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kiang Provinces In q further attempt
to eliminate possible air bases from
which Japan could be bombed.
The fighting northward on the
Shansi- Honan border Is very COM
plicated," the Chinese spokesman
said, with three Japanese columns
attacking the Chinese from Shansi
and three from Honan
The japanese have been cleared
out of the area east and southeast
Of the Tahsing Mountains on
Shansi, he said. but the area to the
southwest is threatened by attack
from four directions.
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Tumu|tuous Greetinq
Given Churchill in
House Of Commons
AuchinIeck's Decision
To Replace Richie
In Egypt Announced
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 30.-Prime Min
lister Churchill announced today
that Gen. Sir Claude J. E. Auchin-
leck, commander in chief of British
forces in the Near East. had taken
command of the British 9th Army
in North Africa on June 25. super
seding 1t. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie.
Gen. Ritchie had commanded the
desert army since last December IL
when he took over from 1t. Gen.
Sir Alan Gordon Cunningham.
Mr.. Churchill, who spoke on his
first appearance in the House of
Commons after his return from the
United States. was received tumultu-
ously in the chamber.
No Accounting Of Conferences.
The Prime Minister, who faces a
challenge to his war leadership, gave
the House no accounting of his con-
ferences with President Roosevelt
and only this brief statement Of the
shift in command of the 9th Army:
Il do not propose to make any
statement today about the momen-
tous battle now being fought in
Egypt but I feel the House would
wish to know that on June IS Gen.
Auchinleck decided to assume COM
mand of the 9th Army personally
In succession to Gen. Ritchie.
''AS soon as Auchinleck informed
the government of the decision he
had taken he was at once told that
1t had our approval"
Although that was his only formal
statement, Mr.. Churchill answered
questions.
Declining to allow publication of
the reports of Gen. Sir Archibald P.
Wavell, commander in chief in
India, on the losses of Malaga and
Singapore. the Prime Minister said
they clearly would cause a great
deal Of i'll will throughout the
British Empire
Gen. Ritchie's removal did not
alter the ultimate control OF
Britain's forces in the Mediter-
ranean area. since Gen. Auchinleck
already was commander in chief.
Evening star., 1942-06-30

9th Army-which, Of course, Is his
chief objective.
Although the defenders had been
driven 130 or more miles into Egypt
from lost Libya and had been COM
PEELED to abandon Matruh, their
main forces were intact and gather
ing for the great clash which may
decide the whole war for the Med
iterranean basin and the gateway
to the East.
The critical moment may come
within the next few days and the
British are confident they can estab-
lish and hold an impenetrable line
While he prepared for it. Gen.
Auchinleck carefully husbanded his
main strength and spared with the
Axis armor-tipped spearheads in
fierce, highly mobile desert warfare.
Three fold Purpose.
His purpose was three-fold.
First, he had to whittle down the
mass Of armored and mechanized
strength menacing him.
While his punch grew, with more
American airmen and planes and
fresh New Zealand fighters already
at the front and still more coming,
Gen. Auchinleck was trying to drain
the Axis power. Air blows on Axis
supply lines. littering the desert with
burning fuel dumps and blasted
motor vehicles, were Marshal ROM
malls greatest prnhlem
Gen. Auchinleck had to parry the
enemy's thrusts, holding him at bay
with the least possible cost until he
could complete his reinforcement
and reorganization.
Finally, he had to win position
where geography would give the
defenders the greatest odds.
Harry Crockett, Associated Press
correspondent with British forces in
the desert, indicated last night that
the British line would stretch INLAND
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Axis Claims Drive
In Egypt Has Passed
Fuka, East Of Matruh
British Armored Units
Declared RepuIsed;;
Many Prisoners Taken
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
ROME (From Italian Broadcasts)
June 30.-Axis motorized columns
have passed Fuka. IS miles east Of
Matruh, in their drive toward Alex
andria, the Italian high command
said today.
(This announcement was iden-
tical to one made in Berlin by the
German high commandD
British armored units in the path
OF the German-Italian detachments
were declared to have been repulSed.
Several thousand more prisoners
and enormous quantities of war ma
terial have been taken in mopping
up operations at Matruh, the high
command said.
GA Berlin broadcast summed up
British losses so far in the North
African campaign at about $1,000
prisoners and 1000 tanks)
Retreating British columns were
said to have been attacked by Axis
airmen. Three Curtiss fighters OF
the Allies were reported destroyed
In COMBAT.
During the night of June 1929 "
the Italian high command said
Gibraltar was bombed by our air
craft. Fires which broke out along
air and naval installations were
visible at a great distance"
Matruh was declared officially to
have been captured "by simultane-
GUS attacks from the west by our
units of the 2lst army corps, preced-
ed by the seventh Bersaglieri regi-
ment, and from the east by units OF
the Goth German division"
Our air force played very active
part in these operations" it was
said.
Dispatches from Cairo said
Matruh was not defended.
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Moonlight Tank Battle
Covered British in
Mdtruh Withdrawal
Defense Line Moved
50 Miles to East
Of FoIIen Stronghold
BY HARRY CROCKETT,
Press War Correspondent

