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with crews totaling about 40.
They scored a hit on an 5000
ton troop transport and another
ship which they could not iden-
tify but attacked because it was
the biggest they saw in the dark
ness.
The Navy revealed that in the
Midway battle. the first i'm which
units Of the Navy, Marines and
Army ever operated under a sin
gle command, the directing man
was Capt. Cyril r. Simard d,
Calf. commander Of the naval
air station and senior officer on
Midway.
Simard, Capt Logan c Ram
scy, Philadelphia, a native of
Washington, d. c., who directed
the operations Of the p r o |
planes; Comdr. Massie Hughes,
Selma, Ala, and Comdr. Robert
G. BriXner, Piedmont, Calf,
told the story Of the Navy air
arms role with the role Of the
men who fought the battle.
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staEions Admit Losses
But Claim Great Victory
Rome Reports SCATTERING
Blows in Mediterranean

ROME (From Italian Broad
casts), June Is - up - The
Italian High Command announc-
ed today the loss of a heavy
Italian cruiser, destruction of an
Allied cruiser and two destroy
ers, the sinking or setting afire
Of five other Allied vessels, and
damage to II more in a series
of heavy naval and air battles
in the central Mediterranean on
Monday.
CThcre was no confirmation
of the Italian report from any
other sources. The Italian COM
munique indicated that at least
some of the list of Allied losses,
were in addition to the an
nouncement yesterday that sew
en- Allies ships were sunk, al
though it was not clear on this
point.)
In Berlin, officials announc-
ed that a German submarine
sank a British cruiser with three
torpedo hits and damaged a
merchantmen in an attack upon
a convoy in the Mediterranean
According to Rome, the fight
ing centered around two large
British conveys, one east-bound,
the other west bound.
The communique, giving a
narrative of the actions, declar-
ed:
During a great air-naval bat
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Malta and Africa and by a
force of liberator aircraft the ma
jority of which were American
manned by the United States ar
my air force.
The attacks were simultan-
eous.
"A number of hits were made
on the battleships. Fires we're
caused.
Zone Trento cruiser 100000
tons) was set afire by bombs and
sunk by aircraft torpedo.
"One six-inch (gun) cruiser
and one destroyer also are
known to have been hit.
Early in the afternoon the
enemy turned northWards and
during the night of June 1916
were Swallowed as they returned
to base.
"On the morning of June IS
a second Italian Naval force of
cruisers and destroyers in the
neighborhood of Pantelleria was
attacked by torpedo aircraft of
the British fleet air arm and the
Raj. One cruiser was hit and
set on fire and one destroyer
probably hit.
AIR C0VERAGE
From June ID British Naval
forces were covered by fighters
and many bombing attacks were
intercepted.
"One enemy raid consisted of
40 Junkers 87's and 88's escort
ed by more than 20 Messer-
sChmitt 1905.
The enemy was compelled to
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kazis Expand
Report Seyostopol
Bottle Subsidine

BERLIN (from German broad
casts, June l6-lP)-The Ger
man high command announced
today that it had extended its
bridgehead won across the Don
cts river east of Kharkov, but
that the battle of Sevastopol in
the Crimea had died down with
only minor fighting yesterday.
After crossing the Donets, the
communique said, the German
fC~ces turned northward.
Moscow, the Soviet capital,
was r9ided by the German air
force, it was said.
In the southern harbOr at Sc
vastopol a Soviet destroyer was
reported sunk by the German
air force.
Strong bomber formations al
so raided airdromes near Muir
manSk and scored direct hits on
the railway near Kandalaksha,
and shot down 10 Red air force
planes -hich tried to interfere,
said the communique.
Airdromes and railway install
lations were the detectives at
Moscow, it added.
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appears unchanged"
This was taken by some OBJ
servers to mean that the enemy
had failed to improve his posi-
ton over the week end by land
ing at any point other than Attu,
a graggy little islet that marks
the westcrnmost tip Of the Alu-
tan chain, 769 nautical miles
from Dutch HarbOr.
Attu, which is surrounded by
treacherous reefs, and is almost
constantly fogbound, was con-
sidered Of little military value,
although it might be used as a
listening and reconnaissance
base.
In addition to Attu, the enemy
was reported last Friday to have
sent a few ships into the little
harbor at Kiska. Today author
tiles said they had been driven
CITE PARALYSIS
While the latest engagement
apparently has not yet been re-
solved, s]tratcgists we're inclined
to believe the imperial COM
mand had suffered paralyzing
defeats in three major cam
paigns:
/. To sever the American
supply line through the Coral
Sea, preliminary to an attempt
to invade Australia.
2. To capture Midway island
and use it as a springbOard for a
grand assault on Pearl Harbor.
3. To establish bases in the
north for an invasion of the
American continent
Aside from their offensive
nature, all three ventures would
have carried considerable i'm
portance as defensive measures
as well,
Leaving out the Aleutian
score pending more complete
reports, a compilation Of the
enemy'S losses in the first two
engagements. Coral and Mid
way, add up to 10 ships sunk,
including three aircraft carriers
and four cruisers; three proba-
bly, sunk, including one carrier
and a cruiser, and at least q
damaged.
Although it was not men
toned specifically in the naval
CommuniquC. Lieut.. Gen. Henry
II. Arnold, Army air chief, said
a flight of Bog bombcrs had
sunk a cruiser in the Alcutians
and dropped a torpedo on the
deck Of a carrier. He made this
disclosure i'm a telegram Of con-
gratulationS TO Glenn L. Martin
Of Baltimore, builder of the
B-26's. Army bombcrs were
used as torpedo planes for the
first time in the Midway battle.
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Youth Faces
Count
Deputy's Truck
is Damaged

A 20-year-old Clinton town
ship youth is in the county jail
today awaiting justice court ar
raignment on the charge he fled
after his car smashed into a
truck owned by Deputy Sheriff
Leon Kandt.
Kandt said he parked the
truck, which he was using on
police business, on Leander near
the Grand Trunk freight yards.
The youth smashed the left front
fender of the truck, but kept
right on going through the
freight yard and then up Cass
to Moravian drive.
Kandt with Deputy Leonard
Jarvis gave quick pursuit. The
youth finally abandoned his car
after it struck a tree on a side
road off Moravian drive.
Kandt and Jarvis towed the
smashed car back to Mount
Clemens. From a name on a
hunting license in the glove COM
partment they learned the iden-
tity of the driver and went to
his home to investigate.
While Kandt and Jarvis were
investigating the youth and his
brother, aged 10, came into the
Sheriff's office where they re-
ported the car as stolen to Sheriff
Jacob +. ThCut.
After questioning the youths
for a full hour, they admitted
they reported bogus theft to
escape a possible hit-run charge.
The youths name is withheld
until a specific charge is lodged
against him.
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Taught Me" as a cornet solo.
George LonGale will give the
salutatory followed by the vale
dictory jointly written by CO.
valedictorians Josephine Krauss
and Shirley Rubin and delivered
by the latter.
A selection "Our d o
March by the band will con
cLude the program.
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tie which ended last night in the
Mediterranean the Navy strong
IT, participated with its forces.
Two great conveys arriving
from the western and eastern
ends of the sea have been at
tackled by our submarines which
hit by torpedo two of the units
Of a squadron sailing from Gil
braltar.
AT dawn on June Is to the
south of Pantelleria, the (Itali-
am fortified island between Sic
lily and the African coast, the
seventh Naval division formed
of two light cruisers, and five
destroyers, violently attacked a
convoy on its way to Malta from
Gibraltar.
Although thsi convoy was
escorted by superior forces
composed of at least two cruis-
C-s and II destroyers, it with
drew dispersed and covered it.
self in a smoke screen.
I'm the fighting which en-
sued at close quarters, an enc
my cruiser exploded and sank
in the face Of concentrated fire
of the Eugenio Di Savoia and
the Raimondo Montecuccoli.
(Italian cruisers Of 1928 and
6,94l tons), two enemy destroy
r were badly hit.
"An enemy cruiser and des-
troyer were torpedoed by our
destroyerS.
Our ships were targets of
continuous but unsuccessful en-
envy air attacks and continued
throughout the day on offensive
acton against enemy units.
Another enemy destroyer
was sunk by our gunfire.
SCORE DIRECT HITS
Axis air forces interviewed in
the struggle and scored direct
hits on the enemy convoy.
-Four ships were either set
on fire or sunk An enemy pc
troleum tanker was set afire.
The other big enemy convoy
coming from Alexandria was at
tackled by bombers and torpedo
carrying planes coming from
our air bases in north Afri-
ca and the Aegean.
"An enemy destroyer was
sunk and six other units hit.
IN aerial fighting, two Spit
fires were destroyed. One of our
planes has not returned to its
base.
in Naval engagements which
took place to the east and west
Of Malta we lost a heavy cruis-
or which was first hit by aerial
torpedocs and then by sea tor
pcdocs.
zone Of our dcstroyers was
seriously damaged but was able
10 reach a home port. The great
or part Of the crews were saw
ed"
Without explaining whether it
referred to the sea fights, the
Communique said also that the
British had lost 81 planes in OPP
erations in the western Medi-
tcrranean on Sunday and anoth-
or II yesterday, with four Ital-
ian planes missing.
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Suicide Attempts
arc Frustrated

