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I MEDFORDdttii Let YOUR Answer to Bombi be BONDSI Buy WW Bands an Stamp TOIAT Contribute to tha war effort of roor nation. Patriot tint, your own elf-protactlon. demand! that YOU do Jour part NOWI Um The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Cost Tribune United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942. NO. 104. I J r I I I 1 1 1 1 I 1 I I I r I I I I rsm Ul ' Full Associated Ptsm AUJES TOM IMAtJL5 S ' - News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, July 21. Gov . eminent award of 44 cents a day more to little steel workers was h a i led every where as an economic ad justment for "labor." The wage increase formula of this initial war test is presumably to be extended to the Chrys ler, G e n e r al Motors, and a Paul Mallnn score of other cases pending before the war labor board. The government announces this as its method of handling the cause of "labor," although probably no more than a million workers are in volved, now again, as upon every occasion in which a CIO or AFL union angles with gov ernment, the public will be led to believe that "labor" as a whole is involved. The whole governmental sys tem, and even the press han dling of such news, has encour aged the fallacious notion that this small AFL-CIO minority of the nation"s workers are "lab or." The war labor board was set ' up by Mr. Roosevelt to handle only union cases. Even back before the new deal era, congress ajid the government gave no special consideration to the rights and interests of other workers, excepting these organ ized minorities. Now when government controls have been extended over all economic life to such an extent that the bread people eat is measured in Wash ington, the popular fallacy is continued without objection -or notice. The newspapers unwlt tingly perpetuate this deception by publishing both in headline and text about labor did this and "labor got that," when they mean only the CIO or AFL. yHERE are 80,000,000 workers in this country. No more than 8,000,000 belong to CIO and AFL. The acute interest of the other 42,000,000 in our war economy and in our pre- (Continued on Pag Pour) Portland, July 21. (IP) Cherries were scarcer today on the Portland market, causing a . stiffening of the price. Hood ' River association back Lamberts were firmly priced to $2.50 for 15c. Local offerings were short. Bings 10-12 cents per pound, Lamberts 10-12, Royal Anns 10, pie 9. (Pacific War Time) Tonight: CBS 6:30, Cheers From Camps. Camp Borden, Can ada; 7:30, Chester Williams on "British People's Reactions to War Conditions." Wednesday: NBC 9:30 A. M., Nellie Revell interviews Martin Block. MBS 11:30 A. M., Camp Grant review. Major General Charles H. Gearhardt, commander of the 91st Division at Camp White, will speak Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. over KM ED on "Relation I ship of Camp White to the Community." Brigadier General Edward S. Ott, artillery com mander, will speak on "What an Infantry Division Is." Chap lain Vernon T. Jaeger will speak on "Activities of a Division Chaplain." SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Papa Carol Wall rapidly re turning to normal after passing the cigars yesterday in celebra tion of the arrival of Richard Lewis, seven-pound son. Eugene Orr, ditto, after ar rival of Richard Allen, eight pound son. . . Dorothy McBeth much sur prised to meet on the street a cousin, Clinton Hurley, she hadn't seen for four years and Just recently transferred to Camp White from Camp Roberts. Radio Highlights QUICK RELIEF FOR I Jap Bombs That Missed Their Mark EMBATTLED REDS . ; J STRATEGISTS' AIM Full-Fledged Invasion of Con tinent Seen Unlikely This Summer, Is London View. Br Clyde A. Farnsworth Associated Press War Editor While the Russians fell back fighting from at least one thrust of Germany's Caucasus offensive and strove to smash its Voronezh flank. United States and British stsff officers were reliably re ported today to be studying the possibility of an immediate lim ited diversion on the continent. A reliable London informant whose identity could not be dis closed said that the problem was to give prompt, diversionary as sistance if the situation in south ern Russia, already grave, deter iorates further. Big Push Unlikely Since a full-fledged invasion of the continent seemed unlikely this summer, it appeared that the American and British strate gists, in continuing "second front" conferences, were map ping a small scale action which would pull German forces out of Russia and at the same time safe guard communications with Rus sia. Prime Minister Churchill met with this strategy council, , As the allies deliberated, the