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Let YOUR iuin to Bomb be B0NDS1 Buy Ku Bond! an lUmpl TOKAY Contribute to Ihi aar tffoft mi jour nation. Patriot Urn. -our own aclf-protertloa. eman4a that SOU do you part NOW! Dm Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results t Small Cost Medford Tribune Full Associated Pros United Prtmi Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1942. NO. 63 (0)M Afo) (o)AfP. W LTD mm n a m (wnnrnMo Kelly's Comment rrorn Washington. D. C Columbia River Bill Hearing Set Six Aluminum Plants Talked Bids Invited On Wood Barges Br Jofaa W. Kally Washington, D. S. May 28 A tentative date of June 3 has been set for a hearing on the proposed Columble power au thority bill, sponsored by Wash ington's Senator Bone and Rep resentative Martin Smith. It is said that Senator Bone will be leard and the hearing will then adjourn until some future time when opponents of the proposal wiU be' heard. No one appears to know much about the action to be taken and senators and representa tives have different views. The house committee on rivers and harbors, for Instance, has de signated a subcommittee to meet with a committee of sen ators for a joint hearing. In the senate no member will admit that he has heard of such a Joint committee. SIX more aluminum plants are planned for the northwest, most of these In Washington. They are what are known as "pot lines," converting alum inum into aluminus ingots. Program is said to Include ex- O pension of the plant now under construction at Troutdale giving it capacity of 130,000,000 pounds of the white metal a year. Still In the northwest are government scouts who are try ing to decide upon locations. One report Is that three pot lines will be recommended at Grand Coulee. Reason Grand Coulee is said to be favored Is that the industries will be snug against the world's biggest dam, so close as to make expensive transmission lines unnecessary. Need of steel and copper Is so urgent for the war program that WPB saving every pound of steel and foot of copper wire possible and It does not favor (Continued on Pago Eight) EDWARD TYSON ALLEN Portland, Ore., May 28. (IP) A long-time authority on for est taxation and legislation, Ed- ward Tyson Allen, 66, died yes terday at his home at Cascade Head, Ore. From 1907 to 1909 he was U. S. forester for Ore gon, Washington and Alaska, following a two-year term as California state forester. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight: CBS. 7:30. E. E. Wil son on "Struggle For Air Supre macy;" 8:30. West Point Com mencement Hop. Blue 6, Town meeting from Howard university, "Spiritual Unity." MBS 7, boxing, Ray Robin son vs. Marty Servo. Friday: CBS, 2:30, PGA tour nament k Blu 9:30 a. m.. Farm and 'Home program. Sec. Wickard. MBS 11:30, Joint recital from Canada; 12:45. Dr. L. A. Weigle on "Christian Cooperation;" 1:15 and 3:15, horse races. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Fred Lennard. baseball mogul, carting a worried eye skyward and crossing all fingers for week-end sunshine. Stan Sherwood trying to beat the tardy bell by lifting them up and putting them down but fast. The secret of the missing state cavalry troop at practice abeing cleared up for Capt. Hild "mg Bengtran when he heard that most of the troopers were suffering from poison oak after a day at the Rogers Rogu River Ranch. NAVY STATEMENT One of Ships Damaged Cruiser Action Never Made Public, Is Word. Washington, May 28 UP) The navy announced today that U. S. submarines in the western Pacific have sunk two Japanese ships, probably sunk a third, and damaged a fourth, the latter a heavy cruiser. The latest report on American undersea activities was given out in a navy communique. No. 82, based on reported up to 10 a. m., today, which said: (About 100 words): "1. Information has been re ceived that U. S. submarines operating in the Far East have sunk or damaged enemy ships as shown below: (A) One large auxiliary ship sunk. (B) One medium-sized cargo ship sunk. (C) One medium-sized cargo ship severely damaged and prob ably sunk. (D) One heavy cruiser dam aged by torpedo hits. "2. These actions have not been announced in any previous navy department communique and are not related to the en gagement in the Coral sea which was fought earlier this month. "3. There is nothing to report from other areas." These submarine actions, naval officials said, were pre sumed not to duplicate In any part a report issued at Allied headquarters In Australia sev eral days ago In which several successful attacks by Amer ican undersea craft were dis closed. Today's navy announcement raised the announced American submarine bag of Japanese ships to 44 vessels sunk, 13 probably sunk and damaged. London. May 28 UP) Reu ters. British news agency, re ported today that an axis sub marine was believed to have been destroyed yesterday off St. Lucia, British West Indies, after a second submarine attack on the damaged U. S. destroyer Blakely in the Caribbean. The agency said this was the second submarine destroyed in the Caribbean within a week. (It did not say exactly when or where the first was destroyed.) It said the Blakely was at tacked by submarines outside the harbor of