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' - IT SEEMS TO ME that predic
tions of dire shortages of iood
stuffs lor the American people are
too pessimistic. ,They frighten the
people unnecessarily. They fol
low the usual American pattern
- f exaggeration.
? It is true that crop prospects are
tiot so glowing as Id 1942 and 1941.
Jn those years bumper crops were
. produced. The country will not
equal the total production of those
years, but 1941 may well be above
the average.
' The producing capacity of this
country is enormous; and this year
, greater effort is being put forth
by -the farm population than In
any year since the last war. Acre
age has been aded; land is being
. used to produce crops most badly
Heeded. The backward spring may
be succeeded by a good growing
summer and a late fall; and the
abundant spring .. moisture will
" prove a r boon in such states as
the Dakotas and Nebraska.
-The victory garden production
Will be enormous also. This is out-
svide the usual estimates. Millions
v if families,' who never undertook
to grow vegetables before, have
tracts, large or small, where they
are growing a substantial part of
what they need now and for next
Winter." Home canning and drying
nd locker freezing will preserve
larger portion of such production
than ever before.
Finally, the army must have .its
Storage depots round the world
fairly well stocked. This demand
has absorbed vast, quantities - of
1941-1942 crops. Hereafter the de
mand will be current, sufficient
to take care of needs without
building up enormous reserve
Stocks.
' . Lend-lease is a bottomless pit
But there are two limits there, one
'- shipping, the other home surplus.
Improvements in shipping condi
tions ' means less loss in transport
overseas. ' And we are not apt to
. reduce our domestic supply be
low healthy norms to feed even
cur allies.
- As shipping gets adjusted to war
conditions there will be better util
ization of boat space. Ships will
not come back empty for lack of
; time to load up. To illustrate this
change: wool : stocks are now - at
the highest point; " cocoa imports
have - been increasing. ; Not only
will we be able to Import more,
cur allies may draw more on oth
er nations, like. Australia, New
Zealand, South American coun
tries. . - vs- i- - .5
,1 et .tireCTof. so r many "Wolf,
Wolf., stories. The country seems
to go from spasm to spasm. Radi
orators and journalists frighten
the people daily : into losing the
.war.
Dining tables of Americans will
. have plenty of food' through the
next winter, in spite of all that is
, said. There -will be a real short
age of beef, but an abundance of
pork. There will be plenty of
bread, fair quantities of dairy" pro
ducts and canned goods, a good
supply of potatoes and of citrus
fruits. The immediate need is less,
of agitation, and more- of recruit
ment of labor to save, the crops
now being grown. -
New Division
Slated Today
At Camp Adair
CAMP ADAIR, June 15.-Anew
Infantry division, the 70th, named
the Trail Blazers for Oregon pio
neers, officially comes to life here
today. Activation ceremonies on
the parade : grounds of the divi
sion's area are not to be public,
but Brig. Gen. John E. Dahlquist,
who ! is - to be installed as com
mander, has promised that -when
troops to fill out the division have
arrived, civilians will be invited
to some recognition event, v " , ,
DaMqolsfs assistant division
commander is to be CoL Robert
N. Tounr. while Brig. Geaw. Ke
land P. Schorr is to be artillery -commander
and CoL. Charles H.
Owens, chief ef staff. :
Col. Gordon H. McCoy, 1 camp
commander, and his staff will be
honored at today's activation.
f Gen. Dahlquist takes command
f the division, which is entirely
new, as seasoned veteran of this
snd the earlier World war. A res
ident of St. Paul, Minn., he saw
service in England from May,
1941, to November, 1942, as as
sistant chief of staff. GI, and dep
uty chief in the European the
tre of operations. Returning to
this country, he was assistant di
vision commander of the 76th in
fantry division from November of
fast year to the past March.
With 4Sth infantry, Philippine
scouts,' he was in foreign service
from October 1931, to June, 1934,
atnd he was with the army of oc
cupation in Germany from Octo
ber, 1919, to March 1922.
tlx-Salem Pastor ; -.
Gets New Post
. CHEIIAUS, Wash., June 14-
pr, James E. MilUgan, Belling
bam, former pastor of the Salem
First Methodist church. Is new
superintendent of the Puget
found Methodist district. His ap
pointment ' was announced by
1 :hop Bruce TL Baxter, Portland,
tt t2 Pacific Northwest Mctho
c i c '-rence here Sunday,
TIZinD YEAH
i 3 71 J
Drafts
.Delayed.
