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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mailon
Washington. July 15 Con
gressman Andrew Jackson May
set the military men a-mutter-ing
when he announced the war
might be over this year, certain
ly next. Mr. May is an excep-
tionally able legislator and
chairman of the house military
affairs committee, but he is also
known as a teller of tall stories.
He has long insisted, for in
stance, that down in Pike coun
ty, Kentucky, he never shoots at
a squirrel directly, but at the
limb on which it is perched, so
he can kill it by concussion.
An offset to Mr. May'a amaz
ing prediction has been offered
by Senator Tydings of Mary
land, who thinks the war will
not end until 1944.
Everyone likes to hear good
news, and such statements
as these are given prominence
in the press for that reason, al
though they are not worth the
breath it took to utter them.
No one in authority knows
when the war will end. No one
can have a good guess. And such
wild stabs as are being made
fluctuate from day to day with
nwa from the front.
One official, who knows as
much about it as either Mr. May
or Mr. Tydings, says the war
will lat five vear. if Eevct falls.
All that can be truthfully and
safely said is this: -
Many air-minded authorities
hope for great things from the
second front of air bombing
. which has been opened by the
" British. It has been announced
this is to be greatly intensified
with cr help soon.
Those who think the war can
be won this way naturally ex
pect an early conclusion. They
are in the minority. The vast
majority of authorities see the
nd nowhere in sight.
It will snow gold for depen
dents in the armed services
next November 2. the day be
fore election On that peculiarly
(Cunttatud ea Pc sl
Army Says Corvaliis
Sewage Will Poison
Camp Wafer Supply
Portland. July 15 HP) The
army wants the city of Corvaliis
I to put in a sewage purfication
plant at once to protect the
Camp Adair water supply.
A letter from Malor Gen.
Kenyon A. Joyce, commander
of the Ninth Corps area, to the
Oreenn aanitarv authority yes
terday said the camp's supply
would be contaminated other
wise. The camp's water intake on
the Willamette river will be be
low Corvaliis.
Seattle. July 15 IF) The
Pacific north west advisory
board said today carloadings in
this area in June totaled 113.
928 cars. Highest for the month
since 1929.
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Topight: MBS 5:30 Grena
dier Guards Band; 6:30 Pass in
Review.
Thursday: NBC 8:30 New
series, Engineer at War. CBS
12:30 U. S. Navy band. MBS
11:43 A. M., Khak Serenade;
1:30 Empire City horse race.
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Frank VanDyke trying in vain
to get the kink out of his back,
caused when he hoisted his lit
tle boy's tricycle clear up into
an automobile.
Lieut. W. H. Puntenney
breezing around with breezy
news of Camp White.
Frank Runtz tipping a report
er off to what may make a
good story soon.
Ken Denman, saving rubber,
being picked up oa his long trek
to lunch at bom
RUSSIANS REPULSE
NAZI ATTEMPT TO
CIRCLEVORONEZH
Hitlerites Stripping Reserves
From Western Europe
Is Claim of Defenders.
By Clyde A. Farasworth
Associated Press War Editor
Locked in a Breat. consuming
battle for which Germany is
stripping reserve divisions trom
K.p 0nrr Imni in Western Eur
ope, the Russians reported today
that they had repuisea enemy
attempts to encircle Vonmezh,
on the north flank of the Ger
mans' Don Valley offensive.
Resistance to Hitler's 1942
blitzkrieg, as symbolized by the
defense of Voronezh, has so sap
ped the enemy's reserve that
several divisions from Beigium
and France have been .reported
put into the battle.
Path For Aiiia
The official Russian an
nouncement to that effect today
was a tacit Implication that the
way was being opened in west
ern Europe for creation of an
.1114 front
v London reported Russian
pressure for prompt invasion
of the continent and one infor
mant rtertnred that all DreDa ra
tions for a full-fledged attack
were being made. How soon was
left unanswered.
Th Rfranni whs more than
a week ago were claiming Vor
onezh as theirs actually were
stopped by a last ditch defense
at the outskirts, Russian front
dispatches . said today, in re
counting the struggle ior in
anchor of the southern Russian
army.
