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The brief was made without reference to current speculation on the possibility of a second front in Europe, Major General James E. Cha ney has been in command of American forces in the British Isles, and officials did not disclose his new status. Major General Rus sell P. Hartle remains in command of American forces in Northern Ireland. In.

a "statement by General Eisenhower on his arrival in Eng land, which the War Department released, the new commander said "the formal establishment of a European theatre is a logical step in coordinating the efforts of Great Britain and the United States." "Six months ago the Prime Minister of Great Britain and the President of the United States heartened the people of the United Nations by moving swiftly to merge the military and economic strength of Britain and the United States for a common effort," Eisenhower said. "At that Washington conference they set a more effective pattern for unqualified partnership than (Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 7) Police Probe Report of Man Grabbing Girl Police are investigating a com' Dlaint today by the parents of 8 year old Mary Jane Chearalla, 913 Rose street, that the girl was picked up by a man at Rose and Pear streets last night but dropped unharmed after she screamed and kicked. The girl was on her way to a neighborhood store when the man grabbed her, police said. Man Held Here Armor Expert Is Directing European Force New Chief of AEF Decorated For Tank Corps Training At Gettysburg Camp By Associated Press Washington, June 25 Major General Dwight D.

Eisen howci has arrived in London and taken command of Ameri can theatre of operations in Europe, it was announced today bv the War Department, which defined a theatre ot operations as "an area where combat is in progress or will be." Eisenhower, a native Texan and an armored expert, went to his post in London from an assignment as chief of the operations division of the War Department's general staff. 1 The department spokesman who defined "theatre of operations" explained that such an area usually is divided into the combat or front line zone and the line of communications but added that "with air power so important there is little difference now between front and rear areas." announcement announcement City Resident, Held in China, Is Exchanged William Penn Graduate Among 629 Americans to Be Sent Back Home Donald M. Hykes, son of Arthur B. Hykes, 124 Pine street, is among the 629 Americans to be returned to this country from Japanese held territory, the State Department announced today in Washington. Hykes, a graduate of William Penn High School, 1930, has been associated with the Hong Kong branch of the National City Bank of New York and with all other American, British Dutch civilians, was interned by the Japs when the Chinese city was surrendered last Christmas Day, Hykes' father, manager of the Market Square state store, had not yet been notified of the ap proaching return of his son.

More than a score of Pennsyl vanians are included in the list of American civilians and diplO' mats who are to be exchanged for Japanese diplomats and na tionals now being carried on the Swedish motorship Gripsholm to Portuguese East Africa where the exchange will occur. Ex change arrangements were made (Please Torn to Page 4, Col. 6) Students to Occupy Roosevelt Town Houses i i T. ne rr 0 1 "Vl 1 A'w dime to. ine au I I IH joining town houses of President t' V1U Roosevelt and his mother, the late Murder Charge Steel Mill Laborer Traced Through Study of Fin gerprint Files Sought since December 23, 1929, in Eastern states on a murder charge, Leroy Jones, 33, laborer at a local steel mill, was arrested last night by City Detective Wil liam T.

Reeves after local police had received word from Pittsburgh authorities that Jones was in this city, police anounced. Prompt arrest of the man re suited from checking fingerprint files of all defense workers in lo cal mills. Police Chief Oscar L. Blough said he was told by Pittsburgh authorities that Jones was hunted for thirteen years on a charge of murdering Emmett Curtis in the Western Pennsylvania city. Enola Man Ends Life at Summer Cottage By Associated Press Cambridge, June 25 The body of Ralph Legoy Gilger, of 103 North Enola Drive, Enola, was found hanging from a rafter today at his summer cottage at Green Point, near Cambridge.

Dr. Joseph K. Shriver, deputy medical examiner, issued a verdict of suicide. The body was found by E. E.

