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ATT Let YOUR Answer to Bomb bo BONPSI Buy War Bondi and Stamps TOIlAV Contribute to the war effort of your nation. Patriot um. your own eelf-protectlon. demand that YOU do your part NOW! Uao Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Hasulta t Small Coat Medford Tribune Full Associated Praia Unitad Praaa Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MOND AY, AUGUST 3, 1942. o NO. 115. LIKE m ME STMJB KBAW I i : I x n i i v niirp rvnnin an i m w mm mmm The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 3 Vice President Wallace's board of economic warfare seems to be folding its wings or the parts that re mained after P r esident Roosevelt clip ped them in April. BEW is cer tainly not fly ing as high as forecast in its prospectus at the start of the war. when Faul Mallon Mr. Wallace's devotees were saying it would be the big or ganization of the post-war world, eventually absorbing WPB and everything else. Instead, WPB has issued order No. M-63 resiricting im ports, which rather seems to have put BEW down into strict ly an advisory hole. All official WPB and BEW comment on this order is vague. Both claim it had only routine aspects. Before it was issued, however, Mr. Wallace's group had the power for preclusive buying of foreign products, and for order ing other foreign purchases on its own say-so; now it does not Import orders are to be issued bv WPB. Inasmuch as State Secretory Hull succeeded in getting out of Mr. Roosevelt, last April 13, an executive order affirming his right over BEW, o handle all foreign affairs of the nation, Mr. Wallace and his little group of planners are now in the po sition of being free to think but not able to do. A a TIEY were supposed to plan out and blueprint the over all policy on economic war fare. (Such as buying up loreign 'copper before the nazis could get 4 Speeches of Mr. Wallace, and his major domo, Milo Perkins, have ben bearing down upon the ..rthat-.ronrhinir nroblem of " 4Pft -gJ 1-4 a i : making everybody happy after (Continued on Page Four) cANNERYBARTS BIG $75 TON The Myron F. Root company today reported a sale of cannery Bartletts at S75 per ton for No. 1 pears, two and one-half inches ana larger, i lumti "- - -letts at $72.50 per ton was re ported last week. The price generally was $70 per ton for Bartletts, two and three-eighths and larger. Packers reported No. 2 pe s wen "'ar gaincd for at around $40 per ton. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight: CBS 7, postponed Qnremiere Norman Corwin series from London, "An American in England." Tuesday: MBS 1:30, Sarato ga Horse Race. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Fire Chief Roy Elliott failing to return the smart salute his naw blue and gold braid uniform brought from a passing sailor. Presumably these were fifth . , columnists. It was not clear im- Dr. A. E. Dodon receiving I mediately from what group of pleasant surprise when, upon pp, they nad j,, returning from a vacation trip. ! recrulted Howeveri large Ger. he learned that a former Texas j man .ettiemcnU had developed A. and M. classmate of hi. (before the war In the German .Hrigadier General Percy W.i a? 'arkson. was stationed at Camp White as assistant commander Stalingrad .Germans In this area i drive for the body was conclud ed the 91st Infantry division. were understood to hae been 1 ed some time ago. It was urged Lieutenant c V "(Rud) Stiger 'rounded up and moved back ; that anyone approached by the nd famT. "e,WngB. fudough ! f-m the potential battle area, solictor report hi. -presence to n the home town: j soon after the war itarted. 'the Dolic E T Hitler Offensive Continues To Lose Impetus Reds Say Invaders Losing. By James M. Long Associated Press War Editor A German bomb and machine gun attack on a remote military installation of southeastern Ice land was announced today by United States military authori ties who disclosed that the sin gle-plane attack yesterday was the fifth instance of Nazi air activity over the United States garrisoned island in two weeks. There were no casualties and damage was slight. Iceland is little more than 600 miles airline from the Fjord-cut coast of Norway where reports trickling out through neutral Switzerland said the Germans have been strengthening coastal fortifications and holding exten sive maneuvers in growing fear of an allied invasion to relieve the Russians, hard hit, but hold ing grimly on the roads to the Caspian sea and the Caucasus oil fields. ' Nazis Lose Many Adolf Hitler's Russian offen sive appeared to be losing im petus against slowly tightening Russian defenses at the Don bend approach to Stalingrad and along the last rail line to the oil fields of the Caucasus as the Red army lashed back in a new show of strength Along the whole 300-mile arc from Kletskaya, 80 miles north west of Stalingrad, to Kushch evka, 50 miles south of Rostov, the Russians still were on the defensive; but the strengthening of their stand was indicated by counterattacks which they re ported hurled the Germans back with losses of 6,000 dead in a single day. Don and Kuban Cossacks led the counterattacks in the critical salients of Kushchevka and and Salsk, 100 miles southeast of Rostov, In the first intima tion that the big garrison of the north Caucasus may have been thrown into the fight. It was in this