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Let YOUR Auwtt to , Bomb be BONDS1 Buy War Bonds and ttampt TODAY Contribute Co tht r effort of four nation. Patriot lira, your own self-protection, demand that YOU do roar Dm Tli MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Cost Medford Tribune part NOW I Full Associated Press "nited Press Thirty seventh Year, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1942. NO. 108. Nirw un UliM MBS News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, July 25 It was not fully clear from the text, but State Secretary Hull's fire side chat was designed to warm the American people up to the Increasing seriousness of the war situation. Apprehensions of officials here at the turn of the battle in Russia were somewhat lost in Mr. Hull's restrained choice of statesman-like language. But - T"a you will notice xne impiicauuu of his whole nrlHroe: was jail that there can mise, no mat ter what hap pens in Rus sia that we are fighting irre conciliably for the freedom of our lives, and Paul Mallon nation and world. Of secondary importance were the quiet, firm warnings to Argentina and other neutrals that they cannot remain neutral in such a struggle; as well as the deft depositing of a little salt on - the ambitions of the most visionary new dealers who have been conjuring up a mil lenium for the post-war world. AS Mr. Hull went on the -air, published maps indicated the Nazis were still on the west side of the lower Don, but they had actually crossed it at two strategic points. Timoshenko's army was then caught in two bad pockets. The first was east of Stalin grad, where a large Russian force was faced by the Nazis in front and the Don on two other sides. The other pocket was pinching Rostov. To extricate himself from this second net, a fast retirement by Timoshenko seemed necessary. But at both ends of the battle line in the first pocket, the Nazis already had crossed the Don, northward and southward, and were moving toward Stalin grad from three directions. No one here knew how much Timoshenko had in reserve. It was clear he had offered no real resistance thus far to the Nazi advance, except at the extreme northern end of the battle line around Voronezh. Officials were little better informed than the public about the disposition of the Russian forces or with a knowledge of what to expect. They could forsee the possible n11 rr th Caucasus developing. perhaps within a month after Ihe fall of Stalingrad ana rtos (Continued on Page Pour, Portland, July 25 (IP) Bunco boys are doing all right in Portland, police reported to day, estimating the total taken from the gullible in less than two months at $5,510. Latest victim was Ellsworth D. Cook, Seattle, who told offi cers he lost $500 last night in a coin game sponsored by two men who met him at a bus depot. ' Police warned that the bus depots were favorite hangouts of bunco artists. They said however the heaviest losers have been Portland residents who have given bail to sharp sters posing as detectives. War Bulletins Valletta. Malta, July 25 (n Three German bombers and one fighter were destroy ed yesterday in raids on Malta. The Island's 2.800th alert since the start of the war. sounded at noon today. London. July 25 -Reuters. British news agency, quoting a Stefani (Italie-j of ficial news agency) dispatch said today Premier Mussolini had been in Libya since June 29. That was the date of the fell of Matruh. Egypt, rail head of the line to Alexandria. PHOTO TAKEN OF ENEMY DESTROYER AFTER TORPEDOED Secret Camera Used For First Time in Combat No Action Details Given. Washington Julv 25 (IP) Amprirsn submarines recently sank a large new Japanese de- otnwM anrl fnnr nthfr shins in enemy-dominated waters of the Western Pacific, the navy an nounced today, adding that a sixth vessel was damaged and probably sunk. Th Htrnvpr ibas hit bv two torpedoes and went down in nine miniiin Shnrtlv before it sank the submarine poked its peris cope above the ocean sunace lee. than a nuarter of a mile away and made the first combat picture ever taken in the U. b. navy from under the sea. This chotoeraoh showed the destroyer, heeled far over to port and down by the stern, ine rising sun insignia painted on irrent for identifi cation by airplanes was plainly visible ana two men in wnuc uniforms could be seen appar ently in the act of scrambling off the ship. T.Inutanant i-nmmander John Long, navy photographic chief, said that the picture through the periscope was made with a special secret camera now Deing SUppliea lO ail large w. duu marinp bv the bureau of aero nautics which developed it. - Th .afcniintlno' of