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Full Associated Press
United Presi
Thirty sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 20, 1941
No. 103.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, July 19. The
public may be thinking about
everything except 1944, but not
the politicians. Only off-season
for them is the 30 days immedi-
ately after an election. In the
seven months that have passed
since the last vacation period
closed, general lines have been
laid tor coming events. From
these now you can get a fairly
clear slant on how things are
likely to go.
NEAREST the raU In the Re
publican race is the distinct
figure of Dewey. The Nsw York
district attorney and racketeer
V eradicator is making himself
something more than that for
next time. He will run for the
same spring-seated governor s
chair which catapulted Mr.
Roosevelt into the White House,
and produced such earlier can
didates as Al Smith and Charles
Evans Hughes. The election will
come a year from November
and Dewey is conceded an ex
cellent chance of winning, even
If LaGuardia or Jim Farley gets
into it against him.
Dewey, meanwhile, is keep
ing himself in the movies by
nationwide leadership of the
fund raising for the USO, a job
which incidentally is taking him
to all sections of the country to
make speeches, and has even
brought him to Fred Allen's ra
dio program.
The more experienced leaders
of the party are no closer to
Dewey now than at the Phila
delphia convention last year
when they declined to take him
after his few spectacular pri
mary victories. But they seem
more mellow about it, probably
because their objections about
his lack of experience will be
satisfied If the planned develop
ments work out. They are now
in the mood to say: "I don't like
him, but if he wins the New
York governorship, I think he
should get it."
WENDELL Willkie is making
himself eminently eligible
in case the country is still at
war and the Roosevelt foreign
policy is still popular in 1944
But his stand with or ahead of
Roosevelt has nettled so many
(Continued on Ps-t Six)
War Bulletins
New York. July 19. P)
German radio report, heard
here by NBC, said tonight
that General Peter Makarov
and a number of "higher staff
officers" of the Russian army
were captured by German in
fantry in a forest near Kiev.
The Germans were said to
have surprised a Soviet divis
ion headquarters.
Moscow. Sunday, July 20.
W The Soviet harvest is be
ing completed nearly twice as
quickly as lait year, it was
announced officially today,
with thousands of women re
placing tractor-combine driv
ers who have gone into the
army.
Berlin, July 19. IIP Ger
man press dispatches reported
tonight that one British bomb
er and four fighter planes
were shot down over Nail
eccupied northern France and
Belgium during the day.
Reports from The Nether
lands said two more British
planes were downed there by
anti-aircraft fire.
Singapore. July 19. W
New contingents of the Royal
Air Force arrived here from
England today, continuing a
bolstering of Britain's Far
Eastern defenses. The number
was not disclosed, but RAF
headquarters described the
units as "large reinforce
ments." London, Sunday, July 20.
(V-Reuters. British news
agency, said today the Mos
cow rsdio reported Premier
Joseph Stalin had been ap
pointed peoples' commissar
for defense of Soviet Russia.
T
ADVANTAGE LATER
No Early Smash At Red
Capital, Berlin Says
Soviet Claims Gains.
By the Associated Press
Berlin, July 19. Germans de
clared tonight that the western
gate to Moscow" had been
opened by the thrust of a nazi
spearhead past Smolensk and
implied that the advantage
would be pressed at a time to
be chosen by Adolf Hitler s
high command.
There was no indication that
the reichswehr units which led
the advance across the land
bridge between the Dvina and
Dneiper (Dnepr) rivers proposed
another full-fledged drive east
ward immediately along the
230-mile motor road to the Rus
sian capital.
The chief purpose of the Ger
man leadership, military com
mentators said, remains the de
struction on the largest possible
portion of the Russian army as
a fighting force. They attached
less importance to getting up
specific plans than to
the pinching off and mopping
up of as many Red army divis
ions as possible.
This theme was enlarged by
the authoritative commentary.
uienst Aus Duetschland. even
while the high command listed
Russian losses to July 10 at
6,233 planes, 406,000 prisoners,
4,400 cannon and 7.615 tanks.
It might be false to assume
there will be an immediate
smash at Moscow just because
there seems to be a good
chance," said the Dienst.
"Thoughts of the German leader
ship are not centered on the
big-name cities (such as Mos
cow, Kiev and Leningrad), but
rather on the possibilities of de
stroying the enemy."
(By the Associated Press)
Moscow, Sunday, July 20.
Great continuing battles in the
Polotsk Nevel and Smolensk
sectors were reported by the
Soviet information bureau to
day, implying that the German
eastward thrust had been held
up, since these were areas in
which fighting had been report
ed in progress Saturday.
Both north and south of this
central front zone defending
Moscow, however, fresh activity
was announced.
Fighting flamed again in the
region of Pskov, 160 miles
southwest of Leningrad, and at
NOVOBrad Volvnskl. ITlrranion
city far to the south which has
long Deen a scene of fighting
in the war now enterng its
fifth week.
No Important Changes
The Sund&v rnmmnntnu. n.
ported no important rhannp, nn
other sectors of the 2,000-mile
front, but said the Soviet air
force destroyed German motor
ized Units and ftiiwaft Br.A .1.
and naval units destructively
.aiuea uerman convoys in the
came sea.
'AS result of an ttar-lr h
our air force, motor torpedo
ooais and destroyers," It said,
"eleven enemy transports and
one tanner were sunk. One en
emy fighter was brousht down.
uur losses in this mtnhat
were one airnlane and nn. mn.
tor torpedo-boat The crew was
saved.
Recaotur nf twn wnr.m
cities behind the German lines
was reported by Russian mill
tary newsDaner.
In the fiffhtinff nf thj antral
zone, where a German vanguard
was reported at Smolensk, tre
mendous casualties were noted
on both sides in a Saturday
communique.
Four areas of heavy encash
ments wer rpnortpd hv h
Soviet information bureau in a
200-mile rone of the 2. 000-mile
front and fighting in other sec
tnrs til IrnnrMt
The four were at Bobrui.k
In the- heart of white Russia,
Smolensk, rail and highway
center 230 miles southwest of
Moscow; Folotsx, on tne uvinsx
Vitebsk rail line, and the near
h likM tnvn nf Nevel. fThe
j - -
German high command report
ed today mat omoienss; was
captured last Wednesday).
Germans Claim New Gains
) FINLAND e R
A Soviet communique said severe fighting was going on In the
area oi Pskov in a drive (1). aimed at Leningrad. A German drive
in the central sector (2) was said by the Germans to have captured
Smolensk, 230 miles west of Moscow. The Russians claimed they
still held Smolensk. The Russians also reported a successful
counter-attack (3) across the Dnepr
for Kiev continued, with Moscow
vicinity of Novograd-Volyinikt.
RUSSIA ENDS
INVASION FEARS
Worry Over Nazi Peace
Move Now British Gain
On All Fronts.
By Klrke L. Simpson
Whatever Hitler's hopes of
'decisive" victories in Russia as
the fourth week of the nazl
Soviet battle ends, it is now
clear that so far he has lost
rather than gained ground
against Britain because of his
anti-Red "crusade."
London military spokesmen
say now that an attempted nazi
invasion of England this year
is "almost" impossible, the
'almost" added only for cau
tion's sake.
England's greatest dread has
been removed, for many months
if not finally. It is apparent
that there is today more official
concern in London over a pos
sible nazi peace move in the
wake of a possible great Ger
man victory in Russia than over
Hitler's ability to threaten Eng
land again with invasion. This
is reflected in the insistent re
iteration by British war leaders.
from Prime Minister Churchill
down, that there will be no
Deace on any terms with Hit
ler.
Elsewhere on the axis-British
battle fronts, east or west, the
effect of Hitler's Russian ven
ture is no less obvious. In the
Atlantic his sea attack is wan
ing instead of gaining. In the
Mediterranean British defense
lines have been tremendously
reinforced by French surrender
in Syria lacking any hope of
effective German help.
It seems more possible that
Britain is busy mapping plans
for a new blow at her axis foes
in the east to match the steadily
rising tempo of the British air
attack on Germany and German-occupied
lands In the west.
German pre-occupation with
Russia has rendered Hitler'
axis partner, Mussolini, again
vulnerable. The air attack on
communication lines of the axis
army in Libya is expanding to
include axis bases in Greece,
on Crete and in Italy itself.
With Syria firmly in British
free French hands and with
Ethiopia and Italian East Africa
swept clear of important fascist
resistance, there seems no good
reason why the rJritisn mignt
not definitely take the offen
sive. Land operation! to sweep
Libya of axis force are a pos
sibility. Sacramento, July 19. VP)
Butter first grade 3911c; sec
ond grade J7V4C.
river. The German drive (4)
reporting heavy fighting in the
NAZI PUTSCH IN
SIEGEDECLARED
German Minister Given
Walking Papers Swift
Action Taken To Quell
Revolt.
