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NO. 62.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, June 2 Inside
congress a demand is arising
for a single-headed handling ol
gas rationing and rubber, just
as strong as the movement
which forced consolidation of
war production under Donald
Nelson with such excellent re
results. Threaded all
through the
Truman com
mittee report
are statements
attributing our
tire, and hence
our gas, ration
ing confusion
to the division
of author 1 1 y
among many
b...i u.iiAn cover n m e n i
bureaus. Other mistakes are
mentioned in connection with
; 1 . tn mrprv nhase of the
jauuica ... - j i
problem (stock pile, synthetic
rubber, etc.)
Bickering has resulted be
tween Jesse Jones, the war pro
duction board, Henderson, war
department, Ickes and everyone
else who has had anything to
do with our prime civilian prob
lem. But in every case, the
committee goes back to division
of authority as the root cause,
see
OF our failure to accumulate
,hw etnek rjile. the com-
rt.iitee says there was division
at authority between jt,
Rubber Reserve Corp., the RFC
subsidiary, and others, adding:
"It is possible that had com
plete authority and responsi
bility been centered in the
hands of a single agency, the
failure might have been avoid
ed." Concerning the Inadequacy
of our synthetic rubber plan
ning, it mentions the conflict
KoHnoan ths old Stettinius ad
visory committee and the Re
construction Finance corpora
tion as causing "great difficulty
in obtaining a decision."
Of the whole mess today, it
concludes:
"A Um nrMPnt time it 8t-
pear the principal difficulties
probably result irom iat ui
centralized and sola responsi
bility." e o e
asyHILE the more spectacular
VsATf ciasn 0f personalities in
volved in the committee's gen
erous distribution of blame has
U n Ar-nnrintt TVlOct nf the DODU-
lar attention, this corrective
cause of the whole existing
(Continued on Pe Pour)
r etr.M LEND-LEASE
Washington, June 2 (fP) The
White House announceu um -lend-lease
agreement with China
will be signed today at the state
department.
Radio Highlights
(Pacific war time.)
Tonight: CBS 6:30, Report
to the Nation, Paul V. McNutt;
7:30, Clare Booth on China
fcelief.
Blu 6:30, This Nation at
War.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
A. Z. "Tubby" Dean in con
ference on a busy thoroughfare.
Walt Reinking of the city
police trying to help out on a
percentage problem and offering
to get the right answer at the
bank.
J. Ralph Woodford pointing
with pride to the new table top
in the city supe's office.
George Davis liking the fire
hall food so well he kept busy
.Jong after everyone else was
J trough eating.
George Hunt, Jr.. reversing
the old saying about dog bite
man, when he bit his Pekingese
pup, Pujgy
ui
ARSENAL CITY IS
SECOND TO TAKE
British Report Loss of 35
Planes in Mass Attack
Widespread Fires Visible.
Folkstone, England, June 2
(JP) Great forces of RAF planes
roared across the channel today
in foray which southeast coast
observers called one of tha big
gest daylight operations of the
war.
Hour after hour many squad
rons headed for various targets
in northern France. Planes re
turning early in the evening
created a great din.
(By the Associated Press)
London, June 2. The RAF
turned the lethal, devastating
might of 1,036 RAF planes loose
on Germany last night, almost
all of them on the region of the
nazi arsenal city of Essen,
Prime Minister Churchill an
nounced today.
The second of the crushing
raids which the RAF has made
against the sources of Adolf Hit
ler's military strength in three
days struck at the home of the
huge Krupp munitions works
and . Churchill promised that
more of even greater severity
would follow "when we are
Joined, as we soon shall be, by
the air force of the United
States."
The Essen raid came after
pause of but one night, when
bad weather held the RAF's
great bomb-carrying air armada
grounded, after the mammoth
attack by considerably more
than 1,000 British bombers on
Cologne.
35 Planes Lost
Again, British losses were re
latively slight for an air offen
sive of such magnitude.
Churchill said 35 bombers had
failed to return.
