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Let YOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDSI Buy Dfnte Bond and CUiuiw TODAT CoDlrlbuU ta the atrtnctb. of your nation. Fatrtutlim. ).ur oo aelf-pra-In-llon. ONnm hat YOU So rour part NOW! Thirty-sixth Year Morgenthau IF esssssssisssWW 90 Appearing bafora th housa way end maani committaa. Secretary of th Treasury Henry Morgenthau (extrama left), laid before congress $9,610,000,000 war tax program, including doubled Individual income taxei "to be felt in Try American horn." Member of th committee rang along th raised desk. News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, March S. The theory upon which unions are exercising their right to strike is that their .hmwm vital interests tkiil r helne im paired. Labor apparently be lieves its fund amental rights are as Import ant as winning the war. This notion may seem self ish, from, the Paul Malloa viewpoint o f the general welfare. Whether any class right can be above national in terest is at least a debatable question. But put all that to one side. To judge the problem thor oughly and fairly, accept the viewpoint of the union striker. The only question then Is whether his rights have been threatened In individual strike situations which have arisen to cause him to slow down pro duction. A survey of recent cases shows the following causes: At a Curtiss-Wright propeller plant In New Jersey, slowdowns have been reported several times since July. Normal rate is three propellers per man per day. When it gets down to one nrooeller per man per day, au thorities know something Is 'wrong. a a a UNSETTLED question Is that the government's national labor relations board held the Independent union there (pro peller craft) to be company dominated. A Curtiss-Wright plane plant in central Ohio is reported to have encountered a slow-down February 17. Union first com plained to NLRB that the con pany was trying to dominate the union, 'then asked that the case be withdrawn. Company objected because It claimed it was not trying to dominate and wanted to prove it. A one-day strike was called at Monarch Aluminum com- (Contlnul oo Pact 9tt . Spokane, March 5 IIP) Jo 'seph McCarthy, pioneer Spokane attorney and political leader and former president of the Washington State Bar died early today of what hospital attaches tnid was an abdominal nemor- ihage. He was 63 years old. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Truck(!river Ray Marks look ing worried as he dismounted his bicycle and walked it to the curb to get out of street corner traffic. Ed Dirling's friends being rr.ore than disappointed when k Darling lost a letter before they iiad a chance to read it. Mrs. John Gribble hoping that the person finding the hand knit sock she lost yester day will be patriotic and return it to the Red Cross ofiic. Medford fall Associated Prss Asks Doubled 0 Four Bombs Dropped in Honolulu Honolulu, March 5 (IP) Four aerial bombs, the first to fall on the Hawaiian islands since the, Japanese sneak attack of last December 7, struck the outskirts of Honolulu early yester day without causing casualties ot damage, the army announced. Two of the bombs apparently exploded simultaneously. The heavy explosions awakened Honoluluans about 2:13 a. m. "What was believed to be an enemy plane, the army an nouncement said, "flew over Oahu Island early today (Wed nesday) and dropped four me dium sized bombs on the out skirts of Honolulu. The plane was flying at a high altitude. Where It came from is not known. There were no casual ties and no damage except a few broken windows. The bombs landed In a for ested terrain a thousand yards northeast of the Roosevelt high school and about two miles from the heart of the city. They dug craters 25 to 40 feet across and about 600 yards part. Searchlights flecked the sky briefly seeking out the plane which apparently was travelling due south across the island to ward Diamond Head. It was believed possible the plane was from a cruiser or other enemy vessel at sea. BY PEAR EATING Washington, March 8. (IP)- The bureau of agriculture's chemistry and engineering and regional research laboratory at Albany, Cat., is working on ap ple concentrates from western apples. Dr. Henry G. Knight, laboratories department chief. told the house appropriation committee this week. The laboratory is working on pectin from apples. Knight stated that every pectin factory in the country was working full time, for, in addition to its use for fortifying jellies, jams and food products, the pectin Is of value as an injection to stop hemorrhages. Knight also said the labora tory was studying pears as a means of reducing blood pres sure. "It has been noted," he said, "that people who eat pears gen erally have low blood pressure. Whether there is anything to that or not I don't know, but that Is the Information that comes to us and we are doing some work on It to determine its value." G. PASS ELECTS E Grants Pass, March 5 (IP) W. E. Moore was unanimously elected mayor of Grants Pass by the city council Wednesday night to fill the unexpired term left vacant by the death cf.ards. James A. Slover. Mr. Moore, retired educator who was once superintendent of schools at Oakland, Calif., said he would resign from his post tion of secretary-manager of the chamber of commerce, which be had been filling without com pensation since th resignation for th former