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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1941.
No. 7.
(Ml
Thirty-sixth Year
1. 1. NAVAL HHEES
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111) I
i
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, July 7. Mr.
Knudsen's OPM and Leon Hen
derson's OPACS are getting into
each other's
alphabet. First
occasion devel
oped In the fix
ing of iron and
iteel scrap
prices. OPM
a p p a r e ntly
thought Hen
derson fixed
the price too
low. But the
matter was
ironed out in
private without being brought
to public attention, and in itself
represented no irreparable cleav
age.
How long this divided defense
house can stand, however, is a
matter of interesting speculation.
Mr. Knudsen is going ahead ap
pointing his committees of in
dustries. Rubber and electrical
goods has a representative from
Henderson's OPACS as a mem
ber, but other committees lack
Henderson representation.
THE only way this setup can
progress is for Henderson to
use the committees in his line
of the defense business. He
could seek their advice about
what he should do.
His associates are already say
ing this is impossible. Their idea
is that price fixing calls for
varying action in the case of
each individual manufacturer
and cannot., be handled as s
whole for a commodity. In autos,
they point to one small manufac
turer who has recently come
through a hard financial reor
ganization. He should be per
mitted to increase the price of
his car, but his financially well
fixed competitor should not be
permitted to do so, they claim.
Henderson obviously wants to
work independent of OPM. For
the present this means manufac
turers will receive orders from
two government agencies, OPM
and OPACS, and trouble is sure
(Continued on Page Four)
SOLDIER CRUSHED BY
ARMY TRUCK WHEELS
Redding, Calif., July 7. (JP)
John Winters, 22, attached to
the 218th field artillery service
battalion, was injured fatally
under the wheels of an army
truck he was attempting to
board after a Sunday swim
here. He was a resident of Port
land. Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Time is Pacific standard)
Both CBS and MBS will line
up their circuits Tuesday at
10:15 a. m. to give play by play
of the annual all-star baseball
game between National and
American league players at De
troit. Tonight, The War 1:55 CBS;
8:30 NBC-Blue; 0 MBS; 6:45
CBS-East; 7:30 MBS; 8 NBC
CBS; 8:30 MBS.
Talks NBC-Blue 6:30 forum,
"St. Lawrence Seaway," Reps.
Van Zandt and Ellis; MBS 7
Gen. Robert E. Wood on "Our
Foreign Policy Today"; MBS 8
Charles P. Taft on defense.
Tuesday: The War 4 NBC
4:55 NBC-Blue; 5 NBC-Red CBS;
6 NBC-Blue MBS; 7 MBS; 8
MBS; 9:43 NBC;
NBC-Blue; 2:25
CBS NBC-Blue.
10 MBS; 12:55
NBC-Red; 2:45
SICE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ed Sweeney regretting hi
red-hot sunburn just a little
today.
Art Lathrop giad to get home
after a holiday Jaunt south dur
ing which he had to sleep in his
car, no rooms being available.
Mack Llllard thrilled to death
over being able to sign Jim Lon-
dos for a forthcoming
grapple engagement
local
Paul Mallon.
J TELLS
CONGRESS OF STEP
IN SPECIAL NOTE
Eventual Replacement of
British Forces Is Plan
No Sovereignty Change
London, July 7 (JP) A
British foreign office spokes
man tonight described the
landing of U. 8. naval forces
on Iceland as "one of the most
important end significant
events of recent months from
our standpoint."
Washington, July 7 (JP)
Forces of the United States navy
arrived in Iceland today.
In accordance with an under
standing between President
Roosevelt and the prime minis
ter of Iceland, naval forces
moved in to supplement and
eventually replace British forces
which have been stationed there
to Insure the adequate defense
of that country.
Mr. Roosevelt informed con
gress in a special message of this
far-reaching step in America'
foreign policy.
To Keep Nails Out
Mr. Roosevelt said the United
States could not permit "the oc
cupation by Germany of strate
gic outposts in the Atlantic to be
used as air or naval bases for
eventual attack against the west
ern hemisphere."
At the same time, he said this
country had no desire to see any
change in the present sovereign
ty of those regions-
Iceland was a sister kingdom
of Denmark which eventually
became virtually independent
except for retaining allegiance
to the king of Denmark.
After Germany overran Den
mark, Iceland separated the last
tie.
