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Newspaper Page TextMl Let YOUR Answer to Bombi be BONDSI Buy War Bonds and BUmpt TollAY ('oiilnbuta to th ar crrort of your nation. Patriot Urn. vuur own tc I r-protect Ion. anianda that YOU do jour part NOWI Dm Th MAIL TRIBUNE Medford Tribune Want Ad Way J Quick Reiulu at Small Coit Full Associated Prau Unltad Plan Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, 1942. NO. 126. r A If k TOT News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 15 The primaries Tuesday, and develop ments since, show how gome few folks In the magazines, the govern ment and n e w s p a pers are still trying noisily to make this war an exclusive soc ial affair for their political friends only. They don't want anyone Paul Mallon in it, fighting or working for our side, except those whose political views they approve. They don't want Lind bergh. They would bar certain congressmen who did not vote before the war for their social views. They constantly rail and agi tate against congressmen, public figures, and against a few newspapers which held similar non-interventionist or isolation ist (whichever you will) views before the conflict. All this and more of the same they have continued twenty-four hours a day for some months now in the name of unity - This agitation is preventing unity. It is further preventing the generation of a fighting spirit In the people which is necessary to win the war. War is a fight to the death. Individually and nationally. The first instinct for conflict requires that you " use every .weapon every energy and every person at your command, or anyone you can get on your side, to help you win. N a fight against odds, you do not turn around to see if everyone fighting with you is socially or politically desirable to you not if you want to win. On that rommnnrense DrinciDle. we swallowed the communists o!1lp withntit ffiilninff. Why should some of us be straining so hard at a few of our own isolationists? The facts i!cr0At thi Wt wintf political groups of the United States want to win the war, but tney lu want tn eliminate the richt wing and all opposi-Mt in the process. s ' Anyone who wants to fight or work or rail on our side snouia he nllnueH tn do so if he satisfies the only important requirement loyalty. 1 ao nor, raise any question regarding the loyalty (Contlnuad on Past Si( P (Br th Associated Prats) The United States army's growing might went on display today (Sat.) with the activation of two new World War II divis ions at Oregon camps, near Med ford and Corvallis. A division was activated at Camp Adair near Corvallis and MaJ. Gen. James L. Bradley, the commanding officer, declared: "We will stress attack, for only an offense will win the war." He urged the need of thorough military training for combating a well-trained, well-equipped enemy who is a veteran of many campaigns. "Total war requires total ef fort," Gen. Bradley warned. "We must be willing to undergo any hardship for victory." At Camp Adair, men of the new army heard the heroic story of Lieut. Henry Rodney Adair, an Oregon man killed on the Mexican border before World War I, in whose honor the camp was named. Camp Adair officials made no alance announcement of to day's activation ceremonies be cause of the possibility of high way congestion. The public was not invited. Salem, Aug. 15. AP The state highway commission awarded a contract today for oil ing 1.14 miles of the Sherman highway In Shaniko. Wasco county, to Babbler Brothers, Portland. FAMED WILD WEST Gen. Gerhardt Accepts Col ors of Old 91st; Tells Grim Purpose Impressive Rites Enacted. With the battle-cry "Powder River Let 'Er Buck" sounding Americas military defiance to' Hitler and Hirohito, the 91st Infantry Division was officially activated at Camp White Sat urday morning in impressive ceremonies and demonstrations witnessed by an estimated 10.000 civilians packing the temporary bleachers in front of 91st div ision headquarters. The famous wild west division of World War I, which made a glorious record on the fields of France and Belgium was ' re born under the hot sun of the Agate desert, as tanned healthy fighting men of this new Unit ed States army displayed the methods by which they plan to shatter the enemy, and as the colors of the old 91st were pre sented to units of the new. Gen. Gaarhardt Speaks Mdjor General Charles H. Gerhardt, commander of the new 91st Infantry Division accented the colors of the old 91st from A. B. Richardson of Portland. representing the 91st division association. Richardson was major in 1918. "I accept th responsibilities for the achievements of our predecessors1." Major Gtnaral Gerhardt said In hit speech of acceptance. 