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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Aug. 6 Mr.
Russell Davenport, editorial of
fices. Life Magazine, New York
City.
Dear Mr
Davenport:
You asked
me, and some
other W a s h-
Ington c o r re
spondents, to
rani Mallon suggest con
crete steps to
improve it.
The question, as you put it, is:
'If you were President, what
would you do, immediately, to
improve the war effort and
make more certain of victory?"
Let's get it straight at the
start that what I would do must
not be construed as leveling
charges at Mr. Roosevelt and the
government.
Perhaps we were so complete
ly unprepared, before we were
plunged into the war, that it
would have been physically im
possible for us to acomplish
much more than we have.
No one has proved our gov
ernment has not in general done
a good job, only the government
itself can know all the facts, be
cause it censors the results of its
efforts. The situation is that we
I are impatient because we can
not see better results.
But I do not mind telling you
what I would do:
WOULD switch this country
4 from the defensive, the
"wait-awhile" attitude, into an
aggressive offensive fighting
spirit at once. I would start do
ing this by selecting only strong
and aggresive personalities for
every phase of government ac
tivity, civilian as well as mili
tary. I would shake all others
out.
I would choose men impatient
to get at the enemy, when who
think courageous and daring
things can be accomplished, not
foolhardy daredevils, but thor
ough, cool men of scientific ac
tion the type of Doolittle, Ad
miral Byrd, yes and even Lind
bergh, if I could find anything
for him better to do than advis-
i ina Henry Ford.
I would bring the army and
navy up on their toes and keep
them there by entirely dissipat
ing the old school tie atmos
phere of easy comaraderie, inde
cision and compromise.
I would get the most imagina
tive military minds together and
(Contlnoad on Pact SIM
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
The situation surrounding the
production of war material will
be aired Sunday in a special
CBS broadcast at 11 a. m. which
will bring to the microphone
nine army, navy, labor and gov
ernment officials including El
mer Davis, director of the office
of war production.
March of Time over NBC at
1 7:30 tonight will present Tom
Girdler, chairman of the board
of Consolidated Aircraft Corp.
and of the Vultee company, in
addition to a ptckup direct from
Cairo, Egypt, bringing the voice
of MaJ. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton.
There are some 123 grades
of iron and steel In a modern
automobile.
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
An unidentified little boy
spending his entire capital of 30
cents for two war stamps and
wishing he had more, after the
"Victory House" Chevronette
gave him such a nice smile.
. ' Bill Barker so engrossed In
I listening to his car radio he al
most failed to note a change in
the traffic lights.
Gertrude Young shining up a
new domicile preparatory to oc
cupying same. -
Chairman Baruch of Group
to Recommend Best Pro
gram For Synthetic Output
Washington, Aug. 6. (JP)
Asserting it would block prog
ress of the war effort. President
Roosevelt vetoed today legisla
tion to create an independent
agency to stimulate production
of rubber from grain and simult
aneously created a committee to
look into the whole rubber prob
lem.
Bernard M. Baruch, who was
head of the War Industries
board in the last war, will be
chairman of the committee
named to recommend the best
program to produce the syn
thetic rubber necessary for the
war effort and for essential civi
lian use.
Serving with Baruch are Dr.
James B. Conant, president of
Harvard university, and Dr.
Karl T. Compton, president of
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology. Mr. Roosevelt said the bill he
was vetoing passed by congress
with the backing of the farm
block would hamper instead of
aid the war effort.
The measure, the president
said in a message to the senate,
would break up an existing logi
cal coordination of centralized
control in the War Production
board and override priorities
established by WPB for materi
als necessary to make hundreds
of -products essential in war.
Noting that the board had al
located a certain amount of rub
ber to be made from both agri
cultural products and petro
leum, Mr. Roosevelt said that
both types of plants now are be
ing constructed and that others
are planned for construction at
the greatest possible speed."
The president said that to
take the problems out of the
hands of an experienced board
with an over-all knowledge of
military and civilian needs
would disrupt a unified and ex
peditious war production pro
gram.