The United States already has
taken similar steps to insure
that Germany will not occupy
Greenland.
Three-Phase Threat
Mr. Koosevelt told congress
that occupation of Iceland by
uermany would constitute a
serious threat in three dimen
sions:
"The threat against Greenland
and the northern portion of the
worth American continent, in
cluding the islands which lie
off it.
The threat against all shlD-
ping in the north Atlantic.
The threat against the steady
flow of munitions to Britain
which is a matter of broad pol
icy clearly approved by the con
gress." There was no indication of
Just what naval forces had
moved into the north Atlantic
island nor whether they would
be supplemented by troops.
Mr. Roosevelt did not indicate,
either, whether similar action
might be taken against other
possible stepping off points for a
possible German attack on the
western hemisphere.
But he has spoken of dangers
which might be inherent in any
Nazi control of such points as
Dakar on the west coast of Afri
ca and of the Cape Verde and
Azores Islands, which are Portu
guese, and the Canary Islands,
which are Spanish.
Letters Exchanged
Along with his message to
congress. Mr. Roosevelt sent to
CaDitol Hill th. t.-rt o k. i . T
te lrhi It. k '
ters exchanges between himself
and the prime minister of Ice.
land.
Mr. Roosevelt received a let
ter from the prime minister on
July 1 and replied the same day.
It was in line with an under
standing reached in this ex
change that they navy went into
Iceland.
NAVY COAST PATROL
AIRPLANE MISSING
Washington, July 7 (JP)
ine navy department announced
today that
Diane of th. bo-ik. i
eastern Atlantic coast patrol has
been missing since Julr a with
2 officers and 5 enlisted men
aboard.
The plane, a PBY-5. ara nllnt
ed by Ensign Robert H. Mc
Known of the naval reserve and
Ensign Joseph C. Haskell, naval
reservis
Draft Evader Relents
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To "spare his mother, stepfather and friends further grief"
Greydon Wellman, 21 -year-old draft evader, who spent the
Fourth of July alone in his cell at the county jail, has decided
to register efter all. Wellman declared he felt so strongly against
the wer that he had refused Jobs In national defense industries.
His mother (shown with him above) reported his failure to reg
ister for selective service.
Nazis Using Wooden Tanks
To Pad Out Force, Say Reds
. Br tha Asaeeita- Press . ' t
Moscow, Jufy 7.--The Red army- declared today the Ger
man drive had been thrown back by Russian counter-offensive
in five sectors of the great battlefront and asserted Adolf Hit
ler is using tanks of wood and canvas to pad out his panzer col
umns. .
These vehicles, however, are
self-propelling and carry ma
chine-guns, said an official state
ment.
This discovery was said to
have been made by Red army
scouts observing a tank column
moving up to the front in an
unidentified sector.
Using field glasses, the leader
of the scouts. Junior Lieutenant
Sobchenko, had a chance to in
spect the column closely when
it halted on a road at the Ger
man rear, according to the of
ficial account.
He was amazed, it was said.
when he "noticed that the body
of one of the tanks unexpected
ly gave in under the pressure of
the elbow of an officer who
leaned against it,
"Careful observation revealed
that of 20 tanks constituting the
column, only one was a genuine
tame.
The others were wooden
structures covered with canvas
and mounted on caterpillars. On
ly the real tank that led the
column could fire shells; the
others conducted only machine-
gun fire.
When night came the column
was destroyed, the communique
saia.
At sea, the soviet comtnuniaue
reported a battle yesterday be
tween Russian destroyers and
enemy" warships at the mouth
of Riga bay in which two "ene
my destroyers were said to
have been sunk. An "enemy"
submarine also was renorted
sunk in a minefield in the Gulf
of Finland.
Spanish War Vets
Open Encampment
ISewport, July 7. (JP) Busl-
wiMions or me aaa annual
Oregon encampment of United
Spanish - American War Veter-
ans opened today.
Early registration indicated
the largest attendance In three
years. Nearly 200 registered
yesterday and 900 more were
expected. The sessions will con
tinue through Wednesday with
the men electing officers Tues
day and the auxiliary Wednes
day. Moody to Capital
The Dalles. Ore., July l.VP)
Ralph E. Moody, Selem. coun
sel for the proposed The Dalles'
Columbia river bridge, left yes-
T&ay tot Washington, D. C, to
pj-;
Japanese Stocks Dip
Tokyo, July 7 (JP) Nearly
all prices on the Tokyo stock
exchange declined today, appar
ently reflecting general uneasi
ness over Japan's international
I position.
