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United Praaa
Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 6, 1941
No. 91.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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).