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Let YOUR Aniwtr to Bomb be BONDSI Buj Har Bond ind Stamps TOH4V Contnbnt to in war effort of four nation. Patriot ' tim. your own arlf-protecttoa, around that KOU do )w port NOW! Uh Th MAIL TRIStntS Want Ad War Quick RsiuiU t 8 snail Csst Medford 1RIBUNE 0 O Full Associated Prow Unitad Pru Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1942. NO. 96. ah m fo) JO M M n La UWLl lam mm News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 11 Hitler's new plan of grand strategy for winning the war this year has now at last become appar ent in recent events. It is the one he dreamed at Berchtesgarten on those lone ly nights last winter, the one he promised the German people would evolve from his "Intui Paul Malion tion." The most obvious thing about It is that his "Intuition" is not as lively this year as formerly, significant also is the fact that his plan for winning almost ignores axis consideration and is limited to purely German ob jectives. It almost Ignores the whole Italian theatre of war, the oper ations of General Rommel have been purposely held by Hitler to sideshow. Most recent re ports from that front make It clear. The Rommel campaign origin ally was intended only to cap ture Tobruk. Hitler was greatly surprised at the ease with which this was accomplished, and authorized further pursuit to capture Alexandria and Cairo, but would not furnish enough prompt plane reinforcements to k assure that result. He refused to spare them from his own campaign in Russia. - There the whole mass of Ger man strength has been centered to force an armistice before next December 1. Even axis-partner Japan has not fitted yet into Hitler's intuitive scheme (it may ny day now, with an attack on Russia in the Siberian the atre.) o o ?VEN the United States and - Britain have been largely ignored in the Hitler calcula tions, except as they are invol ved in his Russian purposes. There have been no large con centrated bombing attacks on Britain this year. His naval strength has been centered off Norway for sea blitz against allied supplies to Murmansk (the results of this operation are still undetermin led in view of the claimed Rus sian disabling of the Tirpitr and the amazing German con tention that they have sunk 32 (Continued on Pa- etsi EAST BEST ABLE TO SAVE RUBBER ELEANOR CLAIMS West Park. N. Y., July 11 (VP) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said today that the eastern sea board was best suited to gaso line rationing program because of the availability of forms of transportation other than auto mobiles. f "If we want to conserve rub ber, we are the people here in the east who have the best transportation in other ways," Mrs. Roosevelt said. "We have more trains, more planes, if we want to use them, and more bus lines. "To tell the people in the west not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weens ana weeks nor have a way of getting a sick eerson to a doctor. She addressed a week-end conference of SO delegates of women's trade union auxiliaries at the Hudson Shore Labor school under auspices of the consumer division of the Office of Price Administration, POSTPONE D.A.V. MEET Eugene. July 11. OP) Na tional Disabled American Veter , ans Commander Laurence R. (Melton said today that the or ganization's national convention, scheduled here for August, probably would be postponed until after the war. pi TROOP TRANSPORT PLANES LOST IN HUGE AIRBATTLE No RAF Losses Worst Bombing in African Hist ory Axis Gain in South. By Edward Kennedy Cairo, July 11 W) A Ger man effort to rush reinforce ment by air to the hard-pressed axis desert armies was broken up today when a patrol flight of British Beaufighters pounced upon a group of big Junkers-52 troop transport planes and dam aged or shot down at least 12 into the sea. In the land fighting British troops have taken 1,500 axis prisoners, destroyed 18 enemy tanks and advanced five miles along the northern coastal rail road west of Al Alamein, front line dispatches reported. The troop-carrying planes from bases across the Mediterranean were under escort of twin-engine axis fighter planes, but the Brit ish said there were no xvAr losses in the engagement. The British attack ended only when the Beaufighters ran out of ammunition and low on gaso line, indicating that some of the aerial convoy might nave es caped and reached the axis bases in North Africa. (By Associated Press) Allied nlsna save the Ger mans the worst bombing Africa has ever known, ana the suc cessful British thrust along the coastal railway resulted in the capture of several hundred axis troops. Thr RMFmnni. however, moved eastward in the south