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Pull 0 Wseu- So Be First Buy people this la your day to read and cheek up on toa Want Ada, Remember other ara doing likewise. hatter Tribune Medford Forecast: Fair today. Mooter partly esoady with local ebosrere In snr roandlnf mountains, slightly cooler Monday. Hl(hrit yesterday M Lowest yesterday mornlnf 87 hurry when you find what yo want. Tha hen usually roes flrit so ha first. Full Associated Press United Praaa Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1941 No. 91. BAB M V llvL mi bus i ' Ml Kelly's Comment From Washington Army Leader Want Emergency Pacific Airlines May Be Curtailed Stockpile Heads Reap Criticism Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, July 5. Not discouraged by the rebuff administered the navy by the senate committee on naval af fairs, the brass hats of the army are endeavoring to convince con gress that a national emergency should be declared. What this means Is that the army would then hold all selective service trainees and all national guards men now mobilized Indefinitely as long as there is a threat to the nation. Under a declared national emergency President Roosevelt could send the army to Siberia, Africa, England or any other place in the eastern hemisphere. The admirals asked permission to retain all the nr.vy personnel, regardless of the term of enlist ment. The senate committee on naval affairs promptly refused to sanction this and Informed the admiral that retaining the men beyo'-id their enlistment would be a breach of contract; that it would not be fair to the men and would break down morale. Reason the admirals wished to keep every sailor is that the navy is rapidly expand ing and personnel is not sup plied from selective service. WITHIN the ranks of the army there is a churning and upheaval. It is at last purging itself of inefficient officers, hun dreds of them, and has sent word to selective service boards to rake over their lists and defer all married men or those who have dependents. . It sums up that the army is to be in charge of officers who are young and know their business, and are physically fit; and, finally, that the army wants authority to use the troops anywhere without re straint. Hundreds of officers have been sifted out during present maneuvers and others will be given the air during the great maneuvers in August and Sep tember. The age-old practice of seniority is being tossed aside and capable, smart young offi- cers are being promoted. The high command is anxious to get rid of soldiers with dependents; there have been too many com plaints, and while the army can not change the law a request to local boards to reclassify all with dependents will solve the question. Local boards reflect local opinion and many boards have been hardboiled with men who have married to evade mili tary training, but this action has been one of the principal causes of trouble in the army. THERE are 575,000.000 feet of ponderosa pine in the upper Deschutes valley which a bill by Senator McNary would ac quire for the Deschutes national forest. The bill (it has the ap proval of the forest service and the department of agriculture) authorizes an appropriation of $445,000. but the estimated value Is $ 1.500,000. The land is pri vately owned and it is the hope of McNary that the timber will not be destroyed. HAVING conducted a special survey, the department of agrl- (Continued on Pace am Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time it Pacific standard) New York, July 5 'IP The Special News Service) -Jose-phus Daniels, ambassador to Mexico, is to discuss "Mexican. U. S. Relations" in a CBS broad cast at 8:15 Sunday night from the Mexican capital. Sunday, the War Morning, 10:15 NBC-Blue; 10:30 CBS; 11:15 NBC-Red. Afternoon: 12:15 NBC-Red 2:00 NBC-Blue: 3 30 CBS NBC Blue; 3:45 MBS: 5:00 NBC Blue; 7 CBS; 7:15 MBS; 8:00 NBC CBS, 8 30 MBS. it nftiiiirrn niniiftT i UUUN tK IntiUol Y TANKS Thousands of German Dead Line Banks of Berezina Where Napoleon Trapped New York, July 5. W) Tha Rom radio tonight quoted reports from Stock holm, Sweden, that prepara tions are under way to evacu ate all civilians from Lenin grad r.nd Moicow. NBC heard the Rome radio. By the Associated Press Taking the initiative in the Baltic area, the Red army yes terday (Saturday) launched a counter-attack on the old Soviet frontier with Latvia