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Newspaper Page Textur i ruu u a wmu. Weather Jr npon Fancuti t-rtly elonoy toder nd Moaaay. Little changa la temperature. Tempera or Highest ynterday 11 Better Hurrv Medford TRIBUNE This auralng yea will aave plenty f time te efeerk a ea -"Jimiuj yea see MrertlMd ea the Wtnt at nan. Tha mmtm tklof u rememker U, Where wiu oe aoing Me earne, ee ket- tee arry. Full Associated Preas United r Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1941. No. 85. Wmpn m 0 iV A r" nS0 U U -!' ,u u uu wweeeMrdayornlnt- nSo n ? News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 28. The young new deal justice William O. Douglas Is being pushed up toward President Roosevelt's desk by the new dealers to take a board chairmanship control of the defense setup. Their alter nate for this proposed Job, which will be the biggest In the nation under that of the presi dent himself, is Vice President Wallace. Douglas Is reported uncom fortable in his present Judicial surroundings but it is not defin itely known that he would care to leave that life Job. Probably no one will know until the pres ident decides on the coming OPM reorganization. Mr. Wal laces duties have been largely social in the vice-presidency and he would be able to serve If called upon. e e e XITHAT the administration ad- " visers want Mr. Douglas or Mr. Wallace to manage has now also been worked out clearly in their minds. They urge the set ting up of a strategy board of control at the top. It would be composed of representatives of the army, navy, a powerful new division of supply, a new minis try of economic warfare, the maritime commission, and pos sibly some others. Mr. Douglas or Mr. Wallace would be chair man of the board. Its duties would be to decide how much production was necessary for defense, when, how, what first. The board would be the central control agency with authority to make overall policy decisions, y Directly beneath it would be two agencies 1) military, (2) supply. The military would de cide what it needs, but all the business of getting it would be handled by supply. This civilian division would perform the pro curement work, not only for army and navy, but the British and the other government pur chasing agencies, such as treas ury and agriculture. Unlike OPM it would not serve in an advisory capacity, but as an ac tive control agent under the general policy board. The business men in OPM have talked along vaguely simi lar reorganization lines, favor ing a single head control, but they believe a business man should be chosen for the post. They are likely to offer the pres ident somewhat different pro posal. He will decide. TIE defense effort has now crept up to the colossal total of $30,000,000,000. A May 31 compilation showed around $43. 000,000,000 had been appropri ated for everything so far, army, navy, British aid, etc. A fresh $6,000,000,000 in the pending army bill will hike the total to $49,000,000,000. But less than half the sum has been placed in contracts awarded ($23,000,000,000), and less than one-fifth has been ac- tually expended ($8,000,000,000 r to $10,000,000,000). The full economic force of four-fifths of the defense pro gram, therefore, is yet to be felt, (Continued on Pere flu) PAPAL BROADCAST ON SOVIET TODAY New York, June 28. OP) Early opening of the NBC. CBS and MBS networks is planned for Sunday morning to relay the broadcast by Pope Pius XII on The Soviet In the War" from Vatican City. The pope, ex pected to speak In Italian, is scheduled to come on at 2:30 a. m. (PST.) The transmission is to include an English transla tion. In addition at 6:30 a. m. the MBS chain will rebroadcast a recording of the English ver sion. Herbert Hoover, former presi dent, making "a call to Ameri can reason." has been listed for a 45-minute talk from Chicago on NBC-red at 6 30 p. m. (PST) , Sunday. Road To Mexico Visalia, Calif., June 28. (.?") The state highway commission i considering construction of multi-lane highway from the Oregon border to Mexico. M0SC0WAVERS 4000 Steel Monsters Tangle in Luck Sector Alone Red Air force Scores Bucharest Bombed. (By tha Associated Press) Moscow, Sunday, June 29. In probably the greatest tank battle the world ever has wit nessed, German and Russian steel monsters are clashing all up and down the front in for mer Poland, with 4,000 of them locked in mortal combat in the Luck sector alone, it was re ported today by the Russian in formation bureau. In general the Russian com munique stressed that the Ger man advance is being held up by this terrific defense, with nazl losses running into high but untold figures. Particularly In the direction of Minsk, capital of