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I Let YOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDSI Buy War Bonds end Stamps TODAY Contrtbuls to ths war trfort of four nation, fatrtot kn. jour own self-protection, demands that YOU do Joor part NOWl Use Tho MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Rssults at Small Cost Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Unltsd Prsss Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1942. NO. 100. (PGq)M A Nl GA MM mm f?r7Tlfnltirfulfrnfl flTl News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 16 The Rus sian method of meeting the blitz has always been to give ground until the attack is spent. Then the Reds customarily move in against the panting and exhaust ed foe with counter-attacks. For this, and many other reasons, au thorities have discounted the direst possibili ties of recent news from Russia. For instance. those two sal ients which Paul Mallon the Nazis first drove to the Don were narrow mechanized pushes. They were long slender fingers driven Into the Russian position, not a complete whole sale advance on the 200-mile front. It is true they cut the two railroads from Rostov to Mos cow at Voronezh and Rossosh and thus succeeded in hindering communications between Timo shenko's southern army and the central army. But these railroads have been used onlv for troons. Siinnlips have always gone from the north , by a safer route, around through Stalingrad Furthermore, even if Stalin grad falls and the Volga is cut there the Russians would still have one rail line left to the i Caucasus oil from Astrakhan straight north. . . . s CO while the two handiest troop rail-routes were cut at the outset of the drive, supplies were able to move to Timo shenko as usual, and his cause was not irreparably damaged. Furthermore, the thin line of the German advance left Hitler the problem of protecting his flanks as he moved forward, and limited his operations. At the two heads of the thin salients, Voronezh and Rossosh. his troops turned southward, fighting their way down the railroads and the Don river. THE Russian defenses along the Don were seriously ham pered by the winding nature of (Continued on Paga Eight) Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Broadcast premiere by Arturo . Toscanini and the NBC Sym phony orchestra in a 90-minute concert on Sunday afternoon cf the Seventh symphony by the Russian composer Dmitri Sho stakovich is to be dedicated to Russian war relief. The program on NBC's full network at 1:15 will include a brief talk in that connection by Edward C. Carter, president of Russian War Relief, Inc. CBS series of commando dramas, based on the feats of the British raiders of the con tinent, has been delayed in start ing until 5:30 p. m. Saturday. It originally had been set for Wednesday night. VACATION PAY DISPUTE 9 CLOSES COOS BAY MILL Marshfield, Ore.. July 16 (P A dispute of 25 of 60 employes over vacation pay kept the Mc Kenna Lumber company mill idle today. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Rosemary and Carolyn Jones, identical twins, having a hard time riding herd on their young twin brothers. Gwynnlee Young and Joan Gardner enjoying a midnight onack last evening consisting of hard boiled eggs, carrots, sand wiches, oranges, graham crack ers and iced tea. Don McPherson passing out Imaginary cigars over the tele phone on the arrival of a seven pound ion SALIENTS DRIVEN E Invaders Gain Control of 25,000 Sq. Miles Since Start of Drive June 28. By Clyde A. Farniworth Associated Press War Editor. A German foothold some 20 miles inside the northern Cau casus and another on the north ernmost rim were officially con ceded today by the Russians while the sanguinary struggle for Voronezh on the north flank of the enemy's menacing bulge along the Don river attained a new degree of ferocity. An informed source said it was evident that Germany was throwing her full weight into the present offensive betore Bri tain and the United States can invade Europe. . . - No Relief Soon Even so, he said, the allies are not likely to be able to form a second front in time to relieve the pressure on the red armies now or later this summer.- These expressions accompan ied a British military commen tator's confirmation of Russian reports that several German re serve divisions had recently been moved to the eastern front from Belgium and France, . The commentators said, how ever, that the diverted German troops were not garrison divi sions trained in western Europe. The garrison strength, he said, remained unaffected and the garrison forces while "not spear head troops, are good soldiers nevertheless." Since launching their latest all-out effort in Russia on June 28, the Germans have won ef fective control of an additional 25,000 square miles of Russian territory somewhat more than the area of West Virginia although not all Russian forces therein have been moppeci up. Pressing behind two spear heads eastward from this bulge, the Germans threaten to crash on through to the Stalingrad elbow of the Volga river, less than 200 miles away, effectively splitting the Caucasus and eas ing the way for direct penetra tions of the oil-bearing region further south. These were the implications of the Russian communique ad mitting loss of Bogucuar, Just outside the North Caucasian territory and Millerov, 75 milp. farther south ana msiuc the territory, on the direct line of rail communications between Moscow and Rostov. The North Caucasus is one of Russia's principal agricultur- al regions. If repeated axis reports are correct, the German advance through Boguchar has carried -.n Kvnnrt the southeast. These advices last located the point of this spearhead at Migu linsk, 160 miles northwest of Stalingrad, industrial capital of the lower Volga. Los Angeles. July 1-!T; An air attack on me r-.