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Newspaper Page TextLet YOUR Answer to Bomb b BOIf 081 ' Bur War Bond an Stamp TOKAY Contnbote to tht war effort of your nation. Patriot Urn, your own elf-protect Ion, demand that 0C do jonr part NOWI Us Th Tribune MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Cott FORD Full Associated Pieai United Prnt Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1942. NO. 72. AloMo) lr L ! s: . . r j Med MA WW in Are 1 i o News Behind The News B; Pad Mallon Washington, June 13 One sixth of the Jap capital fleet 'strength was put out of action at the battle of Midway. Details of which are now accumulat ing sufficiently to clear pop ular miscon ceptions of the action. It was not primarily a naval battle, but an air bat tle. P 1 a n e s werecast against Jap surface ships, planes against planes and Paul Mallon subs against surface ships. There was no action between U. S. surface ships and Jap surface ships. The Japs tried to sneak up on Midway, as they did on Pearl Harbor. They came in with their aircraft carrier planes in front as umbrellas to cover their bat tleships, cruisers, destroyers and transports from attack. Their strategy was to send bombers from these carriers over Midway in a surprise attack, just as at Pearl Harbor. The airfield at Midway was to have been bombed and destroyed before our planes could get in the air. Then they would have moved their battleships up with long range guns and reduced the heavy defenses. E Island is as level as -a billiard table and completely without cover or shell shelter. We have a good air field there and a protected lagoon, but nothing could be put under ground because after a few feet you reach water. The shelling would have pul verized the heavy defenses and opened the way for Jap light cruisers to come in and clear the way for landing troops from their transports. The Japs had three to five transports loaded with troops ready for that pur pose. But sharp American air-eyes gave us a lucky break. Our pat rol planes sighted the four to five advance ships In the Japa nese line several hundred miles off Midway, near the extreme limit of the patrol. These plares radioed back the alarm and Im mediately we began to attack . . . T'HEIR four or five carriers, huddled in the center of the Jap line, caught the heaviest of (Continued on P-e Six) War Bulletins Allied Headquarters, Aus tralia, Sunday, June 14 (JP) Twenty-seven Japanese bombers escorted by fighters raided Dar win yesterday, but did little damage. General MacArthur's headquarters announced today. The raid was carried out while Australia with the rest of the allied world was celebrating MacArthur Day. One enemy and one allied lane were lost, headquarters Announced. It was the first raid on the northern Australian port since the United States navy and al lied air torces Joined In smash ing a Japanese invasion thrust toward Australia. London. June 13 UP) A soli tary German raider unloaded a stick of high explosives on an east coast town last night, hit ting a hotel and killing at least nine persons. Berlin (From German Broad casts! June 13 UPt Berlin political quarters said today that free French soldiers captured at the Bir Hacheim outpost In Lib ya were subject to execution as irreculars under the German and Italian armistice terms with Frarce. Forbidding French sub jects to serve in armies fighting the axis. LONDON, June 13 F KAF Spitfires shot up several trains and illuminating gas tanks and a factory today in a sweep ever northern Franc. ENEMY IN SMALL I SCALE LANDINGS AT ATTU, KISKA Weather Slows Operations 'Face Saving' After Midway Seen. Washington, June 13 UP) American army and navy avia tion striking whenever the dirty weather of the far north per mitted, were at work today to drive the Japanese from their fingertip hold on the outer most end of the Aleutian island chain stretching westward from Alaska. The progress of operation was obscure. The navy, for the. time, stood on its original an-; nouncement that attacks against! the Japanese in the islands "are continuing." The Japanese, the navy said, had made a small scale landing at Attu, western most of the islands, and enemy ships had been reported in the harbor of Kiska, in the Rat island group. The Japanese landing at lone ly Attu was the only achieve ment salvaged from Nippon's grand scale offensive attempt1 in the north Pacific. The south ern wing of that offensive was broken and sent limping away in the action at Midway. No Real Threat In army and navy circles, the Japanese landings were viewed as nothing to rouse concern. Whatever Japan's original in tentions. It was believed the heavy losses of Japanese war ships off Midway had left the enemy in no position to under take