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run o waaui- Weather ''J "port forecast: Partly cloudy n4 cooler with ocMloiul thnntler bowers tonight mat Friday. Temprrmtnr BlgtiMt yesterday M Lowest thli morning , .,.,.. 1 Precipitation past 14 hn, trace The Quickest Way It to Intonating to noU the amber of real titata Aral ko ine saaao Ihaae dark Howes ond fenatneas buildings ara changing hand a. Th quickest way to And kujer lor any thing u the Want ad war. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press United Proas Thirty 6ixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941. No. 101- fo) M r ui kctt-J-AWMkV - aaagggaaavaaw' -gs rotas sot -i i News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 17. The little-known White House ma chine through which Mr. Roose velt runs OPM, OEM, and all the other al phabetical de fense units, has been hiding its workings in a passion for ano n y m 1 1 y. But those who are in it claim Tii "UH that it satis Kk lies the popu- oft sW aM lar demand for ram Maiion. , ingie . headed con t r o 1 and coordinated management. Their untold viewpoint may explain why Mr. Roosevelt has so long resisted the almost unanimous outside clamor for a change. The way the president a per gonal defense unit works, they gay, is this: Harry Hopkins, FDR's right hand man, is actually presiding over all defense, although he is nominally in charge only of the $7,000,000,000 British lend-lease part of it. In effect Mr. Hopkins gives Mr. Knudsen the program for OPM and all Mr. Knudsen does is to work it out that way. WINDER Hopkins is Philip Young, son of Owen Young, whom Hopkins has borrowed from the treasury department The actual desk work of coordl- nation is in his hands. Under him is General Burns, whose official title gives him only con trol of the "office of defense aid reports." Through this of f ice, however, Burns is supposed to be handling the war depart ment procurement end of the program. Also working under Young is Wayne Coy, who has been un ostentatiously edged into con trol of the office of emergency management. He is Paul Mc- (Contlnued on Pare Six) Radio Highlights Friday night band concerts of the Grants Pass municipal band in Riverside park. Grants Pass, will be broadcast by radio sta tion KUIN from 8:15 to 9:13 p. m. Medford bandsmen engaged for the season by the Grants Pass band are Stephen Whipple, Berle Thornton, Fred Strang and Chester Baker. Ward Croft of Ashland is conducting. By Associated Preai (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight: The War 4:55 CBS; 8:30 NBC-Blue; 6:30 NBC-Blue; 8:45 CBS; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS; 8:53 NBC CBS. Drawing for 21-year-old se lectees 7:15. Talks MBS 6 Wendell Will kle from labor rally, New York. Friday: The War 4:55 NBC- Blue; 5 NBC-Red CBS; NBC Blue MBS; 7 MBS; 8 MBS; 9:45 NBC; 10 MBS; 11:55 CS; 12:55 p. m., NBC-Blue; 2:25 NBC-Red; 2.45 CBS NBC-Blue. Dallas, Ore., July 17 flV- Ernest Hinshaw, 22, Falls City, died early today in a local hospi tal of injuries suffered when he was struck by a falling tree in a logging camp near Rickreall creek. SICE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Electric service failing Just as the army dinner was to start at Hotel Medford and Honor Guest Glenn Kilowatt Jackson not wanting his hosts to know that gas would have to be sub stituted to broil the steaks. And Frank Ray and his party having a gay time in candle light during the blackout at their Hotel Holland dinner. Ray Frisbie wondering how so much misinformation could be given to him to broadcast at the bb park. Joe and Anne Earley driving th.M -l ivtrni la1. rt Prater if its lake and gaining free entrance from Louis P. Thornton to Ba tn ih. mrk hx-auaa oi their , ket Broadcasting company, lor uuiorm-clad guestf INVADERS MAKE 90-MILE BREAK IN STALIN LINE Nine Million Men Locked in Desperate Combat; Reds Throw in Last Reserves By the Associated Press A "tremendous struggle for a decision" between 9,000,000 Ger man and Russian troops was re ported by Adolf Hitler's high command today, and nazi dis patches claimed what appeared to be a complete 90-mile break through the center of the Stalin line. Jubilantly hinting at a cli mactic turn in the 26-day-old campaign, the German high com mand asserted that the Russians now were throwing their last reserves into the conflict in a desperate attempt to stem the nazi blitzkrieg. Claim Smolensk DNB, the official