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Newspaper Page Text. ruil U 6 Weath- Sunday Want Add Prepare year espy bow for tht aaday morning odltton. Many bntj paoplo an dtpondaat apoa tho Sunday paper Want AM to got tham what Uwj want. Bettor ptapar jaat AS now left you forget. Tribune FotmmI: Fair tonight and FORD Mturday but with scattered (bander howcn In arroand lug mountain Saturday after noon. Cooler Saturday. Hliheat naterday. Lowest this morning.. Full Associated Pim United Prcu Thirty sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1941. No. 96. MED i mim w m md i : - 1 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 11. The army is stiffening its backbone. Unpubllcized orders have gone out to commanders from the war department here requiring them to certify specifically the adequate training condition of troops before permitting them to participate In maneuvers. Certification must be sent to the general staff. If the troops are unprepared it must be ac companied by an explanation why. The general staff apparently has had enough of excuses for the sloppy maneuvering. Act ually some of the trainees do not yet know what soldier should do when he hears the Star Spangled Banner played. . SPEAKER of the House Sam Rayburn offered a rare just ification of his title when he spoke out against General Mar shall's request for extension of the training term of draftees. The rare situation behind it is this: A large number of house members justified their original vote for the draft act by telling their constituents that after all. it was only for one year, and only 12 months in the open would benefit the boys. As they looked at the legislative prob lem, their home-made speeches might be construed as a politi cal promise, especially as their elections come up next year. They wanted to be relieved of responsibility. Sneaking out In a situation protective duties of a practical speaker of the house. THERE are nearly fifty legal ways In which the war de partment could keep the men it wants In service beyond vear including voluntary en listments. One or more of these will be found. The necessity for added training in view of the mechanical trend of warfare cannot be avoided if the coun try wants an army able to de fend it. This is recognized by both pollticos and military men alike. The only really moot question was who would take the responsibility for an un pleasant duty. The army knows by now which men it would like to keep and which ones are trouble makers, temperamentally unfit, too old. Legal ways will be found to weed these out and to retain those best able to defend the country, between now and (Continued on Page Ten) Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Again network microphones will be in position when the sec ond drawing in the selective ser vice takes place next Thursday night at Washington, for the 21-year-olds who registered July 1. Tonight, the war 4:55 CBS: 8 MBS: 6:45 CBS; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS. NBC-Blue 7:05 P.G.A. golf. Saturday, the war 4 a. m., NBC CBS; 4:55 NBC-blue; 5 NBC-Red CBS: MBS: 7 CBS MBS: 9:45 NBC-Red 11:55 CBS; 1 p. m., NBC MBS; 2:25 NBC; 2:30 CBS NBC-Blue. NBC-Blue 9:30 a. m, and 2:05 p. m., P.G.A. golf. Ban Pranclaco. July 11 ff") But ter: 91 score 3Se: 91 ecore 80c; so icon S44c: SO tmr 34 SICE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Puolicity Officer Howard T. Wright arriving in town with a wealth of historical material -about his 20th pursuit group of air corpsmen. George Green making an im promptu but very welcome guest at a little birthday cele brating. Deb'ra Tumy looking extreme ly cool and comfortable in a blue and white dress on a hot Russian Army Doomed To Early Collapse Is Assertion by German London, July 11. UP) A mighy new German offensive, aimed at overwhelming results, is underway in Russia, it was reported reliably today. . An offensive pointed at Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev is to be backed with the full might of Adolf Hitler's mechanized di visions, according to these reports. One neutral source said that if the Germans push as far in tho next 10 davs as they did in the first seven of the vast cam paign on the eastern front "they will nave gone a long way to ward winning the initial campaign of the Russian war." Berlin. July 11. UP) Ger man reports tonight described such chaos in the red army that roads strewn with the wreck age of its equipment are delay ing the advance of