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"g^ed By Leased Wire Of The ■ ■■■ ■■ —-— associated press REMEMBER ! WIDE WORLD With Complete Coverage Of PEARL HARBOR State and National News AND BATAAN -- ESTABLISHED 1867. |VG Destroys 1 Jap Vessels |t China Port flying Tigers Begin Action With Bombardment Of Hankow Base WARSHIP SENT DOWN jTransports Also; Others Probably Damaged By American Fliers CHUNGKING, June 25.— (P)—The American Flying Tigers, launching offensive action in central China with s bombardment of Japan’s principal inland base of Han kow, have sunk one Japanese warship and three transports at that Yangtze river port. The airme n, formally known as the American Vol unteer Group and whose serv ile for China predates Pearl Harbor, will become the nu cleus of the United States Air Force in China by their induc tion into the Army on July 4. Today's AVG communique, reporting- on the Hankow at tack of Tuesday, said it was the work of fighters con certed into bombers and add ed that besides the four ships destroyed other vessels probably sere damaged and military estab lishments blown up. This thrust at the heart or the Japanese invasion of China was a aeartening expansion of American air activitiy for this c o u a t ry which in nearly five years of a tar has been almost entirely lack ing in a modern air arm. Within a half-month, since the AVG entered the fight in the southern province of Kwangsi, the ihark-nosed planes of the Flying Tigers have been reported in ac iion at two places in Hunan prov ince and now in Hupeh, of which Hankow is the capital. The influence of the AVG on air tar in China is most noticeable llere at Chungking. The Chinese (Continued on Page Six; Col. *) PARADETOOPEN WAR BOND DRIVE Merchants Of City Will Sell Nothing But Bonds For 15 Minutes A patriotic parade, A radio ad dress by the mayor and a 15-min ute period during which nothing but war bonds and stamps will be sold in stores will mark the open ing of Wilmington’s month-long “Retailers for Victory” bond and stamp campaign on Wednesday. Plans for the opening day ac tivities were made yesterday aft ernoon in a meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce retail merchants division. Blasts by the city’s air raid si rens at noon will be a grim re minder to Wilmingtonians of the importance of buying stamps and bonds and will signal the begin ning of the 15-minute nothing-but bonds sale in stores. Use of the alarms was offered by Defense Corps Commander C. David Jones. A radio talk on the drive by Mayor Hargrove Bellamy rtl follow immediately. Preceding the 12 o’clock open ing of the Campaign will be a downtown parade, arrangements for which are being made by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Wilmington’s quota for the drive (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) weather FORECAST: north Carolina—Little change to temperature Friday. 'Meteorological data for the 24 hours dlng 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) By u. S. Weather Bureau) . Temperature: jjl'r a- m- 72; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. m. < 30 p. m. 79; maximum 83; minimum ’ mean 76; normal 78. i.on Humidity: a. m. 94; 7;30 a> m g2. 1;30 p m * 7:30 P. m. 68. k, Precipitation: Onri ^ for the 44 hours ending 7:30 p. m. , inches; total since the first day of • month. 3.75 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY i 1 «orr\ the Tide Tables published by ^ Coast and Geodetic survey): Win> High Low yvlmiingi.on _ 7:37a. 2:24a. M 8:2°p. 2:43p. sonboro inlet _ 5:14a. 11:33a 6 6:00p. p. ' 5:°2a; sunset 7:27p; moonrise l'oUp: moonset 3:20a. t ape Fear river stage at Fayette lUe» 8 a. m. Thursday, 9.05 feet. (Continued on Page Five; Col. 2) Flying Pioneer Dorothy C. Bohanna, 26, of Brooklyn, is a pioneer of the trans-Atlantic flying boat service. Chief stewardess of a plane that arrived in New York the night of Jiune 23 on its first commercial flight from England, she is the first woman member of a trans Atlantic. flight crew. She got her first experience with a commer cial line flying between New York and Kansas City. CHURCHILL WINS SUPPORT AT HOME Many House Members Ral ly Behind Prime Minister As Insurgents Rise LONDON, June 25—W— Govern ment supporters rallied quickly be hind Winston Churchill tonight aft er 20 critics 'of the Prime Min ister’s war direction had introduc ed a non-confidence motion in the House of Commons. Four conservatives and a nation al unionist signed an amendment to the insurgents’ motion, pledg ing “unqualified support” to Churchill, and members predict ed the government would beat down the condemnatory motion aft er bitter debate. The insurgents, however, were confident that the vote would show many conservative abstentions and a growing lack of faith in the Prime Minister’s strategical judg ment, particularly in consequence of the British defeat in Africa. The debate will take place after Churchill returns from America. It may be preceded by a general shakeup in the fighting services which will disarm many critics. One suggestion heard now is that