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Let YOUR Aniwer to Bomb be B0ND8I Buy War Bond! and Stampa TOI AT Contribute to Ihe irar effort of your nation. Patriot lam. your own atir-protectlon. drmanda that YOU do roor part NOW! Qn The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results t Small Cost Medford Tribune Full Associated Press United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1942, NO. 60. BUST JAP I ATT 1TI11 A (EH .1 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, May 30 On Me morial day we all look up from our tasks to salute the dead. This year we pause to look upon the inspira tions left us by "our war dead. There is nothing unus ual about birth, it is the commonest of all natural heritages. N o one will es cape it. Even Paul Mallon ,'he son of God chose to expe dience it in its harshest form. Our mourning, therefore, is tempered by the knowledge that there is only one thing we, our selves, can do about it, we can die well, according to our be liefs, the Democratic beljefs of our country and our personal religious beliefs. From these inevitable thoughts, all of us turn to the obvious conclusion that our ac tive duty is to the living, or as Lincoln expressed it, to dedicate ourselves to the cause that these shall not have died in vain. There will be many sugges tions as to how we can insure the future in this respect, how we can now with our modern enlightenment, finally achieve a permanency of peace after this war. But the most Important con sideration is likely to.be forgot ten. If we cat always remember what we, as c unified nation, thought when we were plunged Into this conflict, what we knew then (in the dismal failure of our freshly discovered error) was the only sure way to keep the peace, if we can engrave it on every stone in the land so that it will always be in the minds of our children and chil dren's children that never again may they stray off the path into soft peacetime delusions of un warranted safety, then we will have achieved the proper goal of this day. DEMEMBER what we all " thought December 7. Here we were attacked. We had chosen to believe that after six thousand years, human na ture throughout the world had suddenly changed after 1917 and 0hat all men henceforth would lve up to the Angelic Christian goals of peace through promises. We had treaties with practically everyone. "No nation," they said, "will ever be cruel enough to plunge (Continued on Pag MEET DEGREES AT OREGON STATE Corvallis, May 30 (IP) Ore gon State college graduating seniors were warned today by E. C. Sammons, Portland, state board of higher education mem ber, that the battle to win back Viberties from Hitler will be ong and hard. In a mixed military and aca demic atmosphere 744 degrees were conferred, 151 of them on students who completed their work earlier this year and now are in war service in scattered sections of the world. IN STATE PASSED Portland, May 30. IIP) Ore gon has passed its war bond (ales quota of $5,610,000 for May, Slate Administrator Ray Conway reported today. Multnomah county oversub scribed its quota to put the state ver its mark and reports from -ie othrr 35 counties indicate practically all will reach theirs. Conway said. Several upstate countiej already have reported 'irplue. WAR BOND QUOTA E T Battle of Kharkov Ebbs Berlin Claims Held "Fan tastic" Reds Hold Edge. Melbourne. Australia. Sunday. May 31 Th all air force attacked the Japanese-held seaplane bate at Tulagi. in the Solomon Islands northeast of Australia, Friday night, destroy ing fuel supplies, wharves and nearby buildings ana leaving fires visible for 80 miles, it was announced today. Allied bombers also destroyed an enemy flying boat and sil enced anti-aircraft guns at Tan amboga and Gavutu in the is lands. Moscow, Sunday, May 31 (JF) Marshal Timoshenko's So viet armies in the Ukraine have scored a brilliant success in thwarting a nazi-planned drive upon Rostov, gateway to the Causcasus, the Russians announ ced in a special communiaue to- ,1-,,, -.i.