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Let YOUR Answer to Bombt b BONDSI Buy War Bonds and tumpa TOI)AT Caninbula to tha war effort of four nation. Patriot ism, your own aelf-protectlon. drmandi that VOO do join part NOW! Use The Medford Tribune MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Raiultt at Small Coat Full Associated Press United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942. NO. 118. Id) Jttn Ml 111 iil! . AiH 1 . t . t 0) 0) News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 6 Mr. Russell Davenport, editorial of fices. Life Magazine, New York City. Dear Mr Davenport: You asked me, and some other W a s h- Ington c o r re spondents, to rani Mallon suggest con crete steps to improve it. The question, as you put it, is: 'If you were President, what would you do, immediately, to improve the war effort and make more certain of victory?" Let's get it straight at the start that what I would do must not be construed as leveling charges at Mr. Roosevelt and the government. Perhaps we were so complete ly unprepared, before we were plunged into the war, that it would have been physically im possible for us to acomplish much more than we have. No one has proved our gov ernment has not in general done a good job, only the government itself can know all the facts, be cause it censors the results of its efforts. The situation is that we I are impatient because we can not see better results. But I do not mind telling you what I would do: WOULD switch this country 4 from the defensive, the "wait-awhile" attitude, into an aggressive offensive fighting spirit at once. I would start do ing this by selecting only strong and aggresive personalities for every phase of government ac tivity, civilian as well as mili tary. I would shake all others out. I would choose men impatient to get at the enemy, when who think courageous and daring things can be accomplished, not foolhardy daredevils, but thor ough, cool men of scientific ac tion the type of Doolittle, Ad miral Byrd, yes and even Lind bergh, if I could find anything for him better to do than advis- i ina Henry Ford. I would bring the army and navy up on their toes and keep them there by entirely dissipat ing the old school tie atmos phere of easy comaraderie, inde cision and compromise. I would get the most imagina tive military minds together and (Contlnoad on Pact SIM Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) The situation surrounding the production of war material will be aired Sunday in a special CBS broadcast at 11 a. m. which will bring to the microphone nine army, navy, labor and gov ernment officials including El mer Davis, director of the office of war production. March of Time over NBC at 1 7:30 tonight will present Tom Girdler, chairman of the board of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. and of the Vultee company, in addition to a ptckup direct from Cairo, Egypt, bringing the voice of MaJ. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton. There are some 123 grades of iron and steel In a modern automobile. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS An unidentified little boy spending his entire capital of 30 cents for two war stamps and wishing he had more, after the "Victory House" Chevronette gave him such a nice smile. . ' Bill Barker so engrossed In I listening to his car radio he al most failed to note a change in the traffic lights. Gertrude Young shining up a new domicile preparatory to oc cupying same. - Chairman Baruch of Group to Recommend Best Pro gram For Synthetic Output Washington, Aug. 6. (JP) Asserting it would block prog ress of the war effort. President Roosevelt vetoed today legisla tion to create an independent agency to stimulate production of rubber from grain and simult aneously created a committee to look into the whole rubber prob lem. Bernard M. Baruch, who was head of the War Industries board in the last war, will be chairman of the committee named to recommend the best program to produce the syn thetic rubber necessary for the war effort and for essential civi lian use. Serving with Baruch are Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard university, and Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology. Mr. Roosevelt said the bill he was vetoing passed by congress with the backing of the farm block would hamper instead of aid the war effort. The measure, the president said in a message to the senate, would break up an existing logi cal coordination of centralized control in the War Production board and override priorities established by WPB for materi als necessary to make hundreds of -products essential in war. Noting that the board had al located a certain amount of rub ber to be made from both agri cultural products and petro leum, Mr. Roosevelt said that both types of plants now are be ing constructed and that others are planned for construction at the greatest possible speed." The president said that to take the problems out of the hands of an experienced board with an over-all knowledge of military and civilian needs would disrupt a unified and ex peditious war production pro gram. JAP "PHOTO JOE" General MacArthur's Head quarters, Australia. Aug. 6 (JP) American fliers who shot down six Japanese planes in recent battles over the Buna-Gona area of New Guinea told today of a special prize they bagged a "Photo