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Navy Mum On
Neah Bay Sub
Witnesses Vary
On Power Link
Need Many Medics
In Armed Forces
-By John W. Kelly.
Washington, D. C, June 17
Homer T. Bone, senator for
Washington, announced that an
American merchant ship had
been destroyed by a submarine
In Neah bay, at the entrance to
the straits of Juan de Fuca.
The next day Secretary of the
Navy Frank Knox received a
wigging from the Truman senate
committee for not taking more
aggressive action against the
submarine menace. Secretary
Knox stated that the submarines
had been kept 50 miles off
American shores lately.
The Pacific northwest is so
far away from the national capi
tal that it is virtually ignored.
Senator Bone said his announce
ment was made with the full
approval of navy, but there
came no communique from the
navy department giving an ac
count of the torpedoing. Instead,
the navy put out press releases
of additional merchant ships be
ing destroyed and American
sailors being killed by German
(presumably) submarines on the
Atlantic coast.
Senator Bone's press release
was important because of the
attack upon Dutch Harbor and
the conjecture that the Japanese
might strike at southwestern
Alaska, Washington or Oregon.
J"one of these matters were
mentioned officially nor in com
ments on the Japanese browsing
around the Aleutians. The affair
of the straits of Juan de Fuca
could not rate a paragraph. The
only official In the capital who
recognizes the west coast is Sec
retary of War Henry L. Stim
son, who predicted the Alaska
attack and warns there will be
more; also Admiral Chester W.
Nimitz, commander of the Pa
cific fleet, who has given a sim
ilar prediction.
00
NO mention of the sinking at
Neah bay was made by Secretary
Knox in the executive hearings
of the Truman committee, but
the committee gave him an un
comfortable two hours. Knox
was asked why more airplanes
were not used against the subs
and he replied that no airplane
ihad ever sunk an undersea craft
This statement was challenged
and Knox was reminded that ne
decorated a flier who "Sighted
sub; sank same." The secretary
(CooMuund on Pa -a Sis)
Kiwanians Elect
Canadian Chief
Cleveland, June 17 VP) Fred
G. McAlister, London (Ont.) at
torney, was elected president of
Kiwanis International today, de
feating E. B. Stahlman Jr.,,
Nashville (Tenn.) newspaper ex
ecutive. Radio Highlights
(Pacific war time.)
Tonight: Talks 8:15. Archi
bald McLeish on "Mobilization
m American spirit ana r-:"yt-
Thursday: NBC, 1:30, Lorenzo
Jones; 6:30, Campfire Girls
awafd. MBS. 7 a. m., Thurman
Arnold on "Independent Enter
prise." 8:45 a. m., discussion,
Nursing In Wartime; 1 horse
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SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Tod Porter practical Joking
Charlie Clay, much to the lat
ter's good-natured pleasure.
Mose Alford enlisting the aid
of Edith Nichols In reading his
n handwriting.
Little Jo Carolyn Boshears all
dressed in a pink dress and en
Joying an outing in company
with her aunt.
P'liceman Clyde Fitchner giv
ing a lesson in the workings of
nndculfs.
IS PRESENTED BY
Loss of Continent Would
Lay Hawaii and Whole of
N.America Open to Attack
(By Associated Press)
Australia's Prime Minister
John Curtin, gravely warning
that "Australia can be lost,"
declared today that the war
news was not good and that
the fall of the down-under con
tinent would lay Hawaii and the
whole North American coast
open to Japanese attack.
Curtin, who recently chal
lenged Japan to attempt an In
vasion of Australia, said the axis
was engaged in three major
thrusts against the united na
tions and that each was of vital
importance to Australia.
Rommal Gains
1. North Africa "The news
from Libya Is not good. Rom
mel has made gain at great cost,
but nevertheless gains which are
clearly reverses for our forces.
"It is clear that the struggle
in this theater has reached the
critical stage."
2. Russia "Australia Is Irre
vocably linked" with Russia's
defense against the current Ger
man onslaught.
3. Blockade "S u b m a r 1 n e
warfare against the allies has
reached a high intensity, ana
shipping losses, I tell you blunt
ly, are beyond our present an
nual replacement capacity."
