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cOne Day's Wages for Bomber Fund Is Plan of Roofers' Union Let YOUR Auww to Bomb be BONDSI Boy War Bonds an sump TOD ContrtbuM Is the war effort of your nation. Patriot ism, your own self-protection, tomantfa that YOO do roar part N0W1 Uu Th MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results t Small Coat Medford Tbbune full Associated Preea United Praw Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1942. NO. 87. sbhs . jl Axis Forces Push Toward Alexandria " Mediterranean Sea ( Q.ttarf'' ""'"" Cairo f- suezA giarabub Deprewion.. Js l LIBYA fiffi EGYPT JC m 0 100 STATUTE MILES i Brltlih defenders of Egypt evacuated Matruh (1). British atronghold on tha path to Alexandria (2), and tha Snai canal (3). Matruh waa abandoned aa th battle, a wild melee of men and machines, spread over an ever-broadening battlefield. Black arrowa indicate th axis forces. Axil planes also were reported to hare bombed Alexandria. British naval base. Desert Debacle Not Due to Materiel Lack, Critics Told Allied Airmen Hit Japanese Bases al Rabaul and at Lae Somewhere In Australia, July 1 P) Japanese bases In New Britain and New Guinea were attacked by strong forces of al lied bombers before dawn Tues day in the largest raid in several days, it was disclosed tonight by airmen who participated in the attack. Despite thick clouds, the al lied planes bombed Rabaul, on New Britain, where large fires were started among installa tions in the wharf area, they aid. On bomber was reported to I lave made several runs over its target despite heavy anti-aircraft fire, leaving a blaze which was visible for 20 miles through the overhanging haze. At about the same time, the pilots said other bombers at tacked Luwanai airport, near Rabaul, dropping demolition bombs on runways and build ings. Heavy clouds prevented ob servation of the results. The runways at Lae, New Guinea, were also attacked but a ground haze and a dim moon made the effects unobservable, the bomb er pilots reported. Dairyman Accused of Cutting Milk Price Astoria, July 1 fP Alleg ing that a Hammond dairyman offered milk to Fort Stevens pVinder the established minimum price, the state milk control board has asked a temporary restraining order against him. The complaint says that the board's minimum is 11 cents but that J. . Forney quoted 10.99 rents to the army at the army's request and received the con tract. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Sgt. Alvin C. York. World war hero, is to speak from Knoxville, Tenn., as part of a salute to General Douglas Mac Arthur presented by the Veter ans of Foreign Wars via MBS at S o'clock Thursday night. Tonight: CBS, 6 30, Soldiers With Wings, Bing Crosby. Blu. W, airplane workers interviewed and King Peter. MBS. SIS, Fight Against Inflation, Harold Smith. Thursday: NBC, 3 30, National Iducation association convention. nra. urn ' . By Drew Mlddleton London, July 1.4P) Britain's war production minister and his predecessor denied today that lack of guns, tanks and planes were responsible for British military defeats in North Africa as Winston Churchill's critics launched their "no confidence" attack on his direction of the war. Oliver Lyttleton, minister of production, told the house of commons that manufacture of six-pounder guns and of tanks and the supplying of American made dive-bombers to British forces in the field was progres sing steadily and added: "Shortly we are going to sur pass the equipment of the enemy in several important weapons." Had Tank Power In the house of lords. Lord Beaverbrook, former production minister, said he did not think there was any shortage of equip ment in Libya and he had never heard it suggested that there was any shortage of aircraft. The British had more tanks in the desert than the Germans and Italians combined, Beaver brook said. He declared that the British 3.7 anti-aircraft gun with armor piercing projectiles is "a better gun" than the German 88-millimeter, credited with a large share of winning the Libyan battle. He said he did not know whether it had been adapted to anti-tank use. They spoke In reply to charges by Churchill's critics that pro duction was not providing Brit ish forces with adequate equip ment to meet axis attacks and that the prime minister made the "greatest possible mistake" when he attached the defense ministry to his office. Sir John Wardlaw-Milne, Churchill's fellow-conservative, led the opposition in commons by moving a "no confidence" vote. Churchill Challenged Wardlaw-Milne, seconded by admiral of the fleet, Sir Roger Keyes, charged that Churchill's statement that British forces in Libya were strong enough to meet the axis was "untrue and inaccurate." Sir Roger asserted that the admiralty had failed "Inexcus ably" to provide the Mediter ranean fleet with necessary air strength, and said that failure to provide proper weapons had sent the war machine "lumber ing from one disaste r to the next." Laborite Arthur Greenwood told commons that the fall of Tobruk was "as profound a shock" as th people have had since Dunkerque. Simultaneously, in tha house of lords. Lord