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Let YOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDSI Buy war Boaae ant tump TOIY Contribute tm tha rar tffort f your nation. Patriot Itn. your own telf-protectlon. ermanda that YOU fa ronr part NOW! Um Tlx MAIL TRIBUKI Want Ad Way Quick Rtiulta at Small Coit Medford Tribune Full AwocitUd Prrnt United Pratt Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942. cr' NO. 70. ABB HER E Id SEHN8 ' .. I - News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 11 I have a letter from a Harvard econom ist who holds that maladjusted prod u c 1 1 o n mwjt iugmyni 9m was the cause of the 10 years of pre-war de pression, and fie wants pro duction nrliiist- Pt " ------------ C ft3TN I war prosper- Vr5 blotter from I 1 It M'J an economic Vnr"1'! analyst on an Paul Mallon important com mittee in Sioux City simultaneously tells me that prices caused our trouble and he wants prices fixed at a high figure. A business man in the east made a speech in which he held that sales and marketing were the cause and should be the remedy. I have come to distrust all mechanical economic formulas. The new deal tried them all and they did not work to remedy the condition with which we were faced. The price theory of the Sioux City economist was tried first in the gold devaluation and other fauvavs. The value of gold was 'changed to stimulate prices but prices did not move. The theory of the Harvard economist was tried in the farm program, with arbitrary correc tions of maladjusted production A business counter-part of that was tried in the spending policy to create artificial production, These two steps failed to do the lob. until the war came along and the necessity for un precedented war production re quired the expenditure of Incon ceivable sums, which, of course cannot be maintained perma nently. TIE sales and marketing theory of the business man has not been tried. It does not Involve a mechanical formula. (Contlnuad on Pa -a em HARVARD AWARD Cambridge, Mass., June 11 P) Thomas H. Griffith, Jr., assistant city editor of the Seat tle Times, was among 16 news papermen named yesterday to study a year at Harvard univer sity under Nieman fellowship awards. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) President Roosevelt's United Nations day address, to run 10 minutes and transmitted from a recording, will be carried at 2:50 p. m. Sunday by both the Blue and MBS networks. Tonight: Talks NBC, 6, Amer ica's Town Meeting from St. Louis, "The Crisis In Rubber"; CBS ,7:30. Secretary Ickes on ) "Midwest Motor Freight." MBS, 8:15, Britain Speaks, J. B. Priestly. Friday: Blu, 9:30 a. m.. Farm and Home program, Secretary Wickard. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Phoebe and Nancy Swem treating American Legionnaires to some very fine music. A. J. Anderson maintaining his long-held grip on the local Legion post chaplaincy. Josephine Jerome taking a week's vacation to "enjoy" a bad cold. State Police Serge Orlando 'MacKinnon and City P'lice Chief Clatous McCrcdic ex charging views on the women's army corps. t ROOSEVELT MUM ON DETAILS OF White House Statement Dis closes Molotov's Visit Unity of Views Stressed. Washington, June 11. (Ph President Roosevelt and Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molo tov, the White House announced today, have reached a "full und erstanding" in conversations in Washington "with regard to the urgent tasks of creating a sec ond front in Europe in 1942." The White House, in a formal statement disclosing that Molo tov had visited this country, gave no additional details on a second front. Nor did the state ment say whether the agree ment was to open such a front or not to do so. Unity of Views The American president and the Russian commissar, the White House said, also attained a "unity" of views on two other vital questions pertaining to their war efforts: "Measures for increasing and speeding up the supplies pf planes, tanks and other kinds of war materials" from the United States to Russia, and the fundamental problems of co operation of the Soviet Union and the United States in safe guarding peace and security to the freedom-loving peoples after the war." "Both sides state with satis faction," the statement declared, "the unity of their views on all these questions." Molotov, bespectacled, 82-year-old right-hand man of Pre mier Joseph Stalin, arrived in Washington on May 29 and left on June 4. He now is safely back home, the White House said. Secret Guest The statement released today was approved by both Molotov and Mr. Roosevelt and withheld u-til the former had returned. The discussions entered into while the foreign commissary was a secret guest at the White House apparently ranged over the whole field of military and economic problems of mutual concern to the two nations. Mr. Roosevelt, at their con clusion, asked Molotov to inform Stalin that the chief executive "feels these conversations