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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1942.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, July 10. The
press has reported learning "on
good authority" tht the admin-
t 1 1 1 r a t i on is
c o n s i d ering
leg Islation to
freeze the
wage - price
economic level
hard.
The author
ity w "very"
good. There is
none better.
The notion can
be traced back
to Mr. Roose
Paul Mallon
velt himself.
His congressional leaders re
port him worried. He took the
matter up with the Big Four of
the house and senate at their
last weekly private meeting at
the White House, but only in a
general way along the same
lines he previously had sug
gested to them.
They did not understand that
he had anything immediate in
mind, but that he rather gener
ally shares the opinion which
his price fixer Leon Henderson
. suggested to a senator recently:
"Something will have to be
done."
MEANWHILE, wags around
congress are popularizing
the quip that the immediate
problem is to bring the "all-in
economy up to the all-out war
effort."
While the conversationalists
are using "all-in" only facetious
ly, the problem is growing fast,
against only such verbal brakes
as the president and -Henderson-
are using.
Congress Inflationary-minded.
The farm bloc wants higher
prices, not necessarily what
they consider inflationary
prices, but higher than present
ly allowed. Labor as always,
wants wage increases. .
Together they represent ma
jority opinion in the legislature.
They were the ones who turned!
down all strong freezing devices
(Continued on Pass Tent
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Tonight CBS 8 Monty Wool
ley in "The Man Who Came to
Dinner".
Blue 7 talk Donald M. Nel
son; 7:15, men, machines, vie
I tory.
MBS 5:15 Fight against In
flation finale, Isadora Lubin.
Saturday: NBC 1 p. m. Pan
American holiday; 2 National
Music camp concert, new series;
2:30 talk Sir Owen Dixon. Aus
tralian minister. CBS 10 a. m..
Country Journal, Secretary
Wickard. BLU 9:30 a. m. farm
bureau federation: MBS 12 U.
oi Iowa concert, first of three.
Camp Workers Asked
To List Houses When
Places Are Vacated
In an effort to relieve the
local housing situation, which is
becoming Increasingly acute as
Camp White army officers and
their families arrive in Medford,
the Homes Registration office
has requested army engineers'
. and cantonment contractors' per
'sonnel to list with the office
thc houses and apartments as
they are vacated.
Contractors have been circu
larized with questionnaires ask
ing the address, rent paid, name
of the landlord and extent of
accommodations, and this infor
mation is being filed for the in
formation of military and civil
ian personnel coming to Med
ford and searching for living
quarters. All contractors and
engineers, whose work at the
camp will be completed during
the next six weeks, are asked to
list their dwellings with the
Homes Registration office.
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Hobart Price busy as a cran
berry merchant, on sugar-rationing
business
m.
DEEP THRUSTS BY
HITLER'S FORCES
Furious Battles Developing
Nazis Pour in Masses
of Fresh Men, Machines.
By Roger D. Green
Associated Press War Editor
Adolf Hitler's invasion armies
have swept across the upper
Don river at several points,
Soviet dispatches acknowledged
today, while the red armies are
battling a dangerous new thrust
into the Rossosh sector 100
miles south of Voronezh on the
Moscow-Rostov railway.
The Nazi advance across the
upper Don, 10 miles west of
Voronezh, came after the Rus
sians reported they had beaten
off a series of violent assaults
and Inflicted bloody losses on
the enemy.
Furious Fighting
Front-line dispatches said fur
ious battles were developing on
the east bank of the river as
the Germans attempted to
widen their wedges into red
army defense lines.
The bulk of the fourth Ger
man tank army was said to be
massed on the west bank to re
inforce ' the offensive against
Voronezh.
A bulletin from Hitler's field
headquarters declared broadly
that Russian forces in retreat
were being pursued "on a broad
front" In the south evidently
referring to the Voronezh and
Rossosh sectors. -
"Local resistance was broken"
the Nazi command asserted.
'.'Enemy attacks supported by
tanks to relieve pressure north
west of Voronezh broke down
with heavy casualties."
- The Nazi high command still
failed to reiterate its claim,
however, that Voronezh had
fallen.
