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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1942
Thirty seventh Year,
NO. 102.
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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.