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Let YOUR Answer to Bombs be BONDSI Buy War Bond! ana stampe TODAY Contribute to the m effort of your nation. Patriot- Us Tho MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results t Small Cost Medford Um. four own aelf-protectlon. demands that VOU do tout pert NOWI Full Associated Press O United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1942. NO. 105. Co)M A WW Ell M Jl L!iUllUvUUl sra? IuvXvISlSl r or News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, July 22. The campaign of the New Republic, the Luce publications and some others to clean out this con gress seems to have fallen flat as far as the primaries are concerned. No more than nor mal casualties among sitting :ongre s s m e n are reported from the elec toral front. A Paul Mallon tabulation made by the demo cratic congressional campaign cc.amittee, for its own informa tion only, shows that out of the first 115 congressmen to face the voters in primaries this far, no more than 10 have failed of re nomination. Most of the losers were involved in personal situa tions, having nothing to do with the isolationist - interventionist dispute. The temper of the electorate thus obviously is -hown to be extraordinarily complacent. The antagonism to congress which has gained so much popular pub licity has nowhere been reflect ed in the results. Furthermore, voting every where has be'.n extremely light and less than the usual number of congressmen are even faced with serious opposition. HIS seems to be a war with out a song. A war of grim public quietude. Public opinion on the surface seems confused, and at times embittered by such regulations as gas rationing and other displays of Washington in efficiency, but so far it is wholly lacking in the enthusiasm re quired to go to the polls and vote "no." . . The politicos explain this phe nomena with the assumption that everyone is busy in war work, (Conunued on Pace Pour) Radio Highlights Major General Charles H. Gerhardt, commander of the 81st Division at Camp White, will speak over KM ED tonight at 7:30 o'clock on "Relation- ship of Camp White to the "Community." Brigadier General Edward S. Ott, artillery com mander, will speak on "What an Infantry Division Is." Chaplain Vernon T. Jaeger will speak on "Activities of a Division Chap lain." Secretary of State Hull will tell the nation of the seriousness of the war in a speech Thursday between 6:30 and 7:15 p. m., PWT over all networks. President Roosevelt, announc ing the broadcast, said he con sidered the speech an able and conclusive summary. (Pacific War Time) Alvin Steinkopf, returned AP war correspondent from Ger many where he had been in terned since December 7, is the guest speaker for "This Is Our Enemy" on MBS Sunday night, when the theme of the program is to be "Race and Education." Tonight: CBS 4:30 Records 'for Fighting Men. MBS 8:30 Pas in Review. Thursday: NBC 10:15 a. m. Army air force band, new ser ies. BLU 12:30 Men of the Sea. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Frank Farrell graciously tak ing a chair at the foot of the council table when, after an unavoidable belated appearance, he discovevred Recorder Mose Alford occupying the city attor ney's throne near the head of the municipal workbench. A. S. "Rosey" Rosenbaum, the demon war bond seller, check ing in with a total of $28,475 for ) five weeks' effort and promising to make it $30,000 by the end of the week. The annual Santa Fe Fieta. held over the Labor Day week end, was established In 1712. : ,- Jftsow 4 MOTION Lower Course on Don Crossed on Broad Front Says High Command. Berlin, (from German broad casts), July 22 (IP) The Ger man high command said today "organized resistance of the enemy in the Rostov region has collapsed" and reported that "to the east of the Donets the lower course of the Don was crossed on a broad front." Rostov was described as hem med in by Axis troops "standing before a defended bridgehead which runs in a semi-circle out side the town." Moscow, Jaly 22 (IP) Stal ingrad and rtostov both were imperiled gravely by fresh Ger man advances today as the mil lion men of Marshal Fedor von Bock pressed relentlessly south and east against bitterly fight ing but outnumbered Russian forces. Red Star, the army news paper, said ominously that the Germans were approaching the border of Stalingrad province. A furious German assault beat against the men of Marshal Semeon Timoshenko along the Moscow-Rostov railway. The drive was moving on Rostov from southeast of Millerovo and from Voroshilovgrad, both of which have fallen to the Ger mans in the 300-mile wide Don basin offensive. Danger Realised Red Star pointed to the dan ger thus: "Terrible days face the coun try. The enemy is rushing to the vital centers of our country." The newspaper called on red soldiers to repeat the example of 28 Soviet troops, who in de fending Moscow last winter, fought tank charges with their hands, all dying in the struggle. Even as the Russian armies in the south strove to stem the German advance, the forces at the northern end of the front around Voronezh were reported holding the initiative and coun terattacking vigorously. The Russians announced four bridge heads had been seized. But the Russian press showed that the greatest urgency was before Rostov and Stalingrad, both vastly important industrial and communication centers and guardians of approaches to the Caucasus, oil lands and fertile farms. The loss of either city, it was acknowledged, would be a tragic blow. T Louisville, Ky., July 22. (API The American Legion may be asked to open its ranks to "all military-minded men with train ing." C. Lee McClain, chairman of the resolutions committee for the Kentucky department'! 