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Newspaper Page TextLet YOUR Answer to Bombs be BONDS! Bay Haf Bond! aa Stamps TOIUV onlnbuie to tha war effort af four aatloa. Fatrlot Um. jour ewe tlf-protectloa. demand! I hat VOU 4a Jom part SOU I Uaa Tha KAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Raaulta t Small Coat Medford Tribune Full Attociated Praia ' ? Praaa Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1942. NO. 69. 5) o) r j mm Jl EAB SUullM) i News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 10 Some readers are coming back at me already lor my column of yes terday remind- siawwmww ing them our love for de fensplpai neace i as expressed in ?5 our eenerous our generous disarmam e n t treaty of 1922. enrbled Japan to sneak-build her navy up to ours, and that the Ver sailles treaty m a n d ates of Paul Mallon Pacific islands awarded to the Japanese enabled them to sneak aortify the air bases and sea b-jes which made their con quest of the far east possible by forming a protective outer rim for her operations. Readers say they always thought the Japs were treacher ous treaty-breakers, but that if we make treaties for disarma ment with Germany and Italy (and Russia?) after this war, it may be different, because we can trust them. None of this Is true. Treaty breaking is not a racial or na tional characteristic of certain nations. Let us face the truth. Japan, Germany and Italy fell Into the hands of military cliques which deluded our statesmen and the world. Those cliques thought they were act ing in the best interests of their countries in breaking treaties which' imposed disadvantageous .conditions upon them. ... the base of the Versailles treaty, the Germans certainly had a case. By it they were re duced to permanent inferiority. France, through the League of Nations, imposed every possible treaty guarantee to keep Ger many Inferior reparations, po litical and economic denials, even partial occupation for a time. She could have undercut the Hitler movement in Germany before it started by a fairer and more just appeal to the German people than the Versailles treaty provided In truth, she did mitigate the reparations terms later on with (Continued on Page pour) One Thing To Do; Fireman "Dood" It Portland, June 10 (IP) Fire Aian Ed Lawrence rolled out vith the alarm. In his haste he kicked his Tants and shoes under the bed. Madly he groped for them, but the truck was roaring, ready to move. Only one thing to do, and he "dood" it At the fire, it was not the heat that made his face red. Srr.n ACREAGE UP Portland, June 10 (P) Ore gon seed acreage is up consider ahlv th rrnn is in better condi tion than last year, and per-acre yieias are expeciea iu ue mutu heavier, the agriculture depart ment said today. Radio Highlights at (Pacific Wa Time) J Tonight: NBC, 9:05, Portland, Ore., Rose festival. CBS, 8:15. talk. Dr. H. V. Evatt, Australian attorney-general. MBS, 5:15, Fight Against Inflation, Under secretary of War Patterson; 8:15, Sen. James Mead on "Roll of Congress in War." Thursday: NBC. 3:30, Ameri can Medical association conven tion. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ensign Bob Hinman looking in fighting trim in his navy pilot's uniform. Jack Matlark fussing for o.irs on end with his pet pub j : address system. Betty Vilm getting ready to move to Crater Lake for the summer months. ONE MAN DIES IN LIFEBOAT DURING PULL FOR SHORE H Eight Injured When Unseen Submersible Fires Tor pedo Into U. S. Freighter Port Angeles, Wash., June 10 W) The first torpedoing of a U. S. merchant ship off the coast of the Pacific northwest, officially announced by the navy last night, was revealed after the ship's master, Capt. Lyle G. Havens, 48, San Carlos, Calif.,' brought his crew men here and said "I'm glad to report we lost only one of the 60 aboard." The torpedoed ship was bound from a Washington port with a cargo of newsprint rolls. Negro Cook Dies Lone fatality was 56-year-old Stephen Chance, negro second cook and baker, of no known ad dress, who died of exposure in a lifeboat. Two were In a serious condi tion and six others were less seriously hurt, he said, when the explosion occurred last Sun day afternoon. He said the ship sank 30 minutes later, and that while he nor any of the ship's