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THE WEATHER To1ij Rliwri ft jitlRI Temp tMeriteyj Highest 71 lonesl I (By Weather Bureau) (Weather Detail Tides Etc on Page 2) (Member ABC Guaranteed Net Paid Circulation) I 1 Atlantic fine 2nd Class Matter Atlantic City Act ot March 2 A Wonderland whnl Atlantic Conven tion Hall Is right now with thotunntu of exhibits that would cover two city blocks on display in connection with the AMA conclave Details on 'Page 7 A TLA I IT A JUNE 1 I 9 I 2 TELEPHONE 3 1111 THREE CENTS Miss Weilers Lein Gels Press Union Medal Ollier Student Awards Made Among more than a score of awards made to outstanding stu dents of the Atlantic City High School yesterday for many fields of activity was a gold medal which went to Judith Weilerstein winner of the Press Union Current Events Contest The presentation took place dur ing the annual service award as sembly at the high school when prizes and medals were presented to students who did outstanding work during the" year in various fields In presenting the gold medal to Miss Weilerstein Charles Hol lenbach principal awarded the Press Union Newspapers credit for their continued interest in the study of current events at' the high school Had Score Of 83 Miss Weilerstein had the highest score of 83 in the contest out of a field of 175 seniors who competed for the medal She is the daugh ter of Rabbi and Mrs Reuben Weilerstein of 216 Vermont av Her father is Rabbi at the Com munity Synagogue Principal Hollcnbach announced that Morton Rubin scored second in the contest with 82 Others who had a high score were Victor Bress ler 79 Sidnay Rothberg 78 Rav mond Reed 77 Myron Better 77 Nancy Irwin 74 Stanley Chomey Miss Weilerstein Page 6 or Distinguished Servi ce Medical Units At Hani ni on to At AMA Rally ior More On AMA Turn to Page 21 his Health In Emergency ishbein Says Coward Rites ive Ijiiiictcl At TVb Reason or Resort Business Edison Shows berries and market in the loss of in previous Doctors9 Wives Must Guard religious services will also be at the camp best contribution they can make to the war cifort Al tha ad the Will Carry Sulfa Drugs The Army medical officers added A A Rally Page 6 aprl High re in the housed in tents provided by arm Security Administration sleeping on cots furnished by Boy Scout organization attacked within an hour of other by a lone submarine 3 rom 50 to 70 shells were by the boat before the two were sunk Both crews of 14 Dr Morris ishbein editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association yesterday called upon wives to assume the lead ership in keeping the country healthful Addressing a luncheon of the Women's Auxiliary to the American Medical Association at the 20th an nual convention in Haddon Hall Dr ishbein declared the war continues into next year and I have every reason to believe it will from three to five million women will be called from their homes into es sential war work This will create a new hazard to the health of the Dr Ludvig Hcktoen 78 of Chi cago won the American Medi cal 1942 award for distinguished service for out standing contributions in the field of medicine Presenting the of New Jersey or of other States find they are being inconvenienced they should adjust themselves to the serious situation which con fronts the entire nation today you stop to consider that with daylight saving or war time it gets light at approximately five in the morning and this light is with us until almost nine o'clock in the evening a total of about 16 hours which leaves only a short time of so called darkness this certainly gives ample time to enjoy sunshine and the recreational pleasure afforded by seashore and other vacation spots While as you say President' Roosevelt has recommended that defense workers not be denied any opportunity for healthy diversion Resorts Page 6 the Col red Rankin USA of Lex ington Ky 'Hie AMA is hold ing its 93rd annual convention in Atlantic City (Gold Photo) Sports Not To Be Neglected A recreation program has been set Up to make use of the excellent bathing facilities baseball field tennis courts also hand ball quoits and other games A life guard and swimming be provid i ed during all hours when swimming is to be permitted Reading material and an educa tional program will be provided by the Parent Teacher Association An adequate health program will be carried out under the supervision of Miss Jean Lucas county public health nurse An opportunity will be provided for the boys to attend church and held and was favored by a to 10 Since the board 34 members it was im get the majority of 18 adoption and for that 'Wives Qualified wives he added through