Joe." They reported downing five Japanese naval Zero fighters and said the sixth plane a twin-engined craft unmistake- ably was a reconnaissance plane used by the Japanese for high altitude photography. A formation of five United States medium bombers encoun tered the photography plane before meeting the Zeros. Lieut. J. S. Kale of Belling ham, Wash., said, "Photo Joe flew out of a cloud toward us as bold as anything. He knew we were in formation, probably under orders, so we wouldn t take after him." "What he forgot," said Kale, "was our fighter escort above. My tail gunner. Sergeant Bem rick. saw three fighters sweep down on Photo Joe. He didn't have a chance then." INQUEST TONIGHT IN DEATH OF JACK 0RR An inquest into the death of Jack Orr, 23-year-old Prospect mill employe, will be held at Perl's at 7:30 tonight, according to County Coroner H. W. Con er. The youth was killed Tues day when he was pinned be tween two trucks while riding on the running board of one of them. BIG NAZI GUNS POAR London, Aug. fl. (JP) The German radio said heavy ccastal suns opened fire on British ship ping in the English channel this morning. Lindy at Pelley Trial 0 Charles A. Lindbergh was smiling as he walked down the federal building hall at Indiana oolis after testifying at the sedi tion trial of William Dudley Feller. Oa the right is U. S. Marshal J. J. Wichser. Noose Decreed for Convicted -Traitor Detroit, Aug. 6 (IP) Max Stephan, first person In 159 years to be convicted of treason in the United States, was sen tenced in federal court today to be hanged. PELLEY TO SEEK T Indianapolis. Aug. 6. (JP) William Dudley Pelley, con victed on 11 counts of criminal sedition and conspiracy and fac ing a possible maximum sen tence of 220 years in prison, based his hopes for freedom to day on a new trial. A motion for a new trial will be filed within three days, De fense Attorney Floyd Christian said, and if it is denied the case will be appealed promptly to the U. S. circuit of appeals in Chi cago. The spruce little man who once headed the Silver Shirts of America was convicted last night by a federal court Jury which also convicted two business as sociates, Lawrence A. Brown and Miss Agnes Marian Hender son. Brown and Miss Hender son were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit sedition. The three were officers of the Fellowship Press, a publishing house at Noblesville, Ind., where Pelley's magazine, The Galilean, was printed once a week. There are 17 types of ser geants In the U. S. Marine corps. Hangers Flow In But More Needed By Soldier Boys Coat hangers by the hun dreds are being brought to the local USO headquarters as a result of a notice in the Tribune that they were need ed by service men at Camp White. Mrs. Helen J. Small, director of the USO. said this morning that at least a thous and hangers had been already given out and that they were joyfully received by the men More are needed, however. Coat hangers are one arti cle which the army doesn't furnish its men, resulting in the local call. Mrs. Small said that many men had also been furnished with donated swim ming trunks in order that they might enjoy swimming in the Rogue river and local swimming pools. , U. S. District Judge Arthur J. Tuttle directed that Stephan, German-born American citizen be hanged on November 13 1942, in the Federal Detention prison at Milan, Mich. Stephan was convicted in fed eral court here of aiding the flight of a Nazi flier escaped from a Canadian concentration camp. In pronouncing sentence, Judge Tuttle said that since "the lives of millions of our boys will be taken in the course of this war, the court should not be hes itant in taking the life of one traitor for the sake of the cause." Stephan, wearing the wrln- kled gray suit in which he had sat through his trial four weeks ago, gave no evidence of emo tion when he heard his fate pro nounced. When he was summoned be fore the bench, he rose quickly and came forward. Asked whether he had anything to say, the convicted traitor, in guttcral tones, asserted: "All I have to say is that I am not guilty of treason. That is all." At Lansing. Governor Murray D. Van Wagoner of Michigan said that he would make no move to intervene In the death sentence meted out to Stephan. I Chungking, Aug. 8 (AP It's the "sky dragons" now In stead of the flying tigers." That Is the nickname the ad miring Chinese have pinned on the United States army air corps forces which on July 4 absorbed the famous American volunteer group, whose exploits set a high syindard of daring. The aggressive tactics of the "sky dragons", a Chinese army spokesman said today, have made Japanese authorities at Hankow "rather jittery" and have forced them to abandon their once easy way of life. "Most Japanese and puppet departments," the spokesman said, "have been moved into a zone established for refugees, be cause they feel it is safer. At the same time axis and puppet flags which previously were flaunted from buildings have been discreetly removed to minimize the temp:r'.:on they of 1 lered to American bombers. New Pincers Threat for Stalingrad; Russian Reserves Move Into Battle F Will Ask Mohandas Gandhi to Lead Masses in Passive Struggle For Freedom. Bombay, Aug. 6 (JP) The issue of Indian independence ap proached a new crisis today as the all-India congress commit tee assembled for a meeting to morow prepared