So long as Voronezh stands it
remains a tharp flanking threat
tn th r.prmBn' deeoest pene
tration of Russia, thrust which
has carried beyond Boguchar,
down the Don from in Voron
ezh sector, to' within 200 miles
of Stalingrad on the Volga.
Axis reports , unconfirmed,
said that another drive, further
south, had carried within six
.(! f Rrtxtnv. at the mouth
of the Don gateway to the Cau
casus. . .
Thousands Kitted .
txtmi admitting territorial
losses which constitute dire
threat to isolate the vital Cau
casus and perhaps to force
general Russian withdrawal in
the south to the line of the Vol
ga River, Moscow said that 35,
000 of the enemy have been
killed or wounded In a 10-day
period in the Voronezh sector.
An important point west of Vor
onezh was reported recaptured.
Juvenile Officer
Selection Delayed
County Judge J. B. Coleman
said yesterday it would be a
week or 10 days before the
juvenile officer for Jackson
county, provided for in the
1942-1943 budget, is named.
War time conditions have in
creased the need for a trained
welfare officer of experience
who can contact both the juv
eniles and their parents.
There has been something of
a decline in Juvenile delin-
fiimiipv th mast mnnth Manv
of the boys and girls are now
working in orchards and on
farms, or elsewhere.
Navy Details Heavy Jap Losses In Midway
By JOHK M. KIGHTOWER
Washington, July 15 VPH
Japan's invasion armada ran
into an American ambush in the
battle of Midway, official re
ports disclosed today.
A communique last night
gave the first detailed account
of the battle and a supplemental
report told how a naval task
force lay in ambush and struck
hard with carrier planes when
army and navy shore-based at
tacks had slowed the enemy
fleet.
0 Ships in Fleet
The great size of the armada
Japan sent to assault Midway
in hopeful prelude to conquest
of Hawaii was disclosed for the
first time 80 ships. Official
records gave this result of the
J battle:
Nazis Nearer
U? imp
LACK $ I A iijl-.j
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New drives In the Hosts axe
(2), brought th Oerman manae
Shaded arrows indicate possible
eih (3), continued with indies lions (shaded arrowi), that Matt
triumph would bring further drive to split Moacow from the
south and a push toward the Oral Industrial areas. Russians
claimed thay fought efi saw attacks is Kalinin area (41, but
Garmans claimed new victor! southwest oi FihT.
ROGUE RIVER MEN
AMONG INTERNED
BY JAP CAPTORS
Washington, July 15. UP
The War department today an
nounced 158 American civilians
known to be interned by the
Japanese at Shanghai. All were
captured on Wake Island and in
each case the next-of-kin has
been notified by the navy de
partment. Oregonians include:
Ward H. Deimlen Mrs. S. O.
Jacobs, box 118, Rogue River.
Lester W. Harbeck: Mrs. Les
ter Harbeck, 628 North Fourth,
Grants Pass.
Buren G. Kennedy; Mrs.
Buren Kennedy, Rt 1, box
1110-A, Rogue River.
Charles A. Moe: Mrs. Dorothy
Lee, Rt. 3, box 685, Grants Pass.
Raymond W, Roberts: ' Mrs.
Mary Roberts, box 873, Grants
Pass.
Lewis H. Smith: Mrs. Mary
B. Smith, Rogue River,
Five For One I
German Penalty
London, July 15 (JPi The
German-controlled Brussels ra
dio reported tonight that five
Frenchmen had bees sentenced
to death at Lille for killing
German so'dier.
The announcer added that
two other French nationals had
been executed for distributing
propaganda described as com
munistic, and for possession of
firearms.
Japanese losses 30 ships
sunk or damaged including four
aircraft carriers sunk and three
battleships hit; 275 planes de
stroyed, and 4,800 men killed or
drowned.
American losses the 19, 900
ton aircraft carrier Yorktown
put out ot action, the destroyer
Hammann sunk, an undisclosed
number of planes destroyed, and
92 officers and SIS enlisted men
lost. Loss of the destroyer and
damage to an aircraft carries
had been reported previously,
but this was the first time their
names were given.
The Immediate result of the
battle was that safety of the
vital Hawaiian area, th Ameri
can west coast and the Panama
canal wera at least temporarily
Secured
Caucasus Oil
I SOVIET RUSSIA
I Ntii '
IRAN
(I), and fighting at Boguchar
closer to Caucasus oil fields.
ob (CtiTM. Struggle for Voion-
BASEBALL
" American '"
First game.
