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Newspaper Page TextLet YOUR Amwtr to Bomb be BONDS! Boy War Bond aae Stamp TOIiAT Contrtbiita to tkt war effort af roar nation. Patriot lin. your own ielf-prAtcctioa. around that 100 do yonr part NOWI Use n MAIL TRIBUlfX Want Ad Way Oulck RmuIU t Small Coat Medford Tribune VJ1 Associated Pros United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1942, NO. 78. o HTAU HffMB m wan was 1 i ; aaaaaaaaaaawBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaataaaaaa 1 1 d a Bk mm ana. A m Mm Ban. fSBa IAI 41 fSBS BSa. mm. Oak. BaBa News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 20 Cur rent suspicions that the British granted a secret clause in their treaty with Russia, promising Stalin all the territory he wanted, can not be true in view of the in side manner in which the treaty devel oped. The t 111 myste r i o u s visit of Lord B e a verbrook to Washington Paul Malloa two.monlns or v more ago was a? concerned with this matter. He came over to sound Mr. Roose velt out on the Soviet proposi tion. His soundings must have been faulty, for he returned to Lon don with the mistaken notion that Mr. Roosevelt would accept such a grant of territory. When Foreign Commissar Molotoff arrived in London a treaty was actually drawn by the British providing for such a post-war settlement. But when news of it reached Washington, the mistake of Beaverbrook was officially cor rected. This government put its foot down firmly against making any advance territorial commit ments of any kind. It couid not do otherwise. The British thereupon tore up the territorial draft, and offered the Russians instead the twenty 3 year mutual defense pact which Molotoff was glad to negotiate. This unofficial explanation of the matter coincides fully with the official statement of An thony Eden to parliament, and the white paper issued by the British, both of which were flat, airtight denials that the treaty meant more than it said. TIE Chinese think Jap seizure of some of our Aleutian islands forecasts Jap attack on Russia. Recent Chungking ad vices assume that the Japs want ed to be able to intercept any American bomber aid or trans Pacific surface aid to Russia. That is about the only military good the Japs could get out of ' these Islands. No one here professes to know what the acrobatic statesmen of Japan will try next. But with their sea striking force of air- (Continued on Pa" SB) OF E TAX AT Washington, June 20 (IP) The house ways ana mean com mittee today adopted a formula for collecting a part of each em ployed individual's income taxes from his regular pay checks beginning in January. With the decisions, the com mittee virtually completed a ten fctative draft of new tax legis lation intended to add at least 86,640,000,000 to federal rev enue. Final action sending the bill to the house is expected to be taken next week. Generally speaking, the new plan would work like this: a n inHivlrliinl'a annual per sonal exemptions would be de termined ana aivioea oj ascertain the weekly exemptions. A 10 per cent "withholding tax" would be levied on that part of the weekly pay check not cov mrmA hv h Yfmntion. Half the pay deduction could be used as a credit against 1942 taxes due beginning next March 15, and the other half would accumulate as a credit against 1943 taxes due March IS. 1944 Beginning in 1944, the full 10 per cent deduction would be ap plied against 1944 taxes. ) Washington, June 20 (IP) The office of Price Administra tion today revised the basis for ceiling prices on beef and veal at the packer and wholesale CR1PPS ASSURES SI Shouts as His "Ark" Burns j CHURCHILL S PLtA HUP MORI ATTACK IN WEST ON HITLER NEAR Area Set Aside for Invasion Training America to Aid Germany Worried. London, June 20 (IP) Sir Stafford Cripps, parliamentary deputy for Prime Minister Churchill, promised Britain to day that this country and the United States will "launch a great and successful attack upon Hitler in the west" but gave no hint as to when or where. They said Nazi measures to meet it might influence its tim ing. Simultaneously, the nation re ceived what appeared to be evi dence that Britain is making steady preparations to cast the fateful die. The army announ ced it was taking over train ing area a 36 square-mile zone in East Anglia, an obvious possible jumping off place for a drive across the channel. British Calm Ordinarily these develop ments would have produced a wild frenzy of expectation in Britain, coming as they did Just when Churchill is conferring with President Roosevelt in the United States, when there have been recent arrivals of strong United States army and naval forces, and when the war In Russia is nearing its first anni versary. Speculation would have been heightened by these other de velopments: 1. The disclosure that Just be fore Cripps spoke, Churchill was In consultation by trans Atlantic telephone with at least one of his aides, Major Clement A. Atlee, dominions secretary. 