CAIRO, June 30 have just re-
turned from British mobile head
quarters in the western desert where
I learned details Of great tank
battle which covered the British
withdrawal from Matruh and where
I heard plans for the new defense
line.
This line will run from strong
coastal positions so miles east of
Matruh southwark about IS miles to
the great Qattara Depression. The
battle for Egypt is now on in full
force as Gen. Sir Claude Auchin-
leck's army digs in for about re-
sistance.
We expect big developments in
the next few days.
British Confident.
The British are confident they
can hold the line toward which the
German 2lst and 18th Panzer Divi-
sions are driving.
For two days in an open truck
Ralph Walling, correspondent for
Reuters, and I roamed the desert
seeking information. and only yes
terday were we able to locate the
mobile British headquarters which
has been on the move for several
days
The great battle for control of
Egypt and the vital Suez Canal be-
gan June "a when the Germans and
Italians. with little opposition. drove
across the Libyan frontier in the
region of Sheferzen. Other columns
attacked Matruh from the west
without much success. Then the
main German tank force swung
south through Sheferzen and headed
northwest, cutting the coast road
east of Matruh.
Fought by Moonlight.
The main tank battle was fought
during the night of June 27-28
under the light of a full moon. 1t
was during this fighting that the
British artillery and infantry with
drew while scores of tanks, like
hideous monsters, roamed the fiat
desert sands squirting crimson fire
from their heavy guns.
The fighting in this area was the
heaviest since the beginning of the
desert war, with unprecedented ar
tillery and tank duels. infantry en-
gagements and bitter hand-to-hand
| encounters
The Axis concentrated masses Of
Stukas, fighters and bombers in the
area. The battle ragged over
stretch extending 100 miles along
the coast and so miles deep.
Evening star., 1942-06-30

