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“ SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1943
With confidence in our armed
forces — with the unbounding de
termination of our people—we will
gain the inevitable triumph — so
help us God.
—Roosevelt’* War Message
SATURDAY, MAY 5,~1943
Our Chief Aim
To aid in every way the prosecu
tion of the war to complete vie
tory.___
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Samuel was not only brave enough to
tell the people the truth about God’s will,
but he had a passion for service that
would not be satisfied until he had helped
them to apply the truth to themselves. He
was not content to call upon them to re
pent; he led them step by step to re
pentance. It is so easy to feel that we
have done our duty when we have told
our children or our friends what God
requires of them, but we really serve
them only to that extent that we actually
help them to meet God’s requirements.
Pell.
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Argentina’s Situation
The ease with which the Argentine revo
lution was brought to a successful termina- .
tion is perhaps the most legible sign of its
weakness. What these revolutionaries did ‘
might be done by other revolutionaries.
The habit of revolt among Latin American
peoples is so deep seated that no government,
save possibly in Brazil where the fundamental
principles of orderly administration have su
perceded the military can definitely count
cn remaining in power for a full term in
office. For this reason it would be unsafe :
to assume that Argentina’s troubles are over 1
and that the new regime, which has United :
Nations leanings, as indicated by its mani- 1
festos, will be allowed to work out full col- 1
laboration with the sister republics of South :
America. This can be revealed only by the
passage of time and evidence that it is ca
pable of establishing a stable government func
tioning by orderly processes and inherent
strength, unafraid of revolt because it can
dominate and control the army.
The United States can have an important
part in Argentina’s development, if it is found
that the present government is actuated by
the high motives embraced in the Rio agree
ment. , i
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On The Job
We are indebted to a subscriber for the
story of one community which is doing what ,
we suggested might be done here for our coun
ty’s members of the armed forces in foreign
service, keeping them supplied with creature
comforts and letters from home as far as
postal limitations permit and making provi
sion for their position in society when they -
come home. **
The story concerns Ira Township, a little ,
village community in rural Michigan. All of
its 1,238 inhabitants are doing their part—a
vital part—in the community’s victory pro- '
gram. In the first place, over 6 per cent of
its population is in the armed forces. The
township keeps a file containing a detailed
record of every man. It shows what camps
■ he has been in, parents’ names and address
es, marital status and all letters received.
The Ira Township War Chest was organ
ized to aid the boys wherever possible. They
are sent the local paper every week. Those
overseas get cigarettes. Parents are present
ed with service flags. Every month the boys
are sent a check for at least $2. Since Janu
ary, 1942, they have received a total of $1,150.
When they come home, the Chest expects to
give a watch, or other suitable gift, to each
one of them. A special bank balance, cre
ated for just this purpose, already has over
51,000 to its credit. Additional funds are pour
ing in constantly, as a result of individual
contributions and a steady series of commu
nity parties, rallies, etc.—all arranged solely
to raise money for Ira’s boys.
The cbmmunity even publishes a special
newspaper—issued every six months—for cir
culation among the boys in service. Called
the "War Chest News,” it contains information
about Township activities, items of particular
interest to the boys and copies of letters re
ceived from them.
Tlje War Chest secures furloughs for boys
who have sickness at home. It pays all ex
penses and, if necessary, sends money for
transportation home. The community has
gone “over the top” in every drive it has
undertaken. In the recent Red Cross drive,
it turned in an average of almost $1. for
every man, woman and child in the Town
ship. The women have completed over 20,
000 surgical dressings and other Red Cross
material.
This is a fine example of community co
operation and singleness of purpose. It
merits emulation, here and everywhere else.
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Consider The Individual
The new income tax bill provides for a 20
per cent payroll deduction, exclusive of mod
erate exemptions, f 'om the earnings of all
workers. On top of this Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthau proposes an additional
deduction of 25 per cent of the remainder
for victory bond purchases.
While every loyal American will willingly
sacrifice heavily to help win the war, it is
pertinent to ask how they are going to pay
for the necessities of life for themselves and
their families if the government should con
tinue to levy upon their earnings until they
near the vanishing point? Already payroll
deductions have mounted above the point
where average earners can balance their bud
gets. In addition to the 10 per cent most
workers are investing in victory bonds, there
is the deduction for social security. Most
workers pay hospital insurance premiums by
the same method. Five per cent of gross
earnings have been collected for the Victory
tax fund. After July 1 pay will be slimmer
because of the income tax hold out, which
will bp heavy enough even with suspension of
the Victory tax.