Indications Point to
Two-Month Hold Off
Until Childless Used V
WASHINGTON, June 14 -P)
The drafting of fathers ma be
delayed a couple of months, it
was indicated. Monday, as se
lective service ' toofcT5 steps to
speed t up the ; induction of
childless men now. deferred be
cause of their ' occupations. .
By saying that the fathers'
draft will begin "at least by the
last quarter of this year," as the
supply ': of childless men is ex
hausted, s selective service an
nouncement hinted that the call
ing of 'men with children might
be held off as much as two months
beyond the date last mentioned
officially, August r 1..,;'; .
ll ' Selective service issued re
vised instructions! fer prepara
tion ef replacement sebednles
by employers which, when ap
proved by state selective service
directors, set up time tables for
replacement of draft-eligible
workers hi key posts so their
induction -will not hamper pro
duction. The new instructions - require
that schedules filed after July 1
must provide for release of occu
pational deferred childless men
between 18 and 25 years old with
in six -months unless their jobs
are exceptionally important to the
war effort and extremely .difficult
to fill. , t . ,
The beUef that the fathers' draft
will be delayed was strengthened
by testimony before house Com
mittee .that: many, of j! the more
than 2,800,000 men previously re
jected for, physical reasons mrf
v. inj.uj v.... ..u..j. .L
now lower. - ,"--.
- The testimony was clven by
Seleettye Service Director Lewis
- BUersbey -at an appropriations
bearing last month and was
, made pebtte Moa4ay. He said
adoptiea ef lower physical stan
dards by the navy mlxbt post
pone the indnction of men with
: chUdren. . k -
i. Paul V. McNutL war manoowcr
commission , chairman, testified
that by the end of this month the
armed forces will have 9,200,000
of the 10,900,000 men they plan
to have by the end: of this vcar
and that after -next December in
ductions into the army- may be
reduced about 60 per cent
However." both McNutt and Hr-
shey said that before the war ends
the "great majority" of physically
fit fathers may be in uniform.
Recognizing that drafting of
fathers is inevitable, the selective
service instructions issued today
provided that men in this class.
hitherto omitted from replacement
schedules because thev were' safe
guarded by paternity deferment.
oe iistea on such schedules filed
after July 1 unless the
deferment would , expire "before
uctooer I.
Officials said the new limits.
tkms j on deferment of childless
men specify those aged 18 to 25
because few men that voiinc are
likely to hold jobs so important
mat tney can not be replaced.
Finns Plan
To Resume
Debt Payment
Washington: June 14 -fw
Finland, which never missed a
payment on its war debt to the
United States until it became in
volved in war with Russia, is
going to resume paying again
Tuesday. -. '.' t ;.-ci v-
Tbe Helalekl fevenuaeat has
notified the United SUtes It
will ! pay ' $168,343.51 which is
due Taesday under a fbutBelal
atreemeat between the twe
eenntrles.
After Finland . became involved
in hostilities with Russia congress
granted the Baltic republic a
moratorium. , .
-When the United States entered
the war. however, and Finland
continued at war with Russia, the
moratorium - was not extended.-It
expired last December.
Refuse CI Fine v
PITTSBURG, June 14-T-The
Western Pennsylvania Coal Op
erators association, whose mem
bers employ 5,000 soft coal min
ers, agreed Monday not to assess
the $l-a-day strike fines ordered
last week by Solid Fuels Adminis
trator Itkcs.
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"One hnndred, one hundred, I'm offered' one honored. Who'll make it
five, make It five, make It fiver Ben Sudtell, Albany auctioneer,
. having taken off his coat after the first few sales at John J. Raberts
Snnshlae dairy Monday afternoon, was settling down to the busi
ness ef selling the record-making dairy herd ef 10 head te mem
bers ef the crowd ef 200 persons; as The Statesman photographer
snapped ' the picture. Three minutes later, with typical Sudtell
- humor, net te be confused with "subtle, be told the better than
half the attendance gathered hi the barn te "Come late the open;
It Isn't raining out here! '
$245 Is Top Price
At Dairy Auction
Single Bomber
IBts4000-T6n
Jap Freighter
. 'ALLirn HEADQUARTERS
TS AUSTRALIA. Tuesday, Jane T
lWyP-Ielayed reports in to'
day's eeantvniee . told ef kv.
single "Liberator en Snnday re
; eennaissanee ; ever- 'Ilumboldt
bay in Dutch New Guinea discov
ering s 4000-ton Japanese freighter
e transport and setting it afire
with two ' direct hits with 500-
pound bombs.