German news agency, said Hitler's in vasion columns, storming through the vital central front guarding Moscow, had captured Smolensk, 230 miles west of the soviet capital. DNB also reported that Po lotsk, detoured by onrushing panzer spearheads, had been taken later by enveloping tac tics. A Reuters (British) news agen cy dispatch from Moscow late today said Smolensk was still in Russian hands this morning. The German claim of its capture was made at that time. Precise limits of the 1,100 mile Stalin line are unknown, but presumably Smolensk is near the rear or behind the line. Some reports have said the great man-made barrier, extend ing from the Gulf of Finland to the Black sea, was as much as 75 miles deep, with an average depth of about 25 miles. Since the German thrust from Vitebsk, on the west side of the line to Smolensk represented an ad vance of gome 90 miles, it ap peared that the nazls had made a clean break-through. Claim Corrected An authorized spokesman In Berlin first declared that Ger man "schnell truppen" (speed troops) had raced far beyond Smolensk to within 110 miles of Moscow itself, but this was later corrected. . The claim wag based on German press report that nazi troops had captured the town of Gorodische, 110 miles from the Muscovite capital. Subsequently, however, the captured town was identified as another by the same name, on the southern - front between Zhitomir and Berdl- chev. facing the soviet Ukraine The Germans said their troops, concealed in artificial fog, had "stormed the last of the under ground fortifications near Kiev,' the Ukraine capital. "Great successes are In the making." Hitler's field head quarters proclaimed, casting off its reticent mood of the past week. A Moscow communique ack nowledged violent all-night fiahtini in which German and Russian trooog contended for mastenr of the road to Lenin grad. Critical Hour The battle raged in the Pskov- Prokhov sector. 150 miles souw west of Leningrad. Details were lacking. "In other sectors, no major operations took place and no significant changes in the posi tions of our troopg ocmrrtu, the soviet high command de clared. But on the all-important cen tral front, guarding Moscow, a critical hour had struck. The Russians officially con ceded that tank-led nazi legions had broken through to the vicin ity of Smolensk, key railway town, about halfway along the Minsk-to-Moscow motor high way, but they made no mention of the fall of the town. Radio License Transfer Washington. July 17.- The Federal Communications Commission hag authoriged transfer of the license of radio rtation KBKR. Baker, Ore- jeonilderatioo of 112,000. Consuls inpil.iliinil.nl .i.mimj-mfm- I ! .-7""- i iii i nnai i u uia .u lanaoBaWSe l v r .y N ' ' While awaiting final preparations for their flight to Mew York. Capt Frits Wiedemann (left), and Dr. Hans Borcher, German consuls general of San Francisco and New York respec tively, and the members of their party gathered at the Ban Francisco airport bar for a party. Mrs. Borcher (hand to face) talks to a woman companion while Capt. Wiedemann chats with another member of the group that traveled in thro chartered planes. They went to Now York to board the naval transport West Point, CORVALUS RATED3 ABOVE EUGENE AS Washington. . July 17.- Col. W. B. Mallon of the army's general staff notified Senator McNary (R., Ore.) today that Corvallis had a higher priority, than Eugene in location of army cantonments If the army was enlarged. He said that the surveying crew which has been at Eugene would be transferred to Cor vallis, but added that Corvallis' orioritv did not eliminate Eu gene from the list of probable cantonment sites. According to those conversant with the situation, the status of the nrorjosed Corvallis canton ment hag no bearing on the status of the cantonment plan ned here in the Beagle-Antelope district. Cant Theron W. Bean, con- structing quartermaster in charge of advance planning for the proposed army cantonment here, and Frank J. Van Dyke, civilian cantonment coordin ator, addressed a group of Eagle Point city officials. Grange members and other interested citizens in the Eagle Point Grange hall last night Capt. Bean told in general how the Eagle Point district would be affected by the camp should it be established and Mr. Van Dyke told of plans being made to solve the many prob lems in advance. Capt Bean urged all to plan for the camp now so that everything would function smoothly when and if it should be constructed. Wil liam Perry, county commission er and Eagle Point resident, presided. Conferring here yesterday with Capt. Bean were Col. R. W. Pinger, 9th corps area ord nance officer, San Francisco, R. B. Allen, civilian assistant to the ordnance officer, and B. R. Kleinwalkter, civilian engineer, 9th corps area signal office. GOVERNOR RETURNS FROM EASTERN TRIP Salem, July 17. (Gov ernment officials agree that the German-Rusian war hag re lieved the United States of any immediate threat, but this does not mean any let-up in Amer ica's defense preparations. Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague said today on his return from .three-week eastern (rip. Enjoy Airport Axis Holds U. S. Envoys Until Their Own Envoys in Europe Berlin, July 17. (P) United States consular officials and employes now rounded up for ejection from Germany and Europe will not be set free until German consular officials on the American navy transport West Point are set down on European soil, an - authorized spokesman declared tonight. Americans who have been stationed in Germany now are in Frankfurt-on-Maln and those in Italy are being assembled at San Remo. 'The plan Is to give up the Americans at the moment the Italians and Germans safely re turn, the spokesman said. SERIAL NUMBERS FOR 21 -YEAR-OLDS Will BE DRAWN AT 4 P. M. Washington, July 17. UP) Within the space of approxi mately two hours the govern ment will determine by lot to night the order in which it will call up for military service the second group of selective service registrants. After brief preliminaries be ginning at 4 p. m PST, in the departmental auditorium. Navy Secretary Knox, blindfolded, will dip hlg hand into an historic glass Jar used on similar fateful occasions of the past, and the second national selective service lottery will be off. The lottery, on a much smaller scale than that of October 29. 1940, when 9.000 numbers were drawn, will determine priorities of service for approximately 750.000 young men registered July 1 who had become 21 years old after the first draft regis tration last year. Last Veteran Dlea Tacoma, Wash., July 17. -W) Tacoma'g last Civil War vet eran, George Manning, probably the oldest G A R. veteran in the United States, died this noon at hlg home near Tacoma. Mr. Manning lacked three dayg of being 103 years old, and while in precarious health due to his advanced age, had been well enough that he had planned to attend a club luncheon in his honor at noon Friday. This season's pack of canned salmon in British Columbia will total approximately 1,700,000 Party "The exchange possibly .will take place in Spain although details are unsettled. The aim is to make the operation as possible." Rome, July 17 UPy The for eign office informed the United States embassy tonight that the American consular party, en route home under expulsion orders, would not be permitted to leave Italy until word had been received that a similar Italian consular party had ar rived at Lisbon, Portugal, and disembarked from the United States navy transport West Point. THUNDERSTORMS CAUSE BREAK IN By the Associated Press Thunderstorms and a slight relief from the Washington-Oregon heat wave were promised again today by federal meteor ologists, who said that cooler weather was hovering off the coast Just waiting for a high pressure area to move away from the Rockies and let it In, The heat was slightly less than Wednesday which saw all- time records DroKen at many points, Including Seattle which had 100 (two degrees over Its all-time hot mark) and a mini mum of only 72 last night highest minimum on record there. Lemon prices doubled, on waning supplies, at several points. Roseburg, Ore., reported some 60 forest fires set by last night's heavy electrical storm, and that 50 lightning fires had been ex tinguished. Salem reported 90 degrees to day against 87.2 at the same hour '11:15 a. m.) yesterday, it was 92 at Portland at the game hour, Seattle yesterday had six heat prostratlona. Portland recorded its third death, due to heat Portland, July 17, (VP) A western hemispheric Interna tional police force, as an In strument for coping with the problems of war, should cover both North and South America British Columbia Police Com- 1 missioner T. W. S. Parsons said lagtoiXM- HANLEY UPHELD 8Y HIGH COURT WIFE'S SUIT Washington State Opinion Holds Husband Had Power to Execute Voting Trust Olympla, Wash.. July 