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United Press
Thirty-Bixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1941
No. 95.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington. July 10. (rP)
The Reds have devised a tricky
new defense for the nazi blitz
night fighting.
ti. nermann thrust their long
. -single files of tanks through the
Russian . lines
like fingers ex
tending from
your hand.
Without equal
ity In the air
the Reds, like
the French,
have not been
able to stop
this supposed
ly unbeatable
method of at
tack In day
Paul Malloo.
light. But at night the tanks are
helpless. That is the time when
they stop to receive gasoline and
food brought up from the rear.
So the Reds have been hiding
la the forests and wheat fields
a the tanks passed during the
day, falling upon them at night
when they are without their
eyes (their plane auxiliaries) and
beyond aid of the Stuka dive
bombers which clear the way
for them in the day.
pVEN the nazl communiques
suggest the Russians have
been extremely successful with
these and similarly unidentified
tricks. The idea is not entirely
new. The non-mechanical theory
of it was originated by the Chi
nese. They have disguised troops
as farmers and laborers, leav
ing them behind in cities to be
occupied by the Japanese. When
the Japanese ' were asleep ' at
night they arose from all sides
and started night melees. V
The Trench tried ' night at
tacks on the nazl tanks but they
did not have the Slavic-Oriental
finesse of the Reds' and anyway
they were much too surprised by
the nazl method of attack to get
organized for it. Stalin has obvi
ously organized these tactics ex
tensively. a a
nPHAT the Reds have slowed
down the blitz in this way
for the first time, there can be
no question. Tank crews without
food, gas and sleep cannot oper
ate, but whether the method has
or can be sufficiently exploited
to defeat the far-flung German
plan of attack may still be
doubted.
The Germans are answering
by surrounding their tanks with
lines of infantry during dark
ness. They may develop other
answers.
(Continued on Paga Two)
Radio Highlights
By the Associated Praaa
(Time is Pacific Standard)
Tonight, the war 4:30 MBS;
4:55 CBS; 5:30 NBC-Blue; 0,
MBS; 6:30 NBC-Blue; 6:45 CBS;
8 NBC, CBS; 8:30 MBS.
NBC-Red 6:30 Good Neigh
bors, Colombia, NBC-Blue 7:05
P.G.A. golf summary; 7:15 Rep.
J. F. O'Connor on "Preserve
American Democracy."
Friday, the war 4 a.m NBC,
CBS; 4:55 NBC-Blue; 5 NBC-Red
CBS; 6 NBC-Blue MBS; 7 MBS;
8 MBS. 9:45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55
CBS; 12:55 p.m., NBC-Blue; 2:25
NBC-Red; 2:45 CBS, NBC-Blue.
CBS 12:15 Highways to
Health; 1:45 discussion "Stretch
ing Tire Miles." NBC-Blue 7
a.m., Viennese Ensemble.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Blanche Frisbie getting a lot
of fun out of the Craters
Palmer House bb game.
Jerry Jerome celebrating
with big smiles his 19th wed
ding anniversary and recalling
he was married in San Jose,
Cal.. in 110 degrees in the
shade.
Greta Clare teaming from
the public print that her hus
band was going to an Activian
convention in Portland.
Doe James Hayes being sur
prised to find Baker had
changed in the 30 years he bad
been away from the place.
X4.J
I TERRIBLE LOSSES (
German High Command
Again Hides Details of
Battle; Radio Optimistic
By the Associated Press
Annihilation of a German mo
torized division of some 15,000
men in the blocking of nazi
drives toward Moscow and Len
ingrad was reported by the Rus
sians today, while the German
high command again hid details
of the titanic battle raging along
a 2,000-mile front.
On the vital 300-mile central
front, a Soviet war bulletin de
clared red army troops were in
flicting terrible losses on the in
vaders and holding fast.
Radio Optimistic
The Berlin radio asserted nazl
engineer shock troops had
stormed and captured five heavy
bunkers of the Stalin line "af
ter bitter fighting," and claim
ed destruction of 110 soviet war
planes. Moreover, the radii said, Ger
man columns advancing against
the Stalin defense system had
destroyed 123 Russian panzer
units "and put the rest to
flight."
