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Let YOUR Antwir to Bombs bo BONDS. Buf Wt Bunds and Stamps TOH4Y Contribute to th war effort of our nation. Patrlot Ura. our on rlf-prntectlun, tfrniand that i'OU do your prt NOrt I Um Th MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick RmuIU at Small Coit Medford Tribune Full Associated Pims United Press Thirty seventh Year. . MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1942 j , . & NO. 61 r -5- E .5 t V M v " 5 v v ' i , - X . 1 Thif B-24 Consolidated heavy bomber is of the type much used by the United Nations during recent months io blast Axis fac tories and ships. A gun in the tail gives protection where bombers were once vulnerable. (U. S. Army Signal Corps Photo.) News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 1 The domestic communists, who have nut thAmsclvpa in rharee of weeding out SsyrTa what they call 1 nnr "fifth col- iiPX J our "fifth col 1 1 jt. "Jl umnists, are fa n o w openly it; pushing them selves forward as our best pa triots. Their news- iii paper, "T h e Hi) Daily Work er." had a lead raui Mallon story Friday showing that a New York Congressman, Will iam B. Barry, a Democrat, had once spoken on the same pro gram with Laura Ingalls in a school auditorium in his home district in Queensborough. As Miss Ingalls since has been Jailed for taking money from the nazis, the communist mouth piece demands Barry's expul sion from congress. This seems 'ather mmsy evidence against I?arrv. but concress will no doubt take care of that end. The more important point is that on the very same day. Mr. Roosevelt's Attorney General Biddle, held in the Harry Brid ges case, that these commies who now profess to be our best patriots and are telling us which Americans are loyal are them selves subversive. He said: "The communist party teaches the violent overthrow of existing governments, including the United States." And he proved it by citing the (Continued on Page Four) Radio Highlights The fight against inflation MBS 5:15 p. m. Wednesdays and Fridays, starting this week, guest speakers on various as pects of the theme, the first Sec. Morgenthau on war bonds and stamps. Tonight: N"BC-8:15 Interview of David Colin and Paul Fis cher, Just returned from axis countries. Blu 8 Radio Forum, three way discussion of "Price Con trol." SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Aubrey Norris giving friends a lift to work in order to spread the good nrws of the arrival cf i baby boy in the Norris family. Laura Phillips trying to make up her mind as to where and how her summer vacation should , be fpent I t t V. 3 1. Vast New Shipbuilding Plans Will Be Undertaken by Navy Washington, June 1 (IP) Legislation to get under way a new $1,500,000,000 shipbuilding program for the navy to be follow ed quickly by an expansion aircraft carrier program was in troduced today by Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house naval affairs committee. The bill would authorize thel president to undertake immedi ately construction ol auu.uuu tons of auxiliary, or non-combat, vessels, including tankers, ten ders and supply ships for the two-ocean navy now beine built. The design, size and type of ships to be built under the leg islation were left to the presi dent's Judgment. Vinson disclosed that the navy would ask for a new multi-million dollar program of aircraft carrier construction to augment the existing program under which at least eleven carriers are on the ways and seven are listed as already operating with the fleet. Vinson said the legislation to authorize the aircraft carrier ex pansion would be introduced soon and would push to about $2,000,000,000 the total plan ned for immediate naval expan sion. , Sab Officers Laugh As Victims Struggle For Life Amid Waves Key West, Fla., June 1 VP) Four officers of a submarine believed Italian laughed from the conning tower of their ves sel as they watched members cf the crew of a torpedoed Brazilian merchantman struggle in the water near their blazing craft. Two torpedoes thundered in rapid succession against the ship May 24 near Haiti. Six men died, two of them killed by the explosion and four in the rough sea attempting to reach lifeboats. Forty-five survivors reached land after 29 hours in lifeboats, and were brought to Key West. The freighter caught fire and 14 men were forced to leap into the sea. Only 10 were picked up by lifeboats. The submarine surfaced 15 minutes after the ship was abandoned. The attack brought the known total losses by submarine at tacks against ships of the Bra zilian flag to seven. An eighth is long overdue and believed destroyed. Four of the total were sunk off the United States coast. J'ville Fire Chief H'ncrcd at Session Jacksonville, June 1 (Spl.) Ray Wilson, fire chief here for the past 10 years, was voted a member of the International Firechiefs' association when he attended the combined conven tions of the Oregon Firechiefs' association and the Pacific Coast Firechiefs' association at Baker, Ore., May 17 and 18. Chief Wilson represented the oldest volunteer firefighting company in Oregon, that of Jacksonville. Barrage Balloons New Common Sight Along West Coast San Francisco, June 1 (P) The gas mask, the steel helmet and the barrage balloon all of them preparations against enemy attack which official Washing ton thinks may