sector that the Germans made their deepest penetration into the northern Caucasus. The German high command said one of its tank columns was "nearing the upper course of the Kuban river." How far the Nazis were from the northern curve of the river was not specified. The Kuban rises in the west ern glaciers of Elborus, the high est peak in Europe, and curves to the north within 70 miles of alsk before turmng to empty through a broad, marshy delta into the Black sea just south of the Strait of Kerch. The Germans said the Russian rear guard was being forced. south from the Yeya river which runs through Kushchevka to Taganrog bay, the northeastern arm of the Sea of Azov. The Berlin communique said other German forces which crossed the Dc . south of Tsimlyansk were rolling the Russians back to the east, between the Sal and the Don rivers. This would indicate a German effort to widen their Caucasus wedge between Rostov and Tsimlyansk The German high command acknowledged that the Red army was striking back with fresh force in the Don bend and at Voronezh, on the exposed north flank of the German offensive, but said the attacks were being withstood. The Germans were dropping parachutists in some key regions across the Don and in additions thj Russians reported finding Nazi spies by the dozens operat ing in that area. Forty-five were , executed in one sector . ,.n ji. nn rth and nnnhcmt nf! i : . i nrnniin mn riniiT i Russians RUSSIA STATUTt MIIIS I I L IU NV WM 3 i rTv n rn i aT- SEVASTOPOL !:i;;NOVOW$S4S V"-1, ' SmaikopT 0 f CASPIAN black; (CW -lm-N- a. ' ' 'U''" V 7 ?t.ALA Russian troops reporiod thay broke up a novel flying wadga of mailed German infantry wall ad by tanks in tha Kletikaya area. But below Roator tha Rada continued io fall away be fora the advancing Naiis. Thar vas no confirmation oi Vichy diipatches that Natl troops bad landed on tha Taman peninsula (jO in a thrust from the Crimea. PRESIDENT MULLS I Washington, Aug. 3 (IP) The military commission which tried eight alleged Nazi sabo teurs reached a decision . today on the guilt or innocence of the men and Major General Frank R. McCoy took the findings to the White House for President Roosevelt. The chief executive must re view the findings, and he is expected to take his time and go Into the case thoroughly. The commission's recommen dations probably will not be made public until Mr. Roosevelt has completed his review. The defendants and govern ment and defense counsel were summoned before the commis sion again as it met in the Justice building today after private ses sions Saturday afternoon and yesterday. After a brief meeting, the commission issued this state ment which indicated it had reached a judgment: "The commission reconvened at 11:05 a. m. The commission announced that the findings and sentence will not be announced by it. The commission adjourned at 11:07 to meet at the call of the president." PORTLAND! BY Portland, Ore., Aug. 3 fjp) Widespread minor damage oc curred early today as a light ning storm of unusual severity struck the Portland area. Sixteen streetcars and buses were put out of service as light ning burned out motors: street car traffic over the Morrison and steel bridges was halted as current was shut off when the spans were hit; traffic signals burned out; both police and commercial radio stations were off the air briefly, nine minor fires were occasioned in resi dences: the tower of Rose City Presbytrlan church was shat tered, bricks being strewn across the street. Imposter Solicits In Name of (J.S.O. A man dressed in khaki trous ers and shirt was reported today by the U.S.O. office as seeking donations about the city In the name of that organization. No one Is authorized to solicit in the name of the U.S.O. it was minted out. as the local fund Break Up Flying Wedge w J Nazi Raiders Shoot Up British Beach Resorts London, Aug. 3. (AP) Britons spending the August bank holi day at seaside resorts or celeln-atlng man air raiders who swooped from the clouds to bomb scattered towns in England this afternoon. A trail of bomb damage was left across a southwest seaside town, but casualties were be lieved slight and there were no immediate reports of fatalities. Crowds watched a Spitfire pursue one raider. A north Midlands town, where a carnival was held for those heeding the government's ad monition to enjoy the holiday at home, was subjected to low-level bombing by a lone raider. Two bombs fell in a park nea'r an out door theater, but only minor cas ualties resulted. Considerable damage was done to business and residential prop erties of a northeast coast town where a . single nazl bomber st-uck during the lunch hour. Rescue parties searched the de bris for possible victims. GIRL CHOKED BY Stating that a man had en tered the room where she was sleeping and attempted to choke her, a 16-year-old girl called po lice to the Paul Bulkin home. 516 S. Grape Saturday night. The girl is employed by the Bulkins. Although hysterical from fright the girl described the man as being about five feet seven inches tall and weighing about 170 pounds. Patrolmen searched the neighborhood, but found no trace of the attacker. The girl stated the man ran when she screamed for help. Mrs. Inez Smith, who operates a fruit stand on South River side avenue, reported Saturday that a prowler entered the fruit stand the night before, but awoke the