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p-pl TT irif IOLA E'GISTE VOLUME XLV. No. 197 Successor to Tb Tola Daily Rgitr, Tba lola Daily Kacord. and lola Iaily Indax. IOLA, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, 1942.

Tba Weekly Refistar, Eatabliahed 1867. The lola Daily Ilejpster, Dstabhahed 1897. SIX PAGES The Weather Secs Reed Announcement As a G. O. P.

Sideshow Japs Islands Through The WAR TODAY By HEWITT MACKENZIE (Wide World War Analyst) KANSAS Showers much cooler east showers southeast and south central; cooler east and central tonight; windy. Temperature Highest for the 24 hours ending 5 p. m. yesterday. 80; lowest last night, 55; normal for today, 74; deficiency yesterday, excess since January 1, 440 degrees; this date last year, highest, 70; lowest, 56.

Precipitation for the 24 hours end ing at 8 a. m. today. total for this year to date, 12.05; excess since January 1, 3.20 inches. Sunrise 4:58 a.

set 7:45 p. m. Thermograph Readings Ending The Lexington Sunk By U. S. Torpedoes San Diego, Calif, June 13.

(AP) The U. S. aircraft carrier Lexington was sunk by American torpedoes to prevent greater loss of life after fires and internal explosions started by a Japanese attack had raged for seven and a half hours, the edmmander of an American dive-bomber squadron said today. "We finally had to put It under with our own torpedoes, revealed Lieut. Commander Weldon L.

Hamilton, chief of the Lexingtons dive-bomber squadron, in an interview. He said Capt. Frederick Shermans order to abandon ship "undoubtedly saved a great loss of life from flames and explosions, which was the important thing. "Im convinced it would be floating yet if we hadnt been forced to do that." Commander Hamilton said only eight per cent of the men on the Lexington were lo6t. I American Warplanes Chase Small Japanese Forces Through Bleak and Rugged Islands Of Aleutian Chain; First Jap Invasion At-1 tempt in Western Hemisphere Seen as Face-1 Saving Gesture While Tokyo Attempts to Explain the Coral Sea and Midway Defeats; Invaders Driven From Attu, Lonely Inhab- ited Spot 1,500 Miles From Alaska Oklahoma City Hit By Storm Heavy Death and Injury Toll as Two Twisters Hit Capital City; Damage Is Extensive Oklahoma City, June 13: CAP) Storm-swept Oklahoma City counted its known dead at 27 and injured at 100 today after two tornadoes slashed at 12-block residential area at the city's southwest edge.

Scores were reported missing and approximately 60 buildings were demolished. Many inhabitants of the devastated area entered storm cellars when the first tornado struck last night and escaped the force of the second which came 10 minutes later. The area contained mostly frame houses, a few grocery stores and a filling station. With Heavy Rain The first tornado apparently formed over Oklahoma City and moved west accompanied by brilliant lightning and heavy downpour of rain. It dipped down about 9:30 p.

striking in the 3400 block on southwest 29th street. The second twister, moving northerly. hit with even greater fury, sweeping everything before It. Two inches of rain and considerable hail fell in a three-hour period. In Capitol Hill Area The main force of the blow was confined to the Capitol Hill south side area.

In other sections of the city the storm brought high winds but apparently no damage consequence. Every highway patrolman, fireman, deputy sheriff and policeman in the area was rushed to scene. All ambulances were called out. Unidentified Hero An unidentified man. who raced down the 3500 block on South Agnew blowing a police whistle and shouting that a tornado was coming, was credited with saving a number of persons by warning them to take cover.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Nelson saw the tornado approaching and crawled into a culvert. "Just as he crawled in the storm struck, Nelson said.

"We were hit and battered by flying boards and debris. There was terrific suction. Lost an Ankle-Hold "I grabbed my wife by the ankles and tried to hold her but the wind whipped through the culvert and tore her from my grasp. She was hured outside and cut about the face. Power and telephone lines broken by the storm hindered rescue efforts.

Soldiers from Will Rogers field and Red Cross workers labored throughout the night aiding the injured and clearing debris. Victims crowded the classrooms and corridors of a -grade school which provided the homeless with cots, blankets and clothing. Only four of the dead had been identified. They included John L. Cox, Thomas Albert Clark, Ezra Ashley Hayes, 46, and Mrs.

