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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1942.
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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
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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
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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: