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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
County Res1inds
Pay Raise for 81

A pay raise for 81 OF 1874 en-
ployes Of the County Bureau OF
Social Welfare was ordered re-
scinded by the board OF auditors
today.
This increase n hard 20
understand," commented Audi
tor Ray Hafeli. sour inquiry
shows that the case load IL de-
croasing and the office Is over
stared"
Also ploughed under by audi
tors action was the employment
Of three new clerks by A. J. Aid
rich. acting director.
Time studies show the per-
s0nnei II doing In a S6-hour
week what they should readily
accomplish In % hours" Hafeli
said.
Hafeli referred 10 Aldrich as an
nppointee of that "auditor-fired.
die-hard" John Sunday, who is
contesting his dismissal from the
welfare commission. To obtain
additional light on reasons for the
raise. the auditors have asked the
commission to explain at a meet
ing next Wednesday.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Friendship with
Stain Dates
Back TO 1905

years to bleak, bitterly cold
Irkutsk Province, Siberia.
BY 1916 he had escaped and was
back in Russia. planning and
working for the success Of the
revolution.
Through those years. Molotov
worked constantly under Stain
and Lenin, according to Tass. the
Soviet news service.
After the revolution, his rise
was rapid. He held one important
post after another-but until 1889,
when he was appointed commissar
OF foteign affairs, he was little
known outside Russia.
1t was he who negotiated trade
and political agreements with
Adolf Hitler-while at the same
time Russia was preparing for the
Nazi attack she knew was in
evitable.
Molotov is Tartar by birth.
Literally, his name means Ham
mer." He is not the only active
party worker in his family.
Madame Molotov also has taken
an important part in Russian
affairs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12

l35, 0O0-ton battle cruiser, the Lex
ington cost $45. ZOO. 900. including
her aircraft. Her machinery was
the most powerful ever installed
on a warship at the time of its
Launching.
The Lexington's weapons in
|cluded eight eight-inch guns. IL
|five-inch, four six-pounders and
Eight 50-caliber machine guns.
The air lighting in the Coral
Sea had been destructive in the
extreme. One fight Of Is Ameri-
Ican dive bombers swept high
Iabove a Japanese cruiser during the
height of the fightingA In perfect
order they dived down on the
Iprey. Before the last plane had
showed its nose down, however,
the cruiser had disappeared be-
meath the waves.
talked with one pilot who
planted a 1,000-pound bomb on
the flight deck of a japanese air
craft carrier.
Boy" he said. "She opened
up like q volcano"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Photographic Mail
For Soldiers Opens

WASHINGTON, June II (UP).
The, new Photographic "V-mail''
service for American armed forces
serving throughout the world was
inaugurated today when President
Roosevelt received letters from
Maj. Gen. James K. CLANCY, COM
mander of the American forces in
the United Kingdom, and John G.
Winant, United States ambassador
to Great Britain.
The new mail service employs
the micro-film technique. Letters
are photographed on tiny strips
of film and sent to this country
for enlargement and delivery. The
process saves shipping space anc
time.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
H. P. Junior COLLEGE
Graduation Toniqht

The twenty-fourth graduating
class OF Highland Park Junior Col
lege will hold its commencement
exercises at BIS tonight in the
Highland Park High School audi
forum.
DR.. William ii. Lemmel. director
OF public relations of Scarritt Col
lege for Christian Workers, in
Nashville. Tenn, will deliver the
principal address before the 90
graduates.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Reckless Motorist
Gives $50 10 US0

The USO Is $50 richer today
because Clifford M. Bradley, 40
Of Lansing, an auditor in an auto
plant doing defense work. drove
recklessly and bumped another
car.
Originally charged with drunken
driving. Judge George Murphy
found Bradley guilty OF reckless
driving. funded him $50 or sc
days in Jail and also ordered him
to contribute $50 to the USO.
Bradley paid his fine and made
the contribution.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Retailers Must File
All Ceilings by July

Price ceilings on cost OF liv-
ing commodities must be filed
by Michigan retailers with their
local price and rationing boards
by July ]. Arthur II. Sarvis, state
director Of the Office of Price
Administration, warned today.
The original filing date wa $
June ! but was extended to permit
retailers 10 acquaint themselves
with regulations and require
mentS.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Russians Drive
Germans Balk
AT SeyastopoI
Gains Reported
at Several Points; :
10000 Nazis Fall

