Middlesboro Daily News (Newspaper) - June 12, 1942, Middlesboro, Kentucky The first subway in the United States was opened in Boston in 1897 VOL 32 NO 65 The Home Daily of the WEATHER Scattered showers and showers today continued warm KY DAILY NEWS JUNE 12 1942 OVER Hy NEWS CO FIVE CENTS Coral Sea Battle Described As Slaughter Of lap Vessels SHIPS SUNK IN CORAL SEA Airmen Say Japs prised Losses er Than Credited j By FRANK TREMAINE United Press Staff Correspondent Pearl Harbor ed States Navy dive bombers and planes roaring down on a Japanese fleet while their crews wildly yelled re- member Pearl opened the battle of the Coral Sea with a slaughter of ships it was re- today Two naval aviators gave here today by official permission the first account of that battle miles off Australia which they opened in the dawn of May 4 with a plane attack on a napping my invasion They revealed that the j my losses were even greater than had so far been officially Toll of One Attack Navy planes alone sank at least nine enemy ships ing two heavy cruisers three 1 light cruisers two destroyers and two large transports and j probably sank a seaplane tender and a third transport in a brief merciless attack on one harbor base They sank more small ships than they could count leaving the harbor strewn with sunken sinking burning and beached craft had claimed that in the entire battle which continued for five days one one heavy cruiser one light cruiser two destroyers four gunboats were sunk and one aircraft carrier one heavy cruiser one light cruiser two seaplane tenders damaged Two Japanese transport and supply ships were announced as sunk and two damaged Ihus the planes raised the toll to two heavy and three light cruisers sunk in addition to am damaged in later phases of the battle i Kentuckian Talks Lieut Comdr Joe Danville III and Lieut Burch Paducah Ky were permitted to tell their stories They said that in addition to the plane attack the Japanese received a larger dose of the game stuff in the main battle and that the United States fleet emerged 0 K and eager to repeat when we catch them The naval planes first found a Japanese fleet assembled at is a neat little bor on the south side of Florida island in the mons about miles east of Taylor said We had never heard of the said until late one night the word passed over the loud speaker Prepare all squadrons attack in harbor of Tulagi at dawn Complete Surprise It was a complete Our task force had been ing the enemy in the Coral Sea Long before dawn we were ready and impatient to take off We were over Tulagi early in the morning Every plane was in position carrying its full load of torpedoes and We did not know what to ex- Hut there far below we could see through the clouds that the WHS filled with and transports I soil uf figured that quis of rules weie out joined in Taylor so I Hill you hit em high and I'll hit em From then on it was every V Army Set To Rise Button Remember Pearl Attacking i Mystery Man Says Pilots Yelled i Millions Ready to Strike on Call GENERAL STAFFS TALK OPENING SECOND FRONT Bulletin man for himself g One thing J clearly ber As the dive bombers pushed over into screaming dives pilot was yelling something into the radio phone Some were cussing a bit bnl must of them were Pearl Harbor As soon as 1 saw whal ships were in the harbor I instructed the which ones to hit There was no time in that lee for detailed assignments We just went to work with and bombs The Japanese couldn't get By JOHN A United Staff Correspondent Copyright 1942 By United Press V the j mystery man who for months has By EWARD W BEATTIE United Press Staff Correspondent General Staffs are in contact on the urgent blem of creating a second front Continued on page 8 FDR Jr on Duty in London organized and directed fie intrepid j patriot resistance to the Germans in EuroPe I in occupied territory said today j e that a vast underground army ew Washington i now of carrying out a I general uprising if and when tin Nations established a sec j ond front Millions of persona in occupied countries who form the V army are ready to he said They i await only my call which I hope I will not be long Europe is I ning to realize that deliverance is d Throughout Europe he con- in the first interview he ever has given the V army is ready affecting Hitler's war Lieut of the President Only a few met London and Moscow know ore von huw the blow will fall un- der the agreements reached by Great Britain and the States with Russia The British man in the street and the Russian interpreted the identic second front 1 here and at Washington at their face value He actual land his summer vision o the continent More conservative quarters those who knew mendous problems involved leld that Britain the United States and ply columns and Breed pation troops of such a front Right now Germany is facing wus j That Allied contribution would be to bombing attacks of army's contribution hasi vital In fact the V e scale army created this crisis I miles of Royal Air Force raids and lms a the view held generally Navy today that more than 15 Japanese ships were sunk including an aircraft carrier while the U S lost three naval vessels including the big aircraft earner Lexington in the Coral Sea campaign The U S uso lost thc tanker and destroyer Sims Jap losses included more than 100 ail craft probable sinking of two other ships damage to more than 20 ships Damaged Jap ships included one ner three cruisers two aircraft tendons three destroyers I he Navy listed sunk the new Jap cruiser three heavy cruisers one light cruiser two several small vessels J lie Lexington blew up and sank torpedo and bomb hits but 92 per of the crew port safely Make Costly Effort To Start Offensive i alue He expected an fighting front in Crisis Yet to Lome at Kharkov Chinese tions Critical Fires Set in Allied Raids From Australia fort by blowing up munitions dumps wrecking troop and now is lacing i a major crisis in man power and he said and the V vi mando thrusts and Germany's failure against the Russians