Massive Reinforcements
Dispatches to Red Star, the
Soviet army newspaper, said
the fighting had swelled to a
gigantic scale, with the Germans
pouring in masses of fresh re
serves and tanks. Russian esti
mates had previously declared
the Nazi grand offensive was
powered by 1,000,000 troops.
"Conditions west of Voronezh I
are becoming more complicat
ed," Red Star said.
Front-line dispatches said the j
Russians withdrew In good or
der toward Rossosh to avoid be- j
ing flanked, but conceded that
the invaders had penetrated
into Russian defenses in depth. ,
Aim Counter Blow
While vast battles raged over
the Don steppes for control of
the vital rail line to the Cau
casus, Red Star said an import
ant red army counter-attack to
relieve pressure on Voronezh
was threatening the German
left flank.
"Stubborn battles there may
have a serious influence over
the . position near Voronezh,"
the newspaper said.
It did not disclose the scene
of the Soviet counter-blow, but
Hitler's headquarters said the
Russians were attacking with
strong Infantry and tank forces
north and northwest of Orel, a
major German base, 165 miles
northwest of Voronezh.
The Nazi command said the
Russians were driven back after
a hard battle and declared Nazi
counter-attacks "sealed off"
local breaches the Russians had
made.
Red Star said the situation at
Rossosh was "very difficult"
with the battle developing full
force near the' city.
Rossosh lies 200 miles due
north of Rostov, gateway to the
Caucasus, and within 233 miles
of the great industrial city of
Stalingrad (pop. 388,000) on the
lower Volga.
Portland Housing
Lumber Released
Washington, July 10. AP
Release of lumber for 15.185
housing units was reported here
yesterday by a Portland commit
tee, seeking materials for hous
ing. I Early release of nails, pipe.
; wiring and plywood is hoped.
Fritz Slade, committee member,
I said.
Accused Bundist To Jail
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Unable to raise f 10.000 bail at Syracuse. N. Y., John C. Fit
ting, 58. of New Jersey, one of the 28 named In federal indict
ment charging bund activities and arrested in Marce'.lus. N. Y
was shackled by a deputy marshal before being taken to a
county Jail.
Accused Nazi Plotters
Taken to Court Early
Washington, July 10. IP) The two big vans carrying eight
accused Nazi plotters to their life or death trial swung into
the Justice department courtyard 43 minutes earlier than usual
today as the secret proceedings moved one day farther toward
a decision on their fate.
Whether the early arrival i
meant a stepping up
trial's gait or whether
of the
it was
DAVIS DISSATISFIED
Washington, July 10 (IP)
Elmer Davis, director of
the new office of war infor
mation, issuing his first di
rective to government agen
cies, instructed them today to
maintain the "open door"
policy to the press, and sim
ultaneously told a press con
ference he was not satisfied
with the handling of news of
the trial of the eight alleged
Nazi saboteurs.
Just another maneuver to evade
the curious was only one oi
minv Questions left unanswered
by the military commission's
policy of almost airtight secrecy.
The first break in the barrier
sainst publicity which was
raised In the interest of national
security came late yesterday
with the issuance of two brief
statements by MaJ. Gen. Frank
R. McCoy, president of the
seven-general trial commission.
Th information was limited
to a disclosure that the proceed
ing began on Wednesday wun
disposal of some "perlimlnary
procedural motions"; that seven
witnesses testified during the
first two days, and that all par
ticipants were sworn to secrecy.
Two More Sinkings
Put Allied Losses
At 35lShip Mark
By the Associated Press)
The sinking of two united
nations vessels, announced to
day (Friday) by the navy, raised
the unofficial Associated Press
tabulation of allied and neutral
cargo vessels sunk in western
Atlantic waters since Pearl Har
bor to 351.
The navy reported tha torpe
doing and sinking of a U. S.
cargo ship off the coast of South
America with the loss of 11
members of its 20-man crew,
and of a medium-sized Belgian
merchant vessel In the Carib
bean. These two sinkings raised
to 14 the number of allied ves
sels reported this week as destroyed.
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SMALL BUSINESS
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Washington, July 10. (IP)
Awaiting an explanation from
administrator Leon Henderson
of the effect of price regulations
on small enterprises, members
of a house committee voiced
general approval today of a pro
posal for subsidization of small
business operators to help them
survive during the war.
