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Bremen Fired Again By RAF Bombardment “There Isn’t Much Left” Is Word From London After 2nd Raid OTHER points blasted jlir Fields And War Plants Hit; Also Shipping In Channel LONDON, June 28.—(/P)— The RAF rekindled the smouldering fires of devas tated Bremen overnight in the second massive assault tvithin three days upon that spawning ground of submar ines prowling the Atlantic and today the word in London tvas: "there can’t be much left of Bremen.” The air ministry, without disclosing just how many planes participated in this re turn raid upon Germany’s second largest port, said it ,.3S made by a “strong force,” the same phrase used to describe obliter j.ion vai<is by more than 1,000 bomb plj Thursday night against Bremen earlier against Cologne and Essen. ve,v big fires were added to those st.i; burning from the last attack Thursday night the air ministry s;d.l of this 95th RAF assault of the war upon the once-thriving German port and shirbuilding center. .Tight raiding British squadrons, mostly American-made and RAF manned Bostons, blasted other (Continued on Page Two; Col. 7) SHIP NOWBUILT EVERY SIX DAYS Launching Of S. S. Upshur Here Marks Step-Up In Construction Rate With the launching of the SS Abel Parker Upshur at 11 o’clock Sun day morning, another L i b e rty Freighter — seventeenth to leave the ways at the North Carolina Shipbuilding company — slid into the Cape Fear waters en route to the fitting pier and to the Atlantic to join the fight for victory. As the spectators gathered and waited for the blocks to be knock ed from under the Upshur, Mrs. Arthur C. Rohn of Washington, D. C., wife of a Maritime commission representative, stood holding the champagne and crashed it against the bow of the ship with its first movement down the ways to the Cape Fear. Matrons of honor for Mrs. Rohn were Mrs. William C. Park, of Wilmington and Mrs. Randolph (Conlinued on Page Two; Col. 5) lord Glanely Killed In German Air Raid Over British Town LONDON, June 28—UR— Lord Glanely. sportsman and steamship owner whose career was often epit omized in the phrase “from cabin boy to millionaire,’ was killed last light in a German air raid on a southwest town where he had leased a house a few weeks ago. Glanely, born William James Tatem 74 years ago, went to sea as a boy. Having suffered ship wreck he went to work in a ship ping office and later founded the Tatem steamship company with one small vessel. In a few years he controlled a fleet of merchant ships and had become one of the wealthiest men in Wales. He was created a baronet in '916 and a first baron two years later. WEATHER > FORECAST: aORTH CAROLINA—Little change y1 temperature Monday, possibly a few scattered showers, mostly in mountains and south portions. 'Meteorological data for the 24 hours -ncjing 7:30 p. m. yesterday): (EASTERN STANDARD TIME) 'By U. S. Weather Bureau) Temperature: .J:30 a. m. 73; 7:30 a. m. 74; 1:30 p. m. 1-30 p. m. 76; normal 78. Humidity: . 1;30 a. m. 86; 7:30 a. m. 8; 1:30 p. m. ”;30 p. m. 88. Precipitation: r°tal for the 24 hours ending 7:30 / in- 0.29 inches; total since the first a-v of the month. 4.04 inches. TIDES FOR TODAY: . fErom the Tide Tables published by S. Coast and Geodetic Survey): High Low MImington _10:23a. 5:16a 10:56p. 5:26p uasonboro Inlet _ 8:09a. 3:11a. 8:46p. 2:16p. Sunrise 5:03a: sunset 7:27p; moonrise •36P; moonset 6:19a. #Cnntinu«d on Page Two; CoJ. 7) The Old And The _ A contrast in ages is furnished on a street in Cairo, Egypt, when this fast jeep, driven by Master Sergt. Kindle Walston, of Louisville, Ky., passes a donkey cart loaded W*jjina lves‘ me.n *n •'eeP are *’ust a tew of the U. S. troops stationed in the middle east under Maj. Gen. Russell L. Maxwell. Note that the natives carry umbrellas to shade themselves from the burning sun while the soldiers don’t seem to mind it. —Central Press. Canterbury Cathedral Damaged In Nazi Raid LONDON, June 28—I®—1The Ger man air raid, June 1, on Canter bury, cradle of Anglican Christi anity, damaged the famous cathe dral, destroyed several historic buildings and laid waste much of the residential section, it was dis closed today. The damage to the cathedral was estimated at many thousands of dollars although the edifice escap ed a direct hit by high explosives which, however, wrecked the mod ern library and deanery, and bat tered King’s School, England’s old est public school. Somerset Maugham, the novelist, Is perhaps the best known living graduate of the school which serv ed as the background for some of the early scenes in his novel “Of Human Bondage.” Hundreds of the cathedral win dows were blown out. The whole area was littered with rubble and ships and homes in the vicinity were set afire. The ancient stained glass had been removed from the cathedral at the outbreak of the war. Ineendiaries fell on the cathedral roof but were smothered before se rious fire could start. St. Augus tine’s chair on which archbishops for centuries sat during the en thronement ceremony was undam