A corrmlete setback lor me
allies in the middle east would
gravely affect Australia, he said,
because it would give the axis
command of the Suez and the
gateway to India, leaving tne
Indian ocean open for enemy
approach to Australia.
Airman tin Japs
While Curtin drew this som
ber picture for the allies, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's airmen
continued the business of beat
ing off Japanese aerial attacxs.
r.pn. MacArthur said Jap
anese bombers tried for the
fourth successive day yesterday
to soften the defenses of the far
north Australian port oi uar-
win, but failed to inflict major
damage as allied fliers drove
them off.
Altogether, Gen. macftnnur
.M ih Jananese have lost 13
bombers and fighters in the
forays, against a loss of six
allied fighter planes.
On the China war irom, uni
ncie dispatches said General
issimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies
had recaptured the Yangtze
river port of Hosueh, Hopeh
province shipping center, and
had driven the Japanese invad
ers into full retreat.
V TS pn.V. mnA KHth Hlirl-
burt of 418 Marie street were
injured yesterday- about 4:30
p. m. when the car in which
they were riding skidded on the
highway at Sticky lane near the
401 ranch and Jumped the ditch.
The men were brought to
Community hospital by Perl's
ambulance for medical atten
tion. Brooks suffered bruises
j r.i..ri inter in the
anu was . v... - '
day. The attending physician
reported today tnai nunour..
right arm was severely injured,
being denuded of skin from
wrist to shoulder.
The car evidentally skidded
on the highway, state poll'
reported, a the men were en
route to mcui ..v.... w
White, where they were em
ployed. Oil Truck Driver
Dies in Smashup
Myrtle Point. Ore.. June 17.
(jjV-Ciifford Morris, 28, an oil
truck driver, was killed last
night when his truck dropped
150 feet into a canyon near
Powers. He formerly was em
ployed In Marshfield. Reeds
port. Medford and Roseburg.
His widow and two-month-old
child survive.
Greatest AEF Convoy Reaches Ireland"!
Unconcerned as their convoy arrived in Northern Ireland, American soldiers members of an
armored unit gathered on top of a pile of life raits where a game of Chinese checkers waa in pro
gress. Their convoy the greatest ever to carry American soldiers overseas disembarked June 13.
Photo cabled ftpra London to New York.
Fighters' Pay Boost Now Law;
At Least $20 More for Most
Washington, June 17. UP) A measure boosting the mini
mum base pay of the nation's fighting forces to $50 a month was
signed today by President Roosevelt.
. For most of the men, it means at least f 20 more each month
for necessities and entertainment on time-off, or to send back
home to dependents. The bill makes the increase retroactive to
June 1.
The measure covers ranks up to and Including that of second
lieutenant in the army and the comparable grade of ensign In the
navy, whose base pay would be increased from $1,500 to $1,800
a year.
The bill also will boost rental allowances for officers. Under
existing law, enlisted men abroad or on sea duty receive an extra
20 per cent and officers 10 per cent of their monthly pay.
Meanwhile, legislation to provide financial assistance for de
pendents of soldiers and sailors and stating a congressional policy
that the selective service should "not break up the institution of
the home" was temporarily held-up on Capitol Hill for an edi
torial correction to be made by a concurrent resolution.
The following tables show the old and new monthly base pay
and allowance schedules:
PAY
Grade
Privates and apprentice seamen
First-class privates and second-class seamen
Corporals and first-class seamen
Sergeants and third-class petty officers .
Staff sergeants and second-class petty officers
First or technical sergeants and first-class petty of
ficers .......................
Master sergeant and chief petty
Second lieutenants and ensigns
(A private now received $21
$30 thereafter, and $40 after one year in service.)
Nurses' base pay would be raised $20 monthly, to $90, for
those with less than three years of service, and $5 monthly, to
$135, for those with more than nine years of service. As in the
case of the army and navy, the base pay is exclusive of additional
pay for longevity.
RENTAL ALLOWANCES
Rank Old
Second-lieutenant with dependents ., , , , $ 40
Without dependents
First-lieutenants with dependents
Without dependents
Captains with dependents
Without dependents .
Majors with dependents .
