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LABOR CHARGES WILL BE PROBED Beecher Says Group Will In vestigate Cases Of Racial Discrimination BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 13.— (.?>)—John Beecher, field representa tive of the President’s committee on fair labor practice, disclosed today that the committee would investi gate approximately a dozen cases involving charges of racial discrim ination against defense workers dur ing its three-day hearing starting here Thursday. “These cases involve war indus tries or labor organizations in Ala bama, Georgia. Tennessee and Louis iana whose policies have been com plained against,” Beecher said. “They will be given opportunity to answer charges filed against them and to cross-examine witnesses.’’ Law'rence Cramer, committee chairman, said at Washington that the fact-finding inquiry was called to investigate “quite a few com plaints’’ of discrimination against negroes in war industries, especial ly shipbuilding, in this area. The committee, created by Presi dent Roosevelt a year ago, later will make recommendations in the cases. It is authorized to investigate and correct grievances "growing out of discrimination against defense workers because of their race, creed, color or national origin.” The hearing will be the first con ducted in the south although similar ones have been held in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York. In addition to Chairman McLean, committee members are Mark F. Ethridge, general manager of the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky.; David Sarnoff. president of the Radio Corporation of America, New York; Earl B. Dickerson, Chicago international vice-president of the international vice president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port ers, Chicago; Frank Fenton, repre senting President William Green of the American Federation of Labor; John Brophy, representing Fresi deent Phillip Murray of the Con gress of Industrial Organizations. -v_ AMERICANS HONOR, FLAG, MACARTHUR (Continued from Page One) day). A recording of a speech by the President at that time will be broadcast by all the networks and to the world by short wave at 5:55 p.m. (E^VT). President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines and Dr. Don Francis co Castilo Najera, Mexican am bassador, also will attend the cele bration. In New York, 500,000 paraded Saturday in a demonstration of “New York at war.” Two million spectators lined Fifth avenue, de spite boiling heat, to watch th e demonstration, one of the largest patriotic shows ever held in t h e city. In historic Boston commons. > American legionnaires and others ■ from the revolutionary battle town of Lexington gathered yesterday with Fore river shipyard workers and pledged themselves to “avenge the Lexington,” the American air craft carrier which was lost in the Battle of the Coral sea. The car rier was constructed at the Fore river yard. Los Angeles renamed its West lake park in honor of General MacArthur and Mrs. Vincent Lim, wife of Brigadier-General Lim, re ported missing on Bataan, spoke at a downtown celebration in that California city. In Philadelphia the Flag Day as sociation sponsored a parade in tradition - hallowed Independence square. Paul V. McNutt, U. S. manpower administrator, spoke. Baltimore, birthplace of the Star Spangled Banner, planned a com bination observance of MacArthur Day and Flag Day today with ex .ercises at Fort McHenry where Francis Scott Key saw ‘Old Glory” fly in the midst of bom bardment. Waubeka, Wis., home of the late Dr. Bernard J. Cigrand, known as the “father” of Flag Day sched uled its own parade. In Chicago 700,000 marchers, 1, 500 floats and 500 bands were ready for a Sunday parade in hon or of General MacArthur and the flag. War Production Chief Donald Nelson was listed as the principal speaker at a soldier field rally. Secretary of Navy Frank Knox will represent President Roosevelt at a United Nations rally in Ooston Garden. Appearing with him will be Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese ambas sador; Constantin A. Fotitch, min ister of Yugoslavia; Jan Masaryk, foreign minister of Czechoslovakia, and Vice President Osmena of the Philippines. 