their observation of their work are in a natural position to bring home to the people the im portance of education Such a move will tend to minimize the new hazard said Dr ishbein Another speaker at the luncheon presided over by Mrs Mosi man of Seattle the outgoing pres ident was Dr red Rankin the new president of the' AjMA Dr Rankin praising the work accom plished by the auxiliary urged the women to concentrate their efforts for the betterment of public health asserting that would be the atzman Camp Director Directly supervising the boys iwhile in camp will be a camp di rector already selected by the com tnittee He is Charles Katzman of Egg Harbor City a graduate of Rol lins College He has aught in New ark and other schools systems and has a good record as coach and ath lete He comes highly recommend ed by the county superintendent of schools The boys who have volunteered for the harvest work have been re cruited mostly from points on Ab recon Island with a few coming from the mainland They will be brought to camp from Atlantic City leaving there at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon June 20 Arrangements for their transportation is in the hands of A Miller of the Pleas antville Vocational Schools Report Optimistic how the Governor sizes up the Jersey picture: reference to your letter of May 13 1942 1 appreciate your interest in New Jersey municipal bonds and particularly those of seashore resorts paramount point we must all keep in mind is that we are at war and even though citizens 1921 In 1915 18 director Dublin health and was put in charge of the medical work here and in Camp Dix during the influenza epidemic in 1918 later being voted the thanks of the City Commissioners lor his fine service He was made associate police surgeon of Ventnor City in 1923 and in 1924 was police surgeon for the City of Margate He was president of the board of managers of the Atlantic County Tubercular Hospital at Pine Rest a member of the out patient staff of Atlantic City Hospital and one of the owners and medical director of the Waggoner private hospital In 1927 he was elected president of the board of examiners of the State Health Department He was elected exalted ruler of the local lodge of Elks in 1933 and rc elected in 1934 and in 1935 Hartford Conn Three Ger ipan born Americans a native born tx leader of the now defunct Ger man American Bund and a White Russian with a bitter hatred of the Soviet were indicted Wednesday by a ederal Grand Jury which charged them with membership in spy ring furnishing military in formation to Germany and Japan The accused including Gerhard kVilhelm Kunze former Bund head whose whereabouts now are un known and Anastase Vonsiatsky of Thompson Conn world leader of the National Russian Revolutionary ascist Party were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to violate the 5917 Espionage Act The jury also indicted Dr Otto RVillumeit chief of the Chicago di vision of the Bund: Dr Wolfgang Ebell an El Paso Tex physician who now is in interment as an enemy alien and the Rev Kurt Molzahn Philadelphia clergyman It was after an BI raid at Von tiatsky's palatial estate duringwhich a quantity of records wasized that the Grand Jury was jummoned and began consideration of the case May 14 The indictment charged that the five accused from January 1941 to tist December 6 conspired to col lect and deliver to the German and Japanese governments information to the numbers personnel disposition equipment arms and morale of the Army of the United S'ates" Dr Silvers Heads Proctologic Society Dr Homer I Silvers native of lantic City and one of Absecon Island's best known practising physicians was this week elect ed president of the American Proctologic Society at that or convention in the Marl borough Blenheim Sessions of the national convention were held Mon day and Tuesday Dr Silvers at present Is chief of the surgical staff of the Atlantic City Hospital and also holds mem bership in the American College of Surgeons and the American Medi cal Association in addition to his high rank in the proctologic sur group After finishing his course in the schools he was graduated from Hahneman Medical College of Philadelphia in 1903 spending some time thereafter in studies in Vienna Austria in perfecting himself in his chosen branch of surgery Since then he has steadily practised here Dr Silvers is a Mason and a member of the Rotary Club of At lantic City He resides with his family at 16 Suffolk av Ventnor Harvest Help Will Live In Texas Woman President I Mrs rank Haggard of San An tonio Tex was chosen president to succeed Mrs Mos'man Other officers elected include: Mrs Ebon