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The News
By Paul Mallon
Waihlneton. July 4 The dif
ficulty of organizing popular
movement behind Navy Secre
tary Knox'i ringing call to
"drive the Nazis from the Atlan
tic" is that the British never
needed such help less than at
the moment Knox spoke.
Both Nazi air and submarine
activity has declined In the At
lantic to a point where the Brit
ish losses are "negligible" by
comparison with the 10,000 tons
of shipping losses per day, aver
aged during the war. That gen
eral conclusion is accepted
everywhere here although, of
course, no one except the British
admiralty knows the full details.
British losses were at a peak,
running well above the 10,000
tons a day average until about
six weeks ago. Then German
planes were withdrawn in pre
paration for the Russian cam
paign and a breathing speii nas
ensued since.
It is true, as Mr. Knox pointed
out, the whole war average of
10,000 tons a day far exceeds
our production, now around
6,000 tons a day. But our ship
building program calls for pro
duction far in excess of even
10,000 tons a day when the pro
gram hits full stride.
TIE semi-official explanation
of the Knox speech Is that
he and his associates have be
come deeply worried about the
state of American public opin
ion since the Russian campaign.
They fear interest In the war
will decline, with the shift of
activities further from our
shores. They think the breath
ing spell will disastrously lessen
enthusiasm for British aid.
Therefore, despite the critical
congressional reaction to the
Knox outburst, official agitation
along that line is likely to con
tinue for the purpose of keeping
popular opinion awake.
PRICE OF MARCH
10 'STALIN LINE'
Thousands of Nazi Dead,
Blazing Tanks and Enemy
Planes Left on Battlefield
(continued on Page Two)
OF SLAYING WIFE
Bath. Me., July 4. (IP) Dr.
Merrill E. Joss, 34, accused of
slaying his physician wife, four
years his senior, so he could
marry a tea-room hostess, was
convicted of manslaughter to
day by a Jury that deliberated
six hours and 10 minutes.
Because the verdict was re
turned on the Fourth of July
holiday, at 12:21 a. m. (EST)
while firecrackers of passing
celebrators resounded outside
the Sagadahoc county court
house sentence will be pro
nounced tomorrow.
War Bulletins
Nairobi, Kenya, July 4 W)
General Gassera, supreme
commander of the remaining
Italian forces in Ethiopia. It
tending envoys to the British
to arrange the surrender of
all Italian troops in the prov
ince of Galla Sidamo, the
British announced olficiallr
today.
Shanghai. July -P On
confirmed reports circulated
In Shanghai tonight that the
Japanese army and navy is
preparing to move ' within a
fortnight against southern
French Indo-China and occu
py Saigon, its chief port and
metropolis.
Cairo, Egypt, July
A heavy British air raid en
Tripoli, the capital and chief
base of axis-held Libya, for
the second successive night
was reported by the RAF to
day. This raid, last night, was
one of a series of sweeping sir
bombardments ever north
Africa and Syria, a commu
nique said.
Cairo, Egypt. July 4. '.-Pi
Occupation of Deir-es-Zor
by a British Indian force driv
ing into eastern Syria from
Iraq along the Euphrates river
was reported today by the
middle east command.
By the Associated Press
Adolf Hitler's Invasion armies
are approaching the main soviet
defense ramparts the mystery
veiled "Stalin line" the Ger
mans declared today, while the
Russians reported a vast slaugh
ter of nazi troops In two-day-old
fighting along the bloody Bere
zina river, 400 miles west of
Moscow.
A red army bulletin said
"thousands of German dead,
blazing tanks and enemy air
craft" littered the battlefield.
Line Little Known
Little has come out of Russia
on the Stalin defense works, sup
posedly a soviet counterpart of
Frances Maginot line and ex
tending from the Ukraine to the
Gulf of Finland.
The Berlin radio asserted
vaguely that at least one nazi
spearhead had knifed beyond the
Germans furthest worm war
rjenetration of Russia
The red army aeciarea mai
the three main German otten-
sives into the U.S.S.R. had now
been checked by a defensive
blitzkrieg, and that in one sector
160 nazi tanks had been de
stroyed.
In the Minsk area, on ine cen
tral front, the Berlin radio re
ported that soviet troops failed
in an attemDt to smasa mrougn
a nazi encirclement and that
20,000 Russians had been cap
tured
Countering official German
claims that the backbone of the
red army was "broken," a soviet
communique declared also that
nazi invasion forces suffered a
heavy defeat during the night
in the Bobruisk sector, 100 miles
southeast of Minsk
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's head-
auartera asserted that pursuit
of the red army was proceed
Inelv relentlessly along the
whole eastern front.
