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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1942.
NO. 103.
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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, July 20. Mr.
Roosevelt has not emulated
Hitler and bragging about any
new secret
weapons bu t
the nazis will
see some which
will knock
their eyes out
when the sec
ond front is
opened. The
Japs have seen
a few already.
When the de
rail! Maiion tails of the be
fogged battle of the Aleutian
Islands are let out, for instance,
you will learn how the fighting
army air corps sprang a new
land based torpedo plane on
the Nipponese (the first such
ship in history), and accom
plished much more damage
than has yet been officially
claimed. The Japs know of this
new weapon. They found out the
hard way.
The Jap invasion fleet in the
Aleutians figured that all they
would have to contend with
were naval planes which nat
urally have to be much lighter
to operate from carrier decks.
These land based torpedo craft
carry an unprecedented projec
tile which leaves no doubts as
to sinkings when it hits. Where
they came from the Japs do not
yet know.
i
THIS is only an inadequate
a, t. n.ut i. .AMin.
on land. sea. and in tha air. An
official of the inventors council
testified to a congressional com
mittee the other day that the
army, navy and marine corps
had let $640,000,000 of contracts
on their recommendation. The
inventors council is a committee
set up by Mr.. Roosevelt to con
aider all the sensational inno
vations of warfare concocted by
mechanically minded Americans.
His testimony therefore, means
nearly two-thirds of a billion
dollars of new secret weapons
will shortly appear on our side
in this war.
These Include extravagantly
imaginative missiles and weap
ons that have never been seen
(Continued on P&ga Pour)
Willkie Heartens
' Colored Conclave
Los Angeles, July 20. (AP)
Americans are learning, says
Wendell Willkie, that the test
of a people is their aim, not their
color.
He told the closing session of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
yesterday that the attitude of
white American citizens toward
the negro has "some of the un
lovely and tragic characteristics
of alien imperialism.
Radio Highlights
(Pacific war time.)
Opening of the Times Square
Service Men's Center, a New
York spot which will provide
food, refreshment, rest and rec
reation for men in uniform, will
be a special Blu broadcast at
19 a. m. Tuesday. Helen Hayes,
'Irving Berlin, Ed Wynn and
others are to participate.
Tonight: Blu 6:30. Radio
Forum, Sen. Guy M. Gillette of
Iowa on "The Rubber Problem."
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Helen Hedrick and Lola Stan
ley going fishing so early in the
m'ning that it was too dark for
them to see to thread their poles.
The Everett Fabers of Central
Point enjoying a family picnic at
Llthia park, and son Don giving
hi- dad a close foot race up a
hill.
k Violet Lewis forsaking slacks
"tj don a dress and a hat for a
day, and very becoming, too.
Major General Charles Ger
hardt apparently getting a large
kick out of exchanging banter
with the Kiwanian.
90 PER CENT LEVY
ON EXCESS PROFIT
IS FINAL ACTION
Combined Normal and Sur
tax of 45 Per Cent Is
Levied On Corporations.
Washington, July 20. AP)
t $6,143,000,000 wartime reve
nue bill was passed by the house
and sent to the" senate today,
after a last-minute floor, fight
which resulted in levying a 90
per cent excess profits tax and
a combined normal and surtax of
4. per cent on corp.-tions. .
The ways and i...-ns commit
tee sought to have the excess
p ofits tax raised to 90 per cent
and the normal and surtax re
duced to 40 per cent.
On the excess profiU tax in
crease, the committee was sus
tained on a voice te.
But on the urtax revisions the
house decided, by a teller vote
of 180 to .60, to retain the pro
vision of 45 per cent.
Doughton Fa on
Chairman Doughton (D-NC.) of
the committee urged the revised
corporate rates in the interest of
the small corporations which
were not benefitti. z from the
ar program. But Rep. McLean
(R-NJ) said the changes would
"help those corporations which
are waxing fat by this war ef
fort." ' ... . .
The legislation would ' raise
about $2,400,000,000 in new
taxes from corporations and al
most $3,000,000,000 from individ
uals, primarily through steeply
graduated individual surtax rates
and reduced personal exemp
tions.
The committee took no action
or. the question of post-war cred
its for corporations based on
their excess profits taxes a pro
vision once approved but' later
discarded..
TUG OF VI IS
TIRE SABOTAGE
Silverton, Ore., July 20 (IP)
Two prominent Silverton farm
ers were charged in justice
court today with wilfully wear
ing out their rubber tires during
a friendly tug of war on the
city streets here last night.
