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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1941.
No. 98.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, July 14 The dif
ficulty of making an efficient
defensive fighting force out of
the army is
artAiirn In oil
Y t'vl lts saddest
' ; i nects by what
has happened
to General
Marshall's new
iii
IVNClil bureau
I 1 if i w" instituted
ago to put
some modern
vision into the selection of new
weapons. It was a polite bow to
the old ordnance division which
has been under fire all around
for delays and inefficiencies.
Before the cheering has died.
It now develops that the new
weapons division must get its
funds for operation from guess
who the old ordnance depart
ment. Its independent status has
already been lost.
A heavier shakeup is now Im
pending for ordnance and this
time it may not be polite.
MR. Roosevelt's recommenda
tion of 37 new brigadier
generals reflected in some de
gree (not too much) the general
staff policy to push vigorous,
efficient young men into army
leadership and weed out chair-
sitters. Selections were made by
a war department board and
Chief of Staff Marshall, of
course, and were only handed
on to the senate by the presi
dent. The board and General
Marshall went down 1000 names
in the list of eligible lieutenant
colonels to jump one West Point
graduate of 1917 over the rank
of colonel into the brigadier
general class. War department is
waiting passage of a pending
bill in order to get rid of some
of the incompetent higher offi
cers. a
THE crushing of all anti-strike
legislation by the house re-
( Continued on Page Pour)
Radio Highlights
By Associated Press
(Time is Pacific Standard)
New York, July 14 An un
censored description of the Nazi
blitzkrieg in the Balkans and an
account of the African campaign
are to be given by Robert St.
John, AP war correspondent, on
NBC-Red at 7:30 Wednesday
night. St. John was injured by
Nazi bullets in Greece.
Tonight, the War 3:15 NBC-
Red, 3:55 CBS, 6:00 MBS, 6:45
CBS-East, 7:30 MBS, 8:00 NBC
CBS, 8:30 MBS, 8:55 NBC CBS.
Talks NBC-Blue 3:45 Wm.
Green, Washington, and Geo.
Gibson, London, on "Aid to Brit
ish Labor Week"; NBC-Red 5:30
Paul V. McNutt on Defense;
NBC-Blue 6:30 forum.
Tuesday, the War 4:00 NBC
CBS, 4:55 NBC-Blue, 5:00 NBC
Red CBS, 6:00 NBC-Blue MBS,
7:00 MBS. 8:00 MBS. B:45 NBC,
10.00 MBS. 11:55 CBS. 12:55
NBC-Blue, 2:25 NBC-Red, 2:45
CBS NBC-Blue.
SICE GLANCES
bt
tribune reporters
The streamlined George
Schmidt being slowed down by
a cut foot, an injury inflicted
by a piece of hidden tin while
George was trying to dodge the
heat by swimming.
Police Officers Ray Sloneker
and Walter Sharkey Reinking
coming to the rescue and whip
ping a bride and groom away
in their siren-screeching prowl
car to escape pursuing friends.
Mary Ward and Leila Van
Ambureh. modern forty-niners
from California, searching in
dustriously for a southern Ore
gon gold pocket, their only re
ward so far being a lot of fun
and exercise-
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TO ASK CONGRESS
FOR APPROVAL OF
LONG ERJTRAINING
Sen. Barkley Reveals Inten
tion After White House
Talk; Early Action Sought
Washington, July 14. (IP)
Senator Barkley (D-Ky.), the
Democratic leader, announced
after a White House conference
today that the administration
would seek prompt congression
al approval of measures to re
tain draftees and members of
the national guard in service be
yond their one-year training
period.
Asked whether he thought
congress would approve the
legislation, Barkley told report
ers that "when the need for the
legislation becomes apparent I
believe congress will in no way
shrink its duty."
At the same time, there were
indications that a measure lift
ing the prohibition against send
ing selectees outside the hemis
phere would be dropped for the
time being.
Separata Meaiure
Barkley said that the measure
lifting the Western Hemisphere
ban was a separate measure
which had "no immediate con
nection" with the program to
retain selectees in service.
Senator Hill (D-Ala), a mem
ber of the military committee
and one of those who attended
the conference, added that the
hemisphere proposal "probably
will not be considered at any
time in the near future."