The nazi high command de
clared that German forces driv
ing toward Moscow had now
crossed the Berezina river the
Graveyard of Napoleon s ill-
starred venture into imperial
Russia in 1812 and it was evi
dent that another great battle
nrn rnffinff.
Heaw losses were being In
flicted on the Russians, the nazi
bulletin said, with the pursuit
continuing despite difficult road
nnriitinnfl.
Recapitulating the 12-day bat
tle of BialystoK. wnicn enaeu
earlier this week, the official
German news agency. DNB, as
serted that "hundreds of thou
sands of Russian corpse" were
strewn over the forest battle-
Between 400.000 and 500,000
i red army troops were said to
have encased in the battle, in
which the Germans claimed that
1 no 000 prisoners were taken.
Previously, the German high
command had said that due to
the violence of the fighting, Rus
sian rasualties exceeded the
mimhor nf nrisoners taken.
The main German threat
against Moscow apparently cen
.rl in alternative blows a
Borisov, 40 miles northeast of
Minsk on the road to the soviet
raniial. and at Bobruisk.
"The enemy is everywhere
mtine with stubborn resist
ance from our troops, devastat
ing artillery fire, and crushing
blows by the soviet air force,"
the Moscow communique said.
Further north. In the Dvinsk
sector of Latvia, the Russians
reported they had taken up new
nositions after engaging German
columns which crossed the Dvina
river at two points.
Nowhere did the Russians ad
mit approaching collapse in the
13-day-old struggle.
In southern Poland, soviet
troops were pictured as putting
up a terrific battle against nazi
armies lunging toward the rich
Ukraine.
Responding to Premier Joseph
V. Stalin's call for a campaign
of "scorched earth" and guerilla
100,000 Reds Taken, Claim
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Germany claimed capture of 100,000 Russians and destruc
tion of "a large part" of the Red forces trapped in the Bialystok-
Minsk area (oval). Meanwhile attacks were reported launched
from Finland and Germans claimed Windau, Latvia, besides
Riga, already taken. Germans also reported successes against
Russian tanks in Zlocsow and Dubno areas. Russians reported
their planes were checking Germans In Minsk and Ovinak
sectors. Black arrows indicate Germans) white arrows, Russians.
WILLI SURE NAVY
SOON WIL HELP IN '
SUPPLY DELIVERIES
New York. July 4. UP)
Short-wave radio beams carried
to the world today an assertion
by Wendell L. Willkle that he
is "quite sure that before long
now the great force of the
American navy will be brought
into play to insure the delivery
of supplies to Great Britain.
The 1940 Republican presi
dential candidate said "We un
derstand that if we permit the
last stronghold of liberty In Eu
rope to fall before the onslaught
of totalitarianism, the opportun
ity to save liberty in America
will be lessened and, therefore,
the overwhelming percentage
of the American people are re
solved that at whatever hazard
or cost, we will sustain the
fighting men of Britain."
Willkle recorded the speech
in the NBC studios last night
for use in a broadcast commem
orating Independence day.
Willkle said "despite the oc
casional hesitation and doubts,
the American people will reach
out, will give their utmost to
see that this precious thing we
call liberty shall not disappear
from the world, either in Eu
rope or In Asia or In America."
In a domestic broadcast last
night. Willkle asserted that un
less the United States used Its
navy immediately "to Insure
that England receives the pro
ducts of her toil and sweat, Eng
land will not and cannot survive."
SUFFERS DELAY
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Threat to New York Milk
Supply Also Looms Large
In Nation's Strike Picture
VlOUh. DEATH
IN EARLY START
24 Victims Recorded in First
Hours; 475 Traffio Deaths
Three-Day Estimate
Mi INCREASE PLAN
SEEN IN REQUEST TO
ERASE RESTRICTINS
Washington, July 4. (IP)
Plans for a substantial increase
in the size of the United States
army, perhaps to double its
present strength, were believed
indicated today by the general
staff's controversial request for
power told national guardsmen
and selectees In service, and to
use them beyond the confines
of the western hemisphere If
necessary.
The question of the army's
future size was momentarily
obscured by the rush of highly
critical congressional reaction to
the high command's request, but
well-informed officials pointed
out that the two subjects were
very closely linked.