La Paz, Bolivia, July 19. P
The Bolivian government pro
claimed a state of siege tonight
and ordered the German min
ister to leave the country within
48 hours In a swift move to
suppress what informed per
sons called a threatened Nazi
putsch.
The government announce
ment said the siege decree was
to thwart "a revolutionary at
tempt being plotted by groups
with totalitarian tendencies."
Although the government did
not directly link the two actions
simultaneously with the decla
ration of a state of siege it
announced that the German
minister, Ernest Wendler, had
been declared persona non giata
at a cabinet meeting this after
noon and was ordered to get
out of Bolivia within two days.
The announcement did not
mention the other members of
the embassy staff, but usually
well-informed persons said it
was believed they likewise
would be expelled.
Informed sources said the
government had uncovered evi
dence that a Nazi putsch was
being prepared by subversive
elements.
Police authorities took pre
cautionary measures to main
tain order throughout the re
public, and official reports said
the situation was "tranquil"
everywhere.
Armando Arce, director of the
newspaper La Calle, Augusto
Cespedes, assistant director, and
Carlos Montenegro, were report
ed detained by the government.
IY0UTH, 22, ADMITS
SLAYING FARMER
Portland, Ore., July 19. (JPi
A 22-year-old Canby, Ore., youth
confessed tonight to the slaying
of John Karlen, 77, wealthy
Tygh valley rancher. Captain
V..yne Gurdane of the Oregon
state police said.
He said police followed a tip
In arresting Irwin Russell Jones
at his Canby home today, and
Jones admitted the killing dur
ing questioning.
The badly-beaten body of
Karlen was found on street
in Tfc Dalles yesterday.
CONQUERED LANDS
TO JOIN T
Continent Expected To
Arise Today In Britain's
First Propaganda Drive.
London, Sunday, July 20 lP)
A post-midnight broadcast with
a message from Prime Minister
Churchill opened "V for vic
tory" day on the German
occupied continent today, urg
ing the conquered peoples to go
out under cover of darkness
and smear "millions of new V's
on walls and doors and pave
ments all over Europe" as a
symbol of resistance to Naziism.
Today was set aside as a
special day for manifestation of
resistance after a campaign
started almost as a joke had
swept through the occupied ter
ritories and assumed major pro
portions in the last few days,
capped by the participation now
of the prime minister himself.
It was Britain's first major
propaganda offensive in the oc
cupied nations, a call for organ
ization throughout these lands
of "an invisible army of many
millions" to launch a "fear of
fensive" against German troops
and authorities and to refuse
all collaboration with them.
Churchill's message, read by
"Colonel Brittin, radio com
mander of the campaign, said:
"The V sign is the symbol
of the unconquerable will of
the occupied territories and a
uortent of the fate awaiting the
Nazi tyranny. So long as the
peoples of Europe continue to
refuse all collaboration with the
invader, it is sure that his cause
will perish and that Europe will
be liberated."
After reading this message
"Colonel Brittin" urged his lis
teners to "wait for the word,"
and he promised that "when
the moment comes" the action
would be such that the Germans
would be powerless to halt it.
This was interpreted as an
Indication that Britain would
call on the occupied nations to
rise in arms against the Ger
mans when and if the British
army again gets a foothold on
the continent.
- "Col. Brittin" proclaimed con
fidently that "in a few minutes
there will be millions of new
V's on walls and doors and
pavements all over Europe."
"Darkness is your chance," he
said. "Put your V up as a
member of this army."
SECY.IfMILL
E
E
Portland, July 19. lP Sec
retary of State Earl Snell will
oppose Governor Sprague for
the Republican nomination as
governor next year, the Oregon-
inn, Portland daily newspaper,
predicted today.
The newspaper said Snell
would announce his candidacy
in September.
The secretary of state would
pass up the gubernatorial race
only if Rep. Walter M. Pierce
oi uregons second district or
Senator McNary decided to re
tire, in which case Snell would
seek a congressional seat, the
newspaper added. It predicted,
however, that McNary and
Pierce again would be candi
dates. In a Snell-Sprague contest.
the state republican committee
would support Sprague, the Ore
gonian said.