stimulated the V army Bub do hot rely any's has y if unofficial I This on l is to ex- he said more important thf American is that the growing Allied thu continent within sion is increasing the V army not I months eft for a only in occupied countries but in thls Germany and Italy The murmur of the people is now heard in Germany The Nazis try to drown it with their rifle squads But it will get louder un- til even Hitler can hear it And that will be the end Reprisals a Would reprisals such as those which followed the killing of i an groan Keinhard dampen the V army's he replied They will have the opposite effect They will only increase the ion of the V army to win this var and end a regime so The Nazis are going in a Second From But there is already a second front which day and night is ing at the Germans and Italians by the heroic patriots of all occupied countries is ing big scale Commando raids in which eager superbly equipped Local Briefs LOCAL WOMAN PASSES AWAY Paul H Lambert son of Isom Lambert road and grandson of Mr and Frank Lambert has been made staff sergeant teaching in the radio branch Battery C Armored FAB fith Armored Division APO Camp Ark Lambert joined Army two years HOPE REVIVED LAFON LIVES ms circle They use terror to de- troy resistance because it is the Continued on page 8 AT JONES VILLE Two in the morning amount persons docketed local police court this on charges of acli fined the usual of and cost of Marianne Collins Armstrong Til wife of 1 0 Armstrong passed away at after a illness The funeral party will leave tomorrow morning for Richmond Ky where services will be at the at 1 n m Mrs Armstrong was born and in Ky and a from Madison Institute in to Mid in Here were engaged in thti insurance Mrs Armstrong had been it long member of Christian Church and was one of faithful workers in the church of that denomination bore She was also active in the Kentucky Path Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution serving j AS secretary of that and in the American ion Auxiliary Survivors are her her mother Mrs Kate Collins of this city and two brothers W J of Richmond and Captain Marshall Collins of the United States Army Diego Calif is visiting cuts Mr and Mrs Jo son and Mile He will ue here five days The County con- vention will meet at Church of Cod from III a in to p in Sunday All from see and Virginia are invited anil a number from out of town an expected to attend The possibility that Capt Harry Lafon of the Tank Batta- lion reported killed on Bataan peninsula is still alive was revived today at Lincoln Memorial sity when information was j ed from his father H R of Harriman Tonn that he hail j received recent word from the War Department his son was only reported musing in action The that Captain Lafon j was killed a few days before the j fall of Bataan hail become current at the college and the ment wus made recently at Com- when the service flag j was displayed showing one star The fraternity of which I was a member had a brief service on Sunday June 7 progression That is the tion of the madman who began it Preston Mink charged with ar- son went on trial in Lee circuit court at Jonesville today only way they know But in ing disposition of the case their terror only increases day against Sewell Johnson ance and this the Nazis meet with j ed with manslaughter more terror So it goes There I After hearing the is but one end to this frightful evidence the court a motion by defense ney W L Davidson that the dence stricken from the record and Johnson acquitted of the charge I The charge resulted from the j tal injury of Leonard Hales Rose Hill when struck by a truck i Mink is accused of having set fire last March 10 to a dwelling I and storehouse owned by Krna Witt at St Charles A number of witnesses have been j By United Press j The Axis smed the initiative at heavy cost in Libya and Russia today in effort to get Hitler's 1942 offensive moving before the United Nations can establish a second front in Europe In Russia front line dispatches to Moscow made it clear that the crisis is yet to come at Kharkov Heavy man losses were reported in the Ukraine on the Kalinin front and south of Leningrad Libya fighting continued over a wide sector and in- cluded enemy's rear lines But Nazi Col Gen Erwin Rommel meanwhile destroyed anchor point and concentrated his strength hi a triangle aimed at south of fins creating that the British and French might be flanked from the south unless i they strike back powerfully The Germans lost several dred tanks Ill the Far East the position of the Chinese armies ill te eastern provinces of Fukien Kiangsi and i continued critical as te I result of Japanese advances along main railroad lines Japanese planes reported to have heavily bombed key I points in and Kiangsi while an advanced continued against stubborn resistance and counter attacks In Australia Allied planes set big fires in bombing raids on the Japanese at Rabaul and shot down at least two enemy aircraft NAZIS POUND AT SEVASTOPOL an Pane 8 BULLETIN Office of Price announced today that Eact coast motorists can buy six of three loni of gasoline for of rationing cards between Juno 15 and July 15 to tide them over the sion of the temporary rationing system summoned court attaches pressed the opinion morning that the case would be completed I today and that would then bi adjourned until Monday CONSERVATION IS EDDS TOPIC Operators In Quandary On Deliveries Local truck mine operators face a poser with no solution yel of- in the federal delivery lations as now written it ed today Seventeen of operators from this vicinity meeting with ard J Douglass secretary of the division will give a picture of the number of the centage Of coal produced being de- livered by trucks within a radius and mile radius or longer distances Also desired is information on I'm consumers of the the paid fin this morning in court for police Anna filed suit for divorce today in Hell circuit court Howard were issued by Ilio county court clerk's of- fice yesterday to N 0 Kowler Jr Memphis