German high command proclaim ed that its forces had advanced another SO miles on the way across the Don bend area toward Stalingrad and that Rostov, front g 'f the Caucasu; flame and the foeua or attacKr""- Bowmer, John from three directions. Rostov's bridges across the Don estuary have been smashed, the Berlin communique said. - The Russians have admitted only a threat to Rostov from the Donets basin to the north, but the Germans claim to be driving also from the east, afte a half encirclement which they said reached the lower Don, and from the west, or Taganrog area, along the Sea of Azov, Coal Mines Ruined Indirectly illustrating the plight of Russia's war industry, Pravda, the communist party newspaper, said that Russians re treating from the Donets basin had left coal mines there in ruins. At Russia's rear, in a "second front" area not of allied choos ing, the Japanese were said by a British source to have nearly completed preparations to attack the Siberian maritime province and Vladivostok. j This informant, who Insisted on anonymity, said that the Jap anese were virtually in position to "press the button and start to move into Siberia." He pictured the Japanese lodgements in the Aleutian islands as a precaution against a possible flank attack on Japan by the United States. GRASSHOPPER DIET Grasshoppers are causing some damage to crops in the canton ment and adjoining areas ac cording to Assistant County Agent C. B. Cordy. A number of farms along Rogue river from Bybee bridge to the Elks picnic grounds have suffered from the insects which have a special liking for vetch According to Fred Luy of the Antelope, "the grasshoppers are eating up everything green in their patch. Including the tops of oak trees and pumphandles The county agent's office re cently issued a bait formula for curbing the pests, but its use has not been extensive. Turkeys are also reducing the ranks, but not enough to count. REGATTA SUNDAY Oceanlake, Ore., July 21 (IP) The annual Lincoln county re gatta, which draws outstanding outboard racers from all ove: the northwest, will be held Sunday, July 28. if "nothing happens." Dr. Boyd Jenkins, ' president of the regatta board, (said today twHMJ wwgj SfST When Jap bembars attacked Dutch Harbor, U. S. Naval bat in Alaika. they ware mat with anti-aircraft fire that kept many of thalr bombi falling wide of the mark. That geysers repre sent bombs falling wide of the mark, and harmlessly in the harbor. The ship in the background behind the geyser at the left staved off attack with continued machine gun f ire. (U. S. Nary Photo.) MANY SELECTEES GO TO PORTLAND A large group of selectees from ' Jackson county went to Portland recently for physical examinations pending Induction into the U. S. army. Announced as leaving from board number two were the following mer: Morris Clinton Bush, Edward Allen Renie, Lloyd Norman Al bert Frank Johnson, Bernard Austin Wild, Joseph P. Spencer, George Washington Nunn, Rob ert Egbert Hale, Lloyd Delbert Hammond,. Glenn Potter, Emer son Robert Easterling, Orin Al bert Barlow,. Ancil Burgcn Gun ter, Robert Gal Murray; Gene. William Tedrick. Angus Livings-. F. B. Ge- machlich, ,Leon: Harold Love, Walter Monroe Pederson, Max Murray' Benedick, Johnie Lee Jasper, Arthur Robert Messin- ger, Dewey Sampson Hill, Rob ert Force, Harlan Lyle Hoef ft, Raymond ' Zienth Turrell, Wal ter Otto Lippke, Earl Robert Miller and Ernest Dale Strahan. Transferred to other boards from . Jackson county board number two were John Hurbert Robbins, Chester Carlson Hoist and Joseph George Zavolosick. Transferred to this county from other boards were Ervin Mon roe Cearley, Charles Edvard Jones, and Everett Clint Cear ley. Also Lewis Thomas Buckley, Albert Ford Belmar, John Le- roy Loper, Timothy Kicnara Dugan, Manley James- Porter, Delbert William Lacy, William Cecil Strahan, Philip Charles Hannaford, Harold Irwin Berry, James Verden Knapp. Eldred R, Colver, Henry George Schnack Harvel Wesley Jones, Charles Donald Lundy, Lowell Vassen Pratt. Norval Noah Johnson, Andrew Erick Johnson, John William Galinat, Irus H. Carle, Harry Albert Shutt, Aaron Au gust Walruff, Delbert samuei Ross Jack Monroe Deer, Comer Philip Fox, Evan Edward Jones, Cecil Everett Rodgers, Rancell Willie Beaver, Carl Junior Henry, Leland Robert Hall, Ray Ross Hendricks, Edwin Howard Neill, Belmont Francis Pankey. Transfers to this county irom other boards were August Ru dolph Bebernlss, Luther Thomas Poole, Lyman Kicnara uiaiceiy, John Patrick Broad, Wallace James Butler, Orville Clyde Ha mer, Verne G. Harkness, Ness Jensen, James Freddie Keston, Ray Lewis Kendrick, Cecil Hop- son Naramore, wooarow wu- Jiam Owings, Emll H. Peterson, Marvin Everett