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Let YOUR Answer to Bombs b BONDSI Buy War Bondt and Stamps TOIlAV Cantnbula to tha ar effort of jtour nation. Patriot Um. your own Mif-protecllon. drmatida that VOU do rout part NOrtl Um Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Wint Ad Way Quirk Result at Small Cut Medfok Tribune Full Associated Pratt United Proas Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942. NO. 74. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 16 Labor has had a good chance during this war to learn how govern ment owner ship and oper ation works out. Certain e x periments In' socialism have been thrust upon the gov ernment, some experience has been acquired in the kind of which Paul Mallan the British la bor leftists strangely are coming to advocate as a post-war sys tem, and that some unthinking liberals in this country lean to ward also. . The government took over and operated the Brewster Avi ation Company, turning it back about three weeks ago to private management. Before govern ment operation and afterward, the union in that plant had a closed shop and a check-off. But while the government was In control it had nothing, not even the right to strike. When the government took over the plant, labor became the ser vant of the public and lost all its rights, which could be re stored only when those workers became private employees gain. , 0 0 PARLIER In the Kearny ship-- building plant, striking workers wanted a union of maintenance shop (practically the same as closed) and foolish union leaders urged the govern ment to take over the plant when they could not get their desires by negotiation with the management. The government accepted their Invitation, to their regret. The navy ran the plant, but without the union of mainten ance or any other shop, and when the plant was turned back the union was still without its objective. It would have been against the law for the govern ment to have done otherwise. The workers finally got their (Continued on Page Pour) Government to Rule Over Portland Rents City Officials Told Portland, Ore., June 16. (IP) The federal government and not the city of Portland will supervise rent control here. City officials were so In formed yesterday by Senator McNary (R.-Ore.), who tele graphed that the rent division of the OPA will appoint a direc tor for Clark county, Wash., and Multnomah and Clackamas counties. Ore., Including Port land, probably by July 1. Portland parsed a rent coun cil ordinance last week, and had planned its own supervision. Mayor Earl Riley said he would not object to federal control. Rents have been frozen by fed eral order as of March 1. Radio Highlights (Paciwic war time.) Tonight: CBS, 5:30, Nature of the Enemy, new drama se ries; 6:30, Cheers From the Camps, Ft. Jackson, S. C. Blu, 3:30, Soldiers of God. Army Chaplains; 6:30, This Na tion at War. Bomber Plant. MBS, 7:30, Rep. Wright Pat man and Sen. R. L. Owen on "Bonds, Taxes, National Debt." ARMY COOKS STUDY Fort Lewis, June 16 IIP) The army is assuring itself of getting well-prepared food at this big northwest cantonment Officers announced today that the school here for bakers and cooks currently has a record enrollment of 52 mess sergeants. 398 cooks and seven bakers, to taling 457 men. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Grorge Green, after much practice, becoming a fair-to-mid-dlin' equestrian. Rassler "prince" Mihalikis naunung oia naunis ana nnainp things the same as always. City Police Judge Bill Allen sporting a straw hat in antici pation of funny da) I. "General a " "1 - . J. si American-built medium tanks, dubbed "General Grants" by the British In Libya, line up to move into the desert battle. They've given a good account of themselves in fighting around Knightsbridge. Scrap Rubber Comes in by Tons To Jackson County Gas Stations TAX PORTION OF I LAGS SAYS F.D.R. Washington, June 18 (IP) President Roosevelt remarked at a press conference today that the tax portion of his anti-inflation program was behind sche dule and that every day which goes by without action on a new revenue measure is costing the treasury considerable money. He said he did not want to be temperamental or be put In the position of unduly criticizing the House Ways and Means com mittee, before which tax legis lation is pending. But he said it was his view that we ought to begin getting more money into the treasury, and he has not particularly in terested in specific methods. The president's discussion of revenue legislation developed from a question as to whether he would rather have a sales tax than a bill $2,000,000,000 short of his revenue goal, now that the Ways and Means com mittee had shelved his sugges tion for a $25,000 limit on in comes. He gave no direct answer to that inquiry. Chungking, June 26 IIP) The Chinese high command an nounced tonight a further Jap anese advance in East Kiangsi province, but indicated that the Chinese were exacting a heavy toll from the Japanese columns striving to close a pincers on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway. A communique said the Chi nese abandoned Kwangfeng, 25 miles within Kiangsi on Sunday after an all-night battle in which the Japanese, thrusting west ward along the railway, suf fered more than 1,000 casual ties. An army spokesman admitted that the gap between this invad ing column and another driving eastward through Kiangsi had hwn reduced to 80 miiei. (The Japanese said their col umns were only 60 miles apart.) The communique said the Chi nese had seized the initiative in the Mancheng region, some 40 miles south of the railway, and ; were storming the city, whicn 1 . i T Mntuml a few me i - F ' " - - ago. ALASKA TO GIRD Washington, June 16. 