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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942.
NO. 104.
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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.
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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-
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