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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1942.
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NO. 70.
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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-
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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
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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.
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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." , , , ...
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Jackson. Josephine County "Avengers"
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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."
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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.
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Sworn In
CHINESE GIVING
JAPS HOT FIGHT
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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.