Mott, owner of the cabins, who investigated after Gilger. had not been seen since Tuesday evening. Two brothers, Thomas and El wood, both of Marcus Hook, survive. Sara DelanoRoosevelt, have been purchased by a committee of citi zens for use as a community house by Hunter College students. The twin houses five story, 16 room structures on East 65th street will be opened this fall as the Sara Delano Roosevelt Interfaith House, it was announced at the college commencement exercises where the President's wife was a speaker last night.

Police Seek IdentityofBody Near Newport No Evidence of Foul Play Seen in Clump Where Man Was Found Newport, June 25. State Motor Police today are checking a few meager clues in an effort to identify the body of a man who was found dead late yesterday afternoon in a clump of trees, 50 feet from the William Penn highway, two and one half miles east of here, by highway employes. Deputy Coroner J. Wilt, Newport, who said the man was dead for a month, reported the body was fully clothed and that there was no evidence of foul play. The unidentified man was prob ably a transient, police said, as in the pockets were cards from a county home in New York state and the Messiah Home, Harris burg.

The body is at the David Myers funeral home, here. 1 How many Jap planes were downed has never been announced officially. Reports brought by the witnesses to the raids failed to clarify the point. (The official Navy announce ment of the raid on the Dutch Harbor base reported four bomb ers and 15 fighter planes were in volved in the raid early the morn ing of June 3, with an unreported number of planes returning six hours later for what apparently was a reconnaissance flight. The Navy reported damage was not extensive, although some warehouses were set afire, and casual ties were not great) 35 Death Certificates Issued Mayor John W.

Fletcher of Un Alaska (Dutch Harbor is in Un Alaska Bay) said application was made for 35 death certificates after the day's bombing. Marines Made Fighting Mad By Jap Attack Pennsylvania Gunner Eager to Go Back After Healing of Wounds By CLARK LEE (Associated Press Correspondent) Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, June 25 When Marines get hit by Japanese bullets they don't get frightened; they get fighting mad. That was the reaction of Marines, wounded in the battle oi Midwa. with whom I talked and whose stories now are released. Corporal John H.

Moore, of Garrett, rear gunner on an American plane, said: "Three Zeros jumped us after we had bombed a carrier. One Zero shot at me and hit my leg with a piece of explosive shell and I get mad. The gun jammed but. when I got it working and fired bursts into his engines, they started smoking and I held it on him and he went down with little pieces breaking off his wing. Onr plane was pretty much shot up when we landed and they had to lift me out, but I'm ready to go back now.

"The Zeros are pretty good air (Pitase Turn to Pare 10, CoL 1) Nazis Claim Damage in Raid on Soviet Port Berlin, June 25 German bomb ers sank a 4000 ton merchant' ship and heavily damaged two others and shot down seven Russian planes yesterday in a raid upon the Arctic Soviet port of Murmansk, military circles said today. City Promised Refuse Cleanup Garbage Contractor Told Payment Will Be Held if Collections Lag Garbage collections will be made according to schedules con tained in the contract which Harrisburg has with Kirke Foulke, the garbage contractor, beginning next week. During the remaining days of this week all of the garbage remaining in the city which, in some instances has remained in cans as long as two weeks, will be cleared away and the schedule of two collections each week will be adherred to beginning Monday. Finance Director Warren E. Lyme, in conference with a representative of Foulke today, inform ed the contractor "No collection, no pay." He notified the con IT Ml Key 5) Dutch Harbor Service men aboard the ship were tight lipped about what damage was done at the Dutch Harbor base, but several said "the damage was slight considering." "Condireing what?" interview ers pressed a ruddy faced Army corporal.