Carey of Mauwatosa Wis president elect Mrs Mit chell Bums Denver Col first vice president Mrs Sidney Smith Wins ton Salem second vice pres ident Mrs McDonald Pater son fourth vice president Mrs Carlton Potter Syracuse secre tary and Mrs David Thomas Lock Haven Pa treasurer Hostile Acts Besides being accused of hiding slayers the population of the village was accused in the broadcast of having "committed other hostile acts such as keeping an illegal dump of ammunition and arms and maintaining an illegal Before this had happened the Germans had executed 275 Czechs for the assassination of Heydrich and it was apparent from German advices received yesterday in Switzerland that a new wave of punitive measures is on the way not only in Czechoslovakia but in other occupied countries Prague Paris Amsterdam all Poland and Yugoslavia probably will be the first to feel the chill of this new terror campaign it was indicated in German advices reach ing Bern London (P) Gorman vengeance squads Utterly wiped out Lidice a Czech village of 1200 persons yes terday killing all the men and de porting the women and children on the ground that the population har bored the two assassins of Rein hard Heydrich the late German ruler oi Bohemia Moravia Completing this most savage single act of repression in the his tory of German occupation of con tinental Europe Gestapo and Ger man soldiery razed' the village Suffer In War inancial houses in the big cities interested in municipal bonds have been surveying the effects of war on seashore resorts Some are investigating personal ly Others among them Buckley Brothers of Philadelphia sought and received an interesting report of the whole Jersey situation from Governor Charles Edison himself Can Be Recalled The teacher of vacations! culture in the Hammonton (School will have charge of student farmer relations and will remove boys from any farm where working conditions are unsatisfactory Boys will work from five to eight arrest Camp Page In Mativ Organizations In addition he was a member of the following organizations: Ameri can Medical Association Atlantic County Medical Association Amer ican Public Welfare Association Atlantic City Tuna Club Trinity Chapter and A Belcher Lodge and A Atlantic Com mandery Crescent Temple Mystic Shrine Tall Cedars of Leb anon Al Time Grotto Excelsior Consistory Welfare Council National Conference of Social Workers New Jersey Civil Service Association Civilian 'Defense Coun cil Atlantic County Employes Asso ciation University of Pennsylvania South Jersey Club American' Public Welfare Association Atlantic Coun ty Advisory Board Selective Service Registrars and honorary member of the Benevolent Association By STEPHEN MCDONOUGH 'Associated Press Staff Writer The Armv Medical Corps ex hibited at Convention Hall for the first time yesterday its new equip ment to save the lives of thousands oi soldiers during the present war Suigeon General James Magee General Larry Macafec and Major Shellenoergcr of Washington and Major A Christie of Carlisle Barracks Pennsylvania showed with considerable pride the newest ma terial developed to handle any emergency from a cut finger' to a mangled leg in any area from the tropics to the Arctic zone The ex hibit is a feature of the convention of the American Medical Associa tion Married In 1915 He was married to Miss Catherine Costello of Philadelphia in 1915 In 1915 he began practicing med icine for himself finally perma nently establishing a home at 6622 ventnor av late in he served as a Mass Reprisal Killings Of the half million Europeans already believed dead by the hand of the Nazi executioner approxi mately five per cent were wiped out in mass killings of hos tages The remainder including many women were executed on various charges such as sabotage plotting and aiding the enemy Tho Norwegian Belgian and Netherland governments and the ree rench Committee here said the increased tempo of executions me past iewr weeks indicated sistance to the Germans was i rrAacincr 'in Hirorf' retire i' shootings Commission Make Up Other members of the commission AMch arranged for the camp in Mrs Emma Attales of Abse con president of the County Coun cil Parent Association John Elfrcth of Atlantic City district representative Em ployment Service William Slack of Hammonton labor representative and John Brockett of Mays Landing county agricultural agent and secretary of the commission When brought up to anticipated full strength the camp it is ex pected will accommodate some 100 boys from 14 to 18 years of age cue and the Boyd Given Watch The retiring clerk was then pre sented with a handsome wrist watch The anticipated final