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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.
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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, ,