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o) Oar '(KB The Kane Daily Temperature Reading 6 A. M. 59 Noon 70 KANE The year around resort VOL. XLVIII, NO. 222 THREE CENTS A COPY KANE, TUESDAY JUNE 2, ,1942" ffl luv 1,250 PLANES GIVE COLOGNE PREVIEW OF FUTURE II BUUGAfflAJTONGABY sr "I mm NORWAY 0 1 I IT TO bu Ma TO OFFER! MOT Regroups Divisions 111 ItfJlllll nun una At Risk of Losses (BULLETIN) FOLKESTONE, England, June 2' Great forces of RAF planes roared across the Channel i 0.

OBERUN COLOGNE WASHINGTON, June 2. UP President Roosevelt, asked Congress today to declare war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania, The chief executive, in a terse message to the House of Representatives, said that these three countries had declared war on the United States as "the Instruments of Hitler." They "are now engaged In mili today in forays which southeast coast observers called one of the biggest daylight operations of the. war. TRIES TO KEEP DRIVE ALIVE iW PARIS LONDON? June 2 UD The RAF turned the lethal, devastating might of 1,036 RAF planes loose on Germany last night, almost all of WASHINGTON, June 2 UP) i FRANCE FRANCE laJtaly NEW YORK, June 2. UB The The Duke of Windsor cut short his record RAF raid on Cologne killed them on the region of the Nazi ar visit to the United States today senal citv of Essen.

Prime Minister "in the neighborhood of 20,000" per to return to the Bahamas on "urgent business" less than 24 hours after his arrival for a series CAIRO, June 2 UP) A sudden shift in tactics by desort wise Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel indicated today that he might be gambling on a desperate chance to keep his Libyan offensive alive even at the risk of a shattering blow to the backbone of his forces. Latest advices from the North African front said Rommel had called a halt to the flight of his two armored divisions and was le gtriuping 'them. Air Marshal Harris Churchill announced today. I sons, wounded 54,000, 20 per cent of The second of the crushing raids tnem critically, and put in motion which the RAF has made against mfs migration from the Rhfne the sources of Adolf Hitler's mili and the New York Times said to tary strength in three days struck dav, a report credited to private I of conferences. i The British press service an at the home of the huge Krupp ncuua.

uu servers in munitions works and Churchill nounced the Duke's decision to fly back to the islands he governs, but gave no details of the business which called him. Earlier a member of the Duke's official party said he understood there had been Three fifths of the inhabitants of promised that more of even great 1 1 a 1 i i 1 on uvorH winM urhtx a oiogne loiai population rougniy RAF, reporting decreased of duststonms, are joined, as we soon shall be, by 800,000 are being officially evacuat RCtity because nevertheless kept up attacks on the air forc of the United mostly 10 lne area OI wunicn, I "some sort of labor disturbance" at i where they will be housed emer The Essen raid came after a ggncy barracks greeted in the last enemyiairj fields at Derna and other objectives at Tmiml, Bengasi and Zl ni Sd. 24 hours tne newspaper said Martuba lanft, snot down iwo uer The entire populations of Aachen, it a' loss of four of its tary activities directed against the United Nations and are planning an extension of these activities," he added. The message did not go to the Senate, since it was not in session. The text: "The governments of Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania have declared war against the 'United States.

I realize that the three governments took this action not upon their own initiative or in response to the wishes of their own peoples but as the instruments of Hitler. These three governments are now engaged in military activities directed against the United Nations and are planning an extension of these activities. "Therefore, I recommend that the I Congress recognize a state of war between the United States and BuK garia, between the United States and Hungary, and between the United States and Rumania." The declarations of war against these three minor Axis partners was expected to be more or less of a formality, adding them officially to the list of countries with which. the United" States now is at war. So far, this government has declared war on Japan.

Germany and Italy. Mr. Roosevelt's mention of plans for an extension of military activities by Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania was without amplification. bomb carrying' air armada ground ed, after the mammoth attack by sfnr(aH mi. Germirrftfgh command said Nassau, but that the situation was not serious.

The Duchess, who arrived in Washington with the Duke yesterday morning, is remaining at the British' embassy. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess were guests of the president and Mrs. Roosevelt at a small luncheon and the Duke began a series of conferences on the war effort. The Duke was understood to have been working on plans to make the islands economically self sufficient through cultivation of sisal for rope making and other native products. He was said to be seeking greater use of both Bahama products and Bahama labor in the war effort.