Without dependents
Lieutenant-colonels with dependents
Without dependents
Colonels with dependents
Without dependents
Higher ranks unchanged except for $25 increase for brigadier
and major generals without dependents.
(Similar provisions for naval officers of corresponding rank.)
For all officers entitled to allowances for food, the daily single
ration Is increased 10 cents, to 70 cents dally.
Clinton, Iowa, June 17 IIP)
The federal government today
took ovc. the A. O. Schaffer
A to Z wrecking yard here
and requisitioned an estimated
200 tons of Iron, steel and rub-
! ber scrap.
Eugene L. Dunne, Chicago
field representative of the auto
mobile graveyard section of the
office for emergency manage-
, ment, said Schaffer had refused
to sell the scrap and had "dared
the government to requisition it.
In an transcript of Schaffer's
statements purportedly made to
salvage officials and released by
OEM, Schaffer said:
'They better have more than
one marshal to serve the requi
sition papers because I'm not
afraid of say federal man."
Old New
. 30 $ 50
. 38 54
. 54 68
. 80 78
. 72 96
. 84 114
. 126 138
. 125 150
officer .
monthly for his first four months.
New
$ 60
45
75
40
60
40
80
60
100
60
120
80
120
80
60
90
75
105
90 ,
120 ,
105
120
105
Mrs. L. G. Gentner
District Leader
In Garden Clubs
Salem, June 17 (P) The;
Oregon Federation of Garden
Clubs concluded its annual
three-day convention here today,
electing Mrs. E. D. Lamb, Klam
ath Falls, as its new president,
succeeding Mrs. Ruth Heffner
of Portland.
Other officers are: Mrs. M. A.
Lawrence, Portland, vice presi
dent; Mrs. A. G. Proctor. Klam
ath Falls, secretary-treasurer;
Mrs. James McNair, Ashland,
corresponding secretary.
District vice-presidents elect
ed included: Mrs. L. G. Gentner,
Medford.
OPTOMETRIST REJECTED
Portland, June 17 UP) An
optometrist was rejected by the
marine corps here today. The
reason, as given by MaJ. James!
B. Hardie, was colorblindness,
ION GRIST
AT STATE SESSION
Mllwaukle, Ore., June 17
VP) Morton Tompkins of Day
ton was elected master of the
Oregon State Grange unanim
ously today at the 69th annual
convention. He succeeds Ray W.
Gill of Portland, master for 10
years, who refused renomina
tion. La Grande was awarded the
1943 session.
Other office) s elected includ
ed Roscoe Roberts, Jackson
county, steward.
Mllwaukle, June 17 W)
Oregon Grangers began consid
eration today of the 85 resolu
tions introduced at their annual
convention.
Also up for decision was se
lection of next year's convention
site. Eugene and La Grande
have entered bids.
Delegates heard Palmer Hoyt.
publisher of the Oregonlan, de
clare yesterday that Americans
want to know the worst about
the war situation.
"Because we are a nation
of optimists, and because in a
general way bad news Is un-
pleasant, a reluctance to divulge
bad news has been indulged in
to a dangerous degree by our
government, Hoyt said.
Willing To Sacrifice
'The American public is will
ing to accept any sacrifice no
matter how galling and any
shortages no matter how bur
dening If only they are sold on
the idea that such shortages are
vital and necessary," he added
State income tax collections
should net 13V4 million dollars
compared to eight million last
year,
State Treasurer Leslie
Scott told the Grange delegates
yesterday. He declared Oregon's
l financial condition better tnan
. the average,
Among nominations were: Mor
ton Tompkins of Dayton, state
master: W. A. Johnson, Jose
phine county, for executive com
mittee post No. 3; Roscoe Rob
erts, Jackson, steward.
Oregonians Eager
To Provide Rubber
Portland, June 17 WP W. E
Ramsey termed Oregon I re
sponse to the president's plea
for rubber donations excep
tional.
The chairman of the collect
ing program In Oregon said oil
j companies had to put on add!
tiorlai trucks In Portland to
handle the amount turned In
at service stations.
Giant U.
Italian Vessels
PAYROLL IN CAMP
ABOUT $1,680,000
IS ESTIMATE NOW
Weekly Outgo of $420,000
Mostly Expended in Med
ford Vicinity Say Officials.