2. An announcement by the German radio, which Just gained notice today, that German au thorities, apparently In defen sive mood, had widened to the east and west the already exten sive mine fields in the Skager rak between Norway and Den mark. But British reaction was con ditioned by growing uneasiness over the German attack on Rus sia's Sevastopol and deteriora tion of the British position in North Africa, coupled with in. dications that Hitler may be preparing to seize the initiative in an even more decided man, ner in the Mediterranean. The cause for disquiet over the latter situation was found in a Reuters news agency dis patch "from the French fron tier" reporting that Hitler has demanded that Pierre Laval. Vichy chief of government, cede 1,000,000 tons of French ship ping a demand which seemea to say that the Nazis are pian- nine a vast movement of men and supplies across the Mediter ranean and perhaps the Black sea. A dally sketch columnist said France would be left but sou,- 000 tons of her own ships to trade with her colonies. He estimated her shipping in Allied hands totaled 600,000 tons. Cripps spoke at a mass meet ing in Empress hall, which was packed by almost 7,000 persons gathered to observe the anni versary, June 22, of the German attack on Russia. Included in the audience were Soviet Am bassador Ivan Maisky, Rear Ad miral Alan G. Kirk, chief of staff of United States naval forces in European waters who represented Ambassador John C. Winant, and representatives of all other Allied governments. "With the help of the United States and Its industrial forces 'added to our own and the Sov iet union's productive resources, we should be able to launch a treat and successful attack upon Hitler in the west," he said. He warned against a prema ture venture leading to failure, however, and said when we strike, let us strike hard and with determination to march through to Berlin before we call a final halt." "It may be sooner or later, though Hitler has apparently guessed that It may not be too far ahead. As we make our prep arations, so no doubt, he will try to make his too, and this In itself may influence the time factor." I I ;-V- .qu FOR LIBYAN AID I r-:A, , r-jL .. MnT pnimiMn cnnM William Greenwood, (right), 70, self-styled Noah, shouted and yelled as his "Ark," built 22 years ago for coming tidal waves which he said would engulf the Puget Sound area, burn ed at Olympia. Wash. It was set ablaze by firemen In a clean up. Greenwood said the Ark had served it's purpose and that every house In the area was an "Ark" as long as it had a Bible. ALEUTIANS WHEN WEATHERPERM1TS Public Confused, So Are Japs, Says Navy Spokes manAll Attacks Met. Seattle, June 20. (AP) Jap anese Invaders of isolated Aleu tian island points are "getting smacked whenever there is a rift in the fog banks," a 13th naval district spokesman said today. He declared the "so-called mys tery of the Aleutian battle is merely mystery of weather, of fog and snow, coupled with a desire to keep the enemy In the dark." He said: "If the public is con fused about the situation in western Alaska, then so is the enemy and that is all to the good. You can't make a state ment about a battle until the battle is decided. As Admiral King has told the American peo ple, the battle for the Aleutians is continuing. As already an nounced the attack was no sur prise and the initial attacks at Dutch Harbor were met. The statement continued: "It's a weird, wild country up there. There are great patches of fog and rain in which the enemy can hide, as a band of guerillas may hide in the bush. There are literally thousands of srr.all bays and inlets. The Japs know the country, but so does the navy. "Why haven't the army and navy already driven the Japs out of the Aleutians? The weather explains that, in part. It's one thing to get at them in clear skies and another to get at them when the weather is foul and thkk and snow is in the air and quick-forming ice burdens the wings of planes. You can depend on it, they are getting smacked whenever there is a rift in the fog banks." HARD BY TORNADO Kokomo, Ind., June 20 (AP) Two p-nons are dead, six missing, find at least 20 known injured In a tornado which struck the south half of Kokomo late today. 