To add to these deductions Mr. Morgen
thau’s proposed increase in bond withhold
ings Would leave workers not benefiting from
the wages paid in war industries with too
little money to pay their way.
If and when this happens the nation will
cbme face to face with economic catastrophe.
A sounder position, we ween, would be to
apportion deductions for bond purchases in
proportion to the individual’s revenue and
abligations, that is to say the size of his
Eamily, just debts upon which he must make
payments at stated intervals and other re
luctions which cannot be dropped. Naturally
the single person in normal circumstances
:ould devote the amount Mr. Morgenthau
recommends for bond buying much more eas
ily than the head of a family.
Mr. Morgenthau talks of a 25 per cent
aayroll deduction, after income taxes are with
leld as if all earners could stand the addi
ional drain upon their earnings with equal
;ase, whereas only a very small percentage
rould avoid bankruptcy if required to meet it.
f we are to come out of the war emer
;ency with a sound economy we will have
o stop thinking in round figures and appor
ion the load to the capacity of the individual
o shoulder it.
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Labor Legislation
To get the miners back in the pits tomorrow
s one thing. To enact a law putting a brake
m all strikes and providing real punishment
or leaders who encourage, recommend or or
ler strikes is something else again, which
mght not to be shunted aside, lest other
itoppages of production as grave as that in
:oal mines come to handicap the war effort.
Such legislation is now before Congress,
t joint conference committee must iron out
Inferences in Senate and House bills. It is
o be hoped that the measure to emerge from
his committee will not contain the soft spots
n the Senate bill and all of the tough ones
n the House bill.
The time has gone by for softness in deal
ng with labor leaders who use the war emer
'ency as a means of aggrandizement to the
letriment of production and harm to work
ers who, by and large, are as loyal and
>atriotic as any population group but have
io voice in their affairs.
Unless such a measure is adopted the United
States will continue to face similar handi
aps as those imposed by the coal strike
ngineered by John L. Lewis, in defiance of
very rule of propriety, order and decency,
vhich inevitably would mean that with vic
ory almost in our grasp we would be de
ajed in its accomplishment.
What we need is law, not directives or
‘showdowns” between Lewis and President
ftoosevelt. The need for law is so great that
10 political considerations should lie permit
ed to stand in the way of its adoption. Elec
ion or no election, labor’s leadership should
re placed under control, the sooner the better.
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No Pink Tea
What took Prime Minister Winston Churchill
to north Africa on his way to London, follow
ing the Washington conferences with Presi
dent Roosevelt and the Allied staff, is not
told in dispatches announcing his arrival in
England, but we may be sure it was not
to have a spot of tea with General Eisenhower.
The commander in Africa and Britain’s pre
mier did meet, but the purpose of their meet
ing was not for amiable chatter at tiffen.
You can bet your hole card on that. Particu
larly as Anthony Eden, the British foreign
secretary, and General Sir Alan Brooke, chief
of the imperial general staff, flew from the
light little isle to join the party.
If we guess aright, what transpired adds
up to bad news for Hit. er.
Ship Production
The steady increase in cargo ship produc
tion is one of the most outstanding accomplish
ments of this nation’s war effort. The month
ly record of launchings during the five months
ci 1942 just past is not calculated to comfort
the Axis.
It. stands like this: January 103 ships, Feb
ruary 130, March 146, April 157, May 175.
These figures, in conjunction with evidence
that Hitler’s U-boat campaign is lessening,
clearly indicates victory in the Battle of the
Atlantic.
These things conceded, it is not too much
to hope that the vast quantities of materiel
now piled up on wharfs and at production
plants for lack of shipping may soon be
moving to battlefronts to speed the uncon
ditional surrender of the Axis, upon which
the leading Allies are in complete agreement.
Fair Enough
(Editor’s Note.—The Star and the News accepts no
responsibility for the personal views of Mr. Pegler,
and often disagree with them as much as many of
his readers. His articles serve the good purpose of
making people think.
By WESTBROOK PEGLER
SAN FRANCISCO.—Australian labor has
been strongly organized for many years and
the unions run the country now by telephoned
orders to Prime Minister Curtin but our people
have only a vague notion of the power of
the Australian unioneer. That the longshore
men of a country so close under the guns
of Ihe Jap, which is crying to Americans to
help stand off the conquest, would refuse to
unload American military cargo because of
rain or quibble over jurisdictional union ques
tions is almost incredible but true, neverthe
less.
