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FLORIDA CANAL MAY NOT BE DUG Congressman Cannon Pre dicts Failure of Passage On Measure WASHINGTON, June 23— OP — Representative Cannon iD-Fla) predicted today the House-approv ed Florida barge canal legislation would fail of passage in the Senate. Cannon fought the measure in the House, contending construction of the canal would be the opening wedge for eventual creation of a sea level ship canal bisecting the Florida peninsula. Cannon said there was no indi cation when the Senate might con cider the legislation. He asserted hat opposition to. the barge canal was growing in his district, which includes much of the lower pen insula. and that various civic and business organizations were cam paigning against it. Opponents of the barge canal, which would be fitted with locks to make its high land portion at least 42 to 55 feet above sea level, have contended it would interfere with Florida’s water supply. They also contended that it would be more practical to utilize Myers-Stuart canal rather than spend time and money on provid ing additional facilities. The canal was one of several projects in a bill by Representa tive Mansfield (D-Texl intended to help offset the Atlantic Seaboard gasoline shortage by developing water-borne commerce and extend ing pipeline facilities. -V State Elections Board To Take Court Action Today Against Durham RALEIGH. June 23.— (A*) —Assis ant Attorney General George Pat ton said today that he would go to Durham tomorrow to represent the State Board of Elections in a man damus action brought against the Durham County Board of Elections. Judge R. Hunt Parker is sched uled to heat the case in which Dan W. McLean is seeking to force the Durham Elections Board to place his name on the general election ballot as the Republican nominee lor clerk of Durham Superior court. The State Elections Board will appear in the case as a friend of the court. McLean was nominated by the Durham County Republican con vention but did not attempt to file until a week before the May 30 primary, after the filing period had closed. 3 -V Army Contemplating Dimout on N. J. Coast TRENTON, N. J., June 23.—W)— Acting Governor I. Grant Scott said today he had been informed that military authorities were con templating a 70-mile-wide dimout belt along the coast as a precau tion against enemy air raids. Such a dimout would cover the entire state of New Jersey and ex tend well into Pennsylvania and New York. Delaware and Conneti cut also would be affected. Scott said New Jersey civil de fense officials felt such a move was unnecessary. Leonard Dr#fuss, state director of Civilian Defense, will meet Rear Admiral Adolphus Andrews, of the Eastern Seaboard Command, to morrow in an effort to “avoid un necessary restrictions,” Scott said. He added that Civilian Defense authorities were attempting to learn from the Army whether dim out orders already in effect could be relaxed in certain areas. 3 -V ITALIANS ARRIVE GENOA (From Italian Broad casts) , June 23—(HP)—1Two liners bringing Italian civilians, mostly women and children, from East Africa arrived at Genoa today. (The ships made the voyage around South Africa under an agreement between Britain and Italy permitting noncombatants caught by the war in Italy’s lost East African empire to return home.) -V Cuba’s population of 4,228,000 is 68 per cent native white. T A 1 V at leading lUuAl TIEATBES □Starts Today! f Ann Sheridan, Robt. Cummings Ronald Regan, Betty Field In “KINGS ROW” LThe Town They Talk Of In Whispers! Shows 11:55 2:04 4:27 6:50 9:13 I Starts ! Today! , -- 3ug’s-Eye View of Yourself! In | "MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN" [l Full Length Feature % Cartoon in Technicolor! & Shows 1 2:41 4:22 6:03 gjg^ 7:44 9:25 r -^ Last 1 - Day! The Greatest Of All Tarzans! Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan — In “Tarzan’s Secret Treasure’* Shows 11 12:40 2:30 4:20 6:10 8 9:50 __A H Today^ ra of The n Spaces! [N CHEYENNE 't Houston ’ St. John it Chapter Noise Reproducer Marvin Cainras, a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Tech nology, Chicago, has an invention that reproduces any noise, even a flea’s inarching step. A thin strand of magnetized steel wire records the sound, llr. George E. Ziegler (above) is shown recording the noise of a Diesel engine.