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Let YOUR Aoiwti to Bombs b BONDSI Bu- War Bonds an Stamp TUIltV Contribute to thtVw effort of your nation. Patriot Urn. jour own telf-proiactloa, Icnunda that VOU do your part NOW! Use The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick RmuIU I Small Cott Medford Tribune mil Associated Press J- d Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1942. NO. 103. (0) V 0) i m I ffillES E30USE News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, July 20. Mr. Roosevelt has not emulated Hitler and bragging about any new secret weapons bu t the nazis will see some which will knock their eyes out when the sec ond front is opened. The Japs have seen a few already. When the de rail! Maiion tails of the be fogged battle of the Aleutian Islands are let out, for instance, you will learn how the fighting army air corps sprang a new land based torpedo plane on the Nipponese (the first such ship in history), and accom plished much more damage than has yet been officially claimed. The Japs know of this new weapon. They found out the hard way. The Jap invasion fleet in the Aleutians figured that all they would have to contend with were naval planes which nat urally have to be much lighter to operate from carrier decks. These land based torpedo craft carry an unprecedented projec tile which leaves no doubts as to sinkings when it hits. Where they came from the Japs do not yet know. i THIS is only an inadequate a, t. n.ut i. .AMin. on land. sea. and in tha air. An official of the inventors council testified to a congressional com mittee the other day that the army, navy and marine corps had let $640,000,000 of contracts on their recommendation. The inventors council is a committee set up by Mr.. Roosevelt to con aider all the sensational inno vations of warfare concocted by mechanically minded Americans. His testimony therefore, means nearly two-thirds of a billion dollars of new secret weapons will shortly appear on our side in this war. These Include extravagantly imaginative missiles and weap ons that have never been seen (Continued on P&ga Pour) Willkie Heartens ' Colored Conclave Los Angeles, July 20. (AP) Americans are learning, says Wendell Willkie, that the test of a people is their aim, not their color. He told the closing session of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People yesterday that the attitude of white American citizens toward the negro has "some of the un lovely and tragic characteristics of alien imperialism. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Opening of the Times Square Service Men's Center, a New York spot which will provide food, refreshment, rest and rec reation for men in uniform, will be a special Blu broadcast at 19 a. m. Tuesday. Helen Hayes, 'Irving Berlin, Ed Wynn and others are to participate. Tonight: Blu 6:30. Radio Forum, Sen. Guy M. Gillette of Iowa on "The Rubber Problem." SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Helen Hedrick and Lola Stan ley going fishing so early in the m'ning that it was too dark for them to see to thread their poles. The Everett Fabers of Central Point enjoying a family picnic at Llthia park, and son Don giving hi- dad a close foot race up a hill. k Violet Lewis forsaking slacks "tj don a dress and a hat for a day, and very becoming, too. Major General Charles Ger hardt apparently getting a large kick out of exchanging banter with the Kiwanian. 90 PER CENT LEVY ON EXCESS PROFIT IS FINAL ACTION Combined Normal and Sur tax of 45 Per Cent Is Levied On Corporations. Washington, July 20. AP) t $6,143,000,000 wartime reve nue bill was passed by the house and sent to the" senate today, after a last-minute floor, fight which resulted in levying a 90 per cent excess profits tax and a combined normal and surtax of 4. per cent on corp.-tions. . The ways and i...-ns commit tee sought to have the excess p ofits tax raised to 90 per cent and the normal and surtax re duced to 40 per cent. On the excess profiU tax in crease, the committee was sus tained on a voice te. But on the urtax revisions the house decided, by a teller vote of 180 to .60, to retain the pro vision of 45 per cent. Doughton Fa on Chairman Doughton (D-NC.) of the committee urged the revised corporate rates in the interest of the small corporations which were not benefitti. z from the ar program. But Rep. McLean (R-NJ) said the changes would "help those corporations which are waxing fat by this war ef fort." ' ... . . The legislation would ' raise about $2,400,000,000 in new taxes from corporations and al most $3,000,000,000 from individ uals, primarily through steeply graduated individual