manager. Income Tax ft Sneak Attack .EVERY OMR DAY Faced with critical shortage of tires and trucks tha Medford Milk Producers and Distrib utors' association established a system of double delivery of milk to retail customers every other day, when they met last evening at the Campbell Dairy on South Central avenue. The dairymen hope that through the conservation meas ure their trucks and tires will last six or eight months more whereas the present daily deliv ery bids fair to use up present facilities in about four months. It was pointed out during the meeting that no new tires, re treads or trucks are available to dairy concerns. The distributors and producers agreed unani mously to discontinue daily de liveries beginning Saturday. With Central avenue as a di viding line all retail consumers on the east side of Central ave nue will receive double delivery by their dairy Saturday, that Is, milk for Saturday and Sunday, On Sunday all consumers on the west side of Central avenue will receive delivery for Sun day and Monday. However, in order that west side customers may have milk on Saturday a single delivery will be made. Central avenue Is classified as east side. Association members said that the new delivery system will be put into effect Saturday by the majority of dairies and will be followed by all dairies by March 15. This new system will in no way affect wholesale de liveries to stores. Members pointed out that with refriger atlon retail customers will not ice no inconvenience. Similar action is be! aken by producers and distributors throughout the west coast as means of conservation of dairy trucks and tires, association members stated. Dairymen Advised On Camp Supply Salem, March 5. (IP) Ore gon dairymen who intend to sell milk to the two canton ments near Medford and Cor- vallis were advised by the state department of agriculture today to ask their county agents to Inspect their dairies, who In turn will turn Inspection reports over to the department. The department then will not ify the dairymen what they have to do in order to bring their dairies up to army stand The army will use only pas teurized grade A milk. The department said the state milk control board will decide what prices will be paid for the army milk. The milk board already has conducted a hear ing In th Medford district, and plans on toon in the Corvallls Urea. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 194 Mil M BLOB ana MH JAR HOLDS OUT HOPE IN JAWS CRISIS Attack May Be Made At Any Moment 'From Another Side' Is Cryptic Remark. By Roger D. Green Associated Press Editor. Lieut.-Gov. Hubertus J. Van Mook, ot the Dutch East Indies, declared late today "it may be expected that at any moment the attack on the enemy will be launched from another side" by the allies, even as Japanese in vasion forces imminently threat ened to overrun the united nations' stronghold of Java. Dr. Van Mook did not explain what he meant by "another side" whether he referred to embattled Java or another sec tor of the far Pacific theater. Six Key Towns Fall As be spoke, the Japanese had captured at least six key towns, sharply endangered both the abandoned capital, Batavia, and the allied headquarters at Bandoeng, and bombed the last possible harbor at which united nations reinforcements mignt arrive. - Starkly summarizing the crisis, bulletin from Dutch head quarters acknowledged that the enemy was "advancing continu ally" with fierce battles now raging "all over the island." The communique said rising sun bombers were also attempt ing to knock out the port of Tjilatjap, on the Java south coast, to prevent either rein forcements or escape of the island's defenders. While dispatches from Java indicated that the allies were gravely handicapped by lack of air support. Secretary of War Stimson declared in Washington that "material" aerial reinforce ments had been sent to the em battled island within the past week. Java Nearly Severed Late reports said the Japanese had already gone far toward cutting Java in two with the capture of Soerakarta, a junc tion point on the Batavia-Soera- baja railroad tine, only 35 miles from the south coast. Against the grim backdrop of the tragedy in Java an appar ent sequel to Hongkong, Malaya and Singapore Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in the Philippines reported a heavy blow to Japan's armies of conquest. Gen. MacArthur said thous ands of Japanese troops were believed drowned in the sur prise raid earlier this week of his little air force on Subic bay, north of the Bataan peninsula fighting front, where three big troop-loaded transports were bombed and sent to the bottom. It was the first time. Gen. MacArthur reported, that Amer ican planes had met no aerial opposition. Overrun Island , A bulletin from N.E.I, head quarters Indicated that the Jap anese invaders were virtually overrunning the 622-mile-long island of Java, advancing in many sectors despite "heroic and courageous resistance" by American, British, Australian and Dutch soldiers. Officisl reports placed the enemy within 10 miles of Ba tavia, the capital, which the government had already left. and within 23 miles of the new government seat at Bandoeng. The communique said the Japanese had numerical superi ority both on the ground and In the air, and that a regular front no longer existed because of Japanese Infiltration tactics. With Java seemingly doomed, Australia took