9 v-- arfaWti CONGRESS READY TO PUT CURB ON SPENDING SPREE Worried Over Mounting Debt Check Urged for Civil ian Benefit Bill. By Edwin B. Hawklnson Washington, June 20 (IP) With nearly $94,000,000,000 ap propriated since the start of the present congressional session on January 5, many legislators are beginning to talk of a necessity to hold down further financial commitments. Two veteran senators Norrls and.. Neb.) and McKellar (D., Tenn. gave public notice this week of their belief that con gress must proceed with more caution when voting money. They teamed to oppose a broad program of government pay ments to civilians suffering in jury, disability, death or deten tion as a result of enemy attack. "The financial resources of our government are not unlim ited," Norris warned. "The im agination is staggered by the colossal debt we are piling up.1 McKellar, chairman of the ap propriation subcommittee that has handled most of the multl-billion-dollar war appropria tions of recent months, pro tested that "we shall not have money to conduct the war if we continue to make forays on the treasury. Chairman George (D., Ga.) served notice that he would ask that the civilian benefit measure be referred to the sen ate finance committee for study The senate ts to resume consid eration of the bill Monday, Clerks of the senate appropri ations committee said congress already had voted about $93, 600.000.000 cash in slightly more than five months and that pending budget estimates totalled $40,000,000,000 addi tional. These totals Invo'.ve only di rect cash appropriations and do not include many billions of contracture! authority. Some economists estimate that it will require at least two years to spend the wat appropriations already made and pendir.. cal culating that production limits will restrict war spending to around 172,000,000,000 a year. Sacramento, June it'-iV! Butter First grade IHir-.-f-ond grade SDVie. Time and Distance Hamper Early Assistance Par leys Continue. Washington, June 20 (IP) Egypt's hard-pressed defenders likely will be forced to rely on their own resources for weeks to come regardless of any urg ent pleas by Prime Minister Churchill for American aid. Because of distance, time and limited shipping, any American reinforcement of the middle east beyond that already under taken would be . a long-time operation, competent observers said. This was the reaction to Lon don reports that Churchill's cur rent secret conferences with President Roosevelt were con cerned largely with the critical axis break through in Libya. In the absence of any further information from the White House since Thursday night's unexpected announcement that the prime minister had arrived in this country, it was assumed the conferences continued to day. Unless reinforcements arrive in a month or less, any aid for Lieutenant General Nell M. Ritchie's imperial army would, by authoritative estimates, be too late to affect the Immediate perilous situation. - - From United States Atlantic ports, the 14,000-mile voyage to Suez around the tip of South Africa requires some six weeks for a slow convoy. The alternative of running the gauntlet of axis air and sea blows through the Mediterra nean was tried this week with undisclosed success by a British convoy which admittedly sus tained heavy losses. AXIS FORCENEAR SUEZ FALLS BACK IN DESERT FRAY (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The fnry of the north desert fighting appeared to have sub sided after the British defeat that had set the eighth army back on the Egyptian-Libya frontier leaving an aosls of re sistance around the port of To- bruk. The two main Axis columns wisich annroached within 23 miles of Bardia were engaged and turned back westward, but the Germans apparently were only Reeling out the strength of the new British positions and consolidating their newly won gains. The wily old desert fox, Mar shal Erwin Rommel, set a trap within a trap a week ago and turned reverwi into victory. He did this by chasing a strong British tank force into an am bush of 38-MM guns, apparently after dispatching a fake radio message which sent the British forces to help another division. The carnage of twisted steel and bleeding men turnedd the tables. The British desert air force bombed Rhodes and Crete, often named as concentration points for Axis troops which Hitler might loose atalnst Cyprus, Syria or T'irkey in an effort to squeeze E!)pt lind Suez be tween two Ax Li forces. Again they might be hurled thrcuph th middle east to strike the rich Russian Caucasus from the rear and sever the vital Russian ripply route lead ing up through the Persian gulf and Iran. EDITOR TO ARMY Vim i"ork, June 20 VPh- Ralph M. Irigemll, editor of the neifspaw M, nas been called for Induction Into the m? tiext Wednsday despite an ap;n for teferment by l!irhll Field, owner of the paper. , " ' OF LE HAVRE IS B01LTSTARGET Calais and Dunkerque Also Raided in Big Scale Air Attack. London, June 20 (IP) The RAF, after a lull enforced by bad weather, made a big-scale attack on Le Havre today, send ing over "many squadrons" of fighters and American-made Boston bombers against the big French seaport Just across the channel. More than 300 British planes were hurled into afternoon at tacks alone, the air ministry en ounced, and they ranged up and down the continental coast and as far inland as - St. Omer, in France.