"Considering that no matter how long you've been warned and have been expecting a raid, there's bound to be some surprise when they finally do come over in force," he replied. matter how much stuff you toss at them, some of them are bound to get through." Declining to identify himself, he acted as spokesman for half a dozen walking wounded. The wounded men were included among the passenger list of 64 persons from Dutch Harbor and 34 from neai a cold bay. Seventeen War British Criticised For Concealing News Bv Associated Press London, June 25. The Archbishop of York criticized the British government today on grounds of "unnecessary concealment of bad news." Referring to the Libyan reversal and the shipping situation in his presidential address at the York diocesan conference, he said the government should take the people (Please Turn to Pate 25, CoL 5) into its confidence.

mmixn Eyewitnesses Report Sfcorv Drove Oft Jap Raiders Brave (What actually happened at Dutch Harbor? The dramatic answer to the question, uppermost in American minds since the Jap planes attacked June 3, is supplied in eyewitness quotations for the first time in the following dispatch.) Seattle, June 25. In the first dramatic eyewitness report of what happened at Dutch Harbor, evacuees and seamen told upon arrival of a transport here how the Japanese air attack at 5.45 a. m. June 3 caught civilians by surprise and how the gallant gunners on their ship and ashore laid a deadly screen of anti aircraft fire about the raiding planes. While Army and Navy men manned the anti aircraft guns, some of the ship's crew snatched up rifles and blazed away atthe dive bombers.

Lifting of the military restrictions disclosed that the commander of the Dutch Harbor naval base 'issued a commendation for courageous duty under fire by the Army transport's crew and the gunners. women and 18 children evacuees were i eluded. "It was hot stuff," continued the corporal. "We were credited with knocking down 11 of their planes. Personally, I didn't see any planes fall.

How many the Navy got, I don't know. No Time To Look "But, you know, when you're doing a job you don't have time to watch around at what the other fellow is doing. You must keep your eyes on what you're supposed to do, and do it, and you don't have time to get scared, just mad. They tried their damnedest to get this ship." "I spent seven months in France as an artilleryman in the last war," commented C. W.

Flack, 45, a ship's porter San Francisco, but I saw more action in two Workers Family Men Deferred In New Draft Rules Both Classes Told These Two Classes Cannot Expect to Escape Service For Indefinite Period of Time By Associated Press Washington, June 25. Family men and key war work ers will be the last to be called to the colors by local draft boards under new orders sent out today. Draft headquarters announced four categories to gov ern the order under which men will be called up on the basis of dependency, leaving married men with children as the Jast to be mducted but emphasizing that they could count upon no permanent deferment. Meanwhile Paul McNutt, war manpower commis sioner, changed nis previous work or tight orders to give men with essential skills a chance to find jobs in vital war industries before being taken into the Army. Previously selective service boards had been asked only to defer essen tial workers who actually had key jobs.

Love, Kisses, Food, Clothes Given Rector Butler to Wealthy Widow Testified Gifts Included Motors and Money Bv Associated Press White Plains, N. June 25. Love and kisses, plenty of good food, clothing, expensive automo biles and money all these have been listed in testimony as gifts from the late Mrs. Anna Paton t' the Rev. Dr.

Henry Darlington. This listing of luxuries the wealthy 78 year old widow allegedly bestowed upon the rector of New Yorjc's Church of the Heavenly. Rest was made yester day in Westchester County Surrogate's court, where Mrs. Paton's will is under challenge. Tne will bequeathed 30 per cent, of the $800,000 Paton estate to Dr.

Darlington, who is 53. Three' (Please Turn to Pare 4, Col. 2) The draft headquarters ruling was line with the bill President Roosevelt signed yesterday granting allowances for soldiers' dependents. The ruling established general groups to be inducted in the following order: "Category 1. Registrants other wise qualified for military service who have no bona fide financial dependents.

"Category 2. Registrants other wise qualified for military service who have financial dependents other than wives or children mentioned in categories 3 or 4. "Category 3. Registrants otherwise qualified for military service who have wives with whom they are maintaining a bona fide family relationship in their homes and (Please Turn to Pare 25, CoL 7) hasn't yet been made clear, although he did force the Russian line back In places. This fresh drive, now in its fourth day, may be the real thing.

