Port Arthur News, The (Newspaper) - June 7, 1942, Port Arthur, Texas W COLUMN ONE The Port Arthur N 158. PORT JUNE 7. 1942. 40 PAGES PRICE 10 CENTS 2 OR 3 JAP CARRIERS SUNK WITH ALL PLANES IN GREAT U. S. SEA VICTORY Holding PICKED SHIPS ARE OUT OF CONVOYS May Have Been ed For Sea Try At Leningrad June 6 sudden eruption of warfare in the bombers of the Soviet fleet ail arm have sunk 1 0 German ves nine of them in upon three convoys am on nazi naval the Moscow radio announced Seven of the enemy vessels reported sent to the bottom in at- tacks on one convoy and the naval and the three others in a convoy a third convoy declared scattered in an earlier The radio an- said further that an ammunition dump was blown up and anti-aircraft knocked at the undisclosed naval More Invasion Boats big scale German naval activity in the Baltic followed Stockholm reports Friday that the were moving ed invasion through the Kiel to the the gested by their transfer to the Baltic that Hitler might now a sea-borne thrust to knock nut Russia's ond which has withstood siege his land forces for almost Sweden also have been tions Germany might try a 1942 invasion of if the United Nations move War's We Must Murder Best As Tough As LOS June 6 Warning against Cecil CBS radio asserted today ca should not waste time being indignant when our aviators arc machine gunned as they hail out of disabled craft or are floating helplessly in rubber We should do the same to enemy war Is plain he added in an holds If you think they talk to my friends who have had bayonets stuck in to others In prison camps who are being tortured to death right going to win this war because we're going to duce twice as fast be twice as smart because we're going to murder them twice as fast as they're going to murder survivor of the sunken said a wave of Inspired optimism Is the United con- It was an Axis plot the invasion was called uff I am to lull Australia into an can't happen Australia Is less prepared to re- pulse an Invasion than she was 6000 Planes Used In Week's Sweeps 3000 Bombers And As Many Fighters Rule Air Over Occupied Coast In Mighty Aerial Stabs June 6 RAF's monster seven-day of- which between 6000 and planes have been used by day and by smashed to weekend climax with lird powerful night assault last Three German ported by 35 were repulsed in one sector of the sion front with losses of about 500 killed and 16 tanks dis from the battle area said NAZI DESERT MAULED June 6 Col. Gen Brwin Rommel has arrived by air plane in the exposed Axis Libyan desert salient southwest of Tobruk his forces ar falling back under a blistering British front di patches Hetre had flown to a rear has earlier in the Rommel's hasty return to th west of th Knightsbridge camel crossing wa reported authoritatively and as new evidence that the naz armored and mechanized unit were being by a massiv of British tanks and advancing from the east. AP NIPS PAY HUGE TOLL IN DRIVE Killed As De fenders Refuse To Yield City June 6 bloody battle for sien has lost the Japanese at least 1000 men a and besieged Chinese de- fenders still are holding out behind the ancient walls of the vital ern Chekiang rail military communiques reported broadcasts said Japanese invaders occupied today after seizing its nearby Allied air during the Japs Killed Since the enemy converged on from three more than Japanese have been killed or many in bitter fighting in the city's Official Chungking reports knowledged the gravity of the Chinese but said that countless Japanese spearheads were hurled back at the city's Allied Plane Destroys An other Off Australia HEAD June 7 An allied plane has destroyed nn other Japanese eral headquarters announced This raised the total to seven possibly within a Could It Mean No June 6 Fuel Senator that appears impracticable lo Im- pose petroleum de- liveries In. areas where there Is no Aiken snld understood this to moan that tho did not contemplate nationwide gasoline rationing at this ight on Germany's industrialized luhr and a daylight sweep today perhaps overshadowed all lie others over the doorstep of Hitler's The air ministry news service aid German army huts at a nandy encampment were blown igh into the air at noon when bombers with a Spitfire scort roared over at nearly ground They encountered no man England Lightly Bombed A few enemy aircraft were re- ported over the English south coast Bombs were dropped but damage and number of casualties vere declared Hundreds of Britain's fighter craft appeared to rule the air over he coast tonight as British quarters estimated that more than 3000 in Hie past had dropped their ive cargoes on cities of the to Page 5, Column 3) Production To Be More Than June 6 ald M. chairman of the War Production ed a whirlwind tour of tive industry war plants late day with a forecast that can industry