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36TH YEAR, NO. 39—^^ PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1942
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U.S. SUBMARINES STRIKE
Reefs Still in Rostov; Open New Attack
Japanese Intoxicated With Victory Stories
Here is the first story to come through the screen of Japanese propaganda and rensorship regarding the enemy war Iord.<' movements leading up to war in the Pacific and their moves against a poissible conflict with the Soviet Union, written by one of the best known American corres. pondents in the Far East, who covered the pre-war developments step by step at Tokyo.
By ROBERT T. BELLAIRE
(Copyright 1942 by the United Press)
Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, July 2.i (UP)—Japan's war lords made full preparations for war before sending a "peace" envoy to Washington last autumn, and they now are helievrd to be trying to outflank the Soviet Union by seizing American outposts in the Aleutians.
There are two main pha.ses to the story of maneuvering and plotting that I watched develop during hectic months as United Preas manager in Japan before Pearl Harbor and as an internee in a camp near Tokyo after war began.
TRYING TO OUTFLANK SIBERIA
The first phase led to a sudden shift in
FBI Calls on Americans m OUM To CaUh 3 Saboteurs     \j^j^j^\^^^_^
plans of the Japanese militarjr leadera in order to make a surprise attack on Hawaii. The second is generally believed in Tokyo to be designed to maintain an "undeclared peace" with the Soviet I'nion while trying to outflank Rus.sia in the Pacific and to break the United States defense line cen¬ tered on Ala.ska, Midway and Panama.
But it i.s also believed that if the Red Army collap.ses on the European front, the Japanese will strike directly at Siberia.
Since our arrival in this neutral port to sail for America next Tuesday on the exchange ship Gripsholm, it is possible to disclose some of the circumstances leading up to Pearl Harbor.
FORCED TO ADVANCE SCHEDULE
The details, previously concealed by air¬ tight Japanese censorship, showed that Japan had made full preparations for this war last September before Saburo Kunisu flew to Washington. Total mobiUcation had been ordered and, after freezing the Japanese army at full strength, thc war lords established a six-months deadline for an agreement with the I'nited States.
They decided that within six months an agreement must be reached on renewal
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Oil Company Turns to Coal
Threaten Flank   6 Jap ShJpS Of German Army Blasted OnBryanskFront||^ pg^jfjq
Photo thowi the firtt truck- load of coal being unloaded Into a basement storage bin as oil bowed to coal for the duration in the power and heating plant at The Atlantic Reflning Com¬ pany office building at 260 South Broad, Phlla. The change was ordered    by   Robert    H.    Colley,
In order to release to war Indiiii- triet the .V>0,000 gallons of Bunk¬ er C heavy fuel oil consumed annually in the building's power and heating plant. Bunker C oil is a heavy fuel oil used in indus¬ trial boiler Installations and does not resemble the lighter furnace oil used in the domc.<tic oil burn-
Believed Landed In Country to Attack Industries
been made to land them. Plana of the taboteurt apparently were re¬ vealed by the eight men whose trial hat been under way before a mili¬ tary commission here for IS days.
Washington,   July   25.    iVP) — J.'^""!"',   "PPf"'   '"¦'"•   "   ***J: Kdgar Hoover, director of the Fed- ?'"' ^"""^ ^  ^^'T"\- P"»^«"t »'
ersl Bureau of Investigation, called the   commission,   <''^elo»*d upon all Americans lonight to help ''¦> " a'as'on was devoted
saboteurs who are the  eight  now  on
find three Najii confederates of trial   here.
Hoover said the three had been erdered by the German high com¬ mand to wreck vital war industries in this country wherever they cnuld. He identifled them as Wal¬ ter   Kappe
Rheinhold   Rudolf  Bart-h .May Not Yet Be Here
that to- enlirely to the examlnalinn nf a seventh defendant. Six had testified before and the eighth may be called when the trial resumes on Monday. "Attaeka Begun." Sajt Knox
All Arms up But Worst Times, New Shortage Ahead
Washington. July 2B, (UP)—Thit
, ,,     „ ...        country's overall output of planes,
Meonwhlle,  Secretary    of    Navy tgn^t,   thlpt,   gunt   and   munlUont
Frank  Knox,  speaking   to    gradu- ,„,   the   United   Nations'   flghting
atmg members of the National Po- ^,„ during June wat nearly three Joseph Schmidt and lice Academy, warned that attacks nmg, th,t gf ^fJ^^ November the „..„..  =—.^ by Axis saboteurn, spies and propa- month   before  Pearl   Harbor. 'War
„ .    .    ^ . gandists "alread.y have begun'' and Production Chief Donald M. Nelaon
The men. all trained In Germany that   we know that this will he in- reported   tonight and   all   associated  with  the  eight tenaified  and spread all  over    the
pretident of the big oil concern,     era in private homes,
Japs May Be Trapped At New Guinea Base
By HABOLD OL ARO
Somewhere In Auttralia, July 25. (UP)—The Japanese invasion force In tht Buna-Gk>na area of New Guinea, potsibly a "suicide miasion " to. counter a growing Allied initiative, was reported tonight to be virtually entrapped following heavy air attacks rpearheaded hy new twin-engined  American   Army   dive-bombers.