White Rus sia, which appears as a prime German objective, German tanks were halted, the Russians asserted. Heavy Losses Told The communique spoke of the Red army inflicting import ant losses on the -nazis in rear guard actions while withdraw ing to new positions, but did not locate this retreat.. Elsewhere its communique was a tale of stubborn fighting, with Russian troops and airmen either holding their .own - or gaining the upper hand. "In the Siaulial sector (of former Lithuania), our troops took many prisoners, a great number of whom were in an in toxicated condition," the com munique said. It claimed also the destruc tion of 300 tanks of the nazi 39th tanks corps up to Friday night in the continuing battle) in the Minsk area. Telling thus of having smash ed the deepest and most men acing of the nazl spear thrusts into Soviet territory, along the historic invasion route which Napoleon chose in 1812, the Russian announcement said suc cinctly: "Fighting Is still In progress. It credited the Red air force with a series of successes over all the fronts, noting especially that two monitors, river gun boats, were sunk by air bombs near Tulcea, on the Danube river in Rumania. Seven German planes were mentioned as shot down at var ious points Saturday. Win On Prut The official war bulletin told of repelling German-Rumanian attempts to cross the Prut river into Bessarabia. It already had claimed annihilation of an in fantry regiment along the Prut. Listing them by name, it as serted some German airmen had surrendered voluntarily to the Russians and had written an appeal to others of the luftwaffe to do likewise. Some Finnish soldiers also have crossed into Russia and surrendered with the word, "We do not want to fight against the Soviet Union." the information bureau's summary stated. In general, the picture drawn by the Soviet command last night remained essentially the same the Russians still stand ing in the buffer state areas that once were part of Poland, Lithuania and Rumania, with great and bloody battle being waged from northern Lithuania to the Black sea. Rumania Bombed New York. June 28. (")-. The Budapest radio reported at 5:15 p. m. (PST) tonight that Bucharest, capital of Rumania, was "just now" bombed, with considerable damage and many civilian deaths. No casualties were caused by Russian attacks on Constanta, said this report heard by NBC, because the city had been evac uated. The Budapest radio also said Russians were blowing up bridges and tunnels leading Into the Carpatho-Ckralne and were retreating swiftly in the Baltic states with violent fighting on all fronts. Nazi-Russ Claims Conflict t- tiAirf is?S S yowMtw ' ? fif ? Nil gjermaIw, j RUMANIA )jg Germans claimed the Russian battlefront had been broken, but the Red army reported Soviet lines holding except in a few places. Russians said German Panser thrusts in the Vilna area (I) had been nipped off and that Russlaa counter-attacks tn the Brody and Lwow sectors (2) had led to the recapture of Premytil. Russians claimed a firm hold on the east bank of the Prut river (3). EARLY LEAD FOR IN TEXAS VOTING Dallas, June 28. UP) Gov. W. . Lee O'Daniel cut sharply into Rep. Lyndon Johnson's lead In the special Texas sen atorial election tonight as late rural returns were tabulated by the Texas election bureau. Johnson's lead was cut to 5,664 votes in the bureau's 10:30 p. m. tabulation, which he led with 125,630 votes of 410,892 tabulated. O'Daniel had 120,066. Third was Attorney General Gerald C. Mann, 106, 207; fourth. Rep. Martin Dies, 57,929. Dallas, June 28. bP) Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson, who claim ed President Roosevelt's ex plicit blessing, took the lead to night in early, unofficial re turns from the special senatorial election called to fill the post twice left vacant by recent deaths. Running second In Texas election bureau tabulations of 23,198 votes of a possible mil lion cast was pension-pushing Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel, twice overwhelmingly elected to the tune of hillbilly music. Climbing to third place and crowding O'Daniel for secoaJ was Gerald C. Mann, youthful attorney general who decade ago was a Southern Methodist university football star. Run ning fourth was Rep. Martin Dies, chairman of the house committee Investigating u n Amerlcan activities. Veteran election bureau sta tisticians, tabulating returns from 74 of Texas' 254 counties, two complete, said the trend in dicated a close race among Johnson, O'Daniel and Mann. At 6:30 p. m. (PST) the count was: Johnson 37,003; O'Daniel, 28.473; Minn 26,212; Diet 14, 843. ROSE CITY RUSH TO Portland, June 28. (JP) Love-struck swains maintained a steady