Chairman Patman (D-Tcx) of
the small business committee
said Henderson would testify
next Wednesday and would be
asked, among other things, for
his opinion on the subsidy plan
outlined yesterday by Philip D.
Reed, head of the industries
branch of the war production
board.
24.000 Face Ruin
Reed told the committee that
unless . something were done
quickly, approximately 24,000
small industrial enterprises, un
able to fit into the war program
and lacking materials for civil
ian production, "will be forced
to shut down before October 1."
"I think Reed's statement
was very illuminating and mer
its serious consideration," Pat
man said. "It is obvious that
something must be done, and
done quickly, to keep thousands
of small concerns from hitting
the wall. They rre the back
bone of our normal economic
life."
All Jews in Village
Executed by Nazis
London, July 10. (IP) Of
ficial Polish sources reported to
day that the nazis had killed the
entire Jewish population of
Hrubieszow, a town in south
eastern Poland.
They described the town as of
from 15.000 to 20.000 Inhabit
ants, of whom mora than 5,000
were Jewish.
1BRITISH SQUEEZE
ROMMEL'S FLANK:
SUPPLJSPERILED
U. S. Bombers and British
Submarines in Effort To
Cut Mediterranean Lines.
Cairo. Julv inrt Ti-ii.h
mobile columns southwest of El
Alamein squeezed Field Mar
shal Erwin Rnmmpl'i amnnul
right flank back toward the sea
raay wnne united States bomb
ers and British submarines
sought to cut off his Mediterra
nean supply line.
(A British broadcast quoted
reDOrtA frnm Anlrnra that Um
Axis was moving reinforcements
io norm Airica Irom the Bal
kans, pulling German troops
from Yugoslavia and even Crete
in an effort to restore Rommel's
striking power.)
Two Naiis Downed
British headquarters announ
ced that long-range United Stat
es bombers hunting Axis ships
in the MfHilprrsinoan .hn rl,un
two German fighter planes
wnicn attempted to intercept
them.
(An admiralty communique in
London credited a single British
submarine with sinking one
merchant shin frnm .irAnat..
guarded Axis convoy bound for
ijiuya ana sending a naval aux
iliarv vessel to tha bottom
The change in Rommel's line
eliminated a sharp angle where
the German front turns back to
the west. Nnw th tin forma an
arc extending from the coast
wen oi ti Aiemein into ine
desert some 30 miles south of
1 uaoa.
CHINESE RETAKE
NEW JAP REPULSE
Chuneklnff Julv m ts
The Chinese high command an
nounced today the recapture of
Chungshu, 45 miles southwest
of Nanchang, in a new repulse
of the Japanese and a sharp set
back of the invnhWs IntMft r,,,.h
along the Kiangsi rail line to
nunan province.
Also recaptured, the Chinese
Said. Was the town of Tninolm
70 miles south of the Japanese
Dase at nanchang.
The high command confirmed
Chinese disnatches whlrh re
ported yesterday that a Japan
ese xorce o: au.uuu had been
ambushed and beaten back to
the north ' nnrl nt In hasuu
fighting in Kiangsi.
in first fruits of that re
pulse were the recapture of
Nanchanff. Ihwans anrl Pnvintf
into which Japanese columns
naa stabbed from Nanchang and
the Chekiang border to the east.
New Delhi, India, July 10.
UP) The RAF, in announcing a
new series of destructive raids
on the Japanese in Burma, dis
closed today that Japanese con
voys of troops and supplies are
moving steadily toward India
under a continual rain of British
bombs.
TRUCK FLEETS TO
Los Angeles. July 10 (IP) A
fleet of giant truck-trailer units
is going to shove a lot of auto
mobiles right off the highway
with the approval of the Cali
fornia railroad commission.
Within 30 days 25 of the big
vehicles, each with a passenger
capacity of 110 men, will begin
plying between here and Ter
minal Island carrying shipyard
workers and putting 1750 pri
vate automobiles out of the de
fense transportation business.
The capacity of each trailer,
say transportation authorities,
Is equal to that of 70 automo
biles tinder the average load
carried by drfnse workers op
erating their own cars.
