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Let YOUR Answer to Bombs bo BONPSI Bur War Bonds ana Stamp! TODAV conlnbuit to lh, war effort of your nation. fatrMrt Una. four own self-protert Ion, ormands that YOU do jour part .NOW! Oh The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results t Small Cost Medford Tribune Full Associated Prass United Prats Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1942. NO. 120. Nl ui j ME News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Au. 8. People In this country do not get the picture of the battle in Russia, and conse- quently may be inclined to over-interpr e t or under esti mate what is hap p e n i n g there. There is no battle line such as you see daily drawn on sketched maps. Paul Mallnn The German advance is not that of a solid mass moving forward against a retreating mass a few miles ahead, doggedly dying for every inch of territory. Timoshenko's army has not even fought a major battle in its Ukraine-Caucasus retreat thus far. There have been no such, scenes as waves of troops, miles in length, surging and charging against a defensive li.'.e. It has strictly been a fight of fluid maneuvering without a major engagement. The German army is broken up into numerous fists,, each an individual unit of tanks and in fantry, each pounding forward individually from town to town or place to place. Frequently one advancing fist runs into a Russian unit and there is a scrap for a position. On the whole, the German campaign can best be visualized as a thousand disconnected fists pounding forward unevenly. TIE Russians have not tried to maintain a defense line any where, except on the east bank of the Don, from Voronezh south west to the Big Bend near Sta lingrad. There they have estab lished a fairly good defensive position (not as good as they can and may have to take later on the east bank of the Volga, a much wider and less shallow stream.) South of Stalingrad, however, where the clashes between the fists have been more numerous, there has been no ambiance of a line. There, Timoshenko has been involved in the desperate and amazingly successful maneu ver of withdrawing an army of 200.000 men from the tight pocket In which Hitler caught , them around Rostov. If anyone had said ten days ago that Timoshenko would get (Cuntinued oo Pact Si) YANKEES DAMAGE JAP HELD DOCKS, AT Chungking, Aug. 8 (IP) American planes inflicted exten sive damage on White Cloud air drome, docks and harbor build ings and destroyed several Jap anese planes in a raid on Jap anese-held Canton this morning, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters announced. I The fighter-escorted bombers were challenged by at least nine Japanese fighters, but only after they already had dropepd their bombs, said the communique Two enemy plane were report ed shot down and others de stroyed aground. Chinese troops continued their comeback campaign in Kiangsl province. Linchwan (Fuchow) was still being be sieged and the Japanese were be ing cleared out of the region of Huwan, southeast of Linchwan. the Chinese high command said. Ineffective Japanese attacks from base at Kwangfeng. a station on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railways, were reported. ORR INQUEST FINDINGS A coroner's Jury, at an In quest Thursday night, held no one was criminally responsible . for the death Tuesday of Jack ' On, 23, of Propect, who was killed when he was crushed be tween two trucks while ridintr on the running board of one of them. l.sftl.,t- Fleet and Air Operations in Two Areas Proceed Fav orably Adm. Nimitz Re ports Vital Action Un derway, Details Meager. General MacArthur's head quarters, Australia, Sunday, Aug. 9 (IP) The first allied offensive in this Southwestern Pacific area was smashing to day agninst Japanese bases in the islands north of Australia. The battle appeared still to be in its early stages. General MacArthur's Head quarters, Australia, Sunday, Aug. 9. (IP) Allied planes, co operating with the United States navy in a burst of action against Japanese bases in the islands north of Australia, have made heavy raids on New Guinea, the Solomon islands and New Brit ain, a communique said today. (The announcement coupled with communiques issued by the navy department in Washington and by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet at Pearl Har bor, disclosing a continuing naval attack on the Solomons, suggested an allied offensive might be under way in the area.) Pearl Harbor. T. H.. Aug. 8 VP) United States forces In the southwest Pacific have launched offensive operations in the area of the Solomon islands which are progressing favorably, a communique by Admiral Ches ter W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the United States Pacific fleet, said today. The communique, which In dicated the possibility of a turn ing point in the Pacific war. also told of a United States fleet task force attack on the Jap anese at Klska, in