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Lt YOUR Answer to Bombs t BONDS! Buy Mar Bunds ani Stamps TOIAY Contnbnta tm th nr tffort of your natloa. rat riot Un. your own self-protect Ion, demand that VOU do J oof part NOW I Um The MAIL TRIBUNa. Want Ad Way Quick lUtulU at Small Cost Tribune FORD Full Associated Press 5 nited Pitu o Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1942. NO. 94. v JVL m lalfilfilNlrJ 11 Mill Med HI News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, July 9 The heat waves you have felt lately prob ably emanated from the closed sessions of the ijwui.i..lww war labor Doara, wnicn has been try ing to decide, ' in seclusion, the question of a wage ih crease In "little steel." This domin ant current economic issue has brought out the hottest Paul Mallon in the members of the board. They immediately became dead locked as soon as the doors were closed. Reading aloud the report of the preliminary panel board, stating the facts of the case, was the first order of business. At every other sentence, the indus trial and labor members (four each) jumped up to make chal lenges or leveled their retalia tory fingers at those who did. One of the public members, Wayne L. Morse, from the Ore gon university law school, indi cated by his attitude that he was in favor of granting the $1 day wage increase demanded by the union, but the other three public members, who hold a balance of power, merely shuf fled their feet, scratched their heads and attempted to look non-committal. , These doubtful three includ ed Board Chairman William H. Davis, as well as George Taylor, the University of Pennsylvania professor, and Frank Graham, of the University of Worth Caro lina. THE argument centered entire ly around the question of whether the union should have the $1 a day or nothing. But it was quite evident that the board's attempt to solve this most vital point in the govern ment's war-economics policy would have to be taken to Mr. Roosevelt in the end for a com promise solution, either public ly or privately. The panel board passed the buck to the trembling twelve by concluding the cost of living Continued on Pago eight) A Eureka Lumbermen Return To Labors Eureka, Calif., July 9 Pi One thousand AFL lumbermen were back at work in the Bay side and Samoa plants of the Hammond Redwood company today, after a three-day strike. The men voted unanimously yesterday to return to work and submit their issues to arbitra tion. The vote followed receipt . of a telegram from the war labor board which informed Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union Local 2592 that the board would not consider the dispute until the strike ended. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Tonight: Talks NBC. 3:30 Symposium On Defense Housing Emergency; Blu, 6, Town Meet ing "Congress and Public Opin ion"; CBS. 7:30, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr. from London on "Allied Governments and Their Forces"; MBS. 7:30, Rep. W. C. Ploeser on "Small Busi ness." NBC, 8:13. Sen. Alex ander Wiley on "Senate's View On Aviation.' Friday: CBS, 12:30 p. m.. Rus sian American Music Festival. Blu, 12:33, Men of the Sea. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mose Alford heading for a barber shop immediately after completing the recording of city Dad activities. Don Baglcy being right on the dot for a luncheon engagement. Larry Schade handling the council gavel expertly in the absence of Hizzoner Deuel, T BY 2 TORPEDOES Hitler's Newest Warship Caught Out of Shelter of Norwegian Fjords, Claim. Berlin (From German Broad casts), July 9. UP) The high command denied today the Rus sian report that Germany's big gest battleship, the Tirpitz, had been attacked and damaged. Moscow, July 9. (P) Two well aimed torpedoes from a Russian submarine, which seri ously damaged the battleship Tirpitz, Germany's newest and mightiest warship, saved an al lied convoy from the attack and let the merchantmen through to Russia intact, soviet dispatches said today. These reports said a German naval squadron in which three heavy cruisers and eight de stroyers accompanied the Tir pitz, put out from shelter in Norwegian fjords several days ago aiming to intercept a large convoy carrying arms to Russia from the United States and Britain. But the crippling attack on the nazi battleship, made by a submarine commanded by Cap tain N. Lunin, a hero of the Soviet Union, was said to have disrupted operations and per mitted all ships in the convoy to reach the safety of a Russian port. Only the barest official infor mation has been issued so far but it was indicated that the great warship, a potent threat to the allies' sea lanes, again has sought refuge in an inaccessible fjord along the Norwegian coast. (OOOlllS London, July 9 (P) A strong force of RAF bombers, attacking the German naval base of Wilhelmshaven last night, loosed 4,000-pound bombs the biggest the British ever have announced using the air ministry said today. Returning pilots said that by the time the last of their planes left the target area great fires were raging in the Wilhelm shaven shipyards. Four bombers were reported lost in the attack, the first on Germany since the night of July z. A Royal Canadian