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Lt YOUR Auwn to Bomb be BONPSI Oso The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Tribune 'I Bur War Bonda and lump j toiiAT Contribute to the war FORD effort of joor eaMoa. ratrtot lira, four own aelf-protactlon. drmandi that VOU do Joor Quick Results t Small Colt part NOW! Full Associated Pre United Pratt Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1942. NO. 114. r j mm Med Era News Behind The News by Paul Mallon . A weekly magazine sold fast er than sugar here when it came out with a story predicting Rus sia will defeat Hitler in 1942. tfcl The idea of t -iM the article was that the Rus sians have sec ret armies of se v e I a 1 hun dred divisions. and one of four mi 1 1 1 o n men is sup posed to be Paul Mallon about ready. The author. Van Paassen, an eminent analyst of foreign affairs, also claimed the Russians have secretly built most of their industry safely back of the Urals, and therefore are in good shape. There Is no one here who does not hope Mr. Van Paassen is cor rect, but more competent authori ties are encountering difficulty in accepting his suggestion that the Russian retreat this time is a come-on game. The Don river basin, which has fallen into Nazi hands contains 80 percent of the coal ordinar ily used by the Russians in peace time. 75 percent of the pig iron, 60 percent of the iron ore, 85 oer cent of the sugar and 95 pet cent of manganese. Mines and susarfields cannot be moved. In peacetime, the reds also )drew 85 percent of their oil from the Caucasus, which is now Just beyond Hitler's reaching ..fingers. They produced 593,000 barrels of oil a day of. whicn 400,000 came from the Caucasus. ' T1EY are now supposed to have safely in storage 1,000, 000 barrels, which would be 200 days of a peacetime supply. This could be made to last somewhat longer now with supplies front newlv-develODed Ural wens. It is no doubt true they have 4,000,000 fresh troops or more in reserve, but the equipment of these is questionable. It is no secret that they are long on man and short on material. Anvone who wants to think they are fooling, thus will have difficulty convincing the proper (Continued on Paga Pour! BY NAVAL PLANE (By Associated Press) . American torpedo carrying . planes were credited with sink ing a German submarine In the Caribbean sea and a navy plane scored two direct hits on an other U-boat off the eastern United States coast, reports yes terday (Saturday) disclosed. Meanwhile, the navy an If f4 nounced that submarines had attacked three allied merchant vessels, all on the same day, about 50 miles from the east coast, but only one ship was sunk and only two seamen were lost. The vessel destroyed was a small Nicaraguan ship, which O raised to 407 the Associated Press tabulation of announced united nations and neutrals' sinkings in the western Atlantic since December 7. A medium sized United States merchant man and a medium-sized Pana manian cargo carrier reached ports safely. SOLD AT $70 TON Packers reported yesterday sales of cannery Bartlett had been made at $70 per ton for No. 1 grade, 2H inches and larcer. Also another sale at a slightly higher price, for extra fancy Bartlctts was reported. ) Several canneries seeking Bart'etts In this valley have started making boxes for ship ments. The Bartlett harvest is sched uled to start between August 10 and IS. mm turn Reserves Pour Into Stalin grad Sector Cossacks And Marines On Cauca sian Plains High Toll. Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 2 (JP) German troops fanning out into the western Caucasus have reached the Salsk and Kush- chevka areas, 75 and 50 miles below the Don river, in a move which threatens to cut Soviet communications with Stalingrad in the east, the Soviets acknowl edged today. Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov, apparently was reached by a German drive which crossed the Don in the Niko laevsk sector. It is a junction on the Stalingrad-Krasnodar rail road. "The enemy presed our troops back slightly"-in the Salsk area, the midnight communique said. "In stubborn fighting near a river crossing 1,500 German of ficers and men were killed and several dozen tanks destroyed." Kushchevka, northwest of Salsk, is on the Rostov-Baku railway which connects with the Stalingrad Krasnodar line at Tikhoretsk. Claim Major Sucess Only on the approaches to Stalingrad itself did the Rus suians announce a major success in the desperate attempt to stop the Germans. There, in the Kletskaya area some 80 miles northwest of Stal ingrad, the communique said "Soviet troops withstood enemy presure and in places counter attacked." The Russians have been send ing huge reinforcements into the Don river elbow to plug the Nazi efort to reach Stalingrad on the. Volga. Mid-way between the western Caucasus and Stalingrad the Russians said their troops still were trying