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Let YOUR Answer to Bombs be BONPSI Buy Bondi and stamps TOI'AV Conlnhuli to tht war effort of your nation. Patriot Urn. our own eelr-prnteelloB, drmandi that VOU 4o font part NOWI Medford Dm Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results I Small Coat TlIBUNE Full Auociated Praia Unitad Praia Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1942. NO. 128. BS ATTACK MS) fo)M A M WW News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 18 The CIO, and other professedly lib eral elements, are crying out that the new tax bill "soaks the poo r," meaning the union war worker. This is some what true. Orthodox lib eralism, as pro fessionally con ducted in this country the past 20 years, Paul Mallon has always cried out against every tax bill on the same grounds, and suc cessfully urged that it soak the corporations and the rich in stead. With equal political astute ness, and less success, business has generally cried "wolf" against tax bills, saying each of these would make business un profitable, cause a breakdown in our profits system. The wolf, gentlemen, now Is here. The liberals do not want to see him, and the congression al taxmakers ' have become so befuddled at noticing his nose indisputably confronting them, that they have been kicking the subject of needed new war rev enue around for six months or more, and now are acting as if they would like to put it all off until after elections. , ; ' ' ""' ,;' WHAT has caused the delay in the new tax bill, it is now clear, is that the House Ways and Means committee and the Senate Finance committee have discovered that the ten-year-old program of increased taxes on corporations and the rich has lifted these rates to the ceiling. There is just no more blood in those turnips. Existing taxation, without the new increases of the pending bill, is already forcing down di vidends, making even accelerat ed war business less profitable than normal peacetime business. If you want any proof of this, turn over to the stock market page and read price quotations and dividends now, as compared with last year, or five years ago. A new and yet unappreciated sit uation has thus arisen in tax ation. . a FACED with the necessity of raising more war revenue now, and with maintaining col ossal taxes to pay the interest on an expected debt of $200,000, 000,000 or more after the war, the congressional tax makers ( Continued on Paia Pour) Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) New York. Aug. 18. (Wide World) It's a new Henry Aid rich you are hearing as the pro gram starts its fourth season on NBC. Norman Tokar, character actor, had the part last week on the re-opening and will be on again Thursday night. Tuning tonight: Blue, S, Roy Porter comment; 6:30, This Na tion at War; 7:15, Postmaster General Walker on "War Aims and Peace Terms." What to expect Wednesday: NBC, 9:30 a. m., Nellie Revell interviews Pert Kelton. ' SIDE GLANCES Br TRIBUNE REPORTERS Bill Van Dyke having a hard time getting his 1918 Ford con vertible in good running order nd calling on about five per sons, including several army boys for a push. Rotary Prexy Leonard B. Mayfield being "executed" for "subversi.-e activities" by a 81st division firing squad. Dan (United Press) Bowerman hardly setting foot in the old home town before being called upon for a speech, and making (ood one, too. T LINE Timoshenko Counterattacks Show Strength Invaders Cross Kuban. Bf Eddia Gllmor Moscow, Aug. 18 (P) Red army troops counterattacking southwest of Stalingrad were reported today to have thrown the Germans into retreat and re occupied an important line even while the Invaders wedged into Don bend defenses above that area and forcec. two more cross ings of the Kuban river in the Krasnodar sector. Military dispatches said the Russian forces generally im proved ther positions in the area above Kotelnikovskl, where a German task force has been striking up the Stalingrad Novorossisk rail line toward the Volga. The counterattack appeared the strongest Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's men had under taken since the Invaders crossed the lower reaches of the Don. Several miles lost by the Rus sians were regained in assaults upon enemy-occupied hills and the army newspaper Red Star said several invasion firing points