Addison said the failure to provide dive-bombers was a "di.gre-e," and h urged that General Sir Archibald P. Wavell be brought home from his Indian command to assume ChurchiU'i post as defense minister. Red Tape Holds Up Canada Troops On Way to Aid Alaska Washington, July 1 (IP) The nation s tariff laws, en forced rigidly by a customs of ficial at the Alaskan border, held up Canadian troops mov ing to the defense of Alaska but it won't happen again because a new law has been rushed thru congress. The new legislation, signed Monday by President Roosevelt, instructs tariff collectors that United Nations armed forces may fight for us without paying customs duty on their equip ment. The Canadian forces was stop ped by a customs collector who said he had no authority to waive the tariff. Urgent mes sages to Washington treasury sources brought only the reply that no loop-hole could be found in the law. By the time that the state de partment suggested that the troops be classified as "distin guished personages," who are entitled to free import of their personal possessions, the treas ury arranged with congression al leaders for quick passage of the special legislation. A spokes man said no serious delay oc curred. RAISED TO 328 (Br th Associated Press) The sinking of a medium sized Panamanian cargo ship by an axis submarine off the Atlantic coast sent the toll of western Atlantic ship losses to 328 today (Wednesday) in the unofficial Associated Press tabulation. This loss and the announce ment late yesterday of the tor pedoing of a small Canadian merchant ship in the Caribbean were the most recent announced by the navy. One member of the Panaman ian's crew of 32 was lost. CAR CRASH FATAL Toledo, Ore, July 1 UPy Ernest Sawyer, about 55, of Aberdeen was fatally Injured at 11 o'clock last night as tha car he was driving ran Into an em bankment at the side of the Coast highway south of YachaU and overturned SOVIET FORTRESS FORCED TO YIELD IN 27-DAY SIEGE New Offensive Launched on Central Front Losses Heavy in Kursk Onslaught Berlin (from German broad casts). July 1 (JP) The great Russian fortress and naval bate of Sevastopol in the Crimea has fallen to the Ger man and Rumanian armies, Adolf Hitler's high command announced tonight. The whole Soviet front was reported aflame today with gi gantic battles. Hitler's field headquarters reported fresh gains in the bloody siege of Sevastopol, in the Crimea, and indicated that the German armies had launch ed a new offensive at various points on the central (Moscow) front. Other Nazi attacks were de veloping around Kharkov, Kursk, and Kolkhov. Offensive Nipped Dispatches to Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, said a German attempt to launch an offensive near Gzhatsk, 100 miles west of Moscow, had been frustrated by powerful Russian counterattacks. In the Crimea, German mili tary dispatches said axis troops had occupied Balaklava, eight miles below Sevastopol, and seized Fort Malakov in Sevasto pol's immediate defense ring. Balaklava was the scene of the storied "Charge of the Light Brigade" in the Crimean war of 1853-56. Soviet dispatches said Red army defenders of Sevastopol, under assault by approximately 225,000 axis troops, beat off a series of heavy attacks yester day, but it seemed clear that the Germans were slowly bat tering their way into the ruined fortress city. Nasi Losses Heavy On the Kursk front, 500 miles north of Sevastopol, red army headquarters reported that Mar shal S e m e o n Timoshenko's forces were inflicting "colossal losses" on the Germans and had already knocked out 350 Nazi tanks in the three-day-old offen sive. "In one sector alone during the day, we killed over 2,000 German officers and men," a Soviet communique said. TON Ml SAFE, SAY JAPS Washington, July 1 (IP) A navy spokesman reported today that the Japanese, In a propa ganda broadcast, had declared that 1.000 survivors of the miss ing American cruiser Houston and the Australian cruiser Perth were safe In an internment camp in Batavla, Java, enemy-held territory. The spokesman said that "while all Americans will understand that broadcasts originating from enemy sources can not be re garded as authentic, there ap pears to be no reason for the issuance of false information on this subject by the Japanese." It was emphasized that the navy had no official information about men missing from the Houston. Traffic Restored On Dunsmuir Line Dunsmuir. Calif., July 1 fl ! Normal traffic operations were resumed on Southern Pa cific's main line here today after workmen completed rebuilding of 300 feet of torn track de stroyed when two huge moun tain type locomotives were da railed yesterday at Cantara, six miles north of here. Southern Pacific officials said nn rati.. ri th Hr ilmmt h.t 'been determined vet 1 ' 1 ID IIIMffl AMIS . Axis 65 LIFE LOSS HEAVY Terrific Explosion Follows Smashup Near March Field Second in Virginia. Riverside, Calif., July 1 (P) An army bomber crashed early today near March field, killing all aboard, army sources said. The craft's normal crew is seven to nine men. Witnesses said there was a terrific explosion after the