The Daily News Leader from Staunton, Virginia • 1

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No. 140 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS WIDE WORLD AUDIT BUREAU CIRCULATIONS STAUNTON, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1942 MORNING LEAD TOE LIBRARY PRICE THREE CENTS DAILY NEWS Rationing of Gas Extended King George Visits LI Flagship In England 3 Powers Determined To Prevent Germany's Drawing Sword Again To July 1 5th U.S., SOVIET RUSSIA SIGN Provisions Made to Supply Vehicle Operators During Extra Period of Two Weeks Prior to Start of Coupon United States, Britain, and Russia Have Come to Complete Understanding of Urgent and Tremendous Undertakings Necessary to Opening of Second Front on European Continent This Year; Molotov Conferred in London and Washington; Nazis Pound Forward from Kharkov. AGREEMENT $336,000,000 FUND FOR WPA IS APPROVED Action by House Comes Forces Withstand Determined, Two-day Attempt to Abolish Relit Agency or Reduce Its Appropriations. 5 it- By FRED VANDERSCHMIDT Associated Press War Editor The fifhting giants of the United Nations the United States, Britain, and Russia disclosed yesterday (Thursday) that they had come to a complete understanding on the urgent and tremendous undertakings necessary to ths opening of a second front on the European continent this year. Then they outlined their master plan for a post-war Europe in which Germany never again will be able to draw the sword.

Nazis Pound Forward Behind the cascade of disclosures from Washington and London, sombre events were shaping their course on the fighting fronts of the" Eastern Hemisphere. The German armies of south Russia were pounding forward from Kharkov, smashing with unflagging savagery at the Crimean naval base of Sevastopol. In- the terrible heat of the Libyan desert the gallant fighting Frenchmen of Bir Hacheim, battered without mercy for sixteen days by German and Italian troops of all arms, gave up their garrison anchor of the semi-fortified forward line which protects Tobruk and the Eyptian frontier. Radiophoto King George VI is shown (right) with Admiral Harold R. Stark, commander of the U.

S. naval forces In European waters, as His. Majesty visited aboard the U. S. flagship during his visit to the Home Fleet somewhere in England.

The King was inspecting the nrst intimation mat the United Navy in waters adjacent to Britain Czecho-Slovak Government In Exile Vows Revenge for Wave Of Executions by the Germans The Russians announced early today (Friday) that 15,000 Nazis had fallen in three days on the Sevastopol fronti while on the Kharkov front the Red Army was fighting fiercely on the defensive against "advancing enemy tanks and infantry." From the Pacific theatre of this war, there came the breath-taking complete accounts of the smashing of the Japanese enemy's powerful fleet off Midway Island by eager young U. S. Army, Navy, and Marine pilots. Said Clark Lee, the narrator: "The moral is that American planes alone may not win the war, but the boys flying American planes will Full Understanding Identical Government announcements in Washington and London, dealing with the military facet of the conversations which, last month, brought Soviet Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov to both capitals, said without any elaboration: "Full understand- By ALEX H. SINGLETON Washington, June 11.

(IP) A $336,000,000 appropriation for the WPA was passed by the House early tonight as Administration forces withstood a determined, two-day attempt to abolish the relief agency or reduce its funds. As finally passed and sent to the Senate by a roll call vote of 277 to 52, the bill provided for only a fraction of the funds expended in WPA's peak year of 1939, when WPA carried three million persons on its rolls and spent $2,230,000,000. Earlier, the House had voted: 184 to 133 against an amendment designed to prevent the WPA from starting any new projects except those certified by the Secretary of War, Secretary of Navy, or Mari time Commission chairman as essential to the war effort. 183 to 140 against sending the supply bill back to the appropriations committee with orders to cut the funds by one third and to turn administration of relief over to the states. The hottest fights came on the amendment by Rep.