- Furnes, on the Bel gian Coast, came in for one hea vy attack. An air ministry communique said objectives at Boulogne, Cal ais and Dunkerque also were at tacked. Four enemy fighters were destroyed while six Brit ish fighters failed to return to their bases. The offensive against the Ger man-held port followed night bombardment on uermany. The air ministry said a bom. ber force, which it described only as "strong," dealt j major rlamaao to the German naval base of Emden and also attack ed the rail Junction of Osna- Wrupk averment. Tha mid was the heaviest In two weeks, British aomces said. notlna- that use of the worn. 'strong" usually indicates fnrra of 2S0 to 300 planes. Nine planes were missing from these operations and raids over the Netherlands. By daylight hundreds oi rwvr rinMera awarmed over the Boul ogne and Calais areas today in the first large assault since June a Coastal watchers saia opera tic, onnoared to be equal to ih. heaviest of daylight forays in which 1,000 or more British planes participated. Numerous daylight raids In the past dozen days have been on . ENEMY MINES ON ATLANTIC COAST TAKE FIRST TOLL Washington, June 20 (IP) The first official report of en emy mine laying operations along the United States coast in this war came today in a navy announcement that mines had caused the recent sinking of one merchant ship and dam age to another off the Virginia shore. The navy said careful Investi gation had convinced it that the two ship casualties were not as previously believed" the results of submarine attacks but were caused by the "vessels striking enemy mines." "Undoubtedly, these mines were laid by an enemy subma rine under the cover of aarx- ness, when detection Is extreme lv difficult." the navy said. That was tne oniy omciai navy comment regarding the minelaylng, but the develop ment had not been unexpected in naval circles. Germany Is known to have a number or long-range suoma rlnes equipped for mine laying. AIR CADET KILLED San Antonio, Texas, June 20 JP) Aviation Cadet Leon C. Harer, 21, of Taeoma, Wash., was found dead today In the wreckage of his Randolph field basic training plane four miles east of Sequin. Medford was leading the Photo Bears of San Francisco BULLETIN 13 to 12 in the sixth Inning last which evused an estimated unof night. Medford scored 10 runs ficial damage of $500,000 to in the first. Both teams used paper war-house near thf three hurlers in a heavy-hitting Greenwic. h Village section of gam " " Interpreting The War News By Klrke L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) The European scene, clouded by fresh uncertainties In Russia and North Africa, dominates the war news this week end. All observers agree it Is de veloping to eastward that brought Prime Minister Church- Ill again to the United States to talk war strategy with Presi dent Roosevelt. Westward, however, the war clouds have been lightened by American air-naval successes in the Coral sea and the North Pa cific, successes that put a crimp In Japanese striking power against any United Nation ex- ept China and poslbly Russia. Chinese sources insist that Jap an is now preparing for back door Intervention In the war In Europe by attacking Siberia, probably in July. The Chungking reasoning on which that Is based, as differen tiated from Chinese Information as to Japanees troop or plane movements, does not seem con vincing. Certainly the outcome of American-Japanese air and sea clashes In the North Pacific did little to help mount a Nip ponese attack on Russia. There and In the Coral sea Japanese strength In ships, planes, skilled air crews and, above all, plane carriers was heavily whittled down. Those are military elements on which Takyo must count heavily If it Is In fact planning a surprise attack on Russia. They would be more essential In meeting possible American use of the Alaska-Aleutian Islands-Kamchatka air lanes west ward to help Russia, or hammer Japan than any base the enemy has or could set up in the west ern Aleutians for Interception purposes. Those fog-shrouded and often weather-bound rocky extensions of the western hemis phere could be bypassed easily. The very conditions that make it difficult to blast tha Japanese off of them no less serve to make them of small value for In terception purposes. But as for Chinese reports of impending Japanese-Russian hot. tilltles, some other motive for the Midway and Aleutian forays must be sought. The theory that Japan wants to build an air se curity zone around her home area can and no doubt does par tially explain the far-flung Jap anese effort to knock out China or at least drive her forces beyond easy bombing reach of Japan. It seems Improbable, however .that Japan would take on another adversary or Ignore the growing menace of Ameri can-Australian forces short of glittering opportunity on Im perative necessity. 