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job Attacks
||. S. Shores
fith 9 Shells
U-Boat Throws Projectiles
Onto Oregon Beaches;
No One Injured
10 PROPERTY DAMAGE
^ge Craters Blasted Into
Area By Explosion
Of Missies
SEASIDE, Ore., June 22.—
if—A submarine, presuma
bly Japanese and big enough
lo'operate 5,000 miles from
iiome. pitched nine shells of
in estimated 60 pounds each
unto the sand dunes that
winkle the Oregon coastline
from the Columbia river
south to this resort town, a
survey disclosed today.
In this area is Fort Stev
ens, sentinel guarding the
with of the nation’s second
largest river.
It was the second such
shelling on the western North
American coast since Satur
jav night. Estevan Point on
Vancouver island was shelled
Saturday night. It was first
presumed that one submarine
lofted shells at a government
radio station but at Ottawa
today Defense Minister J. L.
Ralston told the House of
Commons that two or more
enemy submersibles probably
participated.
Nobody was injured by the 15
Einute seaside bombardment
starting at 11:30 p. m. Pacific War
Time, Sunday (2:30 a. m. Eastern
tar Time today) and no military
tr civilian structures were damag
ed, but some of the shells burst
within 500 yards of the Jean Hef
fling farm home.
"I was scared to death,” said
Mrs. Heffling, and her husband
echoed agreement. Three-year old
Donna Jean Heffling fell out of bed
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1 WI11NGT0NIANS
10 TAKE BAR EXAM
Would-Be Lawyers To Take
Tests At Raleigh
August 4-6
RALEIGH, June 22.— W —The
State Board of Law Examiners will
five examinations to 42 would-be
lawyers here August 4-6, Secretary
Heard L, Cannon announced to
day.
The group, smallest since the
board took over the examinations
for law licenses in 1934, will in
clude three women. Cannon attri
buted the decrease in applicants to
foe fact that many students have
left their studies to join the armed
forces.
In addition to those planning to
take the examination, two persons,
"ho received licenses in other
states, are applying for North Car
olina licenses through comity.
They are Harold V. Baker and A.
k Foster Wood, both of Charlotte.
The 42 applicants for examina
tions follow:
Ralph Lewis Alexander of Kan
napolis, William Anderson Allen, 4.
cf Raleigh, David H. Armstrong of
Tc°y, Paul Kermit Barnwell of Ed
neyville. Grant William Bolmer,
of Philadelphia, Pa., Williajn
Ryslop Sumner Burgwyn Jr., of
''oodland Porter Brown Byrum of
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weather
—
.T FORECAST:
NORTH CAROLINA — Scattered
flowers and thundershowers Tues
aay with moderate temperatures.
'Meteorological data for the 24 hours
lr»E 7:30 p. m. yesterday):
‘eastern standard time)
(By U. S. Weather Bureau)
, Temperature:
m- 80; 7:30 a. m. 81: 1:30 p. m.
P- m. 81; maximum 93; min
um 77; mean 85; normal 78.
, ,, Humidity:
m. 83; 7:30 a. m. 78; 1:30 p. m
*'■ 7^0 p. m. 68.
T . Precipitation:
otal^ for the 24 hours ending 7:30
j' m" O.oo inches; total since the first
y 01 the month, 2.54 inches.
n tides FOR TODAY:
^ the Tide Tables published by
• Coast and Geodetic survey):
Wilmington _
g, 5:26p. 12:02p
“s°nboro Inlet _ 2:08a. 8:40a.
- 3:03p. 927p.
sunrise 5:01a; sunset 7:27p; moonrise
*"'P: moonset 1:10a.
tipe Feaip river stage at Fayette
8 a. m., Monday. 10.15 feet.
'Continued en Page Two; Col. 4)
MacArthur Signs
Signing on the dotted line, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur subscribes to
Australia’s 35,000,000 pound liber
ty loan drive. He invested one
thousand pounds. The photograph
"as taken in Melbourne and ra
dioed to New York.
HALIFAX SPEAKS
TO GOVERNORS
Offers Belief In Victory
For United Nations
Over Axis
ASHEVILLE, .June 22. — !£) —
Lord Halifax, the British ambas
sador, brought a word of en
couragement to the National Gov
ernors’ conference here today in
the face of adverse war news from
Tobruk and other fronts.