line before the marriage license clerk in Portland today, boosting the city's total licenses to nearly 400 for the month. Margaret Klees. head of the license bureau, said the all-time record of 445 licenses established in June, 1920, would be broken if the pace continues through Monday, the last day of the month FINNS CALLED TO ENTER HOLY WAR AGAINST SOVIET Helsinki, Finland, Sunday, June 29. P Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf Mannerheim called upon Finns to follow him in a holy war against Russia today as Soviet planes attacked 11 towns. The aged marshal who led Finnish forces In the three months campaign of 1939, charged the Russians with un scrupulous threats, blackmail and criminal subversive activ ities which he said "have shown that from the very beginning the enemy did not intend the peace to be permanent." Finns will march with "the mighty armed forces of Ger many" on the crusade and "a new day dawn for Finland," he said. Finns said tha Soviet planes caused only four civilian in juries and only slight damage and two of the attackers were destroyed. Six Lutheran bishops of Fin land appealed to all churchgoers to defend the Christian faith against "the barbaric enemy." RESERVE OFFICER Washington, June 28. UP) A rebuke by Senator Truman (D- Mo.) to a young army re serve lieutenant who criticized administration foreign policy was published today by the war department. Truman, a reserve colonel and World war veteran, wrote the unidentified lieutenant that were he on active duty he would be too busy to advise congress. General George C. Marshall, army chief of staff, wrote the senator, "I highly appreciate the stand you have taken." Official regulations forbid an officer to take part in political activities, the war department noted. Given Health Post Albany, June 28. OP) Dr. A. E. Bostrom, former state health officer's assistant who recently completed an advanced course in public health work at Yale University, was named Linn county health officer today. BY SEAAND AIR Amphibian Tanks Raids on Conquered Shores Urged As Aid to Russia, Self. By the Associated Press London, June 28. Agitation ffrpw In Rrltain tnnltrht fnr dur ing attacks by army and navy raiders on the German-held continental coasts, now that the nazis' backs are turned, and one general suggested that amphib ian tanks Join them in a general offensive teamed up with the great, continuing RAF aerial as saults. n.n.p.1 3 IT C Fuller nne rt the firet. Rritish ffenerale to exploit the use of tanks in the World war, called in the "Sun day Pictorial" for "tip and run" raids by the army and navy on "the coasts of countries now oc cupied by Germany." Strong German forces would have to be diverted to protect these coasts, he declared. Long an exponent of amphib ian tanks, General Fuller said thai in 1B31 Vickers-Armstronc put "an efficient amphibian light tank" on the market, and he added that "if we have such a tank our path is easy." The public Is growing restive nnui that there eeeiTII to bt I nrlal nnnnrtunitv to Strike at Germany while she Is preoccu pied wiuv riussia on uie ea. They want more than the hDw all raids, already of rec ord proportions, that continued today witn a smasning aiiat uu a huge power plant at Comlnes, n. T.llle nm af the kev nlants In heavily-industrialized .north ern France. ' Ttalrlera onei-tlng In skies al- mnt i-leered of German oddosI- tion knocked down five German planes, boosting the Brltisn ng ures of German losses for the .ir in 2 088 In all theaters and bringing the toll of German air craft claimed since last Satur day to 118. But the British now are clam oring for more than this. "This chance may not recur," mia nna military correspond ent. "Tens of thousands of raid ers smashing up communica tions, air fields and factories ,iM Krlnv real relief to Our Russian allies while doing vi tal service to ourselves. When questions are asked concerning probable raids on the continent by the army, sup ported by the navy and air official fares are blank. despite reports from Washing ton that such raids are uning place. These questions are being keri reneatedlv by the man- In-the-street as well as In the press. The prevailing spirit Is one of aggressiveness. TURKEY REFUSES Ankara, Turkey, June 27. ( (Delayed) The French are rerjorted to have asked the Turkish government for the right to ship war supplies to Syria via Turkey and to have been flatly refused. The French secretary of state, Mechln, who conferred with Turkleh leaders, 'was un derstood to have been told that Turkey, In negotiating Its friendship pact with Germany, excluded any possible nazl mili tary transit across Anatolia and firmly extended that same pol icy