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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, June 20 Cur
rent suspicions that the British
granted a secret clause in their
treaty with Russia, promising
Stalin all the
territory he
wanted, can
not be true in
view of the in
side manner in
which the
treaty devel
oped. The t 111
myste r i o u s
visit of Lord
B e a verbrook
to Washington
Paul Malloa two.monlns or
v more ago was
a? concerned with this matter. He
came over to sound Mr. Roose
velt out on the Soviet proposi
tion. His soundings must have been
faulty, for he returned to Lon
don with the mistaken notion
that Mr. Roosevelt would accept
such a grant of territory.
When Foreign Commissar
Molotoff arrived in London a
treaty was actually drawn by
the British providing for such
a post-war settlement.
But when news of it reached
Washington, the mistake of
Beaverbrook was officially cor
rected. This government put its
foot down firmly against making
any advance territorial commit
ments of any kind. It couid not
do otherwise.
The British thereupon tore up
the territorial draft, and offered
the Russians instead the twenty
3 year mutual defense pact which
Molotoff was glad to negotiate.
This unofficial explanation of
the matter coincides fully with
the official statement of An
thony Eden to parliament, and
the white paper issued by the
British, both of which were flat,
airtight denials that the treaty
meant more than it said.
TIE Chinese think Jap seizure
of some of our Aleutian
islands forecasts Jap attack on
Russia. Recent Chungking ad
vices assume that the Japs want
ed to be able to intercept any
American bomber aid or trans
Pacific surface aid to Russia.
That is about the only military
good the Japs could get out of
' these Islands.
No one here professes to know
what the acrobatic statesmen of
Japan will try next. But with
their sea striking force of air-
(Continued on Pa" SB)
OF
E TAX AT
Washington, June 20 (IP)
The house ways ana mean com
mittee today adopted a formula
for collecting a part of each em
ployed individual's income
taxes from his regular pay
checks beginning in January.
With the decisions, the com
mittee virtually completed a ten
fctative draft of new tax legis
lation intended to add at least
86,640,000,000 to federal rev
enue. Final action sending the
bill to the house is expected to
be taken next week.
Generally speaking, the new
plan would work like this:
a n inHivlrliinl'a annual per
sonal exemptions would be de
termined ana aivioea oj
ascertain the weekly exemptions.
A 10 per cent "withholding tax"
would be levied on that part of
the weekly pay check not cov
mrmA hv h Yfmntion.
Half the pay deduction could
be used as a credit against 1942
taxes due beginning next March
15, and the other half would
accumulate as a credit against
1943 taxes due March IS. 1944
Beginning in 1944, the full 10
per cent deduction would be ap
plied against 1944 taxes.
) Washington, June 20 (IP)
The office of Price Administra
tion today revised the basis for
ceiling prices on beef and veal
at the packer and wholesale
CR1PPS ASSURES SI Shouts as His "Ark" Burns j CHURCHILL S PLtA HUP MORI
ATTACK IN WEST
ON HITLER NEAR
Area Set Aside for Invasion
Training America to Aid
Germany Worried.
London, June 20 (IP) Sir
Stafford Cripps, parliamentary
deputy for Prime Minister
Churchill, promised Britain to
day that this country and the
United States will "launch a
great and successful attack upon
Hitler in the west" but gave no
hint as to when or where.
They said Nazi measures to
meet it might influence its tim
ing. Simultaneously, the nation re
ceived what appeared to be evi
dence that Britain is making
steady preparations to cast the
fateful die. The army announ
ced it was taking over train
ing area a 36 square-mile zone in
East Anglia, an obvious possible
jumping off place for a drive
across the channel.
British Calm
Ordinarily these develop
ments would have produced a
wild frenzy of expectation in
Britain, coming as they did Just
when Churchill is conferring
with President Roosevelt in the
United States, when there have
been recent arrivals of strong
United States army and naval
forces, and when the war In
Russia is nearing its first anni
versary. Speculation would have been
heightened by these other de
velopments: 1. The disclosure that Just be
fore Cripps spoke, Churchill
was In consultation by trans
Atlantic telephone with at least
one of his aides, Major Clement
A. Atlee, dominions secretary.
2. An announcement by the
German radio, which Just gained
notice today, that German au
thorities, apparently In defen
sive mood, had widened to the
east and west the already exten
sive mine fields in the Skager
rak between Norway and Den
mark. But British reaction was con
ditioned by growing uneasiness
over the German attack on Rus
sia's Sevastopol and deteriora
tion of the British position in
North Africa, coupled with in.
dications that Hitler may be
preparing to seize the initiative
in an even more decided man,
ner in the Mediterranean.
