Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 18, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text... nui w a wait. Weather " ort Sunday Want Ads Sander I nod ear te as ertlaa tha Want ad Way la this newspaper. ftiht aow would be a food tlma ta ere para your Ad (or (ha Sunday mornlnf adlllon. People have tlma to check your proposition. Medford Tribune Forecast: Fair tonlfht ut Ralaraar; mil chaste ta temperature. Tern pent or Highest Testrrdajr H towest this mornlnf M rrerlpltatlon put U hoars, M Full Associated Press sited Press Thirty sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1941 ! I-II II . ..HI , No. 102. m News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 18. Per sonal reflections of a column ist taking a vacation from news. Opoosition brings out the best i wiijijh iimm jn Mr. Koose I SiFK 1 velt. Years of f v"Sj watching him at his work have con vinced me he flounders only when- the go ing I s easy. Remember his fatal riding of the- crest in NRA days and raul Mallon. the rip-tide of his first re-election which car ried him into re-constructing the supreme court. But when the chips are down and the pressure is on, there has never been a more careful and skillful executive in my time. The first banking crisis and his third re-election campaign furnish the evidence. But the latest proof is the manner in which he has met opposition in the international crises. If you will take what he has actually done apart from what he has said and away from what Senator Wheeler believes he really wants to do, you will see the point standing alone in ob vious clarity. His words have bristled and threatened, but his actions have been well-prepared and clever. The first step he took was the worst from the legal and technical standpoints. Transfer nt thA Rn reconditioned de stroyers styained our own prac tical needs twe couia ceruumy use them now) and legal con ceptions. But the Iceland occu pation did neither, and met strong popular approval even though it constituted a limited declaration of naval war. Be tween those two steps, few have been taken by the president which did not have the support . of the country, even though his words were at the same time being roundly criticized. If opposition continues and his health holds out, Mr. Roose velt will do the greatest Job of his long career in the next few years. A MILITARY friend dropped In to scratch my back the other day about the patriotism of my column. We talked about how patriotism and American ism seemed cheapened in the rjublic mind after the last war, how some of the younger folks Growing up in this scoffing at mosphere began to see their , (Continued on Page Ten) RAILROAD TRUST SUIT SETTLED BY CONSENT Washington, July 18 (JPh An anti-trust suit against the Association of American Rail roads and 236 member compan ies was settled today by a con sent decree which the justice de nArtmAnt said was exrjected to "restore to individual railroads freedom of action to enter into direct transportation arrange ments with motor carriers. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific standard.) Tonight, the war 4:55 CBS; 6 MBS: 6:45 CBS; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS. NBC-Red 6:30 Listen Amer ica, Secretory of Agriculture Wickard. MBS 5:15 Undersecretary of War Patterson at Springfield, Mass., Arsenal. Saturday, the war 5 NBS Red CBS: 7 CBS MBS; 8 MBS; 9:45 NBC-Red: 10:55 CBS: 1 1 p. m.. NBC MBS; 2:25 NBC; 2:30 CBS NBC-Blue. NBC-Blue 830 National r.ranof 12 30 n. m. (also CBS MBS) Empire City race: MBS 2 Arlington Park race. snon waves: for Saturday RNE Mos cow 4 English broadcast; GSC GSD London 5 Headline News: DJD DZD DXP Berlin 6:30 Mh.r.1' TflW A Ofiatpmala 7 concert; for Sunday GSC GSD London 3 05 war commentary; r.ir r:;ri I-nnrlon 8 Answering You; DJD DZD DXP Berlin 7 JO newt. IMPORTANT CITY DECLARED TAKEN Invaders Fight Off All At tempts at Recapture Take Entire Red Division Berlin, July 18 P The high command announced to night that Carman troops have) swept over and beyond Smolensk, important city on the road to Moscow. Smolensk Itself was taken on Wednesday and all at tempts to recapture it were shattered, the high command said. ' (By Associated Press) The Germans, loosing their shock power afield and in the air in an effort to fatally break the red center before Moscow, claimed today the capture of an entire Russian division head quarters southwest of Smolensk and declared that isolated So viet units were being encircled in vast mopping-up operations. Berlin's picture was of a broad salient at the central front being extended at its wings in a closing