Although his remarks to the two
score governors and other repre
sentatives of the states present
were off the record, the tall, slend
er diplomat indicated an informal
interview that he believed there
was no doubt of eventual victory
for the United Nations.
The loss of Tobruk was serious,
he said, because it gave the Axis
forces an advanced base for fur
ther operations to the east in Afri
ca, whereas so long as it was in
British hands, it was a threat to
the German-Italian supply lines. He
expressed confidence, however,
that Imperial forces would be gble
to defend Egypt.
He said that the loss of Tobruk
would not in itself mean a length
ening of the war. but that the
length of the war would depend
largely upon the shipping situation
of the United Nations.
Lord Halifax expressed interest
in a suggestion by Gov. Harold E.
Stassen of Minnesota, chairman of
the conference, that some sort of
(Continned on Page Throe; Col. 4)
Axis F
For A
Upon Egypt
Tanks And Motorized Col
umns Massed For
Assault
DANGER IS INCREASING
Rommel’s Forces Will Hit
Without Waiting
For Rest
CAIRO, June 22.—(/P)—
The Axis tanks and motorized
infantry which hammered
Tobruk into submission in
two days of storm were
massed tonight for assault on
Egypt, barely 12 miles north
west of the border fort of Ca
puzzo.
British and German mo
bile columns already had
clashed in the region of Sidi
Azeiz, where, an RAF com
munique disclosed, “large
numbers’' of enemy trans
port vehicles, presumably
carrying troops, were under
attack by fighter-bombers
and American-made Boston
bombers of the South African
air force.
The armored fight about
Sidi Azeiz was joined when
British units, which had been
outside the Tobruk perimeter
when it fell, got away to the
south then cut eastward to
the new British line on the
Egyptian frontier.
The danger to Egypt was
increasing as succeeding com
muniques, terse as they were,
showed that Rommel intends
to strike now at the frontier
without pausing for rest and
equipment.
Many observers felt that the
Axis armored supriority, the di
rect result of a destructive battle
between big German guns and
British tanks nine days ago, was a
greater menace than ever to the
British. With the tanks they pos
sess the Axis forces may be able
to sweep around the left flank of
the British line, brushing aside the
light tanks of the defenders, and
strike northeastward toward the
Nile valley.
Moreover, It was calculated that
reinforcement by American forces
“in Asia” would be impossible for
two months and that if reinforce
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Tobruk Defeat Provokes
Much Protest In England
w_
LONDON, June 22—(#>—The dis
astrous collapse of Tobruk and the
menace of German troops at the
Egyptian border provoked a wave
of protest in Britain tonight which
assured the Churchill government
of heavy criticism when the House
of Commons reassembles.
The Axis triumph menacing
Alexandria and Suez, keys to the
Middle East and control of the
Mediterranean, appeared to have
precipitated a political crisis if ed
itorial comments and criticsm of
members of parliament and mili
tary writers were any criteria.
Winston Churchill is in the Unit
ed States conferring with President
Roosevelt, but rightly or wrongly
the average Briton links the prime
minister with British mi 1 i t a r y
strategy. Thus he is vulnerable
after military defeats.
Affable Clement Attlee, the Do
minions secretary, probably will
make a statement on the Libyan
campaign to the next session of
parliament. But the real fireworks
will start when Churchill himself
rises to defend the strategy and
generals against attacks of such
governemnt critics as the former
war secretary, Leslie Hore-Belisha
Earl Winterton and others.
House of Commons critics said
they would insist cn something
more than a general picture of
events in Libya from Churchill.
There was no disposition among
members of parliament to take the
fall of Tobruk as cooly as the
surrender of Singapore.
Dispatches from correspondents
at the front fanned the public
anger. A story in Lord Beaver
brook’s Evening Standard called
“faulty leadership” one reason for
the defeat.
