I run u Wmu Good Morning It saliht par yon ta tnra to lb Want Ada thla marabif. Paopls who an not looking for anything in particular eonw time atumble on to tha nrj tMni thrjr want. Taka few mtnotoa, wont yon? Medford TRIBUNE rorarsrt: ralr today ui Mon day. Slljhtly cooler Monday. Temperature Hlfhrat yeMerdaj 94 Loweit yerterday mornlnc 50 Precipitation 0 Full Auoclatad Praia r Prat Thirty sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1941 No. 97. lll WW IN HBHKf 1 1 11 - i IE 1 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 12 Eden and Losovsky have been hinting they have seen tome evidence of a political break develop ing within Ger many. Both the British for eign minister and the Soviet foreign com missar are talking public ly about a rup ture "between the govern ment and the Paul Mallou. army, and the army and the people." Behind these expressed hopes apparently is the same informa tion received here, no doubt on the same grapevine. Hitler and Goering wanted to go after Bri tain now instead of Russia. The army insisted on Russia first, and won the argument. There is unfortunately no fac tual reason to hope that this "break" will hasten a Nazi po litical collapse any more than the break between Mr. Roose velt and Senator Wheeler will seriously Injure domestic politi cal morale. The army is in con trol in Germany and will con tinue so until it has plainly lost the war. Then someone will pro vide Hitler and Goering with a pistol, or hold it for them, and a new regime will take over to sue for peace. That is the cus tomary way. The facts so far only Indicate the army decided Russia waa a sure conquest, while Britain was not. If an attack on Britain failed, all would be lost, but the easier attack on Russia could still be followed by invasion of Britain at any time. It was a question of military tactics, and the politicians gave way. DOWN deeper among the Ger man people there is plain evidence of dissatisfaction with the war, but no possibility of revolt. There could be no suc cessful revolt anyway as long as army morale remains flushed to its highest point of victories. But deterioration of civilian morale is plainly developing. The Nazis win battle after battle but the war goes on, and no tangible advantages have yet (Continued Prom Pago Biz) BULLETIN Night Gama R. H. E. Los Angeles 11 13 3 Hollywood 12 15 4 Totaro, Berry, Weiland, Flaugher, and Campbell, Holm; Dasso, Gay, Tost and Dapper. Minneapolis, July 12. UP) The Minneapolis Sunday Trib une and Star Journal says that Joe Louis, world heavyweight champion, and his wife have become reconciled and that Louis left here today for Chi cago to meet Mrs. Louis after an extended telephone conver sation with her. According to the newspaper, Mrs. Louis telephoned the cham pion after he had knocked out Jim Robinson, Philadelphia, in one round here last night, and later he talked with his mother in Detroit by telephone. As a result, the paper says, Louis departed for Chicago. Mrs. Louis filed suit for divorce 10 days ago, charging cruelty and accusing the cham pion of striking her. Louis has denied the charge. Silverton, Ore, July 12. IP) Silverton sluggers won the Ore gon semi-pro baseball champion ship with ease tonight, pounding out a 12-to-2 decision over Bend. Earl Tcolson held Bend to six hits. Silverton won four straight games in the tournament. Score: R. H. E. Bend 2 6 2 Silverton 12 15 1 Farmer, Hatch and Kramers; Toolson and Robertson. Pcrtland, July 12. (IP) Keel plates were laid today for the first heavy naval ship construc tion in the history of Columbia river shipbuilding. a Aaal NAZIS CLAIM ALL DECISIVE POINTS . YIELDJH BLITZ No Important Dents In Front Reds Say Admit Heavy Battle In Three Areas. (By tha Associated Press) Moscow, Sunday, July 13. UP) Soviet Russia officially claimed early today that Ger man attacks in three great areas of fighting on the continent wide battle line failed entirely to make any "important" dents in the front. The Soviet communique acknowledged stubborn fighting between the Red army and "enemy" troops in the areas of Pskov, a railway center about 175 miles southwest of Lenin grad, Vitebsk, in northern White Russia where the Germans are driving on Moscow, and Novo grad Volynski, in the Ukraine. These were the regions of the three main German drives directed respectively at Len ingrad, Moscow and Kiev, im portant industrial city and cap ital of the Ukraine. (These same three areas were declared by the German high command in its special com munique late Saturday night to have been points where the Ger mans successfully broke through the Stalin line). Although acknowledging that the battle was