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Newspaper Page Textr Lt YOUH Aoiwn to Bomb be BOHDS1 Buy Kit bobs a a (tup TOIAT ContrlhaU to th nr effort at Ml Halloa. FaUtat Um. rout self-protartloa. atmands that TOO jeer Tribune KAIL T1UBTJKX Want Ad Way Quick Seaalt I SatcO Cost FORD art NOW! mil Associated Piw United Praas i Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1942. NO. 99. i s llffl W r j fpRo)M A f MED News Behind The News By Paul Mailon Washington. July 15 Con gressman Andrew Jackson May set the military men a-mutter-ing when he announced the war might be over this year, certain ly next. Mr. May is an excep- tionally able legislator and chairman of the house military affairs committee, but he is also known as a teller of tall stories. He has long insisted, for in stance, that down in Pike coun ty, Kentucky, he never shoots at a squirrel directly, but at the limb on which it is perched, so he can kill it by concussion. An offset to Mr. May'a amaz ing prediction has been offered by Senator Tydings of Mary land, who thinks the war will not end until 1944. Everyone likes to hear good news, and such statements as these are given prominence in the press for that reason, al though they are not worth the breath it took to utter them. No one in authority knows when the war will end. No one can have a good guess. And such wild stabs as are being made fluctuate from day to day with nwa from the front. One official, who knows as much about it as either Mr. May or Mr. Tydings, says the war will lat five vear. if Eevct falls. All that can be truthfully and safely said is this: - Many air-minded authorities hope for great things from the second front of air bombing . which has been opened by the " British. It has been announced this is to be greatly intensified with cr help soon. Those who think the war can be won this way naturally ex pect an early conclusion. They are in the minority. The vast majority of authorities see the nd nowhere in sight. It will snow gold for depen dents in the armed services next November 2. the day be fore election On that peculiarly (Cunttatud ea Pc sl Army Says Corvaliis Sewage Will Poison Camp Wafer Supply Portland. July 15 HP) The army wants the city of Corvaliis I to put in a sewage purfication plant at once to protect the Camp Adair water supply. A letter from Malor Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce, commander of the Ninth Corps area, to the Oreenn aanitarv authority yes terday said the camp's supply would be contaminated other wise. The camp's water intake on the Willamette river will be be low Corvaliis. Seattle. July 15 IF) The Pacific north west advisory board said today carloadings in this area in June totaled 113. 928 cars. Highest for the month since 1929. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Topight: MBS 5:30 Grena dier Guards Band; 6:30 Pass in Review. Thursday: NBC 8:30 New series, Engineer at War. CBS 12:30 U. S. Navy band. MBS 11:43 A. M., Khak Serenade; 1:30 Empire City horse race. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Frank VanDyke trying in vain to get the kink out of his back, caused when he hoisted his lit tle boy's tricycle clear up into an automobile. Lieut. W. H. Puntenney breezing around with breezy news of Camp White. Frank Runtz tipping a report er off to what may make a good story soon. Ken Denman, saving rubber, being picked up oa his long trek to lunch at bom RUSSIANS REPULSE NAZI ATTEMPT TO CIRCLEVORONEZH Hitlerites Stripping Reserves From Western Europe Is Claim of Defenders. By Clyde A. Farasworth Associated Press War Editor Locked in a Breat. consuming battle for which Germany is stripping reserve divisions trom K.p 0nrr Imni in Western Eur ope, the Russians reported today that they had repuisea enemy attempts to encircle Vonmezh, on the north flank of the Ger mans' Don Valley offensive. Resistance to Hitler's 1942 blitzkrieg, as symbolized by the defense of Voronezh, has so sap ped the enemy's reserve that several divisions from Beigium and France have been .reported put into the battle. Path For Aiiia The official Russian an nouncement to that effect today was a tacit Implication that the way was being opened in west ern Europe for creation of an .1114 front v London reported Russian pressure for prompt invasion of the continent and one infor mant rtertnred that all DreDa ra tions for a full-fledged attack were being made. How soon was left unanswered. Th Rfranni whs more than a week ago were claiming Vor onezh as theirs actually were stopped by a last ditch defense at the outskirts, Russian front dispatches . said today, in re counting the struggle ior in anchor of the southern Russian army. So long as Voronezh stands it remains a tharp flanking threat tn th r.prmBn' deeoest pene tration of Russia, thrust which has carried beyond Boguchar, down the Don from in Voron ezh sector, to' within 200 miles of Stalingrad on the Volga. Axis reports , unconfirmed, said that another drive, further south, had carried within six .(! f Rrtxtnv. at the mouth of the Don gateway to the Cau casus. . . Thousands Kitted . txtmi admitting territorial losses which constitute dire threat to isolate the vital Cau casus and perhaps to force general Russian withdrawal in the south to the line of the Vol ga River, Moscow said that 35, 000 of the enemy have been killed or wounded In a 10-day period in the Voronezh sector. An important point west of Vor onezh was reported recaptured. Juvenile Officer Selection Delayed County Judge J. B. Coleman said yesterday it would be a week or 10 days before the juvenile officer for Jackson county, provided for in the 1942-1943 budget, is named. War time conditions have in creased the need for a trained welfare officer of experience who can contact both the juv eniles and their parents. There has been something of a decline in Juvenile delin- fiimiipv th mast mnnth Manv of the boys and girls are now working in orchards and on farms, or elsewhere. Navy Details Heavy Jap Losses In Midway By JOHK M. KIGHTOWER Washington, July 15 VPH Japan's invasion armada ran into an American ambush in the battle of Midway, official re ports disclosed today. A communique last night gave the first detailed account of the battle and a supplemental report told how a naval task force lay in ambush and struck hard with carrier planes when army and navy shore-based at tacks had slowed the enemy fleet. 0 Ships in Fleet The great size of the armada Japan sent to assault Midway in hopeful prelude to conquest of Hawaii was disclosed for the first time 80 ships. Official records gave this result of the J battle: Nazis Nearer U? imp LACK $ I A iijl-.j iURRCI " New drives In the Hosts axe (2), brought th Oerman manae Shaded arrows indicate possible eih (3), continued with indies lions (shaded arrowi), that Matt triumph would bring further drive to split Moacow from the south and a push toward the Oral Industrial areas. Russians claimed thay fought efi saw attacks is Kalinin area (41, but Garmans claimed new victor! southwest oi FihT. ROGUE RIVER MEN AMONG INTERNED BY JAP CAPTORS Washington, July 15. UP The War department today an nounced 158 American civilians known to be interned by the Japanese at Shanghai. All were captured on Wake Island and in each case the next-of-kin has been notified by the navy de partment. Oregonians include: Ward H. Deimlen Mrs. S. O. Jacobs, box 118, Rogue River. Lester W. Harbeck: Mrs. Les ter Harbeck, 628 North Fourth, Grants Pass. Buren G. Kennedy; Mrs. Buren Kennedy, Rt 1, box 1110-A, Rogue River. Charles A. Moe: Mrs. Dorothy Lee, Rt. 3, box 685, Grants Pass. Raymond W, Roberts: ' Mrs. Mary Roberts, box 873, Grants Pass. Lewis H. Smith: Mrs. Mary B. Smith, Rogue River, Five For One I German Penalty London, July 15 (JPi The German-controlled Brussels ra dio reported tonight that five Frenchmen had bees sentenced to death at Lille for killing German so'dier. The announcer added that two other French nationals had been executed for distributing propaganda described as com munistic, and for possession of firearms. Japanese losses 30 ships sunk or damaged including four aircraft carriers sunk and three battleships hit; 275 planes de stroyed, and 4,800 men killed or drowned. American losses the 19, 900 ton aircraft carrier Yorktown put out ot action, the