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Eight Jap
r
Or Damaged
Navy Announces
Score in Battle off
Aleutians; North Afri
can Desert Battle Ap
pears Near Finale;
Nazis Claim Victory.
ii \ The Associated t’ress)
I . Army and Navy fliers
pr< mI ii me a third great \ ic
t'>i \ i.a-r .Iapane.se inv asion
foie > in the Aleutian island-,
ell Ala ka today while in north
Aid ira the flaming desert bat
tle i elvvran IJritish and axis
amii■ - appeared to reaeliing a
filial.’.
Adi If Hitler’s high com
ma! ii asserted broadly that axis
ti'oup' had already won the lat
est battle of Libya which started
May 26.
"The battle in Libya to the
rest of Tobruk lias ended ill
iavor of German and Italian
troops," a nazi communique said.
\ftcr destroying enemy de
li nsive forces near Acroina in a
pursuit to the north, our troops
crossed the Via Balho and rrach
i it the coast.
British and south African
troops at Ain cl Guzula (coastal
anchor of (ho British defense
line i were cut off from Tobruk.
The extent of the victory can
not ,\et he estimated."
: r;al British In adquarters aek
:■ -..vd that British troops had
.,'.n from positions below Ain
c: 1 .1 In. 4(1 miles west of Tobruk.
. .1 . -iial Erwin Rommel's armor
ed inns attempted to cat oft the
r.i I'.Miish stronghold.
.. British communique -aid til
\i a wal was executed succes—
m.i> > the 50th division and the
Alrican first dr, "ii "under
(■' .a a inagniliccnl lignt oy
■ olding positions around
A , and tile lirst armored divi
:;<> beat oil determined enemy
,1" throughout 'the whuU o.'
Ji 14."
1 i a lies ten miles west ui
To uk. i
■ ine El Adem sector, clue outh
c: 1 link, tile British reported that
strong axis attacks yesterday ;
v.i i •. pulsed "with heavy loss lu
tile enemy.”
■Military observers in Cairo,
headquarters of General Sir
( laude Aueiiinleck’s British
forces, said both sides appeared
mar the exhaustion point alter
three weeks of furious seasaw
lighting and that fifth Libyan
offensive probably would fizzle
out in a stalemate.
aiiwhile, the Italian high enn
i!" 'id claimed victory m "a great
ic and naval battle” which muled
in a Mediterranean last night, as
-t'Aig that three British warships t
'vi i i (ink and 17 ships sunk, set*
ale I or damaged.
An Italian heavy cruiser was ack
ii'iv. lodged sunk and a destroyer s -
n "u l\ damaged.
in the nothern Pacific theatre, I
American fliers battering at Japan
v c invaders of the Aleutian island.
"'ere credited with having sunk or
damaged eight enemy ships.
1 lie score:
Japanese losses—sunk, one cruis
e;. damaged, one aircralt carrier, at
D" t three cruisers, one destroyer.
0,|e gunboat, one transport.
American losses—none reported. [
A Navy communique, breaking a
tm i e-day silence on the Japanese:
landing in the bleak, fog-bound is
land chain, said both U. S. Army and ;
Aavy iliers were continuing the al
•ack in a smashing sequel to the
earlar American victories in the
bntties of Midway and lire Coral
sea.
INDICTMENTS MADE
IN LOTTERY RING
_ I
Detroit, June 16—(AP)—U. S. Dis
1ru't A tty. j. c. Lehr disclosed todav
that 63 residents of the United j
States, Cuba and Panama had been ,
indicted as conspirators in an in- j
letnational lottery operation describ
ed by postal authorities is one "i |
ly0 most extensive in the Unit d
States.
FDR Receives War Heroes at White House
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('. K. Vhitucphoto
British members of the group of United Nations heroes now touring the country to boost the sale of
war bonds, arc shown as they were received by President Roosevelt at the White House. The war heroes,
who have seen r.el: ui and won glory on far-flung batllefronts, were presented by Viscount Halifax,
British Ambassador to the United States, who is seated beside the President.
Six Vessels
Sunk; Total
Reaches 271
(li.v Tilt1 Associated Press.)
Six newly unnounc d ship
sinkings in the submarine dot
ted western Atlantic put the war
total of destroyed allied and
neutral vessels in that area at
ill today while the .Navy pan
dered the fate of an \merican
freighter missing for four
months.
Na\ y and 'ills '- re]> irts a; the . ■
■ant viet a .-aid tils' the nr ..e
!ive LT-1 >>-..I - had picked oft t v.. >
■\i i :eru. n :! r'riiant:, :'ll ill t a1 ’ n
.vaters. a largo i ’an; ini: n eai go i
el in tin (lull' "l Mexico, a X1 u -
.vegan i tania-i "!’! S.uitit An .erica. an
jnidentilied -n p in tiie Allaniu . and
a lira, ii .-eian>ner elf tlie Di'itam
tVt st Indie-.
Naval and shipping circles
were discos..ing tin- disappcir
ance wilnout a trace ol the
New Orleans freighter aiini
flores ol the Standard Fruit and
Steamship ( o., la--t sighted 1 eti
ruary id.
lake tin l'. S Navy Cniiier C y
■ hip .. ' ■ uni lied in 1!) 1 ii un -
ng U e \\ "' hi War ell ro he Ima e
r a 1;. .. a nul v. lie , or heal'd "f
igain. tile Mire.flort prey au u ai.
■ t'.-'v W. it; ■< 1 .... i ary .
Neithei tlte -ini' nor it; cre\ it;
iern I e|iiirl"d il.ee la d evil oil !."■
i lad 'an I"a 1. Il.e X" y I t • 1 ni' d.
ve tem.i.y. I'he u 11 a I h u t... a ye 1 1
,1 2.1.>t; gi-i, t* >11 und 270 leei hmg,
sailed fi oi,. X'ew Orleans Kc'.ru.ii.v
; w ith . tsc-.. ' - a ’ "ii a i
. I ;Y.lgl I" Halls and tie] all if i II
Haiti for New York February 14.
The my ' id "i 1,1 'doe
tii t pels a ■ V the ‘ set I iie! at
hat tills the a is • until n ine t ,mi
,aign had not h. rn exit oded mi" die
,va11 i's ni w hu'h die Mira 11-'i'i\va
ailing.
Income Limit
Debate Put Off
___
Washington. June 16.—(AP) ••
"hairman Doughtnn. Democrat. ]
Vorth Carolina, said today the H >use
vavs and means committee had He
aded "it should r."t take the respon
Ability now" o: considering tiie ad- |
ministration's reqidst for a S25.000
imitation on individual incomes alter
payment ol taxo<.
IWember." .-aid that they unru;~
good the request probably won d
lot be considered in connection with ^
[he pending tax bill. ]
Wni'd spread on Capitol Hill tha.
President Roosevelt would like ac
tion expedited oil excem taxes.
yir Roosevelt was reported to
in’ve suggested that the pending tax
oil lie divided into two parts, with
ill efforts being direct'd fir-t to Ima!
Aongirs-iima] action on e'd-e levies
[hat would produce at least SI,000,
00 a day.
Navy Concentrates
On Aerial Strength
TWO L. & N. TRAINS
INVOLVED IN WRECK
F.vaiisvillc. Ind.. June Hi.—
(.VP)— Four ambulances were
sent from I vansvillc to the
suburb of Howell today after
county officers received word ,
that a Louisville and Nashvill '
railroad train hound for this city
from Louisville had collided
with a freight train.
House Naval Commit
tee Approves Measure
Calling For Construc
tion Program.
Wa-liingtnn. -Ii:tic Hi.-—(AP' -
An $8.550,1100,1100 ship construction
men arc an nnpi cei (tint'll prngr i
ill c.ic cl altiiilately to double Hi 1
.;:<e of the United States licet —
w; approved today by the Hou.~"
n i v ai coninliUee.
Ti.c measure, demonstrating the
Xavy’s increasing emphasis on plan
carriers and pointedly omitting any
j)i (ri111■ for new balth ships, will
provide lor more than 1,400 ships
oi all types, including more than 4(H)
combatant craft in the carricr-cruis
cr-dcstroyer category.
Chairman Vinson, Democrat,
Georgia, said construction of the
carriers would be started this year
and the rest of the big boat program
next year. He said the keels for the
carriers would be laid ’'immediate
ly.”
The bill authorizes construction
of 500.000 tons of carriers, 500,000
tons of light and heavy cruisers
and 300,000 tons of destroyers and
destroyer escort vessels.
COMMITTEE APPROVES
APPROPRIATION BILL
Washington, June Hi.— (AP)—The
House appropriations committee ap
proved today a $53,5 48,099 omnibus
bill primarily for acceleration of gua
yule rubber production and for fi
nancing increased business in the
nation’s postoffices.
The measure would give the post
office department $38,688,000 be
cause of what the committee said
was an "unprecedented volume of
mail and postal business." Revenues
so far this fiscal year are $65,000.
000 mow than e .-r«»<’t»d and expen
ditures are up $32,800,000.
Plans for Huge Bat
tleships Delayed as
Cruisers are Convert
ed to Aircraft Car
riers; Recent Battles
Show Needs.
Washington, June 16.— (Al’)
—Two members of the Senate
naval affairs committee said to
day that Xav\ officials had de
cided to delei' all plans for hug.'
new battleships in order to con
cern rate upon expanding fight
.ivs p. wer in 1 he air.
Senators Fllender, Democrat,
Louisiana, and Brewster. (Re
publican, Maine, in separate in
terviews said that top ranking
admirals had informed them that
no new battleships would he
starli d and that plans for cruis
ers now underway were being
converted so that these would
he completed as aircraft carriers.
••The Navy finally has decided it
1 havi more air power to pra
te ; uar present fleet," Ellender said.
■•Same el the cruisers i>c mg con
certed were prelty well tili ng.
Senator Brewster said that the new
ih ei ion would mean abandonment
lor the pre-cut of Navy plans tor
constructing five huge super battle
,hips of 60,1100 t ns each —ihal were
to have betti hie largest things
a float.
Brewster said that naval authori
ties had been working on the plans
lor the huge battleship—larger than
any previously built—for more than
a year and prnoably had learned
that "some of car enemies have
ai audiou d plans for similar huge
battleships.”
The Maine senator said that the
new decision would not interteie
with completion and commissioning
of several battleships that would be
launched within the next lew
months.
K1 lender Said I ■ believed that loss
of the huge Bi t -a warships ■'Re
pulse” and "Pr ■ oe of Wales, vic
tims or utreraf. was the turning
point in the old argument about re- j
lative power of a r and surface ves- i
sols in sea battles. He said recent
results at Midway and the Coral is
lands had coninmed this.
RAF OVER PARIS
London, June 16.— (AP)—The
RAF announced today that a
British plane dropped two
French tri-color flans on Paris
last night and attacked the
former ministry of marine with
cannon tire.
VEATIIIR
FOR NORTH CAROLINA
Scattered thundershowers this
afternoon and tonight, little
change in temperature.
Assume
&
easive
Markov
^ a:. La-:-non Born*
tar. r;__; LG.iisiopol in
c »k. e L;’/ P-^rtha; Red
i _ cct> -v'o;d Firmly;
P-'g .v- "t; c :ti Other
a;: Fronts.
'• i .v '? . \ so:-'.it '(I Press)
*' G'Tv- Gorman assault
in an uttcmi t to ci'i,,.:, ;.ji jj;1.
]>orti.nt r\ t it: tin- Kharkov
sector ruts In t n hulked 1 \ Rus
sian l:ill tup del eases ;,!)i| the
ppzi.- now kp.\eh on f< reed back
to tin- dpi' n :\ fr. nt line dis
patches declared today.
lilt- Germans claimed today
they had expanded a bridge- j
head which they won across the
Ibimts ri\er in the Kharkov!
area yesterday.
Armaid Si vustopnl. (he other j
r.r■.,). ;• m-ih- of -r.t fighting
oil the eastern front, the Ger
mans have massed seven artil
lery regiments on their main line
of assault in an effort to batter
down the Russian fortifications
of t-at besieged Crimean eit.v.
the Kiisvians said.
The German ranino include one
of the Big Berthas hist- those with
which the kaiser's troops shelled
Paris during the last World War.
lit- dispatches said, but despite this
weight of artillery the Red army
forci s are holding firmly to their
l'ockbouivd pi .sit am
'lass, official Soviet new- agency,
said the Germans were u.-ing at
kn.-t st \ t n infantry di\ isions and
more -than lod tanks against Seves
op.ol in addition to the massed ar
il le y.
<»;> i ii a ivairivoe iron, wu-re i
.1 .Soviet ecminui ique said ISO
Gcii'.vm I. . ks w ie ii stroyed or
d image.! y ’sterd iy. Tass report- i
<d Mi. invaders struggled all day j
ti. cai;. oe i-this d ol a mile, only
i ; he hut h d ha' U in the end.
German war | lane-' again raided
,Ii eov, the Soviet e pi tal. and at -
lacked aird.P'e es near the Russian
Aretie port ul Mmm.msk
The G aa '.ails aim .meed that a
!., ■ aibm r:ne sank i British cruiscr
witii thiee t'lrpedu lots and dam
iged a aa c.haulman in an altaek
_ip. n a eiiasv in I::e Mediterramean.