The Bahamas have been hard hit through collapse of the tourist trade, and sonje unrest was said to have resulted. Bahama natives were considerably' more than 1,000 Brit gratlon Irom the Rhineland in feaV ish bombers on Cologne. further bornbardment, it added. Again, British losses were rela Of the damage in Cologne, the tively slight for an air offensive of jNe' York Times said: such magnitude. Churchill said 351 "Although details are lacking, It bombers had failed to return.

is undestood from Berlin neutral (German reports said more than quarters that roughly five sevenths a score of bombers were reported of Cologne's chemical and fine ma shot down last night as the RAF! chine tool industries have been corn attacked northwestern and western pleely wrecked." Germany.) Special detachments of the Ger Churchill told Commons that man army sanitary forces were said iders had sown numerous and to have been dispatched to the city widespread fires last night and to aid the Ideal services in prevent that the two raids introduced "a ing the spread of disease. new phase in the British air of 1 that a British' force ncircled in North Africa had been annihilated and 3.000 prisoners (The strongiy n.rfprHlied jBritish position was said toi ihayfei been stormed by German and; ('Italian troops. Among 'the; rlsone'fs the communique said, waa brMdier. (In the furious deserighiijig of Sunday and yesterday, tih' high command said 101 British tanks, 124 guns, many motorcars and large quantities of other material were destroyed or captured. Gen.

Cruewell was shot down and taken prisoner by the C7 fensive against Germany" which will put the enemy to "an ordeal the like of which never has been There have been frequent reports. however, that Hitler has been in DEPT. OPPOSES View, of Cologne from Cathedral A preview of what tha future probably holds for German cities was given the Rhineland industrial center of Cologne when an estimated 1,250 R. A. F.

planes showered the city with 6,000,000 pounds of bombs and left it in flaming ruins. A view of the city from the famous Cologne Cathedral is shown above. In reply to a congratulatory message from Lieut. Gen. Henry H.

Arnold, chief of the United States Army Air Forces, Air Marshal A. T. Harris, who planned the great attack, declared, "We too look forward to the time, now so near, when the United States Army Air Forces commence operations on our side In this theater of war." reported angered by the importation of American workers to build defense bases while they were un British" while on a reconnaissance flight, the communique said. The British had announced his capture yesterday.) Caught behind the British line southwest of Tobruk after skirting it, the Nazis had been struggling since noon of May 80 to hold open two gaps through British minefields and extricate their trapped employed. 51 PAY; SEEKS PART experienced in any country in continuity, severity or magnitude." He cautioned the British, however, not to expect all future raids to be "above the four figure scale" in number of planes adding that "methods of attack will be contin (Continued oil page eight) sisting that they supply additional troops for the campaign against Russia.

Furthermore, advices from Europe have pointed to the possibility of the Nazis starting a new offensive in the form of a pincers movement on Iran and the Caucasus, with their rich oil reserves. OF TOWN SECOND FRONT TALKS Soviets Keep Germans on Offensive forces from a costly pounding by British tanks, guns and planes. The British, who have failed before to keep Rommel's forces locked in traps where they seemed doomed to annihilation, recognize WASHINGTON, June 2. UP) 1 CUM DEFIES IS TO LAND IN AUSTRALIA The War Department, seeking to break a congressional deadlock over the military pay adjustment bill, to their desert antagonist as an elu day was reported to be urging a i compromise under which lowest THREE M'KEftN COUNTY MEN AMONG 39 LOST IN GULF TQHFEDOINC DNSTHEETJOBS OF sive fighter and one who would not yield without the utmost resistance. One speculation, therefore, was that the reported new German maneuver was a time gaining de (Continuea ou page eight ranking personnel in the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, would receive $40 cash monthly and $10 in Action on pay advances lor instructors in the public school sys tem and the problem of replacing at least seven men who are schedw VfiTO SsVllll int VVniK for army service, was continued ulc puu iui ui i with committee at thP June session MQSCOW, June 2 UP) The Red army jabbed strongly at German lines at two points northwest of Moscow In conformity with the Soviet tactics of keeping the enemy back on his heels and preventing him from undertaking his own offensive, front line reports said today.