JAP "PHOTO JOE"
General MacArthur's Head
quarters, Australia. Aug. 6 (JP)
American fliers who shot down
six Japanese planes in recent
battles over the Buna-Gona area
of New Guinea told today of a
special prize they bagged a
"Photo Joe."
They reported downing five
Japanese naval Zero fighters
and said the sixth plane a
twin-engined craft unmistake-
ably was a reconnaissance plane
used by the Japanese for high
altitude photography.
A formation of five United
States medium bombers encoun
tered the photography plane
before meeting the Zeros.
Lieut. J. S. Kale of Belling
ham, Wash., said, "Photo Joe
flew out of a cloud toward us
as bold as anything. He knew
we were in formation, probably
under orders, so we wouldn t
take after him."
"What he forgot," said Kale,
"was our fighter escort above.
My tail gunner. Sergeant Bem
rick. saw three fighters sweep
down on Photo Joe. He didn't
have a chance then."
INQUEST TONIGHT IN
DEATH OF JACK 0RR
An inquest into the death of
Jack Orr, 23-year-old Prospect
mill employe, will be held at
Perl's at 7:30 tonight, according
to County Coroner H. W. Con
er. The youth was killed Tues
day when he was pinned be
tween two trucks while riding
on the running board of one of
them.
BIG NAZI GUNS POAR
London, Aug. fl. (JP) The
German radio said heavy ccastal
suns opened fire on British ship
ping in the English channel this
morning.
Lindy at Pelley Trial
0
Charles A. Lindbergh was smiling as he walked down the
federal building hall at Indiana oolis after testifying at the sedi
tion trial of William Dudley Feller. Oa the right is U. S. Marshal
J. J. Wichser.
Noose Decreed for
Convicted -Traitor
Detroit, Aug. 6 (IP) Max Stephan, first person In 159
years to be convicted of treason in the United States, was sen
tenced in federal court today to be hanged.
PELLEY TO SEEK
T
Indianapolis. Aug. 6. (JP)
William Dudley Pelley, con
victed on 11 counts of criminal
sedition and conspiracy and fac
ing a possible maximum sen
tence of 220 years in prison,
based his hopes for freedom to
day on a new trial.
A motion for a new trial will
be filed within three days, De
fense Attorney Floyd Christian
said, and if it is denied the case
will be appealed promptly to the
U. S. circuit of appeals in Chi
cago. The spruce little man who
once headed the Silver Shirts of
America was convicted last night
by a federal court Jury which
also convicted two business as
sociates, Lawrence A. Brown
and Miss Agnes Marian Hender
son. Brown and Miss Hender
son were found guilty of one
count of conspiracy to commit
sedition.
The three were officers of the
Fellowship Press, a publishing
house at Noblesville, Ind., where
Pelley's magazine, The Galilean,
was printed once a week.
There are 17 types of ser
geants In the U. S. Marine
corps.
Hangers Flow In
But More Needed
By Soldier Boys
Coat hangers by the hun
dreds are being brought to
the local USO headquarters
as a result of a notice in the
Tribune that they were need
ed by service men at Camp
White. Mrs. Helen J. Small,
director of the USO. said this
morning that at least a thous
and hangers had been already
given out and that they were
joyfully received by the men
More are needed, however.
Coat hangers are one arti
cle which the army doesn't
furnish its men, resulting in
the local call. Mrs. Small said
that many men had also been
furnished with donated swim
ming trunks in order that
they might enjoy swimming
in the Rogue river and local
swimming pools.
, U. S. District Judge Arthur J.
Tuttle directed that Stephan,
German-born American citizen
be hanged on November 13
1942, in the Federal Detention
prison at Milan, Mich.
Stephan was convicted in fed
eral court here of aiding the
flight of a Nazi flier escaped
from a Canadian concentration
camp.
