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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, .342.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, June 30 Some
disappointment U evident in
women's clubs and among cit
izen groups unfamiliar with
military tac
tics (particul
arly on the
Pacific coast)
against the
con
duct of the
war.
The failure
of their Joint
statement to
promise . any
thing very def
inite, coming
Paul Halloo
after the Dutch Harbor raid and
Othe occupation of two remote
rocks in the Alutian Islands,
plus the really dismal British
failure in Libya, seems to be
starting another wave of impat
ience, not shared by persons in
possession of the facts.
Enough truly bad news is
probably coming along to let the
faint hearted indulge themselves
fully, without conjuring imag
inary dangers.
Fall of Sevastopol has been
counted here as likely for the
past two weeks. When that Rus
sian naval base goes, about 20
good nazi divisions will be re
leased for the delayed "spring"
drive in the Donets basin.
TIE coming important part of
the fight, nazi occupation of
Sevastopol, would not only clear
the Crimea, but give the Ger
mans an excellent Black Sea
" port Into which to pour supplies
Oby boat from Rumania (via the
Danube) and from Constantz.
The Egyptian situation has
recently been judged as serious,
but not hopeless for the British.
They have a good line, if they
can hold it.
The Matruh line is an excel
lent defensive position, much
better than Sidi Barranl for
several reasons. It follows south
ward from the sea, a depression
In the desert lined with a rocky
escarpment.
The sands there are loose and
(Conunuad on Paga Four)
Kindly Rancher
Killed By Bull
Marshficld, Ore., June 30
(ffVBecause he thought a check
strap around abull's neck was
too tight, Raymond B. Lowe.
Myrtle Point rancher, lost his
life.
l He went to the pasture to
loosen the strap and was at
tacked by the animal. He suf
fered a broken neck and crushed
chest and died yesterday.
"MADE IN JAPAiFlS
RED RAG IN SOUTH
Ponce. Puerto Rico, June 30
P Soldiers with machine
guns and tear gas today broke
up a crowd which tried to throw
into the sea merchandise stored
on a wharf and marked "Made
in Japan."
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Tonight: CBS 5:30, Nature
of the Enemy, Admiral Yama
moto. BLU 8:30, this nation
,t war "Dogs For Defense."
f MBS 7:45, Sen. T. F. Green on
"America's Interest in Middle
East."
WEDNESDAY: CBS 1:30.
Discussion "Children And The
War." BLU 12, Forum on
"After The War What?" 3:30.
Song Clinic. MBS 1:30, Em
pire City Horse Race.
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Carlos Morris treating the
family to the circus and going
along just for the ride.
Carola Hayes celebrating her
birthday yesterday and taking
her brother to the afternoon cir
cus performance.
' Dr. Frank Freeburger shoot
ing the works at the circus to
the delight of his small daughter.
U. S. FLIERS AND
AUSSIE TROOPS
HELPING BRITISH
Alexandria Bombed Again
Nazi Drive on Sevastopol
Believed Nearing Climax.
Cairo. June 30 (Car
man armored columns have
advanced past El Daba. 75
miles east of Matruh and 100
miles from Alexandria, it was
announced tonight.
By Roger D. Greene
Associated Press War Editor
Field Marshal Erwin Rom
mel's 175-mile drive inside
Egypt was reported running in
to stiffened resistance today as
U. S. army fliers and fresh New
Zealand troops reinforced the
British Imperial armies and hea
vy fighting 140 miles west of the
great Alexandria naval base.
Alexandria itself was bombed
again during the night.
An RAF communique said U.
S. airmen were pounding the in
vaders by day and night, at
tacking axis columns west of
Matruh and bombing enemy-oc
cupied Tobruk in Libya.
Front-line observers reflected
some optimism over the new
trend of the battle, but the situ
ation remained extremely criti
cal. Crimea Climax Near
Linked with the German
drive toward the Suez Canal and
the middle east, the furious nazi
onslaught against Sevastopol in
the Crimea appeared to be near
ing a climax.
Latest Soviet dispatches said
the Germans were now throw
ing 15 divisions about 225,000
troops into the siege of the key
Black Sea naval fortress.
These dispatches ' acknowl
edged that despite a rally by Se
vastopol's out-numbered garri
son, the Germans had rebound
ed to score new gains, particu
larly in the northeast sector of
the citadel.