-coast. Including the use of gas, l at anv time. may uc - c Lt.- Col. E. K. Merritt. U. S. army air forces, told 350 Indus trialists today. Col. Metritt. western district plant protection officer for the air forces, addressed school of emergency protection for Los Angeles Industries and public buildings. He warned: 'The enemy certainly is not going to let our tremendous aircraft pro duction continue on the coast without trying to put a crimp in it. "An air attack on the coast may be expected at any time. The army has every reason to believe that gas will be used " He said contracts for plants which ignore protection regula tions will be cancelled, and also declared the government "will not stand for strikes in war production." Contracts will be transferred or plants taken over if strikes occur, he said. ARMY LOOKS FOR ATTACK ON fSOAST Americans Join in Bastille Day I ill -:".: Cf lr,M Central Charles Da Gaulle (left), "Fighting French" leader, shakos hands with Lt. Can. Dwight D, Eisenhower, chief of the U. S. forces in Europe, during: the Free French celebration of Bastille Day, national French holiday, in London. In the m W Is Admiral H. R. Stark, U. S. naval chief in European waters, while at extreme right is A Hafii Macha, Saudi Arab ian minister to London. Photo cabled from London to Now Yorhi H Vichy Protests U.S. Consulting Free French Leader De Gaulle . Vichy, July 16 (JP) The Vichy government officially protest ed today to Washington against assignment of. military repre sentatives to Gen. Charles de G a wile, declaring this "constitutes an attack on the sovereignty of France." An authorized sources declar ed it was "inadmissible" that the American government, "which is maintaining normal relations with the French government, also maintain relations with a rebel force" (The United States depart ment of state announced July 9 that Admiral Harold R. Stark and Brig. Gen. Charles L. Bolte had been assigned to consult in London with the national com mittee of the fightine. French headed by General de Gaulle "on all matters relating to the con duct of the war." (The announcement and an ac companying memorandum stres sed that the purpose was to strengthen military aid to the fighting French, and did not refer to the controversy over diplomatic recognition, which the United States has not given the de Gaulle organization.) The protest was announced pending publication of the French stand concerning French warships Interned at Alexandria. The latter was un derstood to reject all proposals to move the ship elsewhere than to French territory, on the grounds that to do so would not conform with French-German armistice terms. (The state department an nounced in Washington two days ago that Vichy had already reiected two proposals oy rres- ident Roosevelt for removal of the nine demilitarized French naval vessels from the Egyptian war zone. President Roosevelt proposed that the ships be moved through the Suez canal under American rustodv to some American or tral nort for Internment until after the war, when they would be returned to France When this plan was rejected, he suggested that the ships be ent tinder U. S. protective cus tody to Martinique. French West Indian Island, for aemoDiuza tion). CRASH KILLS 5 Spokane, Wash., July 18 UP) A heavy bomber based at Geiger field crashed last night near Post Falls, Idaho, 20 miles east of Spokane, killing the entire crew of five men, the public relations office at Geiger field reported this morning. Names of the men were withheld. . maT .r r e - m Whiskered Transient Held for Failure lo Comply With Draft John Charlie Blandt, SO. tran sient, an admitted conscientious objector, arrested near Talent yesterday on a vagrancy charge will be turned over to the local draft board for further action. District Attorney George W. Neilson said today. Instructions to this effect were received to day by the district attorney from Sacramento federal aides. Blandt was arrested by a sheriff deputy yesterday who discovered him asleep near a highway bridge near Talent He was charged with vagrancy and a hearing was held in jus tice court yesterday afternoon with Blandt acting as his own attorney. He had $55 in his possession Justice Coleman re served his decision on the va grancy charge. Blandt readily admitted he had failed to report to his Cali fornia draft board for physical examination and said he was a conscientious objector. He ad vised the arresting officer he always camped out and worked only when people asked him to. He said he was American barn of German parents. He will be held here until a final decision in his case is made. He is a husky and bewhiskered. Don't Be Surprised at Anything, British Boys By Frank K. Kelly New York, July 16. (P) Tap an American and he may turn on you with a war whoop, a Rotarian grip or a fraternity yell. But don't be surprised at any thing he does, says the British air ministry, because the melt