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Let YOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDSI Du The MAIL TRIBUNE Buy War Bonds ana lUmpi TOUAY ontnbutt to Iht ear tf'ort of your nation. Patriot Urn. rour own pif-profe-.Hon. rmanda that YOU da you part NOW I Thirty seventh Year. ilia BY Kelly's Comment rrora Washington. D. C Senate Rejects Subsidy Effort Defense Workers Tied To Jobs Truck Load Rule To Be Modified Br John W. KallT . Washington, D. C, June 3. WTa maintain ceiling prices as of March (ceiling is applicable to services of undertakers the same as a can of salmon or a bottle of ketchup) the senate was in vited to approve a bill which would permit government agen cies to "purchase, acquire, car ry, sell or otherwise deal in any article or commodity, in such amounts or quantities, in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as may be deem ed necessary to increase or maintain production or distri but ion of such articles or com- modifies, except that any article or commodity so purchased may be sold at a price below the purchase price thereof." Almost to a man the senate kicked the proposal out the window or rather sent it back to the com mittee on banking lor re-study because it was the opening -wedge of government owner ship. Champions of the proposal ex plained that it was only author ity to provide subsidies, "to pay the freight," but it was a wide open delegation of power for the government to control any busi ness or commodity through the subsidy, contended the oppon ents, and eventually would sub stitute federal control for pri vate enterprise. (Federal govern ment is now seeking to monop olize all electric energy in Wash ington and Oregon via the Bone bill). For agricultural products the proposal vested commodity credit corporation with part of the program, on request from Leon Henderson, price adminis trator. But all agricultural mat ters are in the hands of the de partment of agriculture, so Hen derson would have to see Sec retary Claude Wickard and if )Wickard did not veto it, the sub ject would then be taken up with President Roosevelt and the chief executive would make (Continued on Paga Pour) CEILING PROTESTED Washington, June 8. UPh Senator Wallgren (D-Wash) rro tested today to Secretary of Agriculture Wickard and Price Administrator Leon Henderson against the strawberry price ceiling. The berries are Wash ington's fourth largest truck crop. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Broadcast by both NBC and the Blu is announced for 9:30 .a. m. Thursday of the address "of President Quezon of the Philippines to the senate at Washington. The program is scheduled for half an hour. Tonight: MBS S:1S new se ries, "Fight Against Inflation." Sec. Morgenthau: 6:30, Pass In Review, army camp. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS City School Supe E. H. Hed rick sporting a bass voice as a result of a spring cold. Fire Chief Koy Elliott rumored to have t?lephoned Fish Lake to have friends look for the fish he didn't get. The Don Newbury family anxiously awaiting the return of the family pet. Taffy, a spaniel, who disappeared from their rd Medford full Associated Press BELIEVED AIID Onslaught Thought Attempt To Answer U. S. Raid On Tokyo Several Weeks Ago Salam. June 3. UP) The Japanese attack on Dutch Har bor is another indication that all civilian defame workers in Oregon mutt remain on the alert 24 hours daily. State Civilian Defense Coordinator Jerrold Owen said today. "For the past 10 days, na tional civilian defense and military officials have been drilling Into us the necessity of remaining on the alert con stantly. They believe that a bombing attack on the north west is probable." Washington, June 3 (IP) The navy announced today that four Japanese bombers and about 15 fighters had attacked Dutch Harbor, Alaska, , at ap proximately 6 a. m. (local time) today and that the attack lasted IS minutes. The . following communique was Issued, based on 'reports received up to 4 p. m., E. W. T.: "North Pacific area: "1. Information has been re ceived that Dutch Harbor, Alas ka, was attacked by four Jap anese bombers and about IS fighters at approximately 6 a. m., local time, today (12 noon E. W. T.), the attack lasted ap proximately 15 minutes. "2. No further details are available at this time. "3. There is nothing to report from other areas. Navy Station There Naval authorities said a naval station was located at Dutch Harbor, but otherwise little is known about defense installa tions there since the work has been carried on for many months in the strictest secrecy, The raid may have been an attempt at a Japanese reply to the American army bomber raid on Tokyo several weeks ago. Only a few days ago, Secre tary of War Stimson warned the nation that Japanese attacks on the west coast were inevit able because the Japanese would have to attempt to save face by making as complete re plies as possible to the Tokyo bombardment. The house was told In Decem ber by Delegate Dimond of Alaska that an air and submar ine base were being constructed at Dutch Harbor which is lo cated at Unalnska island, one of the largest of the Aleutian chain which projects 1,000 miles westward from the Alaskan pen insula. Near Kuriles The eastern tip of the Aleu tians extend within about 750 miles of Japan's northern Kur ile islands. Since the mid 1930 s these islands have been closed to white men but it is believed that the Japanese have established plane bases and naval facilities there. Unalaska is about 2,000 miles from San Francisco and the same distance from Honolulu. Barrymore Estate Going to Children Los Angeles, June 3. P The estate of John Barrymore. who earned more than a million dollars in his lifetime as an actor, amounts to $10,000 or less in cash, plus personal prop erty. The last testament of the "great profile" to be filed next Tuesday for probate, provides that the estate go to his three children, Diana Barrymore, 21, daughter by his second wife, Michael Strange and John Blyth Barrymore. 