arc by which substantial forces were bitten out of the Russian lines and then entrapped. Railroad Attacked The Smolensk-Moscow rail way system, German sources said, were under heavy running aerial attack this Intended to disorganize Russian concentra tions and to clog the possible avenues of Russian retreat. All this in sharp contrast with Moscow's claims that the red armies were holding firmly at all vital positions was ac companied by German reports that on the Baltic sea front five Soviet destroyers had been hit outside Riga bay by aerial bombs and that four undamaged Russian submarines and a mine sweeper had been seized by German occupying forces in the Latvian port of Libau. Dispatches from Berlin said German columns driving toward Leningrad, Russia's second big gest city, had captured a Rus sian airplane depot with 1,500 planes, and also seized 4,000 horses, 1,000 trucks and 1,000 prisoners amid heavy losses to the Soviets. Red Assaults Told Soviet dispatches pictured red army troops as violently assail ing the flanks of the German drive toward Moscow, offering suicidal resistance at many strong points behind the Nazi spearheads and conducting ' a ceaseless guerrilla warfare. A Soviet communique again spoke of heavy fighting during! the night in the Bobruisk sector, on the south side of the Smo-i lensk salient where the Germans j have crashed through the cen-j ter of the Stalin line. It was in the Bobruisk area that Moscow reported Soviet troops had opened a powerful counter-offensive, hurling the Germans back across the Dnepr river for more than 19 miles. DNB, the official German news agency, said a "whole battalion of women" In the red army forces defending the route to Leningrad had been captured. Nails Lack Oil In London, official Quartern said Germany's armies and en force were threatened with an acute shortage of oil and fuel if the Russian campaign con tinues through September. Al ready, it was said, Nazi supplies have been "severely tut" by invasion of the U. S. S. R. and by Soviet aerial bombardment of the Plesti oil fields in Ru mania, and supplies captured In the Nazi sweep across western Europe have been used up. Evidence that a similar pinch was being felt in Italy was seen in a Fascist government order today cancelling all gasoline rations for private automo biles, effective October 1, be cause of the "growing diffi culty" in getting rubber and gasoline through the British blockade. No Fire Firemen found only smoke from a dry, overheated engine when they were called this after noon to an automobile standing in front of the J. it N. cafe. 27 South Front street. The car was 1 registered to James T. Buckley. Jacksonville, firemen reported. Central Front it 7 : : I 3 FINLAND W w sj 'i'i!y'iy,t i'NOAO v wtTvK ft v RUM RUMANIA 7571 W.OCSTI I Action from the Baltic to the Black Sea was reported with tha heaviest fighting in the central sectors: (1) Russians claimed two German planes - downed at sea and destruction oi a German submarine by mines in the Gulf of they had thrust to BJelaja, but smashed. Heavy fighting was reported in two other major areas, the Polotsk-Vitebsk (3) and the Kiev sectors (4). Russians an nounced air raids on Ploesti (5), Rumanian oil canter. "Roosevelt Wall" Threatens Japan Says Newspaper Tokyo, Saturday, July 19. JP) The foreign-office con trolled Japan Time and Ad vertiser said today that "a Roosevelt wall is being built ind strengthened about Ja pan's ' eastern front which threatens the safety of this empire" and that "the time tor Japan to take forceful measures In its own Interests is now, before the throttling :ircle becomes too strong and dangerous." Referring to recent United States moves to strengthen island bases in the ' Pacific, the paper, in and editorial, said' "In' these developments :an be seen nothing less than in ' attempt to establish in American empire over the approaches to and exits from Tapan." London, July 18 WV-The United States is going to build enough ships "to bring goods into the United Kingdom and into every theater in the world where democracies are fighting Hitler," Harry Hopkins, super visor of the U. S. lend-lease pro gram said today. Here on an official visit, Hop kins told a press conference he estimated United States ship building yards would build and make ready for sea 1,000,000 tons of . merchantmen during 1B41 and at least 6,000,000 tons during next year "We are going to see that the food Is in those ships and that adequate amounts of cheese and dairy products, fat and pork ducts get over here, he said. Couple Drown In John Day River Heppner, Ore., July 1(1 CP) Mr. and Mrs. Woodrore