Rupe, William Weston Selby. Kenneth Thal- mers Taylor. Burdette Louis VanVleet, Dale Calvus Trump Archie J. Smith. CENTRAL POINT BOY - QUIZZED ON SPIKES The sheriff's office and dis trict attorney office are Inves tigating the case of a minor Central Point boy, charged with removal of spikes from the Southern Pacific railroad tracks and selling them to a mill fore man for a nickel apiece. Nine spikes were taken. The purchaser of the spikes was scheduled to give his ver sion of the affair to the author ities today. The boy claimed he was asked to procure the spikes and when he delivered five was told mora could be used. - v Labor Warned Public Tired Of Wartime Work Stoppage . Washington, July 21 (IP) Wayne L. Morse of the war labor board asserted today that if labor tional controversies and insisted public would take drastic action laws of treason if necessary. 'The public is not being taken care of in these jurisdictional disputes," said Morse, Univer sity of Oregon law school dean who is one of the four represen tatives of the public on the 12 man board. "As we go further and further Into this war it becomes clearer and clearer that we cannot per mit any stoppages of work, I don't-care whether they are over jurisdictional disputes or what they are over; they simply have to stop. . "And If our pleas to Mc Green 'and Mr. Murray (presidents WiU UankOreen of the ft FT , and Phil ip Murray of the CIO) ( are not sufficient to get them to settle their disputes, I haven't any doubt but that the public will not only look to this board to settle them but will back us up in. whatever settlements we de cree." Morse was speaking to repre sentatives of unions who are con tending over whether AFL or CIO painters shall have the cop nection with conversion of a Dayton refrigerator company to war work. THREATEN TIEUP LBUILI New York, July 21. (AP) A strike which would tie up all na val construction work in the met ropolitan area, involving work costing $100,000,000, was voted yesterday by representatives of 26 crafts affiliated with the Bronx board of business agents of the Building and Construction Council Trades Council (AFL). Action on the threatened tieup was postponed today for at least 24 hours, the Bronx board said, adding that it was doing so at the request of naval authorities The Bronx union officials are protesting against the employ ment of 1,100 WPA workers on construction of the $4,000,000 naval reserve officers training school at Fort Schuyler in the Bronx. 650,000 BY 1943 Portland, July 21 (IP) Port land's population will be 650,000 by next February, William A. Bowes, city commissioner of public works, estimated today on the basis of U. S. employ ment service predictions of fu ture .abor needs. On July 1. 62,609 '. orkers were employed in strictly war production work in Port'snd area plants, the employment service reported. These p'.ar.ti will require an additional IS:),. 664 workers by February 1, the service continued, and 90 per cent of them will have to be recruited from outside areas. . The cotton that goes into medium-priced auto would make four army uniform t ' ju.Lj T-- -"" failed to settle its own Jurisdic on wartime work stoppages, the even to the applications of the BRITISH PASTE AXIS IN EGYPT FROM SEA, SKY Cairo,; July' 21.-AP) The third and- heaviest -naval bom bardment of the axis-held port v irfhree liigiiW and of Matron twj aerial assaults which de stroyed more than 50 axis planes on the ground In a single day were reported by the British to day, all part of a determined campaign to destroy the enemy's African air force and ruin his re inforcement efforts. Buildings, jetties, schooners and other craft in harbor at Ma- truh 105 miles behind the German-Italian lines were hit by the naval shells early Monday morning. sExplosions could be heard for miles. British planes scored their smashing blows yesterday at El Daba and Fuka, 25 and 60 miles respectively behind the lines. The raids were the second and third in two days. Other long-range fighters blast ed axis barges northeast of Sidi Barranl, 185 miles behind the lines. Land operations on the Egyptian front were confined to patrols while the British concen trated on annihilation of Marshal Erwin Rommel's air force, New York, July 21. (AP) A 19 - piece orchestra from the Broadway sho- '"ihis Is the Army" took their places today to play for the opening of the Tunes Square serv.ee men s cen ter, at Broadway - t street. But they never blew a note the union would not give them permission. No explanation was given and there was no music inside. Out side a band from Fort Jay played. Mae Granted Divorce After Brief Hearing Los Angeles, July 21 IIP) Blonde Mae West and Vaudeville Dancer Frank