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Full Associated Press
Thirty -sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1941.
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Comment
From Washington
Government to
Make Aluminum
Ickes Relent
Toward Oregon
Fabricating Plant
Due On Coast
Br John W. gaily
Washington, D. C, July J.
Within six months the federal
government will be In the alum
inum business in a large way in
the Pacific northwest. Also
tinder consideration is a plant
ior manufacturing magnesium,
but this is less certain than the
aluminum enterprise.
At the current moment, to
meet clashing interests within
the government, it is proposed
that three aluminum plants be
established instead of one; by
this scheme the various advo
cates will be given a plant.
There are details to be worked
out, many details, but it can be
stated that, subject to possible
revision, there will be aluminum
plants at Cascade Locks, at Ta
coma and Spokane.
To meet the needs of the air
plane industry for fabricated
aluminum the government will
establish a rolling mill In the
state of Washington. This fabri
cating plant, which could be
placed anywhere in the Pacific
northwest, will, in all proba
bility, be on the Columbia river
and either at Longview, where
the Reynolds Metals Co. is lo
cated, or at Vancouver, where
the Aluminum company of
America has its large ingot pots.
A PROGRAM for mirnnlum
is less conclusive. There is a
strong probability of a mag-
nesium plant being installed on
ine power lines of Boulder dam,
but it is almost certain that an
otner government plant will
snuggle close to Grand Coulee
switchboard. This is another in-
cm nee wnere various govern
mental agencies are pulling and
hauling, unable to agree on the
best place for a site in accord on
the fact that magnesium is
wanted by the ton for several
years to keep pace with the air
plane program.
e
IF one of the three contem
plated aluminum plants of the
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10 BE
Through a misunderstanding
WPA work at Medford munici
pal airport was shut down this
morning, but will be resumed
tomorrow morning. Fred W.
Scheffel, city superintendent, an
nounced. It was thought by mistake
that the president had not yet
signed the necessary appropria
tion bill to continue the work,
Mr. Scheffel explained.
"It was all an error and we
want all the men back to work
tomorrow morning," Mr. Schef
fel said.
Destroyers Sunk
Rome, July 1. r,P The Ital
ian high command reported to
day the sinking of two British
destroyers, one off Bardia, Lib
ya, and the other in the eastern
Mediterranean.
SICE GLANCES
Bt
tribune reporters
ftaiph Woodford thinking a
photo in the MT looked familiar
and then discovering it was his
son-in-law.
And Ken Murray being equal
ly thrilled at finding his phiz
in a Klamath Falls newspaper
high school class photo of 30
years ago.
Babe Lillard expressing her
disappointment that friends did
net keep their date to help
themselves to an over-abundance
of berries weighing down
the Lillard vines.
Marion and Hank Fisher
gladly helping jsorma ana Ken
Madden celebrate their 10th,
wedding anniversary.
INVAUtK. ULAIM
T
Moscow Admits Reverses in
First Clash But Says
Lines Now Holding Foe
By the Associated Press
The Germans penetrated the
Russian center today with a
thrust by advanced units that
carried to 90 miles southeast of
Minsk to the region of Bobruisk
on the road to Moscow, and
pushed back the extreme Rus
sian right in the Arctic front
before Murmansk.
Moreover, Berlin claimed that
far to the south, on the Polish
front, the Russians were in dis
orderly and costly flight from
the Lwow region, and that the
river Dvina had been crossed by
Nazi troops between Dvinsk and
Riga, the Soviet naval base in
old Latvia.
Admit Early Reverses
Moscow acknowledged Initial
reverses in the Bobruisk vicin
ity and in the far north, but
claimed that in both cases a
steadfast Russian resistance hail
defeated all German efforts to
further these advances.
The German air force was re
ported ranging far ahead of the
land columns, smashing Russian
communication lines in the Smo
lensk and Odessa regions and
dealing punishing blows at Mur
mansk, on the Arctic sea.
Stockholm heard rerjorts that
Riga had fallen; a German re
porter described the entry of
Nazi troops Into Mitau, 60 miles
to the southeast, but the high
command said of the thrust along
tne Baltic toward Leningrad
only that the Dvina river had
been crossed at many points.
In bitter all-night fighting,
Russia's troops declared today
they had checked the advance of
German invasion forces at two
main sectors of the 2.000-mile
battlefront in the Minsk-Bro-!
busik and Luck areas where
the nazis are striking directly
toward Moscow and the Soviet
Ukraine.