10, and Ethel Do lores Barrymore, 12, by his third wife, Dolores Costello. The Great Lakes constitute half of the fresh water supply in the world IU1 A o)o)fn)o) Rommel's ; TOCRA jrf barce. la . J MEKIll ' y BENGASI KNIGHTSBRIOGEat j." R 'MSUS HACHE.J ffBARRAN. R SAUNNLaW V yyAGEDABIA J ' t n V A Cairo dispatches indicated that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's armored Axis forces, which had swept around Bir Hacheim. had been trapped in triangle bordered by Ain El Gasala, To bruk and Bir Hacheim. Now Rommel apparently was trying to retreat through the triangle, but must cut his way through mine fields laid by British along the weal side. E UU CALLED FOR IN Washington, June 3 (JP) An $8,300,000,000 measure authorizing construction of ap proximately SOO fighting ships a gigantic program which would come close to doubling the size of the United States fleet was drafted today by Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) of the house naval committee, Vinson said that he would in troduce the bill, calling for the largest naval construction pro gram ever authorized at one time, today, and said that "the two-ocean navy probably would be finished in the next 24 months." The bill would call for 500, 000 tons of aircraft carriers, 500,000 tons of cruisers of both the light and heavy type, 900,- 000 tons of destroyers and de stroyer escort vessels, and 800 small vessels for patrol worn minelavina and tending duty. The new ships would be in addition to those already auth orized for construction. In its last official disclosure of strength In October of last year, the navy reported 3o iigniing ships In service and 237 build ing. Essential Housing To Receive Lumber Washington, June 3. UP) The War Productions board has announced it plans to issue an overall authorization permitting contractors in thousands of "es sential" war housing units now under construction to obtain enough lumber to complete them despite recent freezing of supplies of construction lumber, SURVIVORS TELL OF ATTACK OFF BERMUDA Norfolk, Va., June 3 UP) A British merchant ship was sunk several hundred miles east of Bermuda May 20 by a subma rine which ripped her open with two torpedoes and then surfaced to fire four shells as the crew lowered lifeboats, killing six of their number. Details of the daylight attack were told here by IS survivors who spent seven days on the ocean in a lifeboat before they were picked up by another cargo vessel. Thirty-six crew men were missing, the navy said in announcing the sinking of the medium-sized vessel today. EARWIG BARS DOWN Salem, June 3 P) Califor nia has removed all restrictions against the European earwig, which should be good news to Oregon nursery operators whose shipments to California often contain the Insect, the state de - partmect of agriculture said. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1942. Ml Forces Caught In Trap iRNA r l?M.LESa'0 l. i n i ; Three Axis Added to U.S. Foe List Washington, June 3 UP) voted today, without voice being raised in opposition, to add Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania which the United States is at END OF CCC SEEN Washington, June 3 UP) The house appropriations com mittee approved today a $1,058, 451.660 bill for the labor de partment, the social security board and related agencies aftet eliminating a $73,818,000 fund for the civilian conservation corps. Chairman Cannon (D Mo.) of the committee said the members voted 15 to 12 to end the CCC program on a motion by Rep. Engel (R., Mich.) Rep. Hare (D., S. C), chair man of the subcommittee which prepared the bill, said the com mittee members "aparently be lieved that the CCC was no longer necessary." The $75,818,000 which had been in the bill for the CCC itself was stepdown of $171 142,000 from the 1942 allotment. There were 1,200 camps at the beginning of the present fiscal year and the reduced appropria tion was to have trimmed this number to 350. Chaplin and Goddard Gel Mexican Divorce Los Angeles, June 3 UP) The Evening Herald and Ex press K.1U loaay 11 n.u raricu. ' J . j i a , i from confidential and reliable , t.h!VCr.'e? vorced week. ln Juarez, Mex., last The marriage of the pioneer actor and the young actress who has risen to screen stardom in the past few years has been confirmed by them but they have consistently refused to say WhMre fLWhl.e,?Jl. Hollywood believes they were wed in 1936, when she was a virtual unknown. Germans' Good Ides Goes Soar in Libya Cairo, June 3 (IP) The Ger mans had a good idea when they attacked the British In Libya last week. They brought along a big, mobile tank repair unit I to keep their