Hill and others of the White
House conferees said that all ef
forts would be made to win
prompt congressional approval
of the legislation continuing the
selectees and members of the
national guard in service. --.
In an effort to settle some of
the problems involved in ex
tending the length of service
Mr. Roosevelt met with seven
democratic and two republican
members of the senate and
house. General Marshall, army
chief of staff, also was present.
IN SYRIAN WAR
Cairo. Egypt, July 14 UP)
The armistice ending the war In
Syria was signed at Acre, in Pal
estine, at 2 p. m. today (4 a. m
PST), General Sir Claude Auch
inleck, British commander in
the middle east, announced to
night. Terms of the truce were Initi
aled at Acre Saturday, but final
stages of the negotiations were
continued today.
Alexandreta, Turkey, July 14.
UP) Fourteen thousand Vichy
French soldiers will cross the
border from Syria into Turkey
within 48 hours, thus surrender
ing one of France's richest
World war prizes, informed
sources said tonight.
PATIENflBER
WAITS III LOCK
Bothell, Wash., July 14. UP)
A patient robber, who waited
for the Bothell State bank time
lock to open at 7:30 a. m., held
up Ross E. Worley, cashier, to
day and escaped with $13,
423.10. Worley said he entered the
bank at 7:30 and was confronted
by the holdup man, wearing
dark glasses and carrying a
pistol.
He slugged Worley, waited a
few minutes until the safe open
ed, then stuffed the money into
a shopping bag and fled by a
rear door, dropping $300 in
dimes as he ran.
Circulation Man Drowns
Salem. July 14 P Herbert
Miles McDowell, 36, a circula
tion department employe of the
Salem Capital-Journal, slipped
off a rock into the Santiam river
and drowned while fishing yesterday.
Navy Chiefs
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox (center, seated), and Admiral Harold R. Stark (behind
Knox), chief of naval operations, were reported in Washington to have made "categorical de
nials" before the senate naval committee that the navy had engaged in combat with naii
naval units. With them as they glanced over a resolution calling for an investigation are
Chairman David L Walsh (left seated, D... Mass.) and Sen. Hiram W. Johnson (right, seated,
R.. Cal.). Standing, Sen. Ralph W. Brewster (left, R., Me.), and Senator J. J. Davis (right.
R.. Pa.).
Churchill Reveals Growing RAF Power
Now Giving Nazis Thorough Bombing
London, July 14. UP) Britain, unshaken by ten months
of German air blows, has begun hitting back with fearful
might and still is only at the beginning of her growing air pow
er, Prime Minister Churchill told thunderously cheering civil
defense workers today.
The prime minister delivered
virtually the same fighting mes
sage twice first to 6,000 clam
oring veterans of the defense of
London in a great review in
Hyde Park and later to a lunch
eon of the capital's organized
civil defenders.
Time Germans Also Suffered
"It is time the Germans
should be made to suffer in
their own homeland and cities
something of the torments they
have twice in our lifetime let
loose upon their neighbors and
upon the world," the prime min
ister exclaimed.
"We have now intensified for
the past month a systematic, sci
entific and methodical bombing
on a large scale of German
cities and industries and other
military objectives.
"We believe It to be In our
power to keep this process go
ing on a steadily rising tide
month after month, year after
year until the nazi regime is
either extirpated by us or, bet
ter still, torn to pieces by the
German people themselves . . .
"We shall continue a remorse
less discharge of high explosive
upon Germany."
He declared there can be "no
truce or parley with Hitler or
the grisly gang who did Hitler's
worst" and forecast that Italy,
too, would get her share of the
RAF's attention.
"As the nights grow longer,"
the prime minister said, "that
unhappy province of Germany
which used to be called Italy
will have its fair share."
But he stressed London's need
for unrelaxed vigilance against
new terror from the skies and
warned the workers to prepare
"for renewal of your exertions.
"We shall not turn from our
purpose however somber the
road, however grevious the cost,
because we know that" out of
this time of trial and tribulation
will be born a new freedom and
glory for all mankind."
Hitler Defied to do Worst
"You do your worst and we
will do our best," Churchill ad
dressed a remark to Hitler.