to erase Nazi bridge heads on the Don at Tsimlyansk, 120 miles upstream from Ros tov. "Heavy fighting continues." the communique said of that sector. "In one attack the enemy lost 800 killed and 11 tanks were de stroyed. The drive from Batalsk to Kushchevka represented a 35 mile Nazi advance. Another Nazi gain of equal distance would put the Germans into Tikhoretsk which also Is the goal of the Nazis now battering at Salsk. Hand to Hand Tiltt Cossacks and Soviet marines joined the Red army in the ef- fort to stop the German flow southward from the Don. But the Nazi advance raised the im minent possibility of an addi tional German broadside direct ed from the Crimean peninsula Just a few miles off the Cauca sian mainland. Press dispatches said a heav ing mass of men, tanks, dive bombers, artillery and Russian cavalrv was fighting on the fer tile West Caucasian plains. There were frequent hand-to- hand tilts. The 550-mile curving Russian southern front now runs from the Kushchevka area through Salsk and other points on the North Caucasian rail system to the east, leaps the Don some where bevond Tsimlyinsk, and then zig-zags along the Upper Don to the Voronezh sector. At the latter point in the north the Soviets announced their trops were consolidating captured positions, and hurling back Axis counter-attacks south of Voronezh City. But It was obvious that Hit ler's desperate gamble to seize the oil and mineral deposits of the Caucasus, to split the central and southern Red armies, and block allied supplies from tne middle-east, was making steady headway. BUSES ORDERED Portland, Aug. 1 P Pres ident Gordon G. Steele of the Portland Traction company said today 150 buses will be leased from the U. S. maritime commis sion to alleviate the city's trans portation problem. No Harm Asking Springfield, 111., Aug. 1 (JP) An unnamed Adams county farmer wants to know if the government owes him money on his income tax. V. Y. Dallman, collector of internal revenue, said the man reported a net income of $2,300 but he has 11 chil dren entitling him to a de duction of $5,900. Dallman added the farmer wanted to know if the gov ernment owed him anything. LADY "MAILMAN'S" FEET CANT STAND 13 MILES A DAY Puyallup, Aug. 1 VP) Mrs. Cedella Polick became a letter carrier for Uncle Sam last week, but her days as a mail "man" were short. She liked to work and Post master Andrew Hunter wanted her to continue. But her feet just couldn't take it. "I tried different kind's of shoes," she said: "I massaged my feet. I soaked them in salt water and did everything I could think of- "I'm going to see a doctor and see if he can't help me. I'm afraid that maybe I've broken down the arch of my right foot. If he can help me I'll go back to work. I like the work fine, but 13 miles a day with a heavy load of mail is a little too much fnr me. I euess." Before she applied tor a joo as letter carrier, Mrs. Polick confessed, she was accustomed to walking only five or six blocks to town now and then. LOS AlELES HAS AIR RAID ALERT San Francisco, Aug. 1 (IP) The army's fourth fighter com mand ordered a preliminary air raid alert and a radio silence in the Los Angeles area for more than a half-hour tonight when "unidentified targets" were re ported approaching offshore. There was no blackout. The all-clear was given at 10:11 p. m., 37 minutes after tne alert began. Portland, Aug. I (IP) Emer gency price control regulations, effective today, provide a $50 fine for small violations and a fine equal to three times the overcharge on large purchases, said T. W. Veness, chief state OPA attorney. The measure affects all com modity purchases and excessive rent charges, Veness said. DUNCAN JOINS MARINES Portland, Aug. 1 OP) R. F. Duncan, Jr., Central Point, was among enlistees announced today by the marine corps recruiting headquarters. With Pvt. Joe Dickinson, making his last appearance In the box, due to being trans ferred by the army elsewhere, the Medford Craters defeated Dorrit here last night. to 3. bfore one of the largest crowds ef the season. Dickinson with the rest of his platoon depart today. Score) Dorrls Medford Cecil and Celdbari Dickin son and Worthley. ' Coast Night game: Hollywood San Diego . R. . 