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MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1942.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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