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WASHINGTON’S NATION ALLY-KNOWN STORE
32nd Year at 1 9 F Stmt
Former Star Employe
Believed Skipper of
LCI Lost in Invasion
Coast Guard Lt. (j. g.) Coit T.
Hendley. jr.. 23, former employe of
The Star, is believed to have been the
commander of an Infantry landing
craft sunk in the
invasion of Nor
mandy, it was
revealed today.
Lt. Hendley’s
father, who lives
in Columbia, S.
C., saw a picture
in the Charlotte
Sunday Observer
of what he said
he believed was
his son’s Coast
Guard landing
craft, which
foundered after
being hit off the
coast of France.
He wired The Star that Lt. Hendley
commanded the LCI-85 and inquired
if he was a casualty.
The Navy Department said today
no report of the craft’s casualties
had been received.
Moat of Crew Removed.
Accompanying the picture was
the news that most of the crew had
been removed to a hospital trans
port ship.
Lt. Hendley, who received a cadet
appointment to the Coast Guard
Academy at New London, Conn.,
in February, 1942, is a veteran of
the North African, Sicilian and Ital
ian invasions, he revealed in letters.
He was in on the Allied landings
at. Salerno, early in the Italian
campaign, and later took part in
the landing of 5th Army veterans
at Anzio.
For some time after his gradua
tion from the academy Lt. Hendley
was on antisubmarine patrol on the
Atlantic seaboard. Then he left
for North Africa.
Served in Editorial Department.
A native of Charleston, 8. C., the
young officer was graduated from
the University of South Carolina
in 1940 at 19. Shortly after gradu
ation he was employed by The Star
in the editorial department, where
he served until he left for the
Coast Guard. He lived in the
Chastleton, 1701 Sixteenth street
N.W.
Last November, from a base in
Africa, Lt. Hendley wrote a humor
ous story about difficulties he had
with residents of the locality when
he planned a dance for the Coast
Guard unit stationed there. The
story appeared in The Star later
that month.
Aerial
(Continued From First Page.)
morning foray reported opposition
"the roughest -yet.”
Hie Thunderbolt* were jumped
by about 50 German fighters, but
the Allied pilots said enemy flak
still was the biggest hazard.
Hie Germans also claimed to have
sunk one small troop transport in
the Seine Bay last night.
American Marauders and Havocs
bombed railroad and highway
bridge targets at Aunay sur Odon,
southwest of Caen; La Haye du
Puits, west of Carentan, and Conde
sur Noireau, south of Caen, with
out loss, and panicked concentration
of troops at Falaiae, southeast of
Caen, flying so lofggftat a sergeant
gunner reported, "fw could pick
out German lieutenants from ser
geant* and shoot the lieutenants.*'
Railroad Tarda Attacked.
Before breakfast #ow railroad
yards, German road convoys and a
seaplane base, near Oaudebec, had
been attacked by RAF mediums.
Then a force of around 1,000 For
tresses and Liberators with swarm
ing hundreds of escorting fighters
swept in on some of the airbases
into which the Germans belatedly
were shuttling part of their lean
air force.
The American heavies bombed the
fields at Lille-Nord, Montdidier,
Evreu-Fauville, Dreux, Vitry-en
Artois and Beauvais-Hlle, while
part of the arma;to concentrated on
bridges and the escorting fighters
strafed small targets.
At 9 am. the Paris radio left the
air in the middle of its news broad
cast, indicating that area again was
under attack.
Mosquitos Attack Berlin.
RAF bombers, in their seventh
straight night of invasion-support
ing raids, ranged over France last
night all the way from the Paris
area to the west coast port of Nantes.
They bombed the rail junctions at
Evreux, Nantes, Tours and Massy
Palaiseau. Nantes and Tours, respec
tively 225 and 130 miles southwest
of Paris, are junctions through
which Rommel might receive re
FORMER STAR EMPLOYE’S INVASION SHIP FEARED SUNK—The LCI 85, hit by enemy lire
during the invasion of Normandy last week, founders off the coast. Lt. (J. g.) Coit T. Hendley,
jr., former employe of The Star, was believed to be commander of the vessel, according to a
telegram from his father, who saw a similar picture in a South Carolina paper.
—Official Coast Guard Photo.
inforcements from the German
Army group in the south of Prance.