-ln. th f after 19 days of violent fighting in which the Germans have lost more than 90,000 killed or cap tured. Indicating the enormity of the clash of men and machines, the official announcement listed Russia's own casualties about Kharkov at 75,000, including 3, 000 killed and 70,000 missing. German losses in fighting equipment were listed at 540 tanks, not less than 1.511 guns and upward of 200 planes, against soviet losses of 300 tanks, 832 guns and 124 planes. Branding German victory claims as "fantastic" the Rus sians declared sarcastically that "a few more of these German 'victories' and the German fas cist army will be completely bled white." The Germans, claiming a great victory for themselves on the Kharkov front, announced Saturday that Russian dead there were 'enormous" and claimed capture of 240,000 pris oners, capture or destruction of 1,249 tanks, 2,026 guns, 538 planes and vast quantities of oth er soviet arms and equipment.) ROOSEVELT TOLD Washington, May 30 (IP) President Roosevelt has re ceived a protest from some new deal senators that Price Admin istrator Leon Henderson has ig nored the wishes of several ad ministration supporters in fill ing important jobs In the ex panding price control agency and. in a few cases, has appoint ed their political enemies. Informed legislators said to day the president was advised that indignation was so general there was little liklihood price subsidy legislation would be ap proved until some sort of under standing was worked out on the job situation. The protesting senators were understood to be especially con cerned over the appointment of state and regional OPA officials. Henderson has been building up a nationwide organization, expected eventualy to include from 90.000 to 100.000 persons, to enforce price control orders. The Senate originally stipulated in enabling legislation that it should confirm all higher-paid appointees, but the house struck out this provision ar.d It was left out. Thus the Senate was de prived of any check on OPA ap pointments. Miami. Fla., May 30 UP) The navy called today upon one of its ace anti-submarine fighters to take command of the critical Gulf-Caribbean sea frontier where the Axis torpedo tall now exceeds a ship a day. Portland, May 30 JP) Tom J. Kreuder. 63, Multnomah county commisf ioner who won renomination in the Republican primary May 15, died today, Last Call ;e I 3 ctr- 7 . .. ... A John Barrymore DEATH COMES TO JOHN BARRYMOR OF STAGE AT BO Hollywood, May 30 VP) Gay, debonair John Barrymore, who lived life to the utmost and gave scant heed to the conse auences. is dead. The 60-year-old atar m mm stage, screen and radio, whose life was spent in the white glare of publicity, was almost alone when the end came at 10:20 (PWT) Friday night. Only his medical attendants and his brother, Lionel, were with him in his white-walled hospital room when John crossed the border Into death from the coma in which he had lain for hours. Dr. Kersten said the imme diate cause of death was myocar ditis, a heart ailment, compli cated by chronic nephritis, cir rhosis of the liver and gastric ulcers. Barrymore, who had been fre quently ill in late years, suffered his final collapse May 19. At the hospital he made a brave fight, but years of the gay life of which he often spoke jokingly on his radio programs, had taken their toll, and at no time did his condition give his physician cause for encourage ment. - For days he was conscious only at intervals. Several days ago his doctor resorted to stimu lants to keep his flagging heart going, but it was no use. Barrymore once told a friend that every second of his life was an interesting experience, and his antics, on stage and off, bore him out. He was married four times, made fortunes and spent them, had a national reputation as wit, and was regarded as one of the most competent ac tors of his time. He was an un predictable man, sometimes aloof and reserved, then roguish and jovial. SEELEY HALL, JR., CONTEST WINNER Salem, May 30 (IP) Barbara Gibbs, Lakeview high school, today won first place and $50 in the Oregon inter-American student forum essay contest. The state department of edu cation said Seeley Hall, Jr., Medford, won second prize of $25. Their papers, on Pan-Ameri canism, will be entered in a national contest. TERRELL PICKED FOR TALENT JOB Washington, May 30 (Pi President Roosevelt has sent to the senate the following post master nominations for Oregon: Cave Junction, Clement Y. Arnold: Mitchell. William E. Reed; Talent, Jay TerrilL SUGAR RATIONING TOR CANNING WILL START TOMORROW Applications Now Only For Strawberries. Early Fruits New Plan. Portland, May 30 OP) Ore gon rationing boards will accept applications for home canning sugar under a new liberalized plan beginning Monday, O. L. Price, state rationing adminis trator, announced today. One pound of sugar will be allowed for every four quarts of fruit canned, up to 38 quarts. Price said, requesting that ap plication be made at this time only by persons canning straw berries and early fruits. .Until further notice home canning rations will be accepted only from those who have reg istered for war ration books. W. S. Dirker, Oregon