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PAGE 2A ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1943. ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BERLIN RADIO SAYS NAZIS mMDITniN IIHITC Bomber Overshoots Airport CHINESE VICTORY ATTACK BY ALLIES ON LAP POSITIONS HAVE RECOGNIZED RAMIREZ I TA 1 HSK Paraguay rPesident Predicts, After Conference With Hull, That U. S.

Will Recognize New Government Tomorrow. IN PACIFIC mm, CURTIN INDICATES fi jfVS -i KV 's2i. til? Flying Fortress which Allied Bombers 4i wpe' 5 4 overshot Lambert-St. Louis Field Pound SZ five ME-109S out of an attacking formation of 20. Other types of American raiders accounted for i four MacchU202s two ME-109s and nnp Fnrkp A7iiIf-1QO one Focke Wulf-190.

One squadron of B-17 Flying Fortresses completed its 100th mission yesterday by going on what the flyers call the "gravy run" over Pantelleria. Not a man i or a plane of the group was lost. The missinn increased in 4500 tnns Pantelleria for 18th on nniniTn.ro ri ou buuniiimo Moscow Announces Unanimous Ratification of Dissolution, Scrapping Last Vestiges. MOSCOW, June 10 (AP Dissolution of the Communist International was completed today when the executive committee announced that sections in 30 different nations had unanimously approved the decision to disband. The last vestiges of the organization's machinery were scrapped by the announcement, which advised Communists throughout the world that they should consider the executive committee and the Presidium itself as dissolved forthwith.

The committee's decision to dissolve the Comintern which was established in 1919 to mobiliza working class parties all over th world was announced May 22. Approval of the sections announced today constituted a mere formal-ity. The United States was not in the list of 30 nations from which messages of approval were received, from sections of the International, the Communist party in America having received permission to withdraw from the Comintern ia 1940. I fffu ntou Service I ntnu roBivmenrit i I nit- NUSUAL DRESSES 63C1 DELMAR BL. I 'I Open Sat.

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one year Sundav onlv. one year T50 Rrmit elthi-r by protai order. Era Biarxj aeder or Sl Louti exi hanie. APPROVE END phasized today that the attitude of the new provisional government to the other American nations would be one of "greatest" collaboration. He told a group of North American newspapermen that the "deeds" by which the government would confirm the policy of inter-American solidarity would unfold "step by Recognition of the government set up with Gen.

Pedro Ramirez as President after last Friday's revolution moved steadily forward among Latin American countries. The Foreign Office last night announced recognition by Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Chile in that order. The provisional government set up by Gen. Ramirez on the heels of last Friday's coup d'etat mean while won increasing support from various Argentine factions, indicating it was effectively consolidating its position. The provisional government, however, has intervened in the affairs of the Province of Mendoza.

In a communique last night, the Ramirez forces said that the governor of the province "pretends to set up standards which imply an uprising against the national government'' and announced that Col. Humberto Sosa Molina, commander of the mountain group, had been instructed to take charge. bench in the square opposite the White House when weather permits. His duties will be mostly to give advice on specific matters when Byrnes asks for it. "In fact," 1 he grinned, "it will be about the same as it has always Deen.

He described Byrnes as "so fine a man and so old a friend that he commends my best efforts." He added that, "if I can do anything to help the country, I am glad to have the opportunity. In taking on this work I am assuming that the Office of War Mobilization will be effective and that it is to be the final expression of the Commander in Chief, and. therefore, it will not be by-passed or side-tracked. Justice Byrnes, the weight of explosives dropped seriously yesterday and their by the elite crews of the Fortresses bomber was badly damaged when since they entered the combat, it overshot a runway at Lambert-from English bases, last Septera-j crashed jnto ber. The group was the second tearing off three of its four tress unit to reach the 100-mission motors and smashing the fuselage, mark.

First Lieut. Manner C. Clements LONDON. June 10 (AP). A Transocean dispatch broadcast to day by the Berlin Radio said Germany had recognized the new Argentine government of Gen.

Pedro Ramirez. The recognition was announced officially, said the broadcast. It implied that Hitler's foreign office was satisfied with the revolutionary government succeeding that of President Ramon S. Castillo, which maintained Argentina ns lie only American nation to preserve relations with the Axis. Spain is the only other European country to have recognized the Ramirez government thus far.

WASHINGTON, June 10 (AP). President Higinio Morinigo of Paraguay said today he had conferred with Secretary of State Hull on the overthrow of the Government of Argentina and that the United States probably would recognize the new Government there tumun nw. The Paraguayan President said he had instructed his Foreign Office to recognize the new Argentina Government as of tomorrow and that coincidental action likely would be taken by the United States. BUENOS AIRES, June 10 (AP). Vice Admiral Segundo Storni.

Argentina's Foreign Minister, em WILL END BICKERING Informal Adviser of to Do His Job From Usual Park Bench 'Office. WASHINGTON. June 10 AP). Bernard M. Baruiih, 72-year-old head of World War I industry, said today he that the new Office of War Mobilization would be the last word in wartime production problems and would "stop all this infernal bickering." His comment followed announcement by James F.

Byrnes, director of the new OWM, that Baitich would be an adviser to him. Baruch explained today that his new job is quite informal. His office, as usual, will he on a park BARUCH HOPES BYRNES if not blocked, will improve 'J "VeT bv more Clearly defining the work neparer and also the lcal news published bere- -I- iln. All runts of republication of apecial STISON ASSERTS Chiangs Flyer Americans Had Air Superiority Japs, He Says. and ver WASHINGTON, June 10 (AP).

Secretarv of War Stlmson lodav the West Hupeh front as "the most important'' action on the war- lionu recently. He told a press conference that five Japanese divisions had been repulsed and although they "prob ably were incomplete divisions, nevertheless the success of China was an important achievement." Stimson said the Chinese had local air superiority in the engagement nnd that American and Chinese flyers co-ordinated with ground forces to inflict "very considerable" casualties and damage to equipment. Heavy weather, he reported, has slowed operations of flyers based in England, but "the bomber commands of Britain and America are gaining strength and experience and ate prepared to deliver heavy blows against GeYmany on every day weather permits." Turning to the North Pacific campaign, he said tne mils on Attu Island still are being "systematically searched for possible enemy survivors." American "defense armament is being rapidly installed" and housing supplies and equipment are being placed on the island, he added. A Navy communique today said known enemy losses on Attu now stood at 1845 killed and 20 taken prisoner. It said 19 Japanese had been killed yesterday and five captured.

The Navy said only a few of the enemy remained on the island. Stimson disclosed that Col. Edward P. Earle of Carmel. had been killed in action on Attu while leading his regiment in an ad vance inlsand from Massacre Bay the day after the initial landing.

In the Mediterranean, he said, action is confined largely to fllr and sea engagements. He added that a surrender opportunity offered the garrison of Pantelleria had been rejected and that the bombing of that island continues. Japs Counterattack After Weeks of Retreat. Two CHUNGKING, June 10 (AP). Reinforced Japanese detachments, making a stand after almost two solid weeks of retreat, were reported by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's high command today to have counterattacked Chinese forces closing upon Owchihkow, near the Yangtze 85 miles southeast of 1 chang.

"Fighting is now In progrens nt Chientsui and Shashang," the high command said. Referring to operations up the great river that drains central China, the communique said most of the enemy troops fleeing south- eastward from Itu had been wiped out and that a small remnant of Japanese "fled in the direction of Sungtze with our forces in pur- suit." Chinese raiders were credited with killing many of the invaders and blowing up a bridge on the Peiping-Hankow railway Monday AXIS POISON GAS PLAN EARED BY SEIZED PAPERS, REDS SAY NEW YORK, June 10 (AP). Recently seized German military documents have revealed that the Axis intends to use poison gas on a large scale, the Soviet radio at Petropavlovskak reported today in a broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission and reported by the Office of War Information. The broadcast was for domestic reception and the warning of the Nazi plan was given in the Introduction of a series of lectures on "civil defense against air and chemical warfare." HARBOR made U0.00n.000 Amerlrant fiohtlno mad. We vowed dire reveniie for Jap Infamy yet only a few bear the brunt of artual battle.