Castries, St. Lucia, as she was steaming from Mar tinique, where she had put in after being damaged by a tor pedo on Monday. Planes counter attacked the submarines, it said, and one was believed sunk. Brother Is Freed in Sister's Murder Kansas City, May 28. George W. Welsh, Jr., was freed today of a first degree murder charge brought against him by the state in the brutal hammer and butcher slaying of his pretty 24-year-old sister, Leila, March 9, 1941. BASEBALL National Brooklyn Boston 6 4 11 0 7 3 Earley, Higbe and Owen; Donovan and Kluttz, American Cleveland 2 4 2 Detroit 6 9 1 Milnar, Ferrlck, Eisenstat and Hegan, Denning; Trucks and Tebbetts. Philadelphia 2 9 1 New York 3 3 1 Knott and Hayes; Orowy and Rosas' Battle Before Kharkov i-asjJBBJBSJBP f A : JaaV JLa a, iUk&mr t ill i rarW. (m n i mtStM Fighting from shallow holes, these Russian troops battle Ger mans for a fortifiad position en the Kharkov front. The Rus sians repotted .repulsing Nasi counterattacks . and resuming thalr advance. ' Photo radioed from Moscow to New York. Air Raid Expected Washington, Way 28 (VP) Secretary Stimson said today the war department considered a Japanese air raid on the United States to be Inevitable as a return blow for Brigadier General James H. Doolittle's attac' on Tokyo and other Japanese cities. The secretary told his press conference the army was doing everything possible to meet the expected attack, which he indi cated was anticipated on the West coast. "Whatever happens, we shan't relax our most effective de fenseour preparations for a major offensive," said. Stimson also told a questioner that despite the great distance the East coast lies from Japan, an attack on the nr.tional capital was "not Inconceivable." He did not discuss the possibility of attacks by Japan's Axis part ners. The "loss of face" Japan suf fered from the army air attack led by General Doolittle made a vengeance blow Inevitable, Stimson contended. "The United States, through General Doolittle, Inflicted a stinging, humilitating, surprise blow on the Japanese as evi denced by their boasting of Japan's invulnerability at the very time the bombers came over," the secretary said. W. R. Nyswaner of Talent, well-known and long-time resi dent of Jackson county, dropped dead of a heart attack while shopping in a Medford meat market this morning. A com plete obituary and information concerning funeral arrange ments will be published Friday. Perl funeral home is in charge. Besides his wife, Mr. Nys waner is survived by a daugh ter, Mrs. Stephen Wolchem. San Francisco, the former Dorothy Nyswaner, who was employed here by the California-Oregon Power company prior to her marriage. MARION BUDGET HIGHER Salem, May 28. (P) The Marion county citizens' budget committee finished its work last night, approving total expendi tures of $984,900 for the next fiscal year, an increase of $2, 320 over tha current year's total. -. fl 5 " "4 f-, - i.v T JBaaypaaj$ TBBassPff on Coast by Army DOOLITTLE'S BOYS T (Editor's note: Although word has been received here that Lieut. Robert G. Emmens, Med ford Dilot in the Doolittle ex pedition is well, publication of details has been frowned upon by the censors). San Diego, Calif., May 28 (IP) Members of the bombing rrews which raided Tokyo last April 18 are in India awaiting trans portation home. Brig. Gen. James Doolittle, leader ol the oaring mission, indicated today In a letter received here by the moth er of one of the fliers. Dated May 22 in Washington, D. C. the missive informed Mrs. Wanda Stork Shuler that her son, Lieut. J. Royden Stork, one of the 79 men who received the distinguished flying cross for the attack, was "well and happy, although a bit homesick" In India. Doolittle also stated in the letter that the crews were deco rated by the Chinese govern ment for their exploit. "I saw Royden in China two weeks ago," wrote Doolittle, who visited San Diego last Sun day, five days after President Roosevetl presented him the congressional medal of honor. "He is now in India. 'Transportation and commu nication facilities are extremely bad in the far east, so it may be some time that you may hear from Royden directly. I assure you, however, that everything la going smoothly for him, al though plans for the future are uncertain. "He will probably return here some time in the not too distant future." LOS ANGELES ALERT Los Angeles. -May 28 UP) The Los Angeles area had an air raid alert this morning when unidentified planes later iden tified as friendly were detected approaching the city. r r l ann i laiinvna Bridges Ordered Deported MURRAY OUSTED AS U. MI AIDE President of CIO Loses $18, 000 Job After Long Feud With Mine Workers' Chief Washington, May 28 (JPh John L. Lewis today ousted Philip Murray, president of the CIO, from his $18,000 a year job as vice president of the United Mine Workers. Lewis, president of the min ers, declared the vice presidency vacant and was upheld by the UMW executive board by a vote of 17 to 1. Lewis then named John O' Leary, Pittsburgh, to Murray's place. A UMW spokesman explained that under the union's constitu tion Murray, In effect, vacated his office when he accepted the salaried leadership of the Steel workers' union. Martin Wagner, representing