He told the house of com
mons that the raiders had sown
numerous and widespread fires
last night and that the two raids
introduced "a new phase in the
British air offensive against
Germany" which will put the
enemy to "an ordeal the like of
which never has been experi
enced in any country in con
tinuity, severity or magnitude."
He cautioned the British, how
ever, not to expect all future
raids to be "above the four
figure scale" in number of
planes adding that "methods of
attack will be continually varied
according to circumstances."
Path Cleared
The air ministry's disclosure
that aircraft of the bomber,
fighter, coastal and army co
operation commands attacked
enemy bases in Germany,
I France and low countries to
guard the route of the Essen
raiders indicated that the night's
operations may have been of a
magnitude possibly equalling
the startling strength of the
Cologne assault.
On a basis of comparison with
the Cologne attack, Essen prob
ably was deluged under about
6,000,000 pounds of Incendiary
and explosive bombs poured
down from planes manned by
6,000 fliers.
Canadian fliers. It wai an
nounced officially, again were
at the controls of some of the
giant four-engined Stirling.
Lancaster. Halifaxes and lighter
Wellingtons and Hampden.
ASKED ON THREE
Washington, June J UP)
President Roosevelt asked con
gress today to declare war on
Bulgaria, Hungary and Ruman
ia. The chief executive, in a terse
message to the house of repre
sentative, said that these three
countries had declared war on
the United State a "the instru
ment of Hitler."
rARKT F
To Avenge U.S.S. Houston
More than 1.000 young Taxans, hand upraised, took the navy
oath of induction at Houston. Texas, determined to avenge the loss
of the cruiser Houston In the Java sea battle. A 60-foot miniature
of the ship is in front of them. Most of the recruits were from
Houston, the city for which the vessel was named.
British Force Mops Up
Trapped Panzer Corps
Cairo, Egypt, June 2. (JP) German armored forces, the
cream of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's African corps, which
were trapped east of the Ain El Gazala-Bir Hacheim line are
"being ceaselessly harried and destroyed" by British troops and
planes and are being "mopped up," the British commander an
nounced today.
"Latest reports show the
enemy may have withdrawn
some of his tanks through the
gaps" in the line, a communique
said.
(The communique was read In
the house of commons today by
Prime Minister Churchill, who
made it a part of his war report.
Churchill said it was clear the
plans of Rommel had misfired
badly).
"It Is still difficult to give a
firm estimate of the number of
vehicles and tanks knocked out
or disabled," the communique
said, but it was said the axis
losses had been very great.
One of the most decisive
phases, it was disclosed, was
when the entire resources of the
RAF were thrown into continu
ous low-level attacks on the
Germans attempting to force an
escape through the gaps.
SELEClESlET
AT ELKS TEMPLE
Medford Elks Lodge ha do
nated use of their basement to
the selective (ervice boards for
the final meeting of the selec
tees who have been called for
induction, and instead of report
ing to the selective service head
quarter a they were previous
ly Instructed, the men who will
leave tomorrow will meet at
3 p. m. in the basement of the
Elks temple for their final in
structions.
It ha been suggested that the
boy may bring their parent or
member of their family to this
meeting if they so desire. That
arrangement will make a much
better reception center for Med
ford than the headquarters of
fice, which ha been entirely too
small.
Washington, June 2 (JP) The
war production board indicated
today that typewriter produc
tion would be stopped by fall
and simultaneously ordered the
industry to maintain Its present
rate of output for the next two
month to build up reserve supplies.
POST-WAR PROBLEMS
DISCUSSED BY ALLIES
1 London, June 2. (IP) The
British government is discus
sing post war problems and ex
changing views with the do
minions, the United States,
soviet Russia and other united
nations. Lord Cranborne, col
onial secretary, announced to
day in the house of lords.
Hitler Losing Hold On
(Editor' notei Juit returned
to this country after five months
internment by the Germans at
Bad Nauheim, Louis P. Loch
ner, former chief of the Berlin
bureau of Wide World and a
Pulltier prise winner for excel
lence in foreign correspondence,
will write a series of stories for
the Mail Tribune in which he
will reveal many facts about
Germany' present leaders and
the situation within the coun
try) By Louis P. Lochner
New York, June 2 Wlde
World) Adolf Hitler, for al
most 2fl vean a master osvchol-
ogist at sensing what the masses
want to hear and what they are
prepared to accept in the way
of burdens and deprivations, has
shown definite signs of late of
failing to fathom public senti
ment correctly.