The army's present strength.
they noted, was about 1.400,000
men. If the bulk of those men
are to be kept on duty, new
regulars recruited and the
scheduled 900,000 trainees in
ducted in the next year, they
said, the land forces would be
close to 2,800,000 the goal the
high command has In mind for
the first expansion, If one Is
deemed necessary because of
world conditions. Critical equip
ment Is being manufactured for
an army of that size.
By the Associated Press
Two strikes, one delaying
work on an important army air
corps project and another
threatening New York City's
milk supply, engaged labor' in
terest today In the midst of the
nation's holiday celebrations.
The war department offic
ials expressed mounting concern
over the strike of 1,500 AFL-
Building Traders Workers at
Jefferson Barracks, St Louis,
Mo., where the air corps plans
to begin training 11,825 recruits
on September 1. The AFL men
walked out in protest to em
ployment of about 80 WPA
workers in painting 28 out of
264 new buildings.
One-Fourth Complete
Work on the expansion pro
ject is less than one-fourth com
pleted, it was said.
New York's milk strike, pre
cipitated by 23,000 dairy farm
ers union members in an ef
fort to force higher prices, took
a graver turn when an organ
ized group of 30,000 other milk
producers announced they
would aid the union provided
Owen D. Young, retired indus
trialist, would lead the strike.
Young earlier had Invited
leaders of the union and other
farmers' groups to confer with
him tomorrow on a "unified
plan of action."
In another strike, dating from
March 14, union members ask
ed President Roosevelt to take
over the American Potash and
Chemical corporation plant, at
Trona, Cel., "in the Interests of
the American public":
Easing defense-labor prob
lems, on the other hand, the de
fense mediation board com
pleted formula for averting
a strike at the Western Cart
ridge company, Alton, HI., and
the federal conciliation service
announced an agreement fore
stalling a walkout on July 9 by
10.000 CIO workers In three
Connecticut plants of the Amer
ican Brass company.
Admits Slaying
in TO PRESS
FOR ROAD ACT
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Washington, July 4. JP
Speedy action on the public
roads authorization bill report
ed to the house will be asked
by Rep. Mott (R., Ore.)
The bill calls for authoriza
tion of 287,000,000 In appro
priations for immediate con
struction of roads needed In na
tional defense.
Mott said he would ask that
the house measure be substi
tuted for the measure already
passed by thr senate. The house
EAGLE PT.
INJURED BY AUTO
Mrs. M. A. Kennon, 79, of
Eagle Point suffered a fractured
hip and pelvis, an Injured shoul
der and bruises and cuts late
yesterday afternoon when she
was struck by a car driven by
Steven R. Schuerman, Ashland
insurance man, on the Crater
Lake highway about 20 miles
from Medford.
An attendant at Sacred Heart
hospital, where she was taken
Immediately after the accident
by Mr. Schuerman, said this
morning tnat the aged woman
was .conscious, but because of
her age was not resting well and
was rather seriously injured.
The driver of the car, in his
report to city police, said he was
traveling east on the highway at
about 40 miles an hour and that
Mrs. Kennon was standing at
mail box on the north side of
the highway, .with her back to
the car. Schuerman reported
that he honked his horn several
times but that Mrs. Kennon, ap
parently not hearing it, turned
and walked directly into the
path of his auto. He reported
that an embankment alongside
the road prevented him from
Uking to the ditch.
By the Associated Press
Violent death claimed at least
24 victims today before Inde
pendence day was more than aj
few hours old.
By noon (EST) 9 a. m. on
the Pacific coast 15 persons
had been killed in traffic acci
dents and seven by other
causes, including drownings,
falls, and one airplane accident
in Florida.
With a three-day holiday
week-end forthcoming, the Na
tional Safety Council estimated
there would be 475 traffic
deaths, 105 more than what the
council calls a normal toll for
July week-end.
There were 128 violent deaths
recorded last July 4 a mid
week holiday. Of those 83 were
from auto accidents, numerous
drownings and only two from
fireworks.
Deaths by states at reported
at noon:
Florida S, Illinois 8, Iowa 1,
Maryland 2, Michigan 4, North
Carolina 2, Ohio 1, Pennsyl
vania 2, Texas 1, West Vir
ginia 1, Washington 2.
Oregon's first violent death
of the Independence day holi
day occurred Thursday after
noon .with the drowning of
15-year-old' Portland boy In the
surf at Bar View,, near Tilla
mook.
Arthur Phillips, Lincoln high
school student, is believed to
have stepped into a crab hole
while wading.
