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llkrpRIBUNE' Lat YOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDSI Bur War Bonds aa. lumps TOIiAV Contribute la ths war sffort of your nation. Patriot Ism. your own self-protsetton. ermands that VOD do four part NOW I Dm Th MAIL TRIBUIfat Want Ad Way Medford Quick ItasulU t Small Coat Tult Associated Press MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1942 Thirty seventh Year, NO. 102. -- O Unltad Ptms ALLES EVE STAB AGKUSS 8MB, : i ; i i i t i i News Behind The News By Paul Malloo Washington, July It sounded a little like the Reichstag when the house ways and means com mittee unanimously decided on the strongest of gag rules for house con sideration of the tremond ous new tax bill. It meant that these ter- s Paul Mallon atives of the people in the house must either take their handiwork as a whole or reject it. No changes could be made. Only three days of useless dis cussion was possible. But even the rip-snorting ultra-new dealer Representative Knute Hill of Washington voted for such a strenuous restriction on this occasion for the first time in his life. All the leaders well knew that if this tax bill was opened for normal floor consideration, the house would tear it apart. They had to exclude the house practically from considering the measure in order to save it. . MO tax bill is ever satisfactory, ' but this one came out of com' mlttee with a slightly heavier odor than usual, due to some fast last-minute trading. It seems that Mr. Mckeough, of Illinois, and some of his new deal associates, schemed that final five per cent hoist in cor poration taxes by trading off their votes privately on the Joint husband and wife return prop osition. There are eight community property states which were de termined to kill the Joint-return proposition made by the treas ury, and their representatives were naturally eager to lend their votes to the corporations increase in return for new deal support for their pet interest. But the bill as a whole repre- (Continued on Pat Pour) Y Washington, July 18. (JP) A list of 6S construction con tracts awarded by the army engineers was made public to day by the war department. The dates of the awards were not disclosed, but an indication of the amounts involved was provided by- breaking the con tracts down into six groups, j-anging from "under $50,000" to "over $3,000,000." Officials said the list was the first of daily announcements marking a change In the engi neers' policy of announcing some construction awards local ly. In the future, all such con tracts will be announced in Washington instead of in the field. Announced were: Under $50,000, Russell Olson, Medford, Ore., construction of roads, bridges and drainage ditch, Jackson county. Ore. Washington, July 18 Ph Three residents of Oregon have been honored by the navy for heroism since the United States entered the war. Decorted were: Elwyn L. Christmas. It. (JG) USN reserves, Mt. Angel, Navy Cross. Jesse D. Jewell, commander. USN, wounded, Portland, Navy Cross. ' Eugene B. McKinney, It. cmdr, USN, Eugene, Navy Cross. DOUGLAS NAMES CLERK Seattle, July 18. O Jus tice William O. Douglas of the U. ' S. supreme court today ap pointed Vern A. Countryman, 25. Lonirview, as hi clerk for tha coming year 111 S I rlfic taxe IV Ti V feet,, levied by V At A I 25 men- that ' ' I the represent- ALL-OUT FRENCH INVASION flRIVF UIMNnTIIKFIvi I1UII II U I LIIU-LI Russian Situation Spurs Second Front Plans Many Problems Pondered. Dondon, July 18 (IP) The seriousness of the German ad vance in the Don basin may prompt the U. S. and Britain to drive across the English chan nel soon to open a second front, but the tremendous shipping and training problems confront ing the allies made it unlikely that such a drive would be an all-out invasion. Such an attack would differ appreciably from the grand war winniiig operations for which American, British and Canadian armies are training, said mili tary experts who will not be quoted by name. But whatever the scale of at tack, the allied armies approach ing France or the low countries would confront veteran German generals, stout coastal defenses, numerous airdromes for planes which could be dispatched from the Russian front and most im portant of all an army operat ing on short interior lines of communications. Tim Marches On As this island grimly watched the tide of German successes in Russia, the minister of produc tion, Oliver Lytyelton, declared that the German army was "committed to the grip of a sec ond paralyzing winter, which