ing pot has been cooking for a long time and many new things have been added. He likes to ramble and tight. He is curious, generous, vio lent, talkative and unreserved. He stalks the dollar with the ferocity his ancestors used in gathering redskin scalps. He leaves culture along with child-bearing to his women. That's an American, the Brit ish ministry informs royal air force cadets headed here for training. The American Is so many things It Is sometimes hard to understand him, the ministry In dicates In its pamphlet-portrait for the guidance of the British PERT NL ELDER JUVENILE OFFICER Robert M. Elder of Klamath Falls was appointed juvenile of ficer for . Jackson county by County Judge J. B. (Blin) Cole man yesterday. He will assume office August 1. Elder was one of several applicants for the position which was provided for in the budget for 1942-43. Elder has been engaged in juvenile delinquency work In Klamath Falls and Klamath county for six or seven years and is experienced in the work. He also has served as desk ser geant for the Klamath Falls police department, owns an apartment house in Klamath Falls, is married and has two children. County Judge Coleman said the Juvenile delinquency situa tion in this county requires the services of a full time officer, and he will be able to reach the children and their parents be fore things have gone too far. "Mr. Elder is a trained man, with rather definite Ideas on the handling of juvenile cases and I believe is just the man we need for the place," Judge Cole man further explained. En Route Here Told fliers about to . rub elbows with a strange species. "The average American has inherited something of the tra dition of the American Indian. There la the same preliminary war dance and concurrent ex citement, the same love of vio lent action and no less violent speech, the same war cries, the same concentration on the scalp as the object of expedition." The American is unpredict able, the ministry continues, be cause "out of the mixture of races from which he derives his personality, he is more Euro pean than any European." Not only that, he lives In "a vast and fabulous country where the northwest la rather like the British Isles, the deep southeast like the tropics, the mlddlewest an empire richer than Germany and the Ukraine put together, Texas very similar to southern Brazil and Uruguay, California and southern Oregon like parts of Australia." V ar Contract Admits Huge AID CIVIL EFFORT Maj.-Gen. Gerhardt to Detail Man For Duty at Local C. of C Review Needs. The' Jackson county coordinat ing board and Major General Charles H. Gerhardt, command er of the 91st Infantry Division at Camp White, met yesterday to consider the acute housing situation here, magnified by the influx of hundreds of wives and families of military personnel. A flood of applications for living accommodations has been re ceived at the chamber of com merce the past week. Frank J. VanDyke. coordina tor, stated that an officer from the 91st division would be stationed at the chamber of commerce to aid the chamber, the coordinating board and the Homes Registration Office In explaining the situation and helping obtain housing units for the wives and families of mili tary personnel.' He urged the public to cooperate by immedi ately listing at' the chamber all available dwelling units in this area, including houses, apart ments and rooms. . Officers At Camp General Gerhardt and all of ficer personnel of the 91st divi sion and its attendant troops are to live at Camp White, Van Dyke explained, adding that the crying need was for housing units for wives and families of the officers, many of whom have traveled thousands of miles to be with their husbands and fathers in the few remaining weeks or months before they are called to the actual war front. . . VanDyke said that over 200 nice rooms were listed at the present time, but that many of the landlords had requested they be made available to officer oersonnel only. However, he explained, by reason of the plan being followed in wnicn an officers of the 91st division will live at Camp White, theJieed Is not for the officers but for their wives and families. He called upon the landlords to cooperate by renting rooms to wives of the officers. Manv of the officers have families here, VanDyke pointed out, and these families are plan ning to "double up in nouses thev are able to rent. Again, VanDyke requested landlords not to be reluctant in renting houses to more than one family, as this plan would greatly im prove the situation. Questionnaires eni Questionnaires have been sent to contractor and engineer per sonnel at Camp White asking that they list their housing units prior to vacating, so that tnese units will be readily available to wives and families Immedi ately after the present occupants leave. VanDyke said that General Gerhardt Indicated the army was not going to dictate what rent shall be paid for any given property, and it Is anticipated, he said, that the community response will be such that It will not be necessary for wives and families of the military personnel to use accommoda tions for which unfair rentals will be charged. RAF RAIDS GERMANY FROM CLOUDY SKIES London, July 16 (Ph British bombers raided Germany In davlieht this afternoon, it was announced authoritatively. Lone bombers protected by clouds dropped bombs on sepa rate missions In the inausiriai Ruhr, other parts of northwest Germany and in Tha Netherlands. BASEBALL National First game. Brooklyn . 