Ara you doing all you CAN do tor Victory? Bur Um ft fVerl floor 709 WASHINGTON aaaa It'a Smart to Say. "Meet Me at Carl'i" mmm SUNDAYS I ping all this infernal bickering which lias hurt the war effort and confused the public." V. S. War Bond Sales in London. LONDON, June 9 (API -Americans in the armed services here are buying an average of $850,000 of war bonds monthly.

V- jjirl, By a Post-Dispatch Staff Photographer yesterday and crashed. I CRASH AT AIRPORT HERE ber Overshoots Runway, Lands in Creek Three Motors Torn Off. Two members of a Flying Fortress crew of eight were injuried Boiling Field. Washington, D. suffered a fractured left shoul der and hip and Staff Sergt.

Raymond C. Hedrick of Boiling Field suffered a head injury. Other members of the crew, who escaped with cuts and bruises, were: Col. P. T.

Cullen, the pilot, Boiling Field; Second Lieut. M. D. Lee, co-pilot, Boiling Field; Second Lieut. H.

E. Oberg, Walla Walla, Second Lieut. R. J. Borbcn, Walla Walla; Sergt.

A. B. Jenemore, Walla Walla, and Tech. Sergt. John F.

Buecker, Boiling Field. The plane, which took off from Denver, earlier in the day, was coming in for a routine service stop at 2:20 p. m. when the accident occurred. The bomber did not catch fire.

Crew members were given emergency treatment at the field and removed to the post hospital at Jefferson Barracks. A BACKERS SCORE VICTORY IN INITIAL TEST IN SENATE WASHINGTON. June 10 AP). Supporters of the Farm Security Administration scored an Initial victory in tty- Senate yesterday In their drive to tack a lfl-miliion-dollar fund for the agency onto the 820-million-dollar agricultural appropriations bill. Climaxing three hours of hot debate, the Senate rejected, 54 to 23, a point of order raised against the FSA amendment by Senator Byrd Virginia, who was backed up by Senators Claik Missouri: Tydings (Dem Maryland, and Taft (Rep.) Ohio.

Byrd challenged the amendment Georgia, on parliamentary grounds that it embraced new legislation on an appropriation measure. While the triumph apparently heralded ultimate adoption of the amendment. Byrd and the others said they would carry on their fight. Mine. Chlung Reviews Waves.

NEW YORK, June 10 (AP). Mme. Chiang Kai-shek reviewed a full-dress parade of 2300 Waves, Spars and Marine auxiliaries yesterday at the Navy auxiliary training school in the Bronx. appointed director of the Office of Economic Stabilization. The announced purpose of the conference was to discuss an impending statement to be issued by President Roosevelt when he signs the pay-as-you-go tax bill, but Byrnes also told reporters he was interested in discussing "where we are to go from here," in the matter of taxation.

Secretary of the Treasury Mor-genthau was scheduled to attend the conference, but was detained in New York and sent Paul 10 HURT RESS Holding Phase Past, Australia Out of Danger, He Declares After Conference With Gen. Mac-Arthur. By WILLIAM BOXI CANBERRA. AUSTRALIA, June 10 (AP). Prime Minister John Curtin indicated today that the time is approaching when the Allies" strategy of defensive warfare in the Southwest Pacific may give way to a policy of limited and perhaps full-scale attack on the Japanese.

"The holding war imposed on us under circumstances of great difficulty has been an obligation under global strategy which has been discharged," Curtin declared. "I feel the pressure on this country is to be thrown back on the enemy." The Prime Minister's declaration was part of a formal statement issued on the basis of his meetings at Sydney Monday with Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Allied commander in chief in this theater of war. Gen. MacArthur flew to Sydney from his headquarters and conferred both morning and afternoon with the Prime Minister.

He a)so had luncheon with Lord Gowrie, Governor General of Australia. The following morning, the Southwest Pacific Commander inspected American installations in the Sydney area, including depots and the general hospital. He then returned to his headquarters. Account of Meeting. The official announcement of the meeting of MacArthur and the Prime Minister said MacArthur, in rr.gn good humor and smiling rroadly, stepped from his airplane and greeted Curtin: "Well, John, it's good to see you." ixiraorainary precautions were taken to preserve the secrecy of AlacArthurs visit.

