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Medford
Tribune
Full Associated Press
United Proas
Thirty 6ixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1941.
No. 101-
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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
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' 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