and report ed German forces were thrown back from the town of Ostrov, 15 miles inside the Russian frontier. ' A Moscow communique said hundreds of German tanks and a large proportion of their mot orized infantry were destroyed. Meanwhile, the Germans made a fresh attempt to cross the Dvina river in the Polotsk sector, the Russians said. Polotsk is an important rail way Junction in White Russia on the upper Dvina. It is 130 miles northeast of Minsk and 80 miles east of Dvinsk on the railway to Moscow, Backed To Dvina Another motorized German column resumed the attack on Novograd Volynski and fighting continued on various points in cluding the Borisov sector on the Berezina river east of Minsk. The German attacks In the Polotsk sector failed, the Rus sians said, and the invaders were thrown back to the south bank of the Dvina. In the Lepel sector the Rus sians said they were holding firm despite pressure from pan zer troops while in the Borisov and Dobruisk sectors Red troops repulsed attacks and even counter-attacked in one area. In the Tarnopol sector of the southern front, the Russians re ported they had checked the southward advance of large mot orized units. The Russians said they bomb ed the Rumanian towns of Con stanta, Sulina and Ploesti. Test For Bliti A test of German blitz power about 300 miles from home and still that far from Moscow, Its major objective, took ominous shape today (Sunday) in a pre carious welter of waterways and outlying land bastions of the Stalin line. The whole course of the German-Russian struggle, entering its third week today, appeared to depend upon the strength and ingenuity of the line, Rus sia's main fortification system, which is keyed into the best available natural obstacles of western Russia. The Germans said they at last had reached the Dnepr river, having negotiated the parallel Berezina, which was a death trap for Napoleon's grande armee in Its 1812 retreat from Moscow. The Russians said the Ger mans still were trying to cross the Berezina and a third paral leling river, the Drut, and pay ing dearly for every thrust in thousands of dead littering the muddy banks or wounded men threshing to their death and drifting downstream as Napol eon's men did on the road back. Elite units of the German army were reported crushed as they sought to cross the three waterways, headed toward Orsha, on the west bank of the Dnepr, the last water hazard in the central sector before reach ing the Stalin line. Authorized sources In Berlin last night said the German army had come into actual contact with the line at Orsha. This probably meant only that advanced forces had reach ed the outer fringe of the de fenses, for it like the ill-fated Maginot line and Germany's own west wall is a defense "in depth" a series of correlated strong points, casemates, pill boxes, minefields and tank traps scattered to exact the terrains' best defense resources. Wrecked Russian Tanks on " M.i? KstaVaswssaaaaaaaasisssasBieaaaaasiasiiaseasaBaar German soldiers Inspect Russian tanks piled up in this manner The picture was sent by radio from Berlin. War Bulletins New York, July S-UP) Britain and the Vichy govern ment are In a pre-armistica stage of exchanging views on ending the war in Syria, Mar tin Agronsky. National Broad easting Company correspond . end. in Ankara, reported' to night in a broadcast from An kara. London, Sunday, July I. (0) Reuters. British news agency, declared today in a Rome dispatch that German and Rumanian motorised col umns had entered Cernauti, principal city of Bucovina, Ru manian province which lost its northern area to Soviet Rus sia by ultimatum a year ago. The Russians set fire to every thing behind them in retreat, said the dispatch, which quot ed Bucharest sources of Stef an!, Italian news agency. London, July 5. (IP) Ex change Telegraph, British news agency, said in a Moscow dis patch tonight a Russian com munique disclosed Moscow ex perienced its first daylight raid alarm of the wax today. The alarm was said to have lasted one hour. CRASH ON LILLE London, July 5. VP) British heavy bombers were reported officially today to have scored direct hits upon important steel and engineering works at Lille against increasing opposition to their smashing raids upon Ger man-occupied northern France. The communique which an nounced the raid pointed out that the bombers were accom panied by a strong