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British Admit Advance by 3
Rommel Southeast ot
Coastal Base. (Continued from Page One)
“Matruh, had sent other columns! southeastward toward Bir Faud, 75 miles southwest of Matruh, and Siwa Oasis, 180 miles southwest, in| flanking operation in the Quttara depression sector which, if sucecess-|
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attack against the British. The axis held a clear tank su-
periority, according to Cmiro dis-
paiches, and despite some wishful thinking the British hag not had time either to bring up enbugh re-| inforcements or complete their reorganization at Matruh. Whether Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie had been relieved of command of the crippled eighth srmy before the battle started at Matruvh was uncertain, though apparently inspired reports from south Africa said that he had been removed. ; It was probably significant, how. ever that dispatches today spoke of Gen. Sir Claude Achinleck, the commander in chief in Egvpt. rather than of Gen. Ritchie. Distance that forces Rommel to depend on extremely long supply!
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Here is the pleture of the war situation in the Near East, with the vital British stronghold of Mutruh either captured or by-passed by axis forces in the Rerce fighting in Egypt today.
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tion during the fiscal year begin-/ | ning July 1. : The full committee before report- | ling the bill cut $20,000,000 more | | from the OPA’s appropriation than had been approved by a subcomI mittee. The subcommittee had re- | duced the OPA appropriation from /$161,000,000, as recommended by the |president, to $95,000,000, & cut of | The full committee reduced the amount to $75,00,000, a total cut of $86,000,000.
Specific Ttems Not Listed
OPA Administrator Leon Hender- lanier, Chief Justice Curtis G. Shake
son told the committee he ‘foresees the need” for 15 new rationing prolgrams in addition to ‘present |ratinning of sugar, gasoline, auto- | mobiles, tires and typewriters. The committee's report said it ‘would be folly to name the specific
items likely to be rationed because ‘Republicans.
lit ‘would immediate runs on them.
‘are in two of the basic cost of lving groups “which means a general ‘rationing program for the ‘entire | country.” | Largest single item ‘in the bill | was '$1,100,000,000 for the war shipping administration. The ‘committee reported that the WSA would use the money to finance abguisition, hire, expenses, reconditioning, outfitting, operation, repair, insur‘ance and incidental expenses of the {wartime ‘merchant ‘marine. More than 100 vessels will be acquired to lad to the present merchant fleet.
6,000,000-Army in 1943?
Testimony at hearings on the various appropriations revealed | that: | 1. The army may be increased to! §H00.000 or 7.000.000 ‘men in 1943 after reaching 4.500.000 by the end of this year. (This conforms with | plans '‘previdusly annbunced by, Chief of Staff George C. Marshall. ‘but in hearings on the pending war | department bill, Lieut. Gen. Brehon Somervell said the 4,500,000 figure
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[the two southern division appellate |court seats. |
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Judgeship to Mark Democrat Parley. (Continued from Page One)
him a serious threat.
were still searching for a woman to run for the nomination of clerk of the supreme and appellate courts in oppesition to Vernon Bauldridge ‘of Gary, the only announced candidate. Looks Like Dull Affair
Unless there are contests in the clerk and ‘treasurer’s races, tomorrow’s convention seems likely to be a pretty dull affair from a political standpoint. Winfield K. Denton of Evans‘ville, ‘house minority leader during the last session, is without ‘opposition for the top spot on the ticket,
Attorney General Beamer ‘is unfor renomination ‘and Ralph Watson of the State Teachers college at Terre Haute is the only ‘candidate in the race for superintendent of public ‘instruction. ) Also ‘due to ‘he renominated ‘without opposition are Judges A, J.
Race for Fourth District
other candidate, did not consider
Meanwhile, some party leaders |
Continues Until July 10; State Hopes to Collect
though phrasing of ‘the announcement indicated ‘confederates had been seized more than once. Shas Justice department officials de42 Wiltion Pounds. clined ‘to cominent on the possibility that ¥BI agents had infiltrated into (Continued from Page One) the ‘gestapo, or even the (German last week to get farmers to bring high command, and that this led to
their Tubber to country trading cen. |e ~tP=0f" ‘on the ‘mission of the
: saboteurs. ters Saturday night, met with pleas- Peteral officials ‘Were @eciding ing results.
