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Newspaper Page TextLot YOUR Answer to ; Bomb b BONDS! Buy War Bond! ana Stamp TOIIAY Contribute to tha war effort of ranr nation. Patriot lam. jour own telf-prntectton. drmaiidi that VOU do jopr part NOW I Cm Tho MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results t Small Coat Medford Tribune Full Associated Press Unit ad Plata , Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1942. NO. 80 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 23 In Libya this time . it was not "too little and too late." It was Just "too bad." The British had ul eriority in the air, a the sea and on the lan d in ships, trc J. There was nothing wrong with their bat tle strxt e g y that could be discerned here, Paul Mallon yet Rommel pushed them back. Official alibis are now pouring forth in volume, but the overall alibi is not being stressed. It is clear that Rommel just out maneuvered them. Inferior in overall fighting strength, he picked specific lim ited objectives. He searched for soft spots in the British line, then hammered these with con centrations of all he could mus ter. TOE British tried to hold everywhere Bir Achem, Acroma, Sidi Rezegh, after the nazis had cut narrow lanes through their defensive mine fields. They divided their forces, placing the divisions at these and other key places. Rommel went at these key points one by one. Following Napoleon's theory, he hit each point separately, each time mus tering a superior force at the chosen spot. Finally he split the British In halves, one part remaining in Tobruk and the other seeking the natural protection of the Egyptian border. . The nazi troops were tougher and better trained than the British, particularly better than the last British reinforcements from Egypt. Then, too, the Brit ish were so confident that the intolerable summer heat would prevent any extensive nazl oper ations, they did not throw their full strength into the battle as soon as the Germans did. a THE troops fought hard and thought they had Rommel trapped when they set him back from Bir Achiem. Having air (Continued on Paga Threa) Ford Concern Fighfs Government's Plan To Erect "Bomber City" Detroit, June 23 (P The Ford Motor Company plans to fight by "every legal method" plans of the Federal Public Housing Authority to erect a permanent "bomber city" for workers at the Ford Willow Run Bomber Plant near Ypsilanti. Mich., spokesman Harry Ben nett said today. In a letter to Coir F. Charles Starr, Detroit F PHA represen tative, Bennett said that Henry Ford has denied a request to permit federal surveyors to en ter property owned by him, and that he would continue to fight the housing project as "unneces sary, wasteful and extravagant." About 100,000 workers are con templated for the plant at peak production. Radio Highlights King Peter of Yucoslavla Just arrived in this country and will speak from the studios of the Blue Network in Washington at 7:30 Friday night. Tonight: 5:3(-CBS Nature of the enemy, Dr. Goebbels. 7:30 talk, Eve Curie. Wednesday: NBC 10 a. m. American Library Association. (Also BLU 11:43 and CBS 1:30). SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ted Kilman and Max Henne displaying their ability at chicken eating as well as push ing a lawnmower. Bud Calavan and Joe Rinard getting n a deep conversation on guns and target ranges. Two little tikes working long and hard to collect 23 pounds ol scrap metal for national defense, and believing their efforts worth more than the dime payment they received for the scrap. iHli. ilaauaMWm Dig For Shell Fragments i i i ii jw-jw ii , " 1 ' -i 1,1 "rajnBfjjnnnajnfW---"--', . fcM -1 - if-T TVm : ?V Donna Jean Heffling. 3, handed Colonel C. S. Doney a pieca of shall that was fired by an en emy submarine on the Oregon coast. Her sister. Joan, 9. lookad on. The projectile burst close to their home near Seaside. A craft believed to bo a submarine dropped nine shells north of Seaside, Ore., in tho middle of tho night, but did no damage. Lieut.-CoL P. T. Gregory (extreme left), searched for shell frag ments in a crater caused by one F:R: CENTER ON E Washington, June 23. (IP) President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill of Britain centered their attention today on the vital problem of shipping as they went ahead with the mapping of plans for the united nations war strategy. They summoned shipping ex perts of the two governments to a White House conference "vhlch was described as one of the most important of the series the chief executive and prime minister have been holding for the last five days. The White House permitted the disclosure also that Mr Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill had conferred yesterday with Dr. T V. Soon )?, China's foreign min ister, who has been in this coun try for some time. - Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said it was "quite an extended con ference." "The subject was, of course. China, in a military sense," Early said. GEM. ACCIDENT FATAL Colfax. Wash., June 23 UP) Jimmy Davidson, 13-year-old