Ina Trout. Of the dead, six were men, 11 women and 10 children. More U. S. Troops To Ireland Big Convoy Arrives as Axis Forces Push Ahead In Battles on Russian And African Fronts (By the JUMCMted Wees) A powerful new contingent of United States troops, thousands strong, has arrived in Northern Ireland to help carry out the urgent task of creating a new front in Europe in 1942, it was disclosed today as the pitch of battle in Russia and North Africa rose ever higher.

A BBC broadcast indicated that the troops arrived with the greatest American convoy which ever crossed the Atlantic. In the 1914-18 World War, the United States sent a total of approximately 2,000,000 troops to help crush Kaiser Wilhelms imperial armies. An official announcement said United States warships escorted the A. E. F.

transports across the Atlantic without incident. Bring Armored Units Swinging down the gangplanks to the tune of "Deep in the Heart of Texas, the American doughboys brought with them the tank-destroyer forces and more armored units needed for an offensive. On the North African British headquarters acknowledged a dangerous new Axis thrust as German Field Marshal Erwin Rommels armored columns advanced upon Acroma, only 10 miles west of the key British stronghold at Tobruk. The British declared, however, that "aU our positions are intact and reported that an Axis lunge against El Adem, 15 miles due south of Tobruk, had been repulsed. From this picture, it was clear (Continued on rage 6, No.

1) Says Rains May End Tonight Topeka, June 13, (AP) Chilly weather more like April than June sent temperatures 10 to 15 degrees below normal in Kansas today. It was a complete turnabout In two days. Earlier in the week, temperatures were uncomfortably hot, about ten degrees above normal. Thursday Topeka had a sultry 82; last night the mercury dropped to 53. Throughout the state temperatures ranged from 45 to 55 last night, with Goodlands 46 low.

Even chillier weather was forecast for tonight. Yesterdays high was 79 at Wichita. Heavy rain fell in southeastern Kansas with Oswego reporting 2.03 Inches and Chanute 1.03. More showers were expected today, but Federal Meteorologist 8. D.

Flora predicted the rainy spell probably would end tonight. (By ROGER D. GREENE, Associated PresWar Editor.) While the nation celebrated the great combined 51-to-5 victory over Japan in the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea, American warplanes today hunted down small Japanese invasion forces which have landed on the bleak Aleutian island of Attu, 1,500 miles off the coast of Alaska. Attu lies at the tip of the Aleutian archipelago, about 750 miles from Russias Kamchatka peninsula. Dispatches from Tokyo broadcast by the German radio quoted imperial Japanese headquarters as announcing that operations in the Aleutians were continuing.

The dispatches said informed quarters in Tokyo interpreted the announcement to mean that Japan intended to occupy the islands as a future base for operations against the United States. Again attempting to sugar-coat the humiliating Japanese defeat at Midway, Tokyo quarters referred to the attack on Midway as merely a diversion while the main objective of sejzing the Aleutians was carried out. The navy, announcing Jap-shocked by disasters at Midway ans first attempt to invade United States soil in North America, said enemy ships had also been sighted in the harbor of Kiska, in the nearby Rat islands. Japanese operations in the Aleutian area are still in progress, the navy said. Attacks of the army and navy forces in the area against these operations are continu and the Coral Sea.

A U. S. navy spokesman even suggested that Admiral Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet, might have to redeem his honor by committing hara-kiri since he had been praised by imperial rescript for a great Coral Sea victory which failed to materialize. Unofficial figures based on firsthand reDorts of the Japanese attempt to invade Midway Island showed that the attack cost the enemy an appalling price three, possibly four aircraft canters; Topeka, June 13, (AP) Sen. Albert Cole, campaign manager for Carl Friend, candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, said that if U.

S. Senator Clyde M. Reed entered the governorship race, as has been suggested, it would be only a "side Factional side shows emphasize the fact that Carl Friend is the only candidate for governor on the Republican ticket that every party member can support sincerely and with good grace in the general election. Harry Crane, manager for Andrew Schoeppel in the race, had no comment on the unexpected development. Salvage Call By President FDR Asks Nation to Hunt Up All Scrap Rubber in Campaign Washington, June 13, (AP) President Roosevelt has called upon all Americans to turn in "every bit of rubber you can possibly spare in a two-weeks scrap coll It ion cam paign expected to determine whether nation-wide gasoline rationing is necessary to conserve tires.

Addressing the nation by radio last night the president asked house holders to search attics, cellars and garages for old rubber and to deliver it to gasoline filling stations which would pay one cent a pound and would be later reimbursed by the government. Th drive will begin at 12:01 a. m. June 15 and end at midnight, June 30. Once the rubber is in, we will know what our supplies of used rubber are and we will make our plans accordingly, the president said.