Adolf Hit ler's legions and an authorized military commentator put the red army's losses in manpower at 1.000.000 killed and captured. "The military collapse of Rus sia is a foregone conclusion," this German commentator de clared and other German ob servers pictured growing con fusion among Russian troops in the area east of the Bialystok- Minsk battlefields where panzer blows have driven deepest to ward Moscow. DNB. official German news agency, called the Russian with' drawal in this area a rout oi such proportions that quantities of abandoned Russian war ma terial obstructed German pro gress, necessitating time to clear the roads. The spokesman placed the battle of Bialystok and Minsk in the same category with the bat tle of Tannenberg. East Prus sia, in -1914, the battle of the Vistula river, Poland, Septem ber, 1939, and the Flanders Artois action of Belgium and northern France in May and June, 1940. He said that, like Tannen berg, the battle of Bialystok Minsk removed any Russian danger to East Prussia. About 8,000 planes have been downed or destroyed aground in the Russian campaign, the spokesman said equivalent to 73 air squadrons and "almost three times the number of planes downed in western Europe last summer when 2.833 were shot down or destroyed aground." JAPS TO STAY OUT IS PRESENT GUESS Shanghai, July 11. VP) The Japanese government has de cided to stay clear of the German-Russian war for the present but may make a move against French Indo-China in tne near future, reliable persons arriving from Tokyo reported today. These sources said the Jap anese have been influenced in their policy by estimates tnat Russia still has 32 divisions on her Asiatic front, 12 of them mechanized, and despite tne Russian-Japanese neutrality pace has moved but three divisions west, INTENT TO KILL CHARGE FACED BY BEATTY MAN Klamath Falls. July 11- UP) A charge of assault with in tent to kill was placed against Floyd Fisher of Beatty yester day. He previously was charged with attacking Thurmon Wilson. Indian service agent, who was wounded near Fisher's house. Fisher asked time to plead when arraigned. He was held without recourse to bail. 11 COAL MINERS KILLED BY EXPLOSION OF GAS Acmar. Ala., July 11. WPV The death toll in an explosion wrecked wing of Acmar Coal mine No. 8 mounted to 11 to- day. Volunteers working all night by lamplight succeeded in ex tracting nine bodies before day break. Two were still buried. The dead miners, nine Neg roes and two white men. were trapped more than a mile un derground, some time yesterday afternoon by a "gas explosion." Lakeview. Ore.. July 11 (IP) Lloyd Leithead was elected commander of Lakeview post No. 53, American Legion, re- i ccaUy. MOSCOW BELIEVES INVASION DRIVE HAS PLAYED OUT By the Associated Press 'Moscow, July 11. The Red army in 19 days of give-and-take fighting on a scale unmatched in history has won a respite from the German drive, the Kremlin command indicated to day. Unless the Russians had sud- denly adopted the secretive technique of the German high command, today's communique implied that the German armies, like an unwinding steel spring, had played themselves out in their part-way invasion, still short of breaching the Stalin una. . . . "Nothing -particular occurred on the fronts during last night, said the announcement, thus laconically' ' accounting for all seetors of a 2,000-mile battlelinc from the Arctic shore to the Black isea. There was nothing later than the - report covering the night on the front. Reports for the 20th . day. of . battle . were still unpublished. T OF P TALKED TO END LEAKS Washington, July 11 United States defense officials, determined to end leakage of American goods to Germany, were reported giving serious consideration today to the com pilation of a world-wide list of firms which serve as Nazi pur chasing agents. The British are ' known to have a "blacklist," as such list ings are called when prepared by belligerent governments, and presumably this information has been made available to Amer ican officials for such they desire. Other sources of information understood to be at the dis posal of Brig.