4 REDS FOLLOW SUIT MOSCOW, June 13 —(A*)-— The council of peoples commissars of the U.S.S.R. today ordered the Soviet state flag displayed over all public institutions throughout Russia Sunday as an example of solidarity with the United States and Great Britain in the fight against the Axis. -V $500,000 EGG FIRE DUBUQUE, la., June IS.—(fP)— Large quantities of powdered eggs destined for lend-lease shipment tc America’s Allies went up in flames here today as a spectacular $500,00( fire destroyed the Iowa Egg Prod' ucts Co. SKIN IMPROVEMENTS BEGIN IN A FEW DAYS with Black and White Bleach ing Cream. Helps lighten, brighten, soften, clear off dull skin, loosen blackheads. Get Black & White Bleach ing Cream. 10c, 25c, 50c sizes. F. R. ORGANIZES ‘WAR INFORMATION OFFICE’ (Continued from Page One) stories and essays and also of a history of the New York Times. While the actual press informa tion services of the individual de partments and agencies will con tinue to remain in such depart ments and agencies, their informa tional activities will have to con form to the directives of the Of fice of War Information. Separate Order The existing office of coordina tor of information, exclusive of its foreign information service, was transferred in a separate “mili tary order” to the United States joint chiefs of staff to operate di rectly under their supervision. The name of this transferred part was changed to the Office of Strategic Services, to be headed by Donovan. It will continue to perform its functions of “collect ing secret and strategic informa tion in foreign countries and per forming general miscellaneous strategic services abroad, other than the dissemination of informa tion by radio, leaflets, etc. These information functions in foreign countries will become part of the functions of the new agency—the Office of War information.” To assist Davis in his new job will be a committee on war infor mation policy. He will be the chair man of this committee and other members will be representatives of the secretaries of state, war, and navy, the joint psychological warfare committee, and the coor dinator of inter-American affairs. This committee, the White House said, will “formulate basic policies and plans on war infor mation; but the director, after consultation with such committee, will have full power as the execu tive head of the new agency.” The Office of War Information will consist of two main divisions, the first dealing wtih the dissemi nation of information within the United States and the second handling dissemination of infor mation in all foreign countries, ex cept Latin America. Nelson A. Rockefeller, as coor dinator of inter-American affairs, will continue to direct the infor mation service for Latin America. The President's order provided for close collaboration between Byron Price, the director of cen sorship, and Director Davis of OWI, for the purpose of “facilitat ing the prompt and full dissemi-; nation of all available information which will not give aid to the ene my. 4 -V Nazis Promise Pardons For Anyone Who Will Aid In Heydrich Case * LONDON, June 13.—(.Pi—Full pardon was promised today to anyone in Czechoslovakia who gives information by 8 p. m. June 18 which would help in the pursuit of-the assassins of of Reinhard Heydrich. the Gestapo Hangman. The promise was broadcast by the German-controlled Prague ra dio by order of K. H. Frank, suc cessor to Heydrich as deputy pro tector of Bohemia and Moravia. An “appropriate” reward was promised for informants, with death as the alternative for with holding information. The radio announced that 24 more Czechs, one of them and 18 year-old girl, have been executed, nine in Prague and 15 in Brunn, in further reprisal for Heydrich’s death. This brought the total to 382, ex clusive of 350 estimated killed in the town of Lidice, which the Ger mans wiped off the map. -V Judicial Conference Slated In Asheville ASHEVILLE, June 13 —(JPI— Prominent jurists, court officials and members of the bar from the fourth judicial circuit will attend the twelfth annual judicial confer ence for the area to be held here June 18, 19 and 20, with Chief Justice Harlan F. Stone of the United States Supreme court pre sidding. Among the notables expected to be in attendance are: Attorney-General Francis Bidle Walter P. Armstrong, president of the American Bar Association; Col Archie King, of the judge ad vocate general’s department of the Army; D. Lawrence Groner, chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Co umbia; Charles Fahy, solicitor general of the United States; Judge OneL. Phillips of Denover Colo senior judge of the tenth judicial lrcuit, Bolitha J. Lewis, district judge of Washington, D C and Alexander Holtzoff of the U S Department of Justice. ' ' ' WEATHER (Continued from Page One) Burea?