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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1942.
NO. 33.
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Hero (yHare Waves To
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Lieut. Commdr. Eddie O'Hare.
sixth in one light, waves to admirers in hit native city of St. Louis
mother. Mrs. Selma O'Harei on the
automobile.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 29. Hit-
)Ier has been reported massing
troops in the southern Ukraine
for several
months now
to start his
promised b i g
drive, the one
which Is to
make or break
his cause.
German gen
erals have
been running
in and out of
Berlin. The
pam w e a t tier nas
been suitable for fighting on
that front for several weeks.
Yet there has been no action.
The answer is he is still mass
ing, still struggling to accumu
late every possible force. He
has lifted Italian soldiers from
Italy not for the fighting, of
course but to relieve Germans
to go to the front.
Rumanians, Hungarians, Bul
garians also are being used for
this purpose. Planes are being
gathered in from the occupied
regions along the Atlantic sea
board (which should leave that
way easier for the British.)
German troops have been shift
ed from the central Russian
front, south to the scene of
prospective fighting.
This certainly means action
Is coming. But If it does not
get started within the next three
weeks, Hitler will have to furn
ish some tall excuses.
HITLER is evidently counting
on the big thaw, Just now
developing on the central and
northern front to keep the Rus
sians from breaking through his
weakened forces there. His
transportation facilities are so
much better than the Russians
a hat he can move from the cen
ter to the south much faster.
But he seems to have depleted
his center to such an extent that
he will need this fast transpor
tation to get them back when
the thaws pass in a few weeks.
Therefore time weighs heavily
on his shoulders, and every
moment he loses in getting his
southern drive going means that
(Continued ob Pmga Pour)
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
City School "Supe" E. H. Hed
rick willing to be quoted con
cerning the weather.
a Building Inspector Frank Rog
rs being able to give a lengthy
discourse on a certain subject
which would be Greek to the
public.
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aco of tha Navy, who shot down
right Mrs. Eddie O'Hare. Naval
ON FREEZE ORDER
By the Associated Press
An appeal by the clothing in
dustry for release from the
OPA's price freezing order was
predicted today by a large
Cleveland manufacturer of
men's clothes.
A spokesman said several pro-1
uuieis iibu Bnnouncea price in
creases on fall lines before the
OPA order was issued, and as
serted no clothing maker would
be able to sell stocks six months
from now at the highest levels of
March.
"On May 4, the Industry gen
erally will start paying higher
wages. In addition, the industry
has bought materials for fall and
winter clothing at far higher
prices than those in clothes on
the market now," the spokesman
said, asking his name not be
used.
"It will be Impossible to oper
ate and stay within the OPA's
freezing order."
DISTRICT AG AGENT
TED TIBBUTTS QUITS
Salem, April 29 (IP) Ted
Tibbutts, department of agricul
ture district agent for Jackson
and Josephine county, has re
signed, and will be succeeded
by Tom Stott, Jr., of Grants
Pass, the department announced
today.
POLITE BURGLAR
Eugene, April 29. (IP) A
polite burglar robbed the apart
ment of Elsie Maye Moore,
Eugene, last night. He ransack
ed her dwelling, took $7.50 in
cash, and left a note thanking
her for the money.
F.D.R.
Washington, April 29. (IP)
The guns of American warships
confronted Hitler and Mussolini
in the Mediterranean today end
President Roosevelt warned that
the united nations would fight
any nazi attempt anywhere to
use Vichy French territory for
military bases.
In a detailed war report to
the nation by radio last night
the president disclosed that
American warships "are now in
combat" in the Mediterranean
and that American troops have
taken stations in the Near East
and Middle East a fact which
British commentators declared
had been "one of the best kept
naval secrets of the war."
Mr. Roosevelt took cogniz
ance of Collaborationist Pierre
Laval's rise to power in Vichy
and declared that the united
nations would not hesitate to
act anywhere "to prevent assist
Admires
liTa Jap planet and disabled a
during a parade. At left is his
guard of honor flanks the
FOR RENT SLICE
Washington, April 29. (IP)
The office of price administra
tion named five Oregon com
munities yesterday in its rent
control program.
