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By Th Associated Press
A half-year of war was closing
for the United States Saturday
night much as it began, with a
major battle in the mid-Pacific.
There was, however, one striking
and important difference which
in a measure expresses what six
months of fighting have done for
America's services and its people
as well.
The attack on Pearl Harbor
eaucht American forces with
their guard down. The result
was disaster. An admiral and a
general were set down because
they had failed to coordinate
their efforts, because they had
' not ordered their forces to be
on the alert.
But 'when the Japanese struck
at Midway island the other day
they met a hot reception. The
alert garrison there beat them off.
Between Pearl Harbor and the
battle off Midway lay nearly six
months of disheartening defeats,
illuminated occasionally by bril-
liant victories, and everywhere
made notable by proof of the
man-for-man fighting superiority
of American soldiers and sailors
over the Japanese.
The Japanese took Malaya,
Singapore, the Dutch East Indies,
the Philippines and Burma, and
seized Guam and Wake island, the
latter after an heroic resistance
by a tiny band of marines.
Meanwhile, the navy and air
forces were taking a terrific toll
of Japanese ships, and men
the battle of Macassar straits,
the battle of the Coral sea, sab
marine forays, the exploits of
the motor-torpedo boats, made
the enemy pay heavily.
Military experts say, how
ever, that for the territory
which Japan has gained. Is
lands rich In the rubber and
oil which she needs for her war
making, the enemy losses may
not be disproportionate.
But from the point of view of
Japan's ability to make replace
ments the story is different Amer
ica's shipyards are humming, to
gether with all her war production
industries. The goals set in Jan
uary and then considered fantas
tic are being exceeded in a num
ber of instances.
America's production of war
materials, vastly greater than
that of Japan r greater than all
the axis conn tries combined, Is
expected eventually to provide
tho determining - factor. And,,
Brig. Gen. "Jimmy'' DooUtUe
proved that American planet'
loaded with bombs can be placed
over the cities of Japan.
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The booming American war
production program has run, how
ever, into a transportation bottle
neck. The tools of war must be
carried tremendous distances to
China, to Russia and Australia, as
well as Just across the ocean to
England. Nazi submarines have
operated with signal success
against American coastal shipping
and every day's story of new ships
launched has had its offset in the
navy's announcements of old ships
sunk. '
The big convoys plying to
England, Kassla and Australia
have piled np what naval men
consider a remarkable record of
success, however. Recently
there has been an apparent In
crease in the destruction of sob
marines. The navy hopes to have
tho situation In hand soon.
The six months have seen Amer
ican fighting men take up battle
stations in a score of far away
places, particularly in Australia
and northern Ireland. In the for
mer they are being 'welded by
General Douglas MaeArthur into
a striking force which eventually
is to carry the war to the Japs.
The big concent ration In
northern . Ireland '' Is obviously
. there preparing for tho moment
when the much discussed second
European front wfil bo opened
by an Invasion of the naxl-held
continent.
When that stroke will come is
the big question of the year.
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RAF Over Coast
To Drop Bombs
For
Encounter No Nazi Fighters
In Sunday Foray; Pictures
Reveal Cologne Destruction
BY DREW MIDDLETON
LONDON, Sunday, June 7 (AP) The mighty RAF
offensive thundered into its eighth day with a raid early
Sunday morning upon the German-held French coast and
British coastal guns joined the assault, sending a series
of earth-shaking, two-gun salvoes across the channel.
Nazi big gun positions in the Boulogne and Cap Gris
Nez areas appeared to be the targets of the post-midnight
attack, which followed a third powerful night assault Fri
day on Germany's industrialized Ruhr and a Saturday day
light sweep perhaps outdoing all others over northern France.
The Germans struck back early
Sunday, making an hour's attack
on the southeast, coast with high
explosive and fire bombs.
The opposing night raiders
plunged through stormy weather
over the channel and the flashes
from British bombs on the French
coast were intermingled with
lightning dancing across thunder
clouds.
