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Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGONTUESDAY, JULY 14, 1942. NO. 98.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, July 14. The
only- second front, which good
- unofficial advisers here can see,
Is straight
away military
onslaught
against the oc
eupied Eu
ropean coast
nearest Britain,
from Denmark
to Brest.
. Clu broom
specula tion
concerns other
more interest-
l At
I n g methods.
Paul MallaD
Seizure of Norway and Sweden
for air bases, for instance, would
put British and American bomb
ers right on top of Berlin.
The nazis have not well de
fended their idle northern battle
front. Invasion there would en
list sympathetic co-operation of
Inhabitants and put the first bat
tlefield about as far away from
German as British home bases.
However, Hitler might thwart
such a step' by throwing ten
divisions into Norway, and there
la some reason to believe he is
prepared to do just that.
A SIMULTANEOUS thruit
through the Mediterranean at
Rommel's rear base of sup
plies in Libya is likewise one
to stir imaginations. The move
ment of a strong naval fighting
force to head large conv.ys of
American troops into that area
fighting its way as it went, is
good mainly for parlor discus
sions.
.. . If landing could be effected
In Sicily and Tripoli, in sufficient
force, Rommel could be smashed
In short order from two sides,
and the way cleared for invasion
of sleepy Italy. The rub about
this seems to be acquiring the
sufficient force.
THE west coast of France, be-
low Brest, also has been laiK-
d (all this is unofficial, of
course) as a place to strike. The
idea behind this suggestion is
that Hitler's transplanted Magi-
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Portland, Ore., July 14. (JP)
Lt. Colonel W. P. Trower,
commandant of the 29th engi
neers, disclosed today he had
been transferred to Camp White
near Medford. Capt. W. B.
Stelzenmuller, adjutant of the
29th, will accompany CoI.
Trower to Medford where both
will be assigned to another engi
neering regiment.
Capt. Raymond Moore will
succeed Col. Trower here tem
porarily. Maj. Theron Bean of the army
engineers at Camp White said
that Lt. Colonel Trower and
Capt. Stelzenmuller were ex
pected to arrive here within the
next week. They will be at
tached to the 91st infantry divi
sion or post headquarters, he
stated.
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Tonight CBS, 5:30,, Nature
of the Enemy, Count Ciano; 6:30,
Cheers from Camps, Ft. Riley,
Kan.; 7:30, Secretary Ickes Bas
tille Day Talk.
MBS 6:30, Justice Hugo
Black at Win the-War ralley,
Raleigh, N. C.
Wednesday Blue, 11:43, dis
cussion, "Physical Values of Ra
tioning." MBS 11:30, Camp
Grant In Review; 2:30, Massa
chusetts handicap at Suffolk
Downs.
SIDE GLANCES
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TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Jeunesse "Sally" Butler back
to Medford after an extended
trip to the east, sporting green
bowt in iter hai
MANC0LU1S I Accused Saboteurs Given Trial ALC0Hr 0BBER I Appointed IVIARRlFn MFN ON
HOLD SUPERIORITY F 13 BES ROSPECT, LAST DRAFT CALL,
IN MEN, MACHINES TA lS m JV ASSERTS NELSON (f BOARDS ARE TOLD
Sweep to Industrialized
Lower Volga and Isolation
of Caucasus Threatened.
By Clyde A. Farnsworth
(Associated Press War Editor)
Three German columns, su
perior to the Russians in the
number of men and machines,
were stabbing their way today
into the northern neck of the
Caucasian area, threatening at
once a sweep to the industrial
ized lower Volga and Isolation
of the entire Caucasus.
Red Star, the Russian army
newspaper, characterized the of
fensive as a mighty race for vic
tory before a second European
front could be opened.
The Germans want to de
feat us before our allies can
land on the continent," Red Star
said.
The Russians, acknowledging
the threat to Stalingrad on the
Volga as the deepest penetra
tion of Russian soil so far, said
that the enemy had gained
ground to the south of Boguchar,
which would place the German
spearheads either on the fringe
of or actually within the so-
called north Caucasan area.