24th an nual convention now in session here, said today such a proposal was being drafted by his commit tee and would be submitted to Kentucky Legionnaires tomor row. Membership In the Legion now is limited to veterans of the first World War, but a constitutional revision to take in members of the armed forces now fighting the second world war has been approved by some state depart ments and will be submitted to the legion's national convention at Kansas City later this summer. ISAAC STAPLES DIES Portland, July 22 (JP) For mer Senator Isaac E. Staples, who represented Multnomah county in the state legislature for 18 years, died yesterday Staples also had been president of the Oregon Jewelers associa tion, Oregon Purebred Livestock asmciation, Oregon Poultry as sociation, and treasurer of the Willamette Wool Growers' asso cia -ion Waiting r ' ' , .' H'L. n" "1 i'"!.j!'awl ..iwn m I'll n Jap bombing planes had been there once when this picture olthe attack on the U. S. naval base at Dutch Harbor, June 3 and 4, were made, witness the burning ell tank In the back' ground. But these marines were alert in their trenches for another attack (U. S. Navy Photo) White House Conference Called On Russian Peril, Ship Losses CITY WILL RENEW PLEA FOR LARGER DISPOSAL PLANT The city health committee and Dr. L. D. Inskeep, city health officer, were instructed by the council last night to submit a letter to the Federal Works Agency renewing Medford's ap plication of last fall for funds to enlarge and increase the ca pacity of the city's sewage dis posal plant. In a letter read by Larry Schade, health committee chair man, it was indicated that the army, through its own channels, would request enlargement of the plant. The letter was from Dr. Inskeep, and followed a conversation he' had had with Colonel Charles G. Hutter, Camp White surgeon, medical corps. Enlargement of the plant, it was understood, would practi cally double its present capacity, said to be inadequate under the present conditions caused by a local population Increase of an estimated 3,000 persons since last September, at which time the original application was made and rejected. Dr. Inskeep's letter to Coun cilman Schade indicated that the army now feels an enlargement of the plant is justified, due to the additional load it is carry ing. It was believed that with the army, through its own chan nels, recommending an increase in the plant's capacity, the city's original application would be reviewed in a more favorable light. Aside from the discussion con cerning the renewal of the appli cation to increase the capacity of the sewage disposal plant, little official business was trans acted. Reports of the finance committee and the boxing com mission were adopted. In order to provide funds for SS days of vacation for city firemen, the emergency fire department fund was transferred for this purpose. Mayor H. S. Deuel read a let ter from Colonel Owen R. Mere dith, commander of Camp White. In which the city was thanked for providing a room In city hall for Medford headquarters of the military police, now operating. WANT MORE TIRES Spokane, July 22. UP) Henry Geurg of Clifton Sc Apple gate b Georg, Spokane contract ors, today called a meeting of all war Industry contractors In the area to seek a larger quota of tires for war Industry employes. For Japs To Try Again Washington, July 22 (IP) Soviet Ambassador Maxim Lltvln off and -members o( the Pacific war council came to the White House today for separate conferences as grave developments ajh; peared on the Russian front and President Roosevelt naa an opportunity also to discuss with his callers the sharpening war fare in the Aleutian Islands too near to Siberia. In the bitter Russian fighting, Stanlingrad and Rostov both were imperilled by fresh Ger man advances and it appeared HOW TO AID CHINA Washington, July 22. AP) The Pacific war council met A the White House today and one participant reported after wards that "we worked out procedure to be followed to assure that China puts up the best fight that can be put up." Walter Nash, New Zealand minister, used these words and added that "now we know what the 'Chinese need, and how and when and where we can get the stuff In." likely that Litvinoff had high on his list the urgency of creat ing the second European front for which he has repeatedly called. Supreme Staff Hinted Mr. Roosevelt, In deciding strategy matters In any of the pressing situations, can turn for advice to Admiral William D. Leahy, whose appointment as chief of staff to him he announc ed yesterday. There was Immediate specula tion that the president would create a supreme army-navy general staff about the granite faced sailor and diplomat who listens long and talks short and who represented at Vichy Amer ica's friendship for a broken France. Mr. Roosevelt announced Leahy's appointment late yester day and said the admiral would assume his duties Immediately Confronting the chief of staff as he took office was a