All areas in which he moved were declared miLtary zones and were guarded by military police. A decoy crowd was placed out file the Hotel Australia while MacArthur entered offices else jvhere. Curtin's Statement. The text of Curtins statement: 'I had a meeting with the commander in chief of the Southwest Pacific area (Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur) in Sydney June 7.

1943. It was a good day from the view point of Australia. I feel the pres sure on this countr is to be thiown Imrk on the enemy. "The conclusions of President Roosevelt and the British Prime t.Mr. ctiurcnui) ror prosecution of the war in the Pacific with the same vigor as the war in Europe have ominous portents for the discomfiture of the Japanese "The holding war imposed on us under circumstances of great dif ficulty has been an obligation un der global strategy which has been discharged.

As in the case of Eritain, we had a close call at one stage. The battle of the Coral Sea was a deliverance and the return of the A. I. F. enabled us to stop the Japanese advance in New Guinea just in time.

No Longer Fears Invasion. "I do not think the enemy npw ran invade this country. We have proved that with the resources We have had, together with the command of the sea established by the gallant United States Navy by decisive victories at Midway Island and In the Solomon Islands. "We are not yet immune from marauding raids which may cause much damage and loss. I believe, however, that we can hold Australia as a base from which to launch both limited and major offensives against Japan.

This conception must be a pattern to govern the nature and extent of Australia's war effort as part of the plan of the United Nations in the Pacific. "Mv discussions with Gen. Mac- Arthur were marked by the greatest degree of cordiality as has always been the case. This country can feel very grateful to Gen. Mac-Arthur, who came here at a crucial time and who has applied himself in such a distinguished way to ensuring the security of Australia as a base in order that the cause of the Nations in the Pacific would not fail." U.

5. PLANES BOMB MUNDA AIR BASE WASHINGTON. June 10 The Navy reported today a new air attack against the Japanese air base at Munda. The communique said: "South Pacific (all dates east longtitude). "1.

On June 9. during the afternoon. Flying Fortress (Boeing B-17) heavy bombers escorted by Warhawk (Curtis P-40) and Lightning (Lockheed P-38) fighters, bombed Japanese positions at Munda, on New Georgia Island in the central Solomons, no United States losses were sustained. The attack on Munda was one of a series aimed at keeping that field nearest to American posi tions in the Russell Islands and on Guadalcanal out of effective eration. op- of in Continued From Page One.

naissance photographers taken over the La Spezia naval base said decks of one of Italy's Littorio class battleships apparently had been damaged by the Flying Fortress attack there Saturday. Identification marks on the" deck had disappeared. A dispatch from the Fortress base Saturday night said the battleships Littorio, Vit-torio Veneto and Roma had been damaged by hits and near misses armor-piercing bombs. (Near misses do their work below the waterline). (A Polish naval communique Is sued in London said the Polish submarine Dzik scored two torpedo hits on a fully loaded Axis tanker the Mediterranean.

"The vessel burst into flames and she is believed to have sunk," the communique reported.) Liberator Raid. Fifty Liberators made up the American formations from the Middle East command which struck by daylight at the two Sicilian airdromes. Col. John R. (Killer) Kane of Shreveport, the leader, said dispersal areas at both Gerbini and Catania were churned by the bursts of more than 125 tons of demolition, fragmentation and in- ceindiary bombs.

Hangars and administration buildings received direct hits, up ward of two dozen enemy aircraft were blasted to wreckage on the ground and oil installations and storage tanks were destroyed, the crewmen said. Flying in two waves, the Libera tors encountered about 25 Axis fighters, both Messerschmitt-109s and Macchi-202s. Two Messer-schmitts and one Macchi were shot down and others probably were destroyed. A communique from Malta said Spitfires from the island provided cover for the Liberators over Sicily and reported night attacks by Malta planes on railways in Southern Italy and Western Sicily. Opposition at Pantelleria.

Clearly showing the importance Axis air chiefs attach to Pantelleria, he crews of both Tactical and Strategic Air Forces of Lieut. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz' Northwest African Command reported increased fighter opposition. Despite the increase in the number of Axis fighters, their defense was no more effective than before, it was said.