On 'iih'T worldwide I'rents;
\irtralia— General Douglas
Mae.Vrtiiur's head niurters re
ported a new triumph hr allied
airmen oyer Japanese raiders,
announcing that six enemy
I till's yyere shot doyen out of an
alia eking force of 77 hem y bom
bers and five Zero fighters over
Dai w in, in northern Australia.
Two allied planes were missing.
China ■ The Chinese iiigi, com
mand announced tonight a furl ler
Japanese advance in cu t Kiafifen
•rovinec. hut indicated that the Clu
;ie e were exacting a liea' y loll irmii
the Japane-e columns ,-t iving to
close a pineefs on the Chekiang- i
Kiangri railway.
A communique said tlu Chinc.-c
abandoned Kwanglong. a miles
within Kinngsi, on Sunday alter an
all-night battle in which tlie Japan
ese. thrusting westward along the
railway, sulfered more than 1,000
casualties.
At State Meet
Raleigh. June lth —(AP)—North
Carolina Lions concluded their an
nual business sessions today with
election ol district governors and
selection ol Greensboro lor the 1943
convention.
Thomas S, Payne ol Washington.
X. C., was elected governor of east
ern district 31-C. succeeding Nor
man Trueblood of Hertford; Wesley
\V. Brown of Asheville, of western
district 31-A. succeeding J. Milton
Craig of M: Holly; and John A. Nay
lor ot Winston-Salem, lor middle da j
trict 31-B succeeding K. J. Irvin, i
of Concord.
Payne defeated Dr. Zeno Speiv j
of Goldsboro, H. R. I i’edl Sp i.gh !
of Roanoke Rapid-, and Louis M
Wade of Fuquay Springs, for district
* -.si-aor. i
. Bos’un’s Pipe
Official U. S. Coast Guard Photo
familiar to all nautical men is the
shrill sound of the Bos’uns pipe—
that short whistle cupped in the
hand which gives out orders more
potently than any lusty bellowing of
the old sea captain. Here is an un
usual character study of a U. 8.
Coast Guard boatswain’s mate por
traying the determination in Amei*
ica’s fighting men.
Chungking Spokes
man Says Japan ‘May
Become Most Diffi
cult to Defeat.
Chungking. June i...— (ASM—
A government spokesman urged
today that the immediate
launching of a major Pacific
offensive be given at least equal
consideration with possible drives
in other war theatres.
If the United Motions "continue
to be ocmplacent" toward Japan,
he warned, she may become “tin'
most (I:l:lcult ot the axis powers to
defeat."
The spokesman prefaced his ap
peal by asserting that Japan's suc
cesses could be explain- <1 by what
he called the false impression that
she was the weakest link ::i the
axi- chain.
He .-aid he differed from any
the u-y that Japan would rollup-.
>ncc i.em an vas .iefeated. Alt:-, nigh
he did not say China would t-ollap-.
unit help \\ ere : t rthct-m mg. he
declared her situation would be se
War Injuries
Compensation
Measure V ague
Wa-ningti-n. June 1 (I. —i ,\P)- Ob
jection.- by ■ i;ue sen:,'.'.•:.- t , w_: j
they ti mod agut sions’’ ■1: j
I n.iu:ucs ap|icured 1 u01 . ; day ;■. I
urn, oke he uand for re\ isioii >1 the
'in asure.
Sc atur T .:t. Rep:ihlican. Ohio,
■'ll:!.! 'i 1 at uv : v me would -ecu to
1:1 lend :‘a> propo-al when i; e mies
.ip I'm, rsday to restrict ■ y . ts for
njunes nr damage- to those incur
red in actual war conditions.
The measure, intr 'dueed by Sena-j
Pepper. I irinocr t. Florida, would 1
pay monthly iienehts ranging from
-lo fog partial disal iity to $85 for
tot:;! di-ab:Iity. S Ring ehi 1 dren !
:md w idows u civil:,ms fatally in- j
hired would lie eligible for awards
froih $20 to $85 a m mill.
Other seeti m- would establish a 1
svsten ot -uv il in.-m iIht ,md pub-I
lie aid f r civilians within the United •
S' te- injured or ner.nanenlly di
allied by enemy action.