bomber struck. The plane, the army said, was a B-24 Consoli dated type. Spokesmen would not release the names of those aboard or their number until next of kin had been notified. Welch, W. Va., July 1 (IP) A big airplane, apparently a converted airliner, crashed and burned in the West Virginia mountains near here today with a loss of at least ten lives. State Troopers Earl Yeager and Tom Harrison said that ten bodies had been removed from the charred hull and that most of the victims were believed to be army men. They said the plane had borne insignia of American Airlines. On a belt buckle owned by one victim the officers deciph ered the name Erwin Stratman a duffle bag bore the name of Floyd Hyet and the flyleaf of a book had the name of Guy S. Hill. Most of the victims 1 were identified as army personnel. Tacoma, July 1 (IP) MaJ. Charles Ross Greening, 28. whose 20-cent bombsight left the Japs feeling like two-cents, said on his arrivel home today that farmers, school children and even soldiers mlstaklngly waved at his plane when they passed over Tokyo. "We went into Japan flying low and In flights of two and three, later splitting up to carry out our missions Individually. I don't believe our plane was more than 10 feet off the ground in some places. "The farmers waved at us, thinking we were Japs. When we flew over schools, the chil dren waved at us. When we came in groups in army uni form, they waved too, until our nose guns decided to try a lit tle target practice," the flyer said. Greening bounced off the train Into the arms of his mother. Mrs. C W. Greening. With Greening was his comely wife, formerly of Hoquiam. Wash. They will visit her for a few days. ACCOUNT STRIKE Seattle. July 1 (IP) Seattle produce merchants said today ..h vfftahlp. fruits and ber ries were spoiling in warehouses because of Teamsters' union dispute. A rnntlnuatinn of the ariu ment may giv Seattle residents a Fourth of July wees; ena wiw out fresh produce. Union truck drivers quit work a week ago at tha Pacific Fruit and Produce company's district plant In a demsnd for wage increases, causing a halt In local and out-of-town deliveries. Miles From Alexandria E LI 110 Men in Williams Creek Camp and 161 at South Fork To Be Sent Home. Abolishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps sounds the death knell for the last two camps remaining in this area, Williams Creek and South Fork, but no word had been received today by those in charge con cerning the exact time or meth od of dissolution. Enrollees of Camp Williams Creek number 110, part of whom have been stationed at Camp Prescott doing work for the federal government and part of whom have been under work supervision of the O and C Land Grant Administration, Complement of Camp South Fork is 161, Under supervision of the Rogue River National Forest most of the men have been constructing a pipeline and water system at Lake of the Woods, while a small detach ment has been working at for mer CCC headquarters at the fairgrounds. The enrollees will be sent to their homes, it was understood, and equipment will be disposed of following the receipt of ex pected orders from Washington. Vancouver, Wash., July 1 (JP) Death of the Civilian Con servation Corps through con gressional action yesterday will bring disbandment of 28 camps in Washington and Oregon with a total complement of about 4,000 men, according to Infor mation at district headquarters at Vancouver Barracks. Washington, July 1 W) Nearly 500,000 people lost their jobs or their government aid today by the scrapping or cur tailment of three depression born federal agencies that have cost more than $17,000,000,000. Congress abolished the Civil ian Conservation Corps yester day by denying It funds for the fiscal year beginning today. The start of a new government busi ness calendar also saw the Works Progress Administration cut to skeleton form and heavy reduc tions in the National Youth Ad ministration program. In the background of the transition there was a change of eras from men hunting Jobs to jobs hunting men. The life of the CCC ended at midnight, and demobilization of some 60,000 enrollees and 15,000 civilian employes of the corps began this morning. The WPA, its appropriation whittled by two-thirds from last year, was trimming its rolls down from 700.000 to 400.000. The NYA, with funds also cut by two-thirds, commenced dropping 60.000 persons from its out-of-school training program, to re duce the number in this activity from 130,000 to 70,000. Swan Island Returns As Shipbuilding Site Portland. Ore., July 1 (IP) They laid the keel of a tanker at Swan Island today and brought United States shipbuilding on the Pacific coast back to Its birthplace of 102 years ago. Now the tiny island in Port land's Willamette river harbor bulges with machinery that makes it the last word In ship yards an eight-way layout cost ing 817.000,000 where Henry J. Kaiser, the miracle-man of Amer. lean World war II shipbuilding. will turn out Bfl long-range tankers. CHERRY PRICES Portland, July 1. P Cher ries: Blngs, 9 cents pound; Royal Ann, 7V-8 cents; pie, 6 cents; black Republican, 9 cents, BASEBALL