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Hettlterson 2Bailg Uispatriir ! __QNLY DAII-Y NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN THIS SECTION OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA ^VKNl \-NINTH YEAR T„K HENDERSON, N. C., SATURDAY AFTERNOO N, JUNE IS, 1942 PUBUHkxcBPTKsoNDATTEKNO<',N FIVE CENTS COPY More U. S. Troops To Ireland ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★ ★★★★★★ ★★ * * * * * American Planes Hunt Down Jap Invaders OfAttu Small Force Invades Tip Of Aleutians Navy Announces Landing on Bleak Is land and Sighting of Enemy Ships in Kiska Harbor; Midway Coral Sea Score 51-to 5. I’.j The Associated Press) \\ tlie liation celebrate'! thr , ’ 1 combined ol-io-b vie t.-ry r -Japan in the battles of Jliilua. and the ('oral sea, Anit r . ..n warplanes today limit* d .!.*\\ n small Japanese in* vasii-j. irees which liave lantl hI mi. ■ ... bleak Aleutian island uf A' 1.AO0 miles off the cons', -. Alaska. ATI', lies ;it the tip of the. Aiea11. archipelago. about TbO mill' . 1 on Russia’s Kamchatka penin-- .la. Tin. Navy, announcing Japan's I lirsl attempt to invade t’nited 'tali' soil in North America. Said enemy ships had also been sighted m tile harbor of Kiska. in tlie nearby Rat Islands. "Japanese operations in the Meutian area are still in pro mt'" the Navy said, ‘‘although i eiiiitiiming Army and Navy air craft attacks have forced them to retire from the populated reg ion' of the islands. \tlaeks of the Army and Navi forces in the area against these operations are continuing. "Weather conditions in tliese mifh ing islands precluded air searili operations until well with in Hi" last 24 hours." A spokesman declared >pcet- i at the enemy had been dr \ v from Attn village, a at pi ist of little military | ail scale of the Japanese 1 executed against virtually j 'li’lei • • points m the desolate wi -hrouded chain of islands. :yi a .1 ;i w s chiefly a lace-sav ■-g ■•cure to bolster the morale j Japanese people shocked by ’ ' I isier at Midway and the Cm A ' S spokesman even uggest 'i ■ Admiral Yamam Jo, enrn in chief of the Japanese - aght have to redeem his Hn ,v committing hari-kiri since j he I been praised by imperial | re- t for a great Coral sea victory miled to materialize l'i Mici.il figures based on first Hivi . ports nf the Japanese a' to invade Midway island 11 • d that the attack cost the pci v an appalling price—three, P"■' ’v four aircraft carriers; hnn 1 f'ontinued on Page Three) BRITISH SIB l.OST I oiidon, June 1*3.— (AP>—The admiralty today reported the loss of the submarine Olym pus. a 1,475-ton boat built in Wk. Tiie admiralty gave no de tails. Construction; Firm Loses Paloigh, June 13.— (AP)—The f hlitios Commission announced to day that it had dismissed a com P'aint of the Triangle Construction f builder of Camp Butner, that it Panri to lose $35,000 from increased r’’tl rates on crushed stone, clay gravel and sand. I ho complaint asserted that a gen 01 al rail rate increase which was ef fective on April 1, including increas ed rates on stone, gravel and sand, 'vas “unreasonable and contrary to agreement” with several railroads "anied in the complaint. 1 he complaint was dismsised after a hearing on Thursday in which a "'itness for the construction com pany testified that in at least one 'asp a stone company andenot the C " iruction firm -locd t" lnIron1 Signing New Pact (.. P. Phont'jihnto Putting his signature to a new lend lease agreement between the U. S. and Russia is Soviet ambassador Maxim Litvinov. The pact, signed in Washington, is similar jj) all es sential respects to those entered into recently with Great Britain and China. It calls for reciprocal assist ance in the winning of the war and for cooperation in measures to “create a better world hereafter.” Retaliation Is Urged Czech Foreign Minis ter Wants ‘Several’ German Villages Wiped Out by Bombs. Washington. June 13.