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Let TOUR Answer t Bomb b BONDBI Hat War Band an Stamp TODAY Conlnbut ta th war alfart of year nation. Patriot lam. your own elf-proieclloa. demand that 01) do joor part NOW! Du Th MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quirk Result T'RIBUNE FORD at Small Cott full Associated Pree United Prat Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1942. NO. 81 EM OTAffl Med i H8E News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 24 Cheer are rising because Leon Hender son' sieve-like price control nrsg"!rxm measures have stopped price inflation but wait. All econ omists agreed long ago that the generaliz ed Henderson m e asures would stop prices at first, because he had rani Mallon surpluses ot practically everything or at least enough to go around. But they also agreed the In flationary trend of prices would . i J 1 oe resumea as sfs-ciucs v cl oned. This, they now calculate, Is likely to get started this coming fall or winter. Current cheering is therefore prema ture. Until scarcities develop, no upward pressure ordinarily 1 felt against prices, unless some artificial pressure is created by hoarders attempting to stock up. This -time, even that pres sure evaporated a few weeks back under Interesting circum stances. A CERTAIN retail trade news paper carried a story that the war production board was considering a plan to requisition retail inventories. It seems come of the larger merchandise stores as well as chain food, drug and clothing stores had been overstocked. Th. - tnrv acared all ' retail .Interests so much that Donald rVol inn had to issue a denial that seizure ot stocks was con templated. Apparently what happened was that WPB Economic Ad viser Ernest Tupper had pre pared a report on inventories and their relations to prices, pointing toward stronger gov ernment controls. News of this report leaked to the trade paper. Subsequent denials calmed the retailers, but the stocking-up stopped. The Impression prevails that while the leak was premature, strong government controls (Continued on Page Pour) S1ST TRAFFIC DEATH Portland, June 24 VP) Portland traffic fatality toll for the year reached 21 last right with the death of Carrie Stearns, 74, who was struck by a notorcycle at a street intersec tion June 18. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Designed to promote '.'mutual understanding and good will among all the people of the Americas," an Inter-American University of the Air series will have an introduction on the NBC network Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Regular time thereafter will be Monday nights at 7:30. Tonight: MBS, 8:15, Fight Against Inflation, M. S. Eccles. Thursday: NBC, 0:30 a. m.. Melodies at Midday; 2:45, Man power Safety Conservation cam paign; 3:30 roundtable on "Every .Man His Own Language." CBS, JM5 a. m.. Thus We Live,. Reel Cross program; Blue, 8:3fl w is' Victory Garden eoiif ; "it. Congregational . and Christian Churches M&TaAUoo.' . SIDE GLANCES BY . TRIBUNE REPORTERS Jean Piatt and Helen Brown doing a hurry-up Job of blacking out a room for showing of a first aid motion picture by Claude Haggard. Leabel Wray celebrating her birthday today. Ken Parrett enthusing over the Jackson county response to the national scrap rubber drive. And "Rojey" Rosenbaum, the emon war bond salesman, do ing his bit by donating the rub ber floor mat from bis automobile. SEEN PRELUDE TO BATTLEOF EGYPT Victory -Flushed Legions 'Race Alcng Coast Toward Egyptian-Libyan Frontier. Br Roger P. Rrn Associated Press War Editor Field marshal Erwin Rom mel's victory-flushed legions started a flanking sweep around the British armies drawn up for the defense of Egypt today while on the Soviet battlefront, the Russians conceded that massed German tank assaults had driv en a wedge into the Red army defenses in the Kharkov area of the Ukraine. A violent all-night bombard ment by Axis artillery indicated that the battle of Egypt may al ready have started today as the British reported that "very strong" enemy columns of tanks and motorized infantry were racing along the coast toward the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. Seek Safe Spots ' While definite word was lack ing that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had launched his of fensive into the ancient land of the Pharoahs, military obser vers pointed out that a heavy artillery barrage usually sig nals an Imminent land attack. Throughout the night, . dis patches said, big axis field guns shelled the British defense lines and enemy patrols stabbed re peatedly for soft spots. - ., "Much enemy movement was observed southward from Gam but," British Imperial head quarters said. Gambut lies 45 miles west of the. Egyptian border. Sevastopol Still Holds In the siege of Sevastopol, Soviet dispatches said the Ger mans were hurling enormous strength against heavily out numbered defenders of the Cri mean citadel, but declared the situation was not yet lost. One attack by upwards of 30,000 tank-led nazl troops was said to have been beaten off, and elsewhere the Russians recap tured a hill top. Later