Churchill appoint a chief of com bined general staff to direct all British strategy. The chief charge of Churchill’s critics is that his present strategic planning, as minister of defense, emphasizes aims and disregards the difficulty of finding means for a series of widely diversified op erations in which there is no truly coordinated staff work. The debate is expected to reflect (Continued on Page Two; Col. 6) TRAVELSORVEY TO BE STARTED Local War Group Will Check City’s Problems On Transportation A survey to ascertain the city’s current transportation problems will be the first task undertaken by the new Wilmington war trans portation committee headed by President N. E. Drexler of the Tide Water Power company. Mr. Drexler said, after the group’s first meeting in his office yesterday afternoon, that after the survey is complete the committee will recommend a plan of “stag gered” hours for plants and busi ness houses to facilitate more effi cient use of available transporta tion equipment. It will also recommend use of mass transportation companies and an increase in the number of riders using each passenger car. Consideration will be given to the timing of traffic signal lights dur ing rush hours to and from produc tion plants. “Our most important job,” Mr. Drexler said, “is education. We must inform the public through newspapers and civic organizations (Continued on Pafe Two; Col. 3) Japanese Sub Sinks Sovie| Merchants Reds Charge Angarstr&i Sunk On May 1 Off Coast Of Japan By U-Boats CREW SEES ATTACKERS Two Raiders Follow Life boats Until Picked Up By Russian Craft MOSCOW, Friday, June 26. (£*)—A Japanese submarine torpedoed and sank the 4,761 ton Russian merchant vessel Angarstroi on May 1 off the coast of Japan, the Soviet government charged today in its first mention of a sinking which the Japanese had blamed upon the United States. The Russian crew, which is now in Harbin, Manchuria, on its way home, reported that two Japanese submarines had come to the surface immedi ately after the Angarstroi sank at a point 32 miles off the Japanese coast. The Japanese press tried to blame an American subma rine for the sinking, the So viet radio recalled, and then added, “but this version does not coincide with the facts” as disclosed by the survivors. The two Japanese subma rines stayed with the surviv ors in small boats until an other Russian vessel picked them up and landed them at Dairen, in Japanese-leased territory at the tip of the Kwantung penin sula south of Manchuria. The Soviet announcer said that the Angarstroi first was halted by (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) CAMPDAVBO. C. S. TO INCREASE AGAIN To Meet Need For Officers, Original Quota Will Be Enlarged To meet a need for anti-aircraft officers, the Anti-aircraft School at Camp Davis will increase the fa cilities of its Officer Candida' ■> Di vision on July 1, it has been an nounced by the War Department. Although no figures were quoted in the announcement, it is appar ent that the Officer Candidate School will step up its training pro gram to exceed the original quota of 17,000 officer graduates a year. Expansion of the officer candi date program affords increased op portunities for enlisted men in the (Continued on Page Three; Col. 5) War Council Optimistic Over Entire Situation 1 WASHINGTON, June 25.— UP) — Members of the Pacific war coun cil and of the Senate and House discussed war conditions and war plans today with President Roose velt an Prime Minister Churchill and, with complete unanimity, said they received definite impressions that there was reason for encour agement in the over-all situation. This applied particularly to Egypt, they indicated. Just what the reasons for this were could not be definitely ascer tained, but Representative Martin, of Massachusetts, the House min ority leader, said the British Prime Minister had indicated that Egypt and the Suez Canal were not in too great danger. And Walter Nash, New Zealand s Minister to this country asserted that the situation in North Africa was not so bad as it might appear. He made that statement, he said, not alone on the basis of evidence presented by Churchill, but also from information of his own. There are things in Egypt, Nash declared, “that might make it awk ward” for the enemy, and he said that was true regardless of reports that the Nazis had penetrated Egypt for 60 miles. Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill held separate conferences, first with the Congressional leaders, then with the Pacific council members. While the Pacific theatre of war naturally received major attention at the latter parley, the scope of the discussions clearly transcended MacArthur Fans _ O ^ Little Danny Gifford, 10 (left), recently wrote to Gen. Douglas MacArthur to convince his pal with him, Jackie Fahy, that Pearl Harbor was not held by the Japs. He is shown shaking hands with Jackie after receiving a reply from MacArthur which said that Pearl Harbor was under the American’ flag. “They didn’t take it,” the note read, “and don’t be afraid, Danny, they won’t take it.”