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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 5, 1942.
NO. 90.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, July 4 At Egypt
goes, so goes the whole middle
east theater of war.
No more military information
than that provided by a world
map will tell
;wMi"i.n.m you that axis
closure of the
Mediterranean
will require a
whole new
concept of the
world struggle
by the United
Nations. A
changed strat
egy for vic
tory will have
to be devised.
The shipping
Paul Malloo
distance from New York and
London to Basra, at the head of
the Persian Gulf, is greater than
from San Francisco to Australia.
Any middle east defensive cam
paign, based on that port (which
would be the only feasible one
left by Egypt't fall could be
sustained only to a very limited
and difficult extent.
Any effort to keep the tiny
dot of Malta in the middle of
the Mediterranean would hardly
be worthwhile. The navy nearly
gave some military expert
heart failure the other day by
announcing, during the battle
of Egypt, that the American air
craft carrier Wasp had arrived
at Malta with vital plane rein
forcements. With Egypt tottering, it was
no time for an American air
craft carrier to be there. It de
veloped the Wasp venture had
been carried out earlier. As a
matter of fact, it was darned
earlier, about last May 1, to be
exact.
a
THE British could have no use
for Malta, with Egypt gone,
because there would be no land
ing place for British or Ameri
can convoys to go, through that
inland sea.
Nor could they use it for
planes or subs to bomb or prey
upon Rommel's line of supplies,
because Rommel's supply route
could go straight from Italy to
Alexandria, beyond plane range.
Malta no doubt would have to
go as Egypt goes.
A stand might be made in
Palestine or Syria for the Near
East oil fields, but, as pointed
out above, this defense would
have to be supported hazardous
ly by the circuitous route of
tupplies back through Basra,
while the Nazis enjoyed perfect
interior supply routes back to
Germany.
Consequently a new theory
for distribution of our lend-lease
tupplies and our military
(Continued on Past Pour)
(Br the Associated Press)
Despite tire and gasoline
shortages 72 persons died on
the highways yesterday (Satur
day) and 73 others met violent
death in other forms as the na
tion celebrated Independence
day.
The figures compared with
182 deaths, 114 of them caused
by traffic accidents, last Fourth
of July.
A toll of 21 lives was taken
by drowning. The fact that
there were no reports of fatali
ties caused by fireworks was
largely attributable to heavy re
strictions on pyrotechnic dis
plays in coastal areas and strict
ly enforced local safety laws.
Automobile traffic in all sec
tions of the country was re
ported lighter due to the tire
and fuel saving campaigns.
California led the states in
traffic deaths with a toll of 14
recorded.
JAPS AT CENTER ENJOY
FOURTH OF JULY PARTY
Portland. Ore., July 4. IIP)
Japanese at the evacuee as
sembly center here observed the
Fourth of July with a party to
day.
They saved sugar from week
ly rations for maive cakes
mhich were decorated to re
semble American flags. More
than 3,500 evacuees participated
r
TRANSPORTS AND
Army and Navy Both Reveal
Landing of Blows Fog,
Rain Handicap Efforts.
Washington, July 4 (IP) A
flying general reported today
on his return from the North
Pacific that army and navy air
forces had "severely damaged"
Japanese ships, air and shore
installations in the invaded
Aleutians.
Brigadier General Laurence
S. Kuter, deputy chief of the
army air staff, said the bombers
in the Aleutian war zone were
"carrying the fight to the en
emy" and were well equipped
but were handicapped by fog
and rain.
Hit Three Transports
The war department made
public his statement a few hours
after the navy reported Amer
ican fliers again had been strik
ing at Japanese forces in the
Aleutians, including an air at
tack onthree transports and
their convoys.
The navy communique com
mented, however, that the situ
ation in the chain of islands
reaching out from Alaska to
ward Japan "has not changed
materially" in the last two
weeks.
This was the first navy com
munique concerning the Aleu
tians since that of June 21 when
it reported the -Japanese had
set up "minor temporary struc
tures at Kiska. That com
munique also reported that
army bombers had scored hits
on an enemy carrier and sunk a
transport.