-Gen. ' Russell L. Maxwell, export control chief, include an inventory being made by the treasury of foreign assets frozen in this country and data on Nazi activities in South America gathered by the office of commercial and cultural re lations between the American republics. DONOVAN TO COORDINATE DEFENSE INFORMATION Washington. July 11j C President Roosevelt today ap pointed William J. Donovan co ordinator of information bear ing on the defense program. Donovan, who led the famous "fighting 89th" during the world war, is to "collect and assemble information and data bearing on national security" from various government agencies and ana lyze the material for official governmental use. Trapped Miner Freed Vale. July 11 P) Trapped In a cave by a slide, Robert Stubblefield, McDermitt miner in the Ten Mile creek district, was rescued hours later. Stub blefield took shelter from a rain storm Monday. Earth and rocks, loosened by the downpour blocked the cave entrance. His partner. Jack Hurst, organized a searching party and traced him ' to tne cava. BASEBALL American St. Louis, July 1. (iP) For the second successive game Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees singled in the first inning today, off Bob Harris of the St. Louis Browns, to run his hitting streak through 50 consecutive games. H. 8 7 Washington Chicago Hudson and Evans; Smith and Tresh. Score: R. Boston 0 Detroit 2 Grove and Peacock: Newsom and Tebbetts. National R. 2 H. 8 Chicago Boston 7 10 French, Presnell, Page, and McCullough; Tobin and Masi. R. . 2 ..12 H. 10 16 Cincinnati Brooklyn Derringer, Thompson, Turner, Beggs, and J. Riddle, West; Davis and Owen. BRITAIN REVEALS E' BUSY IN IRELAND London, July 11. UP) The foreign office said today "some technicians and laborers from the' United States are engaged in " connection -'with certain works that are proceeding In northern Ireland. ... "AH these, however1, are dl reef employes of the British government," the statement added. "They had entered into em ployment in exercise of their perfectly legal right to accept such . occupation, and it is equally open to any other United States citizens who may desire to aid the British cause to engage themselves in Brit ain." The foreign office also assert ed that what it called reports current in New York that the United States is establishing an air base in northern Ireland 'are not borne out by infor mation available in London." East St. Louis, 111., July Il ia") The man on the flying trap eze had nothing on Victor Wood- rick, 23-year-old flying cadet from Three Oaks, Mich., who went up in the seat of a plane, did a complete twisting flip in the air and rode to a landing on the tail of his aerial steed. Of course, if Civilian Instruct or David J. Mattls, 28, had not been along yesterday Woodrick's feat might have had a tragic ending. They were coming In for a landing at Park's Air college with Woodrick at the controls of their two-seater training ship. Mattls noted that his pupil was too high and took over the con trols, nosing the ship sharply to the ground. Woodrick, his safety belt riav ing become unfastened, flew into the air, executed a complete flip and landed astride the rear of the plane facing the tail sec tion. Mattls made a perfect landing. Woodrick's only injury was a torn sock. CHINESE TROOPS TO BURMA AND MALAY Tokyo, July 11 IP) Domel, Japanese news agency, said to day the Chinese central govern ment at Chungking had sent 60.000 troops to Burma and Malay under an agreement with Britain and the United States for Joint defense of the penin sula. Another Domel report from Bangkok said 35.000 Chungking troops already had arrived at Burma and Malay and declared this was a move to draw Jap sacs troop southward. KNOX AND STARK MONEY FOR NAVY DENY NAVY USED Secretary and Chief of Oper ations Make Categorical Denial of Accusations Washington, July 11. UP) Secretary Knox and Admiral Harold R. Stark voiced what were termed by committeemen "categorical denials" before the senate naval committee today of published charges that the American navy had engaged in combat with Nazi naval units. In a closed session lasting more than three hours, the sec retary of the navy and the navy's chief of operations were reported to have denied "line by line" demands made In a 'resolution introduced by Sena tor Wheeler (D., Mont.) to know whether the navy had engaged in a "shooting war." British Given Aid Shortly before Knox left the committee room. President Roos evelt said that he would not be surprised if American steel had gone into 50 British bases and if American workmen all over the world were being paid by the British government. And this, he said, was perfect ly legal. One member of the naval committee, who asked that he not be quoted by name, said these denials were "categorical." He said the whole subject of American naval