An East Detroit woman and a
Roseville man ere recuperat-
ing today after attempting sui
eide last night.
The woman is at Grace hospi-
tai. Detroit, after taking poison
tablets while the man is in the
county Jail after turning on the
gas. A Roseville inhalator squad
revived him.
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British Drop
Back Under
Fire
IImperioIs Slash
Way Out Of
Menoeine Trop
BY EDWARD

CAIRO, Egypt, June 10 Up
The fierce Libyan battle, in
which armored forces of both
sides have taken a terrific ham
mering, moved eastward toward
Tobruk today as the British
withdrew from their coastal an
Choir around Ain Ell GaZala while
heroic anti-tank gunnerS and
tank drivers fought TO hold
open the road at Acroma.
This meant the British had
given up the old Ain Ell Gazala-
Bir Hacheim line of strong box
es and minefields which the
Germans first went around. then
pierced, and finally erased one
END at a time.
But it also meant the British
hcd succeeded in escaping a
threatened trap when the Ger
mans drove their tanks at Aero
ma, 10 miles west of TObruk, to
cut off the Ain FL Gazala forces,
80 miles farther west.
German Marshall Romm G |
thus had managed after three
weeks of terrific battling to ac-
complish what he had aimed at
in the first few days, the elimi-
nation of the defense line for a
direct attack on Tobruk and its
screening positions at ACroma
and Ell Adem, just TO the south
of Tobruk.
The British believed that the
effort had cost him heavily and
that his offensive power had
been spent.
Today's communique said that
two divisions took part in the
withdrawal and that this COM
pleted the redisposition of fore
es which Lieut.. Gen. Neil M.
Richie mentioned in his COM
munique of yesterday.
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Youths Plead Innocent
on DisorderIy Charge

Twenty = three Detroit youths,
aged II TO 20, pleaded innocent
to diSorderly charges before JUS
tice Donald j. Parent Monday
and trial was set for June %.
The boys were arrested Sun
day night by Chief William Ro-
mano and Lieut.. Fred Maletta,
of Warren township police.
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Detroiter Pleads Guilty
TO Theft Of Auto Here

Daniel Chalfant, 10, Detroit,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
unlawfully driving away an au-
tomobile upon arraignment Mon
day before Circuit Judge James
E. Spier,
Chalfant admitted theft of a
al owned by Edward Charlie
neau, 81 Hollywood mourt, on
June l. Chalfant was jailed in
lieu of $500 bond to await
trial.
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BARRIERS Install
Local Officers