aged but St. George’s church was destroyed. In the town itself the Royal Fountain Hotel, 800 years old, (Continued on Page Two; Col. 5) TREASURYSCANS NEW INCOME LEVY Seek To Impose Higher Taxes Without Hitting Those With Fixed Debts WASHINGTON, June 28— UP> — The Treasury, seeking a way to impose higher income taxes than those in the pending bill without penalizing too heavily persons who have fixed debt charges to meet, is studying a special income levy from which at least part of “saved” income would be exempt. The plan, called a “spendings tax.” would be imposed on top of the income tax contemplated 'r. the bill approved last week bv t h e House Ways and Means commit tee. Its effect would be to increase the tax on income ordinarily spent for various commodities out not on income used, for example, to meet mortgage payments. This idea, it was learned today, was broached by Randolph Paul, tax adviser to Secretary Morgen thau, in a memorandum prepared for the Ways and Means commit tee. Paul made no specific recom mendations and did not “saved” income but indicated that the exemptions would cover such things as payments on a home, purchase of war bonds and pos sibly life insurance premiums. As he outlined it. the central thought was that income taxes could not be placed as high as .he Treasury thinks they ought to go without an intolerable hardship on persons who must meet fixed o 1 gations such as payments on a house Yet to exempt such pay ments from the regular income tax would be inequitable. Consequently, the spending iax is under study as a sort of super income tax applying, after basic (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 4) CONGRESS FACING LEGISLATIVE JAM 5 Regular Supply Bills De layed By Disagreements Between Houses WASHINGTON, June 28— UP) — Congress found itself confronted today with the prospect of a call for overtime work to break a legis ■ lative jajm made up of appropria tions bills for operation of half a dozen government agencies in the fiscal year beginning Wednesday. Five regular supply bills are tied up by disagreements between the Senate and House, and on some of them the chances for reaching an early agreement are not? so bright. Should the bills not be enacted by midnight Tuesday, the agencies indvolved technically would be without funds to start the new fis cat year. Though money could be made available to them by a resolution authorizing continuance of present operations, congressional leaders indicated they would try to push the bills through before the dead line by holding night sessions if necessary. Further Senate consideration of the regular appropriations meas ures will be delayed for action first on a $43,000,000,000 war supply bill --biggest in kistory—, and both House and Senate must dispose of a supplemental appropriation measure carrying almost $2,000. 000,000 for miscellaneous war agen cies. The House is scheduled to act on the laH-'r bill tomorrow and the Senate expects to pass the big war supply measure at the same time Heading the bills still in dis agreement is the $680,000,000 Agri culture department appropriation, on which conferees from the Sen ate and the House have failed to agree in several past meetings. The main bone of contention in (Continued on Page Two; Col. 3) i -V NAZI GOVERNMENT THREATENS BRAZIL Charge Persecution Of Na tionals In South Ameri can Country BERLIN (From German Broad casts), June 28—(i?)—The German government, calling attention to what it charged were increasing anti - German manifestations in Brazil, threatened today to take “counter - measures” unless the Brazilian government “puts an end to these grievances.” A formal statement called the treatment of Germans in Brazil "persecution” and placed the blame largely upon Foreigh Minis ter Oswaldo Aranha who announc ed Brazil’s termination of relations with the Axis at the Pan-American foreign ministers conference in Rio De Janeiro last January. The government communique re ferred to various incidents in which it said Germans were the objects of riotous demonstrations in Brazil, delcared that country’s anti - Axis (Continued on Face Two; Col. 2) a 3 MILLION YOU US IN 18 YEAR G OUP 43 Million Men Will Have Been Registered Follow ing The Last Listing WASHINGTON, June 28— UP) — Selective Service will complete its registration of the nation’s man power next Tuesday by listing the 18 to 20 year group, an estimated 3,062,000 youngsters. The registration will be for those who were bom between December 31, 1921 and June 30, 1922. Twenty year-olds who reached that age before last December 31 were reg istered on February 16. With the Tuesday registration complete, the government w i 11 have a record of every man be tween 18 and 65 years of age, about 43,000,000. Under amendments to the orig inal Selective Service act, the army may call in those in the 20 year group. The 18 and 19 year olds are not presently liable to service. However, Major General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Serv ice chief, has said that it might be necessary