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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, June 6 The ar
dent liberal campaign to banish
11 so-called Isolationists from
public life in
the midst of
war was start
ed by the New
Republic mag'
azine for rea
sons not clear
at the time.
The implica
tion was that
they were un
patriotic. But
an inspection
Paul Mallon
of their voting
records In con
gress since December 7 showed
they generally supported every
war measure and were not talk
ing much. Actually they were
no obstacle to the war effort.
When that reason thus fell
down, the publications which
took up the campaign, turned to
the point that the isolationists
should be exterminated because
they opposed getting into the
war before we got into the war.
The liberals hammered that
reason for a while, but it left
matters Just as much in the dark
as ever, because Mr. Roosevelt
opposed getting into the war be
fore we got in.
His speeches and statements
show this to have been his an
nounced policy in his pre-election.
If that is the measure of
isolationism, then the president
was an Isolationist and so were
most of the people of the country.
0A
NY real reason for the cam
paign continued to be unex
plained until the New Repub
lics June B issue came out tms
week.' Then it offered a good
reason.
It said it was not soaking iso
lationists because they were iso
lationists, but because most of
them were against the New
Deal, quote:
"The enemies of the New Deal
art the very ones who could
keep us from winning the peace.
This is an issue which must be
fought and won on the domestic
front, and it must be won while
the war is being waged.
That clarifies the matter. The
attack, it now appears, was
timed all along for the primaries
and the congressional elections,
(Continued on Pa-- OU)
.6
Allied headquarters, Australia.
June 6 (P) A Japanese sub
marine was believed sunk off
New South Wales by an Allied
plane after the undersea raider
had destroyed a small Australian
freighter, raising the reported
toll of the week to six submar
ines certainly sunk and two
probably.
The latest exchange in
Japan's stabs at the vital Aus
tralian lifelines was announced
at about the same time that
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
communique told of another
fiery raid on the enemy's chief
base in the outer islands. Rab
laul. New Britain, was attacked
'by Allied bombers which dam
aged warehouses, docks and a
coaling jetty.
COALITION PLAN
New York. June 6 IP)
Wendell L. Willkie. said today
that a suggestion that all three
partips Republican, Democrat : achutps or bobbed on the sur
and American labor loin in the face of the sea In rubber boats.
nomination of the same Indi-
viduals for various New York!
Mate offices obviously was
"both Impossible of accomplish
ment and would be unwise if It
could be brought about.
Willkie's remarks were made
In answer to questions by News
kmen regarding a movement
started by Sydney S. Baron,
New York publicist, for a coal-
ltlon slate headed by VtUlkie for,
governor '
13 to 15 Enemy Ships
Sunk or Damaged in
Sea Battle at Midway
Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, June 6 (AP) United States
armed forces have sunk or damaged 13 to 15 warship and
transports of the repulsed Japanese invasion fleet at Midway
island and " momentous victory i" the making."
These included the sinking of two, and possibly three,
aircraft carriers.
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the
Pacific fleet, enumerated enemy losses tonight in his third
communique on the great and continuing battle in the Pacific.
"Pearl Harbor has now been partially avenged," Admiral
Nimitz said.
Battle Not Over
"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 momentous victory
is in the making.
"It was on a Sunday just six
months ago that the Japanese
made their peace-time attack on
our fleet and army activities on
Oahu. At that time they cre-i
ated heavy damage, it is true,
but their act aroused grim de-1
termination of our citizenry 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 Jap-;
anese sea power has been re- j
duced to impotence. We have
made substantial progress :n
that direction. Perhaps we will
be forgiven if we claim we are
about midway to our objective.
"The battle is not over.
Carriers Destroyed
"All returns, have not yet
been received. It Is with full
confidence however, that foi
this phase of the action the fol
lowlne enemy losses are
claimed:
"Two or three carriers and
all their aircraft destroyed, in
addition to one or two car
riers badly damaged and most
of their aircraft lost.
"Three battleships dam
gad, two heavily.
"Three transports damaged.
"It is possible some of these
wounded ships will not be
able to reach their bases.
"One of our carriers was
hit an some planes were lost.
Our personnel casualties were
light.
This is the balance sheet
that the army, navy and mar
ine forces of this area offer
their country this morning."