/4reporter ?une 13—(/P)-Weather fall for the V * tempcraturc and rain Station thC 24 hnurs cJ}?>"g 8 P. m, Asheville _ HLr’h L™ Free Boston_ 0.0C Chicago_ el Z2 0-^ Cincinnati"”” 22 ?! Detroit _ 22 *8 0.82 Fort Worth" 2? *? Galveston_ PR I? Kansas City . -22 ?? Memphis _I- 22 22 Miami U 68 °*lfi g£ S3=-==S S £S S?ehtnd”:~- g 74 t™i —% ll £?! Savannah - « « »•“ wftainft0n- 85 72 0 01 Wilmington - 33 <j2 o.53 Welcome For Midway Air Heroes Heroic Army aviators, returning to Hawaii after raining havoc on the Japanese fleet in the big Midway Island battle, found the above re ception awaiting them when their transport plane rolled to a stop at Oahu Field, Oahu, Hawaii. Buddies crowd around the plane, eager to hear the details. Mrs. Eddie Rickenbacker Will Talk Here June 18 Mrs. Eddie Rickenbacker, wife of the famous World War I flying ace, and liaison officer for the Aircraft Warning service, will visit Wilmington Thursday, June 18, to extend an official invitation to wo men to join the Aircraft Warning system as workers at the Infor mation and Filter center here. The announcement of Mrs. Rick enbacker’s scheduled appearance was made Saturday by Major Os car C. Tigner, Regional Signal Of ficer of the Wilmington Defense area. The wife of the famous flying ace spends her time going from city to city demonstrating that there are some mighty important jobs for the women to handle dur ing the war. Mrs. Rickenbacker’s visit here is for the purposeof addressing Wil mington women on the cooperation and with needed in various wom en's volunteer organizations. -The tentative schedule of her lecture is at 11 a.m. -The location will be announced later. All women work ers are urged to attend the meet ing. She will confer with officers of the Wilmington Information-Filter center on plans for further recruit, ing of local women for the Air craft Warning service. Major Tigner said that the Cen ter has a large staff on duty now and that it is being kept in full operation at all times, but he stres sed the point that many more wo men are wanted on the rolls so that they can be used as replace ments. At present the enlisting of women is carried on through the New Hanover Defense council. Mrs. Rickenbacker will arrive here after a similar appearance in New York City. Early Thursday night she will leave for Charleston Her husband. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, famous pilot of the last war and president of the East ern Air Lines, visited Wilmington early this spring. Bradley Named Leader Of N. C. Accountants WINSTON-SALEM, June 13.—(JP) —R. L. Bradley of Lenoir was elected president of the North Carolina Association of Certifiec Public Accountants at the closing session of its annual convention here today. Other officers elected were: John F. Prescott of Raleigh, exe cutive vice president; E. E. Pea cock of Chapel Hill, publications vice president: Leslie A. Heath of Charlotte, treasurer, and L. Der. McMillan of Chapel Hill, secretary. The board of directors consists of Hairy R. Borthwich of Winstor Salem, Q. F. O.’C. Fletcher ot Asheville. Sidney H. Shaw of Rocky Mount and C. S. Larrimore of Wilmington. -V Monument To Murphy To Be Dedicated Monday EVANSTON, 111., June 13—(A*)— A monument to the inventive genius of Walter P. Murphy, a one-time locomotive fireman, will be dedicat ed tomorrow and Tuesday on the campus of Northwestern university. The monument is Northwestern’s new $5,000,000 technological insti tute dedicated to research in pu.\ science and to the development of many phases of aijplied science. Some of the men most prominent in the public eye—Donald M. Nelson of the War Production Board, Sec retary of Commerce Jesse J. Jones and others—are scheduled to parti cipate, but no one at the university was certain today that the man who furnished th emillions that made the institute a reality, would be present. --V Manuela H. Vanderbilt Is Granted Divorce LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jun# 13—Iff! —Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt was granted a divorce today from Al fred G. Vanderbilt, young multi millionaire sportsman of New York. District Judge George E. Mar shall granted the divorce after a brief hearing, held behind closed doors. Records were sealed—not unusual in cases involving celeb rities. charlestveiTdies OF WOUNDS, WIFE HELD (Continued from Page One) ed, she declared, and the shooting followed an argument. Mr. Tveit was an employe o the V. P. Loftis Construction com pany. Coroner Asa W. Allen said lat( last night that he was investigat ing the case but had not set i date for an inquest. Russians May Invest In Mexican Industries “ MEXICO CITY, June 13.