dispatches, however, suggested an ominous turn in the struggle may be near, re porting that "superior enemy forces are furiously pressing to ward the town." These dispatches said thou sands of German dead were heaped on the battlefield, where 100,000 Russian fell in the Sev astopol siege of 1854-55. On the Kharkov front, Mar shal Timoshenko' amies were reported yielding at some points under a major nazl onslaught which was constantly increasing in fury. At a single point, the Russians said, the Germans sent 200 massed tanks thundering into action, while in other sectors the nazis were using 20 to 30 tanks. E Washington, June 24 VP) The navy department released today casualty list No. 5 which included the names of 32 Ore gon enlisted men three listed as dead, 20 as missing. No Oregon officers were lilt ed a either dead, wounded or missing. Among enlisted personnel list ed as dead with their next of kin: MacBain, Arthur Glenn, phar macist's mate, first class, U. S. N. mother, Mrs. Francis Z. Lind sey, Cave Junction. Vinson. Benjamin H., Jr., private, first class, U. S. M. C. parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ben J. Vinson, Sr., Shady Cove. Inquiry of Shady Cove resi dents today failed to identify the Vinson family. Washington, June UtP) The announced total of the dead. Desert Fox Smiles i - t T-V I If vJLi 5, Field Marshal Erwla RommeL German veteran of desert warfare (facing camera), smile a he chat with Italian officer in Fort Mechlll. Thi picture, which reached th United State through neutral Portugal, wa mad before axis com mander In Horth Africa launched tb campaign which Isolated Tobruk. ' Newspapers Invited By Army To Make Helpful Criticisms Denver, June 24 VP) American newspaper were Invited by a war department spokesman to day to make "intelligent, con structive criticism" of the United States army. "We welcome It." Col. A. Ro-1 bert Ginsburgh, aide to under secretary of war Robert Patter son, said in an address prepared tor delivery at the ninth con vention of the American News paper Guild. "I'm asking you to help pro tect our secrets," he said. "I make no plea that you soft-pedal criticism of the army. We make mistakes. Any organization as huge and as suddenly expanued as the war department is bound to make some." Ginsburgh asserted that the nation's newspapers, with only scattered exceptions, "are coop erating cheerfully and regarding the rules scrupulously" in the publication of war news. The events of the past 10 years," he added, "have shown that newspaper men have a pe- fiilinr anrt aneclal interest in the defeat of the axis. Reporters have been among the first to uffep in virv a t ill country. and in every country conquered and overrun oy tne axis. This government doe noi ask newspaper men to tell a lie or to ALTER THE TRUTH. Military necessity demands a time lag in the disclosure of im portant information. "But mark this: When the of ficial report of our war de partment and our navy depart ment do appear, they are wholly truthful within the limitations upon completeness Imposed by military necessity. Linoleum Arrive For Court House Linoleum has arrived for ev eral offices In th courthouse, the county agent' office floor being one ot the tint to be covered. The Improvement will also be carried out in the Justice court, health department. Red Cross quarters and circuit court department. ' wounded and missing of the n7 since the war started stood at more than 10,000 today with re lease of casualty list number containing name of 98 recorded as dead, eight a wounded and 2-101 missing. In addition the army ha re ported 798 death in battle and the wounding of 930 American soldiers. Snake Charmer Dies From Rattler Bites Camden, N. J., June 24 VP) A snake charmer and hi helper died today from rattle snake bites. Police Captain William Gor don said they were bitten by rattlesnakes from which they thought the venom had been removed. Lewis C. Ringer, 42, of Glen Falls, N. Y., succumbed in hospital seven hours after the snake struck. John Meyers, 70 of Philadelphia, bitten half an hour earlier by another snake, died a short time later. It takes the light of the sun a little over eight minutes to travel 92,000,000 miles to the earth. Grasshoppers and Raw Owl Food For Downed U. S. Pilot Somewhere In Australia, June 24 VP) A United States fighter pilot forced down after a battle with a Japanese bomber, came out of the crocodile-infested swamps of northern Australia today to tell of a three-day ordeal which drove him to eat grasshoppers and raw owl meat. He is a 27-year-old lieutenant, married and a fonner printer apprentice on the Columbia (S. C.) Record. The pilot said he climbed out of his damaged plane uninjured. He had been forced down sev eral months before, he related, "but this time I had only a quart of water in my canteen." "I spent the afternoon on the beach, between the sea and a ivramp, cutting a disc from my parachute to protect myself from mosquitoes and making two cloth circles, hoping to attract attention to the plane," he raid. 