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Let YOUR Aniwar to Bombt be BONDSI Bu? War Bonds tod Stamps tODAY Contribute to ths war (fort of jour nation. Patriot ism, jour ova stlf-protectlon. demands that Vol) ds jour part NOWI Us Th MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Cost Medford Tribune Full 'Associated Proas .tad Press o Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1942. NO. 109. 0Tlo) a News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, July 27 Cheap est political trick of a rather aordid wartime season is the strange delay in paying sub sistence allow ances to de pendents of our fighting men for more than 4 months, until the day before the coming con gressional elec tions in No vember. raal Mallon Further in vestigation makes it worse than suggested in this column pub lished June 15. The official pub licity makes no mention of who was responsible for this cal loused political chicanery, say ing only that printing, investiga tions and bookkeeping will pre vent mailing out the checks be fore Sunday, November 1. But if you will prowl back through the several thousand words of the law. you will find, by careful reading, a single sen tence, which places the respon sibility for the decision. It says: "Any allowances which ac crue under this title before No vember 1. 1942 shall not be acta ally paid until after November 1, 1942." SO congress itself, the very legislators who are to face the voters on Tuesday, Novem ber 3, and not the war depart ment, or Mr. Roosevelt, or the Democratic national committee, seems to have been the guiding force in denying monthly pay ments owed to women and chil dren for June, July, August, September and October. First it was pensions, then X-cards, and now delaying al lowances to women and chil dren. There was some excuse for congress voting itself pensions, although when the secrecy of its action was exposed, it shame facedly repealed the law. There was also some excuse for X-cards to give congressmen extra (although they are not Justly entitled to unlimited) gas to do public business, if they will do public business. Now that their X-cards have expired and stronger gas rationing is in force, they and all politicians are granted in the east all the gas they want to conduct their political business as usual, while (Continued on Pago Pour) PEEP RIDES SELL BONDS, STAMPS It was "oeens. peeps, peeps all day Friday and Saturday in Medford when literally thous ands of people were taken for rides around the city as a re ward for purchasing war stamps or bonds. W. A. Gates of the bond sale committee reported that an estimated $20,000 worth of bonds and stamps were sold directly as a result of the prom ise of ride in one of the army's little cars. The army drivers were swi nped with customers who gathered at tne Lnamm. Commerce, and Saturday night at the Rialto and Craterian the atres, for their peep rides", Mr. Gates said today. Mr. Gates praised the army personnel whom ho said cooper ated to the fullest extent in the special sale, and he also pointed out that sales were unusually high at the theatres on both nights. Saturday afternoon girls from both Medford banks donat ed time to bond selling at the Chamber of Commerce for which the bond committee to dav expressed its appreciation The "peeps" and war equip ment displayed at the Victory Center belonged to the 91st In fantry Division at Camp A'rite. Major Robert Van Ron was in charge of the display and $20,000 WORTH OF "peeps' operation. PATH IS BROKEN BY LUFTWAFFE IN German Troops Storm Into Bataisk Advance Con tinues Further South. By Clyde A. Farnsworth Associated Press War Editor. Berlin announced today a 20 mile penetration of the Cau casus, south of Rostov on the Don, on the mail rail route into Russia's greatest oil fields, but farther up the Don, in the Tsim lyansk area where the invaders had forced at least two cross ings, the Germans had been halted, Moscow said. South of Rostov, said the Ger man high command, German troops stormed into Bataisk after a day of fighting in which a terrific aerial assault broke a path for them. Continue In South The Germans, without de tails, said that farther east along the Don mechanized de tachments continued their south ward drive. It was there the Russians said they had been checked in the Tsimlyansk area. To the northeast German and Rumanian infantry divisions, the German communique said, were threatening Stalingrad on a broad front, having reached a Don bend area about SO miles from their goal. Stalingrad, in dustrial capital of the lower Volga, lies near an elbow of that river, within 50 miles of the Don bend. 