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Tucson. Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 26, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS TEN PAGES RELENTLESS ALLIED ADVANCES Romania Declares War When Hitler Bombers Raid Capital Ground Troops Clear Capital Of Nazis And Foil Attempt Of Occupation Troops To Take Over Airport Near Bucharest LONDON, Aug. 25 Romania declared war on Germany today after Nazi bombers raided Bucharest, the capital, and radio reports said German ground troops within Bucharest had been swiftly overwhelmed by King Mihai's regiments. The declaration of war against Germany by her UP NAZI DEFENSES ON TWO FRONTS IN FRANCE AS TROOPS NEAR SOMME DEATH PLAYS former satellite was announced porcHiNyw i -jf Side by side In the army, navy and marine cemetery, on the outskirts of Agana, Guam Island, are the graves of Col. Douglas McXair.

who followed his father in death when struck by a sniper's bullet, and army Pfc. Y. Poy Chin. Visiting the cemetery, after marines secured the Island, Is little Juanita Fejeran. Red Army Thrust In Romania Speeds On At Mile Each Hour LONDON, Saturday, Aug.

26. IP) Two Russian armies racing toward the heart of Romania at a better than a mile-an-hour clip yesterday reached the Galati Gap defenses at Tecuci and also drove a spearhead down to the Danube river delta at Kiliya in a six-day whirlwind offensive which Moscow announced cost the enemy nearly WESTERN FRONT AXIS COMMANDER REPORTED KILLED STOCKHOLM. Saturdav, Aug. 26. UP) Field Marshal Gen.

Guenther von Kluge has been killed, the newspaper Dagens Nyheter said today on the basis of information received from Germany. Circumstances of his reported death were not known here and the newspaper had no additional details. (There was no immediate confirmation of this report in either Axis or Allied official quarters). Von Kluge, 61 years old, had held command of the German armies on the western front since July 6, when he succeeded Field Marshal Gen. Karl Rudolph von Rundstedt.

U. S. WATCHING ROMANIA MOVE Status Of Nation Still Uncertain Factor In Washington WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. UP) American officials are now satisfied that the radio surrender of Romania probably will turn out all right, it was learned today, but for a time inner circles were entirely in the dark and there is none too much light yet.

This government has not received any official word that Romania wants to get out of the war. Even more surprising, it was said, is the fact that up to a fairly late hour today the Russians had not received such word either. An effective surrender would have to be made to the Russians. These facts coupled with certain inside over several months apparently were in President Roosevelt's mind today when he told his news conference that he did not know what the European advisory commission had done about planning for the surrender of the Balkan countries, especially Romania. Want To Get Out Ever since the German retreats in Russia reached high speed the Romanians have wanted to get out of the war.

The question was how. Early this spring they sent to Cairo a recognized liberal, Prince Stirbey. Allied leaders, finally convinced that he had something to offer in the way of early Romanian surrender, agreed to rush through a set of terms in conferences at Cairo. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeach-represented the United States in these negotiations. The terms provided among other things: 1.

Unconditional surrender. 2. The Romanians should stop fighting the Russians and immediately start fighting the Germans. 3. While turning on the Germans, the Romanians would not become entitled to treatment as Allies.

Transylvania Issue 4. Romanian troops would be permitted to fight their way into Transylvania provided they were killing Germans in the process but they would not gain thereby any permanent claim on Transylvania and no permanent disposition would be made of that area, which Hungary took at the start of this war, until the peace settlements. These terms were concocted so hurriedly that they could not be put through the European advis- orv commission, tne usual Ainea authority on such matters. Stirbey forwarded the terms but he never had an answer from Bu charest. The Russian armies came up to Romania, then shifted their weight to the Polish front.

Romania got a breathing spell and stalled on surrender. Stirbey was left high and dry in Cairo. NO FAVORITES ON 205,000 killed and captured. In perhaps the greatest defeat yet inflicted on the Axis in a comparable period the Russians also announced they had encire'ed 12 German divisions of upwards of 60,000 men southwest of fallen Chisinau. provincial capital of Bessarabia.