Eighth Air Force headquarters an
nounced the strongest Luftwaffe re
sistance since the invasion began.
The Evreux and Massy-Palaiseau
junctions are potential channels for
German reinforcements to the area
of heavy fighting around Caen.
Evreux is only 70 miles east of Caen.
The blow against Berlin was de
livered by twin-engined Mosquitos
which pounded the German capital
with 4,000-pound bombs.
Across Europe United States heavy
bombers took off from new bases in
Russia, and bombed Balkan airfields
of the Axis yesterday during their
return trip to the Italian bases
they left on June 2.
Both on the outbound trail-blaz
ing shuttle trip to Russia and on the
homeward journey the American
heavy bombers were personally com
manded by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker,
chief of the Allied Mediterranean
Air Force.
Axis Airfields Smashed.
“Every inch” of the enemy posi
tions along the 50-mile-long Nor
mandy battle front was declared
scourged by yesterday’s blows. These
attacks, plus flight from Russia, pro
vided the final dramatic touch to a
week end which saw the Allies give
further demonstrations of their
mastery of the air over Europe.
A force or 1,000 united states
heavy bombers spearheaded yester
day’s aerial operations in support
of the Normandy beachheads. These
Flying Portresses and liberators
smashed at nine enemy airfields,
eight bridges, a German Army head
quarters and other objectives in an
area stretching from the beachhead
to Paris and as far north as the
Pas-de-Calais area.
Allied aerial losses over France
yesterday were 26 planes, most of
them victims of Geran antiaircraft
guns. In all operations a total of
nine German planes were reported
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The RAF lost 20 heavy bombers
during attacks Saturday night on
French^ raU^ yards near Paris and
Bfasqulto raid on*BMUn Saturday
night and mine-laying operations
cost two planes. Patrolling Allied
fighters meanwhile shot down 10
Junkers 88s.
Oil Storage Tanks Bombed.
In other operations from Italian
bases yesterday, Liberators bombed
oil storage facilities at the Roma
nian Black Sea port of Constanta
and Giurgiu on the Danube River
south of Bucharest. Liberators and
Fortresses also bombed rail yards
and oil installations at Smederovo
in Yugoslavia.
Allied headquarters in Italy
named only the Focsani airdromes
near Galati, Romania, as the tar
gets of the bombers flying back to
Italy from Russia.
However, a communique from the
eastern command, United States
Strategic Air Forces in Russia, an
nounced that more than 1,000 Amer
ican planes, based in Russia and
Italy and supported by Russian
fighters teamed up to blast targets
at Constants and Giurgiu in
Romania and Smederovo in Yugo
slavia.
This suggested the possibility that
planes from Russia crossed with
those from Italian bases continuing
on to Russia.
Governor Asked to Save
Boy, 14, From Execution
By the Associated Press.
SUMTER, S. C„ June 12.—A pro
test to Got. Olin D. Johnston against
the scheduled execution of a 14-year
old colored boy for the slaying of
a white girl has been* filed by the
South Carolina chapter of the Na
tional Association for Advancement
of Colored People.
The boy, George Junius Stinney
of Alcolu, is sentenced to die Friday.
He was convicted of the slaying of
one of two girls, 11 and 8 years old,
who were beaten to death with a
railroad spike.
The association’s State meeting
here telegraphed the governor that
Stinney’s execution would be a
"blot” on South Carolina’s record.
The governor said Friday he had
studied the case and found no rea
son to intervene, making this state
ment after the CIO Tobacco Work
ers Union, the National Maritime
Union, and the White and Negro
Ministerial Unions at Charleston
asked him to commute the sentence
to life imprisonment.
Three Americans Narrowly
Escape Death in Nazi Car
Br the Associated Press.
ROME, June 12.—An American
officer and two correspondent* es
caped death from carbon monoxide
by seconds yesterday as they were
traveling in a captured German car.
Will Lang, correspondent for Time
Magazine, who was driving, suddenly
became dizzyr stopped the car and
opened the door. He found Lt. Ru
dolph Von Ripper, Austrian-born
Air photographer, unconscious. •'
Mr. Mydazv, who came to this
theater after his release from Jap
anese internment, was revived by
artificial respiration and all three
were treated at a hptpitaL
An Investigation showed the ex
hause gas had been entering the car
either through a defect or deliberate
action by the Germans before aban
doning it. Doctors said a few sec
onds more absorption of gas would
have killed all three.
