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Washington, June 13 One
sixth of the Jap capital fleet
'strength was put out of action
at the battle of Midway. Details
of which are now accumulat
ing sufficiently
to clear pop
ular miscon
ceptions of the
action.
It was not
primarily a
naval battle,
but an air bat
tle. P 1 a n e s
werecast
against Jap
surface ships,
planes against
planes and
Paul Mallon
subs against surface ships. There
was no action between U. S.
surface ships and Jap surface
ships.
The Japs tried to sneak up on
Midway, as they did on Pearl
Harbor. They came in with their
aircraft carrier planes in front
as umbrellas to cover their bat
tleships, cruisers, destroyers and
transports from attack. Their
strategy was to send bombers
from these carriers over Midway
in a surprise attack, just as at
Pearl Harbor.
The airfield at Midway was to
have been bombed and destroyed
before our planes could get in
the air. Then they would have
moved their battleships up with
long range guns and reduced the
heavy defenses.
E Island is as level as -a
billiard table and completely
without cover or shell shelter.
We have a good air field there
and a protected lagoon, but
nothing could be put under
ground because after a few feet
you reach water.
The shelling would have pul
verized the heavy defenses and
opened the way for Jap light
cruisers to come in and clear
the way for landing troops from
their transports. The Japs had
three to five transports loaded
with troops ready for that pur
pose. But sharp American air-eyes
gave us a lucky break. Our pat
rol planes sighted the four to
five advance ships In the Japa
nese line several hundred miles
off Midway, near the extreme
limit of the patrol. These plares
radioed back the alarm and Im
mediately we began to attack
. . .
T'HEIR four or five carriers,
huddled in the center of the
Jap line, caught the heaviest of
(Continued on P-e Six)
War Bulletins
Allied Headquarters, Aus
tralia, Sunday, June 14 (JP)
Twenty-seven Japanese bombers
escorted by fighters raided Dar
win yesterday, but did little
damage. General MacArthur's
headquarters announced today.
The raid was carried out
while Australia with the rest of
the allied world was celebrating
MacArthur Day.
One enemy and one allied
lane were lost, headquarters
Announced.
It was the first raid on the
northern Australian port since
the United States navy and al
lied air torces Joined In smash
ing a Japanese invasion thrust
toward Australia.
London. June 13 UP) A soli
tary German raider unloaded a
stick of high explosives on an
east coast town last night, hit
ting a hotel and killing at least
nine persons.
Berlin (From German Broad
casts! June 13 UPt Berlin
political quarters said today that
free French soldiers captured at
the Bir Hacheim outpost In Lib
ya were subject to execution as
irreculars under the German
and Italian armistice terms with
Frarce. Forbidding French sub
jects to serve in armies fighting
the axis.
LONDON, June 13 F
KAF Spitfires shot up several
trains and illuminating gas tanks
and a factory today in a sweep
ever northern Franc.
ENEMY IN SMALL I
SCALE LANDINGS
AT ATTU, KISKA
Weather Slows Operations
'Face Saving' After
Midway Seen.
Washington, June 13 UP)
American army and navy avia
tion striking whenever the dirty
weather of the far north per
mitted, were at work today to
drive the Japanese from their
fingertip hold on the outer
most end of the Aleutian island
chain stretching westward from
Alaska.
The progress of operation was
obscure. The navy, for the.
time, stood on its original an-;
nouncement that attacks against!
the Japanese in the islands "are
continuing." The Japanese, the
navy said, had made a small
scale landing at Attu, western
most of the islands, and enemy
ships had been reported in the
harbor of Kiska, in the Rat
island group.
The Japanese landing at lone
ly Attu was the only achieve
ment salvaged from Nippon's
grand scale offensive attempt1
in the north Pacific. The south
ern wing of that offensive was
broken and sent limping away
in the action at Midway.
No Real Threat
In army and navy circles, the
Japanese landings were viewed
as nothing to rouse concern.
Whatever Japan's original in
tentions. It was believed the
heavy losses of Japanese war
ships off Midway had left the
enemy in no position to under
take to expand and exploit the
footholds.
Most naval men apparently
Inclined to the view that no
real threat to Alaska was in
volved, . Rear Admiral John H.
Towers, chief of the bureau of
aeronautics, told reporters at
Baltimore that the Japanese
action was of "no real impor
tance" and might even become
an enemy liability.
But there were those here
who pointed out that a position
on Attu could be of definite
military value to Japan, even
if it did not become eventually
the first stepping stone for an
attempted full-scale move on
Alaska and the North America
mainland.