'The next day I set out at daybreak, leaving a note fat tened to the plane saying I wa hearing north a I knew an island were food could be had." For three days the pilot beat his way through great matted root, vine and eras head-talL IN FIRSTJB DAYS Oregon's Collection Total 6,510,000 Pounds East, South Disappoint Ickes. Washington, June 24 (IP) The petroleum industry war council reported to President Roosevelt today that 200.881,000 pounds of scrap rubber had been collected in the first six days of the nationwide collec tion drive. This was 1.52 pounds per capita. The equivalent In tons was 100,438. William R. Boyd, Jr., chair man of the council, submitted the progress report and told reporters the over-all total was encouraging, but Interior Secre tary Ickes, the petroleum coor dinator, commented that the drive was "very disappointing" in the populous eastern and southern states, but was very good in the far west. The states, their total pounds collected, and pounds collected per capita, include: Arizona 2,572,000 pounds and 5.15 pounds per capita: Califor nia 22.994,600 and 3.33; Idaho 2,600,000 and 4.95; Washing' ton 8,068,000 and 4.65, Oregon 6,510,000 and 5.97. County Rubber Pile Now 300,288 Pounds Pick-up Is Offered Collection of scrap rubber In Jackson county totaled 300,268 pounds up to this morning and rubber articles of all kinds and descriptions were being rapidly added to the growing stock pile, according to Kenneth Parrett, chairman of the committee of oil companies making the col lections. Farmers are piling their scrap rubber alongside the road and oil company trucks, on their regular rural routes, are picking it up and bringing it to Medford. Parrett said, and added that tires from six inches to six feet In diameter have been collected. Persons wishing to donate their scrap rubber to the Boy Scouts may call Scout headquar ters, 2350, and the rubber will be picked up. The drive, nation wide, will end June 30. BASEBALL National St. Louis 11 Boston Gumbcrt, Krist, Dickson and Odea; Tobin and Lombard!, able to travel only three or four miles from dawn to sundown. "Once I toppled over In long grass and lay too exhausted to move. My eyes lighted on a long grasshopper. " 'Hell,' I said, 'I'm going to eat you.' "I tore off the head and tall and ate the leg and the rest of it. Not so bad. It tasted like crabmeat." Later on he killed an owl. "I ate that owl's legs raw, planning to save the rest," he said. "Then 1 saw a crocodile and heard a plane. "Still clutching the dismem bered owl in one hand, I tottered to the beach. In a matter of seconds the plane flew a few feet overhead. A canteen and a big can of food plopped at my feet. "I threw the owl to th croco dile and dropped to the ground, crying like a baby. But not long. I tore Into the food can with a knife like a maniac. "Hours later a plane landed near the beach and an Austra lian pilot helped me aboard." Two other United States pilot lost in thi area recently also are safe. Second Year of War On Red Front Summarized '.niand RUSSIA 1 . C "jSSl lBQuNP.tM sttuti mius l fx' ;"ill8M'ov - i LATVIA A iflf MO SCOW geaajaJM KlVt HAKOVj(Si' "" aaS " "'' XJr rsiMra '! N-wTUAa$t RUMANIA y Black Sm 1 It wa lust a year ago that sia, an attack which progressed ataadlly until th German armies were stopped lata In November on th threshold of Moscow and Leningrad. This map (ummarisas th first yar of battle. The (tart of Hitler's attack. June 22, 1941, was marked by three main iwaapi: to Leningrad, toward Moscow via Smolensk, and through th Ukraine with mulii-pronged drive. Broken line shows farthest gain mad by nasis up to December. Through the winter reds kept hammering at the Leningrad-Staraya Russa sector, pecked away around the Hshev pocket, tried the plncer around Smolensk, pushed th Ua back toward Kursk, loosed a araashilng drive at Kharkov and points south and recaptured shaded area. Including th key point of Rostov. Soviets, though loalng Kerch, have marshalled aufficiant fore aero th strait to bar any ar nasi advanc to Caucasian oil fields and ar still holding Sevastopol. Balky Tenants Stand Siege; r All Conveniences Cut Off Seattle. June 24. VP) Without heat or refrigeration and drawing upon neighboring faucetts for water by means of hose, 16 tenants of the La Manse apartments refused to leave the rooms from which they have been ordered by their landlord. The landlord. William Cor bett. ordered the tenant to move by July 1 In protest of gov ernment fixed rent ceilings. Water was shut off by the city water department after an "ar gument over the bill," Corbctt said, but he emphasized he would have acted if the city had not. "I Intend to close those apart ments until an adjustment Is made by the rent director on the rents," the apartment owner declared. "I gave the tenants notice they would have to move and offered them apartments in the Chelsea Court (which he owns) and agreed to pay for moving them." The tenants, however, refused to move and offered payment of June rent on the basis of the price ceiling ordered by the rent authority. Corbett refused. "We agree the apartments are worth more money," R. A. Mc Murtrie, spokesman for the ten ants, said. "But the rent au thority has Informed us we can pay no more than that charged April 1, 1941, and that we do not have to move out. Corbett said he bought the building last October when rents were running from f 12.50 to 132 a month. The apartments are worth from 40 to 142.50 now, he asserted. Roosevelt Summons Special Meeting Of Pacific War Council Washington, June 24 VP) President Roosevelt today called a special meeting for tomor row of the Pacific war council, which Prime Minister Churchill of Great Britain and Prime Min ister Mackenzie King of Canada will attend. Stephen Early, a presidential secretary, in announcing the call, did not say for what pur pose the meeting was arranged. There wa to hav been, how ever, a regular meeting of the council today. The area of the earth I 196.