Piqua Daily Call, The (Newspaper) - June 18, 1942, Piqua, Ohio BUY IDS THE PIQUA DAILY CALL WEATHER Moderate ture today what warmer la north portion night YEAR No 206 PIQUA OHIO THURSDAY JUNE 18 1942 PRICE THREE CENTS Unpierced BRITISH FALL BACK IN TOBRUK SECTOR England Aroused Over Killing of Czechs SHOWN AT SESSIONS Demands for Eye to Eye Retribution Heard in House of Commons Today BY JOHN R U P SUff Correspondent London June 18 De- mands for eye for an re- against Naii killings of innocent Czechs were voiced in the House of Commons day as the German deadline for handing the assassins of neared Nazi authorities threatened to bum Czech villages to the ground and execute entire populations un- less sabotage and resistance ceases and the killers of the hangman are turned over to authorities by p rn tonight according to British reports The demand in the House was made by Sir Thomas Moore con- member who whether Prime Minister Winston Churchill would consider ah warning to the man government Moore demanded Britain tell many In tire an un- defended German town or village will obliterated by the RAF to retribution for every innocent son murdered by the Nazis in an occupied country Meanwhile reports reaching don said Kurt Daluege successor to in had warned that other villages musi suffer the fate of Udice acts against Germany Latest reports on Nazi reprisals were that the number of executions in Prague and death had reached 472 excluding an Concluded on Page Fifteen U S PLANES ARRIVE London June 18 DaUy Egress Stockholm dispatch confirmed by any source ed today that Uni- ted States planes had arrived at Sevastopol to reinforce the sian force and had already cone inU action The Dally Express dispatch said the American hail flown there from Middle Eastern bases Their first Job It was added was to attack German troop con- centrations anj northeast of Sevastopol the Russian naval base fortress at the side of the Crimea which traps led by German making ol the most attacks of the entire war Alaskan Governor Dr Ernest Gruening governor of Alaska and lone an advocate Increased defenses there has been by Secretary of Interior Ickes to organize an Alaskan war council for sation and defense of the REED SINGLED OUT FOR CRITICISM BY SENATORIAL GROUP i General Electric Official Now Mori Is Accused ADVANCES REPORTED DY ENEMY Counting Axis Pressure at Anchor Points of Battle Line Force BY WALTER COLLINS U P STAFF CORRESPONDENT Cairo Jane 18 British forces have abandoned El Adem and anchor points of the Imperial line protecting bruk because of mounting Axis pressure it was revealed today The withdrawal again placed the famed siege city of Tobruk under virtual encirclement and carried Col Gen Erwin Rommel's Halo spearheads to within bO miles of the Egyptian border Tlie British appeared to be still maintaining their positions between Tobruk and the frontier and there were no reports that Rommel had launched a frontal assault against Tobruk's formidable perimeter de- fenses that withstood more than seven months In 1941 A military commentator In don said It was believed the British also had evacuated former Imperial stronghold 15 miles west of Tobruk guarding the ern approaches to the coastal tion Such a withdrawal would mean that Lieut Gen Neil was concentrating all his armored and mechanized forces in Tobruk Itself BY SEAL V P Staff Correspondent Washington June 18 Senate committee investigating the charged today tha Philip D board chairman who was to the government for failed as chief of the bureau of industry to con- vert industry to war production In the possible time The committee in a report on Its Investigation of men jingled out Reed for detailed cism but also accused several others including James S Knowlson di- rector of the division of in- on Page Ten Assistant at O S U Leaves Post Columbus O June 18 sell J Crane assistant track coach at Ohio State Uni versity left today for Annapolis where he undergo a month training as an instructor in thi Navy's physical fitness program He holds a rank of lieutenant THREAT OF ATTACK IS REDUCED Washington June 18 threat of a ese attack against the west coast has been greatly re- as the result of American victories in the Pacific Secretary of War Henry L Stimson said today ATTACKS ON DEFENSES SUCCESS Chungking June 18 troops reported successful attacks on the defenses of the key city of Nanchang in Kiangsi province today but a com- acknowledged that Japanese forces were ing many points on the still unoccupied stretch of the railroad including the city of BRITISH ANCHOR POINTS SEIZED Cairo June 18 Gen Erwin Rommel's Axis armored columns today seized the vital British an- chor points of El Adem ond Sidi in Libya placed the siege city