Morris drowned in the John Day river last night where they sought re lief from the heat Morris, soil conservation service employe. formerly was stationed here. Surviving are a it-year-old son. 8-month-old daughter and their pa rents in Lakeriew, HOPKINS PLEDGES: SHIPS AND FOOD War Heavy aiLaoaos VASTOPOl L Blatk Sta Z Finland (2) Germans Indicated Russians said this salient was T E Paul Houghton of Portland, field representative of the farm security administration, was to return north by train tonight after a further study here since yesterday regarding a possible site for a temporary migrant labor camp. It has not been determined yet whether the camp will be established here, Mr. Houghton said, adding that establishment of the camp had been solicited by the Rogue River Valley Traf fic association and others. If set up, the camp would be similar to one at Grants Pass, he added. . Mr. Houghton was accompan ied by Emory Worth, farm place ment supervisor of the state employment service, . Another federal man here on business today was George I. Noyes, regional appraiser of the Home Owners Loan corporation which is in charge of appraisals on land for the proposed army cantonment. LINDBERGH LETTER REACHES F. R. LATE Washington, July 18. (Py President Roosevelt told report ers today that he had observed that the press had received a letter, written to him by Charles A. Lindbergh, saying that Lind bergh had a right to an apology from Interior Secretary Ickes. Lindbergh released the letter In New York yesterday and a presidential aide said it had not yet reached the White House. Later it was announced that the letter, registered and air mailed, arrived, at the White House at 1 1:22 a. m. (EST) today. Realty Brokers Exams Scheduled Salem, July 18 UP) Exam inations for real estate brokers will be held In the capital here July 24, and at the Oregon building in Portland July 25 State Real Estate Commissioner Claude Murphy said today. These will be the last exami nations until September, when tests will be given both for sales men and brokers mm NEED IRE MEN TO BATTLE FIRES IN FOREST AREAS Hundreds of Conflagrations Started by Continued Lightning in Two States By the Associated Press As thunder and showers her alded the near end to the Pa cific northwest's record-breaking heat wave today, a shortage of fire fighters added a new menace to the forest fire situa tion, already serious because of the prolonged dry spell. In Salem, Ore., last night sound trucks toured the streets calling for fire fighters to sup plement CCC forces battling flames set by lightning in the Detroit ranger district of the Willamette national forest. Need Thousand Men Officials of the Wenatchee national forest said only 300 men, when a thousand were needed, were fighting 50 fires, five oi them out oi control, in the forest. In Walla Walla county of Washington a five-mile strip of golden grain on Eureka flat was Kln,.lrnMl hv fira. thousands of dollars worth of standing and sacked grain were Durnea ana one ranch house destroyed. A crown fire swept toward one of the finest stands of tim ber in Linn county. Ore. A mm Af ann mn with raterrjlllar tractors and 10,000 feet of hose battled the flames northeast oi Berlin. - - . Hundreds of Fires Hundreds of fires, the ma jority started by lightning, were reported in Oregon and Wash ington. Four deaths were attributed in th. hoot wave, believed to have been broken by a wide spread electrical storm iasi n'8ht- .; n.. (amnanhir rose to 1UU degrees again yesterday In Port land, but the day s nignesi m- am from Wishram on the Columbia river In Klicki tat county. Wash., wnere me mercury reached 115 degrees. T ,1.1.. Mihn hurl 112 and Wenatchee 111. Seattle reported than Fnn a-rasa and tim ber fires raged in 10 northern California national forests to day, with new fires being started by lightning storms faster than 3,000 weary firefighters could beat them out. ir.i...hi. 4imhf stands were threatened, but for the most part the fires were connnea w brush, grass and scrub trees. Helsinki, July 18. UP The Finnish army's drive into So viet Russia has penetrated to a depth of nearly 100 miles at some points, cutting off the re treat of Russian units, reliable Finnish sources said today. These gains were made in the "Ladoga - Karelia area," they said, without Indicating whether this was north or south of Lake Ladoga. (A 100-mile advance south of the lake on the Karelia Isthmus, would bring the Finns to the gates of Leningrad, second city of the Soviet union, which is approximately that distance from the new Russian-Finnish frontier established after the 1939-40 war.) The 100-mile thrusts were ac complished in six days, - the Informants said, and mopping-up operations still are In progress. WASTEPAPER SAVING URGED BY HENDERSON Washington, July 18 Leon Henderson, price adminis trator, urged today that house wives save waste paper for col lection by waste paper dealers. "Waste paper supplements Im portantly the nation's available supplies of wood pulp," Hender son said. "Evidence of a grow ing shortage of this essential raw material emphasizes the need to save waste paper in all its form " FINNS DRIVEDEEP N SOVIET RUSSIA GIVES WAR LORDS New Japanese Body Has Three Admirals and Four Generals; Aims Unknown Washington, July 18. (JF) The formation of what appeared to be strictly a "war cabinet in Japan held the prospect to day of increasing tension in the Pacific but whether It presaged an Immediate military move re mained uncertain here. Officials withheld comment on the new predominantly mili tary government under Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye until closer analysis of all its mem bership. Tokyo, July 18. (Pi Prince Fumimaro Konoye today form ed a streamlined cabinet with half Its members generals or ad mirals and declared that "the empire's policy for coping with the international situation already has been fixed and it now remains for us to put it into practice with decision and speed." What action this portended the premier did not disclose but in a statement to the nation he called for unity because "with the rapid changes that are tak ing place" in world affairs "the mission of our country is grow ing heavier and heavier." Day-to-Day Policy Vice Admiral Teijlro Toyoda, who became foreign minister. said Japan's foreign policy might have to be adapted to "t h e day-to-day International situation." ' Little is known of the foreign policy outlook of Toyoda, suc cessor to YoeuKe MatsuoKa, who concluded the neutrality pact with Soviet Russia after aligning Japanese policy with the axis while foreign minister in the preceding Konoye gov ernment. "With the earnest support of a hundred million Japanese, Konoye's message said, "I in tend to do everything in my power to accomplish the great ideal on which the foundation of our empire was based by overcoming all difficulties that may lie in my country a path. 3 Admirals, 4 Generals The new government contains three admirals and four gen erals and was described author itatively as a wartime cabinet of concentrated power. To the new post of Vice Pre mier Knoye named Baron Kilch- iro Hiranuma, a former pre mier, home mlnslter In the retir ing cabinet and prominently identified with totalitarian phases of its program. (The Chinese press at Hong kong said that the chief motive of the reorganization was to tear up the neutrality agree ment with Russia). Franco Sees Universal .War Should U. S. Enter Picture Madrid. July 18 m With blaze of red and gold bunting, speeches by General Franco and wholesale pardoning of political prisoners, nationalist Spain cele brated today the fifth anniver sary of the start of the civil war in which it was born. Franco last night declared that United States' Intervention In the European war would lead to a universal conflict lasting years and ending in the ruin of nations. But to Spaniards, chief inter est in his speech was his atten tion to Spain's post-war domes tic problems and her efforts to get food from abroad. Speaking today at Villa Verde, near Madrid, Franco said the government hoped the Spanish workers might gain a living wage. He said 800,000,000 other Europeans were threatened with starvation by the war blockade. Chief among those pardoned was Manuel Hedilla. chief of the Falange from the beginning of BASEBALL national R. , S H. E. 8 1 4 3 Pittsburgh Boston 1 Heintzelman and Lopez: Johnson, Earley, Lamanna, and Masi, Montgomery. (ind game) Pittsburgh Boston R. . 3 . 4 H. E. 12 0 6 0 Sullivan, Diets, Wilkle and Baker, Davis; Erickson, Laman na and Berres. R. H. E. St. Louis 6 11 0 6 1 Higbe, Owen. Brooklyn 1 White and Mancuso; M. Brown, Wicker and American (10 Innings) R. H. 0 7 Boston i 3 Chicago . 