undersea operations in the western Paci fic, first issued here since May 28, was given in navy depart ment communique number 100 whirh listed the damage in flicted of the enemy as: Sunk One modern destroyer, one m?dium sized tanker, three cargo ships. nammreH and believed sunk One medium sized cargo ship. No details of the actions were ffU.An In thp rnmmuniaue but the additional information about the successful attack on the de stroyer was made available in the official description of the picture taken from the sub marine. While no information had been released on sub operations in the western Pacific for al most two months, the activities of American undersea raiders in tvi Aleutian have been report ed, the latest account being Is sued last Tuesday wnen u. b. subs were credited by the navy with sinking three Japanese de stroyers in the vicinity of Kiska Island. The score of successful sub mtirin. ottnrlr mi Jananese ships as reported by the navy here now stands at as sunx, 13 prob ably sunk and 14 damaged a total of 84 vessels. IN TEXAS VOTING Dallas. Tex., July 25. (IP) Ten o'clock tabulations in the senatorial race tonight showed W. Lee O'Danlel clearly in the lead over James V. Allred. Copyrighted figures of the Texas election bureau showed O'Danlel holding 42 per cent of the votes, with 37 per cent going to All red and 19 per cent to Moody Coke Stevenson had a lead of nearly three to one in the gov ernor's race. In the race for lieutenant nvomnr J I. Smith led Har old Beck, while Pierce Brooks was ahead of Beauford Jester for the unexpired term of rail road commissioner. For other state offices, incumbents held strong leads. Meager returns on congressional races showed all incumbents leading except in district 21, where Fisher had a slight lead over South. PLANE IN KLAMATH Klamath Falls. July 25 VP) A navy amphibian plane pil oted by Ensign . E. Coulson. making a forced landing five miles west of here last night, struck a power line and flipped Into a farmer's pasture upside down. O'DANIEL AHEAD Air CrptCptahllCQMlNISTS PLAN I BaaasssssssssssssssssssssaaaaaBaaanaana William H. Fluhrer William Henry Fluhrer, well- known Medford and south ern Oregon and northern Cali fornia bakery owner, Friday night received notification of his commission as a captain in the U. S. army air force and was ordered to report Tuesday morning to the commanding officer of the officers' training school at Miami Beach, Fla. Captain Fluhrer, who plans to leave here either today or Monday morning, said Saturday that it was his understanding he would be stationed at Miami Beach for a six-weeks' condi tioning course, after which he would be assigned, to the ail transport command at Morrison Field. Palm Beach. Fla. Captain Fluhrer is the second prominent Medford citizen to enter the army air force in. a little over a month. . The other was Floyd Hart, manager of Timber Products company, who also received a commission as captain and left here June 22 for the officers training scnooi at Miami Beach. Captain Fluh rer, who talked with Captain Hart long distance Friday night, said the latter was still at Miami Beach and apparently had not yet been assigned to a Dermanent post. Captain Fluhrer, who has recorded approximately 2.000 hours in the air since taking un flying here in 1927, is the manager of Fluhrer's bakeries plants of which are located in Medford. Klamath Falls, Eureka and Yreka. Operation of the bakeries will continue in the usual fashion, he declared, there being no changes contemplated, BULLETIN Pvt. Joe Dickinson racked up his fifth Oregon-CalUorla league victory against one de feat here last night as ha fanned 11 and yielded but six blows in pitching the first place Mediord Craters to a S to 1 conquest of the Grants Pass Merchants. Led by Dickinson, himself, and Paul Hoffard. each . of whom collected three hits in four trips, the Craters tal lied once in the first,, once in the fifth and thrice in the seventh. Grants Pass ruined a Dickinson shutout by scoring its lone run in the ninth frame. Score: Grants Pass 1 . 3 Medford 5 11 2 Johnson. Martindale and Henleyt Dickinson and Worth- iy. Philadelphia. July 25 (IP) Shoving over two runs in the first inning and adding two more la the seventh the Chicago Cubs won a 4 to 1 victory over the last place Phils at Shibe park tonight. Chicago 4 11 0 Philadelphia 1 0 Warneke and Scheffingt Podajny. Nahem (7), Johnson (8) and Livingston. Seattle. July 25 (P) Se attle won its eight consecutive victory and Pitcher Dick Bar rett easily registered his 18th triumph of the season tonight, downing Portland. 