In consequence, hi unexam
pled hold upon the masses is
gradually slipping.
The most recent case in
point Is hi reichitag fpeech of
April 26.
Thoughtful German are ask
ing themelve: How could Hit
ler at the end of a terrible win
ter, which took a evere toll
of German life at the Russian
front, inaugurate spring by tell
ing the nation that next winter
better transports ion would be
provided in the east? Why not
see first how the summer offen
sive turns out and reserve talk
about the next winter until
then?
Masses Don't Want
Another War Winter
W who heard the speech on
DOGGED BY NAZIS
MAKESRED PORT
Ships Arrive in North Rus
sia After Running Battle
of Five Days Few Lost.
London, June 2. (JP) A
large united nations . convoy
carrying American and British
war supplies to Russia has reach
ed a north Russian port after a
running battle of five days and
nights against German U-boat
and well over 100 nazl planes,
the British announced today.
With almost constant daylight
now in the far north waters, the
admiralty said this was the most
difficult time of the year to
push convoys through that
route.
But in spite of such condi
tions, the British indicated only
six or seven allied ship were
sunk, calling the German claim
of bagging 18 ships an "exag
geration of over 17S per cent.
(The Germans announced iasl
Friday that 17 ships totaling
114,000 tons had been sunk by
attacks on the convoy during
several days).
"That our losses were not far
higher than they were against
this scale of air and underwater
attack, the admiralty declared,
"was due to the gallant defense
and magnificent handling of the
heavily laden ship in tha con
voy no less than to the efforts
of the escort.
"The officer and crews of
both the convoy and the escorts
have the satisfaction of know
ing that they have delivered
large and Important reinforce
ment to Russia's equipment in
her present struggle.
IDAHO OFFICIALS TRY
HAND AT BEET HOEING
Boise, Ida., June 2. (JP)
Gov. Chase A. Clark, his ataff,
other state officials and business
men hoed sugar beet in south
ern Idaho today.
They Joined farmers and hun
dreds of white-collar worker
already in the fields in effort to
alleviate an emergency farm
labor shortage.
our secret radio during the final
days of our internment at Bad
Nauheim noted the depressing
effect upon the German hotel
personnel.
American businessmen who
joined us on the S. S. Drottnlng
holm directly from Berlin told
us: "A few more such speeches
and the masses are through with
Hitler. They don't want to hear
of another winter of war."
Their experience was like
ours five month previously:
Our grocer, our barber, our
butcher, not to speak of our
closer friends, literally cried
when we made our last pur
chases or bade them farewell.
They all realized Instinctively
and from their recollection of
the war of 1914-18 that Amer
ica' entry Into the war forced
by Hitler himself would spell
the doom of Germany.
Aboard the Drottnlngholm I
heard an elderly lady, a refugee
and obviously from Wurttem
berg Judging by her dialect,
discuss the war with an old man
whose speech Indicated he came
from East Prussia.
'The war simply must end
this ummer," the elderly wom
an laid. "All the men from the
front who came home on fur
lough tell us It I o terrible
out east that they wont have
another winter of It."
"Yes, that' the way w feel
up our way," nodded the East
Prussian.
Adolf Hitler' declaration of
war upon the United State
showed a similar misgauging of
the psychology of the masse.
Fuehrer Ha Lost
Uncanny Sensibility
How explain Hitler' obviou
FIERCE FIGti i iNG
E
E
Defenders' Rear In Western
Chekiang Dangered by
Reinforced Invaders.
Chunking, June 2 (JP) Fierce
fighting is raging outh of Nan
chang in Kiangsl province
where, reinforced Japanese col
umns numbering 6,000 men have
started a new drive threatening
the rear of the Chinese defend
ing western Chekiang province,
a battle zone 200 mile to the
east, the Chinese command an
nounced today.
This new thrust southward
along the Cheklng-Klangsl rail
way appeared to be an effort
to torm a pincers with the lor
ces In Chekiang, which were
admitted to have made further
progress, driving down the rail
way to within ten miles of the
vital city of Chuhiien.
Chines Take Town
Vigorously attacking the
flanks of the Chekiang lnvad
ers, the Chinese claimed the re
capture of four towns in that
province, however. Five hun
dred Japanese were reported
killed in one clash in that the
ater, and 200 drowned at a cross
ing of the Fu River in Kiangsl
province.
Continued fighting also wa
reported west of the Salween
River along the Burma road,
where 200 casualties were In
fllcted upon the Japanese, the
communique laid. '
At the same time another
Japanese offensive, In Kwang
tung province some 600 miles to
the south, was reported making
bitterly contested progress while
ominous concentrations at Hans-
fchow and Nanchang, termini of
the Cheklng-Klangsl railway
pointed to a determination to
seize all that vital route.
RAISE AGE LIMIT
Washington, June 2. (JP)
The coast guard, which has been
expanding rapidly since it be
came a part of the navy for the
duration of the war, has raised
the age limit for enlistments
from 33 to 53 years.
weakening In psychological un
derstanding?
There wa a time when Hit
ler' sensibility in feeling out
his way with the crowds was
nothing short of uncanny. I
have seen him address soldier,
women, agricultural worker,
party functionaries, little trades
men. I have seen him staid
before highbrow academician
and before hundred of thou
land of common folk.
Invariably I wa impressed
with der fuehrer' ability to be
all thing unto all men. Hitler
played with hi audience as an
orchestra conductor plays with
the member of hi musical
ensemble.
Hi meeting often reminded
one of the old revival meet
ing. Even the most liard-bolled
seemed to "get religion"; i.e.,
the Nazi religion of blood and
soil.
The who' stag management
for these sleeting contributed
toward this mas psychology
the martial music played during
the hour or two before der
fuehrer's arrival, the challeng
ing slogans on huge banner
throughout the vast assembly
hall, the gradual arrival, on the
stagger principle, of the second
line of Nazi leader, then of the
top men like Goebbela, Goerlng,
Hess. Himmler, and finally the
dramatic entry, with search
light playing upon hi lone
figure, of Adolf Hitler himseii.
Allowed To Hear
Only Good New
After Hitler became chancel
lor and later chief of state, he
could seldom extemporize but
had to read tmpoiunt pro-
IQfinMlo)
baseball
National
Score: (10 innings) R. H. Z.
Philadelphia 18 0
Cincinnati . 0 5 1
Johnson and Livingston: Rid
dle and Lamanno.
Amsrlcan
Score: R. H. E.
Cleveland 7 24 0
Boston 2 6 3
Harder and Hegan; Wagner,
Dobson and Conroy.
734 Japanese Enter
Tulelake Camp With
1,434 More On Way
San Francisco, June 2 (JP)
An advance party of 734 Jap
anese has already moved into
the Tulelake relocation center
In northern California and 1,434
more are on their way from
Washington and Oregon, the
wartime civilian control admin
istration announced today.
Officers gave no Indication of
when the total population, at
present set at 11,000, would be
moved into the center, the third
to be occupied.
The advance party came from
the Puyallup, Wash., and Port
land assembly centers. They
consist of doctor, nurse, cook
and other necessary to get the
camp ready.
Japanese on the way were
split into three groups. The first
originally lived In Lane, Doug
las. Coo.. Curry, Josephine,
I Jackson and Klamatu .counties
of Oregon.
Emmens Bond Drive
Brings Over $75,CCO
Pnrchased in Week
Bond sold during the Back
Bob Emmens with a Bond week
will exceed $79,000, and W. A.
Gates, county war bond chair
man announced today that "lhl
I a fine tribute to Bob". Lieut.
Robert Emmens, youthful Med
ford flyer, participated in the
May IB air raid on Tokyo.
When the Emmens Bond drive
was originated It was announced
that Lieut Emmens would be
notified of the result and Mr.
