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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1941.
No. 93.
Thirty-sixth Year
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, July 8. A whol
ly new concept of war prospecU
and Hitler's grandscale strategy,
is growing up among officials
whose business it is to study
such matters. Anthony Eden
scratched the
surface of
these new
thoughts when
he warned
that Hitler is
about to estab
1 i s h himself
theatrically as
the grand mas
ter of peace.
It was the first
time a British
official as high
Paul Mallon.
as the foreign secretary has men
tioned peace so plainly, even to
denounce it for what it would
be a nazi victory. If you will
analyze the changed circum
stances of this war, you will
see what probably led Mr. Eden
to his conclusion:
A Hitler invasion of Britain
this year or ever Is beginning
to appear improbable. Look at
the time table of events upon
which the nazis now are em
barked. Not even Hitler himself
could claim that he would not
be lucky to get an armistice pro
posal from Stalin by the end of
July. Russian resistance has
been stronger than expected.
The Berlin communiques con
cede this. The field of operations
is so vast that a swift termina
tion of hostilities is unlikely
even after the Russian lines
crumble.
DUT concede him all the luck
possible. After that he will
need no less than a month for
military readjustment of his
army before he could start any
thing further. It will take him
that long to "let go" of Russia.
He must replace crack regular
troops with reservists and occu
pation forces; move equipment
(chiefly planes) from their east
ern bases; repair communica
tions;' rest fliers; make replace-
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8,485 VISITORS
IS
Crater Lake National Park
July 8. (Spl) Travel to Crater
Lake national park on July 4
established a new all-time rec
ord for a single day registration.
Ideal weather on Independence
day drew 2.211 cars and 8.485
visitors. Previous all-time high
for a single day travel was
Labor day in 1940 when 1,996
cars with 7,228 visitors were
checked into the park.
Annie Spring checking sta
tion, which records travel on
both the south and west en
trances, accounted for 1,154 cars
and 4.554 people of the new
record; the north entrance sta
tion registered 937 cas and 3,
553 visitors and Lost Creek sta
tion 120 cars and 398 visitors.
Contributing their part to the
all-time travel record for one
day were 227 officers and en
listed men and 22 vehicles of
the 10th field artillery from
Klamath Falls where they
bivouacked several days en
route to their home station at
Ft. Lewis from the extended
war games in California. Many
individuals from military units
also visited the park In com
pany with relatives and friends.
SICE GLANCES
Bt
tribune reporters
Paul Henneberg being honor
ed at his birthday breakfast
with lighted candles on a stack
of hotcakes greetings from a
thoughtful friend.
Glenn Cannonball Jackson
being unable to cope with the
enormous airport mosquito, he
beating a hasty retreat to town
and riorlarin FrH Krhaffol hid
promised to eradicate the pests
under WPA project unit No.
644 B.
Del Warren explaining to a
tenderfoot how frogs are caught
with hook and line.
T
DECLARES NAZIS'
LOSSESJERRIFIC
Guerrilla Resistance in Rear
of Invaders Plays Large
' Part in Halting Advance
By tha Associated Prots
Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg
against the Stalin line has been
virtually stopped for four full
days, military circles in Vichy
reported late today, while the
Russians declared also that they
were holding the Germans at
bay along a 800-mile front,
Vichy military Informants
said the Germans had suffered
terrific losses and that Guerrilla
resistance in the rear of Nazi
columns sweeping Into the
U.S.S.R. had played a part In
forcing the Germans to halt.
Moscow declared that the
red armies, battling the Ger
mans well out in front of the
Stalin line, were crushing re
peated nazi attempts to break
through en route to the soviet
capital.
Behind Schadule
Advices reaching Vichy said
the Germans were considerably
behind their reported 50-day
schedule for the conquest of
Russia, which was supposed to
be completed by Aug. 18. j
A Russian war bulletin placed
the scene of the heaviest fight
ing on a tight-stretched line
running almost due north and
south, between Ostrov, on the
Latvian frontier, and Mogilev
PodolskI, on the Dnester river
at the Bessarabian border.
