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Newspaper Page TextLet YOUR Answer to Bombs be BONDSI Dm Th MAIL TRIBUNE Buy War Bonds an Btampi TOIIAY ContnbuU la the war MEDFORD RIBUNE Want Ad Way effort of your nation. Patriot ism, your own elr-prntecttoa. demands that VOU tto your Quick Results at Small Co it part NOW! full Associated Praes Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1942. fa) A nin. ffflM United Press , NO. 85. i i , i Nazi Saboteurs Land in U. S. Nabbed r,,:, , . ,., . . , .. . - 7. i Y v y my : anaaaaaaaaaaaal.j,. ,.. ,,r..-., liAtla-aj &-ffire Jawiranaaaaaal . .,--'.:.iii 3d News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, June 29 The coming new rations of eastern gasoline( July 22) is to be much more severe, yet everyone In the oil trade seems 'Mia;"" a creed censor- ed figures would show an improved con dition of east ern supplies. The question of how much r a t i o ni ng is V'i jyfl Justified, Af 1 n 0 b jafm".-.- gwere could e an d con' Pan I MaUoa clusively after Interior Secre tory Ickes asked the American Petroleum institute to suppress its weekly figures of stocks of eastern gas on hand, but never theless certain general evidence Is available, Eastern gasoline stocks de clined from 20,600,000 barrels on January I to about 15,000.000 barrels May 16, a decline of 25 per cent, since then the navy has started convoying tankers off the east coast, pipelines have been reversed, railroad hauling has been expanded, supplies therefore, have naturally in creased. Those who have seen the censored figures frankly say the situation is better. TTIE first gas rationing cer- tainly was Justified on the basis of dwindling supplies. It has resulted in dropping con sumption 33 per cent. The drop for the average citizen going to work, was far more than 33 per cent. But buses, trucks and other public conveyances have demanded so much more now, that the average is only 33 per ent. as compared with a 25 per cent decline in stocks. Now the new decrees propose to cut this average down to 50 per cent, against a stock decline which must be less than 25 per cent. t The improved conditions of eastern stocks is not denied by most government authorities. But the current story they are passing around (and this is con firmed in some parts of the trade) is that fuel oil conditions this winter are likely to be bad. beginning around October I. They seem to be rationing gas oline on th basis of a fuel oil shortage next winter. A senatorial investigation of lCiWmin a r row) '1 6 Eight Nasi saboteurs have been seised by the FBI after being landed on U. S. shores by Axis submarines. At topi (L-R) Ernest Peter Burner. 36. natire German who worked in U. S. before returning to Germany in 1933; Robert Quirin, 34, native German, worked in Syracuse, returned to Germany in 1939. and Edward John Keriing, 33. native Germany, once employed in U. &. re turned to Germany in 1941. Lower: (L-R) George John Ditch, 39, worked in New York and California before returning to Germany last yeen Heinrich Heinck, 35. worked in New York before re turning to Germany In 1939, and Werner Thiel, 35, who was a Detroit toolmaker prior to return to Germany after outbreak of war. In center: Hermann Neubauer (left) and Herbert Haupt. 22 (right). Hauot, an American citixen who went to Germany, was arretted in Chicago. The boxes of explosives in bottom picture, were planted on a beach near Jacksonville, Fla by the Nasi agents who landed from a submarine via rubber boats. The explosives were to be used in sabotage, according to FBI. Oregon J a pane te Keep Vote Right Salem, June 29 W) Oregon Japanese who are American cit izens will be able to vote by ab sentee ballot in the November general election, even though. ,f PS, f V" they now are in concentration camps, the state election! divi sion said today. It would be impossible to de prive them of the right to vote, the division said, because voting rights of all citizens are guaran teed by the constitution. 5 it in YANKEE AIRMEN E DEFENSES WEAK Formation Makes Safe Re turn After Foray On For mer U. S. Post. Washington, June 29 (Ft The navy announced today that united States bombers had at tacked Japanese-occupied Wake island in the Pacific last Sat urday, damaging the enemy's air field and various shore in stallations. The navy's communique, bas ed on reports received up to 11 a. m. PWT today, said: "1. U. S. bombers attacked Japanese-occupied Wake Island on June 27. "2. Under favorable condi tions of weather and visibility our planes, attacking in forma tion, damaged the air field and various shore installations. "3. Enemy anti-aircraft and fighter defense was weak and, although one bomber suffered minor damage during the attack, all of our planes