VFW Chieftain Praises
Army Care of Wounded
Praise for the work of the Army
Medical Corps is contained in a
letter sent today by Carl J. Schoe
ninger, national commander of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, to Maj.
Gen. Norman T. Kirk, Army Surgeon
General.
Mr. Schoeninger recently made a
tour of 65 Army hospitals in all
parts of the country. He said he
was pleased with the care received
by servicemen invalided back to the
United States from fighting fronts.
Hockey Team Signs Chinese
Detroit Red Wings have signed
three of the Chin brothers, Wir.Am,
Albert and George, of the hockey
playing Lucknow (Ontario) family
whose parents were born In China.
“Who's to blame for the conflicts
between Resident and. Congress ?
MINNESOTA POLL* as a public service reports opin
ions of Minnesotans on this important problem of the day. \
\1% of Minnesotans think
President most to blame.
4
14% of Minnesotans think
Congress most to blame.
✓
30% of Minnesotans think 1
both about equally to blame.
j 25% of Minne*otan* think
neither to blame: disagree
ment* are healthy under our
form of government.
14% of Minnesotans—no
opinion.
*The Minnesota
Poll, an impartial,
scientific weekly
survey of what
Minnesotans think
on leading topics
_ of the day, is an
other reason why
Minnesotans depend upon the
Minneapolis Star-Journal and
Tribune for enterprising news
paper service.
LMinneapolis Star-Journal Tribune
JOHN COWtll, AwMmI
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tVNOAY TRIOUMI Ovw >15,004
Rank and File Wins
Hod Carrier Election;
One Office Vacant
With only one office, the third
position on the executive board, to
be filled, rank-and-file members of
the Hod Carriers’ and Common La
borers’ Union, Local 74, AFL, today
prepared to assume control of their
union affairs after scoring a sweep
ing victory in last Saturday’s court
supervised election.
Seventeen candidates put up by
the rank-and-file,'headed by Presi
dent-elect William Shields, won de
cisively in the bitterly contested
fight with incumbents. They won
two of three seats on the Executive
Board, with the third member to
be named at the next union meeting
when a run-off election will be
staged between James C. Wilfork
and Ezekiel Plummer, who tied in
the regular balloting.
Rank-and-file leaders hailed the
results as a complete repudiation of
the Kelly "machine,” many of whose
members are under Indictment on
criminal charges.
Vincent F. Morreale, counsel for
the international union, who served
on the special committee headed by
Attorney John Lewis Smith, which
supervised the balloting, said he was
satisfied with the manney in which
the affair had been h$d. The inter
national, he said, is bound to accept
officers elected by the local.
In addition to Mr .Shields the fol
lowing members were fleeted to of
fice; Bennie L. Betha, vice presi
dent; James Walters, recording sec
retary ; Frank Williams, financial
secretary; Thomas Waller, sergeant
at-arms; Cajvin Tarrant a^Fraftk
Ruddy,. Executive Board;, WJlham
Gray, Jiin Smith and John.L- Sul
livan, business agents;, Roy, Mat
thews, Joseph F. Smith, Arthur Bis
sonette and Dudley Brown, dele
gates to District Council; Max Cen
ter, John Dehthey and Ed' Aimer,
trustees. _ ' ’' ‘ 1
Price-Control Dispute
Endangers Congress'
Plans for Recess
By the Associated Press.
A tug of war over new price
control legislation menaced
plans for a Congress recess and
took top position today on a
docket of “must” measures
awaiting disposition before the
Republican National Convention
June 26.
The revolt against the Office
of Price Administration gained
strength as the House began its
fourth day of debate on a bill to
extend the Price Control Act, which
expires June 30.
As it now shapes up, the legisla
tion contains provisions which
brought from sources close to the
administration predictions of a
presidential veto that would leave
Congress the alternatives of staying
in Washington during the Repub
lican convention to write a new bill
or passing a stop-gap measure tem
porarily extending the Price Con
trol Act in its present form.
Before the bill even reaches the
White House it must go through a
Senate-House conference to adjust
differences between the version
passed last week by the Senate and
the form expected to emerge from
the House late today or tomorrow.
