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s IT Ltt YOUR Answer to Bombs bo BONDS. Buy Ku Bond and stamps TOhAY 4'ontnbuls to ths war tffort of your nation, patriot Uni. rnur own tclf-protectlon. dniand Chat YOU do your part SOW 1 Dm The - MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Cost Medford TRIBUNE Full Associated Press o United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1942. NO. 129. ALLIED U MM UW I A (Ml rTl fift (o DEWE mwm News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 19 The Russian situation does not look too bad. It is dangerous, dis- far from dis astrous, so far. Events are shaping up to ward a winter battle line in the south, run n i n g roughly along the top of the Cauca sus mountains, across the vi tal oil regions. Paul Mallon This would mean that the Reds may keep the richest and best of the oil producing area, south of those mountains, out of Nazi hands for another winter. If they can hold the Baku area, where more than 30 per cent of all Russian oil has been produced, they will not con sider this a very unsuccessful campaign, when measured against their advance hopes. Hitler has seized the Maikop fields, and no doubt soon will get Grozny, on the northern side of the mountain range. The reds have announced that the Maikop wells have been "de stroyed," which only means that it will probably take Hitler six months to restore the produc tion system and get oil from them. No doubt the red will simil arly "destroy", the Grozny pro- . ducing area .now. at Hitler's reaching finger-tips. . If they can hold the excellent natural barrier of the protect ing Baku mountains, it may not do them much good, as far as supplying their own oil needs, but they will at least keep this (Cuntloued on Page 91 ) BEER SALES EYED Portland, Aug. 19 (IP) The state liquor control commission today pondered a resolution to prohibit the sale of beer and v. ine on Sunday. The commission, in announc ing that the proposal had been put forward by a member, said legal and enforcement problems would be scanned before action was taken. The opinion of the Washington commission, which prohibits Sunday sales, would be sought. The board also considered a resolution to forbid operation of any sort of gambling device on licensed premises. This would include pin ball machines. A further study was ordered and the resolution will be reconsid ered in September. Radio Highlights New York. Aug. 19 Wide World) Rudy Vallee. now a chief petty officer In the U. S. Coast Gucrd and assigned to the operating base at Wilmington, Calif., goes into Uncle Sam's service not long after complet ing his fourteenth year in radio. A good 'hare of that time has been In coast to coast shows. Listening tonight: MBS 4 Leon Henderson guest commen tator: 3:30 Canadian Grenadier Guards bind. What to expect Thursday: NBC 3:J0 p. m Engineer at War. Tanks and Tools. MBS 8:30 a. m.. Yr nkee House Party; 12 m.. Mutual Goes Calling; 1:30 Saratoga Race. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTERS Edith Nichols receiving purty bouquet of glads. Jack Matlack recovering suc cessfully from a horseback ride. Hotel Holland Coffee shop gals preparing a super Dagwell sandwich In miniature. All Objectives Gained in Huge Land, Air Raid Assault Forces Return to Britain Attack at Dawn on French Coast Success Heavy Casualties U. S. Rangers in Action Greatest Aerial Umbrella Used. London, Aug. 19 (JO The reembarkation of the allied forces taking part in the commando raid on Dieppe today has been completed, a British communique announced tonight. Every operation of the day in this great unified assault by American, Canadian. British and fighting French invasion troops was reported to have been accomplished with clock-like precision. The attack was mounted at dawn, with tanks and with probably the greatest aerial umbrella in history. The announcement, from British combined operations (com' mando) headquarters, added that casualties on both sides In the all-day battle are likely to have been heavy, A German radio location station has been destroyed and an anti-aircraft battery wiped out, the communique added. Ninety-fire British aircraft are known to have been destroyed. A communique said re-embar- kation was completed "nine hours after the initial landing, as planned." ,The next: "Despite the clear statement in our first communique at 6 o'clock this morning and broad cast to the French at 6:15 about tVi miH nn ni.nn. flfi-man nrrw paganda, unable to make other capital out of the turn the opera tion has taken, is claiming the raid was an invasion attempt which they have frustrated. "In point of fact, re-embarka tion of the main