Major Disaster Near
in his communique Friday
Admiral Nimitz said it was too
onriv to claim a major Japan
ese disaster. His statement to
night that "substantial pro
gress" had been made in the di
rection of reducing Japanese sea
power to "impotence" indicated
that the reDUlse of the powerful
enemy task force was fast re
solving Itself into a disaster for
the enemy,
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to the troop convoy uu
fleet than the Japanese uum.
ed in their peace-talk cloaked
attack on Pearl Haroor.
The Japanese invasion force,
far from surprising the defend
ers of Midway, was engaged in
battle before its advance raid
ing force could soften the de
fenses of the tiny westermost
bastion in the Hawaiian group,
and before its troopships could
come close enough to even atr
tempt a landing.
Threat To Hawaii
Just as in the battle of the
Coral Sea, this Invasion force
u-a . hit more than 1.000 miles
from its probable ultimate ob
jective Oahu Isiana.
On the face of official reports
on the first three days of bat-
j tie, the conflict appear so far
to have been a spectacularly ana
fiercely-fought series of engage
ments with Japanese airmen
fighting like savages and ma-
chine-gunning American airmen
as they floated downward in par-
Admiral Nimitz gave no indi
cation how the battle was pro
gressing tonight.
(That the smashing blows
dealt by United States forces
was regarded in Washington as a
complete victory for America
was indicated in a message sent
to Admiral Nimitz by Admiral
Ernest J. King, commander In
chief of the United States fleet,
The message read:
('The navy, marine corps and
Admiral Smiles
Pearl Harbor, June 8 (IP)
In the midst of recounting
the first thrilling details of
one of the greatest naval
battles in history, Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz, command
er-in-chief of the Pacific fleet,
found a spot for a smile.
In his third communique
on the continuing batle off
Midway island, the admiral
said:
"Perhaps we will be for
given if we claim we are
about midway to our objective."
coast guard Join in admiration
for the American naval, marine
and army forces, who have so
gallantly and effectively repel
led the enemy advance on Mid
way and are confident that
their comrades in arms will
continue to make the enemy
realize the war is hell.")
Greatest Naval Battle
One of the most revealing
points in Admiral Nimitz' third
communique was his statement
that "perhaps we will be for
given if we claim we are about
midway of our objective." He
was referring to his assertion
that Pearl Harbor-will not have
been fully avenged until "Jap
anese sea power has been re
duced to impotence.
AH Indications were that the
engagement at Midway may be
come the most significant naval
battle of modern history. Obser
vers here agreed that it at least
was one of the most notable
demonstrations of the coordi
nated power of the three Amer
ican services Navy, Army and
Marines in its virtually com
plete destruction of the Invading
fleet s aircraft.
Vivid Picture Drawn
The first day Admiral Nimitz
reported that "our attacks on
the enemy are continuing." The
next day: "The enemy appears
to be withdrawing but we are
continuing the battle." Then
today the more triumphant, but
still conservative, statement: "A
momentous victory is in the
making. the battie is not
over. It is possible some
of these wounded ships will not
be able to reach their bases.
This draws a vivid picture
of the destruction of the enemy's
air arm and relentless pursuit
of the routed assault force.
Apparently American forces
quickly took command of the
air when the enemy appeared
This was indicated by Admiral
Nimitz' heartening statement
that "our personnel casualties
were light." 1
Hawaii Jubilantly received
the news of the great battle.
One of the most frequently
heard comments tonight was:
"The Japs must really have
believed their own reports that
they had annihilated the Amer
ican fleet."
Judging from official reports
made public from various quar
ters, the Japanese force that
attacked Midway appears to
have been the most powerful
ever sent into action against the
allied nations. And, by the same
token, the defeat suffered may
have been the most serious set
back the Japanese navy ever
received.
The full effect of the battle
In relation to the Pacific war
cannot be estimated until final
reports come In, however. Ad
miral Nimitz Indicated as much
when he said: "The battle is not
over. All returns have not yet
been received."
Portland, Ore., June 6
Produce prices steady, unchanged.
E REPORT
NIPS BEATEN IN
CHUHSIEN DRIVE
Tokyo Claims Walled City
Taken Is Denied High
Toll Exacted.
Chungking, China, June 6
W) Forcing the Japanese to
pay a heavy and bitter price for
their Chekiang-Kiansgsi often-1
sive, the Chinese announced
officially tonight that they had
thrown back repeated Japanese
attacks against the walled city
of Chuhsien yesterday.
(The Japanese news agency
Domei reported from the Che
kiang front that Japanese sol
diers had occupied Chuhsien at
6 p. m. today (Saturday) after a
three-day campaign.)