The recommended maximum
date for each was March 1,
1942.
The communities, their extent,
and 1940 populations, were:
Astoria, Clatsop county, 24,
697; Corvallis, Benton and Linn
counties, 49,114; Medford, Jack
son county, 36,213; Pendleton,
Umatilla county, 26.030; Portland-Vancouver,
Wash., Clacka
mas, Multnomah and Washing
ton counties, Ore., and Clark
county, Wash., 501,275.'
Plans formulated by the Med
ford homes registration commit
tee at its Monday meeting, con
cerning the rental situation here,
are being held in abeyance pend
ing the receipt of definite infor
mation on federal control of
rents as ordered by Leon Hend
erson, price administrator.
Robert F. Kyle, chairman of
the committee, said this infor
mation would probably be re
ceived here within the next few
days.
AXIS SHIP SUNK
London, April 28. (.IP) The
admiralty announced today that
a big enemy supply ship had
been sunk off the Norwegian
coast by the British submarine
Trident.
SILVER ACT SAFE
Washington, April 29. (IP)
Western senators were assured
today by Secretary Morgenthau
that the treasury did not plan
to seek repeal of the silver pur
chase acts.
Bares "Best Kept Naval
ance to the armies or navies or
air forces of Germany, Italy
and Japan."
Calls All To Work
At home he called all Ameri
ca to war every man, woman
and child. The price of victory,
he said, Is hard work, sorrow
and blood.
He pledged the exercise of
"all the executive power" at his
command to prevent a spiral in
the cost of living and summoned
the nation to harsh self denial
for a "tough" and long war pro
gram that will reach a $73,000,
000.000 yearly rate before 1942
is over. He spoke Just after
blanket price control was Im
posed on virtually everything
Americans eat, wear and use.
Abroad, he gave this report
on the war
America now has "several
hundreds of thousands of fight- territory will be bases for of than all the other united na
ing men at bases and battle-1 tensive action and ws are de-1 tions put together."
Government Sets Price Ceilings;
War
Highest March Levels
To Be Maximum Price
On Nearly All Articles
Washington, April 29 UP) A government padlock forged
In March will be placed May 18 on the price of virtually every
article that appears on America
in all war-boom towns will be battened down for the duration.
In a sweeping order coinci
dent with President Roosevelt's
share-the-war economy program,
Price Administrator Leon Hen
derson last night announced that
prices would be held to their
highest March levels and direct
ed that rents in areas housing
more than half the nation's pop
ulation be restored to their pre
boom scales.
3 Per Cent Decline
Henderson estimated the uni
versal price ceiling would knock
retail costs about 3 percent be
low today's levels. That Is the
amount of increase shown by
April indices. They still will be
about 13 percent above August,
1939, however.
Labeled frankly as a frame
work for other anti-inflation
measures yet to come, includ
ing higher income and excess
Drofits taxes, vastly expanded
rationing, wage stabilization and
Income limitations, the over-all
celling exempts only a limited
number of food commodities.
The government's stop-rise
order will be aimed at such
"cost of living" items as tobac
co, meat, canned goods, cloth
ing, and packaged household
drugs, and Henderson estimated
that housewives would find 60
to 75 percent of all foods back
at March costs when the uni
versal ceiling takes effect In
retail stores May 18.
Must Post Lists
Retailers will be required after
that date to post public lists of
the ceiling prices on, "cost of liv
ing" items.
Wholesalers and manufactur
ers prices will be affected May
11. Beginning July 1, rates
charged for "retail services"
such as garages, tailors, laun
dries, dry cleaners and shoe re
pair shops likewise must re
vert to the March base.
Loud protests against pegging
both wholesale and retail prices
to the same month were voiced
by store owners who said they
had not kept pace with increas
ing wholesale prices during
March.