RAF HITS TWICE
London, July 7. (JP) British
bombers pounded German-occu-
piea r ranee twice today In a
continuation of an air offensive
which a reliable observer said
has Jammed German communi
cations on a deep arc from Brest
to Kiel and softened German
defenses along a thousand miles
of the continental coast.
i. Hampering German per
sonnel ana material movement,
this also weakening the German
drive into Russia;
2. Slowing production of Ger
man armaments, oil and other
war supplies.
3. Smashing facilities the Ger
mans need to invade Britain;
4. Smoothing the way. if Brit
ain sends an expeditionary force
to the continent.
RAF bombers sank a 2,000-ton
ship and a German E-boat and
hit six other vessels In the day's
raids, the air ministry said.
FEEL EARTHQUAKE
An earth tremor was felt at
7:30 last night by Gerald Han
sen, stationed at the Seven-Mile
lake guard station two miles
west of Fort Klamath, and Wil
lard Larson, lookout at Pelican
Butte, near Rocky Point and 20
miles south of the guard station.
Rogue River national forest
headquarters today said the men
had reported.
Hansen was quoted as saying
the shock was severe enough to
shake his house and rattle
dishes. Larson said the tremor
was less Intense at his place,
though it rattled dishes.
Headquarters said both men
were sure it was not an explo
sion that caused the quaking as
they heard no sound.
Portland, July 7 JP) No
further need for power pooling
In the northwest can be seen at
the present time, Bonneville Ad
mlnistrator Paul J. Raver In
formed Ormond R. Bean, Ore
gon public utilities commission
er, Saturday,
Nazi Drive Stemmed, Say Reds;
Million Invader Casualties Seen
MEDFORD TROOPS
WILL PARADE ON
L
Thrilling Welcome Is Being
Planned for Men Arrival
Between 12 and 3 P. M
Sometime tomorrow, prob
ably between noon and 3 p.
a column of soldiers will arrive
at Medford on the way home to
Camp Murray, Wash., after more
than a month of strenuous ma
neuvers in California.
In the column will be Med
ford's own soldier boys, the men
of Company A, 186th infantry,
and headquarters detachment,
third battalion, former Oregon
national guardsmen who march
ed off for camp last September.
The Medford boys are to remain
here, encamped at the old fair
grounds, until July 11 and dur
ing that time they will be on
leave, free to stay at home and
do as they please within the
bounds of military regulations.
Plan Big Welcome
, Medford is pre paling a hearty
welcome for the boys and they
In turn are preparing a thrill for
Medford. Capt. Weldon H. Mo-
Bee today telegraphed E. W.
Winkle, commander of Medford
post of the American Legion,
that the column would turn
west into Stewart avenue upon
its arrival at the south city lim
its and north on Oakdale
avenue. The head of the column
will halt near the courthouse
and a line of parade will be
formed.
The soldiers will march along
Main street behind a regimental
band. At Riverside avenue the
Medford boys will turn right
and the band and its trucks will
turn north to continue the move
ment toward Camp Murray. The
local men will continue south by
truck to establish camp at the
old fairgrounds.
Women Free
Mr. Winkle said today plans
were complete for the dance the
American Legion post Is giving
at Oriental Gardens Wednesday
night in honor of Medford's sol
diers. He pleaded that all the
pretty girls of Medford be there
to give the boys a patriotic wel
come. All women will be admit
ted free to the dance, he empha
sized. At 11:30 there will be a
floor show. Dancing will begin
at 9 o clock to music by Les
Price s orchestra.
MaJ. Gen. George A. White
commanding the 41st division of
which the 186th Infantry is part.
conferred here today with May
or M. s. Deuel regarding plans
for the welfare of the men while
they are here.
(-apt. McBee thanked the
American Legion post and the
purine for their nterest In th.
soldier boys and Mr. Winkle In
turn expressed his gratitude for
the assistance the post has re
ceived in preparing the recep
tion. All money raised at the
dance will go to the soldiers'
mess funds.
