
about Linchwan, south of the Nan.
chang-Hangchow railway, f r om
that point Japanese columns were
reported pushing both east and
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Every Man There Shot And
Women Placed In Con
centration Camp
rOWNSHIP IS LEVELED
All Children Evacuated To
Be Put In Schools
Under Germans
BERLIN (From German
Broadcasts), June 10.—(/P)—
All men in the Czecho-Slovak
town of Lidice have been
shot, the women sent to con
centration camps, the chil
dren placed in “appropriate
educational institutions” and
the town itself “levelled to
the ground” on the charge
that the population gave shel
ter and assistance to the as
sassins of the Nazi leader
Reinhard Heydrich, the Ber
lin radio announced tonight.
The announcement, quot
ing an official statement is
sued in Prague, gave the pop
ulation of Lidice as 483. The
town was utterly wiped off the
map, the statement made clear by
noting- that “the name of the com
munity was extinguished.”
(Czech sources in London said
the population was 1,200-.
xiiv vxez'nieiii iciuio saia:
“The following official announce
ment was made Wednesday eve
ning concerning the extermination
of the township of Lidice near
Kladno in the protectorate:
“ 'The investigation of the mur
der committed on Deputy Reichs
protector for Bohemia and Moravia,
S S. Uppergroupleader Reinhard
Heydrich, revealed beyond doubt
that the population of the town
ship of Lidice near Kladno gave
shelter and assisted the murderers.
“ ‘In addition, evidence was found
of hostile actions committed against
the Reich, subversive printed mat
ter as well as arms and ammuni
tions dumps, illegal radio transmit
ting station and huge supplies of
rationed commodities were dis
covered.
“ ‘In addition, the fact was as
certained that inhabitants of this
township were in active service of
tile enemy abroad.
“ ‘After ascertaining these facts
all male grownups of the town
were shot while the women were
placed in a concentration camp,
and children were entrusted to ap
propriate educational institutions.
"The township waa leveled to the
ground and the name of the com
munity extinguished. The inhabi
tants of Lidice near Kladno num
bered 493.”
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WIPED OUT
LONDON, June 10.—1-TJ—German
vengeance squads utterly wiped
out Lidice, a Czech village of 1,209
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THREEMORESHIPS
SUNK IN ATLANTIC
Two Gloucester Fishing
Craft, British Vessel Tor
p joed By Submarine
A N> ,V ENGLAND PORT, June
10.—IM -The sinking of two Glou
ceste’ fishing draggers by a single
subn rine, whose gunners were
“ver1, lousy shots,” was reported
today following the safe arrival on
the New England coast of 14 men,
who i owed 65 miles in four dories,
Th, brought the Nazi bag among
the 1 w England fishing fleet to
three vessels. As in the earlier
sinking of a fishing craft, the cap.
tains of the two draggers told of
extended and frequently inaccurate
shelling from close range. It took
40 to 50 shells to sing one dragger
and 16 or 17 the other, they esti
mated.
The draggers, not traveling to
gether, were sunk within an hour
of each other on June 3 and the
two crews landed on the New Eng
land coast 36 hours later —• also
within an hour of each other.
Despite extensive shell fire and
machine-gunning, sometimes from
a distance of only 200 feet, there
was only one casualty—“Spooks"
a white spitz owned by Capt. John
O. Johnson. The animal was so
frightened by shell bursts that he
crawled under a berth in the fore
castle and had to be abandoned.
Capt. Joseph A. Ciarmitaro, in
command of the larger of the drag
gers. said he tried to reach the
pilot house to radio for help after
the attack began.
“But a burst of machine-gun bul
lets smacked into the pilot house,"
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