'Northwest of Kalatsch, said the Berlin communique, "tank detachments and mechanized troops are in violent battle with Soviet tank and infantry forces which are trying desperately to hold hilly ground west of the (Don) river." The location of "Kalatsch suggested that the Germans meant Kachalino, just east of the Don, some 30 miles north west of Stalingrad. "Kalatsch" does not appear on non-German maps. Smoke Covers Steppes A vast area of steppe land. within the big bend of the Don, was overhung by the smoke of battle through which the Ger man planes and the Red air force, using numbers or united States bombers and fighters, plunged their bomb loads. In other sectors of the world conflict, apart from the domi- nant Russian front, the HAi offensive against Germany had regained momentum, marked by further preparatory partici pation of United States army airmen in actual combat and a powerful overnight assault on Hamburg, while the battle of Egypt had shifted almost wholly to the air. A heavy RAF bomber force, following up a Joint British American bombardment of Sat urday night, plastered the axis Libyan supply port of Tobruk again last night, hitting an enemy ship. Long-range RAF fighters attacked barges off Sidi Barrani, axis-held port in Egypt. German and Italian troops on the El Alameln line were dig ging in after last week's minor rectification of positions in fa vor of the British army of the Nile. Ground action consisted largely of skirmishing and the Italians claimed the British lost some prisoners. The battle of Russia had reached its gravest stage thus far in 1942. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Helen Hlnck being a gracious hostess to friends over the week end. The many friends of the Hal boths, "Doc" and Ruth, bidding them a regretful farewell. Russ Bradford learning first hand from army men how to distinguish officers by .the type and number of bars they we?r on their shoulders. "Chow" stems from "chow der." which In turn comes from the French "chaudiere,' meaning "ketUa or pot" Track For .. . .J35 " -iw" -- : . .,- "." -a y a rrlr l laid for ana af tha quantities at the new Fisher Body plant in Detroit, for which ground was broken only six months ago. Weighing 30 tons, these mechanical giants mount a 75 mm. cannon in the turret. Public Invited to Camp For 91st Division Activation of the Nintey First Infantry Division Satur day, August 13, at Camp White is to be effected amid Impressive ceremonies and dem onstrations of military training and. might p. which Major Gen eral Chas. H. Gerhardt, com manding tha 91st Infantry Div ision, Is inviting veterans of the World war I divisional organiza tion, all ex-servicemen, and the general public. In form, the event will afford opportunity for the public to view the great new Southern Oregon army center, and will provide opportunity for the civ ilian and military populace of the region to become acquaint ed. It marks the passing of col ors, spirit, and tradition of the first fighting "Wild West" Div ision to the new generation. Stirring Program . A stirring program, in which the "ninety-first" War I vets will have a major part, is being formed under the chairmanship of Brigadier General E. S. Ott, division artillery commander. It will consist of appropriate talks, demonstrations, music, memorial service honoring deceased vet erans, and will be climaxed by the presentation of the regi mental colors and standards, carried in France, to the units of the same designation being brought back into service on August 15. Special efforts are being pressed to have all the colors, and, as many as possible, mem bers of the first "ninety-first" here for the occasion. The program, itself, will be of two hours duration, com mencing at ten oclock, progres sing in rapid continuity until GUN WOUND FATAL FOR LEVU YOUNG Grants Pass, July 27 UP) Levi Young. 41, died Sunday evening in the county hospital of gunshot wounds which Dis trict Attorney Orval J. Millard said Levi's older brother, Char ley, 51, admitted inflicting a week earlier. The district attorney had postponed filing of charges awaiting Levi's recovery or death. Mrs. Charley Young. 44, also wounded when her husband re turned from Castlerock, Wash., to his home near Williams and found her with her brother-in- law, was reported recovering from flesh wounds. It was the first time the brothers had met in years, the husband said, according to Mil lard. Voting in El Salvador Is com nolun k, mmn nnllnn.l fnr I women. 