The dispatches said the Russians attacked both in the Kalinin sector and in another northwest In Glenwood Says Nip Program Has Suffered Stalemate 2 WRECKED JAP non negotiable government bonds. Authoritative sources said this WASHINGTON, June 2. UP) PrPosal was advanced as an alter The Imminent visit of Oliver Lyttel native to the $50 a month pay scale ton, British production demanded by the House and the was viewed by informed officials 542 voted Dv the Senate. A joint today as having a significant bear committee has been un ing on the question of opening t0 reconcile the two figures, second European war front. Tne War Department was report A four fold purpose was seen in od strenuously opposed to $50 on Lyttelton's forthcoming conferences tne ground that it not only would with President Roosevelt, War Pro army maintenance costs sub Board Chairman Donald jstantially but would give soldiers Park JPMT area, improving their positions ana A GULF PORT, June 2 UP) The story of two seamen who survived for a week on a tiny raft without food or water after their ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico by an Axis submarine was made public here today.

With their rescue details of the sinking of the small United States cargo ship May 20, and the probably loss of 39 of her crew were NO EXTRA POLICE 4 SUBS RECOVERED THIS SUMMER of the Board of Education last night. The committee has been studying plans for wartime operation of schools and will probably make its recommendations at an early meeting. The session last night was featured by discussion of a regular course of study in rel'gious training which may be added to the school courses next year. The Rev. G.

H. Palmer and the Rev. J. J. Maher appeared before the board last evening to request Nelson, and other top officials.

sailors too much spending mon MELBOURNE, Australia, June 2 Wo'rk was under way today on the extension of a siding on the Pennsylvania railroad at Roystone to facilitate movement of traffic over the Renovo division could be more easily handled. These aims were reported to be: The pending bill provides for a made known. Joseph Schackelford. of Severn. 1.

To weld the two countries' production efforts into one common program. 20 per cent pay increase for duty outside the continental United drawing the Germans into counterattacks. No essential change in positions was reported, however. (A Reuters dispatch from Stockholm declared the Germans had started a new drive to recover ground lost to Marshal Semeon Timoshenko before Kharkov and already had regained Tamilovska, (Continued or. page eight) BUNNY BERIGAN DIES SUDDENLY A large amount of materials and Mates.

Thus, if the $50 scale were sevcral crews of men were at the 2. To set up a commned u. was picked up by another ship with two others and taken to a Mexican port. He lived although his shiDmafes Hiprt thoro Tha di Jtish. Production Board, which adopted' armv privates serving scene today engaged in the work, UP Prime Minister John Cur tin, who has warned Australia repeatedly of the danger of a Japanese invasion attempt, declared today that "Japan's war program at last has suffered stalemate." "The enemy has found his most southerly adventure beyond his capacity to execute," the Prime Minister declared in launching the commonwealth's second liberty such a course of study and to sug would arrange for a pooling of pro Discussion of the paving program of the borough, appropriation of $200 for the furtherance of the work being done in Glenwood park and routine consideration of the regular business of the borough occupied the attention of Borough Council at Its June meeting in the borough building last evening.1 Progress on the Yarnall street project was reported by Street Supervisor Allen Sundberg, who estimated that the street would be ready for use in about three (Continued on page eight) gest methods of arrangement for.jng first was announced there all church groups to participate.

Physicians at a Port Arthur Tov ductive facilities. 3. To give the British produe Continued on page eight) Uve.5eaa woum receive wj monthly. Also reported today was estab Part payment in government iishment of block stations at Roy Continued on page four) stone, Wilcox, Garland, Howards and other points to speed up move For your convenience my barber ment of trains over the line The board will study the plan and hospital where the ather two were act at a later meeting. taken worked for two mr Also discussed was Summer re 1 the men to remove t.h h.v Qf.

Late Bulletins shop will be open Wednesday af through this section. ternoons and evenings. DeWittl Traffic this year is the, heaviest Short, 335 Bayard St. ad. on record.

pairs to the school buildings. Such ing of oil which encased them work this Summer will be of minor The men rescued were John nature. I Taubal of Gibhshnm (Continued on page eight) O. MANAGEMENT GETS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE VT.EM1NGTON, N. June 2.