Thirteen thousand of the Germans already have sur rendered in two days, and the remainder are being annihilated, said the Moscow broadcast bulletin. Near Oil Fields A total of 550 towns and villages were swept up by the two armies, and the capture of Tecuci found the Russians within 29 miles northeast of the bomb-wrecked Ploesti oil wells. Gen Malinovsky's troops now were at the Galati Gap, a 45-mile stretch of defenses prepared along the Putna, Siret and Barlad rivers just above where those streams empty into the Danube. To the southeast, a Soviet midnight communique said the Russians had captured Kiliya on the Danube, 15 miles west of the Black Sea port of Valcov at the mouth of the delta, and 22 miles east of the port of Ismail. General Tolbukhin's Third Army seized that point.

To the northwest his troops reached the Prut river on a 70-mile front between captured Leuseni and Kagul, the latter being only 30 miles northeast of the Bug river and rail junction of Galati. The capture of Gasan Batyr also put the Russians only 30 miles from Ismail port on the northeast. Airplanes Help Soviet aircraft added to the slaughter by attacking Axis military trains at Galati, the supplementary communique said. In six days the Russians have captured nearly all of lower Bessarabia, the province ceded by Romania to Russia in 1940 and then recaptured by the Romanians in the German-Romanian offensive of 1941. On the northern Poland front Gen.

G. F. Sakharov's Second White Russian Army gained up to five miles in its steady effort to drive a wedge between Warsaw and the lower border of East Prussia. NAZIS IN PARIS GIVE UP AFTER HEAVY BATTLES jmored Columns Rescue Patnois; oiiuuage Of Food Acute SUPREME HE A ALLIED EXPEDI-S)NARY FORCE, Aug. 25 jpL-The Paris radio announ-j, late tonight that the french capital had been liberated and that the German (ommander had signed a document ordering his troops to tease fire immediately.

The mnouncement followed entry of ijnerican and French troops into capital during the day. There no immediate confirmation iert. ThHatest word at headquarters that American and French boom had joined fighting French Mtriots on the He De La Cite in jit heart of the capital after bit-tg fighting with Germans and fttnch collaborationist militiamen. De Gaulle Speaks Gen. Charles De Gaulle, presi-fcnt of the French committee of 'atonal liberation, said in a speech iroadcast from Paris: I "France will take her place 'utong the great nations which 'till organize the peace.

We will 'jot rest until we march, as we just, into enemy territory as conjurors." The commander of the Paris re- jion for tne a rencn iorces or me Interior, Colonel Rouel, issued this proclamation to his forces, the said: T. F. I. of the He De France tin Paris region), you have unshed a rising which has liber-tti Paris. You have improvised jour tactics, animated by the strong mrt to win, ana you nave won.

Second Announcement It was the second time this week iit the French forces of the in- lrior had announced the libera-in of the capital from four years i Nazi rule. Wednesday they an- junced Paris had been freed from but later reported that the 'rmans had repudiated an armi-Jce agreement and resumed ight- Tonight's announcement followed Iter fighting in the heart of the by French and American Bored forces of the U. S. Third any which rolled in this morning. first French column td'enttr iris reached the Luxembourg nr tn center of tne city, at tm.

and engaged in a battle with Germans, and collaborationist Ma. Fight to Cathedral ta the fog of early morning, 'aerican infantry the first of this wnd A 1 an expeditionary fcet within a generation to enter battled to Notre Bame, whose scant bells a few hours before ad welcomed the first French to the city. On all sides the liberating French Hi Americans were greeted by Jfflnpy Parisians, mad with joy, fin had fought alone against the "ma oppressors since they were to arms last Saturday. General Clere was in the fore-jhnt of the battle, leading the jJnki to the rescue of patriots who Deen frantically calling for 'p as the Germans fought back ftoughout the night. Those on the outside had heard electric cry over the radio "to Mrrlcades!" historic call to rt of the French revolution "Uch testified to the plight of the Wriots.

Battle In Streets Won fightine raped throughout city, along the Place De La Con-before the chamber of depu- toward Les Invalides, as Amer- 90 and French drove the Ger-from their barricades and liftings converted into fortresses. Associated Press Correspondent Whitehead, who was with the "St American troons to enter Par- id the Germans ere holding mboth sides of the Seine along Champs Elysees, the Place De Lub icfuai a ui 1 1 Wleries. thp r.jrrfpns nf thp the Madelaine, the Cham- LI II. HULL. tA A l- Crillon.

