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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1941)
Thousands o' Eyes tM It m aeror I 70a that thouiaaua of eyas an a tha Want Ada la thli aatrapaprr err teniafT It'a fact, aae that la tha reason, theaa Uttla Ada hrlnf uch iptaadM reaaitt mil 0 wait- Tribune Medford ImW: rarlly Camay to night. Tuesday fair Not much hanr In lent pent nra. Temperature Hlf heat VeUertfar ' Lowest thli Mornlnf 63 rredpiutlon part U boon a tha advertiser. United Praia Full Associated Press MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1941. No. 104. Thirty sixth Year amm KIM Ml - i ' i- RAIDS WILL MAKE News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Paul Mallon. Washington, July 21. One new deal figure is pre-empting tha ring of eligible successors to Mr. Roosevelt in 1944. His prominence is not yet evident to the public at large, but all the new dealers can see him. For while Vice -President Henry Wallace has not kissed any babies (ex cept for one or two b a u t y queens who were lightly osculated for the cameras) he is becoming vlce i president in fact as t well as name, the first holder of that office ever to do so in my mem ory. Wherever the guiding think ers of the administration are gathered in conference, you will there find Mr. Wallace. He sits in with the economists and the senate politicians. He attend the important defense confer ences. He even had a price fixing plan, which was known inside as the Wallace plan , although swiftly developing circumstances kept it from becoming the form ula that the new dealers finally decided to endorse. Significantly also, Mr. Wal lace is devoting himself to study ing the post-war economic prob lems and ways to meet them. It is a good subject for any man who expects to participate In i the 1944 debate. The war may be over then. " Mr. Wallace also has estab lished friendly contacts with the politicians of the party in the senate and is thus accumulating both economically and political ly the background he lacked when his activity was restricted to leadership of the agriculture department. DUT perhaps the most convlne- lng evidence of Mr. Wallace's COVENTRY SEEM United States-Built Heavy Bombers to Lead Attack From Ruhr to Prague Bombs Burst in RAF Raid on Rotterdam (Continued on Page Pour) JAPANESE TRANSPORTS LEAVE CANTON'S MOUTH Hongkong, July 21. W) A European observer reported to day that a fleet of 19 Japanese military transport vessels left the mouth of the Canton river. South China, yesterday for an unknown destination. London, July 21. W The RAF will launch the heaviest air raids in history against Ger many in the next three months, authoritative sources here said today as a stream of British bombers kept up the non-stop air offensive already under way. British raiders which swept across the channel in daylight today with a strong fighter escort were reported to have smashed at industrial Line in northern France after night sauadrons had bombed the Rhineland and Rotterdam. As the nights lengthen, at tacks on a scale "which will make Coventry look like a pinprick" will be aimed at Ger man Industry from the Ruhr to Prague, this source declared Us U. S. Bombers United States -built heavy bombers were expected to be the spearhead of these attacks which, it was said, will surpass in fury the period from June 16 to July 10 in which the British have said 7,000.000 pounds of bombs were poured on Cologne, Bremen and the Ruhr. Seven German planes were reported destroyed and three RAF fighters were listed as missing in today's air assault. British authorities said the con tinuing RAF offensive against Germany had resulted in de struction of an entire Focke- Wulf aircraft plant at Bremen and of about a third of Ger many's coastal shipping fleet. This fleet had been expected to take a load off the railroad system, already overburdened by the Russian campaign, offi cials of the ministry of economic warfare said. They added that the "problem of distribution in Germany, already acute, will grow worse as the effects of this loss of shipping spread." ENlEllON LOST BY RUSSIA . - r i L v, v : '"i j U p" rzr , 3V - . Id U. S. Facing Grave Danger Roosevelt's Warning in Plea For Longer Army Training Smoke rolls from bombed area, lean from British plana during an RAF daylight raid on Rotterdam. British sources said. Tha plane's