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Newspaper Page TextLet YOUR Answer to Bomb be BONPSI Bur War Bond and llinpi TOI Contributa ta tho war ffort el roar nation. Patriot Urn. four own wlf-protectlon. demand that YOU do roar part NOW! Uu The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way FORD tfBUNE Quick Results t Small Cost United Prou full Lauad Wire United Press Full Leased Wire Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1942. NO. 132. r j A j Med ATOKA Hill! GA f r f r I Kl I News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 22 The first great offensive American action, the invasion of the Solo mons, has not been fully re ported to the public for a very good, but unstated, rea son. It was not a battle, but the beg inning of the impatient ly awaited campaign. It was not like Midway Paul Mallno or the Coral Sea, a battle which terminated when the action was over, but a hard, daring, costly, successful opening engagement. The details, if officially told, would let the Japs know just about where and how it will be continued. MY own personal guess, how ever, is that the next big (top will be Rabaul, the center of all Jap bases in the south western Pacific area and the last stop will be Tokyo. Also, from the cautious com muniques and other verified re- . Aj .1 i , o -J - L. 1 jjux lb ul mo last j uay, a uiuttu general picture of what hap pened, may now be presented without divulging any military information. Skillful, deceptive American propaganda enabled the blow to h. ctnirlr vfith HevnstAtlnir sur prise. While the invasion force of protective cruisers, destroyers and submarines (huddled around our transports) was steaming se cretly toward the Tulagi area, the reports from General Mac Arthur's Australian headquar ters were loundly, and almost savagely, bewailing the fact that he had no cargo ships available with which to start an offensive. He was pictured as tearing out his hair because Washington would give him no power. THIS planned trick led Tokyo to expect anything except what happened. The invasion force already had arrived at appointed land ing places, and was actually dis embarking marines, as well as other American and Australian forces, before the Japs knew the one from Berlin, that a Jap submarine detected our armada steaming toward its objective August 5, the day before the landings, and blasted it to pieces in a storm with land-based (Continued on Pa-o an) GESTAPO TORTURE IN NORWAY TOLD Washington, Aug. 22 (U.PJ Torture and mistreatment in- flicted by Gestapo agents on prisoners in Norway, including Americans, was revealed tonight In official eyewitness accounts made public by the Norwegian embassy here. At the same time The Nether lands' ambassador, Dr. Alexan der Loudon, said President Roosevelt's pledge that axis ter rorists would be punished "finJi approval not only among the peoples of the United Nations but among civilized peoples everywhere. "In Europe,' Loudon said, "there still is time for the Ger mans and their henchmen to dis avow the outrages of their gang ster masters, for unless they do they, too, will stand indicted as accessories to the wanton mur ders which they now counten ance." In many of the cases disclosed by the Norwegian embassy the names of the Gestapo agents were mentioned. It has been revealed that these names are being recorded so that the of fenders may be held to account when the war ends. I Stockholm. Aug. 22 (U.B A Berlin dispatch to the newspa per Allehanda today said Count Paul Esterhazy, wealthy land owner, was expected to become the new vice-regent of Hungary. sa. mmm jm i NEW ATTACKS TO THWART THRUSTS BY JAPS OPENED Rabaul Gets Blasting Admiral Nimitz Reports Fleet Showing Power. General MacArthur's Head quarters in Australia, Aug. 23 (Sunday) (UP) Allied planes in one of the heaviest raids of the war. dumped eight tons of bombs on the Japanese airbaie at Rabaul in New Brit ain last night and also raided enemy bases at Lao, a com munique said today. Headquarters United States Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Aug. 22 (UP) American naval units and swift-striking marines were believed tonight to be extending their surprise attacks over a wide area of the southwest Pa cific in offensive action design ed to prevent the Japanese from rushing reinforcements to the Solomon islands. Observers here waited confi dently for news of new thrusts beating the Japanese to the punch, following the slaughter of 842 Japanese and the taking of 30 prisoners in a raid on the