May chairman of the House Military committee, to restrict WPA to war projects, and on that of Rep. Taber N. to return the bill to committee for revision. Bitterly, Rep. Cannon chairman of the appropriations (Continued on Page 10, Col.

1) 0 Railroads Will Not Be Blacked Out Completely Because certain lights are required for railroad operation and because transportation is of vital importance to the war effort, railroads in this state will not be completely blacked out during the test air raid alarm June 17, local Civilian Defense Authorities have been advised. J. H. Wyse, state coordinator of the Office of Civilian Defense, states that the railroads in Virginia have met with a representative of his office and that the following were agreed upon: 1. All railroads serving this state are prepared to blackout all lights and to stop all movement of traffic In a real air raid.

Trains en route between stations will stop upon being notified that an air raid is in progress. 2. Railroad hrtrlyes floodlights will remain lit during a blackout unless ordered out be cause of an air raid. 3. Safety lights on railroad gates will remain lit during blackouts.

Switch lights will remain lit in yards and along rights-of-way. (Many of the railroads have painted these lights leaving only a narrow slit.) 4. Railroad stations have made arrangements to dim out, leaving only a minimum of light which is (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2) 5 I when this photo was made. This is in cooperation with the British our northern supply line to Russia.

TURBULENT IS BACK IN HOME BERTH British Submarine Sank Five Axis Merchantmen, All Heavily Laden with War Supplies Dispatched from Italy to Libya; American Was Aboard. Editor's note: The recent exploit of the British submarine Turbulent In sinking five Axis ships in the Mediterranean, told only briefly by the British Admiralty on Tuesday, is described in detail in the following dispatch giving the commander's own story. By LARRY ALLEN Aboard a British Submarine Depot Ship in the Mediterranean, June 11. (IP) A lone British submarine has slipped back to its berth alongside this mothership after sinking three Axis merchantmen, one Italian destroyer, and one schooner, all heavily laden with wax supplies dispatched from Italy to Libya. The submarine, one of a flotilla (Continued on Page 10, Col.

4) TO BE PARATROOPER Pvt. E. T. Wharton Jr. son of Mr.

and Mrs. E. T. Wharton of College Park, has finished his training at Camp Wheeler, has passed his medical examination, and now will go to Fort Benning, where he will take up his training to become a parachutist in the newly-formed division of paratroops. S.

ARMY FLIERS TOBACCO LEVY IS APPROVED TENTATIVELY Bouse Ways and Means Committee Also Gives Tentative Approval to Doubling: of 5 Per Cent Levy on Transportation Fares; Considers Soft Drink Levy Boost. Washington, June 11 (IP) A $107,000,000 increase in the tax bill of tobacco smokers, including a half cent raise in the tax on a pack of cigarettes, was approved tentatively today by the House Ways and Means committee, along with a doubling of the five per cent levy on transportation. Moving swiftly through a series of Treasury Department recommendations for increased excises, the committee then proceeded to debate a proposal to Impose a new tax on soft drinks. A vote is expected tomorrow. Here are the committee's tentative actions today: 1.

Cigarettes Increased the tax from a flat rate of $3.25 a thousand eotimatod to 500,000 in additional revenue. Treasury had asked for a $188,600,000 increase. 2. Cigars Increased the graduated scale of rates to a schedule of $2.50 a thousand on those retailing at not more than 2 '4 cents to $35 a thousand on those costing 30 cents or more; estimated to yield The Treasury's program called for a $13,100,000 increase. 3.

Smoking tobacccj Increased the (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) tank and Infantry forces against Russian defense positions on the Kharkov front, and fierce battles have developed, the Government announced today. Stubborn fighting continued to rage in the Crimea, where the Germans were smashing against th Soviet naval fortress of Sevastopol The Red Army was reported Inflicting heavy losses on the Nazis In repulsing their attacks. In three days of fighting ther alone, the official midnight Soviet communique stated, nearly 15,000 German officers and men were killed. The Nazis lost more than fifty tanks and sixty planes in the same period.