forces engaged was begun six minutes after the time., scheduled and has. been completed nine hours after the initial landing, as planned. "Some tanks have been lost during action ashore, and re ports show that fighting has been very fierce and casualties are likely to have been heavy on both sides. London, Aug. 19 (IP) Unit ed States troops with Canadian, British and fighting French com mandos stormed the French coast on the broad beaches around Dieppe at dawn today, and with tanks and the greatest aerial umbrella ever spread aloft fought on throughout the day against the German defenders. Not Invasion Despite the unprecedented scope of the attack, the British repeatedly announced that the action was not an invasion in. tended to create a front In west ern Europe but was only a raid. This was supported by the return to Britain during the aft ernoon of some of the com' mandos who had accomplished their mission speedily. The main battle roared on, however, and the possibilities inherent in the situation in creased as night approached. The constant procession of more than 1,000 United States army, RAF and Royal Canadian air force fighters and bombers from British frontline airdromes to the battle zone in France suggested that, at the least, the great assault might be test to determine whether such an aerial "big-top" could positively protect a true invasion force all day long. The planes shuttled to the attack and back for reloading and refueling so quickly that the scene at British airdromes recalled the battle of Britain in the fall of 1940. Fortresses Blast Starting at dawn, there never was a break in the procession. Escorted by British and Cana dian fighters, two squadrons of the United States army air force's big flying fortresses smashed at one base of Nazi aerial resistance in a high-level bombing of a German fighter station at Abbeville. 38 miles northeast of Dieppe, setting buildings afire and smashing runways. I It was the second daylight ! operation of the four-motor : American bombers over France and. as in the first raid two days ago on Rouen, 38 miles south of Dieppe, all of the bombers returned safely. From dawn on through late afternoon the constant shudier ing roar of heavy explosions denoting the battle's continuance shook buildings on the English side of the channel. There was no Immediate Indi cation bow many men returned are missing and 72 enemy planes the first contingent, nor whether Americans were among them. It was presumed that they constituted the wing of the allied force which a commu nique said accomplished its objective and withdrew. Berlin Scoffs The German news agency DNB asserted at 10:30 a. (PWT) that the big-scale allied landing attempt had ended in a debacle and that since this afternoon there was "not single armed British, American or Canadian left on the Euro pean continent." , There was no confirmation for the Nazi claim. British re ports said the battle was con tinuing late in the afternoon. . Authoritative London quar ters, however, had said earlier that the allied raiders would be withdrawn once they had achieved their objective of test ing German anti-invasion de fenses. DNB asserted that more than 1,000 prisoners had been taken and that allied losses in. men and material were "very high." This is a standard Nazi claim. RED PLANES HIT T Moscow, Aug. 19. (IP) Soviet bombers raided Danzig. Koenigsberg and Tilsitt on the German-held Baltic coast, last night, setting a large number of fires, including seven very large ones In Danzig, it was reported tonight. Moscow, Aug. 19. UP) The Germans poured strong reserves today into the Don bend and Caucasus battles from south of Voronezh to the high plans of Pyatigorsk and the bolstered on slaught presaged a full-scale drive against Stalingrad . and along the Baku rail line to the shores of the Caspian. The Russians were fighting back fiercely. A communique declared that the nazis' gains since May IS had cost 1,290.000 casualties twice those of Rus sia and that Adolf Hitler was draining western Europe for the new fighting men required in the east. The Russians fell back in the Don bend where their, counter offensive appeared spent, and gave ground in the region of Pyatigorsk, 170 miles southeast of the destroyed and abandoned Maikop oil fields. (In London a British source whom it was not permitted to identify by name said the Ger mans had made some progress toward Stalingrad, reaching but not crossing the Don river at the bend. He declared, how ever, that Russian resistance had stiffened In the Caucasus, slow ing German progress consider ably). The nazi drive down the Rostov-Baku rail line across the Caucasus had as Its next ap