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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)
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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.
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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.
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YANKEE AIRMEN
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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.