may well prove to be its last' if Hitler fails to crush the Red army in the 90 remaining fight ing days. The allies, pledged morally at least to opening a second diver sionary front to relieve Russia lest its millions be lost forever to the allied cause, face tremen dous tasks in reopening a west' era continental land front. First is the selection of an in vasion site. Northern France is most often mentioned because it is axiomatic that no invasion- can be attempted beyond the range of fighter planes. An es sential condition to success would be the occupation of Ger man airdromes along the French coast by American and British forces. Without these, the invad' ing allies' air support would be extremely limited. Shipping Hurdle Shipping of course is an enor mous hurdle since German sub marines have greatly reduced the allied pool and every ship is needed to supply and rein' force fronts throughout the world. Northern France offers the shortest avenue for invasion on which small allied ships could be used repeatedly as at Dunkerque. under constant al lied air protection. Two French peninsulas are advantageous for amphibian of fensive operations. If either the Cherbourg or Brest peninsula were occupied as suggested by one newspaper the sea would be secure on both flanks. The German spearhead which burst into France in May, 1940, comprised eight armored divi sions It is difficult to believe that the allies could break the coastal defenses with less, to gether with about 22 supporting infantry divisions each with ar tillery. Thus the initial allied In vasion force would comprise 450.000 men at least. War Bulletins Ankara, Turkey, July 18 (JP) Thirty-eight officers and men aboard the Turkish sub-, marine Otilay perished when their craft dived during exer cises July 14 near the Dar danelles and "failed to reap pear for reasons not establish ed,'' aa official statement said July 18 (IP) The navy announced today that a medium sised United States merchant ship had been torpedoed and shelled by enemy submarine action in the Atlantic several hundred miles off the northern coast of South America. Survivors have been landed at aa east coast port. Douglas Nazis Extend Control ( Yi.Y77rf I "S. O 00 tBELOORflljyJ OSKOL'K JPOVOP.hNO pHARKOV Multiola thrusts aooeared to Bock s southern command essential control over most or an aaai tional 25.000 sauara miles of Russian soil, a block extending 130 milas salt from the Kursk-Kharkov area. Shaded areas Indicate current major drives and Nasi penetration. The see-saw battle for Voronesh continued, but Reds admitted withdrawals a. Boguchar and MilleroTO. which furnished new fears for safety of Nasi objectives at Stalingrad and Rostov (arcs). HIT BY BRITISH DAYLIGHT RAIDS London, July 18 (JP) A "small formation" of new Brit ish Lancaster bombers blasted the German industrial Ruhr dis trict in daylight today for the third successive day, and wing ed safely home despite heavy German fighter opposition. A British Informant said each of the four-motored planes car ried several tons of bombs, but di d not disclose the exact strength of the foray. Bad weather had kept the bombers grounded last night. RAF fighters also destroyed a German fighter off the French coast this morning. A single German raider dip ping low over a south coast Eng lish town today killed a woman and four children and wounded about a dozen pedestrians with his machine guns. One bomb from the craft demolished a row of cottages. The air ministry announced a supply ship was left listing and on fire an another supply ship and two escorting anti-aircraft ships were damaged by an RAF bomber-fighter attack on an enemy convoy off Cherbourg peninsula. One RAF plane was missing. Berlin (From German Broad casts), July 18 HP) A few ci vilian casualties were caused in western Germany at noon today when a few Britsh planes drop ped bombs at random, compe tent German quarters said to night. Two of the raiders were reported shot down. T Portland, Ore., July 18 (JP) Pastoral appointments were made today at the concluding session of the Free Methodist church's Oregon conference. Rev. E. F. Aiken was named elder of the Salem and Rog'ie river districts. Appointments Included: Leon Belles, Springfield; Val eria Cleveland, Grants Pass; M P. Knlgge, Medford: and W. H McCormick, Klamath Falls. OLDEST PRINTER PASSES Oshkosh, Wis., July 18 (JP Brownell Cannlff, 94, said to have been the oldest union prlnt- ter in the country, died today Born in Illinois, Canniff work ed on papers in Milwaukee and Superior (Wis.) during the Civil