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NO. 122.
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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Aug. 11 Racial
feeling an always bitter,
stupid, suicidal guide for pol
itical action
mauMwwoi 6eems now to
nave emerged
as a root cause
of the inintelli
gible positions
of the Indian
p o lit! cians.
Both Nehru
A4 n a n A K 1
jy have .-ather
openly sug
eested this in
Paul Mailoo
their recent
statements.
American observers, return
ing from India recently, have
complained they could not un
derstand the insensibility of
Nehru and Gandhi for the
cause of world freedom when
they wanted their own.
Tnrlenenrience for India Is DOS-
sible, only if the Anglo-American
world cause wins. Other
wise, such a defenseless nation
would naturally pass under the
dominance of its nearest axis
neighbor, in this case Japan.
.Obviously then, some Inspir
ation, -other than a desire for
freedom, must have made the
Indian lea- s reject the full
promises of independence from
the British In favor of a policy
which would bring them under
Japanese control ,if fulfilled.
) The statements of Nehru and
Gandhi finally complaining
against racial discrimination,
show what that inspiration
was-
For a parallel you must re
call British experience in ad
Joining Burma. There many
Burmese foolishly chose to fight
with the yellow, hordes from
Japan and delivered themselves
enthusiastically into the Nippon
ese noose. Such a course, fren
zied in its hatred, naturally does
not make sense from any stand
point. This Is not a racial war. China
(Continued on Paja Pour)
Low Incomes Escape
Taxes Claims Taft
Washington, Aug. 11 JP
Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said today
the new revenue bill approved
bv the house would permit S36.-
000,000,000 income earned in
the lower pay brackets to go
un-taxed.
Taft made this observation
after Dr. Joseph J. Klein of New
York City, former president of
the New York state society of
certified public accountants,
had urged the senate finance
committee to levy additional
taxes on low income groups.
Lieut. Commander Mildred H.
McCaffee of the WAVES,
strained alphabetical soup mean
ing women appointed for volun
tary emergency service, will
make one of radio's leading
guest appearances of the week
during the CBS "womanpower'
program next Sunday morning.
She will discuss the naval aux
iliary's plans for its training
school at Smith college, North
ampton, Mass.
Wednesday: BLU Noon,
Hambletonian stakes.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Councilman J. C. Collins
proudly displaying a gold cigar
ette case with a map of Aus
tralia on one side, which arrived
Monday from his son 2nd. Lt.
Hugh B. Collins who is with
an anti-tank company in Aus
tralia. . Betty Rose in a lengthy tele
' phone conversation with a
friend.
Carold Parker and Lester
Mathes getting their heads .to
gether on (1) veteran affairs, or
(3) politics.
Radio Highlights
Terse Report Received From
Islands Australia Re
ceives Supplies of Value.
By Roger D. Groona
(Associated Press War Editor)
"We are holding our own." . .
In five words, the United
States received word today indi
cating that American marines
were beating off furious Jap
anese counterattacks in the five-day-old
battle of the Solomon
islands, 900 miles " northeast of
Australia, as allied naval and
air forces covered the long
range invasion.-
Australia's Prime Minister
John Curtin, announcing at
least an even break in the strug
gle that may mark a turning-
point of the far Pacific con
flict, said allied gains so far
apparently had greatly out
weighed losses.
Valuable Supplios
At the same time, an Aus
tralian government spokesman
disclosed that shipments of sup
plies of the "highest possible
value which would "revolu
tionize offensive operations in
the north" had arrived in Aus
tralia. Allied losses acknowledged
yesterday by Admiral Ernest J.
King, commander in chief of the
U. S. fleet, included a cruiser
sunk and damage to two cruis
ers, two destroyers and a trans
port. But Admiral King declared "a
large number" of Japanese
planes were destroyed and "sur
face units put out of action" in
America's first offensive of the
war.
In I typical axis propaganda
broadcast, surpassing even Jap
an's own extravagant claims, the
Berlin radio asserted that the
greater part of the U. S. troops
who "attempted" to land at Tul
agi, in the southeastern Solo
mons, had been "annihilated"
and their transports sunk.