sugar rationing administrator, said housewives should estimate fam ily sugar needs for the entire canning season, using as a basis one pound of sugar for every four quarts. Seasonal estimate will assure a portion of the sugar allotment for late fruits, he said. Applicants for canning rations will be asked to declare the amount of fruits and vegetables canned last year and how much still is on band. Sugar will be rationed on a percentage of the oast year consumption. Only one pound oi sugar per person per year will be allowed for Jellies, jams, preserves ana fruit butters. PARIS FACTORIES BLASTED BY RAF. London. May 30. (IP) Squadrons of RAF bombers tak ing advantage of a lull moon struck at the German war ma chine last night with a strong attack on factories in a Paris suburb, a smashing assault on a convoy apparently destined for the far northern front and rams on occupied ports. In the most spirited raiding In weeks, the Germans sent ap proximately 50 bombers against England but authoritative re ports said slight damage was done and seven raiders were shot down. The British ack nowledged losing 13 bombers. Topping the attacks was" a heavy raid on an important group of factories at Gennevil liers. 10 miles from the midst of Paris, where, the air minis try said, the Gnome-Rhone aero engine works, the former Good rich Rubber works and other plants are being used by the enemy to produce war materi als. The air ministry reported RAF planes caught the convoy off the Frisian Islands, which lie along the Dutch-German border, and its news service re ported eight German ships were hit by bombs. Four of these apparently were set afire. The ships were said to be steaming northward with sup plies doubtless intended for the north of Norway and Petsamo (Finnish) front. Portland, May 30 'P Urg ent calls for more strawberry nickers went out today. With the weather-delayed crop almost ready for a rush harvest, F. J. Becker, field supervisor of the Gresham Berry Growers' associ ation, told U. S. Employment Service officials that pickers are needed urgently. He said this ytar'i crop probably will equal last year's reccrd harvest, but pickers on hand are far und er the number usually available at this time of season. PICKERS NEEDED FOR BERRY CROP Interpreting The War News By Klrke L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) There are indications that the approaching last quarter of the third year of super world war may bring developments which will make it the crucial period of the struggle. That is not to say that the war can be lost or won by eith er side in the next 90 days. No imaginable happening short of a successful revolt against Hit lcrism in Germany could do that. Even optimists see no hopes of a revolt in the Reich unless and until cumulave milrtary defeats and the advanc ing shadow of impending starva tion weight down on the German people. Within the next 90 days, how ever, there may be written in blood and carnage portents from which can be adduced sound judgment as to whether this is to be a long or a short war. From them could be nrpdicted the nature, scope and direction of the Allied war ef fort. As these potentially all-im portant three months start, war front are naming wiin ku from the Occident to the Orient. Battle is joined in Russia, in North Africa, in China, In the Western Atlantic, in the Meaier ranean and in the air over Eng land and the European conti nent. Yet it still Is far from certain whether these are more than preliminary skirmishes of th f.mrlnl camDaign. I ucmi fantastic to say that a battle in Russia In which at least a million men are engage" mioht he merely a "local action M taetlcel rather than a strategic .nommt. Official Russian and German reports from the Kharkov region are so utterly i variance, however, that there is nr. nossibilitv or reconciling them to get a true perspective on this monster battle. It certainly does not yet mean that either the Russians or the Germans have committed them selves to an all-out offensive. It is still uncetrain whether the preliminary German thrust in the Kerch isthmus was designed as distraction to cover Nazi preparations to move in the east ern Mediterranean, or as a first step in a major effort to overrun the Caucasus and seize its oil treasures. ..... . There are strong indications tliat Marshal Timoshenko was convinced it was against the Caucasus that Hitler wes pre paring to strike. His Kharkov of fensive appeared intended to dis rupt that Nazi design before it jn.M h executed. Timoshenko's success or fail ure cannot be measured alone in terms of territory