Tbe bomber dropped one bomb
from high altitude, then swooped
down to a few hundred feet ' and
skip-bombed with another that hit
the ship in the side. i 'i ' :
The Liberator also strafed the
ship with 1500 rounds." r
j : Allied air stctivjty was limited
yesterday. No raid" was made on
RabauTs airdromes, where photo
graphs two days ago showed more
than 200 combat, planes concen
trated despite two previous size
able raids. m . ;;-'
; Delayed reports indicated that '
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Nazi Spies
at
Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON, June 14-JP-A
report declaring that German
spies collaborated with Japanese
in preparing the way for the at
tack on Pearl Harbor was made
public . Monday by : the office of
war information, which . said that
one of them : was ; given a death
sentence," later commuted to 50
years at hard labor. -
The 1 man identified as Ber
nard Julius . Otto Kuehn, 47, ; na
tive of Berlin and veteran of the
German ; army.. The OWI ! made
public reports of , the federal bu
reau of investigation which : said
that Kuehn admitted preparing a
set of signals, to be flashed from
windows . in his two Hawaiian
homes, for disclosing 'the : types
and number of American ; war
shipsr in Pearl i Harbor; that he
received more than $100,000 from
German and Japanese sources
during his six years in Hawaii,
and that his step-daughter ope
rated a beauty parlor intended to
attract "navy business." -
Son of Lebanon
Founder Passes 4
PORTLAND, June 14--Lon-
ner O.' Ralston, 84, retired stock
man 1 whose grandfather founded
the town of Lebanon, died at his
home "here lionday. r J , -;
He was born in Lebanon In
1859. As a boy, he helped release
the first shipment of China pheas
ants to" this country. The fowl
were ' sent- by his uncle, Owen
Denny, US envoy to the emper
or of Korea. , r "
Survivors include his widow;
a sister, Mrs, George H. Otten,
Salera, and cine grandchildren.
Help
Scdem, Oregon.
the Hoof Goes
- :! Brief Flag Raising .
Ceremony Is Held
During Session
; A five-year-old Guernsey cow,
milking 45 pounds daily, brought
$245 to top the sales at Monday's
auction of the Sunshine dairy herd
at John J," Roberts South River
road, dairy farm. The cow, by the
former Gilbert herd sire,. wis
raised-on theSunshlne- f armTnd
Monday was sold to Lester Coate
of Harrisburg.,.;, V . .,1. '. i
Coate bought six. of the 100 head
auctioned in ".the post-fire sale.
Prices for the selected and tested
Jersey" and Guernsey herd mem
bers ranged from $75, with the
majority bringing. from $110 to
$200. At least one of the cows has
milked from 70 to 75 pounds daily.
Sunshine Chief, registered
Guernsey bull brought to the Sun
shine farm . as a calf two years
ago, went to Waucomah dairy of
Corvallis for $160. That dairy
bought six animals at an average
price of '$163. - '
" Lane Johnson, Corvallis dairy
man, made the largest number.
' ef parchases, seemring .13 eews
for: an average of $114. Mrs.
Ellen Carl ef Hubbard bought
six; C G. Olson ef Basel Green,
five, and Asel Eoff, Salem, sev-
; eraL ..
Declared "sacrifices' by some,
the cattle brought better prices
than those at a recent registered
herd sale in the Portland area.
This was., in spite of that fact that
herd records and papers were lost
in the fire which a week ago de
stroy ed modern milk barns, milk-1
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Zero
VilotUses
Eropellor
uting A
Gh
j ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, June 14-(P)-A delib
erate attempt by a Japanese zero pilot to cut a parachuting ma
rine flyer to pieces with his propeller was reported by the allied
nations south Pacific headquarters Monday.
-The zero's propellor blade cut oft most of the right foot of Lt.
Sampel Si Logan,' 22, of Paola, Kans and part of his left heel.