Near Smolensk
The Germans, by cdntrast, as
serted that two nazi tank col
umns "now are far east of
Minsk," capital of white Russia
and that German schnelle trup
pen (speed troops) were in sight
of Smolensk, 230 miles from
Moscow.
Radio reports from Stockholm
said Riga, the capital of soviet-
ized Latvia, had fallen into nazi
hands. France's off-stage role
in the 10-day-old struggle moved
nearer the actual fighting with
a statement by the Vichy French
government that it had "no ob
jection" to French volunteers
fighting alongside their former
enemies, the Germans.
Only yesterday France broke
off diplomatic relations with
Russia.
Rome radio said Chancellor
Hitler and Premier Mussolini de
cided on "the war against Mos
cow and the destruction of the
red army" at their latest Bren
ner pass meeting, June 2.
A Berlin radio broadcast said
German Bavarian Alpine troops.
in violent action at Lwow, for
mer Poland, had destroyed 100
soviet tanks with hand gre
nades. A Russian communique tersely
sketched the huge-scale conflict
as follows:
All Units Engaged
"In the Minsk and Brobulsk
directions, our troops fought all
night against superior enemy
forces, successfully counteract
ing their attempts to thrust
toward the east.
"Infantry, artillery, tanks and
the air force participated in the
fighting."
Minsk lies 20 miles inside the
old soviet frontier. Brobulsk is
about 90 miles southeast of
Minsk.
The communique also declared
that the red army had stemmed
I the nazi onslaught toward the
Ukraine, counter-attacking and
destroying German tanks.
r-rineviue. jre.. Juiy i tl
Head-on crash of an automo
bile and a gasoline truck last
night killed L M. Mills. 80.
Paulina stockman, and F. J.
Brown. Mills was driving the
.car and Brown was a paeni!er,
Ernest Edwards, driver of the
truck, was unhurt
Blaze Threatens Bridge
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fill rPr
unit cars which caught fire
engine in the railroad yards at Omaha threatened the Ak-Sar-Ben
bridge across the Missouri river. Firemen kept burning
oil from spreading to the span. Damage to railroad equipment
was estimated at $100,000.
War Bulletins
Berlin. July 1. 7P) Ger
man forces attacking Russia
have captured Riga, capital of
Latvia, it was announced of
ficially tonight.
Stockholm. July 1. (IP)
German parachute troops
were reported in dispatches
reaching Stockholm to have
landed at a Russian naval
base at Baltiski, Estonia, to
day. The dispatches said all
were captured.
Berlin. July 1. (ZP) Ger
man dive bombers have set
a British destroyer afire off
the Egyptian coast near Sa
lum and at besieged Tobruk
have bombed harbor facilities
and British motor vehicles,
the German high command
announced today.
A Northeast Coast Town in
England, July 1. (IP) More
than 200 German seamen cap
tured in the battle of the At
lantic were landed from a
British warship today and
taken to an internment camp.
Most were believed to be ad
ditional survivors of the Ger
man battleship Bismarck.
London. July 1. (IP) Ex
change Telegraph (British
news agency) said tonight
that it had heard the Moscow
radio announcing that seven
German submarines had been
sunk in the Baltic and Black
seas.
Willkie's Son In
Draft Registry
Rushville, Ind., July 1 (Pi
Philip Willkie, son of the 1940
Republican presidential nom
inee, registered here today un
der the selective servict act.
Young Willkie. who was 21 De-
cember 7, has been visiting his
visiting his
grandmother, Mrs. Phil Wilk,
and working on his father's
farms.
British Reinforcing
For Syrian Campaign
Vichy, July 1. IIP) The
British and Free French forces
in Syria were reported here to
night to be bringing up heavy
reinforcements in all sectors ap
parently in preparation for a
general offensive.
French military advices indi-i
cated that British
motorized ,
.columns naa pushed around,
ebek and had made contact I
with French secondary positions
north of the town on the marl
to Horns.
Constanta Raided
Moscow, Wednesday, July 2.
w Russian
bombers have i
again raided
Constansla. Rii-
manian Black sea port, .it was
istated early today.
after collision with a switch
ROCKING QUAKE:
L A. AREA
Los Angeles. July 1. (IP) A
powerful rocking-chair earth
quake swayed southern Califor
nia lust before midnleht last
, night, causing noticeable damage
' In Ik. C . T" - l
.1 .hi; t?auut ouruara area.
