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Evening star., 1942-06-16
Baltimore Trains Collide;
Cars and Engines DeraiIed
Fy the Associated Press.

Fs the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, June 16-Twenty-
two freight cars and two locomo-
tives were derailed or damaged to-
day in a collision of two freight
trains at the main tunnel of the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad in Baltimore.
No one was injured, but four big
refrigerator cars were knocked
down the banks into the waters OF
Jones Falls.
Express trains between New York
and Washington were delayed by the
wreckage piled up in front of the
tunnel, and passenger trains were
rerouted over the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad lines.
Both freights were northbound on
parallel tracks. A switch sent one
train of 112 cars crashing into the
middle cars of the other train of 81
ears.
Both big locomotives hauling the
longer train en- route to Philadelphia
from Pennsylvania's Potomac Yards
were derailed, and Is freight cars be-
sides the four refrigerator cars were
derailed or damaged.
The smaller freight, hauled by
shunting engine, was moving be-
tween two Baltimore freight yards.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
|ckes Again Warns
Of Oil Shortage, Asks
East 10 Use Coal
Immediate Conversion
Urged; Petroleum
Stocks Down 55 Pct.
px the Associated press

PS the Associated Press.
Petroleum Co-ordinator IckeS
today warned that an adequate
supply of heating oils cannot
now be guaranteed" for next
winter in the Atlantic Seaboard
States.
He urged Fasteners who heat
their homes with oil Ito change to
the use of coal wherever possible
and to do so Immediately"
"All householders using oil heat
cannot expect to heat their homes
with oil this winter" he said, mean
ing that many of the l,25O, 900
homes with oil burners in the sea-
board area may be cold this winter,
If many conversions are not made.
Secretary Ickes' warning, which
has been issued before unoficially,
was based on a report by q COM
mittee Of the Petroleum Industry
War Council which said fatty that
anticipated deliveries of oil to the
East by overland transportation can
supply essential demands this sum-
mer but will be entirely inadequate
to take care of the sharply increased
winter requirements"
The report recommended imme-
diate steps to assure conversion Ito
the extent practicable before the
coming winter" of all types of burn
ers using fuel oil and kerosene.
Obviously" Secretary Ickes said,
there is no one today who can
guarantee that there will not be
critical deficiency of fuel oil sup
plies in the coming winter"
Secretary Ickes said that he
planned to convert the furnace in
his own home from oil to coal and
that he knew several Oil company
officials who were doing likewise.
At the close Of May, he said, stocks
of heating oil in the East were SIS
per cent below what they were a
year ago.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Summary Of Todoy's Star

Appropriations bill includes money
for guayule rubber Page AZ
Second request for $4,000 income
limit presented. Page AS
Medical associations to appeal to
Supreme Court. Page BIS
Washington and Vicinity.
Agreement on D. c. housing rules
reached. Page AS
Traffic council opposes 72-hour park
ing maximum. Page B-1
Senate substitutes lethal gas for
electric chair in d. c. Page B-1
SD D. c. trafic victim killed by
streetcar. Page B-1
Star-P.-T. A. paper salvage drive
discontinued until fall. Page B-1
Margaret Speaks is symphony soloist
tonight. Page B-1
Gallinger surgeon, honored for FROST
bite findings. Page B.1
Evening star., 1942-06-16
BY WALTER b. CLAUSEN,

PEARL HARBOR, T. H., June Is.
How the United States Navy's
long-range patrol bombers discov-
cred the Japanese fleet off Midway,
night torpedo attack against the
invaders, and thrilling rescues Of
Navy flyers from rubber lifeboats
were disclosed today in new &C
counts of the battle.
Capt. Logan Ramsey of Philadel-
phia, operations officer. for the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps land-based
planes at Midway Island, in un-
folding further details of the bat
tie said the night torpedo attack
was the first time in history the
planes had been so operated.
The crew of one patrol plane,
forced down by fuel shortage, were
eight days at sea fighting of sharks
which ripped at the rubber Of their
small lifeboats. 4
Capt. Ramsey said the achieves
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Oliver Loses in COP
House Race in Maine
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Fress.
PORTLAND, Me-, June 16.-Repre-
sentative Oliver, an isolationist be-
fore Pearl Harbor, was defeated in
his bid for denomination in Names
Republican primary yesterday by
Robert Hale, long a supporter of
President Roosevelt's foreign policy.
The 53-year -old Hale, a Harvard
trained lawyer, socially prominent
in Portland and a cousin of former
Senator Frederick Hale, will be op-
posed in the September election by
former Gov. Louis j. Brann, a DEM
ocrat, who has consistently backed
the President.
Almost complete returns from the
1st congressional districts Isl pre-
cincts gave Mr.. Hale 1921 to 6,202
margin over Mr.. Oliver, while in the
Democratic primary, Mr.. Brann led
Rey w. Stetson, Portland lawyer,
1926 to 713.
Mr.. Oliver, serving his third term,
promised before the primary that
he would resign and enter the Army
If defeated.
There were no other major con-
tests, and the voting was believed
to be the lightest since Maine
adopted the direct primary 80 years
ago.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Senators 10 Offer Bill
For U. 5. Rubber Agency
bS the Associated Press,