Rescued from the sea, Lieutenant Logan was brought to a hos
pital where his right leg was amputated above the ankle. He was
reported recovering satisfactorily. J -
Kip Brutality V duel '
. There have been frequent stories recently of Nipponese pilots
shooting at US fliers floating helplessly with parachutes, but this
was the first time the Japanese were known to have used a pro
pellor as a butchering weapon.
A. headquarters spokesman said he bad heard of nothing quite
so brutal as that in aerial combat.
; Logan was flying a corsair with US fighters which intercepted
from 40 to 50 Japanese zeros and bombers over the Russell is
lands June 7 'i -s.-.'-C -' r'-::--'" :'v:2: -:-:-.7(-
. Logan attacked a zero which was firing on an army T-43. The
young flyer felt his plane vibrating badly and saw his tail sur
faces ripping spart. lie climbed from the cockpit, crawled along
the fuselage to the tail, and jumped. ......
Jap Fires on Marine
The zero immediately swooped down on Logan. Firing machine
guns, the Japanese made four passes under the falling flyer, com
ing so close the first two times that Logan had to lift his feet to
escape being hit by the prcpellor. ,
When the zero made the third pass, Loan was busy trying to
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Tuar fry I-XornLaej. June 15, 1S3
b:i Block
I'
remeioiiri
t
Not to Salute
. - - . .. . .. . : . r. . .
1 "-, r. J -.1 i ' ' ' . '
8 WASHINGTON" Jane 14-(P)
Speakinr oet against the use of
; coercion te, weld national unity,
the supreme court held Mon
" day that states can net compel
' school children : te salute the
'American flag.
"Compulsory unification of
opinion achieves only the un
animity of the graveyard," said
the court's C-3 opinion by Justice
Jackson, handed down as the na
tion observed flag day.
"To believe that patriotism will
not flourish if patriotic ceremon
ies are voluntary and spontaneous
instead of a- compulsory routine
is to make an "unflattering esti
mate of the appeal of our instil
tutiona to free minds.
"If there 'i it -any fixed star
; te ear eenstttattlon eeostellaUemv
tt Is that no official, high er
petty, eaa prescribe what shall
be erthedex In politics national-
Ism, religion, er ether matters
ef opinion or force eitisens te
eonfeaa by word or act tbelr,
faith therein; if there are any
circumstances which permit an
exception, they do net new e
eor U
" The court I thus overruled Its
1940 decision upholding the con
stitutionality of the flag salute.
It outlawed, In the case before
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American Sub .
Sinks Jap Craft
; WASHINGTON, June, 14 -JP
An American submarine, battling
a Japanese undersea craft on the
surface,: ; sent ; the raider to the
bottom, "the navy disclosed Mon
day.-N" V-;r 'i .-V-f--
The action., was fought while
the. American , submarine was on
patrol " in Japanese ; waters, and
few details were given in cita
tion accompanying award of a
silver star medal to Lieutenant
James H. Barnard, 29, Albany, NY.
to Maim,
merican
dun
Up!'
Risb
Mmh AssaimE'O: Oti' Aids
UiTvDiniaIlii(n)M (Coin flimaes
jRaiders
Attack-
Sicily .
Quarter-Million Tons
Of Explosives Drop V
On Italian Bases
' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN NORTH AFRICA, June 14
(JPh, Hurling down a quarter-
million . pounds of bombs, big
American: Liberators have
smashed Catania . and Gerbini
on ' Italian. Sicily uv a ' raid of
crushing force similar to the air
bombardments that broke the -lesser
islands -of Pantelleria,'Lampe
dusa and - Linosa - on . successive
days. .': ,"; - :-'v-;''-.: u mJa : '
- A communique from Cairo an
nounced Monday" that thundering
formations from the Ninth US air
force hit Gerbini and Catania,
both important enemy air bases,
in daylight Sunday,' blanketing 25
grounded enemy planes at Ger
bini with bomb bursts and smash
ing hangars, runways and disper
sal areas at Catania. "
.At Gerbini, three axis planes
attempting te take off were torn .
fapart '"Mown np, said the of
ficial announcement by the'
guns ef the Liberators.
'At Catania, enemy fighters rose
in strong force and five of them
were shot down.
In spite of heavy enemy oppo
sition it was . announced that in
both the - Catania and Gerbini
raids, . and in earlier attacks by
British' bombers on Catania end
on "axis shipping in the Aegean
sea ! off Greece, a single allied
plane was'lost?-!'4
Two enemy ' ships., were set
afire In the Aegean and sv thbrd
was damaged.,
" These ' far-ranging sweeps -by
the Cairo-based air arm were car
ried out while the northwest Af
rica air forces operating under
thisl headquarters -were taking
their first Sunday holiday In more
than six months.