destroyer Hammann sunk, an undisclosed number of planes destroyed, and 92 officers and SIS enlisted men lost. Loss of the destroyer and damage to an aircraft carries had been reported previously, but this was the first time their names were given. The Immediate result of the battle was that safety of the vital Hawaiian area, th Ameri can west coast and the Panama canal wera at least temporarily Secured Caucasus Oil I SOVIET RUSSIA I Ntii ' IRAN (I), and fighting at Boguchar closer to Caucasus oil fields. ob (CtiTM. Struggle for Voion- BASEBALL " American '" First game. Chicago ITS Boston 10 13 2 Smith and Turner; Hughson and Conroy. National First game. Boston S Cincinnati 13 Tobin and Lombard!; Walters and Lamanno, FIVE DIE IN CRASH OF ARMY BOMBER Walla Walla, Wash., July 13 Lieutenant-Colonel Earl T. Vance, base commander of Walla Walla, reports four- motor bomber on a training flight from the air base at Walla Walla crashed In the Blue moun tains, about five miles southeast of Walla Walla en th Hans Clodius ranch at 1:40 a. m. to day. The crash was followed by an explosion and fire and ail on board were killed. Casualties were: Pilot, Second-Lieutenant Rich ard G. Hill, Mart, Texas, Co-Pilot, Second -Lieutenant Earl O. Stevens, Ravenna, Ohio Engineer, Pvt. Kenneth White, Vale. Ore. Radio operator. Pvt. Joseph Mallick, Corry, Penn. Pvt. Freddie . Vanover, address not determined. Devoted Action Told The navy Issued In exultant detail Its first story of the "superb act of devotion" men tioned by Prim Minister Churchill in parliament July 2. when he -told for the first time that "from some successful at tacks on Japanese carriers only one (American airert returned out of ten." On action the navy cited was by navy torpedo squadron No. 8 30 men and IS planes led by Lieut. Cmdr, Charles Waldron 41, of Fort Pierre, S. D. This sauadron successfully attacked the enemy's main battle force without fiahtcr support and in spit of blistering antiaircraft and fighter opposition. Alt 14 o!ane were lost. Only on man ISAM VsL'-iST. m - - - - - . of the squadron, Ensign O. H. House Breaks Farm Bill Deadlock FOUR SABOTEURS FOUND ON BEACH BY COAST GUARD Young Service Man Sur prised Quartet Now on Trial is Official Revelation Washington, July 15. (V The coast guard .disclosed today that a 21-year-old guardsman. on beach patrol at Amagansett, Long Island, surprised four or the eight alleged Nazi saboteurs now on trial as they waded ashore carrying explosives. The guardsman, John C. Cul len of Bayside, Long Island, sounded the alarm which even tually led to the capture, of the four men he surprised and four others. Feared Hypnotism la a narrative description drawn from official coast guard files, the announcement dis closed that Cuilen at on time feared he was about to be hyno tized by one of the saboteurs. Also, the Sails, in giving him a bribe he pretended to accept, shortchanged CuUen $40, Th official record quoted another coast guardsman who participated In the search for th four saboteurs as saying he saw "a long, thin object, about 70 feet long, about 150 I est on shore," white Cullen wm report ed to hav beard in noise, of powerful Diesel engines just off shore. , . VINSON SCORCHES CONTRACT AGENTS Washington, July IS. JP) Chairman Vinson iD-Go) ot me house naval committee main tained today that three "sales enaineers" had an "inside track at the navy department which haloed them obtain war con tracts for manufacturers ana a profit of $946,101 for them selves during tea first six months of this year. "You three men, sitting here in Washington," Vinson bluntly told the trio during the commit tee hearing, "are getting 1,130 each a day, every day for the first six months of this year, in cluding Sunday, while boys are dying at Bataan and Corregidor and on the Lextngton. "I am going to see if I can break up this practice of contin gent fees. There's no justifica tion for It. His assertion cam during examination of A. P. Shirley, a one time army major, and F. R. Olcott and F. C. Nichols, both former civilian employes of the navy. The three are partners in a firm which secures contracts for manufacturers throughout