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U. S. PLANES
INTERNED A T
TURK FIELDS
BASED ON EGYPT
Four Had Been Bombing
Axis Bases On Black Sea
Coast Of Russia
steinhardt SILENT
First Indication Of Power
fuI IJ. S. Bomber Force
!n Middle East
LONDON. June 13—(51—F our
-••Fterious United States bombers,
renorted by official Turk ish
j - tn have lauded in Turkey
ve?terday with American crews,
e described in British press dis
• e'cl'c? tonisht as members of a
r s squadron based on Egypt
;-vh had been bombing Axis
;■■■-e? on the German-occupied
SI c: sea coast of Russia.
T: f. said an exchange telegraph
8-frey dispatch from Ankara,
seem to be the first indi
that a powerful American
command exists in the
jay;? East.”
.•'.r.kara. United States Am
. Laurence A. Steinhardt
leased to make any statement
[;:?cerning the incidets.
First Indication
Mot only was this the first in
dication that United States air
fret.- as such were in combat in
:? .'fiddle East, but it was the
hint of direct action by Amer
ican fi: iting services in the bat*
£;' f Russia.
Turkish sources of information
were most circumspect. The offi
cial radio stated merely that four
American planes had made forced
landings at various villages. In
formed sources added that the
crews — estimated variously at
from 21 to 23 in all — had been
interned. Three, it was stated,
were wounded.
The Reuters correspondent in
Ankara reported, however, that
he had seen three of the bombers
a: the Ankara airport, that they
Consolidated four-engined air
craft. and that they were believed
to have attacked Odessa and Ni
kolaev. both Black sea ports in
occupied Russian territory.
Crew at Ankara
Twenty-one crew members, the
Reuters correspondent added, were
t: : the outskirts of Ankara.
It was reported, this source went
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is JAP CARRIERS
OUT OF ACTION
--f Of Nipponese Carrier
Power Believed Knocked
Out Of The War
PEARL HARBOR, June 13.— (JP)
-Probably eight Japanese aircraft
^friers were sunk or so badly
damaged in the Midway and Coral
battles' that they will be unfit
early action, it was shown to
day by communiques and reports
°f battle participants.
This appears to be more than
,a‘£ of the known carrier power
d Japan’s navy.
Io most cases the decks of the
carriers were filled with war
hares, indicating the loss in air
daft runs well into the hundreds.
. Personnel losses to the Japanese
!n 'hese two battles were tremen
oous. While no official reports
have been made on personnel
casualties, unofficial estimates
10m authoritative sources, based
•• reports of eye-witnesses, are
HaOO Japanese were killed in
era- ;ea and 10,000 more lost
hves in the Midway battle.
l„oas* nix of the carriers which
blac/'j311 ■torPedoes and bombs
■eu ouj| 0f the war either per
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Lost In Midway Battle
The Army lias announced that
Ma,j. Gen. Clarence L Tinker
(above), commander of the'Army air
force in Hawaii, was lost in action
in tile mid-Pacific battle of Midway
Island. A remote possibility existed
that Tinker and the crew of his
plane might still be alive but a
thorough search if the sea failed to
find them.
OKLAHOMA STORM
TAKES 29 LIVES
Red Cross And Other Re
lief Agencies Care For
250 Homeless Victims
OKLAHOMA CITY. June 13.—Iff)
—Red Cross and other relief agen
cies cared today for 250 homeless
victims of a tornado that killed 29
persons in a southwest residential
district and roared off “whistling
like 10,000 devils.”
That description came from Pvt.
G. J. Prince of Will Rogers air
field who saw the funnel dip down
last night out of a stormy sky,
lift a huge truck and lay it down
near him in a ditch where he had
taken refuge.
The army sent soldiers from
the air base who toiled through the
night bringing dead and injured
from the debris, then stayed on
through the day to help tend the
survivors.
An area two blocks square in
the southwest corner of the city
was scoured bare of houses, and
only a few trees, limbs and leaves
wrenched away by the wind, still
stood.
Survivors told of a half-dressed
man who had seen the funnel bear
ing down and ran through the
streets, sounding a police whistle
to give the alarm.