tall structure Is In tha foreground. Tha RAF an nouneed destruction of 22 ships la a daytime smash at Rotterdam. Picture cabled from London to New York. Get Aluminum in Early Is County Council's Plea E BY PILOT AT LOCAL PORT Lieut. Ralph Watson, Mem ber of 20th Pursuit Group Makes Dead Stick Landing BASEBALL I RESPONSIBILITY National League Pittsburgh 8 11 1 Brooklyn 8 10 0 Heintzelman and Lopez; Kim ball, Tamulis, M. Brown and Owen. (Only major league game to day). Radio Highlights - By Associated Press (Time is Pacific standard) Tonight, the war 4:55 CBS: 8:30 NBC-Blue; 6 MBS; 6:45 CBS-East: 7:30 MBS; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS. Tuesday, the war 4 NBC CBS: 4:55 NBC-Blue; S NBC- Red CBS: 8 NBC-Blue MBS 7 MBS: 8 MBS; 9:45 NC; 10 MBS: 11:55 CBS: 12:55 NBC Blue; 2.25 NBC-Red; 3:45 CBS NBC-Blue. Some short waves: VLQ7 Syd ney 1:55 news: RNE Moscow 4 English broadcast; HAH uaa pest 4:30 concert and news; GSC GSD London 6:30 news. SICE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS A little 5-year-old Ross Court boy named Mark stopping his ecootering to find two pieces of aluminum to give to a county campaign solicitor. Neysa Wall having a busy time, sharpening many Girl Scout pencils after she had economized by breaking them in two, the pencils to be used In aluminum campaign work. Don Homer swimming like a fish Jt Twin Plunges with the aid of rubber flippers on his feet Bathing Beauties Charlotte Odler. Nancy Wall. Betty Frey, Madeline Heath and Dot Davis erading the heat by patronizing the plunges. By tha Associated Press German military spokes man declared late today that a big. destructive battle is in pro gress east of the Stalin line" presumably in the Smolensk sector guarding Moscow and other Nazi sources reported the annihilation of an entire Soviet division in bloody fighting around Mogilev, on the Dnieper river. Dispatches from Moscow quot- ad private Soviet advices as say- lna that Smolensk, key city 230 miles from the Russian capital on the Minsk-to-Moscow motor highway, was still in red army hands despite a German claim to the contrary. A Nazi spokesman compared the situation In the 30-day-old conflict with Nazi successes on the western front in June, 1940, after tha turning of the French Maginot line. Authorized quarters in Berlin said that more than 4,000 Rus sian corpses littered the Mogilev battlefield, and that several thousand red army troops were taken prisoner. The unit, described as 'com pletely destroyed," was said to have been organized from the remnants of five other Soviet divisions. The Germans said extremely bad weather was hampering their blitzkrieg style of assault. DNB, the official German news agency, said numerous Soviet divisions were encircled in the region north of Vitebsk, on tha central front, and that Russian troops had suffered heavy casualties In vain at tempts to break out of the Nazi ring. OREGONIANS PILE .111 UP IN DEFENSE ROUNDUP By the Associated Press The rattle of collecting piles of old aluminum kettles re sounded throughout Oregon to day as volunteer organizations launched the drive to turn saucepans into airplanes. At Portland. Community clubs, civic officials. Boy Scouts, service units and numerous oth er organizations started a house-to-house canvass, after parading through the streets bearing old pans to toss into net-iencea dumps. Pendleton got otr to an eariy start and Grants Pass made a preliminary test of the collec tion oossibllities. with a full force scheduled to undertake the Boy Scout collection drive tomorrow. A dance coneciea some. 60 to 250 pounds (reports varied) of aluminum there Sat urday. At Roseburg, women irom a Jozen organizations did the can vassing: and had collected sever al hundred pounds of the vital defense metal. Washington, July 21 W Headquarters of the office for civilian defense, which openea its "tea kettles for airships" aluminum collection drive today said early reports from volun teer canvassers indicated "better than hooedfor success" In the, nation-wide campaign. Some officials In Director F. H. LaGuardia's office said they now believed the drive might return 30.000,000 or 40,000,000 pounds of salvage aluminum. In stead of the approximately 20,000,000 pounds earlier hoped for. TAKES OWN LIFE W. E. Patterson. 