Chicago ITS
Boston 10 13 2
Smith and Turner; Hughson
and Conroy.
National
First game.
Boston
S
Cincinnati
13
Tobin and Lombard!; Walters
and Lamanno,
FIVE DIE IN CRASH
OF ARMY BOMBER
Walla Walla, Wash., July 13
Lieutenant-Colonel Earl T.
Vance, base commander of
Walla Walla, reports four-
motor bomber on a training
flight from the air base at Walla
Walla crashed In the Blue moun
tains, about five miles southeast
of Walla Walla en th Hans
Clodius ranch at 1:40 a. m. to
day.
The crash was followed by an
explosion and fire and ail on
board were killed.
Casualties were:
Pilot, Second-Lieutenant Rich
ard G. Hill, Mart, Texas,
Co-Pilot, Second -Lieutenant
Earl O. Stevens, Ravenna, Ohio
Engineer, Pvt. Kenneth White,
Vale. Ore.
Radio operator. Pvt. Joseph
Mallick, Corry, Penn.
Pvt. Freddie . Vanover,
address not determined.
Devoted Action Told
The navy Issued In exultant
detail Its first story of the
"superb act of devotion" men
tioned by Prim Minister
Churchill in parliament July 2.
when he -told for the first time
that "from some successful at
tacks on Japanese carriers only
one (American airert returned
out of ten."
On action the navy cited was
by navy torpedo squadron No. 8
30 men and IS planes led by
Lieut. Cmdr, Charles Waldron
41, of Fort Pierre, S. D. This
sauadron successfully attacked
the enemy's main battle force
without fiahtcr support and in
spit of blistering antiaircraft
and fighter opposition. Alt 14
o!ane were lost. Only on man
ISAM VsL'-iST.
m - - - - - .
of the squadron, Ensign O. H.
House Breaks Farm Bill Deadlock
FOUR SABOTEURS
FOUND ON BEACH
BY COAST GUARD
Young Service Man Sur
prised Quartet Now on
Trial is Official Revelation
Washington, July 15. (V
The coast guard .disclosed today
that a 21-year-old guardsman.
on beach patrol at Amagansett,
Long Island, surprised four or
the eight alleged Nazi saboteurs
now on trial as they waded
ashore carrying explosives.
The guardsman, John C. Cul
len of Bayside, Long Island,
sounded the alarm which even
tually led to the capture, of the
four men he surprised and four
others.
Feared Hypnotism
la a narrative description
drawn from official coast guard
files, the announcement dis
closed that Cuilen at on time
feared he was about to be hyno
tized by one of the saboteurs.
Also, the Sails, in giving him
a bribe he pretended to accept,
shortchanged CuUen $40,
Th official record quoted
another coast guardsman who
participated In the search for
th four saboteurs as saying he
saw "a long, thin object, about
70 feet long, about 150 I est on
shore," white Cullen wm report
ed to hav beard in noise, of
powerful Diesel engines just off
shore. , .
VINSON SCORCHES
CONTRACT AGENTS
Washington, July IS. JP)
Chairman Vinson iD-Go) ot me
house naval committee main
tained today that three "sales
enaineers" had an "inside track
at the navy department which
haloed them obtain war con
tracts for manufacturers ana a
profit of $946,101 for them
selves during tea first six
months of this year.
"You three men, sitting here
in Washington," Vinson bluntly
told the trio during the commit
tee hearing, "are getting 1,130
each a day, every day for the
first six months of this year, in
cluding Sunday, while boys are
dying at Bataan and Corregidor
and on the Lextngton.
"I am going to see if I can
break up this practice of contin
gent fees. There's no justifica
tion for It.
His assertion cam during
examination of A. P. Shirley, a
one time army major, and F. R.
Olcott and F. C. Nichols, both
former civilian employes of the
navy. The three are partners in
a firm which secures contracts
for manufacturers throughout
the country on a commission
basis.
The slogan "Pike Peak or
bust" originated In 3858 with
the gold strike at Pike's Peak,
Gay, of Houston, Texas, sur
vived.
Another deed of valor was
attributed to Major Lofton R.
Henderson of Gary, Ind. During
th marines' first attack on the
Japanese fleet on June 4, hi
scoot bomber was hit and set
afire. Henderson was last seen
diving his blaring craft into th
smokestack of Japanese car
rier.
After the Coral Sea victory
on May 4-My S, the navy said,
the hiah command decided the
enemy's next thrust would be
directed aratnrt some other
tion of America Pacific de
fenses Hawaii. Alaska, the
Panama canal or th Pacific
coast.
Her Sai Tra
Cooteauently U. S. naval
JAPANESE GIRDING
F0RS1BERIABL0W
IS LONDONREPORT
Main Fleet Concentrating in
Home Waters Waiting
German Victory, is Claim.
(By the Associated Press)
Apparently by coincidence.
London sources voiced opinions
today that the Japanese main
fleet Is concentrating in home
waters and that a smashing Ger
man victory in Russia would
precipitate a Japanese attack on
Soviet Siberia.
Simultaneously tits Tokyo
radio broadcast a report that
Foreign Minister Shigenori To
go, speaking at Osaka, disclosed
that the soviet government had
assured Japan that Moscow's
mutual assistance pact with Brit
ain and her agreement with the
united States contain no pro
visions regarding Japan.
May Meaa Lilti
It was significant perhaps. In
the light of past Japanese ac
tions, that Tokyo thus sought to
reassure her Russian neighbor
but a reassuring gesture by
Japan may or may not mean a
thing, depending on whether it
accords with military strategy.
In the theaters of active war
in the far Pacific, the MacAr-
thur headquarters In Australia
reported a new bomb raid yes
terday on the Japanese airport
at Salamaua, New Guinea, and
the Chinese acknowledged that
the Japanese had captured Wen-
chow, an important port of
southern Chekisng province.
The Chinese, thus confirming
a Japanese announcement of last
Saturday, said that the attackers
were impelled: by fear that the
port would become an allied air
or naval base.
CAMP ADAIR AREA
SHORT OF HOUSING
Corvaliis, Ore,. July 13. Uft
Governor Sprague paid tri
bute to America s military lead
ership at a chamber of com
merce dinner honoring a score
of newly arrived army officers
for Camp Adair last night. He
pointed to Camp Adair as
example of "amazing accom
plishment" and an indication
of the army's ability to get
things done.
More officers' are arriving
daily for Camp Adair posts and
housing has already become an
acute problem here.
War Bulletins
Lasdaav July W ftP) Tw;
hundred spitfire ftgbtar puses
made a darina tsw-leval attack
early tonight as German troops
along a SOO-mils front the
Cherbourg Peninsula to Stap
les, the air ministry sews ser
vice aaaeusees tonight.
forces were deployed along the:
1,700 mile front between Mid-i
way Island and the Aleutian in
th north Pacific. Throughout
th danger area, base were re
inforced with long-range, land
based aircraft. Thus, the navy
made clear, the fighting forces
under supreme command of Ad
miral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific
fleet chief, were ready when the
blow fell.
The following account ot the
battle is takes front the navy
communique and supiementary
reports based on voluminous
communications from eommand
ders in the field,
Enemy sighted At t a. m.,
Midway time, June J, navy pa
trol plane found an enemy
cruiser and transport fore to
Held By FBI
Mrs. Hani Kaupt (absva). of
Chicago, imothtr oi Herbert
Haupt. who was Msg m4 By
a military eosimmioa as aa
attesed, saboteur, was arrested
by is FBI. Th FBI charged
Hausi't caranU kaaw at hi
scriritlM.
COPGO EMPLOYES,
POSTAL WORKER
ENLIST IN M
Three employes of the Cslf-
fomio-Oregon Power company.
one of the MedJord postoffice
and a local business man enlist
ed In the U. S. naval construc
tion battalion In Portland Mon
day, and witt be called to active
duty when their companies are
formed, probably to about two
months, according to Jack M.
Carpenter, local navy recruiter.
Stanley G. Sherwood of 1019
West Main street, money order
clerk at the psstofftee, enlisted
as a postal clerk, first class.
Copcn employes totaling the
navy were Sidney G'en Watson
of 72 West 14th street, as a
storekeeper, second class; Don
ald B. Falweii of ttt West Sec
and street, as a storekeeper, first
class; and Owen K, Phelaa 732
West Second street, as an elec
tricians mate, second class.