For proof of this let us not take the word
of any enemy of labor, pro-Nazi or appeaser.
Let us, instead, refer to two American union
publications, The Voice, the official organ of
the marine cooks and stewards, and The Pi
lot, which expresses the personality and pro
communist politics of Joseph Curran, presi
dent of the national maritime union.
Both belong to the CIO.
It would be well for Americans to read
more of the union papers. They are, to be
sure, abusive, ofteh illiterate, always untruth
ful and, in many cases, rackets, but they do
convey, unwittingly, information which can
not be found elsewhere.
In The Voice of last Dec. 9, one comes upon
a small item published with great satisfac
tion by the cooks and stewards because it
compliments the union crew of an American
vessel and particularly the chief steward, for
helping in the discharge of cargo. It consists
of a letter from an American major in Aus
tralia to the captain of an American merchant
ship and says:
“I desire to express my deep appreciation
cf the very excellent cooperation of yourself,
your officers and crew in connection with the
employment of military personnel in discharg
ing your vessel, in order to avoid the other
wise dangerous delay which would have been
occasioned by the refusal of civilian long
shoremen to work during the recent heavy
rains. This assistance rendered by Chief Stew
ard Deering in arranging to feed a large
number of soldiers on short notice and that
of the bos’n in acting as winch-driver, is
particularly commendable. It is teamwork
like this that will help our country to win
the war. Yours very truly, H. R. Hernung,
Maior. Aus. ATS.”
But could it be that a lot of husky Aus
tralian longshoremen, those rough and hardy
giants, those swaggering knights of Labor
with an upper-case L, who boast of their
physical endurance, would refuse to handle
a military shipment because of a rainfall that
American kids were able to endure?
That’s what the item says, and in a CIO
publication. “In order to avoid the otherwise
dangerous delay which would have been oc
casioned by the refusal of civilian longshore
men to work during the recent heavy rains.”
That might mean that they refused to work
for a considerable time during the rainy sea
son but we know they did this time anyway
and that a “dangerous delay” might have
resulted. The delay might have cost Aus
tralian and American lives. It might have
cost the lives of Australian women and chil-!
dren.
That is not merely possible, but so. For
verication of that let us consult fa letter
from T. Healy, secretary of the Australian
waterside workers federation, published in
The Pilot. Mr. Healy says labor conditions
if- Australia do not “materially” prolong the
turn-around of vessels and blames inefficient
loading, faulty planning and the lack of heavy
gear on the piers and quays, for which latter
he scolds the employers. However, where
heavy gear does not exist there was no pre
war need for it in an undeveloped and sparsely
settled country. And even if it had been in
stalled the Australian longshoremen might
have refused to use it efficiently or at all,
considering the fact that in San Francisco
their countryman, Harry Bridges, still pre
rents the full use of much highly efficient
machinery and many short cuts because
they eat up the work too fast.
Mr. Healy says:
“The only time lost which can be attributed
to the wharf workers is that lost for smoke
rs or breaks because of rain. It is not the
practice to work during the heavy rain unless
covers and protection are provided. Employ
ers have hesitated to do this in the past be
cause of the cost involved.”
Smoke-ohs apparently are smoking periods
and Mr. Healy says the day workers take
a half hour and the night workers a full hour
for this purpose and thinks this improves ef
riripnov
ixuxexxuy.
“Attempts have been made by American
people here to use American soldiers and,
in two cases, we agreed to a number of
soldiers receiving training on the wharf prior
to their proceeding to, the battle area.”
We might read that again, too. The Aus
tralian dockers’ union kindly let American
soldiers practice on their docks so that they
could handle cargo in the fighting zone where
the union longshoremen won’t be going. But
Mr. Healy says it has been necessary “to
take a firm stand against the employment
of soldier labor on American vessels to the
exclusion of civilian labor.”
“General MacArthur has agreed with the
union’s contention and has given assurances
in the matter but there are some junior of
ficers (labor baiters, no doubt) who are still
desirous of putting this policy into operation
ana we have to be constantly alert to prevent
the iise of American forces.”
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When total objectives are less than can be
achieved under maximum pressure, then we
are not mobilizing our full resources. On the
other hand, if the objectives are too far be
yond what can be attained, then all kinds
of unevenness and lack of balance are sure
to develop.—WPB Vice Chairman William L
Batt.
HE MAY BE SLOW IN STARTING, But—!
pqpu£,oH
India, Burma Frontier
Blocked By Mountains
As the rainy season gets under
way in Burma, military movement
from India into Burma becomes a
difficult problem.