MOSCOW, June II (UP).-The
besieged and outnumbered defend
ers of Sevastopol. counter-attack-
ing under terrific aerial and ar
tillery bombardment. have driven
the Germans back at several points
after infiicting 10000 casualties on
the enemy in three days. advices
from the front said today.
The official army organ Red
Star acknowledged. that the situa-
ton at the long-besieged Black Sea
port and naval base OF the Crirrea
remained exceptionally grave" ut
several points because OF the Ger
mans vast superiority In numbers
and arms. AZ
German guns planted on heights
outside the city and waves of dive
bombers subjected the ancient city
TO a savage blasting while tanks
and infantry pounded at the out
skirts but the enemy assaults
failed TO demoralize the Red army
garrison. it was said.
FIGHTING AT KHARKOv
Fighting ragged on the Kharkov
front. 300 miles to the northeast.
where a growing German offensive
was expected to become one OF the
greatest battles of the war. The
Soviet communique last midnight
reported that Russian forces there
had fought all yesterday against
advancing" German tanks and IN
fantry.
(The German radio claimed Z
the Kharkov and Sevastopol as
saults were preliminaries TO
Adolf Hitler's long awaited
great offensive.")
The midnight Russian commit
nique. which announced that 49,
600 Germans had been killed at
Sevastopol. added that the Ger
mans had lost more than so tanks
and more than so planes.
German casualties were high be-
cause Col. Gen. Fritz Erich Won
Manstein was throwing all the men
at his command. originally 49,.
600, into the assault on an ex-
tremely morrow front. The Rus
SLAMS. behind concrete and steel
fortresses. and in gun pits dug in
solid rock. were moving them
down, with comparatively few
casualties themselves,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Allied Staffs Study
I'd Front Problems
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE
un,tsS Press stan Correspondent

sLONDON. June 12.--Alhed gen.
eral staffs are in contact on the
urgent problem of creating sec
oad front In Europe in 1872 II
wns understood today.
Only few men in Washington,
Lpndcn and Moscow know when, or
even how, the blow will fall under
tke agreements reached by Great
Hkitain and the United States with
Rzfxxia.
The British man in the street.
and the Russian, interpreted the
second front announcements here
and at Washington at their face
value. He expected an actual land
fighting front in Western Europe
this summer by an invasion OF the
continent.
SEE INVASION DELAYED
More conservative quarters, es-
pecially those who knew the ire
mendous problems involved. held
that Britain, the United States
and Russia might already have
agreed that formation Of such a.
front Immediately was impossible:
that the Allied contribution would
be limited to bombing attacks of
growing ferocity and commando
like raids on an increasing scale
along 1000 miles Of the Atlantic
coast.
This Is the view held generally
by well informed, If unofficial.
opinion in London. This opinion is
that IL Is almost fantastic to ex-
pect the British and American
armies TO invade the continent
within the brief months left for a
campaign this summer.
Reliable informants said that
the Allies faced a tremendous task
merely In keeping their shippingl
lanes open throughout the world
10 Murmansk in the Russianl
Arctic; to Australia; to India;
throughout the seven seas.
Ships, they said, are the key tol
the invasion situation. They esti-l
mate that between 100000 and
2,5O0, 900 tons of shipping, equiva-
lent to 400 or 500 5,0O0-ton|
ships. would be needed simply to|
carry TO Europe from Britain the
Is divisions regarded as the mini
mum needed for an invasion.
This means a total OF about
BIS. 900 men.
Tons of equipment would have
10 follow 10 maintain each man
on the continent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Defeat Of Ndzis
IN 1912 Assured,
Russia Declares
Opening Of I'd Front
in Europe, More Arms
Held Key. TO Victory

MOSCOW. June II tUP).-
Russia's second front agree
nents with the United States and
Great Britain and speedup oil
Allied arms shipments will in
sure the defeat of the Nazi invad-
ers in 1912" the government
newspaper Izvestia said today.
~The great coalition of the
worlds three mightiest powers
A IN instrument accelerating
victory and insuring the defeat
az the Maxi invaders In l942,'
said IZvestia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
CARRY UP TO go PLANES