come at any time became commonplace sights along the Pacific coast today. A survey disclosed that count less balloons, probably surpass ing even Britains' balloon bar rage, now protect every strategic military point along the west coast, from San Diego to Se attle. These captive gas bags have one main purpose to keep enemy planes high enough to give anti aircraft guns a chance as dem onstrated in London where many a raiding Nazi plane crashed to destruction after snagging steel cables dangling from the high-flying balloons. Completion of the installation work came while west coast residents, mindful of warnings by Secretary of War Stimson and Civilian Defense Director James M. Landis, concentrated on new civilian defense meas ures. Policemen, firemen and air raid word ens were issued gas masks, and policemen were in structed to carry them while on duty. Steel helmets also were passed out to San Diego police, who went on a 12-hour shift with no days off. PIPE LINE OUT Washington, June 1 (IP) The house refused to vote an oil pipe line and a barge canal across Florida today and the legislation's sponsor told report ers that "as far as I'm con cerned, the bill is dead." Japanese Janitor Hides 3 Weeks to Avoid Evacuation San Francisco, June 1. (AP) On May 9, the day be fore he was to have been sent to a Japanese assembly center, Kuji Kurokawa disappeared. Kurokawa, 38, born in this country of Japanese parents, was a Janitor in the home of Simon Levitt. Today Levitt's son. Aaron, went to the cellar. He found Kurokawa cowering in a cor ner. The Japanese, famished and near collapse, said he had been hiding there for three weeks. His reason: "I want to stay in this free country and ' free. I don't wan to be in terned " ...... i -lioN- , .;t-& i?ssa IN DESERT BATTLE Cairo, Egypt, June 1 W The bulk of Field Marshall Er win Rommel's two German tank divisions the backbone of his Africa corps was reported trapped and attempting to es cape the British today with the forces of Lieut. Gen. Neil M. Ritchie waging a fierce battle from all sides and from the air in an effort to wipe them out. The Germans' only hope, a British communique indicated, was to win a "battle of the gaps" by holding open two narrow pas sageways through British mine fields to the westward wnich the Germans had cleared and where they had concentrated anti-tank artillery to protect their route of escape. The British declared Gen. Ludwig Cruewcll, in direct com mand of the Africa corps under Rommel, had been captured. The 55-ycar-old former com mander of an armored division in Yugoslavia was said to have been taken prisoner when his reconnaisance plane was shot down in the desert. British informants said that the Germans, faced with the choice of using the minefield gaps to bring up supplies or to withdraw the tanks, apparently had chosen the latter course and that the Rommel offensive, be gun five days ago, had turned into a furious battle by his for ces to escape encirclement. Conflicting orders from the Seattle Offices For Emergency Management caused confusion today in the local sugar ration ing situation. Although the lo cal rationing board had been in structed previously to start re ceiving applications June 1 for home canning sugar, an order was received by mail this morn ing to disregard the previous in structions. Later it was said by the state sugar rationing admin istrator in Portland that the pro gram was to go ahead as planned except in Multnomah county. The Jackson county rationing board headquarters is located in the Sparta building, at Main strecj and Riverside avenue. Bing Crosby Hurt In Auto Collison Beverly Hills. Calif., June 1 (AP) Singer Bing Crosby suf fered a badly cut lip this morn in, in an auto crash. Bing's car collided with an other at an intersection here. He was taken to the Beverly Hills emergency hospital and later went to his home. Doctors said the injury would not Impede Bing's singing. Massed 7 r Attack on Cologne Beginning of End for Germany Confident Word of Allied Chiefs BY Fifth Largest City in Reich Target Gestapo Chief Takes Warning Service. CITY BY CITY London, June 1. (AP) Germany can be knocked out of the war by fall, crushed by huge fleets of American and British bombers, air experts predicted today as the German city of Cologne lay in flaming ruin under the most devastat ing air raid in history. When the RAF sent more than 1,000 bombers with the greatest weight of steel and explosive ever borne on wings into the Rhineland Saturday night, these sources declared, its fliers heralded not only an eventual Invasion of Hitler's Europe, but also the sys tematic destruction of his war machine, city by city, factory by factory. By Draw Mlddlaton London, June 1 (P) The hour of : joint United States- British mass -aerial assaults to blast the reich out of the war city by city was declared offi cially today to be nearer at hand and the Germans were advised to look to the still smoldering ruins of devastated Cologne for a glimpse of the future. The British said their losses were 44 planes, picked off by 500 anti-aircraft guns and many night fighter squadrons. With plain words, the gen erals who would give the word to go made it clear that "the Yanks are coming;" that the British-American partnership of power in the air will repeat and may even dwarf the RAF's ter rific Saturday night 1,000 bomber