30-Ton M4 U. all-welded time M4 tanks now the noon hour. All ninety-first veterans will be guests -at the mid-day mess with the units with which they served in 1917- 19. Prior to ten a. m visitors will be led on conducted tours of Camp White. v Sams Old Battle Cry 1 As- in the old- tmlt, today's division will consist principally of selective service men, whose military training begins with Activation Day. To Insure the readiness of facilities and a com prehensive training program for the budding force, a cadre of officers and enlisted men came here early in July and since then has been busily engaged in working out the many details and problems incident to acti vation. Major General Gerhardt has adopted the old division battle cry "Powder. River Let 'er Buck for his forces, and, ana already, the challenge is ringing across the Agate Desert, on which Camp White Is situated. The, "evergreen tree" symbol, likewise, has been retained as the division insignia. The new ninety-first has, in western lauguage, a "powerful lot" to live up to. For, when the "westerners' left Europe in 1919 they carried with them the highest rewards of combat pro ficiency. The original 1917 division was activated at Camp Lewis, Wash., its personnel drawn from California, Idaho, Nevada. Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In Major Battles During its career in active service, the 91st Division saw action in several major engage ments, including the Meuse-Ar-gonne and Ypres-Lys offen sives. It captured almost twenty-five hundred prisoners. $75,000 MANSION RAZED BY BLAZE Cottage Grove. Ore., July 27 (IP) A $75,000 residence. owned by Walter A. Woodard, Cottage Grove lumberman, was completely destroyed by fire late Sunday evening. The home, one of the finest in Lane county, was located near Woodard s mill, a short distance from this community. Mr. Woodward's daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Swanson. are residents of Med ford, living on Summit avenue. Mrs. Swanson stated that the home had been completed only within the past few days. VILLACE WIPED OUT London. July 27 (Wit nesses reaching Britain declared today that the Gestapo had wiped out the Norwegian vil lage of Televaag on the island of Sotra, near Bergen, in re prisal for the shooting of two members of tha secret police. S. Tank belne? turned out in train-load White Ceremonies sustained better than five thou sand seven hundred casualties to have one of the largest pro portion of battle dead and wounded in any ' division. It brought high credit to Amer ican arms. Four men of the division re ceived the Congressional medal of Honor highest honor - that can be conferred by the Amer ican people for valorous ex ploits. Those men Major O. F. Miller of Lot Angeles, - Calif., Sergeant L. M. Seibert of Sal ina, Calif., Sergeant P. C. Katz of San Francisco, Calif., and Sergeant Chester H. West of Idaho Falls, Idaho will be sig nificantly honored and remem bered at the memorial service, The Third Battalion, 363rd Infantry, was presented with English colors by the Governor General of Canada. For its splendid battle perfor mance, the division, in the late stage of the war, was selected as a "picked unit and placed in service of the late King Albert of Belgium. Great Tradition Perhaps the highest tribute paid the old 91st was Indicated by the following extract from a letter sent the division com mander by the commander of the fifty army corps: "At a time when the divisions on its flanks were faltering and even falling back, the 91st push ed ahead and steadfastly clung to every yard gained." Traditions and spirit of this fighting organization has been kept intact in the activation program on August 13. The new commander. Major General Chas. H. Gerhardt, is a soldiers' soldier. Under his guidance, the new 91st will bring additional honor to the battleflags of the division. - . $60 TON OFFER FOR HOOD BARTS Hood River, Ore., July 27 (APV Independent pear growers of this area have been offerel $60 a ton for No. Is by canreries, they reported today. Orchards In the higher valley eV vations vlll have a small crop because of a late frost, but else where a heavy crop is expected. Picking will start next month. - A 880-a-ton offer was reported for Rogue Valley Bartletts Fri day. No pear sales have been made at that price, so far as local dealers know. HERO AT GEIGER Spokane, Wash., July 27 UP) The second air force announ ced today Capt. Hewitt T, Wheless, flying officer cited by President Roosevelt for bring Ing home his bullet-riddled bomber after a battle with 18 Japanese fighter planes in' the Philippines, Is now on duty at Geiger field here as group cper ations officer. SEEN IN PACIFIC ABOUT AUSTRALIA Land Action In New