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Tha OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning June 14. 1942
Soviets
Great Losses Said Inflicted;
East Front War Nears End of
First Year; Nazi Ship Sunk
MOSCOW, Sunday, June 14 -IP)- Soviet forces meeting the
greatest nazj offensive of the year with strong counter-action
In a narrow death trap on the Kharkov front hurled back Ger
man tank and infantry attacks in savage fighting all day Sat
urday, the Russians reported early Sunday.
The soviet bureau of information declared that the red
British Hold
Nazi Assault
Rommel Tries to Split
Allied Forces at
Tobruk, Libya
CAIRO. June 13-UP-The Brit
ish eighth army and the RAF
were taking the shock Saturday
of a desert assault of unprece
dented ferocity as nazi Marshal
Erwin Rommel battered with
whole armored divisions to flat
ten the positions protecting To
bruk and split the allied forces
f eastern Libya?
After repulsing an all-out
German offensive south of El
Adem. 15 miles due south of
Tobruk. and heavily engaging
an encircling attack by a com
plete tank division near An
roma. 10 miles west of Tobruk,
the British reported that all
their positions still were Intact.
It was obvious however, that
the fighting still was raging with
unstemmed savagery.
Much of the conflict was in the
air. Massive fleets of axis dive
bombers fought from dawn to
dusk with British fighters, he
RAF squadrons broke up one
large-scale Stuka attack and won
several other lesser battles. In
the course of Friday, an RAF
communique announced, 13 axis
planes were destroyed, many oth
ers damaged and nine British
planes were lost.
Heavy artillery was dueling be
hind the out-flanked British for
ward line from Ain El Gazala
south: infantry, as well as tanks,
was engaged in the blazing heat.
Under the cover of a gener
al battle In the vicinity of El
Aden, Rommel sent his main
tank column circling . to the
south and then north, crossing
the axis road in the Ed Duda
Sldi Resegh sector an dreading
for Acroma.
By this maneuver the axis
marshal hoped to cut the coastal
road west of Tobruk and isolate
the British forces entrenched at
Ain El Zagala, still farther west.
This north-bound division was
heavily attacked by British ar
mor and hammered all day Fri
day by the BAF, and its losses
were described! officially as
heavy.
Meanwhile another German
column was being engaged in a
smaller battle north of Knights
Bridge.
Wcatlior Is
Delay Factor
Most Navy Men See
No Threat in Jap
tFace-Saving'
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though still at uneasy peace with
Japan), has a base at Petropav
lovsk on the Kamchatka penin
sula. Should the time come when
Russia and Japan fight, it would
be to the interest of Japan to know
what air and surface ship move
ments were occurring between
Alaska and bases in Russia's mar
itime lands. Attu would We a good
spot for that observation.
In Canada, there was a disposi
ttn by at least -one high official
to view the Aleutian island at-
ikk m grim , manper. vice-a a
miral Percy W. Nelles, when in
farmed of the landing at Attu,
aid "the attack has begun" and
declined to comment further,
la congress, nfidence was
expressed that the enemy would
fee swept ant -of the Aleattans
oickly.
Senator Chandler (D-Ky.), i
member of the senate military
affairs committee who discussed
the matter with army and navy
officials, said he was satisfied "we
won't let them -stay there long.
Chandler saw the landings as
unimportant and dictated solely
bjr psychological -reasons of "face
saving," but Senator Thomas (D-
Utah), another -committee mem
'bar. cautioned:
"I feel sure -this is no sporadic
action and it may -be followed up
by the landing -of reserves. We
cant dart to underestimate the
Japanese. They have always start
ad with little bases and they must
be dislodged or made Ineffective.''
Another eemmlitee member,
Senator H21 (D-AIa.), said ha
thought Axaeriesji forces would
"make It f? hot" for the Japa
; nese thai they would soon leave.
Senator ttfr (D-Okla.), also a
committeeman, thought the inva
sion epparently ins a "last sav
ing IjiovVj but Senator Holm in
(R-Ore.) expressed lively concern
at the Japanese action. He pre
dicted the ape would attempt to
construct ta alrbase there.
Hurl Bam Great Nazi Push in
I army inflicted great losses on the
Germans. The nazis were said In
Russian accounts to be throwing
men into the continuing battle
from a huge pool of reserves
built up after the recent fighting
on the Kharkov front.
Intense land, sea and air ac
tions were reported by the Rus
sians from other sectors of the
long front, which, with the Russian-German
war almost one
year old. Is seeing some of its
most bitter fighting. These In
cluded: 1. The valiant Sevastopol gar
rison still held its ground firmly
in the face of mounting. German
attacks
2. Red army infantry and ar
tillery killed and wounded at
least 900 German men and offi
cers in an all day battle on the
Kalinin front northwest of Mos
cow.