But there were not enough storm
cellars, and many of the dead and
the 25 critically injured were
caught in their automobiles as
they tried to escape the storm’s
wrath.
A school outside of the storm’s
path was turned into an emergen
cy shelter and here the Red Cross
set up cots and passed out food.
Col. Earl H. Deford of Will
Rogers air base took command of
400 soldiers who piled into 30 army
trucks, ambulances and civilian
buses and rushed to the scene.
With them went wrecking trucks,
floodlights and other army emer
gency equipment.
Base headquarters told of hero
ism and hard work among the
soldier rescuers. Among them was
Mess Sgt. Toni Bobola, Nanticoke,
Pa. He had finished a day’s work,
but stayed on for 12 more hours
to serve coffee and sandwiches to
rescue crews. 4
* veit Dies Of Wounds:
Authorities Hold Wife
*---A“r!
up. Tveit, 40-year-old electric
“’Cider
' died of gunshot wounds at
w.1 0 c,ot'i; last night in James
jj s-Mf->norial hospital and police
■li> b ypyar-old wife, Nell, in
'■Onnor-*; ,
'' ! "'ith the fatal shooting.
"as shot once in the left
“hest u1 • i
'"do in the kitchen of his
lij ^ North Second street at
8(lfti)up'r'i Kriday night and was
tft,.,..,' ' to the hospital shortly
Hi"""'-'
told investigating
that h,’ V' Sellers and H. Hayes
husband’s wound was self
inflicted, Tohr, allegedly admitted
the shootirhr later in the night.
Although released on 2,500 bond
on charges of assault with intent
to kill, Mrs. Tveit was again placed
under arrest on murder charges
after her husband’s death and held
without bond.
She described Tveit as a “heavy
drinker” and declared they had
quarreled and been separated fre
quently during the past several
months because of that reason. He
had often beat her while intoxicat
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Soviets YM
Back M'4 f.
1 lir*
Meet Offensive With Great
Counter-Action Along
Kharkov Front
LOSSES ARE GREAT
Intense Land, Sea And Air
Actions Reported From
Other Sections
By HENRY C. CASIDY
MOSCOW, Sunday, June 14—(^P)—
Soviet forces meeting the greatest
Nazi offensive of the year with
strong counter-action in a narrow
death trap on the Kharkov front
hurled back German tank and in
fantry attacks in savage fighting
all day yesterday, the Russians
reported early today.
The Soviet Bureau of Informa
tion declared that the Red army
inflicted great losses on the Ger
mans. The Nazis were said in Rus
sian accounts to be throwing men
into the continuing battle from a
huge pool of reserves built up after
the recent fighting on the Kharkov
front.
Other Action
intense land, sea and air actions
were reported by the Russians
from other sectors of the long
front, which, with the Russian-Ger
man war almost one year old, is
seeing some of its most bitter fight
ing. These included:
1. The valiant Sevastopol garri
son still held its ground firmly in
the face of mounting German at
tacks.
2. Red army infantry and ar
tillery killed and wounded at least
900 German men and officers in
an all day battle on the Kalinin
front northwest of Moscow.
3. A Soviet ship sank a 6.000-ton
enemy ship in the Black sea near
Axis-occupied Odessa.
4. The Soviet air force on Fri
day sank an enemy motor torpedo
boat, damaged tow submarines and
destroyed or damaged 210 motor
trucks.
5. Stormovik bombers in a sur
prise raid on a railway junction
wrecked several German military
trains and returned home without
a loss.
React Quickly
The Russians lost no time in
reacting violently against the full
force of German planes, tanks and
motorized infantry thrown into the
arrow Kharkov sector by the Ger
mans, reported from the battle
field indicated last night.
These accounts said the Red
army appeared to have the situa
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RUBBER CAMPAIGN
TO START MONDAY
Wihningtonians Urged To
Take Scrap Material To
Filling Stations
The city and county-wide scrap
rubber drive will start Monday
morning, it was announced yester
day by Alexander Sprunt, chair
man of New Hanover county sal
vage committee.
“All who have scrap rubber of
any kind,” Mr. Sprunt said, “are
urged to take it to the filling sta
tion nearest their home where they
will receive one cent a pound for
it.”
