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Black arrows indicate the Axis forces. British observers expect the new chieftain, Gen. Auchinleck, to make a stand on the narrow strip (marked by the British flag) between the Qattara Depression and the Mediterranean sea. Axis reports claim Rommel's forces have reached Fuka to the east of Matruh. Supreme Battle Yet to Come Says Desert War Eyewitness Editor's Note: Harry Crockett, Associated Press correspondent with the British army in Egypt, suffered slight injuries in diving under a truck when caught In a bombed area.

Crockett, a native of Lowell, here gives his latest eyewitness version of the desert war developments.) BASE AT BREMEN SMASHED BY RAF LONDON, 30(iT) The German U-boat nest at Bremen waa attacked heavily last night by the Royal Air force and an informed force declared the cumulative destruction lnflfated there has put the Nazis' second biggest port "In much the same state as Cologne, Emden, Lubeck and Rostock." Looking back to the 1.000-plane raid on Bremen last Thursday night and the follow-up blows delievered Saturday and Monday nights' observers calculated the port had been hit by about tons of high explosives over a span of five nights. In addition, it was reckoned that tens of thousands of fire bombs probably 100,000 were dropped on the submarine building yards, railway installations, factories and warehouses, and it was estimated that 1,400 twin and four-engined bombers had been sent over Bremen in the last three raids. 42 BILLIONS ARE VOTED AT CLOSE OF FISCAL YEAR Solons Finally Kill CCC In Passing Record Appropriations WASHINGTON, June 30 (AO Congress finally killed the Civilian Conservation Corps today, in passing a half dozen appropriation bills, including a record-breaking for war expenditures. The measures were enacted in the course of a hard-working day necessitated by the fact that midnight tonight brought the end of the fiscal year. Even so, two appropriations bills remained unpassed, leaving the agriculture department technically without operating fuunds and compelling the office of price administration and several other war time agencies to gpt along for the time being on what emergency funds are available.

Farm Bill Delayed A $680,000,000 bill for the farm program was snarled In a conference controversy over sales of government held grain. There was talkpf adopting a resolution to-mo'rew to let the department operate on Its usual fiscal basis until the controversy Is settled. The other unpassed bill was a supplemental defense meastire providing $1,810,487,615 for the censorship office, civilian defense and other such agencies. The house approved it during the day, after a sharp battle over funds for OPA. but it still had to run the entire course of senate consideration.

It was believed that until the legislation Is enacted, the agencies would be financed from emergency funds previously voted to the President. Henderson Is Target House debate on the measure brought a renewal of attack on Leon Henderson, the price administrator, and his methods. Aclmin: Istratlon forces, however, successfully staved off an effort to make a further cut in Henderson's appropriation. He originally requested $200,000,000. which was reduced $75,000,000 by the time the house appropriation committee had acted on the measure.

A dispute between the house and senate on continuing the depression-born civilian conservation corps ended with the senate capitu-latlng. The house originally re-(Continued to Page 4, Column 3) AXIS SUB STRIKES AT BRITISH CONVOY LISBON. Portugal. Wednesday, July l(JF) A violent attack by an Axis submarine and aircraft on iirttUh rnnvov escorted by a war ship lasted 40 minutes yesterday, beginning at noon, on -ape v.r-voelro in southern Portugal, it was reported early today. The results of the action were not available here.

The scene of the clash is approximately 180 miles northwest of Gibraltar. By HARRY CROCKETT WITH THE BRITISH ARMY on the Egyptian Desert Front, June 29. (Delayed) IF) British and Axis troops were fighting tonight in the El Daba-Fuka area west of Alexandria, but the supreme collision between their main armies was yet to come. British troops continue to slip through the German and Italian No. 182 pANDOS OF JIAC ArTHUrS I3CES STK1M f4 Land Troops in tain rovinv Jap-lleia isiana (JALTIES SMALL Land Counterattack racmc oiogvu On Salamaua Lt.T.TF.n HEADQUAR- tec Australia.

