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V Let YOUR Aruwar to Bombi b BONDSI Bur War Bond ant (Ump TODAY Contribute to tha irar effort of four nation. Patriot Im. four own aril-protection, ormanda that YOU do your part NO Wl Dm Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Medford Tribune Quick Results t Small Coat Full Aaaociatad Praaa q- Jnited Press MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942. NO. 123. Thirty seventh Year. o enuMns am ta . i News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 12 Sena torial courtesy prevented the fi nance committeemen from say ing openly what they think of the house tax bill, but behind their hands they do not gee "how a bill so filled with disastrous mis takes could have been passed" by the other branch Paul MaJloo 01 congress. The corporation tax rate was fixed by the house at 45 percent of net income and 90 percent of excess profits, so offhand any one would figure that business would be able to earn at least half of what it earned in pre-war days. Apparently that was what the house thought. But when the senate commit tee started prowling back into the complicated new administra tive restrictions on interest pay ments, altered allowances for d;bt retiren. nt, and provisions forcing business to abandon its fiscal year system, it discovered the bill would throw lot of businesses into the unprofitable class. For instance, the Glidden com pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, (mak ing cuprous oxide for shipbuild ing and paints) showed that its ' profit margin had been cut so much by taxes and price ceilings that a change in its fiscal year bookkeeping system ttr the cal endar year, would leave it $498,674 short of being able to meet its taxes this year. In other words, 't has planned for its taxes on a fiscal year basis, and thus has made insuf ficient provisions to pay its taxes under the house scheme. THE Rome Cable Corporation, of Rome, New York, a rapidly-growing new business making cables vital to war communica tions, submitted figures indicate lng it would not be able to make expansions demanded by the army and pay taxes, although it was grossing more money than ever before. Its sales for the sec ond quarter this year were at (Continued on Paga Pour I Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) That good old tear Jerker, 'Ten Nights In a Bar Room," first presented in 1858, will be dusted off for the Tent Show over NBC Friday at 7:30 p. m. Nannette Sargent will sing "Father, Dear Father, Come Home with Me Now." Thursday: MBS, 7, boxing, Bobby Ruffin vs. Bob Mont gomery. 930 SURVIVORS LISTED FROM AIRCRAFT CARRIER London, Aug. 12 W The admiralty announced tonight that 930 survivors of the torpe oed aircraft carrier Eagle have been accounted for thus far, in cluding Captain L. D. Mackin 1 tosh, the commander. t Seattle, Aug. 12. (IP) An other of the series of auxiliary aircraft carriers being built for the navy at the Tacoma yards of the Scattle-Tacoma Shipbuild ing Corp. will be launched Sat urday, headquarters of the 13th naval district said today. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bert Orr being designated as the "nicest man in town" when he donated his dessert to a hun gry maiden. Carl Tcngwald hobnobbing at the police station In an unof ficial visit, i Ex-Mayor Earl Gaddis drop ping around for a social call. Lt. Thompson, towering Texan of the 91st, on a hurry-up trip to town. 1 !T'--";W' k'W Mil IMS LEFT IN WAKE OF INVADING FORCE Huge Masses of Nazi Tanks Rip Red Lines Counter Attacks Claimed Worrying Berlin (From German Broad casts), Aug. 12 m The de struction of the bulk of the Soviet 62nd army, with capture of 57.000 Drisoners. and the rip. ttruction of more than 1,000 tanks and 7S0 guns, was report ed today by the .German high command, which said this com pleted the great battle into the Caucasus mountains. Since the spring campaign be gan. 1.044.741 Red armv soldiers have been captured, the high command reported in special and regular communiques. (By Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's field headquar ters claimed sweeping new suc cesses in the battles of the Don river and the Caucasus today while the Russians acknowl edged a new German advance toward Stalingrad on the Volga and declared whole cities were aflame on the trail of the Nazi invaders. Soviet dispatches