lost or won. The extent to which he has exhausted the winter-gathered German resources for major offensive on any front, must remain an unknown and dominant factor In the war pic ture. innii nthrr possibilities un derlying Russian strategy of the moment is always mai oi .u..i. the foe into a major effort on the eastern front as the essential niimnarv to the opening of an Anglo-American second front in the west. War Bulletins Chungking. China. May 30 (p) The Chinese officially announced tonight that bomb ruined Kinhwa had been abandoned to the Japanese after bitter fighting which saw more than 1.000 enemy soldiers wiped out with hand grenades thrown by tired rem nants of the city's defenders In a final close-quarter en gagement. London. Sunday, May 31 VP) The Vichy radio report ed early today that a Judi ciary official and waiter had been killed by a bimb explosion In a Paris cafe on the Boulevard Dupalais. The bomb was said to have been la suitcase left ia cloak room. Washington. May 30OV The navy announced today that medium slsed United States merchant ship had been torpedoed ta the North Atlantic area several weeks ago and that survivors have been landed at aa east coast port. FEAR 10 PERISH IN BOAT MISHAP Two Die In Rescue Try Coast Guard Searches For Missing Craft. Eureka. Calif.. May 30. (IP) Lieut. Garner Churchill, in command of the Humboldt Bay Coast Guard lifeboat sta tion, said tonight he had re ceived unofficial reports that 10 persons drowned in a boat accident today near Brook ings Ore. He said eight were reported to have drown when the boat overturned and that a soldier and coast guardsman perished attempting a rescue. Mrs. J. A. Drlscoll of the Brookings hotel, in a telephone message, told of the deaths of two men but said the fate M the first boat in trouble had not been determined. She said It was reported to be a Crescent City fishing boat and that a coast guard craft from Bandon was searching for it. The Port Orford coast guard station also reported two deaths and said a search for a missing boat was continuing. Mrs. Drlscoll said Private M. D. Brown of Spokane, Wash., and Coast Guardsman James Waugh of Brookings drowned when a small river motorboat used in the rescue attempt cap sized. Coast Guardsman Louis King swam ashore, and a Corporal Wade, fourth occupant of the ill fated craft, was saved by Archie McVay of Harbor, Ore., who went to his assistance in a small boat. Brown is married, and his wife left Brookings to return to Spokane only three days ago after a brief visit, Mrs. Drlscoll said. PRESIDENT SEES T PASS IN REVIEW Washington, May 30 (IP) President Roosevelt and United Nations notables taw a cross section of the army's new of fensive might today In the first all-military review at the capital In years and the first parade here since the United States entered the war. With full war equipment, tanned and fit fighting men of virtually every combat branch marched or rode for nearly an hour down crowded Constitu tion avenue past the chief execu tive. Tall paratroopers In cloth hel mets, several score light tanks Inscribed with such names as "Pap Chaser" and "Arsenic," new type destroyer guns mount ed on fast motor trucks, and a P-40 pursuit plane on a motor ized mount were In line. It was primarily an army show, which climaxed the cap ital's observance of Memorial Day, but the marines, navy and coast guard were represented by several khaki or white-clad de tachments. Arlington National Cemetery. May 30 UP) Abolition of race, color and religious discrimina tion and the meting out of swift, Inexorable justice to Individuals groups or peoples responsible for the war were advanced as peace alms today by Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. In a Memorial Day address In this cemetery across the Po tomac from the national capital, Welles declared that "we must utterly and finally crush the evil men. . . . The iniquitous sys tems. . . . That are today men acing our existence." and then outlined his views of the peace to come. "Our victory must bring In Its train the liberation of all peo ples," he said. Portland. May 30 (Port land bank clearings rose to $244 431.167 In May, compared to $232,674,931 in April. Wounded m A German broadcast said that Reinhard Heydrich (above), act ing reich's protector for Bohe mia and Moravia, had been wounded In an attempt on his life. The report came from DNB, German news agency, at Prague. LIFE AS CRIPPLE IF HE SURVIVES London, May 20 (IP) The Germans were reported tonight working on the theory that par achutists dropped from foreign planes had hand in the at tempted