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r Ltt YOUR Aaswar to Bombi b BONDS! Buy War Bonds tntf Btampt TOI.AY Contributt to th ww. effort of your nation. Patriot ism, your own self-protect ton. demand that VOU do jonr part NOWt Cm The MAIL TRIBUNE Tribune FORD Want Ad Way Quick Ruulte at Small Cost Full Associated Press id Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942. NO. 97. mm a n MED s nwvia ajsBVAHiinMHsr aaaiss' maw sells H lAIEl ' I I t - News Behind The News , By Paul Mallon Washington, July 13 Some significant post-war planning: to raise world wage rates al ready is being waged inside the govern ment by vice President Wal lace's board of economy war fare, but not without en countering dif ficulty. The Wallace group wants the state de- Paul Malloo partmen to run into some our war trade con tracts with Latin American na tions a provision which will start rising some wage levels in those nations. It would be a com paratively simple matter for this government to require that cer tain labor standards be met in any goods it purchases from foreign countries. Some officials, however, doubt that this is the time to start world social reforming. They want to win the war first and then they think that they could look at what is left with a more objective and experienced view point. But the Wallace boys heHeve It is never too early to start reforming and are pressing their views onward. A decision is likely within a week or two. f TPHE only very clearly social experimenting for the post war world was done 1n tb Ha itian development company fi nancing by the export-import bank, and this was done long before the war started. The company was created under gov ernment auspices for the grow ing of sisal and rubber, and has been trying to boost basic Hait ian wage averages of 20 cents a day by offering 25 to SO per cent more. Another modest experimental beginning of Mr. Wallace's plan for the post-war world Is the Peruvian cotton deal. The way the deal is being worked out offers the first concrete evi dence of how this government will go about curtailing world (Continued on Pag Pour) A Klamath Police Head Nominated Successor Marshal Summerville Washington, July 13. (IP) President Roosevelt today nonv inated Steve F. Hamm of Ore gon to be United States marshal for Oregon. Hamm is Klamath Falls po lice chief. He had experience with the Pendleton and the Los Angeles police departments be fore becoming chief at Klamath Falls. As marshal he will succeed J. T. Summerville who has held the office for eight years. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) . Tonight: Joseph E. Davles, 8 I p. m. from Omaha, MBS. Tuesday: Justice Hugo Black, at Raleigh, N. C, win-the-war rally, 0:30 p. m., MBS. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ralph Stephenson allowing as how yesterday's ball game was as exciting as any he ever saw. Kenneth Parrett proudly an nouncing the final and official poundage of scrap rubber col lected in Jackson county. Nellie W i n n e gaining gam glamor with a coat of dye. k Frank Perl back to Medford F 'ith a good dose of California sun tan. Nancy Heath remarking that toVu.?fre than glad to returD E ATTACK SHIPS IN Heavy Guns Beat Much of Sector To Pulp Destruc tion by Navy Aircraft. By Larry Allen With the British Navy Air force In the Egyptian Desert, July 12 (Delayed) (JP) Brit ish warships hurled more than 700 rounds of high explosive shells into the axis vital supply base at Matruh before dawn today, causing great destruction in the enemy's materiel dumps close behind the Egyptian bat tlefields. Naval aircraft bombed the western Egypt seaport installa tions while scores of steel pro jectiles from the great throats of the sea guns silenced shore batteries and beat much of the sector into smoking, ravaged pulp. Ships Set Afira The surprise bombardment caught a mass of small supply ships and swift motor torpedo boats resting at anchor in the harbor. A number were set afire. The great shells from the fleet set huge blazes ashore. The warships pumped shells into Matruh for nearly a half hour. The first round fell squarely on the target area and blasted the heavy Nazi anti-aircraft guns into rubble of twist ed steel. Afterwards, there was only the rattle of machinegun fire and bursts of small arms from ashore. Cairo, Egypt, July 13 (IP) Britalns' army of the Nile, once again bolstered by Australians, stood firm in its newly won positions 10 miles west of El Alamein today after repulsing sharp German attacks but Mar shal Rommel was reinforcing his forces by air and sea and preparing for a new thrust toward Alexandria. Gen. Sir Claude Auchlnleck also was drawing new strength from his stores and reserves in Egypt. With both sides thus hastily gathering power for new tests, present activity in the desert was viewed by British military circles as probing for favorable ground for future operations. -It appeared that the hard-bitten Australian troops, whose arrival in the battle zone has given the British eighth army a fresh lift, were tightening their grip on newly-won positions near Tel El Eisa. CHINESE RETAKE FUTUO ISLAND AT FOOCHOW'S GATE By The Associated Press Generalissimo Chiang Kal Chek's high command declared today that the Chinese had re captured Futuo