renewed in these three areas, the communique stated bluntly - that "these en counters caused no Important change in the front." The communique said the Red air forces struck at German mechanized units and air dromes, and against Rumanian port and oil field objectives. A total of 102 German airplanes were declared to have been de stroyed during Friday. The two communiques Sat urday and the one early Friday the three communiques pre ceding that issued this morning all reported "no change" at the front, and that Issued dur ing the day Thursday had stated that there was "nothing of con sequence" to report at the front. All this was interpreted to mean that lull had fallen upon the front. Today's communique carried out a theme stressed by the of ficial Tass news agency during Saturday that guerrilla warfare had broken out behind the Ger man lines. Berlin Breaks Silence (By the Associated Press) Berlin, July 12. (IP) The German high command, after almost a full week of silence, tonight officially announced that the Stalin line, Russia'3 main defense barrier, had been broken at "all decisive points." The Germans reported that their blitzkrieg legions had smashed through in the direc tion of all three of their main drives toward Moscow, the capital, Leningrad, Russia's big western port, and toward Kiev, capital of the grain-rich Ukraine. The German army pinned through in the central Minsk area to a point 125 miles be yond Minsk, putting the nazi legions less than 300 miles from Moscow, the high command said. In the drive toward the Ukraine German troops were declared to be standing "close before Kiev" and elsewhere along this' southern end of the front German and Rumanian troops were stated to be pursu ing Russians fleeing in dis order. To the north the nazi troops are moving through the region of Lake Peipus, along the Estonian border, and "are ad vancing toward Leningrad," said the high command, after a break-through in this sector. In the all-important central sector beyond Minsk and on the highway to Moscow the Rus sians are showing "signs of a break-up and dissolution," said the communique. Fire Threat Fades Portland, July 12 HP) Ore gon's forest fire threat dimin ished today as temperatures declined and humidity rose. War Action Shifts Northward t .... PETSAMO - ---- - (kTf V - v TIN aV UVN M j aw" 1. SALU V r S V FINLAND; I HELSINKI KnTillllLiklrsA' V ESTONIA J LATVIA! : -f. I i Taii I 1 i .ivHr v. x'V'.m Tha German high command reported tha capture of Salla (1) in a drive at Rusala in tha north, but in tha north central sector (2) Russians, counter-attacking, claimed victorias on tha front guarding Moscow and Leningrad. Hare Germans reported aiming a drive at Tallinn, Estonia. Russians war reported counter-attacking In the Polotsk-Lapel area. The red army said its defense was unyielding on the Novograd Volynski front. REDDING BEATEN BY CRATERS 12-3 - First-Baseman Al Fleishman's three-run homer over the left field fence in the second inning ignited a five-run explosion in that frame and started the Cra ters on a timely-hitting spree that gave them a 12 to 3 exhibition-game victory over the Red ding Tigers of the Northern Cal ifornia league last night at the fairgrounds park. The Craters play Toledo in a State loop con test today at 2:30. Bob Fox yielded 12 hits to the visitors but scattered them ef fectively In pitching the locals to their fifth straight win and their 10th in 12 exhibition-game starts. He fanned five and walk ed four. The Craters made only eight hits off Vernon Davey and George South, but bunched them with 13 walks and four Redding errors to cop In a walk. Al Wray continued his sensa tional hitting with a triple and a double. Bob Churchill blasted a two-bagger and a single and Del Schroer hit a double. The Craters tallied , four times In the fourth on Church ill's double, iRoelandt's single, five walks and two wild pitches, got another In the sixth on Wray's triple and Fleishman's fly, and two more In the eighth on Wray's double, an error, a pawed ball and three walks. In the second, after Fleishman belted his home run behind Gray's infield blow and a walk to Wray, Davey walked Fox. and Schroer doubled him home. Churchill then singled Schroer across for the fifth run. Redding tallied single runs In the first, fourth and ninth. Score: Redding 3 12 4 Medford 12 8 2 Davey, South and Marletto: Fox and Roelandt. Critical Situation Portland. July 12 VP) The United States' aluminum shorV age is more critical than at first supposed. Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bonneville-Grand Coulee power administrator, said today he was told by William S. Knudsen. MURMANSK! i KANDALAKSHA c a. nunniy OSTROV V un;rnw a. POLOTSK LEPEL MINSK m y.s.s.R. novograd VOLYNSKI STALIN 'LINE O 200 MILES E3 BRITISH AIR,U-I London, July 12. UP) First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander today asserted that Britain had had "particularly successful" operations against German rubmarines in the past few weeks. London, July 12. UP) The British air offensive against Germany has reached a point in tonnage of bombs dropped surpassing the heaviest German attacks upon England, It was stated authoritatively today, as the RAF continued its non-stop assaults on the continent. During June, said a state ment, the weight of British bombs dropped on Germany actually exceeded the tonnage dropped on England in April, which it is said the Germans claim as their record month. Furthermore, the weight of bombs dropped on Germany in July "will be heavier still," it was said. British air sources declared that the new air offensive had accounted for 219 German 'planes since June 22, and that the total German losses since the start of the war, on all fronts from the Arctic to equa torial Africa, have now risen to 8,000 aircraft and 20,000 air men. PEARS ALL SOLD Yakima. July 12. tn Ac tive bidding by canneries, which purchased a larger tonnage this year, cleaned up virtually all of the Yakima valley pear crop this week and sent prices Friday and today to $50 a ton for No. 1 grade, S23 for No. 2 grade. Fruit men said today of the estimated 55.000 tons produc tion probably all but 5000 tons was sold, mostly at prices rang lni from $35 to $40. w - - SPEEDY VICTORY HITLER S HOPE TO Germans Behind Invasion Schedule And Fuehrer Faces Napoleon's Fate. By Kirk L. Simpson Hitler's gas-engine drive to cut in half Napoleon's 1712 horse-drawn blitzkrieg to Mos cow obviously has not been hit ting on all cylinders up to date. Half of his reputed 40-day time schedule for reaching the Russian capital a march that took Napoleon 90-odd days has gone by. His fire-eating tanks, ditch-leaping speed troop chariots, shrieking dive-bombers and terroristic war technique have not yet brought him half way to his goal. Napoleon found getting to Moscow relatively easy. It was getting away again that wrecked his army. The Nazi "little cor poral" of 1041 must sometimes think of that o'nights at his field headquarters, presumably still somewhere in central-eastern Poland. The 13 weeks it took Napo leon to arrive at Moscow proved to be his undoing. Like Hitler, he set out in June. A Russian winter, and an exceptionally bad one at that, caught him in a carefully set Russian trap. Impossible distances separated his ragged and hungry veterans from supply bases, to tha west ward. Around them lay a snow mantled "scorched earth" Rus sia filled with phantom-like guerillas harrying their flanks and outposts night . and day. Most of these French troops, as good fighting men as the world produces, died of hunger, cold or Russian attacks before they could back-track to their bloody crossings of the Berezina river, 300 miles from Moscow, at which Hitler's legions are now pounding. Authoritative tales are begin ning to reach this side of the Atlantic from Nazi-conquered France and the low countries, even from Norway and Den mark, indicating the utter re liance the Nazi high command placed on its motorized fighting equipment to conquer quickly both the Balkans and Russia. This writer has talked with an eye-witness of the sudden dis appearance of thousands of tanks and motor vehicles from German-occupied French cities. Early in April they began to disappear. Travelers within the occupied regions of southern France who cam to town re ported passing endless columns puffing and clunking along the roads, trekking northward, not south toward the Spanish bor der. There was much specula tion as to whether an attempted invasion of England was about to be launched. Events proved it was not; but that Hitler had decided on wars in the east instead. To get east ward from that part of France his forces had to go north first. The nazi armies battling the Russians have been told that the fate of Hitler's Germany is in their hands. There can be no question about that. And if they cannot soon break the 2,000 mile virtual deadlock with the red army conclusively, far more conclusively than Napoleon did a century and more ago, another western "Little Corporal" may see his valuting dreams of world empire shattered amid the swamps and streams and rol ling plains of western Russia. RURAL "CARRIERS SELECT ASHLAND Tillamook, Ore., July 12. (in Th Oregon Rural Letter Carriers" association nominated Lyman McDonald, Salem, today for the national executive com