64, operator of the Highway auto court and service station In Phoenix, took his own life this morning by hanging himself from the branch of a small sapling near the auto court, the corner's of fice reoorted. The body was discovered about 2 o'clock this afternoon after his wife had reported him missing from their home since 6 a. m., when he left purport edly to pick berries along Bear creek east of the auto court The body Is at Conger's. Newsprint production In Can ada for the first four months of 1941 was 1.062.670 tons, compared to 1.003.081 tons for tha same period In 1940. One-Man Drive Tacoma, July 21, WH Sam Offerman, 'a - publle spirited citizen, showed up at the mayor's office today with seven sacks of alumi num pots and pans to con tribute to the current round up for defense. He had purchased them In a house to house canvass of the city. ' " NAZI PLOT SMASHED BY BOLIVIA'S ARREST OF ALLEGED LEADERS The drive Is on! If you have any old aluminum lying around the house, farm or office, please get it to the bin alongside the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce or deposit it at other designated places where It will be collected by trucks, the Jackson County Coun cil of Defense Implored every family today. But please hurry, the coun cil urged, because the campaign definitely ends Tuesday, July 29, and the council Is trying to make a national showtng lor Jackson county.- - The mrttonaj- defense committee has estimated that each family will contribute an average of five-eighths of a pound of scrap aluminum and at this rate Jackson county must donate 7.500 pounds if It Is to be merely average and a lot more than that if it is to make a gooa per capita showing, the council mnhaslzed. Counties tnrougn- out the country are competing with one another to see which makes the best record. The first donation was drop ped Into the bin at the chamber of commerce at 3 p. m. yester day by a young couple who dashed away In their car be fore Frank Hull, defense coun cil coordinator who was watch' lng from the chamber of com merce, could get their names. Early this morning aluminum articles began dropping into the bin with regularity. Deposited in the first few hours were tea kettles, coffee pots, dish pans, various other kitchen utensils and a large object that looked like a buoy but was described by Mr. Hull as probably part of a still. The council today asked all merchants to feature something in their store windows on the aluminum campaign. In Jacksonville ten Girl Scouts were to canvass homes under the direction of Earl White, Boy Scout leader. The aluminum is to be left at the old courthouse where it will be picked up by truck Friday, Saturday and next Monday. About a dozen organizations were to help in the canvassing of Medford. For those unable to take the metal to the central bin. arrangements were to be made for collection. The coun cil said it was preferred, how ever, that each family take the metal to the bin Itself. The council asked that the chamber of commerce be noti fied of any part of tha county not covered by Friday. Through the courtesy of the George Hunt Theaters, a special showing of a new, first run pic ture. "There's Magie in Music, will be presented at 10:30 a. m, Thursday at the Rialto theater. The admission will be a piece of scran aluminum. All the scrap aluminum col lected in the campaign will be sent to smelters holding defense contracts. Everyone working in the campaign is serving volun tarily and without compensation, tha smelters will pay for the scrap metal and the money will go into a national fund to be used for civilian defense. La Paz, Bollxla, July 21. P) A number of prominent Boliv ians, including former Finance Minister Victor Paz Estenssoro, were under arrest today in con nection with an alleged Nazi nlot which police said had been smashed by the timely action of President Enrique renaranaa, advocate of close cooperation with the United States. Ernst Wendler. German Min ister, was ordered expelled from the country, rresmeni rena- randa said he had documentary proof that the minister had at tempted to meddle in Bolivia's domestic affairs. . Essenesoro. a member of the chamber of deputies, and cabinet member until June 20 wnen ne resigned in a disagreement over the exchange rate of the peso and dollar, was described oy nollce as head of "the nationalist revolutionary movement." That organization was dissolved auto matically with proclamation oi a state of