—(Central Press.) NAVY ANNOUNCES LOSS OF 2 SHIPS Tug Gannet And YP-389 Sunk In Atlantic; 20 Lives Lost WASHINGTON, June 25— MB — The Navy announced today that enemy submarines had sunk two small patrol vessels off the At lantic coast earlier this month with a total loss of twenty lives. The communique, “Atlantic area: 'T. Two small anti-anti-subma rine patrol craft have been lost off the Atlantic coast during the current month as the result of enemy submarine attacks. “2. The US Gannet, a sea-going tug, used to service patrol planes, was torpedoed and sunk. Sixteen members of the crew were lost. "3. The YP-389, a small fishing craft, which had been taken over by the Navy and armed for anti submarine patrol duty, was sunk by gunfire. Four members of the crew were lost. “4. The next of kin of all cas ualties have been notified.” Commanding officers of both vessels were saved. Commander of the 840-ton Gan (Continued on Page Three; Col. S) -v Thousands Of Canadians Convoyed Across Ocean By United States Navy AT A BRITISH PORT, Friday, June 26.— (tf) —Protected so care fully by United States warships that none of the soldiers aboard reported hearing a depth charge, thousands of Canadian troops from a score of training centers in the Dominion have arrived in Britain to add power to the mighty Allied army assembling here. The convoy also brought Cana dian airmen, firemen, nurses, Brit ish Honduras technicians and members of the Netherlands army. Fair weather helped the United States Naval escort speed the cros sing of the large convoy. 3 that restricted area and covered the rest of the war fronts. T. V. Soong, China’s foreign min ister, said the conferees were aware of the importance of the Orient in the war picture, adding: (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) ANOTHER CZECH VILLAGE OBLITERA TED BY GERMANS; REDS SAY KUPYANSK LOST 4 _ _i_- - -- —- n Rail Junction Near Kharkov Falls To Axis ————— City Only 40 Miles North Of Izyum; Also On Oskol River SEVASTOPOL IN RUINS Strange New Enemy Weap on Throwing Explosives Into Fortress MOSCOW, Friday, June 26. (/P)—Falling back again be fore the hammer blows of what appears to be a full fledged German offensive in the Ukraine, the Russians early today acknowledged the loss of the railway junction city of Kupyansk, 60 miles southeast of Kharkov. The Soviet Bureau of Infor mation announced that while the defenders of Sevastopol beat off continuing heavy enemy attacks yesterday, the hard-fighting soldiers of the Ukraine struggled against “advancing German Fascist troops.” The German drive in the Kharkov sector thus went into its fifth day with the Russians announcing for the first time in weeks the loss of an important town to the Nazis. Kupyansk is 40 miles north of Izyum, the northern end of the Izyum - Barvenkova line, the area in which the Russians this spring thwarted a German push toward Rostov by launching their own surprise offen sive. This German drive toward the coveted, oil-filled Caucasus now (Continued on Page Three; Col. 4) COL. fCROSKEY GETS PROMOTION Former Camp Davis Offi cer Advanced To Rating Of Brigadier General WASHINGTON, June 25.— M — President R o o s e v elt nominat ed nine brigadier generals for pro motion to the temporary grade of major general today and at the same time advanced 44 colonels and one lieutenant colonel to the temporary grade of brigadier gen eral. The lieutenant colonel advanced two grades to brigadier general was Robert M. Montague of the field artillery, whose home is Port land, Ore. The promotions were explained (Continued on Page Two; Col. 4) New Gas Rationing Plans WillHaveFew Loopholes ' M Explanation of the types of gas oline ration books to be issued in the July 9, 10 and 11 registration, which becomes effective July 22, was explained to rat iop board members, voluntary workers dur ing the last registration, school teachers, gasoline distributors and retailers by E. H. Schellenberg, state OPA field agent on fuel ad ministration for 20 counties, at a meeting last night in the court house. The basic "A” book will be is sued every class of passenger car owner regardless of occupation, Mr. Schellenberg said, except the following five classes: (1) a ve hicle owned or leased by a Federal state, local or foreign government of government agency, (2) an am. bulance or hearse, (3) a taxi, jit ney, livery vehicle , or vehicle available for public rental, (4) a vehicle which is part of a fleet of four or more similar vehicles WPB MAY LIMIT NEW BUILDINGS Barracks And Dormitories Can Take Place Of Single Units WASHINGTON, June 25- (tf) — War housing construction, stripped to bare essentials by shortages of materials, may be concentrated before the end of this year large ly on barracks and dormitories, Donald M. Nelson told Congress today. In a special report to the Senate defense investigating committee, the war production chief also de clared that materials problems were principal factors in decisions to curtail building of new war plants and substitute wood for steel in construction of small warships. As to war