"Perhaps it may be our turn
soon. Perhaps it may be our
turn now."
The prime minister acknow
ledged that when the nazi air
might first fell in force on Lon
don he suffered anxiety for its
effect on morale, health and
necessary services but, he said,
London responded with grit
which has been the rock that
has made Britain "unconquer
able." He forecast vehement Germ
an retaliation, but now, he said.
London is ready and "London
can Uke it"
Deny Combat
California Boys .
Of Company A
Thank Med ford
In a letter to the Main Tri
bune today the California
boys of Company A, 186th in
fantry, expressed their
thanks to the people, officers
and soldiers of Medford for
the "kindness and courtesy
extended us during our stay
in Mefiiord."
Company A and headquar
ters detachment, former Ore
gon national guard units
here, camped at the old Jack
son county fairgrounds from
Tuesday to Friday last week,
the Medford boys enjoying
the time at home as a reward
for their work in the arduous
June maneuvers in Califor
nia. E
STARTS JULY 21
Collection of scrap aluminum
for defense use will be made in
Jackson county the week be
ginning July 21, it was an
nounced today by Frank Hull,
coordinator of the Jackson
County Council of Defense. Mr.
Hull asked all residents to look
around now and line up the old
pots and pans and other alum
inum articles they can contri
bute. Precisely how the scrap alum
inum is to be gathered will be
announced later, Mr. Hull said.
Details of the plan are being
worked out by the sub-committee
in charge, comprising Mrs.
C. Reese Braley. Miss Bertha
Coy, Miss Joan F, Stoehr and
Robert G. Fowler.
Truth in Fabric
in Effect Today
Washington, July 14. UP)
Beginning today, all wool pro
ducts must bear labels setting
forth the percentage of wool
each contains and whether it is
reprocessed or reused wool.
Nine months ago President
Roosevelt signed legislation fix
ing the labeling requirements
and between that time and the
effective date, today, merchants
were expected either to sell all
of their unladed merchandise
or to label it to conform with
tha law.
With Nazis
NEED FURNISHINGS
Plans were underway today
for immediately furnishing the
temporary recreation center in
the public auditorium at the
county courthouse for enlisted
men. The location of the center
has been changed to the court
house from the proposed loca
tion at 228 East Main street,
Mrs. Leonard Carpenter an
nounced today.
Residents of the Medford area
having furnishings that can be
loaned to the recreation center
are asked to telephone Mrs. Car
penter, 6391 and arrangements
will be made to call for the arti
cles. It was stressed this morn
ing that the recreation center
will be open to enlisted men
only and that hostesses will be
on duty daily.
Among the articles requested
for the auditorium are lounging
chairs, porch chairs, waste baa
keta, ash trays, pens, ink-wells,
writing paper, radio, pillows,
books, magazines, large trash
can, assorted games, cards, card
tables, ping pong table and ping
pong equipment.
CITIES, COUNTIES
GET LIQUOR COIN
Salem, July 14 UP) The state
liquor commission distributed
$34,970 to counties and cities to
day, the apportionment being
part of the state tax on manu
facturers and distributors of
liquor and malt beverages, and
covering the quarter ended June
30.
The apportionment to coun
ties included:
Douglas $518, Jackson $520,
Josephine $329, Klamath $700,
Uke $112.
The apportionment to cities
includes:
Baker $229, Corvallls $269.
Roseburg $158. Medford $362,
Grants Pass $193, Klamath Falls
$529, Eugene $668, Salem $991,
Portland $9,800, Pendleton $283.
Lakeview, Ore.. July 14 UP)
Work on Lakeview's $4000
street oiling project was started
today. City Engineer Walt San-
quist said. It will cover five
miles of city streets.
Three Largest Red
Periled
HEAT LIGHTNING I
SETS FOUR FIRES
Mercury Reaches 101 Sun
day Today's Tempera
ture Lower; State Sizzles
Mercury reached 101.1 de
grees at 2:15 p. m. today and
dropped to 100 degrees at
2:30 p. m. the weather bur
eau reported. Temperature at
12:30 p. m. was 97 degrees.