— (AIM — Destruction of “several" Ger man villages h> air bombard ment was urged upon the I'nited Nations today by Jail Masaryk. C/a'eboslovakian vice premier and foreign minister, as retaliation for the wiping out of the whole Czech town of Lidice by German vengeance squads. Masaryk said lie had r cet • d ; many messages of sympathy altei the (I rman announcement Wednes- . day that the Bohemian village ol 1.200 had been destroyed and all its male inhabitants killed lor allegedly harboring two assassins ot Reinhnrd 1 levdrich. in a formal statement issued through the Czechoslovak h gation, Masaryk expressed gratitude lor condemnation ol the Lidice incident by American public opinion but said sympathy and condemnations are not enough.” ■■It seems to me that the time has cotnt to pay the Germans in kind." he added' “To my>mind it should be ten teeth tor one and ten eyes lor one. the bombing o! Cologne gave the Gormans a lesson, but they knew it was coming. ’ FREIGHTER SINKS ENEMY SUBMARINE Montreal, June 13. - i A I'M- An enemy submarine was destroyed Ml the Atlantic by a small Norwegian freighter w hich arrived at an east-, rn Canadian port with the U-boat’s survivors, it was disclosed today by the Norwegian information bureau. The survivors now are prisoners ol war in Canada. Benes Pledges Retaliation London, June 13 -(AP)—■Czecho slovak military law. including the death penalty, will be applied to all nazis responsible for -bestial de I struction and barren horror m the ! Czech nation after the war. Pt ^-si dent Eduard Benes declared tonight in a broadcast to his people Horn London. , He declared that on the tirst day of victory the policy ol personal re sponsibility would be mercilessly carried out against "all exponents ot the nazi party and the retch gov ernment on Czech territory beginning with the former protector, Baron von Neurath. all leaders of tlm gestapo and SS formations, and all Germans the noli I."' ?1 md w'h'.arv admin - 4 c, -Uc-s " j i - • ; i Nazis Open Heayy Drive At Kharkov i Russian Forces Said to ■ Have Withstood Greatest Offensive of Year in Ukraine. Moscow, .func 13.— (A I*) — •German tanks, planes and mot orized infantiw have been lull led in full force on a comparative!*' narrow front below Kharkov in the greatest na/.i offensive of the year, front line dispatches said today, hut the lied army fought hack fiercely and tonight was said to have the situation well in hand. Tlit* original enemy advance- were checked, the di.-palches -aid. while enemy tank- which filtered through the Soviet line- were beng dealt with. In some sector.- the Rus-inn were mounting their . «w n counter attacks The German planes came ovei in waves and the tank attack columns, while Soviet artillery cut huge gap- in the armored lorees and . Russian warplanes rose to meet liie i enemy in the an . At one village 11M) German tan-.. attacked. Before Sevastopol. in the Urimi a. f the Germans made throe -ucee--. r 1 assaults, but the Russian deien.-e wv.- ; said to be grinding down the ot fensive. Jack Dempsey Commissioned New York, June 13.— <A1’) — Jack Dempsey, former heavy weight boxing champion. was sworn in totlai as a lieutenant, senior grade, in the I . S. Coast Guard. Dempsey. who will !>-. placed in charge of the Coa.-t Guard physical training program at it- Manhattan Bench station on Long Island, was sworn in by Captain K. W. Demp wolf, district Coast Guard officer of the third naval district. The ex-champion said lie was giving ip all his civilian activities, including management of his Broad way rcstraurant and radio program, and would ‘report tor duty next week aft r appearing in a MaeArthur parade at Baltimore this afternoon and a CSO show at Ogden. Utah, to morrow. FREE FRENCH HELD SUBJECT TO DEATH Berlin I From German Broadcasts) June ’ 13. -G\P)- Berlin political quarters said today that T‘i c French soldiers captured at the Bsr Hacheim outpost :n Libya were ~ub ject to execution as irregulars undei 'the German and Italian armistice terms with France Order Emerges From Chaos In State OPA Daily Dispatch Bureau, III the Sir "alter Hotel. By BOB THOMPSON Raleigh, June 13. Order is emerg ing from the chaos at the state ol i'ice of price administration. I here is less running in circles, tearing ol hair, passing the buck. In tairncss to Director Ted Johnson it should be noted that the blame for the re maining bottlenecks in rationing and i price fixing administration and in ; terpretntion lies in V\ shington and | Atlanta, not Raleigh. | As surprising as it mav seem to 1 anyone wh > visited the OPA nil ice a few weeks ago, they are actually getting some organization in the place. There would be a more com plete organization if Washington and Atlanta would not dike so long to act on fhe appointments recommend ed by Johnson and Norman Shepard, the OPA chief counsel in this state. ! For instance, there is a "ret need patching a Jap Bomber Crash into the Ocean i . _. ’ \ Official U. S. Na~y Photo I A terrifying and crucial moment aboard an American aircraft carrier is caught by an alert cameraman. The sailors were snapped at