The daylight raids Saturday
over northern France brought
to a smashing weekend climax
the war's greatest aerial offen-
sive in which the RAF hurled
between 6000 and 7000 planes
at the continent.
"Many squadrons of fighters
made a sweep over Le Havre,
Abbeville and Berck," the air
ministry said Saturday night in a
communique. Only two RAF
fighters were lost.
The air ministry news service
said German-army units at a Nor
mandy encampment were blown
high into the air at noon when
Hurricane bombers with Spitfire
escort roared over at nearly
ground level. They encountered
no German fighters.
A few enemy aircraft were re
ported over the English south
coast Saturday. Bombs were
dropped but damage and number
of casualties were declared small.
Bomb-carrying Hurricanes, es
corted by Spitfires scored hits on
airdrome buildings and the per
imeter of the track at Maupertus,
on the Cherbourg peninsula, the
news service added.
Struck on last Saturday night,
the air ministry said, photo
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Laundry Men
Elect Kiioefel
State Meet Stresses
War Production
Problems
At the closing session of its an
nual convention here Saturday,
the Oregon State Laundryowners
association elected Dick Knoefel,
Oregon City as president suc
ceeding T. A. Windishar of Sa
lem. The next convention city
- will be chosen by the association
officers. T
Other, officers are Carl Field,
Eugene, vice-president; R. H,
Windishar. McMtanville, treas
urer; Duane C. Lawrence, Port
land, secretary; C. C. Steinel,
' Corvallis, sergeant - at - a r m s,
and S. W. Lawrence, Portland,
member of the advisory board
of the national laundryowners
association.
The executive committee is
composed of J. Snelson, Pendle
ton, eastern Oregon district; G. H.
Rawlinson, Portland, Portland
district: C. H. Weider, Albany,
Willamette valley district; Glen
Fabric, Medford, southern Ore
gon district, and L. W. Trenholm,
Astoria, lower Columbia river dis
trict -. Outstanding among the resolu
tions adopted was that authoriz
ing the president to appoint a
committee to handle the war pro
blems of the industry, ,
Most of Saturday's morning
session was devoted to technical
. addresses. Speakers included
C. H. Gram, state labor commis-
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Portland Toll 20
PORTLAND, June -(P)Port-
Jand'i traffic toll for the year
Stood at 20 Saturday with the
death last night of Mrs. Emily
Walker, 73, who was struck cross
lug an intersection Tuesday.
Eighth Day
Chinese Claim
Japs Repulsed
From Chuhsien
British Initiative Held
In Hammering of
Nazis in Libya
CHUNGKING, China, June 6
JP) Forcing the Japanese to pay
a heavy and bitter price for their
Chekiang-Kiansgsi offensive, the
Chinese announced officially Sat
urday night that they had thrown
back repeated Japanese attacks
against the walled city of Chuh
sien Saturday.
The Japanese news agency
Dome! reported from the Che
kiang front that Japanese sol
diers had occupied Chuhsien at
6 p. m. Saturday after a three
day campaign.
As the 59th month of the Chinese-Japanese
war ended, the Jap
anese were driving hard against
determined Chinese defenses in
the eastern seaboard provinces.
The Chinese reported the recap
ture of several points in Anhwei
province and the Flying Tigers
of the American volunteer group
announced their planes had kill
ed more than 200 Japanese in
attacks along the west bank of
the Salween river in Yunnan
province and along the Burma
road.
A Japanese column driving
southward tried in vain to cross
the Chu river and join the fight
on Chuhsien, the Chinese com
munique said. It announced the
column lost 1000 men killed and
wounded, making a total of 11,000
enemy casualties in the last three
days.
CAIRO, Egypt, June 6-(;P)-The
British eighth army has wrested
armored superiority from the Ger
mans in the Libyan desert and
with their sky-ruling air force is
hammering ceaselessly at the foe
in a supreme effort to erase the
threat to Suez.