the Aleutian islands. Nimlts Reports Admiral Nimitz communique said: "Forces of the United States Pacific fleet and Pacific ocean areas, assisted by units of the southwest Pacific area, launched offensive operations In the Tu lagl area of the Solomon islands on August 7, east longitude time. Theie operations are pro gressing favorably in spite of opposition by enemy land based aircraft and garrisons. "On August 8, east longitude time, a task force of the Pacific fleet bombarded enemy ships and installations in Kiska." The communique showed that powerful combined American forces of sky and sea had swung into vigorous offensive action on the widely separated battle sectors of the Pacific ocean. While only sparse Information revealed the nature and extent of the operations, there were clear indications that an im portant turning point in the war in the Pacific has been reached and that an Initial effort was being made to wrest from the Japanese some of the strategic areas they have seized. Smashing Blows Due The nature of the turning point was from a war of attri tion to the dealing out of smash ing blows to roll back Japanese lines. These blows differed thus from the last Febuary 1 United States naval raids on the Mar shall and Gilbert islands and similar raids against the enemy on Wake and Marcus islands and in the Solomon islands, such as the Tulagl raid which preceded the Coral sea battle. The Japanese made the ini tial landing at Papua in the Solomons January 23, and their heavy follow-up infiltrations in New Guinea and in the Solo mons came March 8 to 10. First landings by the Japanese in the Ale: tians were early in June, coincident with the battle of Midway islands, in which United States army, navy and marine corps forces turned back an enemy force of warships and transports. The current corn crop of Ar gentina is estimated at' 362, 000,000 bushels Six of FR. On Air 11 A.M. Washington, Aug. 8 VP) President Roosevelt and oth er leaders of the war effort will tell the nation tomorrow about the critical needs of war production. They will speak In connec tion with an army-navy pro duction award program on CBS from II to 11:30 a. m. PWT. The President's message will be read by Elmer Davis, director of the office of war information. Other speakers will include: Admiral William D. Leahy, making his first radio ap pearance since he became chief of staff to President Roosevelt. F FRETTING NAZIS; Tension High in Europe as Belief Grows Decisive Event Near. London, Aug. 8 UP) The peoples of Europe were reported tonight to be in a state of mounting tension as their Nazi conquerors took strong prepara tory measures against the threat of an allied invasion and at the same time tried to persuade them a second front would fail. A Czech government source said the tension was particularly acute in Bohemia and Moravia because the Germans were send ing more and more workmen to Western Europe to labor on for tifications. Prague reports showed a belief among the peo ple, this source said, that "de cisive events will take place this year." "Travelers reaching Istanbul, Turkey, were quoted as saying the Nazis were so fearful of a possible invasion somewhere along the extensive coastline from Norway to the Pyrenees that they had established large aerial intervention points far behind the probable front lines from which veteran parachute troops could be swiftly carried by transport planes. "These concentration points are scattered through Westpha lia in Western Germany, the Rhineland district and Southern Norway. Planes and troops are held in constant readiness. Stockholm Press reports quot ed by Reuters said the whole Norwegian coastline has been under a state of alert since Aug ust 1. The Norwegian government In London said the Germans were constructing a great airbase in the Vesteraalen Island area ap parently for use of Focke-Wulk bombers which could operate against Iceland and convoys bound for Russia over the Arctic sea route. BULLETIN At the start of the seventh Inning, the Craters were leading the Grants Pass Merchants 14 to 4, in an Oregon-California league game at the fairgrounds last night. Medford knocked Johnson out of the box in the third Inning, and Steve Crippen who fol lowed him was warmly greeted. Snyder hurled for the locals, and was doing a creditable Job. In the seven innings Medford collected 14 hits and the visitors four. San Diego, Calif.. Aug. 8 OP) Blix Donnelly, knocked off the mound in the series opener Tues day, came back tonight to pitch a three-hitter giving Sacramento a 4 to 0 shutout over San Diego in the last night game here for the duration. Score: R. H. E. Sacramento 4 6 0 San Diego : 0 3 2 Donnelly and Mueller; Datso, Vitalich and Salkeld. 