They Think Of Things
Memphis, Tenn., July 19 UP)
A 33-year-old man charged with
speeding 43 miles an hour told
the judge he couldn't help It
because he had never gone to
school and so couldn't read the
numbers on his speedometer.
The excuse wasn't good enough.
He was fined $56.
Spray For Legs
London, July 1. HP) A
bareleg beauty bar where wo
men's legs are sprayed with
rainproof sun tan lotion at three
I pence (about
1 opened today.
9 cents) a leg.
PHONE COMPANY
ION HERE
TOCOSTPP
Addition To Building Starts
Next Week-Will Expand
Local, Long Distance.
Construction of an addition to
the Medford telephone building
was announced Saturday by R.
B. Hammond, manager for The
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company.
Work is expected to get under
way next week, with completion
scheduled for all.
The new space is needed, Mr.
Hammond said, to provide addi
tional local and long distance
central office equipment.
The addition will extend ap
proximately 30 feet on the rear
of the present telephone build
ing, and will be 90 feet wide. It
will be of steel and brick con
struction and will be one-story,
with basement.
Major Repeater Point
Medford long has been a ma
jor repeater point on the com
pany's north and south long dis
tance lines, and the long dis
tance equipment is to be ex
panded, Mr. Hammond said, to
take care of the large Increase in
business the company is experi
encing up and down the coast.
At the same time, he said,
additional dial equipment will
be installed to provide facilities
for local telephone growth.
Installation of the equipment
will be started as soon as the
building addition is completed.
Total gross cost of the building
and equipment, as given by the
company, will be in the neigh
borhood of $140,000.
Robertson, Hay and Wallace
have been given the contract for
the new addition.
Fl
LONGER SERVICE
DUE ON TUESDAY
Washington, July 19. (IP)
President Roosevelt dictated to
day a tentative draft of his
message to congress recom
mending that the service period
of draftees, national guardsmen
and reserves be prolonged and
set aside the entire week end
for the completion of the com
munication. A congress already deeply
embroiled In controversy over
the issue will receive It on
Tuesday or later, scarcely 10
days before the August 1 dead
line, beyond which Gen. George
C. Marshall, the army chief of
staff has said enactment of the
legislation could not be post
poned with safety.
What line of approach the
president will take was, of
course a closely guarded secret,
but some were disposed to think
that he might urge the declare
tlon of a state of national
emergency by congress, as a
basis for retaining the men In
the army after the year for
which they were inducted origi
nally. Portland, Ore., July 19. HP)
Milk producers In the Port
land sales area have petitioned
the Oregon milk control board
for a hearing to show that
prices, recently Increased,
should be boosted again.
C. E. Grelle, board chairman,
said he would call an emergency
meeting soon to set an early
date for hearings.
Hot weather, growth of army
cantonments, aid to Great Bri
tain and defense projects were
listed by producers as reasons
for the increase.
The request affect northwest
ern Oregon and western Wash-
iogton producers. ; -
Bootlegger's Mite
Snow Hill, Md., July 19.
(Jf) Even bootleggers are be
ing asked to aid in the nation
wide aluminum collection
campaign.
Sheriff J. William Hall said
he had called on several sus
pected operators of illegal
stills and asked them to "dis
mantle their reported liquor
plants of all aluminum parts
in order to help national defense."
NORTHWEST HEAT
'AVE MOVES EAST,
FIRE FEARS EBB
Cooler Weather Predicted-
Many Fires In Mountains
One In Oregon.
Seattle, July 19. (IP) The
low pressure area which
brought record heat to the Paci
fic northwest the past week,
moved inland over the Rockies
and Great Plains tonight, leav
ing miles of ' fire-blackened
wheat and rangelands and sear
ed and smoking forests behind
it.
The forest service said the
week's lightning-set forests fires
in Oregon and Washington to
taled 1,550 of which 950 were
in national forests and 600 on
state and private lands.
I .Temperatures In thai north
west generally were in the 90 s
today. In Oregon, the mercury
went to 97 at Pendleton; 93 at
Roseburg; 92 at Baker; 89 at
Eugene and 83 at Portland.
Lower temperatures and in
creased cloudiness with prob
ably recurrent thunderstorms in
the mountains were forecast for
the north coast states and Brit
ish Columbia, where hundreds
of forest fires blazed, mostly in
isolated and almost inaccessible
mountain regions. Fires in
Washington alone were estimat
ed at more than 900, most of
them under control.