The communique said soviet
troops clashed with German
tanks and motorized forces in
the Ukraine sector of Novograd
Volynskl and, further south an
nihilated two nazi infantry regi
ments. The soviet high command said
the Germans had been routed
in a series of attempts to storm
across the Dnepr river, in a
drive toward Moscow, but con
ceded that on the northern front
the Nazis had approached within
75 miles of Leningrad.
Heat Grips Scene
Blazing heat engulfed the en
tire battlefront.
Tersely. Adolf Hitler's field
headquarters made this lone
comment on the 17-day-old in
vasion:
"Operations on the eastern
front are proceeding on sched
ule." In past campaigns, German
communiques have been simi
larly brief when huge-scale oper
ations were in a fluid, develop
ing state
The Russians declared the
Germans were suffering enor
mous casualties and that gains
along the 2,000-mile front were
slight
Tass, the official soviet news
agency, reported 1,300 German
troops were killed and wounded
in a five-hour fight for a single
village.
7.000 Nazis Killed
Tass asserted that 7,000 nazis
were killed and wounded and
1,500 others surrendered when
soviet tanks trapped a column
of German infantry in a pene
tration of Russian lines.
The red army's high command
specifically mentioned only the
destruction of some 6,000 Ger
man soldiers.
By contrast, the Berlin radio
reported the capture of an addi
tional 142,218 Russian prisoners
between July 2 and 9, along
with 584 Soviet tanks and arm
ored cars.
Chancellor Hitler's field head
quarters still made no claim to
a break Into the Stalin line, but
DNB, the official German news
agency, said Nazi troops stormed
and captured a series of strongly-fortified
bunkers at an un
designated point on the main
soviet defense system.
Treachery"
German military dispatches
reported that the flower of the
nazi army flinging itself against
the Stalin line was contending
with every form of Russian
trickery.
Fields of soviet "corpses," Hi
was said, would suddenly spring)
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Camouflaged Russian caserasrter
let German panzer units roer tr
without betraying their pf
ence. and then opened tarrau
fire from the rear.
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Low on gas and unable to find safe landing spot during
an early morning fog, George H. Gardner III. 21, Redlands,
Cel., pancaked his plane into a Los Angeles house and
emerged with only slight injuries. His passenger, Gordon
Thomas, also of Redlands, suffered minor cuts. Occupants of
the house were shocked from
was only slightly damaged.
Litvinov Appeals to British
To 'Strike Now' at Germans
London, July 8. (A") Maxim
commissar of the Soviet Union,
tonight to "strike now" because
would be more effective now,
Litvinov, who had not ap-
peared before the Soviet pub
lic since 1939, broadcast in Eng
lish to the British and Ameri
can -people. He described Hitler
as a treacherous character and
declared there was an underly
ing menace in naziism.
Few countries who continue
to preserve an independent
existence can feel secure in an
illusion of neutrality, said Lit
vinov.
"The Soviet Union and Great
Britain," he said, "are fighting
not only for the integrity and
independence of their states but
also for the freedom of their
peoples."
He added: "Hitlerism must
be annihilated as the greatest
obstacle to civilization."
Litvinov was replaced as for
eign commissar by then Premier
Vyacheslav Molotov, who added
the foreign portfolio to his
other duties, a few months be
fore signing of the German
Russian non-aggression pact in
August, 1939.
Litvinov has been In almost
total eclipse since then, and this
spring Joseph Stalin succeeded
Molotov as premier.
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London, July 8. (JP
Heavy British bombers raided
the German naval base at
Wilhelmshaven late this after
noon, it was announced to
night. London. July 8. -P Heavy
RAF bombers lashed out today
against the nazi-held French
coast in a follow-up to wide
spread overnight attacks against
objectives in western Germany,
Holland, Belgium and France.
Germans made a sharp raid
against Southampton during the
night causing some casualties
and considerable damage to the
business district. Other points in
the south and southeast were
embed and the British said
five night raiders were de
stroyed. The nazis made morning
attack on another south coast
town, but were driven off after
half hour fight with British
planes. No bomb damage was
reported.
sleep, but the building itself
Litvinov, former foreign
appealed to the British people
each blow struck at Hitler
he said, than ever.
FEHL OPENS DRIVE
TO CLEAR TITLE ON
HERALD BUILDING
Summons was served this
morning upon Lee Watson of the
City Cleaners in the forcible en
try and retainer suit of Earl
H. Fehl and wife and mother-in-law,
to clear the title to the Pa
cific Record-Herald Building on
Sixth street, occupied by the
cleaning concern.
