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Let YOUR Aniwar to Bomb be BONDSI Bo? War Bonda ana Stamp Ton AT Contribute to tht war effort of jour nation. Fatrlot Kin. your awn Klf-protectlon. Omandi trial SOC do roar part NOW! Umi The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Cost Medford Tribune Full Associated Press On! tod Prats Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942. NO. 57. Qbl Or News Behind The News By Paul Mallon . Washington, May 27 The grapevine from Rome says Mus solini will certainly be out of the war before next January or Febr u a r y (remember the date). jeW Trie youth I groups, which 1 1 furnished the SI I numerical k k ,1 strength of the fascist move ment (the old people were Faal Mallon never strong for it), lost their last illusion in Hitler's tie up with Laval. All Italy's claims were against France. Hope for rebuilding a Roman empire in the Mediterra nean rested with prospects of acquiring Tunisia and other French colonies. But Laval's major policy is the protection of these colonies for France under Hitler. Italy has nothing left to fight for. This, of course, is but the final low in the well known series of Italian misadventures, includ ing German occupation, the des perate food shortage, the disin clination of fascist youth to fight with Hitler. It will take time for the anti Mussolini forces that are afoot in Italy to work their way up, but the army should be in charge within at most eight or nine months. Invasion of this weakest axis spot by forces of the United Nations would bring this result sooner. WJIOST thorough analysis of I this new war capital of the world in all its sprawling, boomlike splendor and political bizarrerle is presented in a new book, "Washington Is Like That," by W. M. Kiplinger, the non-political business letter writer. The storied magnificence of ome, Paris, London, Berlin is Washington's now, with war -mm construction .hastening conclu sion of the vast office, memorial and park programs, making it the most beautiful city on earth as well as the most important. All it lacks is a great place in history, which it is acquiring, and a recognition in literature, which Mr. Kiplinger proposes to start. He tells it all, straightfor wardly, about the new dealers as well as the new domes, and for instance, about labor becom ing the wealthiest of landown ing powers here next to the government itself. m HE estimates labor real estate holdings here at $10,000,000 . . , the machinists financed con struction of the large, new Longfellow office building , . . the bricklayers loaned $300,000 Oto Evalyn Walsh McLean at per cent to build the new bus terminal (they got it from the bank at 3 per cent, where she couldn't) . . . The bricklayers have $5,000,000 in liquid secur ities, $3,000,000 in net assets . . . The United Mine Workers keep $4,000,000 in convertible secur ities and cash . . . The house r naval committee estimated that 101 of the 162 A. F. of L. inter- (Continued on Pago Nino) Portland, May 27 JPh-Five members of the Portland muni' cipal fire department, including E. R. Grenfell, son of Fire Chief Ed Grenfell, enlisted in the navy here yesterday. Radio Highlights w (Pacific war time.) Tonight: MBS 5:30, Connec ticut Calling, Parents Salute Army Sons; 6:30, Pass In Re view, Army Camps. Thursday: NBC 3:30, North ern Baptist convention; CBS i:30. Professional Golf tourna ment. MBS 11:15, Essex Coun ty Symphony society award. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Assistant Fire Chief Ed Canoose describing in interest ing fashion the duties of the firemen. Jack Nail answering one-half Vf the "$64 question" to the Amazement of so-called experts who missed 100 per cent. Warren Liggett being held up by a freight train on lUia street. TOJO THREATENS Jap Scouts Test Defenses on India's Northeast Coastal Area Near Chittagong. (By Associated Press) Japanese officered scouting parties were reported moving from west Burma toward the India frontier town of Chitta gong today even as Japan's Pre mier Gen. Hideki Tojo threat ened both India and Australia with invasion. Lieut. Gen. Sir Noel Beres-ford-Peirse, commander of Brit ish forces defending the Ganges (India) delta, said enemy scouts were attempting to test the defenses of India's northeast coastal area. Chittagong lies 220 miles east of the great Indian metropolis of Calcutta. Japs Thrown Back Meanwhile, the Chinese high command announced that re newed Japanese assaults on Kinhwa, provisional capital of China's east coast province of Chekiang, had been thrown back and thet 4,500 