Wednesday, Cl-(ff)-Allie4 comman. fv tna troops nave suuwr xu iJU in the Pacific war surprise attack on the aoanese garnsun vl. isw fiuinea. inflicting L-59tPlv60 casualties on i nemy and withdrawing dth.Sy noneral Mac Arthur's XarW. reported today.

in in'uie terrain, an army jokesman said- The Japanese were puzzled for .1. time after the attack and 52. 1 their air force to bomb native villas of Mubo and In New Guinea, appar. ta.lTnrf the Allied comman- nuartered there, the JnolornH ho damage, me commum Like Commando ui-t. annkesman said the Ld could be compared with the jritih Commando raw-on ppean continent but did not any illuminating details.

b.v. iTiUorf states and Austra- lb troops are stationed in south-u v.ur r.uinea. but it was not Closed which participated. This was the nrsi iana touum-ittlon reported since the Japanese irtrran the southern Pacific. losses.

Inflicted The communique said the "al- land forces successfully en- Ijigfd the enemy garrison, inflict- losses estimarea bi ann cap-nrlng equipment. Allied casual- lin were two wounflen. Annirentlv this was a hlt-and- lun Btmrk bv allied troops simi- I tar to the British Commando raids on the Nazi-held continental coast in Europe. (U. 8.

Marines may have partic- ImM hr Inning. It was dts tWd list Saturday in Atlanta, that a malor expeditionary force of marines had landed at a South Pacific "Jumping off place," apparently equipped to be the spearhead of a United Nations offensive In the war are. (Salamaua li atwiur 1.10 mI1a I due north of Port the lined hast In southern New Guinea. An almost Impassable mountain lies between the two points. Thus it would appear the allied iKiion was a sraiwme affair rath- man an overland strike.) Allied Irntani alan unr rA.

ported officially to have again at-kd the Japanese base at Lae. fw miles north of Salamaua, and manaui in New Britain island to to east Fires at Airdrome The rMlllt nf th "mlnn. at. tck on the airdrome" at Lae were ohservid. th MMtlf IIV OM.V., flreS Wrr at th.

nlr. pme and wharf area of Rabual. ne communique said: "North Guinea: "Salamaua: In a nlsht raid Allied and i 'ne enniy garrison inHlttlng losses "ent. Allied casualties were two "Thereafter the enemy retaliated botnhln t- IJhout damage. lr niade a minor "ark on the airdrome.

The re-were not nhor. vv Britain: "Rahaiil- in ni bombed the airdrome nan area start tig fires." INDIANANS BLAME OP FOR CONFLICT f.VhriviTwx. 'Muni rw. "flp hlennlal state convention, to-I dopted a platform blaming "iirrnaiionai poncy by isolationists and the jpublican party over a period of Thua it 'wuorm, "that hiinnn. hi.

how be spent and American men and women PV with their lives." ho hlr Van Nuys, til mocratlc state o.ganl- and Presklent Roosevelt. convention that Congrcsa Nm.nc,loneJ well In meeting f'88." he ald, "has been oiiMons or dollars lor of the war. All ''quests have been granted im mllltry and naval depart- CJ. "ave in no wise been "1AUTON Jun 30 JP a Bfii.M. s'ymcnt increased 327.000 mid Aprll to mid-May, Sec Labor Perkins reported y.

the May total of 41,201.000 catering a record high, i2L DECISIVE VOTE FOR CHURCHILL IS ANTICIPATED Placing of Auchinleck in Egypt Command Helps To Disarm Critics. EXPECT CONCESSIONS Debate Opening Today Is Expected to Verge On Acrimonious LONDON, June 30 (JP) A decisive victory for Prime Minister Churchill's national government was predicted to night by well-informed par liamentary sources despite the addition of two recruits to the list of 19 chronic critics whose "no-confidence" motion precipitated the impending two-aay deoate in commons. The prime minister himself part ly disarmed his critics today by announcing in Commons that General Sir Claude J. E. Auchinleck, commander in chief of the British forces in the Middle East, had assumed command of the British army in North Africa on June 2o, superseding Neil M.

Ritchie. After today's house ses sion Churchill conferred with King George. Tumultuous Welcome It. was Churchill's first appear ance in the house since his return from the United States and he re ceived 'a tumultuous welcome. Nevertheless, the debate which opens tomorrow was expected to verge on the acrimonious and the probing and criticism were expected to wring from Churchill some concessions.