Carriers in this class are 300
feet long, $4,000 tons and have a
carrying capacity of As to GO
planes.
The Shokaku, which was badly
damaged in the May 8 action, also
is in the Suikaku class.
Concerning the presence of Ger
man-made MesseTschmitts in the
air battle, this marked the first
time they had been identified by
type although reports of other en-
Igagements had stated German
planes were being employed by the
Japs.
The u. S. S. Sims. which was
sunk May 8. was one of the new
|one-stack destroyers built since
the naval expansion program. Laid
down in 1887 and launched in
1889, the vessel, 341 feet long, was
capable of a speed Of about 36h
knots. 1t carried five 5-inch guns
and IL 21-inch torpedo tubes.
A destroyer of the Sims type
normally carries between $50 and
200 men.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Who Is MoIofov?

affairs-regarded outside Of Rus
STA for many years as mystery
man" in the Soviet Union-landed
in England late last month, he
adopted the name of MIR. Smith"
In Washington, he became Mr..
Brown" to White House staff
members.
II was in 1905 that Molotov be-
gan taking. part in revolutionary
m lettings and demonstrations
against czarism. In 1906 he joined
the Bolshevik Party and a few
years later he began writing for
Pravda, the Communist Party
paper. Then il was that his friend
ship with Stain began, for it was
Stain who directed Pravda.
ExILED TO SIBERIA
That friendship, carried on at
the outset under the constant
threat OF Imprisonment or exile,
has grown through the years until
Molotov now is usually considered
Russia's No. 2 man and the one
most likely to succeed Stain.
When he was in his early
Juveniles, olotov twice was
arrested and deported from st.
Petersburg (now Leningrad), and
forbidden to reside in a number OF
Russia's larger cities and indus
trial areas.
In 1915 he was arrested again
and this time exiled for three
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
lroquois 10 Declare
War on Axis Powers

SYRACUSE. N. Y, June II
tUP). - Attired in traditional
dress. chiefs of the six Indian ma
lions comprising the Iroquois con-
federacy meet today formally to
declare war on the Axis.
Then the chiefs will entrain
for Westinghouse the govern
ments expense--and present tho
to President Roosevelt.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Jap Filters Hit
Chinese Bases
.ToWin Railroad
Enemy Brings Up More
Troops After Big Loss
in Men at Chuhsien

CHUNGKING, China, June II
CUP Japanese planes, support
ing the drive OF three columns
moving east and southeast from
Nanchang in an attempt to seize
full control of the Chekiang-
Kiangsi railroad, have raided air
fields in Fukien Province and three
points in Kiangsi Province, the
Central News Agency said today.
Five Japanese planes raided
Pucheng, 80 miles east Of Nan
chang in northern Fukien Prov
ince, the dispatch said, and dropped
bombs on air fields outside the
city.
Twenty-three enemy planes
raided Khan. Changshu and Nam
cheng, in Kiangsi Province.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12

LONDON. June II tINSD.-Ar~
rival in Ankara Of Japan's Rome
and Berlin military attaches has
given rise to rumors that japan is
attempting to persuade Turkey to
act as mediator in an effort to end
the war between Germany and
Russia, Reuters (British) news
agency reported today.
Responsible quarters voiced
skepticism OF the report.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Electric Storm
Kills ; Persons

The toll today of series CT cleo
trical storms that swept through
Southern Michigan and Northern
Ontario included the deaths OF
two Detroiters by drowning. the
death Of one Windsor soldier and
the injuring of Ia others by a
bolt, and scattered dis
ruption Of utilities services and
property damage.
The storm was accompanied by
a heavy downpour. A quarter of
an inch of rain fell in Detroit in
IS minutes. The temperature fell
from sc degrees to-74 in 10
minutes.
Dead by drowning are John
Chefan. 10, of 1857 Anglin street,
and George Thomas. Is.
They were killed when a row.
boat in which they were riding
with four other persons on Pom
tiac Lake capsized when a strong
wind suddenly sprang up. Che
fans body was recovered.
Pvt. Albert Griffith. %, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Griffith OF
$40. Bridge street, Windsors died
when lightning struck large mess
tent at Canadian army post near
London, Ont. Fourteen other SOL
diers suffered burns.
NEIGHBOR INJURED
Lightning felled several trees in
Detroit. The current from one
bolt travelled down a utility pole
and into an underground trans
former, backing out several blocks
in the district surrounding Third
avenue and Porter street.
Temporary dislocation OF light
ing service occurred in other Sec
tons Of the city.
Other lightning bolts did minor
damage to the plant Of the Pack
ard Motor Car Company, and the
home of Mrs. Lulu Essia. 1854
Kercheval avenue. A neighbor.
Mrs. Abel Lysy of 1852 Kercheval
avenue. was slightly injured by
the bolt.
Nine men. six of them members
of the faculty of Michigan State
College, were injured by light
ming bolt that struck a shed on a
farm near Hartford.
The four most seriously injured
were DR.. George M. Darrow OF
Washington, a plant expert of the
federal department Of agriculture
Stanley Johnston, director of the
MISC experimental station at South
Haven; Roy Gibson, of the station,
and DR.. c. A. Boyer of MISC.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Two Describe
Coral Sea Fight