Already 340 German and
Italian tanks had been destroy
ed and captured, and the vet
erans of Gen. Sir Claude Auch
inleck appeared determined to
shatter as many of the residue
as possible before Marshal Er
win Rommel's battered army
ould escape through a gap in
the British mine fields between
Ain El Galala and Bir Hacheim.
The British, catching their sec
ond wind in the furious 12-day
battle in the furnace-like heat of
the swirling sands, have opened
a new drive in the triangular
trap west of Knightsbridge, the
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Oregon Radios
Again Silent
SEATTLE, June B-W'-The
Fourth fighter command Saturday
night ordered all radio stations in
western Washington and Oregon
to go off the air at 9 p. m. for
the fourth consecutive night
Washington stations west of the
Cascade mountains were instruct
ed to maintain silence from that
hour until permitted to resume
broadcasting. Oregon stations af
fected were those situated west
of the 121st meridian.
. (Enemy bombers can use a ra
dio station's beam as a guide to a
target.)
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Russians
Sink 10
Vessels
Bombers Hit at
Nazi Transport;
Front Is Active
MOSCOW, June 6-(;F)-Stor-movik
bombers of the Russian
Baltic fleet air arm have sunk
nine German transport ships
and at least one other vessel L
in the past three days, the Mos
cow radio announced Saturday
night.
One ship was said t8 have been
sunk during an attack on a Ger
man naval base in which an am
munition dump was blown up
and anti-aircraft batteries were
silenced.
'. Just where' the-Stormoviks at
tacked was not announced, but it
was believed they were hitting a
German move to reinforce the
nazis on the northwestern and
far northern front in Russia by
way of the Baltic and the Gulf
of Finland.
Three German battalions,
supported by 35 tanks, were
repulsed in one sector of the
German-Russian front with
losses of about 500 killed and
16 tanks destroyed, dispatches
from the battle area said Sat
urday. Only minor encoumres were
reported on the Kalinin front,
northwest of Moscow, and on the
southwestern and southern fronts.
The soviet information bureau
said Germany's central front army
had lost several hundred infan
trymen, killed or wounded, and
eight tanks in one assault on red
army forces operating behind
German lines.
A communique said red army
scouts wiped out a 100-man gar
rison on the Kalinin front, while
guerrillas killed 250 Germans by
derailing a troop train. They also
were credited with a raid on a
big railway station and the de
struction of an ammunition dump
and 1300 yards of track.
Willkie Sees
Coalition as
Unwise Move
NEW YORK, June M)Wen
dell L. Willkie, said Saturday that
a suggestion that all three parties
republican, democrat and Ameri
can labor join in the nomination
of the same individuals for vari
ous New York state offices obvi
ously was "both impossible of ac
complishment and would be un
wise if it could be brought about
Willkie's remarks were made in
answer to questions by newsmen
regarding a movement started by
Syeney S. Baron, New York pub
licist, for a coalition slated headed
by Willkie for governor. -
"Equally unreal," Willkie add
ed, "is the attempt by some to
create an atmosphere in which
the support of one particular can
didate for nomination is the test
of an individual's loyalty to his
party.
"inis is primary and conven
tion time the period in which
each party is selecting candidates,'
ne aaaea, -every member ox a
party has a right more than an
obligation to scrutinize e a c h
proposed candidate carefully and
to approve or disapprove if he
desires."
Friday's Weather
Weather reports withheld and
' temperature data delayed by
request of US army authorities,
: Max. temp. Friday, 76, Mis. 49.
River Saturday, 1.4 ft
Japs Assert
VS Seeking
Gas Pretext
TOKYO (from Japanese
broadcasts), Sunday, June 1-iJP)
The Dome! news agency
charred in a radio broadcast
Sunday that the United States
was seeking a "pretext" to use
poison gas.