A head-on collision . or two
automobiles, apparently - caused
when one driver fell asleep, sent
eight . persons to hospitals at
1:30 a. m. today. Those Injured
all apparently seriously, were
Merle J. Johnson, 29, Portland
Arlaine Johnson, his wife; Dr.
A. F. Katzky, Portland dentist,
occupants of a car driven by
Johnson
Five of six Heppner, Ore.,
persons in the other car suf
fered similar Injuries Mrs.
Harry Parfegian, Gilbert
Thompson, Clayton Lennlnger,
Windsor Channey. Harry Parfe
gian, 23, driver, escaped Injury.
Deputy Sheriff Earl Son aald an
investigation Indicated Parfe
gian fell asleep at the wheel.
Waitress Suspects
Fidgety Man's Tip
Los Angeles, July 4. (IP)
Waitress Tazudo Uraganl found
$513 on one of her tablet but
she just couldn't convince her
self it was a tip.
So she turned It over to po-
nil aiw iii ii I ii I aw-wrl
U.S. CANT SURVIVE
AS LIBERTY OASIS
T
London, July 4. IP Big
British bombers, diving SO feet
over the rooftops of Bremen in
broad daylight, scored direct
hits on a large factory in the
waterfront area of the German
port and shipbuilding city, the
air ministry reported today.
The RAF gave Bremen only
a short breathing spell after the
night shift of British raiders had
left it. The morning attack there
preceded a sweep across the
channel this afternoon In a new
offensive against nazl-bccupled
France as the RAF kept intact
",rl" "r Hollywood. July 4. (IP)
v u ..,.. v. Rosalind Russell, Hollywood's
Five bombers and four fight- j b,cnelor lr, u y.cht,ni
ers were said to be missing , , .,, , ' th.
Bernard Sawackl (above), 17,
parolee of St. Charles school for
boys, admitted three fatal shoot
ings. Police Captain Hugh Mc
Carthy of lbe Chicago police
department, said. The captain
said the youth admitted slaying
farmer near Momence, Ill.i
John Miller, 19, shot in a South
Side Chicago park, and Police
man Charles J. Speaker, 58.
Freedom Cannot Be Saved
Here if Lost to Neighbor
Nations Is Declaration
SENATE DEFENSE
. MEDFORD REGION
Washington, July 4. (IP)
Representatives of the senate
defense Investigating committee
leave here tomorrow for an ex
tensive inspection of west coast
defense areas.
Those making the trip will
be Senator Wallgren (D., Wn.),
a member of the committee;
Charles P. Clark, associate
chief . counsel for the commit
tee, and Col. Arthur Wilson of
the army general staff.
The tour will serve, the com
mittee said, as a preliminary
study of the west coast defense
program and might be followed
by a more extensive investiga
tion later.
The tentative Itinerary:
July 14 through 21 Seattle-
Tacoma area.
July 21 Portland, Ore- and
Bonneville dam.
July - 22 and 23 Medford,
Ore., Sacramento air base.
July 24 Headquarters of
ninth corps area, San Francisco,
July 25 and 28 Fort Ord.
When Informed of the forth
coming inspection tour, local of
ficials said they would make
preparations to facilitate the
study of the Medford defense
area in which an army canton
ment Is proposed for construc
tion If congress appropriates the
lice. She said a fidgety Filipino necessary funds and authorizes
had just left the table after eat-Ian increase in the size of the
ing a 13 cent sandwich. army.
U. S. Celebrates With Enthusiasm
Despite World Strife Background
By the Associated Press
Against a sobering background of strife abroad and stern
preparations for defense at home, the United States today
celebrated the Fourth of July with traditional enthusiasm.
The manner of celebration
varied as widely as the terrain
Rosalind Russell
Will Marry Agent
from the foray over France, but
the air ministry said nine Ger
man fighters were destroyed.
Joseph Benjamin
Salem, July 4. 4A Joseph
would retain, he said, the sen-
warfare the Russians reported ate amendment including new
th.t a h.mn munitions train ly opened mining districts
! had been blown up en route to ' amnrg the places in whicn we : Benjamin, former assistant at
'the front through nazi-occupied federal government would bearitorney general, died of a heart
I territory, "exterminating" the'tSe full cost of road construe- j attack at his home here last
l crew tior 1 night
bride of Carl Brisson, Danish
actor's agent.
They left yesterday, tell frig
friends they would be married.
Brisson, 24. gave the brunette
actress, who is 34, an engage
ment ring last November.