the dramatic moment when • Jap bomber plunged into the sea alongside the ship after attempting a suicidal crash-dive on the carrier deck. The tail on the drve bomber behind the ruen was sheared off by the roaring Jap plan*. U. S. Planes Land In Ankara U.N. Planes In Turkey Forced Landing at Ankara Called ‘Serious Offense’ By German News Agency. New York, June Id. VI’1—• \ forced landing in Turkey In allied planes, variously (ieseri’ned as British or American, yyas de clared I*y the German radio to day to have disclosed a "severe offense against Tukisli neutrality." DM?, the official German news agency, said ■'three or lour I'nited State- planes which made foi'ced landings in Turk; y < >n Friday arc i c ported to have heen only part ol a number of Amertn at plane- crossing Turkey. Government circles, it slated from Ankara, are regarding fiic situation a- extremely .-erinii-. ’ 'The agency added that the plane had dropped lcatlct- over some ! m - ki h districts. The British neyvs agency. Ilen ters. in a dispatch from Turkey, also described the planes as four American bombers and said some ereyy members were slightly in jured after carrying out a raid on the Rumanian coast. Rumania has just been added > the list of nation igain-t v. h« > >’ c L'nited States iiad ecogni/c.i . ’ ite of war. The first report a the n>i c. t am; mg was contained m a hroadca-l ol flu- Ankara radio yesterday ’.vhicit -aid three Amrric m pi me.- had landed at the An,.... a airdrome and that the crew- wv v taken iindci observation.” Eire Protests Ship Sinking Dublin. Fire, dam IT — (API The ! government ol Fare mnnunced t 'day that an energetic protest would !'i■ made to the German government 1 over the sinking of the »03-tnn '-teamer. City ot Bremen, and that full compensation lor the loss ol -hip i and cargo would be demanded. The announcement said the mas ter of the ship had reported the | vessel was attacked by German air craft. Dispatches from Spain June fi said 22 survivors had been landed at Vigo. VEAllilP FOR NORTH CAROLINA Little change in temperature with feyy scattered thumler ers itijs if!crno«n and te U-cr ,( |”| . •' • 1 - t •:‘ • ts Lexington Scuttled San Diego, Cal., .Juno 13.— (Al’) —Tin- C. S aircraft carrier L. xington was .sunk by Ameri can torpedoes to prevent great er less of life alter fires and in ternal explosions started by a Japanese attack had raged for seven and a halt hours, (he com uiandei ol an Aimrican dive bomber squadron said today. "We finally had h> put it under with our own torpedoes." revealed Lieutenant Command er Weldon I. Hamilton, chief ot the Lexington's dive bomber squadron, in an ;ntcr\ iew. He said Captain Frederick Sherman's order to abandon ship ■undoubtedly sa\ed great loss of life from tl,lines and explo sions. which .... the import ant thing. "I'm convinced it would be lloaling yet if we hadn't been forced to do that.” Twisters Hit Oklahoma City 2 7 KnownDead Oklahoma City. June 13. — i AIM—Storm swept Oklahoma ( ity counted its known dead at 17 and injured at 100 today after two tornadoes slashed a twelve Idoek residential area at the city's southwest edge. Scores were reported missing and approximately 00 buildings were demolished. Many inhabitants of the devastat ed aiea entered storm cellars when the first tornado struck last night and escaped the force ol the second which came ten minutes later. The area contained mostly frame hnii.-a-s. a few grocety stores and a ; illing station. Power and telephone lines broken by the storm hindered rescue efforts Soldiers from Will Rogers Field and Red Cross workers labored throughout the night aiding ttje in jured and clearing debris. Victims crowded the classrooms and corri dors of a grad-.d school which pro •-idl'd the homeless with cots, blank ets and clothing. ()t the dead, six were men. and eleven women ,md ten children. GERMANY BOMBED IN DAYLIGHT RAID London. Juno 13.—(AP)—- RAV rccunn;ii>sriiice planes dropped bombs it several points in Germany by aVyij-iP yesterday. *t v/a.-: autb .uta , ■ - ’ -'i I ForcedDown After Raid Reuters Corres dondent Describes Ships as United States Consolidated Bomb ers. London, .fune 13.— (AP)—The Reuters correspondent at An kara reported tonight that he had seen three United States ( onsolidatcd four-engined bom bers at Ankara airport today after a bombing raid on avis liases along the Black sea. Ankara is the capital of Tur key . According to this report, the planes were believed to have been used in attacks on Odessa and Nikolaev. Black sea Russian ports now held by the Germans. The correspondent said the bomb er.