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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-04
Bombers Pound
Lac Airdrome

UNITED NATIONS HEAD.
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,
July 4 INS). - The intensive
United Nations aerial offensive
against japanese positions north
Iof Australia continued Friday
with bombing raids against enemy
airdromes at Lac, New Guinea,
and Kupang. Dutch Timor, it was
announced today.
The American and Australian
fiers dropped heavy bombs on the
runways .on Lac, The attack on
Kupang was described as light.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-04
Moscow Admits
Yielding Severa.
Strong Forts
Declares Terrible Losses
Have Slowed Nszis
Big Offensive. However
By HENRY SHAPIRO
nlted Press stan Correspoudcui


MOSCOW. July 4-Tremendou:
German infantry. tank and plane
attacks forced the Red army back
on one sector of the Kursh-Khar'
kov front, press dispatches safe
today. but the enemy is suffered
frightful losses and Russian coun'
ter-attacks have regained severa
town and a strategic river bank
Battles unprecedented in size
and ferocity are raging on front
of about $50 miles as the Germans
attempt 10 break through the
south-central sector, seize vita
communications lines and divide
the Soviet armies.
(The German communique to-
day claimed a gigantic break
through and said that German
rapid" troops were dashing to-
ward the River Don, about 135
miles east of Kursk, presumably
in an effort 10 turn the Russian
flank and push southwark to-
ward RoStov and the CaucaSus)
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01
What You Can Do
To Save Your Tires

Heat and friction are the great
enemies of rubber. Yon can't con-
troll the heat of summer, but you
can control the friction. Since your
life and death struggle against the
Axis depends on rubber quite as
much as on steel or other metal
or materials, it is up to you to
keep your tires in use as long as
possible.
Here are the rules:
1. Drive only when there is good
reason to drive, h e n, wherever
possible, see that others ride with
you.
2. Keep your tires properly in
flated at all times. AS little as 80
per cent under initiation will cut
one quarter from the life of a tire.
8. Shift your tires from wheel
to wheel every 5000 miles, includ-
ing the spare. Rubber worn uni
formly lasts much longer.
4. Don't drive too fast. Make
your motto mot more than 40 for
the duration"
5. Don't slam on your brakes
unless it is to avert an accident.
6. Have your wheels checked
regularly for alignment.
Z. Start your car the way you
ought to stop it-gently.
8. Don't spin your wheels and
grind off rubber and don't bump
into curbs or scrape along the side
of curbs, which robs your tires of
wearing quality.
American motorists have in their
hands the greatest single reserve
of rubber remaining to the United
Nations-and the only such reserve
we shall have until the Axis have
been defeated, until free people
everywhere are once more free to
rebuild and expand a free way of
life and a way of plenty.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01
Boeing Man Wins
20 Year Pin;
Others Awarded

Congratulations from "Victory
Worker" to the following June
winners of Service Awards at
Boeing's.
According to Boeing News, John
Christensen, tool room, won the
blue and gold pin, top honor, for
twenty years of service.
Lester Splitter, production man
ager of Plant No. 2, Ralph Sears
of the machine shop, 3, and Sam
C. Peterson of the 801 mainten-
ance staff, received awards for Is
years of service.
Green and silver ten years serv-
ice emblems were awarded to Alice
Rudd of shop 2O2; John F. Cramer
of engineering standards; Harry
G. Erickson, Shop 1902; Charles
Gaupp, shop 105; P. ]. Kestle,
shop III; James Reuben johnson,
shop 215; Norman Ross, Renton
plant, and Ernest Zandt of shop
107.
Five year service pins were
awarded to Joe Alonzo, Arthur o.
Anderson, Warren M. Bailey,
Harry Barnhart, John P. Benner,
Charles Davies, Carroll Gould,
Dan Hage, Harold Arthur john
son, r. C. Rachel, Willard B. Kuse,
]. H. Macmillan, Burr c. Melton,
Elmer F. Nygren, C. A. Nystedt,
Herbert Ottoson, Joe Romunseth,
Clyde l.. Taylor, George R. White
~, F. B. Woeck and Amos l..
Wood.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01
Drive for Salvage
Is Continued

