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Newspaper Page TextTT r Let YOUR Answer to Bombs b BONDS! Bar War Bonds and tumps TOIIAT Contribute to Ihs war effort of your nation. Patriot ism, your oars self-protection, oemands that VOU do jour part KOWI Dm The Medford 3RIBUNE MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Cost Full Associated Press United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1942. IU1 til mm c -"SSrW' LISA ? NO. 88. am 9HSI WIG British Armored Cars t-4 British armored cars, on patrol outside Matruh, Egypt, rumblo through clouds of smoke and dust sent up bj bomb blasts irom Germans Stukas. Picture radioed from Cairo to New York. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 2. The mashing army bomber attack -upon Wake island does not n e c e s s a rily f o r e c ast the opening of our counter- march westward across the Pa cific to Japan. True, when we get ready for that march we may soften up Wake and other advance Jap bases with Paul Mallon heavy bombing, as a prelimin ary step. But we will not be ready until we are prepared to go beyond Wake into the Mar shall and Marianas islands as well. Wake Is within land -based bomber range of Jap bases in the Marshall and Marianas, and hence can be held only with dif ficulty unless they are also taken. In fact. Wake should fall into the lap of whoever can hold these two other groups, so we might take them first. Meanwhile, we can make It as uncomfortable for Japs there as they could make it for us, if we tried to seize it alone. e e DRIVATE government figures on the probable future of motor-riding Americans are al most unbelievably dismal. When Mr. Ickes whispered In Mr. Roosevelt's ear urging a rubber collection campaign, he submitted certain figures which were not made public. These showed that if the war lasted three years more, hardly an American private car would be left on the road, even if mile age was reduced 25 per cent and a 40-mile speed limit enforced. They predicted 4,000.000 cars would go off the road this year, 6.000,000 next, 7.000.000 in 1944. leaving only S. 600. 000 cars rid- Srig in 1945; 1,600.000 riding in '1946 and none in 1947. If a program for recapping 60 per cent of civilian tires could be effected as a result of this rubber drive, the situation would become fairly satisfac tory. Less than half as many (Continued on Page Blgnt) SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Major Morris still in a fog over a seven no trump vulner able doubled and redoubled hand In bridge which he bid and played successfully. Walter Degerness and Harold Axland licking the heat by aris ing almost in the middle of the night to mow the Avland lawn. Denny Edge extolling the pleasant weather inside the Ice arena, which opens Friday Difhk 1. il Average Oregonian's Rent $19.03 During 1940 Is Washington, July 2 The average Oregonian paid $19.03 a month for rent in 1940. the bureau of census reported today. The city dweller paid on an average $24.28 while those in rural non-farm homes paid $14.86. Families on rural farms paid $11.67 which included the dwelling only, not rental for the land. Monthly rents of $100 or more were reported for 1,623 of the 283,106 urban and rural non farm units surveyed. More than E E By The Associated Press China's fledgling air force, pressing its first offensive in five years of war against Japan, was credited today with a big-scale assault on Japanese military targets along the Yangtze river, while Generalissimo Chiang Kai Sheks' armies coped with an in creasingly grave situation on the East China seaboard. Dispatches from Chungking, the war-time captal, said large formations of Chinese bombers pounded the enemy at Hankow and Yochow. In North Hunan province. All the raiders return ed safely. Hankow has served as a main base for Japanese air raids on Chungking. On the fighting front, a Chi nese army spokesman again de nied a Tokyo claim that Japa nese Invasion columns had seiz ed the entire 450-mile Chekiang Kiangsl railway. In the battle of Australia, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head quarters reported a series of al lied aerial blows which indi cated a sharp upshoot in United Nations air strength. Radio Highlight s ' (Pacific war time) i MBS network Is to broadcast the annual all-star baseball game on Monday, followed by the Tuesday contest between the '' winner of this event and a team made up of baseball stars j now in Uncle Sam's service. The Monday game goes on at 1 3:15 p. m., the Tuesday broad cast at 5:43 p. m. Tonight: BLU 4:30 Sen. Pat McGarran on "Port Office Sal aries"; 6 Town Meeting "How Shall We Deal With Germany Aft-r the War?" MBS S Salute to Gen. Mae Arthur. Friday: MBS 7:15 a. m. Lib erty production rally; 11:30 ajn. Canada joint recital. in Desert .. r." - - i. I Sj ... .... V. 5 ....' . J," , ..---.