fighter es cort. It acknowledged, how ever, that the raid upon Lille and another upon German ship ping cost the British three fight ers to two German fighters shot down. One German raider was re ported shot down over England Saturday night. An official British tabulation in the war of attrition against the German luftwaffe showed 208 nazi aircraft destroyed since the start of the large-scale of fensive sweeps June 16. The British acknowledged the loss of 75 of their planes over the same period and stoutly de nied German claims that the British had lost 315 aircraft in the period with a loss of only eight planes to the luftwaffe. Tokyo. July 5 iP Imperial headquarters announced today that Japanese armies had suf fered 100.250 deaths in the past four years of fighting in China, as well as in sporadic clashes with Soviet Russian forces at the Manchoukttan border. Chinese deaths were given as 2,015,000 D. 0. A. Dead on Arrival Routine in By the Associated Press D. O. A. Dead on arrival; D. O. A. Dead on Arrival . . . All day long in 39 states of the union, police jotted down the routine notation on desk blotters; behind lha.xoutine.4ay-the individual stories of at least 391 celebrated the first two days of LISTED IN OREGON Portland, Ore., July 5. (IP) Drowning and automobile ac cidents had taken ten lives in Oregon today as the Fourth of July holiday neared its third day. The body of Wilbur Moffett, about 56, former Silverton may or, was found this morning in a field near where his car had overturned between Silverton and Salem. State police recovered the body of Frank H. Loehr, Bend, in the Deschutes river near where his overturned boat was found. A four-year-old Indian, Elmer Johns, ran from a lighted fire cracker into the path of an auto mobile on the Florence-Eugene highway, and was killed out right. The other deaths were those of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Miller, Walla Walla, in Wallowa lake; Wyveta Haugen, 6, Bay City, struck by a car; Arthur Phillips, 15, Patsy Hollensted, 12, Char- lene Viaene, 12, and Mrs. Per ry Jennings, 40, all of Portland, drowned in the ocean. Washington, July 9. tfP) Word spread in the senate to day that General George C. Marshall's sweeping recommen dations for revision of the draft laws might be put aside for awhile. This report, originated by an administration lieutenant who asked not to be quoted by name. circulated at the capital while Senator McNary (R-Ore.), min ority leader, voiced his outspok en opposition to Marshall's pro posal for keeping selectees and national guardsmen in service beyond one year and for lift ing the ban against sending draf tees out of this hemisphere. The new Colorado river aque duct, which carries water 292 miles to several southern Cali fornia cities, cost $220,000,000. East Front along the German-Russian front. Holiday Toll lives cut short as the nation the 4th of July week-end. . Automobiles brought death to at least 239 pleasure seekers; 151 died in airplane crashes, drownings, shootings and other violent forms of death. The traffic toll soared contin ually as traffic Increased ... in upstate New York, a three-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet on a target range ... in Connesville, Ind., a pyrotechnlc al expert was killed at an au thorized fireworks display . . . on New York City's teeming East Side, a 12-year-old boy fell to his death from a five-story ledge ... he was the leader in "follow-the-leader" . . . There was one bright spot: Only four deaths resulted from fireworks. One occurred in Mis souri; in Tennessee, a 10-year-old boy died of burns after a firecracker was thrown Into a large container of fireworks. Po lice sought an older boy in the death. In Pennsylvania, a cele brant was killed when a dyna mite cap exploded. Despite a rainy Fourth which curtailed holiday traffic In the east, Pennsylvania led the na tion in traffic deaths with 20, Ohio and New York each re ported 17 and California 16, Worst single tragedy was an automobile-train crash at the Long Island Railroad's Matt!