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By FRANK JENKINS
nplIE fog lift momentarily to
day to disclose that the Japs
have mode aomo kind of landing
at the extreme tip of the Aleu
tian), tome 8(10 mllea to the west
of Dutch Harbor.
The landings nro ot Attu Island
and at Klska harbor, In the Hat
bland group.
Today' dlspatchc indicate
that the foreea Involved are not
largo, that the lalnnda where the
landing! were made uro not of
great strategic valtio and that
American warplancs, hampered
by fog up to the past 24 houra,
re hunting down the invaders,
rN the face of Information
avnllnble on these word are
written, the threat doeii not seem
grave and the dispatches suggest
that the Jnp may be playing
their old game of face anvlng,
providing the public at home
with oma good newt to go
along with the Midway bad
newt. '
Still. these islands lie along
the stepping-stone air route from
the United State to Japan or
FROM Japan TO the U. S If
one chooses to look at It that
way.
Anything that INTERRUPTS
our use of this stopping-stone
route, or threaten to give th
Japs a foothold on it, CAN be
Import-lit. .
, It will be well to keep in eye
on development In that quar
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ter. You rimy be quite sure the
Oarmy and the navy are doing
wmor than meroly keeping an
tya on developments. -
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"TODAY'S dispatches carry the
suggestion that Jap Admiral
' Yamamoto may be out on a limb,
lie was praised by the emperor
for the blg-.-vlcfory he won In
the Coral Sea. if the news gets
out to the i Jap' miusos that he
DIDN'T win, but Instead took a
bad lacing, he will have cast
doubt (according to the Jap
code) on the INFALLIBILITY of
the son of heaven.
That would be bad medicine
(still according to the Jap code.)
- It Is Intimated that he may
j have to sharpen up his snick
ersnee and commit hari-klri.
OTHERS is an Interesting "In
x cldenv In Turkey.
American bombers have made
what appear to bo forced land
ings near Ankara. Tho dis
patches state that member of
the crews who were not wound
ed have been interned.-
Tho indicated explanation Is
thai American air forces based
probably in Egypt hnvo been
bombing the Black Sea coast of
Rumania, with whom we are
now officially at war. There
aro statements that British bomb
ers also have made forced land
ings in Turkey, .
- The German propaganda
agenele are howling long and
loudly about It presumably to
throw a scare Into Turkoy,
"THERE Is an obscure dispatch
today to tho effect that Brit-,
ish bombers . took a shot last
O night at Piraeus, tho port of
Athens, .
lit itself, It Is Insignificant,
But for days tho British hnvo
been pounding Toronto from the
air. , Taranto is an Important
baso of whnt la left of the Ital
ian fleet,
TN these modern days, bomber
squadrons don't Just go roving
around taking pot shots at what
ever target happens to loom up
In their sights. ,Whcn they mnka
a raid big enough to get into the
nows they HAVE A PURPOSE,
Nolo on your map that Tar
auto and Athens aro on a lino
thot points either at Syria or, It
bent a little, nt tho Dardanelles,
Recall Hint In recent weeks ex
treme har.I activity has been
noted at Athens.
It Is probable Hint these Brit
ftlsh bombers are smashing at
German concentrations, seeking
to head off some new German
move. j
Toronto and Athens would bo
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REDSBATTLE
BIGGEST NA2
DHIVDF YEAR
Savage Attack Made
By Germans Be
low Kharkov
By HENRY C, CABSIDY
MOSCOW, June 13 () Ger
man tunks, planes and motorized
infnntry have been hurled In
full force on a comparatively
narrow front below Kharkov In
the greatest nail offensive of the
year, front line dispatches said
today, but the Red army fought
back fiercely and tonight was
said to have the situation in
hand.
The original enemy advance
were checked, the dispatches
said, while enemy tanks which
filtered through the soviet lines
wero being dealt with. In some
sectors the Russian were mount
ing their own. counterattacks.
Plane In Wave
The German planes came over
in wave and the tank attacked
in columns, while soviet artillery
cut huge gaps in the armored
force and Russian warplanes
rose to meet the enemy in the
air. ,
At one village 100 German
tank attacked.' '
Before Sevastopol, in the
Crimea, , the. Germans - made
three successive assault,, but the
Russian defense wa said to b
grinding down that offensive,
..Counter-Attack'
Soviet troops counter-attacked
In the Kharkov sector of the
Ukraine yesterday after 48
houra on the defensive,, and
levied, heavy toll -on German
manpower arid material In the
battle. of Sevastopol, the Rus
sians said today..
