G O V Y >J Y : There wa s a ru or in o d on t o ay that British an American forces ha landed on the strate ic islan d of Pantelleria. In fact, the s ory was printed in the LO DON EV NI G STA . AD, which claimed that it came from the Berlin radio. How e ver, • nobody but the EVENING TANDARD people seem to have heard that Berlin broadcast; so, some doubt is thrown u on it in London. This was the third anniversary of the day , on w ich Benito ~ussolini declared war on France and Great Britain, the famous stab-in-the-back, as Preside t Roosevelt describe d it. And to celebrate the event, British and American planes elivered abother savage blow it the -t,otk11:ug- 9arl'-i.NNl -ef Pantelleri "' . ~ { i e d Headquarters in llorth Africa makes no mention 7P ' of any anding on the island. Yesterday was the eighteenth day in succession in which the Allies J_ ~ ~~ ..... ,,_.., ~ . ~ Umaered thal'••ee~, kraa~, OIH!le~e• piro~a 9epe•t - : ~ J , . J Mri• is litet\ally saoking, and that all the " - . ground installations look as though they were cracked in pieces. levertheless tne garrison continues to pay no attention to the &lllt .. deaand to surrender. There were flying fortresses in that raid, as llara uders, well as Billy llitchells, la■z••••••i Lightnings, War Hawks, and Light bombers of the Royal Air Force. 1f'At the saae Uae fifty great big United States Liberator planes,operating ax out of soaewhere in the Middle East, paid a serious visit . to a couple of the principal · airdroaes in Sicily. Cairo reporte~ tha~ the Liberators aft. destroyed at least two dozen planes on the ground and damaged many others. They also shot down three not Interceptor planes, whil~iAa single Liberator was lost. ~~~ tdbditaR The ~9~--=~tlaat.. pwM" Pantelleria shot down :::S-o twel!!_ enemy planesit&l\ogether, s the figures now ~~~Ho.~ - ~ ~ atand,*••r stde 1t&a bagged fie hundred and forty ,- A . enemy planes in twenty-three days. For an anniversary party IY•• Mussolini got a clear demonstration that the British and Aaericans are in control of the air at hil back door. lh• .,.._ . . . . . ~ ~ pll1\a » • p • l l t . ~ resistanc•A••tt..i~ Pantelleria and in Sicily was .,..,. feeble. - lhile all thK was going on, long-range fighter planes from the Middle East flew over the Aegean~...., sank two enemy vessels, and left another..,. stranled in shallow water. and a fourth listing i.eH, with a hole in its side. • - A brand new Italian submarine, the Triton, was on her first trip out. new ~if'! underwater bo a ts th a t the Axis powers are building. She ran into an Allied convoy escorted by a couple of British destroyers. v:::-:O...~en-of-wa . .,. dropped•• ma.,..,a1haaae-,h•t the depth charges~forced luasolini's new sub11C1tuo to the surface.*• There they sank her with gunfir~ a ~ ~ t ~ P the sur•iYors. t) A French newspaper in Algiers today had a .._...,.-.._ front-page piece announcing that the deaand for the surrender of Pantelleria on Tuesdey was really the beginning of the new offensive against Europe. To be ~~ sure it 4S . . , - . . onl7 the prologue•d tbw : ri ~ ,I/ the article went on to prophecy that the garrison at Pantelleria would soon be reduced by blockade, starved out. As the day wore on people in ~ondon beca•• aore inclined to believe the story printed in the !Tening Standard. There appears to be less doubt that the Berlin radio did broadcast a report whicj read: •It appears that Allied forces have landed on Pantelleria! The broadcast continued to say that detail• are not yet aTailable. Italy tnowa Geraany wi l l giTe all neceaaary help. " **x*II■ At the aa ■e ti ■ e the Roae radio broadcast an adaiaaioa. The Faaciat High Couaad acknowledges that, the Alli~•e the i1land of La■peduaa 1urroundedJ ~ It&;~~ a ■aller island cl ■ oa\ ~•• 1outh of Paatellerla, aidwa1 between Africa and lalta. Secretary of State Hull also took cognizance of the third anniTersa17 of Mussolini's entry into the war. lewapaperaen at his press conference asked the Secretary whether he had any co ■■ent to make. Be replied that ae a rule he tried to avoid unpleasant subjects, 1uch a1 Mussolini. Then he went on to say that the Duce has been falae to hi• people, false to ••ery law an4 rule of organized 1ociety. At the saae ti•• he baa - been aa loyal as he could to Bitler, to Bitleri••• ud ~ - to all the infa ■ iea that Bi tleri1 ■ ,~•••9)\ The Secretar1 ~~ ~ IA.