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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1942. .
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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, July 31. The
British are really making hash
out of German industrial cities
one by one,
but experience
on this night
bombing front
has placed cer
t a 1 n definite
limitations on
what can be
done with it.
The impati
ence of certain
American o b -servers
at the
failure to de
Fsul Mslloo
velop these grand aerial assaults
faster and further, has cast
some reflection on British ef
ficiency. It is not that.
The British started this super
bombing campaign the night of
May 30-31. with a thousand
plane attack on Cologne. They
went back at Essen and the
Ruhr with a thousand planes
two nights later, but could not
duplicate these attacks again for
nearly three weeks.
They hit Bremen with a
thousand planes on the night of
June 25, and then skipped three
weeks more before marshaling
seven hundred for an attack on
Duisburg, July 13-14. Two
weeks later they put six hun
dred over Hamburg on two suc
cessive nights (dropping 175,
000 incendiaries and using 4,-000-ton
bombs).
Not Inefficiency, but lnsur-
)mountable obstacles of weather
and operations forced the long
intervals of comparatively quiet
nights when only a few squad
rons were able to, indulge in this
new type of warfare.
THE British "found, for in
stance, that their losses from
collisions among their own
planes were greater than from
enemy action, on moonless
nights. This meant they could
efficiently hurl thousand plane
raids at Germany only half of
the month, when the moon per
mitted, and even in that half of
the month only when there were
do heavy clouds or rain to ob
scure vision.
Summer night raiding Is fur
ther restricted by the fact that
only four hours of darkness is
to be expected in the latitude of
German industrial cities (which
are on the latitude of Labrador.)
This condition, however, will
k improve constantly as winter
draws near, and eases the com-
(Continue at Pte Tn)
Vancouver, B. C, July 31
(IIP)) Officers who searched the
clothing of P. Hammond, 74,
who collapsed on a downtown
street last night, found $1,236.'
88. He was sufering from mal
nutrition. Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Another war-effort program,
"Giants of Freedom," is to be
added to the network schedule
via CBS on Monday afternoon
at 1:30, with Wendell Willkie as
the Introductory speaker.
Tonight: CBS 6, Lieut. Rob
ert Montgomery In "Man Hunt."
BLU 5:30 Those Good Old
Days, new time.,
i BLUE 7, boxing. Ray Rob
Pinson vs. Sammy Angott.
Saturday: NBC 10:30 a. m.,
All out for victory; 1, Pan-American
holiday, Argentina. BLUE
8:30 a. m., Four-H Club;
KMBS 7:45 a. m.. Red Cross
program; 10:30 a. m., RAF ca
dets in training.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Officer Clyde Fichtner ad
miring a huge bouquet of pos
ies brought to the station by a
friend.
Maynard Bush reversing the
age-old fishing yarn by explain
ing to friends that he landed
kthe big one but the little one
'got away.
John (Grandpa) Esds and son
Clarence sitting calmly in their
truck while it was pushed into
service station.
HAS LEGALSTATUS
President Authorized to
Order Trial is Unanimous
Opinion of High Tribunal.
Washington, July 31. (IP)
The supreme court unanimously
upheld President Roosevelt s
wartime power today to close
the civil courts to seven alleged
nazl saboteurs and to appoint a
military commission to deter
mine their fate.
The charges preferred against
the men that they slipped into
America armed with explosives
to blast war production plant!!
allege an offense which, the
court said, "the president is
authorized to order tried before
a military commission."
End Seen Near
This commission, which began
its secret sessions July 8, is now
f inishfng the case and, Attorney
General Biddle, elated over the
supreme court's ruling, said the
arguments before the commis
sion would be concluded speed
ily and that the commission
might be able to report a ver
dict to the president early next
week.
Colonel Kenneth C. Royall,
one of the army officers as
signed to the defense, expressed
doubt that the proceedings
would conclude so quickly;
however, apparently Indicating
an intention to plead at length
for the prisoners' lives.
Royall . had argued to the
court that no one in America
should be denied the right to
civil trial, while the prosecution
had contended that these men
were enemies in as practical a
sense as "parachutists or invad
ing armies" and had no consti
tutional rights.