Tremendous losses in the new
Crimean campaign have led the
Germans to make "Increasing
so- of Rumanians ' as , cannon
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Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
' R. H. E.
Cleveland : 16 1
Philadelphia 4.80
Hardcrn, Hevlng (8) and He
gan; Wolf, Shirley (8) and Wag
ner. : R. H. i E.
Detroit . ,'. . 5 8 2
Boston 8 15 4
Trucks, Gorslca (7), Hcn
sltow (8), and Tebbctts; Wag
ner, Dobson (3), Butland (7),
Brown (8), and Conroy.
: ; R. H..-E,
St., Louis 3 .10 . 1
Now York 4 18 1
Auker and Hayes; Chandler,
Llndcll (9) and Kearse.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
R. H. E.
Boston ...,...'..'. 0 1 0
Chicago .. ...... 14 0
Earley and Lombard; Flem
ing and McCullough.
R. H. E.
New York , 3 8 2
Pittsburgh 8 13 1
Melton, Feldman (2), Adams
(?) and Danning; Linger and
Lopez. , . .. , , .......
Czech Executions
Mount, Prague Soys
LONDON, June 13 (AP)
Twenty-four more Czechs, one
of them . an 18-year-old girl,
have been executed, the Prague
radio reported tonight in a
broadcast heard by Reuters.
These latest executions
brought to 382 the number ex
ecuted in reprisal for the assas
sination of Relnhnrd Heydrlch,
rclchs protector for Bohemia
and Moravia, This total did not
include the persons killed In
tho town of Lidice, estimated
to number 380 atone.
'i WASHINGTON, Juno 13 (AP)
Destruction of "several" Ger
man , villages by air bombard
ment was urged upon the United
Nations today by Jan Masaryk,
Czechoslovak Ian vice premier
and foreign minister, as retal
latlon for the wiping out of the
wholo Czech town of Lidice by
German vengeance squads.
. Sailors slid down reps from th U. S, plan carrier Lexington, which sank
attar explosions, as result of Japan bombing is th battle of tb Coral m.
Not th dackt 1W with nura awaiting thslr turn to go ovarboard. Soma bay
POWERFUL NEW U. S,
FORCE IN IRELAND
Record American Con
voy Completes At-
lantic Crossing
WITH THE UNITED STATES
ARMY IN NORTHERN IRE
LAND, June 13 UP) Thousand
more United States soldiers, in
cluding tank destroyer forces
as well as additional armored
units,: have arrived in northern
Ireland, it was announced to
day. United States warships parti
cipated in escorting the trans
ports which crossed tho Atlantic
without incident.
Most of the troops were from
New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland. Georgia, Illinois,
West Virginia; Kentucky, Cali
fornia and Indiana,
Twenty-clght-ton tanks swung
from the ships holds to the
docks, swelling the total brought
over by earlier contingents; .
Fasti- Air
The band accompanying the
new arrivals gave a festive air
to tho Ulster port as it blared
out, "I Don't Want to Walk
Without r Y o u," ."The Jersey
Bounce,". "Elmer's Time," and
."Deep In the Heart of Texas,"
while troops marched down the
gangplanks.
Even while the . men were
waiting their turn to leave the
ships, tho usual scramble began
among British soldiers and
dockworkcrs for American cig
arettes. This time the soldiers also
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27 Dead, 100 Hurt
In Wake of Tornado
At Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY June 13
(AP) Storm-swept Oklahoma
City counted Its known dead at
27 and lnlured at 100 today
after two tornadoes slashed a
12-block residential area at the
city's southwest edge, . . . )
Scores were reported missing
and approximately 80 buildings
wero demolished.
Many Inhabitants of the de
vastated area entered storm cel
lars when ( tho . first tornado
struck last night ana escapco
tho force of the second which
camo 10 minutes later.
Two Inches of rain and con-
slderoblo hall foil in a three-
hour period.