These, the parliamentary sources said, would be most likelv to take the form of the creation of a more effective body to direct the British military effort, such as a combined general staff. Auchinleck Announcement The prime minister gave no accounting today of his conferences with President Roosevelt, confining hiraself to this brief statement: "I do not propose to make any statement today about the momentous battle now being fought in Egypt, but I eel the house would wish to know that on June 25 General Auchinleck decided to assume command of the eighth army personally in succession to General Ritchie. "As soon as Auchinleck informed the government of the decision lie had taken he was at once told that it had our approval." Stands by Churchill The most significant development of the day, pointing to a strengthening of the government's position in Commons, was the decision of the powerful Conservative "1922 committee" not to support the motion of Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, Conservative, for a "no-confidence" vote, calling it "ill advised." This decision, in the opinion of Conservative members, far outweighed the addition of Sir Henry Morris-Jones and Sir Murdoch Mac-Donald, Liberal Nationalists, to the list of critics backing the motion. Morris-Jones expressed the views of the opposition and of many members who will probably abstain from voting when he declared he supported Churchill as prime minister but not as minister of defense. SHIP LOSSES IN ATLANTIC HIT 327 By the Associated Tress Western Atlantic ship losses by the united and neutral nations since Tearl Harbor amounted to 327 in the unofficial Associated Press tabulation with the announcement by the navy department yesterday (Tues.) that three more merchantmen had been sunk with a presumed loss of .67 lives.

All three ships were rescued crewmen related. Survivors of a Canadian merchantman sunk In the Caribbean area said that the vessel sank so rapidly after two torpedoes had struck her that only six men out of a crew of 30 survived. Survivors from another ship said their medium-sized vessel was sunk more than 500 miles from land. wanted to be a delicatessen shopkeeper or a banker. A picture of native troops in the Philippines, hanging on a wall in the New York Military Academy at Cornwall.

N. however, started him toward Manila in 1913 to join the Philippine constabulary. He served with that force for four years. In the World War he served ith the Infantry but transferred thereafter to aviation, and for 20 years his chief interest has been bombardment, aircraft. "The Pacific war has opened a new chapter in modern air warfare, a chapter dealing with long distance operations." General Hale said in discussing recent events in this area.

"Vast distances present a challenge greater than in any other theatre of war, and our navigators and pilots are meeting this challenge. "The operations at Midway are an excellent example of the complete coordination necessary between all forces in the Pacific Mutual effort is necessary and we (Continued to Page 4, Colusa 4) Axis Move Past EI Daba Is Threat to Entire Egyptian Defense AWAIT NEW STAND Fresh U.S., New Zealand And Free French Troops Used CAIRO, June 30 (TP) Swiftly attacking Axis armored columns plunged past El Daba, only 100 miles west of Alexandria, tonight on an advance that imperiled the entire defense of Egypt. This marked a 75-mile sweep during one night and day since the fall of Matruh. Whether the Axis sweep beyond El Daba generally regarded as the point where the mauled eighth army had been expected to make a firm stand was in force or by scattered Panzer units was not clarified in a brief announcement tonight. The fighting tonight continued in the whole vast funnel-shaped zone between the Mediterranean and the Qattara depression to the west of El Daba as well as to the east, British military experts emphasized.

The enemy force which succeeded in driving as far as El Daba was believed composed of one German division, probably of mixed arms, although exact details of the fighting had not reached Cairo. Despite the determined British fight, some enemy elements were still feeling their way eastward. Natural Position The eighth army, now under the personal wmmand of Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, may he able to stand firm at a natural defense position 35 miles east of El Daba. There the desert between the Mediterranean and the eastern extremity of the soft, sand-bogged Qattara depression narrows to about 36 miles.

This is the narrowest point of the botUeneck into which the Axis forces have plunged in their speedy advance against the British, who, although exacting what Nazi casualties they could, have been withdrawing without making a major stand. V. S. Reinforcements Fresh New' Zealand and French reinforcements and new U. S.

Army Air Corps squadrons Joined the battle during the day and earlier reports said the British lines were stiffening. The battle of rapid maneuver still was highly fluid, but the Axis forces already were 200 miles inside Egypt far beyond the deepest previous penetration by the Italians at the start of the first desert campaign in 1940. The milling masses of tanks, men and artillery ranged over hundreds of square miles of hard, brown desert sand during the day and fought on tonight under the refreshing cool of a desert moon. The paramount object of both the British and Germans was to destroy the opposing army. Early Stand at Fuka Earlier in the bitter combat today, the Allied army had thrown back the advancing Germans from Fuka, a coastal point on the rim of the desert 45 miles southeast of Matruh.