American airmen are devis
ing special means to put the
Japs within range of fighter
planet operating from the Aleu
tian bases," Kuter said. "Dis
tances are great, and bad
weather increases gasoline con
sumption, Nevertheles, when
ever the weather even approach
es 'flyability , our bombers take
off to fight the enemy with
bullets and bombs.
Patrol Kiska Seat
Regardless of weather, he
said, army and navy air forces
operating under unified com
mand were keeping the Jap on
Kiska island under observation
and Datrolling adjacent seas.
Kiska is 585 miles west o:
the United States navy base at
Dutch Harbor.
Despite the latest reports
from the army and navy there
were renewed expressions of
concern about the Aleutian sit
uation. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond
of Alaska said the reports
'shows they're working at the
situation," but he added that he
was "scared pink for fear
we're going to dawdle until the
Japs take over "the whole Aleu
tian chain."
He expressed particular con
cern over Kiska, saying that
today's navy communique dis
closed that the enemy was dig
ging in at that spot, to which
the Japanese pushed after Its
initial landing at Attu on the
western most tip of the. Aleu
tians. "We ought to throw In at
least 500 planes immediately
and bomb the hell out of them,"
Dimond said, referring to the
Japanese positions at Kiska and
elsewhere in the Islands.
By The Associated Press
A giant hemlock tree toppled
in a sudden wind storm today
in the Silver Springs recrea
tional area of the Snoqualmie
national forest, striking three
children attending a family pic
nic and killing one of them out
right. It wat the worst holiday ac
cident in Washington slate dur
ing a day that taw at least ten
persons killed.
Jo Reen Cairo. 11. daughter
of Thomas J. Carvo. White Cen
ter, Seattle suburb, was killed
outright by the falling tree. Her
head waa crushed.
Yanks Help British at Bottleneck?
O 50 - - 7
STATUTE liS'H- Mediterranean Sea
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Qattara aVI
Depression ajj
The British announced the repulse of axis attacks at El Alamaln as the battle for Egypt raged
In the "bottleneck" between the Mediterranean coast and the Qattara Deprenion. An Italian dis
patch claimed several thousand American troops were fighting alongside the British at El Alamein.
FOREST SERVICE
HAS ALL BUT ONE
F
Portland, Ore.. July 4 (IP)
All but one of approximately
73 small forest fires set by
lightning last night In Oregon
and Washington were reported
under control tonight.
The lone exception was a
blaze which had burned over
about 10 acres on Rountop moun
tain in northwestern Washing
ton county of Oregon and C. C.
Scott, secretary of the forest
protective associations, said "it
is being brought under control."
About 50 fires were in the
national forests of Washington,
reported C. Otto Lindh, assist
ant sixth regional forester In
charge of fire control. Twenty
nine were in the Wenatchee and
14 on the east side of the Sno
qualmle, he said.
Approximately 25 fires were
out of national forest territory,
10 In Oregon, 15 in Washington.
Portland, Ore., July 4 (IP)
U. 5. forest service officials
said today they had not been
informed officially that Oregon
and Washington national forests
were Included in a western de
fense order banning forest camp
fires where air raid warning
were not available.
Issuance of campfire permits,
required tince July 1, will be
continued in the two states pend
lng clarification of the confusing
situation, said C. Otto Lindh
assistant regional forester.
QUIET 4TH FOR
MEDFORD FOLK
Fourth of July In Medford
yesterday wat a quiet affair,
wnat with the ban on firecrack
ers and fireworks of all kinds
and the lock of any sort of form
al celebration.
Citizens who didn't leave
town made the turnstiles click
merrily at the four theaters, the
ice arena and the baseball game,
or simply stayed home and took
thingt easy.
State police reported that
travel on the highways wat "not
too heavy," although a consid
erable number of cart were
seen headed toward picnic
grounds In the forests, the laket
and Rogue river. Lithia park
in Ashland, police said, was a
highly popular place for pic
nickers.
Most of the local stores were
closed but construction at Camp
White continued unabated at
workmen gave up their holiday
to patriotically tpeed work at
the army cantonment.
The lessened July 4 highway
traffic was reflected in the
state police statement that no
accidents had been reported up
to last nicht.