- tuck (N.Y.) grade crossing Fri day night, when six automobile occupants were killed and a sev enth was Injured critically, Russian Defenders Given Little Air Loss in Materiel Colossal, Says (Editors' Note: For the past six years 44-year-old Alvin J. Steinkopf, a native of Minne sota, has been an Associated Press correspondent in cen tral Europe. He gives here the first eye-witness account of operations on the German Russian front. Steinkopf was in Vienna when Hitler's troops took over Austria in March, 1938, was In Prague, Czecho-Slovakia, during the Munich settlement, and since then has been in Berlin. He served In France during the world war with the 32nd di vision). By Alvla J. Steinkopf Lwow, Old Poland, July 5. P A swift, 660-mile tour of this now-blitzed battle area In dicate that Soviet Russian troops assigned to defend the territory against G e r m a n y's drive to the east have had lit EDEN O PE' DIFFER. IT nr.. British Foreign Secretary Says Hitler Will Move When Time Ripe. Leeds, England, July B.0P) Internal conditions in Germany will force Adolf Hitler during the Russian campaign to make a new peace offer to Britain, For eign Secretary Anthony Eden predicted today. Eden rejected in advance the anticipated offer, which he said would be a false gesture. Addressing an outdoor meet ing here, Eden linked the un explained flight to Scotland of Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy, with conditions within Ger many. "However little the German people may be encouraged to speculate or reflect," he said, "there are some who begin to see perils ahead and are corre spondingly anxious and per plexed. In Guise of Peace "Resultant confusion of thought finds expression in a strange variety of ways, including the parachute descent of a deputy fuehrer on a Scottish farm. We shall no doubt see stranger hap penings than that before we are through with the men who rule Germany." Of the expected peace offer Eden aaid: "We anticipate" that Hitler, at a moment he considers oppor tune during bis campaign In Russia, will seek to present himself in another of his occa sional theatrical roles. - "This time his make-up will be that of the man of peace. Internal conditions in Germany may make this false posturing necessary for him for a spell. He will offer smooth assurances and specious promises in the hope of liming some foolish birds." But Britain, Eden aald, will not be taken in. "We shall intensify our war effort until he and all he stands for are utterly destroyed," the foreign secretary declared. 13 NORWEGIANS SAVED BY ORDER OF HITLER Stockholm, Sunday, July 6 tr) Thirteen Norwegian sen tenced to death-by a German court-martial for espionage were reprieved today by order of Adolf Hitler. Among them were three news paper editors. BASEBALL Score: Salem R. . 1 . 2 H. S 6 Spokane Windsor and Adams; Budnlck and Beard. tle. If any, effective support from the air. A a guest of the German high command I traveled by automobile along highways lit tered wl(h hundreds of battered tanks, smashed Russian cannon, scores of Russian tractors and a confusion of material left be hind by the Red army. Few tee Russian Plane During the tour I talked with hundreds of soldiers, but I en countered only a few who had seen a Russian plane. What planes there were seemed to have had little effect on the German drive eastward. Anti aircraft gunners, who ride in co'umns or are stationed at stra tegic points In this region, have had comparatively little to do. Thousands of Russian prison ers, many bare-footed, marched back along the roads we trav eled. In one vast camp In con- Forced Landing 1$ New Hazard On Golf Course Chattanooga, Tenn., July 5. (IP) Golfers on the seventh tee at Meadow-Lake Golf and Country Club here today were startled to see a new hazard suddenly descend onto the fairway. Frank Archibald, sports man pilot of Sarasota, Ha., set his single wing cabin plane down on the fairway when he ran out of gas on a Chicago-Atlanta flight. He was not hurt and soon rolled the undamaged plane to the rough, allowing the golferJcjjlavhrmigh SNAGGED 'CHUTE CARRIES YAKIMA YOUTH TO DEATH Yakima, Wash., July 5. W) When his parachute snagged on the damaged plane he was leaving, J. V. Roberts, Jr., 17, Yakima youth, fell to his death in an airplane crash here to night. His brother. Private Louie Roberts, 21, of Fort Lewis, who was piloting the plane, landed safely. The brothers were flying at 4200 feet altitude, Private Rob erts said, when one of the wings broke off. He said he motioned to his brother beside him to ball out and when he saw the young er boy getting out of the cock pit he went out. The younger boy's equipment caught on the plane r and he fell . with the wreckage. r