— Central Press. HOUSE ASSAILS ARMY SPENDING (Continued from Page One) the period of initial necessity has passed, and continue buying bonds with enthusiasm, overlooking the extension of bureaucratic domina tion and suffering deprivations with a complacent attitude.” Turning to the individual depart ments, the committee said of the air corps: "The air corps overlooked many opportunities to have much more ef ficient and modern planes prior to the outbreak of war” in Europe in 1939. ‘‘We developed the dive bomb er yet we had none. We are just getting them now. We pioneered in self-sealing gas tanks, but aban doned them and the Germans dem onstrated how necessary they are.” The Maritime Commission, the re port declared, “has failed to provide adequately for the movement of strategic raw materials by use of the tonnage actually or potentially under its control.” Overall, the committee said that it had uncovered evidence disclosing “a sordid picture of excessive com missions by brokers, profits by ven dors, exorbitant salaries, bonuses and huge fees for jnanagement and related services in man., War de partment contracts.' The government has a responsibil ity, committeemen said, to “elimin ate exorbitant profits not after the war is over but during the period the war is being prosecuted.” Salient sentences from the house military committee report criticizing War department contracts: The time has come when the con tractors’ honeymoon at the expense of the taxpayers of the nation must end. Unbelievable red tape, top heavy organization and a lack of orienta tion to a state of war still lead the pa'rade in war-time Washington. The time has come to call a halt to the further use of cost-plus-a fixed-fee contracts and (the commit tee) recommends that they be ban ned except in unique cases. There has been evidence of wide spread and inexcusable waste of public funds amounting to millions of dollars. While it is true that victory must be achieved regardless of the cost, this does not mean that there is a “go ahead’’ signal for the spending of American dollars with abandon. The Maritime Commission has failed to provide adequately for the movement of strategic raw materials by use of the tonnage actually or potentially under its control. The Air Corps overlooked many opportunities to have much more ef ficient and modern planes prior to the outbreak of war. We. have persisted in using out moded methods of purchasing while the Axis pow'ers were adopting a realistic approach. -V-. WEATHER (Continued From Page One) WASHINGTON, June 23.—(£>)—Weath er bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. m . in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: Station High Low Prec. Asheville _ 80 64 0.00 Atlanta _•_ 85 68 0.00 Boston _ 76 61 0.00 Buffalo _ 68 56 0.00 Chicago - 67 50 0.00 Charlotte _ 89 72 0.00 Denver _ 79 52 0.00 Detroit _ 68 55 0.00 El Paso_ 98 68 0.00 Fort Worth _ 91 68 0.00 Galveston _ 92 78 0.00 Jacksonville _ 83 70 0.71 Louisville - 75 59 0.00 Meridian _ 8S 68 0.00 Miami _ 91 78 0.00 New Orleans_ 86 72 0.0C New York_ 83 66 0.00 Forth nd, Me._ 70 59 0.00 Vv ashington - 85 70 0.00 Wilmington - 80 73 1.00 -Y NEW FLAVOR MIXES For some new flavor mixes, pat a little curry powder into cocktail sauces served on fish; rub the bowl in which you mix tomato or clam juice cocktails with garlic; add a “dash” of cinnamon and cloves to mashed, boiled or can died sweet potatoes 4 MANOR & THURS. Spencer Tracy—Mickey Rooney —IN— “MEN OF BOYS TOWN” Feature At 11:41 - 2:08 - 4:35 7:02 - 0:29 ARGENTINA WANTS SINKING EXPLAINED (Continued from Page One) lives in three sinkings since the war started. (Captain Scalese, disclosed for the first time in a CBS broadcast to Latin America tonight that United States airmen and patrol seamen were responsible for the rescue of the survivors. He ex pressed the thanks of the crew to the air force and the Navy for their aid in spotting and picking up the men.) The Ministry of Marir j in a spe cial announcement had already identified the submarine as the Innsbruck. As Gache spoke, strong police reinforcements were thrown about the German embassy and patrol men were assigned to guard Ger man business houses in Buenos Aires. Three socialist members of Con gress moved for a quick investiga tion of the torpedoing. A party caucus authorized Deputy Nico'ts Repetto to present a resolution Friday calling for an explanation of the government’s position, from foreign minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu. All of these developments posed a grave problem for acting Presi dent Ramon Castillo’s policy of “prudent neutrality.” BOMBED BY U. S. PLANES AN EAST COAST PORT, June 23—— The Argentine freighter Rio Tercero was torpedoed and sunk off the East coast of the United States Monday but before the attacking German U - boat could submerge it was bombed by American planes, a survivor said today. Dr. Francisco Aranbarri the only passenger aboard the vessel, said the Nazi submarine Innsbruck hit the ship less than 24 hours after it left New York City. The boat was about 100 miles out when attacked. “The torpedo struck without any warning at 6:45 a.m.,” he declar ed. “It smashed into the star board side amidship, exploding in the boiler room. Four men, who were working in the boiler room at the time, were killed in the