near the twmmnnn un mis wus a stca, strategical victory and that the British had been ha 1 tea in xne north but the British cave little importance to the attack. Their light forces withdrew quicKiy. and the thrust seemed to be only a diversion. British mobile columns immediately engaged the attackers. Th ewncaerine Australians who remained in the middle east were back in action in the des ert "a considerable reinforce ment" said Australian Prime Minister John Curtin. Mnn. than S 000 RAF raids hm hwn made on the huddled axis forces in the 10 days they have been stalled, ine aiiacas cfttniio at made at ex tremely low level and the fliet shuttled from airdromes to oai tlefield to loose load after load of explosives. NAZIS CONCEDED CONTROL FRENCH SINEWSJOF WAR Moscow, July 11. (IP) The Moscow radio tonight broadcast a dispatch by the official soviet news agency Tass from Bern. Switzerland, reporting "com petent French sources" had de clared that the Vichy govern ment had agreed to give Ger many control of all important war installations, railways and ports in unoccupied France. The dispatch said the Ger mans in return had agreed to a request of Chief-of-Government Pierre Laval to transfer French government offices from Vichy to Paris. These sources were repre sented as saying the removal of the Demarcation line between the occupied and unoccupied zones was a part of the bargain. Tass said Laval also was re ported to have granted the Ger mans permission to establish a naval commission at Toulon. French Mediterranean base. with extensive powers, includ ing the right to maintain 4,000 soldiers in a special lone near Toulon. Laval also was said to have promised to militarize 130,000 members of French youth as sociations, which would be armed and trained by the Ger mans into "mobile defense" units to be stationed alone the coast. Fleet Commander Rewarded , ISiK- y$ Admiral Chatter W. Nimits (canter), eommandar-in-ehief ef the Pacific float, stood before Admiral Ernest . King, commandar-in-chief of the United Stain float, while Admiral King (right;, read a presidential citation awarding Nimits the distinguished service madal ' for "exceptionally meritorious service." -Official U. 8. Navy photo from the Associated Press. SUGAR RATION TO BE INCREASED IS ASHINQTON VIEW Washington, July 11 (IP) A possible increase in the sugar ration was hinted by the office of price administration today in reporting that the United States now is obtaining about 30,000 tons more sugar than is being consumed. However, OPA cautioned that continued government control over the distribution of sugar was necessary to assure each person his fair share and guard against serious sortages in 1943. Emphasizing that the ship ping situation remained an un known factor in the supply pic-i ture, OPA estimated that 1942 sugar production and imports; would total 6.054,284 tons, com pared with -normal -peacetime consumption of about 6,800.000. ; H supplies continue flowing at the anticipated rate, 1942 ra tioned consumption will leave about 354,000 tons to spare, OPA said It called this mar gin "too narrow" for normal times, but said it would not be "too dangerous under a ration ing system where immediate curtailment cf consumption can be put into effect when the need arises." Rationing is now at the basic rate of one-half pound a person a week. OPA authorized last week a "bonus" of two extra pounds. Under this program, OPA said, the country now is using about 475.000 tons of sugar a month and Is being supplied from its own crops and all im ports at the rate of about 504, 523 tons a month. FIVE HIPS U-BOAT VICTIMS By Associated Press Five more ship sinkings an nounced yesterday (Sat) by the nsvv raised to 359 the unofficial Associated Press total of ships sunk in the western Atiantic since Pearl Harbor, The rate of sinkings prompt ed marine underwriters to raise their charges for cargo insur ance five per cent in most categories. Strengthening of the allied merchant marine fleet was in dicated, however. In the lease lend atrreement reach in Wash ington between the United States and Norway by which the United States will furnish fre armament for Norway's mer chant fleet now in the United Nations service, repair damage and replace ships lost la operation. war AMERICAN FORCE ON GUINEA HINT DRIVE ON JAPAN The presence of American troops in New Guinea, strategic jumping-off place for attacks on the Japanese invaders of the southwest Pacific, was disclosed today by the war department. Officially - approved photo graphs pictured negro troops at Nort Moresby, along with Aus tralian and American fliers. Many negro troops, the war department said, are "spotted in the Pacific area