General Eisenhower's commun
ique disclosed that the northwest
Africa forces had confined them
selves to patrol and reconnais
sance, suffering no loss. ,
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Cherry Crop
To Be Picked
By fNeiglibors9
For better or worse -- though
there will;, be approximately six
million pounds of cherries to har
vest in the mid-Willamette valley
within the next few weeks, and a
need for more than 3000 pickers to
harvest them the herry growers
have no choice but to depend
chiefly up Oregon people, "the
neighborsV-to do the, job. s
That' was the answer provide
at a meeting ef cherry growers
and ethers called by Kobert E.
Reider, Marion county agent.
Monday night at the chamber
of eenunerce. -
Mexican labor, which some oth
er communities have imported for
critical harvest periods, cannot be
provided here in sufficient volume
to solve the cherry picking prob
lem. It developed when Ralph
Beck, state supervisor of farm la
bor placement, outlined the re
quirements. It is too late to arrange
for bringing workers direct from
Mexico. There is a possibility that
some not over 500 at the outside
might become available due to
crop conditions elsewhere in Ore
gon, but that is decidedly uncer
tain.
Cherry growers' expressed
serious concern as te the avail
atlllty er s-!"c!st tickers for
the reason that the strawberry.
Starves to belated and will eon
fact With cherry harvest. - . -
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Nazi Airforcc
Talieii OIf Sicily
NE7 YOXIK, June 14 -iJTh
Tteichsmarshal Hermann Goering
has ordered the German air force
in Italy to shift its headquarters
from Sicily to the Italian m in
land, a London broadcast, re
corded by CCS, said Monday
ni,E;h.L ;.'".'.-- - -v-'j ' - 3--;
The broadcast, directed at Aus
tralia, said reports that air rein
forcements have errived in Italy
from Ctrrriany are false but that
Ceixic i fhters to rcplore tl:c:
i: ct c :.n cay te rrr.t Ix
Youth Elated
Oven Harvest
Labor Wages
' They aren't shipyard wages,
bat Orval Beyle, " ninth . grade,
Parrlsh Junior high school, who
Is spending his first summer In'
Oregon, thinks $33.75 for seven
' days' work In the gooseberry
harvest isn't chicken feed. '
OrvaJ Is one f n amber of
Junior high school beys and
girls who have already worked
la three mid-Willamette valley
crops this season. Members of
platoons led by Miss Lois Reed.
' Mrs. Florence J. Krea and Miss
Etta ;. White, Parrlsh teachers,
nave learned that cheeks for
117 to 520 for seven days' work
are not uncommon, while some
; are ahead ef OrvaTs record. '
Germans Fail
In Attempt to
Gross Donetz
LONDON, Tuesday, June 15.-
(PfAa unsuccessful and costly
German attempt te cress the De
nets river in the sooth snd ' a
bloody local skirmish ha the Orel
sector of the central Roaalan line
were reported today in the Rus
sian midnight communique.
- The Germans, armed with tom
my guns, attempted to cross to the
west bank of. the river. Several
dozen of the party were mowed
down by soviet' fire 'and many
more drowned in the river, said
the communique, recorded by the
Soviet Monitor.
In'the'Oifel sector northwest of
Mtsensk, the soviet troops enga
ged in operations which the com
munique said were of "local im
portance. - ' -
.... ., .... .-.- i . "i, ...A ...'I
7X Three .German," artillery C and ,
twe ' mortar batteries, were re
ported destroyed and ever -10
Germans wiped oot.
Three German planes were re
ported brought down by ground
fire and two German airmen cap
tured.
. ' The Russian air force continued
its activity and on various sectors
of the front, the communique said,
air units destroyed or damaged at
least 20 - trucks - carrying - troops
and supplies, blew. up. an- ammu
nition ; dump -and silenced , three
artillery batteries: Several trains
were also reported hit by soviet
attackers. , ; .. . ,
The Mssesw rsdle reported In
a separate broadcast - that the
sevieto had blasted troop trains
with bombs at Orel daring day- '
light June W. .