-,f v . - . --- - i Census Revelation half, 52.S per cent, of these units rented for less than $zo per month. About one unit in every six had rent of less than $10. Rents of tenant-occupied 'urb an and rural non-farm dwellings were lower in 1940 than in 1930. The median rent for urban units in 1940 was $19.58 com pared to $26.19 in 1830; -for rural non-farm units it was $11.47 compared to $12.53. In urban and rural non-farm areas the median rent of non- white tenants was $14.40, while whites paid $16.89. Washington, July 2 OP) President Roosevelt created a military commission of seven army generals to try eight per sons accused of landing in Flor ida and New York to try to com mit sabotage. The commission was set up by means of a presidential mill. tary order, and it will begin its deliberations In Washington July 8 The prosecution is to be con ducted by the Attorney General and the Judge Advocate Gen eral, the military order said Dowell and Kenneth Royall will be counsel for the defense. The death penalty is expected to be sought by the govern ment. Generals appointed to the military tribunal are Major Generals Frank R- McCoy, who will preside; Walter S. Grant, Blanton ' Winship and Lorenzo D. Gasser and Brigadier Gener als Gu V. Henry, John T. Lewis, and John T. Kennedy, - Housing Project Lacks Materials Portland, July 2 (TV-Chairman W. J. Avlson of the Clack amas county housing authority asked priorities yesterday for materials to complete a $2,000, 000 600-unit - housing project near Milwaukie. He conferred with ' Portland officials seeking similar action for 5700 units threatened by shortages in Portland. . Cautious Driving Urged On Holiday Salem, July 2 (IP) Secre tary of State Earl Snell urged automobile drivers and pedest rians to exercise the utmost cau tion over the Fourth of July week-end. Last year four per sons were killed July 4, and three more died on July 5, FIRST DROWNING Bend, Ore., July 2. iP For est service officials reported cen tral Oregon's first drowning yes terday that of Howard Collins, 14. Fort Klamath, who fell Into a water-filled gravel pit at Crescent. Premier Sees Hope Of Egypt Victory In Reinforcements London, July 2 (JP Prime overwhelming vote of confidence today after he had gravely assessed the allied position in the Mediterranean and middle east war zones as a near disaster with a hope of victory pinned on "very considerable" rein forcements now in progress. The vote was 475 to 25. The parliamentary victory came at the end of a speech one hour and 28 minutes long in which Churchill staunchly de fended his direction as the best possible under the circumstances- Dark Picture Limned Churchill sketched a dark picture of the Battle of Egypt. He said it had developed "a re cession of our hopes and pros pects in the middle east and Mediterranean unequalled since the fall of France." To this he added, without el aboration, a statement that "at any moment we may receive news of grave importance." The 475 to 25 vote left 115 of the House's 615 members unac counted for. Of the 115 some members undoubtedly expres sed partial disapproval of the Churchill government by ab staining from the vote but many could not attend the session be cause of wartime duties and oth er causes. Vote Draws Cheers Tremendous cheering greeted announcement of the vote. which squelched the most seri ous . challenge yet made to Churchill's premiership. The opposition vote was the highest sine the Prime Minister took office May 10. 1940. The motion upon which the vote was taken was the first censure resolution introduced against the present government. Previous votes had been taken on the government's own mo tions. The latest of these was 464 to one vote of last Jan. 29. The applause was still raging when Churchill left the House today. He stopped at the door, turned, lifted his finger In the "V-For-Victory" sign and went back to work. Churchill's somber portrayal of the war in Africa was reliev ed only by his statement that "very considerable" reinforce ments have reached or "are ap proaching" the battlefield. T GOING 10 YARDS Portland, Ore., July 2. (IP) Federal employment service officials said yesterday that Portland and Vancouver, Wash., shipyards will hire an addition al 107,000 workers by the end of the year if housing can be provided for them. L. C. Stoll, Oregon employ ment director, said he was not worried about finding the work ers, half of whom he said could be hired locally. . The big problem Is housing, he said, citing the case of the Vancouver shipyard, where 55,. 000 will be employed in a town which in the 1940 census had only 18,000 residents. Toy Cap Pistol Dealers Warned . Salem. . July 2. (Pi Gover nor Charles A. Sprague warned dealers of toy cap pistols and caps that they must cease oper ations Immediately. Citing the fireworks ban of Lieut. Gen. John L. Dewltt, commander of the western de fense area, the governor said there has been some sale of cap pistols and caps. SWIMMER DROWNS Eugene, Ore., July 2 OP) Laurence Eikenberrj. 16, Spring field, was drowned in the Willa mette river yesterday. Deputy County Coroner Harold Poole re ported today. Eikenberry was carried under by the swift cur rent. A friend, Robert Coleman, Springfield, swimming nearby, recovered the body. CHERRY PRICES Portland. Ju!y 2 UY Cher ries: Bints 10-12 row parked 12 15c; Royal Ann 8'i-8c Minister Churchill won an from the House of Commons E BATTLE REPORTS Cairo, Egypt, July 2. UP) Meeting the full fury of an axis armored attack, the allied defenders of Egypt and the Middle East tonight struck hard at the axis rear with tanks and artillery in a melee irom which neither side can turn back. London, July 2. (IP) Fight ing the battle of Egypt in a de sert sandstorm, the British an nounced today the repulse of powerful axis armored and in fantry attacks at El Alamein, 70 miles west of Alexandria, but the Germans and Italians as serted they had seized that drab coastal village and were pursu ing