In the south, the Hungarian
high command reported the cap
ture of 25,000 soviet prisoners
by German and Hungarian
troops knifing into Galicia.
The Germans, silent on any
specific gains, declared' the
world's two largest armies were
now fighting a decisive battle,
rand aerlin newspaper assert
ed:
"Not until now have the great
masses of the armies come into
deployment."
Headquarters Terse
Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's
field headquarters, issuing its
third terse communique in suc
cession on the 19-day-old war
with Russia, declared:
"Operations in the east are
progressing relentlessly."
The nazi high command also
confirmed the capture of Salla,
fortified Russian town on the
Finnish border, after a red army
division was said to have been
"crushed" in several days of
fighting.
Meanwhile, the middle east
conflict flamed into action again
amid a Jumble of confusion. A
French spokesman in Vichy de
clared the British had not re
plied to France's request for an
armistice in the month-old bat
tle of Syria, except with increas
ed military assaults and attacks
on the military honor of General
Henri Dentx, the French . high
commissioner of Syria and Leb
anon, Reuters (British) news agency
said British troops had renewed
hostilities when the French
failed to meet a 8:30 a.m. dead
line for the evacuation of Beirut
pending discussion of armistice
terms.
U. S. 'AGGRESSION7
SEEN BYBERLIN
Berlin, July 10 ;P The
United States' occupation of Ice
land was viewed in authorized
Berlin quarters today as evi
dence of far-reaching British
American military cooperation
in a war zone.
The Impression here was said
to be that the British do not in
tend to withdraw their forces
from Iceland and that American
and British soldiers there will
stand together against Ger
many. The American arm reaches
out ever further toward Eu
rope," a spokesman said, and
it was indicated that other
American "aggressions in the
eastern hemisphere" would not
cause surprise.
STALIN AND CftlPPS
CLOSETED FOR HOUR
Moscow, July 10. WV Pre
mier Joseph Stalin conferred for
more than an hour today with
Sir Stafford Cripps, British am
bassador. Foreign Commissar
Vyacheslav Molotov was pres
ent. This was the second long
conference in three days of the
I Russian leader and the Briton.
Russian Mission Arrives
" "
m
A woman, left, gave the communist salute as the car carrying tha Russian mission to England
pulled through a crowd at tha London station. The picture was cabled from London to New York.
Sen. Taft Hears U. S.
Naval Air Base in fem Ireland
Washington, July 10. (yP) Senator Taft (rVOhMfcrj fJair.
senate today that he had heard weeks ago "on In, Withf -ity
that the United States was constructing a naval air base
for Great Britain in northern Ireland."
"Since I made the first draft
of this speech," Taft added in
an address, "Mr. Wendell Will
kle, after a call upon the presi
dent, announced that In his opin
ion we should establish military
bases both in northern Ireland
and Scotland.
"The occupation of Ireland
would relieve perhaps a half
million British troops for service
elsewhere, and put a half-million
American boys into the
British islands.
"A base In Ireland would be
much more effective to protect
shipping than a base In Iceland.
Every argument that has been
used for the occupation in Ice
land applies to Ireland and Eng
land and Portugal."
Taft contended that tha land
ing of United States troops in
Iceland was an act "exactly
equivalent to aggressive war,"
and one which the president had
no right to take without author
ity from congress.
Senator Connelly (D-Tex.)
took immediate issue with Taft
on Iceland, declaring that the
president was "perfectly Justi
fied" in ordering the occupation,
and adding, in a desk-pounding
speech:
"I hope to God we don't have
to fight (but) we must let the
assassins and gangsters know
that if we have to fight we will
fight."
In another development, the
senate naval committee voted to
summon Secretary Knox and
Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief
of naval operations, to testify
tomorrow on reports that United
States navy units have engaged
in actual combat with German
vessels.
Senator McCarran (D-Nev.)
Joined Senator Wheeler (D
Mont) in challenging President
Roosevelt to ask congress for a
declaration of war against Ger
many. Wheeler said yesterday that It
"would be logical and decent"
for the president to ask a war
declaration rather than seek to
"take us into the fight through
the back door."