The favored explanation by gov
ernment spokesmen was that the
British, although they had “some”
American-made Gen. Grant tanks
and “some” new anti-tank guns,
did not have enough to check the
' Germans. But political e x p e r ts
found such statements deficient in
view of Britain’s vast production
efforts and privations caused by
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SATURDAY CO r
TO BE REQU ED
County Commissioners Vote
For Recorder’s Session
Six Days A Week
Decision to request that sessions
of Recorder’s court be held on Sat
urdays in compliance with the law
was voted by the county commis
sion Monday on motion of Com
missioner Harry R. Gardner.
The original law, establishing the
court in 1911, requires that the
court hold daily sessions, Sundays
excepted. Whether the law since
has been amended so as not to re
quire six sessions weekly could not
be ascertained Monday afternoon.
Action on the matter came after
Commissioner Gardner said that
he - understood sessions were not
being held now on Saturday and
pointed out that persons arrested
on Friday night were unable to get
a hearing before Monday morning
After explaining that some per
sons were forced to stay in jail
during that period, Commissioner
Gardner declared “;t is expensive
to keep people in jail that long.”
Saturday sessions of the court
have not been held in several
weeks, it was learned following the
meeting.
After Chairman Addison Hewlett
explained that he understood offi
cials of the local post of the Amer
ican Legion would consider selling
property owned by the organiza
tion, located around Legion Sta
dium, at appraised value set more
than a year ago, the board voted
for a committee to negotiate with
representatives of the Legion with
the idea of purchasing a strip of
the property between the Stadium
and the Carolina Beach highway.
A committee, composed of Com
missioners L. J. Coleman, James
(Continued on Fate Two; Col. 2)
v ^Italian Warships
Major Alfred F. Kalberer of La
fayette, Ind., led a flight of Amer
ican bombers against an Italian
fleet in the Mediterranean. He
told how U. S. planes scored 35
hits on two Italian warships,
ESTEVAN ATTACK
TOLD BY INDIAN
Shells Smashed Rocks Near
Indian Reservation;
Poor Shooting
ZEBALLOS, B. C., June 22 —
(Canadian Press) — An Indian
fisherman told tonight how explod
ing shells from enemy craft at
tacking the radio station at Es
tevan Point Saturday night caused
Indians to flee their homes on a
nearby reservation in night attire
and seek safety in their boats in
Hesquiat harbor six miles away.
The Indian, Ben Thomas, came
here from Estevan Point, 45 miles
northward up the West coast of
Vancouver island, with the first
eye-witness account of the half-hour
shelling, which defense minister
Ralston said at Ottawa today was
carried out by possibly two enemy
craft.
“Shells whizzed over my home
on the Indian reservation near the
point,” Thomas said. “There were
about 19 shots, but none did any
damage.
“I was plenty scared and so
were my neighbors, and we raced
for our boats. Some of the In
dians were just going to bed when
the firing started and fled to their
boats only partially dressed.”
Thomas said only one shell land
ed close to the lighthouse, which
is beside the radio station of Es
tavan Point.
“The shells smashed a lot of
rock beyond the reservation. It
was poor shooting,” he added.
The Indian said the lighthouse
keeper at Estevan Point shut off
his light when the attack began.
The only damage was to a few
windows in the radio station,
smashed by concussion.
—-V
ARGENTINE SHIPS
SUNK IN ATLANTIC
2 Craft Go Down; Italian
Sub Blamed For At
tack On Cardenas
BUENOS AIRES, June 22.—UP)—
Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz
Guinazu announced tonight the
sinking of the 4,800-ton Argentine
freighter Rio Tercero but said he
did not know whether it had been
torpedoed or had struck a mine.
He said he lacked details but be
lieved the captain and the entire
crew had been rescued.
Officials said the vessel was 120
miles out of New York when she
went down.
Information on the sinking was
supplied to the foreign ministry by
the Argentine embassy in Wash
ington, Ruiz Guinazu said.
Th foreign minister previously
had denied earlier reports that the
Rio Tercero had been torpedoed
and then acknowledgd that he did
not know how she had been sunk.
The freighter was the former
Italian ship Fortunstella and was
taken over by the Argentine mer
chant marine when war broke out.
It sailed from New York yester
day.
This was the third Argentine cas
ualty since war started. The
steamship Uruguay was torpedoed
and sunk by a German submarine
off the coast of Spain in 1940.