—(ff) —A Russian delegation of six army officers, engineers and economists which has .lust ar rived in Mexico was stated of ficially today to be exploring the possibilities of investing in Mexican war industries. General Salvador Sanchez, chief of the army’s general staff, told newspapermen the Russians were here purely on an economic mission and that their visit had no military or diplomatic significance Sanchez did not elaborate on the nature of the possible in vestments, in particular, whether the Russians might be contemplating merely purchas es of munitions and armaments or whether they might provide funds for the construction of new factories. rubbeTcampaTgn TO START MONDAY (Continued from Page One) workers are authorized to pay fifty cents for every hundred pounds. In the city, all are urged to take it to their nearest filling station themselves as a means of saving rubber and gasoline. Filling stations are authorized to pay one cent a pound for the scrap rubber and they in turn will be reimbursed by the government, Mr. Sprunt said. Rubber salvage is vital to suc cessfully prosecute this war, Mr. Sprunt said. Right now the army is doing without tank treads that would increase their efficiency 20 per cent. The collection of scrap rubber is one of the most outstand ing contributions that can be made by civilians today in the war ef fort, it was said. 4 EXTRAVADVICE WASHINGTON, June 13.—(JP) —You soon may be getting motoring advice with the daily weather forecast. The Weather Bureau dis closed this today in an order to its stations to pass along in their forecasts, as a meas ure of cooperation with the rubber conservation campaign, such related information as this:: “Warmer this afternoon. Drive less and drive slowly. Tires wear out four times as fast at 100 degrees as at 40 degrees.” “Continued warm. Don’t cook your tires on boiling pavements. You can’t replace them.” “Much warmer Thursday. Tire treads wear off twice as fast at 90 degrees as at 60 de grees. Drive slowly.” CONTINUOUS RAIDS ON NAZIS FAVORED Norris Convinced Germans Can Be Brought To Knees Without Invasion WASHINGTON, June 13.— Ufl — Continuous night and day bombing of Germany by massed American and British air fleets was advo cated today by Senator Norris Ind-Neb), who said he was con vinced the Nazis might thus be brought to their knees without a land invasion of Europe. Differing with those advocating establishment of a second land front as early as practicable, the veteran Nebraska senator said he could see no reason why Germany could not be reduced to military impotency by sustained, smashing aerial attacks at her plane fac tories, transportation systems and industrial centers while the Nazi armies were heavily engaged with the Russians. A White House statement last Thursday said that the U n i t ed States, Great Britain and Russia had reached full understanding on the urgent tasks of creating a sec ond front this year. This was fol lowed today by announcement of the landing of additional American troops in Ireland, fully equipped for offensive action. But Norris insisted these troops might be held in reserve and used only for “mopping up” operations on the continent if mass aerial at tacks were made continuously. “I know that some military men say you can’t conquer a nation by bombings alone,” he told report ers, “but because it hasn’t been done in the past is no sure cri terion that it cannot be done in the future. If our bombers could destroy even one city a week as the British destroyed Cologne, I don’t believe it would be long be fore Germany collapsed.” A massed assault of this nature, Norris said, probably would call for the dispatching of from 1,000 to 3,000 heavy bombers on a night raid, followed by an equal number on a day raid, thus keeping th e attack going continuously. He said he was confident sufficient fliers, planes, landing fields and facili ties could be marshalled for such a undertaking. While Norris saw no necessity for establishing a second land front, Senators Clark (D-Mo) and Hill (D-Ala) disagreed. Clark, an army staff officer in the last war. said he thought large-scale bombings would affect Germany’s morale and production capacity greatly, but added: “It’s the boy with the bayonet who conquers territory.” 