- appeared to be undamaged. He -aid German fighters were under stood to have pur.-ued them until they leached Turkish wattrs, then turned back aftci a Turkish patrol pout opeticd 11re. Twenty-one men ol the bomber crew. whom the Houle: -* corro-pond oiit anti an uitormed Turkish source referred to as Americans, were said to have been housed in the outskirt ot Ankara I'll is first suggestion that United Stab .- air forces were operat ing in the eastern Mediterranean area said the bombers wort' believed to have flown to the attack from Kgvpt and apparently ran short ot fuel on the return trip. RAIDERS OF JAPAN LANDED IN CHINA New York. •! me 13. -(AP) At least part ot the United State- a.r fleet winch -enrobed a 4m mile wide lane ot bombs through some of Japan- largest cities in the daring ! daylight raid last April 18. landed in China, according to Leslie Nich ols. MRS correspondent in Cairo. Egypt In ,i broadcast last night, Nichols said that sev on 'pilots who were in the raid with Brigadier General James A Mnnlittle had passed through Cairo en route home from China for a rest. F.ighty American fliers in all par ticipated in the raid. 399 BRITONS DIE IN MAY AIR RAIDS London. June 31.—(AP' — Air raids on the United Kingdom during May caused the deaths of 399 civi lians and the hospitalization of 42a other: v ;ta "'funds, the ministry of ,i- o’V- m f- t ' -U ' Powerful Contingent Well Armed Newest AEF to Arrive in Northern Ireland Carries Armored Units Needed For Opening Second Front; Other War News. (B> The Associated l’ress) A powerful new contingent of United States troops, thousands strong, has arrived in northern Ireland to help carry out tHe “urgent tasks ' of creating a new front in Europe in 1942. it wtis disclosed today as the pitch of battle in Russia and north Africa rose ever higher. An official announcement said United States warships escorted liie AUK transports across the Atlantic without incident. Swinging down tile gang plank to the tune of "Deep in the Heart of Texas." tile American doughboys brought with them tank destroyer forces and mure armored units needed for an of fensive. l»n the norm African irom. British heuduuurlcrs aeknouledg ed a dangerous new axis thrust as German Field Marshal Frwin Rommel's armored columns ad vanced upon Acroma, only ten miles west of the key British stronghold at Tobruk. The British declared, however, that "all our positions are in tact" and reported that an axis tunge against FI Adem. 15, miles due south of Tobruk, had been repulsed. From this picture, it was clear tli d Rommel armies now were press ing close -a T ' from two di rection.- deep aside the main 50 mile British dcten.se line west of T. ibruk. An ltab.m communique mention ed oily "bitter lighting" iii the desert nggi. . v\ :;ho..t details, and reported that RAF bomoers inflict ed great dan ,.ge and kilied kti per sons an attack on Pirn us. the port ol tix s-<'ccupied Atthens. (11eece On the Russian front. Soviet dispatches reported that the Red armies counter attacked furious ly to stem Marshal Fedor von Bock's new offensive around Kharkov, in the Ikraine, and inflicted bloody losses on the German in the siege of Savasto pol. Hitler’s Held headquarters assert ed ti; : German troops, at lacking he.iv’ly. had e. ;.-lured numerous diigoots and turf: options- in Sevas tapol'- defense system. Russian headquarters stud tre meudo.,- issts 11 tlu new Crimean campaign had led the Germans to make "inc casing use . : Rumanian tr ’ll- ... c mi o fodder" About 2110 Rumanians were killed yester day alone in ton futile "psychologi iContiniled on Page Three) Steel Ordered For Pipeline Washington. June Ik (APw Pe troleum Coordinator Ickes announc eri today an order fm 550 miles of 24-inch steel tubing lu.d been placed with the National Tubing Co.. Pitts burgh. to build the world's largest oil-carrying pipeline Irom Texas to the Salem. 111., area. The line, expected to be complet ed in December, will deliver some JOrt.OOO barrels of oil daily to south ern Illinois toi trans-shipment to the eastern seaboard to help relieve tne ' petroleum shortage in this area, i Icke.-' office -aid the price to be paid for the huge tubing order still was m the prni'ts 0 negotiation, it was expected to run into millions of dollar.- Total cost of the line mclud I ing lights of way has been estimat ed jt bet ■ ei-n 'u.\|,,|)h and ji-10.
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