new alarm over the prospect of an imminent Japanese Invasion of that huge but thinly-populated commonwealth. war Bulletins iGriiri, Bloody Reverses London, March 5 UP) A clash between Japanese and united nations forces, presum ably Chinese, on th northern Burma-Thailand border was reported tonight in a Domel broadcast from Tokyo record ed by Reuters. London, March 5. ") Carman aircraft bombed an English south coast point this afternoon and killed a small number of persons and caused some damage, th government announced tonight. TO TAKE CHURCHILL SEAT London, March 8. (IP) An extremely reliable and well-informed political source, com menting on the failure of recent cabinet changes to quiet public and parliamentary criticism of the government, said today there was every likelihood that Sir Stafford Cripps would re place Winston Churchill as Britain's prime minister. This source went so far as to predict that th . doughty Churchill,- whose speeches pull ed Britain together in the bitter summer of 1940 and made him one of the modern world's great est figures, would be unseated within three months. After bitter parliamentary de bates it must be emphasized, this source said, that while Churchill is vastly popular in the United States he has stead- illy lost the strength of his hold on the British masses since the fall of Crete last June. Sir Stafford, on the other hand, has grown in stature as a result of his work as ambas sador to Russia, fact recog nized by his recent appointment to the cabinet post of lord privy seal. Aged Klamath Man Suffocates in Fire Klamath Falls,' March 8. P G e o r g e "Spike" Burnett, about 75, was found dead in his one-room cabin here last night. Death was pronounced due to suffocation. Police who broke Into the cabin after neighbors had seen the body on the floor said a lamp had overturned and set tire to a rug. Burnett apparent ly had been overcome by smoke as he fought the flames which later smothered themselves in the small room. No Tire Rubber For Plain Citizens Henderson Washington, March 8. UP) Leon Henderson told the senate defense investigating committee today that "not a single pound of crude rubber" would be i available for new tires or re- j treads on th upwards of 30,- 000,000 passenger cars now , owned by th ordinary citizen in this country. The director of civilian sup plies, who is war production board member, testified that this was the "most significant single statistic" among a maze of details on the rubber situa tion which he would offer later before the senate investigating group. Henderson estimated that united nations rubber require ments for the next two years would be about 2,000,000 tons whereas "the most optimistic estimate" of supply from all sources was from 1,400,000 tons to 1,300,000 tons. He told th committee that drastic new reductions were in store for civilian uses of rub ber, as torn Is still going into Tribune United Dealt Nazis in 15 DEAD COUNTED AFTER EXPLOSION IN SHELLFACTORY 42 Hospitalized, Six Missing Countryside Jarred For Twenty Miles Around. Burlington, Iowa, March 8. (IP) Fifteen persons were dead and six others were missing to day following a terrific blast at the Iowa ordnance plant here last night that jarred the coun tryside for 20 miles around. Forty-two persons were hos pitalized after the explosion and others suffered minor injuries. Plant officials identified fif teen bodies recovered, but de clined to release the names of those listed as missing. The explosion, which demol ished a TNT melt unit in the shell-loading plant, was th sec ond in less than three months for the sprawling 20,000 acre munitions factory. A similar blast December 12 claimed the lives of 13 workmen. Major J. H. Edgerly, chief of production control, said the dis aster was -due to an explosion of amatol, a mixture of ' am monium nitrate and TNT. Tokyo (from Japanese broad casts), March 8 Imperial head quarters announced today that 30 enemy planes had attacked Minamltorl Shima, a Japanese island about 1,200 miles south east of Tokyo, killing eight per sons and setting a building afire Japanese fighters engaged the raiders, shot down seven of them and drove the remainder off, a communique said. The announcement did not give their nationality. Tokyo, meanwhile, had its first air alarm of the war when planes at first unidentified were sighted off the east coast of Japan early today. The planes subsequently were Identified as Japanese, an offi cial announcement said. Emphasizes YANKEE INGENUITY HOLDS RIDE HOPE Washington, March 8 (IP) Leon Henderson believes that American ingenuity will produce something to enable motorists to travel "setting down" even If they can't get rubber tires. Testifying to a senate com mittee today, Henderson said he thought ingenuity would produce a new type of wheel or tire for automobiles which would be used "even If it bumps, even if It destroys the peace of the night, and even if It onlv tori IS mlta" such things as hose, jar rings and rubber shoes, although non- tire uses have already been re duced from an average of 17,400 tons per month to 8,300 tons. "We have got to cut 2,630 tons out of the March list," he said, "and we've got to do It beginning in April." Pre Cordon Won't Seek Congress Job From New 4th District Roseburg, Ore., March 8 (IP) Attorney Guy Cordon of Rose burg, legal counsel for the As sociation of Oregon Counties, announced today he would not be a