Claimed Refugee
The defense declared that
some of the prisoners, at least,
were in effect refugees from
Germany and had no intention
of actually using the training
and the explosives with which
they came equipped.
Further, the defense had con
tended that President Roose
velt's order closing the civil
courts to specified types of per
sons was "totally invalid and
unconstitutional."
In handing down its decision
at the end of an extraordinary
three-day session, the court ob
served that it "has fully con
sidered the questions raised."
Chief Justice Stone announced
that the court denied the prison
ers' motion to file writs of ha
beas corpus.
Only seven of the eight sa
boteurs sought the writ.
The prosecution alleged that
the men left this country for
Germany with funds furnished
by the nazis Herbert Hans
Haupt travelling on a German
passport attended a sabotage
school there run by the army,
embarked from L'Orient.
France, on U-boats equipped
with extensive paraphernalia
and specific instructions for the
destruction of important dams,
factories and other installations
here and plotted a two-year cam
paign of sabotage to further the
axis cause.
The defense claimed that the
men, all former residents of this
country, were loyal to the
United States, that they at
tended the school and boarded
the submarine as the only means
of fleeing Germany, that they
buried their explosives in the
sand upon landing and did noth
ing to carry out any sabotage
campaign, and that they were
planning to report to the au
thorities. PLENTY OF MEAT
There Is no shortage of meat
in the Rogue River valley,
though fat cattlj are not plenti
ful. County Agent Robert G
Fowler reported today. There
are plenty of hogs and veal and
sheep. Reports indicated a short
age of some meats in Portland.
Butchers reported they had
plenty of offers from farmers
who want to tell calves and pigs.
U. S. Fliers See Action With RAF
These six army air force fliers serving with the RAF, took part in a sweep which saw nine
of the newest German fighters downed last week. Left to right: Captain Harrison Thyng, 24,
Barnstead, N. H.j Captain DeWin B. Avery, 25, Salt Lake City, Utah; Major Marvin L. Mc
Nickle, 28, Doland, S. D.i Captain Mercer P. Davis, 25, Bellingham. Wash.j Major Fred M.
Dean. 25, St. Petersburg. Fla.i Lieut. Winifred L, Chambers. Nashville, Ark.
HEROES OF 91ST
AT CAMP EVEN!
Special honor to the four sol
diers of the division, who were
awarded the Congres s i o n a 1
Medal of Honor in World War I,
will be given at the Activation
ceremony of the 91st Infantry
Division, here, August 15. Mem
bers of the 1917-19 division will
be honor guests at the event.
Of the four, Major Oscar F.
Miller of Los Angeles, Calif.,
died from wounds received In i
leading his battalion during a
front line advance of the 361st I
Infantry in the Argonne Forest.
Wounded in arm and leg, the
officer was at the very head of (
the advance, inspiring and guid-i
ins h's men, until a third wo ind .
through the abdomen compelled
him to fall to the ground.
Two From California !
Two other Californians, Phil-'
lip C. Katz of San Francisco and
Lloyd M. Seibert of Salinas, j
were presented the Medal of
Honor. The San Franciscan, a
Sergeant in the 383rd Infantry,
voluntarily crossed a machine
gun swept area to bring a
wounded comrade to safety.
Seibert, a sergeant in the 364th
Infantry, dashed forward alone
under fire and wiped out an
enemy macjiine-gun emplace
ment after a hand-to-hand en
counter. Chester H. West of Idaho
Fallr, Idaho, another sergeant
with the 363rd Infantry, also
eliminated an enemy machine
gun nest in a hand-to-hand strug
gle for which he received the
outstanding award.
The Activation ceremony will
Include military exhibits, music,
a a stirring transfer of the old
91st Division's colors to Major
General C. H. Gerhardt, com
manding general of the new divi
sion. Tony Martin Given
Special Attention
In Navy Enlistment
San Francisco, July 31 WP)
A witness at the courtmartlal
trial of Lieut. Commander
Maurice N. Aroff testified today
that the officer ordered the na
val reserve procurement office
here to give the enlistment of
Tony Martin, actor and singer,
priority over other applications
on file.
Aroff Is accused of soliciting
and accepting a $950 automo
bile from Martin.
Yeoman William Bassett, who
worked in the procurement of
fice under Aroff. said that last
New Year's Day the commander
ordered him to have Martin's
papers ready by 8 a. m. the next
day, and to put them ahead of
others.
Arofff order to make out
some papers that are normally
filled out at recruiting station.
Bastett said, cause "a good deal
of irritation in the office among
officers and enlisted men.
Nelson Favors
If Material
Washington, July 31 (IP) Chairman Donald M. Nelson said
today the war production board was "much interested" in the
proposal of Henry J. Kaiser, West Coast shipbuilder, to build
5,000 giant cargo planes in shipyards.
"If it develops that the en
gines and other components
needed fpr these planes can be
built without disrupting the
present military aircraft pro
gram, which, if our No. 1 war
essential, he 'will get planty of
action," Nelson said In formal
statement.
The WPB chief disclosed that
Kaiser had discussed his pro-
New Plane Type
Washington, July 31 P)
Aircraft engineers dis
closed before a senate mil
itary subcommittee today
that they bad designed a
revolutionary type of flying
cargo plane which would be
lifted and propelled by a
unique combination of en
tines, helium gas and air
tunnels- .
The plane could be used,
they said, as a ski-roaming
carrier of a dozen speedy
fighting airplanes.
gram with him, and declared
WPB was "ready to cooperate
to the limit" in any - practical
plan for heightening effective
ness of war transport.
The report of a special com
mittee named by Nelson late In
May to study expansion of the
air transport program will be
published within one or two
days, Nelson said. Kaiser told a
senate committee today Nelson
had promised "full support" to
his program.
TO BE SET AUG. 4
A special session of federal
court has been called by Judge
James Alger Fee for Medlord,
August 4 for the purpose of set
ting the calendar for condemna
tion suits involving Camp White
land. It was explained this
special session would set the day
and hour for the various con
demnation suits, which will be
heard during the regular Octo
ber term of federal court, or
sooner.
Judge Fee win preside at the
special session. Also scheduled
to come here for the session is
Bernard H. Ramsey, special at
torney for the department of
Justice.
NO MORE ICE CREAM FOR
AMERICANS IN BRITAIN
London, July 31 (IP) Ice
cream was taken off the menu at
United States army camps in
the British Isles today because
of a ministry of food ruling that
ice cream manufacturing is a
non-essential Industry.
The ministry estimated the
ban would save 30.000 tons of
I tri;v::,rt and 1,000 tons of
1 pacer a year.
Kaiser Plan
Can Be Found
SLOT MACHINES
T ALL OUT-
DECLARES PRAY
Salem, July 31 (IP) Very
few slot machines now are oper
ating In Oregon, State Police
Superintendent Charles P. Pray
said today in commenting on the
results of the drive against the
machines which Is being made
at tha request of Lieut. Gen.
John L. De Witt, western de
fense commander.
Pray said that state officers
and local authorities have either
confiscated or ordered removed
virtually all the slot machines
in the state. They also are at
tempting to remove pinball
games which pay off.
He said the drive would con
tinue. Some machines, he ex
plained, might be placed in op
eration again, but Pray said that
"if they are, our men will con
fiscate them wherever we see
them. Operators don't need to
think this drive Is Just a brief
flurry that will be forgotten."
Slot machines and pinbal)
games. If they pay off In either
cash or merchandise, have been
Illegal in Oregon since a su
preme court decision four years
ago held that they violate the
anti-lottery provisions of the
constitution.
Editorials Cited As
Refuting Pelley in
Charges of Apathy
Indianapolis, July 31 (IP)
The government Introduced a
survey of American newspaper
editorials at the sedition trial of
William Dudley Pelley today in
an obvious effort to refute the
former silver shirt leader's as
sertions of national apathy to
ward the war effort.
Mrs. Persis Richter, attractive
23-year-old brunette employed
in the office of war information,
testified about a survey of edit
orials which she said were pub
lished two weeks orlor to a Pel-
ley article in his magazine, "The
Galilean," which claimed there
Is no feeling in this country
"against Japan and Hitler." ' ' '
Mrs. Richter, who said she had
been employed on Minneapolis
and St. Paul newspapers, testi
fied she headed a staff of four
In the OWI charged with analy
zing newspaper comment.