parent objective beyond Pyati gorsk and Mineralnye Vody the rail Junction town of Georgievsk only a few miles beyond the nazi BUCK PRIVATE GABLE Hollywood has lost great actor and the U. S. Army has gained soldier who spurned the idea of wangling a fancy commission, and wants to fight, when Clark Gable enlisted. Here Master Sergeant N. E. Bayliss orders him to report to Air Officers Candidate School at Miami. FISHERS CARRIED TO SEA RESCUED Gold Beach, Ore., Aug. 19 (AP) Two San Francisco men who had been swept to sea by the millrace tide at the mouth of the Rogue river were brought to shore today by a daring fisher man. The men, G. H. Hubbard and Dudley SUckmest, a creamery WpeVator, were suffering frdra exposure but otherwise unhurt. . They were fishing in a small boat at the mouth of the Rogue when the tide started rccing out early last night. Hubbard was swept into swells near the breakers and was swamped. Hubbard and Stackmest jettison ed everything in the boat but a flashlight, and the craft barely was afloat. As the tide swept them over the bar, the fishermen were thrown overboard, but managed to hang onto the boat. When they did not return from the fishing trip, Ray Car penter, a commercial fisherman set out in his boat. He crossed the bar, a difficult feat at low tide, after his ship dragged bot tom three times. About 10:30 o'clock he said he picked up flashes from the light carried by the California men. Carpenter took them aboard, but because of bar conditions, was unable to come ashore until morning. HEAT WAVE HITS STATE PAST WEEK, GOOD FOR CROPS Portland, Aug. 19 (IP) Tem peratures ranged upward to 10S degrees during the past week in Oregon, the department of commerce revealed today in its weather-crop bulletin. However autumn's approach was hinted in night lows In the 30s. Peaks for the week: Albany 102, Baker 95, Bend 94, Eu gene 100, Klamath Falls 98 La Grande 100, Lakeview 94 Wasco 104, North Bend 91. Pen dleton 102. Roseburg 103, Sa lem 102, Medford 105. Weather was favorable for farm activities. Harvest of grain continued with at least average yields reported generally. Corn enjoyed good growth. Second crop alfalfa and clover cutting continued and bent grass hat vest was in full swing in Clat sop county. Hop picking has started in western counties and sugar beets are progressing nor mally in eastern counties. Early peach, .pple and plum picking has started along with some early pear harvesting. Early prunes have been almost all harvested in Umatilla county. Pastures and ranges are dry in the eastern sections and feed is becoming scarce. Portland, Aug. 19 (AP) School days will resume regular date in Portland. Superintendent Ralph E. Dugdale said today. The data is Sept. 8. !E RAIDER AT LARGE SOUTH ATLANTIC (By the Associated Press) A description of the German surface raider loose in the south Atlantic was made public today (Wed.) At the same time reports from Willemstad, Curacao, said a hunt had begun for axis submarines that sent two torpedoes crashing into the beach of that oil refin ing center garrisoned by U. 8. troops. The navy also announced the sinking of a U. S. merchant hip and a British merchant vessel, bringing the Associated Press tabulation of announced sink ings in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor to 438. The British vessel, sunk by submarine attack early in July off the northern coast of South America, lost three out of its crew of 44. It was the survivors of the United States vessel, sunk in the southeastern Atlantic (and hence not included in the tabulation of western Atlantic sinkings) who described the raider. The Ger man ship s existence was also noted at Rio Do Janeiro where a naval ministry spokesman said It had been sighted 1.000 miles off the Brazilian mainland sev eral days ago. T Salem, Aug. 19 (AP) The state rationing committee ad vised the Oregon highway traffic advisory committee today that 269 logging trucks In 17 Oregon counties cannot operate because of lack of tires. William H. Crawford, chair man of the traffic advisory com mittee, said only those who com ply with regulations will get new tires. Operators must hold down their speed, avoid overloads, and obtain the greatest possible use out of their tires in order to qualify for new tires. Chicago. Aug. 19 (IP) Wll llam D. Mitchell, special assist, ant to the attorney general, an nounced today no indictment would be returned by a federal grand Jury which investigated publication of allegedly confi dential naval information by the Chicago Tribune, the New York Dally News and the Washington Times Herald. , BASEBALL American New York 4 7 0 Boston - 6 10 0 Chandler. Branch and Dickey; Hughson