Ot the dead, six wero men,
11 women and 10 children,
MINESWEEPER LAUNCHED
SEATTLE, June 13 (AP)
Tho Winslow Marino Railway
and Shipbuilding Co., yesterday
launched the U.S.S. Pursuit,
first steel minesweeper of her
type' built In the Pacific North
west, , ; . . s
Burning
Prepare Now
Against Celd
Days, Warning
Klamath people mk .warned
again Saturday that the fuel
situation ' next winter :iJay be
serimW;;nd: :"smrt ..phsplewill
prepare! now against a, ..rainy
or snowy day. j '
Shortages are posslbl in coal
"nd wood, and appear certain
in fuel oil, which has been cut
to SO per cent of last year's de
liveries, it was learned from
fuel dealers and civilian defense
sources, . .......
People who heat their homes
with oil, it was - explained,
should provide fuel for. fire
places, trash burners or other
auxiliary heating devices. Those
without stoves or fireplaces
should look around now for
heating apparatus that will burn
something besides oil, to be
used to supplement oil heat. .
.Limb and body. wood are
both scarce right now. There is
an ample supply of green slabs
and coal at this time. But it
takes three weeks to get' a car
load of coal here, and transpor
tation conditions might inter
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' DOUBLRAB WINS
NEW YORK, June 12 (AP)
Mrs. T. Christopher's Doublrab
won tho 42nd- running, of the
Carter handicap at Aueduet to
day as Warren WrighW"Whirl
away finished third, Doublrab,
winning his third straight stake
in as. many weeks, ripped off
the seven furlongs In 1:23 to
equal the track record.
Half of Jap Carriers Losi
In Pacific, Experts Say
WASHINGTON, June 13 (AP)
The Midway and Coral sea-battles
have cost Japan probably
half of her best aircraft car
riers and thus have .broken tho
spearhead of her air-sea strik
ing power, informed naval
sourpes estimated today,
. And because ot tho import
ance of tho air arm, the Jap
anese are regarded as having
gambled away in tho two en
gagements the chance of major
offensive action on tho Ameri
can side of the Pacific, even
though they , still have several
fast carriers which would oper
ate with tho weakened high sea
fleet, , . ....
They have lost at least six
of the ten or more fully effec
tive fleet carriers with which
they started the Pacific war.
and atttt- others havo been put
out ot action temporarily' by
bomb and torpedo damage. This
is on the basis of official re
ports of the Coral sea battle
and word from Midway pilots
that . threo and possibly . four
Japanese carrier were sunk In
that action.
Japan probably had wore car
rier, than those listed In naval
U. S. Corrier Abandoned at Sea ..I
:
ROMMEL STRIKES
EST OFTOBRUK
British. Positions ; Still
! ntdctp,Gommunio,ue
" --:V' Reveals"
Br HARRY CROOKETT i
CAIRO, June 13 (PJ Re
pulsed at El Adem, 15 mile due
south of Tobruk, Field Marshal
General Erwin Rommel ctruck
with a full armored division to
day toward Acroma, some 10
miles west of Tobruk, against
stiff British resistance. ,
A British communique an
nounced that "all our positions
are intact," ' ..' .
The German sweep toward El
Adem was Ueaten off yesterday
In an all-day battle which mixed
artillery duels. Infantry engage
ments and tank clashes.- ;
The RAP, meanwhile?, an
nounced that It had struck a
heavy new blow at the .German
mechanized columns In the for
ward battle area and hammered
hard at Rommel's line of trans
port and supply; -;
German and Italian atr activ
ity was reported also on a "con
siderable scale." Thirteen axis
planes were listed as shot down.
The RAP announced the loss of
nine planes,
New reports on the withdraw
al, earlier, of the Free French
and British Imperial forces from
Btr Hsehetm at . the ' southern
flank of the British desert line
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manuals, but the best available
listings, she started the war
with these; Syokaku (or Sho
kaku) and Ziikaku, the newest
listed designs, each of 14,000
tons,:. 80 knot . speed and 45
planes; Soryu, Kiryu, , and
Koryu, -10,050 tons, 30 knots
and 40 planes; Ryutyo, 7100
tons, 28 knots, 24 planes; Akagi,
26,900 tons, 28 knots, 80 planes;
Kaga, 28,900 tons, 23 knots, 60
planes;. Hosyo, 7470 tons, 25
knots, 28 planes; and tho Ryu
kakn, a new carrier either of
14,000 or 20,000 tons. She also
had several converted liners as
carriers, but these are not class
ed as fleet vessels.
