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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1942.
NO. 81
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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.
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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
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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
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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. ,
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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