housing, Nelson said: “We have been stripping the specifications just as far as we possibly can to eliminate the most vital materials, but even lumber is now short in view of the many demands for it.” “Before the year is out,” he con tinued, “the use of barracks and dormitories to a much larger ex tent than now is the case may be necessary. In that way, limited supplies of materials can provide housing for more workers than by building individual units.” As to the war plants situation, (Continued on Page Three: Col. 8) -V Canada Sends Air Power To Aid Aleutian Fight OTTAWA, June 25—W—Canada has sent “several” fighter and bomber squadrons to the Alaskan area to fight beside the United States airmen against the United nese but it cannot be disclosed yet whether the Canadians have seen action against the enemy, Air Minister C. G. Power announced today. Power added that Canada's own Pacific defenses had been “con siderably” reinforced. The Canadians in Alaska, oper ating from bases provided by the United States army, are working under United States operational control but there is a “completely unified command” all along the coast. 5 Axis Armies Advancing In Egypt; Battle May Be Fought At Matruh - r CAIRO, June 25.—UP—The Axis armored columns were deep in Egypt tonight, penetrating desert terrain never before contested and advancing with all the force that Marshal Erwin Rommel could muster for a major attack on Mat ruh, 130 miles east of the Libyan border. At the cost of severe losses in flicted by British mobile columns and aircraft which covered a swift retreat of the main elements of the British eighty army, the in vaders by last nightfall were ap proximately half way from the frontier to Matruh, having passed southeast of Sidi Barrani, 60 miles inside Egypt. General Neil M. Ritchie aban doned his fixed frontier positions of Salum and Sidi Omar to fall far back to battle territory of his own choosing, and it appeared the first great fight for the valley of the Nile would be pitched some where about Matruh. Marshal Rommel in his swift drive is using recently - captured British and American tanks, quick ly turning to his own use these weapons originally made to stop him. The invading Axis column also includes a number of French tanks. Much other war booty also is be ing used. The Germans are using captured trucks after making no alteration except to paint a swas tika on the tops. The British fully anticipate that as soon as Rommel’s main force comes in contact with the eighth army, there will be an airdrome attack from Crete by German par achute and glider troops. The ob jective of such an attack may well be the great naval station at Alex andria. In large measure, therefore, British hopes of holding the enemy short of Alexandria and the Nile basin were pinned on getting sub stantial air reinforcements. Enemy communiques said he al ready was in possession of Sidi Barrani, easternmost city attained by the Italians in 1940 and from which they were ejected by Gen eral Wavell’s small imperial army in December of that year. (Berlin and Rome also announc ed the occupation of the frontier posts of Salum, Halfaya pass and Fort Capuzzo on tfce border. A Ber lin spokesman said: “The main ob jective of General Field Marshal Rommel’s operations is the de struction of British forces, but it is uncertain what geographical aim he may be pursuing.”) Only on a 40-mile line south of Matruh to the soft, sandy wastes of the Quattara depression was the terrain favorable to establishment of a British defense line without extreme danger that Rommel’s forces would skirt the British flank and roll up the defenders toward the sea. That was the explanation of Ritchie’s retreat. 3 used principally in the business or occupation (whether gainful or not) of the same person, and (5) a ve hicle held by a dealer for sale or resale. If a motorist registering does not check one of the five above items in making out his application he will receive a basic “A” book which allows him 32 gallons of gasoline for 60 days. Available at the place of registration are "D” books for motorcycles. After a person has received an application blank from the regis tration place for gasoline use in trucks, tractors, buses, stationary engines, etc., he must fill in the application and then report to the ration board, or a board of regis trars set up to handle supplemen tary rationing to obtain his book. Before a person is eligible for a supplementary ration book he must prove that he hauls three or more persons or explain why he cannot. Some of the acceptable reasons of why he cannot haul that number of passengers are lim ited seating capacity of automo bile, no fixed work, unusual hours of work or no fixed route. Mr. Schelienberg explained that under the new regulations motor ists will come under one of two classes either limited occupational group or essential occupational group. He said all motorists come under the limited occupational group except such as public offi cials, mail carriers under contract school officials who have to travel from one school to another, whole