MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1942.
PAGE FIVE
Kelly's
Comment
From Washington. D. C.
Davis Ignored
By Army, Navy
Nelson, Somervell
Stage Contest
Ickes Picks Man
For Power Board
Bt John W. Kelly Ts
Washington, D. C, July 17
Army and navy are taking the
bit in their teeth and ignoring
Elmer Davis, who is supposed to
Q give the public all war informa
tion, and are now fighting Don
ald Nelson to see who will con-
trol production. As a dispenser
of news Davis is licked already
and probably he wishes he had
back his $20,000 job as a radio
commentator. First, Mr. Davis
proposed that the army and
navy revise the method of re
vealing what is taking place in
' Alaska; come clean and tell the
public the lowdown, keeping
back, of course, any detail that
might be a military secret. Well,
so far as Elmer Davis knew or
the public was aware everything
in Alaska or the Aleutians was
the deepest, darkest military
secret. If army or navy had
romething good to report it
comes out in a communique
0 eventually; if there are reverses,
there is no news for John Q.
Citizen. ,
Every step in the invasion of
America, via the Aleutians, be
came known through Japanese
broadcasts. Spokesmen for the
armed services discredited these
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the department as "bif cer and more dcidlj- than previous "Bylni fortress" models. Several V. 8. planU now make the planes.
broadcasts; began with vigorous
denial that Japanese had obtain
ed foothold anywhere. Even
now Japanese newscasters re
port additional transports with
troops arriving in the Aleutians
with neither confirmation nor
denial from the American
spokesmen the latter simply
ignore enemy statements. The
small crumbs of information
granted by the army and navy
announced a transport sunk, a
carrier sunk or damaged. Yet
through the peasoup fog which
handicaps the defenders the Jap-
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anese move forward ever closer
to the mainland.
ELMER Davis believed the
public is entitled to some news
of the trial of the saboteurs;
army said no, so Davis went to
the White House with Henry L.
Stimson, secretary of war. The
executive order creating the Job
of Davis was supposed to give
him control of all news. The
president notified Davis that his
authority did not extend to news
of army and navy. Right there
Elmer Davis was whipped and
the hopes of the newspapers that
through Davis the press would
print straight, factual news on
the war and not merely spright
ly headlines vanished.
As in the past, the army will
issue its own communiques; dit
to the navy, at their own sweet
will, without regard to press
hour deadlines. Elmer Davis or
any other civilian. There are
good, practical, experienced re
porters (with Washington and
Oregon well represented) in the
intelligence and public relations
services, but they do not make
the policy; that is attended to
by the brass hats at the top. It
was supposed that Davis would
coordinate the news releases of
army and navy, which have oc
casionally been at odds, but he
cannot do this. (First communi
que on the Midway island bat
tle was released by the navy and
took all the credit; then army
issued a communique and relat
ed what the army and marine
planes did. Rivalry and jealousy
continue bitter between the two
armed services notwithstanding
the war).
FOR weeks an undercover
contest has been in progress be
tween Donald Nelson of war
production board and Gen. Bre
hon B. Somervell, in charge of
supplies for the army, wherever
the army is. The general became
quite tough, but Nelson became
tougher, insisting that as head
of WPB he had been appointed
to control the materials going
into the war effort. Army in
tended taking over anything it
wished, regardless of navy, mar
time commission or civilian
needs. Nelson proposes provid
ing for requirements of the navy
(warships), the army (tanks),
maritime commission (freight
carriers), and railroads (locomo
tives and rails), spreading out
SPLIT WITH AXIS
HELD NOT LIKELY
AS ORTIZ QUITS
Resignation Places Conser
vative Dr. Castillo in
Presidency of Argentina.
the steel and copper to meet as
many demands as possible and
still hold back tanks, if neces
sary, to furnish steel for cargo
ships and plane carriers, adjust
ing production to break bottle
necks. Mr. Nelson has not al
ways displayed such backbone;
he succumbed to the theory of
the war department that an
aluminum rolling mill should
not be in the mid-Columbia area
as it would be a target for Jap
anese bombers, so he approved
its location at Spokane.