and Peacock. NO INDICTMENTS FOR NAVAL STORY HELD FOR ATTACK IL Third Trooper Sought Dis trict Attorney and Army Launch Investigation. Two negro soldiers stationed at Camp White were being held in the city Jail today while Dis trict Attorney George W. Neil- I son and army authorities launch ed a thorough, searching investi gation of their alleged attack on 31-year-old, married white woman whose name was with held, about midnight last night. A third negro, the district at torney said, was believed to have been involved in the alleg ed attack, and the provost mar shal's office at the camp was at tempting to learn his Identity. Neilson said the army was coop erating closely with the district attorney's office In learning the true facts of the case. No criminal charges had been filed against the negroes todny, and the district attorney said he planned to obtain a full state ment from the woman involved this afternoon before filing any charges. The negroes held for investiga tion were identified by city police, who took statements from both, as Privates J. C. Price and Claude Wells. According to the district attor ney, the three negroes are alleg ed to have accosted the woman and a whit soldier, and at the point of a knife held by one of the negroes chased the white soldier away. - - In the woman's alleged state ment to city police, she and the white soldier were standing on the Bear Creek bridge when ap proached by the negroes, after which she claimed she was taken by the colored soldiers to a va cant lot just north of the old P. and E. depot and attacked by one of the negroes while being held by one of the others. Neilson said, however, that the white soldier's statement in dicated he and the woman were under the bridge when the negroes appeared and took the woman from him. The white soldier, leaving the scene, went in search of an M. P., but first found a city policeman. They, in turn, obtained an M. P. and returned to the scene. The negroes, according to the district attorney, heard them coming and ran, two of them being appre hended later at the stage ter minal on North Bartlett street. The third negro believed to have been involved apparently made his way back to Camp White. The district attorney said he understood that the woman's husband was with her and the white soldiar made their data in a local beer parlor, where they naa oeen annmng. Neilson said the civil authori ties would be in full charge of any prosecution of the negroes. COASTAL DIM-OUT EFFECTIVE 12 M. San Francisco, Aug. 19 UP) Coastal dim. out regulations which millions of westerners nave been observing voluntarily if haphazardly, for the past sev e al weeks become fully effec tive under military mandate at midnight tonight That is the hour set for en forcement of an army procla mation creating a "zona of stricted lighting" In which, for aa long as the war lasts, no street signs may be turned on at night, no intense ground il lumination, such as in baseball parks, will be permitted and all other exterior lighting must be shielded so as to be invisible from above. CLOSE S.LK SEASON Salem, Aug. 19 (IP) Gover nor Charles A. Sprague said to day he probably would issue an crder before tomorrow night ruspending the open season on hull elk in Douglas and Core Counties because of the forest fir hazard. Compliments Greenville, N. C, Aug. 19 (IP) A Greenville business man several - months ago named his first-born son for his partner. Recently they disagreed and dissolved the partnership, so the father went to city hall and had the name of his son changed. That's not the end of the story. The other man there upon named a new-born mule for his former partner. AXIS U-BOAT OFF All Military Leaves Can celled as War Threat Grows Nation Aroused. Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 19 (IP) The newspaper O Globo report ed today that planes had sunk a second axis submarine off Bahla. Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 19 (IP) All Brazilian soldiers on leave were recalled urgently to duty today and the navy forbade fur loughs for regular reserves as this nation at the "gates of war' hastened steps to meet the threat of axis submarines that recently sank five Brazilian ships. One of the submarines lurking off these coasts was destroyed by a United States plane, Brazilian official announced. It was learned authoritatively that two submarines had been located at widely separated posi tions in the western Atlantic and that one was of enormous size. Meanwhile a merchant marine spokesman ' said all Brazilian coastal waters were clear of shipping and that 13 ships which were In the submarine zone had reached ports safely. The