8-1. Portland 1 1 I Seattle 11 0 Cohen. Fitske (81 and Leo vlchj Barrett and Beard. El Paso. Tex., July 25 Helen Jepson, 35 year-old Metro politan opera star, and Walter De Lerra, an engineer, were married across the Rio Grande in Juarez, Mexico, shortly be fore noon to lay. SHOWDOWN TODAY T Tons of Leaflets Broadcast Benes Predicts Hitler Will Sue For Peace. London, July 25. (IP) The small but highly vocal commun ist party of Great Britain drummed up insistence for a second front tonight with a gaudy campaign of leaflets and chalked signs while President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia predicted Hitler would sue for peace by October 15 if he had not won a decisive victory by then. The communists prepared for a great demonstration tomor row in Trafalgar Square and Benes added his potent voice to the uproar for a western front to relieve the hard-pressed Rus sians. Benes, one of the best in formed statesmen in exile, has extensive underground informa tion channels. He said Ger many would be exhausted by spring if the Russians hold out and, he added, "I think they will." The length of the war, he told Czech soldiers, would depend on how soon the British and U. S. Troops massed In these is lands spring across the channel at the Germans. "If a second front could be established within the next three months to divert a certain proportion of the German forces from the eastern front -it--is probable that things will de velop quickly ana we migni oe home within a year," he saia. The efforts of the 53,000 Brit ish communists were thrown into their drive to "open the second front now." Within three days after the campaign started, district re ports came from many places or mass meetings and distribution of hundreds of thousands of leaf lets and posters. Harry Pollitt, party secretary, declared the "Second Front Now" slogan was born when Hitler invaded Russia and will continue until fruition. The campaign includes send ing deputations to homes of members of parliament demand ing that they fight in commons for a second front now, a post card campaign addressed to Prime Minister Churchill, fac tory meetings of workers, a na tionwide chalking up of slogans, and a wide distribution of pam phlets. AT Washington, July 25. (IP) War Production Chief Donald M. Nelson told the nation today that this country's June output of planes, tanks, ships, guns, ammunition and all campaign equipment was almost triple production of last November but he admonished against un due optimism." In the first six months of this year, Nelson said in a communl que from the production front the volume of such war muni tions turned out was one-and-a half times as large as produc tion during all of 1941. While Nelson reported that in general, the arsenal of demo cracy was doing a good Job, he asserted that serious raw ma terials shortages were impend ing, new bottlenecks forming and "too much boasting is alto gether premature. GO TO NAVY Oscar Jack Miller of Medford and John Grimm of Central Point left tonight for Portland to enlist in the Naval Construc tion Battalion. If enlisted they will be returned home awaiting call until their company is for med. Jack Grimm has been em ployed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture for the past 13 years. Enlistments are now be ing accepted in all branches of the Naval Construction Battal ion, according to J. M. Carpen ter, local navy reel ulter. Saved Rabbit " ijupnawsni-ei-".! sMJJ Jjinil ?! II r' T. L. J. Saxon. U S. sailor torpedoed under him in thw battle ft : - r 0 possessions, put no aid save Midway, nis pet raDBit. Here Saxon. wearing all the clothes he owns out of the gas mask bag in which floated with him in the Pacific Ban rrancisco. lu. o. navy pnoio.) PREACHER TELLS OF JAP TORMENT Laurenco Marques, Portugese East Africa, July 23 (Delayed) IP) Americans can take it. There is the case of Edwin Koons, Presbyerian missionary who was imprisoned by the Jap anese in Korea where, he said, he received the "water - cure" when other less elaborate meth ods of punishment failed to make him agree he had been engaged in espionage. He is here now where he has been exchanged along with other Americans for Japanese repatriated from the United tates. The water cure simply Is a method of forcing quantities of water down the throat of the victim until he is unconscious and in a i semi-drowning condi tion. Koons said "they tried it once and I fainted.' Somewhat apologetically he explained that he had a chronic heart condition. A few days later, beating my back and soles of my feet with rubber hose, they said I needed more water, but at the last min ute they decided otherwise." "Well, sir," said Koons. "Just to show them I wasn't