4 -V GOEBBELS VOICES THREAT TO JEWS (Continued from Pace One) peasement. Terror as well as coun ter-terror demand sacrifices but they are in no comparison with those sacrifices which are to be made when one bows to terror. “Deplorable as it may be for a person sensitive to culture — and we count ourselves as belong ing to this type which is slowly dying out in the world—to witness the loss of old traditions, historic landmarks and monuments of art, not only in Luebeck and Rostock, but also in Bath, York and Can terbury, we are not those who are to be blamed for it. “We have to defend ourselves against his (Churchill’s) method of warfare. And because we are de termined to counter it with the same bestial methods with which he tries to terrorize our people, he is doomed to failure. “His air war is, above all, a war of nerves. He wages it in order to crush the morale of the Ger man population in the areas threat ened by air war. “The sacrifices we have to make in this war will one day be re warded. Therefore, we have to make them. We try to revenge theiffi in a measure compatible with our engagements in a worldwide wax. “In this war the Jews are play ing their most criminal game and they will have to pay foit with the extermination of their race throughout Europe and, maybe, even beyond. “We wage war against our en emies who threaten our most elem entary living conditions. In this war everything is at stake. Its sacrifices will once be balanced against the greatness of the vic tory. “Our enemies are still in a po sition to delay this inevitable de velopment for a certain time. But this will make the course of events only the more inevitable. Here again the slogan can be applied: What doesn’t kill us, can only make us stronger.” TEXTILTsTRiKERS DEFY WPB ORDER (Continued from Pare One) wright Corporation Textile Mills, Fall River, Mass., to return Mon day morning or lose their jobs. WLB Chairman William H. Da vis said the 125 fixers and chang ers were engaged since last Mon day in an “unauthorized strike” for higher wages, throwing 800 to 900 employes in the plant out of work on war material. Davis said the strike was "re pudiated” by the CIO United Tex tile Workers of America, which holds exclusive bargaining rights in the plant and by the American Federation of Textile Operatives, independent union to which a ma jority of the strikers belong. Last Off Lexington Capt. F. C. Sherman (above), commanding officer of the United States aircraft carrier Lexington, was the last man to leave the flam ing ship which w’as sunk by the Japs in the Coral Sea battle off northeastern Australia. The crew abandoned the Lexington without loss of life after a terrific explosii.i aboard and 92 per cent of the ship s company was ultimately rescued. FIVE SHIPS SUNK BY H S U-BOATS Two More Strike Back Against Enemy And Return To Tell Their Stories (By The Associated Press) Five ships were announced sunk in seas both near and far today but two more struck back and re turned to tell their stories. A small Norwegian freighter steamed into an eastern Canadian port with undisputable proof that it licked a submarine—the subma rine’s survivors. A united fruit ba nana ship, the Atenas, reached a gulf coast port with the jubilant report that an Axis submarine was probably sunk and another fright ened off in its voyage. The Norwegian ship’s victory was announced by the Norwegian information bureau in Montreal but no details were given. It was merely announced that the U boat’s survivors are now prison ers of war in Canada. The Atenas’ exploit was an nounced a week ago from Costa Rica where the ship touched but crew members today gave added details. When the first submarine was sighted the captain signalled to the gun crew and five shots were fired, two scoring hits. Nine hours later a second submarine opened fire on the vessel but the gun crew answered. When it heard the shot, the submarine crash dived and nothing more was