Gate said that new of the ex
cellent Jackson county patriot
ic showing would be sent to the
Medford flyer.
Masses
nouncement from prepared
copy.
The explanation leem to He
in the fact that Adolf Hitler
now lives In a cloud-world of
his own, high up on Mt. Olym
pus, and that hi contact with
the real world are carefully
filtered by the coterie of confi
dant about him.
In short. Hitler no longer
see his German people through
his own eye but through the
trongly colored spectacles of
hi underling.
These underlings permit Hit
ler to hear only what they think
he should bear.
On German ambassador, re
turning from his post to report,
told Hitler all he thought his
chief of state might be inter
ested in knowing about the
country to which he wa ac
credited. Before leaving Hitler'
study, however, he presumed to
put In a good word for a friend
who had been taken to a con
centration camp by the Gestapo.
"Why, the man ha already
been released," Hitler replied,
obviously surprised.
"Sorry to say, no, meln fueh
rer," wa the diplomat' rejoin
der. "All our effort to get him
liberated have failed thu far."
When the ambassador reached
the anteroom, the S3 guard on
duty spoke to him harshly.
"If you dare onca more to
discuss matter with der fuehrer
that are not on the agenda," he
houted, "your career is fin
ished. The diplomat then realized
that the Gestapo listens In even
on Hitler' discussion with visitor.
FOR LODGMENTS
Coordinator Van Dyke Urges
Registration of Facilities
by Calling 5389 or 4012.
Because of the Influx of mili
tary personnel for Camp White,
the housing situation in Med
ford 1 becoming increasingly
critical and the public wa to
day urged by Frank J. Van
Dyke, coordinator, to immedi
ately list all available facilitiea
in order to relieve the condition.
Person with rooms, apart
ments or houses available for
military personnel were re
quested to telephone 538S or
list their faculties at the Homes
Registration office. Fifth street
and Hiverside avenue, whoss
telephone number 1 4012.
Do Net Reregister
Mr. Van Dyke said that hous
ing facilitiea already listed with
the Homes Registration officii
need not be listed again. He
explained that it was not the
Intention of the military or the
H. R. O. to compete with local
real estate agencies, but that it
was felt there were many place
that might be made available in
view of tha acute situation.
. There appear little hop the)
condition will be relieved until
after tha completion of construc
tion at Camp White, and the
migration of thousand of work
er and their famille from
Medford, It was pointed out
Many Handled
Up to May 18, the coordinator
said, 3,886 application for hous
ing have been handled by thai
Home Registration office, yet
in spite of this the housing situ
ation ha again become lerloui.
"It 1 gratifying to note that
most of the landlord of the)
city have been cooperating in
reducing or keeping their rent
at fair levels," Mr. Van Dyke
stated, "and it is hoped that
the few who have not yet fallen
In line with the recent govern
ment order will do so without
the necessity of federal action."
T nm Ane-alea. June 2 (JPi
John Barrymora wa buried
with simple ceremonies tnia
morning, in imall Catholic
cemetery far from Hollywood
and the icene of hi capricious
life.
Tha Rev. John. O'DonnelU
pastor of Immaculate Heart
Catholic church, said the re
quiem mass and later read the
usual graveside committal ritual
before about 70 Invited guest.
There wa no eulogy.
More than two hour before)
the services small crowd ot
curious began to collect near
the mausoleum, despite half
hearted attempt to discourage
them. A large section of thn
cemetery near the mausoleum
wa roped off, but many women
and girls, soma with camera,
managed to get under or around
the barricade.
War Bulletins
Washington, June t (JP)
A medium siied British net
chant vessel ha been torpe
doed In the Atlantic, the navy
announced today, and surviv
ors bava been landed at as
east coast port,
London, June 2 JPh R
ten In a Stockholm dispatch
today quoted Swlsa pre re
port as saying Marshal Ia
in eon Tlmoehenko, Russian
commander in the Ukraine,
sutfered minor wound when
German dive bomb at
tacked the automobile In
which he wa Inspecting the
line south of Kharkov la
receat ftghtins.