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Let YOUR Aiuwtr to Bomb bo BONDSI Bur War Bonds aoS Stamps TODAY Contribute to tht war effort of your nation. Patriot Urn. rour own telf-protectlon. Semanil that SOU do foot part NUm Dm Tho MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Medford TRIBUNE Quick Roiulta t Small Cost Full Associated Prow United Praas Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1942. NO. 122. BRA rin ji m l'ffiMl'rfi SUA iyjwu i Jl i) News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 11 Racial feeling an always bitter, stupid, suicidal guide for pol itical action mauMwwoi 6eems now to nave emerged as a root cause of the inintelli gible positions of the Indian p o lit! cians. Both Nehru A4 n a n A K 1 jy have .-ather openly sug eested this in Paul Mailoo their recent statements. American observers, return ing from India recently, have complained they could not un derstand the insensibility of Nehru and Gandhi for the cause of world freedom when they wanted their own. Tnrlenenrience for India Is DOS- sible, only if the Anglo-American world cause wins. Other wise, such a defenseless nation would naturally pass under the dominance of its nearest axis neighbor, in this case Japan. .Obviously then, some Inspir ation, -other than a desire for freedom, must have made the Indian lea- s reject the full promises of independence from the British In favor of a policy which would bring them under Japanese control ,if fulfilled. ) The statements of Nehru and Gandhi finally complaining against racial discrimination, show what that inspiration was- For a parallel you must re call British experience in ad Joining Burma. There many Burmese foolishly chose to fight with the yellow, hordes from Japan and delivered themselves enthusiastically into the Nippon ese noose. Such a course, fren zied in its hatred, naturally does not make sense from any stand point. This Is not a racial war. China (Continued on Paja Pour) Low Incomes Escape Taxes Claims Taft Washington, Aug. 11 JP Senator Taft (R-Ohio) said today the new revenue bill approved bv the house would permit S36.- 000,000,000 income earned in the lower pay brackets to go un-taxed. Taft made this observation after Dr. Joseph J. Klein of New York City, former president of the New York state society of certified public accountants, had urged the senate finance committee to levy additional taxes on low income groups. Lieut. Commander Mildred H. McCaffee of the WAVES, strained alphabetical soup mean ing women appointed for volun tary emergency service, will make one of radio's leading guest appearances of the week during the CBS "womanpower' program next Sunday morning. She will discuss the naval aux iliary's plans for its training school at Smith college, North ampton, Mass. Wednesday: BLU Noon, Hambletonian stakes. SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Councilman J. C. Collins proudly displaying a gold cigar ette case with a map of Aus tralia on one side, which arrived Monday from his son 2nd. Lt. Hugh B. Collins who is with an anti-tank company in Aus tralia. . Betty Rose in a lengthy tele ' phone conversation with a friend. Carold Parker and Lester Mathes getting their heads .to gether on (1) veteran affairs, or (3) politics. Radio Highlights Terse Report Received From Islands Australia Re ceives Supplies of Value. By Roger D. Groona (Associated Press War Editor) "We are holding our own." . . In five words, the United States received word today indi cating that American marines were beating off furious Jap anese counterattacks in the five-day-old battle of the Solomon islands, 900 miles " northeast of Australia, as allied naval and air forces covered the long range invasion.- Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin, announcing at least an even break in the strug gle that may mark a turning- point of the far Pacific con flict, said allied gains so far apparently had greatly out weighed losses. Valuable Supplios At the same time, an Aus tralian government spokesman disclosed that shipments of sup plies of the "highest possible value which would "revolu tionize offensive operations in the north" had arrived in Aus tralia. Allied losses acknowledged yesterday by Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the U. S. fleet, included a cruiser sunk and damage to two cruis ers, two destroyers and a trans port. But Admiral King declared "a large number" of Japanese planes were destroyed and "sur face units put out of action" in America's first offensive of the war. In I typical axis propaganda broadcast, surpassing even Jap an's own extravagant claims, the Berlin radio asserted that the greater part of the U. S. troops who "attempted" to land at Tul agi, in the southeastern Solo mons, had been "annihilated" and their transports sunk. Little Information With the attacking forces us ing all communications to co ordinate their land, sea and air operations, the navy in Wash ington said early today there was no further information on the progress of the battle. Admiral King previously had said the Japanese, although taken by surprise, had counter attacked with rapidity and vigor. The attack was "our first as sumption of the initiative and the offensive, King said, add ing that the objective was to wrest back control of the Solo mons, which lie athwart the vital allied supply lines to Aus tralia. Assaults Widan Such a move would be neces sary as the first step in a full- scale allied offensive to drive the enemy out of the whole threatening umbrella of Jap anese invasion bases north of Australia, ranging from the Solomons in the east to Java in the west. Widening assaults by allied bombers were reported striking at the Japanese on the fringes of the main theater as united nations fliers blasted Rabaul, New Britain, northwest of the Solomons. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's United (Editor's Notoi Still far from homo but rid of their Japanese Jailers and back again, rested and fed. In the western world, tho men who were on tho spot in Asia now are free to tell tho whole story. (Morris J. Harris, veteran chief of the former Associated Press bureau at Shanghai, and J. D. White, Associated Press correspondent homeward bound from Pelping, saw the Chinese carrying en with in domitable courage. Max Hill, returning from his post as As sociated Press chief of bureau in Tokyo, saw the strain of war on Japan's merchant fleet. Rescued From Ice Cap This picture, taken from a circling navy rescue plane, shows crewmen of a U. S. army flying fortress bomber gathered about thoir craft after a fuel shortage forced it to land on its belly on the Greenland ico cap. A navy patrol bomber took tho man off in a daring rescue. British Carrier Sunk London, Aug. 11. (IP) The German radio, In a special an nouncement, reported that the British aircraft carrier Eagle had been sunk by a German submarine today in the western Medit erranean. Four torpedoes hit the ship, the radio said. The Eagle was in a strongly . protected convoy and was at tacked "at mid-day," according to the Germans. The Eagle, completed in 1018, had a displacement of 22,600 tons with a completement of 748 and carried 21 aircraft.. ' As usual when German claims of this nature are made, British official circles said "no com ment." ... - War plane Parts Makers Walk Out Cleveland, Aug. 11-Mfl") A walkout by members of the In dependent mechanics education al society of America today vir tually halted production at the two plants of the Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co., major producer of warplane parts. William Bullock, union busi ness agent, termed the work stoppage a "labor holiday" call ed in protest against "discrim inatory discharges" and said idleness of 4,000 of the com pany's 3,000 employes "com pletely shut down" the plants. Planes Over S. F. Bring Early Alert San Francisco. Aug. 11 (JP) A 3-minute preliminary air raid elert in the San Francisco area ended at 8:3 a. m. today after unidentified planes had been identified as friendly. The th fighter command or dered the alert at 8:09 a. m. as the planes were reported ap proaching offshore. headquarters said 13 and pos sibly 19 Japanese planes had been destroyed in the last three days at Rabaul, while allied bombers hit three enemy vessels including a large destroyer off Dutch Timor. Aside from the Solomons, other ground fighting was de veloping in New Guinea, where the allies drove back enemy troops in the Kokda sector, 60 miles east of the key united na tions base at Port Moresby. States Aid Gives Chinese New Courage (They and other Americans have reached Rio do Janairo aboard tho repatriation ship Gripsholm.) By Morris J Harris and J. D. Whits ' Rio de Janeiro, Aug. II JP) United States bombers have gone to. Chins snd spurred her to s new faith In the sixth year of a war she has fought alone until now, and still fights with unwavering sacri fice and devotion. Now American bombers have raided Tokyo. Now they blast Japan's ammunition dumps and camps In China and China's 400, 000.000 have new faith in their leaden and the long-range course Metal Key Removed From Tors Throat Philadelphia. Aug. 11 UPi Sitting up in bed with her dolls. four-year-old Sharon Bell agreed witn daddy today it was too bad he had rushed all the way from Vancouver, B. C, only to miss her operation by two hours. Last night Dr. C. L. Jackson of Temple university hospital's broncho-scopic clinic removed from Sharon's throat a tiny metal key the kind you use to open tin cans. Americans Bomb Japs In Hankow Chungking, Aug. 11 (IP) Fighter-escorted American bom bers in a low-altitude attack on Hankow and vicinity bombed newly constructed warehouses and other objectives yesterday, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwells headquarters announced today. Hankow, Japan's greatest Inland base in China, is on the Yangtze river and has been a frequent target of the American bombers. Oldsters Suffer In City Traffic Portland, Aug. 11 (VP) A break-down of the 33 traffic fat alities in Portland this year shows that 16 were pedestrians, all but two of them over 65 years of age, traffic Capt. WU liam C. Epps said today. He said the figures showed the need for elderly persons to use more care in crossing streets. BASEBALL National New York 6 11 0 Boston 4 10 0 Mungo, Adams and Dannlng; Tobln and Lombard!, Masi. they follow. Didn't they predict China and the United States to gether would whip Japan? Even Jap Pupoots Beginning to Waver Even Japan's Chinese puppets have begun to waver. They have told American missionary doc tors In the over-run areas how they and the forces under them now are holding on, playing at cooperation with the enemy because non-cooperation means death for themselves and all the Chinese around them until the day comes to strike. To sympathetic American ears they whisper that they have learned that there Is no such thing as cooperation with the Nazis in Ruthless Effort Uprising of Conquered . i SENT TO A I D OF 13 More Killed, 30 Injured In Outbreaks Demons trations Spread in Country Bombay, Aug. 11. (IP) British troops, some armed with machine guns, came to the aid of police today as 13 more per sons were killed and 30 Injured in 10 instances in which gunfire was used to break up Bombay mobs participating in Mohandas K. Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign. The toll of casualties since out breaks began Sunday thus was brought to 28 dead and more than 200 injured, with disorders and mill stoppages spreading wider over India and Indications that dreaded commual rioting between Hindus and Moslems might break out The Bombay government an nounced that troops had partici pated In the firing on crowds on one or two occasions. Police marched in formation through the various disturbed sections, Disorders -Spread Work was Interrupted ai the General Motors assembly plant in Bombay. The Ford assembly plant continued in operation. From Bombay on the west coast to Calcutta on the east coast came reports of demons trations, hartals (the closing of stores) and goondaism (rowdy ism) as the call for a total shut down of trade spread to Mohan das K. Gandhi's turbulent fol lowers with a. promise from their leaders of victory in two months in what they called their "final struggle" against British rule. Police said the slightest spark might touch off rioting between the sub-continent's opposing re ligious groups, Hindus and Mos lems. Film Star Stewart . Made Bombadier Albuquerque, N. M., Aug. 11 (IP) First Lieut- James M Stewart, thu film star, today started an assignment as bom bardier pilot at the army air base in Albuquerque. Officers said Stewart, whose movie roles set feminine hearts throbbing, would perform usual duties in flying twin-motored advanced training planes on missions to teach bombardier cadets their craft. Invitation Members of the M-dford Garden club have been Invited to visit W. J. Warner's gladioli planting near Central Point Thursday at 8 a. m. The field is situated west of Central Point and may be found by turn ing left at the Intersection in Central Point and continue on the paved road to the C. H. Tay lor ranch. Members wishing transportation may telephone Mrs. Thcmas Roseberry, 2686. Japanese, only slavery under Japanese masters. China's war effort is In top gear. Behind the lines, far from smoke of countless dally bat tles, millions of Chinese men, women and children toil In thoussnds of smsll factories. China's war factories, bombed by the Chinese almost without opposition for five years, are scattered and camouflaged In hundreds of mud-walled vil lages. Not only are the arsenal of China's struggle for survival, they also are the pattern of a new Chins. They raise commun ity living standards and spread employment and wealth to the Improver lshed laboring classes. RED FLEET BASES PERILED BY NAZ Russians Admit Invader Within 60 Miles of Novo rosskisk, Tuapse Bases. (By The Associated Press) Tank-led German troops were reported imperiling the Red fleet's Black Sea naval bases 'at Novorossisk and Tuapse deep in the Western Caucasus today, while in the jiorth a Vichy broadcast asserted that fighting was in progress within Stalin grad's defense zone. The broadcast said there were Indications that the Germans would shortly launch a general assault on the great Volga river industrial city. Another Vichy report de clared that Nazi columns, strik ing more than half way down the Caucasus on the road to the vast Baku oil fields, were ad vancing on Mozdok and Ord zhonlkidze. - - - Admits Retreat Mozdok lies about 380 miles northwest of Baku and 70 miles above the important Grozny oil center, Ordzhonikidze is SO miles southwest of Grozny. Soviet dispatches acknowl edged that the Red armies were falling back from the burning Maikop oil fields and that sep arate German columns were within 60 miles of the Novoros sisk and Tuapse naval bases as the invaders spread out through the northern foothills of the Caucasus mountains. As the crisis grew darker by the hour, official Soviet news papers appealed to the Red ar mies to save Russia, and Red Star, the army organ, declared: 'The fate of our country is being decided in the violent bat tles of the Don and the Kuban." Red Star quoted an 18th cen tury Russian general who told his troops: "We are surrounded by moun tains ... we cannot expect help from anybody ... we stand on the edge of the abyss ..." Chut Troops Used Front line dispatches said the Germans were showering para chute troops behind the Russian lines near Kotelnlkovskl, 95 miles below Stalingrad, but said the aerial invaders were being promptly mopped up. Military advices pictured the whole region from Kletskaya, 75 miles northwest of Stalin grad, to the south as land of flames, with the cherry orchards and steppe homes of the Cos sacks smashed and burning and the skies darkened by mass flights of Nazi planes. A bulletin from Nazi field headquarters declared the Rus sians were attempting to flee from the back sea ports of Nov orossisk, Tuapse and Anapa, and said German warplanes stepping up their attacks on embarka