; whether civil or ‘military courts Mr. Williams said ‘“‘those places would inflict the “swift and thorare still working.” ough” reprisals—probably the firSam Hurd, Indiana co-ordinatoret | INS Squad or gallows—that Attorpublicity for the drive, ‘explained Hey ‘Gensel Francis Biddle prom. that a great amount of rubber held
ised against the agents. by waste materials merchants now
“You may be sure,” Mr. Biddle said in Washington, ‘that the ‘deis beginning to move toward the markets. Junk yard supplies, he
partment of justice will ‘proceed isaid, will play a great part in In-
with this case swiftly and thoroughly.” 'diana’s reaching the original 42-| ‘wir ‘Biddle revealed that “a hilm-million-pound goal ber of complicating legal factors” Including that source, he @eX-|were involved. One arises from the pressed a belief today that Indiana|fact that two of the Nazis are citiwill ‘exceed a 12-pound per ‘capita | zens of the United States and six collection. are aiiens. State officials said that many peo-| ‘whe eitizens can be prosecuted ple apparently are waiting until “the lis, (reason, while ‘the aliens canlast minute” to turn in their rubber. not. This morning oil company trucks : started bringing in the rubber from i el en oy Ry To filling stations to bulk plants. J. G.| 0 mh EE © A : A ta Sinclair, state campaign chairman, Re = es residen sdded his voice to the plea for all DIsEY May Ask Death
Faward E. Blake
Prohibition party ‘members will meet here tomorrow for what they expect to be the largest state convention in ‘their party's history. The sessions will be at the First Church of the Nazarene, State ave. and Washington st, at 10 a. m, 2p. m, and 7:30 p. m. The morning session will be devoted to organization and a ticket for the fall election will be nominated in the afternocn, Speakers at the mass meeting in the evening will include Dr. D. Leigh Colvin of New York, Prohibition candidate for president in 1936, and National Chairman Edward E. Blake of Chicago. Paul W, Cox of Indianapolis, state secretary, said that the ses-
|'Stevenson and Charles Bedwell for!
Three men are seeking the two appellate court judgeship nominations from the northern district. They are Circuit Court Judge Charles Smith of Anderson; George ‘Hershman of Crown Point, and Arthur Metzler of Rochester, The former two are believed to have the best chances of winning the nomination. Whatever tomorrow's convention may lack in the ‘way of political interest, Party Chairman Fred TF. Bays declares will be ‘made up for by the “stupendous” patriotic pageant which will open the convention at the coliseum at 10 a. m,
A 50-piece orchestra ‘will ‘play
hand to give the 2176 delegates some laughs. Governor Schricker, U. S. Senator Frederick VanNuys and Supreme
today were putting the finishing touches on speeches they will de-
sions will be open to the public,
NATION'S EDUCATORS
citizens to search their homes for every bit of rubber. Following his conference with the
believed
In any event, however, it was that thelr chances of
president, Secretary Ickes said:
escaping the death penally ‘were
some of the ‘greatest problems in
offers a challenge to the ‘profession.
men teachers as members of a vital
> slight. New York Per Oupita Towest | “oe donth pemnlty wiso was likely “Latest figures do not indicate for the “accomplices and contacts." there is enough rubber yet going 0 OMvcials said they probably would come in to provide the army with he charged with treason. what it needs and make possible] FBI Director J. Tdgar Hoover any allowance for civilian use.” doubted that U-boats had landed The secretary said he suspected more than eight agents. ‘a, good deal of rubber could be dug| “We've caught the whole crowd,” up in government buildings—fed- he said. eral, state and local.” Agents E, J. Connelley and ThomWilliam Boyd, chairman of the as J. Donegan said in New York petroleum industry war council, that the ‘eight had been arrested told reporters that New York state without violence, ‘that ‘they had had turned in the lowest per capita known what to expect if they were amount of rubber of any state in|caught. : the union. Six ‘were seized here and two were arrested in ‘Chicago, ‘one directly Nevatia ‘Has Best Record after he had ‘proposed to a young Nevada, he said, had made the
widow and been accepted. highest per capital yield, followed
Clothes American-Made Ja, Idaho, Oregon and North He TBI also revenlsd that $20.000 akota.
more of the money that was to have Those reports, however, did not financed their sabotage had been Revision of the system of teach- [include late collections, found, bringing to a total of $169,700 ing ‘mathematics to ‘emphasize As Secretary Ickes emerged from tne ‘United States currency With handling of precision instruments in the president's wing of ‘executive whish ‘they landed in rubber boats,
STUDY NEW TASKS
DENVER, June 20 (U. P.) —More than 1200 American ‘educators met today for the annual National Education association convention, facing ‘what spokesmen described as
education’s history. Delegates said educational methods and subject matter must iindergo great changes within the next few years and that the war time drain of teachers into ‘war work
Mrs. Myrtle Hooper Dahl, NEA president, urged deferment of all
industry. Changes facing the American education system were outlined today as:
radio, aeronfutics and gunnery. (offices, he spotted a huge TUbbEr fhir at Amagansett Beach, Long
Broadening business education to| mat. Island, On Jime 13, and four at
liver at tomorrow's convention. The governor, in his keynote ad- | dress, is ‘expected to lay down the; line his party will take in the political battle this fall with the
Map Tentative Platform
Pre-convention ‘activity today was of a routine nature. Candidates for the various nominations opened campaign headquarters at the Claypool! and the platform advisory committee met to Whip together a fentafive platform to be submitted to the resolutions committee tonight. The ‘platform advisory committee decided to leave out of the platform any mention of the administration plan for abolishing the appellate court. Reason for this, committee members said, was that it ‘would require an ‘educational campaign to ‘put the idea over. The platform, according to ‘Chairman Bays, is to be the most concise in the history of the ‘party. ‘Proposals included call for increasing state mid to schodls from $700! to $800 =nd for giving adequate maintenance to the state guard. The tentative platform also pledges the ‘party to full support of the national administration. District caucuses will be helg at
trition and conservation.
