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TRAVEL LETTER NO. t " J"
j,.. ' Junt 16
When . a person misses A train
reservation these days . it is dis
tressing incident, but when whole
trainloads lose out that must be
major headache for the Pullman
company. , That was about ; what
happened on account of the Ne
braska floods. The eastbound
trains piled up, and when they
reached Chicago scores of persons
missed their eastern connections
adding to the grief of the already
burdened Pullman company. Our
; 12-hour delay on the streamliner
meant just a 24-hour delay in get
ting a train out, luckily with sleep
er accommodation,
. Dr. Paul Carter caught an ear
lier train his lieutenant colonel's
uniform giving him a proper pri
ority. Messfs." White and Langton
of Portland's Commercial Iron
..works, coming east to talk busi
ness with government officials in
Washington, made this train. They
reported the Paget family were
likewise fortunate in getting ac
commodations on another train,
lor Philadelphia. Also on the "City
of Portland" were Earl Childs of
the Fred Meyer stores and Mrs.
Childs, but they were stopping in
Chicago. j
was comfortable, refreshed by s
thundershower the evening before
Father's day and the Fifth War
-Loan seemed to be dividing at
tention in the downtown district,
with father really getting a break
in the windows of the retail stores.
A barrage balloon over Grant park
was boosting war bonds; the Tri
bune had a display of army equip
ment and the Herald - Examiner
was staging a ; promotion buy
' bond and get a ride in a Jeep-
over on Michigan avenue.
Looming, however, is the repub
lican national convention. The
Sherman hotel where Carter and
I were lucky to get a room called
for all rooms to be vacated by the
23rd when republicans start com
ing to town. The Oregon driega
tion is to put up there. Down in
the (continue on editorial page)
French Stand
Guard Over .
1900 Germans
. - '--. --
BOME, June; 20 -(JP)-French
colonial troops ' Stacked arms on
the conquered island of Elba to
day and stood: guard over some
1900 German prisoners, while al
lied armies 'on the Italian main
land slogged forward through the
mud of a 30-hour downpour and
kept -the nazts on' the run toward
the Pisa-Florence-Rimini defense
line in northern Italy.
, The.' ancient communications
center of Perugia, 83 miles north
of Rome, shook with the sound of
battle as eighth army troops ex
pelled the last stubborn German
rearguards from its ' streets and
buildings. For several days the en
emy had braced and made a bitter
stand on the approaches to the
city, whose peacetime population
was 88,500.
German forces In the center of
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Yankees Take
- - 1 WW 0
southern nalt
Of Saipan
, WASHINGTON, June 2HJF)
Inching forward against heavy
.enemy artillery fire, American
troops have taken the southern
half of Saipan, largest Island" In
the western Pacific Marianas
group. :
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Pa-
' eifie fleet commander, announced
tonight that forward lines now ez-
' tend from the shore of Magicienne
bay on the southeast side of the
t Island to the outskirts of Gars pan,
principal town of Saipan.
' -Army and marine units, Nim
itz said, have moved up artillery
to blast away at the enemy's big
guns. American bombers and
strafing fighter planes are joining
; in the assault, while offshore war
ships are pouring shells onto ene
my pcaitioiie'--
While front line troops continue
their advance, other units to the
rear are heavily attacking "strong
pockets of resistance" left behind
-in the advance."'.;,.5:'";
Nimitz also reported bombard
ment of Japanese airfields on Tin
Ian island south of Saipan. In ad-
dition to the shelling by warships,
bomber p 1 a n e s on Monday at
tacked the TirJan fields. -
, 7eather ;:;'y4K;v-. '.
Maximum temperature Tuesday
75 degrees; minimum 54;" no pre
cipitation; river -.18 ft. :'
Partly cloudy, scattered show
ers, local thunderstorms in moun
tains Wednesday and Thursday.
Lit ft ch&R U te;&tuxe .
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NINETY-rOURTH YEAH
ap;
Nimitz WiM History
Making Sea Battle
Already' Under Way
. By LE1F ERICKSON
US PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor,
June 20 (AP) Japanese naval armada "possibly the en
tire Japanese fleet"--has moved out between the Philippines
and the invaded Marianas, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz an
nounced tonight, hinting dramatically that a history-making
battle with the American Fifth fleet! already may be under
way. - , -' .... - VJ" . 1:.- I 1 ! :
Already it is possible that damage has been inflicted on
the Japanese warships, the admiral said. !
American forces invaded the Marianas, 1500 miles from
Tokyo along Japan's inner defense line of islands, f on the
assumption the Japanese wouldO ; r .. . : .
bring out everything they possibly
could," he added.
"We pat enough muscle In the
Fifth fleet to take care of every
thing he (the Jap) could mus
ter. Nimitz said there was a possi
bility that a major naval engage
ment might result
- (Earlier Tokyo radio told the
Japanese people that a huge naval
battle was taking shape and prom
ised them a decisive victory.)
.."I. can't control Japanese fleet
movements," Nimitz said.
"If I did there definitely
would be a naval engagement."
-Although he did net specify
what the situation was, as of
Monday, he added the signifi
cant hint that possible damage
already may have been Inflicted
In enemy surface units.
(These blows could have fallen
either from naval forces or car
rier planes, but, either Tvayrthey
might mark the first stages oi ine
battle. The previous big naval
battle of Midway was fought out
by opposing planes from carriers
and island airfields.) -
Three hundred Japanese
planes, believed to have been
carrier-based signalled the
presence of enemy warships In
the area, as they were shot
down f attacking the American
task forces and today Nlmlts
said enemy plane losses since
the Invasion operations opened
in the Marianas approaches 600.
"That's a lot of planes," he com
mented. -
"If we lost 600 naval planes in
two or three days we'd be very
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More Whisky
To Be Made
WASHINGTON, June 20-
One month of whisky making, on
a. basis that could provide more
than' one-fourth of a normal year's
output, was authorized for domes
tic distillers today by the war pro
duction board. -7 ' v;-
The liquor will be made during
August and spokesmen for the
trade said the holiday from indus
trial alcohol production should
ease the greatest ' liquor drought
since prohibition. It , was pointed
out that liquor, firms may bring
more aged whisky out of storage,
replacing it with the new product,
and that some of the new liquor
itself may go quickly on to retail
store shelves In blended bever
ages. Easing of the Industrial alcohol
situation was given as the reason
for the temporary, return to bev
erage making, which had been ag
itated by the trade and by some
segments of congress.
Marion
Trailing
In Waste Paper Salvage
. Facilities to handle and trans
port waste paper, lacking in Mar
ion county earlier in the war pe
riod, " can not now be blamed
should Marion continue to trail
the rest of the nation in this phase
of the salvage campaign. Chair
man Gardner Knapp declared as
he outlined plans for saving every
ounce of salvageable scrap paper.
per.V'v'Vv -
v Open at all hours for deposit
of bundled newspapers, maga
zines and cardboard cartons, the
new salvage depot at 430 South
Commercial street will receive the
smallest and largest contributions
offered, Knapp said. ' "
i Persons who have 200 pounds
or' more of paper, for the salvage
may have it hauled to; the depot
without charge any Saturday.
They should call the civilian de
alenx,
Chinese Admit
Changslia Falls
To Japanese
CHUNGKING, Wednesday, June
21 j-(P) Changsha, capital of Hu
nan province and for five years
a symbol of successful Chinese re
sistance, has fallen to the Japa
nese, the Chinese high command
announced today . ' f j
Fifty thousand Japanese troops,
strongly supported by j artillery
and war planes, participated in
the final assaults which over
whelmed the city's suburban de
fenses, the Chinese said. A sup
plementary- eominwiiquei'Tlsserted J
mat tne lasi ueieners mwqrow
Sundayi from' the straVsdty on
the Hankow-Canton railway 400
miles east of Chungking.
Heaver losses were inflicted on
the enemy, the communique said.
Thus the Japanese succeeded
where three times previously they
had been bloodily repulsed, once
in September of 1941 at the very
gales of this communications cen
ter which had a pre-war popula
tion of 500,000. ' I 1 j.