operations, as related, to the European war, was discussed at length, but declined to reveal what was said. Chairman Walsh (D., Mass.) said the committee would make a report on its hearing, prob ably next Tuesday. OF PURSUIT HERE FOR PRACTICE About 80 officers, mostly pilots, and 350 men of the 20th pursuit group of Hamilton Field, CaU arrived this afternoon by car and truck convoy to encamp for two weeks at the Elks picnic grounds on Rogue river. The camp had been set up by an advance echelon of three offi cers and 75 men who several days ago established a distribut ing point at the Prescott CCC camp. A number of planes, which will Join in air and land maneu vers, arrived this afternoon at Medford municipal airport where they will be based. Col Ira C. Eaker, commanding the 20th pursuit group, who stopped in Stockton, Cel., to address a school ceremony, was expected to arrive late this afternoon Col. Eaker will be remembered as one of the pilots of the Ques tion Mark, the army plane that set an endurance record more than a decade ago. Washington, July. 11. Wi The British government an nounced today that It had waived Its belligerent rights concerning Italian and German ships seized by the United States. The announcement, made by the British embassy, will en able the United States to oper ate 28 Italian and two German vessels seized by the United States In ports here last March after their crews had wrecked , much of the machinery in at- tempts to disable the ships for : service, Aleppo Reinforced Ankara, Turley, July 10. (Delayed) UPtG e r m a n air transports were reported today to have landed Vichy reinforce ments in Aleppo in an attempt to prolong French resistance in Syria. SOUGHTBY F.D.R. $3,323,000,000 More Added to Soaring Figures In Country's Defense Drive Washington, July 11. (JP President Roosevelt asked con gress today for $3,323,000,000 more for the navy and maritime commission, thus pushing the projected cost of defense and lease-lend spending past $52, 000,000,000. The soaring figure included $4,770,000,000 Mr. Roosevelt asked for the army only yester day but did not embrace the $7,000,000,000 which authorita tive sources said was in the mill for additional lend-lease funds for nations fighting ag gression. To Dlssy Height That $7,000,000,000 would push the overall figure since July 1, 1941 when the fall of France stirred the United States to concerned action to $59,200,000,000. Cash expenditures, so far, to tal $8,300,000,000. In the fiscal year which began this month, the cash outlay is expected to be $15,500,000,000. Included in the $1,625,000, 000 which Mr. Roosevelt sought for the navy in cash was $400,- 000,000 for maintenance and re pair of defense installations In government or privately owned merchant-ships, - - C . ----Correspondents at once asked whether tills meant that mer chant vessels would be armed. Mr. Roosevelt assured his press conference that this was not contemplated and that the bulk of the sum undoubtedly would be used for naval ships. He suggested it would be applied to such things as fitting vessels with equipment to combat mag netic mines. He added he sup posed conversion of some pri vate vessels to navy use was contemplated also. Many New Ships Mr. Roosevelt sought $698 000,000 in cash and $1,000,000, 000 In additional contract au thorizations for the maritime commission. He said the money would be used for a great many new ships, but did not disclose the exact number. Both of the requested Items today, the chief executive ex plained, were necessary be cause of the defense program and shipbuilding program are ahead of schedule, so far certain navy activity and cargo shipbuilding are concerned. VICHY BALKS AT Vichy, Unoccupied France, July 1jUP) The Vichy gov ernment, after studying British terms for an armistice in Syria, announced today it had found them unacceptable and indica tions were that the fight with the British and de GaullisU would go on. "The English text (of armis tice conditions) is In basis and In form unacceptable for the French government," said the announcement. It added that the terms "seem ed to have been edited precise ly to prevent all possibility of eventual agreement on the points in question." M ATS U OKA ILL, UNABLE TO MEET WITH CABINET New York, July 11. m Domel, the Japanese news agency, reported in a Tokyo broadcast today that Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka was unable to attend today's cab inet meeting on account of illness. Copco