scared I said I really was thirsty after so much talking and asked for a small drink." He said he had the satisfac tion of overhearing his torment ors remark that that was the first time anybody ever actually asked for a drink in that cham ber. He said he did not blame his Inquisitors personally, as he be lieved they carried out orders from above and that he hoped to return to his mission field some day. IS BETTER McMinnvllle, July 25 Kenneth Jernstedt. AVO flier from Yamhill showed improve ment yesterday despite the ill ness that kept him In a hospital here. Dr. E. H. Barendrlck said his temperature dropped consider ably from the previous day's 104 degrees. The illness is pre sumed to be recurrence of tropical fever. at Midway "Wt M eiaijisnsi from Columbia, Miss., had his ship of Midway and lost all of his presently has Midway peering the rabbit stayed while Saxon awaiting rescue. They are in WILD CAREER OF Evertt, July 25 (IP) A wild steer which had terrorized resi dents of the Fernwood district about seven miles from Bothell in southern Snohomish county for three ' days was shot and killed today by Deputy Sheriff Joe Tuttle. The animal was cornered in some woods on the farm of Mrs Lena Kohlcr, Route 1, Bothell, who said she had been afraid to go out of her home to water her stock since she first saw the steer. Deputy Sheriff Fred French accompanied Tuttle into the woods and started the steer run ning , down a path. Tuttle hid behind a stump and calmly shot the animal. SAME OLD STORY, Seattle,' July 25 (IP) Two small boys for whom their fa ther's revolver held a deadly fascination took advantage of their mother's brief absence from home today to examine the weapon more closely. The Inevitable happened, and both were wounded the young ef critically by the gun's dis charge. Paul and Chris Chakos, aged six and seven, were the victims Their mother said the gun was empty but that they apparently loaded it when they found It. Paul was wounded in the abdo men. Chris suffered a minor wound on his left hand. MORE TAXES 8EEN Portland, July 25 (IP) Sen. Carl A. Hatch, member of a committee Investigating war production, said In an interview here yesterday, "I don't think we've ever been touched yet in the way of taxes." PORTLAND PRICES UP Portland, July 25 (IP) Port land food prices lifted 22.1 per cent in the year ending June 10. compared to a national average of 16.3 per cent, the Oregon of fice of the federal bureau of labor statistics reported. NO POWER HEARINGS Portland, Ore., July 25. (IP) Congress Is too busy with the war to conduct hearings on the Columbia river power authority bill In the Pacific northwest, Sen. Mon C. Wallgren of Wash ington said. Interpreting The War News By Klrke L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) Another July fateful with grim portents for Russia is pass ing into history with little yet to indicate that Anglo-American might can be thrown into, the battle scales in time to avert a disaster in southern Russia for the allied cause. Compared with her situation just a year ago, when it seemed gloomly enough, Russia s plight is incalculably more serious. She is all but cut apart from the Baltic to the Caspian by nazi hordes pouring southeast ward down the Don valley. Not only is her vast Ukrainian breadbasket in enemy hands, but her treasure-trove of oil In the Caucasus and the armies that defend it are in terrible Jeopardy of being cut off. Her enemy now stands virtually upon the Don from close to its source below Moscow to its mouth be low Rostov. Even eastward In Siberia she is now menaced by the Japanese, flushed with vic tories in China, the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch Indies. Yet harking back to those dark days in Russia in July, 1941, the essential fact is that she has endured through dis aster upon disaster for twelve month as few British and Amer ican military authorities then be lieved she could. Even now, ana at the worst, there Is small pros pect that Hitler can force her to her knees or do more than prolong the war indefinitely if he succeeds In throwing Russian armies back eastward of a Volga-Don - Moscow - Lentngred line from the Caspian to the Baltic, which seems his purpose. Not only Russian ability but Russian will to fight against all odds have bees) roveiT jn blood, German as well- as Russian, In those twelve months. It is Just about a year ago that President Roosevelt s emissary, Harry Mop- kins, traveled from London to Russia by air. Just what he learned then of Russian determi nation never to yield to the axis or of Russian ultimate resources for war was not revealed. The time will come, it must