The question of whether the
Atlantic fleet got shooting or
ders when the occupation of Ice
land began was another question
intriguing the capital.
COMMUNISTIC SONGS
OUTLAWED IN FRANCE
Vichy, Unoccupied France,
July 10. W) A law published
in the official government Jour
nal today forbade publication,
sale or distribution of songs or
poems of communist or anarch
ist inspiration.
Britons Uninformed
London, July 10 W) Au
thoritative sources disclaim
knowledge on the subject, but
Britons generally would show
scant surprise if they were
informed soon that the United
States is moving to acquire
.aval or air bases in northern
Ireland.
Outside official circles
there is widespread discussion
of the possibility that such
bases are under consideration.
HEAVY RAF LOSS
NOTED BY NAZIS
Berlin, July 10. ?") The
Germans asserted tonight that
the RAF had lost 50 planes in
the past two days of vicious
combat over the German-held
channel coast.
DNB, the official news
agency, said 25 British planes,
including 21 spitfires, were shot
down today at a cost of only
two German planes. The fight
ing raged chiefly over the
Calais, Cherbourg and Le Havre
areas.
The German high command's
tabulation for yestertiy and
last night totaled 25 planes.
Seventeen were downed by
German fighters opposing Brit
ish daylight sweeps across the
channel yesterday, the com
munique said, and anti-aircraft
and naval guns shot down one
each.
London, July 10. W) Brit
ish bombing plane attacked the
French coast today and blasted
at enemy shipping, hitting six
ships and leaving each a total
loss, the air ministry announced
tonight
A communique said that 12
German planes were destroyed
In the raids, and that the same
number of British planes were
destroyed.
New York, July 10 W) A
Dome), Japanese news agency,
broadcast said today that the
Chinese, in an effort to better
Chungking's communica 1 1 o n s
with the United State.i, plan a
new airline connecting the
Kwangsi provlnre capital of
Kweilin with the Philippine is
lands.
in London 1 1
Constructing
GRASS, BRUSH BLAZE
BLACKENS BIG AREA
NEAR KLAMATH FALLS
Portland, July 10. (JP) For
est fires crackled in at least two
sections of Oregon today after
a grass and brush fire blackened
a hundred acres or more near
Klamath Falls.
Near Scappoose In Columbia
county a fire raged through
stump land and second growth
timber last night, spreading yel-
low smoke over Portland and
vicinity and destroying a small
quantity of cold-decked logs. It
was reported under control.
The state's worst fire, the
four-day-old blaze in the Warm
Springs Indian reservation, was
still burning after covering some
iz.uuu acres of logged land.
The blaze east and south of
Klamath Falls yesterday swept
through several grain fields and
destroyed a barn.
10
TO BOEING PLANT
The second contingent of 10
local youths within the past five
days left here yesterday for
Seattle. Wash., where they were
to report this morning for work
at the Boeing Aircraft company,
following a period of training
in the sheet metal aviation
classes being conducted at the
senior high school under spon
sorship of the federal govern
ment and the Oregon state board
for vocational education.
Several of the trainees were
awaiting for call from the Lockheed-Vega
Aircraft company at
Burbank, Cal., but when word
was received they could go to
work immediately for Boeing
they decided to do so. A dozen
or so more youths are in line
for Immediate employment at
Lockheed. .
Those leaving yesterday were
Robert Patterson, Ray Hubbard.
Charles Kelly, Harvey Inlow
Fred James, Donald Janes, War
ren Barnes, Don Niedermeyer.
Ray Vogel and John Nlles.
Stayton, Ore., July 10 (A
The city council appointed J. L.
Siegmund mayor this week to
succeed Grant Murphy who was
named by Governor Sprague aa
county judge pf Marion count.
SAFEWAY PLANS
NEW STORE SITE
;t
Southwest Methodist Church
Property May Be Pur
chased for Modern Mart
Preliminary negotiations hav
ing been completed, the contem
plated sale of the old Southern
Methodist church property at
the northwest comer of Oakdale
avenue and West Main street by
the First Methodist church to
Safeway Stores was announced
today. Final papers making the
transaction complete were ex
pected to be ready in 10 days or
two weeks. Financial considera
tion of the deal, handled by
Mark A. Goldy, was not dis
closed.