mechanical forces j In order, 1 But It didn't work, The British captured the unit. .7EGYPT Satellites The house of representatives to the list of countries with war. ' The resolutions declaring war will be acted on tomorrow by the senate, which was in recess today. There was no debate or dis cussion as the resolutions were rapidly disposed of in as routine manner as if they had been minor bills. In sharp contrast to the som ber atmosphere that prevailed when three previous declara tions were voted against Ja pan, Germany and Italy the house was almost gay as it went about the work of official ly labeling the three axis satel lites as Uncle Sam's enemies. Members talked and milled around and there was so much confusion in that respect that the clerk had difficulty at times hearing roll call responses. Speaker Rayburn announced the vote on the Bulgarian reso lution as 357 to 0. Miss Jean nette Rankin (R., Mont.), who cast the only vote against the declaration against Japan last December and who later voted "present" on declarations against Germany and Italy, was not on the floor when the first roll was called today. START IRK ON 15 E,- SO. HOLLY STREET The start of construction on the first six of 15 Federal Hous ing Administration financed dwellings for defense workers mllilflrv n.r,nnrl . An. , . K ,. . ,, Lumber company which is fur- nlshing the building materials for all of the units following approval of priorities by the! War Production Board tl a..,-u.. ii..ji it,, . k. .u . imtn ,k ' , j . constructed by ""tractors A B B7rn ' building two of them at 8671 and 740 South Holly street, Z. T. King two at 704 and 710 South Holly street and J. W, Wickman two at 719 and 723 South Holly street. The six houses now under construction, and the nine to follow, are expected to be com pleted by early fall. Foundations and preliminary work on the nine will be started In the near future. It Is a greater distance from Texarkana, Tex, to El P.o, Tex., than from Texarkana to Chicago. Tribune United Desert Offensive Carries 30 Miles 400 Bombers Pay Reich Second Visit. By Roger D. Greene (Associated Press War Editor) Britain's desert armies lashed out on the offensive with a 30 mile thrust against the axis in North Africa today while RAF bombers, perhaps 400 strong, battered the great German war foundries city of Essen for the second time in 24 ijours. - London military quarters ack nowledged that axis troops had mopped up British forces in a nine-mile sector of the 50-mile British defense line in Libya, but declared the axis - supply line was seriously endangered by a thrust to Rotunda Segnall. Rotunda Scgnali, a major axis base, lies 30 miles west of the advanced axis positions. New Alignment Front-line dispatches said the Germans had now established a new alignment after withdraw ing westward from a violent tank battle at Rnightsljrldge, 23 miles southwest of Tokrub. While the RAF blasted Essen, German night raiders again at tacked the ancient English cathedral city of Canterbury, a nazi communique said. The German high command admitted that the British had caused considerable damage in an attack on Duisburg, Ruhr valley neighbor of Essen, and that the death toil at Coiugne had risen to 200. Fires and smoke still shrouded Essen after Monday night's 1,. 036-plane assault on the nazl ar senal, home of the big Krupp armaments works, but the Brit ish declared the results "are be lieved to be satisfactory." 93 Planes Lost Fourteen RAF bombers were acknowledged missing, making a total of 93 lost since the Brit ish city-by-city knockout cam paign against the relch started last Saturday in a 1,250-plane raid on Cologne. A German tally listed 22 RAF planes shot down during night raids over the western relch. While the British thus empha sized Prime Minister Winston Churchill's pledge to destroy Germany s war nerve centers, American aviation experts pre dicted that the growing might of British-American air forces could reduce trie nazls to virtual military impotence without opening a second land front in Europe. These experts declared that the flaming havoc visited by the RAF on Cologne, Essen, Ros tock and Luebeck were only the prelude to a campaign of strate gic bombing which could cripple the Hitler war machine without the aid of land assaults. Accused German Agent Says He Shirked Work Los Angeles, June 3 (JP) I Minneapolis born Dr. Hans Hcl- mut Gros admitted in a pur- I ported confession read at his federal court trial that he was employed " 2 month, plus 20,000-mark bonus, as a Ger- man Intelligence agent with the rank of captain. But he declared he never worked very hard at the Job. Dr. Gros said in the confession that the recently wounded Rein- hard Hcydrich, No. 2 man of the i """ " structed him to: 'Organize sabotage, the blow- Ing up of ships, industrial plants and such things. 