Bombing of Heydrich Shows Invisible Front Is on the Move Weather Forecast Hitler's Hold on the Masses Slipping Says Former Head of Berlin AP Bureau NEW YORK, June 2 UP) Bunny Berlgan, 33 year old orchestra leader and trumpet player, died today at Polyclinic hospital where he was taken yesterday suffering from an intestinal disturbance. His manager, Don Palmer, said Berigan was taken to a hospital April 20 while on tour and warned when, he was discharged three weeks later that he should not play his trumpet. The manager said that Berigan insisted, however, and that he believed this contributed to his loan. "I defy the enemy to land large forces in Australia." The goal of the loan drive amounts to $113,400,000 as compared with the $157,140,000 subscribed in the first loan. Meanwhile Allied airmen executed three nocturnal raids on Japanese bases without the loss of a plane and destroyed or damaged nine of 30 aircraft which raided Port Moresby yesterday, a communique said.

Coupled with this announcement from the headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur was the official report that the wrecks of two Several hundred stockholders of the Standard Oil Co. N. at the annual meeting today gave lusty te 0f confidence to the management, headed by W. S. Farlsh, presl chief defender of the com By De WITT MacKENZIE Wide World War Analyst collapse last Sunday night at his hotel.

Palmer said Berigan had ex Western Penna. Showers and thunderstorms with mild temperatures In east and north portion and continued warm In southwest portion today and tonight SUN AND" MOON (Eastern War Time) Moon rises tomorrow at 12:35 a.m. Sun seta today at 8:22 p. m. Sun rises tomorrow at 5:33 a.

m. JUNE STATISTICS pressed a wish that his band be pany was James W. Gerard whO Small wonder that Hitler's chan was ambassador to Germany in the cellery Is said to be swept with vears before the first World War. consternation at the attempted as rerard offered a resolution of con sassination of Reinhard Heydrah, fidence af1" likminS tne company deputy chief of the dread German I a grape goat. The resolution Gestapo (secret police), in Czecho three dissenting voices of the Slovakia, mroximately 500 stockholders It would be difficult to exagger kept Intact.

It Is scheduled to leave tonight to fill out of town engagements with Vide Musse as leader. daring of this effort to exterminate powerful "Der Henker" (The Hangman) gives a measure of the determination of the wearers of the Nazi yoke. This defiance of an organization upon which the Fuehrer has depended so greatly to keep a tight ru both abroad and at home is reported to have resulted in arrests even u. Berlin. Any weakening' of the of the Gestapo obviously crta danger to Nazidom.

The bomb wiJen 12 but ended Heydrlch's life, ant? may do so, Continued on fou.2 By LOUIS P. LOCHNER NEW YORK, June 2 (Wide World) Adolf Hitler, for almost 20 years a master psychologist at sensing what the masses want to hear and what they are prepared to accept in the way of burdens and deprivations, has shown definite signs of late of failing to fathom public sentiment correctly. In consequ.rce, his unexampled hold upon the ii. ises is gradually slipping. The most recent tse is his Reichstag speech of April L6.

Thoughtful Germans st.i as ask ing: How could Hitler at the end of a terrible winter, which took a severe toll of German life at the Russian front, inaugurate, spring by telling the nation the next winter better transportation would be provided in the east? Why not see first how the summer offensive turns out and reserve talk about the next winter until We who heard the speech on our secret radio during the final days of our internment at Bad Nauheim noted the depressing effect upon (Continued on page xivo) president W. S. Farlsh ate the significance of this event, resent other officers swore be for it emphasizes the burning of the three Japanese midget submarines destroyed in Sydney Harbor Sunday night "were located and recovered by our forces." Divers fixed grappling hooks and the hulks, rent by shore batteries and depth charges, were lifted for inspoetlon to discover what IContittUw, on page eight; and four meetinar that thpv snirit of that invisible front nf rem. K. IL S.

ALUMNI Annual Reunion Friday, June 5, K. H. S. building. Business meeting and program 8:15 p.

m. Dance 10 to 2. Music by Alf Bennett's "Rhythm Kings." 6 2 4 5t ioTf received any personal quered peoples who are only wait Temperature Max. Mln. I 88 89 Preclp.

Inches .32 in from the company association ing for their chance to turn and continued on page eight; jrend their oppressors. The great I IT..