Construction of Camp Wriite,
which is now at its peak, is
producing a payroll of approxi
mately $420,000 a week, or
$1,680,000 a month, most ofi
which is being spent In Medford I
and adjacent communities for
food, clothing, lodging and
amusements.
This was the rough estimate
of the total payroll made today
by H. F. Frederickson, employ
ment manager for cantonment
contractors, who said the figure
represented wages and salaries
being paid everyone connected
with the construction of the
military camp, from high offi
cials of the contracting com
panies down to common la
borers. Mr. Frederickson waa unable
to make an estimate of the
total amount of money which
has been paid workmen since
the start ot construction in
mid-February, as the weekly
payrolls have not been the same
since that time.
Salem, June 17 (IP) Between
$500,000 and $1,000,000 month
ly Is flowing into Salem from
payrolls at Camp Adair, the
Oregon Statesman said today.
Condemnation Action
On Cantonment Land
Begun by Government
Notice of les pendens has been
filed by the government against
Dcane Owens and Glen Harrison
and others, landowners In the
cantonment area. Les pendens
is legal verbiage meaning notice
of starting condemnation suits
for land necessary In the estab
lishment of Camp George A.
White, designated Ir. the docu
ments as the Medford Triangle
Division site.
In the action against Owens
5,000 acres, more or less, are
involved, and in the Harrison
action 36.960 acres, more or less,
are listed. The county clerk's
office said 29 defendants are
named in the Owens notice and
285 in the Harrison case.
The land concerned lies in the
Antelope, Beagle and Agate dis
tricts. Bernard H. Ramsay, spe
cial attorney for the department
ot Justice, Portland, appears as
government counsel. Hearings
on the litigation will be held in
federal court.
FIRE CREWS READY
Salem, June 17 IIP) Forty-
eight emergency fire crews to
taling 429 men hav been As
signed to patrol state and pri
vate forest lands, the state for
estry department said today.
Eat, Sleep. Work. Soon To Be
American Standard of Living
Spokane, June 17. OP) Ulti
mately geared to maximum war
production, the American stand
ard of living will be gradually
reduced to eating, sleeping and
working "without the trim
mings," John H. Martin, assist
ant director of policy of the War
Production board, said here to
day. "First It will be the petty
things like the electric toaster,"
he said. "When your toaster
wears out you probably won't
be able to replace It.
'Then the car will wear out.
You won't be able to get an
other. There will be no rubber
for civilian use."
As war production plants
bring In new workers, more
S. Bombers Hit
BASEBALL III
National
First game: R. H. E.
Cincinnati 4 6 2
Boston
Derringer
2 7 0
and Lamanno;
Earley, Hutchings, Donovan and
Kluttz.
Score: R. H. E.
Chicago 14 0
Brooklyn 5 7 0
Lee and McCullough; Higbe
and Owen.
American
Score: R. H. E.
New York 0 5 1
Detroit 18 1
Breuer and Dickey; Trout and
Tebbetts.
OLD ROBBER PILE
27.300 LBS.
Jackson county's contribution
to the nation-wide drive for
scrap rubber to aid in the war
effort totaled 27,300 pounds af
ter the first two days of the
campaign, and service stations
today were reporting little slack-
enlng-off in the streams of citi
zens anxious to do their part by
bringing in worn-out rubber
articles of all descriptions, it was
announced by Kenneth Parrett,
chairman of the committee of
oil companies, which are han
dling the collections.
Most of the scrap rubber de
livered was in the form of old
tires, with many of the olUcom-
panles' large commercial ac
counts turning In hundreds of
huge truck tires. However,
everybody, it seemed, was co
operating In the drive by deliv
ering , rubber articles ot all
kinds.
It was pointed out that those
in the rural districts, with scrap
rubber to deliver, could expedite
its collection if each neighbor
hood would collect the rubber
in that area In n pool, then tele
phone any of the oil companies
to pick it up.
In this connection the rural
committee of the county salvage
committee will meet in the
courthouse tonight with Chair
man R. G. Fowler to discuss
ways and means of getting all
this needed rubber into the stock
piles.