district 50 of the UMW. cast the lone vote against ousting Mur ray. No Charges The union spokesman empha sized that tha ouster action did not result from any charge against Murray. District 80 of the UMW pre sented a resolution before the union's oolicy committee yester day accusing the CIO leader ship of sabotage and treason to labor. Murray angrily denoun ced the resolution as "indecent" and walked nut of tha meeting. The CIO head did not attend today's session. Lewis and Murray have been associated in the miners union for almost 20 years. Lewis, first president of tha CIO, and his former close friends have not been on friendly terms of late, however, and recently there have been reports that Lewis intended to take the pow erful UMW out of the CIO. Mexico City. May 28. W Tha Mexican foreign office said late today that Mexico is at war against the axis na tions although the formal de claration of war Is yet to be made. Mexico City, May 28. (IP) President Manuel Avila Cama cho called upon an emergency session of congress today to de clare Mexico at war with the axis the first declaration of war in her history and place the nation immediately upon a fighting footing. In a chamber of deputies al ternately gravely silent, then ringing with the tumultous cheers of "Viva Mexico," the president pledged all the re sources of the nation to "colla borate energetically In saving America." The formal declarations, the flr.t In Mnlnn history. Will I bring the second largest Latin American nation into armea al liance with the united nations. Tha president's legislation was to remain In committee to day. Buenos Aires, May 28. (JP) Acting President Ramon S. Cas tillo told the opening session of congress today that his "policy of prudence" in foreign rela tions had been Argentina's best course in contributing to conti nental solidarity "without com promising the permanent Inter ests of the republic." The radical party leaders In the lower house have demanded a diplomatic break with the axis. ATTACK AXIS SUBS Rio de Janeiro, May 28 IIP) An official announcement late today said Brazilian warp!anes had attacked three axis sub marine. Nazis Back-Pedal On Two Sectors Is Claim of Russians By Hanry C. Casaidy Moscow, May 28 (IP) The Germans are being forced to give ground in both the Izyum-Barvenkova and Kharkov sec tors, the Russians declared today, indicated that the initiative on both those major battlefields of the Ukraine was firmly In the hands of the Red army. Front-line dispatches said that the Germans, blocked in their offensive in the Izyum-Barven-kova area, were trying to dig in on new defense lines but that constant heavy pressure from the counter-attacking Russians was forcing them to fall back. From their own freshly-fortified lines before Kharkov, the Russians said they were push ing forward. They battled fier cely overnight against German tank and Infantry forces in both sectors and reported that before Kharkov one three-day battle had burned or otherwise knock ed out 48 German tanks. Russian accounts said the Germans had resorted to ruses in which some of their tanks flew red banners and displayed red stars and some of their troops wore red army uniforms. There also were several "psy chological attacks," in which the Germans charged the Rus sian lines, firing wildly and shouting at the tops of their voices. In one such case, they tried the stunt three times, but fin ally fell back, leaving 1,000 dead "psychologists" on the field, the Russians said. E BY NAZIS IN LIBYA CLOSE TO TOBRUB Cairo, Egypt, May 28 VP) The sudden Axis offensive east ward in the Libyan desert has driven within 13 miles of the key British defensive strong hold of Tobruk despite being repulsed at both flanks, it was disclosed today. This indicated an advance of about 30 miles past the British forward defense line, which stretched between Bir Hacheim and Ain El Gazala. The on slaught was the first great of fensive of the desert war. An RAF communique dis closed the depth of these thrusts by Marshal Erwln Rommel's German-Italian tanks. It said the British fliers bombed the enemy armored forces through out Wednesday in the El Adem and Blr Hachiem areas. Ed Adem is 13 miles south of Tobruk; Ben Hachiem B0 miles southwest. There are about 3,000 men In the nation's camps for conscien tious objectors. Louis Mayer, Movie Maker. Draws Highest Wage in U.S. Philadelphia, May 28 Ouls B. Mayer, the B7-year-oId Russian-born movie executive who began his career as Mas sachusetts t h e a t r operator, topped the field of America's highest paid executives again last year with an Income of $704,428.60 as managing direc tor of production for Loews, Inc. Trailing far behind Mayer, who received $7,373 more than in 1940 and whose 1941 re muneration Included $548,425 80 as either bonus or share in pro fits, were a host of other motion picture executives, actors and actresses, industrialists and busi nessmen, a survey of annual re ports filed with the Securities and Exchange commission showed today. Clark Gable, motion picture 38 JAPANESE OF Ji Thirty-eight Japanese aliens and American citizens of Jap anese ancestry, representing 14 Jackson county families, regis tered at the Medford control center In the Oregon