could than double present production by praising the automotive industry as pacemaker at war production said America's war given ficient raw could con- Increasing its output of armaments every month until the year 1944. War In Brief claim to he holding besieged Inking terrific toll In Jnp reported ers sink 10 troop transports In convoys bunding possibly for n sea-borne drive at Kommel files hack to after his armored units severe S. fleet wins sea sinking two Jnp aircraft carriers and sibly a third nnd two enemy four cruisers and troop trans Weather Report 1..IU1P change local In north portion and near upper ENSIGN NEW June 8 Ann 23-ycnr-old screen act nnd Ensign Anthony A. U. S. one of New most young ol a LAVAL TO USE GESTAPO PLAN Reportedly Warned To Stop Outbreaks June 6 struggling against rising re- olt in the occupied was tonight to have warned Laval that Germany will take necessary unless outbreaks in France are Laval Goes Ruthless British quarters said they un- that who has taken ver personal control of the French jolice from Admiral ois has ordered adoption f the ruthless methods of the nazi gestapo in dealing with patriots in both occupied and un- It also reported that Hitler's envoy to Otto md handed to Laval a note de- manding to halt spreading which continued To Take Steps within the shortest time the Trench government cannot prove hat it is able to prevent the un- desirable the government of the German reich is prepared and reserves the right to take any measures it regards as he note was reported to have The implied appeared to be one of German police by Himmler's over all The Japanese attack followed the usual with a force of 000 employed in an encircling Tn High Spirits is still in Chinese hands fighting with high have repulsed all Jap an official an- fall would mean that the Japanese would gain control of a vital Allied air base and an rail center on the The enemy already holds Hangchow and the railway's eastern and western and a key intermediary point 45 milts northeast of 13 MORE DIE IN REPRISAL June 6 Prague radio tonight announced that another 13 Czech patriots were executed by firing squads today in re- prisal for the assassination of tapo Reinhard This brought to at least 221 the number of Czechs cording to nazi radio since Heydrich was fatally wounded at Prague ten days Damage Toll Of Warships Is Set At 12 Other Nip 2 3 4 3 U. S. Loses T. June 6 United States in its greatest sea victory of the Pacific destroyed two and possibly three Japanese aircraft damaged 11 Or 12 including three four cruisers and three transports in an historic battle near Midway island half a year after the Nipponese attack on Pearl Jubilantly proclaiming that Harbor has Admiral Chester W. commander of the Pacific announced that a crushing defeat had been inflicted on the Japanese navy and that citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the In contrast to the terrific losses suffered by the Japanese fleet in the three-day the American forces but one hit on an aircraft carrier and lost Admiral communique Casualties among American personnel were U. S. HITS WITH DEADLY IMPACT is the balance communique recounted navy and marine forces of thi area offer their country this American warcraft and planes struck with deadly impa against the strong enemy shattered its dreadnaughts ar blasted to the bottom some of its carriers and crippled oth naval units apparently headed for an attack in force on way or perhaps Hawaii Moil of the Japanese aircraft mothered by the were lost when the big ships went down before the blazing gum of the American It was estimated conservatively 100 Japanese planes were Many of the II or 12 damaged warships were blasted so the communique that it was possible they would not be able to reach their Text of communique No. 3 from Admiral Nimitz the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway our citizens can now rejoice that a victory is in the PEARL HARBOR PARTLY AVENGED was on just six months that the Japanese made their peace time attack on our fleet and army activities that time they created heavy it is but their act aroused that grim determination of our citizenry to So The Japs Wanted A ADMIRAL CHESTER NIMITZ Fighting Texan takes measure of Japanese .in at Oahu 4 It Began 6 Months Now Look June 6 half-year of war was closing for the United States tonight much as it with a major battle .in the There one striking and important Now They Use Stream On Bomb June 6 British ministry of home ity 1ms changed its methods of fighting incendiary bombs and now recommends n. jet of water be- used Instead of a the National Fire Protection announced The association snid that the ministry has determined the risk of Injury from particles of molten magnesium scattered by the int Is not and solid stream attack from n greater thus reducing