explosion. Another sailof was suck ed down when the ship sank rapidly. “While the submarine was half submerged American planes ap peared and one of them dropped three bombs. A second plane dropped four bombs very rapidly. The submarine disappeared but we could not tell whelrer it had been hit or not. Not long afterward a blimp appeared in the sky and food was dropped to us.” Dr. Aranbarri said there could be no question as to the identify of the Rio Tercero as five Argen tine flags were painted on each side and there were three other flags painted elsewhere along with her name. He said the ship left New York about 3:30 p.m. Sunday with a general cargo. Describing the attack, he de clared: “The ship was gone in less than 10 minutes. We piled into two lifeboats on the port side and pull ed away as rapidly as we could. The lifeboats on the starboard side were destroyed by the torpedo ex plosion. About 15 minutes after the ship had sunk the submarine came to the surface about 300 yards away from the lifeboats, w h ich were tied together. “The submarine came near me boat and one of the men aboard spoke to the captain in English, ordering him to come on the U boat and hand over the ship’s papers. “There was no Nazi insignia on. the submarine, but its crew were obviously German and on the con ning tower was painted the name Innsbruck and an image of a por cupine.” Capt. Luis Scalese returned from the submarine shortly and the men rowed away in the lifeboats. They were picked up by an American naval vessel about 6 p. m. -V MALTA RAIDED AGAIN VALLETTA, Malta, June 23— (#)—After giving this island a com parative rest Axis raiders were back again in force last night but their high explosive and fire bombs did little damage. One enemy bomber was knocked down by anti-aircraft fire. -V TRUCKS BEING CONVERTED Owners of big auto - carrying truck in North Carolina are plan ning to convert them into passen ger vehicles for the duration. Arrive On Clipper Harold Beresford Butler (left), newly appointed British Minister to the United States, who will be director general ef the British In formation Services, and Dr. E. .N. van Kleffens, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands govern ment in exile, are shown after their arrival by clipper at New York’s UaGuardia Field.—Central Prpss Aging Elephant Gets A Lift REDS FALL BACK BEFORE GERMANS (Continued from Paje One) assaults, the Soviet Black sea fleet rendered invaluable assistance by shelling the enemy lines and bring, ing in supplies through a cascade of steel and fire, military dis patches said. The Russians claimed that the Germans and Rumanians who drove wedges into the north and south defense lines had been stopp ed, and that the foe never reached the depth of fortifications de spite a vast superiority in men and materiel. The Russians described the bat tlefield as a ghastly spectacle quaking under shells and bombs falling amid lilacs and poppies such as bloomed on Flanders Field in the last war. By night, fitful flashes of rockets, flares, tracer bullets and searchlights illuminat ed the skies. ihe Black Sea fleet—built around an old battleship, Russia’s lone air craft carrier, and numerous cruis ers and destroyers—sailed out into the Black Sea after striking a blow in support of its base. But the fleet’s air force stayed in the fight although the airdromes on land were under constant artillery and aerial bombardment. The Red fliers faced enormous numerical superiority, but repeatedly engag ed German planes and attacked tanks and ground troops. The Germans admittedly were adding to the violence of their at tacks with fresh reserves to re place their losses, reported to ex ceed more than 100,000 in dead alone. Dispatches said most at tacks were repulsed. (The Germans claimed deeper gains in Sevastopol’s fortifications, and said a landing attempt on the north coast of the sea of Azov was repulsed. “Numerous bunkers have been smashed in bitter hand-to hand fighting under the most diffi cult terrain conditions,” the com munique said of the Sevastopol battle.) Some German forces were ad mitted to have pounded past the front rim of fortifications forcing Russian units to withdraw, but the Russians said a violent two - day battle checked the advance. As the current assault on Sevas topol neared the end of its third week, the see-saw battle on the Kharkov front was reported grow ing tenser. The Germans attacked with several tank columns, many planes and much infantry in one sector, trying to break into an in habited place. One Russian unit fell back, Soviet accounts said, then a counter-attack from a new line drove the Germans back from several settlements. (Germany claimed 600 Russians were killed and 946 captured in mopping up remnants of a trapped division northeast of Kharkov. The communique said that there was slight activity in