toward France. Members of Mechln mission were said to have told the local press, "Syria will not be sur rendered and France will de fend It to the end." China Seeks Plaaea Chungking, June 28. PV A drive in China and abroad for contributions to buy 1.000 planes costing approximately $60,000 each for the Chinese airforce was announced tonight. The campaign will start July 7 on the fourth anniversary of the outbreak of tha Chinese Japanese war REQUEST TICKING HITLER PROMISES VICTORY REPORT SOVIET DRIVE Propaganda Chief Scents British Trick No War Details From Berlin. New York, June 28. W) Hans Fritsche, chief of the Ger man radio propaganda service, in a radio talk possibly design ed to reduce expectations for the awaited "victory commun ique" tomorrow, charged to night that the British were ex aggerating German advances in order to be able to discount the real successes later. He was heard here by CBS. Berlin, June 28. (P) With his armies and air force fur iously hacking and slashing a pathway toward Moscow through stubbornly resisting Soviet forces, Adolf Hitler wound up the first week of his war against Russia in attempts to mobilize all Europe against the communist foe and with a new promise to tell of successes in detail. On the fighting front a field headquarters communique i re ferred to the "big successes" of the week but gave no details of the vast eastward drive the biggest Hitler's land armies yet have attempted. It promised facta for tomorrow, however, in a series of special Sunday announcements. The timing of this newly scheduled burst of victory claims was significant In view of the drive to enlist all Europe in an antl-communlst crusade. Meanwhile DNB, the official news agency, gave the German public a foretaste of victory news by reporting that the 97th division of the Red army had been' "broken up and de stroyed." AT Willlamsport, Pa., June 28. (IP) Perplexed authorities to day sought the cause of a mys tery ailment which suddenly struck down 300 men and wo men as it swept through a throng of 5,000 adults at the helghth of a picnic outing. Commander-in-chief George Lamande of the Willlamsport Masonic consistory which spon sored the fete, said some med ical leaders attributed the wave of Illness to food poisoning. De tective Chief Joseph M. Schu mucker, however, declared this uncertain and ordered an analy sis of food. Ice cream and soft drinks served. E FOR F.R. HARMLESS Hm Vn.V T... mm tirm Detectives and postal inspectors were cauea lo Drench post office tonight to open ticking package addressed to "Frank lin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park, N. Y., and found It contained a harmless arrangement of dry cell batteries and an alarm clock. BULLETIN Albany defeated the Medford Craters, 11 to 6, In an exhibi tion game at Albany last night, all six of Medford's runs com ing in the ninth inning. John son went the route for the Oaks, while Fox and Smith divided the Craters pitching chorts. Coast League (10 Innings): San Francisco , 6 13 0 Seattle 7 14 0 Barrett, Webber and Collins; Joyce and Ogrodowskt War Bulletins Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jus 29 ;i.The British Middle East air command announced today that six Italian war planes approaching the Brit ish fortified Island of Malta were shot down yesterday and others were badly damaged. Jerusalem. June 2sWjn Australian airmen Hying new Amsrican-m ad Tomahawk fighter planes today shot down six American-made Glenn Martin bombers pilot ed by Vichy French fliers ia one of the hottest air engage ments of tha Syrian cam paign. The Australians were es corting RAF bombers la an attack on the French military depot at Palmyra when they sighted two Martin bombers raiding British and Free French troops. The Tomahawks (Curtlsses) closed ia as the Martins dived. Both bombers crashed ia flames. Soon afterward, four more bombers were spotted and shot dowa despite desperate efforts at escape, the Austral ians said. Vatlcaa City, June SI (jp) Pope Plus XII prayed at the tomb of St Peter tonight ea the eve of a radio address to the world ia which he was expected to make known his views oa the war the axis Is waging against Soviet Russia. The Osservatore Romano, a Vacitaa City newspaper, said the pontiff would "expound his views ea the subject of divine provideace la human events." New York, Sunday, June St OF) A British broadcast heard today by NBC reported that Italian-controlled Albania has announced she ia at war with Soviet Russia. CONGRESS OKAYS HUGE ARMY BILL; NO CHANGE HERE Measure Sent to White House President'! Dol lar Value Power Extended Army officials In Washing ton, D. C, said last night that there was nothing new in the status