It could be a listening post
along the route from Alaska to
Japan or to Siberia relieving
to some extent the necessity for
JaDanese reconnaissance by sub
marine, surface ship and air
craft.
Holman Interested .
In Canada there was a dis
position by at least one high
official to view the Aleutian
island attack in grim manner.
In congress, confidence was
expressed that the enemy would
be swept out of the Aleutians
quickly.
Senator Chandler (D., Ky.), a
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 sofely
by 'psychological reasons of
"face saving,"
Senator Lee CD., Okla.), also
a committeeman, thought the
Invasion apparently was a "face
saving" move, but Senator Hol
man (R., Ore.) expressed lively
concern at the Japanese action.
He predicted the Japs would
attempt to construct an airbase
there.
Hannibal, Mo., June 13. UP)
Mrs. C. C. Dudley had Just
finished reading- a newspaper ac
count of the sinking of the air
craft carrier Lexington In the
Coral sea battle when her tele
phone rang last night.
It was a long distance call
from her son. Commander
James Dudley who was on the
carrier, assuring her of his
safety. He called from the Pa
cific coast
SAILOR'S MOTHER
GETS GOOD NEWS
Here Last Summer
W
few
tMSJ
The war department announc
ed that Major General Clarence
L. Tinker (above), commander
of the Hawaiian air force, was
missing after the Battle of Mid
way. Major General Tinker was in
command of the air squadron
that camped here last summer
at the Elks picnic grounds on
the Rogue. He is known to a
number of local people.
HALF JAPANESE
LOSTJNPACIFIC
Air-Sea Power Broken In
Midway and Coral Sea
Battles, Navy Says.
Washington, June 13 UP)
The Midway and Coral sea bat
tles have cost Japan probably
half of her best aircraft carriers
and thus have broken the spear
head of her air-sea striking pow
er, informed naval sources esti
mated today.
And because of the Import
ance of the air arm, the Japan
ese are regarded as having gam
bled away in the two engage
ments the chance of major of
fensive action on the American
side of the Pacific, even though
they still have several fast car
riers which would operate with
the weakened high sea fleet.
They have lost at least six of
the ten or more fully effective
fleet carriers with which they
started the Pacific war, and still
others have been put out of ac
tion temporarily by bomb and
torpedo damage. This is In the
basis of official reports of the
Coral sea battle and word from
Midway pilots that three and
possibly four Japanese carriers
were sunk in that action.
Japan probably had more car
riers than those listed in naval
manuals. But by the best avail
able listings, she started the war
with these: Syokaku (or Shoka
ku) and Ziikaku, the newest list
ed designs, each of 14.000 tons.
30 knot speed and 45 planes;
Snryu, Kiryu, and Koryu, 10,
050 tons. 30 knots and 40 planes:
Rvuzyo, 7.100 tons. 25 knots, 24
planes: Akagl, 26.900 tons. 28
knots. 50 planes: Kaga 26.900
tons. 23 knots. 60 planes: Hosyo,
7.470 tons, 25 knots, 26 planes:
and the Ryukaka, a new carrier
either of 14 000 or 20,000 tons.
She also had several converted
liners as carriers, but these are
not classed as fleet vessels.
The toll has been one sunk,
one believed sunk and one dam-
I aged in the Java sea; one sunk
and one damaged In the Coral
sea. and three and possibly four
sunk at Midway.
By contrast, the United States
has lost the Lexington and suf
fered damage to another carrier
off Midway. These represent
third of the large American car
riers in service when the war be
gan. The obsolete Langlcy, sunk
near Java, was a tender.
GREATEST TROOP
E,
Fourth AEF Contingent, In
cluding Negroes Land
After Atlantic Crossing.
With the AEF In Northern
Ireland, June 13. UP) Thous
ands of heavily armed United
States troops, equipped with 28
ton tanks and other offensive
weapons, moved into camps in
northern Ireland tonight from
the "greatest American convoy
which ever crossed the Atlantic"
in grim evidence of allied hopes
of opening a second front
against Germany this year.
Warships flying the U. S. en
sign shepherded the convoy
through nazi submarine hunting
grounds without incident, and
this fourth announced AEF con
tingent swung jauntily down the
gangplanks as if impatient to
get along with the business of
fighting Germans.