The Burmese-Indian border runs
for about 600 airline miles from
Tibet to the Bay of Bengal, says
the National Geographic Society.
The true mileage, counted for all
the windings through wild and little
traveled mountain country, is much
greater.
The Burmese coastal region, pen
etrated by British forces in their
drive toward the port of Akyab,
presented spectacular difficulties
nf matted jungle undergrowth,
mangrove swamps, interlocking
tills, and lost valleys. North and
northeast of Akyab, the frontier
nand of territory is still more for
midable, with its tumbled mass
jf high mountains, barren plateaus,
md precipitous groges.
Running in a generally northeast
southwest direction, with a cen
tal spur outthrust into India, the
Patkai, Khasi, and Lushai ranges
jxtend the towering Himalayas,
;hus making complete the moun
:ain wall that hems in India.
These “tail” mountains long have
prohibited the exchange of culture,
trade, and blood between the peo
ples of Burma and India. Few trails
cross the mountain into upper Bur
ma. No railways or roads are avail
able for armies and supplies. Dur
ing the Japanese campaign against
Burma in the spring of 1942, it was
the lack of such routes that pre
vented the arrival of British rein
forcements from India, as well as
the salvage of valuable motorized
equipment as the Japanese pushed
the Imperial forces northward.
On the Indian side of the border
there is a railway that roughly
parallels the mountains. This line
runs from the Bay of Gengal port
of Chittagong northeastward of Sa
diya, in the region where the fron
tiers of India, Burma, and China
meet. Substitute roads into China
for the disrupted Burma Hoad have
been reported under construction
from Indian Sadiya. One of these,
scaling cloud-tickling ranges, is to
cross the narrow northern tip of
Burma.
POTATO CEILING
SET AT 5 CENTS
Johnson Says New Rate
Also Applies To South
Carolina Spuds
RALEIGH, June 5—1Theo
dore S. Johnson, district OPA
director, said today that by next
week-end 5-cent potatoes should
be a reality again in North Caro
line.
Johnson said he had advised
both retailers and consumers
that the top retail price of North
Carolina potatoes is 5 cents a
pound, effective Friday. This rate,
he said, also applies to South
Carolina, potatoes.
The OPA director said con
sumers should ascertain where
potatoes, retailing at more than
5 cents after Friday, were grown.
Retailers should do the same, he
said.
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St. Mary’s Exercises
Will Be Opened Today
RALEIGH, June 5— W —The
Rev. John A. Wright, rector of
Christ church, will deliver the
bajecslaureate sermon tomorrow
morning to open commencement
exercises for St. Mary’s school
and Junior college here.
The exercises will close Monday
evening with the commencement
address by Dr. Hornell Hart, pro-v
Eessor of sociology at Duke Uni
versity.
The Rt. Rev. Edwin A. Penick,
bishop of the Episcopal diocese
of North Carolina, will present
diplomas to graduates and
scholastic awards will be announc
ed at exercises tomorrow at 10:30.
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Eastern Star Begins
Annual Meeting Today
ROCKY MOUNT, June 5—\B—
The Grand Chapter of the North
Carolina order of the Eastern
Star will begin a four-day ses
sion here tomorrow night at the
First Methodist church with Dr.
E. L. Hillman, pastor, preaching
the sermon.
Five hundred delegates are ex
pected.
A reception and a general intro
duction will be held Monday. On
Tuesday, the convention will be
formally opened. State officers
will make reports. That even
mg worthy matrons and patrons
W1,V u , present and a memorial
will be held
Oyhanarte Plans To Be
Candidate In Argentina
CHICAGO, June 5—WL-Dr. Ho
racio B. Oyhanarte, former Argen
tine foreign minister, said today
he plans to run for president of
Argentina is the candidate of the
radical party.
Oyhanarte, a noted lawyer
pleasure at the overthrow of presi
dent Ramon S. Castilla, whose
administration Oyhanarte termed
an “authoritarian government.”
He said he had been requested
recently by Dr. Gabriel Oddone,
president of the radical party,
whose members endorsed the re
volutionary movement, to return
and lead the party’s campaign
for “more Democratic govern
ment.” The radical (liberal) party
has sought for a long time to line
up Argentina with the United Na
tions.