It now may be revealed that the dive-bombers are A-24s, manu¬ factured by Douglaa, which the Army adopted from the original .\avy design.   They   have   augmented   Allied   medium    bombera,   including
rickety     Catallnat,     which     dive-* —	
bombed at only 170 miles an hour
Reds* Drive Forces Nazi Leader To Draw Men from Caucasus Push; Parachutists Lead Spearheads in Fierce Attack on Rostor Where Fighting in Streets Is Reported
Motxovi (Sunday) July I'S (IP)—(>ei-man forces, wanton¬ ly wasting lives under murderous Soviet fire, have smashed into outlying streets of Rostov "at several places" and forced the defenders to retreat, while fierce battles j>pread east¬ ward along the Don River, it was announced officially tiNlay.
.\Ithough still refuting the tHo-dav \s?i claim sf RAstiv'r^ capture, lm midnight communique nf the Soviet high com¬ mand made it clear that the city of .'>00,000 population Is in the gravest danger and that, to the ea.st, the (iermans are battling for a foothold on the southern shore of the Don in the Cauca.<4us. j
REDS OPEN NEW DRIVE '
The midnight communitiue made no mention of further German cros.xings of the Don following up crossings ad¬ mitted Saturday around Tsimlyansk, 120 miles upstream from Rostov.
Other official Soviet dispatches said that a strong Rus¬ sian offensive on the Bryansk front, 200 milea southwest of Moscow, had .^ent German divisions "fleeing in panic" and overrun Nazi fortifications in a severe threat to the exposed flank of the Ufrmans' southern offcnaiva. Tha   S*vitt   Bryaaak   aftoMlve,^
Destroyer, Tanker, Three Cargo Ships Sent to Bottom; Another Damaged
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that the move actually might have
been     made     to     counter     Allied
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who   landed   last   month   by   tub- country," marine on Florida and Long shores,   are   native   Germa apent   various   periods   of   time   in N'ew   ¦'.'ork,   Detroit,   Chicago,   fin- rlnnati  and other American  indus¬ trial cities before Pearl Harbor. Hoover   said   il   was   not   known
In   a   "special   War   Production
War   !!liui
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Mussolini Is Back from Wasted Trip to Libya
British Spoiled Plan to Enter Egypt in Triumph
g Island      Hoover taid that Kappe, Schmidt B''«rd  report    issued  by the Offlce
n,   who and  Barlh  were especially experts "^   War   information.   Nelson   aaid
at  sabotaging  industries  and   rail-    Pf^OV,"^"""   '¦  «»'"«  J'*''   »"   the
roads and asked    all    citizens    lo "-hole.      He    cautioned     however,
familiarize   themselves     with     pic- 'h«' °"'P"' »' wf ;<"«>» thut far
turet of thc confederates. The FBI ^<>" "<" i"»"'y    ""<*"« optlmltm,"
Is    distributing    several    hundred "BoatMng It Premature"
whether they actually have landed thoutand   posters    containing    de-     He added that "too much boatt-
In  the United States, but that  the acriptioni of the men    throughout jng   about   production   progreta   Is
FBI knew that definite plant have the United States. altogether   premature—the   biggest
I part of the job It ttlll ahead."  Any
letup now. Nelson tald. "would mean a year't more of war and hundreds of thousands more llvet," Nelson said that terloiii raw ma- , terial shortages are ahead, that new bottlenecks are forming and {that production in tome categories *¦ is "lagging somewhat,"
landrla and the Suez, Muttollnl had xhe WPB chairman, aa an Index flown across the Mediterranean to of the nations productive effort. Join Rommel in a projected trium- tstlmated that approximately 36 phal entry at Alexantria. Nol until p,r cent of the United States' rec- Baturday did Rome confirm the ord-breaklng income during the report. flrst six months of thit year went