Young Roberts was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Vincent Rob erts of Yakima, long time resi dents here. Roberts is an officer of the Yakima Savings and Loan association. The plane, a small, extremely fast two-place craft (Culver Cad et), was owned by the Cloud Clippers, a flying club and based at the local airport. Cause of the mishap was not known immed iately. Private Roberts' ankle was sprained when he struck the ground and he was scratched and bruised. His brother's body, wrapped in the parachute ropes, struck the ground several feet behind the wreckage of the plane. PROWLERlOlGS Ashland, July 8, (IP) A mid night prowler armed with a toy pistol slugged Mrs. V. D. Miller across the face with the weapon after she awoke to find him in her bedroom early today. Police found soiled, tattered shirt that tha man had used as a head covering. Mrs. Miller suf fered only head bruises. quered territory I saw about 4,000 Russian prisoners. The Germans had put them to work expanding the camp to make it ready to accommodate 50,000 prisoners. Many more than 80, 000 must be cared for, German officers told me. German Move la Endless Lin All southern Poland hums with the sound of motors. On highways German motor col umn move toward the east seemingly endlessly. In the air the luftwaffe streaks toward Russia like a flock of hawk. German, Russian prisoners and civilian told m almost everywhere I went that the nazi army struck with such speed the Russians were rushed completely off their feet They were bombed out of half-finish ed fortification and retreated, abandoning equipment worth millions of dollars, I was told. 500 Men To Establish Camp At Elks Picnic Ground Is Meager Information. It was reported In unofficial circles here yesterday that 500- odd officers and men of the air corps at Hamilton field. Cel., would establish a two-weeks' ground camp here this week. Capts. C. P. Lessig and Mar vin Sledge came here Friday to arrange for a campsite and it was understood they accepted an offer to use the Elks picnic grounds about eight miles from Medford off the Crater Lake highway. The captains could not be reached for confirmation of the report or details of the en campment plans. While a tent camp will be es tablished at the Elks picnic grounds, headquarters will be set up at Camp Prescott, the CCC center now unoccupied, it was reported unofficially. First contingent of the air corps men was expected to arrive Tuesday and the remainder Friday. Movement will be mainly by truck, according to the meager Information available here. DRUGSTORES IN L. A. Los Angeles, July' 8. UP) A quick-thinking clerk foiled an apparent plot to blow up at least two drugstores today. Police quickly warned other druggists against filling pro scrlptions of explosive charac ter. Capt. Vern Rasmussen of the police homicide squad aald drugstore clerk reported that a, man identifying himself as a physician - telephoned rush prescription. After mixing three of the four Ingredients, the clerk became suspicious and instead of adding the four drams of an acid called for, used a medicine dropper and added one drop. There was a violent explosion. The clerk, uninjured, tele phoned the drug company' main office, and warnings were issued to the branch unit. At one, a clerk had started to mix the same prescription, which ha said also had been ordered by telephone. Rasmussen said a mixture la the proportion ordered would -have blown up the store. "It looks like a plot of soma maniac with a diabolical know ledge of chemistry," he said. Mew Greaaem P. O. G res ham. Ore., July 5 CTV Gresham will dedicate a new $95,000 brick postofflce July 28. Support; Eye Witness Many of the prisoner said . they were member of the Rus sian labor service who had been given rifles at the last minute and were rushed Into battle. Giant Tank Caslly Disabled But there also were a goodly number of professional Russian soldiers and high officials, in cluding at least on general named Richter. One officer told how a S2 ton Russian tank was disabled by German infantrymen who crawled up and tossed a hand grenade into the muzzle of It bristling cannon. The explosion apparently put the whole crew out of action. Lwow escaped with compar atively little damage. Soma fire (till were burning yester day, but there was no evidence of heavy bombardment by ar tillery or German Stuka (diva bombers).