Little Information
With the attacking forces us
ing all communications to co
ordinate their land, sea and air
operations, the navy in Wash
ington said early today there
was no further information on
the progress of the battle.
Admiral King previously had
said the Japanese, although
taken by surprise, had counter
attacked with rapidity and
vigor.
The attack was "our first as
sumption of the initiative and
the offensive, King said, add
ing that the objective was to
wrest back control of the Solo
mons, which lie athwart the
vital allied supply lines to Aus
tralia. Assaults Widan
Such a move would be neces
sary as the first step in a full-
scale allied offensive to drive
the enemy out of the whole
threatening umbrella of Jap
anese invasion bases north of
Australia, ranging from the
Solomons in the east to Java
in the west.
Widening assaults by allied
bombers were reported striking
at the Japanese on the fringes
of the main theater as united
nations fliers blasted Rabaul,
New Britain, northwest of the
Solomons.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
United
(Editor's Notoi Still far
from homo but rid of their
Japanese Jailers and back
again, rested and fed. In the
western world, tho men who
were on tho spot in Asia now
are free to tell tho whole
story.
(Morris J. Harris, veteran
chief of the former Associated
Press bureau at Shanghai, and
J. D. White, Associated Press
correspondent homeward
bound from Pelping, saw the
Chinese carrying en with in
domitable courage. Max Hill,
returning from his post as As
sociated Press chief of bureau
in Tokyo, saw the strain of
war on Japan's merchant
fleet.
Rescued From Ice Cap
This picture, taken from a circling navy rescue plane, shows
crewmen of a U. S. army flying fortress bomber gathered about
thoir craft after a fuel shortage forced it to land on its belly on
the Greenland ico cap. A navy patrol bomber took tho man off
in a daring rescue.
British Carrier Sunk
London, Aug. 11. (IP) The German radio, In a special an
nouncement, reported that the British aircraft carrier Eagle had
been sunk by a German submarine today in the western Medit
erranean. Four torpedoes hit the ship, the radio said.
The Eagle was in a strongly .
protected convoy and was at
tacked "at mid-day," according
to the Germans.
The Eagle, completed in 1018,
had a displacement of 22,600
tons with a completement of 748
and carried 21 aircraft.. '
As usual when German claims
of this nature are made, British
official circles said "no com
ment." ... -
War plane Parts
Makers Walk Out
Cleveland, Aug. 11-Mfl") A
walkout by members of the In
dependent mechanics education
al society of America today vir
tually halted production at the
two plants of the Cleveland
Graphite Bronze Co., major
producer of warplane parts.
William Bullock, union busi
ness agent, termed the work
stoppage a "labor holiday" call
ed in protest against "discrim
inatory discharges" and said
idleness of 4,000 of the com
pany's 3,000 employes "com
pletely shut down" the plants.
Planes Over S. F.
Bring Early Alert
San Francisco. Aug. 11 (JP)
A 3-minute preliminary air
raid elert in the San Francisco
area ended at 8:3 a. m. today
after unidentified planes had
been identified as friendly.
The th fighter command or
dered the alert at 8:09 a. m. as
the planes were reported ap
proaching offshore.
headquarters said 13 and pos
sibly 19 Japanese planes had
been destroyed in the last three
days at Rabaul, while allied
bombers hit three enemy vessels
including a large destroyer off
Dutch Timor.
Aside from the Solomons,
other ground fighting was de
veloping in New Guinea, where
the allies drove back enemy
troops in the Kokda sector, 60
miles east of the key united na
tions base at Port Moresby.
States Aid Gives Chinese New Courage
(They and other Americans
have reached Rio do Janairo
aboard tho repatriation ship
Gripsholm.)
By Morris J Harris and
J. D. Whits
' Rio de Janeiro, Aug. II JP)
United States bombers have
gone to. Chins snd spurred
her to s new faith In the
sixth year of a war she has
fought alone until now, and still
fights with unwavering sacri
fice and devotion.
Now American bombers have
raided Tokyo. Now they blast
Japan's ammunition dumps and
camps In China and China's 400,
000.000 have new faith in their
leaden and the long-range course
Metal Key Removed
From Tors Throat
Philadelphia. Aug. 11 UPi
Sitting up in bed with her dolls.
four-year-old Sharon Bell agreed
witn daddy today it was too bad
he had rushed all the way from
Vancouver, B. C, only to miss
her operation by two hours.