One Fifth Avenue, New York
department store executive, de
scribing Henderson s order as
"completely unfair" to the re
tailer, said stores that kept their
prices to the public down while
selling inventories purchased at
earlier lower levels "were now
being penalized."
Although emphasizing that
he expected business to cooper
ate generally, and that stress
would be placed upon govern
ment administration rather than
policing, Henderson called at
tention to penalties permitting
the office of price administration
fronts thousands of miles from
home."
"American warships are now
in combat in the north and south.
Atlantic, in the Arctic, in the
Mediterranean, and in the north
and south Pacific. American
troops have taken stations In
South Amerlcs, Greenland. Ice
land, the British isles, the Near
East, the Middle East, the Far
East, the continent of Aus
tralia, and many islands of the
Pacific."
Axis Target Soon
Swarms of American four
motored bombers will soon at
tack axis Europe.
There have been serious
losses in the orient, but there is
good reason to believe that the
southward drive of the Japanese
has been checked. "Australia.
i New Zealand and much other
Boom Rents Due For
s daily shopping list and rents
to put violators out of business.
Penalties Provided
All stores and wholesalers
selling products covered by the
ceiling automatically will be li
censed by the government, and
after one warning, OPA, through
court action, may have a vio
lator's license suspended. In ad
dition, the emergency price con
trol act provides for fines of
not more than $5,000 or a year's
Imprisonment, or both; civil
suits for treble damages, and li
cense revocation.
Eggs, fresh vegetables, milk
products, (except milk and ice
cream) flour, mutton and lamb,
live animals, fresh fish and sea
food, game and used automobiles
are among the few items spec
ifically exempted from the price
ceiling.
"Services" not affected In
clude prices charged by barbers
and beauty shops, professional
fees, wages, insurance and un
derwriting .premiums, public
utility rates and advertising
fees.
No ceiling was fixed on raw
agricultural commodities, but
OPA emphasized that, In gener
al, costs of such items are fixed
at the time of their first pro
cessing. As to rents, Henderson order
ed them reduced within 60 days
in 302 areas in 46 states and
Puerto Rico, housing some 76.
000,000 persons. In four-fifths
of the areas, rents must be re
stored to March 1, 1942 levels:
in 64 areas, the freeze dates are
in 1941 Jan. 1, April 1, or
July 1.
Accompanying the general
price order were IS separate
schedules establishing maxi
mums for various products and
commodities ranging from bi
tuminous coal and gasoline to
newsprint and farm equipment
which OPA declared required
special pricing treatment.
The gasoline ceiling, applying
to service stations In all but 17
eastern states and the District
of Columbia pegged prices at the
highest March levels.
In the 17 eastern states and
the District of Columbia, filling
stations will be allowed to
charge highest March prices,
plus four-tenths of a cent a gal
Ion on gasoline and two-tenths
of a cent a gallon on dlesel fuel.
MUMPS RECORD
Prlneville, Ore., April 29 (JP)
Prineville'a mumps epidemic
appeared to have broken all
records when 147 grade school
students were absent In a single
day, but then down came
"Grandma" Evans, 87, with the
disease.
termlned that the territory
which has been lost will be re
gained." The situation in Burma Is
serious. The Japanese may cut
the Burma road. But "no mat
ter what advances the Japanese
may make, ways will be found
to deliver airplanes and muni
tions of war to the armies of
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek.
"For every advance that the
Japanese have made since they
started their frenzied career of
conquest, they have had to pay
a very heavy toll In warships,
in transports, in planes and in
men. They are feeling the ef
fects of these losses."
In Europe, the great Russian
offensive is "destroying more
armed power of our enemi
troops, planes, tanks and guns
RAF CAPS RAIDS
WITH BIG PUNCH
AT KIELSEABASE
Great Fires Left in Before
Dawn Attack Battle
ship Lair Also Bombed.
By Roger D. Greene
Associated Press War Editor
British warplanes capped a
devastating week-long air of
fensive by smashing heavily at
Germany's big naval base of
Kiel before dawn today and
bombed the nazt battleship lair
at Trondhelm, Norway, for the
second night in a row.