- 950,000 square mile, ot which 138,440,400 Is water. Hitler launched hi attack on Rus TO HELP WITH FRUIT Declaring that a definite short age of labor would exist when the time comes to harvest local fruit crops, Lewis Ulrlch, man ager of the United States Em ployment Service, today stated that every able-bodied child over 14 years of age would be needed for work In the orchards. Pointing out that arrange ments must be made at once to provide adequate labor to har vest the perishable crops, Ulrlch urged all young persons plan ning to help to call at the em ployment office in the Holland hotel building to obtain their application forms and full In formation on the work. Under the wage and hour act, Ulrlch explained, children under 18 years ot age are required to obtain a permit to work, and In order to obtain this permit a parent's or guardian's signature 1 necessary, together with satis factory evidence of the age of the child. Thi evidence must be submitted in the form of a birth certificate, doctor' affida vit or other established record. School records are not accept able. "Because birth records have not been considered particularly important heretofore, many chil dren will require some time to obtain satisfactory evidence of age," Ulrlch stated. "Therefore, In order that everyone will be ready to ao to work when the time come, the boy and girl who are going to do their part In th war effort of providing foodstuffs are asked to obtain their applications immediately. Ulrlch added that fruit grow era and packers hav assured competent and adequate super- vision of all childtea msloyd. VICTIMS RELATE LACONIC STORY Survivors of 309th Sinking in Western Atlantic Simp ly Rowed Toward Shore, By Th Associated Press Survivors of a small Yugoslav Ian merchant vessel, the tor pedoing of which about 25 miles oft shore In the Gulf of Mexico was announced by the navy to day, told one of the most lacon ic survival stories of the recent submarine warfare when they recounted that "wa simply rowed toward port." It took them eight hour. All hand were saved. Some men saw the attacker's perlscopo from their two lifeboats. The sinking brought the unof ficial Associated Press total of ships sunk In the western Atlan tic to 309 since Pearl Harbor. Reports from the Caribbean area Indicated that two addition al ships were torpedoed but they had not been included In the total pending further details. The announcement followed upon the navys report yester day that enemy submarines over 12-day period sent 13 United Nations merchantmen to th bottom of the Caribbean. Casualties ran high, with 48 known dead and 87 missing in the Caribbean sinkings . occur ring between June 3 and 14. , E T By Th Associated Pra Chines dlspatchec reported today that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sheks' armies had captured two outpost of Japanese-held Kwangfeng, killed or wounded 4,000 Japanese, and now "di rectly menaced" Kwangfeng Itself. Kkangfeng Is an important base supplying Japanese col umns driving westward Into Kiangsl province, in eastern China. The Chines said th attack on Kwangfeng wa part of a maneuver to cut off th Japan ese army which is attempting to complete Its conquest of the Important Chekiang Kiangsl railway leading into central China. Only a 50-mile stretch remains In Chinese hand. Japanese dispatches said that a strong new Japanese offensive was developing In Chekiang province, and that LIshuL "the last airport still in enemy hands in the province," was almost des troyed by aerial assault yester day. Domel said Japanese troop "storming deep into the moun tain fastnesses south of Wuyi and braving torrential rains" wer making steady progress. Soldier Allotr.sst Signing Paves Way For Draft Chssgss Washington. Juna 24. (JPh President Roosevelt signed the service men's pay allotment and allowance bill today, paving tne way for financial aid to depend ent ot fighting men and reclas sification of married men for the draft Providing for federal pay ment to supplement allotments from service men s pay checks to support their dependent, th legislation also contains a pro vision enunciating a congres sional policy that selective serv ice thould "not break up the in stitution of th horn." To carry out this policy, con gress wrote Into the bill author ity for (elective service officials to defer any and all categories of men having dependent with whom they maintain bene fide family relationship In their