- prophe1ied that~&•~ ia rapidly ov■ law nea~~ what'""\ Bull calla a ti ■ely end. Uncle Sam's air forces in the European theatre of war are now twice what they were in larch. Coae Septeaber they will be doubled again. And by that · tiae the United States air ara will be able to carry its fall 1hare of th~;;;;.-;:. 1~• t:i£t-. Thia was announced today by Major General Ira Zaker, who coaaanda all the Aaerican air force• in the )./.e ...4 -"" !J European theatre.Ahr air force ••i there ia increaain1 •1 fifteen to•• ~11~ •• thirty percent a aonthj k '- - ad,ldc It t:e 1au1wewU•1 ~ bot\kinda ot planes, bo■b - a:r■ and fighters, but aoatly heaYy an~ aediaa boabera. R]JS S IA T~~ the Russian front 1 ~ a to b■ guerrilla fighting A eTi4ently getting ready pected awa■er ~ offensive) J-•I •~ concentrating ■en, tanka and behind planes in huge nu■beraA.~J Orel and Bryanak. So ' A -,,. evidently that ta where the attack will begin. The ~ lo -ft( tlleaw 1 \ Buaaiane are pounding the Germana heaYily a■i fro• A the air, and the Ger■ana ad■ ittwi tbat th~•• airpl••• raid■ Are on a big ecale:r ~H~tlr,■W ~~~ par+, ue ~•ntittag •• key centers of ta.. Russian war ~ A ~J~ indu■tr1',t_ f~I~ latest7a1{ waa on a place called Yaroslael, one hundred and seTenty ailes northeast of Moscow. !~~.J!]SSij Later this evening it appeared that the Soviet Generals are not waiting for the Kazi• to begin the attack. The Reda have started a au■mer offensive of their own, and forced a passage across the l~River ~ west of Ro1tov. The new• co ■ea from Berlin. But tbe la&i High Co■■ and also clai ■• tha - t the succesa waa - 1hort-liTed, that the Germane counter-attacked ana wiped out thrluseian• who had forced the river ant A eatabli1hed a bridgehead. So · We dodet know accurately what reallJ happened. So far loecow haa nothing to ••1· }!.QOSJ:!ELT President Booaevelt today, coamented on the fact that in October,Bineteen Forty,Hitler gave the Government ot Greece just three hours to decide whether lot, to join the Axis or the Allies. la,Athree days, the lz■a President pointed out, or three weeks, Just three hours. And the choice lay between slaYery to the Axis or an ~ - i ■■ediate boabardaent fro ■ the air.Air. Ro••••elt added ~ that if they had been giYen three years thea choice "' would haYe been the saae. These reaarka were addressed to the Greek Aabasaador. ' The Presi~preaent:r-to the Greek ,- )\ people a brand new warship chriatened Iing George lllz the Second. ~1at ::-:aJrti;c. lJuilt by American hands iaa ~~ in an Aaerican yard, fa deliYered to fighting Greeks A ~ , wherever they may b9iunder/\.-terms of "8e lend lease • . -6-f !b■ ■ :1.1:r Jii•x■'•' h■c°l■ a part of tU Ro1al Hellenic Ravy. The Australians are no longer w ed ebout a Japanese inYaaion. The Prime Minister of the Co ■ monweal h held a conference at Sidney with General Boa1l•• MacArthur. After it wa1 oYer he tolu newapaperaen that the danger of a serious inTaaion has passed. The Allies, he believes, are now · in a position to start an offeneiTe again■t the Japa,~Aatralia .fui-.: ~ At one stage he said:••• had a close call, •• ~-e.,,_ ....tk.J.. ·' - tJ 'L did the people of Britain. 1, But the battle of the Coral Sea was a deliverance, and the ret · urn home of the Australian forces fro• the Middle East enabled the Allies to atop the advance of the Japanese in lew Guinea juat(in ti••·• Although he does not believe the Jape ~ ~~ can invade Auatralia now, nevertb•leas~h• Auatraliana ~ ~ are not ia■ une fro• raids, 1 ~hich may cause Aa lot o~ daaage and loss of life. Evidently the enthusiasa for General MacArthur ' ia aa strong as ever in Auatralia. Priae 1,niater Curt n paid hia a glowing tribute today, said his country can well feel grateful to MacArthur, Job in such a distinguished way that he has*•••••• in ■ uret the security ot Australia•• a baae. iQoTEll Zoot suit rioting in Los Angeles haa now spread to the woaen. The feaale ruffians are called, in the language of the laxican Quarter there, Pachucoa. A young waitress on her way to work thia aorning was attacked by three of these she-hoodluaa wearing knee-length coats • . They hit her with braaa tauckles, kicked her, and cut her face with a ra1or. Then a couple of Deputy Sheriffs were asking que1tiona of a group of 1ooter1, when a woaan bystander Japed in and called the deputies rude naaes. TheJ arreste4 her. , and found a pair of brass knuckla on her. ~ The Ar■y and ■~1 High Co ■■ and haa widened the out-of-bounds area. lot only Los Angeles, but a. nearb7 town• are now forbidden territory for men f;'f the ar■ed serTices. Eleven zoot-euiters