Brisson expects to be eon-
scripted after the honeymoon.
of the 48 states. For some, inde
pendence day brought excur
sions to beaches or mountains,
or picnics in public parks. Many
towns and rural communities
planned reunions, barbecues atid
rodeos.
But whatever they might be.
millions of Americans were ex
pected to pause at 1 p. m, PST
to hear an Independence day
address by President Roosevelt,
broadcast from his home at
Hyde Park. N. Y.
At the conclusion of the presi
dent's speech, the listeners were
invited to Join Chief Justice
Stone in repeating In unison the
oath of allegiance to the flag
Then In all quarters of the coun
try, at the same moment, mil
Hons of voices were to join in
a gigantic chorus, singing the
national anthem
Emphasizing the current co
ODeratlon between Britain and
this nation, the stars and stripes
flew beside the Union Jack to
day In many sections of the
United Kingdom. The London
Dally Herald declared editor
ially that "the faith proclaimed
in Philadelphia in 1770 la the
faith for which we of the Britlsl)
commonwealth are fighting today."
The department of commerce
at Washington estimated that
small boys and some adults
would light the fuses to some
$3,500,000 worth of fireworks
today, but warned that next year
defense priorities might restrict
the domestic production of holi
day nolsemakers.
Unless the nation's motorists
drive with extreme care, the
national safety council cautioned
some 47S lives may be lost In
traffic accidents over the holi
day weekend. The counsel aaid
the average toll for normal
July weekend Is 90 deaths Fri
day, and 140 fatalities each on
Saturday and Sunday.
By Douglas B. Cornell
Hyde Park, N. Y., July 4. UP)
President Roosevelt warned
the American people today that
they must be willing once more
to pledge their lives, "it it be
necessary," for the preservation
of their cherished liberty.
Americans everywhere, from ,
president to humblest citizen,
joined a moment later in a pulse
tingling, independence day
pledge of allegiance to Tag and
country.
Tyranny Stalks Abroad
Speaking by radio from the
Franklin D. Roosevelt library In
a nation-wide celebration of the
Fourth of 'July, the chief execu
tive said the fundamental prin
ciples for which Americana
fought in 1778 were being struck
down by tyranny abroad and
threatened on this side of the
Atlantic.
I tell the American people
solemnly," the president de
clared "that the United States
will never survive as a happy
and prosperous oasis of liberty
in the midst of desert of dic
tatorships.
"And so It is that when we
repeat the great pledge to our
country and to our flag, it must
be our deep conviction that we
pledge as well . our work, our
will and. If. It be necessary, our
lives."
Mr. Roosevelt said it was sim
plealmost simple-minded for
people to let their patriotism
stop with flag-waving and a re
affirmation of a belief in the
cause of freedom.
Unified Action Needed
Yet, all of us who lie awake
at night all of us who study
and study again," he said, "know
full well that In these days wa
cannot save freedom with pitch
forks and muskets."
Nor can freedom be saved in
our land, he asserted, if neighbor
nations have lost theirs.
That is why," the president
explained, "we are engaged In
a serious, in mighty, in a uni
fied action in the cause of the
defense of the hemisphere, and
the freedom of the seas. We
need not the unity alone, we
need speed and efficiency and
toil and an end to back-biting
and to sabotage which runs far
deeper than the blowing up of
munitions plants."
Exactly what he meant,
strikes, propaganda or some
thing else, Mr. Roosevelt did
not say.
In 1778, the president aald.
Americana fought for a great
principle that "government
should derive Its just powers
from the consent of the gov
erned," and for a century and
half this "cause of human
freedom" swept through the
world.
"But now, in our generation
in the last few years," Mr.
Roosevelt declared "a new re
sistance. In the form of several
new practices of tyranny has
been making such headway that
the fundamentals of 1778 are
being struck down abroad and
threatened here.
Fellacy Seen
"It is, indeed, a fallacy, based
on no logic, for any Americana
to suggest that the rule of force
can defeat human freedom in
all the other parts of the world
and allow it to survive In the
United States alone."
A childlike fantasy. misdi
rected faith, he added, has led
one nation after another to pur
sue peaceful tasks and rely on
the thought, and even the prom- !
Ise that they, their lives and
their government" would be al
lowed to live when the jugger
naut of force came that way."
BASEBALL
American
Washington at New York,
both games postponed; rain.
Boston at Philadelphia, both
games postponed, rain.
National
New York at Brooklyn, both
games postponed, rain.