As the 59th month of the
Chinese-Japanese war ended,
the Japanese were driving hard
against determined Chinese de
fenses in the eastern seaboard
provinces; the Chinese reported
the recapture of several points
in Anhwel province and the Fly
ing Tigers of the American vol
unteer group announced their
planes had killed more than
200 Japanese in attacks along
the west bank of the Salween
river In Yunnan province and
along the Burma road.
The main theater of the war
now is in the Chekiang-Kiangsi
sector, the war reports indi
cated.
The Chinese said the defend
ers of Chuhsien were in 'Ex
ceedingly high spirits" and their
determined infantry and artil
lery attacks crushed Japanese
thrusts on Chinese positions.
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 1,000 men killed
and wounded, making a total
of 11,000 enemy casualties in
the last three days.
ED HANLEY LOSES
SUIT TO CANCEL
MOST AGREEMENT
Seattle, June 6 (IP) Joseph
E. Most emerged victorious to
day from the long-drawn litiga-
tion in which his business asso
ciate for 20 years, E. B. Hanley,
Sr., tried to cancel his action in
giving most control of the $1
000,000 Copper River Packing
Company in which both were
Interested.
Several years ago Hanley put
Most in charge of the cannery
by giving him the right to vote
Hanley's stock and later sold
him enough of his stock to give
Most a bare controlling Interest.
Three years ago Mrs. Hanley
tried to set aside these actions
but her husband sided with
Most and the courts held against
her. In the present litigation
Hanley sided with his wife, ask
ing that the voting trust agree
ment and his sale of the stock
be set aside.
Superior Judge Hugh C. Todd
in a memorandum opinion held
that Hanley had competent
legal advice when he made the
agreements and that they con
tained his own ideas.
The Hanleys, members of a
pioneer Jackson family, former
ly resided here and are well
known.
11 DIE IN L
London, June fl. (AP) At
least eleven persons were be
lieved killed and many Injured
In an explosion tonight In the
Elephant and Castle district of
southeast London.
The blast wrecked a number
of buildings and destroyed win
dows over a wide area. The
scene reminded residents of
some of the worst air raids.
War Bulletins
New York. June 6 (TV
The British radio said tonight
the United States navy's de
feat of the Japanese oii Mid
way "obviously adds up to
one of the greatest sea vic
tories of the war."
"The highlights of the story
show that the American forces
engaged have earned the grat
itude of the world," said the
BBC commentator, heard here
by CBS. "We send thtra con
gratulations from London."
San Jose. Costa Rica. June
6 (AP) The newspaper La
Tribuna said today the United
Fruit ship Atenas sank one
submarine and eluded another
when they attacked her in the
Gulf of Mexico while she was
en route to Puerto Limon.
Allied Headquarters, Aus-.
tralia, Sunday, June 7 (P)
An allied plane has destroyed
another Japanese submarine.
General MacArthur's head
quarters anounced today.
E EYES
DRAFT DEFERMENT
OF YOUNGJALES
Case of 'Mr. X', 21, Boy Ex
pert Cited as One of Cap
ital Bureau Abuses.
. m IJTfi I
rfc. Tvrfin. ,rn mJ, ' 7r
Chairman Tydings, (D.-Md.), of
l c4 1
omm-mded today that the Selec
tive Service system check up on
draft deferments given 1,000 j
young male employes of the
government. I
Commenting on the results of
preliminary investigations, Sen
ator Tydings said:
'On the whole the deferment
privilege has been judiciously
used by most agencies of the na
tional government but the
abuses we have found stick out
like a sore thumb."
To illustrate his contention he
cited the case of "Mr. X." 21
years old when he was appoint
ed a year ago to a $1,620 a year
Job In an unidentified depart
ment. Nine months later," Tydings
said, "He had become such an
expert in the field of 'person
nel procedure surveys' that he
was promoted and his salary
raised $1,000 a year. Further,
four months after his appoint
ment he had become such an in
dispensable cog in the adminis
tration of his department that it
was necessary to have him de
ferred, and six months later, not
being able to replace this high
ly indispensable 21-year-old ex
pert, it was necessary to obtain
a further deferment. This was
the claim of the department for
which he worked.
"This seems to us clearly an
abuse of the deferment privilege
He Is not even a college
g.aduate, which is unusual; he
has never been employed other
than a student before entering
the government service,
Tydings said "Mr. X" was on
ly one of 12 personnel officers
1
Dighton, Kas., June 6 (IP)
Beginning Monday Dighton res
idents will bow their heads a
few moments each evening to
pray for the safety of the coun
try and the safe return of the
town's soldiers.