said huge masses of German tanks sup ported by planes ripped Into the Russian lines northeast of Kotel nikovski, 95 miles below Stalin grad, and broke through the Red army defenses. Finally Stepped The assault 'Was finally stop ped, Red Star said. Despite the Nazi boasts of spectacular successes, British military sources declared that Soviet resistance was stiffening on all fronts. These quarters said Red army counter-attacks in the Voronezh and Rzhev sectors, south and northwest of Moscow, respec tively, were beginning to worry the Germans Nazi claims were discounted as greatly exaggerated. A Nazi communique conceded that Marshal Semeon Timoshen ko's armies had launched new counter-blows northwest of Vo ronezh, 300-odd miles above the Stalingrad battle area, but de clared that German armored columns were sweeping inexor ably deeper into the Caucasus. Axis-allied Rumanian troops were credited with capturing Slavyansk. 25 miles northwest of .Krasnodar, while Nazi war planes attacked Russian troops attempting to flee at Black sea ports between Taupse and Anapa. Transports Sunk The German command said Nazi bombers sank two more transports and damaged six others along the Black sea coast. The Russians themselves paint ed a black picture of the vast struggle except in the Kletskaya sector, 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad, where the German onslaught against the big Volga steel city was said to have been Finallq Stopped Soviet dispatches conceded that the Red armies were falling back amid bloody fighting in the wild lands of the Caucasian foothills and that the Germans Gen. Ott Will He Ordered Portland, Aug. 12. (Spl.) Brieadier-General E. S. Ott, in charge of the field artillery bri gade at Medford, this week-end is to see fulfillment of an order he issued September 28. 1918, while in the Argonne. It's a long story as unfolded by Fred Angell, Portlander, the man who is to deliver the pack age ordered by General Ott some 24 years ago. Here is Angells story as re lated Tuesday: On September 28, 1918, Gen eral Ott then Lieutenant Ott wrote an order requesting Carpi Fred Angell to hike five miles to a YMCA canteen and pur chase a carton of cigarettes for him. , Corporal Angell trekked the Gandhi's Mohandas Gandhi's "do or dla" aealots defied police bullets tint after tlma in Bombay and elsewhere in response to the All-India congress campaign of mass civil disobedience against British rule. Here Gandhi (center), confers with leaders of the All-India Congress: Mau lana Abdul Kalan Asad (right), tha party's president, and J. B Kripalani (left), general secre tary of the party. Gandhi and Kalan Asad were under arreit. Awoclatad Press photo from March of Time. Clark Gable to Seek Buck Private's Role In Air Force of Army Los Angeles, Aug. 12 (IP) Clark Gable, swashbuckling film adventurer who is giving up one. of the top salaries in Hollywood to become a buck private In the army air force, will receive three-months' basic training at Miami, Fla., and then make application for offi cers' training school. This was announced today by Major James F. Brower, execu tive officer for army recruiting in southern California. Gable's enlistment at a strictly private ceremony was scheduled for 2 p. m. PWT). "Even movie stars will be barred," Major Brower said. "We don't want any ladles cutting off his coat." Gable will leave immediately by train for Florida. "He said he doesn't want to sell bonds or pour pink tea for society ladies," Major Brower said. "He told me he wants to be a regular soldier, that he wants to see action." PELLEY TO SERVE 15 YEARS IN PEN Indianapolis, Aug.. 12. MP) William Dudley Pelley, founder and leader of the Silver Shirts of America, was sentenced to day to 15 years in priran in the first major sedition case since America's entry into the war. Federal Judge Robert C. Balt zell imposed the sentence after denying a defense motion for a new trial. were less than 150 miles from Ordzhonikidze, near the rich Grozny oil fields, more than half way down the Caucasus land bridge to the middle east. Get Smokes 24 Years Ago distance and arrived at the can teen to find it closed. He walked back to camp, keeping the written order in his pocket. On October 28, 1918, Cor poral Angell helped carry Lieut enant Ott soma two miles cross country to an ambulance and send him to a hospital for aid of some 18 