The tanker Victoria was torpe
doed off Cape Hatteras on the U. S.
east coast April 17, 1942 but was
able to make port.
Last week, Germany admitted
responsibility for this attack and
expressed "profound regret” in re
ply to a protest from the Argentine
government.
The Germans contended that the
Victoria was improperly marked
and that her identity was mistaken
BELEM, Brazil, June 22.—(ffi—
The Argentine ship Cardenas has
been torpedoed by an Italian sub
marine and 34 survivors were pick
ed up and landed at Port Salinas
in Para state, reports reaching
here said tonight. 3
France Urged
To Cooperate
With Germany
Laval Exhorts French La
borers To Assist
Nazi Industry
t
WANTS AXIS VICTORY
Tells Nation He Desires
Defeat Of Allied
Powers
VICHY, June 22.— (/P) —
Flatly declaring “I desire
Germany’s victory because of
the Red peril,” Pierre Laval
exhorted French industrial
workers tonight to go to work
in Germany and held out the
hope that in exchange Hitler
might agree to make benefi
cial arrangements for French
prisoners of war.
The chief of government
and arch-collaborationist, in a
radio address to the nation on
the second anniversary of the
signing of the French-Ger
man armistice, appealed to
Frenchmen to enter the em
ploy of the Nazis because
eventual release of prisoners
as well as “the French posi
tion in the new Europe” de
pended on their attitude.
The immediate result, he
said, would be a concession
from Hitler providing for
“liberation of an important
number of farmer prisoners
who will be able to return to
France as soon as you arrive
in Germany.”
(In other words, French industry
will be stripped of workers and
will become a nation of farmers.)
Laval hinted that a deal for ex
change of prisoners in general for
workers had already been worked
out when General Henri Honore
Giraud spoiled it by his “sensa
tional escape” from Nazi custody
last Aprli.
The plan envisaged, he explain
ed, was not for freeing the laborer
but for the transformation of their
lot into that of free workmen.”
In these words he dashed the
hopes nursed for more than two
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CHINESfHOLDING
JAPS AT K1ANGS1
Stand Off Invader For Six
Days In His Attempt
To Take Railway
CHUNGKING, June 22.— (#) -
Strong Chinese assaults on the rail
way towns of Lungyu and Chuh
sien, along the Japanese supply
line through Chekiang province,
were reported tonight, in a Chinese
communique which told of wide
spread Chinese activity behind the
invaders’ advanced positions.
In Kiangsi province, West of
Chekiang, the Japanese have been
held virtually to a standstill for
six days in their attempts to pinch
off the last 50 miles of the Che
kiang-Kiangsi rail line remaining
in Chinese hands, the communique
said.
Chinese forces shunted aside by
the swift Japanese thrust along the
railway into Kiangsi province re
organized and were said to have
driven outlying Japanese garrisons
back upon Kinhwa with heavy
losses. Fighting was reported at
the outskirts of Lungyu, and Japa
nese who occupied the walled town
of Chuhsien were said to be under
repeated attack.
Just west of the Chekiang
Kiangsi border heavy fighting was
(Continued on Page Three; CoL 3)
-v
Committee Appoints
Cronly And Hewlett
To City Draft Board
Robert D. Cronly, Jr. and
Walter M. Hewlett were recom -
mended to succeed Fred Pois
son and H. Edmund Rogers as
members of the City Draft
Board, at a meeting here yes
terday morning, it was an
nounced by T. A. Henderson.
The committee which met to
select the new members was
composed of Mr. Henderson,
Mayor Hargrove Bellamy, H.
M. Roland and Gaston Carney.
Mr. Poisson and Mr. Rogers
resigned from the board about
the first of the month.
Mr. Cronly is a well known
lawyer of this city and Mr.
Hewlett has been associated in
the real estate business for a
number of years.
RUSSIANS FALL BACK
UNDER NAZI ATTACKS
Navy Maintains Silence
On Aleutian Operations
---p
Alaskan Governor
Dr. Ernest Gruening, governor
of Alaska and long an advocate of
increased defenses there, has been
ordered by Secretary of Interior
Ickes to organize an Alaskan war
council for mobilization and de
fense of the territory.