to expand and exploit the footholds. Most naval men apparently Inclined to the view that no real threat to Alaska was in volved, . Rear Admiral John H. Towers, chief of the bureau of aeronautics, told reporters at Baltimore that the Japanese action was of "no real impor tance" and might even become an enemy liability. But there were those here who pointed out that a position on Attu could be of definite military value to Japan, even if it did not become eventually the first stepping stone for an attempted full-scale move on Alaska and the North America mainland. It could be a listening post along the route from Alaska to Japan or to Siberia relieving to some extent the necessity for JaDanese reconnaissance by sub marine, surface ship and air craft. Holman Interested . In Canada there was a dis position by at least one high official to view the Aleutian island attack in grim manner. In congress, confidence was expressed that the enemy would be swept out of the Aleutians quickly. Senator Chandler (D., Ky.), a member of the senate military affairs committee who discussed the matter with army and navy officials, said he was satisfied "we won't let them stay there long." Chandler saw the landings as unimportant and dictated sofely by 'psychological reasons of "face saving," Senator Lee CD., Okla.), also a committeeman, thought the Invasion apparently was a "face saving" move, but Senator Hol man (R., Ore.) expressed lively concern at the Japanese action. He predicted the Japs would attempt to construct an airbase there. Hannibal, Mo., June 13. UP) Mrs. C. C. Dudley had Just finished reading- a newspaper ac count of the sinking of the air craft carrier Lexington In the Coral sea battle when her tele phone rang last night. It was a long distance call from her son. Commander James Dudley who was on the carrier, assuring her of his safety. He called from the Pa cific coast SAILOR'S MOTHER GETS GOOD NEWS Here Last Summer W few tMSJ The war department announc ed that Major General Clarence L. Tinker (above), commander of the Hawaiian air force, was missing after the Battle of Mid way. Major General Tinker was in command of the air squadron that camped here last summer at the Elks picnic grounds on the Rogue. He is known to a number of local people. HALF JAPANESE LOSTJNPACIFIC Air-Sea Power Broken In Midway and Coral Sea Battles, Navy Says. Washington, June 13 UP) The Midway and Coral sea bat tles have cost Japan probably half of her best aircraft carriers and thus have broken the spear head of her air-sea striking pow er, informed naval sources esti mated today. And because of the Import ance of the air arm, the Japan ese are regarded as having gam bled away in the two engage ments the chance of major of fensive action on the American side of the Pacific, even though they still have several fast car riers which would operate with the weakened high sea fleet. They have lost at least six of the ten or more fully effective fleet carriers with which they started the Pacific war, and still others have been put out of ac tion temporarily by bomb and torpedo damage. This is In the basis of official reports of the Coral sea battle and word from Midway pilots that three and possibly four Japanese carriers were sunk in that action. Japan probably had more car riers than those listed in naval manuals. But by the best avail able listings, she started the war with these: Syokaku (or Shoka ku) and Ziikaku, the newest list ed designs, each of 14.000 tons. 30 knot speed and 45 planes; Snryu, Kiryu, and Koryu, 10, 050 tons. 30 knots and 40 planes: Rvuzyo, 7.100 tons. 25 knots, 24 planes: Akagl, 26.900 tons. 28 knots. 50 planes: Kaga 26.900 tons. 23 knots. 60 planes: Hosyo, 7.470 tons, 25 knots, 26 planes: and the Ryukaka, a new carrier either of 14 000 or 20,000 tons. She also had several converted liners as carriers, but these are not classed as fleet vessels. The toll has been one sunk, one believed sunk and one dam- I aged in the Java sea; one sunk and one damaged In the Coral sea. and three and possibly four sunk at Midway. By contrast, the United States has lost the Lexington and suf fered damage to another carrier off Midway. These represent third of the large American car riers in service when the war be gan. The obsolete Langlcy, sunk near Java, was a tender. GREATEST TROOP E, Fourth AEF Contingent, In cluding Negroes Land After Atlantic Crossing. With the AEF In Northern Ireland, June 13. UP) Thous ands of heavily armed United States troops, equipped with 28 ton tanks and other offensive weapons, moved into camps in northern Ireland tonight from the "greatest American convoy which ever crossed the Atlantic" in grim evidence of allied hopes of opening a second front against Germany this year. Warships flying the U. S. en sign shepherded the convoy through nazi submarine hunting grounds without incident, and this fourth announced AEF con tingent swung jauntily down the gangplanks as if impatient to get along with the business of fighting Germans. From at least nine states they came an indication in itself of the diversity and size of the newest force. Troops from Pennsylvania, California, Geor gia, Illinois, New Jersey, Mary land, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky shouted cheerily at uniformed women of the British army auxiliary forces while military bands piped out "Deep in the Heart of Texas," "Jersey Bounce" and other tunes. For the first time since the last war, negro troops were landed on British soil. An army statement said their num ber was small and that they were intended for "services of supply." ALLIES OBSERVE (By Associated Press) Across the length and breadth of the nation war stirred Amer icans paid tribute this week-end to the flag for which they fight, and, bound by ties of war. Join ed their sister United Nations in reaffirming their will to final victory. In populous cities and In tiny villages bands playri, troops marched and the "home front" paraded yesterday in honor of General Douglas MacArthur and Flag day. From his headquarters In Aus tralia, the hero of the Philip pines sent a message calling the designation of June 13 as "Mac Arthur Day'" a rededication "to the immortal ideals of West Point: 'Duty, honor, country.' " DEAD TOTALS 30 Oklahoma City, June 13 (IP) Red Cross and other relief ag encies cared today for 250 home less victims of a tornado that killed 30 persons in a southwest residential district and roared off "whistlini like 10,000 dev ils." The army sent soldiers from the air base who toiled through the night bringing dead and in jured from the debris, then tsay ed on through the day to help tend the survivors. An area two blocks square in the southwest corner of the city was scoured bare of houses, and only a few trees, limbs and leaves wrenched away by the wind, Still stood. NO PORTLAND PUD VOTE Salem, June 13. (P) The State Hydroelectric commission today rejected petitions asking for a vote at the November gen eral election on creation of a peoples' utility district at Port land. FRENCH RISING ANEW London, June 12 UP) Free French headquarters reported tonight that the Gestapo has launched a h'g new d-ive in Taris to quell organized resistance. Interpreting The War News By Kirk L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) Whatever he may say, it is a reasonable guess that Adolf Hit ler is very far today from the jubilant mood on which he triumpeted the opening of his great "crusade" in Russia Just short of year ago. Twelve months later the self appointed savior of mankind Is fully aware that he has caught a tartar in his march with "no precedent" eastward against Russia "to safeguard Europe and thus save ail." There was a precedent after all, a Napoleonic precedent. The second "little corporal" has been periously close, by his own ad mission, within the past 12 months to the fate that befell Napoleon. He is not yet out of the woods. He still has the Russian bear by the tail in a dance o fdeath that involves millions of men. He can neither let go nor go forward notably with his "cru sade." The other end of the Russian bear, the business end, is snapping savagely at his heels at every gyration. That is the situation on Ger many's eastern front a week from the anniversary of Hitler's attack on Russia. And to match it a storm of British-American making is brewing in the west of which German victims at home have heard the first omin ous rumblings in thousand-plane British bombing of such cities as Cologne and Essen. For the six months that follow the night of June 21-22 this year, every night must be one of increased danger and terror for Germans as the ho'irj of darkness leng then. Britons have known that grim waiting night by night where every added moment of dark ness meant added peril, but never as Germans must now en dure it. No German can doubt that the Cologne and Essen raids were but tokens of the horror to come. What the upshot of that might be for Hitler before the winter turns the longest night corner in December none can say with certainty. . Nor can any say when Allied guns as well as bombs may again be joining in the dreadful chorus on the continent in the west. The ships, the planes, the men aie gathering within the fortress that is Britain. The Nazi warmaker can have no doubt of that, nor can he turn from his Russian front to meet iJ'at grow ing threat. Two-front war even now Is a terrible reality for Hitler. For the weeks since he thumbed his eastern army against Kerch Is thmus in an effort to regain the initiative in Russia, his troops have been floundering in blood, still chained to a fundamentally defensive role. E Tacoma, June 13 UP) Two army fighter planes crashed in separate accidents in the Ta-coma-Olympla area today killing the pilots. The first plane hit St. Peter's hospital in Olympia and fell to the street in flames. The pilot, tentatively identified as Lieut. Ralph M. Edwards, Jr., died in a few hours. Another ship crashed and burned in a field at Lakevlew, about 15 miles southwest of Ta coma, killing 2nd Lieut. Roy D. Stone, Monrovia, Calif. 4 GENERALS AND Berlin (From German Broad casts), June 13 UP) The Berlin rnrtin quoted "competent quar ters" tonight as stating that the Germans had taken more than 12.000 British prisoners, includ ing four generals and an Ad miral, in the course of the cur rent operations in Libya. In addition, it was stated, 600 British tanks. 300 guns and many motor vehicles were de stroyed or captured. German losses wer not mentioned. u- ACROSS ATLANTIC Embraces Canada and U. S. Coasts, Effective June 26, Berlin Reports. Berlin, (From German Broad casts), June 13 (IP) The Ger man government announced to night extension of its blockade across the Atlantic all the way to the American Coast as a re sult of the United States' entry into the war and of "the devel opment which naval warfare has taken since then off the Amer ican seaboard." CBS in New York heard a Berlin broadcast saying the blockade extension was Ger many's answer to allied threats of a second front.) The official announcement said: "The operations area In which at all times military action must be reckoned with has been en larged to extend to the Amer ican coast across the Atlantic ocean. "This was caused by the fact that the United States entered the war, and furthermore, by the developments which naval warfare has taken since then off the American seaboard. Every ship which will sail In this area after June 26 subjecting Itself to destruction. "The German government therefore is warning against sail ing in the hazardous area which extends: "From the Belgian coast three degrees east, over 62 degrees north, three degrees east and 68 degrees north, 10 degrees west to the coast of Greenland along 68 degrees north; then along the Greenland coast to Cape Fare well and from there to Cape Harrison; thence along the coast of Canada, the United States of America to Key West, from there along 28 degrees north, 60 degrees west, 45 degrees north. 20 degrees west and 45 degrees north, five degrees west and 45 degrees north, five degrees west and then to the French coast at 47 degrees, 30 minutes north." This chanted a line running north from the Belgian coast through the center of the North Sea, then westward to include the waters about Iceland and Greenland, then south along the Canadian and U. S. shores to the West Indies. PEOPLE MOUNTING New York, June 13. VP) Visions of a new era of interna tional justice are inciting the Chinese people to carry on, Madame Chiang Kal Shck said today in a special shortwave broadcast from Chungking. The message was receive! In New York by CBS on the occa sion of the 25th reunion of the 1917 graduating class of Wells ley college, of which Madame Chaing Kai Shek was a mem ber. The Chinese leader's wife said she had faith that the demo cracies will learn the lesson that it is better to prevent wars than to win them. (By Associated Press) Five more ships were an nounced sunk in teas both near and far today but two more struck back and returned to tell their stories. A small Norwegian freighter steamed Into an eastern Canad ian port with undisputable proof that it licked a submarine the submarine's survivors. A United Fruit banana ship, the Atenas, reached a gulf coast port with the Jubilant report that an Axis submarine was probably ' sunk and another frightened off In its voyage. FREIGHTER NABS SUBMARINE CREW Last Off Lexington v -mm :'. Capt. F. C, Sherman (above), commanding officer of the U. S. S. Lexington was th last man to leave th ship, which was sunk in th Coral sea. San Diego, June 13 (IP) Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman, abandoning the dis abled U. S. Aircraft carrier Lex ington in the Coral sea, risked his life to rescue his dog, "Ad miral Wags." With the big carrier aflame and racked periodically by ex plosions, Sherman took time to find the ten-year-old Cocker Spaniel before he left the ship. "Admiral Wags didn't like gunfire," Sherman said today, "and hid under the bed in my emergency cabin during the bat tle. "When I prepared to drop over board the cabin was filled with smoke, and I feared Wags had suffocated. But I found him standing forlornly by the bridge, waiting for me. "An orderly tied a life Jacket around the dog and lowered him into the water. He was taken to a destroyer, then a cruiser. He finally caught up with me in two or three days." MASS AIR RAIDS TO CRUSH NAZIS Washington, June 13 UP) Continuous night and day bomb ing of Germany by massed American and British air fleets was advocated today by Senator Norris (Ind-Nrb), who said he was convinced the Nazis might thus be brought to their knees without a land Invasion of Eu rope. Differing with those advocat ing establishment of a second land front as early as prac ticable, the veteran Nebraska senator said he could see no reason why Germany could not be reduced to military impot- ency by sustained, smashing aer ial attacks at her plane factories, transportation systems and in dustrial centers while the Nazi armies were heavily engaged with the Russians. A White House statement last Thursday said that the United States, Great Britain and Russia had reached ful understanding on the urgent tasks of creating a second iront this year. This was followed today by announce, ment of the landing of additional American troops in Ireland, fully equipped for offensive action. But Norris insisted these troops might be held in reserve and used only for "mopping up" operations on the continent if mass aerial attacks were made continuously. RANGE GRASS BETTER Portland, June 13. UP) Ore gon ranges are slightly above average, but are not in as good condition as last year, the Fed eral Department of Agriculture reported today. FAVOR JOB FREEZING Portland, Ore., June 13. UP) A federal proposal to freeze workers in their Jobs was ap proved today in a resolution by the Washington Independent Telephone association. HELP RUSSIANS; LAND IN TURKEY I Black Sea Bases Pounded Rumors Cloud Move Air Might Grows. (By Associated Press) America's growing air might was reported thrown into tho battle of Russia even as other U. S. planes hunted through the north Pacific fog last (Sat) night ' for Japanese detachments which landed on the westernmost Aleutians. Four or possibly five multi motored U. S. bombers with some wounded crewmen landed in Turkey, and the British agency Reuers said they had bombed Odessa and Nikolaev, Black Sea bases seized by the Germans from Russia last year. After two days of rumor, mostly from disturbed German sources, the Turks confirmed that the U. S. fliers had landed in their neutral country and were Interned. Exchange telegraph agency, also British, said 23 fliers were interned and that the flight "would seem to be the first in dication that a powerful Amer ican bomber command exists in the middle east." Reuters said German fighter planes pursued the great four motored bombers into neutral territory and turned back be. fore Turkish fire. All detail were vague and veiled In offi cial silence. The anguished cries from, Berlin, however, suggested tha Nazis might be building up the incident as a cause celebre to overawe Turkey, which could provide a Nazi shortcut to tha desperately needed oil c-f Iran, Iraq and the Caucasus. Turkey has been receiving lease-lend aid Including planes from the United States, and other equipment from the Brit ish. Thus the planes might con ceivably fly again against th Germans. SOVIET COUNTER ATTACK Moscow, Sunday, June 14 UP) Soviet forces meeting the greatest Nazi offensive c tha year with strong counter-action In a narrow death trap on the Kharkov front hurled back German tank and infantry at tacks in savage fighting all day yesterday, the Russians reported early today. The Soviet bureau of Infor mation declared that the Red army inflicted great losses on the Germans. The Nazis were said in Russian accounts to be throwing men into the continuing battle from a huge pool of reserves built up after the recent fight ing on the Kharkov front. Intense land, sea and air ac tions were reported by the Rus sians from other sectors of tha long front, which, with the Russian-German war almost one year old, is seeing some of its most bitter fighting. DEGREES FOR DOGS Baltimore, June 13. UP) Final examinations and com mencement exercises for seniors at Canine college will be held tomorrow with a bunch of smart pooches receiving such degrees as "C. D." (companion dog), "C. D. X." (companion dog excellent), and the highest de gree, "U. D." (utility dog). BULLETIN Medford defeated Dorris 10 to 7 in an Oregon California league game here last night. The Craters were ahead through out. The game was ragged, with 10 errors contributed by both teams. They play again this afternoon. Score: R. H. E. Dorris 7 12 4 Medford 10 14 Carlstrom and Goldbar; Crip pen and Adams. NIGHT GAME Los Angeles .3 12 0 Sacramento .6 10 0 10 Innings. Prim, Flores CD, Gehrman (8), Roffensberger (9), Lynn (10, and Todd; Lyons, Donnelly (8), Wicker (9), and Moeller.