PnM II I no Invnne tjjen the last enemy rear guards IKine entranrp tn th ritv raved Under the JmoHran r4 French attacks, the capital wim with joy. n. women and children lined of the Allied advance, and 'Utehead said that when his col- StonneH ho u36 all Hi it cmnth. ui is ui bv Frpnrhmon cu-armini? 'IS "'u one old man, saluting with 0Q hlpC Am.ini VMt YtWO 1 France." seemed to sum up the feel-V many in the vast throngs. mux 111 iiiuimiiift Posts, as they have done in -uuons In Paris liofr.ro critical Won of the Germans more Phi.

anH rtiiieu columns cic to the WftmL ITLUCi. Ill 2l'0r thp he Ffi i a wmiidiiuer wiinin- ine that for a time last night ot Te Parisians was thP ammunition was low, to Germa: Wnin. seemed to oe uyjjtfr nana, out uie faliy csuiars arrived dramatist JUst in timp anrl wpnt into ton. FV0u Wd wno naa es-LC through tho Haa atFFefrrls and were CHEW TROYES IS CAPTURED First World War Lines Approached By Yank Army SUPREME HE A DQUAR-TERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY FORCE, Saturday, Aug. 26 (P) American tanks in a 23-mile advance yesterday rolled into Troyes, 85 miles southeast of Paris and 163 miles from the Ger-.

man border at the Rhine, while far behind them Allied armies were stamping out the last sparks of German resistance south of the Seine. Lt. Gen. George Patton's armor, now racing toward soil known to Americans who fought the First World War, was cutting across the last German communication lines to southern France and raising fresh perils to the Reich's frontier. At Troyes the doughboys stand 130 miles south of the German border at the Saar, 163 miles west of it where the Rhine winds northward near Strasbourg, and 138 miles west of the Belfort Gap, which the Germans are expected to defend 6trongly because it leads into the industrial Near Marne At Troyes they also are 37 miles south of the Marae, scene of many a bloody -battle in the First War, and 50 miles west of Chaumont, Gen.

John J. Pershing's headquarters in that war. There were signs that even more momentous fighting was impending on the plains north of Paris, with the Germans possibly falling back to a battle line along the Somme river, another scene of heavy engagements in the First World War. At least part of their forces were pulling out of the rocket coast fortifications, pilots reported, probably before the menace of the American bridgehead 30 miles northwest of Paris which the Germans have failed to wipe out despite the heaviest fighting. Planes Active Fighters and fighter-bombers in clearing weather struck hammer blows at these forces along and beyond the Seine, destroying or dam aging 105 tanks and 158 other vehicles.

They shot down 41 enemy planes trying to protect these movements, probably got six more, damaged 21 others and lost 18 of their own number. Allied ground forces, closing in on such forces as the Germans still have south of the Seine, cracked the final enemy line before the river and closed in from every direction. Americans broke the back of stubborn German resistance and seized Elbeuf, 25 miles from the mouth of the Seine, whose capture was erroneously announced Thursday. Join Canadians They then branched out six miles to the west and linked up with Canadian forces pressing in from the west. French civilians said the Germans in the pocket were so short of transport they had com-mandered everything with four wheels or four legs.

As the Second World War swept back toward the trudging battlefields of the First World War, supreme headquarters lifted its recent mantle of secrecy to disclose that the Americans were on or across the Seine most of the 75 miles from Elbeuf to Troyes. Both at Troyes and in the still secret fan-out north of Mantes, the Americans were barely a hundred miles from the Belgian border and the Germans' stolen provinces of Alsace-Lorraine. Far to the west, the battle to clear the huge port of Brest of the enemy broke, with Allied warships pouring in salvos on the garrison from offshore and artillery bombarding it from the east. Bombers Used More than 300 medium bombers roared into the battle, blasting positions that had defied the besiegers, and it seemed obvious the Allies were hurrying to clear the port for the armies waiting across the seas to join in the showdown battles for Europe. The push to Troyes was 23 miles east of positions reported 24 hours before and its speed, together with word of a general German withdrawal north of Sens, suggested that Field Marshal Gen.

Guenther Von Kluge had no forces to risk against the American juggernaut short of the Marne river if there. American positions for adventures in this direction were firm. They hold the west bank of the Seine 15 miles south from Paris to Corbeil. They have crossings between Corbeil and Melun, 10 miles farther south, and between Melun and Fontainebleau, 35 miles southeast of Paris. Between Paris and the sea, the Americans are along the Seine all the way to Elbeuf, 25 miles from the mouth.