America must have more raw
materials to make the weapons
our fighting men need for Vic
tory.
Save every bit of waste paper,
old rags, scrap metal, old rubber,
and glass that you can. Keep them
segregated, placing rags, metal
and rubber in separate boxes.
Flatten out cartons and boxes, and
tie them in neat bundles. Tie news
papers in bundles, and keep all
paper dry. Keep colored glass sep
arate from clear glass.
If you haven't enough salvage
for a junk man to call for, let
your children or your neighbor's
children take it to school.
Sizeable quantities may be sold,
or given to one of the many chart
table organizations. The main idea
is to get the salvage into circula-
ton.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01

The largest Naval Reserve Air
Training Station in the Pacific
Northwest, as well as one of the
largest in the country, is now I'M
der construction on more than 1000
acres at Pasco, in the famous Big
Bend country.
Main field of the station will ac-
commodate mass landings and
take-off operations for 300 planes.
There will also be 16 practice land
ing fields for students.
In accordance with the Nays
instruction schedule of 10000 pi-
lots a year, more than 5000 men
will receive primary pilot training
at this base annually.
The new base is now about rs
per cent complete, and within a
few weeks will be ready for use.
Preliminary survey, and drawing
of plans for the Pasco project were
made by Lieut.. Commander B. B.
Smith, at Sand Point. In accord
ance with Commander Smiths
plan, the entire field will be hard
surfaced in the settlement" pro-
cess.
Eighty buildings will contain &C
commodations for around a thou
sand men and officers, including
food storage lockers, and recrea-
tional facilities. Training buildings,
administration offices, hospital IA
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01
House Naval Body
Approves Bill For
500 More Warships

The eight billion five hundred
dollar bill recently approved by
the house naval affairs commit
tie, calls for immedite cOnstruc-
ton of approximately 500 war
ships, according to Representa-
tive Carl VinsOn, chairman.
Construction Of battleships
already under way will proceed,
but aircraft carriers will be
given first consideration in the
revised program.
This program calls for one
million nine hundred thousand
tons of combat and patrol
ships, including aircraft car
riers; five hundred thousand
tons of heavy and light cruis-
ers; nine hundred thousand
tons Of destroyers and destroy
er escort vessels; 1000 small
patrol ships.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01
Testing Station Now
Open z Hours Longer

New hours for the Seattle We
hicle Inspection Station at Boren
Avenue North and Mercer Street,
are from $50 a. m. to 7:30 p. m,
and a fourth testing lane will be
open during rush hours.
1t has been officially announced
that all cars in the waiting lines
by 7:30 p. m. will be taken care
of before the station closes.
Previously the station opened at
8 a. m. and closed at 6 p. m.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01

cars. If they should avail them
selves of this right, they would
benefit the country by releasing
valuable storage space and thus
enable automobile men to main
tain needed services.
"At Totem Pontiac" he contin-
ues, I'VE have an adequate supply
of applications for both new cars
and new tires, and we will be glad
to assist anyone at any time in
filling out the applications and de-
termining which rationing board
they come under"
Totem Pontiac, 919 Olive Way,
is open from 1880 a. m. to 6 p. m.
daily.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01

Wood is challenging the metals
for a place in the war picture.
Wood has been substituted for alu-
minum and other materials in
making pontoon boats, and bodies
of army cargo trucks, formerly
made of iron and steel, now are
made of hardwood.
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01

liCtu ILLS llCoL SSii
ing advice from
r a p h Malone,
pr e S i d e n t ano
general manager
of Totem Pontiac.
Broadly speak
ing S a y S Mr.
Malone, "men en-
gagged either di.
rectly or indirect
ly in the war eff
fort h ave t h e
right to buy new
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01
New Cars Get Workers
To Shipyards On Time

If you've been hobbling along in
a car that's ready for the scrap
pile, or if you are greatly incon-
venienced by doing without one,
baad this heart on
Victory worker. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1942-1943, 1942-07-01
Huge Land Naval Base, Soon Ready,
will Turn Out 10000 Pilots Per Year

cilties; repair hangers and great
control tower are included.
This new dry-land naval base is
200 miles from the ocean.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
News From The
Victory Front