B, the Associated Press.
Creation of q new rubber agency"
to direct the Governments entire
rubber program will be asked by a
group of Senators who have been
studying production of synthetic
rubber and alcohol from farm prod
uctS.
Chairman Gillette of this group
told reporters that legislation Great
ing such q new agency would be
introduced in the Senate, probably
Thursday, in the belief "this might
be helpful to the President" The
Senator recently discussed the rub
Der inquiry at the White House.
Senator Norris, Independent, Of
Nebraska, who sat in the closed
session today, at which a tentative
draft of legislation to create the
new agency was studied, said the
group had decided on this move
because Senators were convinced
that present directors Of the war
time rubber program would not util-
ize surplus grains nor other farm
products: u
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Darwin Is Raided Again;
Jan Plane Losses IS Pct.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Aus
tralia, June 16.-The japanese in
their third attack in as many days
on Darwin lost nearly Is per cent Of
their raiding planes, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters an
nounced today.
The raid was carried out yester-
day by 81 heavy bombers escorted
by Is Zero-type fighters, an Allied
communique said, and Allied inter-
ceptors shot down six of the fight
ers. Two defense craft were lost.
Both residential areas and the
harbor were bombed, the war bulle-
tin said. but material damage and
casualties were slight"
Evening star., 1942-06-16
U. 5. War Output Passes
Britain's ; Months Early

Ey tht Associated Press.
EVANSTON, H.. June 16.-War
production in the United States has
passed that in Great Britain three
mouths ahead Of predictions, Donald
M. Nelson reports.
The War Production Board chair
man said British production chiefs
now in the United States told him
they had estimated several months
ago that American output would sur
pass Britain's by September.
las a matter of fact" Mr.. Nelson
declared, I'VE passed 1t last week,
three months early"
Mr.. Nelson made the announce
ment during an address last night
at the dedication of Northwestern
University's $5,000,000 Neurological
Institute.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Greek Hundreds Reported
Slain by Axis Forces
z, tbt Associated Press.

z, tbt ASSOCIATED Press.
LONDON, June 16.-The Greek
government-in-exile declared today
that hundreds of Greeks recently
have been executed by German,
Bulgarian and Iatlian occupation
forces in an attempt to curb persis-
tent sabotage and attacks on foreign
soldiers.
1t reported an Athens newspaper
announcement of Large number
shot on the day after the German
June 4 communique said 300 hos
tages had been taken. Five persons,
it added, were shot late in May for
attacks on Italian soldiers and four
others for attempts to flee abroad.
Greek authorities in Turkey were
said to have received reports that
bulgarian troops recently had killed
e0 Greeks in the Kilkis district.
Evening star., 1942-06-16

Foreign
Reds report Germans on defensive
at Kharkov. Page Al
Navy patrol bombers discovered Jap
fleet OF Midway. Page Al
Italian cruiser lost in battle, Rome
announces. Page Al
Germany notifies Argentina of new
blockade zone. Page AZ
German government prohibits sale
of stocks. Page A-3
Immediate Pacific drive necessary,
Chinese declare. Page AS
Irish cities parade in protest to
clothes ration plan. Page AS
National.
House committee approves 8h billion
ship program. Page Al
Ickes says adequate supply of heat
ing oil seems unlikely. Page Al
Tydings to ask elimination of press
release funds. Page Az
Evening star., 1942-06-16
British Convoy Made
Trip Successfully
London Paper Says
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 16.-Com-
menting on an Italian COM
munique which reported a Sc
ries of air and naval battles in
the Central Mediterranean, the
Evening Standard said today,
For the first time in four
months a British convoy has
made the perilous west-to-east
voyage through the Mediterra-
nean."
There was no official confir-
nation of any part Of the Ital-
ian communique, which re-
ported heavy blows to conveys
bound both east and west and
to ships on both sides of Malta.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN (From German Broad
casts, June 16.-German air
and naval forces have sunk four
cruisers and destroyers, prob
ably sunk another destroyer and
damaged six other warships in
attacks on British conveys in
the Mediterranean, the German
high command said today in a
special communique.
The announcement said six mer-
chant ships totaling $4,000 tons also
were sunk eight others probably
sunk and six damaged, and implied
that these losses were inflicted on
one westbound convoy and we're in
addition to those reported by the
Italians.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
-Four Cruisers and Destroyers
Sent to Bottom, Germans Say
Seven Other BottIecroft Are Declared Hit;
Six Merchantmen in Toll, Berlin Suys