This extends northward be
tween the Ukraine and the Stal
ingrad area, s
Axis reports on this phase of
the battle of the Don basin
placed the fighting well within
the north Caucasan area, at
Migulinsk, SO miles "down the
Don from Boguchar and about
160 miles northwest of Stalin,
grad.
Coinciding with observance
of Bastille day there were re
ports in London of German pre
parations against invasion of the
Netherlands, Belgium and
France, and the British press in
creased its clamor for a second
front to aid the battered red
armies.
It seemed more than ever that
only a great diversion aflank or
at the rear, or sheer German ex-
haustion In the task of beating
down the resistance of the red
army could curb or halt Hitler's
all-out effort.
By comparison with the
threatening disaster in the battle
of Russia, outstanding develop
ments in other war zones, such
as the repulse of another east
ward lunge by axis forces in
Egypt and an overnight RAF
raid in the customary strong
fashion on Industrial objectives
in Germany's Ruhr valley,
verged on the inconsequential.
The Russians, once successful
in winter counter-offensives that
rectified the vast battleline to
their advantage, seemed unable
to seize the initiative save in
isolated sectors, as illustrated by
today's Moscow reports that the
Germans had been put on the
defensive in a sector of the Kal
inin front, northwest of Mos
cow, while the Germans plough
ed toward the Volga and the
Caucasus on the south.
Russian reports said that a
German attempt at "vertical en
velopment" of Russian positions
northwest of Moscow with air
borne troops had been liqui
dated, with many of them shot
down before landing and the re
mainder wiped out aground.
PLEA FROM C. OF C.
With arrival of hundreds of
officers and enlisted personnel
for Camp White the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce
today renewed the plea for list
ing of housing. The statement
stressed that those Intending to
move soon from house or
apartment should notify the
chamber. It was also stated that
single persons should arrange to
share their lodgings with others
similarly placed in order to re
: lease one housing unit.
I The chamber statement said
"the incoming men and their
families are ordered to Camp
' White and have no choice in
the matter." '
I The USO also joined in the
plea for listing of available
i lodgings as many enlisted men
are seeking places for their
families-
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KrJfV??-v i Committee Most Elastic YV illf
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-t. ., . i 11 km f , I ft irom petroleum in im, tnair- iA
" ,' ' 'W fl-J ll"! V fV man Donald M. Nelson told I Y
f "I nCJ'' O senate agriculture lubcommit- I ;
Qll I XjtJh? - - tee today. I 1 'VI
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I ! x z: CODDING IS NAMED
Four of the eight man on
of being Nasi spin sit along a
alias John Thomas, 34i Richard
and Edward John Kerlinc, 33.
trial by the U. S. Army Signal
Young Mother Held
for Ax Slaying of
Her Molher-in-Law
Bremerton, Wash., July
(P) First taken into custody
because of her strange action
in the- water of Puget sound,
a young1 mother -of two children
was held In the city jail today
in connection with the ax slay
ing of her mother-in-law.
Mrs. Evangeline Button, 24,
was booked for murder for the
death of Mrs. Annabella Button,
53, of Long view, only a few
feet from where the former's
six-month-old baby lay in his
buggy.
The younger woman has been
subject to irrational spells ever
since the birth of their second
child, the husband, R. Vernon
Button, Jr., told Police Chief
Arthur N. Morken. The chief
said he was informed by the
distraught husband and son that
the elder Mrs. Button had come
to live with them because his
wife's condition was such that
physicians had recommended
her placement in an institution.
Police Lieut. Ted Phillips dis
covered the tragedy when he
went to the house to Investigate
after Mrs. Button was taken
into custody after she had wad
ed out to her chin in Port Wash-
inston narrows fully dressed,
stood there for a considerable
time, and then returnee, to
nhore. She was incoherent tn
most of her speech.
BLAZElESlYS
RUCH RESIDENCE
The six-room, two-story frame
dwelling owned by Mrs. Anna
Ruch. of Ruch. and occupied by
the Clifford Johnston family.
burned to the ground near the
Ruch store about 6 p. m. Mon
day. Cause of the fire was not
Immediately learned.