17. (IP) The supreme court ruled to day that E. B. Hanley, Sr., of Seattle, had the requisite au thority to execute voting trust agreements with Joe E. Most, in connection with control over the Copper River Packing com pany of Alaska and Pleasant Creek Mining company of Ore gon. Their (the trust agreements) execution was on behalf of the community, the court said. The decision is in the case of Elizabeth H. Hanley against Mr. Hanley, Joe E. Most, E. G. Most, the companies and Mrs. A. C. Bevan of Medford, Ore., in which Mrs. Hanley ' sought to enjoin her husband from giving away any of their community property, and to enjoin the other defendants from inducing ner nusDana to commit any 01 such acts, to set aside the trust agreements, to compel Joe Most and Mrs. Bevan to account for and return certain personal property and to obtain a re ceiver for the marital commun ity. Half Million Fortune The court's opinion said Han ley had amassed a fortune of well over a half million dollars. The question of whether Han ley may now cancel or termin ate the voting trust agreements must be determined in a suit brought for that purpose, the court held. In the absence of a showing Hanley will in the future at tempt to make substantial gifts to third persons, the court said no basis exists for a restraining order in that respect After the case came to sup reme court, Hanley, Sr., filed a confession, which placed him on the side of his wife in the case, and In which ' ha repudiated later stock transfers to Most A motion by Most to strike the confession brought from the court a decision to remand the cause to the trial court, with direction Hanley be allowed to confess Judgment as against himself, "whereupon the decree, (Continued on Pago Fire) Lindbergh Asks Roosevelt To Make Ickes Apologize New York, July 17, OP) Charles A. Lindbergh today ad vised President Roosevelt that he had no connection with any foreign government, that he received a German decoration while serving the American em bassy and declared that he had a right to an apology from Sec retary of the Interior Ickes for certain "statements and Impli cations." In a letter to the president. Lindbergh offered to open his files and testify before any com mittee appointed by the presi dent to answer any charges that may be mad against him. He declared, however, that unless charges were made and proved, he felt he had the right to "expect truth and Justice from the mem berg of your cabinet." Saying that ha wrote ag an American citizen, Lindbergh, who recently resigned as colonel in the air corps reserve, wrote: "For many months, and on numerous occasions, your secre tary of the interior has Implied In publie meetings that I am connected with the Interests of a foreign government and he has specifically criticized ma for accepting a decoration from the German government In 1938. "Mr. President, is It too much to ask that yon Inform your secretary of the Interior that I was decorated by the German government while I was carry ing out the request of your ambassador to that government? Is It unfair of ma to ask that you Inform your secretary that I waived this decoration la the BASEBALL National (Cancelled end of sixth rain.) Score: (Tie) R. H. E. Chicago 2 6 0 Philadelphia 3 8 2 Page and McCullough; roa- gajny and Warren. American Score: R. H. E. Washington 14 0 Detroit 7 14 1 Hudson, Kennedy and Early; Trout and Sullivan. SEEN NECESSARY Washington, July 17. IP) Leon Henderson, price adminis trator, said today that rent con trol lawa would bo necessary in defense areas where volun tary methods fall to prevent increases. In many places where the housing shortage is acuta rents are "skyrocketing," Henderson told a house committee investi gating labor migration. -"In gome shipbuilding, ord nance and army cantonment centers as many as one out of every two rented homes have had rent increases ranging from 20 to 100 per cent since Octo ber 1939," he testified. ."In Bremerton, Wash site of the Pudget sound navy yard there has been an average in crease of 16 per cent on about 50 out of avery 100 rented homes. - "Key centers of varied Indus trial production have been like wise affected; there hag been an average 16 per cent increase on 80 out of 100 homes In Pontiac, Mich. "Communities adjacent t o army cantonments have report ed some of the most extreme cases of upheavals In the local rental market." AMERICAN ATTACHES FREED BY GERMANY Berlin. July 17. UP) Frank