the British headlong toward the inviting green delta of the Nile. All sources agreed on the in tensity of the conflict, but on nothing else. "Results were not unfavor able to ui," British headquart ers in Cairo declared in report ing a battle that continued- all day yesterday. The armored forces of Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel were acknowledged to have made -a temporary break at one defend ed locality, only to be driven out again by the British col umns. Farther south, on the edge of the great Attara depression. British forces ranged 17 miles west of their positions to engage axis units, but the main battle obviously was along the coastal road toward Alexandria, where General Sir Claude J. E. Auch inleck chose to make his stand against persistent frontal as sault. Despite the sandstorms, the RAF continued intense bombing and strafing of the enemy in the El Alamein area, the British said, but the axis claimed dom ination of the skies over the battlefield. The Germans credited their dive-bombers with paving the way for the claimed break through at El Alamein. ' In recognition of the close threat to the Nile valley, the Egyptian government replaced police guards with soldiers at all important bridges, dams and buildings. The Vichy French expressed fears that the British might de stroy the French battleship, submarine, four cruisers and three destroyers which have been Interned at Alexandria since the fall of France, rather than let them fall into the ene my's hands. ... An act against these ships would be one of "violence," warned a semi-official Vichy statement E TO POST PRICES Portland. July 2 OP) The Oregon OPA ordered storekeep ers today to post maximum March prices at once. No further extension of dead lines will be granted, Richard G. Montgomery, director, said. He also ordered merchants to file price lists with price and rationing boards. Two rationing officials were appointed, William H. E. L. Cox to become temporary head of the sugar section, and Ed Dag ner to become a tire section representative. F Henderson Tells Congress 1942 Pack To Go Up 15 Per Cent or More. Washington, July 2 (IP) Prime administrator Leon Hen derson told a senate appropri ations subcommittee today that he could not carry out what he regarded as congress' directions in controlling prices, rents and rationing with the 34.576 em ployes now on his staff. Urging restoration bv the senate of the full $161,000,000 approved by the budget bureau for this fiscal year's operations of the OPA, Henderson said he gave the committee figures showing that house action in cutting this fund to $75,000,000 wuold reduce his staff to about 32,500 persons. Tables Thumped In a closed session from which drifted sounds of vigorous table thumping, Henderson was said to have been questioned closely by committee members about a statement he issued yesterday. Some senators said they inter preted this statement as blam ing congress for permitting the puncturing of ceilings on canned fruits and other agricultural commodities. As he appeared for more funds, Henderson also spot lighted two other disputes with congress the price concessions to farmers and the matter of subsidies to absorb losses under price ceilings. He announced that he was ''being compelled to take meas ures that will raise retail prices of the 1942 pack of canned and dried fruits by as much as IS per cent and possibly more." First Departure This represented the first de parture permitted from the uni versal price ceiling. In an ac companying statement to house wives, Henderson explained that it was made necessary by the concessions to growers which the farm block wrote Into the price control act over the administra tion's opposition and by the re fusal of congress to approve the subsidy plan by which the gov ernment could have absorbed business losses when necessary to make price controls stick. The increased prices on can ned and dried fruits will apply only to the 1942 tax, which has not yet reached the retail stores. The details remain to be worked out. PORTLAND WAITRESSES GET 10 PER CENT MORE . .Portland, July 2 (IP) Wages and living costs were linked yes terday In a contract that gave 4000 AFL culinary workers here an immediate 10 per cent increase. The minimum for wait resses was lifted to $3.60. PENDLETON LEADER DIES Pendleton, Ore., July 2. (IP) Donald T. Robinson, 44, Pen dleton civic leader, died yester day of coronary thrombosis. He was commander of the Pendle ton American Legion post, chef de gare of the 40 and 8, was ac tive In round-up affairs, and formerly was president of the chamber of commerce. 