3. A soviet ship sank a 6000
ton enemy ship in the Black sea
near axis-occupied Odessa
4. The soviet air force on Fri
day sank an enemy motor tor
pedo boat, damaged two subma
rines and destroyed or damaged
210 motor trucks.
5. Stormovik bombers in a
surprise raid on a railway Junc
tion wrecked several German
military trains and returned
home without loss.
lhe Kussians lost no time in
reacting violently against the full
force of German planes, tanks
and motorized infantry thrown
into the narrow Kharkov sector
by the Germans, reports from the
battlefield indicated Saturday
night
Davis Heads
Coordination
i
War Information to
Be Consolidated
In New Agency
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directives to all departments
and agencies of the government
with respect to their in form -tionaV'services."
"He will have full authority,"
said a White House statement, "to
eliminate all overlapping and du
plication and to discontinue in any
department any informational ac
tivity which is not necessary or
useful to the war effort,"
Davis, is a native of Aurora,
Ind , but has lived in New York
for many years. Since 1939 he
has been news analyst for the
Columbia broadcasting system.
Earlier, he was for several years
on the staff of the New York
Times.
While the actual press Infor
mation services of the individ
ual departments and agencies
will continue to remain in such
departments and agencies, their
informational activities will
have to conform to the direc
tives of the office of war infor
mation. The existing office of coordina
tor of information, exclusive of
its foreign information service,
was transferred in a separate
"military order" to the United
States joint chiefs of staff to op
erate directly under their super
vision. The name of this transferred
part was changed to the office of
strategic services, to be headed by
Donovan. It will continue to per
form its functions of "collecting
secret and strategic information
in foreign countries and perform
ing general miscellaneous service
abroad, other than the dissemi
nation of information by radio,
leaflets, etc. These information
functions in foreign countries will
become part of the functions of
the new agency the office of
war information.
The office of war informs tioa
will consist of two main divi
sions, the first dealing with the
dissemination of information
within the United States and
tiie second handling dissemi
nation of information In all
foreign countries, except Latin
America.
nelson A., Kocxe teller, as co
ordinator of inter-American af
fairs, will continue to direct the
information service for Latin
America.
The president's order provided
for close collaboration between
Byron Price, the director of cen
sorship, and Director Davis of
OWI, for the purpose of "facili
tating the prompt and full dis
semination of all available In
formation which will not give
aid to the enemy.
School Burns,
Junction Gty
' JUNCTION CTT Y, Ore, June
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First commissioning of an army officer at Camp Adair, new cantonment rising southwest of Salem as
GlenvUIe A. Collins (left), civilian
gineer corps, by Lt. Col. R. E. M.
Derations under CoL Deslslets.
Atlantic Zone
Takes in Coast
Radio Avers Answer
Made to Second
Front Plans
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This charted a line running
north from the Belgian coast
through the center of the North
sea, then westward to include the
waters about Iceland and Green
land, then south along the Cana
dian and US- shores to the West
Indies.
"Such an extension of the realm
of operations on the part of the
German navy," the broadcast add
ed, "is more than an announce
ment on paper. That has been
proved already beyond a shadow
of a doubt by the successes
achieved by German submarines
in American waters.
"With the pact concluded in
London and the agreement said
to have been reached In Wash
ington between the English
speaking democrats and their .
bolshevik ally, it is an entirely
different matter. Here is a dec
laration on paper which Is far
from being backed by any real
ity which might have an influ
ence on the actual course of
the war.
"The only point which might
be of interest when viewed from
a strictly dispassionate and strict
ly realistic value, is the alleged
decision, to set up a second front
in Europe this year.
"That, of course, is a hope per
haps not so much of the democra
cies themselves as of their hard
pressed bolshevik allies, a hope
which, paradoxical as it may seem,
is shared by the German army,
whose forces are itching to give
a warm reception to any allied
expeditionary force which might
attempt to fulfill the demand from
Moscow."
Recontracts
Saving Much
WASHINGTON, June 13
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) said
Saturday that the house naval in
vestigating committee had saved
th.e treasury approximately $675,
000,000 by promoting renegotiation
of war contracts "wherein exces
sive profits have appeared."
He asserted that the total "by
no means represents all the sav
ings that have accrued or that
will accrue through the activi
ties of the committee. The policy
of renegotiation and refund has
become an established one now,
and is expected to bear increased
fruit as the war program proces-
es."
"Renegotiations already have
been entered into by the navy and
war departments that will un
doubtedly save sums amounting
to billions of dollars before the
war efforts is completed,1 he said.
Gty library
Given Flag
An American flag is now hang
ing in the reading room of the
city library following a brief
ceremony of presentation Satur
day morning. The flag was pre
sented by the Salem American
Legion auxiliary as a part of the
national observance of Flag week.
The presentation address was
made by Mrs. Frank Marshall,
auxiliary president. Mrs. Robert
Wyatt and Mrs. Glenn Seeley also
had prominent parts in the cere
mony.
Junction City grade school Sat
urday night.
Six classrooms, the cafeteria
and the library, containing 3000
books, were a total loss. Prin
cipal . Hugh Hartman said dam
age could not be estimated at
once. He said the building was In'
sured.
chief of operations, was sworn
Deslslets, area engineer. Major
Nation Vows
Victory at
Celebration
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tives will meet with President
Roosevelt at the White House
Sunday. A recording of a speech
by the president at that time
will be broadcast by all the net
works and to the world by short
wave at 2:55 p. m. (PWT).
President Manuel Queson of
the Philippines and Dr. Don
Francisco Castilo Najera, Mexi
can ambassador, also will attend
the celebration.
In New York, 500,000 paraded
Saturday in a demonstration of
"New York at war." Two million
spectators lined Fifth avenue, de
spite broiling heat, to watch the
demonstration, one of the largest
patriotic shows ever held In the
city.
On historic Boston Common
American Legionnaires and otb
ers from the Revolutionary battle
town of Lexington gathered Sat
urday with river shiDvard work
ers and pledged themselves fto
avenge the Lexington, the
American aircraft carrier which
Was lost in the battle of the Coral
sea. The carrier was constructed
at the Fore River yard.
Los Angeles renamed its
Westlake park in honor of Gen
eral MacArthur and Mrs. Yin
cent Lim, wife of Brigadier
General Lim, reported missing
on Bataan, spoke at a downtown
celebration in that California
city.
In Philadelphia the Flag Day
association sponsored a parade in
tradition - hallowed Independence
square. Paul V. McNutt, US man
power administrator, spoke. Citi
zens paraded to the home of Bet
sy Ross, who made the first Unit
ed States flag, and wreaths were
placed on her grave.
Gold Star Mothers
Accept New Ones
NEW YORK, June 13-)-Mrs
D. Franklin Hall of Philadelphia
was elected president of the
American Gold Star, Mothers Sat
urday at an annual convention
meeting marked by adoption of
a resolution which permits moth
ers of sons killed in the present
war to join the organization.
'Rose' Bond
Sales Soar
PORTLAND, Ore, June 13-(JP)
Rose festival week bond sales rose
to $756,000 in Portland Saturday
night.
Film stars Mary Brian, Mar
jorie Weaver and Edmund Lowe,
participated in sale of $305,000 in
bonds Saturday. The festival will
close Sunday.
All proceeds from the festival,
limited to indoor programs this
year because of the war, also will
go into war bonds.
Sweden Approves
Army Expansion
NEW YORK, June 11 -VP)-Sweden's
parliamentary defense
committee Saturday approved
five-year plan to expand the
armed forces at a cost of ap
proximately $720,000,000, the BBC
reported Saturday night. ;
News broadcasts from, Berlin
said the farmers party led sue
cessxui opposition against pro
posed construction of two addi
tional cruisers for the Swedish
navy, contending that emphasis
should be placed on tank div
isions and fighter planes.
The strengthened defense pro
gram, was described as "of ur
gent necessity." ...
The British broadcast was
heard here by CBS.
In Thursday as a major, US en
Collins will continue as chief of
Vessel Brings
In Survivors
Allied Ships Sunk;
Most of Crews
Saved, Landed
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the Atlantic a medium-sized US
merchant vessel was torpedoed
and shelled only 70 miles off the
coast of Brazil and a medium
sized British ship met a similar
ate about 200 miles off the south
ern coast of the United States.
Capt. Adolph Anderson of the
American ship said 34 survivors
of his ship reached the Brazilian
coast after 24 hours of drifting.
One of the sailors was lost at sea.
The attack came in the early ev
ening April 12 and the submarine,
just visible in the twilight, loosed
torpedo. Then it moved nearer
and began to shell, starting fires.
Sixty four members of the crew
of 68 on the British ship . left
their stricken ship. The other four
were apparently killed by the tor
pedo explosions or the shells.; One
lifeboat with 20 men was rescued
five days later, the other two
boats were still unaccounted for.
Thirty six survivors from two
torpedoed ships, one an Amer
ican vessel, arrived at Bara
hona, a dispatch from the Dom
inican repnblic said. One ship,
whose registry was not given,
was a 5040-ton tanker sunk
130 miles off Puerto Rico with
a cargo of raw sugar for New
York. The American ship went
down 60 miles off Ciudnd Tru
jillo and its captain was among
the missing.
A Japanese submarine was
credited with sinking the Nor
wegian freighter Wilford in a re
port from Lourenco Marques,
Portuguese East Africa. Survivors
of the 185-ton ship landed after
their vessel was attacked 200
miles off the coast in the Mozam
bique channel.
Two Treated
For Injuries
Harold D. Ellis, West Salem,
was treated for injuries, received
in a fall from a building at the
cantonment where he is employed
as a roofer, at the Deaconess hos
pital and then allowed to be tak
en to his home Saturday night
The severely cut hand of Cath
erine Halliday, 2, was treated at
the hospital Saturday. The girl,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clar
ence Halliday, Idanha, received
the injury from a broken bottle.
Flying Fragment
Fatal to Woman
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13-vP)
Mrs. Marion Livingston, 44, of
San Francisco, while viewing the
army's MacArthur day show in
Kezar stadium was struck on the
side of the head by a fragment
of a parachute flare Saturday and
died two hours later from a frac
tured skull.
Mrs. Livingston was sitting with
her husband, Allan C Livingston,
Sari Francisco bank executive, and
their son, Allen, jr., 13, when the
object six to seven niches in
length, struck hex on the aide of
the head. .
Monmouth Youth
Hurt in Crusher
Robert Chambers, 18, of Mon
mouth, was in fair condition at
the Salem General hospital late
Saturday1 night after receiving
treatment for a broken leg and
arm and other injuries received
when he fell into a rock crusher
belonging to the Hills Gravel com
pany. Independence.
The accident occurred-a bout
noon Saturday. His mother is Mrs.
O. M. Chambers, Monmouth.
Chinese Hold
Bitterly to
Railroad
Kill Several Hundred
Japs in Assault
On Tsungjen
CHUNGKING, China, June IS
--Chinese soldiers bitterly con
testing a concerted Japanese move
to gain complete control of the
Chekiang-Kiangsi rail line in
eastern China have killed several
hundred Japanese troops In
sudden attack' on Tsungjen and
are engaging the enemy in south
western Checkiang province, it
was reported Saturday.
The Chinese high command
said the Chinese attack on
Tsnngjen, a city 60 miles south
of Nanchang, western terminus
of the railroad, occurred at noon
last Wednesday. Military sup
plies were reported seised.
Tsnngjen was occupied by the
Japanese last Tuesday.
The Chinese command said the
fighting east and west of Kiang-
shan, a station on the rail line 10
miles inside the Chekiang border
and 50 miles west of the Japanese-occupied
city of Chuhsien,
and the battle southwest of Chang
shan, 25 miles west of Chuhsien,
were continuing "with ferocity."
(The Japanese have reported
the capture of Kiangshan in a
sweep from Chuhsien which they
said sent their troops across the
border in Kiangsi province.)
Severe fighting was reported
in the outskirts of Japanese
occupied Kinki, 89 miles south
east of Nanchang, capital of
Kiangsi province.
The Chinese said fierce fight
ing also was in progress in the
vicinity of Nancheng, in the Kinki
area and about 90 miles southeast
of Nanchang, with casualties on
both sides.
US Bombers
Raided Nazis
Four Planes in Turkey
Interned; Worry
Shown in Germany
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in the middle east but it was the
first hint of direct action by
American fighting services In the
battle of Russia.
Turkish sources of information
were most circumspect. The offi
cial radio stated merely that four
American planes had made forced
landings at various villages. In
formed sources added that the
crews estimated variously at
from 21 to 23 in all had been
interned. Three, it was stated,
were wounded.
The Renters correspondent in
Ankara reported, however, that
he had seen three of the bomb
ers at the Ankara airport, that
they were Consolidated foar
engined aircraft and that they
were believed to have attacked
Odessa and Nikoleav, both
Black Sea ports In occupied
Russian territory.
Twenty one crew members, the
Reuters correspondent added,
were housed in the outskirts of
Ankara.
It was reported, this source
went on, that the bombers flew
from Egypt and ran short of fuel
on the return trip when forced
from their course by German
fighters.
The exchange telegraph cor
respondent reported that 23 fliers
in all had been taken into cus
tody, eight of them officers. He
said that a villa six miles from
Ankara had been placed at their
disposal and that some of them
were seen lunching Saturday at
an Ankara restaurant "shadowed
by plain clothes men."
It was reported, he added, that
a "fifth American bomber which
was flying southward landed at
Diarpakhir in southeastern Ana
tolia, 28 minutes flying time from
the Syrian border."
One of the American planes
had two of its motors smashed.
exchange telegraph said, and
sentries with fixed bayonets were
on guard over those planes which
were at the Ankara airport.
Since Friday night the Ger
man radio had displayed in
tense preoccupation aver the
landings, attempting ta make
the incidents appear as "a sev
ere offense against Turkish
neutrality" and even snggesting
the aircraft had "dropped leaf
lets'' before they landed.
DNB, the German news agency.
conjectured that the planes had
taken part in the fighting about
the Crimean naval base of Sevas
topol on the Black Sea, where the
German army is conducting a vi
olent assault on the Russian posi
tions.
Meanwhile, in a separate broad
cast from the one which reported
the landings, the Turkish radio
expressed pleasure with the newf
Anglo-Soviet' pact particularly
because of Russia's agreement not
to seek territorial aggrandize
ment - .
As o routine measure, Turkey's
assembly Friday adopted a bul
prolonging for another six months
the state of martial law already
existing for the Dardanelles, Bos
porus and Thrace regions
Sector
New Troops
In Ireland
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await their assault in France and
the lowlands, and the paucity of
shipping and the problems of sup
ply still appear to bar Immediate
continental Invasion.
The US and British general
staffs now are grappling with the
logistics of opening a western
front. Logistics the problems of
moving, quartering and supplying
troops is considered equally im
portant to strategy and tactics in
planning a descent upon the con
tinent The shipping squeese is the
main problem, since authorities
consider that supplies and equip
ment for each American soldier
weigh 15 tons. Ta move a large
American army of say 25 divi
sions into action, some experts
say that 4,000,000 tons af ship
ping would be required.
Equipment of the newest con
tingent includes anti-tank artillery
and "additional mechanized equip
ment" Like their comrades of previous
convoys, the duoghboys face fur
ther intensive training in northern
Ireland, including practice with
the famed British 25-pounder 172
the famed British 25-pounder
guns.
Seattle Main
Breaks Walks
SEATTLE, June 13-(iP)-A 20
inch water main broke under a
downtown street Saturday, pave
ment and sidewalks buckled and
two pedestrians fell into eight
feet of water as the flood swirled
into basements under the walk.
A. Anderson and Frank Law son
were rescued from the water by
men in the crowd that gathered
quickly in Second avenue between
Washington and Main streets.
Thousands of gallons of water
poured from the broken main be
fore valves could be closed, and
traffic had to be rerouted.
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Yank Soldier
Is Delegate
Of Freedom
WASHINGTON, June IS -(&)
President Roosevelt, in a message
written for the first issue of the
official army newspaper "Yank,"
told American soldiers overseas
Saturday night that they were
"delegates of freedom.''
"Every one of you has an in
dividual mission in this war
mis greatest and most decisive of
all wars," Mr. Roosevelt said.
"You are not only fighting for
your country and your people
you are, in the larger sense, dele
gates of freedom.
"Upon you, and upon your com
rades in arms of all the United
Nations, depend the lives and lib
erties of all the human race."
The newspaper, a weekly, is
edited by enlisted men for the
army overseas, and will not be
circulated in this country.
Mr. Roosevelt said the publica
tion "cannot be understood by
your enemies."
"It is inconceivable to them
that a soldier should be allowed
to express his own thoughts, his
ideas and his opinions. It is in
conceivable to them that any sol
diers or any citizens, for that
matter should have thoughts
other than those dictated by their
leaders."
The initial issue appeared at a
dinner in New York City given
the staff of Yank by the staff of
its predecessor of the .first world
war, The Stars and Stripes.
Soviet Flag Flies
Today Over Russia
MOSCOW, June 13 -(P)- Th
council of peoples commissars oi
the USSR Saturday ordered the
Soviet flag displayed over all
public institutions throughout
Russia Sunday as an example of
solidarity with the United States
and Great Britain in the fight
against the axis.
Donald Kliewer
Prisoner of War
Second Lt.. Donald D. Kliewet
son of Mrs. Catherine M. Kliewer,
Albany, is one of 153 US marines
held as prisoners of war by the
Japanese at Zentsujie on Shikoku
island, Japan, according to an an
nouncement made by the US war
department Saturday.
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