Bomb-carrying Lightnings were credited with the destruction of ROOSEVELT SIGNS PAY-AS-YOU-GO TAX MEASURE Continued From Page One. the smaller income, and if 1943 is the abatement year, the 1942 obligation becomes the liability for 1943. Provisions for Enlisted Tersons. Special considerations are embraced in the act providing more liberal abatement for men and women in the armed services. The new tax law does not mean that taxpayers will remit no taxes this year-, but in most cases pay ments will be larger in the war years than they would be if there was no current payment tax act.

The average taxpayer will not feel the abatement unless his income falls off, he retires or loses his job, or at death. Pay-as-you-go converts millions of individual taxpayers to a system whereby they will remit in one year on the basis of income of the same year, instead of on the previous year's income as at present. The most immediate effects of the legislation will be felt in the imposition of the withholding levy. A little less than three weeks hence the Government will begin taking 20 per cent (after family status deductions) from pay envelopes and salary checks. This will not be an additional tax but a means of current collections against tax obligations hitherto remitted in annual or quarterly installments.

The 20 per cent includes 17 per cent for income taxes and 3 per cent for victory taxes. There will be no separate collection of the victory tax after July 1, except for persons subject only to the victory tax. Second Installment. Under the new law, each taxpayer still must pay June 15 the second installment on liability as I shown in the return last March. I The March 15 and June 15, 1943, Although air fighting was heav- ier than usual over Pantelleria, the Fortress squadron did not see an enemy plane.

It was officially announced that six Axis planes previously unreported were hot down Tuesday. The records for June showed an Axis loss of 35 planes against 11 for the Allies. "Offensive In Progress. Echo d'Alger, leading morning newspaper of Algiers, declared editorially today that the Allied offensive "is in progress, although in its first phase." "The attempt of Italy to barricade the Sicilian channel from the island of Pantelleria received a hard blow not only from air raids but by the thundering appearance of British cruisers and destroyers," the editorial continued. "The sending of an ultimatum has announced the beginning of the operation.

"Even though Pantelleria has not responded to the British (sic) ultimatum, probably this waterless rock which serves as a submarine shelter can be reduced by blockade. "But this (Mediterranean) group of Island sentinels represents only a minor detail of the nightmare of the Axis chiefs of Europe." (An Algiers radio broadcast recorded in London said 2000 shells were fired at Pantelleria by British cruisers and destroyers Tuesday. (The Italian high command said that 11 Allied planes were shot down by Pantelleria's fighters yesterday. (The communique, broadcast from Rome, said 41 persons were killed, 91 were injured and limited damage was caused in localities about Catania, Sicily, during an attack by formations of multi-en-gined bombers. It said two of these planes were shot down by fighters.) payments then will be treated as payments in respect to taxpayers' 1943 liability.

For most wage and salary earners the rest of the 1943 obligation win De collected through the 20 per cent withholding levy. Persons with income other than wages and salary will estimate on Sept. 15 their income for 1943, and pay the remaining liability in two installments Sept. 15 and Dec. 15 Similarly, persons with wages or salary above the withholding level will estimate on Sept.

15 their total tax for 1943 and pay that part above the withholding level, in two installments. All taxpayers will file a final return on or before next March 15, and on this return adjustments will be made for differences between the estimated or withheld tax and the correct tax reported by the taxpayer. New Reported. The Treasury was reported reliably today to have presented to War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes a comprehensive pro gram to riase the 16 billions in ad ditional revenue requested by President Roosevelt as a check against inflation.

The Treasury program was said by informants, who withheld the use of their names, to center on a spending tax and to include suggestions for increasing individual and corporation income taxes and new excise levies. Byrnes, who has indicated his intention to take a leading part in formulating future tax policies, met today with Randolph Paul, general counsel of the Treasury; Harold D. Smith, director of the budget, and Fred M. Vinson, newly Df r-k'-A 1 u-'vr A) A XX 1 iftifi i iiif'hwi-r'-'w-tliv v' Vrtyh rY- V- A v- a The Treasury program Is reported to have been presented to BUY WAR BONDS STAMPS Byrnes a few days ago. FINAL RADIANCE SALE! TALISMAN Ix roRM it ov the Florsheim Shoes are serving a great and growing group of fighting men.

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