Island, just off the Fukien province coast from Foochow, smashing the newest Japanese threat to one of the biggest ports still in Chinese hands. The Japanese seized the Is land last Thursday but were driven off Saturday, a Chinese communique announced. It said fighting still was in progress northwest of Wenchow, In Chekiang province, the second of the two big remaining Chi nese ports. The Japanese claim ed yesterday that they had oc cupied Wenchow. Fighting continued Inland In Kiangsl province where the Chi nese said the Japanese were rushing uo reinforcements in an effort to save 30,000 of their troops hemmed In by the Chi nest between the Kan and Fu rivers. Free China's leading newspa per, Ta Kung Pao, called upon the United States to bring the war to a turning point this SUm mar nr autumn bv ODenlnff a second front in Europe, starting a naval offensive against Japan. 1 I..MU. thm full MUVfr Of ' hr air force udod the axis In 4 Europe and Asia A German This waterfront view, which was described as showing a German submarine "oarage" on the French coast. Atop the concrete covered U-boat docks a foxtification was being built. Aircraft were to be assigned to protect the 14 ARRESTED AS ASSOCIATES OF Washington, July 13. (IP) The arrest of 14 alleged associ ates of the eight Nazis standing trial 'for their- lives before a military commission was an nounced today by Attorney Gen eral Biddle. . The group included six wom en and Biddle said that the 14 persons were the "immediate contacts" of the German agents who landed on Long Island and Florida coasts from German submarines last month. At the same time, Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the arrests had been made in Chicago and New York dur ing the last three weeks and that the investigation of their activities, and of other possible contacts, still was underway. Those announced as in cus tody were: Helmut Lelner, Astoria, Long Island, N. Y. Anthony Cramer, New York. Miss Hedwig Engemann, New York. Hermann Helnrich Faje, As toria, Long Island. Mrs. Maria Kerling, New York. Ernest Herman Kerkhof, New York. Hans Max Haupt and Mrs. Haupt, Chicago. Harry Jaques and his wife, Emma, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Richard Wergin, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilhelm Froehling, Chicago. Sheltered Saboteurs "The individuals apprehend ed," Hoover said, "are known to have given shelter to the sabo teurs after their arrival In New York and Chicago and to have furnished them assistance which would have aided the foreign agents In their sabotage activi ties in the United States. One of the Individuals assisted by purchasing an automobile for the use of one of the (Nazi) agents in transporting the ex plosives and other material re covered by FBI agent on the Atlantic shore on Long Island and Florida." "Although all 14 of these In dividuals were aware of the ar rival of the eight saboteurs from-Germany on a secret mis sion," Hoover said, "none of them made any attempt to re port the information to the FBI or any other authority." CREAMERY HEADS TO EYE ROUTE MERGERS Salem, July 13. F) The state department of agriculture today called five conferences with heads of creameTies.'cheese factories and other dairy manu facturing plants to eliminate the duplication of truck routes. The meetings include: wea nesday, county agent's office, iledford. ' U - Boat "Garage" in France" came from neutral nation throuoh London ta tha United Statu. U-Boat Brood To Be Bombed Before Leaving German Nests London, July 3 (IP) The new potency of Britain's air campaign to drive the U-boat from the seas by smashing Ger many's replacements before she can get them into the water is the story behind the RAF's sensational daylight raid on Danzig Saturday. That neither daylight, dis tance nor foul weather deterred squadrons of British bombers from sweeping low over Ger many on a 1,750-mile roundtrlp In daylight showed that the Nazis are exposed now to mighty air assault anywhere and at any time. . The test of the Danzig raid is comparison with the dramatic daylight air attack on the Ger man submarine plant at Augs burg just last April. Only 12 planes made that stab, only about half as far from home as the former free city, and only five returned. The attack on Danzig cost but three planes and unofficial In dications that this was less than five per cent of the attacking force meant that at least 60 bombers made it. , On this longest and riskiest daylight operation by the RAF so far, the British sent out their Lancasters great, four-motored bombers which are the newest and highly secret bomb-carriers in their air fleet. For hours these tough planes flew over Germany's heavily guarded coast before they sliced down to lay their heavy bombs on Danzig's submarine yards in the bright light of the northern evening. PEACHES AND COTS BRING BIGPRICES Wenatchee, Wash., July 13 (IP) Doubling and quadrupling last year's prices, canneries and other buyers are offering $30 a ton for No. 1 peaches and have paid $60 a ton for top-grade ap ricots, fruit dealers reported to day. The price offered for peaches is double that of last year and for apricots ois to; r times as high. Similar prices wore report ed at Yakima. Although no quotations on Medford pears have