9 . e H. 15 10 Gay, Hilcher, and Brenzel; Dilbeck, Pillette, Vitalich and Bellinger. PRICE VIOLATION FINES REPORTED BASEBALL AXIS PORTS AND BY YANK FLIERS Power In Egypt Revealed Nazis Shell Cairo Area Land Battle Lulls. Cairo, Aug. 1 (JP) -The U. S. army air force of the middle east, in its third weekly sum mary of operations, today an nounced new successes against axis port and harbor facilities and convoys at sea and added that repair facilities in the sel dom-mentioned American "ar senal of democracy" in Eritrea "are beginning to show results." Axis activity as reported by the daily British communique consisted of raids by a small number of enemy bombers last night in the area of Cairo and Alexandria where three were down by Allied night fighter planes. Bombs were dropped in the Cairo area again and alarms were sounded at Alexandria and in the Suez sector, far behind the dust-bound desert front. The week's aerial operations by Americans Included a day light raid on a large transport under escort of seven destroyers and a cruiser off southern Greece and at least one bomber reported hits on the transport In the communique from the headquarters of Ma). Gen. Lewis H. Brereton. Earlier In the week, Brereton's third communique added, U- S. airmen loft many medium 'fires raging on the Tobruk dock area and one great spreading blaze that started appeared to have been in a gasoline storage dump. Several hits were claimed on ships In Suda Bay, Crete, in an evening raid by the Americans. Brereton reported that as the result of the Eritrea repair fac ilities many planes wrecked in previous operations are flying again. ' FDR. Washington, Aug. 1. (IP) A proposal soon may go to con gress, a government official said today, to give President Roose velt authority to assign any one of the nation's 55,000.000 to 60,000,000 workers to the Job where his skill is most needed. The official, who stipulated that his name not be published at this time, said this power would be aimed at total mobili zation of human resources be hind the war effort, and if ap proved by congress would be administered through manpower chief Paul V. McNutt. This oower. no doubt, would put an end to "labor pirating" the practice whereby ohe plant entices the workers of another by offers of larger pay and op portunities of longer overtime. E FISK STATE HEAD Portland, Aug. 1 (JP) Fred Fisk, Eugene, former Lane coun ty judge and Portland collector of customs, was elected chair man of the Democratic state central committee today. He succeeds Charles H. Leach, who declined to seek the post again because of ill health. The committee elected Cells Gavin, The Dalles, vice-chair man; W. L. Josslln, Portland, secretary, and C. A. Lucas, Portland, treasurer. Fisk and Howard Latourette, Democratic national committee man, urged party workers to register and get out the vote for the November general election COOS OFFICIAL PASSES Coquille, Aug. kJP) Ray mond C Vaughan, 32, tax dep uty in the Coos county sheriff! office, suffered a fatal stroke while at work yesterday. Sur viving are the widow and two children. War Bulletins Chungking, Aug. I (IP) United States fighter pilots shot down nine Japanese planes over Hengyang yesterday, raising the Japanese lottos over that Hunan province air bate to at leatt 17 in two days. Gen. Joteph W. Stllwell announced today at the Chinese reported a new Japa nese landing on the coatt of Chekiang province. Alexandria, Egypt. Aug. 1 Acting Wing Commander Howard dive Mayers. Austra lian ace. was reported milting today after being shot down be hind the Axis lines in the west ern desert. T PONDERS FATE OF NAZI SABOTEURS Washington, Aug. 1 (JP) The trial of eight alleged Nazi saboteurs ended today and their fate was in the hands of a mili tary commission appointed by President Roosevelt. No indication of when a de cision might be reached was given In a brief announcement that the 18 day trial had been concluded. Generally It was expected that its recommendations would be submitted to the President without any previous announce ment even that a decision had been reached, and that first word of a verdict would come from the white House.- ,.. . If the -commission should rec ommend a deatty penalty, Pres ident Roosevelt would have the responsibi'ity of fixing the time and place of execution. This is provided In courts martial reg ulations which direct that the reviewing authority In this case the President shall issue orders for execuyon of a sen tence. The commission would be re quired to direct the manner of death either before a firing squad or by hanging. It was pointed out that a sentence to death by hanging Is considered more "ignominious" and custo marily Is used for execution of spies. CHANDLER LEADS Louisville, Ky., Aug. 1 (IP) Senator A. B. "Happy" Chand ler took a substan-.ial lead to night over his opponent, John Young Brown of Lexington, on the basis of unofficial returns from today's Democratic pri mary. Returns from 194 of Ken tucky's 4,355 precincts gave Chandler 9,982 votes to 3,106 for Brown. PAY AIR WATCHERS . Dallas, Aug. 1 (IP) The air craft observation post here, manned by volunteers, will soon be handled by paid workers, the civilian defense council re ported today. Magnificent Gift for 91st Is Plan in Jackson County Medford and Jackson county people will have the opportun ity of presenting the new 91st division at Camp White with a magnificent gift if plans now being formulated are succesful. It was announced yesterday that at the reunion of veterans of the old 91st division, to be held August 