In pronouncing sentence,
Judge Tuttle said that since "the
lives of millions of our boys will
be taken in the course of this
war, the court should not be hes
itant in taking the life of one
traitor for the sake of the
cause."
Stephan, wearing the wrln-
kled gray suit in which he had
sat through his trial four weeks
ago, gave no evidence of emo
tion when he heard his fate pro
nounced. When he was summoned be
fore the bench, he rose quickly
and came forward. Asked
whether he had anything to say,
the convicted traitor, in guttcral
tones, asserted:
"All I have to say is that I am
not guilty of treason. That is
all."
At Lansing. Governor Murray
D. Van Wagoner of Michigan
said that he would make no
move to intervene In the death
sentence meted out to Stephan.
I
Chungking, Aug. 8 (AP
It's the "sky dragons" now In
stead of the flying tigers."
That Is the nickname the ad
miring Chinese have pinned on
the United States army air corps
forces which on July 4 absorbed
the famous American volunteer
group, whose exploits set a high
syindard of daring.
The aggressive tactics of the
"sky dragons", a Chinese army
spokesman said today, have
made Japanese authorities at
Hankow "rather jittery" and
have forced them to abandon
their once easy way of life.
"Most Japanese and puppet
departments," the spokesman
said, "have been moved into a
zone established for refugees, be
cause they feel it is safer.
At the same time axis and
puppet flags which previously
were flaunted from buildings
have been discreetly removed to
minimize the temp:r'.:on they of
1 lered to American bombers.
New Pincers Threat for Stalingrad;
Russian Reserves Move Into Battle
F
Will Ask Mohandas Gandhi
to Lead Masses in Passive
Struggle For Freedom.
Bombay, Aug. 6 (JP) The
issue of Indian independence ap
proached a new crisis today as
the all-India congress commit
tee assembled for a meeting to
morow prepared to put teeth in
its demands by asking Mohan
das K. Gandhi to lead the
masses in passive struggle for
freedom.
Actually, the proposal ready
to be put before the committee
boiled down to this choice for
Britain make India free now
and win her 350,000,000 people
as fighting allies or withhold in
dependence and face "a mass
struggle on non-violent lines on
the widest possible scale." r
itil working committee sent
Its J proposal to tha main body
with an expression of hopeless-'
ness in appealing again to Brit
ain and the united nations and
all sources here agreed that the
program virtually was certain
to be ratified.
(Britains stand wai reiterated
last night in London by Sir
Stafford Cripps, who headed an
unsuccessful mission to India
last spring. Britain, he declared
in a newspaper statement. In
tended to "preserve law and or
der" In India until after the war,
then give the Indian people an
opportunity to attain self-gov
ernment.)
First Lady Disavows
Support of Left Wing
American Labor Party
Neir York, Aug. fP) Dis
avowing any support of the left
wing of the American Labor
party and In so doing making
one of her rare statements on
foreign affairs, Mrs. Franklin D
Roosevelt says:
"I do not wish to be con
trolled in this country by an
American group that. In turn, is
controlled by Russia and Rus
sia s interests.
The President's wife ex
pressed this attitude In a letter
rebuking Eugene P. Connolly,
ALP left wing leader, for his al
leged use politically of a previ
ous statement of hers In which
she endorsed the party as a
whole.
Declaring, In her letter made
public yesterday, that her en
dorsement of the party as a
whole had been used In a leaflet
during the current primary fight
between the ALP right and left
wings, she told Connolly:
"I do not wish you to use my
name or my letter again in any
publication whatsoever. -
Dutch Warned Against
To Members
London, Aug. 8 VP) Gen.
Frledrich Christiansen of the
Nazi occupation forces In The
Netherlands, has issued warn
ing that anyone aiding an allied
invasion will be shot and any
one who even ventures outdoors
during such an invasion will be
liable to be shot, The Nether
lands news agency Aneta re
ported today,
Aneta said that the declara
tion, as follows, was read over
the Dutch radio.
"Many words have been spok
en by the enemy about second
DAIRY
Federal Accusation Says
Control Board Influenced
in Association Interest.