'Take photographs of harbors and military objectives. "Furnish Information of per sons who might be contacted to create strikes." Praaa BASEBALL li POPULATION JUMP. American Chicago 18 0 New York 4 10 0 Dietrich and Tresh; Bonhaia and W. Dickey. Detroit Philadelphia 5 7 0 White, Gorsica and Tabbetts; Knott and Wagner. CITY MINISTERS RAP DRINKING AT E The Medford Ministerial Asso ciation, in session June 2, took unanimous action deploring the spirit and influence under which the Service Selectees were en trained on Sunday, May 17. The following resolutions were adopted: 'Whereas, the citizens, par ents, and many of the Draftees were subjected to humiliating embarrassment because of the free distribution of liquor, drinking and drunkenness, of the draftees and others; "Therefore, be it resolved that we Bopeal to the authorities in charge and to the citizens oi Medford to withstand any and all future like deplorable dem onstrations incident to farewell- ina? the young men of our com munity for active service for the r country. "And be it further resolved that steps bo taken to throw such influence about our young men. incident to their departure, as will leave memories of whole some, energetic morality such as will beget a spirit of noble, ag gressive conquest. 'Remember Pearl Harbor'." Tenants Ordered Out As Freezing Protest Seattle. June 3 (IP) In a one-man but drastic protest against the level at which the government has frozen Seattle rents, a landlord ordered tenants in his 75 apartments today to vacate by July 1 because he is going to close the structure. The landlord is N. E. Berry. The apartment house la the Ambassador, one of the few in the Pacific northwest equipped with a bomb shelter. JURY DfSAGREES IN JOHN DALl.AIRE SUIT A circuit court Jury was un able to agree in the damage suit of John Dallaire against Bert Moore and Gladys Smith, and was discharged late yesterday. A motion for a non-suit in be half of Moore was. granted by the court. The action grew out of a bicycle-auto accident between Dal laire and the auto driver. The trial took two days. Attorneys F. J. Newman and Hildlng Bengtson were opposing counsel. He said an uncle, MaJ. Hans Bebert of the German military Intelligence, who got him the Job, asked him to: "Contact John L. Lewis, leader of the CIO, and Harry Bridges, Pacific coast labor lead er, to ascertain their attitude on labor problems and their political philosophies and to at tempt to make them useful to Germany, If possible, "Represent the military Intel ligence of Germany in coopera tion with the Japanese intelli gence department on the west coast. But he had no intention of do ing any of these things, Dr. Gros said, and sent only newspaper clippings about strikes, unem ployment, and airplane produe- tion, informetlon such as would be available through German newspaper! and magazines. Want Ad Way Quick Results t Small Coat NO. 63. IN CITY CAUSES Council and Budget Commit tee Studies Economies To Keep Within Legal Limit. The citizens' budget commit tee met in lengthy session with the city council last night to study ways and means of keep ing the budget for the coming year within the 6 per cent limi tation of increase as specified by a state statute. The meeting followed a comparatively short regular semi-monthly council as sembly. As submitted, the budget now shows an increase of approxi mately 10 per cent over that of last year due to the sharp Jump in population, thus placing much additional burden on the city's services and departments. It is the problem of the citizens bud get committee and the council to pare the budget as submitted to conform with the state law lim iting the increase to 6 per cent, and also to provide for an emer gency fund. Meeting Called In order to complete the bud. get and submit It to public hear ing by June 20 deadline, Mayor II. B. Deuel has called another meeting of the citizens' commit tee and the council for next Mon day night. Mayor Deuel also an nounced the appointment to the citizens' budget committee - of George Iverson to replace Har vey J. Field, who is now a coun cilman following his appoint ment to succeed M. N. Hogan, resigned. Mayor Deuel, at the council meeting, formally appointed Councilman Field member of the finance and airport committees,-positions which were held by Mr. Hogan, and chairman of th public safety committee. C. A. Meeker, formerly chairman of the public safety committee, was appointed chairman of the finance committee to succeed Mr. Hogan, and Larry Schade was elected chairman of the council, a position formerly held by Mr. Hogan. Lot Sale Approved The council passed an ordin ance approving the sale to Cecil A. Frye for $550 of lot 3, block 6 In Imperial addition. A report of work done by the various city departments during May, submitted by Frank Rog ers, acting city superintendent. Included the grading of East Ninth, 10th. 12th and 13th its. South Bameburg road and Ber keley Way. The report by City Judge Wil liam Allen of activity in police court during May showed 194 cases and $1,347 levied In fines. Ninety-six of the cases were for drunkeness. CAMP EMPLOYES Louls Boatman, 16, of 930 Broad street, Klamau Falls and Jakie Larson, 17, Summit Ranch, Ashland, were Injured about 6:30 a. m. today when the auto mobile in which they were driv ing to Camp White, where they were employed, left the high way about one-half mile south of Phoenix. The car wai badly damaged. Larson, who was driv ing the car, evidently went to sleep at the wheel, it was re ported. Boatman and Larson, both of whom reside at Ashland, were taken to Community hospital by Perl's ambulance and were re leased shortly after noon, having received medical treatment. Lar son is reported to have received a possible fracture of the upper Jaw and Boatman was treated for laceration of the head. El Km