FOR that vacant place on the
power policy board Secretary
Ickes is checking up on a first
class engineer who has had a
hand in two large power dams.
The prospect is now in the army
and has been and is building the
largest air fields in America. If
Ickes is satisfied with his back
ground next step is to try to get
him out of the army, which may
require the aid ofthe president.
"What I want," says Ickes, "is
someone who is power-minded."
NORTHWEST shipyards can
expect to repair any Norwegian
vessels that are operated under
the direction of the shipping
agency of the federal govern
ment. This is a part of the lend
lease Just signed, with the fur
ther provision that any Norwe
gian ship that is destroyed by
the enemy will be replaced by
merchant vessels built in Amer
ican yards.
New York UP The resig
nation of President Roberto M.
Ortiz, of Argentina, who had
been in semi-retirement due to
partial blindness and other ail
ments since July, 1940, has de
ferred the hopes of pro-allied
political leaders that their gov
ernment might sever relations
with the axis.
The resignation places the
conservative Dr. Ramon S. Cas
tillo in the presidency in his
own right. He was elected vice
president in 1938, has served "in
the exercise of the presidency"
for the past two years, and the
constitution provides that in the
case of resignation of the presi
dent, the vice-president shall
succeed him until the end of the
regularly elected term, which
in this Instance expires Feb. 20,
1944.
Castillo has followed a policy
of "prudent neutrality," insist
ing upon the maintenance of
normal diplomatic relations With
the axis, despite the resolution
of the Rio de Janeiro confer
ence of last January, recom
mending a severance of rela
tions with Germany, Italy and
Japan as a result of the Japa
nese aggression against the Unit
ed States.
Position Difficult
The Argentine delegation to
the conference of American for
eign ministers at Rio de Janeiro
led the fight to take the teeth
out of the severance resolution
by preventing it from becoming
mandatory, and Chile supported
the Argentine thesis. Today 19
of the 21 American republics
are either at war with the axis
or have broken relations. Argen
tina and Chile are the only two
countries 4hat still persist In
maintenance of relations.
Argentina's position has be
come a difficult one. A slender
majority in the chamber of dep
uties opposes the administration,
and many members of this ma
jority, composed of radical and
socialist party congressmen have
clamored insistently for a rup
ture with 'the axis.
German submarines have at
tacked and torpedoed Argentine
ships, damaging the 13.000-ton
tanker Victoria and sinking the
freighter Rio Tercero with a loss
of five lives. The Rio Tercero
was sent down off New York
but a few days after Germany
had apologized and offered re
parations for the attack on the
Victoria.
Right to Sail Ships
Argentina's note of protest as
a result of the Rio Tercero sink
ing demanded a formal acknow
ledgement from Germany of the
right of Argentine ships to sail
all seas unmolested in exercise
of the nation's status as a neu
tral, and It was interpreted as
a possible challenge to the Ger
man proclamation of a blockade
of the east coast of the United
States.
Despite the strong protests,
however, no indication has been
offered that the Argentine ad
ministration contemplated an
early break with the axis. In
1917 Germany torpedoed and
sank two Argentine ships; Ar
gentina protested, and Germany
apologized and later made rep
aration. If the same procedure follows
in analogous cases of World War
II, the Argentine government
may feel that the national honor
and interesti will have been
satisfied.
SYN0DICAL EXECUTIVE
TENDERS RESIGNATION
Eugene, Ore., July 17. JP)
Dr, James Thomson, Seattle,
the sj-nodical executive for Ore
gon and Washington announced
his resignation from the Oregon
synod at the afternoon session
of the Presbyterian synod meet
ing here today.
Dr. Thomson has been the
executive for the Oregon synod
for the past seven years. He
began his work with the eastern
Washington synod 29 years ago.
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In the Matter of the Estate of
Henry S. Anning, Deceased.
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above named Henry S. Anning,
(also sometimes known as Henry
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months from the date of the
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Dated and first published on
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1942.
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