sale delivery of newspapers and magazines, doctors, ministers, farmers who do not own a truck, military personnel, etc. Those in the limited occupation (Continued on Page Five; Col. 5) COUNTYELECTION FEATURES 2 RACES Sinclair, Moore For Dis trict Solicitor; Wade, LeGrand For Senate New Hanover county voters will go to the polls Saturday to casf their ballots in pnly two races— solicitor for the Eighth Judicial district, and State Senator repre senting New Hanover and Bruns wick counties—since all county of fices were filled in the first pri mary. Seeking the solicitorship are David Sinclair, incumbent, and Clifton L. Moore, Burgaw attorney. In the first primary Mr. Moore re ceived a total of 5,568 votes to Mr. Sinclair’s total of 5,019. Alton A. Lennon, recorder for New Hanover county and third candidate in the race, polled a total of 3,936 votes. In the run-off for the state sen ate seat from this district are James E. L. Wade and Jack Q. Le Grand. Mr. Wade received 2,042 votes in the first primary against 2,027 for LeGrand, J. C. Hobbs, third man in the race received 1,145 votes. The eighteen polling place? in the county will open at 6:30 o’clock Saturday morning and close at 6:30 in the evening, H. G. Carney, chair man of the county elections board, said Thursday night. The polling places are: first ward; second ward, first precinct; second ward, second precinct; third ward, first precinct; third ward, second precinct; fourth ward; fifth ward, first precinct; fifth ward, second precinct; sixth ward, first precinct; sixth ward, second pre cinct; Sunset Park, Federal Point, Masonboro, Winter Park, Seagate, Seven Mile Post, East Wilmington and Cape Fear. The ABC board announced Thurs day that all ABC stores in New Hanover county would be closed 'aturday because of the election, iill liquor stores must close on elec tion day under North Carolina law. -V Hawaii Gets New Money; Will Bear Overprint HONOLULU, June 25.—U. S. currency over-printed with the word “Hawaii” will be used in the islands after July 15, the military governor’s office reported today. The distinctive marking, it was explained, will make the currency “easily identifiable and readily ac cessible in event of an emer gency.” Observers said such over printing would have prevented cir culation of Japanese prepared currency which the invaders brought into the Philippines. Civilians were asked to exchange present currency at their banks before July 15 for the new over printed issue, exportation of which is prohibited. Slay 100 Men In Reprisals For Heydrich Little Town Of Lezalcy Razed As Lidice Was Few Weeks Ago ADULT MALES KILLED No Word On Remainder Of Population; Other Czechs Killed LONDON, June 25.—(,/P)— Nazi have obliterated a sec ond humble Czech village and slain all its men in reprisal for the assassination of Rein hard Heydrich, the hangman, it was stated today in reports filtering from the terror ruled confines of Germany’s “new Europe.” The community was Lez aky, population 100, in a farming district of Bohemia about 70 miles southeast of Prague. Its death sentence appar ently was identical to that which the Germans them selves announced on June 10 had been meted out to Lidice, near Prague. Lidice’s male population of about 350 all died by firing squad, its women were sent to concentration camps and its children to "educational insti tutions.” Today listeners for the Czecho-Slovak government-in exile reported that a Buda pest broadcast said Lezaky had been razed. The Budapest ra dio quoted official announcements in the Prague. It did not say what happened to the people, but the Vichy French news service quoted the announce ment as saying all adult males had (Continued on Page Two; Col. 8) LUTLEOiLMEN MAY GO BANKRUPT Ickes Reveals Facts Be cause Of Increased Cost Of Gas Transport WASHINGTON, June 2*5.— (ffl — Secretary Ickes, contending that wartime dislocations threatened to create actual shortages of oil for military use, asked Congress today to establish a $500,000,000 govern ment corporation with broad pow ers over production and distribu tion of petroleum products. Testifying before the House Banking committee, the interior secretary and petroleum coordina tor said there was a prospect that many small oil companies might ' go bankrupt because of the in creased cost of transporting petro leum supplies. Their failure, he asserted, would mean that “military and essential civilian users may fail to get petro leum supplies which they must have.* “Certainly, unless positive action is taken in this field,” he contin ued, “we must all steel ourselves to face a whole series of probably unnecessary stringent rationing or (Continued on Page Two; Col. U Wilmington’s Scrap Rubber Collection Totals to date in Wilming* ton’s “Salvage for Victory” scrap rubber campaign: Standard Oil .. 50,179 pounds MacMillan and Cameron _ 33,773 pounds Fountain Oil __ 18,750 pounds American Oil .. 13,600 pounds Gulf Oil. 13,077 pounds Shell -... 9,000 pounds Texas Co. _ 7,437 pounds The total_145,816 pounds
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