Downtown Dlate-ela win
dows were shattered and bricks
fell off the parapets of some
Duiiamgs in Santa Barbara
i-iasier was snaKen down as
cracks appeared in some walls
Similar damage to a lesser de
gree was reported from Carpin
teria and Ventura, south of
oanta Barbara.
in me i,os Angeles area, the
swing-like quake awakened
thousands of sleepers and re
mained perceptible for about a
minute.
ine sensation was that of
some great cosmic rocking chair
in motion rocking southeast
northwest in comparatively
Kim, iazy sweeps, it was a con
me usual Jolting or
shuddering quakes usually felt
in this area.
From Santa Barbara was re-
ponea trie recurrence of twin
phenomena associated with many
ante cannquaKes and never
luny explained scientifically
The sheriff s office said there
was a weird flashing of light in
ine sxy followed closely by a
pervasive rumbling sound.
Because of the broken store
windows in the Santa Barbara
business section, 100 men were
placed on euard under police di
rection to prevent looting. These
,ihi - j..... .
soldiers off duty, American Le
gionnaires and policemen.
The quake was felt sharply as
far northward as Santa Maria,
Die
leu miles from here, but not In
o and Imperial Valley
In the lower end of southern
California.
Zivic, Davis Fracas
Postponed By Rain
New York, July 1. IIP) The
12 round non-title fight between
welterweight champion Fritzl
Zivic and Al Davis, scheduled
for the Polo Grounds tonight,
was postponed until tomorrow
night because of rain.
Russian Women !n
Defense Regiment
Stockholm, Sweden, July 1
IIP) A reffiment nf vonna Rue-
sian women has n tnrmrA Inr
th nrn.. r. t .
radio announcement heard here
Isaid todav
F. R. Still; Molds Peace Hope
HALF OF DRAFT
LISTED BY 2 P. M.
35 City Residents, 54 County
and 22 Out of County
Gold Hill Youth Is First
Up to 2 p.m. Ill men who
had become 21 since last Octo
ber 18 had registered under the
selective training and service
law at Jackson county's local
board headquarters, 201 West
Main street.
Of the total, 35 were" city resi
dents, 54 county residents out
side the city and 22 out-of-coun-ty
residents here temporarily,
headquarters said.
First to register was Marvin
William Betts of Gold Hill. Betts
was waiting at 8:30 when the
first local board employe ar
rived. The office opened fr registra
tlon at 7 a.m. and will remain
open until 9 tonight. It was esti
mated that somewhere between
200 and 300 would be registered.
Portland, Ore., July 1. (IP)
Draft registration for men who
became 21 since Oct. 18 last, lag
ged somewhat In Oregon this
morning and the state total at
noon was far short of the ex
pected 6500,
Washington, July 1. (IP)
At country cross-roads and In
great urban centers, the United
States enrolled today its military
"class of 1941" some 750,000
young men who have lust reach
ed 21.
All men citizens or aliens
who have become 21 years of
age since the first selective ser
vice registration last October
must sign up, and all signs are
that a good many of them will
get an early call for their year
oi military service.
GETS UNDER WAY
About dA7n am
took to the field this morning to
make a complete Medford hous
ing Survev for the armv nnlnn.
ment civilian coordination
board.
It Is horjed to have. fhe. ninvv
completed by a week from to
morrow, Frank J. Van Dyke,
civilian coordinator said. Pur
pose is to ascertain definitely
how manv loHirine iiwimmwifl.
tions are available for workers
on the proposed cantonment
without additional building.
The office of the rnnrHinalAP
was to be moved this afternoon
from the armory to the tourist
information bureau at North
Riverside avenue and Fifth
street. It was thought that the
new location would be more con
venient for the public, Mr. Van
Dyke said.
The AAA anr! tnurlt Ink...
tlon bureau will continue to oc
cupy the premises also.
Site of the proposed canton
ment Was viewer! v.,.rH.u h
Col. G. O. Kurtz, from the nf.
fice of the chief of field artil
lerv. Waihlmrfsin n r-
MaJ. Lawrence Bixby, from the
neio. artillery school at Fort
Sill, Okla. The visiting officers
were accompanied on the all-day
site tour by Capt. Theron W.
Bean, constructing quartermas
ter. Col. Kurtz anrl Mai nuu
who came in from San Francisco
yesterday morning, left by train
last night for Portland
they were to return east by
streamliner train.
Astoria, Ore.. July l.Pi
Ocean trailers along the Oregon
coast reported today that the
best sllverside salmon haula of
the season have been made In
the past week. A number of Co
lumbia river gillnetters have
converted their boats into
trollers.