The broadcast said:
"Well-informed circles, ridi
culing allied charges of Japa-
nese use of poison gas, declared
that President Roosevelt's latest
threat to resort to such meth
ods of warfare against Japan
if the latter 'persists' in utiliz
ing such methods of warfare
only serves to indicate that the
United States is anxiously seek
ing a pretext to resort to such
'barbaric means in order to ex
tricate itself from Impending
defeat.'
"These sources described as
ludicrous Roosevelt's charges
based on Chungking's allega
tions that Japan has been re
sorting to gas warfare and said
'winners do not have to resort
to illegal tactics and it is only
losers In a struggle who fall
back on desperate underhanded
methods'."
Auto Stamps'
Sale to Begin
$5 Sticker Important
In Gasoline Ration;
Will Be Gummed
WASHINGTON, June t.-iJP)-
The five-dollar federal automobile
tax stamps will go on sale at post
offices and internal revenue col
lector offices on June 10.
Internal Revenue Commis
sioner Guy T. Helvering an
nouncing the date Saturday, in
dicated that possession of the
stamp would be necessary for
getting new gasoline rationing
cards in areas where motor fuel
is rationed.
He said he had been advised
by the office of price administra
tion "that, in the issuance and use
of gasoline rationing books, an
important identification will be
the serial number printed on the
use tax stamp. In those areas
where gasoline is being rationed
and in those areas where gasoline
will be rationed, possession of the
stamp evidencing payment of the
use tax on motor vehicles will
provide one of the necessary
means of identifying the coupon
books with the vehicle in the se
curing of gasoline."
Heretofore, the government has
had to depend chiefly on state and
local police to enforce purchase of
the stamps.
The new stamp will cover the
fiscal year beginning July 1 and
will replace the existing stamp
issued on February 1 and for
which owners paid $2.09. It will
be serially numbered and have
spaces on the back for record-,
ing the make, model, aerial
number and state license num
ber of the vehicle.
The stamp will be gummed on
the face and the announcement
said that "it is the desire of the
bureau of internal revenue that
the use tax stamp shall be placed
on the windshield in a location
that will not be in conflict with
state requirements." The bureau
noted that one exception was New
Jersey where state laws require
such stickers on the rear window.
One Candidate Up
Only nominee for the position
which this summer becomes va
cant on the Salem - school board
when time for filing ballots closed
Saturday, was Mrs. David Wright,
incumbent and current chairman
of the directors, C. C. Ward, clerk
of the district, announced Satur
day night
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Salem, Oregon. Sunday
Jap Subs
Sunk By
Planes
Toll Hits Seven
After Australia
Ship Destroyed
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Sunday, June
An allied plane has destroyed
another Japanese submarine,
General MacArthur's headquar
ters announced Sunday.
This raised to seven and pos
sibly nine the number of enemy
submarines destroyed in waters
of the southwest Pacific within
a week.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, June 6 .P)-A Japa
nese submarine was believed
'sunk off New South Wales by
an allied plane after the under
sea raider had destroyed a
small Australian freighter, rais
ing the reported toll of the week
to six submersibles certainly
sunk and two probably.
The latest exchange in Japan's
stabs at the vital Australian life
lines was announced at about the
same time that Gen Douglas Mac
Arthur's communique told of an
nother fiery raid ton the enemy's
chief base in the outer islands.
Rabaul, New Britain, was attack
ed by allied bombers which dam
aged warehouses, docks and a
coaling jetty.
The little freighter broke in two
and sank within a minute after
the torpedo struck it over the
stokehold last Wednesday. Twelve
of the crew of 49 were missing.
It was the second ship sunk in
New South Wales during the
week. A third ship a creaking
old ferry boat was sunk in
Sydney harbor, but four midget
Japanese submarines were de
stroyed before and after the at
tack. Two other submarines, and
probably a third, were reported
sunk Friday by allied planes.