the country on a commission basis. The slogan "Pike Peak or bust" originated In 3858 with the gold strike at Pike's Peak, Gay, of Houston, Texas, sur vived. Another deed of valor was attributed to Major Lofton R. Henderson of Gary, Ind. During th marines' first attack on the Japanese fleet on June 4, hi scoot bomber was hit and set afire. Henderson was last seen diving his blaring craft into th smokestack of Japanese car rier. After the Coral Sea victory on May 4-My S, the navy said, the hiah command decided the enemy's next thrust would be directed aratnrt some other tion of America Pacific de fenses Hawaii. Alaska, the Panama canal or th Pacific coast. Her Sai Tra Cooteauently U. S. naval JAPANESE GIRDING F0RS1BERIABL0W IS LONDONREPORT Main Fleet Concentrating in Home Waters Waiting German Victory, is Claim. (By the Associated Press) Apparently by coincidence. London sources voiced opinions today that the Japanese main fleet Is concentrating in home waters and that a smashing Ger man victory in Russia would precipitate a Japanese attack on Soviet Siberia. Simultaneously tits Tokyo radio broadcast a report that Foreign Minister Shigenori To go, speaking at Osaka, disclosed that the soviet government had assured Japan that Moscow's mutual assistance pact with Brit ain and her agreement with the united States contain no pro visions regarding Japan. May Meaa Lilti It was significant perhaps. In the light of past Japanese ac tions, that Tokyo thus sought to reassure her Russian neighbor but a reassuring gesture by Japan may or may not mean a thing, depending on whether it accords with military strategy. In the theaters of active war in the far Pacific, the MacAr- thur headquarters In Australia reported a new bomb raid yes terday on the Japanese airport at Salamaua, New Guinea, and the Chinese acknowledged that the Japanese had captured Wen- chow, an important port of southern Chekisng province. The Chinese, thus confirming a Japanese announcement of last Saturday, said that the attackers were impelled: by fear that the port would become an allied air or naval base. CAMP ADAIR AREA SHORT OF HOUSING Corvaliis, Ore,. July 13. Uft Governor Sprague paid tri bute to America s military lead ership at a chamber of com merce dinner honoring a score of newly arrived army officers for Camp Adair last night. He pointed to Camp Adair as example of "amazing accom plishment" and an indication of the army's ability to get things done. More officers' are arriving daily for Camp Adair posts and housing has already become an acute problem here. War Bulletins Lasdaav July W ftP) Tw; hundred spitfire ftgbtar puses made a darina tsw-leval attack early tonight as German troops along a SOO-mils front the Cherbourg Peninsula to Stap les, the air ministry sews ser vice aaaeusees tonight. forces were deployed along the: 1,700 mile front between Mid-i way Island and the Aleutian in th north Pacific. Throughout th danger area, base were re inforced with long-range, land based aircraft. Thus, the navy made clear, the fighting forces under supreme command of Ad miral Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific fleet chief, were ready when the blow fell. The following account ot the battle is takes front the navy communique and supiementary reports based on voluminous communications from eommand ders in the field, Enemy sighted At t a. m., Midway time, June J, navy pa trol plane found an enemy cruiser and transport fore to Held By FBI Mrs. Hani Kaupt (absva). of Chicago, imothtr oi Herbert Haupt. who was Msg m4 By a military eosimmioa as aa attesed, saboteur, was arrested by is FBI. Th FBI charged Hausi't caranU kaaw at hi scriritlM. COPGO EMPLOYES, POSTAL WORKER ENLIST IN M Three employes of the Cslf- fomio-Oregon Power company. one of the MedJord postoffice and a local business man enlist ed In the U. S. naval construc tion battalion In Portland Mon day, and witt be called to active duty when their companies are formed, probably to about two months, according to Jack M. Carpenter, local navy recruiter. Stanley G. Sherwood of 1019 West Main street, money order clerk at the psstofftee, enlisted as a postal