REDDING HEAT
Redding, Calif., July 7. VP)
Army doctors said that most
of the 60 men and five officers
of the 41st division, stricken
with heat prostration while en
camped at the municipal airport,
would be able to leave today.
The division, enroute to Fort
Lewis, from war games at Camp
Hunter Liggett In central Cali
fornia, set up camp In 101 degree
temperature yesterday. Soon the
stricken men began dropping, to
the ground, many unconscious.
Many of the soldiers have been
suffering from dysentery the
past several days, officers said.
628 DEAD LISTED
Rain in Some Regions Helps
to Curb Expected Toll
California Leads List
By the Associated Press
Violent death overtook 628
persons throughout the nation
during the long Independence
day week-end.
As the country went back to
work today, it counted among
the dead 364 victims of traffic
accidents, 14 more than the
average for an ordinary Friday,
Saturday and Sunday in July.
Under Expectation
While automobile fatalities
only slightly topped the Na
tional Safety Council's estimate
for a normal week-end, they
were far below the council's
prediction that 475 persons
would die in traffic accidents
the past three days. Rain In
some parts of the country dur
ing the holiday period was be
lieved to be the chief reason
the total was not higher. . '
Other violent deaths drown
ings, plane crashes, shootings
ana the Ilk e totaled 244
throughout the country to swell
tne numoer killed by all causes
to 628.
California Leads
C a 1 1 f o r n 1 a's 67 rerorted
deaths, 48 of them in vehicular
mishaps, was 20 ahead of Illin
ois' total of 29 traffic and IB
other fatalities.
New York was third with 41
deaths, of which 21 were by
cars, followed by Pennsylvania
with 27 traffic fatalities and 11
others. Fifth was Ohio, where
25 persons were killed by autos,
iu oy otner causes.
Three states Rhode Island.
Nevada and South Dakota had
no violent deaths.
On the fireworks casualty list
were live deaths three more
than last year but still far less
than in years when laws against
tne sale of fireworks were less
strict.
Striking Dairyman
Enlists Bees' Aid
Canton, Pa., July 7. (JPi A
45-year-old man arrested while
picketing with striking dairy
farmers at the Sheffield milk
plant, is accused by State Po
liceman Lynn Bohr of niacins
a hive of bees in the creamery.
Plant employes doused the
bees with hot water and steam
before they did any harm. The
picket, meanwhile, was Jailed
on malicious mischief charges.
Too Many Congress Generals
Says 41st Div. Conunandei
"There are too many military
experts . . . In congress," said
General George A. White, co
mander of the 41st division, to
day as he stopped in Medford
for luncheon en route north to
his headquarters at Camp Lewis,
Washington.
General White, one of those
In command during the massed
maneuvers In California, deplor
ed the fact that politicians like
Congressman Ross A. Collins,
should assume to be authorities
in military matters, and through
articles In magazines and press,
create the impression that the
American army la out of date
and on the wrong track, as far
as making Itself effective in the
present war is concerned.
"Of course the modern army
Is more a mechanized army than
any preceding it, but to main
tain that a large m army Is
not needed to support the mech
anized divisions, would be like
advocating that your fire depart
ment here in Medford be aban
doned and all lire fighting be
Waves Relent To
Bring Back Body
Of Drowned Son
New York, July 7. (JP)
Each dawn for seven days,
early rising ocean-front resi
dents at Edgemere, Long
Island, saw Edward Steffens
take up a lonely vigil on the
boardwalk as the tide came
in.
What Steffens watched for
was his 11-year-old son, Ed
ward, Jr., whom he knew
would be returned some day
by the waves that claimed
him while swimming June 28.
The father's patient watch
ended yesterday. In a swirl
of foam, his son's body was
washed up on the sand.
TWENTY PLANES
VILL BASE HERE
FOR MANEUVERS
Advance contingent of the
20th pursuit group, at Hamilton
field, CaU it expected to arrive
here by trucks tomorrow to set
up the ground camp at the Elks
plcnlo area which will be utiliz
ed for two weeks by almost 800
air corps men, Mayor H. S
Deuel said today as he told of
arrangements made here to ac
commodate the soldiers.
The advance unit in command
of Capt. Marvin Sledge, will
establish supply headquarters at
the Prescott CCC camp, now un
occupied, the mayor said he un
derstood. There will be 79 to
80 in this unit.