GUAM ISLAND RUBBER ISSUES IN WPB STORM Dewey Accuses Nelson Of Sniping As New Deal Looms For Agency WASHINGTON, Aug. An angry new storm broke about Donald M. Nelson's head tonight shortly after the War Production Board chairman left for China "with his agency still seething from the row which led to Charles E. Wilson's resignation as vice chairman. Rubber Director Bradley M.

Dewey accused the WPB head of "typical Washington sniping" in comment on the rubber program. It was. Dewey declared, the same sort of "sniping" that led to Wil son's resignation "and made many good Americans unwilling to give services that otherwise would be of value to the country in the conduct of the war." Dewey referred to Nelson's testimony to the senate war investigating committee, given last week but made public only yesterday. Completed, But No Tires While before the senate committee. Nelson was asked about Dewey's recent announcement that the rubber program was completed and he would resign September 1.

"It was completed, all but getting the tires," Nelson commented. (Ample synethetic rubber now is being produced, officials say, but the army has complained that heavy tire production is lagging behind needs.) "Then you don't agree that the job was completed?" asked Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley. "No, sir. It is like the army saying they are completed except for the shooting." Nelson said. Krug Appointed The new outbreak came with Nelson's future role in war production clouded and J.

A. Krug, ap-painted by President Roosevelt to run WPB in his absence, taking over wun a strong nana. Following a meeting late in the day with the various WPB vice chairmen, Krug told reporters he was "starting a new deal from here on out" and that he intended to "kill any sniping" right away. He said that while none of the nine vice chairmen had asked to resign, he would not be a "bit surprised" if they did. Asked if he had been given authority to clean house if he saw fit, Krug replied: "What is the authority of the chairman? to run1 WPB and that includes hiring and firing." Krug said he had called the meet-(Continue-; on Page 7, Column 1) Briefly, Magnuson said in a statement to the Post-Intelligencer he had heard the report that the fleet was withdrawn to Pearl Harbor and air patrols curtailed by the navy through the request of Sa-buro Kurusu, who during his talks with Secretary Hull declared his (Kurusu's) efforts toward peace were being thwarted by Japanese militarists, who pointed to the fleet and air patrols as indications to the Japanese people that the Americans would attack Japan shortly.

"The story is," he asserted, "that the Japs made a patsy out of the state department, contriving to have our fleet bottled up in Pearl Harbor where it could easily be dealt a death blow. mm MOVE OUT IN SOUTH Some Enemy Forces Are Still Holding Out In Toulon ROME, Aug. 25 () American troops, lunging suddenly eastward from their Riviera beachhead in southern France, have captured the famous resort towns of Cannes and Antibes and tonight were fighting forward less than 20 miles from the Italian fron tier. Nice, within short artil lery range of the advancing Yank forces, was expected to fall at any hour. Other swift Allied columns drove methodically toward the heart of France and a junction with Gen Eisenhower's victorious forces in the north.

Tonight's headquarters communique said forces probing into the delta of the great Rhone valley were close to and Tarascon, river towns only a few; miles apart. Nazi Retreat General (A German high command com' munjque indicated that a general enemy retreat was in progress up the Rhone valley toward Lyon which had been reported in the hands of French patriot forces.) Bitter fighting still raged In the naval base of Toulon, where ROAD TO BERLIN By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 Russian Front: 322 miles (from the eastern suburbs of Warsaw). 2 Northern France: 495 miles (from Troyes). 3 Italian Front: 601 miles (from FlorenceT. 4 Southern France: 608 miles (from Grenoble).

French troops drew their ring of steel tighter about a stubbornly resisting Nazi garrison. A heavy Allied attack had been launched to wipe out the last four pockets of Germans in Marseille. Two Ger man generals and 5,000 prisoners had been captured in the Marseille area in the past 72 hours. American units driving westward from Salon, northwest of Marseille, were reported within less than eight miles of the city of Aries on the Rhone river. An other Yank column pounding along the Durance vallev was approach ing Avignon, on the Rhone north of Aries.