partment to acquire five additional
school medical inspectors to step up
the number Of children covered an
nually by physical examinations in
the high schools. This raises to %
the number of inspectors for the
school children. An expanded den-
tai program is also provided after
The Star disclosed that, by Health
Department survey. two thirds Of
the junior high and three-fourths
Of the senior high students have
dental defects.
The 18-member committee work.
ing on the physical training pro-
gram is divided into two groups, one
working on the health program and
the other the physical activities
program.
Health education, it was ex-
planned, probably will embrace
physiology, hygiene, first aid and
safety. The physical activity pro-
gram will include emphasis on
calisthenics and body contact
games. Boxing, however. probably
will not be included because Of the
lack of enough gloves.
Program with Teeth"
I'VE promised Congress pro-
gram with teeth in it," declared DR..
Chester w. Holmes. assistant SUI
perintendent of schools, "and we
are going to make good"
While it is yet too early to obtain
. definite line on the sentiment
Of the committee, it was indicated
the five-period program might be
similar to that at Calvin Coolidge
High School where two periods 60
to health education and three to
activity. The possibility Of even
greater emphasis on activity, how
ever, was not discounted.
The program on which the COM
mittee is working is designed for
the coming school year. 1t was said,
and is Independent Of the study
also being made by curriculum re-
vision groups Of physical training
which may result in some changes
and expansions the year after.
An extensive physical training
program was drawn up and ap-
proved by the Board Of Education
as long ago as 1886, contemplating
a five-period plan In the senior
high schools, but lack Of funds
prevented more than . skeleton
adoption.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
New British Leader
In Egypt Famous
As Troub|eshooter
AuchinIeek Completely
Modern in Attitude on
Warfare and Weapons
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Gen. Sir Claude j. E. Auchinleck,
British commander in chief in the
Near East. who has taken over
command OF the 9th Army in Egypt,
is known for his military expert
ence throughout the Near East and
India. for his capture Of Narvik, In
far Northern Norway, and for the
delight he takes in cutting through
red tape.
He is "the AUX" to his stan.
A silent, canny Scotsman, Gen.
Auchinleck went from active serv-
ice in Alden. Iraq and Egypt during
the World War to become Britain's
military trouble shooter" and has
been moving into hot spots for 10
years.
He was sent to India, where he
had his first military experience in
1904, to put down uprisings in 1888
and 1885. When France fell. he
took over the beaches Of Southern
England as his command and dug
miles OF trenches. put up barricades
and obstacles and prepared to meet
a German invasion which has not
yet come.
Has Modern Military Attitude.
A believer in cooperation with
the navy and Raj, he emphasized
his orcer at every exercise:
BE ready to tight the Germans
in the air, on the see and on the
land"
Before his home command, he
was in command OF the Allied Army
in Norway, in May. 1910. He had
hardly reached his base near Mar
vik when the order came to aban-
don his plan and return to defend
England.
Gen. Auchinleck told later that
plans for the capture of Narvik al
ready were completed and I'VE de-
cided to put them into effect Mar
vik was taken, only to be aban-
doned later.
A tall, broad -shouldered man with
reddish-brown hair and moustache,
Gen. Auchinleck Is described by
military men as reliable and
sSady" He Is 81 and his attitude
toward fighting is completely mod
ern.
Holds Many Medals.
The whole system OF war as we
knew it in 1914-19l8 has been
changed in this war" he once said.
We must recognize aircraft as the
most vital weapon, we must teach
tanks. artillery and infantry to CO.
operate with it, and above all We
must not fall into the error of say
ing: Jerry didn't do that at Loos.
He can't do 1t here"
He was scornful Of talking bilge
about bayonets" when what we
need is more anti-tank guns. more
anti-aircraft guns, more machine
guns"
The son of . Scottish colonel of
royal artillery, Gen. Auchinleck en-
tered the army from Wellington
College. He joined the hrst Punjab
regiment in India in 1904 and
gained his flrst fighting experience
against the tribes on the Northwest
Indian frontier.
He had won most Of Britain 8
military medals before this war
started.
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superior forces, wiped out two regi-
ments OF German infantry and de-
stroyed IL tanks.
OF the fighting on the Kursk front
the information bureau said, ''our
troops repulsed large enemy tank
attacks with success yesterday" and
kept up battle contact through the
night.
Soviet artillery fire hit Is tanks, /"
its communique reported. Red
Army men wiped out some 500
Hitlerites.
In another sector the enemy lost
$500 killed. Soviet airmen destroyed
so German tanks and 108 trucks and
brought down Is planes in air
combats."
(The Berlin commentary Dienst
aus Deutschland said the fight
for Sevastopol has entered its
final stage" Storming Of Sapun
Heights was declared to have
given German and Rumanian
al ClupldlClhCllUS SUhl-
manding the entire Soviet forti-
flcation system east and south
east Of SevaStopol)
Heavy Losses Claimed.
More and more German tanks and
aircraft have been hurled into the
26-day-old offensive, the information
bureau said last night, and with
heavy losses the enemy succeeded
in advancing somewhat"
The battles are extremely fierce"
1t said.
The situation OF the Red Army
men. sailors and marines manning
the Blac., Sea Fleet base apparently
was the most critical since the Ger
man and Rumanian forces surged
across the Perekop Isthmus to set up
siege lines there last November 7.
Soviet dispatches indicated Gen.
Fritz Won Mannstein was concen-
trating major assaults on the north
east side of the city.
Russian flyers were reported to
have destroyed or damaged AZ Nazi
tanks and $50 trucks and silenced
three artillery batteries Sunday.
(The British radio, in a broad
cast heard by CHS, said that 'one
of the greatest air struggles OF
the war is now being fought out"
over the Kursk and Kharkov
sectors)
Central Front Attacks Checked.
A series of attacks against Red
Army positions on the muddy CEN
trail front was declared officially to
have been repelled.
A declaration of the German high
command Sunday that three Rus
sian armies had been destroyed and
10000 Soviet soldiers captured on
the Volkhov front, between Lake
linen and Leningrad, was charac-
terized in special communique as
"another lie"
Actually, the Information Bureau
declared, June battles in that area
have cost the Red Army about 10000
killed and 10000 missing and, "ac-
cording to incomplete data. the
Germans lost in killed alone no less
than 10000"
Evening star., 1942-06-30
Army to Toke Over Comp