siege. The country still was under a state of siege, but the capital and provinces were reported quiet. Defense Minister Gen. Miguel Candia arrived at Cocha bamba, a farm center where a large German settlement Is slu ated, to lead further investiga tions there. Berlin, July Sl- Adolf Hitler received General Sladko Kvatemik, defense minister of Croatia, today at tha fuehrer'i field headquarters. Informed sources said tonight. Hitler la ter was host at a tea. Lieut. Ralph J. Watson, 24. brought a fast Curtiss pursuit plane with a dead engine to a daring landing at Medford mu nicipal airport this morning. The small, swift pursuiters are extremely difficult to maneuver without an engine, pilots assert, and yet Watson made a safe landing from 8,000 feet with no injury to himself and only minor damage to the plane. He could have baled out when the engine died, but he chose to make an effort to save the plane. A couple of hours later the undaunted Watson was winging his way in another plane to Ham ilton field with mall. The pilot is eneamned with the 20th pur suit group, Hamilton field, Cal., at Va nlcnie grounds on t) river near here He I) i B3th squadron. X m Conks at 6.000 v a went aloft at 10 o'clock tha w vnlng for maneuvers. At 2.000 feet the engine seemed rough and he climbed to 8,000 feet to check his Instruments. At 5.000 feet the engine stopped. 1 Watson circled over me xieia In attempting the descent. He made a dead stick landing on the left wheel and the plane, being hard to manage, started a ground loop to the left. Watson, fellow Dtlots explained, then saw he could bring the plane under control by looping it to the left, but he noticed WPA men to the left and he elected to take no chance of endanger ing them. So he applied tne right brake hard and pulled the ship sharply to the right and finally to a stoD. The landing gear, letl wing tin and nrooellor were damaged The rjlane is to be crated and sent back to Mammon iieia mr r.ir It will be in service again in two weeks, officers said CIO, AFL AND FEDERAL WORKERS ON RED TINGE1 PLACED SQUARELY Risk of Disintegration of Army Is Seen if Solons Re fuse to Face Situation Washington, July 21 OPh Representative Dies (D-Tex), as serting the United States was threatened with a popular front similar to what he said caused the downfall of France, declared today he would ask the special committee investigating un- Amerlcanism to subpoena hun dreds of CIO, AFL and govern ment officials for questioning. At a press conference imme diately after his return from Texas, where he campaigned un successfully for election to the senate. Dies said he thought the activities of subversive groups la this country "aught to coma to a showdown." He said if ha had his way tha committee would subpoena 600 or 700 CIO leaders and possibly 2.000 government officials. 'Some of the ail icaaers need a little airing, too," Dies said. He added that ha wanted to question CIO leaders, particular ly about "their shift in policy" after tha start of tha Kusso German war. Baker. Ore, July SlWr Using ordinary caseknlves from their dinner trays, John Young er, Jr.. and Hubert Cecil Cheat wood chiseled their way through a two-foot stone wall and es caped this morning from the county tail, where they were awaiting arraignment before Judge C. H. McColloch on charges of larceny of automo biles. BERRYDALE STORE Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hawley of Lake City. Cal.. have pur chased the Berrydale Store, 1508 North Riverside avenue, it was announced today by the former owner. S. L. Stark. Mr. Stark said Mr. Hawley took possession of the store Sat urday. The latter has been in tha general merchandise busi ness in California. Mr. Stark is employed by the Oregon Fi nance company. Sale price wjs not disclosed by tha parties in volved SEEK MEDFORDITE IN G. PASS RUMPUS Granta Pass. July 21. (JPh- Leslie E. Wilson. Medford, was sought today on an assault and battery charge in connection with the beating of his ex-wife Helen Entrlken, about 29, and her parents last night. District Attorney Orval J. Millard said Miss Entrlken and her Barents. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Entrlken of Granta Pass, ' assaulted on the lawn of the Ut ters' home here. Mrs. Entrlken, about 00, semi-invalid, was In serious con dition, Dr. C. L. Ogle said. En trlken suffered a fractured ankle and his daughter, whose divorce became final last week, was in jured about the head. Leslie E. Wilson, who resided here at the Rosewood apartments on South Riverside avenue, is being sought by both city and state police. Tha Library of Congresa Is the largest In the world. Britain's V-for-Viclory Campaign Tests Opposition Against Germany T.nndnn July 21 m A Brit-i over the top for us la the final i.u v p. .tin rnmnanv exec-1 offensive." ' n, I v. ) - r utlve asserted today Britain s "V- for victory campaign to raise an underground army against Germany was tha lirsi pitched propaganda battle of the war" and the British appar ently "are winning It." The executive, European news Editor N. F. Newsome, said the V drive was one of a series of experiments to test the readi ness of peoples of occupied countries to accept leadership from London, "There will be other things to worry the Germans," he added. Newsome said there would be other leadership experiments "until one day wa feel able to give the word to the under ground army In Europe to go Britons claim a "V" army of millions are mobilized through out German-conquered nations In a whistling, tapping, sign painting campaign- aimed now at Nazi nerves. Newsome said the beet Indi cations of how tha vlctory-V was catching on came from the Germans . themselves in a "feeble counter-attack" by at tempting to embrace tha V as a symbol for tha old German word "Viktoria." The British, ha added, are turning this against tha Nazi propagandists by broadcasting word that, since tha German mwrnment a d Drove of the chalklne un of V-signs, nobody need hesltaU about Joining the campaign. Washington, July 21. (JPh Declaring that America was in Infinitely greater'' danger than a year ago, President Roosevelt asked congress today to author ire extension of tha one-year period of active service in tha army of selectees, national guardsmen and reservists. Unless the extension Is grant ed, Mr. Roosevelt said, tha na tion will be taking a grave na tlonal risk and disintegration of tha army will be under way within two months. Responsibility On golona Responsibility for maintaining the efficiency of that army, tha chief executive said In a message; to congress, rests solely with the) legislators, "" ' 'Y ' Mr. Roosevelt dramatized Ut request by trying an innovation. Ha transcribed tha message on records so that his words might be broadcast to the nation and the world. ' The president emphasized that conditions had changed since' a 12-month limitation was placed year ago on the service of selectees, guardsmen and re servists. - i "Today It Is imperative,, he) said, "that I should officially re port to the congress what the congress unaouoteaiy Knows, that the international situation Uv not less rrave but is far mora' grave than it was a year ago. . Crave tuss seen "It it so grave, in my opinion. and in the opinion of all who are conversant with the tacts, that tha army should be mala tained In effective strength and without diminution of its effect ive numbers in a complete state) of readiness. Small as it la 1 comparison with other armies. it should not suffer any lonn ox disorganization for disintegra tion." Therefore, he aald, it would be taking a grave national risk unless congresa were to make possible the maintenance of the present, full, effective strength of the army during tha coming year and give training to aa many additional Americans aa possible. He added tnat n wouia do "trasic error" to eliminate about two-thirds of the trained soldiers and three-fourths of officer per sonneL . . . The steos which the enter executive took to underscore the administration's desire for ex-' tended service during a period of world crisis was considered to some extent an acknowledge ment of a strong opposition ef latent in congress, tompro mlses have been advanced. But Mr. Roosevelt said he was not asking congress for speclile language in a specific bill. He said that he hoped the legis lators "will acknowledge this na tional emergency either for S specific period or until tion by the congress or the president." 700 MfSKIllED r BYLPWSIM gt Helens. July Last week a heat wave killed 700 turkeys at the Loren John son ranch near Scappoose, ho re ported here today. The birds would have bom raady for market within 1 days. Another gcappoose ranch er, Fred Havellck, said ho ate lost several hundred turkeya. .