Oklahoma Pilot
Of Raid
London. July 4 (IP) The United States army air forces set
off their first fireworks in western Europe on this Fourth-of-July
with bombs and strafing raids on German airdromes, planes in
stallations and enemy airmen in Holland and on nazi patrol
ships offshore.
The initial raids in a fore-1
shadowed series of American
aerial onslaughts aimed at
knocking the German luftwaffe
off the invasion front produced
an outstanding hero-pilot who
brought home his battered and
tattered plane on one engine
atfer it was all but knocked
out by anti-aircraft fire.
The plane actually was down
once on nazl-held soil but It
rebounded under the pilot's ad
roit control and made its get
away, silencing an anti-aircraft
tower even as it escaped.
The pilot, Captain Charles C.
Kegelman, of El Reno, Okla..
promptly was awarded the dis
tinguished service cross for gal
lantry in action, the first to
honored on this front by MaJ.
Gen. Dwlght D. Elsenhower,
American commander in the
European theater.
The raid wat undertaken soon
after dawn by twelve Boston
Douglas light bombers, six of
them manned by all-American
crews, the others by seasoned
RAF airmen. Because they can
develop a top combat speed of
350 miles per hour they swept
out on their mission without
fighter plane cover.
Two American-manned planes
were missing after the operations
but one was officially declared
to have been still under control
when last sighted over its tar
get. The other was shot down
by anti-aircraft fire the first
American army air casualty on
the continent. One of the six
British planet also failed to re
turn.
It wat ttressed In the first
two American communiques and
in the British air ministry com
munique that the raids were
carried out Just over the
the ground "hedge-hopping."
Such expressions at "zero alti
tude", "very low level, and
minimum altitude were used."
337TH SHIP SUNK
BY AX1SJJ-B0ATS
By The Associated Pret!
The torpedoing of two mer
chant ships with the lost of 30
seamen aboard one of them was
announced today by the navy,
raising the unofficial Associat
ed Press tabulation of allied and
neutral losses in the Atlantic
since Pearl Harbor to 337.
Included among the 30 men
lost, all of whom were aboard a
small Panamanian ship, was the
skipper, Captain Anders Weet
gaard. Fourteen men survived
the torpedoing which occurred
June 16 in the Gulf of Mexico.
The entire regular crew of
37 and 13 navy gunners sur
vived when an axis submarine
torpedoed a small American
merchantman in the Caribbean
tea Juna IS
Is Hero
On Nazi Bases
Divorces, Marriages
Show Reno Increase
Under War Pressure
Reno, Nov., July 4 (IP) The
first six months of this war year
has brought Reno more divorces
and more marriages.
Divorce filings are up 30.4
per cent and marriage license
issuances have increased 25.5
per cent over the corresponding
period last year.
There were 1.307 divorce
suits filed from January 1 to
June 30, as against 1.002 a year
ago. Meanwhile 12.204 li
censes to wed were Issued, com
pared to 9,747 in the first half
of 1941.
Attorneys are slightly puz
zjed at the rush of divorce seek
ers. Many expected fewer this
war year.
"Several of my clients say
their husbands are going Into
the service and want to get
their domestic differences set
tled," one lawyer observed.
Others believe that increased
Incomes have a tendency to hat
ten the end of long-smouldering
difficulties.
U. S. SOLDIER GIVES
LONDONERS THRILL
London, July 4 (IP) A
United States soldier In London
celebrated the Fourth of July
today in a fashion which left
English witnesses a bit breath
less. He took a casual dive off
London Bridge.
Americans Dedicate Independence Day
To Speeding Output of War Machines
(By Associated Press)
America observed Independ
ence day with its fighting men
deployed the world around,
struggling at never before - to
maintain the liberties daringly
proclaimed 166 years ago. t
There were celebrations wher
ever the nation's forcet hap
pened to be. American fliers
chose this significant holiday for
their first participation In an
attack upon the Hitler-held con
tinent of Europe.
Meanwhile, at home, the day
was dedicated, not to the usual
firecrackers, picnics, and motor
lourt, but to whirring factory
wheelt and busy assembly lines
lest, said President Roosevelt,
a single hour be wasted, or a
single shot withheld.
"On the desert sands of Afri
ca, along the thousands of miles
of battle Unei in Russia, in New
Egyptian Drive Loses Momentum;
Russian War Machine Gulps Nazis;
Yankee Airmen Join RAF in Raid
STOP GAP PLAN
MAY BE AGREED
FOR FARM COIN
Would Give Plenty of Funds
For July Expense While
Senate, House Wrangle.
Washington, July 4 (IP)
Stop-gap legislation which would
give the agriculture department
really twice as much money dur
ing July at it would receive
under a disputed regular ap
propriation bill was recom
mended unanimously today by
senate appropriations tub-
committee.
If the senate and the house
should agree to this plan, the
two branchet could wrangle
over the appropriationt bill for
the rest of this month without
causing financial embarrass
ment to the department, now
technically without funds.
Under a simple resolution
recommended by the subcom
mittee, the department would
be allowed to spend thit month
at the rate which prevailed in
June, the last month of the
previous fiscal year.
The old law provided $1,127,
623,854 for the 1942 fiscal year.
The new supply bill sets up
about $680,000,000. According
ly the department may have
some $93,300,000 available for
July spending, compared with
about $56,000,000 under the dis
puted bill.
The subcommittee substituted
its resolution for a lengthy bill
passed by the house last Thurs
day a measure which wat en
tirely Inacceptable to the senate
leadership.
Medford't temperatures for
Thursday and Friday continued
well above the 100 mark as
weather bureau reports thowed
mercury at 105 degrees Thurs
day and 106 degrees Friday.
Minimum for Thursday wat 64
and Friday dropped only to 67
degrees.
Hot weather first blitzed
Medford a week ago when Sun
day, June 29, showed 95 de
greet. Monday the mercury
climbed another five degreet to
100.5 and Tuesday, 105; Wed
nesday, 108; and rounded out
the week with 105 and 106 de
gree!. Zealand and Australia, and the
Islands of the Pacific, in war
torn China and all over the
seven seas, free men are fight
ing desperately and dying to
preserve the liberties and de
cencies of modern civilizations,"
Mr. Roosevelt said.
"And In the overrun and oc
cupied nations of the world, thit
day it filled with added signifi
cance, coming at a time when
freedom and religion have been
attacked and trampled upon by
tyrannies unequalled in human
history.
"Never tince It first was creat
ed In Philadelphia has thit anni
versary come in timet to dan
gerous to everything for which
It stands.
"We celebrate It this year, not
In the flreworkt of make believe
but in the death dealing reality
of tanks and planet and guns
and thipt. We celebrate It also
by running without interruption
Interpreting
The War News
By Kirk L. Simpson
(Wide World War Analyst)
The allied world drew an eas
ier breath at the end of a week
tense with war drama in Egypt
and Russia.
For the moment at least Brit
ish reinforcements appeared to
have blocked again the axis
drive toward Alexandria.
Unquestionably Hitler's prom
ised knock-out summer offen
sive against Russia Is in pro
gress. A German claim to have
broken through Russian de
fenses testified to that. A crisis
is brewing in southern Russia
that Is no less urgent than that
for the British in Egypt even
though the factors Involved, in
cluding the time element, are
wholly different.
Reports Hard To
Follow On Mapt
Neither Russian nor German
reports afford much map data
by which to guage the ebb or
flow of the huge and growing
battle.
It aDDears that the main Ger
man attack thus far has devel
oped along a front of probably
200 miles from northeast of
Kursk southward to Kupyansk,
80 miles east and slightly south
of Kharkov.
That roughly corresponds to
the line of the Kursk-Beiogoroa-Volchansk-Kupyansk
railroad.
Kupyansk was taken by the
Germans more than a week ago.
Belgorod, like Kursk, remained
In German hands throughout
the winter and spring. Vol
chansk, however, wat the north
ern limit of Marshal Tlmoshen
ko't drive at Kharkov at Chug
nev was its southern extremity.
If the Germans now hold all of
the Kursk-Kupyansk railroad,
therefore, it is clear that they
have not enly regained all of
the ground Russia won about
Kharkov but definitely moved
eastward beyond Timoshenko's
Jump-off positions
Men, Equipment
Are Main Factors
The territory at yet lost or
gained Is of amall consequence
rnmnared with the losses In
men and equipment for either
side. The battle in Russia it a
battle of attrition, of destruction
of armlet, not for thit or that
key point. Its time element
can be computed only in weekt
or montht.
1000 Pretty Girl
Visit Fort Lewis
Fort Lewit, July 4 (IP) One
thousand pretty glrlt, the maj
ority from Seattle, helped thit
northwest garrison to appropri
ately celebrate the Fourth of
July. , .
The Junior hostessea enjoyed
an afternoon's awlm with the
soldiers In American Lake and
then climaxed their visit at a
dance in the evening.
the assembly lines which turn
out these weapons to be shipped
to all the embattled point of
the globe."
In keeping with the 1942
spirit of the day. President
Roosevelt and many another
government official or employ
wat at hit desk at usual. In
two Important conferences, Mr.
Roosevelt reviewed the produc
tion effort with Donald M. Nel
son, war production head, and
then went over the military sit.
uatlon with the chiefs of the
army and navy.
Secretary of State Hull alto
Issued a statement The spirit
of liberty and freedom which
Inspired the founding and de
velopment of the nation "it the
spirit that will win the war,
he said, adding that this spirit
should be "revitalized and cul
tivated the fullest extent by all
of the united nations and their
people!."
NAZIS STALLED
FOR THIRD DAY
Reds Consuming Division a
Day U. S. Suffers
First Europe Casualties.
By Richard McMurray
Associated Press War Editor
The determined British army
of the Nile stayed for the third
successive day the critical Ger
man threat to Alexandria and all
Egypt and the axis forces Satur
day night thowed signs of wear
Inest and lost momentum.
In the equally vital battle of
the Ukraine, the stalwart Rus
sian army met and contained the
full fury of a 100-mile wide
Nazi offensive and counterat
tacked with success while con
suming the enemy's mechanized
might at the rate of an armor
ed division a day.
One Retreat
In the midnight communique)
Issued early today (Sunday) the)
Soviets admitted that in one utv.
disclosed sector of the Kursk"
front Russian troops had re
treated and occupied new post
tions while stubborn battles
proceeded on the Belgorod and
Volchansk fronts near Khar
kov. And in western Europe, the
swiftly growing United States
air forces flew for the first time
from the British isles in an at-,
sault upon German airdromes
In Holland and shipping off the
Dutch coast. It was a modest be
ginning of an immense punish
ment which the aroused Amer
ican nation had promised Hit
ler, for only six bombers man
ned entirely by U. S. crews and
an equal number of RAF bomb
ers took part. Three planes
two of them American operated
were shot down, accounting;
for the first V. S. combat cas
ualties In Europe of this war.
Aided From Air
The sky-ruling British and TJ.
S. army pilots supported the
stiffened and reinforced British
land forces with the greatest
aerial onslaugh any continent
except Europe has ever seen,
and it was this power that was
believed to have bogged down
the Nazis and Italians Just 65
miles short of Alexandria, al
ready within sound of the big
gest guns.
Then, too, the accurate Brit
ish artillery was taking a grow
ing toll of the axis armor, and
the allies were showing a mora
aggressive fighting spirit and
greater willingness to take risks
to punish the desert fox, Mar
thai Rommel.
Forty big axis guns were cap
tured along with hundreds of
enemy troops but the very fact
that for three tortured dayt and
nights the Germans had been
stopped in the El Alamein bot
tleneck outweighed these tactic
al gains.
It was far too early to draw
conclusions, tempting though
the prospects were. The fox had
halted before, and even with
drawn in his 350 mile sprint
across North Africa, only to
rest and strike with great power
and surprise which caught the
British flat-footed.
Momentum Gone
But for the first time in this
sixth desert campaign, the
enemy was stopped and his mo
mentum wat gone.
All kindt ot reinforcements
Including American tanks, guns
and other material were stream
ing to the front.
There were reports that Rom
mel was digging in, perhaps to
rest and consolidate and await
new reinforcements. But there
was no disposition by the Brit
ish to play his game the Im
perials were attacking to des
troy. The axis claims of victory
degenerated into boasts of repel
i ling ' counterattacks.