Japanese troops had been killed in a single day's fighting for the strategic city. In Tokyo, Premier Tojo as serted boastfully that "the naval forces in defense of Australia have disappeared, with nothing standing now to defend that country before the onslaught of the imperial Japanese forces." In addition to his threat against Australia, Gen. Tojo warned India that "as long as British and American troops re main in India, Japan is inflexi bly determined to annihilate them." On China's east coast, in the critical Chekiang province the ater, Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek's armies were reported to have started an offensive in an attempt to hamstring Japanese columns storming at the gates of Kinhwa, Chekiang provision al capital. Far to the west. In the Burma- China war zone, the Chinese position along the Burma road was reported sharply improved as Chinese troops continued to push the invaders back from the Salween river and American "Flying Tigers" blasted Japanese bases repeatedly without meet ing opposition. ADDS $4,000 TO WAR BOND TOTAL In tribute to her own son who Is serving in the U. S. armed forces and to Lieut. Robert G Emmens who participated in the April 18 Tokyo bombing foray, a woman who did not wish her identity revealed, purchased $4,000 in U. S. war bonds this morning. Thus was America's fight for democracy and Jackson county's Back Bob Emmens War Bond sales campaign given a signifi cant boost. Jackson county re sidents' response to the pur chase of war bonds continued with interest today, W. A. Gates, county war bond chairman an nounced. The Emmens drive will con tinue Monday in order that the campaign may run a full week, as Saturday will be a holiday at the banks. IN BRAZIL SEAS Rio de Janeiro, May 21 (P) An unconfirmed report from Recife today said a United States warship, answering the n . h.ln nn MsV 18 of the Brazilian freighter Commandante Lyra, chased the unaersea ai tacker and was believed to have sunk it. Tki. the third enemy submarine reported sunk in wa ters off Brazil in nine days. American bombers sank one U-boat near Fernando Noronha, about 125 miles off Brazil's northeast coast, last Friday, ine pilots declared, and another was reported sent to the bottom yes terday elf Recife Mexicans Burn Nazi Flag XW ' i I A A militarized worker held a burning Nasi flag during a huge anti-Axis rally at Mexico City as the nation moved to war. Meanwhile President Manuel AtIIb Camacho formally called upon congress to moot In extraordinary session to declare war on the Axis powers. Medford Women Would Job New Army Auxiliary Corps The army recruiting office at the federal building opened its doors to women today for the first time in history when 10 applications were handed out to Medford women seeking selec tion as the first candidates for officer commissions in the Worn en's Army Auxiliary corps. t - - Miss Betty Vilm, Miss Janet . Mann and Miss Catherine Ford made formal application today at the local recruiting office and received the first application forms, Sergeant Joseph Cush man announced. He explained again that all applications must be on file in the Portland office by June 6 and that enrollment is open to all women between the ages of 21 and 45. At least a high school education and good physical condition are required he stated. Miss Vilm Is employed in the office of the Crater Lake Na tional forest and is the daughter of Mrs. E. N. Vilm, 203 Genesee street Miss Mann, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mann, 815 East Main street is employed at Mann's Department store and Miss Ford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ford, 801 West Main street, is with the First National Bank. Many Medford business houses will observe Memorial day, Sat urday, closing their doors at the regular hour Friday evening and opening again Monday morning. This observance will give many employes double holiday. Although some stores have not yet been contacted, the fol lowing stores which had Been contacted to date signified inten tion of closing, according to John Moffatt, chairman of the merchants' committee of the chamber of commerce: Adrienne's, Buster Brown, Burelson's, Jacque's, Brophy Jewelry store, Hubbard and Wray, Hansen's, Band Box, J. C. Penney company, Newberry's, F. W. Woolworth, Montgomery Ward, M. and M. Department store, Mann's Department store, Lawrence Jewelry store and Larry Schade's Jewelry store. COURT ASKS BRIEFS IN AUSTIN, DOW CASE The civil suit of L. J. Austin against E. G. Dow, for collection of $160 as commission on a real estate