of Tobruk in grave peril and threatened to drive eastward toward the Egyptian frontier NAZI FORCES CLAIM FORT FALLS Berlin June 18 German broadcast recorded by United Press in New forces have cap- tured the Maxim Gorki Fort at the northern approaches to Sevastopol described as the strongest work in the en- tire system of Sevastopol's a special high command bulletin soid today Concluded on Page Two SUPPLY OF GROUND WATER IS CAUSING PROBLEM IN STATE Critical Situation Is by Booming War Industries and Their Needs Columbus O June 18 Ohio's critical problem of ground water supply aggravated by ing war Industries bobbed up today in a controversy over the Mill Creek water supply plant be Hamilton and Cincinnati Representatives of Butler county the city of Hamilton and Industrie about Hamilton appeared before thi State Water Supply Board to pro test the project already by the Federal Works tlon as a war emergency measure They insisted wells drilled In wa ter of Hamilton woul i Concluded on Page Ten JAPANESE FORCED TO FALL BACK BY CHINESE ADVANCE BY ROBERT T MARTIN U P STAFF CORRESPONDENT Chungking Jane 18 nese in storming the out- er defenses of N inching cial of his forced the o withdraw troops from nearly offensives to reinforce the Nanchang garrison II was dis- closed today A military spokesman said a large Chinese force had battered Its way tD within 15 miles of Nanchang it self and that the Japanese were disturbed by Generally simo Chiang counter Offensive Runs Out and Then In Akron O June 18 year-old Herman Bender Jr ran out of a burning apartment build ing at O last nigh to give a fire alarm Then he wen back Into the building and was res cued later by Mr and Mrs Collier The boy's condition wa critical today Where Axis Forces Preyed no British Convoys Admitting material losses from wo Mediterranean convoys British believe Italian raiders suffered more severely than their prey Slap shows progressive stages of 1 Convoy bound from Alexandria Jo Tobruk attacked by Italian planes from North Africa and Dodecanese Islands Italian naval force steaming from Taranto to join attack on convoy turned back with heavy losses by U S and British planes from Malta and undisclosed North African liases British con- voy bound from Gibraltar to Malta attacked south of by Italian warships presumably from Sicily British fleet units and planes from Malta dispersed and damaged attackers Both convoys got through though losses were heavy Axis Offensives Struck At By Russia and China RUSSIANS CONTINUE FIGHTING Smash German Attempt to Cross Strategic River on important kov Front BY HENRY SHAPIRO U P Staff Correspondent Moscow June 18 UP Front line dispatches said day that Red army tacks had retained an outer line of trenches at Sevastopol and smashed a German attempt to cross a strategic river ably the Donets on the kov front The defenses of Sevastopol re- mained unpierced after 13 days of savage enemy onslaughts which continue with sity according to a dispatch to the army newspaper Red Star In one sector dispatch said daring Russian re- captured a line of Important trenches that had been seized by the enemy Berlin reported that the northern defenses of Sevastopol hac been pierced and the main Russian base Dispatches said that the sure of the German's big drives on the Kharkov front appeared to have slackened as a result of fierce sian but sharp Ing continued on the whole sector A Pravda correspondent said the Red army had repulsed repeated attempts of the enemy to cross a strategic river with huge forces of infantry tanks and artillery The attack cost the Germans another 1500 dead 15 field guns nnd one ar- tillery regiment the dispatch said BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor The Armies of Russia and China struck back today in attempts to throw Axis offensives out ol gear but hard-pressed British imperial troops in the Libyan were forced to yield more ground to Col Gen Erwin Rommel's drive toward the Egyptian border United Press correspondents re- that the Allied blows struck in defense ol convoy movements may have saved Malta and perhaps denied Rommel a swift Libyan con- quest On the Markov and Sevastopol fronts in Russia Red Army were reported to have seized the initiative from the mans at several vital points but the situation still was grave at beleaguered Sevastopol dispatches said the Russians had recaptured an outer line of trenches encircling pol whose defenses remain unbroken after 13 days of unremitting siege To the north on the Kharkov front where the Germans were at- tempting to blast open a northern route to the Caucasus the Red Army troops of Marshal Semyon TImoshenko were reported to have seized the Initiative in several tors after smashing an enemy at- tempt to cross a strategic river east Concluded on Page UNITED NATIONS LOSE EIGHT SHIPS TO AXIS Submarines Take Toll in the Atlantic and Caribbean of American Merchantman That Dodged Half-Dozen Torpedoes from ing Raider in Mexican Gulf Also Disclosed Today By United Press The sinking of eight United tions ships by Axis submarines in the Atlantic and Caribbean and the escape of an American man that dodged half-dozen CANADIANS HELPING IN ALASKA DEFENSE Victoria B C June 19 UP Kenneth Stuart com- mander of the Canadian armed forces on the Pacific coast an- today that Royal Canadian air force planes and anti-aircraft units had been aiding U S rons In the defense of Alaska Stuart said that RCAF rons and units of the Canadian army had been ing with American forces In Alaska for several days Stuart said he could not reveal the number of Canadians involved or disclose where they were He said he had been authorized to make the statement by the dian Department of National De- fense it Ottawa from a pursuing raider In the Gulf of Mexico were disclosed today The navy announced that 41 and possibly 48 seamen were lost when submarines sank two Central in the Caribbean teen were trapped below decks of a Panamanian freighter which sank within half a minute after It was torpedoed May 31 Twenty-four died when a small Honduran merchantman was sunk June 6 were landed at an east coast port fourteen survivors of an allied freighter sunk in the Atlantic ar- rived at an eastern Canadian port One crewman was believed lost Survivors were instructed not to the sinking The Havana newspaper Pals said 20 survivors of a on Page Plan T c Hearing Washington June 18 War Labor Board announced today that a public hearing will be held June 29 on the dispute between the four little steel companies and the United States Steel Workers HOMB ST NAZAIRE London June 18 planes attacked the German sub- marine base at St on the French coast during the night and laid mines In enemy wafers while Douglas Boston bombers and Hurricane fighters attacked air fields and railroad objectives in northern France and Belgium the Air Ministry said today One tighter plane Is missing Hart Named for Bench Alliance O June 18 L Hart Jr son of the Ohio Court Judge has been pointed to the municipal court bench of Alliance to serve during Illness of Judge Harry E Concluded on Page Fifteen MYSTERY OF PLANES LANDING IN TURKEY FINALLY EXPLAINED Ships Had Participated in Bombing of Rumanian Oil Fields and ed Fuel BY DAXA ADAMS SCHMIDT U P STAFF CORRESPONDENT Ankara Turkey June 18 United States army planes which landed in Turkey six days ago were purl of a force o 15 which left the Rumanian fields in blazing chaos It was learn cd authoritatively today The mystery of why the plane were forced to land in Turkey wa It was apparent tha they stayed so long over a target determined to make Amer lean's first direct blow against th Axis on the European continent Concluded on Page Ten Woman Driver Killed Lima O June 18 Pauline E 46 was killet yesterday when a Pennsylvania pas senger train hit her car Tire Tower Lots of help In fighting the axis is represented by sky-high pile of old tires gathered as Los An- geles opened rubber drive AMERICAN NURSES ARE ROUGHING IT IN PACIFIC ZONE Washington June 18 American nurses who ore setting up base hospitals In the Southern Pacific war are having a wonderful time roughing it though sometimes mistaken for refugees from New York ing to their letters received here The letters were made public day by Col Julia tendent of the army nurse corps Prom an undisclosed station Lieut A Wright of ton W Va There arc so very few American girls In comparison to the men that Concluded on Page Ten Historic Naval Battle Probably Saved Malta HENRY T U P Staff Correspondent With the British Mediterranean Reel June 17 British naval officer revealed today that the Allied convoy which ran the Axis gauntlet In the historic battle just ended may have saved Malta Day after day the Germans anC Italians threw everything they had from submarines torpedo boats to battleships and bombers inlo an attempt to sink the convoy with which I was the only naval correspondent and to cripple the British Mediterranean fleet The enemy will probably attack day and night because they are out to get said the captain of the cruiser to which I was assigned after we left Alexandria The energy failed We pushed our badly needed supplies through not only to but to besieged bruk and when the fleet turned toward its tasc the captain Malta might not have been able to hold out without our help He was advised later of the role United States Consolidated Ing planes had had In the attack on the Italian fleet and that the entire Concluded on Page