airforce re port on the operation said some Canadian planes in the attack carried "extra special" bomb loads. This was not explained but may have meant bombs of super size like those dropped before on Germany. (The Germans said Wilhelm shaven and Wesermuende, port at the mouth of the Weser river 20 miles east of Wilhelmshaven, were bombed. They reported three of the Invading aircraft were shot down.) Fighter command aircraft at the same time attacked enemy airdromes and other objectives in occupied France. The air min istry said they intercepted and destroyed two German bomb ers. Medford Stamp Sale Takes Huge Advance Stamp sales at Medford post' office for the quarter ending June 30 totaled $38,803.26. an increase of $10,874.79 or 39 per cent over the same period in 1941, Postmaster Frank De Sours said today. Sales for the 1941 period totaled $27,930.47. THIRTY LASHES FOR EGYPT PROFITEERS Alexandria. Egypt, July 7 (Delayed) (,pThe first whip pings for profiteering here oc curred today when 13 convicted profiteers were given 30 lashes and three months imprisonment. Hitlerites TAGANO0- VV" iB I wS? ROSTOV - BLACK "aVcmVA TURKEY VlCL-J TURKEY Nasi announcement of the capture of Voronaih (B), was followed by Paris reports that Ger mans were advancing toward Povorino (broken arrow). Circle indicates fighting son through which Natis say they broke. Map of U.S.A. shows corresponding distances. For comparison Detroit, Charles. W. Va., Greenwood, S. C, and Orlando. Fla.. are same distances apart as stra tegic Moscow (A), Voronaih (B). Rostov (C), and RussUa oil port of Batum (D). IS LIGHTENED BY (By Associated Press) Developments In the Amer ican-Chinese air offensive in China and Chinese reports of an upset for the Japanese in land fighting in Kiangsi prov ince tended today to lighten the gloom of a belated Chinese ac knowledgement that the enemy had completed conquest of the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway. Central News,' an agency of the Chungking government, said that Chinese forces in central Kiangsi, turning the tables after associated troops had been driv en from the railway positions in northeastern Kiangsi, had trapped 30.000 Japanese, killed or wounded 2.000 and captured large quantities of materials. In eastern Kiangsi, the agency added, the Chinese reoccupied the important highway towns of Nancheng and Ihwang. The Chi nese communique, however, said only that the Japanese had been curbed at several points in cen tral Kiangsi and that 1.000 cas ualties had been inflicted on the foe in a battle now two days old Japanese success on the Chekiang-Kiangsi railway marked conclusion of the first phase of the enemy s project to link Shanghai and Singapore by a long overland route which would relieve Japanese mari time communications. Long before the Japanese can effect their grandiose plan which involves not only use of existing lines but construction of at least one new section, the American air offensive probably will have hit its stride. The latest word from another active theater of the Pacific theater, the fog bound Aleu tians, was a navy communique last night saying that another Japanese destroyer was believed to have been sunk by a United States submarine in the vicinity of Kiska island on July 3. "Empty" Revolver Kills Little Boy Portland, July 9 OPh-A re volver, found in an ' alcove trunk at a neighbor's house by Peter Tozer, 8, brought death to Wayne Madson, 8, yesterday. Peter told Detective Louis Manclet he thought the revol ver was not loaded and shouted "bang" as he pointed it at his pal and pulled the trigger. SECTION HAND'S HEAD IS CUT OFF BY ENGINE Dunsmuir, Calif., July 9 tPi Clark Pipes, about SO, South ern Pacific track laborer of Grass Lake, Calif, was decap itated when he stepped in front of a helper engine last night. The umbrella bird found in tropical America, gets its name from a mushroom-shaped crest of feathers on top of its head j which it can raise at will. Claim Voronezh Taken RUSSIA o too TENN. CMtaNOOG ! 2ft J oatCNtwoooa .. . . ATLANTA a 41 A. - Mayor Designates Friday For Final Rubber Effort As a climax to Medford's efforts in behalf of the nation-wide drive for scrap rubber. Mayor H. S. Deuel today designated Friday as "Rubber Day" and called upon all citizens to make a final inventory of non-essential rubber and turn it over to oil companies conducting the campaign. The drive ends Friday. Persons uncovering rubber in this last-day search are asked to take it to the nearest service station or, if unable to do so, telephone any of the oil 'Com panies to have it pick '. up. The mayor emphasized the extreme importance of turning in every scrap of rubber not needed. In a next-to-last-day effort to add as much rubber as possible to the county's scrap pile, all service stations in the county were to be closed from noon to 8 p. m. today while attendants canvassed their neighborhoods for rubber overlooked previous ly. The same procedure was being followed the length of the Pacific slope, with some 30,000 service station managers and operators engaging In a vast rubber hunt. Service Station Men of Pacific Coast in All-Out Rubber Hunt San Francisco, July 9 (JP) An all-out drive for scrap rub ber was launched by service station