Cadet Wayne Arthur Gustafson,
son of Supt. A. E. Gustafson, writes
interesting letters from Santa Ana,
California Army Air Base, where he
has been training the past six weeks.
Following are excerpts from some
received recently by his parents:
eve get up at $50 and at 5:45
we have to be washed, dressed and
shaved, and also have beds made
and floor mopped. Everything must
be put into exact positions Two
dement's (sgigs) are given if one
button shows on any clothes. There
are SO different kinds of offenses
like this that one can receive gigs
for. If one receives more than six
week, he loses his weekend pass
and will be put on K. P. duty or
special guard duty. So far I have
not received single gig or demerit.
breakfast at a. m, school at
6:45 to II. Then drill to 1890. Din
ner, 1890. At 100 (out here they
call it 1890 we have more drill
until 2:30. At $3.50 special athletic
training for an hour; 4:30 to $50
more drill; $50 we eat again. From
z to 9 study. Lights out at 10.
cat our morning school session
we now study ship Identification,
military orientation, code and mathe-
mates. Have managed IS to SO
average so far. Seventy is passing.
Every one treats us (cadets) fine.
Training is stiff, but we like it. We
are slated to move out to primary
flying this week. Feel wonderful
Climate excellent. Passed all tests
so far to hold cadet pilot rating. Just
what I wanted. Food is excellent.
Plenty of milk, also ice cream and
other wholesome foods served daily.
Burton Thor visited me, also saw
Charles Schmidt and Young Lind
quist. We expect to be transferred
to another flying field soon. Don't
know where. Will send some pic
lures soon. Too busy to write much.
Write often, mail is a godsend."
WAYNE.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
COMING HOME TO ROOST

cOAtSA &AorNON &AAAASAASoAA'
Our philosophy of life Cor is il
tradition, a spoiled child of acct
dent?), is coming home to roost, and
bringing with it a brood of inbred
hybrids.
Society, meaning the common in
terests, is falling apart. Individual
ism has gone to seed and the seed
is sort of Mexican jumping bean
jumping on each other, z sz-..s
One of our favorite sayings is
'sLook out for self and let, the devil
take the hindmost." Sooner or, later
leaders" get behind. That's the law
of survival of the fittest .(meaning
the cunningest), which is Wharf.-The
social and economic war of tooth and
claw. 80 .-'>'-s-
divide and conquer" did not orig
mate with H. p (house painter)
Schichelgruber, or whatever, his name
was. Divide and dissolve had al
ready done its deadly work. Man.
kind has been dividing Unto classes
tops, middles and bottoms) for q
long time. Under the "devil take
the hindmost" philosophy that was
natural.
So our house is woefully divided
against itself. I mean the house OF
humanity. Some have built walls
about themselves, and put bars about
others-economic bars. Men rattle
the bars and gnash their teeth. Those
behind walls pile on more stones
lest the bars break. And they will
break.
Socially and economically speak
ing, self-interest rules thought and
action. We think to preserve our
selves we must undermine others
We forget that if others fall we all
shall tumble into the ditch together
The community, the states, the ma
tons, all humanity has failed to hang
together. Now we're about to hang
separately and in bunches-hang by
the rope of our own making.
There's "bone of contention" that
must be removed. 1t is fright OF
opportunity" The opportunity to
live to the full social possibility must
be open equally to all. This is con-
tingent upon equal access to the earth
and its resources. It is not spelled
monopoly. Monopoly is a two
edged sword. The "outs" may be in
some day, and the Gins" out. That
will solve nothing. All must be in
All, includes the "least of these, u
the blacklist of these, and all shades
and sizes between.
When you have removed the bar
riers you have obliterated the feel
ing of difference" United we can
stand. Divided, we are falling.
O. M. THOMSON.
Willernie, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS REVIEW
Continued from Page u