returned safely." Tiny Wake Island, which overwhelming enemy forces wrested from an American Ma rine garrison Dec. 23, is Japan's nearest base to the Hawaiian area. It is 2,000 nautical miles west of Pearl Harbor and little more than 1,000 miles south west of Midway, the American outpost nearest to Japanese ter ritory. Looking For Ship The raid reported today was the second made by American aircraft on the Atoll. Planes from task force led by Vice Admiral William F. Halsey wiped out shore installations and some minor surface units Feb. 24. It was considered probably by authorities here that Amer ican raiders on Saturday were looking for a concentration of enemy shipping of the sort which they found in the Mar shall and Gilbert Islands raid Jan. 31 when they destroyed 16 ships as well as 41 planes and land works. If that was their hope, apparently they were dis appointed since the communique mentioned no damage to ship ping. MILLION JEWS TOLL London, June 29 (P The British section of the world Jew ish Congress estimated today that more than 1,000,000 Jews have been killed or died as the result of ill treatment in coun tries dominated by Germany. FBI Rounds Of Saboteur Invaders New York, June 29 Seizure of "several contacts and associates" of the band of eight Nazi spy-saboteurs landed by U-boats on the east coast was announced last night by the FBI, which promised more arrests within a few days. New developments In the startling case of the eight Ger man agent submarine-borne to Long Island and Florida beaches with explosives intended to wreck vital American Industries included the discovery of an additional cache of 120.000, in creasing the total of "pay-off money" carried by the saboteurs to $170,000. Neither the number nor the names of the persons arrested as aides of the invading sabo teurs were disclosed by Earl J. Connolley, assistant to FBI Di rector J. Edgar Hoover, in an nouncing the new roundup 24 hours after Hoover had reveal ed the capture of the agents bent on a two-year campaign of destruction against the Ameri can war effort. Some arrests of the suspected accomplices were made in Chi cago, and some here. Those here were believed to have been made from among a group of German people living on Long Island not far from the deserted beach at Amagansett, where the first group of four Nazi terror ists landed June 13. Hoover gave the names of those in this group as George John Dasch, 39. leader; Ernest Peter Burger, 38, who In 1931 was a private; in tha Michigan British Lose Matruh, Uieonscions Pilot Circles For Hoar Before Coming To Ann Arbor, Mich., June 29 JP An airplane with an uncon scious girl pilot inside circled the Ann Arbor city airport crazily for an hour last night while spectators below watched in frozen fright. Miss Joan Tesh, 19. of Ann Arbor, an employe of the Wil low Run bomber plant, took the ship aloft in the early evening and fainted while still in the air. With the rudder and elevator fixed so it would go in approxi mately level circles, the plane continued to fly. Robert Young, an airport instructor, took an other ship up and saw that Miss Tresh was unconscious at the controls. For almost 60 minutes, the plane continued its wild per ambulations. Then the girl re vived. She glided the plane to a stop in a field at Ellsworth road and State, striking a fence in the effort. The Jackson county budget for the tax year starting July 1, 1942. calling for the raising by tax levy of $376,265, was passed "as advertised . at a public hear ing in the courthouse auditorium today. There was no dissenting vote. The public hearing also ap proved of a resolution, recom mending the next legislature pass a bill fixing the salary of Jackson county commissioners at a flat rate of $2,000 per year. They now receive $5 per day and gasoline mileage Due to in crease in county business the commissioners are engaged on county business everyday. The difference in the amount re ceived. The public hearing was at tended by approximately a score of people, including a number of P.T.A. members. H. A. (Bert) Thlerolf presided as chairman, Swedes Break Up Nazi Gathering Stockholm. Sweden, June 29 lip) In the second anti-Nazi riot within a week in Sweden, more than 1,000 persons broke up an attempt to hold a Nazi meeting yesterday in Raettvik, 150 miles northeast of Stockholm. Up Aides national guard; Heinrich Harm Heinck, 35, and Robert Quirin, 34. They came ashore in a rubber boat with their store of money and explosives, together with lists of key railroad centers, bridges and war plants which Hoover said they planned to blow up. They also were equip ped with forged selective serv ice and social security cards, Hoover said. Similarly equipped was the group of four which landed at Ponte Vedra