to call them. president nooseveit nas indicat ed he will decide in a few months whether 'to recommend that Con gress again Smend the draft law to allow induction of the youngest group of registrants. Induction of 18 year old youths was authorized in the World War but the authorization came only a few months before the armistice and few if any of them e v er moved overseas. Those registering next Tuesday will be asked the same questions answered by their elders. National draft headquarters said they will be required to supply this information to their 1 o c al boards: Name, place of residence and mailing address; telephone num ber; age in years and date of birth; place of birth, name and address of a person who will al ways know the registrant’s where abouts, employer’s name and ad-1 (Continued on Page Eight; Col. 1) Nazis Launch New Assault On 3rd Front Drive At Soviet City Of Kursk, 280 Miles South Of Moscow SEVASTOPOL HOLDING Fortress Enters 25th Day Of Siege; Enemy At tacks Repulsed • MOSCOW, Monday, June 29.—(TP)—The Germans have opened a third major summer front with an offensive from the key strongpoint of Kursk, 280 miles south of Moscow, while pouring more and more men against the Russian de fenses in the Kharkov and Sevastopol battles, the Rus sians reported early today. (The Germans apparently sprang their new drive from strong entrenchments from which the Red army never was able to dislodge them during its great counteroffensive of last winter and early spring, which regained so much territory else where.) -“During June 28, in the Kursk direction, fighting continued with tiie German troops who had gone over to the offensive,” the Soviet bureau of information said in its midnight communique in officially announcing the new outbreak of fighting. As the siege of Sevastopol went into its 25th day, the Russians declared that the “historic defend ers’ of that torn Crimean port “are repulsing furious enemy at tacks.” The Soviet bureau of information said that in one sector alone the Germans “succeeded in somewhat pressing our units.” (Just what wds indicated by this admission was not further stated.) “On all other sectors the enemy attacks were repulsed with enor mous losses to him,” the com munique added. One unit alone (Continued on Page Two; Col. 2) -V BRITISH WAIT FOR CHURCHILL Becoming Composed For Best, Worst He May Have To Give Them LONDON, June 28—(VP)—1The Brit ish, shocked by the deafeat inflicted by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel in Libya and hopeful that their forces would avert a bad mauling in Egypt, are composing them selves for the best and worst Prime Minister Churchill will have to say in Parliament, possibly this week. The burning bitterness of t h e first news has passed. There was no lessening over the weekend of the demand for the truth about the Tobruk debacle, but in genera' the temper of the people and the press appeared to be one of settled de termination to get at the facts ob jectively and apply remedies with equal dispassionateness As for the critics who have been described as Churchill baiters, the thoughtful view prevailing in Lon don is that their guns would be (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) Congressmen Speculate On Visit Of Churchill WASHINGTON, June 28— UP) - The promise by President Roose velt and Prime Minister Churchill of coming operations to divert Ger man strength from the attack on Russia was widely interpreted in congress today as meaning a sec ond land front would be establish ed soon. Senator George (D. - Ga.), who took this viewpoint, predicted the next six months would be the most critical period of the war. “If Germany can be thwarted of her objectives in that period of time, she will lose the chance of winning,” he told reporters. “That does not mean,” he said, “that the war may not continue for a long, long time. But from the standpoint of the United Nations, the most crucial period is begin ning now.” Senator Bridges (R. - N. H.) agreed with George’s estimate that the establishment of a second land front was imminent, but Senator Ball (R.-Minn.) said he felt that United Nations operations must largely be confined to holding ac tions for the next six months. After that time, he predicted, men and materials would be distributed to the fighting fronts in sufficient numbers to turn the tide to the of fensive. Ball commented: “The American people ought not to forget, however, that we have our toughest period of the war ahead of us right now.” Some senators said they inter preted the statement issued by the American and British war leaders as indicating that there might be greater cooperation between the navies of the two countries in com batting the Axis submai'ine cam paign and possibly a pooling of merchant shipping resources. The President and Mr. Churchill said it was hoped that as a result of steps planned at their confer ence, the navies of the two coun tries would be able to reduce the toll of cargo vessels. Chairman Connally (D.