the central front and that heavy losses were inflict ed in bitter fighting on the Volkhov se c t o r northwest of Moscow “where the front is fluctuating con stantly.”) The Russian communique stated again that “no significant changes took place at the front” Monday night and detailed more than 1,650 Germans killed in the Orel, west ern (central) and northwestern fronts. “The Baltic fleet air arm stead ily is gaining mastery in the air,” the communique said referring to the Leningrad area. Ten ships were said to have been destroyed or damaged recently. -V Stamps 5 and 6 Are Next For Purchasing of Sugar Stamps number 5 ancb 6 in your first war ration book will be used next for sugar purchases. The county rationing board an nounced that Number 5 will be val id June 28-July 25 and Number 2 may be used July 28-August 22. Both are for the buying of three pounds. When the books were issued, the board pointed out, it was not made definite how stamps beyond Num ber 4 were to be utilized. 3 -V Outer China—Manchuria, Mon golia and Tibet—has an area of 1,577,000 square miles. Law Enforcement Officers Meet At N. C. State College RALEIGH, June 23—UP'—Approx imately 100 law enforcement offi cers of the Raleigh area gathered at N. C. State College here today at a policy school conducted by the Institute of Government in con nection with a quarterly police conference held by the Federal Bu reau of Investigation. Similar meetings will be held at Greenville tomorrow and at Wil mington Thursday. Albert Coates, head of the In stitute of Government, spoke to the officers here on the history of espionage and Fifth Column move ments, and Edward Scheldt of Charlotte, FBI special agent told of the Duquesne espionage case in New York several months ago which resulted in the conviction of 33 persons. Police Chief Walter F. Anderson of Winston-Salem spoke oh the training of auxiliary police and other brief talks were made by JoUflievt Misery of 0^66 ^^^UQUUXTABLETS. SALVE. NOSE DROPS Director Frederick C. Handy of the State .Bureau of Investigation and by Capt. Charles Farmer of the state highway patrol._ So Cooling and Soothing FOR linburn • Join tho thousands of sunbathors who uso Msntholatum bscauss it brings such cooling* soothing rslisf for sun burn. You will also bs grateful for its hslp in promoting mors rapid hsaling. 30c & 60c sisss. 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BRITISH HOUSE GROUP CHALLENGE CHURCHILL (Continued from Page One) dress attack on Churchill’s direc tion of the war as minister of de fense, charging over - optimism, failure to organize supplies and interference with the judgment of generals in the field. Thus today’s proceedings prepar ed the way for what one former cabinet minister privately called “the gravest cabine' crisis since the fall of the Chamberlain gov ernment.” Churchill’s safety depended upon his ability to keep members of his conservative party from bolting to join Wardlaw-Milne and the other Tory Rebels. There were indica tions outside commons that he was losing many supporters. For one thing, the conservative Daily Telegraph and Morning P ost, which spoke out forcibly for the prime minister after the fall of Singapore, has been hostile for several days For another, the Lon don Times called the hapless Brit ish decision to try to hold Tobruk “an error in judgment.” justified only if a quick counter - offensive was planned. Much of Attlee's statement con sisted of a long telegram from General Sir Claude J. E. Auchin leck, the British commander in the Middle East, dealing with mil itary -developments up to Saturday the day before Tobruk fell before an Axis assault of all arms. Neither this telegram nor Att lee’s statement mentioned the fight between British tanks and anti tank guns on June 13, the fight which experts call the decisive ac tion of this last desert campaign. Auchinleck’s report closed with the statement: “The Eighth Army still is in the field and has al ready received and is still receiv ing further reinforcements.” Attlee added: “The position is difficult but the fight for Libya continues. We still have s tro ng forces in the field. Substantial re inforcements, both land and air, which already have teen dispatch ed are arriving while others are on their way and any further ad vance by the enemy, who also has had heavy losses, will be stoutly opposed by our ground and a i r forces.” Churchill s spokesman also sum marized the Mediterranean convoy battles which preceded the climat ic Libyan fighting, and disclosed “serious” British losses which in cluded one light cruiser, four destroyers and two smaller escort vessels sunk. Against this, he said, the Axis lost to combined Ameri can-British air and British naval action, one 8-inch cruiser, two de stroyers and a U-boat sunk and “One battleship torpedoed.” Pre vious official reports