Fourth local man te enlist was
Harold Carver of 89 Portland
avenue, owner of Hal's Camera
shop. Carver enlbted as a pho
tographer, first class.
Transfsr Jspssast
.Front FntBS Ctsltr
Fresns, Calif, July IS
Transfer of 4,730 Japanese, most
of them from Oregon and Wash
ington, got underway at the
nearby Ptnedafe assembly cen
ter today.
Some 4,008 of She Oregon and
Washington Japanese at Plne-i
dale will go to the Tule Lake
center in Modoc county. The re
maining 750. mostly from Sacra
ments, Ei Dorado and Amador
counties, will go to the Poston,
Arte.. centr.
five huge columns about TOO
mile west ot Midway, coming
in.
Simultaneously, a Japanese
battle force of carriers and bat
tleship was coming In front the
northwest. Army fortress bomb
ers and navy petrol planes dam
aged a cruiser, a transport and
probably sank and damaged
other vessels to an immediate
attack on tha occupation force.
The enemy turns by mid-
morning the enemy had suffered
only about IS ship damages,
and the Amerlnn command ex
pected continued attack. But th
Japanese changed course unob
served and both forces began to
retire.
ftv that time American car
rier in ambush were rushing
AGREE TO SALE
OF 1EAT UNDER
PARITYON CORH
Change in Sentiment Permlti
Sale Around 33c a Bushel
Had Sought $1J5
Washington, July H, JPi
Final agreement was reached:
today on the long-disputed:
$680,000,089 farm bill after the
house finally backed down, and
decided to permit sales of gov
ernment-ofraed wheat at below ,
parity.
The senate, , following the
house action, accepted a confer
ence commutes recommenda
tions and the legWatios was
ready for the president's signe
ture.
After rejecting a new com
promise proposal, the house ae
cepted a senate demand, backed
by President Roosevelt, that
sales of government owned
wheat for livestock feed and In
dustrial use at 85 per cent of
the parity price of corn or
about S3 cento a bushel be al
lowed.
Wanted il,J
Previously, the house had in
stated that such tales be made
at set lesa than parity for wheat,
or atset 11.43 a ousnei.
Th deadlock grew out of a
senate demand that sal of 123
000,000 bushels for feeding pur
posec be allowed at 83 per cent
of com parity, or sb-otit 83 cent
The administration favored
the senate version. It wants to
stabilize livestock reed! prices at
betew-pertfy levels to encourage
maximum production of meat,
dairy and poultry products to
war needs, - - ......
NEW DEALERS WIN
OKLAHOMA VOTES
Oklahoma City, July 15 Oft
Oklahoma Democrats, who re
nominated New Dealer Josh, Lea
for the S. S Senate, built up a
lead for a Roosevelt backer aa
their ehek for governor today
with three-fourths of th unof
ficial returns from yesterday's
primary election tabulation.
Robert 3 Sob) Kerr, the par
ty's national eotnmttteeman.
added bit by Mt to his Barrow
margin over second place Com
er Smith, attorney and former
congressman.
With 2.709 of 3 874. precincts
reported th count stood Kerr
105.388, Smith 87,438.
Sena tor Lee won nomination
over nine opponent and clung
to a clear majority.
Among Senator i'j nine op
ponents wai 72 -year -old W. H.
(AlfaUa Bill) Murray, farmer
governor and csngressinan,
BLT POSTMASTER
Washington. July 1J OfV
President Roosevelt has test to
the senate the following nomina
tions for postmaster to Oregon:
Biy Georgia G, Case beer.
Ambush
full steam to attack. But because
the enemy had changed course
contact was not established im
mediately.
However, Watdrss and Lieu
tenant Commander CUrence
Wad McClusky, Jr., of Buffalo,
N. Y, shrewd iy guessed what
the enemy had done, led their
squadron accordingly, and e
tacked the Japanese against
heavy testitanc. Waldroo s
squadron scored several hit and
shot down some Japanese fight
ers before it warn wiped out.
Then American carrier plane
arrived to tore. Th navy de
scribed the enrutag fight aa
"such an aerial circus a never
before had bets witseaaad aw
far at "