Judging, from reports the battle thus far has in effect been a Defense in Alas ka HARMSBURG TELEGRAPH COOL fouM 2S32 VOL. CXII No. 150 26 PAGES Daily Except Sunday. Entered as Second Clm Hatter at the Port Office at Harrisburg HARRISBURG, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, 1942 Told days at Dutch Harbor.than in all of those seven months." UnAlaska's Mayor Fletcher, on his way to confer with Indian Bureau authorities about the evacua tion of natives "who were shaking like leaves after the air attacks, said in a description of the scene: "There was a hell of an attack in the harbor on this ship we came down on. It occurred before the passengers were aboard.

The men at the guns put up a curtain of fire that was deadly. The dive bomb ers couldn't get in very close. "The ship had docked in Dutch Harbor only the night before the first dawn bombing raid. She was taken out into the harbor after the bombing started. She was rushed out from the docks where she could have maneuvering space.

"The anti aircraft fire that went up from the ship was really something to behold. Attack Startling "We had heard that a sizeable task force was in the Pacific off the Aleutians, but the recollection I have most vividly of the bombing was the surprising suddenness with which it came. "I was awakened by the antiaircraft firing. My bed faces over the bay, and I jumped up and flicked up the shade. As a recall I saw three planes coming in (Please Turn to Pact 4, Col.

4) GirlAbandoned Here Reunited With Mother Father Held For Court; Admits He Left Child in River Park Two and one half year old Patricia Swisher was reunited with her mother at noon today but her father, who pleaded guilty to abandoning the child in River Park, last Friday afternoon, was committed to jail in default of $1000 for grand jury action at the next term of court on a charge of abandoning a minor child, city detectives reported today. The mother, missing from her Bloomsburg home since June 14, contacted Motor Police at Blooms burg yesterday from Reading and this morning came to City Hall with her mother and a brother in law. The child was released to police by the Children's Home at Paxtang and they in turn restored her to the mother. Lebanon Farmer Killed in Auto Collision Lebanon, June 25. Ephraim Sechrist, 57, Lebanon county farmer, was killed yesterday in the collision of the automobile in which he was riding and a heavily loaded truck trailer at a Lebanon intersection.

Mayer Sechrist, 26, and Mrs Eva Sechrist, 50, son and wife of the victim, were slightly injured. Second Front Hinted London, June 25, (IP). The Soviet embassy mentioned the imminence of a second Allied front in Europe twice today in articles ir praise of the United States and Britain in its publication, Soviet war news. Today's War Picture Hitler Starts in Earnest To Try to Crack Red Line BY DEWITT MACKENZIE The weight and ferocity of the new Nazi attack against the Russians in the Kharkov sector indicate that Hitler finally is settling down in earnest to the bloodyi business of trying to crack the Red line in this gateway to the golden Caucasus. The master gangster's previous assault in this zone: more than a fortnight ago apparently was to improve his positions in preparation for a major offensive, as I ex plained to you on June 13.

Just how much he achieveditriumph for Red Marshal Timo shenko's fighting devils. The Germans have dented the Soviet line in the Donets Basin, but appear to have done so at a terrific cost in life and materiel. Naturally the (Please Turn to race 25, Col. 5) Only Evening Associated Press Newspaper In Harrisburg. New Around the Clock SINGLE COPIES THREE CENTS JV SAL UM FALLS AS FOE ROLLS BRITISH BACK Rommel Pushes 60 Miles Into Egypt to Capture Keys to Desert Defense Lines By Associated Press Cairo, June 25.