officers saw the submarine, its conning tower was reported seen by several of the crew. A lifeboat carrying some of the survivors reached Neah bay, near Cape Flattery on the north western tip of the Washington coast, Monday night. They told of other men on two life rafts and planes and a naval vessel found those men early yesterday and also brought them into Neah bay. AU came here yester day from Neah bay by bus. Men Hospitalised The two most seriously In jured men, Stephen Malone, fireman, of San Francisco, who was crushed in his bunk when the torpedo hit the ship about 50 feet from where he was sleeping, and Vern Wickert, oiler, of Sioux Falls, S. D., were taken to the marine hospital at Seattle. Wickert was standing near an oil tank which burst and he got oil in his lungs. First Officer E. W. Nystrom. Oakland, Calif., a former eco nomics major at Washington State college, said he saw what some described as the submarine and that "it might have been Dart of our ship's debris. I fired two parachute signal flares. The wreckage disacDeared. Captain Havens said "there Is no doubt we were torpedoed. Both he and Nystrom were in their bunks when the ship was struck, and were thrown to the deck." No "Boom" 'The strange thing about the concussion, and it was a terrible one, was the 'silence' of it," Nystrom said. "There wasn't any 'boom'." CaDtain Havens said the ex plosion smashed one of the two lifeboats, but that the entire personnel were gotten away In the remaining lifeboat and two life rafts within 10 minutes. He and Chief Engineer N. J. Irvine. Seattle, left the vessel shortly before she sank. G. Pass Legion For Admitting All Vets Grants Pass, June 10. (IP) The local American Legion post has adopted a resolution calling for congr1?" to amrnd the na tional organization's charter to permit the Legion to admit to membership veterans of all United States wars, and to ac cept property of other veterans organizations. CRUISER LAUNCHED Camden, N. J., June 10 (IP) The big cruiser Santa Fe was launched in a "closed ceremony" at the New York Shipbuilding corporation jaras today a year and three days after the keel was put down. A bottle of water from the Santa Fe river was broken over the bow by 14-year-old Caroline Trevelyan Chavez of Santa Fe as the mighty vessel headed down the ways. CHROMITE SHIPPED Grants Pass, June 10. (?V Eight carloads of war-essential chromite were shipped from Grants Pass last week, mines' survey showed. Women's I f3 tsss .. . . .... ';i J I ftl ' Colonel Charles L. Malona, commander officer of tha army recaption center. Fort Leaven worth, Kas., leads 91 candidates for officer rank in tha WAAC to tha mats hall while the wom en were at tha canter for physical examination. Note most of the neophytes are in step. Ship Losses Mount To 263; Staggering Cost Revealed (By tha Associated Prats) Announcement today (Wed.) of the torpedoing of a British merchantman in the North Atlantic brought the toll of allied and neutral ship losses in the Atlantic The sinkings by submarine at-1 tack of an American merchant man off the Pacific coast and a Norwegian vessel in the west err Atlantic were the most re cent previously disclosed losses. The British ship carried 12 American field service workers, four of whom missed death by a scant 15 feet when a second torpedo struck the ship as they sought to disentangle themselves from jammed lines against the side of the sinking ship. The British crew of 59 all reached port safely. Meanwhile an indication of the staggering cost in money of the sinkings came from the American Institute of Marine Underwriters, which announced yesterday that insurance com panies had lost $46,486,068 on marine insurance policies In the first six months of this year. SYNTHETIC RUBBER Washington, June 10. (IP)- To the expressed astonishment of senators, who had lust been told that the B. F. Goodrich company planned ultimately to produce 165,000 tons of synthe tic rubber annually, a company executive compounded some in 10 seconds today and bounced it on the floor. K. D. Smith of Akron, Ohio, assistant to the vice president In charge of factory operations poured what he culled "liquid ameripol latex" Into a beaker, added acetic acid, squeezed the surplus liquid out, and bounced the ball. Senator McNary (R-Ore.) com