attack which loosed on the war-plants of Cologne the greatest weight of steel and explosive ever borne on wings Day la Nar Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, head of the United States air forces, said his conferences in London were nearly completed and had "hastened the day when our air arm shall Join In an air offensive against the enemy which he cannot meet, defeat or survive." Reuters, in a dispatch date lined "on the German frontier," said hundreds of thousands of homeless people were being removed from the Rhineland following upon the attack on Cologne. Wealthy Germans were re ported anxiously trying to trans fer to safer districts. Replying to General Arnold's tongratulations on the Cologne raid, Air Marshal A. T. Harris, chief of thhe RAF bomber com mand, said: "We are supremely confident that our common enemies faced with certain devastation of their own land will have cause to bitterly rue the day on which they forced our two countries into war." Try Retaliation Stung by the fury of the at tack on the fifth greatest city in all the reich, German fliers struck back last night at Brit ain's ancient cathedral town of Canterbury, sending over 25 planes in three waves. Several historic buildings were wrecked (the fate of Canterbury cathedral itself was not dis closed), but casualties were re ported unofficially as light. Despite weather unfavorable to a repetition of mass attacks last night the British again sent Hurricanes and Boston Bomb ers over the channel in. forays against airdromes and rail lines In northern France and Hol land, and other flights winged west by daylight to continue the battering. An authoritative source said that immediately after the Co logne raid, Heinrlch Himmler, chief of the Gestapo, assumed control by decree of Reich Mar- War Bulletins London, Juna I (IP) Tha Admiralty tonight an nounced th loss of tha Brit ish cruiser Trinidad. Tha Trinidad, of tha 8.000 ton Fiji class, was last in th nws whan sh sank a Ger man dstroyr In a fight b twn th Germans and an English-Russian squadron con voying supplies to Murmansk, Russia. Sh was commissioned In April. 1938. . Washington, June 1lP) Th navy said today that a small British merchant vassal had bn torpaoad in th At lantic and survivors had ban landed at an ast coast port. London. Jun I (J") Th Prague radio tonight announ ced th execution of 27 mot Ciachs. Including four wom an. In connection with th at tempted assassination of Rain hard Hcydrich. Gestapo ladr. This brought th total to 109 sine th attack on Hay drich last Wednaiday. Bridges' Surrender Delayed While Plea Is Made to Biddle San Francisco, June (IP) Harry Bridges' surrender on a deportation warrant was delay ed today while one of his attor neys pleaded with U. S. Attor torney General Francis Biddle to reconsider his decision to de port the CIO longshoreman lead er to Australia. Carol King, New York attor ney for Bridges, called on Biddle this afternoon to present a peti tion for a rehearing of the de cision. The rehearing would be either by Biddle or some one person or board appointed by him to reconsider the findings, Pending word on Biddle's de cision, Irving I. Wlxon, director of immigration at San Francisco, agreed to delay the surrender of the longshore leader who called with his attorneys at immigra tion offices the first thing this morning. shal Wilhelm Hermann Goering of the whole air raid precaution services in Germany. The serv ices, it was said, will be incor porated into the German police force. Of such magnitude was the Cologne raid that only a master- work of organization, with the bombers swarming over their targets at six-second intervals, made it possible. Its paralyzing might was told In astronomical figures: Of three-fourths of Cologne afire and under a three-mile- high pall of smoke; Of more than 1,000 bombers roaring over their German tar gets in Cologne, and elsewhere in the Rhineland and the Ruhr valley In a 90-mlnute procession of death and destruction; Of perhaps 1,250 planes In all, Including the bombers' pro tective fighter escort, in the greatest aerial armada ever put into the skies at one time; Of 8.000,000 pounds of bombs dropped; Of twice the number of planes and four times the weight of explosive and incendiary bombs that ever were dumped on Brit ain in a single night, even at the height of the German air as saults. Of 8,000 airmen In a single, Intricately coordinated air at tack; Of 100,000 men In ground crews at home sending the planes off from scores of bases. Even the Germans admitted "great damage" to Cologne, their fifth largest city, although the Berlin radio scoffed at the British announcement of the scope of the attack, quoting Nazi military sources as saying only "about 70" planes took part. Mexico City, June 1 (IP) An accident and not sabotage caused the explosion aboard the Amer ican tanker Cacaliiao which cau. d the death of at least four men and Injuries to 20 at Tarn pico yesterday. Gen. Anacelto Lopex, commander of the Tarn pico garrison, informed the Na tional defensa ministry today. E RURAL ROUTES TO MEET ODT ORDER 25 Per Cent Reduction Nec essary In Motor Delivery New Bike Route Added An Office of Defense Trans portation ruling concerning the motor-vehicle delivery of news papers, ' coupled with the free ing from school of urban bicy cle carriers, many of whom plan to