It was understood that Safe
way contemplates the erection
of a modern food market, with
parking space, on the four lots
comprising the property, dimen
sions of which are 100 feet on
Main - street and 150 feet on
Oakdale avenue.
Buildings on the property In
clude the parsonage and the old
Southern Methodist church, both
of which will be razed by the
new owners to make way for
the contemplated food market.
An agreement between the gro
cery concern and the church al
lows the latter to retain all
equipment in the church build
ing and in the parsonage.
Until about a year ago the
property and buildings belonged
to - Ur Southern Methodist
church, which merged at that
time with the First Methodist
church. The church building,
which since then has been used
for Sunday school classes and
as an annex to the main church
building directly across West
Main street, has been standing
for almost 50 years, and was re
modeled in 1920.
CARTER GLASS IS
Washington, July 10. (JPi
Senator Carter Glass, 83-year-old
Democrat from Virginia, was
unanimously elected president
pro tempore of the senate today
to succeed the late Senator Pat
Harrison of Mississippi.
Departing from custom, Sena
tor McNary of Oregon, the Re
publican leader, seconded Glass
nomination after it was made by
Senator Barkley (D-Ky) on be
half of the Democratic majority.
In the past it has been the cus
tom for both parties to nominate
a candidate for the office.
Congressman
Too Devoted
Washington, July 10, (JP)
The war department has direct
ed Lieutenant General Ben Lear
to make a full factual report on
his order disciplining a battalion
of troops which yoo-hooed at
girl golfers at Memphis, Tenn.
Washington, July 10. (P
Rep. Norrell (D-Ark.), saying he
had Just been advised that Lieut.
Gen. Ben Lear "is still on the
golf links," suggested in the
house today that congress de
mand an Investigation of the of
ficer's disciplining of yoo-hoolng
troops.
"He is not the kind of general
we need, standing on the brink
of war," Norrell said. "He appar
ently is engaged all tha time in
playing golf.
"Congress ought to call for an
investigation."
Rep. Faddls (D-Pa.) replied
Immediately that it was not a
matter for the house, saying that
It was not up to congressmen to
st tempt to regulate army discip
line. ,
Memphis, Tenn., July 10.
CP) Stern-vlsaged Lieut. Gen.
Ben Lear has replied to congres
sional criticism of the pen nance
march he ordered for yoo-hoolng
troop with a declaration that
as Jpnf sj b remains srrcwd
BASEBALL
National
R. H. E.
Chicago 3 0 1
Boston . 17 1
Olsen and McCullough: Javery
and Masl.
R. H. E.
SSI
8 10 1
Moore, Beggs
Cincinnati
Brooklyn
Vandermeer,
and Lombard!; Higbe and Owen.
$4,770,065,588.
Washington, July 10. (1
President Roosevelt asked con
gress today for an appropriation
of $4,770,065,588 for the war de
partment "for the further
strengthening of the national de
fense.
The request was made In a
letter to Speaker Rayburn.
It contained eleven individual
items, the largest being $3,488,
034,038 for army ordnance.
A letter from Budget Director
Harold D. Smith which the presi
dent transmitted to Rayburn
said the money was needed to
provide "for contingencies which
have arisen since the transmis
sion of the budget for the fiscal
year 1042."
The total sought was made up
of the following items:
Regular supplies $7,274,710;
clothing and equipment, $443,.
123,275; transportation, $10$,-
033,557; horses, draft and pack
animals, $1,054,810; construc
tion of buildings and utilities at
military posts, $84,000,000; sig
nal service $349,280,825; air
corps, $204,007,800; medical de
partment $3,852,437; army en
gineer service, $61,118,970; ord
nance and supplies, $3,486,034,
036; chemical warfare service,
$27,275,168.
AUTO MILLIONS
Detroit, July 10. Hon
eymoon bound, Benson Ford
and his petite bride, the former
Edith McNaughton, were en
route to California today after
their marriage linking two of
the best known families of the
automobile Industry.