Gilbert islands and two ferocious fights in the Solomons. In the Solomons the marines wiped out one entire Japanese reinforcement battalion of 700 men, killing 670 of them and tak ing 30 prisoners, and killed 92 in another fight. In a raid on the 16-miles-long Makin island, northernmost of the Gilbert group, the marines killed at least 80 Japanese and destroyed radio ' installations, stores and two seaplanes while guns of supporting American warships sunk a small transport and a gunboat. The presidents eldest son Major James Roosevelt, was sec ond in command of the marines that stormed ashore at Makin island in the British mandate group seized by the Japanese early in the Pacific war. Japanese planes, sent under emergency orders to aid the enemy forces on Makin, bombed their own men and installations in confusion. The marines lost 34 men killed and 85 wounded in the two Solo mon islands engagements-against the Japanese 762 dead and 30 made prisoners, while American losses in the Makin island attack were described as moderate, considering the nature of the en gagement a daring assault on a strong-held enemy base in the face of direct fire. Admiral Chester W. Nlmilz. announcing the American vic tories in two communiques is sued at his headquarters here vhere the Pacific war began on December 7, indicated that the Japanese losses were astonish ingly high in proportion to those of the marines and that the Solo mons offensive has become an historic American victory. He also made it plain what the United States Pacific fleet, which the Japanese intended to wipe out in the December 7 sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, is doing. Aside from the Intrinsic Im portance of the American vie tories Informants here pointed to the vast expanse of territory over which the naval and marine forces were attacking as an in dication of the power of the fleet and it was believed that the Makin attack might be only one of several agaii.st Japanese Bases, supplementing the Solo mons action. 2 Effective at 7 a. m today, one-way traffic will be discon tinued on the Crater Lake high way and on the Midway road between Medford and Camp White. . The new regulations will once spain permit two-way traffic on the highways, wriicn had been restricted so that construction of the van military cantonment might be expedited. The one-way tup was used primarily to speed up trarpor Ution of workers betwppn C?mp j White and neighboring towns. i'.ilfcill II IllIll - - ' .:: ALASKAN PATROL Chief obstacle to U. S. Air Forces in patrolling the Alaskan coastal and peninsular areas is the perpetual blanket of low-hanging fog. Here a PBY Catalina Navy patrol bomber searches for Jap planes and ships under comparatively favorable weather conditions. SELF DEFENSE TO BE PLEA OF LADY Y Debonair Captain Oft Wed Shot While Crawling Under Bed. Douglas. Ariz., Aug. 22 U.R) Attorneys for red-haired Mar aaret Herlihy, charged with killing her bridegroom. Capt. David Carr, last week after a lover's quarrel, said today she would plead she shot the army officer in self-defense. The pretty, 21-year-old Miss Herlihy. daughter of Lt. Col. Edward Herlihy. who was Carr's superior officer at Fort Huachuca, Is acused of firing five shots at the man she mar ried secretly a short while ago. Two bullets hit Carr as he scrambled under a bed In an at temot to escaoe. . Miss Herlihy appeared In court last Thursday, when she was released under a $3,000 bond and placed In the custody f her attornev. Frank Thomas. Thomas said the girl and her mother would be "out of town" until the trial. Earlier today. Deputy County Attorney Norman Herring re vealed that two other women, besides Miss Harlihy. claim to have been married to the de bonair army cantaln. Mrs. Ruth Duke Carr, 24-vear-old registered nurse, mar ried the officer In January. Herring stated. He said she claimed the bodv and It was re turned to her In Phenlx. Ala Herrlne raid Mrs Alice Llooolt Carr of New Orleans ald she was wed to Carr In 1940 and they lived together for more than a yar. Can- and Miss Herlihy mar ried secretly In Agua Prieta Mexican resort town, and were o have a formal military wed '.!pff next month. Herring believed the shooting climaxed a quarrel between Miss Herlihy and Carr. He said Carr apparently struck the voung girl several times on their way home from Agua Prieta. Liberal Leaves Democrats New York. Aug. 22 0J.R) The American Labor parly, or ganized In 1936 with the ap proval of President Roosevelt and James A. Farley broke eomple'e'y