One thing you can be sure of we are going to see to it that there is enough rubber to build the planes to bomb Tokyo and Berlin enough rubber to build the tanks to crush the enemy wherever we may find him enough rubber to win this war. New Robber Agency The oil industry will assemble at central points the rubber collected by the countrys 400,000 filling stations. It will be turned over to a new government agency, the Rubber Recovery Corporation, which (Continoed on Page 6, No. 4) Bible School to Open At First Methodist Daily vacation Bible school P'1 is Monday at the First Methodist church for all children of kindergarten to junior high ages. Classes will be held from 8:30 to 11:00 each morning for two weeks.

Mrs. Walter Maudlin and Mrs. Chas. Funk will be in charge of the school. Other teachers will be Mrs.

Floyd Smith, Miss Ruth Thorman, Mrs. Ray Hale, Mrs. Dewey Smith, Mrs. Lester Knepp, Mrs. Lee Willis, and Mrs.

Roy Reed. Capt. Robert Cochran of the Salvation Army will assist in the boys handicraft classes of the schooL lola Soldier Chosen For Air Corps Course Wilbur B. Fisk, a son of Mr. and Mrs.

S. B. Fisk, has been chosen for a special air corps course at Ohio State University according to the "With The Armed Forces column in the Kansas City Star Thursday night. Pvt. Fisk, who has formerly been an instructor at the National school of aeronautics, is one of 16 men in the nation chosen for the course.

Mrs. Ella Shigley Funeral Here Today Mrs. Ella Shigley. 89, died Friday morning at the county farm. Mrs.

Shigley had been a resident of this community for several months. Only survivors are a nephew. Albert Mullenneix of lola, and three nieces of Humboldt. The funeral service was held this morning at 10 oclock at the Sleeper service rooms. The Rev.

Joseph Needen conducted the services, and burial was in the Highland To Observe Flag Day At the Park State Guard Review, Elks Flag Ceremony, And Full Days Activities Planned Col. Charles H. Browne of Horton, commander of the Kansas State Guard, will be the reviewing officer for the full dress military review to be presented at Riverside park tomorrow in observance of Flag day. Adjutant General Milton H. McLean, who was expected to accompany Col.

Browne to lola, told The Register this morning that neither he nor MaJ. Gen. Charles Martin, the assistant adjutant general, would be able to be present. Gen. McLean, complimenting lola cn its State Guard unit and the armory facilities here, expressed sincere regret at being unable to be present.

He will observe Flag day, he said, hard at work with the state selective service board, of which he is chairman. An Elks Flag Service The military ceremonies at Riverside park will begin tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, when the four companies of the fourth battalion of the state guard report to MaJ. T. A. Allen of Coffeyville for a full day of Instruction, inspection and duty.

Following the noon meal, the members of the lola Elks lodge will present a Flag day ceremony in the armory building to which all Elks and their families, all state guardsmen, and the general public is invited. The ceremony will be held in the main auditorium of the armory, and there will be plenty of seats for all. Elks club officers said today. Inspection and Review Following this ceremony, there will be an inspection of the guard companies by Col. Browne, and the review, at which the lola municipal band will furnish the music, is scheduled to begin at the football field at 3 o'clock.

The general public is invited to visit the park during the day and witness the ceremonies, Capt. Mack Percy, commander of the lola company, said today. By the Associated Press) Flag d3y observances extending through the comradeship of war to all the 27 nations United against the axis multiple massings of standards such as the world never has seen got under way in the United Nations today. The stars and stripes waved from millions of homes. Parades moved along the avenues.

The war-burdened nation held stirring observances to show its might. Military reviews, meetings, broadcasts and religious services honored the United States and the Allied emblems in cities and field encampments on six continents, (Continued on Page 6. No. 2) ing. A nary spokesman declared specifically that the enemy had been driven away from Attu village, a lonely outpost of little military value.

The small scale of the Japanese thrust indicated it was chiefly a face-saving venture to bolster the morale of the Japanese people Planes Blasted FrOm Deck of Lexington hundreds of planes, and probably more than 10,000 -dead. Washington naval sources said the combined Midway and Coral Sea actions cost Japan probably half of her best aircraft carriers and thus had broken the spearhead of her air-sea striking power. The official scorecard showed 51 Japanese ships sunk or damaged com-paisd with four United States ships sunk and one damaged. 1 A nv a -4r, i fyit i fc. -urat, 7 The Tierce Hitlerian offensives being waged in the Kharkov sector of the Ukraine and against the great Red naval base of Sevastopol in the Crimea are logical forerunners of another all-out Nazi drive to force the stubborn gateway to the Caucasus, with its wealth of oil and other resources.