mented with grin: "I'll be darned. That s pretty good. Smith said that 20 cents a pound would be a "very fair price for the synthetic rubber and demonstrated to the senate agriculture subcommittee a number of tires In which it had been used. F. R., JR., IN BRITAIN London, June 10. (IP) The arrival of Lieut. Franklin D, Roosevelt, Jr., in Britain on "of ficial business" for the United States navy was announced to day. - BASEBALL American Chicago 4 10 0 Philadelphia 18 2 Humphries, Haynes and Turn er; Knott, Marchildon and Swift. Score: St. Louis Boston R. H. E. 3 8 1 '.10 10 0 Niggeling, Hanning, Fehrens and Ferrell; Hughson and Con roy. (11 Innings) R. H. E. Detroit 4 8 1 New York 1 10 0 Benton and Tebbetts; Breuer, Murphy and Rosar. Army Recruits " '.si , 'ii. a iaeaaaMei I i ' -n and Pacific areas to 263. Flat $2000 Salary to Be Sought for County Commission : At the, public hearing, Mon day, June 29, on the Jackson county budget for the tax "year starting July 1, adoption of a resolution asking the hearing to petition the next legislature to adopt a law placing Jackson county commissioners on a flat salary of $2,000 per year, with out mileage fees, will be asked. The budget committee recom mends it. According to County Judge J. B. Coleman, the change would make the costs about the same as now. The county commis sioners receive $5 per day when in session, and mileage fees. Due to the increase in business the past year they are in ses sion practically every day and devote the greater portion of their time to county business. justictmDrphy ICE Washington, June 10 (IP) Associate Justice Frank Murphy is leaving the supreme court temporarily, associates said to day, to become a lieutenant colonel In the army. Attaches of the high court reported that he would take the oath of office at the war depart ment later today and would leave shortly thereafter for Fort Benning, Ga., for four months of intensive training in the field and then would spend six weeks in the advanced school of infan try training at Fort Benning. He is to be attached to the office of the chief of staff, Gen eral George C. Marshall. It was said at the court that Justice Murphy would not re sign bu' would be absent "for the durav-on." Murphy, 49, saw overseas ser vice In the last war. GRANTS PASS CLERK KILLED IN SMASHUP Grants Pass. June 10. (JPt Services will be held here for Kenneth G. Tompkins, grocer clerk, who died at Klamath Falls today following an auto mobile accident. Among sur vivors are his brother, Chester, his mother, Mrs. G. H. Kester son, both of Grants Pass, and a daughter, Diane, eight, at Los Anscies with her mother, Mary Evelina Tompkins. The Tomp kins divorce decree was granted here yesterday. SURVIVORS LANDED Willemstad, draco, June 10 IIP) Ninety American and Belgian survivors of torpedoed ships were landed here last night, It was disclosed today (The advices did not Indicate how many ships were involved in the torpedoiogs. "Fall In" LITTER FIELD IS By the Associated Prats Adolf Hitler's field headquar ters asserted today that German troops had stormed deeper into the fortifications of Sevastopol, last Soviet stronghold in the Crimea, while the Russians said they had littered the battlefield with 2,500 Nazi dead in yester dry's fighting alone. ' Soviet dispatches said the red armies had not yielded "a single line" to the Germans although the fight was growing hour!:' more intense, with the Nazis in cessantly lUicking by land and air. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, conceded that Ger man infantry had penetrated to a hilly sector, where It was try ing to capture two heights, but declared that the battle gener ally still raged at the approaches to the city without major change. Today marked the sixth day of furious assault by German forces which have besieged the great Black sea naval base for more than seven months. On the North African front, both the German and Italian communiques ackno w 1 e d g e d that Lieut.