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"Served By Leased Wire Of The ^_ ASmwm£!>m /lt|t . . . * CLl. I HEMEMBEB With Complete Coverage Oi 4li I IrlTtlt l"t SS/T^tt* PEARL HARBOR ^Jale ad National New^ WUli AND BATAAN 1 '--C., FRIDAY, JUNE 19. 1942 PIN AT. edition fctadt vcurn 1 oc»f lest Coast Attack Now Less Likely Secretary Stimson Says Japanese Fleet Too Far-Scattered ALEUTIAN NEWS SLOW Jistance And Bad Weather Coupled With Inadequate Communication Blamed WASHINGTON, June 18. (P)—The danger of an imme jiate Japanese attack on the jest coast of the United States has greatly dimin ished. Secretary of War Stim son said today, because Amer ican .successes scattered the fnemy fleet “all over the Pa tific” and sent it “hustling pay as fast as it could in he opposite direction.” He was speaking primarily jf the struggle off Midway, t which American air power wreak d such havoc on the Japanese Recalling that Stimson had pre Fiouiiv said an attack on the West vast might be expected, reporters ,sjjed him whether recent dvelop nents had diminished that threat. "Temporarily, I should say the treat was much less,’’ he said. The secretary had little to add I reports of the situation in the ieutians—a situation which has eer. obscured by fog and bad rather. Available information in icates. he said, that the Japanese ins far have made only a “very pall landing” on the island chain Rich stretches from Alaska to ad Siberia. All possible information will be lade public, Stimson stressed. To innate the difficulty of getting clear picture of a sea-air en agement, even when the fighting cot blurred by unfavorable eather. he spoke of the Midway gagement. “Inevitably,” he said, “when the ports come in there is immense rnusion. At Midway, where the father was clear, the informa iii available gave us a good gen ii picture of the outcome but tre was much confusion as to st what ships were hit. “I spent three or four days study g the Army and Navy reports i they came in, and didn’ „ know 1 the end just what ships were t” 5 NIL RIGHTS BILL PASSED BY HOUSE fill Give Financial Relief To Men Called Into Armed Forces WASHINGTON, June 18— UP) — igislation designed to protect the hi rights of service men while e>' are in the armed forces was ®ed unanimously today by the )use and sent to the Senate. A highly technical measure, it f1 House approval after brief “ate and an explanation by Rep swtative Sparkman ;D-Ala) that '.Primary purpose was to -“give ■;ef to the boy who is caUed into Trice” and to afford him a easonable time” in which to ad f h's financial position after his rim to civilian life, ire bill provides for suspension, Tierally in the discretion of a Urt. of many civil processes nor. al‘y applicable in cases involv > installment payments, fore mres. rentals and other finan !! obligations. nder its provisions the govern. ■1 guarantees the payment of :.™ums on private life insurance ies purchased by a service n UP to $10,000, giving the pur lC»minued on Pape Nine; Col. 5) -V WEATHER KOr-to FORECAST: JNa AND SOUTH CARO Continued warm Friday. ife™ STANDARD TIME) line 7 °g)cal data for the 24 hours (Rv yesterday): y U. S. Weather Bureau) :30 a _ .Temperature: 1:30 Dm’ 7i: 7:30 a' m- 73: 1:30 P- m mean oJ' 78; maximum 88; minimum an »0; normal 77. 30 a n, „„ Humidity; 7-30 m’ 89i 7:39 a. m. 64; 1:30 p. m. “u P- m. 62. totai f Precipitation: ®. n„0„ .,tle 24 hours ending 7:30 y 0’f /, inches; total since the first e month, 1.14 inches. 'From ,, ES F0K TODAY: S. c„, , Tide Tables published by ast and Geodetic Survey): ^tineton High Low 8011 - 1:15a. 8:41a. bonbon, , 143P- 8;19P 0 In,et-11:17a. 5:16a. mnrise 5 on. ll:25p. 5:26p :“!ai moonset’1™ 126P; moonnse (c»ntmued on Page Two; Col. *) ‘In The Army Now” With a leave- of absence from the United States Supreme Court, Associate Justice Frank Murphy, now a lieutenant colonel in the Army, is in training in the Army Infantry school at Fort iJenning, Ga. HOUSE CONSIDERS CORPORATETAXES May Develop Post - War Refund On Excess Profits WASHINGTON, June 18.— UP) — rhe House Ways and Means com mittee agreed in principle today on post-war refund of part of cor be taxed at a flat 94 per cent rate under provisions of the pending tax bill. The rate of the refund and the uses to which it might be put were left for later determination. Informed members said the com mittee appeared presently to favor a refund of 14 per cent which would have the long-range effect af reducing the proposed excess profits rate to 80 per cent. A question to be considered is whether the rebate should be used for conversion of war plants to peace-time production, or whether it might be diverted to salaries, bonuses or reserves. The Treasury has suggested that the income from the refunds, which might be in the form of se curities which would be non-nego tiable until after the war, be not taxable, however sentiment against this idea was reported strong in the committee. It was estimated that a 14 per cent refund would affect about 36, 000 corporations and would mean the return of about $954,000,000 an nually. Thus, although the ‘bill the com mittee has agreed upon tentatively would raise about $6,640,000,000, (Continued on Pace Three; Col. 1) Tobruk Back In State Of Siege Again Romell Expected To Drive On Only Remaining Road Open To The British RICH PRIZE AT STAKE Libyan Port Of Vital Im portance To Both Sides In Battle CAIRO, June 18. — (JP) — Split by 25 days of hammer ing by powerful Axis armored forces, the British Eighth army withdrew to new posi tions today, one section tak ing up fortified places near the Egyptian border while the other fell back into the defensive perimeter of To bruk to defend that Libyan coastal stronghold against violent siege. Only the shore road re mained as a tenuous link be tween Tobruk and the British main body. With that exception the situation nearly duplicated that which existed during al most eight months of last year when Tobruk, holding firm on the flank against every as sault, stood as a drag on a drive into fegypt, 80 miles to the east, by Nazi 'troops which had by-passed the port. Informed persons expressed the belief that Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel would try quickly to cut the coastal road as a preliminary to a grand assault on the fortress. The Nile valley and the Middle East appeared to be in no im mediate dapger, however. Although British tank strength is admittedly less than Rommel’s, no big Allied formations have been trapped. Withdrawals have been (Continued on Pare Two; Col. 4) -v ARMY MANEUVERS TO START JULY 13 Second “Carolina’s Battle” To Test Strength Of Nation’s Forces By HOWARD SUTTLE WASHINGTON, June 18 — The second “battle of the Carolinas” —maneuvers in which Uncle Sam’s rapidly strengthening fighting forces will test their skill in sim ulated warfare-—will begin July 13, the War Department announced here today. The First and Second Army Corps will participate in the “bat tle” slated to continue until Oc tober 11. Modern warfare and all its ramifications will be stressed in activity as nearly as possible to actua1 combat with the enemy. The Army announced plans for train ing in desert fighting, jungle fight ing, air - ground operations, op erations by small task forces and night maneuvers. The schedule provides that the Second ATmy Corps move into ac (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) Nazis Claim Capture Of Heydrich Killers - w-—-~ LONDON, June 18— (£> —Two men accused as the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich, No. One Ges tapo executioner known to millions in occupied Europe as “the hang man,’ were found in a Prague church this morning and “shot while resisting arrest,” the Prague radio announced tonight. The announcement came two hours after the expiration of a Ger man ultimatum to the Czechs to deliver up the assassins of Hey drich or take the c6nsequences. The British Broadcasting Corpor ation told the Czechs in a broad cast from London tonight that the Nazis had “decided to discover” the assailants of Heydrich after realizing that their threats^ of heavy reprisals were “in vain.” The British broadcast emphasiz ed that the . Berlin announcement was issued only two hours after expiration of the ultimatum to the Czechs “Embittered and frightened by Czech resistance, the Nazi author ities let themselves indulge in vain and useless threats,” th announc er said. “There can be no doubt that the Czech nation has con quered in this fight against the Nazi oppressors.” At least 382 persons, some of them women and girls, have been executed by the Germans in re prisal for the assault on Heydric'n and the Nazis have wiped out the village of Lidice, where 350 men of the village were said to have (Continued on Page Three; Col. 6) . 'ffo J$ur Facing with unperturbed calm an 18 months term in a federal prison following her conviction in Los Angeles of conspiring to send defense information to Germany, Mrs. Frances Goellert Gros de clared, "I can take it” as she was sentenced. Federal Judge Benja min Harrison denied her plea for probation. Mrs. Gros was found guilty of conspiring with her hus band, Dr. Hans Helmut Gros, to send vital data to the Nazis. N. C. DRAFT BOARD REVIEWS 3A STATUS Dependency Payments May Not Make Wife Self Supporting RALEIGH, June 18.— UP —Under present selective service policies, married men are being inducted into the Army, state selective serv ice headquarters reported today. Local draft boards have been in structed, state headquarters re ported, not to alter their classifi cation policies in anticipation of new regulations which may follow the passage of the new allotments and allowances bill. Bona fide 3-A men are not to be placed in class I-A on the theory that the allotments and allowances bill will provide for'their depen dents. “The present deferment policy provides that men should not be classified in 3-A simply because they have wives. The thing to con sider is whether the wife is a de pendant of the registrant. If so, he is entitled to be in 3-A,” a selec tive service official said. “It also provides that simply be. cause a man’s wife works or is capable of working, she is not au tomatically excluded