watchman when he stepped on a box. The watchman called out and the prowler took to his heels. Find Chiloquin Girl Dead in Elevator Pit Lewiston, Idaho, Aug. 3 (IP) Police today investigated the death of Aiieen Pearson, 18, Chiloquin, Ore., whose body was found Saturday at the foot of an elevator shaft in a five-story building in the business district. The girl was a student at a business college in the building. She was sent here by the Klam ath Indian reservation adminis tration to take a specialized course, the school said, and was a model stucVnt. She was last seen entering the building early Friday. jKll ACM . I LirMIJHl AKU m at home were targets of Ger OFF FUNDY COAST Dlgby, Nova Scotia, Aug. 3 (Canadian Press) The bodies of two, and possibly three, United States soldiers have been found by fishermen of the Bay of Fundy coast by Dlgby Neck, a narrow peninsula jutting off the southern end of Nova Scotia about 40 miles from here. Royal Canadian mounted police said the bodies had been found in fhe past week and had floated to shore. Police estimat ed that they had been In the sea for a month or six weeks. No other details were divul ged at the R.C.M.P. station here. One of the bodies found was that of an American sergeant. Phillip Lent, a Freeport fisher man, found It and after remov ing the identification papers buried it at sea. The body of a second Amer ican soldier was found by West- port fishermen who brought it ashore and buried it in the Westport cemetery. A third body was found at Dartmouth Cove, near Freeport but police said It was Impos sible to tell whether it was that of a soldier or a civilian. It was burled at Freeport. Undersea Freighters Advocated By Simon Lake to Foil U-Boats Washington, Aug. 3 W Si mon Lake, Inventor of the sub marine, said today he believed German cargo-carrying subma rines were supplying the smr.iler U-boats that are sinking ships off the American coast as he recommended to senators that the United States build under sea freighters. He proposed buildlni the cargo submarines to elu'.e the enemy's torpedoes Instead of trying to build surface ships faster than the U-boats can sink them. Enemy Using Them Lake told the military affairs subcommittee that from his "knowledge and Information" he was convinced "the enemy nations are using cargo carrying I STAGED IN CHINA L U. S. Airmen Hold Advan tage In Hengyang . Skir mishGet 17 Jap Ships. Chungking, Aug. 3 (IP) A second big air battle for control of the skies over China was re ported fought today over Heng yang air base between United States planes and new Japanese fighters apparently massed for an attempt to wipe out the Americans' outpost in Hunan province. Although no details of the fight were available immediate ly, word reached here that the outcome had been favorable to the Americans. A spokesman at Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquar ters said no information would be given out until the communi que tomorrow. Stilwelli headquarters had announced earlier that the scale of the first big Japanese attack on Hengyang last Thursday and Friday indicated th-t the invad ers had assembled a special force of improved fighter plane's for the express purpose of trying to wipe out the American air base. A total of 119 Japanese planes participated in a 36-hour attack on the airfield which began be fore daylight last Thursday, a communique said. The bulletin confirmed previ ous . official reports that 17 of th-attaekinsi-pktaes bad -been shot down and that at least four more probably were destroyed, In land fighting, Central News, a Chungking government agen cy, reported recapture of Tsing tien in Cheklang province on July 29 after the town had been occupied for 24 hours by the Japanese. This would be the fourth time that the town has changed hands. General MacArthur'i Head quarters, Australia, Aug. 3 UP) The possibility that the Japa nese have reinforced their garri son at Buna was acknowledged by an allied spokesman today as General MacArthurs headquar ters reported a renewal of sav age fighting in the New Guinea jungles midway between that enemy base and Port Moresby. The communique announcing the Jungle fighting declared allied troops had routed Japa nese outposts near Kokoda, 60 miles east of Port Moresby, and said allied bombers had set fire to enemy supply dumps In that area. It was the first reference to the existence of such supply dumps, and an allied spokesman said It was not Impossible the Japanese had been moving men and equipment In from Lae some 165 miles north of Buna, San Diego, Calif., Aug. 3 (IP) Pvt. George W. Steep, Jr., of Eldora, la., counted up the pro ceeds from his share of an estate, the sale of his car, and money from other sources, and aston ished officers in the Camp Cal lan postoffice when he placed the total $6,325 on the coun tor and asked for that amount in war bonds. submarines to supply smaller combat submarines along our Atlantic coast and elsewhere and are using this type of craft for transporting supplies and perhaps troops to certain fight ing fronts." He also disclosed that he had refused to aid the axis powers, before the present war, in their submarine construction. Col. Hugh J. Knerr, retired, told the committee he thought that ship yards wuuld be able to build cargo airplanes "for the next war," but It would take too long for them to produce aircraft for this one. Knerr said he had Investi gated the possible conversion of shipyards into cargo plane fac tories In 1939 for a Newport News builder, and reported that Choice for Navy f" " Mi1! 