The men, Herman Kuenzi and
Walter Hairi, accused of staging
the contest between . a farm
truck and a tractor, appeared
before Justice of the Peace Alt
Nelson today and were given
24 hours to enter a plea. Bail
was first set at $1,000 each, but
they were released later on
their own recognizance.
They were charged under
1931 law making it unlawful to
commit any "indecent or im
moral act not otherwise punish'
able."
New Tax Digs Deeper;
Corporations Hit Hard
Washington, July 20 WO
The wartime tax bill passed by
the house today would take $19
of each $100 of taxable income
of individuals in the lowest
brackets and $43 of each $100 of
the taxable income of corpor
ations, plus 90 per cent of their
so-called "excess profits."
Here are principal provisions
of the bill:
Individuals present normal
income tax increased from four
to six per cent and surtaxes
boosted to from 13 to 82 per
cent, with the top bracket of 82
per cent affecting net incomes
over $200,000. Personal exemp
tions reduced from $1,900 to $1,
200 for married couples and
from $750 to $300 for single
persons Collection of individual
income taxes at the sources be
ginning in January at the rate
of five percent of the difference
between tha amount of each pay
check or pay envelope and per-
' sonal exemptions plus deduc
I tlons for the pay period. The
Irate would be 10 per cent in
Girl Found Slain in Cabin
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South Fork CCC Camp
was
formally disbanded Sunday eve
ning with approximately 150
enrollees being shipped to their
homes in Arkansas and most of
the equipment moved out, it
was announced today by the
Rogue River National Forest
- Disbanding of Camp South
Fork marked the disappearance
of the last remaining CCC camp
in Jackson county, in line with
the government's elimination of
the Civilian Conservation Corps
Camp South Fork enrollees
had been under the supervision
of the Rogue River National
Forest in fire prevention and
other forest work.
.1944. All "withholdings"
apply against the next
would
year's
tax bill. Estimated yield from
individuals, $2,906,300,000.
Corporations Present grad
uated excess profits tax of from
33 to 60 per cent replaced by
flat 90 per cent, with the "spe
cific exemption" to which all
! corporations are entitled raised
from $5,000 to $10,000. On that
part of income not subject to
excess profits taxes, a 24 per
cent normal and 21 per cent
surtax would be imposed on cor
porations with earnings in ex
cess of $25,000. Present rates
are 24 and seven. Estimated
yield $2,479,400,000.
Miscellaneous increased ex
cise taxes on liquor, beer, wines,
cigarettes, smoking tobacco, cig
ars, lubricating oil, photograph
ic apparatus, telephone and tele
graph bills, train bus. plane and
other transportation fares, and
new taxes on freight and express
shipments and on pari-mutuel
beta. Estimated yield, $738,200,
000.
The body of Dorena Hammer
(above) 20. with two buiUt
hole in the temple and another
through tha heart, was found
In a San Laandro, Calif., auto
court cabin, and a few minutes
latar Leslie B. Gireth (below)
wealthr Glendale. Calif., iewer-
er, was arrested at a hotel in
Fresno. Calif.
Accused Man Stoic
On Arraignment In
Birder of Student
' San Leandro, Calif., Juty20
(Pi A- week's continuance
was granted today in the ar
raignment of Leslie Gireth, 87,
wealthy Glendale jeweler.
charged - with - the murder of
Miss Dorena Hammer, . 20-year-
old meteorology student.
. Her body was found Friday,
in bed in a motor court near
here. She had been shot three
times, in the head and chest.
Gireth appeared today before
Police Judge A. W. Burner, for
preliminary hearing. The infor
mation, charging murder, was
read to him. He was cool and
impassive. Judge Bruner asked
him if he was represented by
counsel. Gireth motioned to Al
bert Behrstock of Glendale, an
attorney, and brother of Sam
Behrstock, Gireth's partner in
the Glendale jewelry firm.
Washington, July 20 (IP) The
house agreed today to provide
$120,000,000 for the office of
Price administration as it adopt
ed a conference committee's
recommendations to settle dif
ferences with the senate in a
$1,858,939,000 deficiency appro
priations bill. .
The OPA allotment amounted
to $45,000,000 more than the
house had voted originally but
$5,000,000 less than voted by
the senate, $41,000,000 less than
the figure approved by the bud
get bureau, and $75,000,000 leu
than the total amount sought by
Leon Henderson, price admlnla
trator.
Approval of the conference
committee's report came on a
standing vote of 96 to 9.