Benito  Mussolini   flew  to  IJbya      The  dales  of MussoUnl't   depar- into mililary channels.    Thit corn- following     the    Axit    capture    of ture   and   return,   at  contained   In pared, he said, to the M to 76 per Tobruk  on  June 21, apparently  in the Stefani  announcement,  teemed pent of total income being tpent In hopes of leading his Italian troops to   make   it   clear   that   II   Duce's Great Britain and Germany. Into Alexandria in a v'ctory march, hopes of a bit of glory were ahat- hut  returned home when the Axis tered   by  the  halting  of  the  Axis drive was  halted,  the  Rome  radio drive around El Alamein, revealed Salurdoy, Thc offlcial Italian Slefanl Agency'    AmPLAXES    - May production
A   Rome   broadcast,   quoting   an aaid    the   visit   occurred   between totalled  nearly  4.000.  with   "heavy «nnouncement of the official Stefani June 29 and July 20 and Ihat,  on tactical  craft"    forming    a  larger Agency, said that Mussolini secretly the   return   trip,   hc   visited   Axis- proportion of the output than orlg- flew  across  the  Medltei ranean   on occupied Athens for several hours, inally planned. .Tune  29  to  the  Tobruk  area  near. While   in   Athens   he   vlilted   the^ .,„r.i,.B«.   mva     »i
the Egyptian frontier, presided over Acropolia. ANTI-AlRt KArr   u i ;> »— i ,
high    command    conferences,    and      Mussolini's   trip   waa   made    by times  as many  were   ouiic  ouring then returned to Italy on July 20,    plane    (perhaps    his    private    „„,. the first six months of IM2 at dur-
It was on June 30-^lhc day after which    hc    pilots    frequentlyi    and '"K «" "' '"*'• Mussolini left Italy- that the Halo-  while   In   Africa,   according   to   the      *UTII.I.EBV   and    ANTI-TANK Oernian drive pointed at Alexandria Stefani   arroiint,   he   presided   over f-,-^^_pro[jn(-t|on was at the rate was  halted  In   the  El  Alamein  re- dally North African high command   '   " "     xlmatelv 2,000 a month, ginn  about   80 mile,  weat of  Alex-  .onfcrence... MAtTllNE    OI'NH-More    than
anrlria.   The British Ihen sel7,ed the      'He   confirmed   for   himself   that      ' n,„nth.    More   than   SB,0O0
Inlllative   and   began   forcing   the  the   morale   of   his   troops   Is   the :''J^„rhlne   guns   are   being   pro- *"'¦' h«ck. highest  ever, at a time when  they ^uced monlhlv.
It  was  reported  that  while  (ler- are facing at the side of Ihelr CJer- man and Italian forret under Fleld man comrades the second phase of     KXPLOSIVRH and Ml'NlTIONR Marshal     Erwin     Rommel     were the  battle." —TNT  production  was   flve   times
High lights of the report Includ¬ ed:
from   7,000   feet   during   the   early dayt of the Paclflc war before the arrival  of American  airmen, Oit air from Huppliet
j With one trantport sunk, two I disabled and othert withdrawing under aerial pounding, the Invaders athore, eatimated at 2,500, were re- Field Marshal Kedor vnn Bork .s ported 'faced wilh the problem of IJerman army of onc million men, l>eing aupplied quickly or facing spearheaded by ma.'sea of para- eventual annihilation. ihule troops dropped behind the Forty-five thousand pounds nf Rus-'lan lines, battled al thi- Don I high explosives and flre hrmhs River boundary of ne faiica.^u, Iwhich were hurled down on the In- ."aturday while a strong i'ovie' vaders yeiterday In one of the hig- threat to the Nazi flank developed gett Allied operations in the entire nearly 500 miles northward. New Guinea war attested  to    the
.growing might of Gen. Pouglai The Red Army fought desperately ! MacArthur's rapidly expanding air with a new battle cry. "We shsll die .force. hilt    not    retreat I"     To    .item    Ihe
j The attacki were to fierce that (Jcrman lide which already has ithe Japanese cargo vessels were rnrrlrd across the Don in the ' unable to unload and were forced Tsimlyansk region 120 mile, east to withdraw north, probably to of Ro.«tov, whose defense appears I their nearest base at Salamaua, 1,W to be in Ila final hours. I mllet up the coast.