employes the length of the Pacific slope today. For six hours from noon until 6 p. m. all major oil companies and most of the inde pendents along the coast and in Arizona and Nevada agreed to lock their shops, close their doors and send some 30,000 em ployes on a block-by-block can vass for rubber. Housewives and business firms expected the comer serv ice station operator to knock and ask for all, the rubber that could be uncovered In a roof-to-basement search. He was volun teering his services, cooperating with the oil Industry's rubber drive committee. Tl Norrlstown, Pa., July 9 UP) Ten persons were killed and 22 injured in the head-on crash of a crowded interurban pas senger car and freight trolley late yesterday on a curve three and one-half miles north of here. The heavy, high-floored freight, running down grade, literally sliced through nearly a third of the passenger car which was enroute from Phila delphia to Allentown, Pa., with a rush-hour load. Several of the Injured were reported in critical condition at Norristown hospitals. A Phila delphia Red Cross unit which rushed blood plasma for trans fusions was credited with sav ing six lives. pa W HITSBua&K ( E3 hiiaoIi'mi J I rc" 4TOM X.'! Si OO 100 FOR WAGE BOOST Los Angeles, July 9 (Pi AFL and CIO representatives submitted joint demands to a government conference today for aircraft Industry wage in creases ranging as high as 30 per cent. Union and management are conferring with government ad visors on blanket Increases cov ering the entire industry. Such a wage scale would affect more than a million workers If ap plied on a national scale. Demands of the International Association of Machinists (AFL) and the United Automobile Workers (CIO) included a mini mum of 95 cents an hour for unskilled labor, compared with the prevailing 60 cents. They ranged upward through skilled categories to a minimum of $1.60 for certain employes now paid 11.52. Both the CIO and AFL con tend that there must be an increase in aircraft wages or shipyards and other lucrative war trades will pull workers away. FRUIT, VEGETABLE Washington, July 9 VPh The office of price administra tion has announced that celling prices for frozen fruits and vef etables of the '942 crop and for jams, jellies and preserves made from the new fruit would be raised shortly. The ceiling on peanuts and peanut butter may be discard ed entirely In September, said the announcement which was issued last night. A 19 per cent boost In the retail ceiling prices of canned and dried fruits of the 1942 pack already has been announced. BASEBALL American (11 Innings) Detroit 1 4 I Boston 2 6 1 Newhouser and Tebbetts; Wagner and Conroy. Nazi Success or In - Year's Major Effort Hangs on Battle F LD WAR FAME 1LBHEVIVE0 Reorganization Ceremonies at Camp White August 15 Says General Gerhardt. World war I's famous 91st In fantry division will be reorgan ized at Camp White on August 19 with ceremonies to be con ducted by a group of San Fran cisco business men, all former members of the 363rd infantry regiment, one of the three regi ments of which the 91st was composed, according to word received today from the head quarters of Major General Charles H. Gerhardt. The old colors and battle streamers of the 363rd infantry regiment, which are now in a San Francisco museum, will be presented to the new 91st in fantry division at that time. The group of San Franciscans will represent the Association of Veterans of World war I. . Participation Invited ., General Gerhardt' s head' quarters requested that any Southern Oregon veterans as sociation composed of members of the old 91st division, desiring to participate in the reorganiza tion ceremony, to write the pub licity officer, 91st division head quarters. Camp White. Among the prominent San Francisco men who will come here for the ceremonies are Jean Bercut, president of the as sociation; Larry Barrett, John L. Sullivan, Al Boss, Joe McMan us, Ed Pollock, Reed Robinson and Eric Salconer. The associa tion staged a banquet for Gen eral Gerhardt a short time ago while he was enroute to Camp White to command the 91st in fantry division. The general's headquarters also announced that starting August 19 soldiers would be sent here in large contingents to bring the division to its full strength by September 1. Seven Die In Fall Of Army Bomber Smlthfleld, N. C. July 04P) Army authorities today fixed at seven the number of men killed when a big, two-motored army bomber crashed near here late yesterday. Previously, it had been Relieved that nine persons were killed. The army officers, who came here from the air base in Co lumbia, S. C, said the seven bodies had been Identified. They did not, however, release the names of the victims. More Bundsters Rounded Up To Wait Enemy -Alien Trial New York, July 9 OP) Fast-moving FBI agents bent on wiping out the German-American bund rounded up 84 addition al members in the metropolitan area last night for a total of 111 bundist arrests throughout the nation In two days. The new prisoners were seiz ed as dangerous enemy aliens and were removed to Ellis Is land to await hearings by alien enemy boards that could result in Interment for the war's dur ation. Meanwhile some of the orig inal 29 indicted Tuesday