U
SO FAR THIS YEAR
SHOW HEAVY GAIN
First Half Total $176,985
Shown by City Inspector;
June is Highest Month
Already far ahead of the cor
responding period in 1940, fig.
ures released by the city in
spector's office today indicated
that 1941 building activity in
Medford would surpass by
considerable margin that of last
year, when permits totaling
$212,955 were issued.
For the first six months of
this year the valuation of per
mits issued was $176,985 as
compared to $93,436 at the half
way point in 1941. Thus far this
year permits for 43 new resi
dences have been issued, June
being the high month with 11
at a total stated cost of $26,100.
Big June Increase
The total value of 30 permits
issued last month was $31,625,
a big increase over the $15,273
of June 1940, and over the $20,
600 of May 1941. In addition to
the 11 new-residence permits of
last month, 16 were issued for
remodeling and repairing at a
total cost of $3,235, and three
were issued for new businesses
at a total cost of $2,300.
With the lone exception nf
March, every month thus far
this year has topped the cor
responding month in 1940, and
the building inspector's office
Indicated that construction of
all kinds, especially that of new
residences, was expected to
surge still higher In the next
six months of 1941,
W. E. Thomas applied for the
first application of July today,
to remodel a store front at 135
West Main street at a stated cost
of $500.
Following is a table showing
the month-by-month value nf
building activity for the first
six months of 1941 and 1940:
1941 1940
January .$20,400 $8,186
February
32,325
11,900
60,123
20,600
31,635
14,403
23,795
18,343
13,430
13,275
March
April
May
June
Total
..$176,985 $93,436
Santa Cruz, Calif., July 1.
(IP) The Santa Cruz Morning
Sentinel has purchased the Eve
ning News and will continue to
operate it at the same location
in the evening field.
Huge Bomber
By Pooling
Los Angeles, July 1. P)
American airplane builders are
pooling their productive re
sources to give the United States
and Britain an unprecedented
fleet of long-range, four-engine
heavy bombers.
The aviation news committee
of the aeronautical chamber of
commerce of America reported
today thla cooperation would
produce an estimated 500 bomb
ers monthly in 1942. It based
its figures on government rec
ords and forecasts.
Col. John H. Jouett, president
of the aeronautical chamber,
said these bombers, produced in
sufficient numbers, successfully
could convoy shipping from
America to England.
Three Pacific coast manufac
turers Boeing of Seattle, Doug
las of Santa Monica, Calif., and
Vega of Burbank, Calif. have
agreed upon a cooperative pro
gram for production of Boeing's
B-17E bombers. Each will pro
duce completely assembled war
planes. Parte will be Inter
changeable. Consolidated Aircraft Corp. of
San Diego and Douglas are
building two $22,000,000 plants,
to build B 24 bombers. The
plants are scheduled to begin
operation by the end of 1941.
Consolidated will operate at
Fort Worth, Tex., and Douglas
BASEBALL
American
New York, July 1,(P) Jo
DiMaggio tied Willie Keeler's
major league record when he
cracked out a single In the first
innings of the second Yankee
Red Sox game today to run his
hitting streak to 44 straight
games.
First game: R. H. E.
Boston 2 7 1
New York 7 15 1
Harris, Ryba, Potter and Pyt-
lak; Russo, Chandler and Sil-
vestri.
Detroit 8 12 0
Chicago 13 2
Trout and Tebbetts; Smith,
Hallett and Tresh, Dickey.
National
R. H. E.
11 17 3
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
7 14 0
Krist, Warneke, and Man
cuso; Sewell. Wilkle and Baker.
R. H. E.
4 7 2
6 10 0
New York
Boston
Schumacher, Bowman, Mc
Gee and ODea; Lamanna,
Hutchings and Mas).
(10 Innings)
Philadelphia 6 12 1
Brooklyn 4 8 0
Grissom, Pearson and Warren,
Livingston; Fitzsimmons, Brown,
Casey and Franks.
FEHL REFUSED PERMIT
TO TAKE SANITY CASE
TO U.S. SUPREME COURT,
Salem. Julv I. IP Th.
state supreme court refused to-
aav io nermlt Karl H jrhi
mer Jackson county Judge 'who
was paroled several days ago
from the state hnsnltnl in an.
peal to the United States su
preme court in his fight to have
invalidated the proceedings in
which he was committed four
years ago to the state hospital.
The decision tndav waa an.
nounced orally by Chief Justice
rercy j. Kelly.
Circuit Judge Carl Hendricks
of Fossil ruled that Fehl'a In
sanity proceedings were regu
lar, ana ine state supreme court
upheld the judge two months
ago. It was from this order that
Fehl wished to anneal tn th
United States supreme court.
fehl wanted outright release
friti the hospital, rather than
a iwrole. He aald few rlava
ago that he would appeal to the
u. a. supreme court for the out
right release.