The cause for disquiet over
the latter situation was found in
a Reuters news agency dis
patch "from the French fron
tier" reporting that Hitler has
demanded that Pierre Laval.
Vichy chief of government, cede
1,000,000 tons of French ship
ping a demand which seemea
to say that the Nazis are pian-
nine a vast movement of men
and supplies across the Mediter
ranean and perhaps the Black
sea.
A dally sketch columnist said
France would be left but sou,-
000 tons of her own ships to
trade with her colonies. He
estimated her shipping in Allied
hands totaled 600,000 tons.
Cripps spoke at a mass meet
ing in Empress hall, which was
packed by almost 7,000 persons
gathered to observe the anni
versary, June 22, of the German
attack on Russia. Included in
the audience were Soviet Am
bassador Ivan Maisky, Rear Ad
miral Alan G. Kirk, chief of
staff of United States naval
forces in European waters who
represented Ambassador John C.
Winant, and representatives of
all other Allied governments.
"With the help of the United
States and Its industrial forces
'added to our own and the Sov
iet union's productive resources,
we should be able to launch a
treat and successful attack upon
Hitler in the west," he said.
He warned against a prema
ture venture leading to failure,
however, and said when we
strike, let us strike hard and
with determination to march
through to Berlin before we call
a final halt."
"It may be sooner or later,
though Hitler has apparently
guessed that It may not be too
far ahead. As we make our prep
arations, so no doubt, he will
try to make his too, and this In
itself may influence the time
factor."
I I
;-V- .qu FOR LIBYAN AID
I r-:A, , r-jL .. MnT pnimiMn cnnM
William Greenwood, (right), 70, self-styled Noah, shouted
and yelled as his "Ark," built 22 years ago for coming tidal
waves which he said would engulf the Puget Sound area, burn
ed at Olympia. Wash. It was set ablaze by firemen In a clean
up. Greenwood said the Ark had served it's purpose and that
every house In the area was an "Ark" as long as it had a Bible.
ALEUTIANS WHEN
WEATHERPERM1TS
Public Confused, So Are
Japs, Says Navy Spokes
manAll Attacks Met.
Seattle, June 20. (AP) Jap
anese Invaders of isolated Aleu
tian island points are "getting
smacked whenever there is a rift
in the fog banks," a 13th naval
district spokesman said today.
He declared the "so-called mys
tery of the Aleutian battle is
merely mystery of weather,
of fog and snow, coupled with
a desire to keep the enemy In
the dark."
He said: "If the public is con
fused about the situation in
western Alaska, then so is the
enemy and that is all to the
good. You can't make a state
ment about a battle until the
battle is decided. As Admiral
King has told the American peo
ple, the battle for the Aleutians
is continuing. As already an
nounced the attack was no sur
prise and the initial attacks at
Dutch Harbor were met.
The statement continued:
"It's a weird, wild country up
there. There are great patches
of fog and rain in which the
enemy can hide, as a band of
guerillas may hide in the bush.
There are literally thousands of
srr.all bays and inlets. The Japs
know the country, but so does
the navy.
"Why haven't the army and
navy already driven the Japs out
of the Aleutians? The weather
explains that, in part. It's one
thing to get at them in clear
skies and another to get at them
when the weather is foul and
thkk and snow is in the air and
quick-forming ice burdens the
wings of planes. You can depend
on it, they are getting smacked
whenever there is a rift in the
fog banks."
HARD BY TORNADO
Kokomo, Ind., June 20 (AP)
Two p-nons are dead, six
missing, find at least 20 known
injured In a tornado which
struck the south half of Kokomo
late today.
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CONGRESS READY
TO PUT CURB ON
SPENDING SPREE
Worried Over Mounting Debt
Check Urged for Civil
ian Benefit Bill.
By Edwin B. Hawklnson
Washington, June 20 (IP)
With nearly $94,000,000,000 ap
propriated since the start of the
present congressional session on
January 5, many legislators are
beginning to talk of a necessity
to hold down further financial
commitments.
Two veteran senators Norrls
and.. Neb.) and McKellar (D.,
Tenn. gave public notice this
week of their belief that con
gress must proceed with more
caution when voting money.
They teamed to oppose a broad
program of government pay
ments to civilians suffering in
jury, disability, death or deten
tion as a result of enemy attack.