Benson, 21, second son of
Edsel Ford and grandson of
Henry Ford, and Miss Mc
Naughton, also 21, war mar
ried yesterday afternoon in
Christ Church of Gross Points
in an intimate family setting.
Benson's brother, Henry II, a
navy ensign, was best man.
Thinks General
to Golf Course
army commander "soldierly
standards of conduct will be de
manded of all Individuals In uni
form." Gen. Lear telegraphed Rep.
Kilday (D-Tex.) member of a
special house subcommittee In
vestigating personnel matters in
the defense program, who yes
terday wired Lear he contem
plated a resolution to investigate
Lear's "severe punishment" of
some 350 soldiers for yelling at
golfers as they passed through
Memphis Sundsy. The general
said his action was "neither un
just nor severe."
Lear's response was released
last night by second army head
quarters here. It said, in part:
"I am responsible for the
training of all elements of this
(second) army and for raising
all elements to the highest at
tainable standards of conduct
and combat efficiency. Nothing
less will secure this country's
successful defense against thor
oughly disciplined, trained and
efficiently led hostile forces in
case we are attacked. . .
"Loose conduct and rowdyism
cannot be tolerated 1 am r.
sponsible also that members of
the second army treat th civil
ian population with respect and
rpnjJdmtiPD. ,
HOUSE IS AGAINST
POWER TO BREAK
DEFENSE STRIKES
Mandatory Deferment of
Army Training for Men 28
Or Over Given Approval
Watiln0tnn .Tulw 1 ft fSX .
The house passed late today leg
isiaiion providing lor the manna
tory deferment from military
trainlne of men 28 or older, ai-
ter stripping from the bill pro
visions aesignea to give me pres
ident broad statutory authority
to cope with defense strikes.
Washington, July 10 P .
The house defeated today
amendments to 'lit draft defer
ment bill designed to give Presi
dent Roosevelt authority to or
der production resumed at
struck defense plant and to pro
tect workers who seek to return
to their Jobs.
The action, subject to confir
mation later, was taken In aa
effort to reach a vote on Its
drastic labor provisions of a sim
ilar senate bill or to kill entirely
any reference to labor in de
fense plants.
The standing vote, 159 to 97,
came on an amendment by Rep.
Healey (D-Mass) to eliminate tha
sections.
For Deferment
The action on his amendment
cam after the members had ap
proved tentatively other sec
tions providing for the manda
tory deferment from military
training of men 34 or older ess
July 1 who had not been draft
ed. Th draft deferment pro vision
was accepted without a formal
vote and with little debate.
Th selective service baa
against us of trainee outside
th western hemisphere appear
ed likely today to remain un
changed for th present, despite
the recommendation of the army
general staff.
Authoritative reports war
that congressional leaders hav
advised President Roosevelt that
they cannot win approval at this
time for th necessary legisla
tion. Other Plana
Th president is interested hi
several plans which would per
mit a certain number of train
to be inducted into th regular
army for a longer period thao)
th present one-year term.
Any action on these plana,
however, appeared unlikely be
fore July 17 th date which
elective service headquarters
fixed yesterday for the lottery
her that will determine th
order in which th 750,000
young men who registered July
1 wiU be subject to call for
training.
178 MEN CALLED
IN AUG. 4-6 DRAFT
Salem, July 10. (AV-State
selective service headquarters
called on eight of Oregon's 57
local draft boards today to sup
ply 178 men for the August 4-4
call, while there will be another
call of about th same size Au
gust 18-20. ,
Th men in th August 441
call will report as follows:
To report at th Portland Induction-
station August 4 29
men each from Clackamas
board No. 2 and from Clatsop
county; 10 from Multnomah
board No. 12 (Gresham).
August 8 14 from Klamath
board No. 1, and 45 from Klam
ath board No. 2.
August 6 30 from La at)
board No. , 21 from Malheur
county, and from Grant
county.
KNUDSEN ON COAST
SEES GOOD PROGRESS
Seattle, July 10. WO
llan S. Knudsen, director of th
office of production manage
ment, today told Interviewer
that production of detent ma
terial throughout the nation I
"pretty good" and will reach Its
peak next summer, "or within
It months at U nwL" .