beach near Jack sonville, Fla., June 17, Hoover said, listing these as Edward John Keriing, 33, group leader; Herbert Haupt, 22; Werner Thiel, 33, and Hermann Neu bauer, 32, "We have their full state ments of confession," Hoover declared. "We have all the plans they brought with them. The plans called for the de struction of, among other objec tives, three plants of the Alum Inum Company of America and indicated that the mission's main attack was to be against the light-metal industry which would have delayed Amt-rica's all-Important program of air plane production. VAST NEW OUTLAY FOR WAR EXPENSE T IN HOUSE Appropriations Committee Brings in $1,810,487,615 Supply Bill for Debate. Washington, June 29 (P) The house appropriations com mittee fired another financial salvo In the war program to day, sending to the floor a $1, 810,487,615 supply bill which it estimated would boost to approximately $228,000,000,000 the amount projected for na tional defense since June 1940. The new bill carries funds for almost a score of war agencies for the fiscal year starting July 1. Most of them have been operating in the past on emer gency allocations. CPA Controversy Seen While more than one-half the total, $1,100,000,000, is for the war shipping administration, a $75,000,000 item for Leon Hen derson's office of price admin istration was expected to be the only part of the bill over which a controversy of any conse quence would develop. J The committee more than halved Henderson's original re quest and shaved $86,000,000 .from the budget bureau's rec ommendation. To make certain the $75,000,000 would be all that Henderson's agency would have to spend during the new year, the committee wrote Into the bill a restriction that the OPA funds "shall not be aug mented by allocations or trans fers of funds from any other appropriation." The OPA item was almost certain to bring into the open the resentment that has been smouldering In some congres sional quarters since Henderson began appointing state adminis trators without consulting the patronage views of Capitol hill. House economy bloc leaders promptly announced they would seek to cut the $75,000,000 at least In half. The house appro priations subcommittee recom mended $95,000,000 but the full committee, on motion of Rep. Johnson (D., Okla.), cut off $20, 000,000. T By The Associated Press Jammed trains, empty high ways and throngs of motorists gathered around the few filling stations open made the eastern United States acutely conscious of the gasoline drought this last week-end. In Rhode Island, police were called to control lines of cars at gasoline pumps with available supplies. Fifty motorists visit ing soldiers at Newport were stranded there. Defense workers In Boston ex pressed fear they wouldn't be able to get to work today, and all through Massachusetts and New England automobiles roll ing along roads were becoming fewer and fewer. While Mayor F. H. La Guardia of New York City attacked the 2H cents-a-gallon price Increase effective along the eastern sea board Monday as "discrimin atory and unfair", vacationists and visitors crowded New York In numbers comparable to those on holidays. Railroad officials In Grand Central terminal said 30 extra trains had been added to handle the travelers. Trains for Long Island beaches were heavy pa tronized .the Pennsylvania rail road reported. The name Paonhan, a small city in China's Yunnan prov ince, mean "preclou mountain-" Right Wing Anchor Jap Midway Losses Worse Than First Reported By Navy Pearl Harbor, T. H., June 29 P) The defeat of the Japa nese invasion fleet off Midway Island was even worse than first reported. The navy, waiting until it had rounded up all the reports and checked them, flatly wrote off as Japanese losses: the aircraft carrier Okagi, 26,900 tons; the aircraft carrier Kaga, 26,900 tons; the aircraft carrier Soryu, 10,050 tons; the aircraft carrier Kiryu, 10,500 tons; two heavy cruisers, probably the 8,500 ton Mogami and the 8,500 ton Mikuma; three destroyers and a cargo or transport vessel. Unofficial estimates placed the probably ' Japanese death list at 18,000 or more. That added up to at least 10 ships sent to the bottom in the big sea-air battle earlier this month off Midway. The definite report of four carriers sunk contrasted with tentative re ports on June 10 of "two and possibly three." The same re ports listed only one other Jap ship as definitely sunk, des troyer. The loss of 10 likewise was in sharp contrast with Japanese admissions that only one ship, carrier went down. YOUTHS 18 TO 20 FOR WAR SERVICE Polls for registration for selec tive serviie of male c'llzens born on or after January 1, 1922 and on or before June 30, 1924 will be open at 7, a. m. and close at 9 