passage on second reading of a resolution changing the meeting time from 12 noon to 8 on the second Wednesday oi each month did not materialize and was tabled until the July meeting The issue of changing from day to night sessions was acted upon mi caucus cote of 16 consists of possible to needed for reason the resolution was laid over until the next session Another resolution adopted creat ed the post of County 4 Club Agent and named John Williston of Buena Vista to fill the post at a salary of $200 monthly The board also voted to increase the salary range in three steps from $1500 to $1860 for the superintendent of the Atlantic County Detention Home Bids for the coal supply for county institutions were re ceived with 11 bidders submitting the same prices The matter was referred to the Asylum Committee The contract for the furnishing of materials for the paving of Shore road in Pleasantville where tracks are now being removed was award ed to the Standard Bitulithic Com pany of New York which' entered the low bid of $2773509 New Directors Directors for one year: Mrs Mosiman Mrs James Simonds Chicago Mrs John arley Pueb lo Col and Mrs West Okla homa City Okla: for two years Mrs rank Davis of St Louis Mrs David Allman of Atlantic City and Mrs Butler of Grand Rapids Mich On schedule is the meet ing of the new executive board in the afternoon and the in the evening The meet ings will conclude tomorrow Mrs Allman and Mrs James Mason are co chairmen of the com mittee on arrangements for the con vention The attendance is reported as more than 1009 Ambulance Carries 21 oreseeing the need of rapid transportation to keep up with fast moving mechanized forces the Army has developed field hospital units which can be set up and torn down faster than the circus moves in and out of town One of the chief components of this qutek servicc unit is a new type ambu lance capable of carrying a maxi mum of 21 men in comfort at speeds up to 50 miles per hour It also carries along a trailer which can be used to dc lousc clothing or sterilize gowns and in struments Other equipment demonstrated to physicians at the 93rd annual meeting of the AMA included a complete snow set including every thing from skis and snowshoes to emergency first aid supplies which one soldier can carry on his back and a litter on which he can drag a wounded man back to safety Also shown were stretchers op erating lights instruments sterile operating gowns and gloves disin fecting solutions splints and a portable ray unit all of which could be thrown into the actual battlefront and be operating within 30 minutes leaving nothing but rubble the Gor in an con troll cd radio announced from Prague Lidice is or was village of coal miners and woodworkers a few miles west of the Czech capital and not far from where Heydrich "The Hangman" was fatally wounded by two patriots while driving along a winding road two weeks ago The Berlin radio announced last night that population had numbered 483 but Czech sources in London gave the 1200 figure The assassins who leaped upon car with automatic pis tol and bomb have not been caught Shortly after Prague and Berlin radios had announced the fate of Lidice "as the hiding place of the Heydrich German au thorities in Prague disclosed that 25 more Czechs had been executed yes terday in the capital and six in Brunn for a total of 306 of the Lidice dead to be slain since me attack on Heydrich Half Million Murdered In London authorities of the lied and exiled governments of continent estimated that 500000 persons had been shot or hanged in all Europe since the beginning of the German conquest Only Tuesday during elaborate funeral rites in Berlin Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler vowed coni etc reventm on killers The slaughter of Lidice was his macabre sequel Thu Prague broadcasts did not give the number of men of the vil lage who were shot It said the women had been sent to a concen tration camp and the children to "educational Then the Nazis removed the name of the vil lage from their records A woman clerk in the Hamilton Township Relief office Mrs annie arrell collapsed late yesterday when a jury filed into Criminal Court at Mays Landing and an nounced it had found her innocent Of conspiracy in the widespread frauds that caused a major political upheaval in the rural township last all Mrs arrell slumped over when thd jury foreman Mrs Edith Cum mings Atlantic City housewife an nounced the decision alter two and a quarter hours delibera tion She was quickly revived and went to her home immediately Earlier in the day Mrs arrell told Judge Thomas Siddall and the Jury she knew nothing concern ing