District Attorney George W.
Neilson said he had filed an
answer to the suit, and that it
was now in the circuit court, in
asmuch as a Justice court can
not hear a case involving a title
to property.
The answer contends that the
property belongs to J. B. Thomas
and wife of Ashland, and Mrs.
Wllhemina Heimroth, by reason
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roth.
The district attorney said he
would bring the action up In
court next Friday when a date
for hearing of arguments would
be set. He said if agreeable to
Fehl and his attorney. R. R.
Hewitt, he would ask that Cir
cuit Judge H. K. Hanna hear
the arguments, otherwise Cir
cuit Judge Carl Hendricks of
Fossil, who sat on the case be
fore, would be assigned.
NIEL ALLEN NEW
G.O.PJAIRMAN
Portland, July 8. (IP) Ore
gon Republicans named Niel R.
Allen, Grants Pass, former state
American Legion commander, as
party chairman yesterday.
In selecting Allen, the central
committee followed the recom
mendation of Major Kern Cran
dall. who resigned for army
dutr
Truck Crushes Brownsboro Tot
CELAND GARRISON
MAY BE LARGEST
U.S. UNIT OVERSEA
Present British Force in
Outpost Estimated 80.0CO
Marines Believed Bulk
Washington, July 8. (IP)
Iceland, the nation's newest de
fense outpost, appeared likely
today to claim one of the largest
United States garrisons overseas
if not the largest.
Latest army figures fix the
total of present overseas gar
risons at 118,700 troops. The
disposition of these forces was
not revealed, but Hawaii, pre
sumably the most strongly man
ned post, had 40,000 soldiers In
May for maneuvers.
Official information on the
size of the British force now
occupying Iceland comes under
the head of a military secret,
but seamen who touched recent
ly at the island estimated it at
about 80,000 men a figure
which some military sources be
lieve is not excessive, consid
ering the fact that the occupy
ing force would have to be large
enough to discourage a German
attempt to capture the Island.
Informed opinion was that
the American garrison would be
at least equal . to the strength
of the British force It will event
ually relieve.
Composition of the landing
force was unknown, but the
general assumption here was
that U. S. marines formed the
bulk of it.
Washington, July 8.-
The occupation of Iceland by
United States armed forces was
described in administration cir
cles as a step intended to thwart
a vast German pincers move
ment on Great Britain's indis
pensable supply lines.
This pincers movement, ex
tending from the equator to the
Arctic, would have as its im
mediate objective the cutting
off of Britain from all overseas
supplies, including lend-lease
shipments, but an informed mil
itary authority pointed out that
an oneration of such magnitude
constituted a logical prelude to
an attempt at invading Eng
land. Washington, July 8. VP)
Stephen Early, White House sec
retary, today labeled as a fair
statement a news dispatch from
London which had this to say of
the disclosure by Senator
Wheeler (D., Mont.) that United
States forces were to occupy
Iceland:
"The Germans might have
taken advantage of that con
fusion and British troops as well
as United States marines and
sailors might have been In
volved in resultant slaughter."
Wheeler said last week he
had information that the occu-
1 cation was to come soon; it was
not officially announced until
yesterday.
The dispatch (New York
Times) said the British were
angry because wneeier naa
given away a military secret in
volving British troops.
London, July 8. UP) Occu
pation of Iceland by United
States forces was greeted Jub
ilantly by the British press to
day and one paper said the
move made the Atlantic ocean
"an Anglo-American lake."
"In Britain we can breathe
more freely," the Dally Mail
said. But added: "There are
other Atlantic islands equally
dangerous to A m e r i c a the
Azores and Cape Verde islands,
There Is also Dakar (French
North African port.)"
(There was no official com
ment from Berlin, and dis
patches from the nazi capital
said the German public had not
yet been informed of the ac
tion).
Hood River, Ore., July 8
!A) William Irving was dis
playing today a 150-pound cou
gar he shot 300 feet outside the
city limits during the week-end
Deer also have invaded the city
in the past two months.