'U. 8. Troopa Nearby Although    the   Germans   claimed
I The Japanese landed In the area the capture of Rostov early Friday, on Wednesdav but even though <he Russians ignored the Nazi claim Port Moresby, the major allied """I '^ appeared Ihal htter fighting bate In New Guinea, is 110 miles "iH ««« underway In and around to the touth across the Owen Slan- <he city to cover a withdrawal of lley Mountaint, it was nol believed ""• f""'" R"M"<n force southward 'the Japanese could offer a serious "'"1 ea.-dward along the curving threat to that base, which Is part- Don. ly garrisoned by American troops and airmen
wiTSHt w« tVld'^ahLvi^Av.^''" '•'«• '••^ »^" .tUmpted at nttV^Ml^roo.^ .I?.„J.H fo^.h^ Novocherkatak. The mKbiivht off Oarman troopa Intended for the , ^ mantlen.
1"? Wl t.11     it^t'^L*   "?•'however, of battle* on Ihe touthar.
portant highway vital le tba ¦«Pply .u-re of the Don
of Field Marthal Fedor von Bockt •""•."• ">•»*"•
forces at the Don, , ¦«!J' A*««l««"f st \«raMih
^r'"*"H'•, vr *•""•*   , m wfy'"a7our'i-o'ro;;^:h, "is, mfr.:
rhe midnight co.nmiinique to d „J^^ „, r„,,„^. ,„j .outh.a.t of of   desperate   Rust an   sltempts  lo Bry.ntk, where Ihe   Ruttiant have
m 'fo'^elir.'nT.rh^.HM  hv'n^:'  "een   pu.shing   the   Germane   back man  forcet-spearheaded  b.v  para- ,,...,.....j  «_r ,„,,, j.... ... . J   L ,_'   J   ...   'Westward  for four da\s.
chute   troopa   dropped   behind   the      „., „„.,., .,.„.. ,u. .„._.   i	
t% ,¦ .   n    , .   K* At several p ares tne enemy hat
Ruojian   lines -at  Roetov,  at  .Nov- k.^l.^  .u.„,._i,   i...     .u . i. .
.     ,       ,    «rt      -, .u      .     . l>roKen  through   into  the  outskirtt
ocherkosak 32 mie* northeast of „, !,„,_,,„ /l. „ . ., "'"'•¦^ Rostov and around Tslmlyantk. j;' ^,~',»^.' '*" midnight commu- whlc^ Is no miles further east on „^.„^ ,p,^,„^ ^^^^ „^,^, ^^^ me uon, soldiers are fighting againsl enemy
Saturday's noon communique tanka and infantry, had told of a German eroaaing of •hi the region of Rostov our the Don—with huge losse.i around troopa are waging heavy fighting Tsimlyantk. just west of the elhow against the German Fatclat forces, of the river. Other Nazi cro.isingi The enemy brought up heavy forces - and,   under   the   numericil   superi¬
ority, our troops had to retreat.''
Il   was   indicated   that   Marahal Semyon Timoshenko was wllhdraw-
,,..,, ,,     , ..     ing south of Rostov and to the eaat
Ush   at   Axi*   lines   all   along   the ^,„      ,^^ p„,^ ,„^ , „,^^. ^
Egypt desert  front  from  the  Medi-      ,„   „,,   Voronezh   region.   It   was
terranean   to   Q«Hara   Depre^.sion,  ,^,,p^    ,,,,   ^^^   j^ supported
holding Gen.  Field Marshal  Erwin ^^, ^^„^,,  p|,„„ ^^^ cavalrv, waged
Rommelt  Axis   forces  on   the  de- -.^tubhorn    battles"    and    repulsed
fensive, Nazi counter-attacks In several tec.
In Washington ll was announced t"" designed to regain lost ground, that U, S. submarines operating in N««l» Thro« ln Reserves Far F.islern waters had aunk one' "The Germans were forced to Japanese destroyer, a medium- bring up hurriedly Isrge reserves sized tanker, three cargo ships snd fmi" "'e deep rear' the communi- po.ssibly a fourlh cargo vessel. I"' »¦"' "' the Voronezh successes.