The first serious heat threat
of the year was accompanied
last night by lightning that
caused four small fires in the
Rogue River national forest. It
was possible, headquarters said,
that other lightning strikes
would show up later.
The temperature reached a
maximum of 101 yesterday
while the humidity got down
to 21 percent. Temperature to
day was 98 degrees at 1:35 p.
m. as against 95 yesterday, but
after 1:30 yesterday there was
a sharp rise which the weather
bureau did not expect today.
Firefighters Busy
The "lylng squadron" of
Rogue River national forest fire
fighters swung into action for
the first time this afternoon
with the report of a lightning
fire near the confluence of the
Big and Little Applegate rivers.
The other three lightning fires
also were In the Applegate dis
trict of the forest, one' being
within the Ashland watershed.
None was considered serious,
however.
The state forest patrol sent
a crew and pumper yesterday
mcrning to put out a fire In
the grain field of the W. H.
Gore ranch on the Jacksonville
highway. The fire, which cover
ed about two acres, burned
about 25 bags of wheat, patrol
headquarters reported. The
blaze was started by ashes a
worker knocked out of his pipe,
headquarters stated.
The state patrol was called
this afternoon to put out a grass
fire near Long Branch off the
Crater Lake highway.
The city fire department got
through the week-end with only
a grass fire. The blaze occurred
yesterday afternoon on a city
owned lot next to Frank De
Souza'f residence, 30 Western
avenue.
Because of the turn in the
weather, permits will now be
required for burning refuse or
other material In the city, Chlet
Roy Elliott announced. Permits
may be obtained by telephoning
3790.
Lightning Display
Medford residents were treat
ed to a dose of hot weather yes
terday when temperatures
touched a maximum of 101.
Sultry weather associated with
thunderstorms over the Siskiyou
mountains last evening brought
on an exceptional display of
lightning which was viewed with
Interest by many.
Little rain accompanied the
thunderstorms, the weather bu
reau stating that the storms
were more or less of a dry type.
Highest temperature for July,
1940, was 94, tha weather bu
reau said.
Portland. Ore, July 14. UP)
The temperature, shooting up
ward from a minimum of 72
degrees this morning, threatened
to set a new high today In the
second sejilon of Oregon's heat
wave.
Salem, the state's hot spot at
103 degree yesterday, reported
104 at 1:30 p. m. today nine
degrees hotter than at the corre
sponding time a day earlier.
Grants Pass, in southern Ore
gon, reported 101 at one o'clock.
Portland, which recorded 97
degrees downtown and 101 at
the airport yesterday, turned In
99 and 102 degrees, respectively
at one, with tha possibility that
the city's all-time high of 103 4
degrees, set July 13, 1933 might
be approached.
by Panzers, Claim
baseball
Chicago, July 14 UP) Joe
DiMaggio, slugging star of the
New York Yankees, extended
his record hitting streak to 54
consecutive games today by
beating out an infield single in
the sixth Inning today against
the Chicago White Sox.
DiMaggio got on base through
an error his first time up and
was walked by Pitcher John
Rigney of the Sox his second
time at the plate, but on his
third appearance dumped a slow
roller down the third base line
and easily beat the throw.
National
Chicago 0 2 1
Brooklyn 18 0
Olsen and McCullough; Higbe
and Owen.
St. Louis 4 7 1
Philadelphia 5 12 1
Krist, Nahem and Padgett:
Johnson and Warren, Llvinston.
Pittsburgh .
New York
2 5
3 6
Sewell and Lopez: HubbeU
and Odea,
(13 innings)
Cincinnati 7 17 C
Boston 4 14 9
Moore, Turner and West; Er
rtckson, Johnson, Lamanna,
Early and Masi.
American League
New York , 1 8
Chicaao 7 a
Breuer, Stanceau, Branch and
Rosar; Rigney and Trash.
Philadelphia
Detroit
Marehlldon, H a d 1 e v and
Hayes; Bridges and Sullivan.
Boston
Cleveland 4 8 0
Wilson. Potter and Peacock:
Feller and Desautels.
LIGHTNING STARTS
81 SISKIYOU FIRES
Yreka, Calif., July 14. P
Eighty-one forest fires were
burning In Siskiyou county to
day all started by a lightning
storm which raged over the area
for an hour during the night.