CASUALTY PAY BILL
PASSED BY SENATE
Would Pay Relatives Of
Those Injured Or Cap
tured By Enemy
WASHINGTON, June 22.— UP) —
The Senate passed today a bill
authorizing compensation for the
relatives of non-military personnel
injured, killed or captured at mili
tary installations outside the Unit
ed States but balked at immediate
action on legislation providing
monthly benefits for civilian vic
tims of enemy action at home.
The revised bill, which was sent
to the House by a voice vote, would
empower the employes compensa.
tion commission to assume liabil
ity for civilian employes of con
tractors building military bses if
the employes suffered injury,
death of capture at enemy hands
The Senate sent to its financ
committee, however, a much more
sweeping measure to which the
employe compensation originally
had been attached.
This bill, introduced by Senator
Pepper (D.-Fla.), would authorize
the payment of monthly benefits
rnging from $10 to $85 to civilian
residents in the United States who
suffered one-third total disability,
death or capture in enemy attacks
on this country.
Senator George (D.-Ga.), chair
man of the finance committee, and
other senators contended that the
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WASHINGTON, June 22— iff) —
Japan was believed today to be
continuing her thus far costly op
erations among the western Aleu
tian islands, but the Navy main
tained a firm silence as to what
might actually be going on.
Indications were that the recur
rent bad weather in that section
of the North Pacific had once more
provided a cover for the enemy’s
surface craft which already have
landed apparently small forces on
Attu and Kiska islands.
The last word on the situation
was the Navy’s communique of
Sunday reporting that army air
craft had scored bomb hits on a
cruiser and sunk a transport, rais
ing to even the number of ships
which the Navy officially has re
ported damaged. In addition, Gen
eral Henry K. Arnold, chief of the
Army air forces, recently mads
public a report that a cruiser had
been sunk and an aircraft carrier
damaged.
For this cost in ships, the Japs
to date are known to have gained
only the landings on Attu and
Kiska, occupations which authori
ties here have consistently describ.
ed as having no strategical im
portance in themselves.
Japan’s ultimate objectives re
mained as obscure as the real
military situation in the Aleutians.
The theory given most credence
in authoritative quarters was that
the enemy’s whole Aleutians cam
paign was a screening operation
preliminary to an attack on Rus
sia.
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GAS RATIONING
PLAN DELAYED
Motorists Are Given Extra
Week To Organize Pools
For New Shortage
-* —
WASHINGTON, June 22— —
The start of permanent gasoline
rationing in the East was post
poned tonight from July 15 to July
22 in order to give motorists an
extra week in which to organize
car pooling clubs.
The registration of car owners
for "A” rationing cards was de
layed a week. The basic “A” books
will be issued July 9, 10 and 11,
instead of July 1, 2 and 3, as
originally announced
In order to extend the present
emergency plan for the additional
week, the Office of Price Admin
istration authorized use of the war
bond seal in the upper left hand
corner of eaih card for a ration
of gasoline.
The purchase value of the seal
will vary with the type of card,
holders of “A” cards will be en
titled to three gallons to tide them
over the interim period; B-l card
holders will be permitted to pur
chase four gallons; B-2 holders,
(Continued on Page Six; Col. 5)
Retail Service Ceilings
To Go Into Effect July 1
WASHINGTON, June 22.— W» —
The Office of Price Administration
will issue shortly a complete new
price ceiling regulation, effective
July 1, for “retail services,” in
cluding dry cleaning, shoe repair,
laundry, tailoring, auto repair and
garage service.
The universal price order as
originally announced in April, cov
ered both goods and services ar.d
was made effective for services on
July 1 but price officials have ar
rived at the conclusion, it was
learned today, that separate treat
ment for the service industries was
desirable.
OPA officials declined to disclose
details of the pending order but
said that, in general, prices would
be based on the March, 1942, lev
els prescribed by the universal
price order. The new regulation is
expected this week.
Professional services, such as
those of doctors, dentists and law
yers, are exempted from price c ,n
trol by the general price regula
tion. So also are personal services
not connected with commodities,
such as barber and beauty shops.