8 Nazi LEADERS JAILED; GANDHTDEFIANT Gandhi Defiant British Start Roundup Few Hours After Powers Voted Mystic London, Sunday, Aug. 9. (IP) Reuters, British news agency, reported today that a broadcast, which it said apparently was from New Delhi, India, heard In London reported that Mohandas K. Gandhi, Pundit jawanariai Nehru and Maulana Abul Kalan Azad, president of the all-India congress party, had been ar rested in Bombay. (There was no confirmation from any source of this report). Reuters in distributing the re port said it should be taken "with all reserve." Bombay, Sunday, Aug. 9. (IP) The British government of India, accepting the challenge of the all-India congress party in entrusting a campaign of civil disobedience to Mohandas K. Gandhi, early today began a roundup of congress leaders in the city of Ahmedabad. The government acted Just a few hours after the full commit tee of the all-India congress party had handed complete au thority to the mystic 72-year-old leader of the . India" "nationalist movement for a drive aimed at forcing an end to British rule in India. Seventeen arrests had been made up to early hours today In Ahmedabad. They were the first reported after the congress committee adjourned. The government has placed a ban on gatherings of more than five persons, issuing the order under the criminal procedure code. "I am pledged to the congress and the congress is pledged to do or die," Gandhi declared In concluding a two-hour address that wound up the meeting of the party's general committee. SHADY COVE BOY T Louts Gerald Turner. 17, of Shady Cove, son of Master Ser geant and Mrs. Clare. V. Turner, drowned In the Rogue River near Shady Cove about 3 p. m Friday when the boat In which he was riding with two com panlons struck a rock and over turned. Bob Cline and Richard Young, also of Shady Cove, were able to swim and make shore, but Louis, unable to swim, sank in about 15 feet of water, accord ing to Deputy Coroner Carlos W. Morris. The boys were row ing downstream when the tragic accident occurred. Carl Robinson of Shady Cove, with a rope tied to one wrist, dove to the bottom of the river, tied the rope to the youth and pulled him ashore. In the mean time Morris, state police. Deputy Sheriff Bill Grenbemer and a city fireman were ruling to the scene with an inhalator. Aided by Dr. E. N. Mallery the inhal ator was put Into operation but the boy could not be revived, the deputy coroner stated. Louis Gerald Turner was born In Council Grove, Kas., July 8. 1923. With his parents he came to Shady Cove last February. His mother resides at Shady Cove while his father is at present attending officers' can didate school at Fort Sill, Okla. His grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Turner of California, for mer Shady Cove residents, had been visiting in Shady Cove and had left for their home the day before the tragedy. Louis was also a nephew of the Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Millard. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Conger'i later. Spies Die in War Bulletins London. Aug. 8. VP) Enemy aircraft bombed the nearby home counties and drew gunfire from the Lon don suburbs in daylight today while the city itself was under a half-hour air raid alert. Berlin (From German Broadcasts). Aug. t.-(fP) German newspapers published i for the first time today pic tures and descriptions of a new nail warplane the Dor nier 217 said to be the last word in dive bombers. Stockholm, Aug. 8. (IP) The entire Norwegian coast Is being held in a state of alert under orders of German occu pation authorities and arrange ments have been made to evacuate the civilian popula tion at short notice, the news paper Social Demokraten re ported today. General MacArthur's Head quarters. Australia. Aug. 8. (i) K medium allied pas senger ship was shelled by a Japanese submarine off Aus tralia's southern coast a few days ago but escaped without damage, an allied announce ment said today. No injuries of personnel were reported. NEWS OF DRIVES ON ENEMY NESTS Senate Military Chairman on Alaska Trip Sees "Grand Offensive." San Francisco, Aug. 8 (IP) American attacks on Japanese troops in the Aleutian and Sala mon Islands were applauded to day by Sen. A. B. (Happy) Chandler (D-Ky.) as possibly the start of "a grand offensive" in the Pacific. "The news sure tickles me," the Kentucky senator said. Chandler, chairman of a Sen ate military affairs subcommit tee, was Interviewed Just before he left for the Pacific Northwest en route to Alaska to inspect war preparations there and in the Aleutian Islands. 'The Information released by the navy Indicates a widespread operation in force," he declared. "It's marvelous news and the most reassuring we've had In this country for some time. "I'll admit now that the at tacks were not entirely unex pected by the committee. In fact, we have been anticipating them. .But they will have no bearing on our trip. We are go ing right on, even if they have every Jap driven out of the Aleutians by the time we get up there. We expect to go as far out on those islands as the military situation will permit when we get there. "If people will look at their maps, they'll see that this is a terrific operation. If our forces can get at those babies, we can drive them back to bases nearer Japan. And if we can add to the terrific losses they suffered in the Coral sea and at Midway they did, you know we re going to be able to estab lish bases In their front yard one of these days. When we do that, those Doo little flights over Tokyo. Kobe and other Japanese cities will be a common occurrence. E Morrlstown, N. J., Aug. ( (A1) Michael Naughton had a nest of bees In his house, and the pesky insects were giving him no end of trouble. So he decided to "burn them out." You guessed it. Firemen confined the blaze to clapboards and a nearby win dow catlny E NEAR STALINGRAD AND MAIKOP OIL Russia Still Reeling Above and Below Don Elbow Situation "Very Tense." Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 9 (IP) Two German columns were reported converging on the Maikop oil fields today after cracking Russian defense in the Krasnodar - Armavir area 60 miles above that prize at the foot of the Caucasian mountains. Red Star announced the Ger man bre a k-t h r.o ugh toward Maikop whose wells supply seven per cent of Russia's oil, but the midnight communique did not elaborate on this grave development. ' The red army defending the southwestern approaches to Stal ingrad "fought with varying suc cess" against a German tank and Infantry wedge Into the Russian positions northeast of Kotelnikovskl. The phrase "northeast of Lotelnikovskl" in dicated the Germans were gain ing ground in that area, too. A communique yesterday had located the fighting as "north" of Kotelnikovsky, which Itself is- about 93 miles southwest Of Industrial Stalingrad. . ' Thousands of German rein forcements were hurled Into bat tle both above and below the Don River In the effort to reach Stalingrad, and another omin ous development reported In the latest communique was that the nazis had concentrated a huge tank force south of Klet skaya, which Is 75 miles north east of Stalingrad in the Don elbow. The Germans were said to have left thousands of dead nazis in the wake of their ad vance, but their reserve flow thus far has filled the gaps. The German drive on Maikop apparently mostly from the northeast Kuban River bend be cause of the Russians said their troops also were fighting the nazis in the Kropotkin sector, 50 miles northwest of Armavir. (The Germans claimed thejr troopt had crossed th-i Kuban River to capture Armavir, then seized Kurgannaya 30 miles to the west on the Laba River, In the drive toward Maikop. That would place the nazis only 30 miles from the oil city.) (The Soviet plight In the Maikop area admittedly was so critical that It was possible the Russians already had planted demolition forces in the oil fields.) NEW TRIAL PLEA FILED BY PELLEY Indianapolis. Aug. 8 (IP) In a 39-page motion for a new trial. William Dudley Pelley today ac cused government counsel of "misconduct" In calling him a "traitor,' "a Benedict Arnold' and "an Aaron Burr" in final ar guments before the Jury In his criminal sedition trial. The motion asked a new trial on the basis of 83 points and ob jected also to Judge Robert C. Baltzell's refusal to permit Charles A. Lindbergh to testify "as to what he advocated In his speeches Just prior to the dec laration of war." LOGGER SHORTAGE SERIOUS Seattle. Aug- 8 P Lack of loggers threatens tha lumber In dustry of Washington, Oregon and Idaho with failure in its war effort, F. H. Brundage, west ern log and lumber admlnlstra tor for the war production board, warned today. He said the shortage of skilled men was due to the attraction of workers to shipyards and aircraft factories. Electric Interpreting The War News By Kirke L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) Another week bitter with defeat and retreat for red ar mies, closed with heightening prospects that a second-front attack is impending but it may be launched in the east and by Japan before Russia's Anglo American allies are able to strike effectively In the west. If Japan, still without a de cisive victory in China, bruised by American air-sea blows and at least checked In the south west Pacific, Is to move at all against Russia under her axis commitments, the time seems ripe. Weather conditions for a Si berian assault are right as they will not be again for a twelve month. Chungking and London bristle with rumors of Japanese preparations. The German-trained Nipponese conqueror of Sing apore and Corregldor now is reported in command In the north. Tokyo has called up all males from 18 to 50 years of age for military service. -rasue new dim-out meas ures along the west coast hint that Washington expects Japa nese diversion forays. They might be designed, like the Jap anese loe-noias in the western Aleutians, to balk or imrjaie American aid to Russia in Si beria. If that front Is opened, Siber ian bases could afford expand ing American air power oppor tunity to strike at Japan itself That possibility still