Red Star, the Soviet news
paper, hinted that the end might
be near, commenting:
Victory For Reds
"No matter what the outcome
of the unequal struggle, this is
a victory for Soviet arms. His
tory will always remember the
duel of one lone garrison with
15 German divisions.
In the Egyptian battle theater,
the British had beaten off one
big-scale axis tank assault and
met another with undisclosed re
sults.
A bulletin from Italian head
quarters said axis motorized
columns had passed Fuka, 45
miles east of fallen Matruh.
Cairo dispatches, however, de
clared that reinforcements in
planes and men were helping to
rally the weary British 85th ar
my, and indicated that the Brit
ish were fighting from new posi
tions about 50 miles east of Mat
ruh, on a 45-mile line stretching
inland from the Mediterranean
sea coast to the Egyptian "Death
Valley" known as the Oattara
depression.
Tire, Gas Shortage
Proving Life Saver
Chicago, June 30. VP) A
record 25 per cent drop in the
nation's traffic death toll in May
was attributed by the National
Safety council today largely to
less driving and more caution
in efforts to save cars, tires and
gasoline.
Censor Assures
Soldier's Girl
That All's Well
Sebring, Fla., June 30 VP)
"Hi Life," publication of
Hendricks field here, tells
about a letter received by the
sweetheart of a soldier doing
his duty in the Pacific war
zone. The letter had passed
through the usual censor
routine in California.
On opening the envelope,
the lady found narrow slip
of paper on which was writ
ten: "Your boy friend still
loves you. but he talks too
much." The slip was signed
"rnvtr
Wounded Return From Dutch Harbor 1
0
Man Inlured In the Jan attack
service man and civilians reached
ZetteL Other men at the lait are
Escaped Nazi Airman Tells
Of Aid Given by Detroiter
Detroit, June 30. VP) Nazi Air Force Lieutenant Hans
Peter Krug testified in federal court here today that he escaped
from the Bowmanville, Ont., prison camp last April in order to
"return to duty and to inform the German government of con
ditions In the camp of the shooting of a comrade officer."
Krug
wbs the first govern
ment witness against Max Ste
phan, German-born Detroit res
taurant proprietor, who is on
trial charged with treason be
cause of aid the government
charges he gave Krug when he
arrived in Detroit after his
escape.
The 21-year-old nazi flier, cap
tured after a fight over the Eng
lish channel, testified in Eng
lish, holding a German-English
dictionary in his hand.
After his testimony on the
shooting-of the officer, District
Attorney John C. Lehr, who is
prosecuting the case, declared
there was absolutely no substan
tiation of his story.
In his testimony, Krug told of
his escape April 18 from Bow
manville and of meeting Ste
phan on April 18, after paddling
across the Detroit river from
Ontario in a stolen rowboat with
only a board for an oar.
His clothes neatly pressed and
his boots highly polished, Krug,
who was flanked by numerous
G-men as he entered the court
room, was called to the stand
after Lehr completed his open
ing statement.
Once in the courtroom, Krug
removed his military cap with
a flourish, clicked his heels and
saluted an astonished bailiff.
DRAFT REGISTRY
CLOSES AT 9 P.M.
While no estimate on the num
ber of males between the ages
of 18 and 20 who were to reg
ister today for selective service
was available in the county it
was expected that the places of
registration in the county would
notice a heavy call in the even
ing hours.
Polls for registration of male
citizens born on or after Jam
ary 1, 1922, and on or before
June 30, 1924, will close at 8 o
clock tonight. Selective service
board members were visiting
various polls during the after
noon checking on registrations.
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newspaper AOS
Ail For Bonds
Detroit, June 30. (IF) AH
advertising in Detroit's two af
ternoon newspapers was devoted
today to the sale of war bonds
and stamps.
Self interest has been put
aside by Detroit merchants, the
Detroit News said, "to help put
across the message that you
must buy war bonds as you have
never bought before."
U. S. railroads employ more
tthaa a million men sod women.
en Dutch Harbor, Alaska, leaned
Seattle, Right to left) Orville
unidentified.
43 LIVES ADDED
TO U-BOAT TOLL;
32BTH SHIP LOST
By The Associated Press
The sinking of two more
United States merchant vessels.
with a presumed loss of 43
lives, was announced today by
the navy.