3 TRUSTIES FLEE El Salem, June 20 (IP) State pollen spread their net tonight for three young trusties, two of them four-time losers, who fled from the state penitentiary an nex in a prison truck near Sa lem this afternoon. Wnrden George Alexander said the hunt early tonight Dolmed toward Roseburg, where a truck answering the description of the penitentiary vehicle was reported seen. The warden listed the fugi tives as James Ogden White, 22, four-time R, committed last win ter from Salem on an auto lar ceny charge: Roy Lawrence Bots. 26. four termer, received iTcrn Multnomah counv'y March 12 for larceny, and Jack Groves, 25, twice a loT, serv inr a lp.tnj sentenco from Lane roun'.r. The trio left with a load of ashes, ontensibly carry in if cut their ftwlgned tasks, about 2 p. m. a:vd failed to return, Alex ander a',d. tO riREMEN OVERCOME New York. J-me 20 UP) Fifty fi-emen were overcome oy I smoae ixiay in a iive-aiarm lire MsnhttfA DECISION NEARS ATSEVASTAPOL; Nazis Pay High Toll Mos cow Silent on New Drive at Smolensk. Moscow, Sunday, June 21 (JP) The Germans continued last night to batter Sevastopol with some 150,000 men and planes and tanks and at the same time registered a new ad vance In a revival of fighting on the Kharkov front, the Russians announced early today. (By Associated Press) The 16-day assault on Sevas topol seemed to be approaching a decision with the Germans throwing reinforcements behind artillery, tanks and dive bomb ers. The Russians claimed tha foe made no important gain but the Moscow correspondent of the British radio declared "the dan ger is very great" and that the "Germans have reached a high road leading to Sevastopol." The Germans claimed further successes and said "Soviet rem nants" north of the great Cri mean base were being mopped up. But it was apparent to all that the Nazis were paying a frightful price in attempting to erase the pocket of resistance on their most direct route to tha Caucusus. The Russians were sagely sit lent about the, reported Smolensk, offensive. The news came from . the Germans who said waves of Russisn Infantry were attach. Ing behind tank and air support. The Russians rarely tell of the offensives until they are well under way. An Important town in the Smolensk direction was reported captured, however. North of Smolensk on tha Kalinin front, the Russian said they killed 2,200 Germans, Ir the Ukraine below Kharkov, tha fighting seemed reduced al though the Nazis claimed a Soviet division was surrounded) and almost annihilated. Hitler's war on Russia which he expected to complete, within six weeks enters lta second year Monday and iha Red army was declared by com petent experts to be far strong er, better organized, armed and trained. Berlin (From German Broad casts), Sunday, June 21 UPf The thunder of guns In the bat. tie of Sevastopol is so great that it Is shaking houses along the Turkish coast, 200 miles , away across tha Black sea, and has been mistaken by Inhabitants there for an earthquake, the Ber. lin radio said today. "The incessant thunder of guns has been hard lor days from the direction of Sevastopol in the Turkish coastal town of Ineboll," the radio said In a dis patch from Istanbul. "On Fri day evening the booming of guns increased to such an inten sity that houses began to shake and the inhabitants at first be lieved an earthquake had brok en out. War Bulletins New York. June 20 OPh- The British radio quoted a dis patch tonight from Its corres pondent on the Libyan front as saying Azls forces had "prob ably" enter the town of Bardia, 10 miles from the Egyptian iron- tier. The BBC broadcast, heard here by CBS, said: "A dispatch that cams In only a half hour ago from Richard Dimbleby, our observer In tha desert, says that tha enemy columns which withdrew from the frontier area last uigbt, moved up again today and bad by now probably entered tha town of Bardia, some 10 miles from tha frontier. . . New York, Jaae lO AP) The YufoeUT goTHimt la London has received wars that Italiaa forces sastalaasl heavy casualtiea la a treaa eat break of guerrilla Heating In Montenegro, Yugoslavia, tha British radio said teas. M heard kr CBS. "