tion movements had sunk 11 transports. When the war ends they will make ploughs instead of swords. Walt and Pounce Is Chlnoss Gams At the front, huge armies con tinue to play their old game of wait-end pounce, wily scheme which has kept the Invaders at bay despite his wealth of arm ament. The Chinese pay heavily In men because the Japanese know ths game now and blast at the Inexhaustible manpower which flows against them. But China's millions keep coming. More millions of Communist and other guerrilla forces harry the Invaders' communications, ambush his transports, massscrt 1 Commander Col. Robert T. Frederick (above) has boon named to com mand an American-Canadian force of super-commandos train ing at Hslona, MonU and made up of picked specialist! In para chute and marina landings. T San Francisco, Aug. 11 (IP) Lieut. Comdr. Maurice N- Aroff today awaited formal an nouncement of the findings of a six-man naval court martial which' tried him on several charges of misconduct and false hood, one of which accused him of accepting a $950 automobile from Tony Martin to facilitate the singer's enlistment. The proceedure of naval courts provides that only deci sions of innocence are announ ced, since a decision of guilty must go to Washington for re view. The courtroom was clear ed late yesterday and Aroff was not notified tha". he had been found Innocent on any of the charges. British Asylum Is Hit By Bomb London, Aug. 11 (JP) Sev eral patients and staff members of an east Anglian metal insti tute were killed last night by a direct hit from s German plane during raids on east Anglia and southeast England. Emergency squads tolled through tha night to recover the dead and rescuo the injured at the Institution. By noon 12 bodies had been brought out of two flattened wards. PILCHARD SEASON POOR Astoria, Ore., Aug. 11. UP) Pilchard fishermen, disappointed- over a poor north Pacific season, headed for California waters today. More than 20 boats cut short operations out of here after bad weather persist ently handicapped their search for schools. outlying garrisons and sabotage I his political snd economic! schemes in the dominated re gions. I Evene poorer armed than the ; regulars, the guerrillas show a , morale and courage which flames mora passionately today than ever. Last spring and summer, the Japanese sent division after di vision igainst the Communists In North Chins In whst was an nounced as the finsl anti-guerrilla mop-up. The Japanese an nounced, as usual, that the guer rillas were annihilated. Ths next night the hit-and-run fight ers of China captured six welled county seats where they lust hsd been "sxsunged." II . i a imi . to Nip Peoples FRANCE SEETHES TAKE HEAVY TOLL 93 Executed in Paris 6 Czechs Added to List Laval Fears Coup Attempt By The Associated Press Second-front talk Inm-Mii t- Eurorje's conmierevf nniinn. day as nazi firing-squads took neariy iuu more lives and tho. Germans clamped down with ruthless new measures to pre vent an uprising in the event of an Allied invasion of Europe. Ninety-three Frenchmen were) executed In Par. nnH six Czechs in old Czecho-Slov- akia, the latter on charges of "high treason and facoring tho enemy." France seethed with hlttur unrest. Roundabout reports from Vichy said pro-German rremier rienre Laval had called up police and troop reinforce menu to protect the hated Vichy regime against rumored coup d'etat. - . 200 Dutch Seltad .-..' Simultaneously, -the, Dutch, news agency Aneta quoted Swiss reports, that the Germans had seized 200 more Dutch hostage to Do ".held responsible . with their Uvea far th MnHnt a The Netherlands people in the event of a British invasion of Holland." Mora than 1.500 nrnmliwnt Dutch clergymen, ' physicians and business men had previous ly been taken as hostages by the Germans, Aneta said, in their at tempt to forestall a bloody re volt when the Allies attempt to onen a second front in wMl.m Europe. Dispatches from Bern, Swit zerland, said the Germans had threatened renrisala avalnat every man, woman and child in occupier r ranee as an alter, math of new antl-nazl out breaks. Actor Afwill Faces New Perjsry C&srgs Los Angeles. Aug. 11 -OPh- Actor Lionel Atwill was Indict ed by the grsnd Jury today on a charge of perjuring himself June 30 when he was questioned about reports of immoral acts Involving a 16 year old girl at a party at his home. Atwill previously hsd been In dicted by the 1941 county grsnd Jury on s perjury charge in tes timony about purported wild parties at his home. Tha actor will be tried September 15 on both charges. He is at liberty under $2,500 bond. Two Die In Crash North Of Yreka Vreka, Calif.. Aug. 11 UPV A state guardsman and a Yreka high school girl were killed to day and two other guSrdsrosn and another girl were injured gravely in an sutomobllo acci dent north of nere. The deed: Rlchsrd Blankhetm, 20, of Redding; Bessls Atteber rr, 17, of Yreka- Convicted Traitor "In Hell Of Mess" Would Hedge Bet Milsn. Mich, Aug. 11 ) Max Stephsn, 50-year-old German-born American trai tor, sentenced to hang Nov. 13, has lost his bravado, and has told his attorney: "I'm In a hell of a mess." "I never said," ths rotund Stephsn declared yesterday, "that I'd bet all tha tea In China, or anything else, that I wouldn't hang." Stephan had shouted after his sentence that "Germany wtlinMetrneJisngJJ AS FIRING SQUADS I