report by the war shipping administration that shipping losses during the week of July 12 were the high est since the war began and that sinkings of United Nations ves sels have greatly exceeded new construction. More Jsp Losses The navy, meanwhile, had an nounced the sinking of three more Japanese destroyers by United States submarines in the vicinity of the Aleutian Island of Kiska. This brought Japan's losses in the Aleutian area to six destroyers, one transport and one cruiser sunk: one destroyct probably sunk; and four emit ers, two destroyers, one aircraft carrier, one gunboat and one transport damaged. Japan now controls over 00 per cent of the world's rubber plantations! In the shipping situation, Oregon Flying Tiger Returns With Appeal For More U. S. Planes Portland, Ore., July 22 UP) Kenneth Jernstedt, Oregon's only Flying Tiger, came back home today with an appeal for enough airplanes to knock the Japanese invaders out of China and Burma. The quiet, soft-spoken Yam hill farm boy said, "get the planes to the far east; that s the answer to beating the Japs. Decorated by the Chinese gov ernment for his part in destroy ing 10 Japanese planes (his bag included scores ' more uncon firmed), the former Linfield college athlete predicted better war news from the far east now that the U. S. army has super ceded the old American volun teer group. Jernstedt was reluctant to talk about the AVG's phenom enal combat record which often netted 20 or 30 Japanese planes without loss to the Americans. Spokane, Wash., July 22 UP) Discharge of a rifle which he was examining resulted In the fatal injury of Robert Olson, 14, of Medford, Ore., near here yes terday. Coroner I. S. Collins said young Olson died after being hit in the mouth with the rifle bullet. He was with a cousin, Vernon Comstock, 10, at the Comstock ranch four miles west of here when the accident hap pened. The Olson family had moved only recently to Medford from Redmond, Ore., Collins said. Address of Olson's parents here could not be ascertained CURT MECHAM SIGNS FOR PRO FOOTBALL New York, July 22 UP Curt Mecham of the University of Oregon, one of the most sought-after football players in last year's pro football draft sent a signed contract yesterday to the Brooklyn Dodgers, pro fessional eleven. Our navy needs rubber. The 33,000-ton battleship pointing Its guns at Tokyo uses 73 tons of It, NAVY ASKS FUND II baseball I ALCOHOL RUBBER $30,000,000 Wanted Tes timony on Plans Omitted From Records. Washington, July 22. (IP) The navy's intention to spend $30,000,000 "for a kind of secret training and a kind of secret weapon" was disclosed by Rep. Vinson (D.-Ga.) today as the house voted authorization of a $079,634,000 outlay for naval shore facilities. In discussing the secret phase of the bill, Vinson told the house that this "is a matter the naval affairs committee should leave entirely to the prudence of the men who are going to carry out this secret work." The naval committee chairman added that he had ordered testi mony concerning the secret plans omitted from even the private records of the commit tee. Location Veiled "I do not know," Vinson said, "except in the most general way where they will be located within so many miles of the coast and so many miles back of that." The bill Including the funds was passed and sent to the sen ate by voice vote after an at tempt to eliminate authority for the secretary of navy to negoti ate contracts for expenditures under the measure was defeated 37 to 17 From Rep. Mott (R.-OreJ, the naval committee's ranking min ority member, came the state ment that a number of the shore facilities provided by the bill would be located in Alaska. Earlier, Vinson had informed the house that others would be located at Panama and on island outposts in the Pacific. NEED 12 GUARDS Major Theron W. Bean of the U. S. army engineers announced today, through Lewis Ulrlch, manager of the United States employment office, that 12 civi lian guards were needed im mediately for duty at Camp White in connection with engi neering projects. Those interested In applying for the positions, which pay $1, 680 a year plus overtime, are urged to call at once at the em ployment service office, 43 North Fir street. SHIPBUILDER HIGGINS LOSES RENEWAL PLEA Washington, July 22 (IP) The martime commission refused today to rescind its action in cancelling a contract held by Andrew J. Hlggins of New Or leans, for the construction of 200 emergency cargo ships. The Ozarks are bellved to be one of the oldest mountain ranges In North America. Second Front Clamor Increases London, July 22 (IP Ap peals for a British and Ameri can Invasion of Europe to estab lish a second front this year mounted today while the Rus sians reeled back under the blows of German armored forces. The electrical trades union unanimously adopted a resolu tion similar to the one In which the mine workers federation yesterday urged the government to open a second front. The com munist party In London called a mass meeting for tonight and planned a mass demonstration in Trafalgar Square Sunday to voice Its demands for Invasion . Speculation on the opening of a second front was sharpened by reports that Sir John Dill, Bri- i tain's chief military reoresenta I live In tha United States, was National Score: R. H. E. Chicago 2 12 1 Boston 12 0 Passeau and Scheffing; Javery and Lombardl. FEW