as a depen dent. The thing to consider is her income and her prospect of be coming and continuing self - sup porting. “Under the policy in this state (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) -V City Air Raid Alarm To Be Series Blasts Intermittent blasts by five strategically-located sirens will be Wilmington’s standard air raid warning, the county de fense council announced last night. The regulation signal is based on .results of the June 12 tests. Reports from scattered police cars and 63 raid wardens sta tioned throughout the city showed that the steady sound —five seconds on and three seconds off—was far more ef fective than the warbling noise. “In fact,” declared an official, “it exceeded our expectations.” The four city - purchased alarms, which are mounted on poles at fire stations, were heard in several suburbs in cluding East Wilmington and Forest Hills but were ineffec tive in the southern end of town. To protect the latter section, an additional siren will be set up at Third and Willard streets as soon as construction of the fire station is completed and the building is manned. Nazi Waves I ThrownBack By Russians Defenders Of Sevastopol Steadily Repulsing German Attacks INFANTRY HOLDS FAST 1,500 Casualties Reported Inflicted By Reds At Kharkov MOSCOW, Friday, June 19. (&)—The Soviet defenders of Sevastopol continued to hurl back wave after wave of Ger man attacks, the high com mand announced today as the besieged Crimean naval for tress began its third week of resistance to Germany’s mass land offensive. The midnight communique indicated the fighting showed no signs of slackening and said the German losses were heavy. “The heroic defenders of Sevastopol are unwaveringly repulsing numerous German attacks,” the government said. In. various other sectors it was stated officially fighting continued, but there were no essential changes. On the Kharkov front activity was limited by thunderstorms which d'renched the battlefield where the Russians have stood firm against a nine-day German offensive. Sevastopol admittedly was hard pressed by the battering land and air assaults which started June 5, but according to official sources in Moscow the lines had not been penetrated. ' XThe German high command as serted its troops were winning bit terly defended ground at the Soviet (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) CASUALTY BILL HELD BY SENATE Opposition Shown On Payments To Civilians WASHINGTON, June 18— W) — Unexpectedly strong opposition to day delayed a Senate vote on a measure providing benefit pay ments to civilians seriously in jured by enemy action or in prac tice blackouts. With sponsors urging approval of the principle of government liabil. ity for civilians as well as miltary personnel in wartime, the Senate voted down, 34 to 26, a proposal by Senator Taft (R-Ohio) to ex clude civilian defense workers from benefits. But Taft’s compalint that the bill contemplated payments to ordi nary civilians who might be struck by an automobile or suffer other injuries in a practice blackout prompted Senators Norris (Ind Neb), McKellar (D-Tenn) and George (D-Ga) to warn against excessive expenditures. The measure calls for monthly cash benefits ranging from $10 to $85 for citizens over 15 years of age who suffered one-third total permanent disability in enemy raids or practice defense ma neuvers. Similar payments would go to dependents of persons killed. President Roosevelt would be au thorized to extend operations of the act to cover off-shore terri tories and military establishments elsewhere in the world and to make benefits retroactive to De cember 7. Senator Pepper (D-Fla), (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Supreme Soviet Thunders Approval Of Recent British - Russian Treaty — *-—— --- MOSCOW, June 18—(^i—Thunder-/ ing a vote of complete confidence, the Supreme Soviet tonight at its first wartime session ceremonially approved the British - Russian treaty after hearing foreign Com missar Vyacheslav Molotov ex press the deep hope that the “com. mon enemy soon will feel on his own skin the mighty blows” of Russia, Britain and the United States. Molotov told the cheering Rus sian parliament, as premier - de fense Commissar Joseph / Stalin nodded agreement, that the ques tion of a second front in Europe was given “serious attention” both in London and in Washington. In the latter city Molotov concluded a full understanding with the United States on the war and on post war problems. (The three great world powers announced on June 11 that they had reached complete understand ings on “the urgent tasks of creat ing a second front in Europe in 1942.”) Molotov disclosed that President Roosevelt had cabled an invitation to the trip which resulted in the Washington agreement. He told the parliament that the Washington agreement would ac celerate and increase deliveries to the Soviet union in spite of the damaging Axis attacks on convoys destined for Murmnsk and Arch angel, Soviet Arctic ports. He declared that although sev eral Allied ships had been sunk en route to the Soviet Union, such attacks had not prevented increas ed deliveries. Molotov revealed that the new agreement with the United States envisaged American aid amounting to $3,000,000,000. The .Supreme Soviet officially ap proved these resolutions: 1. To approve the government foreign policy. 