The latest losses raised to 328
the total of united and neutral
nation's vessels unofficially tab
ulated by the Associated Press
as lost in the western Atlantic
since Pearl Harbor.
Six seamen, sole survivors
of the crew of 38 of a medium
sized vessel sunk more than 500
miles from land, said they be
lieved they were torpedoed by
two raiders because immediate
ly after the attack they saw
light signals flashed between
two points nearby. They sailed
six days in a lifeboat before
being picked up by another
merchantman.
Eleven of the crew of 35
aboard the other ship, a small
one, were lost when it was sunk
in mid-June without warning.
One lifeboat was lowered and
other men reached a liferaft.
After the ship sank, the sub
marine surfaced and the com
mander asked routine questions
about the ship's cargo, and des
tination. The lifeboat, which took on
all survivore, sailed into a Car
ibbean port the followiing day.
IRITES' APPEAL
MEETS DISFAVOR
..HK...
ency submitted by John Brite.
. Coke Brite, 37, both,
Yreka. were recommended for
denial today by the state ad via-
ory pardon board. jne Associates tress, in a uw
The men were convicted of 'patch from Cairo on June 23,
murdering Fred Seaborn and wrote. "Shells from this gun
Deputy Sheriffs Martin Lange are of a semi-rocket type, said
and Joseph Clark during a gun 1 to gain greater range by gases
battle at Horse Creek near produced after being fired,
Yreka on Aug. 26, 1938. j The 88 was thus able to
Both men were sentenced to destroy many of the best tanks
death but Governor Culbert Ujon this side, such as the U. S.
Olson commuted the sentences (General Grant, which have 73
to life imprisonment on May 8, j millimeter guns, before the
1939. Both men sought commu ; tanks could get within range of
tation of their life sentences Wjthe tiermsn anus?ry
time served.
over the rail at a ship earrvins
Wellart, B. W. Browse and L. A.
JAPANESE ATTACK
IN HEAVY DELUGE
TO CLEAR RAILWAY
Tokyo (from Japanese broad
casts), June 30 VP) Three
Chunking armies, the 28th, 48th
and 74th, were declared in
Domei dispatch today to be re
treating southward from posi
tions along the Chinese-held
strip of the Chekiang-Kiangsi
railway under Japanese attacks
executed in a torrential rain
storm. Japanese detachments moving
westward along the railway
commenced operations early this
morning from a point west of
Shangjoa, about 28 miles within
Kiangsi province from the
Chekiang border, and others
were moving eastward after tak
ing Iyang yesterday, Domei said.
(The dispatch indicated the
pincers were only about 30 miles
apart.)
Captured sections of the rail
way have been repaired and
are serving as an important
supply route for the Japanese,
the newspaper Asam said.
The Domei agency said other
Japanese forces moving south
ward from the Linchwan area,
80 miles southeast of Nanchang.
and westward from Kienchang
had established a juncture 30
miles south of Linchwan, en
circling 10,000 Chinese troops.
Fighting now is in progress
with the trapped forces, it said.
The "Old Oaken Bucket" is
coming back; WPB is encourag
ing manufacture of wooden pails
and tufas requiring not more
than 15 per cent metal.
Rocket Cannon Aiding Rommel
In Egyptian Campaign Is Belief
By Howard BiekeslM
Wide World Science Editor j
New York, June 30 The
first rocket cannon appears to
be the reason for Rommel vie- j
tories in Lybia and Egypt.
I This gun is the 88 millimeter
weapon, firing shells which are
bigger and which outrange any
tank projectiles possessed by
the British.
Many things point to this en-
planation. Edward Kennedy of
Success in tha rocket princi -
AERIAL BOM
WAY TO DEFEAT
NAZIS, IS CLAIM
Germans Can't Take It is
Word of Biiiy Mitchell's
Sister on U. S. Return.
Jersey City, N. J, June 30
m Ruth Mitchell, sister of the
late Brigadier General Billy
Mitchell who was an early advo-!
cate of the use of air power, de
clared upon her return from na
zi -dominated Europe today that;
the way to beat Germany was:
by bombing from airplanes.