Describing   the   terrific   struggle
On the Australian invasion front. In and arnund Rostov. Ihe high com- Ameriran plnnes, including new mand said that one Red Armv com- Douglas 24-A, two-motor dive pany heat off enemy attacks for bomber*, battered the Japaneae in- eight hours. destroyi,ig 11 Nazi vasion fori ea so furiously with lanks and killing .IHO Germans, bombs st Bun and Gona on Ihe Five Russian tank* locked with northeast New Guinea coajst that .IO tterman tanks in ore small area one transport was sunk, two dis- and destroyed 18 of the enemy ahled   and   others   forced   to   with- tanks.
draw. About   120 miles  eastward  In   the
Ttlinlyansk   area,   where   the   Ger-
The Japanese forces of about mans earlier were acknowledged to 2,,%00 men landed in the Buna- have established bridgeheads on the Gona region directly opposite Ihe pon. the Red Army air force in- Allied     advance      hase     at      Port   flirted hravv blov.s.    In one sector
Washinjrton, July 25, —• (UP)—United States sub» marine!!, striking in Japa* nese %vatcr.<!, have blasted six more enemy ships, including H modern destroyer, the Navy .Tii«M.ncct! today.
Five of the ships wer* sent to the bottom and th« sixth, a medium-sized cargo ship, was heavily damaged and be¬ lieved sunk, the Navy said.
The destroyer was the ninth ihlp of itt clasa aunk or damaged by submarines tince July 4, and to- dayt announced toll, including, la addillon, a medium-sized tanker, and four cargo ships, brought to 84 the number sunk or damaged by jsubt alone since the war began.
Although U. S. submarinea havt been increasingly active in tha Pacific—Inflicting damage In tJM battlea of Midway and In tha %\mr, tian lalanda—tkU la tha (lnt «»» tack rtp«rto4 l* Var SHlart wntora ainaa May 11.
¦avvral Amarlean ouhHwrlBat had baan concentrated In the Alau> tiana, where constant fog and miat haa hampered ute ef bombing j plane* and surface craft, but to- ^ day'a communique left no doubt that others were operating en as wide a scale at ever.
Sinking of the "modern" dettroy¬ er brought to 67 the number of Japanete warthipt of all typaa ¦ sunk by the Army and Navy an4 to 293 or 294 the number of Japan¬ ese ships of all types sunk or damaged by our forces, according to unofficial compilation. The H.yy alone   has  damaged  223.
In addition tn these losses, tha Army has unofficially announced the sinking of a Japanese cruiser In the Aleutians and the damag¬ ing of an aircraft carrier In tha same   area.
Text of Navy Communique No. 100:
"Far East:
"1.—U.S. submarines have re* ported the following results of oper¬ ations In Far Eastern waters:
"A. -One modern Japanete de¬ stroyer sunk.
"B -One medium sized tanker sunk.
"C—Three cargo ships sunk.
"D.—One medium sized cargo ship dtmaged and believed sunk.
"2.—These actions have not been announced in any prevloua Navy Deparlmenl  communique."
THREE MEN KILLED AS BIG TRUCK RUNS WILD
Although'war  commentators   de-   (?real stress on   a   strong    Russian
Advices     from     Moacow     placed Moresby   were  reported  to  be  fac-  Russian   bombera   and  fighters   de- AOMces     irom     ivioacow     piaien entrapment  as  a   result   of the ttroved  seven  Nazi   t inks   ino  lor-
Ihruating   eaatward   toward   Alex-
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•The   unexpected    visit    of    the and  smokeless powder almost  two Duce has made a deep Impression times the output at the time Pearl upon the Italian soldiers In Libya," Harbor was attacked, the  announcement said. „      .        .,  ....       j        j.
"He visited airfields, naval bases,     TANKS-More light and medium Italian  and  German  hospitals,   de- tanks already have been turned out pots, villages of   Italian    colonists than during all of 1941,  More than and gave medals to Italian pilots of 1,,'iOO were built in May, the Fifth Air Wing," MERCHANT    SHIPS   Deliveries
nn   the   Afrlc-in    fighting    front        ^^ approximately     2,M4,000
today's Italian high command com- ™«i"""       ^'
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plnred the fact that the Japs were able lo land, official reports sug¬ gested that emphasis on the Jap¬ anese Initiative should not be ex¬ aggerated, Aulhorilatlve    sources   suggested
Threaten Nazis With Reprisals
Rio de Janeiro, July 2R. (UP) — In what amounted to a virtual ultimatum to Germany, the for¬ eign ministry' lonight said that unless Braziliant were released from prison in occupied France reprisals would be laken on Ger¬ man nationals in Brazil,
In a note to Germany, handled through    Portuguese    diplomatic „^^ „, -
channels   the ministry demanded  '        *    ^ „„ ^„^^j^ „,r ficei immediate   release   of   Brazilians   .