Representative Randolph, Demo-
crat. Of West Virginia stated yes
terday the War Department had
authorized him to announce that
about August / the National Guard
camp at Camp Dawson. near King
wood, w. Va, would be taken over
by the Army as a military police
training camp.
Evening star., 1942-06-30

NOW YOU CAN SAVE charges when
~ you borrow. The new Household
Finance Office in Silver Spring makes
loans of $50 to $500 at the reduced
rate of only 30 per month. You are
invited to apply for whatever amount
you need.
Households rate of go per month
is just slightly more than half the
maximum rate of $40 per month
permitted by the Maryland Small
Loan Law. Why pay more than you
have to for your loan? At Household
you can save almost half.
Cost Of $50 loan only $2..2
Suppose you borrow SlO0 and repay
in six monthly instalments of Sl7.85
each-a total of Sl07. 10. The cost of
your loan is just S7.10. At the lawful
maximum rate you would pay $l2 .62.
Household's rate thus saves you $5.52.
Or take a $50 loan repaid in four
monthly instalments of $13. 13 each
a total of $52.52. Your loan at House
hold costs only 2.52. At the lawful
maximum rate this same loan would
cost $464.
Evening star., 1942-06-30

Aircraft carriers carry planes, but
War bonds carry everything neces-
sary to win. Garry your share; buy
now. Ten per cent Of your earn
ings is requested by the Treasury.
Evening star., 1942-06-30

Look what the Navy did at Mid
way. Meet it hahway-by buying
War bonds now.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
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Kienchang. had established a juno
ture 80 miles south Of Linchwan,
encircling 10000 Chinese troops.
Fighting now is in progress with the
trapped forces, 1t said.
Evening star., 1942-06-30
NOW
PERSONAL LOANS
AT 20 PER MONTH

How borrow $50 $500 at low rots-he sndesrs
rsqvsd-MenthIy payments 70 NJ your own peeksbeek
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OF the association, The letters read
as follows.
Dear Sir: As we We're advised
by the Olympia Fields club that
they would not permit you 10 have
the privileges OF the club house
and course for the Hale American
qualifying round scheduled to DC
held at that club on Monday. MAY
25, 1912, we wired you 70 that ef-
feet This decision was not that Of
the United States Golf association,
but was made by the club over
whose property and decision we
were unable TO exercise any con-
troll.
We are therefore returning your
entry fee-Very truly yours, Jo-
'seph C, Day, Jr, executive secre-
tary."
Grant, in his appeal TO May, said:
MY appeal was prompted by ac-
ton Monday of private club
Olympia Fields in barring seven
Negroes from local qualifying
rounds for the Hale American tour
nament."
When asked II the USGA had any
regulation barring Negroes from
tourney participation. George W.
Blossom. Jr. USGA president, as
serted Definitely not, but a pri-
va,e club has a right TO say who
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EWell Is
TripleWinner
At &c IA