Nelson and Ivan Jacobsen, for mer clerks in the American legation at Oslo, who have been held by the German government since last December on charges of possessing documents hostile to the Norwegian government, left Berlin today en route to America. Jacobsen Is a former University of Washington stu dent Lindbergh Should Return Decoration 1$ Ickes' Retort Washington, July 17, W) Secretary Ickes declared today he believed that if Charles A. Lindbergh "were in upstanding American" he would have turned back his 3 e r m a n decoration "long i go, regardless of how, when or where he got it." The interior department chief made hlg statement at a press conference after being informed that Lindbergh had written President Roosevelt niggesting an apology by Ickes for hlg criticism of Lindbergh's position In the present International situa tion. - "I've never said at any lima that ha Is connected with the lr.terestg of a foreign government" Ickeg gald. "I have said, however, that he has gone about the country preaching appeasement and disunity which Is In the in terest of a foreign govern ment namely Germany. American embassy. In the pres ence of your ambassador, and that I was there at his request in order to assist In creating a better relationship between the American embassy and the German government which your ambassador desired at that Urns:- NO PEAR DAMAGE FROM HIGH WIND, I Worst Electric Storm and Gale of Year Cause For est Fires; Disrupt Wires Frultmen reported today there wag no commercial loag from the wind that swept over the valley Wednesday night, Growers said a few pears were blown off, but there were no) reports of heavy losses. County Agent Robert G. Fow ler said he had received no re ports of any damage to grain or other field crops. Severest electric and wind storm of the year last night set dozens of forest fires, disrupted light service in a business see Hon' of town for an hour and a half, put a number of sub urban telephone lines out of commission and uprooted sev eral large trees In the city. Gusts of wind reached a top velocity from time to time of 55 miles an hour, United Air Lines reported. Mill Fire Sparks from the huge burner of the Medford Corporation if nlted wood on the conveyor belt to create a serious fire threat when the wind wag at its peak. Employes, however, laid hoso lines quickly and had the blaze out before the fir department arrived. A general alarm was started ' at 7:28 p. m. but at that mo. ment electric service all over town went out temporarily and the alarm could not bo finished. Wires were blown together or crossed by blowing branches) and several insulators on a power pole at Fifth and Grapa streets were burned out in most parts of town light serv ice was resumed in a few mu utes but In the section Including the Hotel Medford. Rlalto the ater. Hotel Holland and Mall Tribune, the service waa out from about 7:23 to 8:81. No Strikes In City Contrary to what many per' sons thought there were no lightning strikes In the city, the) California Oregon Power com pany said. Telephone service on the sub urban lines put out of commis sion by the wind was resumed this morning, the Pacific Tele phone St Telegraph company said. The state forest patrol this) morning had all Its men out on 17 lightning-caused fires In Jose phine county and 16 In Jack son county, it being feared mora) might show up. Lightning set number of fires in the Union Creek dis trict of Rogue River national forest A heavy rain and in soma In stances bail accompanied the storm In soma parts of thai southern Oregon area. The electric service went out in the Hotel Holland and Hotel Medford at the peak of the din ner hour when dining rooms) were busiest Candles were) quickly rushed Into service and guests obligingly simplified their orders to help the kitchen staffs working under difficult circumstances. The feature picture bad just started at the Rlalto theater when the light and power went out Most of the audience wait ed the hour and a half for the) show to go on. At the Roxy theater the lights were out for about 29 minutes. The Craterlan theater was closed for installa tion of new sound equipment. VINES IN MILTON AREA Milton-Free water. Ore.. July 1 7. (yP Tomato growers gald today that unless a break in the weather occurred soon, they would losa large part of their crop. They complained that some of the fruit waa literally cooked on the vines by temperatures wall over 100 degrees for day