it goes on, it seems to increase in
ferocity. AS the situation is at the
moment of writing, it looks as though
Rostov may have fallen, and that will
mean it will be easier than ever for
the NaziS to make an assault on
Stalingrad.
If that succeeds, it will be pos
sible for the invaders to build
"a wall of steel clear across from
ROst0v to Stalingrad, from the
Don to the Volga river, and, fur
Their, that Russia proper will be
out off from Caucasus whose i'm
mense oil wealth Hitler cOvets
more ardently than anything else
just now.
There is always the possibility that
the Russians may have huge reserves
in Caucasus itself, as it is claimed
they have beyond the Ural NOUN
tains, and that some of their retreats
are made in the hope of effecting a
juncture with the reserves, wherever
they may be. We don't know, but
we do know that the Russian pic
ture, generally speaking, is not less
gloomy than it was week ago today.
Second Front.
Under these circumstances, it is
but natural that the loudest and the
most insistent appeals for the open
ing of the so-called Second Front
come from Moscow where the Soviet
government realizes that without the
aid of United Nations general Of
fensive against the axis powers, Rus
STA may not be able to defeat the
invader.
That still nOn-existent Second
Front is the talk of the world
today, and while nothing definite
ly is known about or, for very
obvious reasons, can be said
about it in public right now, it
Is assumed that it has already
been decided upon, that even a
date for its opening may have
been fixed.
But there are exceedingly import
ant facts to consider before such a
major move-intended to be final
and decisive-can be made; one of
them is the terrific loss of shipping
inflicted on the United Nations by
axis submarines, and the other is
the length of the western front fac
ing the British Isles where the gen.
eral offensive will have to start
This front, extending all the way
from northernmost Norway to the
Pyrenees, covers three thousand and
one hundred miles, and, one may be
sure-most of it pretty heavily forth
fed and guarded against just such
an emergency, by Hitler.
The Second Front will open when
its managers are dead sure of sue
cess. But they won't tell before
hand.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
currency sterilization. When

currency sterilization. When by
these experiments in mutual under
standing and cooperation they have
learnt that they can trust one an
other, then international commissions
can give place to international au-
thority of a more centralized nature
provided it is found desirable. And
only last of all, in this development
of the international mind, will come
we believe, the international police
force-after it has become unneces-
sary.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
Opinions OF Others

(Short timely letters on topics Of
public interest are welcome whether
form with those Of the American.
All letters must be signed with the
writer's name for our information.
Signed articles always are more eff
fectiVe, but II the writer does not
wish to have his name used. it will
be withheld).
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
O'DANIEL ON TOP

(CnlcagO Daily IrlDune)
Senator O'Daniel, running for re-
nomination, was top man in the
Democratic primary in Texas on
Saturday. A late tabulation shows
that he received almost as many
votes as were cast for his two OPP
ponents together. With 80 per cent
of the ballots counted, he had re-
ceived almost 100000 against 100000
for former Gov. Alfred, the New Deal
favorite, who ran second. On this
showing, it is believed that Mr..
O'Daniel will have little difficulty in
winning the run-off primary next
month.
Mr.. O'Daniel was against interven-
ton before Pearl Harbor, and that
fact was made the principal issue
in the campaign. He was one of the
members of congress whom the So
called Union for Democratic Action
and it's New Deal and communist
allies were most determined to purge
In pursuit of this end, former Gov.
Alfred who had been rewarded by
the New Deal with federal judge
ship resigned from the bench to make
the race Mr.. O'Daniel finished so
far ahead of the interventionists'
fairhaired, boy that it was scarcely a
race. =
Before the primary the burgers en-
tertained high hopes of victory in
Texas. They noted with satisfac-
ton that what they called O'Daniels
"most vulnerable point" was his iso-
lationist attitude before Pearl Har-
Dor. This was heavily stressed in
the campaign and it accomplished
exactly nothing. The fact is the
more noteworthy because Texas has
made an eviable record since Pearl
Harbor in contributing men and
money to the war effort.
The burgers had allowed them
selves to believe that the determin-
alton of the people of Texas to win
the war was an evidence of their
will to punish any of their repre-
sentatives who had opposed the
Roosevelt foreign policy before the
war. The conclusion was not war
ranted in Texas or in any of the other
states where the test has been made.
AS Mr.. Henning reported the other
day, in the Is states where primaries
have been held, not single senator
or representative specifically pro-
scribed by the burgers because of
isolationism has been denied a NOM
nation.
1t would be remarkable if the re-
suits had been otherwise. Numerous
polls of public opinion taken before
Pearl Harbor evidenced the desire
of the great majority of the American
people to avoid war if possible. To
have defeated O'Daniel or any of his
colleagues in the present primaries on
the ground that they had opposed
Intervention would be to say that
the American people do not desire
their congressman to represent them.
The success of O'Daniel is victory
for representative, republican gov
eminent. It is evidence that the
people of this country do not send
men to congress to vote slavishly
according to the dictates of the adj
ministration. It is evidence that
America offers no welcome to one
party rule. The outcome invites the
hope that the members of the new
congress will not easily be cowed.
They will insist upon effective pro-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30