p. m. tomorrow. Selective serv ice boards said today that every thing is In readiness for registra tion of all males between the ages of 18 and 20. Following are the places of registration in Jackson county: Butte Falls, town hall; Eagle Point, Brown's hall; Central Point, old city hall; Gold Hill, city hall; Jacksonville, old city hall; Applegate, Community hall; Prospect, gym.ia.ilum; Trill, engineer's office; Ashland, city hall; Talent, city hall; Phoenix, Grange hall; Rogue River, Scouts hall; Prescott and South Fork, CCC camps; Medford, courthouse auditorium. Washington, June 29 (AP) Uncle Sam tomorrow will regis ter some 3,000,000 youths of the 18 to 20 year age group for possi ble military service under the selective service system. When that registration Is com pleted, the government will have a record of about 43,000,000 men every male In the country be tween 18 and 63 years of age. Tomorrow's registration will be for youths 18 and 19 years old and for 20 year oMi born be tween Dec. 31, 1921, and June 30, 1922. The 20 year olds are subject to the draft. An amend ment to the selective service la v would be necessary before the 18 and 19 year oldr could be drafted. Big. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, selective service direc tor, has Indicated they may be needed. Blaze Near Trail In Heavy Timber Area Rogue River National Forest headquarter! said this afternoon a fire of undetermined origin and unknown alze was burning In a rather heavily timbered area a half mile east of Trail near the Crater Lake highway. The hlaze was reported about 1:30 by a passing motorist. The state forest patrol sent a pumper and five men to the scene, the forest service three fire guards. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight: Talk Blu radio forum, Interview of Brig. Gen. P. B. Fleming on "Actlvltlw of Federal Work Agency.' AXIS JUGGERNAUT ES Main Strength Still Intact Is British High Command Claim Plan New Stand. By CLYDE A. FARNSWORTK Associated Press War Editor The British command announ ced late today that its eighth army had evacuated Matruh. coastal anchor of the defeiua line 173 miles west of Alexan dria, but indicated that Its main strength still was intact to give Nazi Marshal Rommel battle at a more favorable time and place. The announcement In Cairo was partial confirmation of ear lier axis reporta of the fall of the stronghold and continuation of an advance toward the Nile and Suez. Plan New Stand But indications were that the allied forces making up the eighth British army had with drawn to take another stand In desperate search for positions from which the axis juggernaut could be halted after its impair ment in Isolated engagements and reinforcement of the de fense. , . . , , . , The tactics seemed to call for avoidance of a full-scale clash with Field Marshal Rommel' column so long as the defend ers stood under the handicap of Inferiority in tanks. On . one point of the axis claims there was official Brit ish agreement that Rommel' forces in two day of battle had reached around to the southeast ern or Nile valley side of Mat ruh, prized railhead, 160 mile from Alexandria. This is the airline distance. The routes by desert road and railway are) about 173 miles. The Alexandria area was raided this morning by axis plane but they caused little damage and no casualties, ac cording to the official Egyptian report. . Drive Continues Berlin and Rome said that a Matruh Rommel captured mora than 6,000 prisoners and that he was continuing the eastward drive. The 6,000 figure suggested that the bulk of Matruh' de fender had been withdrawn. The axis claimed a much larger prisoner haul 33,000 at To bruk, just eight day ago when that last British foothold In Ilbya was captured. At the same time the long heralded main offensive of the German armies In Russia wa reported underway in the Kursk area, south of Moscow and north of Kharkov, where the enemy appeared to be attempting wide-swinging move to cut communication between the Russians central and southern fronts, to prepare the way for a drive into the Caucasus. The full weight of Germany all-out assault in Russia wa bearing down on the Red armiea in both th Kharkov and Kursk area. Thus th axis pincers on the middle eaxt, the Suez canal and Alexandria took shape in the co ordinated drive in Russia and Egypt, aimed evidently at clos ing in on th Sue region and Asia minor from two direction, through the Caucasus northeast of Suez and through Egypt on th west. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Maurice Spats arranging hi Fourth of July program to dove tail with th Crater baseball schedule. Wilson Church cuttln taper about the pool. Eva Taylor and Verna Paul son sunning and swimming at Twin Flung.