alleged fraudulent transactions by Glenn Walling former relief di rector denied she had ever written orders for herself or received coal for which payment was made by relief orders and described xhc'r duties in the office Character Praised A parade oi character witnesses most of them residents of Mays Landing preceded her to the stand Mrs arrell denied she had re ceived any coal from Joseph Cor siglia Richland coal dealer for which payment was made by relief orders She testified and previous purchases were Introduced to prove that buckwheat coal was burned in the heater at her home whereas the orders allegedly showed deliv ery of nut coal she described how she kept ledgers and other records and the way orders were made out in triplicate saying that Walling had ordered that when unsigned orders were returned by clients to sign them for the auditor James Walsh tax collector of Hamilton Township was another defense witness He described a meeting in his office with Raymond Jones district agent for relief who took over the office after suspensionand Corsiglia At that time Walsh testified Jones had to know whether Mrs arrell was involved in the alleged fraudulent transactions as it would be necessary to suspend her if so Corsiglia was asked Walsh testified if coal had ever been delivered to the arrell home and he answered in the negative He refused how ever to put his statements in writ vtror mvnv AA uo irovci iyUd in By The Associated Press The de struction of three more Allied ves sels by Axis submarines in the At lantic swelled united and neutral officially reported ship losses in that area since Pearl Har bor to a total of 258 craft The rescue of all 85 members of the crews of the latest boat vic tims a medium sized British mer chantman and two small United States fishing vessels was disclosed by the Navy yesterday Seventy one crewmen and pas sengers survived the submarine at tack on the British cargo carrier June 2 when two torpedoes smash ed into the vessel and sank her in three minutes Tire 12 passengers aboard were field service workers among them four Americans who arrived safely at an Atlantic port in a damaged lifeboat The two American fishing boats tie each June fired ships men arrived safely on the New Eng land coast after rowing 65 miles in four dories Announcement Tuesday of the submarine sinking of a United States merchant ship off the coast of the Pacific Northwest boosted to eight the number of American cargo carriers sunk by enemy un dersea craft between Hawaii and California since the outbreak of hostilities over six months ago Two vessels were reported damaged by submarine action in that area dur ing December Ronald Gubleman of Whitehouse is one of 12 American ield Service workers who have arrived safely at an Atlantic port after tor pedoing of a medium sized British freighter June 2 INDIANS ON THE WARPATH Syracuse P) Indians of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Con lederacy prepared to take the war path again yesterday Chiefs of the various nations will meet here riday to sign a declara tion of war against the Axis powers and their allies Wilfred Hoff man counsel to the Iroquois Con federacy reported URGES SMALL MILL AID New York Philip Reed chief of the Bureau of Industrial Branches of the War Production Board last night urged the eder al government to spend $200000000 annually to keep 24000 small man ufacturing in hnsinesc Hammonton Atlantic Answer to the problem of labor shortage for harvesting of berry and Sruit crops will be immediate estab lishing of an up to date camp at Hammonton Lake Park it was an nounced yesterday following a meet ing of the County Student Service Commission in Hammonton High School The commission headed by loyd 'A Potter County Superintendent of Schools completed arrangements the camp to start functioning 'June 20 immediately upon close of schools The innovation will be watchedWith interest by other farm com munities where as in Atlantic County the difficulty in harvesting crops oi run ana transporting them to itJme has resulted in thousands of dollars years Grand Jurors Probe Poll Book Mystery The May Grand Jury after hear ing routine cases yesterday delved into the mystery of the missing poll book that of the 8lh precinct of the ourth Ward Atlantic City which allegedly has disappeared from the offices of the AtlanticCounty Board of Elections Prosecutor Harry Coulomb and Assistant Prosecutor William Hunter attended the session but it could not be learned whether any witnesses were called However Melvin Ripley secretary of the Board of Elections was present With numerous records Numerous other witnesses called in other matters