Colton High School youth, died in the hospital here today of a bullet wound suffered Monday. ' Hospital attaches said the boy i was shot in the abdomen when a .22 caliber rifle he was exam- ing accidentally discharged. BASEBALL National ' Cincinnati 0 4 3 New York 7 9 1 Derringer, Shoun, Thompson and Lamanno; Lohrman and Danning. American Boston 6 18 1 Detroit 2 8 2 Judd and Conroy; Trout, Gop sica and Tcbbe'.U. of tho shots. Union Control Must File Salem, June 23. (IP) The Oregon supreme court ruled to day that the organizations and individuals who sponsored the state union control initiative measure, must file their expense statements The decision, by Justice Belt and upholding Circuit Judge L. G. Lewelling of Marion county, held that the corrupt practices act requires the filing of expense statements In connection with campaigns for or against initia tive measures and referendums, just as the law requires that such statements be filed in con nection with campaigns of can didates for public office. The suit was brought by D. E. Nickerson, executive secretary of the State Federation of Lab or, against the Associated Farm ers of Oregon, the Eastern Ore gon Wheat league, Horace Meek lem, Henry L. Corbett, Hamilton F. Corbett, William Knight. George L. Baker, Aaron Frank and the MacWilkins and Cole corporation. Nickerson alleged that the de fendants spent $80,000 in obtain ing passage of the law at the 1938 general election. In - answering the defendants' contention that the corrupt prac tices act does not apply to initia tive measures, the court said that the people, in enacting the corrupt practices act, "desired to maintain the purity of the ballot and to prohibit illegal practices in elections, whether a measure or a candidate is in volved." The court also denied the de fendants' contentions that Nick erson's suit was not filed within the legal time limit, and that courts do not have jurisdiction in such matters. "The purity of the ballot," the high court said, "can best be maintained by requiring a full and complete disclosure to the public of those Individuals, com mittees or organizations expend ing money and the amounts con tributed in opposition to or in advocacy of r.-asvrei, affecting the public welfare." Efficient manufacturing firms in Germany are given priority with respect to labor and materials. At Seaside Sponsors Expense Lists later declared unconstitutional. with the secretary of state. AMERICAN FLIERS TO SHEK'S FORCES By The Associated Press Giant four-motored U. S. army bombers, winging 500 miles across one of the world's tough est flying routes, were reported bolstering Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's armies In China to day amid indications of a slight ly improved but critical outlook on the Chinese fighting front. Dispatches from New Delhi. India, said huge American army bombers, medium bombers, fighters and freighters were moving now from India to China despite the increased fury of the Monsoon rains and the alert ness of Japanese fighter squad rons in Burma. These dispatches said the planes flying through fog and storm, lodging Jap fighters, skirting poorly-charted moun tain peaks, and skimming jun gles Infested with tigers and headhunterr were delivering supplies and aerial striking power to the sorely-pressed Chinese armies, who never had an adequate air force to combat the invaders. "The Japanese have taken a number of cities from us," a Chi nese army spokesman said, re ferring to the campaign In Fast China. "But our troops are penetrat ing the enemy flank and rear and the battle Is anything but decisive, despite preposterous enemy claims. The sun gives 400.000 times mora light than the moon. Fear Gen .axis Preparing Mass Pv rachute Descent Behind British in Egypt DESPERATELY 10 Reinforcements Reaching Sevastopol Defenders By Sea Nazis Claim Gains. By The Associated Press. On the Soviet fighting front Russia's armies fought desper ately today to hold the battered ramparts of Sevastopol, key Black Sea naval base in the Cri mea, and a series of new attacks by Gen. Fedor Von Bock's for ces on the Kharkov front. Soviet front-line dispatches said Red army reinforcements were reaching Sevastopol by sea and declared the Russian Garri son had pinched off a German salient thrust into the city's northern defense system. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, said the German siege forces had reached "a for ward position" but had "not "pentrated into the depth of the defene. Hitler's field headquarters re ported deeper gains into the great Crimean fortress, asserting that nazt shock troops had cap tured "numerous bunkers in heavy hand-to-hand fighting un der the most difficult terrain conditions." Nasi Losses Heavy As the campaign thundered into its second year, Russia de clared Hitler's invasion armies had suffered 10,000,000 casual ties (3,500,000 killed) against 4,500,000 Red army losses. A Soviet war review said the Russians had "bled the enemy to death," and listed these me chanical losses: Guns: Germany, 30,500; Rus sia, 22,000. Tanks: Germany, 24,000; Rus sia, 13,000 planes; Germany, 20,000; Russia, 9.000. Berlin claimed last Nov. 21 that the Russians had lost 10, 000,000 men and said on March 8 that German losses totalled 1,500,000. Better Protection For West Coast Is McNary Assurance Washington, June 23. (P) Senator McNary (R.