been re ceived as yet, a Medford packer expressed the opinion there would be a reasonable Increase in the price of Medford Bart lefts this year. He said the out look appeared to be "good". Portland, July 13 (IP Port land births set an all-time record of 718 in June, Dr. Thomas L. Meador, city health officer, re ported today. The previous record was 652 babies born in April of this year. BASEBALL American Detroit New York Trout, Gorsica and TebbetU; Gomez and Dickey, Rosar, BOUGHT TO TUNE OF OVER $1,500 Jackson county residents were well-decorated with war stamp corsages and boutonnieres Fri day and Saturday because $1, 500 in war stamps were sold through this means In local stores and a booth located on East Main street at the M. M. Department store. At this booth alone members of the Eagles auxiliary sold $722 In corsages for men and women. Mrs. Ted Hornecker, chair man of the volunteer women's sales cdrps, said today that sales so far exceeded expectations and if more volunteer help had been available for making cor sages the sales would have been higher. Prises Given The M. M. Department store offered prizes Saturday to the man and woman wearing the largest corsages when they en tered "the store. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Sam Jones, for wear a $76 corsage and Mrs. W. E. Nicholson, an $18.75 cor sage, and B. M. Thumlcr of Central Point received the man's prize for his $100 bou tonneire. Largest corsage sold totaled $200 and was purchased by H. W. Conger. Through the volunteer serv ice of the Eagles auxiliary, members of the Lions and American Legion auxiliary, the Chrysanthemum Thimble club of N. O. W. a large number of corsages were fashioned last week with Mrs. Charles Beatty giving instruction. At the Med ford Sojourner club meeting Thursday a few members de voted their afternoon to this work also. Cellophane for the project was donated by Fluhrer Bakery. ' A picture of the Eagles aux iliary members selling corsages at their victory booth on East Main street was taken and will be sent to the Eagles magazine. Fast Working Fire Destroys Sawmill Redmond, Ore., July S (IP) The $230,000 Dant & Russell lumber mill was virtually de stroyed In a sudden, explosive fire yesterday. Only the planer escaped the flames, which were first sighted by a workman shortly before noon. The blaze licked at the floor of the building, and In a few moments flames engulfed the whole plant. Causa was undetermined Reds Continue Under Nazi Hammering; Claim Front Unbroken E Spokesman Says Operation Carried On As Licensed Government Agency. Akron, Ohio. July 13 (IP) M. A. Goldberg, local represen tative of the Loewenthal Co.. Chicago, denied today a charge that Rubber Reserve Corp. had allowed "enormous profits" to his and three other firms under agreements connected with the scrap rubber drive. The charge was made by Elliot E. Simpson, counsel for a house sub-committee investigat ing the rubber situation. In a statement issued in Washington. "We are operating as a gov ernment agency under supervis- lion of the Rubber Reserve Corp., said Goldberg. "On July 18 we will close our books and operate strictly under govern ment license." A. Schulman, president of the firm bearing his name, -which also was mentioned ay Simpson said "there s no use making any comment. AH this rubber be longs to the government. It Is part of the government's stock pile." Washington, July 13 (JP) Elliot E. Simpson, an Indepen dent rubber dealer who is coun sel for a house subcommittee investigating the rubber situa tion, charges that "four large scrap rubber firms have reaped enormous, prof its from the coun try's scrap rubber drive." Simpson, in a statement re leased yesterday, said: "The four companies which have been appointed as the sole rubber reserve 'agents are H. Meuhlstein and company. Inc., A. Schulman, Inc., Nat E Berzen, Inc., and the Lowenthal company. All four have branches extending from coast to coast, and all four are due to obtain tremendous profits from this deal." The Rubber Reserce corpora tion is a government subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. NO STATE FAIR IS FINAL Salem, July 13 (IP) Cover nor Charles A. Sprague an nounced today cancellation of the 1942 state fair, scheduled for next September, because of transportation difficulties. Washington, July 13. (IP) American pilots ferrying planes across Africa have to watch out for elephants, lions, crocodiles and hippopotamuses, a returned officer reported today. Jackson County Rubber Pile 698,071 Pounds at Wind-Up Exceeding by almost 100 tons the most optimistic estimate bf the amount of scrap rubbt. Jackson county would yield In J the nationwide rubber drive which ended Friday, Kenneth Parrett, chairman of the petro leum committee In charge of the county campaign, said today a final check showed 998,071 pounds were collected. Parrett expressed the commit tee's thanks to everyone for their patriotie cooperation In turning In the scrap rubber 'to the service stations and oil com panies, and said that many per sons parted with rubber article "Dirty Holds" For Use On Japanese Taught Air Fofce McChord Field, July 13 (IP) Soldiers of various units In the United States air force at this air base are receiving instructions in "commando training" and "Illegal wrest ling," public relations officers announced today. The instructor In Illegal wrestling 'with no dirty holds barred" is Lieut. L. A. Rogers, who has' Just returned from the Fort George Meade school of spe cial services. Designated, for exclusive use on the Japs' the wrestling training program in cludes every hold that 'could be dreamed up in coordina tion with a course of Judo and Jui-Jitsu." . STATE-WIDE WAR TO WIPE OUT ALL . Salem, July 13 W) Gover nor Charles A. Sprague dis closed today that state police and county sheriffs are attempt ing to wipe out all slot machines operating In the state. Governor Sprague, at the re quest of Lt Gen. De Witt, com manding general of the western defense command, asked the of ficers to make the raids on July 1. Many of the raids already have been made. General De Witt asked the governor, In a letter written June 10, to shut down all slot machines operating near bar racks and . encampments of troops. "Clearly," General Da Witt wrote, "the use of these ma chines by soldiers tends to de prive them of the little money they have to spend and does not give them adequate return In pleasure or profit. It is thus de moralizing and injurious to their moral and must be re garded as an Important factor. particularly In view of the pres ent emergency conditions and the large number of troops in this locality." General De Witt said he had requested similar action in other western states. ' Governor Sprague explained that he delayed the announce ment in order to give police chance to catch slot machine operators by surprise. He said that publicity would have given the operators a warning and chased them Into temporary hid ing. HEARING RECESSES ' Portland, July 13 (JP) A federal court hearing on a fed eral power commission order for the Portland General Elec tric company to show causa why its valuation should not be cut $12,806,000 opened today and recessed a short time later. in good condition and still us able. He thanked the Craterian theatre for the "rubber matinee It held, and the various agencies which publicized the campaign. Parrett said- that, although per capita figures for the state and nation were not yet avail able, it was believed Jackson county and Medford stood near the top In the amount of rubber collected per person. The rubber has been stored In bulk plant of the oil companies and will be shipped to designat ed receiving centers upon re ceipt of shipping orders, he stated. Retreat DEFENDERS FACE GRAVEST THREAT IN DONBIG BEND Southern Front Drive Car ries To Within 200 Miles of Stalingrad, Key City.' By James M. Leaf - Associated Pass War Editor The Russian army, giving ground, but keeping its front un broken, was hammered back to day into the big bend of the Den f i r where the Germans' deep est drive into soviet soil carried the swastika war flag within 200 miles of the Volga in a sweep toward the Caspian sea that would cut off the Caucasus. The gravest threat to the hard strained Russian southern front developed at Boguchar, 50 miles beyond Rossosh, 200 miles east of Kharkov, whence the German drive began, and barely 300 miles short of Stalingrad on the Volga river. . . Hold la North , ' , To the north the Russians r ported t41. iioidun Voronezh, though under intensive assault, but to the southwest they were forced to give up Llslchanak and drop back to the east bank of tha Donets river against a third Gar- man spearhead bemg driven In south of Izyum between Kharkov and Rostov, front door to tha Caucasus. 'Intense fighting continue at the approaches to Voronezh, dur ing which the enemy is suffering enormous losses," a Soviet com munique declared. In the neighborhood of Bogu char," it said, "our troop ara waging a heavy defensive en gagement against advancing; enemy forces . . . having evacu ated Llsichansk and occupied new positions, our troops ara waging a battle against enemy- tanks and infantry." Boguchar, where the Don veers sharply east to within M miles of the broad Volga. 1 43 miles from Astrakhan where tha Volga pours Into the Caspian. . 30.000 Reds Taken The Vichy radio broadcast a report that tha Germans had oo cupied Pokrovsk, 40 miles north west of Rostov, In a new and fourth spearhead of tha southern drive. The German high command said the Russians were "being pursued on a broad front in tha southern lector" and that Rus sian defenses had been breached and 30,000 Russians captured in a big new encirclement south west of Rzhev, 13S miles north west of Moscow. 13 Assricsa Urriry Wcsita Ca Sfriij f:r 23 Per Cst Pty Kiia Thirteen women em doves of I wiin laundry, 10a bo. Central avenue, went on strike at noon today because, accord ing to Robert C. Wright, man ager, hi firm had refused ta sign a labor contract calling for an approximate 20 per cent pay Increase for help. Wright said the laundry would be unable to accept any more private work for, the time being, or until an agreement was reached and tha strikers, consisting mostly of tha flat work crew and markers, return ed to their Job. Wright stated tha manage ment felt It could not Increase) wage 20 per cent and still op erate at a profit. In view of tha recent government "free sing" of laundry price. When you throw away three can you ara throwing away enough tin lor coa hand ft