left later in the afternoon without having been heard Today the January Grand Jury Will meet again to hear witnesses to be presented by Special Assistant Attorney General Samuel Wil liams in the Michael "Mickey Tenerelli murder case which he has Veen investigating for the past tnonth or so Between 400 and 500 Coast Guard trainees are expected to arrive on July 1 to make up the first unit to undergo training in the Coast Rnd'o Training School in the old Elks Club Home on Virginia avenue now under alterations Bv September 1 it was said some 1200 stUGents will be accommodated in Uie building Alterations are about 75 per cent completed it was said last night bv Stanley Adams? contractor and will be completed fully by July 1 Equip ment is now in process of manufac ture and will be installed before All partitions have been removed from the second floor which is be ing made into a large classroom Si milarly he first floor auditorium the former dining room and two large basement rooms combined in to one will provide four large class rooms £hCi tfucture lias been taken mer by the city under the Stout and will eventually pass into city hands through foreclosure it was indicated at city hall It has been leased to Ezra Bell of Bell and Cope operators of the Hotel Morton and subleased to the Govern posrs training school purr The Coast Guard contingent will be hotised and fed in the Hotel arendon and other hotels in the vicinity murphy goes in army Washington Associate Justice rank Murphy took a leave of ab sence from the Supreme Court bench yesterday to take the oath of a Lieutenant Colonel in the Unit ed States Army and said he plan ned to report at once for at least four months of duty LAUNCH ANOTHER CRUISER Camden (79 Christened with a bottle of water from the Santa River the Cruiser Santa was launched the third ship of her type to slide down the ways of the New York Shipbuilding Cor poration in four months On Saturday Services for Dr Edwin Coward 56 superintendent of the Atlantic Count Almshouse since 1 1926 who iuu uinuea Auuucniy uj a atari at tack at that institution yesterday will be conducted Saturday after noon at 2 o'clock at the Bunker Plum uneral Home Members of the local Lodge of Elks of which he was a past exalted ruler and he Masonic lodges will conduct ritual istic ceremonies at the viewing to morrow evening Dr death came as he was preparing to leave his residence at the almshouse to attend the American Medical Association con vention at which he was present Tuesday night He is survived by his wifq Mrs Catherine Coward matron of the almshouse a sister Elizabeth Coward of this city an uncle Ed win Coward of Abington Pa after whom he was named an aunt Mrs Daniel Powell of Philadelphia and a niece and two nephews Born In Philadelphia Dr Coward was born June 7 1886 in Philadelphia and had celebrated ills 56th anniversary only three days ago He was the son of Sam uel and Julia Ernest Coward He was graduated from the North east Manual Training and high school of that city in 1904 lie seined as a marine engineer ing draughtsman in the old Neaffie Levy Shipbuilding Company for over three years then took a vear's pre medical chemistry course in the University of Pennsylvania after which he entered Jefferson Medical College graduating in June 1913 with a degree He took a civil service examina tion for entrance as physician in Blockley Hospital Philadelphia and for three months was an interne there He followed with another three months as interne in St Mary's Hospital Philadelphia and in 1913 came to Atlantic City pass ed examination and for the next 16 months was interne in the city hos pital medal highest honor of AMA is President elect Linwood City Council Tuesday night named Kenneth risbie life guard at the pond starting on June 29 upon recom mendation of Stanton Voss chairman of the safety committee "A letter from Winfred Van Sant chairman of the local defense coun cil stated that the practice test for an air raid showed that the present set up was inadequate A small building from the arrell property on Shore road will be moved to the rear of the City Hall for use Bids for the house moving were received from Albert Wescott for $350 and from Eli Hackney for $118 The bid of the latter was accepted Councilman Stanley Gandy stated that residents had asked for a better trolley schedule through Linwood from 5 to 7 The mat ter was orcierea iaia over Mayor Charles A Buckley dressed council on plans for USO drive in the city Army Exhibits New Panzer Jury Clears Woman Clerk Of Conspiracy In Relief raud Ing 1 pended and is still employed the office Defense School Clerk Pro Tom Mayor Potter Reilly of Abse