were destroyed. . While shock troops occupied a defense section which had been hurriedly erected by the Ger mans and their Rumanian allies, other Red army forces strength ened their positions guarding the lower Volga and Stalingrad. Izvestla said Russian infantry, artillery and tanks "fulfilled their order to halt the enemy by all means" in the Kletskaya sec tor, northwest of Stalingrad. Pravda reported that a Rus sian "descent group" penetrated the German rear in this sector, fought off attacks by German planes and troops, and killed 300 Germans in a two-day battle with two battalions of enemy in fantry. The dispatch did not specify whether the descent group were parachutists or plane borne troops. On the Voronezh battlefield fierce fiehting was reported de veloping for control of a section of the west bank of the Don. Aerial activity there was re stricted temporarily by heavy rainstorms. Izvestia said Rumanian and Hungarian troops were being hurled into the fight in an ef fort to recapture important points which the Russians had taken in counterattacks. LI vlom.lh Valla. Aug. 18 (AP) "Work, fight or go to Jail," was Acting Police Chier tan neu .,.!' .Hirf tnriav and city police men were following it up with a sweeping roundup ot an tran sients found loitering about the city with no visible means of support. Heuvel said that his depart ment was cooperating with local sawmill and farm employers in an effort to meet a critical labor Vinrinff in this area. "We have authority to hold i transients on vagrancy cnarges, 1 u,tvl aairl." and we'll hold 'em if they don't go to work." He said he had placed 10 men in ..nn u i ann nn larma ana tum itnitori states employment service office since the drive started Monday. ENVOY FLYING HOME New Delhi, India, Aug. 18 (AP Lauchlin Currie, acme ward bound from a special mis sion to Chini for President Roosevelt, left New Delhi today for Washington. SCRAP IRON ITEM Cleveland, Aug. 18 (Dis mantling of Cleveland's "steel ball hospital" for war scrap was under way today. The odd 38 room metal sphere will yield 1,000 ton of scrap. Bomber Raid Leader Known Here Brigadier General Ira C. Eaker, who personally lead tha first all American bombing foray against Germany Monday, is known in the Rogue river Taller. General Eaker, then a colonel, was commander of the 20th Pursuit Group which had a two weeks' training period here last summer and was bivouaced at the Elks picnic grounds on Rogue river. Planes oi the 20th Pur suit Group operated from the Medford airport. HIT TOBRUK AND S Cairo, Aug. 18 (IP) Middle east headquarters of the United States army forces announced to day another, aeries of successful operations heavy bombers against Tobruk and in-the Medi terranean August 14 and 19 and discloc;d that for the first time American medium bombers had gone into action with a raid on Matruh. The heavy bombers set fire to an Axis merchantman guarded by two destroyers, and hit Tobruk harbor install; ions and a wreck which was being used to moor torpedo-boats there. It also disclosed that since the f'st series of attacks by German and Italian fighters on American bombers, there had been no cases of enemy fighting inter ception, the foe having met with more than he bargained for. Use of the medium bombers which scored several hits at Mat ruh brought to within a step of 'Tuition full participation of the United States army heavy bomb er, medium bomber and fighter air forces In the Egyptian fight ing. pre-waPatent Washington, Aug. 18 MP) Chairman Bone (D-Wash) of the senate patents committee said today that W. S. Parish, presl dent of the Standard Oil com pany of New Jersey, would ap pear before the committee to morrow to answer charges that his company participated In a pre-war patent pool under Ger man control Farish two weeks ago asked the committee to let him explain peacetime agreements with I. G. Farbenindustrie, great German chemical trust, Involving Catta lytic processes in the manufac ture of high octane aviation gas oline, toluol for explosives and butadinene for synthetic rubber. The patent pool recently was dissolved by a consent decree. R.F.C. LOAN GIVEN Washington, Aug. 18 (AP) Senator McNary (R., Ore.) said today he had been notified the Reconstruction Finance corpora tion had approved a loan of $600,000 to the Oregon Electric steel rolling mills in