She testified that a survey
of editorial comment of repre
sentative rcwTpFM from var
ious states refuted Pelley'f assertion.
Reds in "Do or Die" Rallies
Halt Nazis in Some Sectors;
Caucasus Invasion Rolls On
GIVE JAPANESE
TELUfOLOWS
Nine Raiders Downed Over
Darwin Transport Set
Afire North of New Guinea
General MacArthur's Head
quarters, Australia, July 31
(IP) In the biggest burst of aer
ial warfare since the Coral sea
battle nearly three months ago,
American fliers in Curtiss Kitty-
hawks yesterday shot down nine
Japanese raiders over Darwin
and downed one or possibly two
Japanese over New Guinea,
while heavy allied bombers 100
miles north of New Guinea set
raging fire to a Japanese trans
port and shot up its destroyer
escort.
One American plane was shot
down at Darwin but the pilot
parachuted to safety.
Brilliant Work
'The American fighters tore
Into tha attacking force of 37
heavy bombers and 22 escorting
zero fighters over Port Darwin,
knocked down seven of the
fighters and two of the bom
bers at a cost of only one de
fending plane. The Japanese
formations were completely
broken up In this allied perform
ance, described by a headquar
ters communique as a piece of
'brilliant Interception."
The big raid upon the north
ern port came In the afternoon
after a light. Ineffective mor
ning attack-
In other thrusts at the com
monwealth, nine high-flying
Japanese bombers made the first
attack of the war on Port Mid
land, small freight port south
west of Broome, In western Aus
tralia, causing slight damage
and one casualty, and made a
futile, singleplane night attack
on Horn island, in the Torres
Strait.
Keeping up their own offen
sive operations, allied heavy
bombers pounced on the de
stroyerescorted Japanese trans
port 100 miles off Gana Mis
sion, Papua, and scored five
direct hits, having the vessel
spouting flames visible for 30
miles.
Destroyers Strafed
Then the destroyer escort was
machlnegunned from low level
and her anti-aircraft guns sil
enced. The transport, described by
today's communique a med
lum sized cargo vessel, was the
fifth enemy ship damaged or
sunk since the Japanese Invad
ed the Papuan Peninsula last
week. Heretofore one transport
was sunk and two others and a
destroyer were hit by allied
bombs.
From all yesterday's oper
ations three allied planes were
missing.
The Jackson county Chamber
of Commerce announced that
Edward L. Kropp of the War
Production board would be here
all day Tuesday, August 4, In
stead of ' today as previously
scheduled to help local business
men with their production re
quirements plan form PD25A.
Circumstances prevented Kropp
from coming here today, It was
stated.
Kropp will be at the chamber
of commerce office and bulpess
men are invited to contact him
there-
War Bulletins (GERMANS MASK IN
London, July 31 (yP) Bos
ton bombers escorted by a
strong force of spitfires
bombed the German airdrome
at Abbeville. France, this aft
ernoon and shot down 11 Ger
man fighters in a series of
dogfights. It was reported au
thoritatively. Eight of the
British fighters are missing
but all the bombers returned
safely.
Cairo, Egypt, July SI (IP)
Axis bombers raided Alex
andria last night, killing four
persons and injuring 13 and
causing slight damage to
property, the Egyptian Inter
ior rnlntotry announced today.
GROCERY CLERKS
SET PICKET LINE
,T
Detroit, July 31 (IP) Gov
ernor Murray D. Van Wagon
er of Michigan announced lata
this alternoon settlement of
dispute that closed two war
plants at Poniiac, Mich., and
said pickets were being with
drawn from Pontlae retail
grocery stores which were a
center of contention between
CIO and AFL unions attempt
ing to organise tha clerks.
Detroit, July 31 (IP) C. E.
Wilson, president of General
Motors corporation, In telegrams
to Secretary of the Navy Knox.
members of the war labor board
and Donald M. Nelson, chief of
the war production board, today
described as "more than a na
tional disgrace," the arbitrary
closing today of the Pontiac di
vision of the corporation by a
jurisdictional dispute Involving
grocery clerks."
"I think I can agree with you"
he wired a labor board member,
"that In these times It ap
proaches treason."