have been most useful in establishing a basis for fruitful and closer relationship . between the two governments in the pursuit of the common objectives of the united nations." London, June 11. UP) Pledging themselves to rebuild Europe on the terms of the Roosevelt - Churchill Atlantic charter, Britain and Russia have signed a 20-year mutual assist ance treaty "against Hitlerite Germany," Foreign Minister An thony Eden announced today. The pact was signed on May 26 by Eden and Russia's foreign commissar, Vyacheslav Molotov, at the British foreign office, five days after the Russian statesman had arrived in London enroute to Washington. Molotov now has returned to Moscow. The announcement was the first official disclosure that Molotov had been in the United States or London. Paralleling the London treaty talks was a series of military discussions in which the "urgent need" of a second European front was agreed upon, it was announced. A person in Norway possess ing two pain of shoes is not eligible to purchase another i Tank Truck Crash Gives Motorists Gasoline Supply SUverton, Ore., June 11 (IP) Silverton motorists had all the gasoline they could use today after a gasoline truck and trailer collided with a lumber truck. The gasoline truck and trailer tipped over, spilling the gasoline into ditches. As news of the accident spread, the town of 3,500 per sons turned out en masse with buckets, dippers, tin pans, wash pans and many other kinds of receptacles. One man got more than 40 eallons. L DECLARED TAKEN BY AXIS FORCES Cairo, June 11 W) The British command announced to night that "on the orders of General Ritchie the garrison of Bir Hachelm" former anchor of the British line in Libya "was withdrawn during the night of June 10-11." ' Berlin (from German broad casts), June 11 JP) The Ger man high command asserted to day that Bir Hacheim, southern anchor of the British defense line in Libya, had been captured by axis troops. A communique said the strong hold (defended by Free French troops recently reinforced by the British) was occupied tnis morning, (There was no confirmation of this from other sources. To day's British communique said further axis attacks on Bir Hacheim were repulsed yester day and told of enemy air at tacks there "on an increased scale.") A German submarine attack on a strongly-escorted convoy in the eastern Mediterranean, des tined for Tobruk, resulted in the sinking of two heavily-laden tankers totaling 12,000 tons ana the damaging of four transports by torpedoes, the high command declared. ARE PUT TO DEATH London, June 11. (IP) Nazi executioners in former Czecho slovakia have put to death an other 34 persons, Including 10 women, the Prague radio an nounced tonight. The total exe cuted since the attack on the nazl leader, Reinhard Heydrlch is now 340, not counting the men executed in the wiping out of the town of Lidice. Ten thousand tons of steel went Into the metal tops of the 1,000,000 Jars manufactured last year to hold cold cream and other cosmetic products. Newspaper Critics of Congress 'Bad Utile Boys', Says Guffey Washlngton, June 11. UP) Senator Guffey (D-Pa) told the senate today that congress should not tolerate press criti cism of that type which he charged "evidences a design to undermine public confidence In representative government." Reading from a prepared manuscript, Guffey told his col leagues he believes there was a "blind, bitter opposition to the president and the majority in congress" which uad been fost ered by many columnists and commentators. 1 "Congress bat demonstrated flilliyjllxlUy WAITS SIGNATURE Congress Completes Action on Bill Making $50 Mini mum For Lowest Ratings. Washington, June 11. (IP) The senate completed congres sional approval today of a mili tary wage adjustment bill fixing a minimum pay scale of $50 a month for the armed forces, effective as of June 1, 1942. Adoption of a conference re port, approved yesterday by the house, sent the comprehensive pay measure to President Roose velt for his consideration. Estimated cost of an addition al $500,000,000 or more yearly, the bill would increase to $50 a month the pay of army buck privates, navy apprentice sea men and men of equal rank in the marines and coast guard. Increases would be granted to all ranks up to and Including second lieutenants and ensigns. Privates now get a minimum of $21 a month. Officers Also Aldad Rental and subsistence allow ances of L.gher ranking officers also would be increased. Final senate action ended a month of controversy which twice saw the measure sent to conference as senators stood be hind a vote to make the mini mum pay $42 a month. They re ceded from that position early this week. The final vote was unanimous. 