first official word of the sinking came from Commander Ernani A. R. Amaral Peixoto, federal liaison officer in the state of Rio De Janeiro, who told a crowd gathered before the presidential palace that one of the' undersea raiders had been destroyed. Government press department and other accounts in Brazilian newspapers gave this version of the attack: The submarine was sighted SO miles off Brazil's coast by a United States plane piloted by Capt. Jack Lacey. The plane dived, machinegunning the sub marine and forcing it to the surface with bombs when it attempted to submerge. The Diarlo Carloca, quoting authorized sources, said the sub marine apparently was damag id in this first attack. The united States olane dived again, this time finishing the submarine with direct bomb hits. PASS LADY DIES Grants Pass. Ore., Aug. 19 UP) Mrs. Nellie Riley, about 58. burned to death early today ifter she apparently poured rub bing alcohol over her body and set it afire. State Police Sergeant Lyle Han-ell said The officer knew of no reason for the act Han-ell said Mrs. Riley and her husband. Charles, came here from Klamath Falls about three years ago. Coroner Virgil Hull, in pro nouncing the death a suicide. said Mrs. Riley had been In ill health and was despondent. DIES IN CRIB Portland, Aug 19 (IP) Lee Winters, one-year-old daughter of Mrs. Evelyn Winters of Port land strangled to death In her crib late yesterday, the coroner reported. COSTLY MILL FIRE Bellingham, Aug. 19 (AP) With a losa estimated at more than $130,000, the Brooks Lum ber company plant here was de strayed by fir of undetermined origin last night. 2 JOBS KEY TO JAP EXPULSION Tokyo Radio Changes Tune Marines Start Mop Up Naval Showdown Due. General MacArthurs head quarters, Australia, Aug. 19 (IP) The final expulsion of Ja pan from the Solomon Islands apparently rested today on the completion of two tedius, diffi cult Jobs the mop-up ashore where the United States marines have landed and the consolida tion of naval mastery in that South Pacific zone. ' This still was a triple-header operation of major magnitude, involving land, sea and air forces, but every indication in the absence of official fact and figure pointed to accumulating successes. For one thing, the Japanese radio has begun changing Its ftory on the battle and the only reference to It m the latest Tok- oyo broadcasts was a commenta tor a warning that the United States onslaught might lead to further attacks on Japanese-held territory 'or even on Japan her self." A report to Auckland from New Zealand correspondent somewhere In the South Pacific said the United States had won sufficient successes" at sea to reinforce and supply the assault troops for what may be weeks or months of "extreme bitter" . , fighting in the islands. "Japanese units which were In the Solomons at the opening or operations either have been unk or have fled to the Caro line Islands." said this dispatch to the New Zealand Press Asso ciation. Still, however, the fleet of United States Vice Admiral Robert I,ee Ghormley and the land-based air forces of General MacArthur scoured thousands of miles of the Pacific on the watch for enemy ships American naval forces were reported deployed In anticipa tion of a showdown battle with the Japanese for the seaway vital to holding, or broadening. the wedge already dug into the enemy s network of advance Island bases. Air patrols ranging far north among the islands above Aus tralia, Including one on which an airdrome at Kavleng, New Ireland, was bombed, were re ported In the MacArthur head quarters communique today. I.S. OFF ALEUTIANS Washington, Aug. 19.- A United States submarine has sunk a Japanese cruiser or de stroyer In the western Aleutians, the navy announced today, bringing to 23 the total of enemy ships announced as sunk or dam aged in that area. The navy said that conditions made it impossible to determine an exact Identification ol uie ship destroyed. The sinking was announce. in navy department communique No. 10B, which follows: "North Pacific area: "1. A United States submar ine has reported the sinking of a Japanese cruiser or destroyer in the western Aleutian area. Conditions mad impossible an exact identification of the type of ship. "2. This sinking has not been announced in any previous navy department communique." UMATILLA CENSUS Pendleton, Aug. 19. The population of Umatilla coun ty was estimated by the County Rationing board at 37,234 on th basis of sugar reglstrationa, an increase of 11,273 over 1940 census figures. Klamath Falls, Aug. 19. (IP) Fir which burned over an estimated 8.000 acres of graai and brush land east of her was) held under control this morning.