surtax rates and reduced personal exemp tions. The committee took no action or. the question of post-war cred its for corporations based on their excess profits taxes a pro vision once approved but' later discarded.. TUG OF VI IS TIRE SABOTAGE Silverton, Ore., July 20 (IP) Two prominent Silverton farm ers were charged in justice court today with wilfully wear ing out their rubber tires during a friendly tug of war on the city streets here last night. The men, Herman Kuenzi and Walter Hairi, accused of staging the contest between . a farm truck and a tractor, appeared before Justice of the Peace Alt Nelson today and were given 24 hours to enter a plea. Bail was first set at $1,000 each, but they were released later on their own recognizance. They were charged under 1931 law making it unlawful to commit any "indecent or im moral act not otherwise punish' able." New Tax Digs Deeper; Corporations Hit Hard Washington, July 20 WO The wartime tax bill passed by the house today would take $19 of each $100 of taxable income of individuals in the lowest brackets and $43 of each $100 of the taxable income of corpor ations, plus 90 per cent of their so-called "excess profits." Here are principal provisions of the bill: Individuals present normal income tax increased from four to six per cent and surtaxes boosted to from 13 to 82 per cent, with the top bracket of 82 per cent affecting net incomes over $200,000. Personal exemp tions reduced from $1,900 to $1, 200 for married couples and from $750 to $300 for single persons Collection of individual income taxes at the sources be ginning in January at the rate of five percent of the difference between tha amount of each pay check or pay envelope and per- ' sonal exemptions plus deduc I tlons for the pay period. The Irate would be 10 per cent in Girl Found Slain in Cabin mKM i9 ft i F South Fork CCC Camp was formally disbanded Sunday eve ning with approximately 150 enrollees being shipped to their homes in Arkansas and most of the equipment moved out, it was announced today by the Rogue River National Forest - Disbanding of Camp South Fork marked the disappearance of the last remaining CCC camp in Jackson county, in line with the government's elimination of the Civilian Conservation Corps Camp South Fork enrollees had been under the supervision of the Rogue River National Forest in fire prevention and other forest work. .1944. All "withholdings" apply against the next would year's tax bill. Estimated yield from individuals, $2,906,300,000. Corporations Present grad uated excess profits tax of from 33 to 60 per cent replaced by flat 90 per cent, with the "spe cific exemption" to which all ! corporations are entitled raised from $5,000 to $10,000. On that part of income not subject to excess profits taxes, a 24 per cent normal and 21 per cent surtax would be imposed on cor porations with earnings in ex cess of $25,000. Present rates are 24 and seven. Estimated yield $2,479,400,000. Miscellaneous increased ex cise taxes on liquor, beer, wines, cigarettes, smoking tobacco, cig ars, lubricating oil, photograph ic apparatus, telephone and tele graph bills, train bus. plane and other transportation fares, and new taxes on freight and express shipments and on pari-mutuel beta. Estimated yield, $738,200, 000. The body of Dorena Hammer (above) 20. with two buiUt hole in the temple and another through tha heart, was found In a San Laandro, Calif., auto court cabin, and a few minutes latar Leslie B. Gireth (below) wealthr Glendale. Calif., iewer- er, was arrested at a hotel in Fresno. Calif. Accused Man Stoic On Arraignment In Birder of Student ' San Leandro, Calif., Juty20 (Pi A- week's continuance was granted today in the ar raignment of Leslie Gireth, 87, wealthy Glendale jeweler. charged - with - the murder of Miss Dorena Hammer, . 20-year- old meteorology student. . Her body was found Friday, in bed in a motor court near here. She had been shot three times, in the head and chest. Gireth appeared today before Police Judge A. W. Burner, for preliminary hearing. The infor mation, charging murder, was read to him. He was cool and impassive. Judge Bruner asked him if he was represented by counsel. Gireth motioned to Al bert Behrstock of Glendale, an attorney, and brother of Sam Behrstock, Gireth's partner in the Glendale jewelry firm. Washington, July 20 (IP) The house agreed today to provide $120,000,000 for the office of Price administration as it adopt ed a conference committee's recommendations to settle dif ferences with the senate in a $1,858,939,000 deficiency appro priations bill. . The OPA allotment amounted to $45,000,000 more than the house had voted originally but $5,000,000 less than voted by the senate, $41,000,000 less than the figure approved by the bud get bureau, and $75,000,000 leu than the total amount sought by Leon Henderson, price admlnla trator. Approval of the conference committee's report came on a standing vote of 96 to 9. The measure now goes back to the senate, where quick ap proval of the conference com mittee changes is expected. The action came after Rep. Taber (R-NY) declared that Henderson, "in his estimates for money, called for absolutely ridiculous set-ups. He has an ab solutely Incompetent force, and he, himself, I believe, is totally incompetent. He believes in the crack-down policy of the NRA, rather than an appeal for patri otic cooperation." ARSENAL BLAST Clifton Forge, Va., July 20 (jPlTwo men were killed and several others Injured early to day In an explosion in one unit of the Virginia ordnance work at Glen Wilton near here. Making munitions, the plant Is operated by the Hercules Powder company for tha army, E FOR METAL, FATS County Chairman Fowler Announces Need For Iron, Steel, Fats From Kitchen. To meet the nation's war needs for scrap iron, steel and other salvage materials, a new drive is being launched this week in Jackson county, it was an nounced today by R. G. Fowler, chairman of the Salvage commit tee. The county effort is a part of a nationwide drive announced by Donald M. Nelson, War Pro duction Board chairman. 'As the war becomes more in tensive on the various foreign fronts," said Mr. Fowler," the needs for scrap materials has steadily increased. While Jack son county has made a good rec ord so far in the collection of scrap iron, rubber and paper, the expanding requirements of the war program have made it neces sary to obtain much larger amounts. "This is a continuing program, but it must be speeded up to ob tr.in the necessary salvage ma terials for the successful conduct of the war. Housewives Can Help ' "Fats especially are needed right now and in this the house wife will take the major part. The need is urgent as the war in the Pacific has greatly reduced our supply of vegetable fats from tho far east and substitutes must I - found.. Fats make glycerine and glycerine makes explosives, ..'e need millions of pounds of glycerine and the housewives of America can supply them. "Here is what to do. - Save all your waste cooking fats. Pour them into a clean, wide mouth can and be sure the can is spot lessly clean. Strain as you pour tr j fat in. Keep In a refrigerator o- a cool, dark place until you have collected at least two pounds. Take it to your meat dealer who is cooperating in this drive. He will weigh your can of fat, pay you the established price which is now tentatively set at four cents a pound and start the fat on its way to war industries. Don t let fata stand to long they become rancid. If they do the glycerine content Is reduced. Deliver your fat early in the week. "For the time being the Junk yards will be the depository for scrap materials. No waste paper or tin cans can be used in this section." Portland, July 20 (IP) Ore gon's participation in a concert ed scrap collection drive got underway today with Granges playing a leading role in rural areas. Ralph Mitchell, executive sec retary for the state salvage committee, appealed today to farmers to co-operate and asked farm Implement dealers to as sist. MOTHER TOSSES Portland, July 20. (AP) A 30-year-old mother, who Police Lieut. James Puree II said drop ped her three-week-old son out of a second-story window and then took poison, was in a ser ious condition today at a Port land hospital. The fall killed the baby. Pur- cell said the mother, Mrs. Ken neth Lindner, admitted dropping him. He said a nurse, Dorothy White, told him Mrs. Under was upset and had complained of the baby s noise. S Women Killed In Bus Accident Keller, Va.. July 20W) A heavy trailer truck rammed the end of a bus crowded with women en route to work at freezing plant today, killing at least five and injuring 13 more. State Trooper Charles B Strauss said the truck, pullin a trailer loaded with celery, struck the bus Just south of Keller and "demolished" it. 91st Division Keynote Sounded by Leader in First Camp Assembly "I propose to make this new 91st Infantry Division trie best the United States has ever seen." Thus did Major General Charles H. Gerhardt, in 17 pungent words, sound to hundreds of enlisted men and officers, key men in the 91st division, the keynote of the training program map ped out to prepare Camp White soldiers for their and Amer ica's fight to the death against Germany and Japan. Speaking at a Camp White i ceremonial Sunday morning, to his training cadre and