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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942.
NO. 57.
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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
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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
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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."
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