SOLDIERS PARADE
ON ARRIVAL FOR
THREE - DAY VISIT
Medford Boys Give Commu
nity Big Thrill in March
Camp at Fair Ground
Medford's soldier boys came
home today and gave the com
munity a thrill by marching
through town like seasoned vet
erans behind their regimental
band.
It was a real welcome the
boys received from the hundreds
of spectators that lined the side
walks. Parents and wives, sweet
hearts and friends congregated
on the courthouse and library
lawns, waiting patiently for the
men to arrive from the south but
when they did arrive greetings
had to be brisk, for there was
military business to be done.
The real greetings had to be de
ferred until the boys had set
up camp at the old fairgrounds.
Training Shown
They'll be here until July 11,
these soldiers of Company A
and headquarters company,
third battalion, 186th infantry,
former Oregon national guard
units of Medford. The way the
men marched, the way they
looked, their every move show
ed the results of the Intensive
maneuvers they' had gone
through for more than a month
In central California. They
were the picture of rugged
health, snappy and alert. The
stay In their home town is a
reward for their hard work dur
ing maneuvers.
The boys arrived in trucks at
the courthouse a little past
12:30. After lining up and going
through a little manual of arms
routine, they started their
march through town, the trucks
following in the rear.
Cowglll in Charge
The two units stopping here
to camp were part of a motor
ized column of about 2400 men
and officers that passed through
Medford today on the return
march from the maneuvers to
their home station. Camp Mur
ray, Wash., All were 186th In
fantry units excepting Company
D, a Roseburg outfit of the
162nd Infantry.
Riding into his old home town
at the head of the column was
Col. Ralph P. Cowglll, first com
mander of Medford post of the
American Legion and now com
manding officer of the 186th.
In the short time he had to
spend. Col. Cowglll looked up a
number of old friends. "This
will always be my home," he
commented. The colonel said
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Soldiers Trudge in Hot Sun
As Penalty
v Memphis, Tenn., July 8.
A long line of soldiers trudged
along the too familiar road fro
m Memphis to Camp Robinson
today paying through the fee
t for a raucous and non-military
salute delivered to some pretty g
Iris while their general listened.
After an overnight bivouac in
a city park the chastened sol
diers heard their conduct of Sun
day described by Lieutenant
General Ben Lear as a "disgrace
to the army, the 35th division
and their regiment."
This stinging rebuke was de
livered in a letter in which the
second army commander also
said that resignations of com
missioned officers involved
would be accepted if offered and
the non-commissioned officers
will be demoted if they can't
keep discipline.
The verbal spanking over, the
entire battalion of 350 men
loaded Into their trucks and
rolled (quietly) across the Mis
sissippi towsrd their Arkansas
base camp 150 miles away. Just
across the bridge, they halted and
half the men piled out under a
hot sun to start marching single
file along the highway.
They walked a mile, rested
for few minutes and wore ex
Cows, Not Goats
Greatest Lovers
Of Metal Diet
Vancouver, July 8. (CP)
Cows not goats are the
greatest living consumers of
hardware. Dr. Charles Sea
graves of Oregon City, Ore.,
told the annual convention of
the Pacific Northwest Veter
inary Medical association
here today.
In a paper on "bovine dis
orders," he said the most
common stomach troubles to
cows are caused by the swal
lowing of nails and pieces of
wire.
"The cow is in too big a
hurry to watch what she
eats," he added.
NEW COIN REQUEST
FOR DEFENSE USE
ROOSEVELT'S PLAN
Washington. July P
President Roosevelt indicated
today that he favored, at least
in some instances, extension
of the training period tot na
tional guardsmen and drafted
men beyond one year.
Washington, July 8. (JP In
formed congressional e 1 r c 1 e s
heard reports today that Presi
dent Roosevelt soon would ask
congress for additional defense
appropriations totaling as high
as $5,000,000,000.
These sources said that sev
eral billion dollars would be
asked for army expansion, an
other billion for the navy and
a lump sum for supplemental
aid to Great Britain.
Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.) of
the house navy affairs commit
tee, introduced legislation today
to carry out a navy department
request for authorization to
spend $585,000,000 . for addi
tional facilities.
Washington, July 8. (JPi
Aides to Senator Wallgren said
today that the site of a $20,
000,000 army air corps depot In
Washington state would be
chosen within two weeks.