Yet no thinking person will say
that this betokens indifference or
apathy, or that frenzied state of
mind is necessary to maximum effort.
Uncle Sam has grown up. He is
no longer the hysterical school girl
he was in 1917-1918. Today, he is
going about the business grim and
tight-lipped and saying little. And
he is probably all the more danger
Gus for it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
Fact And Opinion
Our Uneasy Politics.
BY E. C. Stengelsen.

Those who were of mature years
during the World War cannot but
see the vast difference between the
public's behavior then and now.
Except for negligible minority
the super-patriots this time seem to
form only a small percentage of the
population; we hear little about yell
low paint parties, common though
they were in 1917-1918; there is nc
persecution of neighbors-of white
neighbors, that is to say-who have
had the misfortune to be born OF
of enemy ancestry.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30
From Exchanges

Editorial Comment From Other News
papers Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions of the
ASkov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30

force would suffice to quel violence
anywhere in the world that the
League of Nations proceeded until the
pretty bubble was punctured by a
direct challenge. 1t was found then
that no nations were ready psyche
logically or otherwise to risk world
war to prevent" war. The very idea
was grotesque. The irresistible"
force was a bluff.
Acceptance of Super Government
Presupposes Era of Confidence.
It seems hardly necessary to argue
that the nations or blocs of nations
that will emerge from this war will
lack confidence in one another. Then,
they will not be ready to submerge
their own sovereignty under World
Government or to promise to submit
in future to an international police
force whose mentality will be dena-
tionalized as much as possible and
in which their own nations will be
small minority. Granting that our
Latin American neighbors will be
glad to have our airplanes based for
a while upon their shores as an
assurance that the might of the
United States will protect them from
potentially hostile powers in Europe
and in Asia and the islands of the
Pacific, yet our Marines will not be
welcomed if they are sent to police"
even the smallest Latin American
state to prevent the disturbance of
'law and order" by one of the fire.
quent revolutions. AS for putting
the defense of this hemisphere under
a genuine Pan American police force,
with it's high command open, for
example, to Brazilians, Haitians and
U. S. citizens alike, we are not ready
even in our Pan American bloc for
such advanced internationalism.
When we carry over this thought to
an international police force on a
world scale and realize that perhaps
General Rommel might be the log
ical choice for it's commander, we are
bound to realize that an honest-to-
goodness International Police Force
is in the dream stage as yet. Prob
ably most of its ardent advocates are
unconsciously thinking only of the
coercion of other nations by force
under our leadership. III
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30

convinced the legislatures, or a ma
jority of the citizens, in three-fourths
of our states that national prohibi-
ton would rid the nation of the
drink evil. We wrote prohibition
into our Constitution. Then we set
tied back in our armchairs and left
to the Federal government with its
supposedly irresistible power the task
of enforcement. The result is now
history. In word, we found out
convincingly that the power behind
a law is not the police, strange as it
may sound, but the people who are
back of the police and who either
support them or don't support them
in the enforcement of that law.
Applying this valuable lesson to
the problem before us, We think it
can be shown that the world is no
where near ready to be coerced into
virtuous international behavior. Ma
tionalism is far too strong still. When
one recalls how our Senate reacted
to the two inoffensive words, grave
consequences" in the letter that Am
bassador Hanihara wrote Secretary
of State Hughes in 1923 regarding the
probable effect in Japan of the Jap
anese Exclusion Act, one realizes how
fatal a mistake it would be for a
world government to propose the
coercion of the United States. 1t is
hardly likely that the other great
powers or even our smaller neigh
bors in Latin America would react
less automatically under similar
circumstances.
It was on the basis of the theory
that the mere threat of overwhelming
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1942-07-30

secution of the war. Therein lies
hope of speedy victory over our
enemies.