wounds, suffered dur ing an attack. Sunday, this week, Angell read in a newspaper story that Brigadier-General E. S. Ott was stationed at Medford, and Tues day learned it was his former lieutenant. So Angell has made arrange ments to dr'.ve to Medford Sat urday with a photostatic copy of the written order and a car ton of cigarettes and deliver them in person to General Ott. Followers Defy British Marines Battle Japanese Hand-to-Hand in Islands By Roger D. Greene ' Associated. Press War Editor ,.,,... Sea-borne American invasion forces, officially "described as trained in "new twists to the business of killing Japs." bat tled the enemy in fierce hand-to-hand fighting in the Solomon Island Jungles 900 miles northeast of Australia today, and the navy In Washington declared: 'The marines have opened the door to an allied offensive in the South Pacific." . A correspondent of the Aus tralian broadcasting commission reported from an advanced al lied base that "there is a general feeling that our forces are still making progress toward their objective that is, the occupa tion of the islands In the Tulagi area." The correspondent said "Unit ed States marines and other ahock troops" apparently were (irmly established in their coun-' tor-invasion footholds. While detailed information was lacking on developments in the six-day-old battle, a Wash ington communique declared operations were continuing on the tiny but strategically import ant island of Tulagi, in the southeastern Solomons. A Tokyo broadcast, quoting Captain Shoichi Kamada, Jap anese naval spokesman at Shanghai, persisted in the fic tion that the battle was over and termed it a one-night encounter. The county courthouse will be closed all day Saturday to per mit county office workers to at tend the 91st Division activation ceremonies at Camp White next Saturday from 8 o'clock to noon, it was announced today by County Judge J. B. (Blin) Cole man. Most stores in this city will be closed. Ordinarily on Saturday the courthouse closes at 1 o'clock. America Spends $107,392 Minute In War Effort Washington. Aug. 12 UP) The United States spent $4,794 000,000 for war pur poses' last month $107,392 a minute. The July total, announced yesterday by the office of war information, brought war spending from June 1940 through last July to $39,559, 000,000 in disbursement by the treasury, and expendi tures by the Reconstruction Finance corporation and its ibMlhrW, EIGHT TAKE OATH Seven aliens became natural ized American citizens and one was repatriated in naturaliza tion proceedings before Judge James Alger Fee in U. S. district court Tuesday afternoon. Be cause of other urgent business of the court, the usual program was not held but each new citi zen was presented an American flag by Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini, on behalf of the D. A. R. Those admitted to citizenship were George Washington Ted- rick, Route 2, box 168: Rudolf Heller, Rogue River; Amelia Topovac Chamberlain, Marsh- field; Victor Dallaire, 918 South Holly street; Olga H- Piatt, 240 South Grape street; Alex D. Davis of 313 Mae street, whose last name was changed from Dockas, and Mike Hadrich, of Grants Pass, whose name was changed from Marko Vidovich. Repatriated was Ethel Emma Warren Thanos of 227V4 South Central avenue. Washington, Aug. 12 Attorney General Biddle said to day that treason charges may be brought against more than six of the 14 persons charged with aiding the eight Nazi saboteurs. six of whom were electrocuted Saturday. Those against whom the evi dence does not Justify treason charges may be indicted under some lesser statute, the attorney general said at a press confer ence. Diabetes Death Showing Increase Washington, Aug. 12. HP) The census bureau today re ported a steadily Increasing death rate caused by diabetes. Total deaths in 1940 were 35, 015, the greatest number ever recorded, the bureau said. The death rate per 100,000 of 26 8 was tha highest in 40 years of census record STORE EMPLOYES TO HELP HARVEST PEARS OF VALLEY Four-Point Plan Designed to Free 630 For Part Time Work Aug. 15 to Oct. 1. A four-point plan drawn by a committee composed of Jackson County Chamber of Commerce representatives and valley fruit growers and packers, designed to free a required 630 men from their regular employment to aid in the fruit harvest between August 15 and October 1, was