The senator was notified that
the board which inspected lo
cations at Everett, Spokane and
near Seattle had returned here
for study of recommendations
to the secretary of war.
for Hailing Girls
amined for signs of footsoreness.
They then took up a four-mile
stretch to catch up with the halt
ed trucks and to ride while the
other half walked a similar dis
tance.
This off-and-on marching was
to continue until every man
from captain down had done
13 miles.
As the already travel-weary
soldiers marched, they began
fitting new words to the old
"paries vous" tune to tell In
song the story of the battalion's
woe.
It all started when a mixed
battalion of the 33th was rolling
through Memphis Sunday en
route to Camp Robinson from
the scene of the Tennessee war
games.
Sight of a group of .pretty,
shorts-clad golfers on a roadside
course brought an outburst of
calling and whistling. General
Lear happened to be playing the
same course and he walked up
to stop the column and protest
to Its officers, the exuberant sol
diers made matters worse by
an assortment of cracks at their
mufti-clad chief.
"Hey, buddy, dont you want
a caddy?" was one of the calls
that came from tha trucks.
,5,
IS KILLED WHEN
MACHINE BACKED
Little Boy Forgets Many
Warnings Naps Near
Rear Wheel During Haying
For several days little Rodney
Raymond Arens,. S-y ear-old son
of Joseph D. Arens of Browns
boro, had been playing in tha
field and following the truck;
on which his father and his
brother, Donald Arens, were
loading shocks of hay for re
moval to the barn.
He had been cautioned many
times to be careful while his)
father and brother worked with
the hay, and especially when
the truck was in motion. Always
he had remembered and stayed
away from the truck, until yes
terday. And that one moment
of forgetfulness cost the little
fellow his life.
Took Nap
About 4:15 p. m. Rodney, be
coming tired and hot from run
ning about the field, laid down
for a nap in the shade behind
the truck.
Unaware that his little
brother was sleeping Just three
feet from the left rear wheel
of the truck, Donald Arens, 25.
put the vehicle in reverse -and -
wheel of the truck ran over
pile of hay shocks. The heavy
wheel of the truck can over
Rodney's head, killing him in
stantly.
Brokenhearted, Donald Arena
told C. W. Morris, deputy cor
oner, "the first I knew Rodney
was underneath the truck was)
when he hollered Don' Just af
ter I had started to back up."
The tragic' accident occurred!
on the Arens ranch about
mile and a half east of Eagla
Point. The body was taken by
Donald and his father to Eagle
Point, where the coroner's of
fice vas notified.
Funeral Wednesday
Rodney was the youngest son
of Joseph D. Arens, a long-time
resident of Brownsboro. He waa
born at Brownsboro January 31,
1930.
Besides his father, he Is sur
vived by two sisters, Mrs. Viv
ian Allen and Mrs. Ruth Brldg.
man, both of Medford, and two
brothers, Donald and Robert,
the latter being In the army.
Funeral services will be con
ducted from the graveside fat
Siskiyou Memorial park Wed
nesday at 10 a. m.. Father A. A.
Meyer of Sacred Heart Catholie
church officiating. Perl funeral
home is in charge of arrange
ments. OATH AS JUSTICE
Washington, July 8. (IP)
James F. Byrnes was sworn in at
the White House today as an as
sociate Justice of the supreme
court.
Before an assembly of offic
ials, friends, and members of his
family, the former senator from
South Carolina took the oath of
office In President Roosevelt's
office. The oath was administer
ed by an old friend. Chief Jus
tice Richard Whaley of the Uni
ted States court of claims.
Byrnes' hand rested on a Bible
opened to the 82nd Psalm where)
it read:
"Defend the poor and father
less, do Justice to the afflicted
and needy. Deliver the poor and
needy, rid them out of tha hand
of the wicked."
Newport, Ore., July t.(JP)
Oregon Veterans of tha Span
ish-American War were in tha
second day of their 33d annual
encampment today.
Speakers yesterday Included
Dr. Paul Carter, superintendent
of tha Veterans' hospital at
Portland, and Surgeon-General
W. H. Jackson of Seattle, who
spoke for tha national commander.
RODNEY ARENS