Guinea Among Signs of New Climax Many Clashes. By The Associated Press Advices from the insular bat- tlefront of the southwest Paci fic facing Australia, pictured that theater today as ominously astir in an upsurge of air ac tivity over the week-end and land action between the Allies and the Japanese in New Guinea. A simmering crisis In India evoked a sharp British warning to Mohandas K. Gandhi over his projected civil disobedience cam paign. In addition to the battle of China, the fog-bound aerial sparring of the United States against the Japanese lodgements In the Aleutian islands and the long-standing possibility of Jarianese move from Burma against India or from Manchu- kuo against Russia, the Aus tralian theater now is reassum- ing a more critical aspect. Skirmish With Japs Jungle warriors of the Allies, evidently patrols from the Port Moresby outpost on New uuin- ea's south coast, wormed their way across most of the formid able Papuan peninsula ana over the week-end skirmished wun Jananese at Awala. about 25 miles inland from Buna. A mall Jananese invasion 'force had betn landed under air attack near Buna last Wed nesday. General MacArthur's headquarters also reported minor clash between Allied out posts forces ana Japanese re cently at Mubo, near Salamaua, 150 miles northwest of Buna, where 60 of the enemy died in a patrol attack on the Allied held village. This clash followed upon an Allied commando swoop early this month on Salamaua in which a like number of the foe were killed. BURGLAR TAKEN TO STATE PRISON Frank A. Roberts was sen tenced to a prison term of not more than three years by Cir cuit Judge H. K. Hanna Satur day on a plea of guilty to bur glary not in a dwelling. He was taken to Salem yesterday by Sheriff Syd I. Brown. Roberta was charged with entering a cleaning establish ment on North Central avenue several 'weeks ago. The police records show Roberts was re leased from the Alcatraz federal prison last September. The au thorities told the court Roberts earned $75 per week doing can tonment electrical work before his arrest. 12 AXIS PLANES LOST IN ATTACKS OBI MALTA Valletta, Malta, July 27. AP) Twelve Axis planes, three Nazi bombers and eight fighters, and oi.e Italian fighter, were destroy ed by the RAF In two attacks on this British Mediterranean island today, a communique announced. Japan Determined to Crush U. S., Britain Says Hideki Berlin '(from German broad cajts), July 27. (Japan's prime minister, General Hideki Tojo, told an audience of 20,000 at Osaka today that "Japan is determined to destroy the Unit ed States and Great Britain,' the Transocean News Agency reported In Tokyo dispatch. Addressing a meeting -of the league for support of the throne Tojo said Japanese occupation of some of the Aleutian Islands had "greatly strengthened Ja pan'! strategical 00111100." . BASEBALL - s National St. Louis at Brooklyn, Chicago ew York, postponed. Cincinnati at Philadelphia, postponed. American New York at Chicago, post poned. RADIO STAR WON NAVY POST WITH AUTO. IS CHARGE San Francisco, July 27 (IP) Lieut. Commander Maurice N, Aroff, U. S. N. R , who was re moved as naval procurement officer here on charges of ac cepting an automobile from Tony Martin, radio singer, went on trial before a naval court- martial today. Reading of detailed charges at the public trial revealed the officer was accused of accepting an automobile from Martin "as a fee, compensation and reward for facilitating the enlist ment" of the radio singer as chief specialist in the navy. Commander Aroff was also charged with accepting a pair of hematite studs and cufflinks from Lawrence Stromberg and a pair of gold cufflinks from Irving Cummings, Jr., to facili tate granting commissions as ensigns to the pair. Further charges Included list ing San Francisco addresses for two Los Angeles men applying for commissions. Los Angeles is In the nth nava) district, San Francisco in the 12th for which Aroff was chief procurement officer. The men were Ernest J. Friedman and Cummings. Martin enlisted in the navy January 2 at a time when he faced imminent induction into the army. The 28-year-old sing er and actor was Immediately assigned the Job of enlisting other men in the navy. Legion Would Have All Ken Serva at Sana Scale of Pay Portland, July 27 VP) Unt- versal service, with men In the Industrial army on the home front receiving pay comparable to that paid men in the armed fcrces, was advocated by Oregon American Legion convention delegates who closed the annual session Saturday with election of Hugh A. Bowman, Pendleton, as department commander. "he universal service resolu