con was elected acting clerk of the Board of reeholders at its regular June meeting here Wednesday At the same time James Boyd clerk of the board since 1937 who was recently inducted into the Army was given a temporary leave Of absence without pay Reilly will serve as clerk pending Boyd's return and receive compensa tion at the rate of $4000 a year He is serving his second term as mayor of Absecon which expires in the all Boyd was first named to the post in January 1937 and re appointed again in 1940 He expected to leave the city for ort Dix on Tuesday At the meeting yesterday Boyd was praised for liis long and ef ficient service to the county in laudatory speeches by County Solicitor Edmund Gaskill State Senator rank arlejq reehold ers Edward Stephenson of Pleasantville and Joseph Kauff man and others Nazis Raze Gzech Village Killing All Men And Deporting All Women To Avenge Murder Of 9 Linwood Tightens Its Defenses Park Camp Reilly 1 reclioldet Shif British leets Unite To Clear Sea Lanes BULLETIN New York Japan has waged against China for the past six months Robert Barnett United China Relief representative said last night Barnett who has just return ed from a flying trip to China said he had in his flies "docu mentary given him by Chinese health authorities that bubonic Reims hid been spread by the Japanese in tlie last mx particu larly In Jlunin and Chekiang provinces The Chinese cut off from American medical supplies since the blocking of Burma Road begun to manufacture their own vaccines and serums against typhoid typhus and bubonic plague in a plant set up with United China hesaid Allied Headquarters Aus tralia An Allied plane seri ously damaged and probablv sank a Japanese submarine off the Australian coast General headquarters an nounced today (Thursday) It is the ninth Jap sub to go down in recent days in that area Allied bombers also blasted grounded Japanese aircraft and main buildings at the Japanese New Britain base of Rabaul the communique said London (T) American made Boston bombers guarded by squadrons of Spitfires ham mered the Breton coastal air field of Lannion yesterday in resumption of the RA of fensive blacked out Tuesday night by bad weather naval forces had a number of American positions in the Aleutians and supplemented this with a propaganda broadcast that Japan had landed troops in the Aleutians A spokesman for the United States Navy disposed of all this with the sardonic observation: "None of our Inhabited areas is lands or rocks are troubled with uninvited visitors up to this Nazis On Offensive As to the Russian front the Ger mans were reported to hav begun another offensive in the Kharkov area after a two week lull The heavy fighting there in May ended with the Germans claiming the of three entire Red armies roughly 600000 men and the Russians making the mors conservative declaration that their soldiers had killed or captured 90 000 Nazis No details of this new offensive were given by the Rus sians The Red defenders of Sevastopol were reported still holding fast and beating off repeated Nazi charges There Russian military dis patches conceded that the Germans had won some local successes at heavy cost but reported that all major positions yet remained firm ly in Soviet hands The Nazi pene trations appeared to have been in the hills near the city In Libya British reinforcements joined the ree rench troops who stilb held the Southern anchor of War Roundup Page 6 Japanese Claims Of Landings In Aleutians Believed Effort To Screen Losses In ight Off Midway Half Of leet Of 30 Ships Arc Casualties Nazis Drive Anew At Kharkov Sevastopol Still Holding Out Besieged ree rench Reinforced In Libva Bv William Smith White Asso ciated War Editor An Anglo American battle line formed of a union of the British Home leet with a strong 8 Navy task force stands today in the North Atlantic one fleet tinder two flags one fleet with two anthems but with the high and single purpose of holding the seas in trust for the Allied world This rendezvous of much of the sea power of the English speaking peoples this historic linking of two mighty arms wns announced only last night although it had been ef fected some time ago At once subordinated was all else in the world arena of war Japan's prcnienslons to some sort of land ing in American bases in the Aleutian Islands and her efforts to minimize her defeat off Midway and the unending bloody charges of the Nazis against far Southern base of Sevastopol Thousands Of Japs Dead As to the Japanese disaster off Midway a late afternoon report from Admiral Nimitz the comman der in chief of the Pacific leet indicated on the basis of still in complete