Portland, Ore., Aug. 6 (JP)
Federal Indictment of the dairy
co-operative association of Port
land and 10 of its officers and
representatives on charges of
monopolizing milk production
and distribution in the Portland
area was revealed today.
Federal Judge Leon R. Yank-
wich of Los Angeles, sitting here
in the absence of local judges,
set arraignment for next Thurs
day, i
The association has 3200 pro
ducer members In the area
which comprises Portland and
Salem, Ore., and Vancouver,
Wash., and adjacent areas. Its
annual statement last spring
listed net proceedings from milk
sales In 1941 at $3,448,260.
Says Board Influenced 1
The indictment, returned by
the March grand jury and re
vealed In court today by Charles
S. Burdell, Seattle, special as
sistant to the U. S. attorney gen
eral, alleges that the association
has opposed measures which
would repeal or modify the Ore
gon milk control law and that
it has influenced the milk con
trol board to adopt policies
furthering association Interests.
Threats, coercion and unwar
ranted solicitations have been
employed by the association, the
Indictment charges, to induce all
producers in the Portland area
to sell their milk through it.
Members have been dissuaded
from transferring milk board
quotas to non-members, the in
dictment adds, and distributors
have been required to purchase
all their requirements from the
association.
Federal agencies, Including
the veterans' hospital at Port
land, have been required by the
association's acts, the indict
ment says, "to expend an arbi
trary and non-competitive price
for purchase of fluid milk."
Washington, Aug. 8 (JP)
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands,
the first queen in her own right
to visit the United States told
congress today that "no surren
der" remains the motto of her
people suffering though they
are under the alien rule of an
invader in Asia and In Europe.
The grandmotherly monarch,
addressing a joint session of the
House and Senate, said: "Imag
ine what it means for a liberty
loving country to be In bondage,
for a proud coin. try to be sub
ject to harsh alien rule.
of Allied Invasion Force
front somewhere in western
Europe, possibly also In The
Netherlands, and hope has been
expressed by the enemy that
they will be able to count on
the populations to help, which
urges us to address to you the
most urgent warning.
"Everybody must be aware
that he plays with his own life
if he tries In the smallest extent
either directly or Indirectly to
assist enemy landing attempts.
"All will remember the events
which took place when some
bailed out British flyers were
helped by the population with
I money and clothes and were
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Amarlcan
Cleveland at St. Louis, double-
header, postponed, weather.
Philadelphia 0 4 1
Boston 2 ' 6 1
Christopher and Swift; But-
land and Peacock,
PARTIAL PAYMENT
CAMP WHITE AREA
Upon motion of Bernard H.
Ramsey, special attorney for the
U. S. department of justice.
Judge James Alger Fee this
morning granted an order auth
orizing the disbursement to a
former land-owner in the Camp
White area of 80 per cent of the
appraisal price offered by the
government. Three or four more
similar orders are expected to
be granted during Friday's ses
sion of federal court, which will
convene at 10 a. m.
Ramsey, following this morn
ing's session, which - was re-
cesed until tomorrow, ex
plained that such measures were
being taken to relieve certain
former land-owners who have
vacated their property and are
In immediate need of money to
relocate. He said, however, that
such payments did not cancel
the land-owners' rights to con
test the government, through
condemnation suits, for higher
prices.
The current session ol federal
court is a continuance of the
1941 term and Is being held for
the purpose of preparing for
condemnation proceedings the
many cases involving (.amp
White land. -
SKY-BORNE FORCE
Washington, Aug. 8. (JP)
Formation of the first two of an
undisclosed number of entire di
visions of Infantry to move to a
battle front by air was announc
ed today by Under-Secretary of
War Robert P. Patterson, along
with creation of new American-Canadian
force of super
specialists In offensive warfare.
The 82nd and 101st infantry
divisions at Camp Claiborne,
La. will be the first of the air
borne, units, which will be
streamlined down to a strength
of about 8,000 men each. All
their weapons and equipment
will be moved by planes and
gliders.