4 Grove and Peacock; Rigney and Turner. REFLECT ACTIVITY IN MEDFORD AREA One of the busiest days of the year yesterday saw applica tions made at the city building inspector's office for seven per mits representing a total stated cost of 37,895. The largest was the applica tion of O. H. Bengtson for a per mit to construct two three-room residences at 202-206 West Third street at a cost of 34,000. Pierce-Allen Motor company applied for a permit to remodel its garage at 113 Soutn River side avenue at a cost of 33.Q0O. R. R. Ebel of 620 South Oak dale avenue applied for a permit to make an addition to his house at a stated cost of 3500. ADDllcatlon for a permit to build one-room cottage at 810 King street at a cost of 3200 was made by Clinton A. Balfour. Mabel C. Hall of 319 South Central avenue applied for a permit to reroof at cost of 3100. Vf. R. Young of 1117 West 11th street applied for a permit to repair a roof at a stated cost of 350, and May Turptn of 228 South Holly street applied for a permit to repair a roof at a cost of 343. FIRSTlLfTAXES OVER LAST YEAR Taxes and feet collected In Jackson county for the six months ending June 30, amount ed to 31,040,892.93, according to the tax collection department of the sheriff's office. This Is 83, 226.77 more than for the first six months of 1940, when it was 31.037.666.18. First half year payments of taxes were completed July 13 the civil war. July 18, 1936, until he differed with the gen eral the following March, Just before unification of all pro- nationalist parties, and was im prisoned. The Spanish leader, in a hard- spoken address to the national council of the Falangist party broadcast last night, made vitriolic atUck upon the United States and appealed to other American nations to keep away from the conflict and to lend sympathy to the axis in its bat tle with Soviet Russia. "Nobody is more authorized than us to tell Americans that Europe has no ambitions over America," he said. "A struggle between the two continents is Impossible. It would only mean a sea war, long and without re sults, fabulous business for the few, unsuspected misery for many, prodigious losses in ships and merchandise with subma rine and fast ship warfare clutching at previously peaceful world commerce." , MASTER LISTS TO FOR DRAFT CALLS fBe.sssssss Local Board Says No Nunv bers Available Until Wash ington Is Heard From Jackson county local board headquarters said today no list of order numbers would be available here until the official master sheets had been received from Washington, D. C. On July 1 local board No. 1 registered 62 youths who had become 21 years old since the first select ive service registration last Oct ober and local board No. 2 reg istered 110. Washington, July 18. (JPh Hundreds of 21-year-old men who held draft registration , number 196 were but a few short weeks from army service today, blind chance in a pink capsule having determined that among 750,000 of their fellows they should be the first to be called. It was all settled In a na tional lottery last night in the departmental auditorium. There, at 4:08 p. m. (PST) blind folded selectee who has already earned his sergeant's stripes, dipped his hand into a glass jar of 800 small capsules and drew out one. The number it contain ed was 196. Two hours and 26 minutes later the drawing was finished by another selectee who took out the last, capsule, holding number 630, , Check Lists Today selective service head quarters put its whole force to work checking and rechecking a master list of the 800 numbers drawn and by the week-end copies of this list will be sent out to the country's 6,500 local draft boards. Their Job will be to arrange their 21-year-old reg istrants enrolled July I in tne order of their registration num bers on the national list ana then Integrate them with the registrants remaining from th first selective service enroll ment last October. Officials said this process and the classification procedure to follow would require several weeks and that the first of the 21-year-olds probably would be inducted into the army around September 1. MINERAL HEARING SOUGHT IN G. PASS Grants Pass, July 18. flV- Niel R. Allen, Republican state chairman, said today he had wired Senator Rufus Holman (R Ore.) asking that a sena tor la 1 committee conducting hearings in Seattle on strategic minerals stop in the Grants Pass area if possible, or have rep resentative collect data. State and federal geologists have termed the southwestern Oregon-northern California area centering here as one of the few great chrome districts In the) country. Allen said the small mine op era tors were financially unable) to attend hearings at Portland, requiring a round trip of 600 miles. They told him, he said, that their problems needed to be presented first hand. SICE GLAIXES TRtBUHI REPORTER Ward Spate vehemently deny big he was paying or receiving 355.13 3-3 ton for orchard na cannery Bartletts. Elizabeth Rinard wondering how much three hats gentlemen have left In her eating place would bring on the open mar ket. Babe Coy landing nice big salmon, she averring It waa the man-eating fish that drove Ray mond Fish out of the river.