But the wily Axis commander. Marshal Erwin Rommel, struck again with his two German and a third Italian armored divisions. Apparently the British dropped back before the superior forces in good order. (Axis communiques claimed Rommel's advance forces had reached and passed Fuka, but did not claim its capture.) SHIPYARD BLAST KILLS 3 WORKERS PHILADELPHIA, June 30 Three workmen were killed and 14 others injured today by carbon dioxide fumes In the engine room of a ship undergoing repairs at the Philadelphia navy yard. Rear Admiral A.

E. Watson, commandant of the yard, said a system used for smothering fire with carbon dioxide suddenly "opened up." He declined further information pending an investigation. The dead, all of Philadelphia, were identified as Edgar T. Thornton, 40, pipefitter, second class; Charles W. Staats, 49, machinist, third class, and Frederick T.

Sabln, 38, boilermakers' helper. LYNN LOCKHART TO RESIGN STATE JOB PHOENIX. June 30 CP) The Phoenix Gazette said today in Its political column that Lynn Lock-hart was preparing to resign July 31 as state industrial commisisoner. i Lockhart was quoted as saying in a telephone call from San Antonio, Texas, to the paper's political writer that he would give up the state position to join his brother In an oil field enterprise. The article also said that Lock-hart was planning to return to Arizona to take an active part in the campaign of R.

T. Jones for the governorship. Jones appointed Lockhart to the commission for a term ending January 8, 1944, Russians Drive Back As Nazi Waves of Tanks Smash in Vain SEVASTOPOL HOLDS Soviet Forces Beat Off Massive Attacks On Crimean Base MOSCOW, Wednesday, July 1 (P) The Red army has launched a series of successful counterattacks on the Kursk front where Germany's great offensive, now in its fourth day, continued to smash in vain with waves of tanks and infantry at unyielding Russian lines. The Moscow radio announced today that the Russians were attacking at several points in this sector, where one of the greatest tank battles of tha war has been going on since Sunday. Whole companies and battalions have been put out of action by the Russians, taking advantage of natural and artificial obstacles, the announcer said.

Tanks Hurled Back This bulletin came shortly after the midnight communique stated the Red army still continued to hurl back the waves of tanks and infantrymen with heavy losses. About 150 German tanks were destroyed in the Kursk sector, bringing the total losses of the Germans in this battle to 350 in three days. The Russians also beat off massive German attacks on the fortifications of Sevastopol, Crimean naval base more than 500 miles to the south of the Kursk battle. The battle of Kursk, 200 miles south of Moscow, showed no signs of diminishing its intensity. The communique mentioned attacks of "big infantry and tank units" and said the Germans were suffering "colossal losses." 2,000 Nazis Killed "In the Kursk direction, the stubborn battl continues." the communique said.

"On one sector alone during the day. we killed over 2,000 Germans." The communique said 150 tanks were destroyed in addition to 200 previously reported knocked out in the first two days of the Kursk battle. Referring to the bitter fighting (Continued to Page 4, Column 5) YOUTHS SIGN UP IN FIFTH DRAFT Many Already Planning to Enter Service Without Awaiting Call Tucson youths in the 1S-20 age bracked registered yesterday in tne nation's fifth draft call. With large staffs set up at the registration centers, no congestion was reported, although there was a steady trickle of registrants throughout the day. The hours of registration were from 7 a.

m. to 9 p. m. The young registrants obviously were much more ill at ease than their predecessors in the four previous registrations. They appeared to be agreed that their segment of the population is ready and willing to serve, and many of them disclosed that they already either have attempted to enter the armed services or are planning to try soon.

"Good Idea" Gareth Bingham, 19, bearded cowboy from Reddington, said: "This is a good idea. The government will now have an idea where the man power is. I'm sure w-e'll all be glad to do our part when called." "It's about time they registered us j-oung fellows," said Sage M. Johnston, 18, who Is registered in the naval reserve as a possible candidate for pilot training. "They ought to speed things up more." Howell Manning 19, who will start as a university freshman in the fall, thinks the draft registration "is a good idea.