Border Drive Uncertain Still officially unconfirmed wras the report from Switzerland that advanced American units had reached the Swiss bc-der near Geneva. However, fast armored columns 'habitually work far in advance of the main body of Allied troops and it was entirely possible that mechanized cavalry and combat engineers were at the frontier. (An Associated Press dispatch from Geneva said an American patrol which Thursday briefly visited St. Julien on the border had proceeded westward to Bellegarde, 13 miles from St. Julien and some seven miles from the frontier.) An official announcement said the Yank force which captured the industrial city of Grenoble, 70 miles from the Swiss border, was such a flying column operating in advance of the main body of troops.

It said the entire Grenoble area since had been "firmly occupied" with the assistance of French patriots. Toulon Resistance French troops assaulting Toulon occupied the land arsenal within the city, but a headquarters spokesman said the Germans still were resisting stiffly around the naval arsenal in the harbor and on the two peninsulas which partly landlock the harbor. Hand-to-hand fighting went on in the streets as the fanatical Nazis refused to surrender. Similar street fighting raged in some parts of Marseille, but on a reduced scale. A dispatch from Sid Feeler, Associated Press war correspondent, said the French began a final concerted attack on remaining strongpoints today after laying down a heavy artillery barrage on a commanding hill in the southwest section of Marseille.

But for these two spots of resistance, nearly 9,000 square miles ot liberated French territory lay quietly and securely in the hands of.Lt, Gen. Alexander M. Patches Seventh Army. Continued fair weather and merciless attacks by the Allied Air Force made it costly tor the Nazis to attempt any sizeable troop concentrations any where. Allied naval guns ranged ever further east and west along the southern French ceaselessly pounding assigned targets in har mony witn advancing giuunu forces.

Some 20,000 German prisoners had been taken in 10 days of unbroken Allied advances. a proclamation by King Mihai's new government which was broadcast from Bucharest. It said the Romanians had gained complete control of the capital from the Germans, whose whole Balkan edifice was fast collapsing. (A Romanian high command communique broadcast recorded by the Federal Communications Commission said: "We have taken more than 4,000 prisoners and captured large quantities of war material. The liquidation of a few islands of resistance around Bucharest Nazis Defeated The Bucharest radio said the Germans tried to capture the Baneasa airport near Bucharest, but were thrown back by the Royal Romanian Guards regiments and that roads from there to the capital were littered with German guns and vehicles.

The new government, which is trying to swing the country effectively to the side of the Allies, again called upon Romanians to "rise and fight the Germans." The war proclamation said Romania gave the Germans an opportunity to withdraw without interference but, "after assurances as solemn as they were perfidious," German units attacked Romanian units and "even machinegunned the peaceful population of villages and the capital." Capital Bombed It said the German air force "in strength bombed the capital and other towns aiming particularly at the royal palace" and "by these acts of aggression which occurred simultaneously in various parts of the country Germany has placed herself in a state of war with Romania." Juliu Maniu, leader of the peasant party who joined the new government a few days ago, said in a broadcast statement that Romania had sacrificed more than 600,000 men to German interests. "The vital forces of the Romanian nation will not be defeated by the -treachery of our former oppressors," he said. "What is left of them will soon be knocked out bv the great and invincible might of the United Nations, our great allies of today and always." Action Promised Maniu said that despite German treachery "Allied troops and our men from the former front line are neanng the capital and our armies who are now fighting at home will put an end to this pass ing difficulty. BATTLE EXPECTED ON FOOD SUBSIDIES WASHINGTON, Aug. 2o.

(JP) Signs of a new congressional battle over food subsidies and farm products price ceilings appeared to- dav. as the administration made plans to ask the lawmakers for ad ditional funds to finance war food production programs. Unofficial estimates have been made that upwards of $2,000,000,000 a year may be needed during the next two or three years to support farm prices at levels specified by Congress. Only today War Pood Administrator Marvin Jones told a house committee on post-war eco nomic planning that additional funds will be needed to carry out price promises. The issue, if it develops, may center around a provision of the price control extension act passed in June directing the President to take "all action" to assure farmers parity of higher prices, and around pending legislation which would bar sales of government owned producis at less than parity.

The War Food Administration, agency responsible for supporting farm prices, takes the position that it cannot increase support prices unless Congress provides additional money. In its regular report to members today, the American Farm -Bureau Federation said: "Bigger subsidies or higher farm ceilings" is an issue in Washington. All were at anchor off Manado, Japanese headquarters some 250 miles due west of Halmahera. There was no interception and all the Allied planes returned. This was the heaviest assault in weeks against shipping at Celebes.