Portland, land. The loan, it was understood, would supplement the corpora tion's own expenditura of an estimated $1,000,000. Present plans call for opera tion of one furnace with a 30-000-ton annual capacity, which will be fed entirely from scrap steel. QUIZ TOMORROW BRAZIL VESSELS Fl Rio De Janeiro, Aug. 18 (AP) Street demonstrations spread war fever in Rio De Janeiro today as resentment rose ver axis submarine sinking of five Brazilian ships in the past three days. . The Brazilian steamers Bage and Cuyaba, due to take axis diplomats to Europe were held in port. Just before noon a crowd tore Brazilian flags from tho offices of two pro-axis newspapers and marched to the'foreign ministry, where a spokesman for the dem onstrators declared: "This demonstration Is to show the Brazilian government that p ople will . How the govern ment anywhere. A functionary of the foreign ministry accepted the flags, and then the demonstrators, estimat ed to number 2,000, observed one minute's silence "in memory of all who have died throughout the world in the struggle against aggressors." Special police prevented dum age to the newspaper buiUings but there were other cases of attacks on German property by enraged Brazilians. AS DESERT CHIEF London, Aug. 18. (IP) Brit ain has sent General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, "the last man out of Dunkerque" and re cently commander in Burma, to take command In the middle east, where Field Marshal Er win Rommel's reinforced army menaces the Suez life line and the German advance in the Cau casus daily brings another arm of the axis pincers closer to Brit ish defenses. The substitution of Alexander for Gen. Sir Claude J. E. Auch inleck was considered here as a move to Inject into the stale mated western desert action the drive of an officer considered by many one of the most aggres sive and ablest leaders of the British army. , V Tl Moscow, Aug. 18 AP) Col. Vassily Stalin, son of the Soviet premier, was disclosed today to be In command of a pursuit aviation group on the southern front. An article in Red Star said he supervised the work of fighters In an aerial combat over a river crossing recently. On June 21 It was announced that Colonel Stalin, wno still is in his twenties, had been award ed the Order of the Red Banner for bravery in front-Un battle. AMERICAN FLIERS TO HIT GERMANY FAST AND OFTEN Bombing Offensive Opens With Raid Over Rouen All Fortresses Return. An American bomber station in Britain, Aug. 18 (IP) A growing American bombing of fensive to smash at Nazi strong holds in Germany and occupied Europe in coordination with the RAF until the war is won wis under way today after a highly successful, ail-American bomb ing attack on the German-held railway yards at Rouen, France. Twelve flying fortresses, with Brig. Gen. Ira C. Eaker in one of the leading planes, flew yes terday through all the anti-aircraft fire the Germans offered, mastered the best of Germany's fighter planes and left their tar get under "a great pall of smoke and sand." Six other flying ( rtresses ex ecuted diversion attacks on Dunkerque and Cherbourg. All eighteen of the giant bombers returned safely to their base. They were escorted to their targets by RAF, Canadian and United States fighters and two of these were lost. But the fighters shot down two German planes and 21-year-old Sergt. Kent L. West of West Blockton, Ala., "belly gunner"; In one of the fortresses; Masted anotner Ger man lighter out of the sky.- . . Gen. Spaais Enthusiastic MaJ. Gen. Carl Spaatz, com mander of. the U. S. air forces in the European theater, was plainly enthusiastic. "We wil bomb Germany as fast and as often as possible un til we win tha war," he said. "This marks the real start of an ever-increasing American bomb ing offensive." He predicted devastating high-altitude "precision" blows at selected targets from the gracefully flying fortresses while the .giant RAF bombers con tinued massive assaults on oer- man cities, one by one at night, The fortresses, with 13 guns each, are the most heavily armed bombers in the air to day. 