is the most powerful influence upon Tokyo not to jump on her traditional nuasian foe prematurely. ei oeyona a snadow of a doubt Tokyo" has two-way com mitments with her European axis mates concern In e Ruuia. That the Japanese war lords are merely biding their time until Hitler and his Ital'an and Balkan satellites have fulfilled their part of the conquest bargain goes without saying. ine axis offensive In Russia has obviously reached a point where Tokyo must be weighing the question of Joining the at tack on the Soviet Hitler is so close to having driven Russian armies In the west behind a short line from the Baltic to tha Cas pian and to seizing the rich Cau casus resources that Berlin pres sure upon Tokyo to fulfill axis commitments must be Imper ative. Portland, Aug. 8 (IP) Praise for the efficiency of American armed forces in Alas ka was voiced today by Cotton D. Harper, McMlnnvllle youth, on his return from Dutch Har bor. The construction worker said that "as long as we have boys like that up there, we are not in any danger." Of Japanese raids on the naval base, he said. 'The townspeople nearly went crazy but the sol diers and sailors and most of the construction workers took It on the chin like men." Asked by an Interviewer about the number of Japanese planes in the raid, he replied: "The of flclally announced there were 15 fighters and four bombers." F Bern, Switzerland, Aug. 8 (IPy A building housing a bu reau for recruiting French work ers to go to Germany wa d mollshed by an explosion, the Swiss telegraph agency reported today In a dispatch from Anne masse In Eaute-Savoye, France. The dispatch said the French prefect had expressed regrets to the chief of the German com mission at Annemasse and that many arrests were expected to b mad Chair TATTLERS GIVEN- LIFE, 30 YRS, FOR BETRAYING PALS Aid to Law Rewarded Rec ords Hide War Secrets Quick Justice Follows F. R.'s Approval of Findings. Washington, Aug. 8 VP) Death by electrocution today snapped short the shadowy ca reers of six Nazi saboteurs, men who sneaked ashore from enemy submarines bent upon crippling the American war effort by fire, explosion and terrorism. Two others, adjudged equally guilty by a military commission of seven generals, escaped the) death penalty fixed by the law of war for their intended crimes, by tattling on the rest. Because they helped the gov. emment prepare its case, they were given prison sentences, one for life, the other for 30 years, both at hard labor. British Spread Word London, Sunday, Aug. 9 VP) Beginning at 8 o'clock last night (Saturday) the Brit ish radio spread throughout the continent of Europe the news that the United Suites . had executed six of the eight Nazi . saboteur seized after -they landed from German sub-' marines. . .- . The broadcast, made in ' several languages, emphasized . particularly for the German the swift capture, trial and -death in the electric chair of the men before they could be- ' gin their sabotage campaign. Up to an early hour today the German radio had re-f framed from any comment on the men's fate. 5 At noon, the first of the agent of destruction to pay with hia life was led from a cell at the District of Columbia Jail to it execution chamber. In grim sue- . cession the five others followed. The six were: Heinrlch Harm Helnck, Rich ard Quirin, Edward John Ker- Ung, Herbert Hans Haupt, Wer ner Thiel and Hermann Otto Neubauer. Ernest P. Burger was sentenced to prison for life, and George John Dascb was given a term of 30 years. Just before 1:30, the Whit House announced that Presi dent Roosevelt had approved the findings and recommends tlons of the military commission and that the six had been exe cuted. The record of the case, containing much information of an important military nature, it was said, would be sealed until after the war. So, nearly two months after the arrival of the eight men on American shores, their cases were ended. They were closed, however, only after exhaustive legal proceedings, undreamed of In the dictator-ridden land from which they came. At one point an appeal for writ of habeas corpus was taken to tha civil courts, and the supreme court, meeting in a hurriedly sum moned special session, upheld the legality and constitutionality of the method of trial which President Roosevelt had estab lished. The military commission fin ished its work last Sunday. On Monday, the record of the case, the sentences Imposed and tha recommendations for leniency to Burger and Dasch were placed in the president's hands for review. NAVY ENTRY EASED The navy will accept men for enlistment up to time they ara sworn in under selective serv ice, Lieut. Cmdr. G. F. DeGrava, Portland district recruiting offi cer, announced today. LAND FEE SOUGHT Washington. Aug. Sen. McNary (R-Ore.) ha Intro duced legislation providing pay ment of 85,000 to M. Senders Company, Albany, Ore., for land acquired by the military at Wells. Ore. sn which tha com pany had a warehouse. 4