seen of it. The U. S. Navy announced that in the Atlantic a medium-sized U. S. merchant vessel was torpedoed and shelled only 70 miles off the coast of Brazil and a medium-sized British ship met a similar fate about 200 miles off the southern coast of the United States. Capt. Adolph Andersen of t h e American ship said 34 survivors of his ship reached the Brazilian coast after 24 hours of drafting. One of the sailors was lost at sea. The attack came in the early eve ning April 12 and the submarine, just visible in the twilight, loosed a torpedo. Then it moved nearer and began to shell, starting a fire. Sixty-four members of the crew of 68 on the British ship left their stricken ship. The other four were apparently killed by the torpedo explosions or the shells. One life boat with 20 men was rescued five days later, the other two boats wcic aim uiicu;v;uimiea ior. Thirty-six survivors from two torpedoed ships, one an American vessel, arived at Barahona, a dispatch from the Dominican Re public said. One ship, whose reg istry was not given, was a 5,040 ton tanker sunk 130 miles off Puerto Rico with a cargo of raw sugar for New York. The Ameri can ship went down 60 miles off Ciudad Trujillo and its captain was among the missing. A Japanese submarine was cred ited with sinking the Norwegian freighter Wilford in a report from Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa. Survivors of the 2 - 185-ton ship landed after t h e i ’r vessel was attacked 200 miles off the coast in the Mozambique chan nel. 4 -V PLEDGES SUPPRT OALLAS, June 13—(.Pi-Full sup port to President Roosevelt in the nation s war effort was pledged by the American Federation of Musi cians in closing their convention to day. Ugly Eczema No Joke ™VtC.hine torment of eczema is enough to make anyone wretched knd anxious for relief. If you suffer from the itching of eczema, pim ?le.s- angry red blotches and other irritating blemishes, get Peterson’s Ointment, 35c all druggists. If one application does not delight you money refunded. Peterson’s Oint ment also wonderful for itching feet, cracks between toes. U. S. Fighting To Drive ' Japs Out Of Aleutians (Continued from Page One) Percy W. Nelles, when informed of the landing at Attu, said “the attack has begun” and declined to comment further. In congress, confidence was ex pressed that the enemy would be swept out of the Aleutians quickly. Senator Chandler (D-Ky). a mem ber of the Senate Military Affairs committee who discussed the mat ter with army and navy officials, said he was satisfied “we won’t let them stay there long.” Chandler saw the landings as un important and dictated solely by psychological reasons of “face sav ings,” but Senator Thomas (D Utah), another committee member, cautioned: “Must Be Dislodged” “I feel sure this is no sporadic action and it may be followed up by the landing of reerves. We can’t dare to underestimate the Japan ese. They have always started with little bases and they must be dis lodged or made ineffective. Another committee member Sen ator Hill (D-Ala), said he thought American forces would “make it so hot” for the Japanese that they would soon leave. Senator Lee (D-Okla), also a com mitteeman, thought the invasion apparently was a “face saving’ move, but Senator Holman (R-Ore) expressed lively concern at the Japanese action. He predicted the Japs would attempt to construct an airbase there. Senator Lucas (D-Ill) said he be lieved a major engagement might be in the making in the Alaska area. “Our victory at Midway may make it possible to send a strong force against the Japanese in the Aleutians,’ he said. “I hope that can be done speedily for I fear that before we finish wdth that situation there is ultimately will become a major engagement. FACE SAVING MEASURE BALTIMORE, June 13.