The communique stated there were no significant changes on other sectors. Earlier bulletins had reported action over a wide front which, combined with great land battles of the Crimea and the Uk-, raine, brought the war on the Rus- sian front to the highest pitch of Washington, June 11. (IP The Office of Price Administration tonight extended the emergency gasoline rationing program on the East Coast to July 15, on which date the permanent coupon rationing system will go Into effect. Double Value Effective at twelve-one a. m.

June 15. the basic unit value of and cards now in use will be increased from three to six gallons, to provide card holders with sufficient motor fuel to tide them over the two-week extension period. The temporary plan originally was set to expire June 30. The extension was ordered to permit the training of registrars and ration boards in the new and more stringent system. Extra Allotment Plan Card holders who have exhausted all the units on their ration cards by June 15 must apply to their local ration board for an extra allotment.

OPA said, however, that such an extra ration should be for gasoline needed between July 1 and July 15 only, since the Tations allowed by the present cards were intended to fill all motoring needs to the end of this month. Applicants for additional supplies In all cases will be required to pass the usual tests for supplemental rations, OPA said. Price Administrator Leon Henderson said his agency was making every effort to eliminate confusion from the issuance of the new coupon books and to institute the permanent system as quickly as possible. "The new plans, which replaces the present plan, will apply more rigid and more complete control over the flow of gasoline throughout the Eastern shortage area," Henderson said in a statement. "This necessarily entails more detailed regulations than were needed for the emergency plan.

For thl3 reason, some time Is needed to train registrars, and to supply local rationing boards with Instructions and material for carrying out the plan." PIPllNETO BE OWNED BY Washington. June 11 (Ti The 550-mile pipeline approved by the War Production Board will be gC-ernment owned, WPB officials said today, and its capacity may be step ped up ultimately from 300,000 to 450.000 barrels a day. Cost of the line from Long View, to the vicinity of Salem, 111., Is expected to be $35,000,000 or it was stated, but that estimate may be a "little high." Of the 300,000 barrels daily which the line is expected to deliver in the Salem area, 250,000 barrels will be carried on to the Eastern "shortage states" by tank car and barge, and 50,000 will remain in the Middle West. Capacity of the line could be increased substantially after its completion by the installation of additional pumps, officials said. Present plans call for a pumping station every fifty miles, but the big 24-inch tube could carry half again the amount of oil if the number of pumps were increased.

Farmers Have Done Good Job in Scrap Hunt Although the farmers of Augusta County undoubtedly still have a great deal of scrap iron and steel not yet turned in for alvage, they have been doing a noteworthy job, it was said last night by General Perry L. Miles, director of local salvage operations. Sixty per cent of all iron and steel scrap shipped from Staunton In April and May came from the farms. The proprietor! of the automobile "graveyards" In this vicinity are not matching this. General Miles said, although they possess the great bulk of the metal scrap of the county.

There is a lot of such scrap In cellars and yards about the city, too, he said, pointing out that one man on the city dump recovered over two tons of it last month. Robber Most Critical Rubber, however, as noted last week, still remains and Is likely to remain for a long time, the -most critical of all war Reclaiming of scrap rubber Is deemed of such importance, he said, that the President may call for a. special drive of two weeks' duration, in order to obtain more complete knowledge than now" possessed of the country's resfirces in this respect. The results of (Continued on Page 10, Col. 2) GOVERNMENT Mutual Aid Agreement Provide for Reciprocal Assistance In Winning of War and For Cooperation In Practical Measures to Create Better World Hereafter.