"The financial resources of
our government are not unlim
ited," Norris warned. "The im
agination is staggered by the
colossal debt we are piling up.1
McKellar, chairman of the ap
propriation subcommittee that
has handled most of the multl-billion-dollar
war appropria
tions of recent months, pro
tested that "we shall not have
money to conduct the war if we
continue to make forays on the
treasury.
Chairman George (D., Ga.)
served notice that he would
ask that the civilian benefit
measure be referred to the sen
ate finance committee for study
The senate ts to resume consid
eration of the bill Monday,
Clerks of the senate appropri
ations committee said congress
already had voted about $93,
600.000.000 cash in slightly
more than five months and
that pending budget estimates
totalled $40,000,000,000 addi
tional. These totals Invo'.ve only di
rect cash appropriations and do
not include many billions of
contracture! authority.
Some economists estimate that
it will require at least two years
to spend the wat appropriations
already made and pendir.. cal
culating that production limits
will restrict war spending to
around 172,000,000,000 a year.
Sacramento, June it'-iV!
Butter First grade IHir-.-f-ond
grade SDVie.
Time and Distance Hamper
Early Assistance Par
leys Continue.
Washington, June 20 (IP)
Egypt's hard-pressed defenders
likely will be forced to rely on
their own resources for weeks
to come regardless of any urg
ent pleas by Prime Minister
Churchill for American aid.
Because of distance, time and
limited shipping, any American
reinforcement of the middle
east beyond that already under
taken would be . a long-time
operation, competent observers
said.
This was the reaction to Lon
don reports that Churchill's cur
rent secret conferences with
President Roosevelt were con
cerned largely with the critical
axis break through in Libya.
In the absence of any further
information from the White
House since Thursday night's
unexpected announcement that
the prime minister had arrived
in this country, it was assumed
the conferences continued to
day.
Unless reinforcements arrive
in a month or less, any aid for
Lieutenant General Nell M.
Ritchie's imperial army would,
by authoritative estimates, be
too late to affect the Immediate
perilous situation. - -
From United States Atlantic
ports, the 14,000-mile voyage to
Suez around the tip of South
Africa requires some six weeks
for a slow convoy.
The alternative of running
the gauntlet of axis air and sea
blows through the Mediterra
nean was tried this week with
undisclosed success by a British
convoy which admittedly sus
tained heavy losses.
AXIS FORCENEAR
SUEZ FALLS BACK
IN DESERT FRAY
(BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)
The fnry of the north desert
fighting appeared to have sub
sided after the British defeat
that had set the eighth army
back on the Egyptian-Libya
frontier leaving an aosls of re
sistance around the port of To-
bruk.
The two main Axis columns
wisich annroached within 23
miles of Bardia were engaged
and turned back westward, but
the Germans apparently were
only Reeling out the strength
of the new British positions and
consolidating their newly won
gains.
The wily old desert fox, Mar
shal Erwin Rommel, set a trap
within a trap a week ago and
turned reverwi into victory. He
did this by chasing a strong
British tank force into an am
bush of 38-MM guns, apparently
after dispatching a fake radio
message which sent the British
forces to help another division.
The carnage of twisted steel
and bleeding men turnedd the
tables.
The British desert air force
bombed Rhodes and Crete, often
named as concentration points
for Axis troops which Hitler
might loose atalnst Cyprus,
Syria or T'irkey in an effort to
squeeze E!)pt lind Suez be
tween two Ax Li forces.
Again they might be hurled
thrcuph th middle east to
strike the rich Russian Caucasus
from the rear and sever the
vital Russian ripply route lead
ing up through the Persian gulf
and Iran.
EDITOR TO ARMY
Vim i"ork, June 20 VPh-
Ralph M. Irigemll, editor of
the neifspaw M, nas been
called for Induction Into the
m? tiext Wednsday despite
an ap;n for teferment by
l!irhll Field, owner of the
paper. ,
" '
OF LE HAVRE IS
B01LTSTARGET
Calais and Dunkerque Also
Raided in Big Scale Air
Attack.
London, June 20 (IP) The
RAF, after a lull enforced by
bad weather, made a big-scale
attack on Le Havre today, send
ing over "many squadrons" of
fighters and American-made
Boston bombers against the big
French seaport Just across the
channel.
More than 300 British planes
were hurled into afternoon at
tacks alone, the air ministry en
ounced, and they ranged up and
down the continental coast and
as far inland as - St. Omer, in
France.- Furnes, on the Bel
gian Coast, came in for one hea
vy attack.