vocational or liberal arts education.
include a ‘more comprehensive study | “By God, there's a big one,” he ppjte Vedra Beach, Fla. on Jure of modern bookkeeping, including exploded. 17. . record keeping in the home for in-| Then he walked over, laboriously, ‘hey hae selective service cards come tax and other calculations. [rolled ‘up the mat and hed his coiinterfeited in ‘Germeny, and Stressing physical ‘education, nu- chauffeur put it in the rear of his spoial security oards, Which they [aes for immediate delivery to the might have obtained in this counnearest filling station. ‘try before returning to Germany for Told ‘of the secretary's action, schooling in sabotage. Discarding flat maps ih teaching White House Secretary Stephen T. Their clothes were American
Determining ‘pupil adaption for
geography and adoption of a ‘method (Early said “no one from the White ‘made, presumably ‘those in ‘which | of globular study.
House will try to reclaim it—there's they had left the United States. no reason ‘why it shouldn't go.” |
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More U. S. Army 4 . * * Fliers in China CHUNGKING, June 29 (U. P). —Lijeut. Martin ‘Cluck of Erick, | Okla, told ‘China by radio ves- | terday that American army fliers | have arrived and that more are | on the ‘way to battle the Jap- | anese. The first United States army pilot to appear on ‘Chungking’s ‘weekly American hour broadcast, | ‘Lieut, ‘Cluck ‘said he left the United States on May 12. Describing himself as a sixfooter 200-pounder and “all dvnamite,” Lieut. ‘Cluck demanded ‘just show me a Jap.” “We're about the toughest | babies you'll find,” he declared. |
A PRESENT FOR FIGHTERS WASHINGTON, June 20 (U. P).
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EXTEND SCRAP Accomplices of Sub-Landed Nazi Spies Sought by U. S.
trict ‘where New York's alien ‘Ger mans are concentrated, and that they had, rather, spent their first few days in Broadway restaura. nts gorging themselves after the strine gency of German rations. The two citizens are Peter Burger and Herbert Haupt. Haupt, 22, became a citizen when his father was naturalized in Chicago in 1080. Burger has been a naturalized oitizen since 1933, Haupt returned to Chicago soon after he landed, renewed his acquaintance ‘with Mrs. Gerda Melind, pretty young widow. and they were ‘engaged to be married next week, But Mrs. Melind said the engagement was off. “Once a spy, always a spy; that’s what I always say,” she said. Burger, George John Dasch, Heinrich Harm Heinck, alias Henry Raynor, and Robert Quirin, alias ‘Richard Quintas, were landed on Long Island. Dasch was leader of the group.
Had Two-Year Program
Haupt, Bdward John Kerlin, | Werner Thiel and Hermann Neus [bauer landed in Florida. Thiel was the leader. Their campaigh was to cover a two-year period and they Wwers “magnificently” trained for the job. They rowed ashore in the dead of {night, buried powerful explosives {and tools in holes along shore, and (left to recruit confederates.
Among the wital American in= stallations they intended to sabotage were the Alumihum Company of | American plants in Tennessee, Bast [St. Louis, Tl, and in Massena, N, |X; Hell Gate bridge, an important | transportation point in ‘metropolitan New York; the Pennsylvania rails road terminal in Newark, N., J, eastern terminus of ‘the line to Washington and points west; the Horseshoe curve of the Pennsylva=nia railroad near Altoona, Pa.; New York City’s water supply system and the Niagar Falls hydro-electric plant. > ‘Guards Reinforced
But the FBI quickly was upoh them. Agents declined, however, to comment on a report that the four who landed on Tong Téand were seen by an unarmed coast guards= man pafroling the beach and that they overpowered him.
The Nazis debated at some length, according to this report, whether to
to do so would immediately put officers 6h their trail. Accordingly, ‘it ‘was reported, they gave him $270 as a bribe, warned hith to keap his ‘mouth shut ahd let him go.
As s00h as he was released, hows ever, he turned in the money #nhd gave the alarm. Now, it was reported, guards have | been strongly reinforced at points
The FBI indicated that they had where more spies might land.
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destrov production and “to create . .. a feeling of panic and weariness of war.” He doesn’t think Americans will become panicky, however. | 5. About 80,000 Japanese are how | located in temporary assembly cen‘ters; 20,000 in permanent relocation ‘areas. The bill carries money to pay Japanese workers at a rate of ‘$12 a ‘month for common labor, $16 {for semi-skilled ‘workers and $19 a ‘month for skilled workers. Food, 'shelter, clothing and medical care! are furnished. ; 6. The FBI staff will be increased
MELBOURNE, June 9% (U. P).—| ARMY RECRUITS DOCTORS | *i
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