'IP) Immediate organization of an Alaskan war council to mobilize civilian manpower and resources to support defense of that terri tory was directed today by In terior Secretary Ickes. Grants" Line Up In Libya 12' r Scrap rubber In an ever-increasing amount tons of It was being delivered to service stations in Jackson county today as the nation-wide drive to accumulate worn out rubber articles of all kinds moved Into its second R. G. Fowler, head of the Jackson county salvage pro gram, said that all service sta tions in Medford were equipped to handle the scrap rubber, and urged that citizens scour their houses and property for every bit of rubber they don't need. The drive here, he said, is coming along very well, with persons of all ages swarming in to the service stations to sell their scrap rubber for a cent a pound and at the same time ma terially aid America in its war effort. One service station In Central Point, up to noon today, had purchased some four tons of scrap rubber from patriotic cit izens, most of It being old tires. and many other stations report ed their scrap piles were grow ing by leaps and bounds. No figures on the amount of rubber collected thus far were available today, but Fowler said by tomorrow a good idea of the number of tons would be known. Persons with scrap rub ber of any kind were requested to take it to their nearest service station. KICK-BACK PLOT Albany, N. Y., June 16. f) A federal district grand Jury today indicted four Albany men on a charge of illegally collect ing more than $50,000 from workers at the war department's new receiving and reconsign ment station at nearby Voorhccs ville. The Indictment charged the quartet with conspiracy to vio late the so-called federal "kick back" statute prohibiting induce ment of persons employed on public buildings or public works to repay part of their compen sation by intimidation, threat of dismissal or other means. The men included a business agent of local 106, International Union of Operating Engineers: his son, a city employe; a vice president, financial secretary and assistant business agent of the union, and a union steward Only the latter was employed on the project. Dr. R. E. Green was re-elected to the school board of the Med ford public schools yesterday when he received 198 votes of the 250 cast. He will serve a five-year term. Mrs. Zoe Hurd received 81 votes and R. W. Coleman was named on one ballet. Employes in the city school superintend ent's office said the vcte was considerably heavy for a school election. l i i mr day. OLD RUBBER PILE Washington, June 16 (IP) America's scrap rubber pile mounted steadily today as de flated beach alligators, discard ed tires and punctured football bladders dropped onto it by un counted thousands of tons. Specific reports indicating the total that might be collected in the full two weeks of the Pres ident's drive were lacking, but the general comment across the country in the second day of the campaign was that it was off to a good start. One thing that slowed the collection in many points was the lack of scales in filling sta tions to weigh the rubber citi zens offered. However, filling station operators reported that in many cases adults refused to accept the stipulated penny a pound. 25 DAYS IN JAIL Daniel Ruiz Mazon was given a sentence of $50 fine or 25 days in the city Jail in the city police court today on a charge of molesting women on the street. Mazon, 32, of Camp White, who was unable to pay the fine, was arrested by city police last evening after molest ing two unidentified girls on North Bartlctt street, according to city police reports. Mazon was arrested May 17 and May 28 on charges of being drunk, police reports show. Japs Lose 8 Planes In Raid On Darwin Allied Headquarters, Austra lia, June 18 Ki The Japanese in their third attack in as many days on Darwin lost nearly 15 per cent of their raiding planes. General Douglas MacArthur's hendquarters announced today The raid was carried out yes terday by 27 heavy bombers escorted by 15 zero-type fight ers, an allied communique said and allied interceptors shot down six of the fighters. Two of the defense craft were lost. Dependents Aid Bill Waits Roosevelt Pen Washington, June 16 IIP The house completed legislative action today on a bill providing for financial aid to dependents of service men through deduc tions from army and navy pay checks and supplementary al lowanccs from the government. U. S. Air ien Join RAF In Blading Italian Fleet; Axis Claims Libyan Win E No Report of U. S. Losses as Third Attack Pressed Against Invasion Ships. (By Associated Press) U. S. army and navy fliers pressed home a third great victory over Japanese Invasion forces in the Aleutian islands off Alaska today. The Amer ican fliers were credited with having already sunk or dam aged eight enemy ships. The score: Japanese losses Sunk 1 cruiser. Damaged 1 aircraft carrier. at least 3 cruisers, 1 destroyer. 