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BY ORDER OF WPB
Action Taken To Wait De
velopment of System of
Distribution is Statement.
Washington, July 10. (IP)
The war production boacd today
extended its lumber "freeze
order for a month, pending de
velopment "of a system of dis
tribution," based on need of
lumber for war purposes.
Officials declined to say what
form of distribution would be
adopted, emphasizing that plans
had not been worked out.
At the same time, WPB re
vised the freeze order, permit
ting sale and delivery of lumber
for repair and maintenance of
railway cars and allowing small
sawmills to resume retail sales.
Shortage Grows
Arthur T. Upson, chief of the
lumber products branch, said
the shortage of many types of
construction lumber had be
come more serious since sales
were halted May 13 and that
demands of the armed services
"are large and rapidly increas
ing." He said requirements for box
ing and crating of munitions
would soon be vastly expanded,
adding to the already heavy
burden of lumber producers
who are furnishing wood as a
substitute for many articles
formerly made of metal.
Under the revised order, mills
sawing less than 5,000 feet of
softwood a day are exempt from
the restrictions. Further, saw
mills which normally engaged
In local retailing because their
communities are not served by
regular retail yards may resume
such sales to the local trade.
FORESTS UNDER
BLACKOUT RULE
A new wartime regulation, ef
fective immediately, prohibits
campfires and bonfires In the
Rogue River National forest af
ter dark, forest service head
quarters announced today.
The "blackout" ruling, it was
explained, was made because of
the Improbability of picnickers
and campers being aware of an
air raid should such enemy ac
tion occur during the summer
fire montbs.
The forest service emphasized
that all campfires and bonfires
must be extinguished as soon as
it starts to get dark, in every
section of the forest. Campfire
permits issued will carry this
information.
Only permits for small, day
time cooking fires will be Issued.
No bonfires will be allowed In
any part of the forest at any
time except at McKee, Lake o'
Woods, Dead Indian Soda
Springs and Union Creek camp
grounds, which have special
bonfire pits. No permits are
needed for bonfires at these
places.
BARELEGGED ANNABELLA
NOW AMERICAN CITIZEN
Los Angelet, July 10 UP)
Her tanned legs stocklngless.
actress Annabella, wife of Ty
rone Power, won American cit
izenship today In a federal court
hearing. ,
Today Is Deadline for
Cleanup of Accounts
Washington, July 10.
Today's the day you are sup
posed to pay for most merchan
dise bought on retail charge ac
counts before June 1. Unless
you pay up, or sign a written
agreement to make regular pay
ments later, your account may
be frozen.
It is the first deadline under
the May 8 order of the Federal
Reserve board on charge ac
counts, which must be met by
"the tenth day of the second
month after tha purchase." Thus
American
Detroit ITS
Boston 6 9 0
Trout, Henshaw and Tebbetts,
Parsons; Hughson and Conroy.
St. Louis 2 S 0
New York 5 S 0
Niggeling, Fehrens and Fer-
rell; Donald and Rosar.
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Washington. July 10. (IPi
The navy reported today that
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz,
commander In chief of the Pa
cific fleet, recently "escaped
serious injury," in an airplane
crash on the west coast which
cost the life of the plane's co
pilot.
Nimitz, normally In the Ha
waiian area, was on the main
land for a meeting with Ad
miral Ernest J. King, com
mander in chief of the U. S.
fleet and to receive from King
the Distinguished Service medal
for his conduct of naval opera
tions against the Japanese, par
ticularly the Coral sea and Mid
way actions.
The co-pllot killed was Lieut.
Thomas Morton Roscoe, 29, of
Oakland, Calif.
The navy said that several
passengers were "slightly in
jured" and described Nlmltz's
injuries as minor and Insuffici
ent to cause any interruption of
his Journey.
Deputy Sugar Boards
for Jacksonville and
Central Point Areas
Deputy sugar boards have
been set up at Jacksonville and
Central Point, it was announced
today by Hobart Price, execu
tive secretary of the rationing
boards here. Mrs. A. T. Lathrop
and Mrs. Don Patterson are In
charge of the Central Point
board which will be open Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays
at the Grange hall from 9 a. m.
to noon.