come, for Hitler as it came for the Kaiser when the limit of his nowers of aggression has been reached while that of his aroused foes still climbs month by month. day by day. There is evidence of desperation in the nature of his far-spread attack on Kussta. ne is pouring out German biooa in a frantic effort to attain some objective before the doom he has challenged can overtake him. Portland, July 25. (IP) Hugh A. Bowman, Pendleton, was elected Oregon department commander of the American Le gion today as the 24th annual convention neared its close. The 45-year-old hotel opera tor succeeds Joseph K. Carson, Portland. Bowman is a native of Pendleton. In the last war he served with the 91st infan try, stationed at Camp Lewis. Dr. E. J. Corcoran, Mount Angel, was named vice com mander and the Rev. John Ma goon, Greihim, chaplain Thomas D. Stoughton, Portland, was re-elected finance officer. District commanders, elected for two-year terms included' Loyd Williamson, Medford, No. 4. HALT INFLATION Portland, July 25 (IP) Sen Harold H. Burton of Ohio urged the people today to comply with rationing regulations and pur chase war bonds and stamps as a means of avoiding inflation. "Nothing could be worse than If our soldiers and sailors and marines should win the war while we at home allowed the value of the dollar to collapse,' he told an audience at a Victory Center bond sales program. Burton also urge dstablllza tion of farm prices as an anti- Inflation aid. MIDDLE DON AREA IN ROSTOV DRIVE Russians Battle Fiercely For Vital Centers Bombers Blast Tobruk No Egypt Decision. (By Associated Press) t A German drive Into the out skirts of Rostov was reported by the Russians early today as the mighty military machine of Adolf Hitler threw reserves into the heavy fight for that Russian city and pressed against the Russians defending Stalingrad and the Caucasus. The Soviet midnight commu nique officially acknowledged that the battle for Rostov had roared into the outskirts of the city but the Russians said they were fighting fiercely for that vital center. Indicating no change in the) other critical areas, the Russians this morning said their men were pushing the Germans back at Voronezh, the northern end of the 300-mlle front, and at Tslmlyansk and Novocherkassk, in the Don battle. Dispatches Indicated this d la- position of the fighting forces; Rostov's fortifications were breached in sectors. A tentative; German bridgehead was estab lished on the lower Don near Tslmlyansk, 120 miles upstream from Rostov. The Germans reached . the middle Don and conceivably could be within 45 f-mjlea of .Stalingrad; The Beds still were attacking and gaining at Voronezh. On the Egyptian front, U. 8. bombers were disclosed to have) heavily damaged axis ports and shipping at Tobruk, Bengasi and Suda bay in Crete in seven raids. The RAF added the de struction of more than 20 grounded axis planes at ElDab while the land fighting dwin dled to artillery exchanges and patrol Ing 80 miles west of Alex andria. ... . . The balance of power was so delicate that London sources) said the arrival of a single con voyaxis or British could swing the outcome. . That an allied ship train might be ap proaching was evidenced by the Italian claim to have suns loaded troop transport in the) eastern Mediterranean. Across the world, allied flier attacked ceaselessly the latest fruit , of Japanese . conquest- toeholds on New Guinea at Buna and Gona. Experts were) Inclined to the view that the) landings on the great island above Australia was a Nip ponese attempt to clinch control of the sea to the Solomon islands, rather than another threat to the northermost allied base of Port Moresby.. Remembering the amazing Japanese campaign down Ma laya and into Singapore, how ever, they did not rule out the) possibility that the foe might cut his way through the Jungle clad mountains to attack the base, 110 miles away. NAZI INDUSTRtAL : London, July 25 W) Mann helm and Frankfort, Germany, were-attacked in daylight raid by the RAF today, the air min istry said tonight. Other British plane making an offensive sweep over Belgium destroyed nine railway locomo tives with machine gun and cannon fire at Cortemarck. The air ministry new ser vice said the engine were) standing close together and on pilot was so eager to hit them that his wing tip brushed railway signal arm a he weop ed down. He returned safely. Tonight' air and home se curity ministries communique said British fighter destroyed three German planes during the day a fighter of the south coast this morning, bomber off the) east coast this evening, and an other bomber off the southwest coast thi evening. v