State Em ployment service office yester day, and will be evacuated to the Tule Lake Japanese recep tion center next Monday, where they will remain for the dura tion of the war. Of tha registrants, 33 Japanese representing 13 families reside in Medford and three Japanese representing one family live in the Eagle Point area. Twenty are citizens of the United States through birth, 18 are aliens. No Japanese were registered from Klamath or Josephine counties. The Japanese are scheduled to assemble at the control cen ter, with their belongings, at 12:30 p. m. Monday, and will be taken to the Tule Lake recep tion center in buses under mili tary guard about an hour later. The Tule Lake center is perma nent for the duration, and will also house Japanese who have been at the Portland assembly center and those who registered yesterday at Salem, Corvallis and Eugene, other western Ore gon control centers. Portland, May 28 (P) Four western Oregon control centers registered 309 persons of Jap anese ancestry yesterday, Ernest Leonettl, Oregon director of the wartime civil control ad ministration, reported. Those listed at Salem, Cor vallis, Eugene and Medford will leave June 1 for the Tulelake, Calif, relocation center, he said. FIRST DEEDS FILED IN CANTONMENT SECTION The first deeds for property purchased by the government for Camp White have been filed with the county clerk the past week. All were for small tracts for small amounts, ranging from $70 to $420, situated in various parts of the cantonment area The deeds are filed by the gov ernment, after payment for land, the county clerk's office said. star, received $337,300 from Loew's for second place, and Nicholas M. Schrnck was paid $334,204.34 as president and di rector of Loew's. Many of the annual reports, however, have been held up by the SEC for possible censorship purposes. Included in this group are Eugene Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel corpora tion, who was second in 1940 with $478,144. The figures also do not rep resent the largest Incomes In the United States since many persons have big returns from investments. Scores of the remunerations were well over the $23,000 which President Roosevelt told congress last month ought to represent a limit on Individual net lncomei for the duration of the wa. BIDDLE REVERSES CIO CIFS CASE Attorney General's Ruling Can Be Taken To Federal District Courts, If Wish. Washington. May 28.- Attorney General Blddle today ordered deportation of Harry R. Bridges, v.vst coast CIO leader. In a decision reversing the Board of Immigration Appeals which had cancelled the pro ceedings on January 3. Biddle ruled on two major points one that the communist party advocates the overthrow by force and violence of tha United States government, and two, that Bridges was a mem ber of such an organization. The attorney general upheld the proposed findings of Charles B. Sears, retired Judge of the New York court of appeals, who presided at a 10-week hearing in ban Francisco last yeas. Biddle ordered Bridges sent to his native Australia at govern ment expense. Appeal Possible Bridges, now free under $J, 000 bond, will be picked up on a warrant Issued under today's order and presumably will b. released under a new bond pending an anticipated appeal through the court. Biddle said that his ruling could be taken to the federal district courts, the circuit court of appeals and the supreme court. The Bridges deportation case, now In its sixth year, has been the most bitterly fought proceed ing in the history of the Immi gration and naturalization serv ice. Numerous demands were made for the resignation of Sec retary of Labor Perkins, under whose jurisdiction the case rested until the service was transferred to the Justice de partment In June, 1940, and in 1939 sh. personally appeared before the house Judleiary com mittee to explain her conduct of the case. Senate Blocked Bills On two occasions, once by a vote of 330 to 42 and again un animously, the house voted to deport Bridges, but both bill died in senate committees. At least three times Bridge has begun proceedings toward becoming a United States citi zen, but has not followed them through. He announced after the appeals board ruling In January that he would seek c'tizenshlp Immediately. L By The Associated Press Chinese headquarters late to day denied an official Tokyo claim that Japanese troops, cli maxing a 200-mile advance In 10 days, had captured China' "gold flower" city of Klnhwa, capital of the eastern seaboard province of Chekiang. The Chinese command an nounced that the city still was in Chinese hands after heavily reinforced Japanese attacks bad been driven off. Heavy losses on both side were acknowledged as the fight ing raged around tha walls of Kinhwa, chief target of the Jap anese sweep down the coast be low Shanghai. Even 10,000 Japanese rein forcements, Including cavalry. Infantry and artillery, failed to subdue the Chinese defenders, Chungking dispatches said. AUTO QUOTAS SET Washington. May 28. (JPh The Office of Price Administra tion has set the following quota for sal of new passenger auto mobiles during the month of June: California, 3.298 Mon tana, 104; Oregon. 332; Wash ington, 788, and Waho, 94. t i