The latest probable victim was
attacked just after its torpedo
struck home. An allied plane drop
ped within 20 feet of the water
and exploded three bombs, the
last of which apparently hit the
spot where the submarine lay.
Japs' Radio
Fails to Tell
About Fight
NEW YORK, Sunday, June 7
(flV-Japanese broadcasts heard in
iNew York up to midnight (1 p. m.
Sunday, Tokyo time) had made'
no mention of the battle for Mid
way island or the Dutch Harbor
raid.
Instead, the Tokyo radio con
tinued to pour forth glossy ac
counts of what Japanese sub
marines had done to Sydney har
bor and the Diego Suarez naval
base on Madagascar.
But all these words apparent
ly beamed around the globe to
cover up the five-day silence on
the Midway and Dutch Harbor
operations failed to square with
the facts.
Whereas the Japanese told of
enormous destruction at Sydney,
they torpedoed only one worn out
ferry boat at a court of four of
their midget submarines, while the
British admiralty has put the lie to
Tokyo's claim that a battleship
and cruiser were hit at Diego
Suarez. t
Average Rent $25
: WASHINGTON, June 6
In 1940 the ; average Portland
home rental was $29.65 a month,
the bureau of the census : esti
mated in a report Saturday. . ;
Morning, Juno 7. 1942
Fighter
Thrills ran up and down the
spines of Americans when they
read history-making communi
ques of Admiral Chester W.
Nimits above), commander-in-chief
of the Pacific fleet, telling
of the sea battle of Midway is
land, one of the world's greatest
naval encounters.
Mt. Angel Man
Is Decorated
Lt. Elwyn Christman
Qted for Heroism
In Philippines
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, June 6
0P)-Lieut (JG) Elwyn L. Christ
man of Mt Angel, Ore., was
awarded the navy flying cross
Saturday for "extraordinary hero
ism" while commanding an at
tacking, patrol bomber against a
Japanese naval force off the
Philippines, December 27.
The award was made by Capt.
John D. Price, station command
ant The citation for the 27-year-old
flier, now a flight instructor at
the Jacksonville naval air station,
declared the bombing attack was
against "a cruiser, destroyers and
transports at Jolo, Sulu, PI.
"The bombing attack met ac
curate anti-aircraft and fighter
opposition,' the citation said.
"With the leader of the forma
tion missing, in the face of over
whelming odds, you dived your
patrol plane at the enemy ves
sels and released your bomba
with resultant damage to those
vessels.
"Thereafter, your plane having
been setSfire by enemy fighter
attacks, you successfully landed
your plane off the coast of Jolo is
land subsequently led the surviv
ing members of the crew of your
plane to the US naval headquart
ers, Sourabaya, Java, NEI, during
the attack: your gunners shot c own
oflfe enemy fighter."
30 to Eiiter
Navy Here,
Anniversary
. Thirty men will be inducted in
to the navy in Salem Sunday
morning as part of nation wide
observation of the anniversary of
the bombing of Pearl Harbor on
December 7. It is planned to have
the ceremonies begin at 10 o'clock
with the oath of allegiance at the
exact time of the attack six
months ago. -
The program is scheduled to be
theld on the north front of the
capital building if the weather
permits or at the armory if it is
raining. r:
Lieutenant Peters of the Port
land recruiting office will be here
to administer the bath to the en
listed men. All - have 'signed for
service during the last week. Sa
lem had the largest number in
the stale outside of Portland -
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American Loss
Light
in
Fight, Midway
All Armed Forces Cooperate
To Damage 13 to 15 Ships;
Great Battle Continues
By WALTER B. CLAUSEN
PEARL HARBOR, Honolulu, June 6 (AP)
United States armed forces have sunk or damaged 13
to 15 warships and transports of the repulsed Japanese
in fission fleet at Midway island and "a momentous vic
tory is in the making."
These included the sinking of two, and possibly
three, aircraft carriers. ' "
t Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief
of the Pacific fleet, enumerated enemy losses Saturday
night in his third communique on the great and contin
uing battle in the Pacific.