The measure now goes back
to the senate, where quick ap
proval of the conference com
mittee changes is expected.
The action came after Rep.
Taber (R-NY) declared that
Henderson, "in his estimates
for money, called for absolutely
ridiculous set-ups. He has an ab
solutely Incompetent force, and
he, himself, I believe, is totally
incompetent. He believes in the
crack-down policy of the NRA,
rather than an appeal for patri
otic cooperation."
ARSENAL BLAST
Clifton Forge, Va., July 20
(jPlTwo men were killed and
several others Injured early to
day In an explosion in one unit
of the Virginia ordnance work
at Glen Wilton near here.
Making munitions, the plant
Is operated by the Hercules
Powder company for tha army,
E
FOR METAL, FATS
County Chairman Fowler
Announces Need For Iron,
Steel, Fats From Kitchen.
To meet the nation's war needs
for scrap iron, steel and other
salvage materials, a new drive is
being launched this week in
Jackson county, it was an
nounced today by R. G. Fowler,
chairman of the Salvage commit
tee. The county effort is a part
of a nationwide drive announced
by Donald M. Nelson, War Pro
duction Board chairman.
'As the war becomes more in
tensive on the various foreign
fronts," said Mr. Fowler," the
needs for scrap materials has
steadily increased. While Jack
son county has made a good rec
ord so far in the collection of
scrap iron, rubber and paper, the
expanding requirements of the
war program have made it neces
sary to obtain much larger
amounts.
"This is a continuing program,
but it must be speeded up to ob
tr.in the necessary salvage ma
terials for the successful conduct
of the war.
Housewives Can Help
' "Fats especially are needed
right now and in this the house
wife will take the major part.
The need is urgent as the war in
the Pacific has greatly reduced
our supply of vegetable fats from
tho far east and substitutes must
I - found.. Fats make glycerine
and glycerine makes explosives,
..'e need millions of pounds of
glycerine and the housewives of
America can supply them.
"Here is what to do. - Save all
your waste cooking fats. Pour
them into a clean, wide mouth
can and be sure the can is spot
lessly clean. Strain as you pour
tr j fat in. Keep In a refrigerator
o- a cool, dark place until you
have collected at least two
pounds. Take it to your meat
dealer who is cooperating in this
drive. He will weigh your can
of fat, pay you the established
price which is now tentatively
set at four cents a pound and
start the fat on its way to war
industries. Don t let fata stand
to long they become rancid. If
they do the glycerine content Is
reduced. Deliver your fat early
in the week.
"For the time being the Junk
yards will be the depository for
scrap materials. No waste paper
or tin cans can be used in this
section."
Portland, July 20 (IP) Ore
gon's participation in a concert
ed scrap collection drive got
underway today with Granges
playing a leading role in rural
areas.
Ralph Mitchell, executive sec
retary for the state salvage
committee, appealed today to
farmers to co-operate and asked
farm Implement dealers to as
sist.
MOTHER TOSSES
Portland, July 20. (AP) A
30-year-old mother, who Police
Lieut. James Puree II said drop
ped her three-week-old son out
of a second-story window and
then took poison, was in a ser
ious condition today at a Port
land hospital.
The fall killed the baby. Pur-
cell said the mother, Mrs. Ken
neth Lindner, admitted dropping
him.
He said a nurse, Dorothy
White, told him Mrs. Under was
upset and had complained of the
baby s noise.
S Women Killed
In Bus Accident
Keller, Va.. July 20W) A
heavy trailer truck rammed the
end of a bus crowded with
women en route to work at
freezing plant today, killing at
least five and injuring 13
more.
State Trooper Charles B
Strauss said the truck, pullin
a trailer loaded with celery,
struck the bus Just south of
Keller and "demolished" it.
91st Division Keynote
Sounded by Leader in
First Camp Assembly
"I propose to make this new 91st Infantry Division trie best
the United States has ever seen."
Thus did Major General Charles H. Gerhardt, in 17 pungent
words, sound to hundreds of enlisted men and officers, key men
in the 91st division, the keynote of the training program map
ped out to prepare Camp White soldiers for their and Amer
ica's fight to the death against Germany and Japan.
Speaking at a Camp White i
ceremonial Sunday morning, to
his training cadre and a small
group of civilians. General Ger
hardt declared: "Your goal is to
arrange things so that you can
inflict more casualties on the
enemy than you take."