From at least nine states they
came an indication in itself of
the diversity and size of the
newest force. Troops from
Pennsylvania, California, Geor
gia, Illinois, New Jersey, Mary
land, West Virginia, Indiana and
Kentucky shouted cheerily at
uniformed women of the British
army auxiliary forces while
military bands piped out "Deep
in the Heart of Texas," "Jersey
Bounce" and other tunes.
For the first time since the
last war, negro troops were
landed on British soil. An
army statement said their num
ber was small and that they
were intended for "services of
supply."
ALLIES OBSERVE
(By Associated Press)
Across the length and breadth
of the nation war stirred Amer
icans paid tribute this week-end
to the flag for which they fight,
and, bound by ties of war. Join
ed their sister United Nations
in reaffirming their will to final
victory.
In populous cities and In tiny
villages bands playri, troops
marched and the "home front"
paraded yesterday in honor of
General Douglas MacArthur
and Flag day.
From his headquarters In Aus
tralia, the hero of the Philip
pines sent a message calling the
designation of June 13 as "Mac
Arthur Day'" a rededication "to
the immortal ideals of West
Point: 'Duty, honor, country.' "
DEAD TOTALS 30
Oklahoma City, June 13 (IP)
Red Cross and other relief ag
encies cared today for 250 home
less victims of a tornado that
killed 30 persons in a southwest
residential district and roared
off "whistlini like 10,000 dev
ils." The army sent soldiers from
the air base who toiled through
the night bringing dead and in
jured from the debris, then tsay
ed on through the day to help
tend the survivors.
An area two blocks square
in the southwest corner of the
city was scoured bare of
houses, and only a few trees,
limbs and leaves wrenched away
by the wind, Still stood.
NO PORTLAND PUD VOTE
Salem, June 13. (P) The
State Hydroelectric commission
today rejected petitions asking
for a vote at the November gen
eral election on creation of a
peoples' utility district at Port
land. FRENCH RISING ANEW
London, June 12 UP) Free
French headquarters reported
tonight that the Gestapo has
launched a h'g new d-ive in
Taris to quell organized resistance.
Interpreting
The War News
By Kirk L. Simpson
(Wide World War Analyst)
Whatever he may say, it is a
reasonable guess that Adolf Hit
ler is very far today from the
jubilant mood on which he
triumpeted the opening of his
great "crusade" in Russia Just
short of year ago.
Twelve months later the self
appointed savior of mankind Is
fully aware that he has caught
a tartar in his march with "no
precedent" eastward against
Russia "to safeguard Europe
and thus save ail."
There was a precedent after
all, a Napoleonic precedent. The
second "little corporal" has been
periously close, by his own ad
mission, within the past 12
months to the fate that befell
Napoleon.
He is not yet out of the woods.
He still has the Russian bear
by the tail in a dance o fdeath
that involves millions of men.
He can neither let go nor go
forward notably with his "cru
sade." The other end of the
Russian bear, the business end,
is snapping savagely at his heels
at every gyration.
That is the situation on Ger
many's eastern front a week
from the anniversary of Hitler's
attack on Russia. And to match
it a storm of British-American
making is brewing in the west
of which German victims at
home have heard the first omin
ous rumblings in thousand-plane
British bombing of such cities
as Cologne and Essen. For the
six months that follow the night
of June 21-22 this year, every
night must be one of increased
danger and terror for Germans
as the ho'irj of darkness leng
then. Britons have known that grim
waiting night by night where
every added moment of dark
ness meant added peril, but
never as Germans must now en
dure it. No German can doubt
that the Cologne and Essen raids
were but tokens of the horror
to come. What the upshot of that
might be for Hitler before the
winter turns the longest night
corner in December none can say
with certainty. .
Nor can any say when Allied
guns as well as bombs may
again be joining in the dreadful
chorus on the continent in the
west. The ships, the planes, the
men aie gathering within the
fortress that is Britain. The Nazi
warmaker can have no doubt of
that, nor can he turn from his
Russian front to meet iJ'at grow
ing threat.
Two-front war even now Is a
terrible reality for Hitler. For
the weeks since he thumbed his
eastern army against Kerch Is
thmus in an effort to regain the
initiative in Russia, his troops
have been floundering in blood,
still chained to a fundamentally
defensive role.
E
Tacoma, June 13 UP) Two
army fighter planes crashed in
separate accidents in the Ta-coma-Olympla
area today killing
the pilots.
The first plane hit St. Peter's
hospital in Olympia and fell to
the street in flames. The pilot,
tentatively identified as Lieut.