Remainder of the group, com
prising about 400 men and 70
officers In all, will arrive Fri
day, according to the present
plan. Some will come in truck
convoy and some by plane, it
was understood. About 20 pur
suit planes will be based here
during the encampment
The fortnight's pro-ram In
cludes maneuvers, ground
scnooi ana recreation.
Ciant Log Raft
Breaks in Two
San Diego, Cal., July 7. (JP)
A giant log raft, being towed
to San Diego from the Colum
bia river, broke in two early
wway just south of the entrance
to San Francisco bay, said
Frank Lynch, president of the
Benson Lumber company, to
which the raft was consigned.
The raft was the first of three
which are to be towed to San
Diego this summer. It left the
Columbia river a week ago Sat
urday afternoon.
done by a email and mobile
chemical truck.
"In other words most of these
so-caued political military ex
perts in congress aren't experts
at all and few have had any
practical military experience.
They are doing a disservice to
their country by creating the
Impression that the directing
heads of our army and war de
partment are asleep at the
switch and from a modern mili
tary standpoint aren't on the
Job, as they should be. They,
not the general staff, are the
ones out of step."
General White peld a high
compliment to Medford's out
fits, said they were a fine lot
of boys, getting stronger and
scrappier every day of service,
and he was glad they could have
a few days stay here with their
families and friends.
'The maneuvers have been
very successful and beneficial,"
the general concluded." and
when we return to Camp Lewis,
the boys will be given well
deserved furlough.' , I
NO LACK OF MEN
IS
Spokesman Says Fighting
Growing In Fierceness
Germans Claim Progres.
By the Associated Press
A Russian spokesman said
late today that Adolf Hitler', in
vasion armies had lost nrarlv
1.000,000 men in dead and
wounded In 16 days of blitzkrle
attack, and a Moscow com
munique declared soviet red
troops had stemmed the nazi
onslaught along the entire front
The soviet snokesman Vie
Commissar of Foreign Affairs S.
A. Lozovsky, estimated German
casualties in the first 12 days
at 700,000 and said the Ger
mans' dally average loss was
60,000.
Plenty of Men
Lozovsky said the fighting
was growing in fierceness, but
that Russia felt no lack of man
power. Previously, the Russians had
estimated about 2,500,444 troops
were thrown into the original
attack on the U.S.S.R. frontier.
Meanwhile, Hitler's high com
mand was silent on reports that
nazi columns had "broken" tha
Stalin line presumably in the
Ukraine sector.
The official German newa
agency said nazi troops In two
weeks' fighting had captured
nearly all the territory Russia
acquired since Sept. 1, 1939
including the western Ukraine,
western White Russia. Bessa
rabia, Northern Bucovina, Lith
uania and Latvia..
Huge Area Taken
Altogether, the news ssencv
said, the seized territory is
larger than the Germany of the
treaty of Versailles, or about
182,000 square miles.
A Moscow bulletin said Rus
sian defenders had driven tha
Germans back in five key sec
tors of the 2,000-mile battlefront
The soviet high command said
Russian troops had seized the
offensive in heavy fighting from
the Baltic to the Black sea,
smashing the Germans along the
Berezina river and hurling back
a nazi drive aimed at the north
flank of the Stalin line.
DNB (official German news)
agency) asserted German troops)
had "broken" the line, which
runs 75 miles deep in some)
places. No details were given.
Equally vague, the Berlin
radio said German columns had
pierced the line at several points.
Bay Cernauti Taken
The German high command
said axis troops had captured
Cernauti, capital of sovietlzed
Bucovina, in a drive toward th
Russian Ukraine.
Rumanian and Hungarian
troops, allies of Germany, were
declared to have reached the up
per Dn ester river In Bucovina,
while in nearby Bessarabia,
German-Rumanian forces were
reported "in a progressive ad
vance" after repulsing sovws
counter-attacks.
Berlin. July 7. ( ) DNB
(official German news agency)
asserted tonight Russian wo
men are being forced to help
defend the Stalin line.
DNB ssid a German Infantry
unit seized a strongly fortified
position on the Stalin line, but
found the occupants had
locked inside by political
missars. Finally, the Germans
fought their way Inside and
captured 20 Russian survivors.
Then out of the tunnel.
said DNB,. "came eight women
one after another. They had
been armed and forced to fight
at the point of a gun." , ,