Washington, June 11. UP) The United States and Soviet Russia signed tonight a mutual aid agreement providing for reciprocal assistance in the winning of the war and for cooperation in practical measures to "create a better world hereafter," Similar In all essential respects to the lend-lease agreements signed Feb. 23 with Great Britain and on June 2 with China, the new Soviet agreement replaces the previous arrangements under which Russia was granted last November a non-interest bearing loan of followed early this year, by supplemental credit of an un-revealed magnitude. Under the original offer made bv President Roosevelt and accepted by Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, repayment of the non-interest bearing loan was not to begin until five years after the war. Under the new agreement, signed by the Ambassador Maxim Litvinoff and Secretary of State Hull tonight, the final determination of terms and conditions of settlement Is deferred "until the extent of the defense aid is known." In this connection, a State Department communique summarizing and interpreting the provisions of the mutual aid pact emphasizes that: "The agreement reaffirms this country's determination to continue to supply in ever-increasing amounts aid to the Soviet Union in the war against the common enemy.

The agreement also provides for such reciprocal as the union may be In a position to supply. "But no matter how great this aid may prove to be, it will be small in comparison with the magnificent contribution of the Soviet Union's armed forces to the defeat of the common enemy." The ceremony of signing took place at the State Department only a tew hours after the White House announced that Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov had been in Washington and discussed with President Roosevelt and his advisers fundamental problems of cooperation of the Soviet Union and the United States in safeguarding peace and security to the freedom loving peoples after the war." 0 Drottningholm Reaches Lisbon Lisbon. June 11 iJP) The Swedish diplomatic exchange liner Drottningholm arrived tonight with Axis diplomats and nationals from the United States.

MICH IMPROVED Hollywood. June 11 (IP) Jack Oakie, removed to a hospital yesterday with a cold which threatened to develop into pneumonia, was reported much improved today. 'aged one cruiser or battleship, a transport, and a destroyer. Next morning they took to the air again with Marine fliers and the latter dive bombed enemy ships, causing further damage. The Flying Portresses attacked from high altitude this time and hit an enemy carrier.

Further hits may have been obtained, as all reports have not been received. Enemy carrier-based planes meanwhile were attacking Sand Island and Eastern Island, comprising Midway, with heavy demolition bombs. They were followed by dive bombers and pursuit planes which strafed the area. Nearly two hundred enemy planes took part in the attack, and were met by Marine fighters and a veritable curtain of steel from the ground defenses. Runways were not bombed.

Apparently the enemy expected to occupy the islands and use them as an airbase for further operations. Heavy Army bombers then at tacked the second Japanese force a battle fleet which approached from another direction. Critical Moment A critical moment of the battle came. General Hale said, when the enemy air units withdrew and the heavy bombers returned for fuel and more bombs. "But the enemy didn't come back," (Continued oa Page 2, Ool 1) the Honor Guard American sailors States has heavy naval units working and probably engag ed in keeping open Executioners Continue Their Reprisals at Increased Tempo; 34 More Put to Death.

By J. WES GALLAGHER London, June 11. (IP) The Czechoslovak Government In exile vowed revenge today for the mounting wave of Nazi executions which have reached perhaps 690 since the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the gestapo's purgemaster and "protector" of the Czech homeland. The Nazi executioners continued their reprisals at an increased tempo. The Prague radio announced tonight that another thirty-four Czechs had been executed today, including ten women.

This brought the official total to 340, not counting those put to death in the wiping out of the little town of Lidice. At least another 350 persons were shot to death in that brutal reprisal, according to the estimate of an official Czech spokesman in London. Formal Protest These "barbarous acts" were protested In a formal note to the Allied Governments, which said: "The Czecho-Slovak Government will take the necessary steps which it may regard as desirable to secure retribution for these atrocities and will relax no efforts to bring to account all those who committed these crimes or who were In any (Fears for just such reprisals were expressed, meanwhile, by the secret German radio station, known as the "station of the European revolution," in a broadcast recorded in New York by the CBS listening station. the announcer said, "an open word is imperative in the face of the mass murder of Lidice. If we don't do away with the gangster band of Nazis very soon, if we wait until Hitler Is defeated on the field of battle, then the flood of revenge will break down on us.