'These toldlert are training In the qtim fact of becoming efficient and savage killers on the field of battle. In leal than a year many of ut participat ing today may become battle casualties. "W are now facing eur darkest davt tine Valley Forge and Gettyiburg. If we lose wo lot all. But. with God't help, we thall not fall." Prior to Richardson's speech of presentation, veterans of the old 91st division presented col ors and standards of their units to units of the new division. Immediately following General Gerhardt's speech. Colonel F. S. Jacobs, chief of staff, read the official orders of activation for the 91st. Thus, a powerful new American fighting force came into being Floyd K. Dover of Grants Passg first sergeant of I Com' nany. 362 infantry battalion original 91st infantry division. oresented to General Gerhardt the rifle of the first soldier of Company I killed in World War I. The soldier was Pvt. Lee Gautshe. shot by a German sniper while enroute to the rear to summon help for his unit, which had found itself in an un enviable position. Dover charged the sniper's position and killed him, although wounded himself. Solemn Rellcall A solemn part of the ceremony was the rollcall of the 91st div ision's honored dead, given by Don Newbury of Medford. As he slowly read the names of 88 officers and men who died while 'ighting in Europe, young mem bers of the new division raisea id unfurled guidons of the units with which the dead ser ved, and answered "here." Aggressively and belligerent ly, these new 91st division sol diers gave the impression they were taking over with a ven geance the task of those who fell In battle. General Gerhardt and Brigadier General E. S. Ott, field artillery commander of the 91st. said "here" to the names of two ranking officers who died along with their men. Honored by General Ott were 136 officers and men of the old 9 1st., who received the Distin guished Service Cross, and four members who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor Major Oscar F. Miller, Los An geles, killed in the Argonne; Philip C. Katz, San Francisco: Lloyd M. Seibert, Salinas, Calif., and Chester W. West, Idaho Falls. Idaho. None were present (Continued on ftf Hum) Marines Why Solomons Are Worth CHINA UJ'o - ' 1 AJlv Pacific-0cean Jv'L 7 i mi mm ' ' r. . 1 isoniJi " ' ' VIS, L ' - -MMCVS . . Ssft' "..c;,","",V - - v&vr-J r it n Jla . . "OwiAND - . lzir - ... . uiTx" iTT "C Jr ., . . Indian. SJ Jn runs-, ''j '1. i -"PtaiMf """B A ' r - - - I v:-j ',:Vi,'."!'',:wiHr 8Awi?iDfJ svoniv i ,4 It ',, ,t' r. .r 1 1 , , , itouNt. Jt:-;in aif-!::"!:,!!?:? i'l;!; .. 7 n;a:nH:!!!il;!S;!iS!:l!!i:!!'!!:l! : !, ' 'n ' if, L-1"'4 -V" -i ' " ' 'li.!' '.. I-u''i VA -" - i ' ,i f ! , , ' ." , J ib;:itj.!:,,iii!;.--:H:;H -i ' ::iirtTASMANiA7L... ' , ryuiw mmmmm o M , 1 , ZEALAND' MILK I " , ', , r . ' " ' " ' WE Defensively, th Solomon Islands would oW th United Nations valuabl East Australia and th supply lint to Australia from th th Solomons could provid a toringboard for attacks (arrows) guanas wnicn provide tn wippones with hundreds of "unslnkaal NAVY RAINS 3,000 il war Bulletins GERMANS LAUNCH JAP CAMPABLAZE Huge Fires Burn After At tack of Week Ago Weak Resistance. Washington. Aug. 15 Of) Flaming guns of the U. S. war ships and bombs of naval planes severly damaged a destroyer and two cargo vessels and sent a third cargo ship to the bottom in Kiska Harbor in raids August 3 and 9 the navy disclosed to day. More than 3.000 shells were hurled from the big guns of war ships of a task force of the Pa cific fleet which hit hard at the enemy occupied island off Alas ka. Shells striking the enemy's main camp set huge fires which still were burning when recon naissance planes flew over the harbor a day later. A short distance to the south a secondary camp also was hit hard by the heaw bombardment, and anti-aircraft and shore bat teries throughout the island were silenced. Only resistance offered by the enemy was a weak seaplane at tack and desultory firing by shore batteries before they were put out of action by American big guns. By The' Associated Press While Allied heavy bombers and U S. navy planes and war ships blasted enemy shipping aimed at reinforcing Japanese in the Aleutian and Solomon Is lands, an Associated Press com pilation of official reports yes terday (Sat) disclosed that Allied forces have destroyed 324 Jap anese ships In all categories since Dec. 7. Sacramento, Aug. 14. (APV Butter fat, first grade, 48'4; sec ond grade 44 Vi. BULLETIN Lot Angeles. Seattle 3 1 Da- Prim, Mallory, Dobemic, vis and Campbell Barnett, Bud nick and Kearse. There wat no report of the Medford Klamath fame at press tim last night. Hold Vital Coastal Bases in Solomons Moscow, Aug. IS W) Two Russian submarines hare returned to port after sinking seven German transports en of them a 16.000-ton ship .loaded with men and muni tions In th Baltic, th news paper Pravada reported today. London. Aug IS (IP) K British naval squadron bom barded th Italian Island of Rhodet in the eastern Medi terranean for 12 minutes Thursday morning. Reuters newt agency reported today. Berlin (from German broad casts) Aug. 15 JP) The Ger man high command corrected Its report of Aug. 13 that th 14.700-ton United State Air craft carrier Wasp had bn hit by tlx bombi and it afir in th Mediterranean and laid the damaged warship Inttead wat a British aircraft carrier of th Uluitrlout type. E TO BE E Seattle. Aug. 15 (IP) The fuel shortage impending In Washington and Oregon can, and will, be averted. Brig. Gen, Price P. Disquc, assistant to Secretary Ickes, said at a press conference here today. But he added, it will require Industrial and transportation adjustments, and, probably, jdded expense to householders. He said the states could expect to federal subsidies, and that fuel supply should be considered, primarily, as k local problem. He said tremendous amounts of coal must be brought from the Rocky Mountain states, con tinued production of Washing ton mines must be assured, and there must be a plan for getting plenty of firewood cut and into the home. He termed the fuel oil supply as unpredictable. FIRE MENACE WORST Portland. Aug. 15 AP The danger of sabotage In the forests far outweighs any threat of enemy Incendiary air attacks. George C. Griffith of the U. S. forest service warned today. Boston, Aug. IS. (AP (U.S. Dept. Agr.) Th Boston vsool market was quiet during th past week. Fighting For a bat for defendlna Industrially Unltad States (arct). Offensively, on the myriad Jap-held Pacific atrcratt carriers." FIERCE ATTACKS FOR STALINGRAD No Regard For Life in New Drive Astrakan and Vol ga Menaced. Moscow, Sunday, Aug. 15. Apparently launching a full of fensive against Stalingrad after securing strongholds in the north Caucasus, the Germans hurled masses of infantrymen, tanks and planes today against Russian positions on the Klet skaya and Kotelnikovskl fronts before the important Volga city. Russian reports early today said the Germans had opened up a series of attacks with no re gard for losses, with German bodies littering the ground along a railroad east of Kotelnikovskl, where the Germans struck after regrouping their forces. The Germans have been stalled on the Kletskaya and Kotelnikovskl fronts for weeks while they won positions In the Don bend and beat their way deep Into the Caucasus. Now they appear to be putting on the pressure again, with most of the north Caucasus In their hands. Coincident with the threat to Stalingrad was a drive aimed at Astrakhan from the Kotelnikov skl area. The Russian midnight com munique said that the Germans lost heavily in attempts to re capture lost positions northeast of Kotelnikovskl, while the Mos cow radio broadcast that the re grouped nazls fighting east of the city were trying to drive to the northeast toward Stalingrad Kotelnikovskl La 95 miles southwest of Stalingrad. On the northern arm of this huge pincer movement against the city named for Joseph Stalin, the Germans apparently were trying to develop and en large their break through to the Don .river southeast of Klet skaya. which It 75 miles north west of Stalingrad. FORMER SENATOR HONORED Portland. Aug. 15 (AP) The Liberty ship George Chamber lain was launched her ,-esterday by th Oregon ship-building cor poration. It was named after an Oregon senator and congressman who was a leader in the move nt -nt for popular election of sen ator BRITAIN'S FLEET Fires and Wrecked Bases Left by Surprise Attack on Italian Base. (By Larry Allen) Aboard a Cruiser with the Mediterranean Fleet, Bombard ing Rhodes, Aug. 13. (Delayed) (AP) The long, sleek guns of Britain s Mediterranean war sh'ps, spouting sheets of white flame, poured ton after ton of high explosive shells into Musso lini's Dodecanesan stronghold of Rhodes today. They left behind on this east err. Mediterranean island huge fires, battered seaplane bases and broken barracks and harbor Installations. The squadron of warships, commanded by Rear Admiral Philip L. Vian, swept into the mine-laden waters off Rhodes just before 1 a. m. Thursday and plastered the harbor for 12 min utes in one of the most thrilling surprise bombardments I have ever witnessed. The Rhodes heavy shore bat teries and anti-aircraft guns and Italian torpedo boats flung every thing at the fleet they could muster. My heart crashed against my . ribs as big enemy . shells sprayed over this cruiser and near misses made huge geysers while fire gushed from the mouths at the ship gunt and projectiles scorched through the air under the starlit skies and exploded with scattering force ashore. In this most spectacular bom bardment of the war since the fleet pumped thousands of armor-piercing shells Into Tripoli on April 24, 1941, the Nazis and Fascists in Rhodes sent up thou sands of multi-colored "flaming onions" in an effort to trace the attacking force while British and American bombers pounded the airdromes and other targets ashore both before and after the sea shelling. Rhodes looked like a maze of Christmas tree lights when the fleet sailed up to a Broadside po sition. It looked like a flash from hell when the ships moved safely away. SHOT BY FIANCEE Douglas, Ariz, Aiii. 15 A charge of assault with a deadly weapon was filed today against Miss Margaret Herlihy. daughter of Lt Col. E. G. Her lihy, in connection with the shooting of her fiance, Capt. D. D. Carr, 35, attached to a tank division at Fort Huachuca The shooting. Police Chief Percy Bowden said, occurred about 1 a. m. at the Herlihy home here in the presence of Mrs. Herlihy. Three bullets were fired, one striking Carr in the neck, another in the chest and the third going wild, he added. Carr is In a critical condition at the Douglas hospital, where physicians are attempting to ex tricate a bullet from his spin. Mist Herlihy it in th Cochise county hospital, under police guard, suffering from shock and hysteria, Bowden said. HEADS EAGLES Chicago, Aug. 15 HP) Les ter H. Loble, Helena, Mont., attorney, wat nominated today at grand worthy president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, to succeed George C. Tank of Davenport, Iowa. PACXINO SCHOOL CLOSES The annual pear-packing school closed here Friday evening after a two-week's session, with 160 Having unii vmviivu bihi v. v. i 100 completing th course, ac - cordl.ig to Leonard B. Mayfield. ARMY CAPTAIN IS Interpreting Th ' By The War News Kirk Lm Simpson - (Wide World War Analyst) The Second World war, more terrible and far-spreading than its 1914-18 prototype, will be three years old in another two weeks. Vet there is good war rant for the assertion of high placed British spokesmen that it is only now verging toward its crisis. From two British sources a prediction has come within the week that by November 1 of this year the flood crest of axis attacking power will have been reached. Speaking in London, Oliver Lyttleton, British mini ster of production, admitted a somber" outlook, and said Eng land would face the gravest hours of her history within the next 80 days. Captain Bernard Newman of the British ministry of informa tion was even more specific. Speaking in Canada he said: If by November 1 we are still fighting hard, if by Novem ber 1 we still hold Egypt, I think we will have won the war." Here Is the same thought, the same critical date setting, but differently expressed. What can be traced in both statements is the belief that Hitler and his axis accomplices must reach a decisive victory before winter sets in again In Russia, or not at all. - And grave as are the war renorta from tha Caucasus, there seems yet no possibility that Russia can be crushed or forced to her knees In that time. With less than 90 days Inter vening before Russia's ancient ally, winter, again comes to her aid, Hitler's armies are still far from having set up a short winter line across Russia from the Baltic Ao the Caspian. Tremendous new German ad vances to take Leningrad, Mos cow and the Volga front below Stalingrad must be made before November if Hitler is to stand on a shortened winter line In Russia and be prepared to face westward against Anglo-American power gathering across the English channel Failing that or a Russian collapse of which there is no faint suggestion even in German propaganda he will be more greatly extended in Russia next winter than he was last, when he fell back. There hat been continuous expectation ' in London and China that Japan would step