Today's Training
May Save Lives
It was a fighting talk that
General Gerhardt, commander
of the 91st Infantry Division, to
be activated August 13, deliv
ered to the men and officers
who will form the nucleus of
the reorganized 91st. He didn't
mince words In emphasizing the
training program would be
tough. "But," he said, "what
you are learning now, and will
learn in the future, may some
day save your life."
He stated: "You must develop
automatic reactions in military
affairs; you must learn to salute
and to shoot with equal facility.
don't want any man in my out
fit that can't do those two
things."
The 91st division chief had
words of praise for the infantry
and artillery officers assigned to
his division, saying they were
as well trained as any in the
army, and of Major Theron W.
Bean o( the U. S. army engi
neers,' for his accomplishments
in the construction ot the can
tonment. General Gerhardt said
he had submitted a letter of rec
ommendation Friday that Major
Bean be promoted to the rank
of lieutenant colonel, in recogni
tion of his splendid work on the
military camp.
Officers oi Staff
Give Brief Talks
Short, stirring talks were giv
en by three officers of General
Gerhardt'a general staff.
Brigadier General P. w.
Clarkson, assistant division com
mander, explaining the lnian
try's point of view in the trian
gular division, declared: "Under
General Gerhardt I can assure
you that .we 11 make a better
record than the old 91st division
of the first world war."
He said: "We are fighting pro
fessionals, not amateurs, in the
art of killing, and although it is
going to be tough learning we 11
become professionals, ourselves.
We can't be amateurs against
that crowd."
Brigadier General Edward S.
Ott, artillery commander, de
clared: 'The motto of the 91st
divisibn is 'Powder River, Let
Ed Buck', and that's the motto
of the artillery. We are not sep
arate from the infantry, but an
integral part of the 91st divi
sion."
Emphasizing the unity that
will exist between the infantry
and the artillery. General Ott
stated: "Our place in this divi
sion amounts to: 'Where do you
want us to fire and when?' Let
us know what you want and
we'll give it to you."
Colonel F. S. Jacobs, chief ot
staff, in a talk on 'Orientation,"
said that the 91st Infantry Divi
sion of World War I was creat.
ed In the Powder River area
but that this new 91st of World
War II will be created in the
Rogue river area.
Division Activation
Set lor August 19
"Construction of Camp White
Is 90 per cent complete," he
disclosed, "and will be 100 per
cent when the new 91st is acti
vated on August 19."
He added that the new divi
sion would be "tough, hard
fighting and effective."
The invocation was given by
Captain V. P. Jaeger, division
chaplain, who also conducted a
short church service alter tha
meeting.
Providing music was tha Ash
land city band, which played
tha national anthem, and the
Medford senior high school
band, which played America
Sebastian Appolo played the
organ for the hymns sung dur
ing the church service.
Among the civilian guests at
the ceremony were Mayor and
Mrs. T. S. Wiley of Ashland,
CORVALLIS PILOT
ONE OF EIGHT TO
DIE IN SMASHUP
Tucson, Ariz., July 20 IP)
An army bomber crashed at
4:30 a. m. today, carrying Its
crew of eight to flaming death
In the desert three and one-half
miles southeast of its base,
Davis-Monthan airfield.
The B-24, c:ie of several
bombers on a night training
flight, burned and the officers
and men apparently were killed
instantly.
The dead included:
The pilot, First Lt. Blair K.
Blacker, son of Mrs. William
Blacker, Corvallla, Ore.
Houston, Tex., July 20 (IP)
An army pursuit trainer crash
ed three miles east of Highland
early today, apparently killing
all occupants.
The public relations office at
Ellington field reported the
plane appeared to ba from the
air force advanced flying school,
Lane manes, la.
Fresno, Calif., July 20 UP)
Five army, fliers were killed in
the crash of a bomber plane
near Vlsalia today, the public
relations office at the Hammer
field base here announced.
FOR WITHHOLDING
ALEUTIAN STORY
Washington, July 20. AP)
Anthony J. Dlmond, delegate
from Alaska, expressed the opin
ion today that the navy long ago
should have given the public a
resume of Japanese activities in
Aleutians.
Referring to the navy's com
munique Friday giving account
of operations in the northern Pa
cific, Dlmond said:
"The Japs sent altogether too
much power into the Aleutians
for that move to be a mere side
show operation. I wonder why
we had to wait this long to find
out the facts. It all could have
been . .ad public without giving
any information to tha enemy.
As far as the enemy's power is
concerned it doesn't help them if
we are told what they have.