No affirmation that we had nothing to do with the Nazis will help us I The Czecho-Slovak protest followed shortly after one broadcast by General Wladyslaw Slkorskl, President of Poland, against "mass shootings" of Poles, "torture of tens of thousands" in concentration camps, and "deportation of more than 1,500,00 people." "Only by the announcement of retribution," he said, "and the application of reprisals whenever possible can a stop be put to the rising (Continued on Page 2, Col. 7) deaIineI set on extra sugar pleas James S. Simmons chairman of Staunton Rationing Board, said yesterday that people desiring to apply to his board to get sugar for canning purposes should do so before five o'clock on the afternoon of June 15. That hour is the deadline he said, and no certificates for the purchase of sugar for canning will be issued by his office between that hour and July 1. Effective June 16, Mr.

Sim-sons stated, the office hours of the Staunton board will be from one to five o'clock in the afternoon. This wll leave the mornings for the board clerks to make up their voluminous report wltheuj. interruptions ing was reached with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe in 1942." Many seasoned observers, consid ering all the known angles of the situation, concluded this meant the United States and Britain had promised to bend every energy to ward amassing this year the ships, the planes, the guns, and the men which they must have for continental invasion, but that there was as yet no positive assurance that this Invasion would begin before Jan. 1, 1943. The course of Russia's own summer battles may bear more heavily than anything else on the final decision.

The treaty itself, designed to endure for twenty years or more, pledged Britain and the Soviet Union to do everything in their power to prevent Germany from setting the world aflame again, and it contained a significant promise for mutual reconstruction of a new Europe on the principles of renun ciation of land grabs or meddling in the internal affairs of other nations. Russia's major concession, reportedly made at the suggestion of U. S. Ambassador John G. Wlnant, was said authoritatively to have been a backing down on her previous demands that she get back her postwar Baltic frontier, including Es-thonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Italy Ignored The treaty coldly ignored Italy as an individual factor in the war, merely lumping it with "the states associated with Germany." Japan, with which Russia is officially "friendly," was not mentioned: But one treaty clause pledged Russia and Britain to join no coalition against one or the other after Hitler is beaten. On the field of military action in Russia, the Von Bock offensive from Kharkov, scene of the bloody treadmill started by the Russian offen sive in May, looked dangerously like the beginning of the real thing. Moscow dispatches said the fighting there and on the corpse-strewn hills before Sevastopol had reached the highest pitch of the year. Yet on the Kharkov front the Germans did not appear to be making any Important progress as yet, and Sevastopol was holding against the shock of whole. German divisions, attack ing repeatedly.

Moscow, Friday, June 12. tTPV The Germans have thrown strong COUNCIL REAPPOINTS TWO MEMBERS OF SCHOOL BOARD; NOT EMPLOYING CASE WORKER TELL OF THEIR PART IN EPIC FIGHT; FORTRESSES ARE EFFECTIVE the year. There was mass aerial combat at the Black Sea and again far to the north in the Arctic. At Terrific Cost Nowhere did the Germans appear to be making any important "progress. In contrast to the pace of the blitz campaign last summer, Russian dispatches indicated that the Germans now are movinc only at terrific cost through the meatgrind-ers of the Red Army's defenses around besieged Sevastopol and In There were no details on the seer ond battle of Kharkov, matching the two old Semeon Timoshenko and Field Marshal General Fedor Von Bock, who already had faced each other In the battle for Moscow last year and In the first battle for Kharkov this spring.

Von Bock this time was taking the offensive, apparently seeking to regain ground lost to Timoshenko last month or to test out and wear down Tlmoshenko's remaining manpower and war material. By WILLIAM T. PEACOCK Washington, June 11. (IPh-The United States, Great Britain, and Russia gave Adolf Hitler new cause for jitters today by disclosing ther, had reached a complete undex- standing in momentous conversa- tions on many war problems Including "the urgent tasks of creating a second front in Europe In 1942." The understanding was arrived (Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) and courage need to be Instilled in the hearts arid lives of the people.