Rubber articles desired include
tires, tubes, hose, stoppers, boots,
footwear, heels, hot water bottles,
gloves, mats, rubber toys and
bands.
“In rural districts collections
will be made by the WPA and the
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WEATHER
FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA — Little
change in temperature, with scat,
tered thundershowers Sunday, ex
cept slightly cooler mountains and
north central portion in afternoon.
(Meteorological data for the 24 hours
ending 7:30 p. m. yesterday):
(EASTERN STANDARD TIME)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
Temperature:
1:30 a. m. 79; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. m.
82; 7:30 p. m. 75; maximum 83; minimum
72; mean 78; normal 77.
Humidity:
1:30 a. m. 89; 7:30 a. m. 83; 1:30 p. m.
70; 7:30 p. m. 92.
Precipitation:
Total for the 24 hours ending 7:30
p. m., 0.51 inches; total since the first
of the m/.ith, 0.99 inches.
TIDES FOR TODAY:
(From Tide Tables published by U. S.
Coast and Geodetic Survey):
High Low ;
Wilmington -10:11a. 5:10a.1
10:32p. 5:10p.
Masonboro Inlet- 7:55a. }‘^'la‘
8:09p. l:54p.
Sunrise 5:00a; sunset 7:24p; moonrise
5:47a; moonset 7:59p.
Cape Fear river stage at Fayette
ville on June 13, at 8 a. m., 14.7 feet.
(Continued on Paee Two; Col.
UMERICAN AIRMEN FIGHT TO DRIVE
f JAPS FROM THEIR FINGERTIP HOLD
ON END OF ALEUTIAN ISLAND CHAIN
1—■ -- - -- -- +
_ LEXINGTON ABANDONED WITHOUT LOSS OF LIFE
This stirring U. S. Navy photo shows members of the crew lined up on deck and some going over the side on ropes in abandoning the United
States aircraft carrier Lexington which was sunk by the Japanese in the Battle of the Coral Sea. The ship went down shortly after this picture was.
"jade but not a life was lost in abandoning her. Some of the crew members were taken off by the destroyer, dimly visible in the smoke at the
right. U. S. forces won a smashing victory and prevented the Japs from either invading or isolating Australia.
Roosevelt Organizes ‘War Information
Office* With Elmer Davis As Director
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TEXTILE STRIKERS
DEFY WPB ORDER
Arkwright Group Plans To
Stand Firm In Demands
For More Pay
FALL RIVER, Mass., June 13
-W—Spokesmen for 125 strikers
at the Arkwright Corp. tonight as
serted hat they would stand firjn
in their demands for more pay
despite a war labor board order
directing them to return to work
Monday or forfeit their jobs.
The strike of loomchanges and
loomfixers has forced 800 other
workers into idleness, virtually
crippling the textile plant which
is manufacturing mosquito netting
for the government.
Their defiance ot the WLB order
came after the War Labor Board
asserted that the no-sgrike agree
ment in war production plants
“cannot be flouted by a small
group of selfish and wilKul
worKers.
George Bradbury, one of th e
shop stewards of the strikers,
said the workers had no meetings
scheduled for the week-end. He de
clined to comment on the govern
ment action in the five-day old
strike.
First word of the WLB order
was relayed to the strikers by Saul
Wallen, mediation officer of the
WLB.
__
RDERED TO RETURN
WASHINGTON, June 13— ftf! — j
Asserting that the no-strike agree
ment in war production plants
“cannot be flouted by a small
group of selfish and willful work
ers,” the War Labor Board today
ordered 125 strikers at the Ark
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New Agency To Consolidate
Functions Of Other Bureaus
WASHINGTON, June 13.
— (A3) — President Roosevelt
today created an “Office of
War Information,” headed by
Elmer Davis, the writer and
radio commentator, who was
given authority to handle all
the information functions of
the government.
The new agency will con
solidate all of the functions
and duties of the Office of
Facts and Figures, now head
ed by Archibald MacLeish;
the office of government reports,
headed by Lowell Mellett; the di
vision of information of the office
for emergency management, in
charge of Robert W. Horton, and
the foreign information service of
the office of coordinator of infor
mation, directed by William J.
Donovan.