Some bedding, furniture and
clothing were saved, but the
woodshed was destroyed along
with the house.
It was understood that Insur
ance was carried on the dwell
ing but not on the furniture
and personal effects of the oc
cupants.
Negro Companies Due
al Camp Wednesday
Two organized companies of
Nearo soldiers from Ft. Lewis,
totalling approximately 200
men, are scheduled to arrive
at Camp White Wednesday night
for temporary duty with the
91st Infantry Division, Major
General Charles H. Gerhardt's
headquarters announced today,
The troops, comprising truck
and service companies, are mem
bers of a housekeeping detach
ment at Ft. Lewis. They will be
transferred from Camp White
upon completion of their work.
trial before a military commission In Washington. D. C accused
wall and listen to the proceedings. Left to right: Wexne Thiel.
Quirin. 34) an unidentified army officer! Herman O. Neubauer, 32;
This photo was made at the beginning of the third day of the
corps and was released by the
Bund Secretary Admits
Plot To Hinder Arming
New York. July 14 W) William Luedtke, 39-year-old
national secretary of the German-American Bund, acknowl
edged federal charge of conspiracy to counsel Bundtsts to
refuse, to. serve in the armed forces nd violate the alien regis
tration law , today by changing his earlier plea of Innocent to
guilty. .
Luedtke, one of the Buna s
top-ranking executives, was In-
dieted with 28 others last week
in the government's announced
drive to smash the Bund. At
his own request, he was brought
before Federal Judge Bascom S.
Beaver today to change his plea.
All but one of the 29 had
entered innocent pleas previ
ously. They are scheduled to
go on trial July 28.
As a result of nis plea, lueat-
ke faces a maximum of seven
vears imprisonment and lines
totaling $20,000 as well as de
naturalization.
He is a naturalized citizen,
born in Danzig. His home was
listed as Saddle River Township,
N. J., where he is a baker.
Births During June
Set County Record;
Stork Delivers 78
The stork delivered 76 babies
to proud parents in this area
durins June. 46 more than in
the same 1941 period and the
largest number for one montn
since the inauguration of birth
records in 1911.
Dr. L. D. Inskeep, registrar
for primary registration district
number S. which includes Med
ford, Jacksonville, Phoenix, Cen
tral Point and Eagle Point, saio
that May of this year also
showed a sharp increase In the
number of births over May in
1941, 60 being born to 41 last
year.
Dr. Inskeen wouldn't venture
an opinion as to the reason for
sudden increase In the number
of local births.
General Gerhard! Is
Welcomed by Rotary
Malor General Charles H. Ger-
hardt was elected to membership
of the Rotary club at its weekly
luncheon-meeting in Hotel Med
ford this noon, and gave a short
talk on military phases at Camp
White. Major General Gerhardt
Is comma nrter of the 91st Infan
try Division.
In Medford Among Medford
visitors yesterday and today
were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jen
kins of Klamath Falls, Mr. and
Mrs. Harris Ellsworth and Mr.
and Mrs. E. L. Knapp of Rose
burg. Mr. Jenkins is editor of
the Klamath News and Herald
and Mr. Knapp, a former Med
ford resident, is a member of
the Roseburg News Review
business staff. Mr. Ellsv.orth,
editor of the Roseburg News
Review, addressed members of
Pro America last evening at
the Hotel Holland.
Office of War Information.
T
Company A, first Infantry of
the Oregon State guard will
receive its company guidon at
a public ceremony to be held
tonight at 8:45 o'clock In the
city park. The infantry will
assemble at the armory at
o'clock and will march to the
city park at 8:30 o'clock under
the leadership of non-commissioned
officers.
At the park the ceremony
will be under the direction of
commissioned officers, who will
make the presentation of the
company guidon. The line of
march will be south on Bartlett
street to West Main street to
the city park. On the return
march the Infantry will parade
east on Main street to Bartlett
where the Ashland Kiltie band
will disband. The troops will
continue south on Bartlett to
the home of Sergeant Miller for
refreshments.