were indicted by the Grand JurJ,and soaething like fiTe hundred people were in ~QOTERS - g the Los Angeles jails, four hundred of whoa are held without charge. All thia rioting has arouaed the interest not onl1 of the CiYil authoritiea of Loa Angel••• but al10 the Governor of California, the lexican Aabaaaador, the State Departaent, an4 tile Office of lelaon Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter- Aaericah Affaira. Dare ~ tbe 41au~ ~e pa7 la the cioal ■ Jar CnPH tarr1ilt£, Early this morning Secretary Ickes, aa ~ Coal Adainiatrato~, announced that the ainers who went " on a trike for fiYe days last week will be fined one dollar for each day they are on s~rike~ T~a, Wlll ■■oa■ t t• a total of soae two aillion, ■ ix hundr•d an4 fifty dollars. Th · i• heated a lot of teapers in the alner•' Union. John L. Lewi■ called it a brutal application of ecoaoaic sanctions. A Union apokesaan for one di1trict said tbi• would lead to another ,trike. One Onion aeaber called it a gigantic bur1lary and •a14 1f ~~, it was illegal. laiixix Secretary Icke~A••• in atrict ■ ines are still being of thecontract under which the ~ operated.AThe Secretary said the accord with the teras aoney would be distributed aaong charities. But there is also favorable news about coal. John L. Lewis has come to teras with the operators of - Central Pennsylvania. They have ■ ade a separate agreeaent,as the apokesman for the operators notified the lar Labor Board today. Of course, there ia a po11ibilit7 that the War Labor Board will dieapproTe of aa7tbia1 done without it. But oa the whole, it wae belieYed that thi• ■eaat that other group• of operators would alao aooa co■e to ter ■a with the ■ iners. BJ that agree■ent the ■inera wilt••• an4 Thirty Centi a da7. an increase of One Dollar • 1 Motor car owners in the Middle lest az will ---rGt. ~ ~ i c 1 > . e ~ . not be forbidden to do any pleasure driTing. ~ said - - A -8■er■h#f J:dlan J • Petroleua Adainiet~■ w:!:f ~ teatifying before a twelve- ■ an coaaittee of Congres1---. • ~ , ad ■ itted that the day would coae whea P ♦ •••ure the laat continua to be pri ■ arily a ■ atter of S o tran■ portation, . . . cutting down on driTere . /\ \W ~ 11441• leat would not do peopl" in the East I\ in the ~ any 100a. ,A Icke1 al10 told the co ■■ ittee that he was trying to p•reuade the Office of lar Production lat: ~ to concentrate the - - ~ - I \ ~ u t . ~ ~ authority,hto fix prices, and to ~-ofo.RP •* ration petroleu■ product~under one ■an. The /\ Congressaan asked hi■ whether the situation would not be better if Ickes had sole authority over g~soline. 7/7-n ~ - 4 ~ r e p l i e d that little as he craved the job, he ,iA§QLIIE .:_g would have to say yes. to r agency haa4. .. Coagr aeaea, he 1• the pr ce of er•• oil la to bu get out. -G of OPA, he wil A.appeal lar . C Bernard M. Baruch, Chairaan of the war Indu1trie1 Board . ~ ~ cM in the last war, t o d a ~ \ . ~ ~ his new job 1 on the 1taff of War Mobilization Director J•••• ~ B1rne•J ~ baiG wlH::--..,~neither salary nor title. Be took adYantage of the occaeion toast for an end of the bickering that bas been going OD aaong Washington official•. le xat called it •thie infernal bicterin1,• aad declared that it not only hurt the war effort but coafuaed the · publi~le added that in accepting the Job he toot it for granted that tba Office of War lobili1atioa ■eans buein••• and will be effecti••• If Jaatice Byrne• ie noi blocked, said Baruch, he caa iaproYe · thing• by defining the work of each Administrator ■ore clearly. TIil t, said Barso•, aight put a stop to ~ the bickering. But~he will not be able to accoaplieh anything if he ia to be bypaesed and side-tracked as has happened to other official.a. %ill§_ The new tax bill now has becoae law. President BooseYelt signed it this afternoon. Beginning J ul7 tiret all eaplo7ers will deduct twenty percent froa t.aa. ~ pa7 Wl-t ,:;e;!w 110:et-f.... Al■o, people wbo owe Uncle ~ Saa fift7 dollars or leas in taxes, do not haTe to pa7 it. People whoee tax aaounta to . between fifty and ~•ixt7-aix dollars are forgiYen fifty dollar• of it. People who pa7 more than •~xt7-aix dollars are for1i••• 11Yent7-fiYe percent of th, 7ear's taxes. Bowefer, you h&Ye to ■ake 7our regular . Jane fifteenth pay ■ ent. The June and March pa7aenta will , be considered the 1 pa7aen~ of taxes tor the first halt . of I 1n,teen-rort7-tbr ee · . i• i• • fa~ -ltet tihat, i11e,., .. 11~~,iS.~ ~~1.~a ~ .. --ff,t ~~f ~ ~ : : :C:rr . , '/UV\ It>..,(