Dimond said it had been re
ported to him that the Japs have
23,000 troops on the captured
ls'ets in the western Aleutians
but that he had be mi unable to
confirm the report. .
Rejected by Army,
Suicides with Gun
Portland, July 20 (IP) La
Verne Hutchins, 34, Gresham.
took his own life last night with
a rifle after being rejected by
the army for military service.
Deputy Coroner Gideon Snook
reported today.
Snook quoted tha man's fa
ther, I. B. Hutchins. as saying
his son was despondent because
ha had been classified 4-F by
examining physicians.
Mayor and Mrs. H. S. Deuel of
Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
J. Van Dyke, County Judge and
Mrs. Blln Coleman, Mr. and
Mrs. Glenn L. Jackson, the Rev,
and Mrs. Herald G. Gardner,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. V. Car
penter, Mrs. Gerhardt, Mrs. Ott
and Major Carl Y, Tengwald
Major and Mrs. Bean and
Colonel F. N. Mallory, Camp
White executive officer, and
Mrs. Mallory, also were pres
ent.
The guests were entertained
at lunch at noon in the officers'
mesa.
RUSSIAN RETREAT
PE
Tremendous German On
slaught Forces Defenders
Back Toward Caucasus.
By James M. Long
Associated Press War Editor
Rostov, whose armed citizenry
helped the Russian army drive
out the Germans eight months
ago, was menaced anew today aa
Hitler's 1942 offensive, repuLed
at Voronezh and checked mo
mentarily toward the east, veer
ed south in a tremendous on
slaught which forced the Rus
sians back toward the gateway
to the Caucasus,
On the other fronts of tha
world at war:
British Taka 4.000
The British, holding new-won
gains in the Egyptian desert, an
nounced they captured 4,000 Ger
mans and Italians In last week's
fighting west of El Alameln;
The United States air force In
China smashed at the Japanese
airfield at Canton and the In
vaders' base at Linchwan in
Klangsi province.
Driving through Voroshilov
grad, 100 miles north o Rostov,
and Millerovo, on the Rostov.
Moscow rail line, the Germans '
were converging upon the June,
tion of tha rail line and tha
Donets river at Kamensk. Ros
tov lies 83 miles to tha south.
Exceeding even Berlin's ac
counts of the German gains, tha
Tafia radio said axis advance
forces had reached Shakhty, coal
mining and railroad town 40
miles north of Rostov.
Orderly Withdrawal
Russian dispatches said Mar
shal Semeon Timoshenko was
drawing back his troops in or
derly withdrawal to a new de
fense stand somewhere north of
Rostov and the confluence of tha
Don and Donets rivers.
Although the Russians had
wrested back tha Initiative at
Voronezh, on the northern flank
of the 300-mile battleline through
tne grain covered steppes of tha
Don's big bend, they declared
the nazl thrust to the south a
serious threat.
United States and British-made
tanks and planes were thrown
Into the fight in an attempt to
stem the axis onrush.
To the south of Millerovo.
the Russian communique report
ed, "our troops engaged In a
fierce defensive battle against ad
vancing German fascist troops.
"In one sector the German
drove a wedge into our positions.
wnn a diow from the flank, our
troops frustrated the enemy at
tempt to break our defense. In
this battle the fascist lost over
l,zoo killed f. .
In another sector our trooos.
under pressure of numerically
superior forces, withdrew to new
positions."
At Voronezh, howeven. tha
Russian communique said "our
troops are waging stubborn bat-
lies witn the enemy, who ara
now on the defensive."
The red army rerjorted kllllna.
1.500 Germans in street fighting
for one suburban town, and said
It recaptured another "important
inhabited locality," and drove
the Germans from ona of their
principal bridgehead across tha
uon.
The increasing show of Russian
power at Voronezh, coupled with
German report of large red
army troop concentrations in
that area, indicated that a Hmn.
soviet counter offensive against
uis cxienaea iiank of tha Ger
man Don valley drive might ba
in tha making.
Tha German hieh rnmman
still clinging to its so-far unsub
stantiated claim to tha capture of
Voronezh 13 day ago, acknowl
edged that the Ri-sian wera
counter attacking on that flank,
but said tha red army' "at.
tempts to recapture" th city
were repulsed.
MEW TROUBLE
Tacoma. July 20 ilPt Jack
Morgan, 32, was arrested today
at tha entrance of McNeil Island
federal penitentiary by Pierce
county officer at tha request
of authorities In Pittsburgh, Pa,
who want him on a forgery
charge. He had Just completed
serving a sentence under the
Mann Act. V