announced today by a chamber official. Endorsed by the retail mer chants association, the plan in cludes the following points: (1) Each store to list with the United States Employment Serv ice all men in their organization who are willing to work in the fruit harvest. (2) Orcharlsts or hiring agen cies to use not more than 20 per cent of the men listed from any one organization in any single day. (3) No men are to be used from any retail stores on Satur days. (4) Men may work Sundays if they choose. For Heavy Work The chamber official ex plained that, while it now ap pears a sufficient number of women and young people will volunteer to handle the picking and packing, the chief problem 1 to obtain the service of (30 men who will be required to do the heavy work. These men are absolutely essential, it was em phasized, and must be supplied at all costs since the perishable fruits must be processed and shipped, or placed in cold stor age without delay. Explaining that the need for this labor will likely appear the middle of next week, the cham ber official asked all local mer chants to canvass their emplayes and send their lists to the em ployment service as soon as pos sible. Every effort will be made to expedite the crop harvest without hardship on anyone if It can be avoided, the official stated. C-C CAN SUPPLY PENNANTS. FUGS The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce announced today a few extra sets of red, white and blue strip pennants and American flags were available for decoration purposes In con nection with the activation day celebration of the 91st Infantry Division next Saturday morning and business firms or private homes desiring to obtain sets were urged to contact the cham ber at once. Over 80 business firms have purchased pennants and flags with which to decorate their store fronts, Frank Hull, man ager, stated, and added that it was hoped all stores in the city, and as many home a possible, would display the colors for the activation day celebration. Associated Press Writer Missing On Flight to New Guinea Front General MacArthur's Head quarters, Australia, Aug. 12 (IP) Vern Haugland, Associated Press staff man, was listed as missing today five days after a plane in which he was a passen ger disappeared in a storm. The plan was en route from north east Australia to .'he New Guinea war front. '- There still was hope that the plane might have made an emer gency landing at some Inaccessi ble spot In New Guinea or on one of the iV?t off Australia. Haugland, 31. had waited at Townsville, Australia, for sever al days for transportation to New Guinea. The opportunity came Aug. 7, when by a toss of coin h woo a teat in tha lead BASEBALL National First game. New York . 0 Boston 1 Schumacher, Adams and Man- cuso, Danning; J a v e r y "and BluttZ. Score: R. H. Z. Philadelphia 0 4 1 Brooklyn 14 1 Melton and Livingston; French and Owen. First game: R. H. E. St. Louis 9 11 1 Chicago 4 11 4 Beazley, Dickson and W. Coop er; Lee, Bithorn and McCul lough. x American First game Detroit 4 11 0 Cleveland 2 8 1 Benton, Hensha and Parsons; Smith, Kennedy. Embree and Denning. DOYLE COWLES IS SEVERELY BURNED IN 2:10 A. M. FIRE Doyle Cowfes of 1517 West Main street was receiving medi cal treatment at Sacred Heart hospital today 'or second degree burns received early this morn ing, when two rooms of his resi dence were badly scorched. Officials of the city fir de partment who were called to the blaze at 2:10 a. m said that fast work with a garden hose, by Dal Carr, a neighbor. ptobably - saved the life of Cowles. The fir evidently caused by a cigarette, according to firemen, started in a corner of the room and spread rapidly to an adjoining room. Cowles was asleep and when awakened by the blaze, was ap parently startled at finding his home on fire and ran through the blaze, it was reported, in an attempt to escape. He was found on the dining room floor and revived shortly. He was painful ly burned on his back, both arms, full length and on the neck ind face, the attending physician reported. The residence, a two-story building, was badly scorched in two rooms and the fir was put out by Carr and the city pump er from the fire department. Cowles was taken to the hospital by Perl' ambulance. FT. WILL PLAY HERE The 115th Cavalry band from Ft. Lewis, Wash., directed by Warrant Officer Karl Weihe and consisting of 24 