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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1941
! I-II II . ..HI ,
No. 102.
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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.
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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
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Blatk Sta Z
Finland (2) Germans Indicated
Russians said this salient was
T
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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.
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H. E.
8 1
4 3
Pittsburgh
Boston
1
Heintzelman and Lopez:
Johnson, Earley, Lamanna, and
Masi, Montgomery.
(ind game)
Pittsburgh
Boston
R.
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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.