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NO. 108.
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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.
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