war. Bombers RUSSIA STATUTE MILCS To Caucasus And OlIFitldt AH have aiven Marshal Fador von NIPP ATTACK ON VLADIVOSTOK DUE N.Y.T1MES HEARS New York, July 18 (IP) The New York Times says in a dispatch from Washington that reports received in the capital form "usually reliable private sources in the Orient" indicate that Japan is moving more sea soned troops to the frontiers of Manchukuo and Siberia. These reports, the Times says, coincide with a belief held in Washington that there was an understanding between Japan and Germany that Japan would attack Russia if Germany cap tured some specific Russian ob jectives, possibly Rostov and Stalingrad. The Times also said that few In the capital would be surpris ed if Japan made an immediate attack upon Vladivostok. Pointing to the recent navy communique stating that the Japanese still occupied Kiska. Agattu and Attu in the western Aleutians, the Times says this was Interpreted as more likely being prelude to an attack on Siberia and perhaps Kamchat ka than against Alaska this time. PENN TOWNS HIT BY 'FLASH' FLOOD Port Allegany, Pa., July 18 (IP) A "flash" flood by the Upper Allegheny river struck this central Pennsylvania town of 2,196 population today, caus ing untold damage and drown ing "several persons. This town in McKean county appeared the hardest hit as the river overflowed its banks in McKean and Potter county on the New York state border. The town of Austin, 1,116 popula tion, as well as Bradford, Coud ersport, Eldred, Johsonburg. Roulette. Emporium and Smeth port all reported business places and homes floowed before the water began to recede. Trail Youth Hurt When Wheel Break Berton Ragsdale, 21. of Trail suffered a badly cut scalp, an Injured shoulder and minor lac erations when the steering wheel of his car broke and the machine hit a bank near Shady Cove about 7:30 last night. He was brought to Commu nity hospital by a passing mo torist. His attending physican said he was apparently not crit ically Injured Aid Counter Attacks at Voronezh FEDERAL BUDGET Senate Group Asks Probe Spending After War Pro paganda Scored. Washington, July 18 (IP) Declaring the federal govern ment should be put on "a streamlined all-out war basis," a senate subcommittee today urged an investigation of the bureau of the budget and of com mittee complaints that there had been a waste of money and energy on overlapping govern mental functions. Chairman Tydings (D-Md) of the appropriations subcommittee Issued a sharply critical report saying the budget bureau not only had failed to carry out Its legal duty to maintain a run ning check of the activities of the various departments but was being used to encourage a policy of mounting federal debt. With reference to conversion of peacetime agencies to war work, the . committee recom mended enactment of legislation authorizing the civil service commission to transfer employes from one government depart ment to,. toother, regardless, of the employes personal withes, In order to utilize their services "in the best interests of the war effort." The report. Issued after study of 2,200 questionnaires sent to the various federal agencies, asserted that "certain officials" of the national resources plan ning board as well as some oni- cials of the budget Dureau "have been and are yet carry ing on very discreet, but none theless pernicious, propaganda to the effect that were musi continue after the war even greater mounting deficit spena Ing on the part of the federal onvernment than was followed during the decade" just past. The committee named three ment as leading proponents of a deficit Including Dr. Gardiner C. Means, "Who seems to num sort of roving commission oc- w.n the National riesourcea Planning Board and the Bureau of the Budget." The report characterized ur. Colm as " an able and vocai aa- m-9ti of the theory ot contin ued deficits,' and said that dur- inir th 1920'a he was a lecturer and nrnfessor of economics In Germany. "The committee imputes no evil or unpatriotic motive to him." the report conlinuea, dui it bellves It Is a matter of great significance that a man of his nolnt of view should oe in strategic position to shape the government fiscal policy. BEAVERS-ARMY GAME Portland, Ore., July 18 UP) The Fort Lewis baseball team, cantalned by Morris Arnovich former New York Giants out fielder, will meet the Portland Beavers In an exhibition game here Monday night. BULLETIN Dorria, Calif-. July 18 (Spl.) Medford defeated Dorrls here tonight 10 to 4, In as Oregon-California league twi light game. Medford 0 11 Dorrls 11 Dickinson and Worthleyi Carlstrom and Goldbar. MIGHT GAME Seattle, July. 18 (JP) Sesttle cut short nlnth-ra-nlng Oakland rally tonight to edge tha Acorns, -. In a frea hlttlng Paclfle Coast League baseball game. Oakland Seattle 10 0 Plppen.'Yelovle (6), Chellnl (7), and Ralmondlf Soriano, Llgka (). Fischer (8), Johnson (I), and Collins. , BRERETDN HEADS YANK AIR FORCE IN MIDDLE EAST Axis Supply Ports Bombed as New Command Swings Into Action. Cairo, Egypt, July 18 (IP) Disclosure of new, hard-hitting raids on the Axis supply ports or Tobruk and Bomba by Unit ed States army air forces under command of Ma. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton marked the rising power of air warfare over the western desert today. On the ground, British Im perial and Axis land forces bat tled back and forth in hitter and Inconclusive conflict for posses sion of the barren ridges west of El Alamein and about 79 miles west of Alexandria. General Brereton, whose as- General Brerton, whose as sumption of command over the American air forces In the mid dle East was made known only today, said that in 36 days of operations the American Liber ator and flying fortress bombers both large supercharged four- engine types had conducted 21 missions and lost only three planes in combat. , In the newest of these- assign' raents they set -fire, to an Axis tanker and scored direct hits on a large motorship at Tobruk last night, added to Jhe fires which the RAF already had set raging around the harbor, and reached farther west in Libya to pound small ships In the gulf of Bomba, where the Italians once had a seaplane base. 'They put up a damned good show," said the British In praise of the American airmen, who are concentrating primarily on the shipping Nazi Marshall Er win Rommel must have to maintain his threat against the valley of the Nile. 309 JAP VESSELS HELD, DESTROYED By Tha Associated Press) At least 309 Japanese vessels in all categories have been de stroyed by air and sea forces of the United Nations since the 12,000-ton passenger liner Ter ukunl Maru struck a mine off the English coast in November, 1939, an Associated Press com pilation of official announce ments disclosed yesterday (Sat). A total of 232 Japanese naval vessels are Included In the tabu lation, as well as 77 merchant ships. The known tonnages of 25 naval craft total 26Z.7BU, while previously announced fig ures for 32 merchantmen aggre gate 218,846 tons. Six aircraft carriers, totalling more than 110,000 tons, also are listed and include: The Yawata Maru (converted from passen ger liner): Ryukaku; Akagl; Klryu, and Soryu. LAST YEAR TOPS Astoria, Ore., July 18. JPh Albacore tuna deliveries sold at the record-shattering prlca of $380 a ton on the fishermen's exchange today, topping last vear'a hlah mark by $22.50. The schooners Argo and Her mes delivered 4,000 and 3,000 pounds respectively on the sea son's second day of major land- InffS. Today's price was $30 above yesterday's opening offer and 1240 a ton h ner man lasi vear's ODenlna price. Packers said a large fleet of boats was working off Oregon and Washington coasts. . ;- .- Interpreting The War News By Kirka L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) The first month of the critical war summer of 1942 closes with Hitler's master offensive omin ously close to vital allied sour ces and communication lines in Russia and Egypt, and still no sign that an Anglo-American second-front offensive Is close at hand- Comparison of .the battle maps as they stood in Russia and Egypt at the summer solstice, June 21-22, and as they are now. a short month later, would be gloomy if It told all the story, They do not. They do not even reflect all the unhappy events of those weeks. They do not record, eith er, any of the factors that tend to brighten the war prospect for the anti-axis league despite the grave and growing perils In Russia and the axis dagger- thrust In Egypt still dangerously close to Alexandria, heart of British power In the 'Middle East. Tha war maps plot the rout of the British eighth army in Libya. They define a vast new German-occupied area In south western Russia. But they do not show the blood cost to Germany and her satellite allies of these still In conclusive victories. . Thev do not show tha terri ble toll of United Nations ship ping taken by axis submarines in- western hemlspner wavers; but neither do they show the tremendous and contlulng flow of American fighting forces ana machines to the British J-les or the swelling tide of Angltv Amor Iron material which nas won through to