-Gen. Neil Ritchie's armies, supported by American- made tanks and planes, were heavily counterattacking. As the battle swirled indeci sively under a broiling sun, RAF bombers attacked the big Italian naval base at Taranto for the second successive night. An Italian communique said known casualties totalled 20 kihed, 75 injured, and acknow ledged that "several fires flared." On the English channel front, bad weather kept the RAF's city-destroying offensive against Germany grounded for the third night this month. Portland, June 10. IP) Seven Portland hospitals today announced a prepaid hospitaliz tion program providing care of individual families for $2 monthly. An employed man may be come a member for 75 cents monthly. An additional 75 cents will cover his wife. For $2 monthly both, plus dependent children, will receive hospital service. Membership entitles the man to 111 days, women and chil dren to 21 days. RECORD TIMBERPRICE Portland, Ore., June 10 (IP) The Bellingham Plywood corpo ration yesterday paid the high est price ever recorded In a government timber sale. Re gional Forester Lyle F. Watts said. It was $11.50 a thousand for 2,500,000 board feet of Doug las fir timber In the Skagit river area of the Mount Baker na 'tional fores Germans Shoot In Village Near ' " FOR VICTIMS OF Bodies of Lieut. Stockwell and Sgts. Jones and Stone Brought Here From Scene. At the request of army offi cers here, an inquest into the deaths of First Lieut. Raymond Ansel Stockwell and Tech. Sgts. Randolph Jones and Paul W. Stone, killed in the crash of an army photographic plane near Pilot Rock in the Siskiyou mountains last January 8, will be held at Conger's at 7:30 to night. District Attorney George W. Neilson, who will conduct the Inquest, said it was called to officially establish the cause of the deaths and to identify the bodies of the three men. Found Monday Wreckage of the plana was discovered about 2 p. m. Mon day by George E. Miller of Ashland, regular fire warden for the state forest patrol, and Earl Hoadley, a member of the forest partol's suppression crew who were working, on a trail leading to PUot .lock. They notified army authorities here, state police and the coroner's office and details were sent to the scene yesterday afternoon. The plane, according to Cap tain Bert J. Staats of the state police, apparently crashed head- on into Pilot Rock, which rears itself straight up for several hundred feet about a mile and a half east of the California line. It appeared to Captain Staats as though the craft struck about 50 feet from the ground on the east side of the rock. then dropped back completely demolished. Pieces of the plane were scat tered over a large area. Captain Staats said, part of one motor being about 150 feet south of the fusllage and part of a pro- pellor laying in approximately the same place. "The plane was Just scrap and I don't believe any part of It was unbroken,' the policeman stated. (Con'Jnued on Pagr Three) Japanese Minimize Losses In Alaska, Midway Battles ' Washington, June 10 AP) A navy spokesman countered Axis claims of Japanese occu pation of Aleutian Itlandt bates today with a categorical attertion that "none of our in habited areas, islands or rocks are troubled with uninvited visitors up to this time." By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor. Imperial Tokyo headquarters fought to minimize the gravity of the Japanese naval disaster at Midway today but acknowl edged that United States forces had sunk an aircraft carrier, heavily damaged another carrier and damaged a cruiser. Official United States reports have listed IS and possibly 18 Japanese warships sunk or dam-1 aged before the enemy fleet limped off In retreat. Moreover, an eye-witness ac count by Ensign George H. Gay, Jr., 25-year-old U. S. navy flier, declared three of Japan's air craft carriers. Including two of the 26,900-ton Kaga-Akagl class, were seen to burst Into flames under attack by American tor pedo planes. Tokyo did not specify the class of the carrier it admitted lost. Tokyo headquarters also re ported that Japanese army troops were used in attacking the U. S. -owned Aleutian Islands off Alaska on Sunday, Tokyo time (Saturday, Alaska time) three davs after tha Dutch Har- War Bulletins London, June 10 (IP) Tha RAF attacked over Brittany by daylight today, returning it olfeniire againtt the con tinent after a night of Inac tivity. Two German fighters were destroyed. Washington. June 10 (TV The navy announced today two email United States fish ing boats had been sunk by shell lire from enemy sub marines in the Atlantic. Sur vivors have