The j invaders ; already had
swung around the capital and be
gun a battle for strategic Heng-Tyang,-
some 130 miles to the south
where the Canton-Hankow joins
the Hunan-Kwangsi railway on
the Siahg river. . - ' v
Should Hengyang fall the Japa
nese would be a long stride on
the way toward splitting China
in half., "7 h W-l 1-yi:;.- - i
Nazis Pur sue
LONDON, j June 20-()-Nazi
propagandists told .the j German
people today! that watchful wait
ing forj new allied landings from
Britain ' and North Africa was the
guiding; principle . of " the high
command in combatting the Nor
mandy invasion. "H:) -
This attempt to explain battle
field reverses suggested I that the
narcotic effect of the news that
robot . bombers were being used
against f England was wearing off
within the reich. I
Nearly all Paul Joseph Goeb
bels' commentators, who had been
busy for nearly a week with tales
of the buzz-bomb's prowess, ad
mitted tonight that it was of lit
tle strategic value and spent most
of their time on a theme ex
pressed by Capt Ludwig Sertor
ius:. ;! . , T-'
Nation
fense office, 3349, sometime dur
ing the week to make a request
for this service which will be ren
dered by the Boy Scouts, Knapp
explained. .All net proceeds from
tale of scrap paper will be turned
Into the Boy Scouts' summer camp
fund. " .: j i ;- r . .n .y
c During the war period, Marion
county ; has , saved approximately
700 tons of paper, Knapp1 estima
ted Tuesday,; a quantity declared
to be far below the national ave
rage but explained by lack of fa
cilities to-move the salvage.
Thousands 'of articles " essential
to the war are made from pulp
salvaged from old newspapers,
magazines and cardboard, cartons
and every- pound of paper saved
should aid in backing the inva
sion and shortening the war, the
salvage, chairman declared.
12 P4GES
'
Waiting Policy
Oregon. Wednesday Morning.
Engage
Greatest
i
2000 Bombers
Smash Rockets, '
12 Oil Plants
LONDOl4 June 20-Vtym the
greatest heavy bomber assault
in history,: united Mates air
1 -.
forces hurled more than 2000
i . j i . - ......
ortresSes and Liberators
against Hitler's Europe today to
smash once at 12 German oil
ants and twice at the rocket-
bomber coast of France, which
also was attacked throughout the
day by other allied planes.
More than 1500 heavy bombers
jat least equal to the - largest
force ever sent oh a single mis
sion thundered to the continent.
smacking the pilotless-plane laun
ching platforms in Pas de Calais
and continuing across Germany
alpost to Poland in the first op
eration of the heaviest daylong
assault ever made.
Then In! the. lingering day
light of this evening another
f pree of about 500 Fortresses
and Liberators returned to hurl
more explosives en the Pas de
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r u i ties
The state supreme court, in a five to 2 decision, Tuesday aft
ernoon affirmed the conviction of Robert E. Lee Folkes, negro,
who is under 'death sentence for the lower berth " 13" slaying of
Mrs. Martha jVirginia James, Norfolk, Va aboard a Southern
Pacific passenger train in January of last year.
The slaying occurred in Linn county where Folkes was tried
and convicted.
The predominating opinion was
written byf Justice James T.
Brand, with! Justices J. O. Bailey
and Arthur ! D. Hay concurring.
Special concurring opinions were
written by justices Hall S. Lusk
and Harry Belt with a dissenting
opinion by Tustice George Ross
man. Justice Percy Kelly Joined
in the dissenting opinion.
Determination of the case In
the supreme court here center
ed largely Ion. whether admis
sions by Folkes should have
been received In evidence.
The majority opinion reviewed
at length the evidence and refer
red particularly to- written copies
of stenographers notes which
were received at the trial.
V Justice Brand held that re
ceiving these transcripts as
. written confessions was error,
bat that the error did not war
rant reverting the case la view
of other : testimony. He set eat
that In ' addition ' to the traa-
acripts which i were verified by
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Yanks Gapture
Two Airfields
In Schoutens
. ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Wed
nesday, June 21.-iP)-Borokoe and
Sorido airdromes on Biak island
have been captured, completing
conquest of the airstrips in ; the
Schouten islands once held by the
Japanese. ' -,:
The two itrlpi were taken
Tuesday, headquarters announced
today, There was minor enemy
resistance west of Sorido. , -
Biak I s 1 a n d's ether . major
drome, Mokmer, was v captured
earlier this month. These fields
place the Fifth air force within
880 miles of the Philippines: 5
A fourth clrome has been built
by the Americans on Owl island,
five mile from Biak. it H v
A Jap losses on Biak .were de
scribedas heavy. Sorido village,
three quarters of a mile northwest
of Sorido drome, also was cap
tured. J - ' .' V;".'
. Truk .atoll in the Carolines
again took a - heavy pounding,
headquarters announced. Libera
tors dropped v 39 tons of bombs
there. For the first time in many
raids, no enemy interception or
j antiaircraft fire was encountered.