I'm going to try to get into the air force reserve." Tries Three Times Mike Beebe, 18-jear-old soda dispenser, declared that "It's all right to register us fellows at 38, but I don't think they should draft us until we are at least 20 years old." An airplane fuselage repairman from Davis-Monthan field, Bruce Collins, 20, said he had already tried three times to enlist but had been turned down because of a leg injury. "They got the voung fel lows doing their stuff in Germany," he said- "Why shouldn't we all get behind the war effort here? I think that everybody should regis ter, and I think everybody should. and soon will, be in some kind of war work." XATIOX COMPLETES REGISTRATION TASK WASHINGTON, June 30.. The nation completed today the vast task of registering its manpower, with approximately to Page 4, Column 4) LZJ 100 STATUTE MILES placed the Axis armored columns PLANS FOR TAX RELIEF STUDIED Moratorium on Private Debts Suggested as Possible Aid WASHINGTON, June 30 (JF) A new fiscal year began tonight with a war budget so huge that the treasury raised the possibility that citizens may have to be given a moratorium on their private debts so that they will be able to pay commensurate taxes. The budget for the new year calls for the spending of for direct war activities; about $6,000,000,000 more for other governmental problems, and $4,000,000,000 for financing govern-mental corporations primarily engaged in supplementing the war effort.

Against this proposed cash out lay of approximately 000, tax receipts from existing statutes would provide only about $17,000,000,000. A new tax bill now pending in the house ways and means committee is designed to raise about $6,000,000,000 a year. General Moratorium At the turn of the fiscal year, Randolph E. Paul, adviser to the treasury, made public a memorandum to Congress in which he said that the problem of drastic tax increases upon persons who spend a large part of their income to pay debts, particularly to buy homes, "could be dealt with from a wider point of view by some sort of more or less general moratorium on debt payments, at least for home-owners." Paul explained that this was not a recommendation, and he wrote the memorandum merely In response to congressional requests for suggestions on possible means of granting relief to, persons with heavy, private debts. Among other suggestions from Paul were special income tax credits for war bond purchases orv debt payments, a system of postponing for four years part of the income tax of persons who use a large percentage of their Income for debt payments or savings, and a special "spending tax" which would be an extra inrome based on the percentage of income a person spends.

Whether any of these ideas would get official sanction at an early date was not known, how- ever. New Records Set The size of the budget for the new fiscal overshadowed the fact that the old year, which ended tonight, set new records for expenditures, revenues, deficit, and debt. Exact figures will not be available until, later In the week, but the treasury revealed that from July 1, 1941, through June 27, 1942, it spent $31,951,675,387 for all governmental purposes, including 586,462,338 for direct war activities. Taxes and other revenues In the same period totaled $12,696,936,089, (Coatiaaed to Page 4, talaaaB 4) ami in vita If KT7L Niii JAP ATTACK ON FUKIMNTED Enemy Columns Making Progress in Drive Through Kiangsi CHUNGKING, June 30. (P) Japanese forces in Kiangsi prov ince appeared tonight to have opened a new phase of their East China campaign with indications that the coastal province of Fukien might be their next objective.

Japanese 'columns admittedly were making progress in slashing attacks through eastern Kiangsi to ward the Fukien border and a Chinese spokesman said some Japanese troops from the Philippines were concentrated on Formosa, the Japanese island colony I just off Fukien's coast. There For Training They were there, the Chinese heard, "for readjustment and training" presumably after their hard campaigning and heavy losses that preceded the reduction of Bataan and Corregidor but Formosa notoriously is a preparation ground for offensive action. The conquest of the Philippines was rehearsed there. Japanese columns already are in southern Chekiang, near Fukien's northern border, and in eastern Kiangsi, just west of Fukien. Chinese strategists believed there might be coordinated drive for both directions against the province which the Japanese need to round out their conquests and give them a safe overland route from Shanghai to Singapore.