By proclamation Mayor S. D.
Martin asked the populace to
observe one minute of prayer
each night at 7:30 when the
town sirens sounds the signal.
He asked that all business and
recreation cease for that minute.
..HEADS DEFWISE COUNCIL.
Seattle, June 6 (?) The
Washington State Defense Coun
cil today elected Irving Smith,
Seattle, as its executive director
at a meeting to reshape Its ac
tivities to meet any emergencies
the war may create in the Pad
fie northwest
PLANES AND BIG
Great Daylight Sweep Over
Nazi Positions Climaxes
Week of Raids.
London, Sunday, June 7.
(AP) The mighty RAF offen
sive thundered into its eighth
day with a raid early this morn
ing upon the German-held
French coast and British coastal
guns joined the assault, sending
a series of earth-shaking, two
gun salvos across the channel.
Nazi big gun positions in the
Boulogne and Cap Grls Nez
areas appeared to be the targets
of the post-midnight attack,
which followed a third power
ful night assault Friday on Ger
many's industrialized Ruhr and
a Saturday daylight sweep per
haps outdoing all others over
northern France,
The Germans struck back
early today, 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 yesterday
over northern France brought to
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6,000 and 7,000 planes at the
continent
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LIBYA AIR, SAND,
END SUEZ THREAT
Cairo, Egypt, June 6. (AP)
The British eighth - army has
wrested armored superiority
from the Germans in the Libyan
desert and with their sky ruling
air force Is hammering cease
lessly 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 veter
ans 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
could escape through a gap in
the British mine fields between
Ain El Gasala and Bir Hacheim.
The British, catching their
second wind in the furious 12
day battle in the furnace-like
heat of the swirling sands, have
opened a new drive In the tri
angular trap west of Knights
bridge, the cross trail 19 miles
southwest of Tobrub. Indeed, a
military commentator said the
British were battering at the
axis forces from three sides in
a might stroke of attrition which
had placed Rommel on the de
fensive.
Tamar, six mile west of
Knlghtsbrldge, was said to have
fallen to the driving British,
wno urmly held the initiative.
LOCAL MAN DIES
Redding. Calif.. June 8 VPi-
Eugene Edwin Buck, 21-year-old
Shasta Dam worker, was struck
on the head and killed today by
a muck skip, a carriage in
which dirt is transported, which
was being propelled over the
Shasta Dam from a high line.
Buck came her from Med
ford, Ore., only last week and
had worked on the dam but
five days. He apsrently did
not see the carriage nor hear
the warning shouts of other
workmen.
He leaves a wife, Mrs. Char
lotte Buck, who live here.
Interpreting
The War News
By Klrke L. Simpson
(Wide World War Analyst)
Among other cheering notes
on the war for the United Na
tions as the first week of June
passes without evidence that the
Axis in Europe has anywhere
regained the initiative is the
drastic change that has come
over German high command
statements.
Throughout the whole course
of the war those progress bul
letins always have dealt some
what in exaggeration, but never
before to the extent they are
now consistently overstating
Nazi military successes and un
derstating Nazi reverses.
Just why this official Ger
man appeal to hyperbole is
deemed necessary now can only
be conjectured. Just when it
started, is easier to calculate.
It began to be a definite as
pect of German high command
statements last winter, when
Hitler took over supreme army
command in Russia and purged,
one way or another, highest
ranking German professional
soldieri. There la now ample
evidence from American press
observers who were stationed in
Berlin before the United States
entered the war, that this resort
to Hitlerlan fiction was at least
one bone of contention between
the Nazi egotist and his gener
als. It violated their profession
al pride and conscience.
The change bespeaks growing
uneasiness in Hitler's inner cir
cle, perhaps in Hitler himself,
over German public reception of
war news that truthfully pre
sented, even within the limits of
military requirements, no. long
er could show smashing Nazi
Victories in every engagement
reported.
Turning back to the German
official bulletins from Scandin
avia, the low countries, France
and the Balklns as the victory
tide swept onward, the striking
thing about them was that they
rarely proved Inaccurate. The
strategic battle keys reported
taken Invariably were already
captured or so cut off that they
soon fell to German armies.