-Tex.) of the Senate foreign Relations com mittee said it was his view that (Continued on rage Two; Col. 1) —■ .... — — ■ ■■ -.... -.. .. — ■- ■ . I — — ■ . W _ ____ it Saboteurs To Be Handled ‘Swiftly, Thoroughly’ WASHINGTON, June 28— <P) — Attorney General Biddle promised today that the government would deal “swiftly and thoroughly” with the eight Nazi saboteurs who land ed on American shores from U boats. “The question of prosecution has not yet been settled,” Biddle tolcl reporters. “There are a number of complicating legal factors in volved. However, you may be sure that the Department of Justice will proceed with this case swiftly and thoroughly.” While Biddle did not say what specific charges might be brought, other sources pointed out that penalties ranging up to death could be asked. Because the dynamiters came ashore in German military uniforms and then changed to civil ian clothes before, they could be classed as spies and shot. Un der the wartime espionage act, they might be imprisoned up to 30 years. The Federal Bureau of Investiga tion reported that two of the agents were American citizens This might make the two subject to the laws of treason—and a pos sible death penalty. The fact that the Germans (who have boasted of their efficiency in (Continued on Pafc Two; Col. 4) MOORE LED FIELD IN ALL 4 COUNTIES Complete Returns Give Burgaw Man Nearly 3 To 1 Majority Complete unofficial returns from Saturday’s ballotting in Brunswick county gave Clifton L. Moore, Bur gaw attorney, a majority of almost 4 to 1 in the county against David Sinclair, incumbent, in the race for district solicitor. Returns from voting in the four counties give Moore 6,669 votes to 2,739 for Sinclair. Moore polled 968 votes in Bruns wick county to Sinclair's 242, totals from the other counties are: Colum bus, Moore, 2,381, Sinclair, 672; Pender, Moore, 2,000, Sinclair, 70; New Hanover, Moore, 1,320, Sinclair, I, 755. Solicitor Sinclair conceded election to Moore early Saturday night and congratulated the new solicitor. In the only other contest in New Hanover county, James E. L. Wade, real estate man and former city commissioner of public works, was elected to the state senate over Jack Q. LeGrand, local attorney by 1,614 votes to 1,466 for LeGrand. Wade carried all but five of the county’s 18 precincts in an election in which comparatively few citizens participated. In the first primary election Wade led LeGrand by only 27 votes. In the race for Brunswick’s coun ty commission Luther Tripp, Otho Bellamy and Steve Mintz were elect ed members of the board with S. J. Prink being the unsuccessful candidate in the contest. -Y VISITS HITLER BERLIN, (From German Broad casts), June 28—(#)—Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim, commander of the Finnish armed forces, has paid a return visit to Adolf Hitler at the German Rus sian front headquarters, it was an nounced officially today. 3 carolinasTtruck BY CAS SHORTAGE Many Stations Sell Out Over Week End; May Be 3 Day Wait By The Associated Press Pumps were dry at gasoline stations at several Carolinas cities today and distributors, with no hope of replenishing supplies be fore Wednesday, saw the possibil ity that some cars may be tem porarily stranded. ’ Dealers, limited to 50 per cent of their sales of a year ago under present regulations, have exhaust ed their June allgftnents in many instances and will be unable to get additional supplies b e fore July 1. The two and a half-cent price rise, effective today, brought long lines of impatient motorists bent on beating the higher prices. Ib Charleston, S. C., between 25 and 30 stations were reported com pletely sold out while in Winston (Caatinued on P»fe Iwo; Cal. 1) JAPS HIT HARD BY U. S. FLIERS American Forces In China Sink 2 Warships And Bomb Troops CHUNGKING, Jurie 28—(A1)— Pi. lots of China’s fledgling air force, flying under the tutelage of vet eran American volunteer airmen, in their first offensive activity in nearly five years of war have sunk two Japanese warships in the Yangtze and inflicted enormous losses upon enemy ground forces in Eastern Kiangsi, the Chinese reported today. Elaborating an earlier bare an nouncement of these blows, the of ficial central news agency said Chinese airmen sent the two war ships to the bottom last Sunday at Sinti, 65 miles southwest of Han kow in Hupeh province. Then following up this attack, Chinese bombers cascaded explo sives on Japanese positions in east ern Kiangi last Tuesday, inflicting heavy losses. Winging back to their base the Chinese blasted a heavy enemy concentration at the Liangchiatu river crossing 10 miles southeast of Nanchang, Kiangsi capital, and blew up pontoon bridges across a tributary of the Ru river. Central news said more than 200 Japanese were blown to pieces there. On the same day A. V. G. fighter planes converted into bombers raided Hankow, sinking a Japa mese warship and three transports and destroying military establish ments in that Hupeh river port and greatest interior Chinese city held by the enemy since 1938. The Chinese, who up to now have (Continued on Pare Two; Col. 2) -v Coroner’s Inquest In Death Of Boyer To Be Held July 1 SOUTHPORT, June 28.