Powerful Axis tank forces thrust more than 60 miles into Egypt today, forcing the British to fall bark under a covering fire, but United States Army flyers dealt the enemy a punishing blow with a second raid on the b'g supply base of Bengasi, 350 miles to the rear. British army headquarters announced that the British Eighth Army had abandoned the frontier strongholds of Salum and Sidi Omar and that Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel's advance forces were southeast of Sidi BarrSni, with British mobile units fighting a fierce rearguard action. tat YOUNGEST WAR MOTHER Mrs. May Reed (above) of Coraopolis, who said she was 29 last May, thinks she is the youngest mother with a son in the United States armed forces. Her 17 year old son Lewis enlisted last week in the coast guard.

FDR, Churchill Give Review of War Situation Congressional Leaders Call Survey Satisfactory and Encouraging By Associated Press Washington, June 25 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Britain gave Congres sional leaders today a 40 minute review of "The World Situation," touching on the British defeat in North Africa and the opening of a second front in Europe, and the legislators called the survey "very satisfactory and very encourag ing. Speaker Rayburn told reporters that the Libyan phase of tne war was covered "in some detail and that a second front was mentioned "incidentally." That subject, he (Please Turn to Pan 25, Col. 6) 2 Boys Admit Theft Series Pair Arrested by State Mo tor Police at Indiantown Gap Two juveniles who came to Harrisburg from Scranton on a stolen bicycle were picked up at Indiantown Gap by Motor Police and confessed robbing the Atlantic Service Station in Front street, Wormleysburg, and five other places between here and their home city since June 17. The boys, one 10 and the other 13 years old, were released to the custody of Scranton authorities following a conference with Cumberland County juvenile officials When picked up at the military post the boys had a half dozen flashlights, which Motor Police say were taken from the West Shore service station, Monday night, and a bicycle that was stolen the same night from an other Wormleysburg station. i The KAF disclosed that tne Germans and Italians in heavy strength were moving across all day yesterday to the south o( Bir Sheferzen, which is 15 miles south of Sidi Omar and about 40 miles from the Mediterranean.

The enemy then swung north eastward, being kept under continual and damaging attack by bombers and fighters of the RAP and the South African air force Meanwhile the United States flyers in their four motored Con solidated Liberator bombers teamed with the RAF for the sec ond time this week to launch a heavy overnight bombardment of Bengasi, principal entry port in Libya for Axis supplies. The Axis drive surged up to, if not past the highwater mark of the' Italian offensive of the fall of 1940. Advance Axis elements reached point southeast of" Sidi Bar rani yesterday, British headquar ters said, thus leaving open, the possibility that by now the in vaders might have penetrated still deeper into Egyptian territory. The communique did not make clear whether the Axis forces were advancing along the coastal road or whether they had pushed forward farther inland, forcing the evacuation of Salum and Sidi Omar by a flanking movement. The presence of the invaders southeast of Sidi Barrani indicat (Please Turn to Page 25, Col.

6) Continuance of Fairs Suggested by Light John H. Light, State Secretary of Agriculture, suggested, today, continuance of agricultural fairs where they "would not interfere with any war program. Federal Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman recently asked that all fairs be suspended for the duration of the war to save rubber and transportation. Light said some fair associations had asked his advice on what course to take.

Nazis Push on Despite Losses At Sevastopol Moscow Admits Defenders Have Retreated to Inner Defenses By Associated Press Moscow, June 25. The gigantic German offensive against Sevastopol is slackening somewhat, because of the great losses suffered by the attackers, Russian dispatches said today, but the battle still is violent against a severely outnumbered garrison of the Crimean port. Already, in the 21 day assault, six German and Rumanian divisions have been defeated, three others have suffered staggering losses, and 50 Nazi tanks and (Please Turn to Page 25, CoL 3) TODAY'S FEATURES: Amusements .12 Woman's Page ......25 Social Page .6 U. S. WEATHER Abbreviated Wartime Forecast (This Information mutt oof oroadcatt by radio).

Sunrise 5.30 a. sunset p. m. Harrisburg and vicinity and Eastern Pennsylvania Slightly cooler tonight. Highest yesterday.

77; lowest last night, 55. River, 3.7 feet Friday..