By certain “self-executing” pro
visions of the new order, officials
said, formulas will be provided for
putting maximum prices on serv
ices of a seasonal nature. Dry
cleaners, for instance, in many
cases could not use the level of
last March, when their business
was mainly in handling woolen ap
parel, in computing price maxi
mums for washable summer cloth
ing.
The “self-executing” provisions,
whatever they may turn out to be.
will take care of such situations.
It was indicated that the scheme
involved some form of cost-plus
normal markup. 3
RUBBER CAMPAIGN
TO BE STEPPED UP
Final Week In Drive Slated
For All-Out Effort
By Oil Firms
Plans for a stepped-up final week
in Wilmington’s rubber salvage
campaign were made yesterday in
a meeting of four local oil distri
butors held in the office of B. B.
Cameron, county petroleum chair
man of the drive.
It was decided the four firms
will conduct an all-out effort for
the collection with daily reports
being made.
Attending, besides Mr. Cameron,
were Morrison Divine of The Stan
dard Oil company, S. B. Hoy of
American Oil and J. E. Furr of
Gulf.
An incomplete report last night
showed more than 76,000 pounds of
scrap rubber has been obtained in
New Hanover county since the
campaign opened last Monday.
Several collection stations includ
ing MacMillan and Cameron, one
of the most active buyers, were
unreported. Last night’s totals:
National Oil, 6,480 pounds
American Oil, 12.300; Gulf, 7,200,
Fountain Oil, 9,500; and Standard
40,846. In its three-county territory,
the latter organization has pur-1
chased 86,817 pounds
Red Forces
Resisting
Stubbornly
Sevastopol Garrison Re
treats On Two
Sectors
GERMANS TAKE LEAD
Soviets Claim Thousands
Of Enemy Killed In
Battle
MOSCOW, Tuesday, June
23. — (/P) — The Germans re
newed their offensive on the,
Kharkov front Monday and
400 miles to the south forced
Sevastopol’s beleaguered gar
rison to fall back on two sec
tors, official reports said
early today.
The midnight Soviet com
munique indicated the smash
ing German attacks against
the hard - pressed Crimean
naval base continued un
abated.
The fighting on the Khai*
kov front had been on a re
duced scale for the past few
days, with the Russians coun
ter-attacking at some points,
but the communique said the
initiative was again in the
hands of the Germans.
“On June 22 our troops on
the Kharkov front waged
battle against attacking Ger
man troops,” the high com
mand said.
“On the Sevastopol front
fierce battles continues. On
other sectors of the front no
essential changes took place.”
Earlier reports said the Russian
defenders of Sevastopol had been
thrust back both from the north
and south, despite their stubborn
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 8)
CAPITALPARLEY
STILL UNDERWAY
Roosevelt - Churchill Talk
Still Secret; No Details
Are Available
WASHINGTON, June 22— I# -
President Roosevelt and Winston
Churchill continued their strategy
conferences here tonight witl^- the
formally announced objective of
obtaining "the earliest maximum
concentration of Allied war power
upon the enemy.”
In a joint statement about the
parleys they have been carrying on
for four days, the American chief
executive and the British prime
minister omitted details of deci
sions reached and of specific prob
lems.
Speculation on these problems
continued to center air the possi
bility of establishing a second front
in Europe, on the grave Axis men
aces to Egypt, China and Sevasto
pol, and on the interlinked ques
tions of supplies and shipping.
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill
said any unofficial statements
about the course of their discus
sions could be nothing more than
surmise. They let down the bars
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103 Persons Killed
In Czechoslovakia
During Past 3 Days
STOCKHOLM, June 22.—WW
—German authorities, in a new
series of reprisal killings, exe
cuted 130 persons in Czechoslo
vakia during the past three
days, the Berlin correspondent
of the newspaper Svenska Dag
bladet said tonight.
These were the first execu
tions reported from Czechoslo
vakia since the Germans an
nounced Thursday they had
caught and executed the slayers
of Reinhard Heydrich, Reichs
protector of Bohemia-Moravia
and better known as “the hang
man.”
Kighty-four persons were said
’iave been shot on Friday,
r. aking this one of the bloodiest
days since the reprisal killings
started. Another 28 were exe
cuted Saturday and 18 Sunday.