mittee. Officers elected at th con cluding session were Robert C. Taylor, Astoria, president; E. J. Holland, Scio, first vie presi dent; Earl S. Robbins. Ashland, second vie president; T. M. Schweizer, Monmouth, secretary-treasurer. Ashland was voted th 194 convention. E Vichy Orders Ignored, Ger many Roiled By Negotia tionsWarfare Ceases. Cairo, July 12. British troops ceased firing in Syria today and began to negotiate an armistice on British terms with the Vichy forces of High Commissioner General Henri Dentz. Tonight, between hushed battle-lines, the British-Free French and the Vichy mllitafy men were making satisfactory prog ress in their talks, a British middle-east communique said. Some details remained to be settled, it was stated. Mean while, hostilities continued sus pended. But within a few hours after Syrian hostilities ended, Ger man bombers served explosive notice that Britain would have to fight to keep her middle east foothold. A German raid on the vital Suex canal route for American aid caused "some ma terial damage," an Egyptian communique acknowledged. Shooting in the war which started June 8 ended at mid night, a middle east commu nique announced, "after General Dentz agreed to negotiate on our own terms for suspension of hostilities. The French com mandetv hands had been freed by tha Vichy government, al though it previously rejected the British terms. A French delegation crossed the British lines under a flag of truce this morning and met the British delegation at Acre (Biblical Gililee) in Palestine. A statement that discussions were of "military rather than political importance" indicated the Vichy forces would be re quired to submit to Free-French occupation rule in Syria, as British armistice terms had demanded. REVISION DELAYS Washington, July 12. (IP) Mounting defense expenditures and smouldering controversies over tentatively-approved new levies led today to capitol talk of further revision of the $3, 300.000,000 tax bill. Ten days ago the house ways and means committee gave pre liminary approval to legislation to raise $3,504,400,000, but there were reports that it might be revised materially and its presentation to the house de-J layed perhaps until August 1. The tentatively-approved bill is designed to raise $1,134,500, 000 additional In individual in come taxes, $1,332,000,000 In corporation levies and almost another billion dollars in excise and miscellaneous taxes. It is now in th hands of bill-drafting experts who expect to com plete work on it next week. EKllLDlFOR WORK BERTH Portland, Ore., July 12 JP) William A. Ekwall. Portland, former U. S. representative and Oregon circuit Judge, probably will be named to the U. S. cus toms court In New York, Sen. Charles L. McNary of Oregon advised friends today. Ekwall would replace Judge Walter H. Evans, Portland, who retired recently. McNary said the senate expects President Roosevelt to make th nomina tion next week. Grants Pass. July 12. P A short-lived strike at th Swede Basin lumber mill was over today with general Increase in pay of 10 cents an hour or its equivalent War Bulletins ! New York, July 12 W Th shortwave broadcast of th German high command pacial communique reporting that th Stalin Una in Ruasla had bean broken was preced ed by 25 mlnutas of fanfares and march music, CBS said tonight. Th communique was broad cast in German, Spanish. Portuguese and English. London, Sunday. July 13. UP) British bombers ware re ported reliably today to hav bombad Bremen, German ahipping and shipbuilding cantar, in raids last night on northwestern Germany. London, Sunday, July 13. (IP) German long rang guns opanad up with a number of salvoas shortly balora dawn today. They apparently war firing at a British convoy which was passing through th strait. London, Sunday July 13. UP) Light raids by small forces of Carman plana along coastal sections of southern, eaatern and southwestern England overnight war re ported today. A communique said "no damage was caused and than war no casualtias." UP WHEAT FIELD AS Jackson, Mich., July 12. (IP) Shock by shock, a Jackson county farmer, rebelling against what he terms Is too much gov ernment dictatorship on crops," is burning his 17-acre wheat field, The irate farmer, 55-year old Marion Hatt, began destroying the wheat yesterday when Hal bert Bernstein, a U. S. soil con servation service official, refus ed him a wheat marketing per mit because he exceeded the AAA quota by two acres. Told that he would have to store the grain or pay the gov ernment a penalty of 49 cents a bushel for the excess acreage before a permit would be is sued, Hatt retorted: "I'll burn the whole thing be fore I'll let