The slim, blond-haired wo-:
man, who Joined the Yugoslav
Chetnik Guerrilla army in Ap
ril, 1941, and later spent almost
a year in 12 different concentra
tion camps following her arrest
by the German Gestapo, was the
first of 949 passengers to disem
bark from the diplomatic ex
change liner Drottningholm.
Can't Take It
"Bombing by planes is the
way to beat Germany," she told
interviewers. "They can t take
it."
She said the Cheiniki still
were lighting "magmficentiy
in the mountains of Yugoslavia
and "are keeping five divisions
of Germans engaged.
The passengers included mere
than 500 American Nationals ex
changed for axis citizens. Al
to aboard were 42 Canadian and
Latin-American Nationals and
group of minor United States
diplomatic officials.
Miss Mitchell, the wire oi
Stanley Knowies, a British sub
ject told of spending miserable
months in German prison camps
during which she said she and
others were ill-treated. By con
trast she said the Germans fell
over backwards to be nice to
her during her last five days in
Germany at the Spandau con
centration camp near Berlin
Ifabbed In Bathing
She said she was arrested by
the Gestapo as she was bathing
on a beach at the Adriatic re
sort Port of Dubrovnik in Sep
tember. 1941. Her arrest occur
red while she was wearing a
bathing suit, she said.
Many of her friends, she said,
were shot in German prison
camps, adding that In the Lieb-
enau Concentration camp there
were 380 British and 58 Amer
ican women prisoners.
She brought with her a bas
ket made of string by British
women prisoners at Liebeau
who she said wished to have it
presented to President Roose
velt.
Red Cross parcels which the
prisoners received, she added
"saved our lives." It was doubt
ful .she said, if they could nave
lived without them.
CURB SOFT DRINKS
London, June 30, VP) The
food ministry announced today
it was closing down 208 soft
drink plants in Britain in a re
organization of the industry de
signed to save 400,000 tons of
transport annually.
pie, applied to bombs, was re-;
ported from London five days:
earlier in an account of the sea
fight in the Mediterranean. The
same dispatches pointed out that
the Russian Storvik planes used
rocket bombs with great effect.;
Another confirmation comes;
from the Associated Press photo i
June 25 of the 88 millimeter:
gun, a picture which came from
Portugal showing a remarkable;
looking weapon a light gun,
with an exaggerated long barrel,
appearing almost toe slender to
hold a shell of 88 millimeters
(about 3Vi inches).
Photos in previous war have
revealed important enemy se
crets, and Edward F. Chandler.
New York engineer and member
of tha American Rocket soc
iety, sayi thia picture virtually
fixe the semi-rocket character
of the new German terror.
The tlendornes of tha barrel
'aad the light weight U tha tip
BASEBALL
Amaiican
First game.
Washington , a 10 4
Boston 9 14 1
Wynn, Carrasquei and Early,
Evans; Newsome, Ruba and Pea
cock. First game.
New York 5 8 1
Philadelphia 8 11 0
Borowy, Murphy, Branch and
Kearse; Besse and Swift. - -
IHAPLAIN REIN IS
FIRST APPOINTED
FOR CAMP WHITE
Appointment of Chaplain Ed-i
ward A. Rein as camp chaplain, ;
was announced today from head-;
quarters at Camp White. It is ;
anticipated that other army
chaplains will soon be stationed
at Camp White where attractive
chapels are being constructed
for the holding of religious ser-j
vices including regular church
ces. Sunday school, Bible
classes, etc
The chapels will also be avail
able for weddings, baptisms
and memorial services for mil
itary personnel.
Each chapel is equipped with
as office where the chaplain is
available for consultation and
guidance for those who desire
his services.
It Is the desire of the war de-
oartment that soldiers In the
army have at al! times, the same
religious and spiritual advan
tages they would have at home, i
and the chaplains at Camp White
will b!by en important part la
the spiritual welfare of the sol- j
diers." - -.
General Auchinfeck
Supersedes Ritchie
In African Command
London, June 30 (fl5 Prime:
Minister Churchill announced;
today that General Sir Claude:
J. E, Auchinleck, commander-in-
chief of the British forces in the
middle east, had taken command
oi the British eighth army is
North Africa on June 25, super
seding Lieut. Gen. Neil M, Rit
chie. Churchill, who ipoke on his
first appearance inthe House of
Commons after his return from
the United States, was received
tumuHuousiy In the chamber.