20 Axis Helpers Rounded Up In Caribbean United States Army Head quarters, Panama Canal Zone, July 2 OP) Lieut. Gen. Frank Andrews, defense commander of the Caribbean area announc ed today the arrest of 20 persons who, the army charges, formed spy rings engaged in fueling axis submarines and disclosed Information of United States shipping to the enemy. A roundup completed June 25 included arrests extending from Honduras to Panama, Involved are prominent busi ness men, laborers, night club hostesses, shipping employes, and trusted Panama Canal Zone workers. All 20 persons now are being held for trial BASEBALL American Washington at Boston post poned. ' St. Louis 4 12 I 9 8 0 Detroit Niggellng, Galehouse and Hayes; Benton and Tebbetts. DAY ON RECORD Portland Ore-, July 2 (IP) A heat wave that lifted Port land's temperature to an all time June high of 102 degrees Tuesday was blamed for the death early today of John Dor sey, 69, Portland. Hospitals reported several other heat prostration cases. Previous June high in Port land was 101 degrees, recorded in 1925. Well, folks, here It Is! If you thought it was hot Tuesday in Medford you were right because the weather bureau verified that very thought when they an nounced today that mercury zoomed to 105 degrees Tuesday. Minimum temperature was 58. But that's not all I Since wea ther reports were first recorded in 1911 there have been three days only during June which topped Tuesday's super-duper. On June 6, 19ZQ, Old Sol beam ed merrily at 10B degrea. In June 1925 the mercury touched 108 one day and in 1924 the thermometers registered 106 da- greet one sunny day in June. ' Snlom Julv a UP) Tuesday, with lt ton temnerature of 102 Hffraee. was the hottest June day since weather records were first kept in 1923. MILLS, BUSINESS TO TAKE HOLIDAY The Timber Product and Medford Corporation plants will close down Saturday for observ ance of Fourth of July, but will resume operations Monday, it was announced today by the management. This will give workers a two-day holiday. Mill and logging operations through out the county will also suspend. The banks, county and public offices and many stores will also close Saturday. The post office will observe regular Sat urday hours. It is understood operations will continue at the cantonment. A few local residents are planning trips to the seashore, but for the most part citizens will Journey to nearby favorite picnic spots. CAIRO NEWSPAPERMEN WILL BE EVACUATED Cairo, July 2 (P Non-essential workers on the staffs of French and English language newspapers here will be evacu ated starting either today or to morrow. Editorial staffs have received three months salary In advance. Many of their members will take I part in defense work. Area by Army The governor of British Hon duras is awaiting the authority of the British government before determining trial procedure of those arrested In his territory. A United States patrol plane uncovered the first definite evi dence of the location of the ring's operations when It spot ted a slow ship in the Caribbean carrying oil drums. Ownership of the vessel was traced and a U. S. army observ er placed on the trail. Attempts were made to poison him and to sabotage his Diane. He survived the attempt and with the cooperation of army, canal zone and British author ities, managed to round up all he believed to be Involved. BATTLE STILL ON Heroic Defenders Continuing Fight 12 Hours After Nazis Claim Capture of Fort. By The Associated Press The Russian high command declared today that the heroic defenders of Sevastopol still fought on throughout the night more than 12 hours after Nazi field headquarters announced that the great Crimean citadel had fallen. Soviet dispatches filed yester day said overwhelming German forces carried the battle into the streets of Sevastopol Itself after breaking through the city' fortifications, but declared that the defenders continued to fight against heavy odds. The remainder of the beaten Sevastopol army has fled to the peninsula of Khersones," the German high command asserted. Face Annihilation 'Crowded in a very small area, it faces annihilation." Two successive Russian com muniques ignored the German claim that Sevastopol's garrison surrendered yesterday noon, thaf Soviet command declared: The defenders of Sevastopol have covered themselves with unfading glory. They are firmly and courageously defending from the German fascist invad ers every Inch of Soviet land." It was possible, however, that the Russians were withholding acknowledgment pending evacu ation of aurvivors of the garri son, who fought off nearly 229, 000 axis troops through 27 dayf of bloody assault. In London, informed quarters said the Nazi claim waa "not doubted." These quarters said that while fighting In the Cri mea was not entirely finished. the hopelessly ouWvumberea Russians were not expected to continue their resistance much longer. Nan VnrV Julv 2 (IPl The Wall Rtraot Journal, under the heading "True Story of th Week," today reported mis oc currence at a midwestern war plant: A big, tougn worxer 101a nw emnlove he was turning out too many unit a day and had better (low aown. next day the new man upped hi out put. "We're at war," he ex niainaH. The third day. when the new man' production reach ed anotner new nign, uie outer worker violently told him he was "out." "So you are," replied the bul lied one. He showed an FBI badge, attached handcuff to the tormenter and marched him the entire length of the assembly line. DRAFT EVADER IS F Sacramento, Calif., July 2 (IP) Emmet J. Seawell, Assist ant U. S. Attorney, announced today that Paul N. Yate of Weaverville had been arrested on draft evasion charges year after being reported as probable murder victim. Seawall said that Yate. ar rested by Sheriff E. H. Mont gomery of Trinity county, had dyed hi hair to conceal his Identity, and had been hiding out In a mine since the time of his disappearance. Seawell said Yates disap peared after unsuccessful ef fort were made to exempt hint from military service. RHONE VALLEY QUAKES London, July 1. 0P) Th Swiss radio reported today that minor earthquakes were felt yesterday In the Rhone valley In France), ?