An air ministry communique
said objectives at Boulogne, Cal
ais and Dunkerque also were at
tacked. Four enemy fighters
were destroyed while six Brit
ish fighters failed to return to
their bases.
The offensive against the Ger
man-held port followed night
bombardment on uermany.
The air ministry said a bom.
ber force, which it described
only as "strong," dealt j major
rlamaao to the German naval
base of Emden and also attack
ed the rail Junction of Osna-
Wrupk averment.
Tha mid was the heaviest In
two weeks, British aomces said.
notlna- that use of the worn.
'strong" usually indicates
fnrra of 2S0 to 300 planes.
Nine planes were missing
from these operations and raids
over the Netherlands.
By daylight hundreds oi rwvr
rinMera awarmed over the Boul
ogne and Calais areas today in
the first large assault since June
a
Coastal watchers saia opera
tic, onnoared to be equal to
ih. heaviest of daylight forays
in which 1,000 or more British
planes participated.
Numerous daylight raids In
the past dozen days have been
on .
ENEMY MINES ON
ATLANTIC COAST
TAKE FIRST TOLL
Washington, June 20 (IP)
The first official report of en
emy mine laying operations
along the United States coast
in this war came today in a
navy announcement that mines
had caused the recent sinking
of one merchant ship and dam
age to another off the Virginia
shore.
The navy said careful Investi
gation had convinced it that the
two ship casualties were not
as previously believed" the
results of submarine attacks
but were caused by the "vessels
striking enemy mines."
"Undoubtedly, these mines
were laid by an enemy subma
rine under the cover of aarx-
ness, when detection Is extreme
lv difficult." the navy said.
That was tne oniy omciai
navy comment regarding the
minelaylng, but the develop
ment had not been unexpected
in naval circles.
Germany Is known to have
a number or long-range suoma
rlnes equipped for mine laying.
AIR CADET KILLED
San Antonio, Texas, June 20
JP) Aviation Cadet Leon C.
Harer, 21, of Taeoma, Wash.,
was found dead today In the
wreckage of his Randolph field
basic training plane four miles
east of Sequin.
Medford was leading the
Photo Bears of San Francisco
BULLETIN
13 to 12 in the sixth Inning last which evused an estimated unof
night. Medford scored 10 runs ficial damage of $500,000 to
in the first. Both teams used paper war-house near thf
three hurlers in a heavy-hitting Greenwic. h Village section of
gam " "
Interpreting
The War News
By Klrke L. Simpson
(Wide World War Analyst)
The European scene, clouded
by fresh uncertainties In Russia
and North Africa, dominates
the war news this week end.
All observers agree it Is de
veloping to eastward that
brought Prime Minister Church-
Ill again to the United States to
talk war strategy with Presi
dent Roosevelt.
Westward, however, the war
clouds have been lightened by
American air-naval successes in
the Coral sea and the North Pa
cific, successes that put a crimp
In Japanese striking power
against any United Nation ex-
ept China and poslbly Russia.
Chinese sources insist that Jap
an is now preparing for back
door Intervention In the war In
Europe by attacking Siberia,
probably in July.
The Chungking reasoning on
which that Is based, as differen
tiated from Chinese Information
as to Japanees troop or plane
movements, does not seem con
vincing. Certainly the outcome
of American-Japanese air and
sea clashes In the North Pacific
did little to help mount a Nip
ponese attack on Russia.
There and In the Coral sea
Japanese strength In ships,
planes, skilled air crews and,
above all, plane carriers was
heavily whittled down. Those
are military elements on which
Takyo must count heavily If it
Is In fact planning a surprise
attack on Russia.
They would be more essential
In meeting possible American
use of the Alaska-Aleutian Islands-Kamchatka
air lanes west
ward to help Russia, or hammer
Japan than any base the enemy
has or could set up in the west
ern Aleutians for Interception
purposes. Those fog-shrouded
and often weather-bound rocky
extensions of the western hemis
phere could be bypassed easily.
The very conditions that make
it difficult to blast tha Japanese
off of them no less serve to
make them of small value for In
terception purposes.
But as for Chinese reports of
impending Japanese-Russian hot.
tilltles, some other motive for
the Midway and Aleutian forays
must be sought. The theory that
Japan wants to build an air se
curity zone around her home
area can and no doubt does par
tially explain the far-flung Jap
anese effort to knock out China
or at least drive her forces
beyond easy bombing reach of
Japan. It seems Improbable,
however .that Japan would take
on another adversary or Ignore
the growing menace of Ameri
can-Australian forces short of
glittering opportunity on Im
perative necessity.