Last night Dr. C. L. Jackson
of Temple university hospital's
broncho-scopic clinic removed
from Sharon's throat a tiny
metal key the kind you use to
open tin cans.
Americans Bomb
Japs In Hankow
Chungking, Aug. 11 (IP)
Fighter-escorted American bom
bers in a low-altitude attack on
Hankow and vicinity bombed
newly constructed warehouses
and other objectives yesterday,
Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwells
headquarters announced today.
Hankow, Japan's greatest
Inland base in China, is on the
Yangtze river and has been a
frequent target of the American
bombers.
Oldsters Suffer
In City Traffic
Portland, Aug. 11 (VP) A
break-down of the 33 traffic fat
alities in Portland this year
shows that 16 were pedestrians,
all but two of them over 65
years of age, traffic Capt. WU
liam C. Epps said today.
He said the figures showed
the need for elderly persons to
use more care in crossing
streets.
BASEBALL
National
New York 6 11 0
Boston 4 10 0
Mungo, Adams and Dannlng;
Tobln and Lombard!, Masi.
they follow. Didn't they predict
China and the United States to
gether would whip Japan?
Even Jap Pupoots
Beginning to Waver
Even Japan's Chinese puppets
have begun to waver. They have
told American missionary doc
tors In the over-run areas how
they and the forces under them
now are holding on, playing at
cooperation with the enemy
because non-cooperation means
death for themselves and all the
Chinese around them until
the day comes to strike.
To sympathetic American ears
they whisper that they have
learned that there Is no such
thing as cooperation with the
Nazis in Ruthless Effort
Uprising of Conquered
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SENT TO A I D OF
13 More Killed, 30 Injured
In Outbreaks Demons
trations Spread in Country
Bombay, Aug. 11. (IP)
British troops, some armed with
machine guns, came to the aid
of police today as 13 more per
sons were killed and 30 Injured
in 10 instances in which gunfire
was used to break up Bombay
mobs participating in Mohandas
K. Gandhi's civil disobedience
campaign.
The toll of casualties since out
breaks began Sunday thus was
brought to 28 dead and more
than 200 injured, with disorders
and mill stoppages spreading
wider over India and Indications
that dreaded commual rioting
between Hindus and Moslems
might break out
The Bombay government an
nounced that troops had partici
pated In the firing on crowds
on one or two occasions. Police
marched in formation through
the various disturbed sections,
Disorders -Spread
Work was Interrupted ai the
General Motors assembly plant
in Bombay. The Ford assembly
plant continued in operation.
From Bombay on the west
coast to Calcutta on the east
coast came reports of demons
trations, hartals (the closing of
stores) and goondaism (rowdy
ism) as the call for a total shut
down of trade spread to Mohan
das K. Gandhi's turbulent fol
lowers with a. promise from
their leaders of victory in two
months in what they called their
"final struggle" against British
rule.
Police said the slightest spark
might touch off rioting between
the sub-continent's opposing re
ligious groups, Hindus and Mos
lems.
Film Star Stewart
. Made Bombadier
Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 11
(IP) First Lieut- James M
Stewart, thu film star, today
started an assignment as bom
bardier pilot at the army air
base in Albuquerque.
Officers said Stewart, whose
movie roles set feminine hearts
throbbing, would perform usual
duties in flying twin-motored
advanced training planes on
missions to teach bombardier
cadets their craft.
Invitation Members of the
M-dford Garden club have been
Invited to visit W. J. Warner's
gladioli planting near Central
Point Thursday at 8 a. m. The
field is situated west of Central
Point and may be found by turn
ing left at the Intersection in
Central Point and continue on
the paved road to the C. H. Tay
lor ranch. Members wishing
transportation may telephone
Mrs. Thcmas Roseberry, 2686.
Japanese, only slavery under
Japanese masters.
China's war effort is In top
gear. Behind the lines, far from
smoke of countless dally bat
tles, millions of Chinese men,
women and children toil In
thoussnds of smsll factories.