— <A>> — Japanese invasion of the Aleutian islands was described today by Rear Admiral John H. Towers as a face-saving measure after their Midway naval defeat and as a step of "no real importance" that might become a liability. Admiral Tower, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, in an in terview after presentation of an all-Navy "E" award to the Bart lett Hayward division of the Kop pers company, estimated 200 to 250 Japanese planes had been lost in the Midway action when three Jap carriers were sunk and one was probably sunk. By contrast, he said, many of the American Navy planes attach ed to the U. S. S. Lexington were saved when the Lexington was sunk in the Coral sea battle be cause there was another carrier on which they could land. At Midway, which he described as a "major defeat of a large force” there were “no more car riers left to sink” after thme were sent down and the fourth was heavily damaged. Admiral Towers said he was ex pressing his personal view in say ing the Aleutian island occupation was of no real importance. He said it meant a huge supply prob lem for the Japanese and would divert some of their effort from other phases of the war. ENTIRELY NEW PHASE NEW YORK, June 13.— (A5)—Hid den in the mists and distances of the northern Pacific, an entirely new phase of the war appeared to be developing tonight with the Jap anese striving to salvage from their Coral sea and Midway wreck age a success which may be more than face-saving. Confronted with Washington and London agreements win, t. , . , 1 11 Russ;a which seem to say a n, ,v [V will be opened this year in we Europe, the Axis may already deep in the preliminary phases 0f opening a new front of it. un r A Japanese front against rJ^'~ Only a little imagination is ne a ed to picture the intentness * -J which Tokyo warlords lure Jud " the significance of the contmuni ques which nave iS3Ufd {f , Soviet Foreign Commissar lav Molotov's dramatic conlv.-eL on two sides of the Atlantic. ' Japs Considered They could not escape the mise that Japan figured in conferences, even though »he '* not mentioned in the communion"! and it will not be surprising ,! they already have concluded tlm this event signalizes the comulP: alignment of Russia with the rn" ed Nations—against Japan as J'! as Germany. Both sides agreed today that ap tion is far from concluded it, ,i cold foggy waters that was • Aleutians, the 1,000-mile chain of stepping stones which reach with'a 700 miles of Japan's nearest ishnt The United States Navy stood „„ its last communique of Rridiv which said army and naw force; presumably mostly aviation wPr! continuing their efforts to dislodc the Japanese which gained a iand. ing on Attu island, westernmost of the Aleutians, and which made , naval incursion into Kiska Harbor 100 miles to the southeast. A German broadcast of a Tokvo dispatch said, “the statement in', Japanese communique that opera tions in the Aleutian islands are still continuing is generally intP,, preted as meaning that the attack must be regarded not as a tran sient action, but a heralding the occupation and utilization of the islands as a base of future Japan ese operations against the United oidico. This broadcast said the Japanese press was playing up the acton as big news, and claimed that the Japanese attack on Midway June 4 was a highly successful feint I v which American attention had been diverted from the real thrust at the Aleutians. The difficulty that our ion - have in determining the enemy's intentions, and the danger to the United States, is strikingly display ed in the fact that it was not until nine days after the first bombing attack on Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians on May 3 that It was discovered the Japanese had pat forces ashore on some of these is lands — an accomplishment of which Tokyo had boasted from the first. 8 JAP CARRIERS' OUT OF ACTION (Continued from Page One) manently or temporarily were among Japan's best. Official communiques on tlr Coral sea battle reported the big carriers sunk or put out o£ com mission were the Ryukaku and the Shokaku, in the Midway action tut of those destroyed were reporter to be of the Kaga or Akagi class, huge -10,000 ton craft, and the other two modern 20,000-ton carriers. On March 18 in the South Paci fic 20 Japanese warsbms were re ported sunk or d; ff cd. Tbs Tulagi raid on May * accounts for 12. In the Coral sea on Ma; 7 and 8, fifteen more were repor ed sunk and damaged. Midway fighting added at least anothe. score to the list. This makes a grand total of at least 67 ships knocked out of JaPa nese fleets or badly crippled. IYour “Easy-Going” Rhythm Steps i Iartd Extra Ease! Open-air sandals—sleek fitting step-ins—Shoppers, too! Light, white and smart—you’ll find them all in our sparkling new Rhythm Step collection! Up to Ithe minute in style—way ahead when it comes to ease! M<J— the. 3-SUp. (Feel the difference—frfc the start! 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