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As Others Say It
COMMENCEMENTS
Commencements this season are
not going to offer the problem to
recipients of invitations that they
have in former years. All you’ve
got to do is to send a War Bond
and forget all about it. No com
mencement gift in the world could
equal that for the young ,man or
young woman starting out from
high school or college to face the
problems of life and meet its de
mands upon the human spirit.—
The Bentztown Bard, in the Balti
more Sun.
HISTORY NOTE
A man we know got a letter
from a friend who is driving an
ambulance in the Middle East.
The letter was written f»sm Leban
on, which, said our friend’s cor
respondent, looks rather sad these
days because the biblical cedars
of Lebanon are gone—cut down by
modern man for his crass and mili
tary purposes. At this point the
censor, obviously weary of read
ing about the sins of the British
Empire, had added a prim little
historical note: “Also cut down
by the Phoenicians, Turks and Ro
mans.”—-The New Yorker.
FINLAND’S DEBT
A moratorium which freed Fin
land from making payments on the
World War I debt to Uncle Sam
luring the past three years ex
pired last December and an in
stalment is due June 15. The
Finns are reported planning to
rceet this obligation. That’s okeh
iver here.—Charleston (S. C.)
Evening Post. ' /
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MEN
If a man in the army comes in
ate to eat or late to bed he finds
HARDWARE GROUP
TO MEET MONDAY
Carolinas Association To
Conduct Annual Ses
sion In Raleigh
RALEIGH, June 5.—®—Mem
bers of the Hardware associa
tion of the Carolinas will come
here Monday for their 39th an
nual two - day convention.
The meeting, scheduled to deal
With current and post-war prob
lems facing the hardware indus- [
try, will officially open Monday
night when direcors of the Hard
ware Mutual Fire Insurance com
pany hold their annual meeting.
Lectures, forum and business
sessions will be held Tuesday,
with election of officers and other
business scheduled for Wednes
day.
Convention speakers will include
Joel Deal of Washington, direc
tor of the fuel rationing division
of the Office of Price Administra
tion; Leroy Holt of Birmingham, .
Ala., director of sales promotion j
for the Tennesse coal, iron and ,
railroad company; Mrs. Pauline!
V. Horton of Raleigh, technical j
advisor in North Carolina for the
wage hour and public contracts
division, U. S. Department of La- !
bor; and Rivers Peterson of In-;
dianopolis, Ind., managing direc- J
tor of the National Retail Hard-!
ware association.
Officers of the association are:
W. R. Harden, Graham, presi
dent: C. H. Albright, Rock Hill,
S. C., first vict president; S. T.
Proctor, Fuquary Springs, second
vice president: J. D. Foster, Roe
buck, S. C., third vice president;
Sally Couch Maston.
Members of the legislative com
mute for South Carolina are E.
W. Duvall, Cheraw, chairman; E.
L. Davis of Norway, and W. T.
Ellenburg of Greensboro, N. C.
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Meeting Conducted By
Girl Scout Council
The last meeting for the current
year of the Girl Scout Council was
held last Wednesday afternoon in
the Scout office in the Wallace
building.
Mrs. W. S. Webb, commission
er, presided. Reports were made
by the members, monthly reports
were read, and routine business
discussed. Mrs. W. C. Mebane
gave the report of the Day Camp
plans, and Mrs. J. E. Brantley
presented the report of the Train
ing courses for prospective and
present leaders.
The following were present: Mrs.
W. S. Webb, Mrs. Harvey Glazier,
executive secretary, Mrs. Henrv
B. Peschau. Mrs. W. S. Pullen,
Mrs. G. D. Greer, and Mrs. W. C.
Mebane.
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Civilian Defense
Timetable
BASIC TRAINING COURSES
New Hanover* High School, Room
109, At 8 P. M.
FIRE DEFENSE A
Monday, June 14, and every two
weeks thereafter.
GENERAL COURSE
Tuesday, June 15, and every
two weeks thereafter.
GAS DEFENSE B
Wednesday, June 16, and every
two weeks thereafter
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SPRINKLE WITH HOT WATER
Clothes can be ironed more eas
liy/ ^Uiuk!y if they are sprin
kled with hot water rather than
cold.
himself in the guardhouse. If a
man in the home comes in late to
0r ^te t0 bed he finds him
,*5 ln the doghouse.—Platte City
(Mo.) Landmark.
Interpreting
The War
BY GLENN BABB *
The in-between phase of the *
linking the triumph in Africa
the next active chapter appl?
near an end. Last week broJ!
strong indications that the per
which Allied leadership has dew
ed to reviewing the war outlook
reassessing its resources and
pects and preparation of £ Z
blow was about to give w„7
blazing action. Way >°
The battle of the Medierranean
already was well under wav
fact, it had begun even before 7
nisia was cleared of the enerr!