The toll has been ons sunk,
one believed sunk and one dam
aged In tho Java sea; one sunk
and ono damaged in the Coral
sea, and three and' possibly
four sunk at Midway, s
By contrast, the United Slates
has lost the Lexington and suf
fered damage to another car
rier off Midway. These: repre
sent third of the large Amer
ican carriers in service when
the war began. The obsolete
Langley,' wink near Java, was a
tender,
-M --
already bs tkn off by th destroy partly Uddta by asdn it right.
(Official-D.u oar- 'photograph from Associated Pr). For pirtun of Jap
cTTir blsi in Coral , turn to pag 12. . - - - '
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U. S. Torpedoed;
Lexington to, u-V-Cut
Loss of Life
.Br ROBERT : PRESCOft
' SAN DIEGO, Calif.. June IS
(AP)--Tb 0, S, alrej-aft carrier
Lexington was sunk, by1 Ameri
can torpedoes to prevent. great
er loss of lifer after -fires, anil
internal explosion started by
a Japanese attack had raged
for seven and a half hour) the
commander of an American
diveborster: squadron caid -today.
- - : .-
; "We finally had to put ft
under with our own torpedoes,
revealed Lieut. Commander
Weldon L, Hamilton, chief of
the Lexington s dive-bombing
squadron, in an Interview. ,
He said Captain Frederick
Sherman's order to abandon
ship "undoubtedly saved a great
loss of life from flames and
explosions, "which was the im
portant ttlng. i . , , f
Commander . Hamilton said
only eight per cent of the men
on the Lexington were lost.;
- Aircraft from the carrier were
searching for an enemy task
lorce in the area around Tsgiila
island- in the Coral sea on May
7, when they -stumbled upon a
Jap force of a carrier and sev
eral cruisers that had not been
reported, he said.- - -
. The next day American and
Japanese - scouting - planes - dis
covered each other's carriers
simultaneously, and launched at
tacks at the same time.
"We decided to get back to
our base, so we turned back
without trying for the Jap. Oar
fuel was running low. We jet
tisoned our bombs en route, and
reached the. Lexington just in
time, . , j
"From the air, the carrier
didn't look damaged a bit. We
landed and taxied forward, not
ing superficial 'shell fragment
notes nut nothing serious.
, "But we found Jap torpedoes
had struck the Lexington- from
an angle, damaging it internal
ly. It was doomed."'. "
MacAithur Calls on
Americans to Pray
For Guidance ; '
.ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, June 13 (TP) General
Douglas MacArthur called upon
his fellow countrymen celebrat
ing MacArthur day to rededi-
cate themselves today to- "duty,
honor, country" and to say ,!a
simple, silent prayer that merci
ful God may guide our steps,
- In a brief statement, the allied
commander-in-chief in the south
west Pacific expressed belief
that the celebration in his honot
would reaffirm "the Implacable
will of our great nation to main
tain Its' Inalienable rights .to
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. , :
The occasion, coinciding with
the 43 rd anniversary of Mae-
Arthur's-'entrance Into West
Point,- brought public tributes
from Prime Minister John Cur-
tin and outer Australian leaner.
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4 US. PLANES LfttMD
IN TURKEY, REPORT
.ondorv Hirits r-Planes
Pfl Used IrrPIackiS:;
- Sea Attack
ISTANBUL, June 12 (Delayed)
tTJTfcc official Torteh' rasas
reported today that four United
States planes had landed in Tur
key.
An informed source said - the
planes were bombers and landed
before noon today, each with an
American crew of seven.
All those who were not
wounded were Interned, this
source said. . - . .
, .There was no official Informa
tion on why the planes were fly
ing - over . Turkish territory,
where they came from or where
they were going.
Meanwhile, it was announced
officially that the Turkish assem
bly today passed a bill prolong
ing for another six months the
state of. martial law first pro
claimed for- the Dardanelles,
Bosporus and Thrace regions 18
months ago.
LONDON, June 13 " The
Reuters - correspondent at An
kara reported tonight that he
had seen three United States
" (Continued on Page Two)
Two Airmen Perish .
in Plane Crashes'
TACOMA, June 13 MV-Two
army airmen were killed today
when their fighter planes crash
ed in separate accidents in the
Tacoma-Olympia area. .