In Jacksonville, Principal A.
L. Beck is in charge and the
board is open at the high school
Mondays through Fridays irom
9 a. m. to noon.
Canning sugar certificates and
ration books may be secured
from these deputy boards. It is
hoped o set up additional
boards as volunteers are en
listed for the work.
Mr. Price also announced that
sugar rationing stamp No. 7 has
been declared a bonus stamp,
good for two pounds of sugar at
any time between July 10 and
August 27. Sugar obtained
under this stamp may be used
for any purpose, the same as
sugar obtained under other war
ration stamps.
Gresham Berries
May Rot on Vines
Portland, Ore., July 10. (IP)
Unless 2,500 to 3,000 pickers
are made available in the Gres
ham valley area east of here
immediately, half of tha $1,200.
000 berry crop will be lost.
County Agent S. B. Hall said
today.
Portland residents were urged
by Gov. Charles A. Sprsgue to
volunteer.
the deadline for goods bought
last month is August 10, and the
deadline for articles purchased
this month will be September
10.
The ruling does not apply to
things bought on the installment
plan, for which tha board has a
set of separata regulations.
Neither does it apply to grocery
stores, laundries, or doctor bills.
Primarily it applies to the
ordinary "charge account In a
department, furniture, clothing,
music, jewelry, appliance or
automobile store or agency.
I V I Ifcll
FOR 1120,000,000
Senate Would Up House
Ante $45 Million Price
Fixing Ban is Approved.
Washington. Julv 10 IJPi A
senate appropriations commit.
tee approved today an appropri
ation or sizu.uuu.uuu to operate
the office of price administra
tion for the current fiscal vr
$90,000,000 less than Adminis
trator Leon Henderson origin
ally requested but $45,000,000
above the sum voted by th
house.
Senator McKellar (D-Tenn.)
predicted that the proposed ap
propriotion for OPA would per
mit Henderson to retain his
present number of employes and
not require a reduction.
Explaining committee reduc
tions in Henderson's revised re
quest for $140,000,000, McKellar
asserted "we though the amounts
asked for attorneys, inspeotors,
travel pay, printing and other
items, should be reduced."
Price Fixing Ban .
Members of the sub-committea
said they also had approved a
lengthy amendment to the bill
which would have the effect of
preventing the use of OPA funda
to fix any prices on processed
agricultural products which did
ntt reflect the 110 per cent of
parity level set by congress aa
the point where price control
operations could begin on farm
commodities, .
The subcommittee also adopt
ed an amendment by Senator
Russell (D-a.) to prohibit- any
increase in the price celling of at
commodity In a selected area on
tha theory that transportation
costs had risen, If in fact such
costs had not gone up.
Russell had urged tha amend
ment because of OPA's recent
action In allowing a 2Vi per
cent per gallon increase in tha
price of gasoline In the rationed
eastern states. He said tha cost
of bringing gasoline to Georgia
had not increased at all.
NAZI AIRDROMES
Moscow, July 10. (IP)
Bombing German airdromes la
northern Norway and Finland,
the red air force has inflicted
heavy new damage on the bases
from which German planes hava
been raiding ports and shipping
of the arctic supply line to Rus
sia, warfront dispatches re
ported today.
The raids followed the Rus
sian torpedoing of the powerful
German battleship TirpiU as it
led a cruiser and destroyer force
in an attempted attack on an
allied convoy bringing Russia
supplies from England and tha
United States, the Russian ac
counts said.
F
The sheriff reported today a
grisly find under the floor of a
Sterling district cabin belonging
to Cecil P. Bobbitt and George
Bobbitt. Part of a human back
bone, fingers, shinbone, and
skull were found beneath that
floor near the fireplace, while
repairs were being made.
The cabin purchased a few
months ago by th Bobblts waa
built 50 or 00 years ago, and la
a typical pioneer horn. Many
Chines miners worked in th
section In early days, and It to
supposed th bones belonged to
on of them. There is no clue
as to whether death was natural
or violent.
The remains were Identified
by a physician as human bones,
and pronounced from 20 to 50
years old.
Horn industries In India now
supply 85 per cent of its surgical
instrument need ,