to put teeth in its demands by asking Mohan das K. Gandhi to lead the masses in passive struggle for freedom. Actually, the proposal ready to be put before the committee boiled down to this choice for Britain make India free now and win her 350,000,000 people as fighting allies or withhold in dependence and face "a mass struggle on non-violent lines on the widest possible scale." r itil working committee sent Its J proposal to tha main body with an expression of hopeless-' ness in appealing again to Brit ain and the united nations and all sources here agreed that the program virtually was certain to be ratified. (Britains stand wai reiterated last night in London by Sir Stafford Cripps, who headed an unsuccessful mission to India last spring. Britain, he declared in a newspaper statement. In tended to "preserve law and or der" In India until after the war, then give the Indian people an opportunity to attain self-gov ernment.) First Lady Disavows Support of Left Wing American Labor Party Neir York, Aug. fP) Dis avowing any support of the left wing of the American Labor party and In so doing making one of her rare statements on foreign affairs, Mrs. Franklin D Roosevelt says: "I do not wish to be con trolled in this country by an American group that. In turn, is controlled by Russia and Rus sia s interests. The President's wife ex pressed this attitude In a letter rebuking Eugene P. Connolly, ALP left wing leader, for his al leged use politically of a previ ous statement of hers In which she endorsed the party as a whole. Declaring, In her letter made public yesterday, that her en dorsement of the party as a whole had been used In a leaflet during the current primary fight between the ALP right and left wings, she told Connolly: "I do not wish you to use my name or my letter again in any publication whatsoever. - Dutch Warned Against To Members London, Aug. 8 VP) Gen. Frledrich Christiansen of the Nazi occupation forces In The Netherlands, has issued warn ing that anyone aiding an allied invasion will be shot and any one who even ventures outdoors during such an invasion will be liable to be shot, The Nether lands news agency Aneta re ported today, Aneta said that the declara tion, as follows, was read over the Dutch radio. "Many words have been spok en by the enemy about second DAIRY Federal Accusation Says Control Board Influenced in Association Interest. Portland, Ore., Aug. 6 (JP) Federal Indictment of the dairy co-operative association of Port land and 10 of its officers and representatives on charges of monopolizing milk production and distribution in the Portland area was revealed today. Federal Judge Leon R. Yank- wich of Los Angeles, sitting here in the absence of local judges, set arraignment for next Thurs day, i The association has 3200 pro ducer members In the area which comprises Portland and Salem, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash., and adjacent areas. Its annual statement last spring listed net proceedings from milk sales In 1941 at $3,448,260. Says Board Influenced 1 The indictment, returned by the March grand jury and re vealed In court today by Charles S. Burdell, Seattle, special as sistant to the U. S. attorney gen eral, alleges that the association has opposed measures which would repeal or modify the Ore gon milk control law and that it has influenced the milk con trol board to adopt policies furthering association Interests. Threats, coercion and unwar ranted solicitations have been employed by the association, the Indictment charges, to induce all producers in the Portland area to sell their milk through it. Members have been dissuaded from transferring milk board quotas to non-members, the in dictment adds, and distributors have been required to purchase all their requirements from the association. Federal agencies, Including the veterans' hospital at Port land, have been required by the association's acts, the indict ment says, "to expend an arbi trary and non-competitive price for purchase of fluid milk." Washington, Aug. 8 (JP) Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the first queen in her own right to visit the United States told congress today that "no surren der" remains the motto of her people suffering though they are under the alien rule of an invader in Asia and In Europe. The grandmotherly monarch, addressing a joint session of the House and Senate, said: "Imag ine what it means for a liberty loving country to be In bondage, for a proud coin. try to be sub ject to harsh alien rule. of Allied Invasion Force front somewhere in western Europe, possibly also In The Netherlands, and hope has been expressed by the enemy that they will be able to count on the populations to help, which urges us to address to you the most urgent warning. "Everybody must be aware that he plays with his own life if he tries In the smallest extent either directly or Indirectly to assist enemy landing attempts. "All will remember the events which took place when some bailed out British flyers were helped by the population with I money and clothes and were I baseball ll Amarlcan Cleveland at St. Louis, double- header, postponed, weather. Philadelphia 0 4 1 Boston 2 ' 6 1 Christopher and Swift; But- land and Peacock, PARTIAL PAYMENT CAMP WHITE AREA Upon motion of Bernard H. Ramsey, special attorney for the U. S. department of justice. Judge James Alger Fee this