-Ore.) said today that he had been assured by Navy Secretary Knox that protection of the western coast line would "immediately be strengthened and enlarged." Expressing concern about Jap anese inroads in the Aleutians and shelling along the Oregon and British Columbia coasts, the Oregon senator said he urged upon Knox the necessity for the protection of Pacific coast states and Alaska against further Jap anese aggression. McNary told the secretary that unless the Japs were driven out of the Aleutians and north western 'coastal waters prompt ly, "we might cancel the advant ages we gained from the Mid way victory." PLANS DISCLOSED Washington, June 23 OP) Amid mounting concern over the approach of Japanese forces to Alaska, tha army disclosed today that it' was considering construction of a railroad link Ing that rich territory with the United States. Approval by the house appro priations committee of the 1943 army supply bill covered an al lotment for the engineers corps to survey the project as method of getting supplies to Alaska swiftly. 49TH STATE Washington, June 23 (IP) Senator Langer (R.-N. D ), drafting legislation to bring Al aska Into the United States as the 49th state. Wholesale In War Contracts Is Found by Committee Washington, June 23. (IP) The house military committee reported today it had uncovered evidence revealing "a sordid picture of excessive commissions by brokers, profits by vendors, exorbitant salaries, bonuses and huge fees for management and related services in many war department contracts." REGISTRY PLACES FOR NEXT DRAFT SET FOR COUNTY Jackson county's selective ser vice boards 1 and 2 announced today 15 places of registration for male citizens born on or after January 1, 1922 and on or before June 30, 1924, who must register for selective service on June 30 between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. Following are the places of registration and the chief regis trars: Butte Falls. Town hall, Clyde Smith. Eagle Point, Brown's hall, Dale Ensminger. ... . Central Point, old city hall, Elmer Wilson, '- ' Gold Hill, city hall, Cleo Gil Christ. Jacksonville, old city hall, Ray Wilson. Applegate, Community hall, Edward Kubll. Prospect, gymnasium, Dewey Hill. Trail, engineers' office, Dr. J. H. Mellery. Ashland, city hall, H. H. Gil lette. Talent, city hall, Bert F. Sim mons. Phoenix, Grange hall, Flet cher Fish. Rogue River, Scout's hall, Harry Hill. Prescott and South Fork, CCC camps. Medford, courthouse auditor- orium, Walter J. Looker. Listed below, according to the hours they will work, are the registrars for the courthouse: From 7:00 a. m. to 12 noon H. L. Alford, P. B. Blgelow, F, L. Brewer, Arthur Cannon, Mrs. Cleo Ca noose, Mrs. Margaret Ingling, E. L, Lenox, J. E. Mor an, Frank Newman, Mrs. Clara Orr. W. F. Quisenberry, A S. Rosenbaum, Victor u. aemer. Bren Starcher, F. B, Sweeney, E. H. Thomas, Ray E. Wright and Harry A. Young. From 12 noon to 8:00 p. m. Mrs. Emma Blgelow, Miss uer nice Cameron, A. R. Clement, W. P. Dunlap, Mrs. Ruth Freed, Mra. Nettie Fry. V. w. nam mond, Mrs. Sarah R. Janney, Mra. Minnie W. Leavltt, Mrs. Corrine Murphy, Grant Nelson. Milton Ottoman. Frank H. Ray, Mm. Lena Roseberry. v. n. Runyard. Frnm R'OO n m. to 9 D. m, Virgil Ballantyne, Maynard Bush, Mrs. Olga Bush, Wm. Catey. R. W. Dean, Mrs. Agnes F. Evanaon. Mrs. Grace Kresse. J. E. Russell, Stanley Sherwood, Eugene Thorndike, Lee wauon, C. D. Wood, Mrs. Loraine Thonv as. Etha Wall and Mrs. Harry Young. Army Supply Bill' Largest On Record Now Before Honse Washington, Juno 23 OP) A (42,820,003,608 army supply bill largest In history was sent to the house by Its appro priations committer today to finance an army with strength of 4,500,000 by July 1, 1942 and to send war material to other United Nations. Tha measure amounted in It self to mora than this country's direct outlay for the World war and would boost to 1205.141,- 039. .537 the total authorized or appropriated for defenso and war In the last three years. Chiseling The report, prepared by Chairman Andrew J. May (D. Ky ), after a year of investi gation, recommended that a curb be put on contracts award ed on a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee basis. Extravagant Waste 'Nearly every conceivable type of extravagant waste has been reflected by these investi gations," the committee said, adding that "the time has come when the contractors honey moon at the expense of the tax payers of the nation must end." Promising a continuance of its inquiry, the committee com mented that "unbelievable red tape, top heavy organization and a lack of orientation to a state of war still lead the parade in wartime Washington." The report found fault with virtually every branch of the war department, especially the air corps. The committee said It felt