The prime minister, who faces
a challenge Jo hi war leader
ship, gave the House no account
ing of his conferences with Pres
ident Rooseveit. .
OREGON BOND QUOTA iS
$8,885,000 FOR JULY
Washington, June 30. IIP
New York state will be asked to
bay $171. 596.000 of war bonds
in July, slightly more than one
sixth of the national quota of
$1,000,000,000, Secretary Mor
genthau announced today.
Quotas by states include: Cali
fornia, fai,8?,000; Idaho. $3.
373,000; Oregon, S8.865.000;
Washington, $13,415,000.
that the gun la partly merely a
projector. It is not heavy enough
to fire an 88 millimeter shell
full range, unless made of tome
secret new alloy, an interpreta
tion precluded by tha Cairo dis
patch. The British soldier could sea
tha tails of firs from these
shells.
The principle on which this
gun necessarily operates are ob
vious, Tha shell is fired as in
an ordinary gun. but only by
light charge of explosive propel
lant. The charge u sufficient to
give the shell a fair muixie
velocity, and to fix its direction
or trajectory, toward tha target
with occur cy.
As it leave the muixie, a
rocket charge Inside the shell
ignites, to carry it farther than
it otherwise would travel, and
probably actually to cause it to
pick up speed after it leaves the
sua muuie.
1IENT
INATURE
Congress Competes Mm
en 42 Billion Appropria
tion Vote Soon flyer.
Costliest Year
Washington, June 30 (IP)
Having spent in 12 months
more than the entire cost si
the first world war, the treas
ury closed books today on the
costliest fiscal ysw in Its
history.
It was a temporary record,
though; because the budget
for fee new fiscal year be
ginning tomorrow it more
than double the old year'.
Exact figures went be
available for a lew days, bat
preliminary tabulations show
that In the past year the
treasury spent approximately
$32 500,000.000.
Washington, June SO JPr
With no debate, the house
quickly completed legislative ac
tion today on a record-breaking
$42,600,000,000 war department
appropriation bill.
Regresentative Snyder D
Pa called up the measure,
which had been approved by
the senate little earlier with
31 minute of debate, and ob
tained concurrence of the house
in two minor amendments, one
of which would make certain
that the money would be ts'ail
able starting tomorrow, upoa
President Roosevelt's signature.
The other would prohibit tha -carrying
of advertising by army
camp newspapers.
Sees Ova
Thus in less than SS minute
tha hocse action today took
very little time the two bran
ches of congress wound up their
work en tha biggest approprt
ation bill In. history. The housa
used six sours last week is
first approving tha hill.
Working last to cleaa up its
business before the new fiscal.
The senate also completed
congressional actios on the
$178,000,000 interior depart
ment appropriations. The legis
lation carries an Seas, long in
controversy, of $7,723,000 for
transmission line for the central
valey power project la Caiifor
ia and $200,000 tor a steam
iu4fcv n'ant. both urgently re
queued by Presides Bsesevett.
Tws Is OsEsly Jail
Fsr Alleged Tfcsft
Ql Belie Falls Calf
The sheriff's office reported
today shooting oi .22 calibre
rifle has broken out gia In
the Butte Fall district, and
Wrey Shinfesei, 20, and urvu
Poiiock. 19. of the Eagle Point
district, both married, are in tha
county jail charged wnn lar
ceny of livestock. They alleg
edly shot a calf while travelling
along the Fish un roaa lass
week. They removed the aU
to their home and tried to ess
some of it and est the rest. Tha
of the calf has not been
determined.
About a mouth age a small
boy in the same area, whiia
helolne his doe chase a squirrel
out of a hollow tog, accidentally
had hi hat shot off his head y
a marksman riding on the fend
ers of a slow moving auto.
"It seem everybody with a
.22 hits out for the Suite FH
area and start shooting," De
puty Sheriff William Crenbemer
observed today.
m Elsff GisrtsTe
Help Hsrmi Pttshit
Red Bluff, Ctiif., 4una SS
iJPi Business houses will re
main doted until noes Aug. 1
to Aug. U to permit business
men and employe to pie
peaches. A. E. Ayer, , chair
man of the local com
mittee in charge, announe. Tha
practice will be revived during
tha prune harvesting season, ha
said. He said $588,900 worth of
fruit would b saved by toe
alas.
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