Submarine Seize
Captc
ain of Ship
By the Associated Press
The first reported Instance of
the seizure by a German subma
rine of an American ahip'i cap
tain as a prisoner of war was
disclosed by the navy yesterday
in announcing the sinking of
another U. 8. merchantman In
the western Atlantic, the 404th
sinking.
"You are a prisoner of war. I
want you to come aboard. I am
very sorry," survivor of the
American vessel quoted an English-speaking
U-boat commander
as having said to the American
as his ship was foundering In
the South Atlantic on July S.
CAMP OFFICERS TO RIDE
WITH LITHIAN HORSEMEN
Ashland, July 31. (Spl.)
General Charles H. Gerhardt,
commander of the 91st In
fantry Division, and 20
officers will be the guests of
local horse-back rider enthusi
asts Sunday morning, with an
extensive horse-back riding trip.
breakfast, various contests and
a general get-together program
arranged for the entertainment
of the group of about S3 who
will comprise tha caravan.
BASEBALL
American
Boston 7 12 0
Detroit , - 6 13 3
Hughson, Butland and Pea
cock: Benton, Henshaw and
Tebbettj.
' National
Cincinnati 5 10 1
Boston 2 3 1
Thompson, Beggs and R.
West; Earley, Tost, Hutchlngs
and Mast
IS DEFENSE CLAIM
Three Battalions of Invaders
Wiped Out Says Red Star
When Ruse Discovered.
By Roger D. Greene
Associated Press War Editor
Rallying Soviet armies, fight.
Ing under the slogan "Die, but
Don't Retreat," threw back tha
Germans in some sectors of tha
Don river bend 80 miles north
west of Stalingrad today, but
In the Caucasus the situation
grew aver more critical.
Dispatches to Red Star said
Ruslan troop also wiped out
tnree battalions of German in
fantry disguised in Soviet army
un norms. Red Star said the de
ception was quickly frustrated
when It was discovered that
white tabs, not worn by the Rus
sians, had been placed on tha
collars.
A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's
field headquarter declared that
German, Rumanian and Slovak
troops driving toward the Cau
casus oil field had already
thrust spearheads 112 mile be
low the Don, and the Russians
acknowledged German advance
In this theater. t
Fight For Salsk I
The Nazi command said that
fighting was In progress for tha
town of Salsk, a Junction on tho
last major rail line from tha
Caucasus to Stalingrad -100
miles southeast of Rostov, and
that Axis troop? had swept
across the Dor. on a 150-mlle
front.
German speed troop and ad
vanced infantry divisions were
pictured by the Nazi command
as closely pursuing the Russians
and preventing further retreat
at several points by outstripping
the disorganized fugitives.
Strong Soviet attacks were ac-
nowledged in the north, around
Rzhev, 130 miles northwest of
Moscow, on the Volkhov front
and outside Leningrad.
In the battle of the Don river
bend, above Stalingrad, the Red
armies reported they had turned
a novel "flying wedge" attack of
massed German Infantry, walled
by tanks. Into a death trap for
the Nazis.
Soviet armored trains rolled
Into tha (hell-torn battle area,
bringing up fresh relnfotw
menti to bolster Red army vet
erans who appeared to be slowly
turning the tide against tha
Germans.
Front-line report said tha
new troops were rushed Imme
diately lrto the flaming battle
zone.
While tha situation along tho
Don river bend visibly Im
proved, the Soviet command ac
knowledged that Marshal Fedor
von Bock' armies had scored
new gains In tha critical strug
gle In the Northern Caucasus.
German field headquarter
asserted that Nazi troops had
crossed the lower Don on a 130
mile front, and German military
dispatches reported that Nazi
columns lunging into the Cauca
sus had captured the important
rail Junction of Kushchevka, 43
miles south of Rostov.
Nazi military quarters said
German vanguards were making
quick headway in two big col
urns south of Rostov and beyond
Proletarskaya, and declared that
according to Information reach
ing Berlin tha Soviet retreat at
several points became disor
derly flight.
Confirmation still was lacking;
for a Vichy (French) radio
broadcast report yesterday that
German troops from tha Crimea
had crossed tha narrow Kerch
Strait to the Caucasus mainland
and were Imperilling tha Rus
sians below Bataisk.