Net Income Expand in Year San Francisco, July 11. VP) California Oregon Power com pany made $1,040,163 net in come In the 12 months ended Msy 31, an Increase from $918, 439 la the (receding veal. Bitter Battles in East y ao 3QQ FINLAND MILES I I fstoniaCU ' I - XZ-OSTROV f MOSCOW I I l. VST ' .TiV J I A LITH. I 5 (POLAND) I ) O VOLYNSK1 y ?Jb Helsinki, capital of Finland aerial bombing and Finnish leased naval base of Hango. The Russians claimed they had halted a thrust past Ostrov. toward Leningrad, and action la -the central sector (2) was generally severe in the Polotsk area. Another center of battle was at Novograd Volynskl (J). Claims on the Bessarabian area Russians claimed a victory at New York CornniiesCallonF. D. R. j To Implement Assistance Pledge New York, July 11. 0P) In the communist party's first, mass meeting since the beginning of the Russo-German war, a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden last night adopted a resolution calling upon President Roosevelt "fully and com pletely to implement" hi pledge of assistance to the U.S.SJt. Robert Minor, acting secre tary of the party during the imprisonment of Earl Browder, told the crowd, estimated by police at 19,000, that it is "the sacred obligation" of American workers to produce every tank, gun, plane and ship at greatest possible speed for war on all fronts against Hitler. The resolution held that "the criminal aggression against the peoples of the Soviet Union and all progressive humanity clear ly demonstrates that the peace, freedom and security of our people demands the crushing military defeat of Hitler." The resolution called also for "the defeat of his friends in the United States, the Lindberghs, Hoovers, Wheelers, Norman Thomases and all other appeas ing Munich-men." REGISTRY TOTALS Complete returns on yester day's voluntary civilian defense registration will not be avail able until Monday, Frank Hull, coordinator of the Jackson Coun ty Council of Defense, stated today. Meantime registration will continue for 10 days at the chamber of commerce, Mr. Hull announced. More than 300 reg istered at the chamber of com merce office yesterday. In the nine Ashland precincts and the West Ashland precinct 625 persons registered, 114 others registering in the pre cincts Immediately around Ash land. ZAM ZAM AMBULANCE DRIVERS TO BE FREED New York, July 11, (At William V. C. Ruxton, president of the British American ambu lance corps, announced today that 21 American men who sur vived the sinking of the Egyptian steamer ZamZam were being re leased by German authorities for return to the United States. Ruxton said the German gov ernment had Informed the u. S state department that the men. volunteer members of ambulance corps units, were being sent to Lisbon for removal to the United States. , MINSKB6iROISIC I (1), underwent an Intensive guns hammered the Russian fighting conflicted, but the Baltl (4). OFFER MEDFORD MEN OPPORTUNITY TO FLY FOR CANADA, ENGLAND R. D. Metcalfe of Oakland. Cel., a field agent of the Clay ton Knight committee, will be in Medford until noon tomorrow to interview men interested in entering Canadian aviation ser vice. He may be contacted at the Hotel Medford. Tho Knight committee la working to procure pilots for civilian flying in Canada and England, Mr. Metcalfe explain ed. One the pilot baa been ac cepted for civilian flying, ha may transfer to the royal Cana dian air force with the rank of first lieutenant, he said. Mr. Metcalfe cited lenient qualifica tions and high pay at induce ments. Novice with a minimum of 80 logged hours of flying are being accepted for further, intensified training at American schools ana pilots with 300 hours or more are being accepted for service Us Canada. After their training. the less experienced pilots will be sent to England to ferry air planes from factory to base. Metcalfe said. ATTACK If TRAIT By the Associated Prea London, July 11 RAT heavy bombers, with a fighter escort, attacked the shipyard at Le Trait, west of Rouen on the German-occupied French coast, this morning, it was authoritatively reported. One German fighter was destroyed. It was said, but all the British plane returned. Late this afternoon, attar a brief lull, strong force of Brit ish plane flew again acroaa th) channel almost without let-up. II Mlaen Die la Blaet London, July 11 Fif teen coal miner were killed last night in an explosion at the Rhlgo colliery near Neath, In Glamorganshire. The blaet roll spud several workJap.