assassination of Rein hard Heydrich, Hitler's "protec tor" of Bohemia and Moravia, as the Gestapo speeded its venge ance of Czechs to a total of 62, putting to death 44 during the day. Czech circles In London, who maintain close underground con nections with their dismembered homeland, said the question had been raised in Gestapo circles that parachutists might have been the actual attackers and that Czech citizens participated only by sheltering the conspira tors. A story gaining currency tn occupied Europe, London said, was that Heydrich might have been the victim of a nazt purge. It was whispered that "Der Hen- ker" was in league with the German army and Industrialists and hatching a plot to overthrow Hitler and the nazl party in fa vor of a form of communism. Heydrich may die, or he may spend the rest of his days in a wheelchair with plenty of time to reflect on the orders by which he has nt hundreds to their death before Gestapo firing squads. DEATlTILFOR (Associated Press) With gasoline rationing, and equipment keeping many auto mobiles off the roads, the na tion's Memorial Day weekend death toll of 68 yesterday (Sat urday) v i dwarfed by the fig ure of la year's peacetime holi day. In contrast to the fast-moving fatality recording of 1941, re ports o ftragedy on the high ways and in the water and other violent deaths trickled in. More than half of the states were not heard from at 6 p. m. (EWT). An early total of 38 traffic deaths, 21 drownings and nine other fatalities appeared to Indi cate that neither last year's holiday weekend toll of 451 Uvea nor an estimated total for the week-end would be reached. Portland, Ore., May 30 (IP) Produce prices steady, un BATTLE NAZIS IN LIBYAJFFENSIVE Desert Struggle Outcome Unknown British Hold Firm Prizes at Stake. (By Associated Press) Germany on both her active) fronts now is up against the latest model tanks from Amer ica's new stepped-up production lines, it was disclosed yesterday in dispatches from Russia and Libya. In Africa they were churning through the sands of Libya in a bitter clash with German armored columns which appar ently was the decisive phase of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's latest offensive. In Russia, Soviet-manned brigade of American-made tanks was in reserve behind the lines and apparently about ready to go into action against the Ger mans. A dispatch by Associated Press Correspondent Henry C. Cassldy said some of these tanks already had been tested in action by the Russians. With the battle of Kharkov In tactical recess, the severest and most tortuous fighting raged on the burning sands of North Africa tome 20 miles southwest of Tobruk. In a vast triangle bounded roughly by that port. Ain El Gazala and the amy water hole of Blr Hachelm, Ger mans and Britons fought and suffered and died in a mighty struggle of attrition. The prize for the Germans might be Suez and the oil riches of Iraq and Iran beyond. For the British, it might be Tripoli and the complete control of North Africa a springboard for an invasion of war-sick Italy. The sreat battle was five days old and no clear picture of as cendancy was yet in sight. All the main British positions neia firm and the fighting was be hind the fluid Imperial lines where the Germans, attempting to outflank their foe, might well have surged into a iteel trap. CANARY IN CAGE Atlanta, May 30 (IP) Thirsty (for drink of whiskey) and hungry (for cigarette). Dopey was back in his own cage to night. Dopey Is the pet canary of of Mrs. Clint W. Hager, whose penchant for drinking whiskey from a cocktail glass and chew ing crrmbs of cigarette tobacco have made hit famous? Tuesday Dopey refused to re turn from his customary consti tutional in the Hager backyard, later flew away. But today he was found, perched on the back seat of a neighbor's automobile. Now Dopey is on the water wagon, with r.o mere cocktails until he learns to come home at night. COPCO STOCK TO BE RECLASSIFIED Can fpsnMtM MaT 30 (IPi The California-Oregon power company lntenas to reciassuy common stock and Issue $3,500, 00 In serial notes. The company. In an applica tion to the state railroad com mission yesterday, said the un dertaking would be a principal part in the reorganization or dered for Standard Gas and Electric, the holding company. Copco supplies power and water to several counties In Southern Oregon and Northern California. PARIS RAID TOLL Vichy, Unoccupied Franca, May 30 (IP) Some 40 persons were killed and 100 t"J"red in British aerial attacks on the Paris area from 3 to 4 a. m.. the Vichy News Agency said In dispatch broadcast U day. i