on charges ranging from espionage to evasion of the selective ser vice and alien registration acts were arraigned and held in bail as high as $90,000. Pleas of inno cent were entered by all but one of those heard yesterday. Among those pleading Inno cent was Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze, former national bund leader, who was captured in Mexico and now if held at I u.s. Air chief I Major General Carl Spaats (above), of Boyerstown. Pa. has been named commander in chief of U. 8. air forces la the European theatre. NOT AFFECTED BY FOREST CLOSURE Roseburg, Ore., July 9 (JPh The Diamond Lake recreation area is not affected by the clos ure order on the Umpqua na tional forest. Supervisor V. V. Harpham reported today. No registration Is required for en try by either the Union Creek route or the east entrance, but travellers on the North Umpqua road, between Steamboat ranger station and the road junction six miles north of Diamond lake will be required to register before entering that area. A registration station has been set up at the road junction north of the lake, the supervisor stated. All persons visiting the Lemola Falls area, or desiring to fish the Umpqua river at the mouth of Lake Creek or any area north of the road from Steamboat to the lake will be permitted to enter after regis tration. Use of established forest camps along the North Umpqua road between Steamboat and Dia mond lake also wll be permitted after registration. However, the territory on the north side of the Umpqua river from Steam boat station to Lemola falls will be closed to all entry except under special permit. Hartford, Conn., under $90,000 bail on a charge of espionage. Also held at Hartford in $7,900 bail was Wilbur V. Keegan, former bund counsel who had offices at Teaneck, N. J. Portland, Ore.', July 9 P Tho government moved yester day to revoke the citizenship of three German-born Portland ers on grounds that when nat uralized they swore falsely in pledging allegiance to the Unit ed States. Suits were filed In federal court asking that the American citizenship of John Hans Scheur- er, Wilhelm O. G ruber and Erna Margaretha Becker be revoked. Failure of Don RUSSIANS CI AIM COUNTER-ATTACKS No Broad Footholds Gained East of River is Claim Vichy Report Disputes. By Clayde A. Famsworth Associated Press War Editor. in Russia, or more Immediately, success or iauure lor Germany a greatest effort thus far this year, was beinff Hm-MmI ivUv am th. banks of the upper Don with the enemy striving to exploit new river crossings wnere earner, bridgeheads had been crushed. Dispatches from the Russian front said that the Germans thus far had failed to gain any broad iootnoia east of the Don and that counter-attacks endangered the flank of the German wedge to the west, but Vichy relayed a report that the Germans had iorcea a new crossing, capturing: ooorov, ou mues southeast of Voronezh. ,.v ,,, . , , The German high command's communique referred to the per tial auroeaa an far mm m h.u.k in the Russian front which had snaKen" the Russian line "over i breadth of more than - 300 miles." Germans and their allies, said the communique, are on the move In the whole area, with fast advancing formations In close pursuit of Russian troop said to be in disordered flight. Strong air forces were said to be hitting at the Russian columns by day and night. Cn the other hand, the Berlin report added, Russian attacks to relieve the pressure along the Don were beaten down In four days of fierce fighting north and northwest of Orel. Claims Fires Set The Germans also reported extensive fires at Murmansk, Russian arctic port, as a result of air attacks there, suggesting that Germany s claims this week of sweeping success against a large Russian bound convoy were not so well founded and that planes were sent to Mur mansk to attack the ships which the Russians reported arrived intact. The battle of Egypt had be come largely a waiting game with both the British and the axis forces near El Alameln try ing to hold present positions, pending reinforcement necessary for a major move. 'The British reported, however, a continuation of their counter offensive by air with more suc cessful bomb assaults on Marshal Rommel's German-Italian force and the axis claimed that the defenders of the El Alameln gateway to the Nile had been driven from important positions. Gravity Unrelieved There was little to relieve ths gravity of the situation In Rus sia. The Germans were reported to have massed 800 tanks on the west bank of the upper Don where, with the benefit of quan titative superiority, they sent light armored units, automatic infantry and shock troops across to new landing points on the east bank. The Red army's strategic with drawal from Staryl Oskol, 85 miles southwest of Voronezh, had widened the German salient toward Voronezh, giving the Germans triangular corridor pointed against the Don end based on 160-mile line through Belgorod, Kursk and Orel. The Germans have massed tremendous force In the attempt to smash across the Don end Into Voronezh, there to sever the north-south railway which links Russia's central and south ern armies a drive aimed ulti mately at opening an approach to the Caucasus from the north.