Stock Market
Trend Upward
New York. June 16-—(API—Tht
buying was better than the selling
in today's stock market, especially
for steels and specialties :.,v.l fav
orite.- were luted tr et re- to ai vU.,1
a point.
Pri* e.- began to h trden .- • • • \ ely
■ iter a Iairlv -trade and active vhirt
The lair >h u.iiay finny in ' r m
II : and vming issue.- seemc-i to
have played ouh Pie- mm- ■■ ■ a e
n the maji 1fear Uu ' • u 'll
'Js, Fugv slow ed.
Army Fliers
In Sea-Air
1 wo Italian Battle
ships Set Afire, Cruis
er Sun k, Another
Cruiser and Destroyer
Damaged in Four-Day
Battle.
(tty The Associated Dress)
1 iie I nited State.-, army air
j force, in action for the first
'inn alongside the RAF in the
central and eastern Mediter
ranean. was credited officially
i ’Uday with a part in a smash
'd"' air and sea assault in which
(wo Italian battleships were
et afire, a 10,000-ton cruiser
was stink and a smaller cruiser
and destroyer were damaged.
Tile KAF anmiuncement in a
special communique from Cairo
that Amr rit-an fliers had been
in the Mediterranean fight for
the Fist four days began to bring
into focus the picture of tile
thundering sea-air fight in the
straits between Italy and Africa
which the axis previously has
sought to pass off as their own
success.
taking part in the attack,
said the 11 VF communique, were
"a force of Liberator aircraft the
ma.j(irit> of which were Amer
ican manned b\ the l'nited
States \riny air cforce."
The Consolidated Liberators arc
lowerful fmir-motoi’ed United States
lumbers akin to the big flying fort
esses which helped shower destruc
i*>n upon the Japanese in the bat
les Hi the Coral sea and Midway.
Altogether. two strong Italian
nival Ion: atioiis were attacked, the
lAF announced.
A communique said torpedo
planes attacking from bases in
Africa and Malta scored a num
ber of hits and spread fires on
Italian warships Monday night.
V fascist cruiser of the Trento
class was first set aflame by
bombs and then sunk by an
aerial torpedo.
The Pain n. v. a: -hips then turned
.■ i; toward and throughout last night
erp -haltered a- they returned to
a.-G. the a a un cjue went on, thus
:ldu .,l;rg that the Italians had
token the engagement to flee.
A tie: an version if the specin
i.!..: i o-a.i a ttic -mid nazi air and
. .an; ! air i r users and
■ :\i is. ;:>al>lv sank another
troyi and dan aged six other
a ;n , ' tack oil British Mecil
■: r.oil.iII r in\ ,
Tin Gci also asserted that six
o .-.at .p.- v. ere sunk, eight
all : 'o:t: iiy -Link and six datu
.;ei n C, . | i.i V at thc.-e losses
nr r.iae.n ■ 'll a WCstboUnd COI1
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ARMERS PROTEST
CIO WAGE DEMAND
Me , ins. 'i'eim. ,1 me 16 - The na
• a i •.. i: i : i i.i" - today earned
i re' ; ■ !’ a - di : Roosevelt their
rase ,i o'est ::g a i i per cent southern
o\' e ■ li vagi' increase demanded
i is 'of Cli i textile W orkers union.
To- act.on. in!lowed closely testi
■ ■ r ti.o w:ir labor board by
1'rt - de : Ose: .Johnston of the Na
• ,i ! C a'o: Co .moil who stated
tii.,t gr.oit no ; CIO demands would
■ ji , p v-i le t's ''all-embracing
prog.r.o it tnfl.iT in control into
a hypt mi t tea I tai ir."
In , let to- to the President. Mr.
.loh:i-t . emphasized that granting
TO de . .Is would gravely and ad
■, ersely , ■ i et the welfare and in
come 't the cotton farmer as well as
the ' : ire ol the inflation control
program.
\ PEANUT VENDER
MAY SEE A KING
Washington, .Tune 16.—.America is
ike this—
Steve \ asi akos. Greek peanut
ven.'ior who lias been doing business
. : the White House corner for years,
a.-ked and received an audience with
a king- George II of his native land.
Ste\ e. an American citizen told
all about it later at a ‘‘press conter
ence" at his peanut stand:
'•So dp king he say, 'You speak
Greek'."
”1 -ay, ‘Sure, sure,’ so we spik in
Grik.'
'Du king he sav 'How's business.’
1 'oh him I’m a niakiii’ living’.”
At - a good boy.’ he says.
So I -ay to da king—‘You good
e loo;'" _ _