The Master BARRIERS AssoCia-
ton of Mount Clemens, which
comprises Chapter 9, indicted
its new officers last night fol-
lowing a meeting at the Van
Hollenbeck Barber shop.
New officers installed we're:
Levi Yerkes, president; Art
Eschenburg, vice-president and
Fred VanHollenbaCk, secretary
treasurer.
j. M. Muhlhammer and Sam
LeLisle of the Detroit Master
BARRIERS Association indicted
the new officers.
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Jettison bombs far from our
ships.
Considerable losses were in
flicted on the enemy, but full
details are not yet available"
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NOW JUDGE

CAMP VOTERS, TEX
You can excuse the hard-boiled
mess sergeants if they're ner-
vous and irritable today.
The judges select the cham
pion lemon meringue pie baker
tonight and the honor Of each
mess-hall chef is at stake.
To the winner goes SIS plus a
chance to broadcast his cham
pionship recipe. The losers?
They just lose their pies.
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Lieut.. Reichman graduated
from Georgetown University's
medical college in 1886, shortly
before coming here. The follow
ing year he married Bessie Cum
ms. then a nurse in Mount Glenn
ems.
The Reichmans have three
children, Julia, aged 3, Gregory,
2, and Mary 10, 10 months .
Lieut.. Reichman expects to be
called to duty early next week.
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City High Exom Period
Will End Tomorrow

The examination period at the
Mount Clemens High school will
end at noon tomorrow, Princi-
pal Monte McFarlane said today.
Students will receive their
marks at the school on Friday,
he said.
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LOS ANGELES, June 16-(P
-I~lliteracy isn't a legal excuse
for not having an automobile IL
cense, but a war plant worker
who gave that excuse was put on
probation ION condition you
learn to read and write within
three months"
The defendant agreed.
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ALL FOR ONE

CHlLLICOTHE, MO. - The
women r putting factory pro-
duction-line methods into home
canning. Everybody meets at
one members home, harvests and
cans all garden produce.
Next day, the production line
is set up in another members
kitchen, until all members gar
dens are bare.
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requests, of our commander-in-
chief, and
WHEREAS, 90 per cent of our
crude rubber supply sources
have been made unavailable to
us due to the Conquests of the
Imperial Japanese Army, and
WHEREAS, Rubber plays such
a vital role in the prosecution of
mechanical war,
THEREFORE, l, Donald R. WeS-
tendorf, Mayor of the City of
Mount Clemens, at the instance
Of the Governor of Michiga.. and
because Of my conviction that
it is vital to the national cause,
do
PROCLAIM, the balance of this
week and all of next week as a
period for intense salvage of
rubber in the Mount Clemens
area and urgently request each
and every resident to do his ut
most to forward the salvage of
scrap rubber as promptly and
as thoroughly as proves human
ly possible.
DONALD II. WESTENDORF,
Mayor City of Mount Clemens
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IONIA-LP)-Thrown into the
water by a bank cavern as he
ran TO see if he had a bite, Hall
Brown, 33, of Lansing, drowned
Monday in the Maple River while
fishing.
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MEET

Air Raid Wardens Of District
No. 5, will meet at Clemens
school at 1880 this evening.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-12
Echo of 1878 SqHHUks
Officer Of the Day
Raises Hob at Niqht
"reminiscences of the World'S lUorst Soldie,
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER


During the flu epidemic the order for all windows
to be open all night in the barracks.
That made all-night restaurant without the
rest
And with the windows all open the climate. certainly
used that barracks for bowling alley
There plenty of squawkng about the cold wind and
rain So the ggaderbrnde countermanded the order with
another order. That always made it worse because you
wound up with two orders.
We told could keep the windows closed on the
side of the wind That made all weather experts.
The officer of the day, who appeared only night did
suddenly He had the military bearing and ocomotion of
jack-inhe-box
he has wasted military and commits harikri by
Well, this o. D. pops up and finds every window in the
barracks closed tighter than cowardly clans.
He lined up for questioning and found that the wind
coming from the east rain from the SOUTH hail
the west and sleet from the north
"f In the middle of a tornado" he said "how Is
that the rest of the camp doesn't know it," w
He requested to put the thing down local
pherc conditions moving out to with correspondngly
low the vicinity of the Great Lakes
He ordered all windows open for the duration He had
no sooner evaporaed into the night than window
boarded for eternity This time drove nails into them
The officer of the day showed up hour later with
baseball bat He knocked every window in the Joint
From then climate direct from producer
consumer without celophone wrapping.
We drew to find who insulted the officer of
the day from ambush We never had of flu in
barracks from then and resented ii.
(TO BE CONTINUED
"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-12

ITO A man whose astronomical
Il observations have been lin
tied 10 pecring at eclipSeS
through a chunk Of smoked win
dow pane, a visit 10 an obServa-
tory is an experience TO be
avoided al any and all costs.
Even those fairly wch = in
formed about the heavens and
who can pick out the Big Dip
per. the Little Dipper and the
Milky Way without outside help,
would be wise 10 steer clear OF
those round little houses popu-
lated by men who call Mars by
It's first name. know when the
Dog Star is hungry, and can tell
whether Saturn IS IN a good
humor or not.
! speak with the voice Of eX-
perience.
a few nights ago I was a visi-
tor at the Cunningham ObserVa-
tory OF Tulane University in
New Orleans where Or. J. Adair
Lyon keeps check on the goincs-
on out in space and where the
famed Pickering telescope pokes
its snout toward the sky like a
1i-inch cannon.
BY the time I escaped from
the Cunningham Observatory /
would have sold my /. @. 10 the
lowest bidder. and taken even
money that / couldn't pass the
intelligence test given under
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-11-12
At Last! Beauty
I'm Congress

not heard the likes Of the old
timers until / heard The Hon.
orable Luce and you may with
hold any suggestion that the
beautiful scene she presents to
the eye, lulls my sense of ora
torical judgment.
/ can now pass on 'em inn
partially on any point. The
Honorable Luce in my opinion
represents the peak OF the de-
velopment of women in politics,
streamlined, clever, and--I hope
ruthless enough in ruthless
game to advance the interests
of. her sex beyond anything yet
accomplished for it.
We have great need of women
in politics, but they must be
women of forceful character
who do not suddenly attempt to
b e C o m e men, politically-wise,
when they reach a spot such as
the Honorable Luce has at
tanned, and just run with the
pack.
A dame as smart as she is, off
past performance, ought to have
no difficulty outthinking some
of the billiards she will find
around her in Washington and
become something more than
decorative, which would have
been the sad fate of all the
women who ever went to Con-
gress except most of them were
disqualified. by nature from
being even that.
I have great hopes for the
Honorable Luce.
Copyright. 1912. by King Features
Distributed by international News Service
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The On4ooker

privileged civet cats, and I
wasn't sure that l wasn't blind
because only occasionally when
looking through the telescope
did ! see anything that one can I
see by poking his head up a
chimney.
l was reminded Of James
Thurbers hardship when study
ing biology at Ohio State (see
his book My Life and Hard
TimesD. All he ever saw
through a microscope. Mr.. Thur
Der relates, was his own eye.
He kept drawing that until he
came very close TO driving his
instructors crazy.
DOCTOR LYON, the soul Of
~ patience and one of the
most charming men l have ever
met. had an awful time getting
me 10 see Saturn. He would aim
the telescope and Id look.
Nothing. He'd realm IL. I'd
look again. Still nothing. On
about the fiftieth aiming I let
out a triumphant cry. / had
seen something.
Describe IT," Doctor Lyon
said.
/ did.
ut was red and green lights"
said. The lights are on either
end and In between the lights it
Is a sort OF silver color"