tion proposed that the industrial force be recru" d through draft and enlistment; that uniforms or insiiinia be provided end tnat the army system of rank and pay be instituted. Another resolution advoctted lowering of draft ages to reach 18- and 19-year-olds. - Deporta tion of aliens who do not be come naturalized citizens with in five years also was urged. Scracpisr of Oregon Only When JsRk Gone Salem, July 27 (IP) Acting Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal wrote G o v e r n o i Charles A. Sprague today that the battleship Oregon should not be scrapped until ' all other sources of material had been exhausted. Transocean gave these ex cerota from the speech: "In the fight against tne Anglo-Saxon powers Japanese forces continue to hold tne initt aUve. From Sydney to Madagas car, wherever enemy forces can be found they are attacked by J inese forces. "While Japan was fighting her enemies on land and sea and In the air, peaceful con struction of the ne. order hat not been net" rted. Ptoples of the souther J regions already have grasped Japan s true in tentions and have Joyfully co operated In tha great task." T INTRIGUE TOLD BY A. P. MEN FREEDBY JAPAN Face-Saving Effort That Backfired Bitter Suffer ing Related By Newsmen (By Associated Press) Accounts of a Japanese face- saving effort that backfired, of a vast web of oriental intrigue with which Japan prepared for her conquests and of bitter suf fering of American and other nationals who fell into Japanese hands were given over the week-end by Associated Press correspondents newly freed from Japanese detention. Their dispatches came from Lourenco Marques, Portuguese East Africa, where the exchange of some 1,100 citizens of the United States and other Amer ican nations for a similar num ber of Japanese and Thai na tions has Just taken place. Tha liner Gripsholm, now bearing the Americans diplomats, newspa permen, missionaries and others is to sail for New York to morrow. The face-saving attempt which flopped was related by Max Hill, chief of the Associated Press bureau in Tokyo when war came. Smell Fresh Paint After first trumpeting to the world that nine of the American bombers which raided Tokyo April 18 were knocked down, the Japanese . reduced , their claims ' to one . and . put the . "wreckage" on display in Tokyo to prove it But Japanese who came to gape smelled paint and, sure enough, the red, white and blue of the U. S. air force which had been freshly daubed on still was wet. Hill told of long weeks he spent in solitary confinement in freezing weather, bereft of hia shoes and with scant food; of the taunt of a sullen guard: American! This is Japan!" Relman Morin, Associated Press chief of bureau in Tokyo from 1937 to 1940 - who trav elled through, southeast Asia on pre-war assignment, told of the workings of Japanese-Thai intrigue and fifth column activ ities which laid the groundwork for Japan's quick successes in Malaya and Burma. Hostility Pretended While Japan and Thailand were pretending mutual hostil ity, he said Thailand actually was a party to Japan'a plans to use transport fleets moving into the Gulf of Slam as early as August and September last year. Morin said the Japanese in telligence service learned , of British military dispositions In Malaya down to the last detail, and had special landing forces practicing on the French Indo china coast long before the De cember 7 attack. Then traitor in Malaya led the Invader through the Jungle, forcing the British to retire continually to prevent severance of their com munications. In Burma, he said, it was the same story. Plight Pictured A picture of the plight of some 2,000 Americans left In Japanese-occupied China wa presented by J. D. White, for mer Associated Press corre spondent at Peiplng who wa in Shanghai when Japan at attacked Pearl Harbor. In alii he said 32 American civilians were detained by th Japanese at Shanghai but were later released. White said the most serious case was that of J. B. Powell, editor of the China Weekly Review, who was held from December 20 until shortly be fore the Americans were put . aboard the exchange ship. Powell, normally 180-pound er, was reported to weigh around 75 pounds, and had lost all but the heels of his feet a a result of beriberi and gan grene which developed during cold, solitary confinement, in adequate food and lack of med ical care until recently. BRITISH ATTACK Cairo, Egypt, July 27 tffV The lull in action of the ground armies on the El Alameln front was broken last night when British forces launched a limited attack In tha northern sector, British sources said today.