These two operations, while rather widely separated, are natural companion pieces in the German strategy of crashing into this land of plenty and are likely to develop into the decisive battle of the war if they go well for the invaders in this initial stage. Awaiting the outcome of these drives are great armies of fresh Nazi troops, backed by a formidable array of new equipment and a huge air-fleet. Herr Hitler's boasted intuition must be making him uneasy, what with the official talk of a new Allied front against him In western Europe and the unprecedented bombing raids being staged by the British Royal Air Force. Old Man Time has the Fuehrer by the scruff of the neck. The renewed onslaught against Kharkov by Nazi Marshal Fedor von Bock probably is calculated to eliminate two great salients which Red Marshal Timoshenko drove into the German line south of that city.

With these dangerous bulges ironed out, the Hitlerites would be in position to resume their push for Rostov on Don the pivot on which the gateway to the Caucasus turns. Please refer to your maps and see what this means, because we are going to hear a lot more about Rostov before this battle is over. The fighting before Kharkov has been terrific, and the Germans have made some headway against a fierce Bolshevist resistance which has cost the invaders dear. If the crafty Timoshenko can hold his lines, he may stymie Hitler's grand offensive as the marshal did once before this spring. Down on the Crimea the situation before 1 long-besieged Sevastopol- is reported from Moscow as extremely tense.

Here the Germans are attacking with some 150,000 troops and heavy air forces. This naval base is the last Red bastion in the Crimea, and Hitler needs it to enable him to pass troops through the Crimea and across the narrow Kerch strait to the Caucasus mainland. An unconfirmed report from Vichy, France, yesterday said Nazi soldiers already had landed on the mainland, thereby getting a toe-hold in this back door to the Caucasus. Now if you will look at that map again you will see how Hitler is trying to coordinate the operation against Kharkov and the assault in the Caucasus. Should he be successful in both places he might be able to develop a pincers movement on Rostov.

With this pivot city in his hands he would try to drive straight eastward to Astrakhan and thence down the Caspian sea coast to the oil city of Baku. At the same time he would send another column down the western Caucasus to the other oil port of Batum. Mrs. Muhlcrt Rites At Colony Today fSwitl to Th Rcttr) COLONY, June 12. Funeral rites for Mrs.

Frank Muhlert were held "at 2 oclock this afternoon in the Farris funeral home here. Burial was in the Highland Cemetery at Ottawa by the side of the deceased's only daughter. Miss Elsie Muhlert, who passed away a number of years ago. Mrs. Muhlert was bom In Brown county.

Kansas, and lived near Colony since 1909. She was slxty-one years of age at the time of her death. She had suffered with pernicious anaemia the last ten years and had been much worse since the first of the year. She is survived by her husband, of the home; by Miss Lodena Bryant, who has made her home with her the past 16 years; a sister, Mrs. Carl Millington, of Osawatomie: four brothers Archie Gentry, of Wichita; Dr.

L. T. Gentry and II. C. Gentry, of Ottawa; and her twin, Clarence Gentry, Parker.

May Abandon Defense Class Project Here Floyd Smith, senior high school principal, said this morning that only six persons have signed up here for the proposed defense class In elementary engineering subjects, and as a consequence it Is quite probable that the class will be abandoned. A number of persons have inquired about the course. Smith said, but most of these persons are employed, and do not feel that they could afford to take time from their business to attend daytime classes. Between 15 and 20 persons would have to be enrolled if the course was given here. Smith said.

School officials are checking the possibilities of giving some of the subjects in the course in night classes here, and there may be an announcement concerning this within a short time. Midway Toll Big for Japs Mikados Fleet Paid Heavy Price for Invasion Attempt Pearl Harbor, T. June 13. (AP) Japans attempt to invade Midway Island, a thrust broken by the fierce and skillful defense of fighting Americans, cost her a tremendous price three and possibly four aircraft carriers, hundreds of planes and probably more than 10,000 men. These figures are unofficial but based onfirst-hand reports of the battle.

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz communiques have listed tw'o carriers, possibly three, destroyed, three battleships and eight to 11 other warships damaged. But the commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet pointed out that the reports were net all in. U. S.

Loss Light The announced American losses were only a destroyer sunk and an aircraft carrier damaged. Commander Murr E. Arnold, of Kimberly, Idaho, leader of a carrier-borne squadron, told of the destruction of the enemy carriers. The first attack was against a group of three carriers June 4. "We attacked at 12 oclock, he said.