69 to 0, just as the house had voted 363 to 0. HOUSE BALKS AT Washington, June 11 VP) The house refused today, by tellers'- vote of 109 to 60, to 'b"" the WPA The vote came on a motion by Rep. Pearson (D-Tenn) to strike out the enacting clause of an appropriations bill carry ing funds for the WPA for the fiscal year beginning next month. A bit earlier, the house re fused by a four-vote margin to cut the proposed WPA fund in half. KNOX SAYS DEMOCRACY SHOULDN'T BE FORCED Cambridge, Mass., June 11 P) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that this nation, in the post-war period, should refrain from attempting to enforce its system of democ racy on all the peoples of the world in order to insure their freedom. "Democracy, we think. Is the best possible soil in which to cultivate human freedom, but that Is not necessarily so." he asserted in a prepared address at Harvard's 291st commence ment. over the past ten years that it can take criticism," Guffey de clared. "It has taken plenty. But It will not. and it should not. tolerate criticism intended to destroy the prestige of the legis lative process In time of war." The elements in the press criticized, Guffey said, are "dan grroui only because they are unwittingly the tools of deadly forces which they could not be expected to understand." "They are bad little boys playing with dynamite. And what they need Is not repressive legislation but a trip to the i woodshed." , , , ... v JVL Jackson. Josephine County "Avengers" I ! 'v-.fS W. . '". 1 rm jfui, i ,in..a,,. f7 u pTnjr - lik3 '-1 jV '' it iit i ( Eighteen Jackson county youths and seven from Josephine county entered the navy la a public ceremony here Sunday as a Part of the nation-wld pledging of services as "Avengers of Pearl Harbor." Shown above being iwan by Lieut. R. L. Johnarud, recruit, ing officer from Portland, are Carl Short. Chetter Smith. Cecil Campbell, George Walker, Robert Bryant, Thayer Kettler, Myrlia Scott. Marvin Scott, Max Landon, Paul Murphy, Alfred Dodaoh, Jr.. Robert Stearns. Forrest Cochran. Eugene Bennett. Jack Steven son, Conroy Chrittlanson, Victor Lehman and Richard Westerberg of Jackton county and Clifford Gilbert, Earl Hall. Walter Mendott hall. Almond Kile, Charles Pixley, Leslie Poole and Gayla Nichols, Josephine county. Others taking part in the ceremony were Frank DeSousa, Medford pottmatter, chief petty officers W. R. Cumley, C. E. Walker and J. M. Carpenter of the navy! Adjutant Charles K. Cox, of the Salvation Army! J. C. Buckmaater, commander Crater Lake Post. V.F.W.,1 members of the Navy Mothers Club and Mrs. Alexander's Hawaiian band. Midway Fight Beat World Series Declare Jubilant Yankee Airmen By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor. Dramatic new accounts of the battle of Midway revealed today that American flying fortresses and other U. S. forces broke up two huge Japanese fleets,, beat off an attack by 180 enemy planes and saved the Hawaiian islands from invasion. Admiral Chester W. Nlmltz,. commander in chief of the U. S. Pacific fleet, said perhaps half of the enemy ships were sunk or damaged in the three-day battle which saw Japan suffer her greatest naval disaster In history. Admiral NImlnltz said thou sands of Japanese must have perished left to drown by their shipmates in flight before the Americans. Many In Squadron "A better show than the world series," jubilant crew members of one of the armies big B-17 bombers summed up the battle. The two big enemy armadas approached Midway on June 3, with a train of transports strik ing from the west while a pow erful battle squadron steamed up from another direction. Eye-witness reports by Amer ican army, navy and marine fliers indicated there were about 20 ships in the transport force and "some 20 to 29 ships" in the battle squadron. Getting in the first decisive blow, U. S. army bombers made first contact with the enemy far west of Midway on the after noon of June 3. This was ap parently the Japanese transport column. In medium altitude attacks, braving a terrific barrage of anti-aircraft fire, the army planes hit and set fire to a Japanese cruiser or battleship and also left a transport and a destroyer in flames. The following morning, June 4, U. S. marine dive-bombers and army flying fortresses smashed at the Japanese battle fleet 150 miles off Midway and Inflicted heavy damage on the enemy. Full details have not yet been released. Midway Under Attack Meanwhile, at least 180 Jap anese planes from carriers at tacked Midway with heavy dem olition bombs for 38 minutes but did not bomb the runways. j apparently expecting to capture the island and use it as an air base for attacks on the Hawaii an island 1,200 miles to the southeast. American planes which had been roving far out to sea attacking the Japanese fleet returned .to Midway shortly after the enemy air raiders ! withdrew. "Thij was the critical period of the entire battle for our I land-based air force," said Brig Gen. Willis H. Hale, command er of the Hawaiian bombard ment command. "But the enemy didn't come back. They were too busy pro tecting themselves. From then on, the Japanese were with drawing and it was a series of mopping operations." E Moscow, June 11 UP) Ger many's armlet and air force. In creasing their pressure along the entire front, were attacking today at three major points: opening a new push from Khar kov in the Ukraine, hurljig whole divisions against besieged Sevastopol, and battering at Murmansk from the air. Dispatches from the battle fronts suggested that the Ger mans at last were getting their summer campaign under way, rolling Into larger-scale action after being held and thrust back for almost six months. Tass reported from Sevasto pol that the Germans had at tacked repeatedly during the past 24 hours, hurling powerful forces Into the fight, but said that "despite the intensity and stubbornness of the attacks the enemy failed to break the resist ance of the Sevastopol defend ers , . . the troops firmly hold their ground." Aerial activity on both sides was described as intense. Tass said red air force filers defend ing the city shot down 29 Ger man planes and damaged 10 oth ers in the past few days, while anti-aircraft guns downed 20 more German aircraft. Pension Restored For Disabled Vets Washington, June 11. W) President Roosevelt signed to day a bill restoring to $40 monthly the pension payable to world war veterans suffering from permanent total non-service-connected disability. The original $40 rate had been cut to $30 under the 1933 economy act. aaaaaaaaaaaaaMaaSC. "Great Success" for Japanese in Pacifie Is Word From Tokyo Tokyo (from Japanese broad casts), June 11 UP) Japan's leading civilian naval expert, Masanorl Ito, said today that "In view of the great success" of the Japanese In the battle of the Pa cific "we should not be disap pointed at the loss of two air craft carriers, for the gain Is far greater than the loss." (This was the first authorita tive suggestion from Tokyo that two of the imperial navy I car riers had been sunk, as officially claimed by the United States. It represented a shift from Tokyo Imperial headquarters' admis sion that one had been sunk and another severely damaged.) Ito declared that the Midway and Aleutian attacks of the Jap anese were a coup de grace for the United States aircraft carrier force while, he said, the Japanese fleet remained only slightly affected. His interpretation of the bat tle was broadcast by Dome! Japanese news agency. 5 Five sugar ration books and a small amount of money were among the items in the pocket- book which was reported stolen from the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Louis L. Lawver of 324 Mae street early yesterday morning according to the city police. Mrs. Lawver was awakened early in the morning to discover an unidentified man In the bed room. The Intruder ran from the room and escaped through the back door which had been left unlocked the report stated. CEILING TROUBLE Portland, Ore., June 11. UP) A Chinese merchant told OPA Inspectors he was having diffi culty posting ceiling price be cause he had bought out a Jap anese merchant and couldn't read the Nipponese figure. . . .nx Sworn In CHINESE GIVING JAPS HOT FIGHT I Chunking, June 11. (IP) The Chinese have engaged the Japanese in a "severe battle" In Kiangsi province near Tsungjen, 60 miles south of Nanchang, and are increasing their harassing operations behind the Japanese lines in Chekiang province, to the east, the high command said tonight. (The Tokyo radio broadcast Domel report that the Japanese) had occupied Tengpu, 60 mile southeast of Nanchang and ap proximately that far east of Tsungjen. A prize of the bitter Kiangsi Chekiang province fight, the Hangshow-Nanchang rail line, runs through Fuchow midway between Tengpu and Tsungjen). A communique said that the) walled town of Chuhtlen, sur rounded by the Japanese la western Chekiang province, "re mains fn Chinese hands with severe fighting going on east of Chengshan." Chenhan It 12 miles west of Chuhslen on the rail line into Kiangsi province. Central Dally News rpocS that more than 2,000 Japanese had been killed in a battle in southern Shantung province when the Japanese tried to smash Into Tasomachl, near the Klangsu province border, with mechanized units June 2. The newspaper said the Chin ese held the town under Intense bombardment, destroyed eight out of 40 Japanese tanka and more than 40 of 300 Japanese trucks, then forced the invaders back in hand-Unhand fighting. The land transport link be tween allied forces In India and China is Intact despite the Jap anese penetration of Burma, Chinese spokesman said. Chemical Company Trial Waits Peace Washington, June 11. UP) The trial of eight chemical com panies and 20 individuals on charges of conspiracy to violate the anti-trust laws by monopo lizing the manufacture and tale of dyestuffs has been postponed for the duration on the repre sentation of Secretary Stlmaon that to proceed would "seriously Interfere with the war produc tion effort." The justice department dis closed this today in an ex change of letters between Stlm tcn and Attorney General Blddle.