1 gunboat, 1 transport. American losses None reported. A navy communique, break ing a three-day silence on the Japanese landings In the bleak, fog-bound island chain, said both U. S. army and navy fliers were continuing the attack in a smashing sequel to the earlier American victories In the bat tles of Midway and the Coral sea. ''Except for these continuing air attacks upon the enemy landing parties and their sup porting naval contingents, the general situation in the Aleu tian islands appears unchanged," the navy said. Ho New Landings -This was interpreted to mean that the enemy had failed to make any new landings over the weekend after the original thrust into Attu island, at the westernmost tip of the Aleu tians. Authoritative quarters said Japanese ships which had entered the harbor of Kiska, In the nearby Rat islands, had been driven out. Combined with the Coral sea and Midway results, the Aleu tian operations to date made a total of 19 Japanese ships sunk, three probably sunk, and at least 35 damaged. Summing up the three ac tions, military strategists said Japan's far-flung invasion forces had been defeated in three ma ior efforts: 1. To cut the U. S. supply line through the Coral sea, as a prelude to invasion of Aus tralia. 2. To capture Midway island as a springboard for a grand assault on Pearl Harbor. 3. To establish bases in the far north for an Invasion of the American continent. DRAFT REGISTRY SET FOR JUNE 30 A representative of the local Selective Service boards an nounced today that President Roosevelt has declared Tuesday June 30, between the hours of 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. as the fifth registration day. All men born on or after January 1, 1922, and on or before June 30, 1924, are re quired to register. This. In effect, means reg istration of all men between the ages of 18 and 20. The Selec tive Service headquarters also announced that the registration will be approximately 50 per cent of the number registered in the third registration and it was stated that places of registration and volunteer registrars would be listed in the near future. DAMAGES DENIED Salem, June 16 IIP) The state supreme court upheld to day a Union county circuit court decision which refused to award damages to Mrs. Iva M Sine for the death of her hus band, Curtis W. Sine, who was killed Jan. 18. 1941, in an auto accident on the Oregon Trail highway near Telocaset, Union coun'y. BASEBALL National Pittsburgh 16 0 Philadelphia 5 12 0 Hamlin, Lanning, Wilke and Lopez, Phelps; Podajny and Liv ingston. I Cincinnati I Boston . 8 7 0 0 7 2 Vandermeer and Hemsley; Javery, Erickson and Kluttz. American First game. New York 6 10 1 Detroit 7 9 3 Donald, Branch, Llndell and Dickey; Benton, Henshaw and Tebbetts. IN 3-DAY EFFORT TO CROSS RIVER Moscow, June 16 (P) A three-day German assault in an attempt to cross an important river in the Kharkov sector has been balked by Russian hill-top defenses and the nazis now have been forced back to the defen sive, front-line Soviet dispatches declared today. The Germans claimed today they had expanded a bridgehead which . they won across the Don ets river In the Kharkov aqea yesterday.) Around Sevastopol, the other major scene of current fighting on the eastern front, the Ger mans have massed seven artil lery regiments on their main line of assault in an effort to batter down the Russian fortifi cations of that besieged Crimean city, the Russians said. The German cannon Include one of the Big Berthas like those with which the Kaiser's troops shelled Paris during the last World War, the dispatches said, but despite this weight of artil lery the Red army forces are holding firmly to their rock- bound positions. In repulsing the repeated hea vy German assaults, the agency said, the Sevastopol garrison in a single day destroyed 40 tanks and killed three regiments of in fantry, while Soviet planes burned 10 tanks, knocked out 12 more and smashed 13 trucks loaded with infantry. "The approaches to our ad vance line were littered with the bodies of fascist officers and men," Tass said, with 950 count ed in one small sector. HALT GAS DELIVERY Washington, June 16. IIP) Price Administrator Leon Hend erson suspended gasoline deliv eries to eight filling stations In New York City and six In Phila delphia today, on grounds of "flagrant violations" of gasoline rationing regulations. Break-up of German Reich Gerard's Recipe for Peace New York, June 16 (Wide World) Down in the canyon of Wall street slight, gray-haired James G. GerarJ is looking ahead to the day when war will end, and this Is his formula for a lasting peace: 1. Break up the German relch Into Impotent atoms which never can coalesce Into another dangerous union, 2. Crush the sp'rit of con quest so completely that it never can rise again. 3. Maintain world peace with an international police force. The 74-year-old former am bassador to Germany during the first World war has fighting spirit undlmmed by the passing years. To him, peace Is some thing not only to be won but to be guarded Jealously by force of arms so that no nation can wage war on another. "The only possible solution to lasting peace," said Gerard In an interview, "is an Inter national army made up of the victorious nations, chiefly the United States, Great Britain Russia and China. , Information Head 4 ,-'14 President Roosevelt has cre ated an office of war informa tion in Washington, which will be headed by Elmer Davis (aboya), writer and news com mentator. .