building bases and airfields." The disclosure of the movement of American ground forces northward from Australia was thus made in back handed fashion. Until todays disclosure, there had been no official word of American troops in the south west Pacific except in Australia and on the Free French island of New Caledonia, some 800 miles to the east, where an ex pedition under Major General M. Patch landed prior to April 25. Immediately north of Aus tralia, Port Moresby shares with Port Darwin in North Australia vital importance both in the de fense of the southern continent and as springboards for a pos sible offensive against the enemy. TEXAN HEAD OF YANKEE BOMBERS A United States Army Air Force Stationed Somewhere In Britain, July 11 M" Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker of Llano County, Texas, was officially disclosed tonight as the com mander In chief of the bomber command for the United States army air forces in the European theater. The stocky, bronzed Texan was second in command to Ma) Gen. Carl (Toughie) Spaatz, newly appointed commander of U. S. army air forces in Europe, during the record-setting flight of the endurance plan Question Mark in 1929. RESEARCH LEADER PASSES Madison, Wis, July 11 VPs Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg, 80, senior research associate of the Wisconsin State Historical So ciety, dud today. She was fellow of the royal historical Society of England. DELTA CHI HEAD Estet Park. Colo,, July 11 W5 Delta Chi Sigma, charlt ble and social sorority, elected Mrs. C. M. McHugh of Toledo, I Ohio, president at a convention session hers today. NAZIS ADVANCE NEARS VORONEZH; LAGSJELSEWHERE Terrifying Toll Taken Hit ler 'Destroys Russ Army Again, Moscow Reports. By EDDY GILMOHE Moscow, Sunday, July 12 IJF) The German spearhead east of the river Don was pushed forward a few miles to the out skirts of Voronezh, on the Moscow-Rostov railway, the Soviet midnight communique said to day, but the Russians indicated two other German thrusts on the 200-mile front made little or no headway. The communique did not men tion a withdrawal in any sec tor, but its mention of fierge fighting "on the outskirts of Voronezh indicated the Ger mans had enlarged, the bridge head they established east of the Don tome days ago. Whatever gain the Germans made, however, must have been small for Voronezh is only ten! miles from the river. An Indication ot the Intensity of the fighting her was seen in She communique report that an entire enemy regiment had been smashed in one sector northwest of Voronezh and that one Russian tank crew alone had killed 200 Germans, The communique; made . no mention of the fighting around Kantemirova, 145 miles south of Voronezh, and' Llsieharuk, 85 Utiles si ill farther south, beyond saying fierce fighting continued in these regions. "On other sectors of the front no essential changes took place, the communique said. By Associated Prase The German advance along the west bank of the Don was made only at the most terrifying cost of men and machines, but there was no denying that the Russian position was critical and that the nazi successes approach ed the astonishing gains of last summer. From Voronezh southward to Lisichansk, the fertile farm lands were soaked with the blood of Germans and Russians alike, but the elastic Russian re sistance seemed to be permitting the Red army to withdraw in good order despite a German claim of 88,688 prisoners, 1,397 destroyed tanks and "de structively beaten enemy." Hit ler, words but not deeds, has "destroyed" the Red army sev eral times before. GRANGER FAVORS FARM AID DRAFT Seattle, July 11, t&) Henry P. Carstensen, master of the Washington State Grange and himself a large-scale wheat farmer, today urged conscrip tion of workers to aid farmers hard-pressed to hire hands. "Failure in agriculture would be Just as disastrous as a col lapse on our front lines," Car stensen wrote in an editorial in the Grange News. "I am sure I speak the view point of the majority of our farmers who are almost at their wits ends as they face bumper harvest without help," Carsten- sen said. "1 can tee but on ture solu tion: an industrial army, an agricultural army, and our bat Uefront army combined to as sure ut victory. BULLETIN At the end of the seventh inning of the Klamath Falls Medford game last night at the fairgrounds, Medford was lead ing by a score of 4 to 3. Soldier Dickinson wat on the mound for the Craters and al lowed eight hit. Virgil Haynes tor the visitors allowed 10 In the same period, Worthley wat behind the bat for the locals. Both teams were playing good ball. A crowd of 500 attended. STATE GOP URGES LEADING ROLE By NATIONIN PEACE End of Isolationism Favored Palmer Hoyt, Keynoter, at Annual Meet. Portland, July UiJPyThe Oregon Republican Central committee today advocated an end to Isolationism, demanding that the United States take a leading role to world affairs after the war. A resolution at the annual meeting urged the government to "take such positive position in world affairs upon the in auguration of peace that there may be no repetition of the wort chaos now in existence. Palmer Hoyt, Portland p pub lisher, in a keynote address to party leaders from all sections of the state said, "All of us must always remember that America must always corns first- He said that criticism of im proper spending, boondoggling and useless expenditure of lives was proper. But it is improper. he said, to criticize the basic tasks of the war or to attempt to any other way to deter the war effort. Governor Sprague told the meeting that he to retiring from the office but net from politics. I am going back to the ranks as a worker" in the party, he said. Washington, July 11 WJ Collaborating with some mem bers of congress, a staff working under the direction of Undersec retary of State Sumner Welles has begun an exhaustive survey of the problems the world wilt face when the war ends, it was learned today. One influential legislator. who asked not to be quoted by name, said it was his under standing that art attempt was being made to prepare a thorough-going analysis that would put detailed Information to world conditio at the finger tips of American officials when they sit own at the peace table, GIRLllGIVE TRESSESFOR WAR Columbus, 0 July 11 (IPs Ten-year-old Jean Carolyn high is a brunet Instead of a blonde but she get to contribute her hair to the war effort because it's never been touched by a curling iron, waving machine or rinsing chemicals. Premised a bobbed hairdo upon her graduation from ele mentary school, Jean will get it next week and her silky, brown tresses will be sent to Baltimore for use in delicate in strument. It will be the first; time in three yean the hair has been cut Besides requiring 14-inch; tresses, the instrument-making company generally specifies blonde hair but Jean's met all requirements. SWEDlWSEL SUNK IN BALTIC Stockholm, July 11 The S,000-ton Swedish ship Luleaa was torpedoed and sunk in the Baltic today shortly after the foreign office declared it had proof that Russian submarines were responsible for recent at tacks on Swedish chipping. The Luleaa, owned by all iron ore company, was torpe doed outside the town of Vester vik as she steamed southward (presumably with load of iron ore for Germany). She tank immediately. Twenty ol the crew were rescued and IS were missing. Escorting warships and planes attacked the submarine and It was believed to have bees sunk. Interpreting The War News By Kirk a L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) Hitler's man offensive in Russia is so perilously close to cutting Red armies of the south and of the Caucasus off from these of the north and east, that the time teem ripe for action elsewhere by both axis and allies to complement or counter the German successes. The danger of a German break-through from the Don to the Volga on a wide front is very real. Stalingrad, great in dustrial center is on the Volga end Hitler's headquarters said as the weekend started that his forces were within 80 miles of the city. To the southeast is the Caspian sea. Should the nazis drive through to the sea they would cut off the great oil field of the Caucasus and isolate t great mass of the Red army. Mar shal Timoshenko s rail commu nications with the north have been broken. The right flank of his line on the upper Don stands threatened also with isolation from its southern wing. Pre sumably he must look eastward. beyond the Volga, for supplies and reinforcements for his left flank upon which defense of the Caucasus rests. Therefore, the moment for which Japan hat been waiting. to strike at Siberia, may be at hand. There seems little doubt that Red reserves from east sf the Volga, perhaps even from the Siberian defense area, must be in motion southwest ward to bolster the tottering front in the Ukraine. Chungking accounts have In sisted for weeks that heavy Japanese forces were being mas tered northward for use in July against Siberia, An attack there .integrated with the Ger man offensive in southwestern Russia, has been repeatedly fore cast tn China, It is there that the first "second front" of the 1942 campaign ffiicht develoo on Japanese initiative to add to Russian peril before - anglo- Ameriean preparations are com plete for whatever attack from the west may be In the making. To support that view it can be argued that Hitler's Japanese accomplice, despite the trounc ing received at American hands at Midway, has fatal a protective ground work to the western Aleutians for aa attack of Si beria, The Japanese footholds on the extreme northwestern tip of American territory, which those fog-bound islands repre sent, eouid to some extent Im pede American aid for Russia, COULEE DAM UKE AT FULL HEIGHT Grand Coulee, July 11 iJPi The 151-mile-lonc lake behind Grand Coulee dam will reach its maximum height tomorrow, adding vitally needed kilowatts to the dam s output of the power ut win tietp "provide the strength for the crashing blow that will break the axis' back," John C. Page, commissioner of reclamation, said today. Advising secretary of Interior Harold u. Ickes that rising wat ers from the Columbia River's tributaries in Canada, Idaho and Montana were bringing the storage basin to Its peak eleva tion, page said, "Fch new kite- watt that the new high level of Hie Grand Coulee asm reservoir permits tit to produce has long been catalogued for service on the production front. WALLGREN TELLS NIPPONESE PLAN Belllneharo, July 11 (JPi Senator Men C, Waligren views Japan's invasion of the western Aleutians Islands as the prelude to a Nipponese attempt to take the Kamchatka Peninsula and the east coast of Siberia, "They (The Japs) won't de clare war on Russia," the sen ator said while hers for the Democratic stale convention "They will Just move in. And their holding on or two spots to Alaska may prevent its from assisting the Russians when that Uuta comes.' NEW BILL BOOSTS 0RP0RATI0N AND NDIVIDUALS TAX House Committee Approves Huge Measure Income and Liquor Tax Upped. Washington, July 1 1 . (Z A record-breaking J6,250,HK3,000 war-time tax bill, falling heavily an both corporations and indi viduals, was approved finally by the house ways and means com rastsee today. Product ef more than IS weeks of work, the 324-page measure proposes to increase corporation taxes by J2,485,4QO, 000 end individual income taxes by 12,938,000,000, Huge as it is, the bfll is short of the treasury's goal. Secre tary Horgenthatt asked the com mittee to raise about $3,7H5, ,000 In additional revenue te swell to 117,000,000,000 the fed eral government's prospective receipts this fiscal year. But the committee chose to go only part way in that pro gram, and defeated attempts to write in a five per cent retail sales tax which experts esti mated would make up about $2,500,000,000, Chairman Doughton fD.-W. C ) said that the $6,250,000,00 yield from the measure com puted by treanary experts probably was toe tow. Ha mad the personal prediction that the revenue would bar closer to $7,000,000,000. ' "The treasury' Was to to last year by about $1,000,000, 0M in estimating the revenue from the iMi bill 5," he com mented. My opinion is that ii business continues as it now appears it wlii, this bill will raise about $1,000,000,000," The final draft provides in general aa follows: 1, Corporauon Increase !n the present normal and surtax from 31 to 4S per cent and sub- -Utation of a flat CTH per cent excess profits tax rate for ttst present scale ranging front 33 to per cent. - I !. ' Individual Increase the present normal tax rate from four to six per cent and toe pre tent surtax graduated scale of six per cent on the first $2,000 at net Income to IS per cent. Beginning is January, five per cent of each person's taxable income would be deducted from paychecks or pay envelope, with the accumulations used at a credit against IMS taxes due (It 144. 3, Excises Increases la ex cises on liquor, wine, beer, to bacco, cigars, train fares, tele phone bills, freight and express shipments, race track bets. HITLER'S ADMIRER AND AIDE GUILTY, SEDITION C1RGE Los Angeles, July It, ijIV Robert Noble and Ellis O. Jones, leading figures tat the so-called friends of Progress organira iion, were found guilty of sedi tion charges late today by fed eral court jury. The verdict climaxed a leng thy trial highlighted by govern ment witnesses' testimony ac cusing the two Noble, pro fessed admirer' sf Hitler, and) Jones, die-hard isolationist of repeated statements ridicul fag President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and other high allied officials and united nations war objectives. Federal Judge Ralph E. Jets ney announced ha would sen tence the two July SO, They are liable for fines of $10,000 apices and SO years im prisonment or both, COLORS TO MEDICAL UHIT Portland, July 11, tPi The University of Oregon Medical school's general hospital unit, which leaves Wednesday for ac tive service wish the army, to day had the colors borne in World war I by the old base hospital nzii, ,