I  recently   arreated   and   held    at (jompaigne and  olher  places,
!      Germana In  Brazil  continue to
I enjoy civil rights with the excep-
offcnsive against the German flank around Bryansk, about 200 mllea soiitlnve.st of Moscow. The Russian ptirpcse was to divert German strength from von Bock's drive and force him to a standstill while the Red Army regroups for a new stand in defen.se of the oil-rich Caucasus,
South of Bryansk on the German flank the Russians reported new successes In the Voronezh region, vvhere the Germans have been In retreat fnr sevcrnl days. The Brit¬ ish radio estlmnted Ihat lOO.OOO Orninn Hungarian and Rumanian troops have heen killed around Voronezh In the past 30 days. On the southern Don front alone, thc British estimated, the Germana are 00,000  men,  2,000
heavy and constant Allied air blast¬ ings.
rles   with   war   materials,   six   guns and two  .Nazi planes.
In the  fighting around Voronezh.
On (-hina sbattlefroM. the Japa- i,„.|„h,v   south   rf the  citv,   the
nese   occupied   the    ri 'fr   lown   of   ' _
In North Africa, It was an¬ nounced. United Slates bombers have carried out seven destructive attaeka   wilhin   a   week   on   Axis
tion   of   a   few   whose   activities  i bases and supply lines and sgain,st have been investigated and shown    ii,^ i,iand  of Crete off the tip of to be a menace tn the state, the   Crtrft    where   German   parachute note    aaid.    Tt    was    not    stated    troops  have heen  ma.s-sed, what   the   nature   tha   reprisals , I would taka. '   British    imperials   continued   lo
Sinchanghslen, 50 miles soulh of Ningpo. in Ihelr attempt to seize bases from which Allied bombers might a^aln subject Tok.vo and other Nipponese war centers tn bombardmenl.
On the European front, where British bombers, including Ameri¬ can-built Bostons, carried out dar¬ ing and destructive daylight alUi ks on Mannheim and Frankfort .Sat¬ urday, the news was highlighted by disclosure of a rulhles.t Nazi round¬ up of men. women and children in occupied France fnr deportation to Polish  concentration  ca.nps. '
In I.ondon, demand" for the im¬ mediate opening of a second front continued and, while workers of London and Birmingham petitioned Prime Minister Winston Churchill for an Allied offensive, Dr. Eduard Benes of the Czechoslovak govern- menl-ln-exile asserted that peace might come "in less than a year" If an invaainn of the continent were undertaken hy the Allies within the next  three  montha.
'Continued   on   Page   A-3i
Pittsburgh, July 2,^. iUP>—A IO- lon trailer-truck plunged out of control today in a Lawrencevilla street, killing three men, injuring two and plunging into a school building after striking two cara and  a  huckster's  wagon.
The driver of the truck. Richard Keyser. 27. of Chicago, died In a hosplLtl, while two other men wera killed   instantly.
The nther two victims were not Indentifled immediately. One of the cars which was struck, how¬ ever, had license plates which wera issued to R. E. Kiskadden, M, of Bellevue.
Rommel Digging in; Artillery Duel Baging
By LEO.N   HAY
Palro. July 2« MIPi—Axw forcea in the desert, after two unsuccess¬ ful efforts to launch counter-at¬ tacks against British positions along Ihe line west of El Alamein. today began feverishly digging In, pojtslbly in anticipalion of further British   attacks.
There wnji comparatively little activity today aside from heavy artillery duels. The big guns have been firing for 38 hours, with each aide Irying to knock out the other's batteries.
In the atlempted counter-attacks the enemy lost heavily In tanks and armored units as well at in¬ fantry, and it waa believed tha set¬
back   might    force   German   Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to remain on the defensive al least temporar¬ ily. I. 8. Filers Raiding
While the front line situation ra» mained virtually unchanged. It waa announced that the United States Air Force made seven devastating raids against Axis targets in North Africa and Crete during their flrtt week of sustained fighting In tha Baltle nf Egypl,
British fliera, lashing out over land and sea, wtre revealed ta have wrecked more than 29 AxU planes, blasted tanks and armorsd cars, and left a merchant ihly sinking during the past 24 houra.
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