Bastille Day Brings Added Misery
For People Under Hitlerite Heel
By The Associated Press
The Marseillaise, battle song
of the French revolutionists,
was discreetly hummed today on
the streets of Vichy but in Lon
don, headquarters of the free
French, and elsewhere In the
free world it was a swelling
chorus.
Today was Bastille day, the
153d anniversary of the birth
of the French revolution the
third such anniversary of a
France conquered and seeking a
way of life with the conquerer
and of a France whose leader.
General Charles de Gaulle, de
clares that only a battle not
the war has been lost.
The de Gaullist, or free
French, movement now has been
officially re-named "La France
combattante" fighting France.
A grim accompaniment to this
Bastille day, re-illustrating the
way of the conqueror were new
Gestaoo rules for Frenchmen
and a London announcement by
the Yugoslav government in
exile that 700 Croats had been
killed In reprisals following
assassination of the Gestapo
chief of Zagreb
Washington, July 14 (Jfy
The war production board ex
pects to get more synthetic rub
ber from alcohol sources than
from petroleum In 1943, Chair-
man Donald M. Nelson told
senate agriculture subcommit
tee today.
Nelson said facilities were
available to produce in excess
of the 200,000 tons of elastic
which had been assigned to the'
alcohol process In a program
estimated to produce 800,000
tons yearly.
"We will get more rubber
from alcoholic sources In 1943
than from petroleum," he tes
tified. Joy Riding Out
Nelson testified that the
country's maximum production
of synthetic rubber, based on
the amount of materials which
could be made available for
that purpose without taking
them away from other essential
military uses, was covered In
the 800,000-ton program.
Senator Norris (Ind-Neb) pro
tested that this appeared to pre
clude the development of addi
tional processes, but Nelson in
sisted that technological investi
gation was being pushed, t
The WPB chairman reiterated
that despite speeded efforts to
increase synthetic production
pleasure automobile driving was
out for the war's duration as
tires would be available only
for military needs and essentia
civilian use.
Vichy Rejects U. S.
Proposals to Move
Demilitarized Ships
Washington, July 14 (Pt
Acting Secretary of State Wei
les disclosed today that the
Vichy government had rejected
two proposals by President
Roosevelt lor the removal of
demilitarized French warships
from the Egyptian war zone.
The seven warships involved
were demilitarized, by agree
ment with the British, shortly
after the fall of France in 1940
and since then have remained
in the British naval bases at
Alexandria.
President Roosevelt, Welles
said, proposed to Vichy on July
3, that the warships be moved
through the Suez canal under
the protective custody of the
United States and sailed to an
American port, or some neutral
port, for Internment until the
end of the war.
In occupied France the Ges
tapo circulated notification that
grand-fathers, brothers, cousins
and even brothers-in-law of sab
oteurs who refuse to surrender
within 10 days of their act
would be executed and mothers,
grandmothers and sisters sen
tenced to hard labor.
Persons of those classifica
tions and yet under 18 would
be sent to "reform schools."
A hand grenade thrown Into
his automobile ended the career
of Zagreb's "Heydrich." a Major
Helm, a Yukoslav spokesman
said. The killing of Reinhard
Heydrich, Gestapo chief of Bo
hemia and Moravia, cost about
1.200 Czech lives In reprisal and
Yugoslavs expressed fear of ac
tion in kind in Croatia and else
where in dismembered Yugo
slavia.
'The Gestapo guards ran
amuk after the bombirs," the
spokesman said, "shooting at
everyone moving on the streets
and hurling hand grenades
through nearby windows.
"During the day the Germans
rounded up almost all persons in
George A. Codding
SPECIAL ATTORNEY
FOR GOVERNMENT
George A. Codding, Medford
lawyer and former Jackson
county district attorney, has
been appointed special attorney
under the United States attor
ney general in connection with
the acquisition by the govern
ment of land for the Medford
cantonment and other defense
projects In Oregon.
Notification of the appoint
ment was contained in a tele
gram to Codding from Norman
M.' Littell, assistant attorney
general. The appointment is
effective immediately.