2. To ratify the treaty between Russia and Britain on the “alliance in the war against Hitlerite Ger many and her associates in Eu rope and on collaboration and mu tual assistance thereafter.” The greaty was signed in Lon don on May 26. Molotov declared that the con versations in London and Wash ington strengthened the conviction that “victory over German imperi alism will be considerably faster.” Among the main points in Mo lotov’s speech were: 1. The agreements would govern both the wartime and post-war co operation with no territorial ex pansion or interference in the in ternal affairs of other nations. (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) Wilhelmina Arrives In Canadian Capitol --- OTTAWA, June 18—($)— Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, by air for the first time in Royal defiance of wartime hazards, ar rived here today from Britain for a visit with her daughter and two grandchildren and a call upon President and Mrs. Roosevelt. It was more as a mother and grandmother than as the living symbol of her empire’s resistance to the Axis that Wilhelmina warm ly embraced Princess Juliana and Juliana’s two girls, Beatrix, 4, and Irene, 2, who met her at Rock cliffe airport. The 61-year-old Wilhelmina, who is the longest ruling monarch alive, had not seen her daughter and the little Princesses in more than two years—not since she insisted that Juliana come to Canada with them to safeguard the succession to the throne. Queen Wilhelmina looked very well. After the family greetings were (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) PORT MORESBY BOMBED AGAIN Japs Lose Two Bombers, One Fighter; Two Al lied Planes Are Lost ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA, Friday, June 19—UP) —Eighteen bombers made an un successful attack on Port Moresby, New Guinea, yesterday—the sec ond in two days—General MacAr thur’s headquarters announced to day. Allied fighter planes shot down one Zero fighter plane and two bombers, a headquarters commun ique said. Two Allied planes were lost in combat. The communique said: — “Port Moresby: Eighteen heavy bombers with a fighter escort un successfully attacked the harbor area, damaging one small ship. Our interceptors destroyed one Zero fighter and two bombers. We lost two planes in combat.” 5 -V Volunteer Forest Fire Fighting Corps Formed WASHINGTON, June 18.— Iff! —A volunteer forest fire fighters serv ice is being organized by the office of civilian defense, it was announc ed today. Director James M. Landis said the volunteer organizations devel oped through state and local de fense councils would function through cooperation with establish ed forest protection agencies. \T Two Nazi Submarines Sink Freighter Near South American Coast BOGOTA, Colombia, June 18. — (IP) — The newspaper L,a Razon said today that two Ger man submarines appeared off Point Pajaro last night and sank the 1,400-ton Dutch freigh ter Flora. Colombian vessels rescued 30 members of the crew and six passengers, and recovered the body of the first engineer, the paper reported. The survivors were quoted as saying that the submarines fired 63 shots at the ship, which replied with six. The scene of the reported attack is a short distance northeast of Riohacha, off a northern tip of Colombia jut ting into the Saribbean sea. QUEEN WILHELMINA Wallace Resignation Not Delivered To City Council, Says Bellamy In answer to a question last night, Mayor Hargrove Bell amy declared the resignation of City Manager James G. Wallace had not been present ed to the city council. There have been many rumors that Mr. Wallace’s serv ices would not be available after the current fiscal year. Mr. Bellamy said he had been given to understand this is the fact, but would not elaborate on his remark. “You may be sure,” said the Mayor to a Star representa tive, “that if and when Mr. Wallace resigns, the public will immediately be advised of it.” _V HOUSE APPROVES NEW NAVAL BILL 8 Billions For Construc tion; No New Battle ships Included WASHINGTON, June 18—M—An unprecedented $8,550,000,000 war ship construction measure sailed swiftly through the House today in a drive to make the United States fleet stronger by the end of 1916 than the combined navies of all the rest of the world. The vast program, calling for more than 500 fighting ships in the cruiser - carrier - destroyer cate gory and hundreds of torpedo boats and sub-chasers, was passed and sent to the Senate by a vote of 316 to 0. It came as the answer of this nation’s Naval strategists to the long-debated question of the plane versus the battleship, for the meas ure’s emphasis was placed square ly on floating aerial strength and it omitted any provision for new battleships. Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) of the Naval committee told the House that the value of the carrier had proven “relatively much greater” in modern sea warfare than the battleship. In his broad outline of the meas ure’s scope, Vinson said the Navy planned to begih construction of the carriers and the anti-subma rine craft immediately. The smal ler boats, he said, would be built inland, on the Gulf, the Great Lakes, in the Mississippi Valley— “Wherever there are facilities available.” A question from the floor as to (Continued on Page Three; Col. 1) Roger Babson Reviews The Industry Outlook BY ROGER BABSON NEW YORK, June 18. —Once a year I like to give readers a brief resume of some of the various leading industries. I am arranging these, however, alphabetically r rather than in accordance w ith their immediate importance as they are changing their relative position each month. Following are my condensed analyses: AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT —An essential industry. Profits satisfactory, dividends liberal. Farm prosperity should maintain post-war sales. AUTOMOTIVE—Practically en . tirely converted to War production. Profit margin down. Taxes up. War-end outlook favorable. AVIATION—Outlook for manu facturing companies poor. Planes will be “a dime a dozen”. Trans portation units should boom after the war. BANKS—Assets approaching new highs. Low rates and government holdings make earnings moderate. Prices low in relation to book values. BUILDING—Slump in residential construction and inability to con vert to war work have caused se vere inflation. Should boom at war’s end. CHEMICALS—Vulnerable to ex cess profits tax. Industry in growth period aided by research. Has in (Continued on Pace Three; Col. 4) Churchill Again Sees Roosevelt Arrives In United States For Series Of Talks With President MAY MEAN 2ND FRONT It Is Possible That British Minister Here For Arranging Push WASHINGTON, June 18. (/P)—Winston Churchill, Brit ain’s wartime prime minister, has crossed the Atlantic once more to sit down with Presi dent Roosevelt and chart plans for crushing the Axis— perhaps by opening a second fighting front in Europe. A brief White House an nouncement tonight disclosed that Churchill had reached this country secretly and safely for immediate confer ences with Mr. Roosevelt. It kept his exact whereabci n secret, retraining' from disclosing whether he was in Washington or some other locality. Presidential Secretary Stephen Early told reporters without the slightest degree of qualification that he thought speculation was “perfectly justified” on the possi bility that the momentous delibera tions of the heads of the two great Allied powers would touch on a second front. “The conferences will begin im mediately,’ Early asserted. “The subject of the conferences will be, very naturally, the war, the con duct of the war, and the winning of the war.” Conjectures about a second front developed rapidly, inasmuch as Russia’s foreign commissar, V. M. Molotov, had just returned to Mos cow from highly important parleys in London an<j Washington which brought about a complete under standing among the United States, England and Russia on the "urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942.” Russia and England, bearing the brunt of actual combat operations in Europe and Africa, have been feeling again the weight of Nazi arms as the armored legions of Hitler have been hurled into at tacks in the Tobruk, Crimean and Kharkov areas — and not without some successes. A second front would relieve the pressure of this three-pronged assault. Leaders of the more powerful of (Continued on Page Two; Col. S) U. S. BOMBERS NOW IN CHINA Col. C. V. Haynes North Carolinian, Placed In Command CHUNGKING. China. June 18.— (J1—^Existence of a United States Army Bomber Command in im periled Free China was disclosed today at a time when the Japanese enemy was heavily reinforcing his air strength to defend his conquest of Burma and attempt to mop up the armies of Chiang Kai-Shek. Col. Caleb V. Haynes, big, 46 year-old North Carolinian who per sonally directed the harrowing aer ial evacuation of Burma, was nam ed chief of the command. Just where and when the American force will go into action is an im portant military secret. Already operating in the China War theatre are the “Flying Ti gers” of Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chan nault’s American Volunteer Group. Informed estimates of the pres ent aerial dispositions of the Jap anese air force in the Burma and (Continued on Pa&e Three; Col. 1) _V'_ 70,000 Pounds Of Rubber Is Collected As Campaign Continues In Wilmington Wilmington’s answer to Its Uncle Sam’s plea for scrap rubber yesterday had brought a total of 70,000 pounds of the vital material to service sta tions of the city. The drive, which opened on Monday, was gaining momen tum almost hourly, according to Chairman Alex Sprunt. Mr. Sprunt had a word of praise for the work being done by Boy Scouts in the drive. Local troops, he pointed out, are convassing the entire city for rubber under the supervis ion of Area Executive David Liles
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