seek steady employment dur ing the summer, has led to con siderable changes in the Mail Tribune's circulation system, ef fective today. In order to abide by an ODT ruling requiring a 25 per cent reduction In delivery mileage under June 1 of last year, sub scribers In the Griffin Creek and Table Rock districts will hence forth receive their papers by mail instead of by motor car rier. Add Blk Route In connection with the same ruling, Motor Route E, operated by Bill Bauman, is being com bined with Route D, Charles Hansen and Route F, D. O. Lind sey and three bicycle routes are to start operating in the rural areas to replace motor routes. Roy Herndon will operate a bicycle route in the Red Top school district, Roger Hogstrom the route embracing Maple Park drive, McAndrews road and Jo Jack drive, and Billie Werner the route embracing Thomas Road, Sunset drive, south end of Orchard Home drive and part of the Jacksonville-Phoenix road. With the starting of summer vacation many of the Mail Tribune's older urban carriers plan to obtain steady Jobs, some at camp White, and this has ne cessitated the placing of new carriers on IS of the 27 deliv ery routes in Medford, it was stated by Gerald T. Latham, cir culation manager. Mor In Ashland Ashland will also have two new carriers, Don Randies and Jack Putney replacing Tommy Newton and Dick Kerr. In Tal ent Robert Frink will replace Edward Walter, in Jacksonville Delbert Hackett will replace Kobert Beach and In Central Point Meluin Kelly will replace nis brother, Shirley. Mr. Latham explained that the circulation department was now serving 8,100 paid sub scribers daiiy, who move, start and stop at the rate of 1,000 changes per month, and asked the subscriber's indulgence in any possible delivery troubles while the revised system Is be ing put into smooth working operation, Building Shows Dip During Past Month Building permits for the month of May totaled $2,475 as compared with a total of 820,800 for the same month a year ago. Of this amount $825 was for remodeling residences; $1,100 for remodeling business houses and $550 for new ga rages. A year ago remodeling residences totaled $2,250; busi ness establishment remodeling totaled $300 and new residences reached a figure of $18,000. May Bond Quota Surpassed; June Ante Up Two Million Washington, June 1 (IP) Treasury spokesmen said last night preliminary statistics Indi cated the $600,000,000 May quota for war bond sales was surpassed easily. For June, the quota has been raised to $800,000,000, and, be ginning with July, it will be lifted to $1,000,000.00 a month. June quotas run from a mini mum of $100 in Armstrong county. South Dakota which had a population of 42 in the last census to $121,794,100 in New York city, whose fiv ATTEMPT ATTACK T Three Believed Destroyed In Sneak ForayMother Ship Attacked Is Hint. t By th Associated Press The war In the far Pacific re gion presented today an Intricate; pattern of stroke and counter stroke on a vast front where, it could be said, with the exception of the Chinese sectors, that the allies were dishing out more than they were taking. Salient developments report ed were: 1. The explosive parrying of night-time thrust into Sydney Harbor by a force of Japanese midget submarines and the barest suggestion that their moth- ership had been at least at tacked, 2. The opening of a new Jap anese offensive in China's Kwangtung province while tha Chines valiantly sought to curb the enemy in Cheklang province. 3. A series of successful raids on Japanese bases from Burma to the Solomon Islands over the week-end by allied bombers based on Indian and Australian territory. Jap Tanker Hit United States headquarters at New Delhi, India, said that iU huge bombers in the past three days had sunk a Japanese tanker and damaged others at Rangoon, Burma, and inflicted heavy dam age on ground aircraft and run ways at the Myitkyina airdrome In northern Burma. The Japanese paid dearly for their submarine attempt against Australia's big southeastern port of Sydney. t Following the Sydney attack. General MacArthur conferred for four hours with Prime Min ister Curtin at Melbourne and the prime minister's happiness was so evident that some ob servers speculated that the sub marines' mothership had been damaged or captured. It could be assumed that tha appearance of the little raiders at Sydney had touched off an in tense search for their base. Submarines, apparently ot two-man type which the Japan ese had used fruitlessly at Pearl Continued on Pag light) 180011ST0 Corvallls, June 1 (VP) Ap proximately 1800 4-H club boys and girls are expected for a 4-H summer school opening here to morrow. Officials had expected a drop of 20 to 25 per cent from last year's 2000 enrollment, but heavy registration in recent days indicated a reduction of not more than 10 per cent. Special trains and busses will bring the clubbers here for the session which will run through June 12. counties hava been lumped for quota purposes. A quota of $7,746,000 was set for Oregon during June. Aver age monthly srles for the state from July, 1941, through Janu ary, 1942, were $4,032,776. The June quotas followed by the average sales from last July through January of the year in clude: Douglas $86,000, $37,900; Jackson $157,800, $79,092; Josephine $04,700, $46,400; Klamath $214,500. $140,949; Lake $33,500, $14,289.