tho danger of tho firefighter being injured by nn explosive PLANTS MUST COMPLY WITH BLACKOUT RULES Juno 8 All manufacturing plants must comply with blackout instructions Issued by defense In which they urn Iho war announced oven though this a temporary cessation of State President difference which in a measure ex- presses what iix months of ng have done for America's ccs and its people as Got Hot Reception The attack on Pearl Harbor caught American forces with their guard The result was dis- An admiral and a general were set down because they had failed to their tney nad not ordered their forces to on the But when the Japanese struck at Midway Island the other day they met a hot reception nnd it got hotter day by Between Pearl Harbor and the great and ious battle off Mid- way lay nearly six months of dis- heartening illumined by brilliant and everywhere made notable by of the fighting superiority of American soldiers and sailors the The Japanese took the Dutch East the and seized Guam and Waite the latter after an heroic resistance by a tiny band of Navy Took Heavy Toll the and air forces a terrific toll of ships and battle of Macassar the battle of ihe Coral rine the exploits of the made tho enemy pay Military experts that for the territory which Japan has islands rich in the ber and oil which she needs for her war the enemy losses may not be WIFE BEAUMONT MAN ENDS OWN LIFE Fred R. 71, wife here at his 1715 Magnolia Britain Hails U. S. Sea Victory NEW June 6 British radio tonight The Saturday wound in the of the ot thl Mrs. chosen of tho nnd Women's clubs nt their convention in Cor p u s Mrs. executive of tho Port Arthur ity long has been a lender of the BPW which sent a largo delegation to Other officers named first vleo Mrs. recording Mrs. Helen Maddux Sun corresponding nnd pistol off up to one of the greatest tho Blades returned an Inquest verdict of story show ot The body was tho forces engaged creel by a W. T. havR ot the said Miller apparently had said Iho BBC been dead several hours before heard hern by send avenge such treachery and it not the morals of our fighting Harbor now Wen will not be complete until Japanese power has been reduced to have made substantial in that we will be forgiven if we claim we are about midway to our battle is not All returns have not yet been It is with full that for phase of action the following enemy losses are or three carriers their aircraft one or two carriers badly with most of their craft three battleships at least one four cruisers of which two were damaged three transports is possible some of these wounded ships will not be able to reach their American carrier was hit and some planes ican personnel casualties were SILENCE BIG SEGMENT OF POWER In damaging three battleships and four cruisers and out of action a total of possibly five aircraft American naval and military might silenced a large segment of Japanese sea-borne gunpower and destroyed a huge part of Nipponese aerial striking Admiral Nimitz made it plain that the great centering around the coral atolls of the Midway still was not over but that it was a great triumph thus far for the American It was possible that this United States victory prove to be a turning point in the far-flung war of the Beaten and with uncounted hundreds of Japanese sailors and soldiers the Japanese fleet already had been reported to be from Midway before communique told of the utter rout and annihilation of the At the start of the the Japanese to have had aircraft Since a number of vessels were believed to have been converted into Loss Of Carriers Serious To Japs Unofficially naval experts said the loss of carriers to the including one known sunk and one probably sunk in the Coral and one converted carrier known sunk in raid on the shall and Gilbert the known losses be It estimated unofficially the Japanese have lost at more than one-third of their aircraft Admiral in his second communique on the battle of announced that it is too to claim a major nese United States control remains firm in the Midway tle Because Nimitz exceedingly careful to be conservative to Column 2) 4- 4- ho was He was a re- tired mortuary will the thorn congratulations from MYRNA LOY IS WED TO SPORTS TYCOON NEW June 6. Screen Myrna Loy to John D. go advertising nnd sports In a surprise mony in New York MILEAGE MAY BE REGULATED June 8 Specific operating tions soon mny he Imposed on nnd throughout tho reported today I In Informed Your Chief Salutes June 0 Ernest of tho United States today congratulated of tho Pacific fleet have so gallantly and effectively repelled the enemy advance on Tho admiral's addressed to Admiral W. of the Pacific corps nnd const In admiration I. American marine and who have so nnd effectively repelled the enemy on and F confident that their In arms will continue to enemy that war Is