Two other escort vessels were
sunk, the communique said.
(There is no confirmation of
these claims from Allied quarters
and German reports of such sue
cesses in the past have proved
exaggerated)
A destroyer and eight merchant
ships were hit by torpedoes and
may be assumed lost, the high COM
mand said. while another six war
ships and SIX merchant vessels were
damaged by bomb or torpedo hits
Twenty three enemy fighting
planes wee shot down in the air
battles and 10 German planes were
lost. the cop1munique said.
Besides the already reported
great Italian successes against the
(See BATTLE. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1942-06-16
BIackout Exemptions
Made for Last Time,
Young Warns
AII-Nieht Rule Eosed
For Food Handlers
And Meat Plants

Civilian defense officials indi-
Gated today that tomorrow
nights blackout test may be the
last time certain business, con-
Germs are granted partial ex-
emption from the full force of
the blackout rules.
Voicing displeasure at the repeat
ed requests of these groups for ex-
emption, Commissioner Young, the
metropolitan civilian defense CO.
ordinator. agreed to some exemp-
tions at a civilian defense meeting
this noon, but declared sufficient
time already has been given the
public to make adequate prepara-
tions for backing out both homes
and business establishments.
A number of food handlers and
meat plants, which claimed they
could not effectively extinguiSh or
effectively screen all of their lighting
if they were to continue necessary
service, will be permitted to start
operations at am. instead of 2
am, provided they use only one
third of normal lighting visible from
the outside and provided this light
ing does not show from the sky.
AS usual, Army planes will fly over
the city to observe the effect of the
test.
Viol2tOrs to Be Prosecuted.
In announcing that the public has
had adequate time to prepare, the
civilian defense chiefs, after a final
conference at the District Building
today, reminded that willful vio-
lators will be prosecuted this time
and face up to $500 fine or 80 days
in Jail or both on conviction.
A spokesman for the Public Build
ings Administration said tomor-
rows test, which begins at 10 pm,
will see probably the greatest par
ticipation of Government buildings
yet.
While the blackout will last from
10 pm. to dawn automatically, there
will also be an air-raid alarm period
of mot less than half an hour"
some time during the night to be
announced by the wailing 2-minute
fluctuating- blast from the warning
system. The all clear will be a non-
fuctuating blast of l minute and
40 seconds.
Despite the plans to prosecute
(See BLACKOUT, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Reds Report Germans
Back on Defensive
In Khdrkov Area
Three-Doy kozi Attempt
To Cross important
River Declared Rulked
PJ the Associated Press.

E1 tnt Associated fresS.
MOSCOW, June 16.-A three
day German assault in an at
tempt to cross an important
river in the Kharkov sector has
been baked by Russian hilltop
defenses and the Nazis now have
been forced back to the defen-
sive, front-line Soviet dispatches
declared today.
CThe Germans claimed today
they had expanded a bridge
head which they won across the
Donets River in the Kharkov
area yesterday ...
Around Sevastopol, the other
major scene Of current fighting on
the eastern front, the Germans
have massed seven artillery regi-
ments on their main line of assault
in an effort to batter down the Rus
sian Notifications of that besieged
Crimean city, the Russians said.
The German cannon include one
of the Big Berthas like those with
which the Kaiser's troops shelled
Paris during the last World War,
the dispatches said, but despite
this weight of artillery the Red
Army forces are holding firmly to
their rockbound positions.
Seven Infantry Divisions.
Tass, official Soviet news agency
said the Germans were using at
least seven infantry divisions and
more than $50 tanks against Sevas-
topol in addition to the massed
artillery.
In repulsing the repeated heavy
German assaults, the agency said,
the Sevastopol garrison in single
day destroyed 40 tanks and killed
three regiments of infantry, while
Soviet planes burned 10 tanks
knocked out IL more and smashed
13 trucks loaded with infantry.
The approaches to our advance
line were Uttered with the bodies of
Fascist officers and men," Tass said
with $50 counted in one small sector
Tass warned, however. that "the
situation remains tense"
Having lost heavily in audacious
tank charges, the Germans now are
sending their tanks cautiously for
ward to take up stationary positions
and use their guns to cover infantry
assaults, Tass said.
On the Kharkov front, where a
Soviet communique said 180 German
tanks were destroyed or damaged
yesterday, Tass reported the in
vaders struggled all day to gain one
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Pictures on Page BIZ