the time has come to call a halt to the further use of cost-plus- a-fixed-fee contracts and recom mends that they be banned ex cept In unique cases." , , ... Millions Wastsd Under this type of contract. It said, "the Incentive towards extravagance and disregard for economy appears to have been the rule rather than the excep tion. There has been evidence of widespread and inexcusable waste of public funds amount ing to millions of dollars. "This type of contract per mitted excessive personnel, ex orbitant salaries and led to the refusal on the part of contract ors to sublet specialty contracts when they were totally unpre pared either to plan or execute them. Evidence of reckless ex penditures under fixed-fee con tracts, particularly in the air corps branch, continues to In crease In committee files. BLAZE DESTROYS The Prospect Fir Mill, about three and half miles south of Prospect on the Crater Lake highway, was completely des troyed early this morning by fire apparently caused by a spark from a slab fire near th mill. No immediate estimate of the loss was available. State forest patrol headquar ters here said the blaze was dis covered about 4:30, and that by the time Bruce Grieve, fire war den In the Prospect district, ar rived at the scene with an elec tric pumper and other fire-fighting equipment the fire had made such headway that it was Impos sible to check it. Owned and operated by James Dole, the mill had daily capa city of between 20,000 and 23.- 000 board feet. It had been closed down for the past three days while new carriage was being installed and, according to forest patrol headquarters, had recently been equipped through out with electric motors and saws. All this equipment was des troyed In the mill, as well as some lumber In the yard. How ever, as most of the fir lumber tho mill cut had been hauled to Medford almoal as fast as it was ready, the yard loss was not be lieved to have been so great as It could have been. DENTIST DIES Pendleton, Ore., June 23 (IP) Dr. Fred E. Farrlor, 51, Pen dleton dentist, died of a heart attack Monday. He came here in 1929 from Heppner where he had practiced for 10 years. BO. S. BOMBERS JOIN RAF PLANES Rommel's Next Move To Synchronize With Air In vasion Is Military View. By Roger D. Groans (Associated Press War Editor) Britain's desert armies have already been reinforced since the jolting defeat In Libya, It was announced officially today, but at the same time fears were expressed that the Germans were preparing a mass para chute descent behind the Brit ish lines in Egypt. While the crisis remained acute and the Egyptian govern ment began recruiting 50,000 volunteers for air-raid precau tions, the British ambassador. Sir Miles Lamson declared con fidentially In Cairo: "The situation is satisfactory. "We shall beat the enemy de cisively. The population should remain calm. We have confi dence. Last year the situation was much worse, and in spite of that we won." Flying Fortresses Join An RAF communique dis closed that big four-motored U. S. army consolidated bombers had joined in tho developing battle of Egypt, attacking the) axis supply base at Bengasi In western Libya. The American fliers and RAF planes started many fires and inflicted damage on piers and railway sidings, a communique said. London military quarters aald they expected Marshal Erwin Rommel's next move would ba synchronized with an Invasion of the ancient land of tho Nilst by thousands of nazl paratroops and glider-borne Infantry. An Italian communique said axis vanguards had now reached the Egyptian frontier. 'The position is difficult but the fight for Libya still con tinues," Deputy Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee told parlia. ment in London. "We still have strong forcee in the field, and substantial land and air reinforcements have been arriving and others are on the way. "Any further advance by the enemy, who has also had heavy losses, will be stoutly opposed." Chute Throat Formidable . Informed London auartert said the menace of a nazl para chute thrust from Crete Into Egypt was "formidable" but dis counted reports that 250,000 German air troops were await ing the signal for such an as sault. Crete lies 150 miles across the Mediterranean from Egypt. Best estimates placed the number of nazl 'chutists In Crete at about 5,000. SEEN AUGUST 15 Washington, June 23 OP) Representative Case (R-SD) said today that Leon Henderson, price administrator, had In formed a house appropriations subcommittee that nationwide rationing of gasoline was unlike ly before Aug. 15. Henderson told the committee. Case said in a statement, that nationwide rationing would be necessary to conserve rubber since synthetic rubber was still In the "talk" stage. "However, he did not see how a rationing system could be es tablished for the country before Aug. 15, If then," the western congressman reported. CLEAN-UP WEEK Salem, June 23. Acting Governor Dean H. Walker ls sued a statement today directing the attention of Oregon citizens to Clean-up Week June 1047, sponsored by the Oregon Road side council.