Great fires were left raging
at Kiel, toe British said, while
the Germans asserted that the
RAF aimed Its bombs at "cul
tural monuments", dwellings
and hospitals.
The nazi high command ac
knowledged an unspecified num
ber of civilian casualties and
said the raid cost the British 11
bombers, making a 48-hour total
of 36 RAF bombers shot down.
The high command said 23 were
shot down Monday night alone.
On the soviet front, Russia
claimed an Important 43-mile
advance In four days In which
the Red armies stormed across
a big river and sent the Germ
ans reeling back to the south
west.
The river wis r.st Identified.
but the Russians have been
hammering nazt defenses along
the Volkhov river below Lenin
grad, the upper Volga in the
Rzhev sector before Moscow, the
Oka river 200 miles south of
Moscow, and the Donets river In
the Kharkov area of the Ukraine.
It was the most sweeping ad
vance described in soviet dis
patches for weeks.
Aside from helping to stem
the flow of German war sup
plies to the Russian front, the
RAF's latest raids indicated that
the British were smashing hard
in an attempt to knockout Ger
m."r naval bases along the chan
nel "invasion coast".
E
RAZE MS TOWN
Vernon, Texas, April 29 (IP)
A tornado followed by a dev
astating fire destroyed or dam
aged every building In the west
Texas county seat town of
Crowell last night, killing at
least eleven persons and injur
ing hundreds.
Hospitals were filled with In
jured. All communications In
the vicinity were down.
George Self, Red Cross chair
man at Crowell, said 1,000 per
sons needed emergency aid and
housing.
Secret of War"
Axis Realises Plight
Defeatism is slowly spreading
in the axis countries. The Ger
mans and Italians have "a grow
ing conviction that the cause of
nazism and fascism is hopeless."
The president said that the
Mediterranean area was receiv
ing "very careful attention,"
voired concern that the new
Vichy regime might force the
French people "to submit to
nazi despotism," and issued this
warning:
"The united nations will take
measures, if necessary, to pre
vent the use of French territory
In any part of the world for
military purposes by the axis
powers. The good people of
France will readily understand
that such action is essential for
the united nations to prevent as
sistance to the armies or navies
or air forces of Germany, Italy
and Japan. The overwhelming
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Dependency Recent
Camp Murray, April 29 (IP)
Selective service officials were
instructed today by the national
headquarters in Washington, D.
C, to delve more deeply Into
the reasons for dependency of
their class 3 registrants, and to
reclassify all those who have
acquired dependents "for reason
of providing deferment or when
Induction was Imminent."
Adjutant General Walter J.
DeLong disclosed today part of
the directive received from the
national headquarters.
"In cases where the depend
ency status (such as marriage)
was acquired after December 8,
or acquired when induction was
imminent, the registrant shall
not be classed In 3A," said the
directive.
Dependency deferment such
as pregnancy, birth or acquiring
a child since December 8, also
shall not prevent a registrant
from being drafted.
EUGENEFLiER one
OF SEVEN KILLED
Orlando, Fla., April 29. (JP)
Seven army flyers were killed
when a bomber and pursuit
ship collided in mid-air about
nine miles west of here.
Tha dead were announced by
Colonel Thomas S. Voss, com
mandant of the Orlando air
base, as:
Second Lieut. Ernest W. Rob
ertson of Eugene, Ore.
Second Lieut. Joseph S. Smith
of Yoakum, Tex.
Second Lieut. Richard R.
Carnevale of Columbus, Ohio,
Private M. C. Brown of De
troit. Mich.
Private L. A. Gerhart of
Wrenersville, Pa.
Private Wm. E. Wimf of Hol
land, Mich.
Second Lieut. Robert S.
Boyce of Chllicothe, Ohio, pilot
of the pursuit ship.
The bomber, carrying the
crew of six, was attached to
MacDill field at Tampa and the
pursuit plant was from the
Orlando air base.
Eugene, April 29 (IP) Ern
est Robertson, 23-year-old Eu
gene youth, killed In Florida to
day In the crash of an army
bomber, is a former University
of Oregon football star. He
played for three seasons undei
Coaches Callison and Tex Oli
ver, and In 1939 was considered
one of the' leading linemen in
Pacific coast conference foot
ball. majority of the French people
understand that the fight of the
united nations is fundamentally
their fight, that our victory
means the restoration of a free
and independent France and
the saving of France from the
slavery which would be Im
posed upon her by her external
enemies and her internal trait
ors. "We know how the French
people really feel. We know
that a deep-seated determina
tion to obstruct every step in
the axis plan extends from occu
pied France through Vichy
France to the people of their
colonies In every ocean and on
every continent,
"Our planes are helping In
the defenses of French colonies
today, and soon American fly
ing fortresses will be fighting
for the liberation of the dark
ened continent of Europe."
Freeze
Invaders Entry In Lashio
Threatens Complete Iso
lation From Allied Help.
By the Associated Press
Advanced JaDanese tmnn.
have broken Into the suburbs of
Lashio, railhead of the Burma
road to China, a Chinese com
munique disclosed tonight
inia disastrous development
indicated that barrina some m ir-
acle of defense the Mandalay
Lashio railroad soon would be
cut and China Isolated from all
presently eilective communica
tion with the allies.
President Roosevelt's disclo
sure that America now has "sev
eral hundreds of thousands of
iignting men at bases and battle
fronts thousands of miles from
home" was quickly followed to
day by an official announce
ment that strong new reinforce
ments of U. S. troops and equip
ment have arrived In Australia.
Sink Jap Ship
Other good news for the allies
centered on the valiant resist
ance of Lieut.-Gen. Jonathan
Wainwright's defenders in tha
Philippines.
A war department bulletin
said American gunners on Cor
regidorand other island forts In
Manila bay sank an armed Jap
anese ship, broke up enemy
troop concentrations and silenc
ed several Japanese batteries on
the opposite shores.
The communique said that
Japanese guns heavily shelled
the forts, but that enemy air
attacks on Corregidor were de
creasing. On Panay Island, In the cen
tral Philippines, the war depart,
meet reported that American
Filipino troops continued to
fight against Japanese Invasion
forces but that enemy naval
strength had been increased
near Panay and nearby Islands.
The size of the new American
expeditionary contingent which
landed in Australia was not
given, but officials said it was
"strong and well supplied."
Commenting on the arrival of
the Americans, A u s t r a 1 1 a's
Prime Minister John Curtin de
clared Australia was mobiliz
ing to take the offensive against
Japan despite the "constant and
undiminished" threat of Jap
anese invasion of the down
under continent itself.
Radio Highlights
(Paelfie War Time)
The Kentucky Derby will
have broadcast space on CBS
Saturday afternoon at 2:45. Ted
Husing will do the color while
Clem McCarthy, loaned by NBC
will handle the actual running.
Madeline Carroll, Red Skel
ton, Jean Hersholt, Bea Wain
and Peter Van Steeden's orches
tra are combining for a special
one-time broadcast at 7:30 p. rru
Thursday on NBC to introduce a
war savings stamp drive by the
drug industry. Radio facilities
and talent are being contribut
ed. Tonight: Talks MBS 5:30
James A. MacKinnon, Canadian
minister of trade and commerce,
on "Inter-American Relations,'
MBS 7:13 United Nations speak,
Alexander Loudon, Netherlands
minister. BLU and MBS 8:30
from St. Paul "Buy a Bomber
Show." Paul V. McNutt on
"Manpower Mobilization."
Thursday: NBC 3:30 p. m..
American Legion Child Health
Day program. CBS 2:30 Ken
tuck Derby preview; 3:15 Her
bert Agar on "What Are We
Fighting For?"
SUNDAY HOLIDAY OUT
London. April 29 VP) The
Berlin radio was heard tonight
broadcasting a decree abolishing
all Sunday holiday. y ;