Oregon State Forester N. S.
Rogers said the only fire in his
state not yet controlled was
700-acre blaze In the Crabtree
district of Linn county. He
warned that a high wind would
prove disastrous.
BY BEND 8 TO 3
ine Bend Elks exploded a
12-hit batting attack against
young Bill Smith last night to
defeat the Medford Craters. 8
to 3, in an exhibition game at
the fairgrounds park. The two
clubs will clash in a regular
Oregon State league tussle at
2:30 this afternoon, with Dutch
Lleber hurling for Medford and
Lyle Turpin or Bill Hatch for
the visitors.
It was fairly close for six
Innings, with the Elks holding
a 4 to 2 lead, but In the seventh
the visitors hammered out five
hits and four runs to clinch the
affair. Jack Brown relieved
Smith In this Inning and yielded
two hits and two runs the rest
or the way.
Tom Hawkins, former Crater
manager, led- the Bend attack
witn three blows, while Joe
lray hit two triples and
single for the Craters.
R. H. Z.
Bend . 8 14
Medford . , I 7
Farmer and Hawkins; Smith,
Brown and Roelandt.
Berkeley, Calif., July 19 ;P)
Judge Warren V. Tryon. 51
Crescent City, who had cleaned
up dockets In half of Califor
nia's superior courts, died here
Friday of a heart attack.
A Patriarch Speaks
Burlington, VL, July 19. HP)
Ninety-six years old, Tildon
Young has registered for civil
defense in Vermont with this
comment: There's been too
much hot air in this war. I'm
ready for action,"
PRESIDENT LEANS
WHEELERCUUMS
Foreign Policy Advisors
Flayed Hopkin's State
ment To British Rapped,
Washington, July 19.-
Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) con
tended today that President
Roosevelt was basing foreign
policy on the advice of "a mot
ley erf w" consisting of Secre
taries Knox, Stimson and Ickes.
Lease-Lend Coordinator Harry
Hopkins and Felix Frankfurter,
an associate justice of the su
preme court.
Renewing the running verbal
exchange between himself and
the chief executive, Wheeler as
serted that the great bulk of
American public opinion was)
not reflected in the president'
actions.
Referring to those ha said
were the president's chief advis
ers. Wheeler told a press con
ference: ''Knox, Stimson, Ickes.
Hopkins and Frankfurter what
a motley crew to determine for
eign policy for 130,000,000 peo
ple in the United States.
"The president today seems to
be wholly dependent for his in
formation on a little handful of
men surrounding him who
couldn't be elected to the office)
of dog catcher in their own
home towns. And yet they,
along with Winston Churchill
(British prime minister) and to
royal refugees in the United
States, are determining foreign
policy."
The Montana senator declared
that if such a group "keeps on
flouting public opinion, the)
main issue will be, not whether
we can save democracy in Eu
rope and Asia, but whether wo
can save it here in this country."
Wheeler took particular ex
ception to Hopkins' statement
In London that the United
States would sea to It that
American goods were delivered
to Great Britain "and every
theater in the world where)
democracies are fighting Hit
ler."
Mr Hopkins apparently is)
completely out of touch with
sentiment in the United States,1
the Montanan asserted.
Both the United States and
Great Britain are in a pretty
bad way if we have to rely on
Harry Hopkins to tell us what
to do."
MIRY SEES NO
ENTRYJTO WAR
Washington, July 19 OP)
Senator McNary, preparing to
leave for his home near Salem.
Ore., Sunday, said today ho
saw no Justification for United
States participation In the Euro
pean wars.
He said he believed the press
ing problems of the present
were domestic.
"We are giving the democ
racies substantial and ever
increasing aid," he said, "and
the problems which are pressing
at this time are domestie in
nautre and must receive very
careful consideration because of
the huge debt created because)
of our national defense pro
gram. "We must be ever mindful of
the strain that will fall upon
our social and economic struc
ture at the conclusion of tho
war and the national emergency
under which this country Is
operating."
McNary said he hoped to bo
away from Washington about
three weeks but that he would
return if major legislation ap
peared before the senate. Whtlo
in the west he expected to In-'
vestigate federal activities on
the Pacfiic coast at the request
of administration officials,
Laoe Fair Oneesi
Cottage Grove, July 19. (1
Lillian Geer has been select
ed queen of the South Lane)
County fair August 22-23. .