—J. G. Caison, coroner of Brunswick coun ty, declared today that an in quest into the death of George W. Boyer electrical worker, would be held at West’s Service Station, Wednesday night at 8 o’clock. Boyer was criti"ally injured in an automobile crash on the night of February 28, and died 2 days later. The driver of the car, Ed C. Nance,, of Wilmington, was also injured at the time, and is now held pending the inquest. Members of the coroner’s jury will be: L. O. Arnold, E. V. Evans, D. A. Brew, Chauncy Sim mons, C. H. Harvell and J. F. Cole man. -V 28 ALLIED VESSELS SUNK LAST WEEK 100 Lives Lost In Sink ings In Western Atlantic; 100 Others Missing By The Associated Press The submarine-sinking of two Mexican tankers within two hours Saturday raised last week’s re ported Allied and neutral ship losses in the battle of the Western Atlantic to a total of 28 merchant vessels. More than 1,000 seamen and passengers were rescued from torpedoed ships last week, but over 100 lives were lost and 100 others were reported miss:ng. The week’s sinkings boosted the unofficial Associated Press tabu lation of United and neutral na tions’ reported cargo ship losses in the Atlantic and adjacent wa ters since Pearl Harbor to 317 merchantmen. The Mexican tankers—the 7,000 ton Tuxnan, formerly the Italian tanker Americano, and the 2-000 ton motorship Lakschoapas. form erly the Italian tanker Atlas— were sunk,.50 miles off the Mexi can coast They marked the Mexi can government’s third and fourth tanker losses. The destruc tion of the Potrepo Del Llano and the Faja De Ora earlier led to Mexico’s declaration of war against the Axis. The disclosed sinkings last week included 10 United States cargo carriers, seven British, three norwegian. two Mexican, two Yugoslavian, one Panaman <Continaed on (ue Kirht; CsL 4) Allied Forces Grimly Hold Main Points Wild Melee May Decide Fate Of Middle East, , Length Of War AMERICANS IN EGYPT] Spanish Source Indicates Yankees Now In The Front Lines CAIRO, June 28.— (IP) — The battle for Egypt raged furiously in the desert caul dron southwest of Matruh to day with the reinforced Allied army grimly holding its main positions against the mechan ized might of the Axis Africa corps in a wild melee, the out some of which may decide the fate of the Middle East and the length of the global war, The desperate battle was joined by the full forces of both sides Saturday after noon, spurted fitfully, throughout the night., and was re joined with redoubled energy atj dawn today. Out of the confusion of thunder ing artillery and clanking tanks, it was impossible tonight to tell how the tide of battle was turning or in what direction the milling masses of men and metal were moving.’ The fighting, extremely fluid in character, consisted largely of ter rific duels between artillery and tanks. Thus far, as the battle raged unabated, there has been compara tively little pitched fighting be tween opposing tanks. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the hard-faced director of the Axis thrust toward Alexandria and Suez, struck with the sun behind his back and with the full weight of (Continued on Page Two; Col. 1) -v 9 JAP Wi_IHIPS SUNK AT MIDWAY Navy Releases Tabulation Of Enemy Losses; 4 / Carriers Destroyed PEARL HARBOR, T. H„ June 28—!/P!—The Navy announced to day that the staggering losses in flicted on the Japanese fleet in the battle of Midway included four aircraft carriers sunk with aircraft totalling about 75 planes, together with the crews of the planes. Enemy ships also announced as sunk were two heavy cruisers, three destroyers, and one or more transport or cargo vessel. A fourth destroyer was listed as probably sunk. In addition the following ships were badly damaged and may have been lost in attempting to return to their bases: Two or three battleships, one of them damaged particularly severe* ly, two heavy cruisers, and four transports of cargo ships hit by ■ombs or torpedoes. One of the latter was listed as probably sunk. The Navy’s statement said: “An analysis of all reports now permits the announcement of a more complete list of losses in flicted on the Japanese in the bat tle of Midway. The list follows: “Four carriers (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Kiryu) sunk with all aircraft totalling about 275 lost, and all plane crews, except a few probably rescued by their own surface ships, lost. “Two and probably three bat tleships damaged, one severely. “Two heavy cruisers (probably Mogami and Mikuma) sunk. Three or more others damaged. “One light cruiser damaged. “Three destroyers sunk. One ad ditional destroyers possibly sunk. "Four transports or cargo ships hit by bomb or torpedoes, with one or more of those probably sunk. “The personnel losses on t he ships sunk is known to have been extremely heavy and ships receiv ing bomb hits probably suffered heavy losses in this respect"
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