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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1942.
NO. 109.
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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facedly repealed the law.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
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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.