Russia. Th. cumulative effect of Brit- i.h . and American bombing of nazl Industrial targets and Ger man-held continental porta anu war centers cannot be mapped. Ita ultimate Influence either on the nazl campaign In Russia or on the sea-attrition battle Hitler Is waaing In the Atlantic can nnlv ht rnnlectured. That air second-front nas noi mar hed Its peak. Nothing ap proaching the thousand-planes-a-night scale of sustained bombing has yet been attained. Just why Is not revealed. COAST INDUSTRY NE! Seattle. July 18 P Two hundred thousand more workers will have to be mustered Into Pacific Northwest war Industries In the next few months, William K. Hopkins, newly-appointed regional director ot the war manpower commission, said to night. Hopkins arrived quietly by nlane from San Francisco to confer with leaders In labor and management tomorrow Women will furnish much perhaps 50 per cent of the new Industrial army, he said, and there will be definite place for many elderly men who have retired from active employmni. NAZI'S SPY TRIAL Washington, July 18. (IP) With evidence completed against only four of the eight alleged nazl saboteurs, the government today began presentation ot its case against the remaining pris oners, making it clear the trial would require much mora time than was generally expected. Photographs of explosives, abraclves and - other articles which the prosecution contend ed were to have been used by the nazls to hamper American war production, confronted the four who were brought to the 'Florida coast by submarine. MOSCOW REPORTS DEADLOCK SOUTH Towns Retaken, Wedge in Nazi Lines Hitler Tak ing Mighty Gamble. New York, July 18 (JP) The British radio tonight said the Germans were reported threatening Kamensk, 40 miles south of Millerovo on the Rostov-Moscow railroad. Kamensk is only 90 miles north of Rostov. The broadcast was heard hero by CBS. Moscow (Sunday), uly 19 (if) Russian troops counter-et-daytacklng in tha Voronezh area under the protection of American-made Douglas bombers) were reported today to have driven a wldge into German posi tions and to have occupied a number of populated points- The midnight communique otherwise Indicates little Chang In the desperate defense of the) Don River basin. The Soviets at th other end of the front still were locked with tha nazia "south ot Millerovo," but tha exact area was not named. (A Berlin radio summary acknowledged repeated Soviet attacks on German- bridgehead across tha Don south ot Voron ezh, but claimed all these at tacks were repulsed.) . "In the area of Voronezh our troops, overcoming the enemy's stubborn resistance on various sectors have advanced and oc cupied a number of populated places," the Soviet war. bulle tin said. The sinking of an 8,000-ton enemy transport In the Balti also was announced. . Russian airmen, presumably flying the Douglas planes as well as Russian craft, were reported to have destroyed or damaged 80 German tanks, four annul ed cars, 23 guns, and 310-troop and supply trucks during Friday fighting .Three battalions ot Ger man Infantry also were "dis persed and partially annihilat ed" by the air force, th com munique said. News dispatches told of In entry Into action of the twin en gine light attack Boston on th Russian front. Presumablr these ship entered Russia eith er through th Persian gulf of th Murmansk Arctic supply line, but they could have bee-J flown In from th mlddl East, t By Associated Preas Th magnitude of th deatH struggle In South Russia, how ever, dwarfed alt the fighting elsewhere In th world. t The Russians were delivering blow after blow upon th on? coming Germans heading souta from Millerovo on th Moscow Rostov railway, but there was no tendency to minimize th fad that Marshal Von Bock w throwing enormous force inie) th. hattl to seize swiftly tha last red communications In tha south and split th caucasu from the rest of vast Russia. Th Russians placed th front 100 miles from Rostov and 17S miles from Stalingrad. Th red army was making stubborn stands In th wajst hlgh wheatflelds but dropping back before superior number of men and machines. Th. mans were prodigal In their pendltures of reserves and ma terial, gambling heavily on sub duing the great breadbasket an coal region and vital Persian gulf wpply before th. winter comes again. Only 90 good fighting day remain. It the Russian army eon tlnue. to retreat skiWu lly . thus remain In being. Hitler might yet find a. Napoleon dl that h had won a battl but lost a war. Coffee was first used not as beverage but as a put similar to a chocolate bar.