Ralph M. Edwards, Jr., died in
a few hours.
Another ship crashed and
burned in a field at Lakevlew,
about 15 miles southwest of Ta
coma, killing 2nd Lieut. Roy D.
Stone, Monrovia, Calif.
4 GENERALS AND
Berlin (From German Broad
casts), June 13 UP) The Berlin
rnrtin quoted "competent quar
ters" tonight as stating that the
Germans had taken more than
12.000 British prisoners, includ
ing four generals and an Ad
miral, in the course of the cur
rent operations in Libya.
In addition, it was stated, 600
British tanks. 300 guns and
many motor vehicles were de
stroyed or captured.
German losses wer not mentioned.
u-
ACROSS ATLANTIC
Embraces Canada and U. S.
Coasts, Effective June 26,
Berlin Reports.
Berlin, (From German Broad
casts), June 13 (IP) The Ger
man government announced to
night extension of its blockade
across the Atlantic all the way
to the American Coast as a re
sult of the United States' entry
into the war and of "the devel
opment which naval warfare has
taken since then off the Amer
ican seaboard."
CBS in New York heard a
Berlin broadcast saying the
blockade extension was Ger
many's answer to allied threats
of a second front.)
The official announcement
said:
"The operations area In which
at all times military action must
be reckoned with has been en
larged to extend to the Amer
ican coast across the Atlantic
ocean.
"This was caused by the fact
that the United States entered
the war, and furthermore, by
the developments which naval
warfare has taken since then off
the American seaboard. Every
ship which will sail In this area
after June 26 subjecting Itself to
destruction.
"The German government
therefore is warning against sail
ing in the hazardous area which
extends:
"From the Belgian coast three
degrees east, over 62 degrees
north, three degrees east and 68
degrees north, 10 degrees west
to the coast of Greenland along
68 degrees north; then along the
Greenland coast to Cape Fare
well and from there to Cape
Harrison; thence along the coast
of Canada, the United States of
America to Key West, from
there along 28 degrees north, 60
degrees west, 45 degrees north.
20 degrees west and 45 degrees
north, five degrees west and
45 degrees north, five degrees
west and then to the French
coast at 47 degrees, 30 minutes
north."
This chanted a line running
north from the Belgian coast
through the center of the North
Sea, then westward to include
the waters about Iceland and
Greenland, then south along the
Canadian and U. S. shores to the
West Indies.
PEOPLE MOUNTING
New York, June 13. VP)
Visions of a new era of interna
tional justice are inciting the
Chinese people to carry on,
Madame Chiang Kal Shck said
today in a special shortwave
broadcast from Chungking.
The message was receive! In
New York by CBS on the occa
sion of the 25th reunion of the
1917 graduating class of Wells
ley college, of which Madame
Chaing Kai Shek was a mem
ber. The Chinese leader's wife said
she had faith that the demo
cracies will learn the lesson that
it is better to prevent wars than
to win them.
(By Associated Press)
Five more ships were an
nounced sunk in teas both near
and far today but two more
struck back and returned to tell
their stories.
A small Norwegian freighter
steamed Into an eastern Canad
ian port with undisputable proof
that it licked a submarine the
submarine's survivors. A United
Fruit banana ship, the Atenas,
reached a gulf coast port with
the Jubilant report that an Axis
submarine was probably ' sunk
and another frightened off In its
voyage.
FREIGHTER NABS
SUBMARINE CREW
Last Off Lexington
v -mm
:'.
Capt. F. C, Sherman (above),
commanding officer of the U. S.
S. Lexington was th last man
to leave th ship, which was
sunk in th Coral sea.
San Diego, June 13 (IP)
Rear Admiral Frederick C.
Sherman, abandoning the dis
abled U. S. Aircraft carrier Lex
ington in the Coral sea, risked
his life to rescue his dog, "Ad
miral Wags."
With the big carrier aflame
and racked periodically by ex
plosions, Sherman took time to
find the ten-year-old Cocker
Spaniel before he left the ship.
"Admiral Wags didn't like
gunfire," Sherman said today,
"and hid under the bed in my
emergency cabin during the bat
tle. "When I prepared to drop
over board the cabin was filled
with smoke, and I feared Wags
had suffocated. But I found him
standing forlornly by the bridge,
waiting for me.
"An orderly tied a life Jacket
around the dog and lowered him
into the water. He was taken
to a destroyer, then a cruiser.
He finally caught up with me in
two or three days."