H W Spencer and Continued un Paga 8 Only through conservation our natural resources today our children and grandchildren Chamber of Commerce discussed j centage being delivered t indu able to enjoy the liberties we j the problems presented by the tries farmers etc now have Dr Jess told the regulations last night Most To Monday local Lions flub last night j phasis was placed on the Mr Douglass K i f the that over UO per cent of the that all such i hi of Lincoln foul by the truck mine head Dr depart Memorial Uni I lie club at il- on a pi by 11 Y Livesay HO per cent of had be since Hie riling thai as tin ex irresponsible addressed ri- by Monday morning for low being delivered directly to submission to the Commission The federal orders now in fect permit deliveries within the radius subject to certain restrictions which uive little fect on ronl deliveries Orders now written which are scheduled dinner the consumer and that the ter n arranged served is chiefly agricultural slated that i with scant railroad service i timber The meeting was called by Mr sources in the past used or to procure lnnUod.i requeued b-v tlle director of tin are scheduled of the i of motor transport of the to go into effect 1st would toward Interstate Commerce I Washington The information the Continued on page S By HENRY SHAPIRO United Staff Moscow The Soviet Army newspaper Red Star said today that the situation remained ally serious at several in the week-old battle f Sevastopol Ked Star s a i d the were hurling still more men and machines into the battle trying j to force a decision Tht Russians indicated that they j had killed or wounded at least i Germans at Sevastopol in three days and that the Nazi sault after a week of horrible sacrifice in blood and men had I accomplished nothing i Fighting raged on the Kharkov front SOU miles to the where a growing German sive was expected soon to become one of the greatest battles of the war The Soviet communique last midnight reported that Russian forces there had fought all against man tanks and infantry The German radio claimed the Kharkov and Sevastopol assaults were preliminaries to Adolf ler's long awaited great of Last quc said Germans had j killed at Sevastopol in three days during which the Germany also lost more than tanks ami mon than planes j N o r in a I I y three men an wounded for every one killed Presumably they were I hi three days on which the German launched their most vicious saults and to them must be added the undisclosed number of dead and the Germans lost during quieter periods of tin battle It entered its seventh day today Narrow Front German casualties were high cause Col von Manstein was throwing at his command originally Continued on page H Lease Cancelled A lease held by 1 School on land belonging to Creech was cancelled by the Hell circuit during the motion hour at this morning on petition of Mrs Creech The plaintiff ed that the land was leased for op- of n trek and claimed thai the mine had iot been in op- for M months and Ilia she had received only from to payment in royalties I SERIAL AUTHOR TAUGHT AT UNI i Daily News readers have reason to follow the new serial story Sporting which was ed this week with special inter- est The author Harry Harrison Kroll formerly a member of the faculty of Lincoln Memorial University having taught in the i English Department from to I Since that time he has become nationally known a a novelist IIH j more successful books including Cabin in which ranked as a best seller and The j a story of an overseer of slaves m antebellum days 1 He is now teaching in a Western j Tennessee College TANKS BATTLE ABOVE FALLEN Maneuver to Outflank British Is Seen in Axis Effort By LEON KAY United Pren Staff armored forces engaged Ayis tanks yesterday east of Mir El Harmat which is 18 miles northeast of fallen Bir Hach eim a British communique said today The communique said de- tails of the fighting were not yet available There was nothing to report from other sectors it said Apparently the enemy had be- bun an effort to outflank the im- line and take Tobruk on the Mediterranean some SO miles northeast of Bir El Harmat They had been expected to develop a threat to Tobruk from the south and east failed to break through from the west and west The Axis by its recent ed drive at Bir ly had intended to split strength By hammering at the Free French garrison of Bir the Germans nd ians had been absorbing an in- creasing amount of British port which would have been elsewhere In triangle The withdrawal from Bir eim which occured Wednesday night should enable the imperials to stiffen their front from points east of Bir toward coast As far as can be determined the enemy has been concentrating the bulk of his strength in a tri- angle the southern apex of which Continued on p a g 8 SCOUT CAMP OPENS JULY 5 Ad Rents Apt For Mrs Carl Davis Mis Carl knows that it pays to advertise so when she finished redecorating a apartment in her home on South street she inserted the following very descriptive nil in The Daily Mews classified column FOK Cool ahie n e w I y papered and painted apartment rooms with bath Venetian shades and water furnished private entrance nice lawn 104 S St Phone ie ad rented the 62 or I Camp Campbell will on July J ith it was announced today by Hoy Scout Executive R W ker Scoutmaster Gray of who will be Camp Di- rector is now selecting a camp staff of Kagle Scouts to make the season one of interest and in keeping with times for the boys The camp program will include all oi the features of the last few years including swimming and life saving instruction and emphasis on the outdoor phase of Scouting Scoutmaster Gray has been with his own troop in preparing Scouts for the gency Service Corps In tion for any unusual even er it would be taking cure of a community disaster or feeding and entertaining n group of people The program at Campbell will Include many of ments for this special so that all Scouts will have mental preparation to meet any type of service The camp will be for two weeks only