- One plane sideswiped St. Pet
ers hospital In Olympia and fell
In flames to the street below.
Hospital attaches rushed out and
with the aid of firemen removed
the Injured pilot Into the hos
pital where he died a short time
later.- He was Identified as
Lieutenant Ralph M, Edwards,
Jr. His home town was not im
mediately reported. -
At Lakeview, about 15 miles
southwest of - Tacoma, another
fighter plane crashed and burned
In a field, killing 2nd Lieut. Roy
D. Stone, son of R. D, Stone, of
Monrovia, Calif. ...
Japs Capture Town
In Kiangsi Province
TOKYO" Prom Japanese
Broadcasts), June 13 (JPy Jap
anese troops, pressing deeper In
to Kiangsi pnArtnee, have cap
tured the town of Yushan on the
Hangchow-Nanehang railway 10
miles west of the Chekiang bor
der, Domei reported today.
The Japanese announced yes
terday their forces had crossed
the Kiangsi frontier after rap
turing the western Chekiang
cities of Changshan and Kiang
shan. '. . .,.'.-
SMALL ISLANDS
FOR INIf-flFRI
t uii hiittuuiiu
J op Units Landed :at
Attu and Kiska ;
tn Islands ' - .
WASHINGTON, June 13 CAP)
American army and navy air
men snmbed the tm&U. blk ls
lartcs of the Northern Pacific
Aleutian chain today w a rising
effort to search out nd dispers
small Japanese Inv&ste-a unit
which have landed at Attur and
the harbor of Kiska m th Rat
Wand group.'. ' - -
Despite adverse weather con
ditions, a navy communique, as
serted, air attacks have already
forced the invaders to retire
from populated regions of th
tiny ' islands at the esrtwm
western tip ; of the Aleutian
Archipelago. j - - - - -
"Attacks of ttw. armv mnA
nam forces in Om arm anihii
these operations are continu
ing, we navy sam,' The an
nouncement emoharixed that H
had only been in the past day
or iwo tnat weather condition
had permitted flying; operation.
-Attn is the tip of the dagger
pointing - toward Japan, being
only some 700 miles from the
northern tip-of Nippon's Kurile
chain. .Should the enemy eoo-
unuft to occupy the : Island,-" tt
would net only . blunt that-po-JenHal;
.offensive dagger,, but
likewise . would - oiv tH
huUsm --1iase- to use against the
other Aleutian islands and.th
Alaskan, mainland. , -
. Kiska, -located , some -100
tnBes'to the southeast at Attu,
has : similar strat?!-
i - -o-' - -V4U-
u of iHrth is decreased some
what "by poor terrain , and
weather conditions. ... Both, ars
mountainous,, frequently" blank-
ewo in tog and are bounded
by outlvinsr reefii wmr-h ,nv
offshore navigation hazardous, i
mows Hartor Secondary -Dutch
Harhfl? m a ann
miles from Yokohama and only
ioo miles lrorn Puget Sound
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Roosevelt Colls ''
For Every Scrap of : ;
Rubber Available '.-
By FRANCIS It USKAY
WASHINGTON, June 13 (JPh
President Roosevelt has called
upon all Americans to turn in
"every bit of rubber you cap pos
sibly spare" in a two week
scrap collection " campaign ex
pected to determine whether na
tionwide gasoline rationing is
necessary to conserve tires.
Addressing the nation by radio
last night , the president asked
householders to search attics,
cellars and garages for old rub
ber and to deliver It to gasoline
filling stations which would pay
one tent a pound and would be
later reimbursed by the govern
ment. The drive will begin at
18:01 a. m. June 15 and end at
midnight, June 30, - ' . . -
RAF Bombs Germ a n y.
And Port of Athens
. WJNDON. June 13 (ff-RAT
reconnaissance planes dropped
bombs at several point In Ge'r
many by daylight yesterday, .it
was authoritatively reported to
day, . . - , -; ;
ROME (From Italian Broad
easts), June -13 (ffj- Tho RAT
caused great damage to a raid on
Piraeus, the port of Athens, the
Kalian high command announced
today. - . .
"A large number of houses'
was damaged, the communique
said, without giving any further
details of the destruction. '
- It said 38 person were killed
and 28 Injured among the Greek
population, - .
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