American (First game) Washington 2 5 0 Boston 3 10 0 Newsom and Evans; Chase, Terry and Conroy. ALL INVITED TO Roofers' Local 140 has launch ed a campaign to raise funds toward purchase of a bomber, to be presented as a gift to the federal government, and all other local unions, fraternal and civic organizations, and Medford citizens are Invited to partici pate. L. E. Skeen, president of the local, George Yung, vice-president, and Grant L. Taylor, secretary-treasurer, spokesmen for the local, said that $500 had been deposited in the United States National Bank of Port land, Medford branch, the ac count being designated as the "Camp White Bomber Fund." and that members of the local had also voted to donate one day's pay, preferably Independ ence. Day, to the fund. Suggesting that other union lo cals appoint committees to speed cooperation in the campaign, the spokesmen said they understood the government would match a minimum of $100,000 raised and christen the bomber "Spirit of Camp White," the christening to take place here. The spokesmen said they had been informed the plumbers' local would contribute a sub stantial sum to the fund, and emphasized that not only other unions but everybody in the city was invited to take part In the plan by giving a day's wages. HOUSEHOLD FATS Salem, July 1 (JP) House wives will be paid 4 cents pound for their household fats during the campaign to begin in two weeks, meat packers and renderers and the state salvage committee agreed today at a conference here. Housewives were requested to sell strained fats In uniform containers, preferably coffee cans, to their butchers. The butchers will be paid 5 cents a pound, thus obtaining a cent a pound for handling charges. Fats obtained in the nation wide drive will be used to make explosives, glycerin, and for other war necessities. CHARLES B: GAY TAKEN BY DEATH Charles B. Gay, 79, well known resident of Jackson coun ty where ha has lived for th last 50 years, passed away at his residence, 523 North River side at 11 p. m. Tuesday. A complete ouituary with fu neral arrangements will appear later. Conger Funeral Parlors in charge. MINISTER DIES Portland, July 1 iJPr Th Rev, J. Franklin Day of Port land, early-day Baptist minister in the Willamette valery and native of Eugene, died yester day. The funeral will be held next Monday In the Baptist church In Springfield with bur ial in Creswell cemetery, Cres wU, Or. BEFORERETREAT Defenders Say Thousands of Soldiers Ready to Meet Main Onslaught of Axis. By Roger D. Green Associated Press War Editor. Dispatches from Cairo lata) today acknowledged that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's axis invasion armies had advanced within 70 miles ot th Nil delta, and official London quar ters hinted that the Suez canal might be rendered unusable If the British were forced to yield it to the enemy. As th eight-day-old battle of Egypt surged to a climax, tha British reported that thousands of soldiers and hundreds of cannon were ready to meet th main - onslaught ot - Rommel' armies. - Lines Still Intact Several lines of defense still remained before Alexandria, th British said. - - . German field headquarter as serted that axis troops were now attacking "the last British forti. flcations" at El Alamein, only 65. miles west of Alexanlri naval base. - The British acknowledged that axis spearheads had raced be yond El Daba, 39 miles west of El Alamein, and Indicated that the hour of decisive battle was approaching. - i In an order of the day. Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, the Brit ish commander In chief In the middle east, declared: 'The battle Is not over yet and will not be over until we have defeated the enemy, and defeat him we wilt.' Closely linked with the de fense of Egypt, Britain's embat tled Mediterranean Island citadel of Malta was declared by the American navy today to have received strong reinforcement of planes through American help. Malta, the most-bombed spot In the World, is strategically Important as a base for attack on axis supply lines to north Africa and Egypt. A navy communique said th 14.700-ton U. S. aircraft carrier Wasp mad a series of trips through the dangerous waters of the Mediterranean to deliver the planes, which were quick ly manned by British RAF . pilots and Inflicted "consider able losses" on .the enemy. 'The expertly timed arrival of reinforcement planes on th Wasp was most fortunate for th heroic defenders of the Brit Ish stronghold and the cause of the united nations," the cavy said. SIDE GLANCES Y TRIBUNE REPORTERS Glenn Linn, proud pappa, passing out ceegars celebrating! th arrival ot a new daughter. Lulu Saulsberry Informing friends that Jacksonville la and always has been "Shangra-La." Philip Gates declaring that the hotter the weather, "th better." Mrs. M. E. Santo wondering! whatever became of th friend ly young lady who borrowed her ho and as yet has forgotten to return It Bourbon Ed Kelly admitting h was doing th ground work for his coming U. S. eongres campaign, , Jackson street bridgu pedes trians wondering If a whal ha com up Bear creek and uiasarl out under th span.