The Allies were steadily increase,
their dominance of the skies abov
an<* th.e, 7at.e!'s around southern
Italy ahd its island approaches air
it was difficult to see how the e,
try of the land force? info this bat
tle-the beginning of invasion
could be much longer delayed
There was no reason to assunii
however, that the United Nationi
offensive would be confined to the
Mediterranean and its shore? <r
around Hitler’s fortress of Europe
stood Allied armies ready for the
command to advance.
Lhurchill Returns
Prime Minister Churchill return,
ed to London from the Washington
war council. En route he made a
dramatic visit to North Africa
which afforded evidence that the
post-African interim was just about
over. Accompanied by Generais
Marshall and Brooke, the Amen,
can and British army chiefs o!
state, and Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden, Churchill conferred
with the commanders of the great
Allied army, air and naval forces
arrayed along the North African
coast looking across toward Italy,
"Details of plans for striking the
most powerful possible blow at the
Axis” formed the subject matter
of these conferences, said an offi.
cial announcement.
For the theatrical setting of a
pre-battle speech to American and
British troops, the prime minister
chose the ruins of the amphi-tbeater
of ancient Carthage, stirring mem
ories of another war to a finish of
2,000 years ago when mastery of
the Mediterranean and world dom
inance were at stake.
The softening up of Italy, espe
cially Pantelleria, Sicily and Sar
dinia, the islands which still bar
clear sailing for the Allies through
the Mediterranean and also offer a
pathway for invasion, went on at
accelerated pace. There was a
lull, however, in the terrible a-r
punishment of the German Reich,
perhaps an indication that still
heavier blows were being prepared
for early delivery.
Goebbels Talks
The besieged continent shudder
ed under the double impact of the
Allied air assault and the war of
lerves. Doctor Goebbels and oth
er German spokesmen tried to for
tify the spirits of their own people
ind their Italian allies with talk
if the impregnability of Europe's
ortficatons, of great stores of arms
rrepared for the coming summer
est, of mysterious new weapons,
if the readiness of the Axis for
iither offensive action or defense.
Nevertheless Italy awaited her
lour of doom with indications of
mounting fear. Both Berlin and
iome sought frantically for clues
is to where and when the blow
vould fall.
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air fleets based on North Africa
and the British navy gave the Ital
ians no respite. Pantelleria, mos
distant of the island outposts, un
derwent a savage unremitting ham
mering both from the skies and
the sea. Four times during the
week Admiral Cunningham's ships
came close to shell the little
land heavily, while Flying For
tresses and other Allied planes a,;'
ded daily bombardments. Cun
ningham's ships dashed in close
the Italian mainland to smash J
convoy just off lire entrance
the Messina channel.
Bj.it while action in the European
theater was in the preparatoi.
stage, the Pacific war witnesse
the cleaning up of some unfinis
ed business. Except ior aea _*s
with a few isolated nests of sne
ers American forces completed tr.’
occupation of Attu in the Ae'
tlans. A Navy communique en
closed the cost of rooting the en
my from this strategic American
outpost which looks across
North Pacific toward Japan s G .
Island bases, beginning some ‘
miles to the west! 342 Amenc _
soldiers killed, 1,135 wounde . -
missing. Known Japanese dea .
not including many buried or cr ■
mated by the enemy, totaUed.J
791. Only 11 prisoners were tan
en, showing how well the JaPa-‘
still observe the merciless code
their war machine, which is ' ■
or die, no surrender.
China, bolstered by Ame:rica
air power, contributed a highly -*»
nificant victory to the Allied caa j
turning what appeared a Iortn 8.0
ago to be si dangerous
Chungking into a crushing d
of Japanese armies along tne .
per Yangtze river. Beginning “
the recapture late in May :1 .
stronghold of Yuyangkwan, ■ '- "
south of the main enemy b-;'
Ichang, the Chinese swept in -
vaders back to the Yangtze • •
a wide front, erasing two tleep
dangerous areas of peneuai1"1
The entire region between
yangkwan and Ichang was c e
of columns which had been 1 ■ - ^
ing deep into Hupeh provinc
a region less than 300 miles .
Chungking. A similar success- ^
scored in the “rice bowl’ s'-6"
northern Hunan, between Tun0t"
Lake and the Yangtze, wheie .
sns of towns seized by the1 -a “
nese in a drive two months
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