a small group of civilians. General Ger hardt declared: "Your goal is to arrange things so that you can inflict more casualties on the enemy than you take." Today's Training May Save Lives It was a fighting talk that General Gerhardt, commander of the 91st Infantry Division, to be activated August 13, deliv ered to the men and officers who will form the nucleus of the reorganized 91st. He didn't mince words In emphasizing the training program would be tough. "But," he said, "what you are learning now, and will learn in the future, may some day save your life." He stated: "You must develop automatic reactions in military affairs; you must learn to salute and to shoot with equal facility. don't want any man in my out fit that can't do those two things." The 91st division chief had words of praise for the infantry and artillery officers assigned to his division, saying they were as well trained as any in the army, and of Major Theron W. Bean o( the U. S. army engi neers,' for his accomplishments in the construction ot the can tonment. General Gerhardt said he had submitted a letter of rec ommendation Friday that Major Bean be promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, in recogni tion of his splendid work on the military camp. Officers oi Staff Give Brief Talks Short, stirring talks were giv en by three officers of General Gerhardt'a general staff. Brigadier General P. w. Clarkson, assistant division com mander, explaining the lnian try's point of view in the trian gular division, declared: "Under General Gerhardt I can assure you that .we 11 make a better record than the old 91st division of the first world war." He said: "We are fighting pro fessionals, not amateurs, in the art of killing, and although it is going to be tough learning we 11 become professionals, ourselves. We can't be amateurs against that crowd." Brigadier General Edward S. Ott, artillery commander, de clared: 'The motto of the 91st divisibn is 'Powder River, Let Ed Buck', and that's the motto of the artillery. We are not sep arate from the infantry, but an integral part of the 91st divi sion." Emphasizing the unity that will exist between the infantry and the artillery. General Ott stated: "Our place in this divi sion amounts to: 'Where do you want us to fire and when?' Let us know what you want and we'll give it to you." Colonel F. S. Jacobs, chief ot staff, in a talk on 'Orientation," said that the 91st Infantry Divi sion of World War I was creat. ed In the Powder River area but that this new 91st of World War II will be created in the Rogue river area. Division Activation Set lor August 19 "Construction of Camp White Is 90 per cent complete," he disclosed, "and will be 100 per cent when the new 91st is acti vated on August 19." He added that the new divi sion would be "tough, hard fighting and effective." The invocation was given by Captain V. P. Jaeger, division chaplain, who also conducted a short church service alter tha meeting. Providing music was tha Ash land city band, which played tha national anthem, and the Medford senior high school band, which played America Sebastian Appolo played the organ for the hymns sung dur ing the church service. Among the civilian guests at the ceremony were Mayor and Mrs. T. S. Wiley of Ashland, CORVALLIS PILOT ONE OF EIGHT TO DIE IN SMASHUP Tucson, Ariz., July 20 IP) An army bomber crashed at 4:30 a. m. today, carrying Its crew of eight to flaming death In the desert three and one-half miles southeast of its base, Davis-Monthan airfield. The B-24, c:ie of several bombers on a night training flight, burned and the officers and men apparently were killed instantly. The dead included: The pilot, First Lt. Blair K. Blacker, son of Mrs. William Blacker, Corvallla, Ore. Houston, Tex., July 20 (IP) An army pursuit trainer crash ed three miles east of Highland early today, apparently killing all occupants. The public relations office at Ellington field reported the plane appeared to ba from the air force advanced flying school, Lane manes, la. Fresno, Calif., July 20 UP) Five army, fliers were killed in the crash of a bomber plane near Vlsalia today, the public relations office at the Hammer field base here announced. FOR WITHHOLDING ALEUTIAN STORY Washington, July 20. AP) Anthony J. Dlmond, delegate from Alaska, expressed the opin ion today that the navy long ago should have given the public a resume of Japanese activities in Aleutians. Referring to the navy's com munique Friday giving account of operations in the northern Pa cific, Dlmond said: "The Japs sent altogether too much power into the Aleutians for that move to be a mere side show operation. I wonder why we had to wait