The gangling island has been named by Gen. Douglas MacArthur as one link in the curving supply line from the Philippines to Ceram behind which Japanese heavy shipping has been confined. In another assault Thursday Liberators hit Halmahera. southern stepping stone to the Philippines, with 59 tons of bombs. (A Tokyo radio broadcast reported Allied troops had landed Thursday on the Mapia (St.

David) islands, northwest of Sansapor and about 300 miles east of Halmahera, and had been driven off later. There was no mention of such a landing in MacArthur's Friday communique.) BOMBERS STAB INTO GERMANY Research Plants Become Targets For Raids Over Europe LONDON, Saturday, Aug. 2G (JP) More than 1,750 heavv American bombers blasted targets in Ger many and Czechoslovakia yester day, including vital research and experimental stations for Hitler's flying bombs, rockets and jet-pro pelled planes. Other hundreds of planes from tactical forces in France and Italy hammered at the enemy on two fronts. One armada of more than 1,100 Fortresses and Liberators, ranged deep into Germany from Britain, battering 10 targets including several concerned with perfecting or making Hitler's new weapons of destruction.

Later a force of up to 250 bombed industrial targets in northern France and Belgium. Czech Plants Raided From Italy nearly 500 heavies wringed over Czecho-Slovakia for the second successive day, pounding two more plants and two air fields. On the first raid the heavies from Britain were escorted by nearly 750 fighters which shot down 11 German planes and destroyed 40 more on the ground. No Nazi fighters were able to reach the bomber formations but flak was heavj'. Allied losses on the raid were 17 bombers and seven fighters.

There were no losses on the second raid. American fighters and fighter- bombers pursuing the fleeing Ger mans bevond the Seine river de stroyed 41 'enemy planes in the air, probably destroved six and dam aged 21. Allied losses on these missions were 18. Robot Sites Raided Late in the dav RAF heavies with a fighter escort attacked robot bomb launching sites in northern France' and apparently were out over Germany again in the night. The German radio reported after midnight that a bomber formation was over northwestern Germany and nuisance raiders were over Brandenburg province.

One Eighth U. S. Air Force task group smashed at a synthetic oil plant at Politz, cutting further into the fuel supply for Germany's war machine in a follow-up to Thurs day's assault on enemy oil installations. Amone targets blasted bv other British-baled bombers were the Pennemunde flying bomb and rock et experimental station, the German air force research center at Rechlin, a maintenance and experimental stations at Anklam, Sch- werin and Neubrendenburg, all west of Stettin, and bomber as sembly or parts plants at Wismar, Lubeck and Rostock. In one action more than 300 American Marauders and Havocs pounded German batteries and strong points at the beseiged Brit tany peninsula port of Brest.

Jap Cruiser Sunk With Five Transports In Celebes Raid U. S. Officials Granted Japs Plea, Aided Raid, Rumor Says GENERAL HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pcific. Saturday, Aug. 26.

(JP) Mitchell bombers, attack- ins- at mast-height, prooaoiy sans a Japanese light cruiser and destroyed five medium freighter-transports near Manado, Northern Celebes, headquarters reported to- dav. The attack was made inursaay by the medium nomoers nuun their ceaseless hunt for Japanese shipping withdrawing trom tne Philippines-Halmahera line. When last seen the cruiser had exploded in the stern, was blazing from end to end and had a 20-degree list. The communique said the warship was believed to be sinking. A headquarters spokesman said the freighter-transports averaged between 2.000 and 3,000 tons.

Two other vessels of this class were damaged. An estimated 40 luggers and barges were riddled with machine gun bullets. SEATTLE. Aug. 25.

(JP) Rep. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash), on the telephone from Washington, D. tonight, told the Post-Intelligencer he had heard reports, both in Washington and on the west coast, that, at the request of the Japanese United States naval and aerial patrols had been curtailed in the Central Pacific at the time the Japanese struck Pearl Harbor. The congressman added he believed the government ought to make immediate comment on the "persistent and widely-circulated reports on the west coast, purporting to tell the real story of Pearl Harbor." In Washington, both the navy department and the state department declined immediate comment on Magnuson's statements..