More than a score of amendments
await disposition in the House,
among them being proposals by
Representative Pace, Democrat, of
Georgia to tie in the cost of farm
labor in computing parity prices for
farm products and by Representa
tive Brown, Democrat, of • Georgia
to hitch textile ceilings to a parity
price for raw cotton and assure
millers their operating costs plus
“a reasonable profit.”
The Brown proposal is similar to
the Bankhead amendment adopted
by the Senate over administration
opposition.
Administration-opposed amend
ments written into the measure by
the House last Saturday Included
one directing the OPA to order a
boost of approximately 35 cents a
barrel in crude oil prices. Whether
they will be retained by the Senate
House conference or whether the
House itself will eliminate them
on a final roll-call vote is uncertain.
Despite the new obstacle to a
summer recess, leaders of both
parties are hopeful they can get
Congress out of town during the
conventions, probably from June 24
until after the Democratic meeting
starting July 19, or even until Labor
Day.
Still to be disposed of are several
big appropriation bills affecting
agencies whose current funds run
out July 1, including a $49,000,
000,000 Army supply measure; a
compromise agreement on the GI
bill of rights carrying servicemen’s
benefits, highly controversial war
contract termination legislation and
a bill to make women pilots in the
WASPS a part of the Army.
The Senate expects to pass the GI
bill today, and House passage to
morrow or Wednesday is taken for
granted.
Taylor Sees President
Before Going to Rome
to 4$n«'jhfPresident Roosevelt's
special envfcrto the Vatican, was to
confer witff fffe President early this
afternoon.
It was announced Saturday that
Mr. Taylor was resuming his post
in view of the fact that Rome is
how in the .hands of the Allies.
French Underground
Reported Sabotaging
Nazi Communications
*
Ur tlw Associated Pres*.
LONDON, June 12—Advices
from Spain today qpld authority
in Southern France is disinte
grating, except where it is close
to German protection, and that
French underground forces are
cutting communications between
enemy garrisons.
Meanwhile, in the harshest of a
series of German steps aimed at
subduing the increasing resistant*
behind Nazi lines. Field Marshal
Gen. Karl Gerd von Rundstedt pro
claimed last night that Frenchmen
resisting the Germans would be ex
ecuted when captured.
The German commander in
France. In a decree broadcast by the
Paris radio, based his action on
“Article 10 of the French-German
Armistice Convention (of 1940) pro
viding that French citizens who,
after conclusion of this convention,
are fighting against the German
Reich will be treated oy German
troops as Fruic Tlreurt (Farttf
sans)."
Call for Resistance.
French resistance leaders, in I
broadcast last night from the United
Nations radio at Algiers, directed
"all Frenchmen and women" to con*
sider themselves mobilized to ham*
per the Germans by every means
possible and to give all possible aiq
to the Allies.
It was disclosed that Genu
Charles de Gaulle's official radiQ
spokesman in London has visited
the liberated town of Bayeux ife
Normandy and addressed several
thousand Frenchmen in the marked
square.
Earlier reports from Spain said
French resistance groups had occu
pied strategic centers in Toulous^
Limoges and Tarbes in souther^
France but these were questioned la
part by Frenchmen at the Spanish
border. The latter said liberation
of Limgoes and Perlguex by guer
rillas was quite likely and that seiz*
ure of Tarbes was possible, but that
Toulouse remained a strong Oeri
man garrison city and it was un
likely the French would challengd
the Nazis there.
Spanish advices agreed, however!
that everywhere in southern France
where the Germans entrusted ths
control to Vichy authorities and col
laborationist military formations
uprisings either had taken place,
were occurring or imminent, or that
the French collaborationists simply
had fled.
Little Mass Fighting.
All reports agreed there was little
mass fighting. Guerrilla units and
memerbs of the underground were
said to be avoiding direct clashes
with German strongholds.
Fighting in a number of towns
and cities was expected when the
French feel sufficiently strong to
challenge the local German or
Vichy authorities, it was said.
The cities of Vichy, Lyon and
Grenoble were pictured as islands
of collaborationist strength. Else
where in Southern France there
were whole departments left with
out prefects, mayors and militia
leaders, travelers arirving at the
Spanish border said.
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