They were always specific,
not general. They mentioned
cities, forts, important river
lines. While the comment that
enemy resistance on a given
front had been broken frequent
ly proved premature, all too
often even that prediction was
promptly verified
By contrast, since Hitler took
personal command In Russia
none of the flamboyant claims
that Russian resistance was
wholly shattered have ever
been realized. While his armies
still were on tee march east
ward last year, the geograph
ical data Included in his bulle
tins later usually proved well
founded, but not the claimed ef
fect of the victory on Russian
morale.
Now even the pretense of doc
umenting a sweeping victory
claim with names of cities or
towns taken or river defense
lines breached has been aband
oned. It is such generalities in
German official claims of a
smashing victory over the Rus
sians on the Kharkov front that.
considered with Russian re
ports, warrant suspicion that
Hitler received a Jarrying body
blow at Kharkov which he
dares not reveal to his people.
New York, June 6 (IP) Myr
na Loy, film star, and John D.
Hertz Jr., advertising executive,
were married here tonight.
The recently divorced wife of
Arthur Hornblow Jr., film pro
ducer, and Hertz, were married
at the home of the bridegroom's
sister, Mrs. Robert Leylan, by
Supreme Court Justice Ferdi-j
nana recora wun oniy memoers
of the Immediate family present.
Following a reception the
couple left on honeymoon to
an unannounced destination.
Miss Loy was granted her di
vorce from Hornblow on June 1
In Reno, Nev. She charged
extreme mental cruelty. They
were married in 1036 and for
several years were considered
one of Hollywood's most Ideally
married couples. The bride has
been in the movie sine 1823..
MYRNA LOY WEDS
ADVERTISING MAN
SEA WIN CHEERS
ALLIED NATIONS
Pearl Harbor Treachery
Avenged on Anniversary
Tokyo Silent on Crush
ing Victory.
(By The Associated Press)
The smashing United States
victory in the continuing Pacific
naval battle with the Japanese
provided a triumphant note to
day (Sunday) for the American
people entering their second six
months at war.
The word flashed by Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz that 13 to
IS Japanese warships and trans
ports already had be?n sunk or
damaged off Midway was a
thrilling six-months anniversary
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" lnt thelr wsr trlde'
present for a people Just swing-
In the admiral's own words
It went far toward settling ac
counts for the treachery of Pearl
Harbor, exactly six months ago
today. On that dark Dec. 7 the
Blkado's men got In their stab
in the back; today they were
reaping the whirlwind of their
own making.
The news was good indeed
this Sunday for aU the Allied
world.
New York, Sunday, June 7
(IP) Japanese broadcasts heard
in New York up to midnight (1
p. m, Sunday, Tokyo time) had
made no mention of the battle
for Midway island or the Dutch
Harbor raid.
Instead, the Tokyo radio con
tinued to pour forth glossy ac
count of what Japanese sub
marine had done to Sydney har
bor and the Diego Suarez naval
base on Madagascar.
But all these words appar
ently beamed around the globe
to cover up the five-day silence
on the Midway and Dutch har
bor operations failed to square
with the fact.
Wherea the Japanese told of
enormous destruction at Syd
ney, they torpedoed only one
worn out ferry boat at a cost of
four of their midget submarines,
while the British Admiralty hag
put the He to Tokyo' claim that
a battleship and cruiser were hit
at Diego Suarez.
(By The Associated Press)
Washington, June 6 (JPK
half-year of war was closing for
the United Suites tonight much
as it began, with major battle
in the mid-Pacific. There was.
however, one striking and im
portant difference which in a
measure expresses what six
months of fighting have done
for America's service and it
people as welL
The attack on Pearl Harbor
caught American forces with
their guard down. The result
was disaster. An Admiral and
a General were set down be
cause they had failed to coor
dinate 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 near
ly tlx months of disheartening
defeats. Illuminated occasional
ly by brilliant victories, and ev
erywhere made notable by
proof of the man-for-man fight
ing superiority or. American sol
diers and sailors over the Jap
anese. DODSON JR. SIGNS
Portland, June 6AP
Navy enlistments announced
here today Included: Alfred K.
Dodson Jr Medford.
BULLETIN
Sacramento, Calif, June 6
(JP) Hal Turpln turned in hie
ninth victory of the season here
tonight when he defeated Sac
ramento 5 to 1 for the third
Seattle win of the series. The
Solons lead the ten game aerie
3 to 3.
Seattle 8 1
Sacraments T1T7T1
Turpln and Collins; Kempe,
Plntar (3) and Mueller. -;