June. 21; 1944'
American
Ncizilhvfisioh
mashed
Continent
- LONDON, June 20.-irVPrune
Minister Churchill partially un
veiled one of the war's greatest
secrets today rhen.he disclosed
to the house of commons that a
German attempt to invade Brit
ain in. 1S40 was smashed in con
tinental ports before a "very hea
vy concentration of j troops and
ships could put to sea.
One of the favorite subjects of
bar and drawing room specula
tion, this 1940 "invasion" had ap
peared in gossip as having been
everything from a iull-scale ex
pedition that actually touched
down on British soil to a whole
sale smashing of enemy landing
craft, caught at sea during exer
cises. " . ;
Heretofore the government had
limited its commons comment to
a statement on July 29, 1943, by
Clement Attlee, then ; lord presi
dent of the council, that "It is
well known throughput the world
that the enemy's preparations for
invasion in 1940 were frustrated
by the Royal Air force."
Today Major Vyvyan Adams
asked for further details, and
Churchill first said he would
stand on Attlee's statement, but
when the member persisted with
a request to know whether "The
enemy set in motion the appara
tus of a sea-borne invasion," the
prime minister replied:
"I do not quite know what is
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TryS
Conviction
Wallace Says
China, Soviet
To Be Friends
' CHUNGKING, June 20 -()-Vice
President Henry A.- Wallace,
arriving here today to confer with
Generalissimo Chaing Kai-Shek,
predicted that the common boun
dary between Russia and China
would in the future be like the
border between the United States
and Canada. -:f .
The American vice j president's
remark, received wide attention in
Chungking, where j the general
supposition was that he would not
have voiced such a view unless
he had good reason to believe that
China's territorial Integrity, par
ticularly in Manchuria, would be
scrupulously respected ; after the
war. Wallace arrived here by way
of Russia. . .
1 This is a subject on which, the
Chinese long have held, privately
expressed misgivings.
Wallace, in a statement distrib
uted at the airport upon his ar
rival, quoted Dr. Hu Shih, former
Chinese ambassador to the United
States, as having ; said ; that the
boundary between China and Si
beria "should be like the frontier
between the United States and
Canada not one of separation
but one of Joint friends together."
British Push
Japs Back
SOUTHEAST ASIA HEAD
QUARTERS, Kandy, Ceylon, June
20-0'fVBritish imperials in a swift
17-mile advance have driven the
Japanese from Mao Songsamg on
the Kohima-Imphal road of east
ern ' India in the. greatest thrust
since the start of the allied counter-offensive,
a communique an
nounced today. - lt :5: " -
The advance south from Ko
hima brushed - the: enemy from
Tuphema: and planted the-allied
vanguard just west of . Maram,
clearing all but 29 miles of the
more than 60 miles of road be
tween these big allied bases.' -V -'
A large ordnance dump and 10
artillery pieces were, taken. It was
estimated officially that Ja
panese .were killed in this sector
and 50 prisoners taken.
Price 5c
Navy
Russians
Capture
JL
Finland ! Appears
Near Defeat
AsPort Falls
LONDON, Wednesday, June
2 HPremier .Stalin an
nounced last night that the red
army captured Finland's second
largest city and southern gate
way, Viipuri, yesterday as the
smashing climax to an 11 -day
offensive jin which the soviet
forces have driven 60 miles and
appear to have plunged the Finns
to the verge of defeat x :
Stalin announced the fall of the
important seaport in a midnight
order .of the day, praising the
units of the Leningrad ' army of
Marshal Leonid. A. Govorov, and
within a few minutes after the
announcement the Moscow radio
declared "Viipuri's fall brings
Finland to the brink of defeat"
The commander in chief said
the red troops had crashed
through the Mannerheim line
and "developing their offensive,
overpowered the outer and In-,
ner defenses of Viipuri, and
yesterday, June 20, carried by
assault the fortress and town of
Viipuri." ; ..-. . .
Later 'the regular nightly Mos
cow communique announced that
Jduxiiigthr. course of e day's
drive th PussianS captured more
than 60 other populated places,
including seven railway stations. '
Moscow saluted the success of
Govorov's troops with 20 salvos
from 224 guns at 12:30 a.m. (Mos
cow time) Wednesday and Stalin,
following his custom on the occa
sion of important triumphs, de
creed special honors for those who
had distinguished themselves.
Viipuri, with' a normal popu
lation of abont 85.800. lies 125
miles from Helsinki. Besides its
stature as a commercial port
and second city of Finland,
Viipuri was a bastion In 'the
deepest and strongest fortifica
tions of the - Mannerheim line
with which the Finns hoped to
stave off. the soviet advance.