of the proposed army can tonment at Medford, the Associ ated Press reported. It had been thought her that possibly an appropriation for the proposed Medford camp had been contained In the ten-odd billion dollar war supply bill passed Friday and awaiting presidential signature yester day. Besides tha appropriation. cantonment construction la also dependent upon authorization for an increase in the strength of the army. Washington, June 28. (JP) Congress gava final approval today to the biggest cash ap propriation bill In the nation's history, a gigantic $10,384,821, 624 Item for the army. The to tal exceeded the largest previ ous appropriation, a 1919 army bill, by about a billion dollars. The senate sent tha measure to the White House as one of many actions taken In the course of a day devoted to clear ing the calendars of legislation which had to be disposed of be fore the fiscal year closes at midnight on Monday. In addition to the army bill. the senate passed and also sent to the White House a bill ex tending operations of tha $2. 000.000,000 stabilization fund and the president's power to devalue the dollar for two years. Without the legislation they would have expired at tha Mon day midnight deadline. Losing no time, the eenatc also approved bill prolonging the life of the commodity credit corporation for two years and increasing Its crop loan funds by $1,250,000,000 to total of $2,630,000,000. This measure went back to tha house for ac tion on aenata amendmenta. I COMMITTEE PUTS E Nation's Trend to 'Social Reform' Rather than Nation al Security Cited. Washington. June 9K im In a sharply critical report on ueiense progress, the house mili tary committee asserted today that a series of major "failures" and "delays" had led to a pres ent serious lack of strategic materials. The deficiencies, the commit tee added In a voluminous report based on weeks of study, were attributable larcelv tn "ihi of a responsible head with au- uiomy ana power," but also to national Dre-occunatlnn In reeent years with "social reform rather than national security." ine report spoke, too, of a need for "vision" nn the mar of government officials and ob served: "The administration hat been too prone when difficult- -.r-R. lems arose to easily dispose of them by creating another board, only to add to the confusion of uie assortment of agencies we now have." As for the lack of strategic materials, the report said: A shortage of aluminum la "critical" because of Inadequate power and fabrication facilities. Rubber is not available in suf ficient quantities primarily be cause of a lack of ships and re fusal by some shippers to cany the commodity, . The house committee's report listed these as short-comings la connection with the defense pro gram: 1.- 'Tallure on the part of congress, the administration and the public to initiate a stock pile program at an earlier data. 3. "Failure to entrust to a responsible head the full au thority to carry out the will of congress in the legislation enacted. ' 8. "Failure of a sense of UrienCV on tha nart of ,4nl.i. - r - vuiuu, of purchasing organizations. e. -ne aeiay in establishing conservation methods and the use of substitutes for fear of creating unemployment B. "Unwarranted delays fat building nlanta and raeinti-. tha conversion of raw materials win iinisnea products." In connection with the fourth point, tha study said: "Our government agenda ar not amateurs in tha method, of propaganda but they have failed In that the- rilt nnt i... 1 gin educating the public aa to ma necessity or not squandering; the materials used in our defense) effort" ABLEJOJAKE IT Cams Hunter r.leeaH r.lU June 28. (JPl The AmeHeaa soldier can take it whether it oe a zs-mue march over rough terrain at night or catching sleep in a field with a rifle stock for a pillow, officers agreed today after four days of realistic fighting between 82, 000 U. 8. army troops. "We ax making an army of brains, speed and determina tion," declared Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, 9th army corps commander and leader of the "blue" force Mmnritlne 34,000 soldiers from Fort Lewis. Tin psychological fitness of the men can hardly be improved and nothing seems to present an obstacle to them.' Liner Refloated Santa Barbara. June 28. UPi The American-Hawaiian Lino freighter, Iowan, which ground ed on rocks off Point Concep tion June 12, was refloated last night and started for San Pedro. Aathot Asks Pardoa Sacramento. June 28. OTV ' Jan Valtin, author of the book "Out of the Might," which at tacked nasi and communist activity, sought a pardon from Governor Culbert L. Olson to day at the first step in an at tempt to avert deportation to Germany.