morning granted an order auth orizing the disbursement to a former land-owner in the Camp White area of 80 per cent of the appraisal price offered by the government. Three or four more similar orders are expected to be granted during Friday's ses sion of federal court, which will convene at 10 a. m. Ramsey, following this morn ing's session, which - was re- cesed until tomorrow, ex plained that such measures were being taken to relieve certain former land-owners who have vacated their property and are In immediate need of money to relocate. He said, however, that such payments did not cancel the land-owners' rights to con test the government, through condemnation suits, for higher prices. The current session ol federal court is a continuance of the 1941 term and Is being held for the purpose of preparing for condemnation proceedings the many cases involving (.amp White land. - SKY-BORNE FORCE Washington, Aug. 8. (JP) Formation of the first two of an undisclosed number of entire di visions of Infantry to move to a battle front by air was announc ed today by Under-Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, along with creation of new American-Canadian force of super specialists In offensive warfare. The 82nd and 101st infantry divisions at Camp Claiborne, La. will be the first of the air borne, units, which will be streamlined down to a strength of about 8,000 men each. All their weapons and equipment will be moved by planes and gliders. The air-borne divisions will fight as infantry In the air aft. the manner of similar German army divisions. The command er of the 82nd Is Brigadier Gen eral Matthew B. Rldgway. and Brig. Gen. William C. Lee com mands the 101st division. Slightest Aid sheltered which resulted In the death sentence against the Dutch helpers. "If ever an Englishman or any of his allies enters Nether lands territory either from the coast or the interior The Neth erlands people must obey these Instructions "Stay home, try to find shel ter against air raids and actual fighting. 'Those walking out in tn streets take a great risk of be ing shot, "Those helping the enemy will not escape tha consequences lot their action." . CAUCASUS PERIL GROWS AS NAZIS Fall of Tikhoretsk Gives In vaders Caucasian Rail way Point Near Rostov. By Roger D. Greene (Associated Press War Editor) Germany's mechanized armies, fast closing an octopus-like stranglehold on the upper Cau casus, reported the fall of Tik horetsk on the Caucasian rail way 90 miles south of Rostov and developed a new pincers threat to the great Volga river steel center of Stalingrad. Tikhoretsk is on the Stalin grad Novorossisk railway ter minating at the Black sea, just below Kerch strait. Resarves Go la Soviet advices said Russia's carefully saved reserves were going into action against th terrific nazl offensive, fighting bitterly to stem the new threat to Stalingrad. Dispatches from Moscow said the red armies, taking up new positions along a strong line east of the Don river, were -driving -back powerful German tank as saults 93 - miles southeast of Stalingrad. A second big-scale battle was in progress in the Kletskaya sector, 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, where the Russians said the upper claw of a Ger man pincer aimed at Stalingrad was stopped dead. The danger in the Caucasus increased, however, as the Ger mans drove new wedges into soviet lines at a great sacrifice in lives, front-line dispatches said. A bulletin frcm German field' headquarters said nazl spear heads, racing southward from Vorostfilovsk, had reached tha main trans-Caucasian railway linking the Black and Caspian seas. This apparently meant that the Invaders had seized the rail line below Armavir, key junc tion on the route, somewhere in the vicinity of Nevinnomys- skaya, which lies due south of Voroshilovsk. It would repre sent an advance of about 235 miles into the Caucasus. As the crisis mounted, with the red armies hurled back in two key sectors during bitter all-night fighting, Europe capi tals rang with new talk of an allied second front in western Europe. "Every day brings nearer the time when the agreement signed between Britain and the U. S. S. R. on' the urgency of estab lishing a second front In Europe will be put into effect," the Mos cow radio said. In London, Premier Pleter 3. Gerbrandy of the Netherlands government-ln-exile broadcast to his countrymen in nazl-occupled Holland, declaring that the tide of war was turning. "Await with wise patience the moment when the call comet from here not only to take passive but also an active part" in the opening of a new allied front, he said. Simultaneously, fresh flood of nazi-lnspired propaganda em phasized the asserted strength of German defenses to combat cross-channel invasion attempt. One dispatch told of "mighty fortifications of concrete and Iron" extending deep Inland from the English channel coast Once again, soviet dispatches stressed the bloody toll inflicted on the invaders. In the Kletskaya sector. 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, the red army threw back re peated attacks and killed 1.200 Germans. Night -riding Cos sacks dashed into Caucasus village, slaughtered more than 600 Germans and disappeared swiftly in the darkness. Soviet cavalry cut down untold num bers of nazl parachute troops who diopped behind Russian lines In groups of 100 ad 180. i