In to the European war theater by attacking Russia from the rear at an opportune moment. With American sea and air forces at last on the offensive In the southwest Pacific, how ever, a revision of the Japanese plan for axis cooperation well may be In the making. That the stroke In the Solomons was in part timed by Washington to that end it virtually certain. Nor can it be doubted that Japan, if the it to move at all against Russia this year, must move well before November 1 The Siberian theater offers very limited time for major action before winter takes over. On all counts, therefore, the British view that the three-year old war will reach its crisis be fore November seems well founded. It probably affords a key to the timing of possible al lied moves in Egypt or In the west. Tl Medford "turned on the heat" as far as weather was concerned in celebration of activation day Weather bureau reports indicate that temperature Friday was 104 degrees with minimum of 59 degrees Maximum for yester day It still a military secret. Thursday's maximum overstep ped the 100 degree mark when it reached 101 with 51 for minimum. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday reports show 02 de grees maximum. Highest tem perature registered during Aug ust was 108 degrees in 1933 lth weather ' show. . bureau reports E TULAGISECTION Tokyo Radio Evasive Mao- Arthur Reports Gains Aussie Minister Glum. . (By Associated Prut) An allied spokesman at Gen eral MacArthur's headquarter In.. Australia., disclosed., today (Sunday) that th Japan havo recently reinforced thalr post lions "somewhat" la th Interior of Nw Guinea and wr still exerting pressure in thalr ef forts to get through th Jungle for an attack on Port Moresby, th allied base. Th snarhad of th Jap. anas overland driv toward Port Moraiby was at Kokoda. and it was hare th enemy bad managed to increase hit force. Th spokesman gave no Idea of th nw strength, saying sim ply that th Japan force there, admittedly continuing to hammer at allied positions, bad bn Increased "somewhat." General MacArthur's Head quarters, Australia, Aug. 15 OP) Fighting leathernecks of the United States marines were be lieved tonight to have captured Important coastal bases in th ' Solomon island! in triumphant conclusion of th first phase of that great battle still raging In the southwest Pacific , The failure of Japanese quart ters to make any but a negative reference to their land forces. coupled with a Washington an nouncement that the - marine are consolidating shore position in the Tulagi area, led qualified observers here to the belief that the Nipponese had been dis lodged from the bases. The Japanese controlled radio station failed to refer to ground forces on the southeastern Solo mon Islands yesterday but an Intercepted Domel report from Batavia, occupied Java, admitted today that a "small enemy fore was left on one Solomon island." Fierce fighting is reported to be taking place between Jap. anese forces and United State marines who have landed on one of the Solomon island," the Tokyo dispatch to DNB, German newo agency, said. (This was the first acknowl edgement from the axis aid that battle had taken an advert trend and It did not attempt to exolain how the marines had established beach heads in tha. face of the Japanese claim en tirely unconfirmed that th U. S. naval force were routed.! While Australian Army satn- l.ter Francis M. Forde warned his countrymen again that Aus tralia still is in danger of inva sion, quarters familiar with th topography of the Solomon aV tached optimistic significant to the U. S. navy department' assertion that the marines werj consolidating snore These quarters said this indi cated progress had been mad sine Wednesday, when a com munique claimed only mas American force were fighting to establish, "beach heads. Many K sports (The London naval correa nonri.nt of the Yorkshire) Pot expressed belief that the marines had overrun xne main on Guadalcanal Island, in th Solomons group. He said tn main air field had been put out of action but no details yet wertj available. . Without giving th tourc f his information, Walter Farr, tn London Dally Mall' Washing ton correspondent, said in dispatch to his paper that tn marine were believed to hay seized "the two small islands of Makanbo and Gavutu neat Tu lagi" in th Solomons. (Reuters, British newt agency, picked up Vichy radio report that U. S. force had captured Japanese airdrome on on) of th Solomon Islands.) Portland, Ore., Aug. 15. (AP) Produce prices steady, unchanged.