Continued from Page One)
ships and transports. From our
great height the harbor was
spread out In miniature.
ALL SET TO ATTACK
81 remember thinking that
the scene reminded me of toy
boats In q bath tub. As I peeled
off and prepared to dive I
shouted into the radio phone
lets get the yellow ="
At this juncture Taylor took uI
the stirring story.
81 figured the Marquis Of
Queensbury rules were out SO I
said to Bill you hit 'em high
and I'll hit 'em low
From then ON II was every
man for himself. One thing L
remember clearly as the dive
bombers pushed over In scream
ing dives 10 that each pilot was
yelling into his radiophone.
Some were cusslng but most
were shricling Remember Pearl
Harbor.'
ANTI-AIRCRAFT TOO LATE
AS soon a. saw what ships
were In the harbor instructed
the pilots which ones to hit.
There was no time for detailed
assignments. We just went TO
work with our torpedoes and
bombs.
"The Japs weren't exactly
caught fat-footed, but got up no
anti-aircraft FIRE until the at
tack had started. By that time
II was too late"
Taylor paused and Burch re
sumed the account of the fray.
when the attack was COM
pleted the place looked like IL
had been hit by an earthquake.
The harbor was filled with
sunkcn, burning ships and q few
which managed 20 crawl to the
the beach TO keep from sinking.
o DEFINITELY SUNK
white and orange sheets OF
flame licked the sky and some
smoke beloved into the air
from dozens Of fires.
"Nine ships were definitely
sunk and possibly IL. They In
cluded two heavy and three
light cruisers, two destroyers
and two transports.
I'VE believe we also sank a
seaplsne and another transport.
In addition we sank many small
boats by strafing.
The whole harbor was strewn
with smoking wreckage."
NOT A SINGLE LOSS
The United States filters re
turned to their carrier bases with
out the single loss of a man O
ship.
"A couple OF the boys brought
back n few hQes In their planes
but the personnel was not even
scratched" Burch revealed.
THE action at Tulagi was the
beginning Of the Coral Sea en-
gagements. IL was the first
touchdown I'm the game that
lasted n week. We scored In oil
four quarters"
When asked about the main az
ton in the Coral Sea, Taylor sale
"All I can say is that we gave
them n large dose Of the stun
we hn nded them at TuIaef."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Canada, Russia in Pact

LONDON. June II (INS).-An
agreement was signed at the So
Wet embassy today establishing
direct diplomatic relations be-
tween Canada and Russia.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Coral Sea
Jap Loss
Revealed
Continued from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
while the enemy was handicapped
by an unlimited ceiling.
United Nations naval losses
were:
The United States destroyer
Sims.
One tanker.
MAY s-Weather situation re-
verse with Jap force hidden
under overcast skies, United Ma
tons forces in the clear. Jap tor
pedo planes and dive bombers
scored hits on United States car
riers in the United Nations forces,
but they managed to escape serious
damage through skillful maneu-
vering.
When American reinforcements
began to arrive. the Japs retired
with the American units chasing
them to within $50 miles of Tulagi
Later a Jap aircraft patrol spotted
United Nations force and it with
drew. ending the battle.
subsequently IL was an
nounced that although one
United States carrier, the Lex
ington, managed to escape Sc
rious damage in the encounter
IL later blew up and sank be-
cause of a fire aboard il. The
ship sank hours after the
battle.)
TOO LATE FOR BATTLE
I was with an American task
force under the command OF Vice
Admiral William r. Halsey, who
commanded the successful raid on
the Mashall-Gilbert islands in
February.
We arrived in the Coral area toe
late to participate in the battle
but did engage in activities within
400 miles of Tulagi designed to
thwart further japanese expan'
sion.
In the action May g, Admiral
Fietcher's torpedo planes and dive
bombers performed heroically. Ir
addition to the blows struck
against the four aircraft carriers
in the force. they raked six loaded
transports and also attacked two
seaplane tenders.
In the sinking of the Rhukaku
the United Nations forces appar'
emily destroyed one of the --latest
type carriers. Although il is not
listed in official naval records il i:
believed 10 have been completed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
SITUATION SERIOUS