Among other duties Codding,
who will be under the super
vision of Barnard H. Ramsey
of Portland, in charge of the
government s acquisition of all
lands in Oregon for defense
projects, will assist the United
States district attorney in trying
the various condemnation suits
involving land-owners on tho
Camp White site, who are not
satisfied with prices offered for
options on their property. The
cases will be tried in leoerai
court here this fall.
Headquarters of the govern
ment's special attorney will be
in Medford, 212 Liberty build
ing. Codding said his appoint
ment would not interfere with
his private law practice.
The telegram informed Cod
ding that a detailed letter of
instructions, travel authoriza
tion, eminent domain manual of
procedure, supplies and equip
ment were being dispatched to
him.
State yield of revenue from
motor fuel taxation totalled
$913 million in 1941, 23 per cent
of all state tax collections.
the Immediate neighborhood and
shot them."
German occupation authorities
in The Netherlands were report
ed to have put that country on
an "invasion footing" and to
have enforced new defense pre
cautions in Belgium and north
ern France. This coincided with
an Increasing clamor in the Brit
ish press for the opening of a
second front to relieve Russia.
Londoners turned out by the
cheering thousands to join the
fighting French on their na
tional holiday. French comman
dos, chasseurs, Alpins and
French naval air and women's
auxiliary units topped the Lon
don program, with a review be
fore General de Gaulle.
A Bastille day message from
President Roosevelt was pub
lished by the New York French
language newspaper. Pour La
Victore. "On this anniversary
which has so deep a slgnifance
to every lover of democracy,
the president wrote. "I express
the hope that the people of
France may soon enjoy the
blessings of liberty, equality and
fraterniay.'
Headquarters Issues New
Ruling on Deferments
Essential Activities Listed
Washington, July 14 OPi
Draft headquarters specifically
directed local -boards today to
call up married men last, taking
single war workers before hus
bands and fathers.
The local boards were in.
structed by orders sent out last
nignt to fill their quotas In this
order:
1. Single men with no da.
pendents;
Z. Single men who do not
contribute to the war effort but
who have dependents;
,3. Single men with depend
ents and who contribute to the
war effort;
4. Married men without ehiU
dren who are not engaged in
the war effort;
o. Married men without chil
dren who are engaged In the
war effort;
6. Married men living with
wife and children or children
only and who are not engaged
in the war effort;
7. Married men living with
wife and children or children
only who are engaged In the
war effort.
Activities Listed
To bo classed as married
man a registrant must have
been married- before Dee. I,
1941, and must be livinc with
fhli wife or children.
To guide local boards on:
whether or not man is en
gaged In the war effort, draft
headquarters issued a list of
34 essential activities.
In granting deferment for
occupational reasons the board
must first decide whether a man
is engaged In one of those activ
ities and then determine that his
particular - job makea him ,. a
"necessary man." . .
Also, the firm In which ha
is employed must be fulfilling
a war contract, performing a
government service or a service
necessary to civilian life in sup- '
port of the war effort, or ha
must be supplying material for
such firms.
The essential activities were:
Production of aircraft and
parts; ships, boats and parts;
ordnance and accessories; am
munition; agriculture; food proc
essing; forestry, logging and
lumbering; construction; coal
mining; metal mining; non
metallic mining and processing
and quarrying; sme'Ung, refin
ing and rolling metals; produc
tion of metal shapes and forc
ings; finishing of Metal Prod
ucts; production of industrial
and agricultural equipment; ma
chinery; chemicals ana auiea
er products; textiles; apparel;
stone, clay and glass products;
petroleum, natural-gas ana pe
troleum and coal products;
transportation equipment; trans
portation services; materials for
packing and shipping products;
Communications servicee;
munications equipment; heat
ing, power and Uluminaung
services; repair and ha nd trade
services (blacksmithir.g, arma
ture rewinding, electrical ana
hicvele reDair. automobile re
pair, harness and leather repair,
clock repair, tool repair and
sharpening); health and welfare
services; educational services;
governmental services.
DROWNS IN POOL
Walla Walla. Wash.. July 14
(F) Tommy Ackerman, SVi
year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil Ackerman, drowned when
he wandered into the unfenced
city wading pool here yester
day. BASEBALL
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