Fleet Promised
of Plant Efforts
at Tulsa, Okla., in another co
operative program. Subassem
blies will be produced by the
automotive industry.
Output of these plants, the
aeronautical chamber predicted.
will increase production of heavy
bombers to 200 planes per
month.
After the Boeing-Douglas-Vega
cooperative begins produc
tion in 1942, the output should
total 500 a month, the chamber
added.
The chamber stressed that
these figures cover only the
heavy bombers and do not in
clude other cooperation for the
production of medium bombers.
Under the latter, fast ships of
the Martin B-26 and North
American B-23 type will be pro
duced by the Glenn L. Martin
Co. ard North American Avia
tion, Inc., at government plants
at Omaha, Neb., and Kansas
City, Mo. Automobile manufac
turers will supply assemblies.
To augment the program, Boe
ing plans Immediate construc
tion of a large addition to the
No. 1 plant of its Stearman divis
ion at Wichita, Kas. Douglas'
new "blackout plant" a wtn
dowless building from which no
light can escape toon will be
ready to manufacture B-17C
bombers at Long Beach, Call!
Vega will produce them at Its
new factory at Burbank, Calif.
INO COMMENT ON
KNOX ADVOCACY
OF NAVY. ACTION
President Also Mum On Ar
rest of 32 Suspected of
Spying Critics Scorned
Washington, July 1. (JPy
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) said
in a statement today that Secre
tary Knox "should resign or be
thrown out of office" for assert
ing in a speech last night in Bos
ton that the "time to use our
navy to clear the Atlantic of tha
German menace is at hand."
Hyde Parlt, July 1. (IP).
President Roosevelt reaffirmed
today a hope that America could
stay out of war.
He drew a distinction, how
ever, between a hope and a be
lief. But he also said at a press
conference that it was obvious
how anyone would vote in a poll
on whether this country should
plunge actively into the conflict
against the axis powers.
Certainly everyone is against
war, he said, just as everyone iJ
against sin.
Follows Criticism
Mr. Roosevelt has asserted at
number of press conference
In the last two years that ha
hoped this country could keen
out of Europe's conflict. Today's
reiteration, however, followed
recent statements by critics of
the administration's policy that
the United States was being led
along the road to active partici
pation in the war.
The president preferred not to
comment on Secretary Knox's
declaration in Boston last night
that the navy should be used im
mediately to clear the Atlantic
of a German menace so war sup
plies could be delivered to Bri
tain. Nor would he discuss th ar
rest of 32 persons on spy charges
over the week-end; and ha
passed over with obvious disdain
the contents of a report of tha
house military committee criti
cizing the handling of the de
fense program and suggesting
that It have a single head.
Ren. Fish (R-NY). who renr.
scnts the congressional district
in Which the nreaident Uvea, haa
been polling his constituents to
determine whether they believe
the United States should enter
the war.
Washington. Julv 1 JT4-
Secretary Knox's call for im-
meoiaie use or me unitea states
navy "to clear the Atlantic of
tha German menar-" wA tht
capital to wonder today wheth
er he was hinting at an Import
ant change In administration
Policy toward nazi aea activi
ties.
The direct lantftiatf fha, naw
secretary used in his speech at
Boston last nlaht amvm rlu tn
the belief In some quarters that
a definite revision was contem
plated in existing naval strategy.
Knox. Who aridriMiari 4 Via
nual conference of governors.
urgea mat tne naval forces be
used to deal Hitler "a smashing
blow." even thnush It lnvnlu4
"risk and danger . . . sacrifice to
the extreme ... If need be,
American blood."
The sneech. It vm ffnifll
agreed here, went farther than
Knox or any other cabinet of
ficer had gone In any previous
public pronouncements.
GERMAN, ITALIAN SHOPS
LOOTED BY URUGUAYANS
Trinidad. Uruguay. July 1.
OP) German and Italian shops
were looted by a mob today in
a spread of reaction to rioting at
Durazno Sunday in which a by
sunder was killed.
The crowd threw merchandise
Into the streets and burned It.
Albany. Ore, July 1. (IP) A
state highway gravel truck
killed M. W. Counts. 65, Salem,
while he was at work on a road!
construction job near Foster yes
terday. Counts, spotter fore
man for an oiling crew, bent
over to light his pipe as tha
truck, driven by E. N. Hills,
Salem, backed up.