-T-T Navy Expansion Bill Has Committee Okeh; Will Hurry Carriers . Washington, June 16. An $8,550,000,000 ship construc tion measure an unprecedented program designed ultimately to double the size of the United States fleet was approved to day by the house naval mittee. The measure, demonstrating tho navy's Increasing emphasis on plane carrier and pointedly omitting any provision for new battleships, will provide for more than 1,400" ships of all types, including more than 400 combatant craft in the carrier cruiser-destroyer category. Chairman Vinson (D.-Ga.) said construction of the carriers would be started this year and the rest of the big boat program next year. He said the keels for the carriers would be laid "im mediately." MINELAYER LAUNCHED Portland, June 18 IIP) The minelayer Ozark was launched in the Willamette river yester day and within a few minutes keels were being laid for four smaller naval vessels on the same way at the Willamette Iron and Steel corporation. "And I suggest that Franklin D. Roosevelt be made its com mander-in-chief." Gerard warned the world for years of Germany's growing military might. Soon after Hit ler came to power he sensed the war that was to come and shouted alarms that went un heeded. And then when his predic tions came true, he advocated that the United States hWp wipe out the Nazi menace. Speaking before a Brooklyn Sunday school union assembly In 1940, Gerard urged immediate U. S. entry into the war, and added: "If eventually, why not now? We ought to be in this war. If not, we're cooked." "What must be done with Germany? That is the greatest problem," he said. 'The Ocr- mans must be rendered impo tent as a military threat, but you can't assassinate 80,000,000 people even though they have Slavs, Greeks, and Jews ana hold a million and half Frenchmen in slavery." IT1 BATTLESHIPS FIRED BY BOMBS; IS resence of Americans Clears Picture of 4-Day Mediterranean Conflict. By Roger D. Green (Associated Press War Editor) The United States army air force, in action for the first time alongside the RAF in the cen tral and eastern Mediterranean, was credited officially with a part in a smashing air and sea assault in which two Italian battleships were set afire, 10,- 000-ton cruiser was sunk, and a smaller cruiser and destroyer were damaged. The RAF announcement In a special communique from Cairo that American fliers had been in the Mediterranean fight for the last four days began to bring into fqcus tha picture of the thundering sea-air fight in tha straits between Italy and Africa which the axis previously had sought to pass off as their own success. Liberators Busy Taking part in the attack, said the communique, were "a fore of Liberator aircraft the ma jority of which were American- manned by the United State - army air fori." , The consolidated Libera tore are powerful four-motorea United States bombers akin to the big flying fortresses which, helped shower destruction upon the Japanese in the battles of the Coral sea and Midway. Altogether, two strong Italian naval formations were attacked, the RAF announced. A German version of the spec tacular sea-air battle, entirely different from the Italian ac count, said nazl air and navat forces sank four cruisers and destroyers, probably sank an other destroyer and damaged six other warships in attacks on British Mediterranean convoys. Germans Differ The Germans also asserted that six merchant ships were sunk, eight others probably sunk and six damaged, and implied that these losses were Inflicted on a west-bound convoy and were in addition to those re ported by the Italians. The fascist version said three British warships were sunk and 17 other ships sunk, set afire or damaged. The whole battle or series of battles revolved about an ap parent axis attempt to smash British supply lines to Malta and to North Africa, where the flaming desert struggle between weary British and axis forces appeared to be nearlng a finale. Adolf Hitler's high command asserted broadly that axis troops had already won the latest battle o: Libya which started May 28. "The battle in Libya to tha west of Tobruk has ended in favor of German and Italian troops," a nazi communique said. "After destroyinc enemy de fensive forces near Acroma in a pursuit to the north, our troops crossed the Via Balbo and reached the coast. "British and South African troops at Ain El Gazaia (coastal anchor of the British defensa line) were cut off from Tobruk. "The extent of the victory cannot yet be estimated." Imperial British headquarter acknowledged that British troops had withdrawn from posi tions below Ain El Gazaia, 40 miles west of Tobruk, as Mar shal Erwln Rommel's armored columns attempted to cut off the key British stronghold. Uaay la Oregon of Gennasie Dssesd Washington, June 16 (IP) Washington state had 67,060 residents at the 1940 census who claimed German as their mother tongue, of which 24.580 were foreign-born, tha bureau of census reported today. Tha similar figures for Oregon were: 48,980 and 16,700.