with the New York Democratic party tonight and nominated it own candidate for governor. MANGRUM SHOOTS PAR Vancouver. B. C, Aug. 22 U R) Lloyd Mangrum. Monterey Park, Cal., professional, shot par-splitting 66 today to take the lead In the Vancouver Lions Gate $2,300 open golf cham pionship birg played on the Shaughnesey Height course. BE GIVEN SOLDIERS FOR FRUIT WORK Due o Ihe labor 'shortage In the Rogue River valley, and as a matter of community Interest, Major General Charles H. Ger hardt, commander of the 91st Infantry Division, has author ized furloughs to be given en listed men for the purpose of assisting in the harvesting of the pear crop In the valley, It di vision headquarters announced yesterday. Under the conditions of the furlough order, furloughs may be granted to Individual enlist ed men for not to exceed one week at a time: preference will be given to family men whose families will also work In the pear orchards; actual work will be done as an individual and not as a soldier Purpose of the ar rangement. It was explained, Is to help the community and also to help those enlisted men who -night need the extra pay. T Berlin, Aug- 22 (German broadcast recorded by United Press in New York) German and Rumanian troops cracked stubborn enemy resistance and captured the towns of Krym skaya and Kurcha'nskaya, bring ing them within 22 miles of the Soviet naval base of Novoros sisk on the Black sea, the high command claimed today. Krymskaya nestles In the foot hills of the Caucasian mountains protecting Novorossisk from the rear. In another unnamed sector of the Caucasus the high command said Russian troops were "ex pelled from fortified mountain Dositlona despite obstinate re sistance and extremely difficult weather and terrain conditions. The Germans admitted several Soviet tank-supported attacks In the Moscow area cast of Vyazma and near Rzhev, but claimed they "collapsed," Russian at ttacks farther north In the Len ingrad area and southeast of Lake Ilmen "likewise failed,' the communique said. BULLETIN Medford's Craters clinched the Oregon-California league's President's cup at Klamath Falls last night by scoring six runs in the first half of the ninth Inning to defeat the Peli cans, 7 to 6. Score Medford 7 9 2 Klamath 6 8 3 Lewis and Worthier; Haynes and Goldbar. , DAYLIGHT RAIDS AIR CHIEF HINTS Yankee Filers Return 'To Dieppe and Belgium Sea-Air Fray Off Portugal London, Aug. 22 (U.R) Day light bombings of Berlin by American flying fortresses "In the near future" was predicted in responsible quarters today as Allied fighter planes returned to Dieppe and attacked German crews repairing the wreckage of Wednesday's commando raid. British air ministers Sir Arch ibold Sinclair, describing the rapid increase In American air strength based in the British isles, stated In a speech tonight that American airmen soon will be joining "ruthless" 1000 plane raids on the heart of Germany. While the Allied fighter pilots British, Canadians, Poles and others struck in a sudden at tack at battered Dieppe Amer ican fighters went into action over northern France, roaring across the English channel at housetop levels. Targets in occupied Belgium also were attacked in the day light sweeps of the Spitfire pilots, as were four factories in northern France, airdromes, railroad yards and columns of marching German troops. Lisbon, Aug. 22 (U.R) A Brit ish convoy battled furiously to day against bombing and ma chine-gun attacks by German bombers off the southwestern coast of Portugal, the Lagos correspondent of the Lisbon newspaper O Seculo reported. The correspondent said there were eight transport or mer chant ships in the convoy, which was escorted by several war ships. The attacks from the air were answered by the warships, and the roar of cannon fire and the explosion of bombs was heard on the shore. Outcome of the battle was not known. NOTED DEAD New YorkH Aug. 22 (U.R) Alice Duer Miller, author of many successful books Includ ing the recent best selling poem "The White Cliffs" died at her home toniglit after a long ill ness. She was 68. Mrs. Miller underwent serl out operation last January and never recovered. She is sur vived by her husband, Henry Wise Miller, a son. Denning, and two sisters, 'Mrs. Joseph Larocque and Mis C. K. Duer. U.S. SUBMARINES Navy Also Reports Probable Sinking of Destroyer In Far East Waters. Washington, Aug. 22 (U.R) Hard hitting U. S. submarines. Tinging Far Eastern waters and striking anew at Japanese posi tions in the Western Aleutians. have sunk