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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
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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
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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 "
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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
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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.