Wallace came to day to the end of the marriage they started in 1911. and man aged to keep secret 24 years. Miss West was on the stand briefly. Questioned by Attorney Henry Horzbrun she testified they were married in Milwaukee in 1911 but lived together only a few weeks. COUNCIL TONIGHT City council will hold Its regular semi-monthly meeting In a I the city hall council chambers at 7:30 tonight, with only routine 1 business on the agenda. TWU jAP VESSELS I E BY YANKEE FLIERS Raid Challenges Japanese Control of Hankow Fighting Near Wenchow, Chungking, July 21 (IP) Fighter-escorted United States bombers sank two Japanese ships yesterday at the Yangtze river port of Kiukiang, south east of Hankow, in a raid which challenged Japan's long held control of the air over her wa terway supply route' into China. Not one of the United States planes was damaged, said a communique from the headquar ters of Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell. It said the Japanese ships were of 1,000 to 2,000 tons each. Presaging an ever-increasing aerial challtnge to the invaders, a Chinese government spokes man said the United States would be asked through Lauch lin Currie, special adviser to President Roosevelt, for more nlanes. along with a "rather long list" of other military sub- plles. Gen. Cheng Tseh-Jen, director of conscription, said China had the manpower to carry out a plan for calling up 2,000,000 new soldiers a year for the next three years to put those arms, and others of her own produc tion, to use against the Japanese. On land, a Chinese comma nlaue retorted severa fighting around the Cheklang province nort of Wenchow. ' The ' war bulletin said the im-aHp'ra who captured the port, losL U. men won u mc m counter attack last Friday, were being engaged hotly by Chinese troops trying to drive them out second time. The Chinese were said to be getting the upper hand in tne fight, having tut tne Japanese lines of communication. Children Chained in Shadeless Backyard For Taking Pennies Scottsdale, Ga July 21 (IP) Three small children were given sactuary In a Juvenile de tention home today after Police Chief J. T. Dailey said they were found In the shadeless back yard of their home with a 30- foot log chain padlocked around their necks as parental punish ment for taking "20 or a cents." The father. Archer R. Burncy and his wife .along with a it) vear-old son. A. D. Burney were charged with cruelty and jailed under bond of $5,000 each. Chief Dallcy said. The charge against the younger Burney arose from complaints of neigh- bore that he had previously locked the children In a garage. The police chief added that the children. Adolph, 8, Flour- nev. 10. and Jarguerite, 12 showed Indications of having been beaten with a heavy strap before being chained. Usable Tires Under Rubber Industry Plan Washington, July 21. (AP The rubber Industry today pro posed a plan which it said would provide usable tire for every body for at least the next two years. This became known in connec tion with an exhibit prepared by the Industry In a Washington hotel to demonstrate to govern ment officials and the press means of utilizing the Industry's facilities to make as many tires as possible under war conditions. The Plan, it was learned from sources who declined to be quoted, would provide for ration ing tires under an entirely new system, and would enable every one to get tires provided he took good care of his rubber. A feature of the program Is that new tires would be made out of Thlokol, a substance hereto fore believed to be usable only for recapping. Thlokol Is new War Bulletins I Washington. July 21 (IP) The navy announced today that United States submar ines had sunk three more Japanese deitroyers In the vicinity of Kiska, in the Aleu tians. This brought to total of II the Japanaea warships an nounced by army and navy sources as sunk or damaged In the Aleutian activities. The navy communique addtd that several air attacks against the enemy-occupied Aleutian Iilands had been carried out through combined efforts of the United States army and navy aircraft. London, July 21 (JP) A single German plane bombed a point on the south coast of England early today, but offi cial circles said little damage and no casualties were report ed. TESTS DEFENSE The 91st Infantry Division at Camp White underwent a sur prise practice alert at 3 a. m. today, and streaming from their barracks the soldiers immedi ately took up positions to cope with the situation an imagi nary attack by enemy parachute troops. The alarm was given each unit simultaneously by messen gers, and the units were then assigned missions to fit the sit uation. For -two and a half hours the alert continued, and when it . was all over Major General Charles H. Gcrhardt, commander of the 91st, ex pressed the opinion the test was highly satisfactory in view oi the fact that some of the units had Just moved onto the post and were as yet rather unor ganized. Explaining that the practice alert, first to be held, was de signed to test the defenses of the com:: now only at pan strength, General Gerhardt said that if the job were done with equal speed and efficiency when the camp reached run sircngin real protection would be afford ed In ca-e of an emergency. Strike Called Off At Coos Bay Mill Marshfield, Ore., July 21 W An AFL strike was called off yesterday to keep the Evans Products company cedar mill at work on needed housing units, The Coos Bay Building Trades council lifted a picket line placed around the plant Frldav, pending settlement of a wage dispute. WHEAT INSURANCE Denver. July 21 (IP) Leroy K. Smith. Washington. D. C, manager of the Federal Crop In surance corporation, announced today that wheat insurance soon will be handled by only two branch offices, one In Denver land another in Chicago. For Everyone substance something like rubber, for which the war production board has given a go-ahead on production for tire uses. A key point In the program, the sources added, would be some system of severe penalties fo. motorists who waste rubber by excessive speed and long, un necessary trips. Further details were not avail able Immediately, but the exhibit which was to be opened to the press today was expected to show that new tires can be mad ; from available supplies about as easily as old tires can be recapped or re- treaded. The plan would require about 15 per cent of the nation's supply of reclaimed rubber, a small amount of the butyl synthetic rubber a cheap form of syn thetic rubber not generally used fo- military purposes and only about 3,000 tons of natural rub ber In 24 month. TORPEDO VICTIMS TAKEN ON U-BOAT LATERRELEASED Two Young Seamen Tell of Forced Visit Aboard Sub. Which Sank Their Ship. (By Associated Press) Two young seamen from a United States cargo ship, tha torpedoing of which was an nounced today (Tuesday) by the navy, told a story of being taken aboard the attacking U-boat and later being put afloat in a lifeboat. Cornelius F. O'Connor, 19, of Norfolk, Va., said the sub marine was forced to crash-dive to escape navy planes shortly after it took him iiid Raymond Smithson, 24, of Galveston. Tex., aboard. Their ship was sunk June 3 in the Caribbean, the navy announced, with 15 seamen still missing from a 45-man crew. 391 Ships Sunk The sinking boosted to 391 the unofficial Associated Press tabulation of united nations' and neutral merchant vessel lost in the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor. The seamen when put afloat in a lifeboat were stocked with water and hardtack. The hard tack, they said, was "unfit to feed a dog." Undersea raiders were credit ed with having picked off five other merchantmen in announce ments yesterday but were pic tured as having "missed .the boat" during big trans,-Atlantic, convoy -operation of last winter, - Tl" ""r that a single task, force, ha escorted 2,400 merchant craft across tha north Atlantic last winter witb loss of only eight ships. Portland, July 21 (IP) Ma- or . Brown or ine i-;r- sonnel division office, chief of ordnance, last night disclosed plans to recruit an all-Oreg 1 ordnance company of approxi mately 200 officers ar' en. The group will be Known as Comnanv B. will contain me chanics and machinists, and will la a combat outfit. The Associated Equipment Distributors tt Oregon are back ing the company. Freeman Ser- sanous, Portland, has oeen ap pointed chairman. Applicants will be Interviewed at the Med- ford hotel In Medford July Ventura. Calif.. July 21 . (AP) Joan Crawford who went from dancing to dramatic role on me screen, wa married today to Philip Terry, wno recently na had two picture role. The actress, 34-year-old former wife of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr, and of Franchot Tone, said she and her little known acting groom had taken out a license here several weeks ago, but kept it secret. Hollywood hardly had known they were acquainted; certainly did not know their romance wa serious. Alaska Delegate la Reqsssl for Acllsa Washington, July 21. UP) Delegate Dlmond of Alaska called on the war and navy de partments today to send a "first class force" to Alaska to oust the Japanese from the three Aleutian Islands they have oc cupied. "We fought the invaders at Midway but w haven't In tha Aleutians," Dimond said In an Interview. "If we had behaved the same way at Midway, tha Japs would have had Midway and some of the Hawaiian la- UuU kv thla tlrna.1