NEW YORK-Norwood Barney
Twen clmaxed his intercollegiate
"A competition here Saturday aft
ernoon in blaze Of glory az ne
won the 100 and 22O-yard dashes
and the broad jump for the third
consecutive year, the first man in
the history Of the meet 10 achieve
this remarkable feat.
Ewell raced the 100 in :095. one
tenth OF a second below the marx
held Jointly by him and Frank wy
koff Of Southern California. The
mark was not allowed as officials
ruled a wind was behind the Penn
State Splinter. He then stepped The
900 in 9O5, two-tenths Of second
below the record This also was not
allowed His leap Of "a feet 6A
inches made Friday was not beaten
bv other contestants.
Bill Carter. Pittsburgh, was
fourth in the 100 and third in the
900 Dave Lawyer, View York uni
versity. was fifth in the 100 and
fourth in the broad jump. Hugh
Davis. Michigan State, was third in
the broad jump John Glen, Penn
State. tied for third place in the
high jump. -.
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Harry "Popa Dee johnson, man
ager Of Buddy Moore and R. J.
Lewis, is quite a salesman. For the
past few weeks he is selling R. ].
Lewis TO promoters all over the
Midwest. The tale he tells about
Jim Edgar, who has gone to New
York, refusing TO fight his middle
weight, R. j. Lewis, has the pro-
moters roaring with laughter
Jim HUMPHREYS, manager of Rob-
ert "Foxey" Greed, has planned to
open a pool room for his light
weight Jim says that Greed has
always wanted to run a pool par
lor, and now he will get a chance.
Greed fought in New Orleans
and was robbed Of the decision. But
what really didn't come to light
until later, was a wire that the
Detroiter received from New York
gamblers telling him the dough he
would get if he took a dive. Robert
refused and lost on a bum decision.
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JOE LOUIS Open
FOLDS FOR THE
WAR DURATION
R a t ioning OF G as
Puts Damper On
Tournament

The Joe Louis Open, most lucra-
tive Of the golf tournaments spon-
sored by colored golfers, has def
nitely been placed on the shelf for
the duration.
This was made known on Sun
day, by Corp, Joe Louis Barrow,
heavyweight champion and chief
sponsor Of the tournament who
spent the day here to help stimu-
late interest in the sale of War
bonds.
The tournament will not be held
until after the war has ended" said
Louis. There are a number of
reasons for not holding the tourna-
ment.
First, it is hard to get balls,
and you know a tournament with
out plenty of balls.
Second, many of the players
will be in the army and unable TO
play. And finally, the rationing of
gasoline and the difficulty of trans
portation would cut the number of
players down to a very low num-
ber."
- The Louis Open was held here
last year with 1893 players compet-
ing for the 81 900 cash prize. Clyde
Martin, instructor to the champion,
captured the $500 first prize by
Waging a great uphill fight.
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ANOTHER'S GAIN

Alter Duke" Ellis ran his total
Of heavyweight losses to two this
week, Joe Louis was spirited away
and the United States took How
ard Williams, former amateur
champion, whom the Duke was
training to beat the Brown Bomber.
Williams left for Camp Custer on
Wednesday.
Williams and Ellis were close
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friends, Their contract seemed
more like father and son instead
of fighter and manager He made
the big boy co-manager of his
training gym, located over the
Castle theatre.
SMART LAD
Williams is a smart lad, I have
never seen him fight as a profess
slonal an have watched only a
few Of his amateur scraps. As an
amateur he was fairly good Many
times I have listened to Ellis tell
how the ex-TeNas high school all
round athletic star would reach the
Top in a hurry, il only he could
get the. breaks.
NEW WORKERS
Eddie Futch, who once coached
amateur boxing at Brewster Cen
ter, is dating most his students in
the pro game now. Just before he
caught the train for New York to
see how welterweight Jim Tee"
Edgar was getting along he paused
long enough TO tell that he was
taking few fighters over because
he felt that New York could use
them.
1t was wondered il Emmette
Grier. claSsed in the top bracket,
had made up his mind to take the