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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 31, 1942,
NO. 60.
BUST JAP I
ATT 1TI11 A (EH
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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