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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1942.
NO. 123.
Thirty seventh Year.
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enuMns am ta .
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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