The London Press expressed the
opinion that with Viipurrs fall
the battered Finns would Jae un
able to make an 'effective stand
anywhere, and : from Stockholm
came reports that: a new Finnish
'peace cabinet" would be formed
in Helsinki "very soon."
Slimmer Arrive
In Winter Weather
h PORTLANdI June 20-(aV
Summer arrives officially at 6:03
ajn. tomorrow but unofficially,
the weather bureau warned, it will
atai be winter. ! '
, The forecast for the longest day
In the year shows leaden skies in
the- morning; clouds in the after
noon, and thunderstorms over
eastern and southern Oregon.
Pity .the Poor, Fellow
Who Has to Count 'Em
L BAKER, June 1 20-(A,)-Joe A.
Thompson paid for a $500 war
bond with 37,750 pennies.
Viipuri
County
War
Go Omr $6O00aMark
A Salem Eagles im a rally which
closed at a late hear Tuesday
told to themselves f 10,251 worth
f bead, i '-. !
Marion county's fifth war loan
bond sales had topped the $600,000
mark by Tuesday , night, reaching
pne-ninjh. of the way up the offi
cial thermometer, i -k
Right along with the call for
heavier bond purchases Tuesday
came the request for greater regis
tration in the "Miss Oregon" com
petition, an advertising feature of
the campaign In which an attract
ive Marion county girl vocalist
will be selected to "compete for the
state title. "Girls .18-to 28 arc-ell-gible..-;;'
.:' "v
: Third of the contestants, Anita
Jean Jarman, is to be heard on the
program over KSLM from 33 to
70
IP
T-01M,
--; By JAMES M. LONG
. SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EX.
PEDITIONARY FORCE, Wednesday, June 21-(AP)-American
troops stormed to the top of the
last ridge barfier to Cherbourg last night, and were
within sight of the great port less than four miles
away where the explosions of hasty German demo
lition threw a smoke shroud over the city and thun
dered the collapse pf any nari hope of a successful
siege stand. . v '
' (An NBC broadcast from London said that
American troops were within twoO .
miles o Cherbourg's dry limits
and that .the fall t of : the port
"seems . immment The corres
pondent said allied warships were
pounding' the Germans around
Cherbourg and also . In the ' Cap
De La' Hague area at the north
west tip of the. peninsula 15 miles
above Cherbourg.) -
An allied spokesman called
upon the tens of . thousands of
trapped Germans to surrender.
There was no other V choice, he
said--except death. :
American leng-ranre artillery .
laid a powerful dram fire on
the Germans around the city,
and also hurled shells late the
roads. leading northeastward to
Cap Levy and northwestward to
Cap De La Ilarue at the tip of
the penlnsala.
Headquarters communique No.
30, issued; just before midnight,
said allied troops now were pat
tacking the outer- defenses! of
Cherbourg," and were engaged in
heavy fighting on. three sides of
Valognes, 10 miles southeast of
the prize port. . - i
Field dispatches already had
reported American capture ; of
Valognes, ruined Hontebourg,
.four miles to the rear, and St.
Martin Le Greard, f oar miles
south of Cherbourg, and late re
ports told of the attainment of
the top of the last hill outside
'the ettSr-Vv';?;!1 " '
. (The' German DNB news agency
announced that the allied troops
"have reached the fortified area"
of Cherbourg, and said axis posi
tions also were under heavy allied
naval and air bombardment.
"Fresh US infantry and tank
troops, now' also are taking part
in the assault on Cherbourg, the
broadcast said.) - : .
Of the eastern end of the front
the allied communique said: "Our
positions in the area of Tilly are
firm. Very heavy fighting con
tinued near Hottot."
- Spearheaded by the - veteran
US Ninth and Fourth divisions
and led by French 'patriot
scouts in the final, assault, -thousands
of American troops
were fanning eat on all sides -of
- Cherbourg. :.":,-'" " . :
On the west coast one unit was
reported as far as Vasteville, 15
miles north of Barneville and only
six miles southwest of Cherbourg.
On the east coast other units had
pushed as far1 as Eglise de Gren-
heville, three miles north of
Quineville end 13 miles southeast
of the port. Both these columns
were making steady gains to out
flank Cherbourg and the pace of
the western column suggested a
nazl rout . along that coast .'