13 at the camp as part of the activation ceremonies for the new division, It is hoped Jackson county will be able to present the division with a bond sale record sufficient to buy the entire ordnance supply for the artillery regiments of the divi sion. "The liond sale record will be presented as a civilian greeung from the citizens of Jackson county to "our own 91st dlvi- Increase over the previous pur slon". W. A. Gates, county sals 1 chases of bonds. If everyone PRIBILOFS CLEAR OF ENEMY NAVAL Estimate 10,000 In Aleu tians Congress Uneasy Over Far North Situation. Washington, Aug. 1 (IP) Some congress . members ex pressed uneasiness today upon hearing the navy's estimate that 10,000 Japanese were in or near the western Aleutian islands. A navy spokesman made the estimate yesterday, at the same time reporting that aerial re connaissance had failed to dis close any of the enemy on the Pribilof Islands, a group 250 miles northwest of Dutch Har bor In the Bering sea. There had been indirect reports that Japanese had taken over those undefended islands. Commenting on the navy s estimate of the total number of Japanese either on the western Aleutians or on ships in the area, Senator Johnson (D., Colo.) asserted that "that's 10,000 too many." "However," he added, "the occupation of these rocky is lands is more of a nuisance to us than it is of any military value to the Japanese, since air bases are not possible on those Senator Thomas (D., Utah) added the comment that he re garded the presence of the Jap anese there with grave misgiv ings." He suggested however that -global strategy might be Such that no move could be made to oust the Japanese until more favorable conditions pre vail elsewhere. Anthony J. Dimond, the con gressional delegate from Alaska, said he assumed the navy knew what it was talking about In announcing its 10,000 figure. He added, however, that his own information Indicated the Japanese force to have been much larger in late June, per haps as many as 25,000, 'But 10,000 is still too many," he said. CEILING PRICES FOR LAMB .MILK Washington, Aug. 1 (IP) The office of price administra tion broadens Its control over food prices today by placing wholesale and retail prices of lamb and wholesale prices of fluid milk and cream under ceil ings. In another field. Secretary Ickes laic, before the bituminous coal division of the Interior de partment recommendations for an overall revision in the mini mum prices of soft coal, increas ing prices at the mine an aver age of 13 cents a ton for the country as a whole. The ceiling on lamb, effective for a 60-day period beginning Aug. 10, set maximum prices of carcasses and cuts at the highest level prevailing between July 27 and 31. The order does not ap ply to live animals. chairman, said. Mr. Gates re vealed that the big drive would be Inaugurated Tuesday and Wednesday with the visit to Medford of the Standard Oil company's travelling theatre. Both afternoons the theatre will be set up in the city park and In the evening It will be on Main street at Front street. The block from Front street to Cen tral avenue will be closed to traffic these evenings from 8 un til 11 p. m. "Jackson county during both June and July set the pace for bond sales In the state of Oregon", Mr. Gates pointed out. "The amount needed for this equipment for our own 91st division will mean but a slight Interpreting The War News By Klrko L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) Increasingly grave ai Russia's plight in the Caucasus and along the Don River below Voronezh has grown, it offers no explana tion of the most recent nabi pro paganda phenomenon. Herr Goebbels' present war- of-nerves target appears to be German and French nerves. He has concentrated on many de vices an out-givlngs, including a Paris parade of Hitler's own special corps of elite guards, reputedly back from new victor ies in southern Russia, to im press Germans and restive Frenchmen alike with the Idea that while an Anglo-American second-front attack may be and probably is coming, adequate preparations to smash it have been made. The Paris parade of nazl SS troops not German army reg ulars allegedly recalled . from Russia to bolster western defen ses in conquered Grance, came while Russian advices insisted that Hitler had withdrawn a score or more divisions from the west to fill gaps in his expanding Russian lines. Hones of encouraging or ex pediting allied second-front ef forts could underlie such Russian rerjorts- It is obvious, however, a AAA VftA that if thev are true ana ouu.uuu or more German troops have been withdrawn from occupied Franc, the low countries, even nnmark and Normay o ooisi-r i. Riintian eamnalan. the rest less and sullenly resenuui peo- thru reelons know. it. wawI .,.rh larae withdrawals ...n.iinn forces would be bound to drift ae-oui -y ground channels. - - The people of Oermmr th routes of