"Pearl Harbor has now been partially avenged,"
Admiral Nimitz said.
"Through the skill and devotion
to duty of their armed forces of
all branches in the Midway area,"
the communique said, "our citizens
can now rejoice that a moment
ous victory is in the making.
"It was on a Sunday just six
months ago that the Japanese made
their peacetime attack On our fleet
and army activities on Oahu. At
that time they created heavy dam
age, it is true, but their act aroused
grim determination of our citizen
ry to avenge such treachery and
it raised, not lowered, the morale
of our fighting men.
"Pearl Harbor has now been
partially avenged. Vengeance
will not be complete until Japa
nese sea power haes been re
duced to impotence. We have
made sabstantial progress In that
direction. Perhaps we will be
forgiven if we claim we are
abont midway to oar objective.
"The battle is not over.
"All returns have not yet been
received. It is with full confidence
however, that for this phase of the
action the following enemy losses
are claimed:
"Two or three carriers and all
their "aircraft destroyed,, in ad
dition to one or two carriers bad
ly damaged and most of their air
craft lost:
'Three battleships damaged, at
least one badly;
"Four cruisers damaged, two
heavily;
"Three transports damaged.
"It is possible some of these
wounded ships will not be able to
seach their bases.
"One of our carriers was hit
and some planes were lost. Our
personnel casualties were light
"This Is the balance sheet that
tho amy, navy 'and naarina
forces of this are offer their
eoutiT this moninx."
(End text communique. )
In his communique Friday Ad
miral Nimitz said it was too early
to claim a major Japanese disaster.
His statement Saturday night that
"substantial progress" had been
made in the direction of reducing
Japanese, sea power to "impot
ence" indicated that the repulse of
the powerful enemy task force was
fast resolving itself Into a disaster
for the enemy.
The assault on Midway, re
garded here as Japan's first ma
jor move to occupy the Hawaiian
Islands, crumpled with greater
damage and casualties to tho troop
convoy and battle fleet than the
Japanese inflicted in their peace
talk cloaked attack on Pearl Har
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.The Japanese invasion . force
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No. 54
Fleets
Humor in History
We're Midway!
PEARL HARBOR, June 6-iJP)
In the midst of recounting the
first thrilling details of one of
the greatest naval battles in his
tory. Admiral Chester W. Nimits,
commander-in-chief of the Pa
cific fleet, found a spot for a
smile.
In his third communique on
the continnln battle off Mid
war island, the admiral said:
"Perhaps we will be forgiven
if we claim we are abont mid
way to our objective."
Deferments'
Probe Asked
Senator Says Agencies
Of Government Not
Always Judicious
WASHINGTON, June 6 -flP)
Chairman Tydings (D-Md) of a
special senate committee recom
mended Saturday that the selec
tive service system check up on
draft deferments given 1000
young male employes of the gov
ernment. At the same time, Tydings said
his group, which is looking into
general conditions in the execu
tive branch, was considering hold
ing open hearings on the question
of draft deferment because of
federal employment.. Commenting
on the results of preliminary in
vestigations, he said:
"On the whole the deferment
privilege has been jadiclonsly
used by most agencies of the
national government bat the
abases we have found stick oat
like a sore thumb."
To illustrate his contention he
cited the case of "Mr, X" 1 1
years old when he was appointed
a year ago to a $1620 a year job
in an unidentified department. -:
"Nine months ; later,' Tydings
said, "he bad become such " an
expert in the Held of ''personal ,
procedure surveys' . that .he was
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Price Survey Elated o -
i PORTLAND, J tiiva 6VWP)-Re
tailers compliance-.Willi an . OPA
order for posting mffiirmmr price
lists for cost-of-HvInj items urill
be determined here iiy a ' kutvey
starting . Monday,- OPA, officials
announced Saturday., : . t . ".