China's war factories, bombed
by the Chinese almost without
opposition for five years, are
scattered and camouflaged In
hundreds of mud-walled vil
lages. Not only are the arsenal of
China's struggle for survival,
they also are the pattern of a
new Chins. They raise commun
ity living standards and spread
employment and wealth to the
Improver lshed laboring classes.
RED FLEET BASES
PERILED BY NAZ
Russians Admit Invader
Within 60 Miles of Novo
rosskisk, Tuapse Bases.
(By The Associated Press)
Tank-led German troops were
reported imperiling the Red
fleet's Black Sea naval bases 'at
Novorossisk and Tuapse deep in
the Western Caucasus today,
while in the jiorth a Vichy
broadcast asserted that fighting
was in progress within Stalin
grad's defense zone.
The broadcast said there were
Indications that the Germans
would shortly launch a general
assault on the great Volga river
industrial city.
Another Vichy report de
clared that Nazi columns, strik
ing more than half way down
the Caucasus on the road to the
vast Baku oil fields, were ad
vancing on Mozdok and Ord
zhonlkidze. - - - Admits Retreat
Mozdok lies about 380 miles
northwest of Baku and 70 miles
above the important Grozny oil
center, Ordzhonikidze is SO
miles southwest of Grozny.
Soviet dispatches acknowl
edged that the Red armies were
falling back from the burning
Maikop oil fields and that sep
arate German columns were
within 60 miles of the Novoros
sisk and Tuapse naval bases as
the invaders spread out through
the northern foothills of the
Caucasus mountains.
As the crisis grew darker by
the hour, official Soviet news
papers appealed to the Red ar
mies to save Russia, and Red
Star, the army organ, declared:
'The fate of our country is
being decided in the violent bat
tles of the Don and the Kuban."
Red Star quoted an 18th cen
tury Russian general who told
his troops:
"We are surrounded by moun
tains ... we cannot expect help
from anybody ... we stand on
the edge of the abyss ..."
Chut Troops Used
Front line dispatches said the
Germans were showering para
chute troops behind the Russian
lines near Kotelnlkovskl, 95
miles below Stalingrad, but said
the aerial invaders were being
promptly mopped up.
Military advices pictured the
whole region from Kletskaya,
75 miles northwest of Stalin
grad, to the south as land of
flames, with the cherry orchards
and steppe homes of the Cos
sacks smashed and burning and
the skies darkened by mass
flights of Nazi planes.
A bulletin from Nazi field
headquarters declared the Rus
sians were attempting to flee
from the back sea ports of Nov
orossisk, Tuapse and Anapa, and
said German warplanes stepping
up their attacks on embarka
tion movements had sunk 11
transports.
When the war ends they will
make ploughs instead of swords.
Walt and Pounce
Is Chlnoss Gams
At the front, huge armies con
tinue to play their old game of
wait-end pounce, wily scheme
which has kept the Invaders at
bay despite his wealth of arm
ament. The Chinese pay heavily In
men because the Japanese know
ths game now and blast at the
Inexhaustible manpower which
flows against them. But China's
millions keep coming.
More millions of Communist
and other guerrilla forces harry
the Invaders' communications,
ambush his transports, massscrt
1
Commander
Col. Robert T. Frederick
(above) has boon named to com
mand an American-Canadian
force of super-commandos train
ing at Hslona, MonU and made
up of picked specialist! In para
chute and marina landings.
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San Francisco, Aug. 11 (IP)
Lieut. Comdr. Maurice N-
Aroff today awaited formal an
nouncement of the findings of a
six-man naval court martial
which' tried him on several
charges of misconduct and false
hood, one of which accused him
of accepting a $950 automobile
from Tony Martin to facilitate
the singer's enlistment.
The proceedure of naval
courts provides that only deci
sions of innocence are announ
ced, since a decision of guilty
must go to Washington for re
view. The courtroom was clear
ed late yesterday and Aroff
was not notified tha". he had
been found Innocent on any of
the charges.
British Asylum
Is Hit By Bomb
London, Aug. 11 (JP) Sev
eral patients and staff members
of an east Anglian metal insti
tute were killed last night by a
direct hit from s German plane
during raids on east Anglia and
southeast England.