3 TRUSTIES FLEE
El
Salem, June 20 (IP) State
pollen spread their net tonight
for three young trusties, two of
them four-time losers, who fled
from the state penitentiary an
nex in a prison truck near Sa
lem this afternoon.
Wnrden George Alexander
said the hunt early tonight
Dolmed toward Roseburg,
where a truck answering the
description of the penitentiary
vehicle was reported seen.
The warden listed the fugi
tives as James Ogden White, 22,
four-time R, committed last win
ter from Salem on an auto lar
ceny charge: Roy Lawrence
Bots. 26. four termer, received
iTcrn Multnomah counv'y March
12 for larceny, and Jack
Groves, 25, twice a loT, serv
inr a lp.tnj sentenco from
Lane roun'.r.
The trio left with a load of
ashes, ontensibly carry in if cut
their ftwlgned tasks, about 2 p.
m. a:vd failed to return, Alex
ander a',d.
tO riREMEN OVERCOME
New York. J-me 20 UP)
Fifty fi-emen were overcome oy
I smoae ixiay in a iive-aiarm lire
MsnhttfA
DECISION NEARS
ATSEVASTAPOL;
Nazis Pay High Toll Mos
cow Silent on New Drive
at Smolensk.
Moscow, Sunday, June 21
(JP) The Germans continued
last night to batter Sevastopol
with some 150,000 men and
planes and tanks and at the
same time registered a new ad
vance In a revival of fighting on
the Kharkov front, the Russians
announced early today.
(By Associated Press)
The 16-day assault on Sevas
topol seemed to be approaching
a decision with the Germans
throwing reinforcements behind
artillery, tanks and dive bomb
ers. The Russians claimed tha
foe made no important gain but
the Moscow correspondent of the
British radio declared "the dan
ger is very great" and that the
"Germans have reached a high
road leading to Sevastopol."
The Germans claimed further
successes and said "Soviet rem
nants" north of the great Cri
mean base were being mopped
up. But it was apparent to all
that the Nazis were paying a
frightful price in attempting
to erase the pocket of resistance
on their most direct route to tha
Caucusus.
The Russians were sagely sit
lent about the, reported Smolensk,
offensive. The news came from .
the Germans who said waves of
Russisn Infantry were attach.
Ing behind tank and air support.
The Russians rarely tell of the
offensives until they are well
under way. An Important town
in the Smolensk direction was
reported captured, however.
North of Smolensk on tha
Kalinin front, the Russian said
they killed 2,200 Germans, Ir
the Ukraine below Kharkov, tha
fighting seemed reduced al
though the Nazis claimed a
Soviet division was surrounded)
and almost annihilated.
Hitler's war on Russia
which he expected to complete,
within six weeks enters lta
second year Monday and iha
Red army was declared by com
petent experts to be far strong
er, better organized, armed and
trained.
Berlin (From German Broad
casts), Sunday, June 21 UPf
The thunder of guns In the bat.
tie of Sevastopol is so great
that it Is shaking houses along
the Turkish coast, 200 miles ,
away across tha Black sea, and
has been mistaken by Inhabitants
there for an earthquake, the Ber.
lin radio said today.
"The incessant thunder of
guns has been hard lor days
from the direction of Sevastopol
in the Turkish coastal town of
Ineboll," the radio said In a dis
patch from Istanbul. "On Fri
day evening the booming of
guns increased to such an inten
sity that houses began to shake
and the inhabitants at first be
lieved an earthquake had brok
en out.
War Bulletins
New York. June 20 OPh-
The British radio quoted a dis
patch tonight from Its corres
pondent on the Libyan front as
saying Azls forces had "prob
ably" enter the town of Bardia,
10 miles from the Egyptian iron-
tier.
The BBC broadcast, heard
here by CBS, said:
"A dispatch that cams In only
a half hour ago from Richard
Dimbleby, our observer In tha
desert, says that tha enemy
columns which withdrew from
the frontier area last uigbt,
moved up again today and bad
by now probably entered tha
town of Bardia, some 10 miles
from tha frontier. . .
New York, Jaae lO AP)
The YufoeUT goTHimt
la London has received wars
that Italiaa forces sastalaasl
heavy casualtiea la a treaa eat
break of guerrilla Heating In
Montenegro, Yugoslavia, tha
British radio said teas. M
heard kr CBS. "