The largest blaze was in the
Mount Hebron district, about 50
miles northwest of Yreka. Ran
ger Roy Bengard said he be
lieved it had been brought un
der control after it bad swept
over 4,000 acres.
Another big fire was burning
over a couple of thousand acres
of land east of here.
The most serious fire In the
Klamath national forest, where
71 of the blazes started, was'at
Quartz valley, due west of Yre
ka. OPEN CONCLAVE
Portland, Ore., July 14. VP)
The three-day Pacific Coast
International Association of
Law Enforcement Officers' con
vention opened here today with
talks by Gov. Charles A.
S prague and FBI Inspector
James S. Egan of Washington,
D. C, the day'a principal fea
tures.
Programs will be held night
ly In the civic stadium for the
public.
Coquille, Ore., July 14. (IP)
Coos and Curry county geolo
gists reported discovery of ore
samples today which tested as
high as 63 per cent In chrome.
Les Child, Coquille, said he
had found numerous traces of
chrome in remote sections of
Curry county, varying from a
few tons of ore up to several
thousands. Roads would be
needed to reach tha location,
CHROME DEPOSITS
IN CURRY COUNTY
be said,
Cities
STALIN LINE AT
PSKOV. IS
i
Kiev, Moscow and Lenin.
grad in Jeopardy, Berlin
Report; Climax Held Near
By the Associated Press
German forces today were re
ported to have smashed through
the Stalin line at Apachka,
south of Pskov near the Latvian
frontier, and Berlin asserted
that Russia's three biggest cities
were now the targets of nasi
panzer thrusts.
DNB, the official German
news agency, said the main sov
iet defense line was broken yes
terday after nazi troops over
whelmed "strongly built field
positions and breastworks."
This was the first time the
Germans had specified the point
of the asserted break-through.
' Russians Deny
The Russians, however, de
clared they were holding their
major front positions without
important change. .
Germans ' asserted In round,
general terms that Kiev was tot
tering under combined air and
land assault, that Moscow no
longer was protected from Gar
man tanks blasting through tha
central front, and that Lenin
grad was imperilled by a nazi
frontal drive and Finnish
flank Onslaught.
They declared that red armies
were falling apart and that tha
campaign was rushing to a cli
max on this, tha 23d day of the)
westward push.
Nazi forces war reported
hammering at tha gates of Kiev,
and Berlin waited expectantly
to hear that that gateway to tha
Ukraine's richest industrial and
farming regions had been forc
ed. German planes rained de
struction on Kiev's warehouses,
and hangars and even destroyed
the city's waterworks, it was
said.
DNB Clslsas
That was tha picture to bo
pieced together from the word
of authorized German spokes
men, DNB, the official new
agency, and In alight degree)
from the dally communique
from Adolf Hitler's headquar
ters. The nazi high command re
ported tersely that "break
through operations on the east
ern front continue on schedule."
Supplementing the brief com
munique, tha Berlin radio de
clared that nasi troops driving
toward Leningrad had gained
new ground after wrecking so
viet bunkers and scattering rod
army forces.
North of the Plnsk marshes,
the radio asserted, German in
vasion columns moved forward
on a broad front across the
Dnepr river and the upper
reaches of the Dvina river after
breaking through the Stalin
line.
A soviet communique, report
ing an overnight lull in the
fighting said that "torturer of
the medieval inqulsitloners pale
before the outrages perpetrated
by the Hitlerian bandits."
The communique asserted
that every fifth resident of a
soviet village, women and chil
dren Included, was shot when
they refused to Inform the Ger
mans on guerrilla activities.
The German Fuehrer's head
quarters said Finnish troops had
opened an attack in Karelia, on
both sides of Lake Ladoga, In
the sector closest to Leinigrad.
SAW RIPS SKULL OF
BROCKWAY MILLMAN
Roseburg, Ore.. July ii.UP)
John Harry Weaver, 40, one
of the owners of the Doumltt
Weaver sawmill at Brock way,
western Douglas county, died at
the hospital here today, three
hours after a huge saw ripped
through his skull when he acci
dentally came into contact with
the blade while repairing a i
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