This year particularly, Massanetta dedicates' herself to the task of carrying high the torch of love, instead of hate of peace Instead of" war of character building Instead of sensuality of Justice Instead of oppression of hope Instead of fear of Christian demoracy Instead of dictatorship. In this ljulet reiort. away from the mad rush of the nry. Massanetta affords an opportunity for the rebirth of Christian ledr-ship. is, therefore, try-' (Continued oa Fag 2, CoL 2- Importance of Spiritual Defense of Nation Stressed as Conferences Open Among the more important matters handled by city council at its regular meeting last night were reappointment of two school board members, decision not to employ another Welfare Department case worker, and concurrence with a War Production Board regarding building permits.

The two school board members reappointed were Mrs. Richard M. Hamrick and F. C. Hamer, whose terms are to expire June 30.

In regard to another case worker, council did not desire to increase the expenses of the Welfare department at this time, it was said, and also did not see the need for an additional employee for this work. The request that another case worker be added to the city's Department of Public Welfare personnel came from the Welfare Department in Richmond, where it was felt that load here was too large for the one woman who Is handling It. There are about 150 cases on the ctiy welfare roll now. City Manager W. L.

Hall said, and these are supposed to be interviewed three times a year. $500 Limit In complying with the request of the War Production Board, Lcouncil decided that it would not Issue building permlta covering more than $500 worth of construction. The restriction on building is designed to conserve materials and labor that are essential to the war effort and WPB had asked the city to deny permits for construction that would be. in violation of its orders. Council approved a request from B.

F. Cash and M. W. Stickler to open a pool room at 34 South Augusta street. In the case of pool rooms and bowling alleys, permission must be obtained from council before the establishments can be operated.

W. S. Campfield oppeared before council and complained that he had been given a summons to appear in police court for parking in the no parking zone on South Central avenue, complaining that he had been discriminated against, and characterizing the set-up as a "trap." The City Manager was instructed to get the deatils of the summons from Officer C. R. Doome, who issued the ticket, and confer further with Mr.

Campfield. Kept Record Everyone who parks on the west side of South Central avenue should be fined, Mr. Campfield said, or no one should be penalised lor it. After he got his ticket, Mr. Campfield or his secretary (Coptimiect oa ftf CoL 8) By CLARK LEE General Emmons Headquarters, Hawaii.

June 11. (if) American Army fliers who grinned and shoved their planes through some very hot anti-aircraft fire in the battle of Midway Island, unfolded today the story of their part in the epic scrap, which they termed "better than a world's series." Teamed with Navy and Marine fliers whose stories remain to be told, the Army airmen helped to turn the battle in favor of the United States in the early stages after a powerful Japanese force staged a two-pronged sea attack on the strategic little island outpost. I'nbeatable Combination Theirs was a tale of the unbeatable combination of American fighting men and machines, of men who fought until they were dizzy and then fought on, of planes that stood the test though called upon to do things they never were built to do. How the Army bombers got in their first licks at the enemy the afternoon of June 3, when a Japanese 'fleet was spotted far west of Midway, was told by General Willis H. Hale of Colorado Springs, commander of the Hawaiian Bombardment Command, Transports largely made up this enemy fleet.

Attacking from medium altitude, the Flying Fortresses hit and 4am-, Massanetta Springs conferences opened last night for the twenty-first session. The Virginia Christian Endeavor convention held its opening session last night with addresses of welcome by the president C. E. Warrington of Norfolk, and the Conference Manager, Dr. Wm.

E. Hudson. Stressing the desperate need for Christian leadership In these days or peril, Dr. Hudson said: "As necessary as Is the National Defense program, how much more Important is the spiritual defense, program of the nation. Jalth.

Hope, 1:1.