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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, June 13 To un
derstand just what the Russian
agreements mean and particu
larly what they do not mean
you must read
Wash lngton
and London
texts back Into
the mutual
aims and the
d 1 f f e rences
which brought
them about.
Mr. Roose
v e 1 t started
with the war
aim of the four
Paul Malloo
freedoms o
speech, of religion, from want,
from fear. He worked out the
tlantic charter with Mr. Church
ill Implementing the first two by
pledges for self determination of
peoples and against seizures of
territory, etc.
But the Atlantic charter did
not specifically mention speech
and religion. It did mention want
and fear, and suggested econom
ic methods of avoiding them by
free access to raw materials,
dropping trade barriers, etc.
In this new Washington-Moscow
agreement, there Is no speci
fic mention of any of the free
doms. Three references are made
to the Atlantic charter.
The preamble notes that the
Russian government accepted
"the basic principles of the
Atlantic charter" (it adhered in
London in September 1941). But
the official announcement and
the text of the agreement both
mention new phrase just "the
attainment of the economic ob
"jectives" of that charter.
w ATtfriTTAfiE of dtolomacy is
generally as significant as
the wording or a uw. wuviui
cial interpretations are uncer
tain, but you will find enlight
enment explanation in this in
stance in the column published
June 8.
n. nnuiana had been oolite-
ly pressing Britain and the Unit
ed States tor a po5vw.
- v... ion hnundaries. includ
ing half of Poland, the Baltic
states, parts of rtumania. inn
was an untimely request in the
midst of war, because it raised,
(Continued on Paga four)
TWO DIE AS PLANE
Can Vronfltcn June 1 5 P)
Two army men were killed
today as a military plane crasn
ed into a hangar at Mills Field
m itVi nf hprp.
Flames destroyed the hangar
and the wrecked plane. An an
joining hangar was damaged by
fire.
The dead were the pilot and
.n Anii.tttH man who was in the
hangar into which the plane
crashed.
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Timei
More on "The Rubber Prob
. lem" is to be discussed in the na
tional radio forum on the BLU
at 9 tonight, with Sen. Harry S.
Truman of Missouri as speaker.
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Joe and Elizabeth Rinard hav
ing a hard time naming their
livestock, acquired when friends
had an animal shower for them
at their new home in the coun
try. Mary Lou Guenther Indulging
In a swim at T-sin Plunges.
Bill Robinson and Elmer
Knight having a good discussion
on "war and politics."
rishrmen at Dodge bridge
quitting in disgust when Mrs. Irl
Groves landed a big salmon
Sunday afternoon after her hus
band had landed two big ones at
the same place Sunday morning.
BRITISH CONVOYS
BADLY BATTERED
Two Cruisers, One Destroy
er, Four Steamers Sunk;
Nine Heavily Damaged.
By Clyde A. Farnsworth
Associated Press War Editor
A great running sea-air battle,
which on the face of axis reports
the only information available
thus far seems to have stem
med from a major strategical
move of the allies, was being
fought today at Italy's Mediter
ranean doorstep in the sea be
tween Tunis and Sardinia.
The location of the battle, the
strength and composition given
by Rome for the allied naval
force and the reckless expendi
ture of planes in the attack on
it suggested either that Italian
territory itself might be under at
tack or that the allies were en
gaged in a great transfer of
strength between Gibraltar and
Suez.
The Italian high command. In
a special communique, claimed
that two cruisers, one destroyer
and four steamers were sunk out
of one of two British convoys.
and a battleship, an aircraft car
rier, two cruisers, one destroyer
and four steamers heavily dam
aged.
Spotted Saturday
The Italians said the convoy
attacked was protected by nu
merous units of the line and by
two aircraft carriers." Spotting
the convoy early Saturday, Ital
ians said their scout planes later
lost sight of it and the first at
tack was not delivered until Sun
day.
"Numerous formations" of tor
pedo planes, bombers and fight
ers then struck the flotilla, the
Italians related. They acknowl
edged 20 planes lost themselves
and reported shooting IS carrier
borne planes down in flames.
"The operations were resumed
in the early hours of this morn
ing against the remaining units,"
the communique concluded.
Naval warfare broke out mean-
while in the Black sea where the
red fleet, thundering into action
to bolster Sevastopol against
land assault, laid a curtain of
snellfire on the encroaching Cri
mean line of the Germans.
Reports reaching Moscow said
the naval bombardment took a
heavy toll among the Germans
with their scattering of Ruman
ian allies. The warships were
not identified.
This turn in the battle of Se
vastopol after seven months of
German siege or active assault,
and the veiled Mediterranean
movement which provoked the
assault followed closely upon the
forced landing of four United
States army bombers In Turkey
after some mysterious mission of
destruction
One report from Turkey over
tne week-end was that the Amer
icans had bombed Rumanian oil
refineries but there also were
various German reports that the
bombers had participated In the
defense of Sevastopol and had at
tacked German bases In Russia.
At any rate, considering offic
ial secrecy on the affair, there
was a general belief in London
and elsewhere that the United
States had opened a new air
front in the eastern Mediter
ranean.
If the British actually were
moving convoys eastward from
the Atlantic into the Mediter
ranean, as the Italians reported
they might have been carrying
sizeable reinforcements for the
battle of Libya.
Hungarian Pantries
Raided by Romanians
Bern, Switzerland. June 1
(jP) Dispatches from Budapest
saia today that Rumanian auth
orities had suddenly confiscated
all the food stocks of Hungarian
families living in numerous vil
lages in that part of Transylvania
still remaining under Rumanian
sovereignty.
Moreover, It was reported, the
Hungarian minority had been
notified that those deprived of
food stocks would not be given
food ration cards on July 10.
Many of the Hungarians were
said to have been forced from
their land and homes.
JSP CmiSer Slink, T
Carrier Damaged
Off Aleutian Isles
Baltimore. June 15 (JP) United States torpedo planes sank a
Japanese cruiser and scored a direct hit on an aircraft carrier of
the main Japanese task force off the Aleutian Islands, a tele
gram from Lieut. Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the army air force,
to Glenn L. Martin, aircraft manufacturer, disclosed today.
In Washington, the war department declined immediate
comment, although its public relations department approved use
of the telegram.
General Arnold s message, congratulating the Martins Com
pany on successful use of Martin
three attacks had been made in
main Japanese force.
Washington, June IS UP)
expand their landings in the Aleutian islands was expected by
military authorities today, but
knockout blows against important American bases was con
sidered debatable.
Any large-scale operations
well over into the waters of the
western hemisphere, it was said,
would certainly bring a swarm
of United States army and navy
bombers down upon invading
ships. Short of desperation, the
Japanese might well wish to
avoid such attacks at this time,
so soon after their bitter exper
iences with American airpower
in the Coral sea and Midway
battles.
This would not. however, pre
clude further action of the kind
which last week put a small Jap
force on remote Attu island, and
the penetration of Jap ships in
Kiska harbor in the Rat island
group. Kiska Is 560 miles west
of Dutch Harbor and Attu is 770
miles west, locations which place
thum at the extreme end of the
Aleutian and relatively, close to
Japan.
FIGHTER PAY BILL
HAS SENATE OKEH;
IS SENT TO HOUSE
Washington. June 15. (AP)
The senate approved and sent to
the house today a military pay
allotment bill authorizing the se
lective service to consider family
relationships in calling men for
duty with the armed forces.
Under the basic section of the
measure, details of which were
revised last week by a joint con
ference committee, the govern
ment would help the four lowest
ranks of soldiers, sailors, marines
and coast guardsmen support
their derjendents.
Deductions taken from the
men's pay would be supplement
ed by federal allowances wnicn
in some cases would be consider
ably larger than the fighting
men's contributions.
The second section of the bill
revises the selective service act
by requiring local draft boards to
first exhaust supplies of single
men, or those without bona fide
family ties, before calling up hus
bands and lathers.
POLLS CLOSE ATI
Polls for the election of a
school director will be open at
Medford high school until
o'clock foment. Only name ap
pearing on the ballot will be
that of Dr. R. E. Green who has
been named a candidate to suc
ceed himself.
Those who have resided In the
sohool district for 30 days, the
state of Oregon for six months
and who are of voting age may
cast a ballot. Other members
of the school board are N. H
Franklin, Marc Jarrain, Eugene
Thorndike and John Moffat,
25,000 Jews Slain
In Latvia, Charge
Lcndon, June 15 UP) The
Federation of Jewish Relief or
ffanizAtinna aald tndav that ref-
jugee reports showed 25.000 Lat
I vian Jews were slain by local
fascists In four-day interval be.
tween the evacuation of that
Baltic country by the Russians
and the occupation by the Ger
mans last year-
craft as torpedo planes, said
the Aleutian Islands on the
An effort by the Japanese to
whether tney will try tor
MOTORISTS TOLD
BY CALIFORNIANS
Klamath Falls, June 15 (IP)
Southern Oregon motor camp
operators report that north
bound motorists, fearing a gaso
line shortage in Oregon, arc
carrying extra fuel in their cars,
it was learned here today. Many
of these motorists report they
have been advised by California
pump attendants that gasoline is
rationed in Oregon and is ob
tainable-only in small quantities
if at all.
Camp owners said this situa
tion created a problem for them
as gasoline thus stored violated
city storage ordinance, and also
probably invalidates insurance
policies carried by the camp
owners
It creates a special hazard for
car owners they point out, as
the summer heat builds up gas
pressure inside the cans and if
there Is any leakage it escapes
into the car and may be Ignited
by a spark from the exhaust.
Medford auto camp operators
today confirmed that many mo
torists from California, told by
northern California service sta
tion men that gasoline was al
most unobtainable in southern
Oregon, were carrying five-gallon
cans of extra fuel In their
cars.
One auto camp owner quoted
a customer as saying he was
told that there was absolutely
no gasoline available in Med
ford, and was urged to fill his
tank and carry an extra five
gallons in a can before leaving
California.
The local office of the Oregon
State Motor association report
ed a number of recent tourists
from California carried cans of
gasoline in their cars. They
pointed out that this was en
tirely unnecessary as the fuel
situation In Medford and vicin
ity is excellent at the present
time, with gasoline enough for
everybody.
SCENEJF RIOTS
London, June 15 (IP) Re
ports from Stockholm, publish
ed In London today said that
seven policemen were killed
and 25 German dock workers
later executed as a result of
rioting over coffee in Hamburg.
The ministry of information
aid it had no confirmation of the
report.
The published account said
stevedores loading freight cars
with coffee for the troops started
the outbreak by tossing packages
of coffee into the street where a
crowd began fighting for them.
The Gestapo was said to have
been stoned by the crowd when
it attempted to break up the
fight.
COL PERRIN NOMINATED
AS BRIGADIER GENERAL
Washington, June 15. AP)
Colonel Edwin S. Pen-in was
nominated today to be a briga
dier general and will, at the age
of 36, become the army's young
est general officer.
U-S- Planes"? Work On
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The Japanese aircraft carrier
Ryukaku is shown above burn
ing furiously in the battle of the
Coral sea as two U. S. navy tor
pedo planes (arrows) circled their
prey, banking for another shot.
The repeated hits scored on the
big carrier sent up plumes of
smoke and spray, lower picture.
(Official U. b. Navy photos).
PARIS CITY HALL
Vichy, Unoccupied France,
June 15. (AP) The Paris city
hall was shaken by the explosion
of a small bomb In an under
ground passage yesterday in the
latest violence aimed at occupy
ing Germans and their French
collaborators.
The explosion smashed
through the floor of offices
above, doing some damage, but
no Injuries were reported here.
Charles Magny, who was ap
pointed governor of Paris and
prefect of the Seine department
in October, 1940, has his offices
in the building. He is a former
director of the Surete National,
the French secret police.
10,800 JAPANESE
TO
San Francisco, June 15 (JP)
Removal of 10,800 Japanese
evacues from California assem
bly centers to relocation centers
at Tule Lake, Calif., on the
California-Oregon boundary
and Pcston, Ariz., was started
today.
The movement, ordered by
Lieut. Gen. J. L. DeWitt, com
manding general of the western
defense command, inaugurates
on a large scale the resettlement
phase of the evacuation pro
gram growing out of the re
moval of nearly 100,000 Japa
nese from their homes in west
coast military zones.
Rose Show Marked
By Big Bond Sales
Portland, June 15 (P) The
war-curtailed Rose festival clos
ed yetserday, boasting war bond
sales of $750,000.
The annual parade was can
celled and the festival was lim
ited to war bond sales promo
tions and Indoor programs.
Film stars Mary Brian, Mar-
jorle Weaver and Edmund Lowe
helped boost tales Saturday to
1305,000.
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Citizens Search Homes
To Aid Country's War
Medford service stations to
day were collecting scrap rub
ber of ell varieties and descrip
tions as the nation-wide drive to
accumulate worn-out rubber ar
ticles got under way.
One filling station operator
said that up to noon citizens had
brought in a total of 150 pounds
of scrap rubber, including such
articles as hot water bottles,
rubDcr gloves and overshoes,
balls, rubber horseshoes, rubber
buttons, pieces of hose, rubber
toys and other odds and ends.
Two elderly ladies delivered two
worn-out tires to this station.
Other stations reported vary
ing amounts of scrap rubber be
ing delivered, while a few said
none had been received. The
stations pay 1 cent a pound for
the scrap.
Washington, June 15 P
With the results to be measured
In more machines for victory,
and possibly delay or fore-
stallment of nation-wide gaso
line rationing, millions of Amer
icans today began a search of
attics, cellars, backyards and
other places of discard for old
rubber.
The campaign bersn by direc
tion of President Roosevelt, who
called upon every citizen to turn
In "every bit of rubber you can
possibly spare."
Each person was requested to
take all discarded or spare rub
ber to the nearest of the 400,000
Japanese Plane Carrier
gasoline filling stations scattered
throughout the country. The
needed elastic may be donated
or sold to the station operator
for a penny pound.
The oil Industry announced
Its entire work force, number
ing over 1,000,000 men and
women, and its automotive
equipment would handle the
Job of receiving the rubber and
assembling it at central points
for delivery to the government.
Although officials had made
no flat statement that a deci
sion on nation-wide gasoline
rationing would hinge on the
campaign, William R. Boyd, Jr.,
chairman of the petroleum In
dustry war council, said that
whether automobiles could be
kept rolling "depends entirely
on the total tonnage of rubber
scrap there Is." Country-wide
gas rationing has been consid
ered as a means of conserving
tires.
Boyd emphasized that "any
and all profit'" accruing to the
oil companies In the scrap trans
actions between the cent--
pound for scrap delivered at
the service stations and the S25
a ton the government will pay
for it would go to the United
Service (Jrganlzatlons, the Army
and Navy Relief and the Red
Cross.
He listed acceptable scrap
rubber as follows:
Tires, crepe rubber soles,
tennis shoes, rubber aheeUng,
for Rubber
Production
rubber heels, plumbers suction
cups, tubes, boots and over
shoes, rubber belting, pads and
matting, bathing caps, sample
tire sections, hard rubber tires.
hot water bottles, rubber gloves.
raincoats. Jar rings, rubber ash
tray tires "and hundreds of
other articles made of rubber."
However, he said, coliertors
should not accept hard rubber
battery boxes and should see
that metal, wood and leather
was removed from articles con
taining rubber, when delivered
at the filling stations.
Gas Ration Blanks
Sent County Clsrk
To Wait Necessity
The county clerk's office now
has gasoline rationing blanks)
and other material for gasoline
rationing, when and if the r
striction la ordered by Wash
lngton, D. C, agencies.
The authorities reported yes
terday was the busiest da7 la
many weeks on the highway!
and byways of Jackson county.
The trips were short for- the
most part, though number of
motorists from distant points)
were In the city and velley.
Traffic was particularly heavy
on the Pacific highway in th
late afternoon.