Among" the many interesting
reports of the drive concerns
two small boys, who last sum
mer used to roll old tires off the
Bear Creek bridge Just for the
fun of it, now scouring the
banks of the creek for those
tires, and finding some of them.
PORTLAND POPULATION
NOW NEARLY 385,000
Portland, Ore., June 17 VP)
Portland, bulging with war
workers, reckoned iif popula
tion today at between 365,000
and 385.000, compared with the
1940 census figure of 305,000.
The chamber of commerce
guessed 383,000, the federal em
ployment service 380,000, the
city water bureau 365,000.
people will be pressed Into the
same amount of living space,
Martin asserted. As production
grows hundreds of gadgets will
disappear from the market and
repairs to domestic necessities
may be difficult to obtain.
"It Is a question," he con
tinued, "of gradually bringing
the standard of living down to
eating, sleeping and working
without the trimmings.'
The people, he said, will learn
to compromise where they never
did before.
"And waste," he declared, "Is
treason."
The WPB group will go to
Seattle, Portland and Denver
for meetings after the session
her.
35 Times
IK F SHOOTING
FISH IN BARREL,
DECLARES CHIEF
Fascist Squadron So Badly
Battered It Never Con
tacted British Convoy.
By Roger D. Greene
Associated Press War Editor
Big U. S. army bombers wer
credited today with scoring 33
direct bomb hits on two Italian
Dattleships in the creat
battle in the Mediterranean last
weekend and a British source
declared the American fliers
had so battered the fascist naval
squadron that it never mnri
contact with a British convoy it
set out to Intercept.
it was like shooting fish in
a barrel," said MaJ. Alfred F.
Mioerer, who led the Ameri-
cans on their first battle flight
against the axis In the Mediter
ranean tneater.
One Hit 20 Times
One fascist battleship was hit
20 times, the other 13, Kalberer
said. In addition, cruiser was
set afire and a destroyer dam
aged.
Simultaneously, the RAF an-'
nounced that second air attack
Monday night had resulted in
another hit on on of the two
Italian battleships set afire by
U. S. army and RAF tilers Mon
day morning.
The communique said 14 axis
planes were definitely ahot
down in the central Mediterra
nean fighting and many other
were "so badly damaged that it
is unlikely that they returned
to their bases."
The British themselves ack
nowledged sharp losses In send
ing much-needed supplies to
Malta and the beleaguered north
African fortress at Tobruk, but
said th-j results would not be
disclosed until the information
would no longer be ot value to
the enemy.
Desperate Fight
Britain and Russia fought
desperately to hold the two key
citadels of Tobruk and Sevasto
pol under increasingly violent
assault by the axis armies to
day while the RAF reported
heavy new blows overnight to
Adolf Hitler's Ruhr and Rhine
land industrial centers.
On the north African front.
Lieut.-Gen. Neil Ritchie's troops
reinforced by sea-borne supplies
delivered with the help of U. S.
army fliers, broke up axis at
tacks on both flanks of Tobruk
but It was apparent that the
danger to the historic British
stronghold on the shores of the
Mediterranean was growing
hourly.
With the axis attacking on t
half-moon front, British head
quarters reported that imperial
forces had driven off an axis
armored lunge at Sidl Rezegh
and repulsed day-long thrusts
at Acroma.
Sidl Rezegh, B0 miles west of
the Egyptian-Libyan frontier, is
25 miles southeast of Tobruk.
Acroma lies 20 miles southwest
ef Tobruk.
A third axis force was massed
at El Adem, 18 miles due south
of Tobruk, but "tailed to at
tack," the British said.
On the Russian front, Adolf
Hitler's f'eld headquarters as
serted that axis troops bad cut
deep new wedges into Soviet
fortified lines around Sevasto
pol, in the Crimea, but acknow
ledged that the assault forces
were meeting "bitter resistance
and difficulties of terrain."
The Germans said Nazi shock
troops stormed Fort Siberia this
morning and dislodged Sevasto
pol's red army defenders from
series ot strongly fortified po
sitions. LET DORM CONTRACT
Portland, June 17 VPh-Contractor
for the $4,000,000 dor
mitory project for Portland
shipyard workers will be Ross
B. Hammond, Portland, the
Portland housing authority aa
counced yesterday.
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