clerk, first class. Copcn employes totaling the navy were Sidney G'en Watson of 72 West 14th street, as a storekeeper, second class; Don ald B. Falweii of ttt West Sec and street, as a storekeeper, first class; and Owen K, Phelaa 732 West Second street, as an elec tricians mate, second class. Fourth local man te enlist was Harold Carver of 89 Portland avenue, owner of Hal's Camera shop. Carver enlbted as a pho tographer, first class. Transfsr Jspssast .Front FntBS Ctsltr Fresns, Calif, July IS Transfer of 4,730 Japanese, most of them from Oregon and Wash ington, got underway at the nearby Ptnedafe assembly cen ter today. Some 4,008 of She Oregon and Washington Japanese at Plne-i dale will go to the Tule Lake center in Modoc county. The re maining 750. mostly from Sacra ments, Ei Dorado and Amador counties, will go to the Poston, Arte.. centr. five huge columns about TOO mile west ot Midway, coming in. Simultaneously, a Japanese battle force of carriers and bat tleship was coming In front the northwest. Army fortress bomb ers and navy petrol planes dam aged a cruiser, a transport and probably sank and damaged other vessels to an immediate attack on tha occupation force. The enemy turns by mid- morning the enemy had suffered only about IS ship damages, and the Amerlnn command ex pected continued attack. But th Japanese changed course unob served and both forces began to retire. ftv that time American car rier in ambush were rushing AGREE TO SALE OF 1EAT UNDER PARITYON CORH Change in Sentiment Permlti Sale Around 33c a Bushel Had Sought $1J5 Washington, July H, JPi Final agreement was reached: today on the long-disputed: $680,000,089 farm bill after the house finally backed down, and decided to permit sales of gov ernment-ofraed wheat at below , parity. The senate, , following the house action, accepted a confer ence commutes recommenda tions and the legWatios was ready for the president's signe ture. After rejecting a new com promise proposal, the house ae cepted a senate demand, backed by President Roosevelt, that sales of government owned wheat for livestock feed and In dustrial use at 85 per cent of the parity price of corn or about S3 cento a bushel be al lowed. Wanted il,J Previously, the house had in stated that such tales be made at set lesa than parity for wheat, or atset 11.43 a ousnei. Th deadlock grew out of a senate demand that sal of 123 000,000 bushels for feeding pur posec be allowed at 83 per cent of com parity, or sb-otit 83 cent The administration favored the senate version. It wants to stabilize livestock reed! prices at betew-pertfy levels to encourage maximum production of meat, dairy and poultry products to war needs, - - ...... NEW DEALERS WIN OKLAHOMA VOTES Oklahoma City, July 15 Oft Oklahoma Democrats, who re nominated New Dealer Josh, Lea for the S. S Senate, built up a lead for a Roosevelt backer aa their ehek for governor today with three-fourths of th unof ficial returns from yesterday's primary election tabulation. Robert 3 Sob) Kerr, the par ty's national eotnmttteeman. added bit by Mt to his Barrow margin over second place Com er Smith, attorney and former congressman. With 2.709 of 3 874. precincts reported th count stood Kerr 105.388, Smith 87,438. Sena tor Lee won nomination over nine opponent and clung to a clear majority. Among Senator i'j nine op ponents wai 72 -year -old W. H. (AlfaUa Bill) Murray, farmer governor and csngressinan, BLT POSTMASTER Washington. July 1J OfV President Roosevelt has test to the senate the following nomina tions for postmaster to Oregon: Biy Georgia G, Case beer. Ambush full steam to attack. But because the enemy had changed course contact was not established im mediately. However, Watdrss and Lieu tenant Commander CUrence Wad McClusky, Jr., of Buffalo, N. Y, shrewd iy guessed what the enemy had done, led their squadron accordingly, and e tacked the Japanese against heavy testitanc. Waldroo s squadron scored several hit and shot down some Japanese fight ers before it warn wiped out. Then American carrier plane arrived to tore. Th navy de scribed the enrutag fight aa "such an aerial circus a never before had bets witseaaad aw far at "