said two Ital ian battleslvps. the 35,000-ton Lit torio and the smaller Conte Di Ca vour. had been hit by American bombs or British aerial torpedoes. Attlee said the Axis lost at least 65 planes; the British, 30. Auch inleck’s telegram placed the “cru cial moment’’ of the Libyan battle at the point late in May when Marshal Rommel’s Axis African Corps was wedged in the British advanced mine-field line, exhaust ed, in difficulty with supplies and having fought itself to a standstill. “Had we been able to take ad vantage of the enemy’s condition we might have turned the scale,” reported Auchinleck. “In point of fact, however, we were equally ex hausted and this was impossible.” Auchinleck disclosed that two imperial divisions caught at the upper end of the advanced line were withdrawn East of Tobruk in an operation whico was “largely successful,’’ and then related Gen eral Neil Ritchie’s decision to with draw his main strength toward the Egyptian frontier, “leaving what he considered to be an adequate garrison at Tobruk.” Then, on June 20, “the enemy attacked Tobruk from the south east and succeeded in penetrating the perimeter. Here Attlee took up the story, telling how enemy tanks and trucks loaded with infantry passed through the perimeter gap and, in ensuing battle inside the perimeter AXIS ON MARCH TOWARD EGYPT (Continued from Page One) across the Mediterranean soon. It is to prevent the latter that the Al lied airmen bombed as far away as Greece and Crete in addition to steadily bombing and strafing Lib yan ports, airdromes and troops on the move. The RAF was joined in these sorties by South Africans operating American-made Douglas Boston bombers. The South Africans bombed Axis transport vehicles between Tobruk, 80 miles from Egypt, and Fort Cap uzzo, on the border, and smashed at Baheira airdrome, 2S miles from the border. In addition, the RAF reported tor pedoing’ an Axis supply ship in the Mediterranean. With tho exception of the British equipment losses and the Axis chances to shorten supply routes and reinforce Libya, the situation was much like that of last summer, when the Germans and Italians also were at the Egyptian frontier, or of September, 1940, when the Italians were camped 70 miles inside Egypt. Voicing- confidence, S i r Miles Lampson, British ambassador to Egypt, declared, “the situation is satisfactory. We shall beat the enemy decisively.” He insisted that “last year the situation was much worse, and in spite of that we won.” With Malta largely neutralized, however, the extent of Axis rein forcements sent to Libya is believed to depend on what can be spared from Europe rather than the haz ards of the Mediterranean crossing. As analyses continued here, seek ing- tlie reasons for the reverse in Libya, it seemed more than ever confirmed that the main reason was greater skill on the part of the Ger mans in handling armored units and artillery, especially the 88 millimeter guns which knocked out so many British tanks. Shells from this gun are of a semi-rocket type, said to gain great er range by gases produced after being fired. The 88 was thus able to destroy many of the best tanks on this side, such as the U. S.-made General Grants, which have 75 millimeter guns, before the tanks could get within range of the German artil lery. The Germans did not have more material in bulk than the British did, but theirs was better selected, better coordinated and better ap plied. 13 ALLIED SHIPS ATTACKED BY SUBS (Continued from Page One) eager to go to sea again and this was the way Mrs. Edna T. Johans son, 48. of New Orleans, steward ess and sole woman aboard a Unit ed States passenger-cargo ship, ex pressed her feelings after her ship was torpedoed: “Well, they don’t scare me. And with all these boys of ours taking ships out—we’ve got to stick to gether. I hope I’ll never have to be afraid. If I was a man I’d go after them (the Germans) and I don’t mean maybe."’ 3 “we lost very heavily in tanks and the situation deteriorated rapidly. During the night the mobile por tion of the garrison began to fight its way out. We have as yet no details of the subsequent fiahting.” In dealing with the Mediterran ean sea-air battles, Attlee disclos ed that two convoys were started for Malta, one from West and one from East, in order to divide the Axis forces which were certain to attack in heavy force. The east bound convoy, he said, reached Malta June 16 “although with se rious losses.” The westbound con voy, after passing supply ships into Tobruk, cruised while British and U. S. planes from Malta and Egypt attacked the main Italian fleet which was maneuvering to bar the convoy’s passage to Malta. So much fuel was used up in this “avoiding action” that the convoy had to turn back to Alexandria instead of proceeding to Malta.
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