MASS AIR RAIDS
TO CRUSH NAZIS
Washington, June 13 UP)
Continuous night and day bomb
ing of Germany by massed
American and British air fleets
was advocated today by Senator
Norris (Ind-Nrb), who said he
was convinced the Nazis might
thus be brought to their knees
without a land Invasion of Eu
rope. Differing with those advocat
ing establishment of a second
land front as early as prac
ticable, the veteran Nebraska
senator said he could see no
reason why Germany could not
be reduced to military impot-
ency by sustained, smashing aer
ial attacks at her plane factories,
transportation systems and in
dustrial centers while the Nazi
armies were heavily engaged
with the Russians.
A White House statement last
Thursday said that the United
States, Great Britain and Russia
had reached ful understanding
on the urgent tasks of creating
a second iront this year. This
was followed today by announce,
ment of the landing of additional
American troops in Ireland, fully
equipped for offensive action.
But Norris insisted these
troops might be held in reserve
and used only for "mopping up"
operations on the continent if
mass aerial attacks were made
continuously.
RANGE GRASS BETTER
Portland, June 13. UP) Ore
gon ranges are slightly above
average, but are not in as good
condition as last year, the Fed
eral Department of Agriculture
reported today.
FAVOR JOB FREEZING
Portland, Ore., June 13. UP)
A federal proposal to freeze
workers in their Jobs was ap
proved today in a resolution by
the Washington Independent
Telephone association.
HELP RUSSIANS;
LAND IN TURKEY
I
Black Sea Bases Pounded
Rumors Cloud Move Air
Might Grows.
(By Associated Press)
America's growing air might
was reported thrown into tho
battle of Russia even as other U.
S. planes hunted through the
north Pacific fog last (Sat) night '
for Japanese detachments which
landed on the westernmost
Aleutians.
Four or possibly five multi
motored U. S. bombers with
some wounded crewmen landed
in Turkey, and the British
agency Reuers said they had
bombed Odessa and Nikolaev,
Black Sea bases seized by the
Germans from Russia last year.
After two days of rumor,
mostly from disturbed German
sources, the Turks confirmed
that the U. S. fliers had landed
in their neutral country and
were Interned.
Exchange telegraph agency,
also British, said 23 fliers were
interned and that the flight
"would seem to be the first in
dication that a powerful Amer
ican bomber command exists in
the middle east."
Reuters said German fighter
planes pursued the great four
motored bombers into neutral
territory and turned back be.
fore Turkish fire. All detail
were vague and veiled In offi
cial silence.
The anguished cries from,
Berlin, however, suggested tha
Nazis might be building up the
incident as a cause celebre to
overawe Turkey, which could
provide a Nazi shortcut to tha
desperately needed oil c-f Iran,
Iraq and the Caucasus.
Turkey has been receiving
lease-lend aid Including planes
from the United States, and
other equipment from the Brit
ish. Thus the planes might con
ceivably fly again against th
Germans.
SOVIET COUNTER ATTACK
Moscow, Sunday, June 14
UP) Soviet forces meeting the
greatest Nazi offensive c tha
year with strong counter-action
In a narrow death trap on the
Kharkov front hurled back
German tank and infantry at
tacks in savage fighting all day
yesterday, the Russians reported
early today.
The Soviet bureau of Infor
mation declared that the Red
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 fight
ing on the Kharkov front.
Intense land, sea and air ac
tions were reported by the Rus
sians from other sectors of tha
long front, which, with the
Russian-German war almost one
year old, is seeing some of its
most bitter fighting.
DEGREES FOR DOGS
Baltimore, June 13. UP)
Final examinations and com
mencement exercises for seniors
at Canine college will be held
tomorrow with a bunch of
smart pooches receiving such
degrees as "C. D." (companion
dog), "C. D. X." (companion dog
excellent), and the highest de
gree, "U. D." (utility dog).
BULLETIN
Medford defeated Dorris 10
to 7 in an Oregon California
league game here last night.
The Craters were ahead through
out. The game was ragged, with
10 errors contributed by both
teams. They play again this
afternoon.
Score: R. H. E.
Dorris 7 12 4
Medford 10 14
Carlstrom and Goldbar; Crip
pen and Adams.
NIGHT GAME
Los Angeles .3 12 0
Sacramento .6 10 0
10 Innings.
Prim, Flores CD, Gehrman
(8), Roffensberger (9), Lynn
(10, and Todd; Lyons, Donnelly
(8), Wicker (9), and Moeller.