AXIS PLANES LEFT TO BATTLE ALLIES IN EGYPT Cairo, July 22 (IP) Gen eral Sir Claude J. E. Auchln leck sent his eighth army Into an attack all along the EI Alamein battle front last night and the battle has raged throughout today with tha British making progress but definite results still not 1b sight. Cairo, July 22 (IP) The al lied air forces have virtually driven the Germans out of the sky over the north African bat tle area, British military sources said today. These sources, whose identity It was not permitted to disclose, said hardly any enemy air activ ity was observed yesterday by bombers and fighters . which ranged far beond the El Alamein front, blasting at large concen trations of axis vehicles and attacking the Nazi supply base In Crete. Suda Bay, Island of Crete, was attacked "In force" and direct hits were scored on two vessels, the communique report ed. A near miss was scored on a larger ship and a pier was set afire. United States air-men prob ably took part in the raid, RAF sources said. American Libera tor bombers have been employed frequently on assignments in the Mediterranean and the mention of "heavy allied bombers" indi cated that Americans had par ticipated, these sources said. Helena, Mont., July 22. (IP) Senator James E. Murray, ar dent Roosevelt supporter who accused his colleague Burton K. Wheeler, of attempting to purge him, took a growing lead today in his race for renomination on the democratic ticket Senator Wheeler, a staunch Isolationist before Pearl Harbor, Is not up for re-election this year, Murray claimed renomination on the basis of returns from 373 of the state's 1,183 precincts which gave him 27,078 votes and former Congressman Joseph B. Monaghan of Butte 16,704 and said this showed the voters had "repudiated any attempt to dictate Montana politics. FEEBLE-MINDED FLEE Salem. July 22. AP Four boys, tinging from 16 to 18 years old, escaped last night from the Oregon Fairvlew home for feeble-minded. In England returning soon, presumably to Join discussions among Prime Minister Churchill and high leaders of the British and Amer ican armed services. Dill's Job Is one of liaison be tween the U. S. and British gen eral staffs, a fact which unoffi cial British quarters seized upon to link him with second front sp lutlon. In the midst of the feverish undercurrent of military and political activity In London the British press suddenly soft-pedalled Its heretofore persistent talk of an allied Invasion of the continent. Edaoi-lal pages of morning newspapers were devoid of com ment, "he Daily Express dis posed of Churchill's talks yes terday In three paragraphs on page one. AGENCY BILL HAS L Independent Program Production Favored For De- spite Nelson Protests. Washington, July 22. (IP) The senate passed a measure to day to create an independent agency for the production of syn thetic rubber from grain alcohol, ' despite administration protests against interference with war production board control of tha rubber program. The measure now goes to the house, where the rules commit tee has given approval to an iden tical measure sponsored by Chairman Fulmer (D-SC) of tha agriculture committee. Senate passage was on a vole vote, with fewer than a dozen senators actually on tha floor at the time. Nelson Opposes Majority Leader Barkley read a statement from Donald M. Nel son In which the war production chief contended that creation of a separate rubber agency would be a "rash act," authorizing di version of critical materials from vital war needs to construction of producing plants. The bill was pushed to passage by a farm bloc whose spokesman. Senators Thomas (D-Okla.) and. Gillette CD-Iowa), charged thai tha WPB program of 800.000 tons of rubber next year was largely confined to production based on "untried laboratory ex periments" from petroleum. -Barkley protested against a di vision of responsibility for tha rubber pro grim over which Nel. sun has assumed control. Ha as- serted the attempt to provide for civilian, as well as war needs. was a mistake In view of the crit ical shortage of steel plate. ateeL copper and aircompressors. U! S. CASUALTIES 44,143T0 DATE Washington. July 22. Pt United States forces have suf fered 44,143 casualties since tha war began 4,801 dead. 3.218 wounded and 36,124 missing. An on ice of war Information statement last night said that since most of the missing were at Bataan and Corregldor and In Java, they are believed to be prisoners of war. No definite report as to their status has been received from the International Red Cross. The casualties by services: Army: Killed 902, Wounded 1,413, Missing 17,432. Philippine scouts Killed 479. Wounded 734, Missing 11,000. Navy: Killed 3,420, Wounded 1.031, Missing 7,672. Prisoners of wan Navy: Officers 32, Enlisted men 249. Marine Corps: Officers 40, Enlisted men 681. FIRST BART BUYER A representative of Willamette valley canneries Is now in tha local field presumably looking over the Bartlett canning situa tion for the coming season and conferring with local growers and packers. He is tha first to arrive and others are due oa the scene shortly. No cannery Bartlett price has been mentioned. Harvesting of tha Bartlett crop is scheduled to start between August 10 and 19. Washington, July 22 (APV President Roosevelt designated Secretary of tha Interior Harold U Ickes today as fishery co-ordl-nator. A