Cornered German i troops, es
timated from 15.60a to Si.109,
were taking a terrific aaaullng
from av massive Infantry, artll .
lery 'and aerial enslaog-ht as a
German-speaklna British officer
stepped to a BBC microphone
and asked them to snrrender.
..." "Little" more than a year ago,"
he.remlnded them "other German
soldiers ' commanded by General
Von Arnim were driven in to the
sea by this same 8th infantry di
vision. The soldiers .of Arnim's
army (on Cap Bon In .Tunisia)
who then realized that it is not
dishonorable to surrender when
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3:45 this afternoon. Velma Swart
broadcast' a program Tuesday as
second competitor to appear here,
singing "Goodnight Wherever You
Are" . and "JotanieT . Doughboy,
with Esthel Benner at the organ.
Mrs. Raymond Barton on the same
program played a piano solo, i '
Industrial division workers took
the bond organization's "mobile
bank" to the alutoina-from-clay
plant T u e s d i y afternoon and
wrapped up and delivered, upon
receipt of full payment, 17500
worth of bonds to employes of Co
lumbia 1 e t a 1 s corporation and
Northern Construction company.
r-r First purchaser'! was Harry A.
Brlnkerhoff, superintendent of
operations at the Cherry avenue
site where the hew plant is rapid
ly rising.-Brlnkerhoff then intro-
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Bond
Sales
Key- City
BuflDDeiims
i LONDON, Wednesday, : Jane
11 Beflectlng the serious
ness of the sttuation on the
Karelian front, the Finnish ra
dio today arced all persons
Whose presence In Helsinki Is
not essential to evacuate the
city. ; y
"In view of the scope of the
Kuslaa offensive fat Karelia,"
said a broadcast, "everyone
whose presence ta Helsinki hi
not essential especially chil
dren should leave for the '
country."
LONDON. Thursday. June 11
UP)- The Germans j Intensified
their , rocket bomb attacks en
southern - England during the
nlxht after a day of compara
tive Inactivity and a few nasi
planes also were reported ever
: Scotland. ...... "
I Some casualties and damage
were Inflicted In southern Eng
land by the flylnx bombs.-' . '
i ! LONDON, Jane XlP-Th
utnun raaio annoaneea snort
ly after, S a. m. today that for
j mations of allied planes were
. a pp.ro aehlng .."northwestern
. German coastal territory." T
SenateHoiise' ;
Compromise
Un I'ricc Bill
A WASHINGTON, June 2HJF)
With the White House interven
ing to break a deadlock, senate ,
and - house conferees . reached a
compromise . late today 'on the
Bankhead amendment to adjust
cotton textile ceilings in the price
control extension bill.
; The administration agreed to a
requirement that ceilings on "ma
jor" textile items be revised to
reflect a parity price for raw cot
ton. Eliminated from the original
Bankhead crobosal was a rouir ,
nient that the ceilings guarantee
manufacturing costs plus a profit
to millers. .
James F. Byrnes, war mobiliza
tion director, was said by mem
bers of the conference committee
to have , taken the lead in the
move that brought about the com-
promise. The conference commit
tee bill representing a merger of
conflicting measures passed by
senate and house. Is scheduled to
go to the senate first and then
the house for concurrence tomor
row. . j " " ;
; ;The White House intervention
obviously was aimed to prevent-,
ing a congressional stalemate over
the extension bill. President Roos
evelt ' had : called ' the original
Bankhead proposal inflationary
and administration : congressmen
hid predicted , a veto if it ap
peared In the bill as finally pass-
ed. ' .
Britain Sorry
For Jap War
Blame Remark
LONDON, Wednesday, June 31
(-British morning newspaper
expressed dismay today at reac
tion within the United States to
a statement attributed to CmpL
Oliver Lyttel ton, minister of sup
ply, that American lend-lease aid
to this country- was Japan's "pro
vocation" to attack Pearl Har
bor.': , : v; : ., - f
tWM mt - m. VlA.fi . t.. It.
. j u. uoi yuuwn apeecn au
Wrong," said the headline of the
Laborite Daily Herald, and this
was the theme of, the other stories.
I (In Washington, Secretary Hull
described the statement attributed
to Lyttelton as "entirely in error,
and said that "Japan for years had
notoriously pursued a program of
the widest conquest") -
f A possibility that the London
government would act quickly to
give an official explanation of the
statement, ' an interpolation in n
prepared speech delivered ' before
the American chamber of com
merce yesterday, was seen in s.e
quarters. Prime Minister Church: II
may be called on for a. statement.
It was susjested. .