reports that thousands of Japanese had died left struggling in the sea bv the fleeing surviving enemy warships It was added that the invasion fleet had been aimed both at Midway and Hawaii while an enemy task force was striking un successfully at Dutch Harbor Alaska and that the former com prised more than 30 ships Of this number probably half were casual ties in the first three days of fight ing and others may have been ac counted for in subsequent action whose results are not yet reported Will Hold Supply Lanes The precise extent of the Amer ican force now standing with the Royal Navy was of course not dis closed some notion of its size was indicated however bv the fact that King George in saluting his Allies had inspected a 8 battleship a 8 cruiser and a number of de stroyers These units take their place un der direct American command in all the fighting tasks essential to holding the Allied supply lanes butthe main assignment of the biggest American and British ships as well is to destrop or immobilize the German battleships Tirpitz Scharnhorst and Gneisenau the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer and the cruisers Admiral Hipper and Prinz Eugen AU of these Nazis have been re ported damaged in varying degree but so long as they remain afloat they menace not only Britain and America but the Allied line running up from Norway into Russia Japan's claims for the day made an interesting but extraordinarily implausible story Tokyo Admits Losses As to Midway where official American announcements have shown two and probably three enemy aircraft carriers sunk and 11 to 14 other enemy warships dam aged Tokyo admitted the loss of one aircraft carrier and two other ships damaged It went on to allege that two aircraft carriers had been sunk off Midway and a large transport in the Dutch Harbor area Then the enemy claimed that his 62 ormer Internes At Hospital Here Swap Stories At Reunion two former internes of At lantic City Hospital who have dis tinguished themselves in the medi cal profession held a reunion lunch eon in Hotel Traymore yesterday They swapped stories of the "good old mourned the passing of a colleague Dr Edwin Coward then left to attend the sessions of the American Medical Association to which most of them are delegates from their respective communities Dr David Allman the toast master drew cheers from the gath ering with an announcement that will be no Each doctor then stood un and introduced himself Dr A Burton Shitner of this city of the first interne class at the hospital 1896 98 was among those present Dr Clyde ish of Pleasantville and Dr William ox of this city who interned in 189g and 1899 respectively likewise were on hand Carrington At Table At the table in addition to Dr Allman were Dr William Carrington chairman of the com mittee on arrangements Dr Homer I Silvers and Dr Samuel Barbash surgical and medical directors of the hospital: Dr Carlisle Brown and Dr Robert A Bradley I A unique program printed in red! white and blue colors and bearing! the seal of the hospital was pre sented to each member as a sou 1 venir Miss Nellie McGurran thej hospital superintendent was not! forgotten The sent her program autographed by all those present Many of the ex internes appeared' in Army and officer's uni forms In addition to those mentioned the luncheon was attended by Drs Charles Padgett of Shelby Philip Padgett Kings Mt Edwin A Harris Brown Holo man Hershoiiz Louis Rosen 1 berg Louis einstein Jean Gruhler Axilrod Leo Kahn Ward! Scanlan James Mason Clifford Murray Josiah McCracken Wil 1 liam ox Byron Davis Hughes Jr Charles Hyman Earh Johnson Harrison Nickman Bernard Crane Harry Subin Ed ward Uzzell A Merendino John Perez and John Naame all of this city Capt Nathan Noble of the Coast Artillery: Cape Albert Larchez Carlisle Barracks Pa Lt Robert Hawkins of Gibbstown Lt Joseph Weintrob of this city Lt Junior Grade Martin Green of the Navy Drs Robert Grier Stamps George Poland and Ken neth Henderson all of Pleasant ville Lawrence Wilson Absecon Clinton Schneider Tuckerton Maurice Cohen Wildwood Ralph Moore Woodbury Lucas Burlington: Thomas McConaghy Camden Maurice Chester Salem Daniel Mishell Newark Robert Allen Parlin Milter L' Sulman and Benjamin Shuster Philadelphia Walter Tice High Point Harry Dein New York George Hohman Pottsville pa Grafton Brown Washington Eckhart Marion Ind and his Eckhart present interne James rench also of the cur rent interne staff PICTURES of all the Graduates Atlantic City High School Holy Spirit High School Pleasantville High School Vocational School The Graduation Supplement will be a part of this week's edi tion of the SUNDAY PRESS.