the government tell me what I can do with it." Rain intervened when Hatt had the Job half-done but he said he would "finish it up" to day. "This Is my farm and my wheat," he said. "1 did not vote to come under the marketing quota and I'd rather burn the wheat than have to com under the quota to be able to sell it." "He's burning up his own money," said Bernstein, "and It's not the government that set up the regulations. The market ing quota was voted by 80 per cent of the nation's wheat growers. HARRiSONGUILTY r lit Spokane, Wash., July 12. UP) George Harrison, 41 -year- old self-taught chemist of Den ver and Detroit, must spend three years in prison for using the malls to defraud western mining men of mora than $70,- 000. Federal Judge Lewis B. Schwellenbach sentenced Har rison Immediately after a Jury out since 9:30 p. m. Friday, re turned a verdict of guilty Sat urday. Harrison stood quietly at the Judge pronounced sentencs three years on each of eight counts, th terms to be served concurrently. Before hearing th court s orders he reiterated his Innocence of intent to de fraud and stated his faith in the chemical process which was th basis for th 14-day trial. Th government accused Har rison of using the malls to pro mot th process, known as "Se cret Formula No. 30," and said to hav tha power to precipitate all metal. - PLANNING PART OF Y 1VINGJAPIDLY Field Surveys Here 40 Pep, Cent Done, Plans 10 Per Cent, Is Latest Report, San Franr!rn. Julv 1 9 SlPi Plans for the construction of three new Far West army camps, housing 70,000 troops and costing a total of $68,400, 000, are being rapidly complet ed, the office of the ninth corps area zone constructing quarter master announced today. Sit in Orefnn and PaTtfn. nla have been under investiga tion, and actual construction de pends on suitability and avails billty of the land desired, con gressional approval and other factors. Th nmleet whim tinrl way, will mean an expenditure) iar in excess of any yet made) for new army construction in the ninth pnrn. rm .... comprising California, Oregon, nasningion, raonuna, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. Advance nlana rail fnr thnta camps of almost identical size. cn 10 cost approximately IZ2, 800,000. Each camp will house on, "trfanoiilni. HiwUnn other troops. The new triangu lar siramunea division replace) the old square division, permit ting employment of troops with icaicx moDuuy ana striKing fore. 2 Camps For Oregon According to tha plans, each at two camps In Oregon will house a division of 15,245 troops plus other personnel. One of th camps will be built near Med ford, where Architect-Engineer Myron B. Hunt has been super, vising a survey of the site, par ticularlv in relation in nmn layout, water supply, power and iuu, roaas, drainage, etc. FMla surveyi are 40 per cent com. Diet and nlana tn nmr No steps as yet hava been taken ro acquire tne acreage under consideration. Studies have hn mAm i the vicinity of Eugene and Cor vain ior in second Oregon camp, under the supervision o John W. Cunninffhfim mrA elates and Lawrence and Allen, architects-engineers, with head, quarter at Eugene. Th site has) noi oeen cnosen as yet. The third camp will b bum In tha Santa Maria-Lompoe area in southern California. Her It Is nlanned to houa Iar division, plus an armored uivuion or io.huu men. Th pro Dosed reservatlnn ha, K . praised by the government and plans for the camp ar 51 pap vein ana neia survey 44 per cent complete. Each camn haa Kn ,ii...li as a self-contained unit, with nospiuu faculties, fire stations, chapels, post office, theater. er vice clubs, administration build ings, signal corps and ordnance lacimics, Daxery, laundry, lea making plants and repair shops) of various kinds. The camps will dwarf In air any other camps in the ninth corps area save Ft. Lewis. Wash. Tha "other nrinnl" '-- red to In the dispatch will com prise about 15.000 troops of a classification not yet designated, making in all about 30.000 troops at th proposed camp here. Capt, Theron W. Bean, constructing quartermaster la charge, stated last night ENDEAlSSEEK DRY ERA RETURN Atlantic City. If. . July H. UP) The International Christ Ian Endeavor Society conven tion called today for a return of prohibition "if the people of thl country ar to live together In sobriety and happiness." Th society urged passage of pending congressional measure, restricting sal of alcoholic bv e rages near military camp and proposed th utmost activity on th part of Christian atedeavort everywhere leading toward loc al option, immediate sharp re striction and eventual elimina tion of liquor advertisements! and rigid control of liquor sale."