Authority Defined
Director Davis of the new office
also will have authority, subject
to policies laid down by the Presi
dent himself, to “issue directives
to all departments and agencies of
the government with respect to
the information services.”
“He will have full authority,”
said a White House statement, “to
eliminate all overlapping and dup
lication and to discontinue in any
department any informational ac
tivity which is not necessary or
useful to the war effort.”
Davis, 52, is a native of Aurora,
Ind., but has lived in New York
for many years. Since 1939 he has
been news analyst for the Colum
bia broadcasting system. Earlier,
he was for several years on the
staff of the New York Times.
He is the author of many short
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Germans Plan To Extend
Sub Warfare In Atlantic
NEW YORK, June 13—UP—Ger
many’s answer to Allied threats of
a second front this year is to be
an extension of unrestricted sub
marine warfare over the entire
North Atlantic directly to the U.S.
coast, the German radio announc
ed tonight.
“Every ship which enters this
zone after June 26, 1942, will ex
pose itself to destruction,” said
the announcement, heard here by
CBS.
In outlining this unrestricted pol
icy of U-boat preying—a policy
which led to the United States’
4
entry into the first World War—
the Berlin broadcast defined the
forbidden zone as follows:
“Fom the Belgian coast three
degrees east, over 62 degrees
north, three degrees east and 68
degrees north, 10 degrees west to
the coast of Greenland along 68
degrees north; then along the
Greenland coast to Cape Farewell
and from there to Cape Harrison;
thence along the coast of Canada,
the United States of America to
Key West; from there along 20
(Continued on Face Three; Col. 4)
27 Japanese Bombers
Stage Raid On Darwin
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Sunday, June 14,—WB
—Twenty-seven Japanese bomb
ers escorted by fighters raided
Darwin yesterday but did little
damage, General MacArthur’s
headquarters announced today.
The raid was carried o,ut
while Australia with the rest of
the Allied world was celebrating
MacArthur Day.
One enemy and one Allied
plane were lost, headquarters
announced.
CHINESE BATTLING
JAPS ATTSUNCJEN
Contesting Nipponese Try
To Control Chekiang
Kiangsi Rail Line
CHUNGKING, China, June 13.—
(J’l—Chinese soldiers bitterly con
testing a concerted Japanese move
to gain complete control ot t h e
Chekiang-Kiangsi rail line in east
ern China have killed several hun
dred Japanese troops in a sudden
attack on Tsungjen and are en
gaging the enemy in southwestern
Chekiang province, it was report
ed today.
The Chinese high command said
the Chinese attack on Tsungjen, a
city 60 miles south of Nanchang,
western terminus of the railroad,
occurred at noon last Wednesday.
Military supplies were reported
seized. Tsungjen was occupied by
the Japanese last Tuesday.
The Chinese command said the
fighting east and west of Kiang
shan, a station on the rail line 10
miles inside the Chekiang border
and 50 miles west of the Japanese
occupied city of Chuhsien, and the
battle southwest of Changshan, 25
miles west of Chuhsien, were con
tinuing “with ferocity.”
(The Japanese have reported the
capture of Kiangshan in a sweep
from Chuhsien which they said
sent their troops across the border
in Kiangsi province).
Severe fighting was reported in
the outskirts of Japanese-occupied
Kinki, 80 miles southeast of Nan
chany, ^capital of Kiangsi province.
Tfcfe Chinese said fierce fighting
also was in progress in the vicin
ity of Nancheng, in the Kinki area
and about 90 miles southeast of
Nanchang, with casualties on both
sides. 4
GOEBBELS VOICES
THREAT TO JEWS
Hints Extermination Of
Race In Germany In Re
prisal For Air Raids
NEW YORK. June 13—(^)— Tne
German radio broadcast tonight
a full version of an article by
propaganda minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels. published by the weekly
periodical Das Reich in which he
threatened extermination of Jews
in reprisal for British air assaults
upon Germany.
The broadcast, heard here by
CBS, quoted Goebbels as follows:
“We defend our very skins in
this struggle for national existence
and we use those means that are
being forced upon us by our en
emy. We have never doubted that
through aerial warfare some and
even heavy damage could be done
to us.