0 8 2 Chicago , 7 14 1 Dsvis, Mimball and Owens: Schmitz, Warneke and McCul lough. American Cleveland S 7 2 New York 8 11 1 Harder. Milnar and Hegan. Denning; Bonham and Rosar. FOR 1942 SEASON Washington, July 18 (IP) Federal migratory birdhunting regulations for 1942 were an nounced today by Interior Sec retary Ickes, providing a 70-day shooting season for ducks in stead of the 60 days permitted in i4i. Duck hunting will begin in the northern zone on September 20, intermediate zona October 15 and southern zone, Novem ber z. While liberal!; ng the restric tions on hunting ducks, which showed a vast increase in num bers last year, Ickes tightened rules for: the protection of geese, doves and other birds that have not increased in popu lation. Duck hunting hours will run from sunrise to sunset, instead of from sunrise to 4 p. m. as formerly, and legally killed birds may be possessed for 30 days after the close of the sea son, instead of 20 days. Regulations governing bag and possession limits of ducks remain unchanged except that a new provision makes the pos session limit on the first day of hunting conform to the daily bag limit. The regulations reduced the bag limits on geese and Includ ed other special safeguards, since Investigations had shown a decline in goose populations other than the blue geese. Tl A troop train today brought to Camp White most of a cadre of 934 men, all of them non commissioned officers, techni cians or specialists transferred from Fort Bliss, Tex., to become key men In the new 91st In fantry Division commanded by Major General Charles H. Ger hardt. A cadre, lt was explained by the general's headquarters. Is an army term describing a group of men transferred from one post to mi in at anoiner. The men. all from the 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Bliss, are veterans and considered one of the best trained units in the army. They will be assigned to highly-Important posts in the 91st division. While most of them arrived on the troop train, others are driving their own cars and some are bringing their families. Draft of Married Seen by Stimson Washington,' July 16. OV- Secretary of War Stimson ex pressed his belief today that young married men and youths of 18 to 20 would have to be drafted for the armed forces be fore a victory over the axis is won. Asked at his press conference whether tha war department still believed these men would be needed for the army, Stimson replied that "we have never had a great war In which we did not find It necessary to call up both l these classes. ' Agent Profits PARTES, PRESENTS GIVEN OFFICERS IS $431,463 Received In 18- Month Period Says Ward Socially Inclined. Washington, July 18. (JPh Horace Ward, of Washington, war contract commission agent. acknowledged earnings of $431,- 463 in an 18-month period today and said he entertained coast guard and naval officers with whom he did business because: "I'm socially inclined." Ward appeared before the house naval committee, now in vestigating the operations of commission agents who obtain war contracts for manufacturers throughout thfe country. He said that he had plenty of manufac turers as clients. . Parties Charged Off In response to questions. Ward testified that he charged oft parties and presents to naval and coast guard officers as pan of his sales expenses. That statement came alter William Shaughnessy of com. mittee counsel introduced a let. ter in which Ward wrote client that "when I tell you I can da something in the coast guard ,1 mean just that and nothing more." What is the motive in enter taining these coast guard ana naval officers?" inquired Chair man Vinson (D-Ga). Tm socially inclined,- re sponded Ward. A Washington family of four acknowledged before the house naval committee today mat a h.H realized nroflts amounting to $613,798 In 1941 by obtaining war contracts for eleven manu facturers on a commission main. "What's your definition ox war profiteering," Rep. Magnu son (D-Wash) asked William Scrlmgeour, father and founder of the partnership. "I don't think that I hava one," Scrlmgeour replied: "That's what I tnougnv ob served Magnuson. . . The partnership inemun si-imffoniir. his wue. ana weir two sons, Maxwell and C Bailey Scrimgeour. I.. VranrUm Julv 16 UPh A 68-year-old woman was held on a murder charge wy " the fatal shooting of Luelea Doyen, 38, as the climax to long-standing argument over noise the Doyen children mad In the downstairs flat. Police Inspectors Frank Aheara and Al Comas said the woman. Mrs. Mary Slater, had conieseeu the shooting but insisted tha Doyen had goaded her by con stant Insults. Doyen, an employe of the) Southern Pacific hospital and the father of three girls, died shortly after a bullet from tha woman's .28 caliber pistol pierced his chest. Officers said Mrs. Slater com plained about the noise tha Doyen children were making, and turned on her radio loudly and stomped on the floor when they failed to stop. Doyen then went upstairs to protest and was shot as his wife below called out, "Look out, she's got gun' Britishers Strafed By German Raider$ London, July 16. (V-German raiders attacking In tha East Midlands this morning machine-gunned men and woman going to work and bombed ona town, causing fires and some property damage. a 4