1 - "'' ' " (OS . ' ' f- V': cm ) Miss Mildred H. McAfee (above), prasidant of Wellealay (Mass.) collage, la axpactad to be the choice of Navy Secretary Knox to head the woman's naval raaarve organisation which was recently authorised by congreas. The organisation will be simi lar to the army's WAACs. She will hold the rank of lieutenant commander. PELLEY DENIES RECRUIT FLOOD Indianapolis, Aug. 3. (AP) William Dudley Pelley took the witness stand in his own defense today in his sedition trial and testified that he "hadn't the slightest Idea of interfering with recruiting of the nation's war ef fort" In his writings. The goateed, 52-year-old found er of the Silver Shirts of Amer ica was the first witness for the defense. Two associates, Law rence Brown and Miss Agnes Marian Henderson, are on trial with him. The government charges that articles published bj Pelley'a printing firm at No blesville, Ind., were intended to obstruct America's conduct of the war. Describing his organization of the Silver Shirts in February, 1933, Pelley said the order's "sole purpose was to combat the Inroads of communism." The only requirements for member ship, he testified, "were Chris tian faith and a willingness to support the constitution of the United States." WELLESLEY PREXY Washington, Aug. 3 VP) Dr. Mildred H. McAfee, 42 president of Wellesley college, today became Lieutenant Com mander McAfee, head of the women's reserves of the navy The oath was administered by Secretary of the Navy Knox. he found "shipyard methods could not be used without re education of the drafting room personnel and yard manage ment." Take Three Years Experience, he said, showed that it took "three years from the time the designers put pen cil to paper until the planes fly." Consequently, he added conversion of the shipyards was "not practical for this war, but would be for the next war." Knerr, who was chief of army air corps headquarters from 1935 to 1938, recommended expansion of the present cargo plane output and the adaption of a "certain percentage" of the present bomber production for the carrying of troops and supplies. OFFICERS JANGLE OVER CONDUCT OF TONY MARTIN QUIZ Words "Put In Mouth" Of Rario-Screen Star During Testimony Is Charge. San Francisco, Aug. 3 (IP) Judge Advocate Irving Klein was charged with "the rankest kind of misconduct" for alleged ly putting words Into the mouth of witness Tony Martin, hand some radio and screen singer, at a naval court martial today. The charge was hurled by Lieut. C. Ray Robinson, attor ney for Lieut. Commander Maurice N. Arnoff, former assis tant naval procurement officer here who is accused of accepting a $950 automobile from Martin for facilitating his enlistment in the navy. A minute later Lieutenant Klein told Robinson, "I think you should offer an apology." No Apology Robinson Jumped to his feet and shouted, "I not only do not offer an apology I " He was cut short by tha shouted words of Captain Pow ers Symington, president of the court martial board, demand ing: 'Stop thisl Stop this! Take that out of the record." The verbal fireworks came during questioning regarding Martin's story of a conversation with Aroff, in which the singer offered, his automobile to the of ficer shortly after he was aworn in s chief specialist January 2. During the conversation, Mar tin said, "I told Maury, you can have the car.' We were discuss ing the Studebaker. (The car Aroff is accused of asking and accepting.) - He said, "you re not giving me anything: I spent a couple of hundred dollars on telephone calls and you would have saved me four or five hundred if you had driven one out for me , Asked to Buy Car , .. In a long distance telephone call to Boston, Martin said, Aro!f asked him to buy a Cadil lac and drive it out to the coast for him. Lieutenant Klein asked, wa anything ever said about pur chasing the car from you?" . Not that I recall," Martin re plied. "You understood ana me ac cused understood you were making a gift of the car?" "I said, 'you can have the car.' "Did the accused ever offer to pay for the car?" "No." F JEWELRY STORE Fire In the basement under the John F. Lawrence Jewelry store, 8 North Central avenue, late Sunday morning sent smoke billowing up into the Jewelry concern but caused no damage. Mrs. Lawrence said that many articles were smudged but that they could be cleaned. According to Fire Chief Roy Elliott the blaze started in a pile of old papers and rubbish, but exact cause of the fire could not be determined. A pumper was dispatched to the scene at 11 a. m. and firemen succeeded In extinguishing the conflagra tion and airing out the store In about an hour and a half, the chief said. Another blaze Sunday after noon damaged the interior of small house In the rear of the D. M. Lengele residence, 64 Palm street. Some clothing was destroyed and a bed damaged but a pumper and crew, an swering the call at 4 p. aaved the house from complete destruction. Origin of the fire was not determined. STRIKERS TO RETURN Portland. Ore., Aug. 8. AP) Kurt Koehler, manager of the strikebound Eastern 4t Western sawmill, said today he had been Informed by a union committee that 400 CIO workers were ready tr MhM to WMPBL