“The question, however, remains
whether this sort of warfare is suit
ed to influence basically the mil
itary situation and whether the re
sults Mr. Churchill hopes to get
from it will actually be achieved
to any appreciable degree.
“It does not need any emphasis
that the German civilian popula
tion,, struck bythis method of war
fare, has to suffer bitterly under
the British terror. But London is
mistaken when it believes that the
German morale could be broken
by terror methods. It is a com
plicated and very expensive way
of waging war, for both sides, but
he who started it is responsible for
it.
“It is the characteristic of terror
that it can be broken only by ter
ror, while it would only be en
couraged and increased by ap
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STRIKETHROUGH
DIRTY WEATHER
Navy Stands On Announce
ment That Attacks On
Japs ‘Continuing’ j
ENEMY IS REPORTED
IN HARBOR OF KISKA
Army And Navy Circles
View Attacks As Noth
ing To Arouse Concern
BY ELTON C. FAY
WASHINGTON, June 13.
—(A5)—American Army and
Navy aviation, striking when
ever the dirty weather of the
far north permitted, were at
work today to drive the Jap
anese from their fingertip
hold on the outermost end of
the Aleutian Island chain
stretching westward from
Alaska.
The progress of operations,
however, was obscure. The
Navy, for the time, stood on
its original announcement
that attacks against the Jap
anese in the islands “are con
tinuing.” The Japanese, the
Navy said, had made a small
scale landing at Attu, west
ernmost of the islands, and
enemy ships had been report
ed in the harbor of Kiska, in
the Rat Island group.
Only Achievement
The Japanese landing at
lonely Attu was the only
achievement salvaged from
Nippon’s grand scale offen
sive attempt in the North Pacific.
The southern wing of that offen
sive was broken and sent limping
away in the action of Midway.
In army and navy circles, the
Japanese landings were viewed as
nothing to arouse concern. What
ever Japan’s original intentions, it
was believed the heavy losses of
Japanese warships off Midway had
undertake to expand and exploit
left the enemy in no position to
the footholds.
Most naval new apparently in
cluded to the view that no real
threat to Alaska was involved.
Rear Admiral John H. Towers,
chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics,
told reporters at Baltimore that
the Japanese action was of “no
real importance’’ and might even
become an enemy liability.
But there were those who pointed
out that a position on Attu could be
of definite military value to Japan,
even if it did not become eventual
ly the first stepping stone for an
attempted full-scale move on Alaska
and the North American mainland.
It could be a listening post along
the route from Alaska to Japan—or
to Siberia—relieving to some extent
the necessity for Japanese recon
naisance by submarine, surface ship
and aircraft.
Japan has a naval base at Para
mushiru Jima, at the northern end
of the Kurile island 1 group and
something less than 700 miles from
Attu. Russia, America’s ally in
the war with Germany (although
still at uneasy peace with Japan),
has a base at Petropavlosvk on
the Kamchatka peninsula. Should
the time come when Russia and
Japan fight, it would be to the
interest of Japan to know what
air and surface ship movement*
were occurring between Alaska
and bases in Russia’s maritime
lands. Attu would be a good spot
for that observation.
Grim View
In Canada, there was a disposi
tion by at least one high official
to view the Aleutian island attack
in grim manner. Vice-Admiral
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War-Stirred Americans
Honor Flag, MacArthur
(By The Associated Press)
Across the length and breadth of
the nation war-stirred Americans
paid tribute this week-end to the
flag for which they fight,'and,
bound by ties of war, joined their
sister United Nations in reaffirm
ing their will to final victory.
In populous cities and in tiny
villages bands played, troops
marched and the “home front”
paraded yesterday in honor of
General Douglas MacArthur and
Flag Day.
From his headquarters in Aus
tralia, the hero of the Philippines
sent a message calling the desig
nation of June 13 as ‘‘MacArthur
Day” a rededication “to the inv
mortal ideals of West Point:
‘Duty, honor, country.’”
Celebration of the anniversary of
his entrance into West Point “fills
me with humble thanksgiving,” he
said.
Emphasizing the comradeship of
the 27 nations united against the
Axis powers, their representatives
will meet with President Roosevelt
at the White House today (Sun
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