troops be ing rushed from west to east must also believe w.i -thing not Indicative of an im pending nazi triumph in Russia taiutPhowMWell informed they are as to the growing land, sea and air strength of Brl-ln and the United States Is doubtful. It Is an unforglveable crime in Germany to listen to enemy broadcasts, but the air has been filled with American and British reports on those preparations for many weeks. The Goebbels technique Is proof-positive that there are whispers of second front apprehension afloat In Germany and that the people of occupied countries are agog with expectation, eager to help. To meet that, the nazi master propagandist has poured out assurance that the 2,000 mile ... unit from northern Norway to the Franco-Spanish border Is bristling with guns, forts, pill , . .rtr trans and every other defensive device. Goebbels wants It believed that there is a defense belt many miles deep walling off any anglo-Amerlcan Invasion project. MILL CLOSED Portland. Aug. I (IP) The Eastern Ic Western sawmill here closed down yesterday after 400 CIO employes walked out in de mand for a 8-cent hourly wage Increase to minimum of 87 1-2 cents. Sacramento, Aug. 1 OP) Churning cream butterfat; first grade 45V4: second grade 43 '4 will Increase their monthly pur chases of bonds by one-half, and buy before the 13th ot the month we will have supplied finances necessary to purchase the artil lery ordnance for the 91st. k "All bond issuing agencies will keep a list ot names of all buyers who participate In this tribute to our 91st division. When the presentation is made at the activation ceremonies a scroll of these names will be pre sented to General Charles H. Gerhardt." Mr. Gates further stated that list Is being compiled of the ordnance supplies needed for the artillery regiments and fig ures on their cost will be given In order that citizens may know exactly what the goal of the campaign is. BY HIGH LOSS, FIRES Vital Nazi Industrial Spot Blasted By Tons Of Ex plosives. London, Aug. 1 (JP) The RAF scourged the Rhlneland munitions city of Duesseldort last night with 150 two-ton block-buster bombs and a great weight of other explosives and incendiaries in a concentrated 50-mlnute attack probably with out destructive precedent In aer ial warfare. The usually reserved air min istry announced the raid wa made in very strong force and added that the deluge of de struction was a "ceaseless rain'' of bombs and fire-setters. Smoke billowed up almost four-fifths of a mile from the Industrial plants crushed under the weight of the two-tonners and daylight reconnaissance) found fires still burning In the city of 350,000 population in mid-day. The number of planes was not specified beyond the mention of a great numDer or e-mowirea Lancaster bombers as well at a great force of all other type ot heavy and medium bomberJ. But from the announced lose of 31 British planes It carr-bo guessed that there were nun dredi participating, perhaps somewhere between - BQ0 t Ann v -. and i nnn Duesselderf la heavily de fended against air attack, being a nazi arsenal of prime Import ance, . but the ground gunners and searchlight crews were con fused by the unprecedented mo mentum of the bombing, the air ministry said. "Hundreds of searchlights came on at once and the sky wai filled with bursting shell," said the official account. "To overcome such opposition it was necessary that bombs should fall in a ceaseless rain They did. "Fires sprang up quickly as bombs were dropped and above them were columns of smoke up to 4,000 feet." It was the 47th assault on Duesseldorf but the first since last Sept. 27. Official circles reported the RAF shot down four German fighters during the raid. Among the prime targets were the sprawling Rhelnmetal iron and steel works and the Verein Igte Stahlwerke, both vital sour ces of German military might. Washington, Aug. 1 (JP) A "daylight savings" tax plan for the painless advancement of Individual income tax collec tions to a current basis was under serious consldeartion to day by treasury experts and members of the senate finance committee. Chairman George (D-Ga) of the latter group said the plan had some "Intriguing" aspects which were being analyzed by both treasury and congressional leaders. Although George would not commit himself, he said the proposal held out some possibil ity of simplifying the problem of collecting taxes from individ uals who would be hard hit by the higher rates of the pending revenue bill. The bill Is designed to raise $6,271,000,000 in additional taxes, bringing total federal revenues this year to between $22,000,000,000 and $24,000,000,. 000. ' "IRON BANDITS" SILENT Portland. Aug. 1 W-Oper. atlon of virtually all alot ma chines In Portland has been stopped In compliance with a request from Lieut. Gen. John L. DeWitt, western defense com mander, Police Chief Harry M, Nile laid today. - 1