this long to find out the facts. It all could have been . .ad public without giving any information to tha enemy. As far as the enemy's power is concerned it doesn't help them if we are told what they have. Dimond said it had been re ported to him that the Japs have 23,000 troops on the captured ls'ets in the western Aleutians but that he had be mi unable to confirm the report. . Rejected by Army, Suicides with Gun Portland, July 20 (IP) La Verne Hutchins, 34, Gresham. took his own life last night with a rifle after being rejected by the army for military service. Deputy Coroner Gideon Snook reported today. Snook quoted tha man's fa ther, I. B. Hutchins. as saying his son was despondent because ha had been classified 4-F by examining physicians. Mayor and Mrs. H. S. Deuel of Medford, Mr. and Mrs. Frank J. Van Dyke, County Judge and Mrs. Blln Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn L. Jackson, the Rev, and Mrs. Herald G. Gardner, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. V. Car penter, Mrs. Gerhardt, Mrs. Ott and Major Carl Y, Tengwald Major and Mrs. Bean and Colonel F. N. Mallory, Camp White executive officer, and Mrs. Mallory, also were pres ent. The guests were entertained at lunch at noon in the officers' mesa. RUSSIAN RETREAT PE Tremendous German On slaught Forces Defenders Back Toward Caucasus. By James M. Long Associated Press War Editor Rostov, whose armed citizenry helped the Russian army drive out the Germans eight months ago, was menaced anew today aa Hitler's 1942 offensive, repuLed at Voronezh and checked mo mentarily toward the east, veer ed south in a tremendous on slaught which forced the Rus sians back toward the gateway to the Caucasus, On the other fronts of tha world at war: British Taka 4.000 The British, holding new-won gains in the Egyptian desert, an nounced they captured 4,000 Ger mans and Italians In last week's fighting west of El Alameln; The United States air force In China smashed at the Japanese airfield at Canton and the In vaders' base at Linchwan in Klangsi province. Driving through Voroshilov grad, 100 miles north o Rostov, and Millerovo, on the Rostov. Moscow rail line, the Germans ' were converging upon the June, tion of tha rail line and tha Donets river at Kamensk. Ros tov lies 83 miles to tha south. Exceeding even Berlin's ac counts of the German gains, tha Tafia radio said axis advance forces had reached Shakhty, coal mining and railroad town 40 miles north of Rostov. Orderly Withdrawal Russian dispatches said Mar shal Semeon Timoshenko was drawing back his troops in or derly withdrawal to a new de fense stand somewhere north of Rostov and the confluence of tha Don and Donets rivers. Although the Russians had wrested back tha Initiative at Voronezh, on the northern flank of the 300-mile battleline through tne grain covered steppes of tha Don's big bend, they declared the nazl thrust to the south a serious threat. United States and British-made tanks and planes were thrown Into the fight in an attempt to stem the axis onrush. To the south of Millerovo. the Russian communique report ed, "our troops engaged In a fierce defensive battle against ad vancing German fascist troops. "In one sector the German drove a wedge into our positions. wnn a diow from the flank, our troops frustrated the enemy at tempt to break our defense. In this battle the fascist lost over l,zoo killed f. . In another sector our trooos. under pressure of numerically superior forces, withdrew to new positions." At Voronezh, howeven. tha Russian communique said "our troops are waging stubborn bat- lies witn the enemy, who ara now on the defensive." The red army rerjorted kllllna. 1.500 Germans in street fighting for one suburban town, and said It recaptured another "important inhabited locality," and drove the Germans from ona of their principal bridgehead across tha uon. The increasing show of Russian power at Voronezh, coupled with German report of large red army troop concentrations in that area, indicated that a Hmn. soviet counter offensive against uis cxienaea iiank of tha Ger man Don valley drive might ba in tha making. Tha German hieh rnmman still clinging to its so-far unsub stantiated claim to tha capture of Voronezh 13 day ago, acknowl edged that the Ri-sian wera counter attacking on that flank, but said tha red army' "at. tempts to recapture" th city were repulsed. MEW TROUBLE Tacoma. July 20 ilPt Jack Morgan, 32, was arrested today at tha entrance of McNeil Island federal penitentiary by Pierce county officer at tha request of authorities In Pittsburgh, Pa, who want him on a forgery charge. He had Just completed serving a sentence under the Mann Act. V