candidate for the office of congressman from the recently created fourth district. Cordon has been frequently mentioned by political observers as a prob able Republican candidate. His Announcement that he would not seek the office came as he mads preparations to leave Portland Friday by plana for Washington, D. C, where he will lepresent Oregon counties at a hearing called by the govern mental requirements division ol the war production board. The Oregon counties are par ticularly Interested In obtaining an increased allotment of tires for trucks used in the logging industry, now threatened with serious curtailment by present tire rationing, Cordon stated. He also will discuss the matter of allocation of defense mate rials, - particularly fir fighting apparatus, now limited to cities cf 10,000 population. He also plans to seek consideration for a coordination of fire preven tion and suppression efforts for the forests of the exposed west coast. TALENT REACHES QUARTERFINALS Talent high defeated Paisley, 28 to 14, this morning to earn the right to face Jacksonville at 0 o clock tonight In the quarter finals of the 13th annual South ern Oregon College of Education Invitational basketball tourna ment at Ashland. In consolation games this morning, Langlols defeated Phoe nix, 41 to 14; Prospect whipped Gold Hill, 37 to 24 and Henley downed Sams Valley, 30 to 12 (MORE GAMES ON SPORT PAGE) DROP IRON TARIFF Washington, March 5.- The senate passed and sent to th Whit House today legisla tion suspending for th dura tion of th war th tariff on scrap Iron, scrap steel and non- ferrous metal scrap. At Hearing Th prlc administrator at on point in his prepared state ment said that "at best" it was believed that only about 7,300,- , 000 automobiles out of the pres ent 30,000,000 could be kept in operation over the next three 1 years due to wearing out of tires. Henderson said that present calculations of supplies for the I united nations "did not allow a single pound of rubber either ! for new tires, or camel-backs for any of th 30,000,000-odd ' passenger cars In this country." I Chairman Truman (D., Mo.) interrupted th stocky defense official to ask an explanation of "camel-back." That's the trad nam for strips used for re-caps or re treads on worn automobile tires," Henderson said. Henderson explained he was appearing as a member of the war production board, as direc tor of civilian supply and as administrator of the price con trol act under which b has rationing power. Highest Point Th most mtlttuttorf te get what yon want and get It q 11 Irk If It th Want Art Way In Chit nvwipapcr. Circa la t ion la now at tha highest point In th history of Iha Mail Trtb na. Try an Ad tomorrow. NO. 297. Russia 36,000 KILLED IN STARAYA BATTLE, 96,000 CIRCLED tlsoners Say No Food For Six Days Lull Con tinues On African Front, (By Associated Press) Soviet frontline dispatches reported a series of grim and bloody reverses for Adolf Hit ler's battered armies today de- taring that the Russians nad killed 96,000 Nazis in the 18-day-old battle of Staraya Russa and were now "destroying tha remnants" of the trapped in vaders. Nazi prisoners captured In th Staraya Russa sector, where tha 16th German army of 06,000 troops has been encircled, were quoted, as saying they had gone. without food for six days. A force of 24,000 Germans was likewise declared in Stock holm dispatches to hav been isolated by Red army attacks against Orel, a Nazi-held rail road center 200 miles below Moscow, but Russian demand for surrender was rejected by the garrison commander, CoL. Gen. Heinz Guderian. Supplies By Air In both the Oreal and Staraya Russa areas the Invaders were) said to have been cut off from dll reinforcements and supplies save those ferried in by trans port planes and Russian ground gunners and pilots alike claimed a mounting toll ot these. Reserve planes from Yugo slavia ar.d Denmark were said to have been sped to the Staraya Russa fiont. London accounts said 200 had been destroyed over that area In one three-day pe riod. . The Russian government an nounced Red army troops strik ing toward Smolensk with base already established only 30 miles east of that central front city, had broken into a Nazi defense zone and wiped out two regimental headquarters of the 17th German infantry llvlsion. A bultln from Hitler's field headquarters acknowledged series of fierce tank-led Soviet attacks in the Donets basin, in tha Ukraine, and elsewhere along the 1,200-mile front. The Nazi command said all th attacks had been repulsed. African Lull Holds On in north African front, the two-week lull in land fight ing still prevailed except for minor patrol clashes, with th British holding Field Marshal Ernest Rommel's axis forces at bay 40 miles west of Tobruk. A revitallzatlon of the British army was under way. Th army council ordered a rigid exami nation of tha qualifications of all officers 43 years old or more up to th rank ol lieutenant colonel to eliminate or reassign the Inept and unfit. The royal air force will under go a similar purge. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Tonight: Th war 7:53 CBS: 6:15 MBS; 7 MBS; 7 30 Blue; 7:45 CBS; 8 CBS; 8 15 MBS; NBC CBS Blue; 9:58 NBC CBS Blue. Friday: The war 8 MBS; 8:15 MBS; 8 30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS MBS; 10 Blue; 10:48. NBC; 11 MBS; 12:18 p. m.. CBS; 1:45 CBS MBS: 1:53 Blue: 8 CBS MBS; 1:28 NBC; 8:43 CBS Blue