pieces, arrived at Camp White by train this morning to provide tha musical background for the activation program of the 91st Infantry di vision ai Camp Whit Saturday morning. All members of tha band are from Wyoming, from which were drawn many of the soldiers making up the original division of World war I, and the band's motto is "Powder River--Let Er Buck," same as that of the 1 91st. ing plane of several that were to make the trip. Soma distance from Towns ville th planes ran Into a storm. When they emerged, the first and second plane were missing. Haugland' next of kin are hi mother and a lister, Mrs. M. D. Cannan, both residing at Inglewood, Calif. He was unmar ried. Haugland 1 th second Asso ciated Press correspondent mist ing as a result of th Pacific war. D. Witt Hancock. 33, a native of Bluefield, W. V., ha not been heard from sine March 3. when h was attempting to escape from tha Japanese ad vance in Java, HAM FISH LEADS ISOLATIONISTS I N Pre-War Views Discounted by Voters in at Least 4 Out of 5 State Elections. By the Associated Praaa Pre-war foreign view a a general political issue were dis counted in at least four of five states today as primary returns gave a wide majority of office holder victories over opponent who had assailed them as isola tionists. Example number one In na tional interest was the veteran representative Hamilton Fish, pre-Pearl Harbor critic of Presi dent Roosevelt's foreign policy, who won Republican nomination in the president's home district over three opponent in yester day's balloting. Fight To Continue Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Re publican presidential nomine) who had joined with Fish' intra -party opponents, asserted in commenting on the congress man's lead that "for the sake both of the country and of tha Republican party the fight iaT his elimination must be contin ued." fc The vote in th 20th Ohio district, however, seemed to re flect another view when th Democratic voter rejected Rep. Martin L. Sweeney's bid for re- nomination. He was a pre-war opponent of administration poli cies and a veteran housa mem ber. Michael A.'-Felgnan, Cleve land lawyer, was th winner.1' But two Ohio Republican rep resentatives who were also at tacked as isolationists, Charles H. Elston of the first district (Cincinnati) and John M. Vory of tha 12th (Columbus) built up strong, early leads. . Other New York congressmen who weathered th cry of bo-fore-the-war-isolationlsm includ ed Representative Edwin - A. Hall, Binghampton Republican; Daniel A. Reed, western New York Republican; Vito Marcan tonio, American labor party left wing leader, and three New York City Democrats, William B. Barry, James A. O'Leary and Martin J. Kennedy. Coffee Lose in Nebraska In Nebraska, Representative Harry B. Coffee, campaigned against on his congressional rec ord prior to the war, lost tha Democratic senate nomination to Foster May, Omaha radio an nouncer. V Th Republican nomination to the senate seat now held by George W. Norris, veteran inde pendent, was won by Kennetrt S Wherry, Republican midwest director. Norris did not compete in the primary. Governor Dwlght Grlswold easily won Republican designa tion hi the gubernatorial contest. Tha Democratic nomination seemed assured for former Gov ernor Charles W. Bryan. Two incumbent representatives, Karl Stefan, Norfolk Republican, and Charles McLaughlin, Omaha Democrat, also had commanding leads for renomination. Meanwhile, selection of dele gates to New York state's Demo cratic convention, Aug. 19, offi cially started th battle for nomination pledge for Senator James M. Mead and State Attor ney General John J. Bennett, Jr., in a test of presidential in fluence on (election of th par ty's nominee for governor. Mead carries the endorsement of Mr. Roosevelt and Bennett it supported by James A. Farley. Senator John Thomas of Idaho also labelled a non-supporter of administration measure before the war, accumulated a wido lead for Republican renomina tion. Tha Arkansas run-off primary gavt former Representativ John L. McLellan th Democra tic nomination for senator over Attorney General Jack Holt. SALEM RESTAURANTS ASK VOLUNTEER HELP Salem, Aug. 12 VP) Salem restaurant operator began today asking their women customer to volunteer a waltresse and cooks during rush hours. Th operator said they can't find enough regular inploY. ' . PRIMARY VICTORY