Ten minutes later three carriers were blazing from stem to stem. These three carriers never took part in any further air operations during the battle. All were sunk within 24 hours. Many Planes and Men Two of these ships Commander Arnold estimated at about 30,000 tons each, the other at 20,000 tons. Each, he said, "so far as we know (Continued on Page 6, No.

3) 1 r' j. '7 1 A -4 I 4c -ii Furious explosion which sealed the fate of U. S. S. Lexington aircraft carrier.

Note plane being blasted from deck by force of the explosion. The number of plants lost has not been announced by the navy. (NEA Telephoto.) Legion Gives Rules for the Display Of the National Flag in War Time Jap Carrier a Burning Inferno as She Goes to Bottom lola Batteryman Here on Furlough Private First Class Joseph E. Little of Iolas Battery arrived today from Fort Ord, to spend a ten-day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Little, and friends here. Pvt. Little said that several other members of the lola unit of the division were expecting to receive furloughs shortly, and that others may return here to spend their "vacation time. IOLANS AITNT DIES Mrs. Henry J.

Knoblich today received word of the death of her aunt, Mrs. Estella Schaepf, 70, yesterday at Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs. Schaepf was survived by her husband. The funeral services will be held Monday at Minneapolis.

flag, such as are flashed on motion picture screens. When the flag is displayed while the national anthem is played or sung, those present should stand and salute civilians giving the civilian salute, placing the right hand over the heart, and those In uniform giving the military salute. It is permissable to wash or dry-clean the flag. Position of the flag when displaying it flat in the window or against the wall should be with the union (blue field with stars) to the left of the observer. When suspended vertically over the middle of the street, the union should be east in a north and south street, and north in an east and west street.

On parade, the American Sag should be on the right or to the front and center in the line of march. Displayed on the speakers platform, the colors should be at the speakers' right. Do not let the flag touch the ground, trail in -the water, or be used as drapery or as a portion of a costump. Apt Urges Cooperation With Civilian Defense Fred Apt, lola attorney, was the principal speaker last night at the regular meeting of the Klwanis club held at the Kelley hoteL Mr. Apt discussed the coming civilian defense registration, tentatively scheduled to be held here on June 21 and 22.

He explained the need for a civilian defense set-up, its functions, and the service it could render the community in an emergency. He made an appeal for the full cooperation of all Klwanians In the registration, and urged all members of the club to volunteer to help with the work. Carl Cloud, a member of the Klwanis, is the city chairman of the civilian defense council in the absence of Mayor Dewey Elliff. Harlan George, principal of the junior high school, also spoke at the meeting last night, describing the planned recreation work being carried on this summer for lola school children. Musical entertainment for the program was furnished by a committee headed by W.

H. Wood. A new member, Morris McKean, was taken Into the club last night. REA Cooperative Elects Directors Directors for this year were elected at the annual meeting of the Cooperative Power and Light company, REA cooperative for this area, held yesterday at the Memorial hall. The board contains one new member, Irvin Baptist of directors, all reelected, are: Rollin C.

Butler, lola; Alvin Erickson, ELsmore; Joe Johnson. Kimball; Alva Shad wick, Carlyle; Milton Nelson, Laliarpe; and Charles Schulze, Lallarpe. Officers of the board will be elected at the next meeting, scheduled for July 7. Wesley Clendenen, who will remain as superintendent of the rural electrification system here, gave a detailed report of the recent work of the REA, and how it affected the average cooperative. Sw- fj Cr it 4 4 Topeka, June 13.

AP) Have you seen a soaked, drooping flag outside during a rain storm and felt it shouldnt be there? It probably shouldn't be. during normal times, but in war it is different, informs the National Americanism Commission of the American Legion. The storm flag is recommended for proper display outdoors from sunrise to sunset during inclement weather. A storm flag is made of strong material and fast colors which will not rend or fade. But the flag should not be flown at night except over the capitol building in Washington or over a permanent fort or ship when engaged in battle, says the Legion's latest etiquette information.

The Americanism Commission has received hundreds of inquiries about how to honor the colors since the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7. Some questions are not answered in the flag code or other available textbooks, but the Legion recommends as proper procedure: It is not necessary to salute reproductions pr photographs of the .4 I ft -4 -turn- The new Japanese aircraft carrier, 1 hits. Ryukaku, bums furiously and is about The ship sank minutes later with most to sink after U. 8.

attackers scored fifteen bomb hits and ten torpedo of her planes on board. (NEA Telephoto.).