Emergency squads tolled
through tha night to recover
the dead and rescuo the injured
at the Institution. By noon 12
bodies had been brought out
of two flattened wards.
PILCHARD SEASON POOR
Astoria, Ore., Aug. 11. UP)
Pilchard fishermen, disappointed-
over a poor north Pacific
season, headed for California
waters today. More than 20
boats cut short operations out of
here after bad weather persist
ently handicapped their search
for schools.
outlying garrisons and sabotage I
his political snd economic!
schemes in the dominated re
gions. I
Evene poorer armed than the ;
regulars, the guerrillas show a ,
morale and courage which
flames mora passionately today
than ever.
Last spring and summer, the
Japanese sent division after di
vision igainst the Communists
In North Chins In whst was an
nounced as the finsl anti-guerrilla
mop-up. The Japanese an
nounced, as usual, that the guer
rillas were annihilated. Ths
next night the hit-and-run fight
ers of China captured six welled
county seats where they lust
hsd been "sxsunged."
II . i a imi .
to Nip
Peoples
FRANCE SEETHES
TAKE HEAVY TOLL
93 Executed in Paris 6
Czechs Added to List
Laval Fears Coup Attempt
By The Associated Press
Second-front talk Inm-Mii t-
Eurorje's conmierevf nniinn.
day as nazi firing-squads took
neariy iuu more lives and tho.
Germans clamped down with
ruthless new measures to pre
vent an uprising in the event
of an Allied invasion of Europe.
Ninety-three Frenchmen were)
executed In Par. nnH
six Czechs in old Czecho-Slov-
akia, the latter on charges of
"high treason and facoring tho
enemy."
France seethed with hlttur
unrest. Roundabout reports
from Vichy said pro-German
rremier rienre Laval had called
up police and troop reinforce
menu to protect the hated
Vichy regime against rumored
coup d'etat. - .
200 Dutch Seltad .-..'
Simultaneously, -the, Dutch,
news agency Aneta quoted Swiss
reports, that the Germans had
seized 200 more Dutch hostage
to Do ".held responsible . with
their Uvea far th MnHnt a
The Netherlands people in the
event of a British invasion of
Holland."
Mora than 1.500 nrnmliwnt
Dutch clergymen, ' physicians
and business men had previous
ly been taken as hostages by the
Germans, Aneta said, in their at
tempt to forestall a bloody re
volt when the Allies attempt to
onen a second front in wMl.m
Europe.
Dispatches from Bern, Swit
zerland, said the Germans had
threatened renrisala avalnat
every man, woman and child in
occupier r ranee as an alter,
math of new antl-nazl out
breaks. Actor Afwill Faces
New Perjsry C&srgs
Los Angeles. Aug. 11 -OPh-
Actor Lionel Atwill was Indict
ed by the grsnd Jury today on
a charge of perjuring himself
June 30 when he was questioned
about reports of immoral acts
Involving a 16 year old girl at
a party at his home.
Atwill previously hsd been In
dicted by the 1941 county grsnd
Jury on s perjury charge in tes
timony about purported wild
parties at his home. Tha actor
will be tried September 15 on
both charges. He is at liberty
under $2,500 bond.
Two Die In Crash
North Of Yreka
Vreka, Calif.. Aug. 11 UPV
A state guardsman and a Yreka
high school girl were killed to
day and two other guSrdsrosn
and another girl were injured
gravely in an sutomobllo acci
dent north of nere.
The deed: Rlchsrd Blankhetm,
20, of Redding; Bessls Atteber
rr, 17, of Yreka-
Convicted Traitor
"In Hell Of Mess"
Would Hedge Bet
Milsn. Mich, Aug. 11 )
Max Stephsn, 50-year-old
German-born American trai
tor, sentenced to hang Nov.
13, has lost his bravado, and
has told his attorney:
"I'm In a hell of a mess."
"I never said," ths rotund
Stephsn declared yesterday,
"that I'd bet all tha tea In
China, or anything else, that
I wouldn't hang."
Stephan had shouted after
his sentence that "Germany
wtlinMetrneJisngJJ
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