sale, was taken from a circuit court jury yesterday after two days of trial. Counsel for both sides were directed to file briefs within 30 days, after which the court will take the case under advisement Attor neys Kenneth Denman and Frank J. Newman represented the litigants. The case was brought up from the justice court on an appeal by i the defendant. B . n. -.. J B .,!! Trip Blithely In to Seek WAAG Entrance Seattle, May 27. OR The sweet essence of perfume drifted through the air at the army re cruiting station today and wom en, tripping In blithely attired in spring ensembles, business suits even slacks took over. Recruiting has begun for the women's army auxiliary corps. Some men waiting there just grinned. Others stared at the floor. One big fellow, weighing over 200 and about six feet, two inches tall, remarked disgust edly: I don t mind taking a back seat at some things, but when it comes to armies I think they're going too far." In the first two hours more than 75 women appeared to ob tain application forms. Old Firefighters to Hold Annual Reunion On Thursday Evening Remlniscenses of the "good old days" of firefighting in Med ford will fly thick and fast when volunteer firefighters of the 1890's, representing the old Protection Hose companies 1 and 2, gather in the fire hall Thursday night for an 8 o'clock dinner and a general get-together. Attending the function will be Eugene Amann of Wolf Creek, who was chief at that time, along with many local business men who were volun teer firemen In their younger days. Amann and Ed Canoose, present assistant-chief, are mak ing arrangements for the dinner, which will be cooked and served by local firemen. Canoose said he had mailed 24 invitations to old-time volunteer firefighters. Portland, May 27 UP) The Knight Packing company, in cluding properties at Portland, Medford and Cornelius, was sold yesterday to the California Con serving company, San Francisco. Price was not announced. The Knight Packing company property here, located at 624 South Central avenue, is operat ed only seasonally and is closed at the present time. No details of the salt were available here Mass Slav hter of Czechs Expected to Follow Attack On No. 2 Gestapo Leader DECORATION DAY PARADE AT 9:30 Invocation and Strewing of Flowers on Water on Bridge Program Later. A patriotic street parade will be main feature of the Decor ation Day - program Saturday. The parade will be formed at Medford City Park and will move at 9:30 a. m. on Main streeet to Bear Creek Bridge where there will be an invoca tion by the Rev. Carl W. Brockhaus and strewing of flow ers on the water in memory of those who have given their lives for the country in its service on oceans, lakes and rivers. The ceremony at the bridge will conclude with taps and the parade will then return on Main street to City Park for the fol lowing program: 1. Music. 2. Reading orders, including General Logan s first Memorial Day general order,- by Miss Ora Cox.' 3. Lincoln's Gettyburg's Ad dress, to be delivered by David Dawson, a member of the de bating team of Medford Senior high school. - t Decoration of vacant chairs by representatives of veteran and patriotic organizations in honor of the memory of de parted comrades. 5. Principal address by Floyd K. Dover, of Grants Pass, a past commander of the Department of Oregon, Disabled American Veterans of the World War. 6. Salute to the flag. 7. Singing ."America", by the audience. 8. Benediction by the Rev. Carl W. Brockhaus. In case of bad weather the program will be held in the Presbyterian church. All social, fraternal and civic betterment organizations of this and neighboring communities are Invited to take part in the parade. They and the general public are also invited and urged to attend the program in the City Park. The Woman's Relief Corps and the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil war will conduct memorial ceremonies in Siskiyou Memorial Park at 2:30 p. m. All members of other veteran and patrotic societies ana the public are In vited to witness the ceremonies, L PASSES AGED 43 LUIie Mottern, 43, 11 South Orange street, passed away at a local hospital late Tuesday night after a prolonged illness. Mrs. Mottern was born In Wyoming. September 8, 1898. She and Mr. Mottern lived for nine years In Hombrook, Calif., where he was affiliated with the Stand ard Oil company, being trans ferred to Medford In 1930. Besides her husband she leaves four children, Mrs. Earl Scoville and Joseph Rowhouser, Tommy and George Mottern, all of Medford, two brothers, Lester Barnhart of Medford and Ben Barnhart of Redding, Calif. Funeral services will be con ducted from the Sacred Heart Catholic church Friday at 9 a. m., the Rev. Father F. W. Black officiating. Interment will take place at Hornbrook, Calif. Perl Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. ANNENBERG TO LEAVE PEN ACCOUNT HEALTH Washington, May 27 (IPy M. L. Annenberg, Philadelphia pub lisher, serving three-year sen tence at Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison after conviction in the largest individual Income tax evasion case on record, will be paroled June 11 because of ill- health, the Justice department announced today German Command Asserts . Red Resistance Broken Libyan Battle Revived. By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor. Soviet front-line dispatches reported today that Marshal Se ra eon Timoshenko's armies had smothered part of the German offensive 80 miles below Khar kov, while the German high command asserted that the re sistance of Russian troops en circled in the same critical sector "has been broken." The Russians declared the Red armies, smashing through the Tank of a German wedge, had brought the Nazi offensive in the Izyumbarvenkova sector to a standstill in the most im portant zone. Libyan War Flares On the North African battle front, British and axis armies grappled in an apparently big- scale renewal of the Libyan desert warfare. British headquarters Issued special communique reporting that during the night German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel sent a large armored force roll ing eastward toward the British lines. "Early this morning the ene my were being engaged by our armored forces, the communi que said tersely. "No details of the fighting as yet available. In the Russian campaign, the Soviet armies appeared to be gaining In the fierce struggle around Kharkov. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, said tank-led Rus sian Infantry, attacking under cover of an artillery barrage, had captured the slope of a hill dominating the battle zone and were now fighting at the gates of a village several miles from their starting point. Counter Blows Fail Red Star said two Nazi counter-attacks failed to halt the advance. Soviet reports said the Ger man push was stopped along a river bend where Russian troops (apparently encircled) were de scribed as now enlarging a pocket. Red Star declared the Ger mans were suffering "Immense losses" in tank battles flaring In many sectors of the 125-mile battle zone, with the Russians matching attacks by Nazi squad rons of 20 to 30 tanks each. TO CLOSE SATURDAY Salem, May 27 (IP) Salem will close up shop Saturday for Memorial Day. The capitol and other state offices, city and county offices, and all retail stores will be closed. New England Fishing Boat Sunk by U-Boat Shellfire Boston, May 27 (IP) The first sinking of a New England fishing vessel since the war be gan and the killing of one of her 21-man crew by shellfire from an enemy submarine was described by survivors upon their arrival at an Atlantic port. Captain Daniel J. Maher, 59, who has been a fisherman since he was 20, and his men were as anxious to get back to sea as they were contemptuous of the submarine crew's marksman ship. They estimated that 60 or 70 shells were fired, some at ex tremely close range, but that only about 30 struck the 220 ton steam trawler. The attack occurred shortly after noon. May 17, as the traw ler was steaming toward the western banks. Captain Maher related. "The first shell went across our bow," be Mid, "and tbe sec BASEBALL National Score: R. H. E. Brooklyn 4 7 0 Boston 15 1 Wyatt and Owen: Tobln and Lombardl. St. Louis 9 12 0 3 8 3 Pittsburgh Dickson, Krist, Beazley and W. Cooper; Sewell, Dietz and Phelps. American Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 8 7 0 New York. 8 10 0 Caliguirl, Shirley and Wag ner; Bonham and Rosar. MEN IN SERVICES Washington, May 27. (IP) The house reiterated today its insistence that service men be paid a minimum of $50 month ly, and sent back to a senate house conference committee a compromise proposal for a $42 minimum. The action came on a motion by Rep. Rankin (D.-Mlss.) to in struct the house members of the committee to insist on the original house stand for $50 for private and apprentice seamen and $54 for first class privates and second class seamen. The senate had voted for $42 and $48 respectively for the two grades, and the house mili tary committee had recommend ed these figures also, only to be overruled by the house member ship. Today's house roll call vote, announced as 332 to 31, com pared with the 332 to 28 mar gin by which the house on May 13 amended the senate bill to apply the $50 figure instead of $42. The vote came after an hour on debate during which several members urged that "politics be forgotten and warned that sending the bill back to confer ence would Jeopardize the chances of any increase becom ing effective before July. Pacific Coast Has Priority On Masks Portland, May 27 W The office of civilian defense is send ing gas masks and helmets to the west coast as rapidly as possible, James M. Landis, OCD head, said yesterday. In an interview he announced the Pacific slope would be sup plied before New York City "and I don't give a damn what LaGuardia thinks about it. Mayor Fiorcllo LaGuardia of New York and Landis clashed last week over what LaGuardia said was delay in supplying New York civilian defense workers with equipment ond struck the starboard bow. above the waterllne. Then we saw the submarine about a mile away. I stopped the vessel and we put a lifeboat overboard. Three men left on a life raft. A fourth. Chief Engineer Mack Wallace was killed by a shell while trying to reach the raft. "Shells came at us as fast as they could fire," said Captain Maher, who then told how, with 17 men In the lifeboat, they rowed 85 miles in 29 hours to Sambro lightship, off Halifax, N. S. The experience of the three men on the raft Frank BJork lund, Edward Forrey and Theo dore Tsatsaronts was even more exciting. Both oars broke and they were unable to pull away from the scene even when the submarine came within a few yards of them to shell the tough little trawler at point blank range. E TO BE EXACTED ISNAZITHREAT Prague Shooting Follows Announced Plan For Con scription of Czech Youths. London, May 27 iJP) The German-controlled Prague radio announced today that Relnhard Heydrich, reich's protector for Bohemia and Moravia, had been wounded in a "murderous at tack" and threatened terrible reprisals. A state of emergency was said to have been declared over the entire Nazi-gripped fragment of izecno-blovakia and an an nouncement said: "Whoever hopes to hide the guilty persons or who (Ives them any kind of help or secur ity, or secretly withholds any knowledge of the crime will be executed." Fear Mass Slaughter A Czech covernment anurr here expressed fear that the wounding of Heydrich, No. 2 man of the German Gestapo. wouia let down the bars for a wave of executions in which Czechs would be slaughtered by hundreds in "mass execution of innocent people on a scale unprecedented even In this war." It was understood here that the shooting occurred in Prague where Heydrich announced last night, according to a German broadcast, that there would be a reorganization of the adminis trative set-up. Czech circles here interpreted this as meaning that Hitler had decided to incorporate Bohemia and Moravia outright into the relch. One Czech source expressed the belief that Heydrich had been shot In protest against his order conscripting Czech youths for service in Hitler's army in Russia. Used Heavy Flit Heydrich, chief aide to Heln rich Hlmmler, Gestapo chief, has been reported recently visit ing Paris and The Netherlands to take charge of measures to put down revolt It was on such an assignment that he went to Bohemia and Moravia In September, 1941. Ha moved in as acting protector and applied heavy fisted meas ures which he announced month later had crushed all un rest in the protectorate. He declared a state of emerg ency in the principal cities and executed at least 84 Czechs dur ing first 48 hours of authority. For his work there he won, at 38, a special rank of general in the security police. Regulation of Rents Starts June I When Local Action Fails Washington, May lltUPy Federal regulation of rents will be imposed June 1 in 20 war congested areas which the office of price administration said to day had failed to take local action. The score of communities was the first group of defense rental areas designated by Price Ad ministrator Leon Henderson on March 2 and given 80 days to cut rents voluntarily back to prescribed levels. "In no area was it found that the price administrator's recom mendation as to reduction of rents has been met for the com munity as whole," the OPA said. "Since the areas have not met Mr. Henderson's recommenda tions in the 60 days provided by the (price control) statute, the price administrator was required to make federal control elect ive." The reductions will be auto matic, OPA said, adding that the landlord's approval "is net necessary." a 4