The broadcast, recorded in Lon
don, said the Germans made air
stabs at ' Saratov, about midway
between- Stalingrad and Guiby
shev on the Volga, on the nights
of June 12 and 13 but the nazis
were driven off by - antiaircraft
fire. . !-
'' Several enemy aircraft smashed
through over the city, the broad
cast said, and "haphazardly drop
ped bombs. Fires that broke out
In residences were promptly ex
tinguished.' Some civilians were
wounded. Six" German aircraft
were shot down. ' - -
Germans Raid
London Tmce i
LONDON, Tuesday, June 15
(P) Heavy explosives were drop
ped on London suburbs early to
day by enemy planes touching
off the - capital's air raid . sirens
twice within an hour. . . .
Thunderous gunfire followed
both alarms and searchlights spot
ted at least one fast raider over
the' city's outskirts.' The all 'clear
sounded shortly "after each alert.
The explosives felt during thf
first alarm but .there were no
immediate reports of damage or
casualties. " i
Salem Flier
urt iii Grasli
COLUMBIA, EC, June 14 HT)
Flight Officer , Paul N. Spencer,
21, Salem, Ore., suffered cuts and
bruises; Sunday as "n army" med
ium bomber landed upside down
in a ' small field near here end
burst into flames. .
The ether five crewmen also
were injure 1 . but all were ex-rr.'-i
to recover
RAF Hits
Eufop
e
Again
f Heavy -Damage Left
. By US Planes in :
: Sunday Attack ' '
LONDON, 'Tuesday, June 15
0P-After allieoTlunges : at Ger
many and RA assaults on the
Rhineland and axis shipping off
the Dutch coast Sunday night
and Monday, axis radio stations
at Calais and. Paris went off the
air suddenly shortly after mid
night today, indicating that the -
RAF. was again raiding the con .
tinenU . .... . - . - ; .
LONDON, Tnesuay, Jane IS
(A-BAF bombers blaated Ger
many again Monday night, the
British announced today, carry
ing ' the renewed allied aerial,,
offensive into its fourth suc
cessive night as nasi raiders
.stabbed twice at London in
sharp reprisal attacks.
- Reconnaissance p h o to g raphe
showed Monday that very heavy
damage was wrought by ' Ameri
can bombers in their violent raid
Sunday on the German port of
Bremen. ' ,
- These photographs . disclosed at
least a dozen hits on -and around
the Atlas works, one of the port's
largest shipyards.
Tne eoaopojiion A an o r I e s n
rale on Kiel ran fcUe seek fierce:
fighter opposition .it effect-;
lA IMA Mflf .1 k.l KamaJIa a! . ."
the
It was.
said a spokesman
for
the Eighth US air force, the bit
terest resistance- yet encountered -over
Germany.-- .' ' t
VThe enemyj', he added, "put
into the air all-types of-fighters
and the struggle was prolonged
and severe. - , :.. t- T"-: ;- - i
Twenty-six American p 1 a n ea
were lost in both attacks, but m
great - number of German craft
were shot out of the sky. .
' The 7CAF for Its part attacked
an enemy convoy off the Datch;
coast, aside front Its assaults In ; ,
the mialnelaad. sinking twe
i ships, and damaging f oar ethers. -The
Berlin radio dismissed
Monday night's operations by the
RAF as "harassing flights over -northern
and western Germany.
It - asserted that no bombs .were
dropped. . v --"-! '..
British-based allied bombers
have .dropped 6,000 tons of bombs .
of all calipers on Germany since
the aerial offensive. was renewed
in full strength last Friday after a
two-week lull, unofficial sources
estimated. s ; " f1 , -
; .There was no official an
nouncement, however, of the -total
weight ef ; the explosives. :
and Incendiaries damped en the
nasi homeland. -
US Airmen
Hit Nips on
China Front
CHUNGKING, June 14 -jn
American: airmen dealt fresh
blows to Japanese strongholds in,
northern Kiangsi province Sunday
in support of . Chinese ground
forces whose high command re
ported new gains Monday.
The continuing eennter-at-7
tack by the Chinese along the
upper Yangtze already has
eliminated the danger te Chung
king. . s:;;-
American Mitchells, escorted by
P-40 ,Warhawks gained more than
100 bombs on the air field at Nan
chang, Japanese-held provincial
capital. Direct hits were scored on
two; large hangars and runways
at the landing field, probably the
most important Japanese air base
between Shanghai and Hankow,
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