four Japanese cargo and transport ships, damaged another cargo ship and possibly sunk a destroyer. Two large cargo ships and a large transport were sunk, a de stroyer ' damaged and possibly sunk" and another medium-sized cargo ship "damaged by one tor pedo' In the Far East, the navy 'aid. Presumably the submarines which Inflicted the damage were :m regular patrol duty, since the navy said the actions were not related to the Solomon Islands offensive. In the Aleutians, "a U S. sub marine has reoorted the sinking of a large Japanese merchant ship" It said. Sit- of the sinking was not announced but most of the recent activity In that area has been In and around Kiska Harbor, where the enemy apoar- entlv has developed some base facilities. The total of Japanese ships sunk, probably sunk or damaged bv American forces In the Pa- Ieific now stands at well over 300. Submarines clone have 'ent '60 enemy vessels to the bottom, and have probably sunk or damaged an additional 31 ships, putting their total bag at 91 The Aleutians sinking brought to 24 the number of enemy ves sels sunk probably sunk or dam aged In that area. Of these, 11 have been sunk, one probably sunk and 12 damaged. The ships listed as sunk In cluded six destroyers one vessel which was either a destroyer or cruiser, one transport, two cargo ships and today's large merchant ship. A destroyer was listed as "probably sunk." Those damaged were four cruisers, an aircraft carrier, three destroyers one of which was "left burn ing fiercely' a gunboat, and three transports. O'DANIEL TAKES NARROW LEAD IN TEXASCOUNTING (By United Press) The Texas Election Bureau re rjorted at 12:30 a. m. that with 840.814 votes counted, from 244 counties, of which 134 were comnlete. the count gave: tDanlal 408,877: Allred 398 302. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 22 U.R Sen. W. Lee O'Daniel late to night took the lead in his bitter battle with James V. Allred for the U. S. senatorial nomination, equivalent to election In this Democratic runoff. Calling on his old strongholds, the rural precincts of the Lone Star state, O'Daniel, who paved his way to poUtical Importance via a hillbilly band and homely philosophy. Inched ahead of All red shortly before midnight. The Texas election bureau re oorted that, with 759,171 votes tabulated, from 227 counties, of which 101 were complete, the count gave: O'Daniel 382.626. Allred 376.545. Allred. like O'Daniel a for mer Texas governor, clung tena ciously to a slender margin throughout a early hours of the tabulating when the votes poured In from city precincts But It was the late reports, from the creek crossings, which turned the tide. Las Casas, Chiapas. Mex. Aug. 22 U.R A strong earth quake shook this town at 1:54 o. m. today. No damage or cas ualties were reported. The quake had a strong east-west motion. - War Bulletins London. Aug. 22 (U.R) -The S40-ton British submar ine Upholder, one of the most successful undarsaa raiders of the war, has bean sunk with its crew of about 27 officers and man after a career de scribed officially as "an In spiration for the float" London. Sunday, Aug. 23 (U.R) Gorman pianos bombed the East Anglian area early today but lt was believed thoy caused little damage. A few bombers flew fur ther Inland, attacking an East Midlands town. It was re ported at least two bombars were shot down. L RESERVE FORCES Russia Fights Defensive Battles In South Mos cow Claims High Toll. Moscow. Sunday. Aug. 23 (U.R) Russian armies fought de fensive battles against the axis forces on the southern front where Germany reportedly has thrown in her final reserve lorce ot auo.ouo men in a desperate effort to crush Soviet resistance, it was reported to- dav. The midnight communique ih i,. ,.,. .i said the Red army was on the defensive- south'., of Krasnodar, in the Caucasus, and that on another sector Soviet forces were forced to withdraw to new positions after stubborn fighting. The Moscow radio said Ger many, after losing 10,000.000 men in the last year 3,500,000 of them killed had rushed in her final reserves in the areas of the Caucasus and the Don bend. Germany lost 1,250,000 men on the Soviet front in the last three months, the radio said. The battles at the gateways to the great industrial city of Stal ingrad continued at a furious pace northeast of Kotelnikov and southeast of Kletskaya. in the Leningrad area, where the German siege started a year ago Friday, Russian forces con tinued active. The dispatches said that So viet lioes were bending back under the sheer weight of the concentrated new attack In which no less than 58 axis divisions, heavly supported by tanks and aircraft, were press ing forward In the narrow front between the north and south arms of the Don river elbow. The great Russian river was described as flowing red with the blood of German and Soviet troops, battling to the death for footholds along the river bank. The gravity of the situation was emphasized by the Russian organ. Red Star, which reported that the German attackers were many times superior in arma ment and air power. E WAR BOARD PLEA Kansas City, Mo.. Aug. 22 (U.R) Fewer truck drivers were on strike In eight middle west ern states tonight, but their walkout over wage differences continued despite a war labor board request for them to return to work immediately and talk later. The number on strike had de clined because a number of truck lines made satisfactory adjust ments with the drivers' union. In Kansas City alone, of 18 lines on the struck list when the walkout began last night, five had their men back at work tonight. Tnglewood, Calif., Auf. 22 (U.R) Women's known ability to "get away with things" makes them harder to discipline but does not Interfere with their work as airplane producers In the eyes of North American aviation. Inc.,' which employs a feminine shop force of 1200. WAR DECLARED BY BRAZIL UPON AXIS, BUT NOTON JAPS Uruguay and Argentina May FollowSuit U-Boat Sink ings Are Cause. Rio De Janeiro. Aug. 22 (U.R) Brazil declared war against Germany and Italy today, or- aered her armed forces to stand ready for "sacrifices until death" and held two shiploads of Axis diplomats and their families as hostages in the harbor of Rio De Janeiro. Brazil was the first South American nation to take up pirns against the Axis she was the only South American nation to go to war on the Allies' side In the World War No 1 and the 32nd country to Join the Al lies. There was strong indications that Uruguay, strategically lo cated between Brazil and Ar gentina on the Atlantic coast, might immediately follow Brazil into war against the Axis Uru guayan Foreign Minister Al berto Guanl said in Montevideo that "Uruguay is absolutely ar romoanylng Brazil." The declaration of war, which came at 3 p. m. at a meeting of the cabinet with President Getu llo Vargas, followed week-long anti-Nazi rioting and mounting public Indlgnbtlon over the tor- oedoing of six Brazilian shipi J l"Dm",. Uh " I more that) , 600 lives In the past nine nay. - r Benefits Allies Brazil's action meant that the United Nations now have full armed control of the western side of the Atlantic (Straits of Dakar) which might be the routs ot a direct Axis attack on tha western hemisphere. Furthermore, the strategic hump" of Brazil might become a jumping-off base for an eventual Allied attack eastward irross the South Atlantic. Brazil's declaration ot war did not Include Japan, because) the government does not hold the Japanese guilty of any di rect aggression upon this coun try. The official announcement jald: "Brazil accepts a state of. belligerency with the govern ments of Germany and Italy." Three Reasons The nation of 41.000.000 peo ple comprising the biggest of all the 10 South American nations, was forced to war, lt was stated, by three factors: 1 The sinking of 19 Brazil ian ships by Axis submarines since January, Including the six ships recently sunk near tha Brazilian coast, 2 The mistreatment of Bra zilian Nationals In German-occupied France, against which tha government has made formal protests without avail 3 In conformity with the) 'spirit of cooperation with tha United States." LATIN REPUBLICS Washington, Aug. 22 (U.R) The United States tonight wel comed Brazil as a fighting mem ber of the United Nations and. Initiated steps for closer collab oration with its sister republio in the common struggle against the axis. Soon after receiving official notification that Brazil had de clared war against Germany and Italy. President Roosevelt cab led Brazilian President Getullo Vargas that his country's action had "hastened the coming of tha inevitable victory of freedom over oppression. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, In a message to Brazilian Foreign minister Oswaldo Aran ha, sounded a note of warning ta other American republics that they, too, were confronted with danger. Declaring that Brazil ! action was "heavy blow" to the axis powers, Hull said "to gether our two countries will face the future with serene con fidence and high hearts." - WARNED BY HULL!