Preliminary reports from
Washington and nearby areas
today on the first day of the Ma
ton wide rubber salvage cam
paign indicated a tagging popu-
lar response, but officials direct
ing the drive were optimistic of
ultimate results.
Its a growing proposition" said
Horace Walker, executive secretary
of the District Salvage Committee.
Its hard to get people to do things
they are not used to doing"
From the large number of tele-
phone calls coming in to his office
Evening star., 1942-06-16
u. S.. and British Planes Fire Two
italian Batt|eships in 4-Day Fight;
A||iedWarshi ps Sunk Nazis Claim
Axis Cruiser Lost,
Others Hit in
Mediterranean
Iy the Associated Press.

Iy the Associated Press.
CAIRO, June 16.-The United
States Army Air Force and the
Raj, operating together for the
first time in the Mediterranean,
have set fire to two Italian bat
tleships, sunk a 10,000-ton Ital-
ian cruiser of the Trento class,
and scored hits on a smaller
cruiser and a destroyer in four
days of heavy fighting, the RAF
announced late today in a spe-
cial communique.
(The italian high command,
reporting earlier on the Medi-
terranean battle, admitted the
sinking of a cruiser, but made no
reference to other loSseS)
In addition, the Raj and the
Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm set fire
to another Italian cruiser and prob
ably hit a destroyer in a second
Italian naval force during the same
period, the communique said.
The American airmen were oper-
ating big four-engined Consolidated
B-24 bombers, which the British
call Liberators.
CThe American planes which
landed in Turkey after re-
ported raid on Rumania and the
Black Sea area last week were
the long-range Consolidated /.
B-24sD
Italian communiques yesterday
and today have described major
naval-air battles in the Central
Mediterranean, claiming heavy
damage to Allied conveys.
Account Given by Raj.
The RAF communique, confirming
big-scale operations in that area.
and disclosing for the first time the
United States Air Force participa-
ton, gave this account:
'On the evening of June IA an
italian naval force including two
battleshipS and four destroyerS was
sighted south of Taranto.
"It was shadowed ard, during the
following night, was attacked by
torpedo planes from Malta and
Africa and by foice CT Liberator
aircraft, the majority Of which were
American-manned by the United
States Army Air Force.
THE attacks we're simultaneous.
"A number of hits were made on
the battleships. Fires we're caused.
"One Trento cruiser 10000 tons)
was set afire by bombs and sunk by
aircraft torpedo.
"One 6-inch (gun) cruiser and
one destroyer also are known to
have been hit.
Enemy Ships Shadowed.
Early in the afternoon the enemy
turned northward and during the
night of June 1916 were shadowed
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 tor
pedo aircraft of the British Fleet
air arm and the RAF. One cruiser
was hit and set on fire and one
destroyer probably hit.
From June 13 British naval
forces were covered by fighters and
many bombing attacks were inter-
cepted.
"One enemy raid consisted of 40
Junkers BIS and 88s escorted by
more than 20 Messerschmitt 109s.
THE enemy was compelled to
jettison bombs far from our ships
considerable losses were in
flicted on the enemy, but full de-
tails are not yet available"
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Battle Roarinq
Near Tobruk as
British Retreat
English Tank Units
Fighting to Keep
Acromu Rood Open
By TIE Associated Press.

