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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 1941.
No. 85.
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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
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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.