The air-borne divisions will
fight as infantry In the air aft.
the manner of similar German
army divisions. The command
er of the 82nd Is Brigadier Gen
eral Matthew B. Rldgway. and
Brig. Gen. William C. Lee com
mands the 101st division.
Slightest Aid
sheltered which resulted In the
death sentence against the Dutch
helpers.
"If ever an Englishman or
any of his allies enters Nether
lands territory either from the
coast or the interior The Neth
erlands people must obey these
Instructions
"Stay home, try to find shel
ter against air raids and actual
fighting.
'Those walking out in tn
streets take a great risk of be
ing shot,
"Those helping the enemy
will not escape tha consequences
lot their action." .
CAUCASUS PERIL
GROWS AS NAZIS
Fall of Tikhoretsk Gives In
vaders Caucasian Rail
way Point Near Rostov.
By Roger D. Greene
(Associated Press War Editor)
Germany's mechanized armies,
fast closing an octopus-like
stranglehold on the upper Cau
casus, reported the fall of Tik
horetsk on the Caucasian rail
way 90 miles south of Rostov
and developed a new pincers
threat to the great Volga river
steel center of Stalingrad.
Tikhoretsk is on the Stalin
grad Novorossisk railway ter
minating at the Black sea, just
below Kerch strait.
Resarves Go la
Soviet advices said Russia's
carefully saved reserves were
going into action against th
terrific nazl offensive, fighting
bitterly to stem the new threat
to Stalingrad.
Dispatches from Moscow said
the red armies, taking up new
positions along a strong line east
of the Don river, were -driving -back
powerful German tank as
saults 93 - miles southeast of
Stalingrad.
A second big-scale battle was
in progress in the Kletskaya
sector, 80 miles northwest of
Stalingrad, where the Russians
said the upper claw of a Ger
man pincer aimed at Stalingrad
was stopped dead.
The danger in the Caucasus
increased, however, as the Ger
mans drove new wedges into
soviet lines at a great sacrifice
in lives, front-line dispatches
said.
A bulletin frcm German field'
headquarters said nazl spear
heads, racing southward from
Vorostfilovsk, had reached tha
main trans-Caucasian railway
linking the Black and Caspian
seas.
This apparently meant that
the Invaders had seized the rail
line below Armavir, key junc
tion on the route, somewhere in
the vicinity of Nevinnomys-
skaya, which lies due south of
Voroshilovsk. It would repre
sent an advance of about 235
miles into the Caucasus.
As the crisis mounted, with
the red armies hurled back in
two key sectors during bitter
all-night fighting, Europe capi
tals rang with new talk of an
allied second front in western
Europe.
"Every day brings nearer the
time when the agreement signed
between Britain and the U. S.
S. R. on' the urgency of estab
lishing a second front In Europe
will be put into effect," the Mos
cow radio said.
In London, Premier Pleter 3.
Gerbrandy of the Netherlands
government-ln-exile broadcast to
his countrymen in nazl-occupled
Holland, declaring that the tide
of war was turning.
"Await with wise patience
the moment when the call comet
from here not only to take
passive but also an active part"
in the opening of a new allied
front, he said.
Simultaneously, fresh flood
of nazi-lnspired propaganda em
phasized the asserted strength
of German defenses to combat
cross-channel invasion attempt.
One dispatch told of "mighty
fortifications of concrete and
Iron" extending deep Inland
from the English channel coast
Once again, soviet dispatches
stressed the bloody toll inflicted
on the invaders.
In the Kletskaya sector. 80
miles northwest of Stalingrad,
the red army threw back re
peated attacks and killed 1.200
Germans. Night -riding Cos
sacks dashed into Caucasus
village, slaughtered more than
600 Germans and disappeared
swiftly in the darkness. Soviet
cavalry cut down untold num
bers of nazl parachute troops
who diopped behind Russian
lines In groups of 100 ad 180.
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