bean landed at an east coast port. CENTRAL PI MILL Fire started by a spark light ing in the sawdust bin this morning destroyed the bin and the boiler house at the Southern Oregon Sugar Fine company mill In Central Point, the loss being estimated by Chauncey Florey, manager, at $2,000. The loss was not covered by insur ance, he stated. The blaze was discovered about 7:30 by Mr. Florey, who immediately notified the Central Point fire department and the state forest patrol. The Central Point fire department sent pumper and the forest patrol a pumper truck and an Edwards pumper to the scene, and the conflagration was brought un der control in less than 19 min utes after their arrival. The dry kiln, planer mill and lumber yard were not damaged, thanks to the effective work of the pumpers and their crews, Mr. Florey said. He added that the mill would be shut down for about a week while repairs are being made. Mr. Florey explained that the pumps In the boiler room were being repaired when the fire broke out. If the pumps had been In working order, the man ager said, the fire could have been extinguished almost imme diately with only nominal dam age. Fleeing Japanese Did Not Stop To Rescue Survivors Pearl Harbor, June 10 (IP) Thousands of Japanese perished in last week's battle off Midway Island it was In dicated by incomplete returns of enemy ship losses as re vealed today by Admiral Chester W. Nlmity, comman der In chief of the Pacific fleet. The enemy was pressed to hard by American forces that In the fast moving action he did not stop to pick up his survivors, strewn over the tea from sinking vessels. More than thirty vessels comprised the invasion fleet, aimed at Midway and Hawaii, taid reports received by Ad mlral Ni.rilt. bor raids and declared they JAPAN CLAIMS U. S. Loaaes Japenete Loss Sunk Two 19,900-ton carriers; Sunk One carrier. One transport. Damaged One carrier, ooa Shot down 134 planes. cruiser. Missing 33 plane. UNITED STATES CLAIMS V. 8. Losses Japanea Lease Sunk One destroyer. Sunk Two and possibly thraa Damaged One carrier. carriers, one destroyer. Damaged T h r a battleship. . sight to 11 other hipt. 4 All Men Prague II i a TOWN WIPED OUT IN REPRISAL FOR Women Sent To Concentra tion Camp and Children To Education Centers. London, June 10. (IP) The Prague radio announced tonight that all men living in a Czech village near Kladno had been shot by the Germans on sus picion of harboring the slayer of Reinhard Heydrich. The women of the vtllaie were said to have been deported to a concentration camp and the children sent to "educational centers." The villaffe latpr wae rmrmA the radio said, and its name re moved from all official records. The number of men executed was not stated. The punishment Inflicted on this community, a few miles West of Prnffll annirantlv mtmm the most drastic yet meted out in me campaign ol reprisal for the death of the Gestapo master and protector of Bohemia-Moravia, who died June 3 of wounds inflicted eight days previously. VOTED BY HOUSE Washington, June 10 (IP) The house passed and sent to the senate today compromise legislation fixing the minimum pay of service men at $90 a month, with 20 per cent In ' crease for sea duty or foreign service. Passage was on a vote of 3S3 to 0. The senate was expected to approve the measure soon after it convenes tomorrow. It previ ously had Instructed its mem bers of a joint conference com mittee to agree to the $50 fig ure, originally voted by tha house after the senate had ap proved a $42 minimum. "are continuing operation in this area." Admiral Chester W. Nlmitz, commander-in-chief of the U. S. Pacific fleet, described the situ ation in the far north as "con fused" several days ago, but there has been no hint from any source other than Tokyo of any Japanese troop landings in tha Aleutians. Belatedly lifting the veil of its secrecy on the battle of Midway and Dutch Harbor, tha Japanese command gave its first version of the conflicts, with it score sheet bearing no relation to the account of staggering Japanese naval losses a re ported by United States war bulletins. Significantly, however, the Jap anese for the first time did not claim victory over the U. S. naval forces which Tokyo many weeks ago declared were "wiped out." Here ara the contrastlnf tallies: