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News Behind
The News
By Paul MalloD
Washington, July 8. The
main point behind recent fight
ing in Egypt is that both the
British and
axis are hav
ing difficulties
in maintaining
lines of sup
plies. Just before
the final stage
of Romm el's
successful
drive, Italians
waylaid a Brit-
- ttT ish convoy on
Paul Maiinn its way from
Gibraltar to Alexandria. It was
cut up so severely it was never
able to reach General Auchin
leck, but was stopped at Malta,
where the supplies were needed
much less than in Egypt.
CINCE the Mediterranean has
become a virtually no man's
sea, so far as the British are con
cerned, General Auchinleck's re
cently advanced reinforcements
naturally had to come from
other directions, nearby Syria,
our own air base In Eritrea, and
even India.
The German line is 10 times
shorter, but the British have
superiority in the air. Their
bombers, you may have noticed,
have been hitting Bengazi day
and night since their trouble
started.
Thus, the fighting on both
sides has been hindered to a
substantial extent by the invis
ible factors behind the lines
The Germans, however, still
hold a substantial advantage in
this critical aspect of the cam
paign, because the British have
been pushed back from their ad
vance air bases.
Hope, but not optimism, Is
consequently being generally
felt here.
PMPHATIC interpretations of
- the news from the Russian
front have never been possible.
The nazis and the reds are en
gaged there in tactics compar
able to American football.
The latest nazi hammering of
the line between Kursk and
Kharkov, several hundred miles
north of where the real play
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LABORERS NEEDED
AT CANTONMENT
The U. S. army engineers,
through Lewis Ulrich, manager
of the United States Employ
ment Service, today issued a
call for 40 or 50 laborers to
work at Camp White in the
closing stages of the big con
struction job.
The Job is non-union, Ulrich
said, and pays 95 cents an hour.
Laborers interested are asked to
get in immediate touch with the
employment service, 45 North
Fir street.
Department store sales have
Increased 24 per cent since 1939.
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Tonight: CBS, 7:30, drama.
"Life of Nellie James." MBSJ
s:l3, right Against mtiation
Jesse Jones.
Thursday: NBC, 3:30 p. m.,
W. D. Fuller on "Wage Ceil
ings." MBS, 1.30 p. m.. Empire
Track Race; 2:30, Quaker City
Frivolities.
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
A. Z. "Tubby" Dean having
a new answer for the old que
tion upon being greeted, "what
cha know", merely replying,
"it's a government secret,"
Add "first impressions in four
words" regarding Gen. Charies
91t Infantry division at Camp:
White, upon his arrival here for;
duty: 'young, fit, alert, com-!
patent " I
' V1
INVADERS SUFFER
TERRIFIC LOSSES
N VORONEZH AREA
Reds Ignore Nazi Claim That
Key City on Moscow-Rostov
Railway Has Fallen.
By Roger D. Greens
Associated Press War Editor.
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's
armies, recoiling after the initial
shock of an assault by 200,000
German troops, were pictured
in Soviet dispatches today as
checking the 120 -mile Nazi
break through on the heights
west of Voronezh and inflicting
terrific losses on the invaders.
Red army headquarters ig
nored an official German claim
that Voronezh had fallen, de
claring that the battle was still
raging before that key city on
the Moscow-Rostov railway.
"Fierce battles continued to
the west of Voronezh," a Soviet
war bulletin said.
Dud Litter Field
The communique said more
than 3 000 German dead littered
the battle areas and 35 tanks
were destroyed.
A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's
field headquarters asserted that
strong Russian forces had been
encircled behind the Voronezh
front and that a gap in the So
viet lines had been widened.
Conceding that the Russians
were still fighting before Voro
nezh, the Nazi command de
clared Red army counter-attacks
northwest of the city fail.
Briefly, the German commu
nique noted that Soviet attacks
in the Orel sector, 210 miles
below Moscow, were continu
ing. The Russians were appar
ently pressing a counter-offensive
around Orel in an attempt
to relieve the fierce pressure of
the German drive against Voro
nezh. The latter, if successful,
might split Russia's central and
southern armies and cut off
vital communications to the
Caucasus oil fields.
British Smash At Axis
In the 15-day-old battle of
Egypt, British imperial head
quarters announced that British
patrols and flying columns
slashed at Field Marshal trwm
Rommel's imasion armies all
day yesterday, destroying Axis
tanks and capturing prisoners.
Overhead, swarms of RAF
warplanes bombed and machine
gunned Axis troops grouped in
the 35-mile-wide "bottleneck" 70
miles west of Alexandria.
Dispatches from Cairo said
there were no major attacks on
either side, with both forces
saving their heavy punches for
a decisive battle expected at any
time.
Italian headquarters asserted
that a strong British force had
been repulsed with heavy losses.
The Fascist communique de
scribed aerial activity in the
desert struggle as intense.
While the two armies Jockeyed
warily, Stockholm dispatches
from Benin indicated uneasi
ness in the Nazi capital over
Rommel's position. One report
said the axis chieftain was in
difficulty because his troops
were exhausted by the 350-mtle
sweep across the sands from
Tobruk. while Gen. Sir Claude
J. E.' Auchinlccks armies were
revitalized by fresh troops
drawn from the middle east.
Rush Reinforcements
However, furious new axis
raids on Malta, the British Medi
terranean island stronghtld, in
dicated that convoys were rush
ing reinforcements across the
sea to Rommel. Evidence of the
axis attempt to cripple Malta
as a threat to Rommel's trans
Mediterranean supply route was
reflected in a report last night
that Maitas defenders had shot
down 24 raiders in 24 hours.
Presumably Rommel was await
ing the arrival of these rein
forcements before attempting to
lunge on once more in his drive
toward the Nile and the Suez
canal.
WATCH FOR SABOTEURS
IS WARNING TO COAST
Salem. July 8 V-Lt. Gen.
John L. DeWitt, western defense
commander, warned Governor
Sprague yesterday that vigilant
observation should be main
tained on the coat to prevent
landings of enemy saboteurs.
Major General Gerhardt Arrives
To Head 91st Infantry Division
CAMP WHITE SITE
AND PROGRESS IN
BUILDINGPRAISED
Arrival Completes Executive
Personei Coi, Meredith
Officer in Charge of Post.
Major-General Charies H.
Gerhardt arrived here Tuesday
to assume command of the 9ist
Infantry division at Camp
White, and after a quick but
thorough inspection of the army
camp declared the "site is per
fect" and expressed enthusiasm
over the progress made thus far
by the army engineers, contrac
tors and workers.
General Gerhardt praised the
ranges on which the soldiers
will receive training with the
modern weapons of war, ex
plaining that every type of gun
can be fired without the lines
of fire crossing. He was pleased
by the proximity of Rogue river
and grinned when informed of
the salmon and steelhead
abounding there.
Meredith Heads Post
The assignment and arrival of
General Gerhardt to command
the 91st Infantry division mark
ed completion of rmy executive
personnel for the operation of
Camp White, General Ger
hardt wii! be in charge of all
phases of the actual training of
the troops, while Colonel Owen
R. Meredith, post commander,
heads the staff in charge of liv
ing and recreational facilities.-
Although only 47 years old,
General Gerhardt has had a col
orful career in the army. Born
in Lebanon, Tens., the son of
Brigadier-General Charles Ger
hardt, on July 8, 1895, he was
graduated from the United
States Military academy in 1917
and was immediately appointed
a second-lieutenant of cavalry.
When his regiment, including
troop "C," 3rd cavalary, went
overseas, he commanded the
troop. His initial assignment in
France was with remount troops.
Had German Stay
In June of 1818 he became
aide-de-camp to Major Genera!
W. M. Wright and in August of
the same year was assigned as
assistant plans and training of
ficer in the 89th Infantry divi
sion. He was with the division
through the St. Mihiel and Ar
gonne offensives until the ar
mistice. The division stayed in
Germany for a time with the
American army of occupation,
and returned to France in time
for the general to quarterback
the 89th division football team
to the championship of the
AEF.
In January, 1920, he took
command of troop "A," 14th
eavairy, stationed at Fort Sam
Houston, Tex., after serving as
assistant football coach at West
Point in 1919 and the fall of
1920.
From 1921 to 1923 General
Gerhardt was student at the
cavalry school at Fort Riley,
Kan. The latter part of this
period he took the advanced
equitation course, and stayed as
equitation instructor from 1823
to 1925. From 1928 to 1931 he
was tactical officer at West
Point.
Top Notch Athlete
General Gerhardt was a top-
notch athlete while attending
west Point, playing baseball,
basketball, football and polo.
From 1924 through 1930, after
his graduation, he was a mem
ber of the U. S. army polo team
which, in 1925, defeated the
British army s polo team in Lon
don for the army championship.
During this period the genera!
carried a national rating of
seven goats, only one other army
polo player having ever been
rated this high.
! From 1931 to 1833 he at
tended command and genera!
staff school at Fort Leaven
worth, Kan., and in 1933 and
1934 served with the 8th cav
alry. Fort Bliss, Tex., as squad
ron Cfimn R'-der ani trziTvr.'rt
; plans and traicifig officer. In
Signal Corp photo,
CHARLES H. CERHAHDT
Rubber Drive In Home Stretch;
Stations Will Close Six Hours
Los Angeles, July 8 The local chairman of the gov
ernment's rubber drive announced today that every Pacific
coast service station would close for six hours tomorrow while
the 30,000 managers and operators went on a last-minute hunt
for materials to add to the growing stockpiles.
1934, 35 and 38 he was in the
Philippine department as assist-!
ant chief of staff for personnel.;
Returning to the United States;
he served until 1S40 with the
11th cavalry at the Monterey.
CaU presidlc, as regimental
plans and training officer and
regimental commander.
The general was assigned to
general headquarters from 1840
to 1941, and In 1841 and 1942
commanded both the 58th cav
alry brigade and the 2nd cav
alry brigade at Fort SSiss. Tex. j
General Gerhardt was pro
moted to first lieutenant May;
15, 1817; to captain March 30,
1920, to major September I,
1932; to lieutenant colonel July
1, 1940; to brigadier general
(temporary) July 10, 1841, and
to major general about two
weeks ago.
For his world war service
General Gerhardt was awarded
the Order of Leopold by the
Belgian government,
Meredith Nebretkan
Colonel Meredith, born and
raised in O'Neill, Keb., was
graduated from West Point in
1908. He served in the infantry
until 1920, in the chemical war
fare service for the next eight
years, and has been in the in
fantry since.
in World war I Colonel Mere
dith engaged principally in
machinegun work. He organ
ized and conducted the machine
gun department at Fort Ben
ning, Ga., and later organized
and conducted the chemical war
fare department at Edgewood
arsenal, Maryland, He has
served in the Philippine islands,
Panama and France in addition
to the United States.
A graduate of the Infantry
school and of the command and
general staff school at Fort
Leavenworth, Colonel Mere
dith recent service has been as
Gl personnel officer and tfi
plans and training officer of the
4th army. Immediately prior
to his being assigned as post
commander of Camp White he
wal chief of staff of the 8th
corps area.
Colonel Meredith was ap
pointed a second-lieutenant Feb
ruary 14, 1D08, a first lieuten
ant in 1913, captain in 1813.
major in 1820, lieutenant col
onel in 1930 and colonel on
January 1, 1937.
Colonel Meredith's decora
tions include that of the treas
ury department's silver lifesav
Srsg medal,
BUND CHIEF PLEADS
NOT GUILTY, HELD
Hartford, Conn., July 8 1&
Gerald Wilhelm Kunze, 36
year old chief of the former
German-American Bund, plead
ed innocent today to charge
of espionage.
He was arraigned in federal
court before Judge J. Joseph
Smith and held In default of
j $59,000 bail.
i Rain falls sometimes 300 days
a year in t" Caribbean iow
i lands of Costa Rtce.
OWH S, MEREDITH
P, S. Allan, in charge of the
drive here, said his instructions
came from William T. Humph
reys of San Francisco, chairman
for five western states.
Allan said attendants would
join in a coordinated house-to-
house and ' bullding-to-buiiding
search for the last scrap of non
essential rubber. Friday is the
last day of the drive, which
government officials have said
is short of expectations.
SLOT MAI
All mechanical gambling de
vices, meaning slot machines
and plnbail machines, operated
in Jackson county otherwise
than for amusement have been
banned after next Monday noon
Sheriff Syd 1. Brown reported
today. Operators and owners
of the devices have been notified
of the ban and its enforcement
will be under the direction of
the sheriff and district attorney.
The order was issued upon
requests of Major General John
L, DeWitt, commander of the
Pacific coast area, to Governor
Charles A, Sprague. The order
is effective In Nevada. Idaho,
Arizona, Montana, Washington,
Oregon and California.
Governor Sprague, In his In
structions, called upon sheriffs
and district attorneys Is this
state to report to him upon re
sults of the clean-up.
Two Medford residences were
entered within the past two
days, both by intruder cutting
the screen in windows. The
Charles Ciay residence at 23
Crater Lake avenue was entered
Monday night between ? and
8:30 o'clock according to a re
port filed with city police yes
terday, Mrs. Lin Shields of 819
Minnesota avenue reported to
city police that her home was
entered last evening.
At the Clay home coin
purse was stolen and Mr.
Shields reported that her purse.
pes and check books were
missing. Later the purse, con
taining sugar ration cards, was
found in the yard and miscel
laneous cards from the purse
were on the front porch, the
police report stated.
FALL IS FATAL
Portland, July S UP; Gordon
Oake Parker, 33, was killed
last sight in fall from a third
story window of a downtown
hotel. Police said Parker's wife
told them that he had been de
spondent for some time.
leu Landed by U-8oats Go
Before Military Court
Heavy Guard at Hearing.
Washington, July 8, fiFS i
In setting of utmost secrecy J
guaranteed by heavily armed;
soldiers, police and secret agents I
and waHed-off corridors, eight!
German-bora men went on trial
for their lives today before a
military commission sitting is
the justice department.
The eight, accused of violat
ing the articles of war by steal
ing into this country with intent
to spread fire and destruction
by Nazi sabotaged methods, were
rounded up by the FBI after
they had bees landed by U-boats
on lonely beaches of Long
Island and Florida.
So veiled with secretivesess
was the commission proceeding
the first important one of its
kind since the civil war thai
not even the fact of the starting
of the trsal was made knows
officially.
An informed person confirm
ed it, however, after it became
obvious from the arrival ot the
prisoners, the seven generals
who compose the commission.
the prosecution and defense
counsel and a number of wit
nesses. tinder Heavy Guard
The prisoners arrived behind
a wedge ot motorcycle police
men in two closed vans guard
ed by soldiers with machine
guns and automatic rifles.
They were brought is thru a
heretofore unused gate is the
justice department building is
an effort to evade cartons and
photographers who waited at
the usual entrance on toe oppo
site side of the building.
Both streets, one on the east,
the other on the west side, were
patrolled fey policemen, while in
the basement of the ousiatog a
self where the vans were un
loaded, heavily armed, helmet
wearing soldiers guarded every
corner and manned guns set up
in some Instances on trucks.
From there, the prisoner were
takes by guarded and secret
elevators to the fifth floor area
where the trial is being held is
what normally is a federal bu
reau of investigation class room.
Oregon CHy, Ore., July S &P
Oregon CHy and nearby Gres-
ham and Newberg closed shops
this morning to esd towns
people into the blackcap and
raspberry fields.
They are the first of westers
Oregon towns expected to shut
down during harvest seasos.
Grower called for 5,003 pick
er to save 1950,000 in crap.
Gresham stores will not open
until 10 a. m. for the net three
days. Oregon CHy store will
not open until noon the rest of
the week, and Newberg will not
open up until noon for the next
two week.
TOWNMI
Hero of Raid On Nazi Bases
Medford Visitor h October
One ot the most treasured
names In the "guest book" at
the Medford airport canteen
is that of Captain Charles C.
Kegelmaa of El Bens, Okla..
who, on the Fourth of July, was
awarded the distinguished serv
ice cross for gallantry is action.
Captain Kegelman was the
pilot of a Boston Douglas light
bomber which, with 11 other,
made the first Americas raid
on German held territory is
western Europe. HI plane, with
only on engine working, re
turned aefely to its base in
England after having actually
touched Saji-held soil, only to
rebound asd make its getaway
under the pilot's expert control. I
WM3io, July t f.s
Th nnry announced today tet
a Halted Stat submarine hs
torpedoed and was b!sTd to
haee sunk asanas destroyer
is th Tifisii? of KUks Island
is the Aleutians
July Osr-
ssaa asd British suss aisns
th English channel tradad
shall Is more titas as sssf
arly today is iirisg precipi
tated hf the Sannsss first
beoisaidisesi sf th ssstseasi
coast is many weeks.
Capetown, South Africa,
July (S" South Atrtcan
rtavat asthsritia announced
today that a S.$SS-ioa Qsiisd
States vessel wbics west
asrsssd eH th Cap of Seed
Hop is a fes yesterday had
sunk, Ta craw w mtU
la Waahisgtea, Sh titrf d
partmast described th &1?
only a a merchant ssM
By The Aitsciatad Frees
In the far Pacific, Generalis
simo Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese
armies reported they had closed
Is around Jabasese advasce for
ces which penetrated the town
of Fesgchsjjg and Chasgshss in
a new drive aimed at capture of
the Klangsi-Hunan railway.
'ilh Ihe Chinese still Sieg
ing to a 25-miie sector on the
ChekisngKlangsi, the Japanese
Were attempting to aeiie the
Kiangsi-Hunan loop for a part
of their projected rail trunk
imking Shanghai ana Singapore.
Fierce battles were reported
raging aro&nd the two towns.
Is the battle of Australia,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur head
quarter reported that 18 Jap
anese bombers raided an aiHed
airdrome on Hra Island, is the
Torre strait between Australia
and Hew Guinea, teflieiisg
slight damage.
Otherwise, there was only "In
termittent air reeonsasssasce,
Gen. iSseArthar reported, with
allied filers keeping constant
vigil against any new massing
of Japanese invasion armada is
the ring of island above Aus
tralia. A castonfcesi worker, Ken
neth Piitman of Grant Pas,
ha bees tsissisg from his home
since last Sunday aftertsoos.
and, according to the time
keeper of the division en which
he wa employed at Camp
White, has failed to return to
his job this week.
Pittmas, according to the
Grants Pass Courier, drew a
large pay check Saturday sight
and left his home Sunday after
noon aayiog he was goisg to
tows. He has not seen heard
from since.
Canada ss the fifth greatest
trading nation is the world.
Upon it return Captain Ke
gelman was immediately award
ed the medal by Major Genera)
Dwlght 0. Eisenhower, Amer
ican commander is the European
theatre,
Captain Kegelman last fall
wa a member of the 58th bomb
ing squadron from Will Soger
Field, Oklahoma City, Oki
which participated is northwest
maneuvers. With other pilot
he landed at the municipal air
port es route north, on Octo
ber it, and again on the squad
ron return on November 2
Grounded here for several days
Captain Kegelman, then s lieu
tenant, spent much of hi tune
in fee easiees, asd signed bis
sense in the "guest bout.
CsuncJf Moves Ta Prsvfd
Inspector in Cooperation
With Government,
Becoeniiin the
for additional inspection of
sanitary condition sad food
handling is MedforA s s
council last night passed an or.
finance asstsersmg the exeesv
tioa of an agreement with fee
state department r
for the employment and train
Isg fey that jjfnre nf
; mas to act i sanitary inspector
oisiBoia ana surrounding
country.
The ir&neetor. $n
vised by the atate department of
agriculture, will fee designated
a deputy health officer of Med
lars, ise esyt as set forth is
ihe agreemast, will eontrihate
to the department of agreuttur
such amounts as collected is
license fee iram sii food-hasd
ter ia accordance with a city
ordinance. This money will fee
paid to the inspector as part &i
hi salary.
Partial Sereiea Haw
The eitv. it 3k rint v.
City Attorney Frank P, Farreii,
m bis ice occasional services
of department of agriciiltur
inspector, but because at th
war emergency It wa felt thai
inspection oi local restaurant
and firms handling foods shouH
A petition presented by S. L,
Chiiders, and aigned fey proper
ty owners is the vicinity, cojs
plaised thai trucks of Console
date Freightwaya, taming
around at the isieneetics oi
12th street and Arcadia court
created dus. asd Sisfaverafel
condition. Th eomntatRt v
referred to the aireet and roads
committee.
Councilman Harold Fry
moved that ail city-owned 1st
ss Court Jfeet, north and south
Riverside svesue and north sd
south Central avenue be with
draws from sale because of
changing essdiiion. The motion
was passed. The license eoss
tsiitee reported unfavorably oa
the request sf fee Holly theatre
to hang a sign on Sixth street.
The city superintendent office
reported there were 108 lot
with defective sidewalks, ssxi
the council ordered thai letters
be written to the owners calling
the fact to their attention.
Study Arfny Iteueat
Referred to the feu tiding and
light committee for study and
to confer with the army, was a
request fey fee army thai fee
city install prophylactic ata
tion Is city hail.
The meaihiy resort on worst
done fey fee various separi.
menf, submitted by Frank Sog
er, acting superintendent, wa
read by Counctusas r rani:
Buntx.
Vice-Mayor Larry Sehaa
presided in the absese of Ma
yor H. S. XSeael,
Lake Arrowhead, Call?., latf
8 0P Handsome Cary Grant
of fee movie and the one-time
"poor little rich girt," heirett
Barbara Hattos, were married
here today.
The wedding wa as great
surprise to Hollywood. Film
friend month ago had said 8s
ceremony could fee expected at
any time. For nearly two years,
they had bees devoted cosn
penisn at cinema colony f
fairs-
Grant, 38, wa bora Archibald
Alexander Leach Sis Bristol,
Eng. He ran away from horn
when he we 15 to go with
troupe of acrobat and corned
tens.
Popular among hi coileefue,
Grant only last week became rv
American eiiises. A fee His,
he said he interred ts volunteer
for active duty wife V, . aaas
ed force a sees a he saav'f
get si L'tf ia abas.