By tie Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, June 16.-The
fierce Libyan battle, in which
armored forces on both sides
have taken a terrific hammering,
moved eastward toward Tobruk
today as the British withdrew
from their coastal anchor around
Ain el Gazala, while heroic
anti-tank gunners and tank
drivers fought to hold open the
road at Acroma.
This meant the British mad given
up the old Ain el Gazala -Bir Hach-
elm line of strong boxes and mine
fields which the Germans first went
around, then pierced and finally
erased one end at a time.
But it also meant the British had
succeeded in escaping q threatened
trap when the Germans drove their
tanks at Acroma, 10 miles west of
Tobruk, to cut of the Ain ell Gazala
forces, 80 miles farther west.
Marshal Rommel thus had man.
aged after three weeks of terrific
battling to accomplish what he had
aimed at in the first few days, the
elimination of the defense line for
a direct attack on Tobruk and its
screening positions at Acroma and
FL Adem, just to the south of To-
bruk.
Offensive Power Spent.
The British believed the effort
had cost him heavily and that his
offensive power had been spent.
Today's communique said two di-
visions took part in the withdrawal
and that this completed the redis-
position, Of forces which 1t. Gen.
Neil M. Ritchie mentioned in his
communique yesterday.
Military commentators in
London said that presumably the
units OF the British 9th Army
were being regrouped for a gen. .
eral counterattack, but there was
no sign that this had been
started.
CThere was no confirmation in
London of Axis claims to having
sliced through the British posi-
tions at Acroma to the coast.)
In the fierce fighting which has
accompanied the German effort to
plunge through at Acroma, both
sides were said to have suffered
heavy tank losses.
The British were reported to have
encountered severe losses on Sum
day, when they ran into a German
position studded with SO mllimeter
anti-tank guns. But there was no
indication that Marshal Rommel
had been reinforced. and he. was
believed to be fighting with the
same three armorec divisions with
which he launched his offensive
three weeks ago.
Strong Attacks Repulsed.
The communique said the with
drawal was made successfully by
the 50th Division and 1st South
African Division under cover of a
magnificent fight by troops holding
positions around Acroma and the
1st Armored Division. who beat off
determined enemy attacks through
out the whole of June H."
In the Ell Adem area, due south
of Tobruk, 1t said three strong Axis
attacks on British positions yester-
Evening star., 1942-06-16
City in South Africa
BIucked Out All Night
Ry the Associated Press.

DURHAM, South Africa, June 16.-
The al-clear was sounded in Dur
ban, on the east coast of South
Africa, at $50 am. today after the
city had been blacked out all night
for an unexplained reason. School
children were sent home this morn
ing.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
American Planes Safe
After Bombing Rumonio
~ thl Associated Press.

CAIRO, June 16.-Except for the
four big United States Army bomb
ers which came down in Turkey
two with anti-aircraft shell damage
and two with engine trouble-an
the planes on the reported bombing
mission ever Rumania's oil fields are
reported reliably to have reached
their secret bases safely.
Evening star., 1942-06-16
Rubber Salvage Campaign Logs
But Leaders Predict Success
First Days Yield in D. c. Is SmoI|;
Nearby Areas Off to Slow Stort

he is certain, he said, that "the
entire populace is cognizant" of the
campaign and will become increas-
ingly so as newspapers, radio sta
tions, theaters and community Or
CARNATIONS get their programs be-
fore the public.
William R. Boyd, jr., chairman
of the Petroleum Industry War
Council, which is directing the col
lection activities through gasoline
service stations. said early returns
indicate that the campaign will be
an outstanding success"
Accurate statistics from Washing
ton and throughout the country
(See RIJBBER. Page A-6)
Evening star., 1942-06-16
House Group Refuses
To Take Burden Of
$4,000 Income Limit
Presidents Request
Probably Will Not Be
Considered in Tux Bill
Rx tie Associated Press.

Chairman Doughton said to-
day the House Ways and Means
Committee had decided lit
should not take the responsible
ity now" of considering the ad-
ministration's request for a
SIS 900 limitation on individual
incomes after payment of taxes.
Members said they understood
the request probably would not be
considered in connection with the
pending tax bill.
Word spread at the Capitol that
President Roosevelt would like action
expedited on excise taxes.
Mr.. Roosevelt was reported to
have suggested that the pending
tax bill be divided into two parts,
with all efforts being directed first
to final congressional action on ex-
else levies that would produce at
least 81 100000 a day.
This would provide immediate ad-
ditional revenue. Taxes to be col
lected next year could be acted on
later.
Under Less Pressure.
Should that plan be followed, Con-
gress would be under less pressure to
act hurriedly on the more difficult
questions of individual and corporate
tax rates. Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau presented a s7,6O0, ,000,-
900 tax program to Congress last
March but the first action in the
House probably will not come before
the middle of next month.
Randolph Paul, tax adviser to
Secretary Morgenthau, yesterday
formally requested the $4,000 fiat
limitation On individual incomes
(See TAXES, Page A-3)