Although Chinese troops, sup
ported by guerrillas. were attack
ing along the entire Chekiang front
i'm an effort to prevent a juncture
of the Japanese moving east from
Nanchang and a west-bound col
umn delayed by fierce fighting at
Chuhsien, i'm Chekiang Province,
the situation admittedly was seri-
Gus.
The six-day stand at Chuhsien
had cost the japanese an esti-
mated 10000 casualties, but they
were throwing heavier reinforce
ments into the campaign to open
the important Chekiang-Kiangsi
railway leading to the interior.
Chuhsien, at the eastern end OF
the rail line, was said to have been
virtually leveled by the japanese
onslaught, although the garrison
was still holding out.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Carrier
Lexington
ExplOdes


battling heroically. managed to
put them out and clear the flight
deck of debris. The Lexington's
planes returned to the ship.
Several hours later, while the
wounded carrier was steaming out
of apparent danger. her speed re-
duced from 33A to 20 knots, there
was a sudden explosion between
decks. Fires broke out In many
places.
vAPORS EXPLODE
At first IL was thought a de-
layed action bomb had gone off.
but il was later established that
gasoline vapors from leaking
lines had exploded. The crew
tried to extinguish the blazes but
their fire-fighting equipment had
been damaged. For five hours
they fought, but finally the ship
was blazing almost from stem to
stern.
Amer lean destroyers pulled
alongside and tried to fight the
fires with their own pumps and
hose. AS the fires gained headway,
the carriers wounded were re-
moved to the destroyers. Then.
her pumps gone, came the COM
mand. abandon ship"
True to sea tradition. the car
rier's commander. Capt. F. s. Sher-
man, was the last to leave. As he
was sliding down ropes to the
waters edge a tremendous blast
occurred within the stricken ship.
The flames had reached the tor
pedo lockers.
ANOTHER EXPLOSION
While he was pulling away.
another big explosion ripped il
apart internally. A m after of
minutes later il had disappeared.
The Lexington's career had
ended. the only American aircraft
carrier destroyed thus far in this
war.
1t carried a complement OF 1899
officers and men, including flying
personnel. at the time il was COM
missioned and so to 80 planes. The
Lexington and its sister ship. the
Saratoga, were the biggest carriers
in our fleet, but also the oldest.
More m o d ern carriers of much
smaller age can carry as
many aircraft. AS warships go, the
Lexington was approaching obso-
lesence.
Originally authorized as a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
Soviet Premier
Has Be en- lie ader
Since Revolution

WASHINGTON, June II (INS),
-Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molo-
tov, whose history-making CONVEX
sations in Washington and London
resulted in the American Russian
and Anglo-Russian accords con-
corning a second front in Europe
has been a Soviet leader since the
days of the revolution.
Before that, in czarist Russia,
Molotov-once good-naturedly de-
scribed by Lenin as 1.-THE best fill
ing clerk in the Soviet Union
was a revolutionary who did much
of his work underground" He
was deported and even exiled be-
cause of his activities with the
BOlShevik Party.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12

last year and to have been in the
Suikaki class.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-12
CLOSE TO STAIN

A close friend of Josef Stain,
whose intimate he became back in
pre-revolutionary days, Molotov is
So years old. He is short. plump.
bespectacled and has mustache
and has been described as hav-
ing the appearance of a Russian
Theodore Roosevelt"
When the commissar of foreign
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-17

WASHINGTON, June IL (INS)
Complaining that congressman
are "finicky, bad humored and
bum tippers," the staff of the
House of Representatives restau'
rant walked out on strike leaving
the legislators to hustle their owl
trays or go hungry.
Capitol Architect David Lynn
who has supervision of the restau-
rant, today considered the de.
mands of the 25 Negro walters
who walked out.
Manager w. A. Brockwell SAID
he hoped to have the restaurant
operating today with a few mer
who did not leave.
Picking the opportune moment
during the lunch hour rush, the
25 walters and an undisclosec
n u m Der of busboys and cooks
peeled off their white jackets anc
wordlessly departed.
Not only is the pay small, strik'
ing walters complained, but the
average tip of the $4,000 per year