Foes Make Progress The Chinese high command communique admitted that Japanese forces attacking south of Ihwang, 80 miles south-southeast of Nan-chang, former capital of Kiangsi, has made progress. The communique was silent on the situation along the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway, the objective of most of the East China fighting in the last six weeks, but a spokesman said the points of the Japanese pincers still were some 50 miles apart. ARIZONA FOURTH IN RUBBER DRIVE PHOENIX, June 30. ftP) Arizona still ranks fourth among the states in amount of rubber per cap ita recovered during tne nationwide campaign, Howard Gunnels, publicity manager of the state salvage committee, was advised today from Washington. In the past week, he said, Arizona more than doubled its per capita figure, increasing it from 34 pounds to 8 7-10.

It was not the record of such leading states as Arizona, but the poor showing In, other parts of the country, he said, that led to expressions of official disappointment with the campaign and caused President Roosevelt to extend the deadline to July 10. BOY DROWNS IN POOL NEAR MIAMI MIAMI, June Mike Foster, 11 years old, drowned today when he slipped and fell into the Bloody Tanks swimming pool, two miles west of Miami. The accident occurred Just after he and a companion, Mike Gonzales Jr, had arrived at the pool for a swim. The victim fell in fully clothed. The boy's father, John F.

Foster, is an employe of the Miami Copper company. advance patrols to regain the positions of their main army, and reinforcements still are moving up for a big prospective battle along the coastal road between the Mediterranean coast and the Qattara Depression to the south. For hours I've watched leathery Britons, bearded Sikhs, and dark-skinned Cape" Colony troops streaming back from the front to new positions. With Fresh Troops But for every retiring ruck two more have moved westward with fresh trOops, new guns and supplies to hurl at Marshal Rommel's forces. Grinning Indian troops by the train-load also went forward while overhead American and British fighters and bombers roared i assuringly.

For several days now there have been many tank and artillery clashes south of El Daba, 100 miles by road wast of Alexandria, and also south of Fuka and Matruh farther to the west. But the actual situation in this sparring was very confused. At Matruh the British said the Germans felt their way about that evacuated British port for three days before making a sweep to the south to encircle it and find the British gone and the oil stores there destroyed. Unbelievable Pace The British themselves admitted the pace of the German advance was almost unbelievable, and thought it would be unable to continue much longer because of Axis supply difficulties. They quoted captured.

German and Italian prisoners as saying they were exhausted, hungry and thirsty because of the gruelling grind. While the British did not rule out the possibility of an attempted Axis sweep around the Qattara Depression far awray from the coast, they were expecting the main battle along the coast road. But this decisive struggle was not expected for two or three days. The withdrawing British troops I've seen appear to be in good spir-its although fagged by the extreme heat and a series of delaying actions. All were stripped to the waist as darkness closed in to bring some relief from the torturing temperatures.

Raiding Group You don't take anything for granted in this fast-moving desert war. Last night a raiding group apparently bent on stealing arms and grabbing off a few prisoners swooped down on us with shotguns blazing. An abrupt blast of concentrated British fire dispersed the raiders. Tonight the Nazi bombers have just finished the first round of their nighUy raids. We were caught near their target area an important nearby town and also by the retaliatory British ack-ack fire.

With one sprained knee already tightly bandaged I dived under one of our trucks and injured the other knee, and both elbows In the process. FERRYING BOMBERS SYDNEY, Wednesday, July 1 VP) American pilots are errymg heavy and medium bombers direct from U. S. territory to Australia, an announcement at an operational base said today. Mid-Pacific Air Commander Sees War as 'Long Hard JoV By WALTER B.

CLAUSE HEADQUARTERS HAWAIIAN AIR FORCE, T. June 30. (IT) A new chapter In aerial warfare has been Opened by the conflict in the Pacific and the showdown is yet to come In what "looks like a long hard job" against an enemy that Is "not a pushover, said Major General Willis H. Hale, commanding the U. S.

Army Air Forces in the mid-Pacific, tonight. "Our real punches will tell their own story as our army-navy team delivers them." said General Hale In his first Interview since appointed to his new command. "The Japs at least must be tryjng to figure what is coming next." Hale, 49 years old, is one of the youngest flying generals. He Is a resident of Colorado Springs but his wife and two daughters are living in Washington while he is In a combat xone. He was recently elevated to a major general.

Alert and affable, General Hale remarked that when he went to Kansas State college. Manhattan, Kas, didn't know whether he.