'The Germans seemed to pull away and appeared leery about attacking us," said Ma). Paul Tibbet, 28, of Miami, Fla., co pilot of the "butcher shop." Eaker warned that one suc cessful flight did not prove that a heavy daylight attack would always work, but he said "the raid went exactly according to plan and we are well satisfied with the day s work. Rail Center Blasted London, Aug. 18 Wa-Brit-Ish bombers struck at Osna brueck, railroad and industrial center In Northwestern Ger many, last night in the eighth RAF attack on Germany this month. Five British bombers were reported missing on the mission, indicating a raid of mod erate strength. While Osnabrueck was under attack, other bombers . and fighters bomber airfields In German-occupied territory, destroy ing one enemy bomber. Another enemy aircraft was shot down by the bombers attacking Osna brueck. Osnabrueck Is one of the main railroad outlets for the German arsenals in the Ruhr valley and has big steel works and other factories. It already had been raided once this month, on the night of August 9, when the British bomber it for the 40th time In this war. FEDERAL DEBT UP,. BOND SALES LESS Washington, Aug. 18. (JPh The federal debt climbed $3, 852.869,801 to a new high of 83,382,773,002 In the first half of August War savings bond sales In the fortnight amounted to $363,833, 088, which was somewhat less than half the month's quota of 1819,000,000. GENERAL STRIKE CIO Chiefs Dislike War Lab or Board Ruling Denying Wage Boost. Pittsburgh. Aug. 18 (IP) In ternational headquarters ot the CIO Aluminum Workers union reported today its members have urged that a general strike be called in the war-vital aluminum industry unless the war labor board reconsiders its decision de nying them a wage increase or President Roosevelt "intervenes directly" in the case. Union President Nick A. Zon arich said in a statement that the board's decision, issued last week, was "not acceptable" to the union nd the industry "now is confronted with demands from the .ank and file for a gen eral strike." He called union committeemen to a meeting here tomorrow. The WLB had said the union's demand for a $l-a-day pay boost was denied because the workers already had received more than a IS per cent increase since Jan uary 1, 1941. In reaching this decision, the board applied its formula of the "little steel" case, based on a IS per cent rise in the cost of living since January, 1941. Zonarich claimed the board disregarded the "true facts" in the dispute between hi union and the aluminum company of America, which produces ap proximately SS per cent of the nation s raw aluminum. , . Louisville, Ky., Aug. 18 (IP) Work at eleven Reynolds Met als Company plants here was slowed today by a labor stop page. R. V. Pasnlck, field repre sentative of the International union, CIO Aluminum Workers of America, said "This thing started when the company yes terday fired Ray Stober, our chairman in the No. 7 plant for no good reason." BERLIN REPORTS 11 ALLIED SHIPS SUNK IN A DAY Berlin, (from German broad casts), Aug. 18 (IP) German submarines were declared offl--lally todiy to have sunk eleven Allied vessels totalling 72.000 tons, a 12.000 ton auxiliary cruiser and two rows of trooo carrylng barges In the Atlantic and Arctir oceans and the Medl terrain In the past 24 hours. (There was no confirmation of the nazl claim. Last week's an nounced Allied ship losses to axis submarines in the western Atlantic seven merchantmen- were the lowest In 18 weeks.) (The Italian high command aid its submarines In the At lantic had sunk three merchant hips totaling 18 88S tons, and damaged another of 10.000 tons. The Rome claim listed the British motorshlp Medon and the American merchantman California as two of the three ships reported sunk.) A special communique aald the 24-hour total was piled up In operations against convoys and in the case of lone vessels. Juxtaposition of the referen ce to the auxiliary cruiser and the reported destruction of "two rows of barges In towVsrrylng troops" suggested that all were, sent to the bottom in a single action. WAR TIME DIET Philadelphia, Aug. 18 MP Bananas, favorite dish in smart Philadelphia zoo circles, lately have been harder and harder to obtain. So the other day the sen cautiously Introduced a substi tute, boiled sweet potatoes. Albany, Aug. 18 VP) A truckled of logs crashed hrough the cab of a truck four miles east of Crabtre on the Albany-Scio road yesterday, killing the driver. Charles B Alley, 29, Lebanon. War Bulletins A southwest English coast town, Aug. 11 (IP) Two high-flying German planes bombed this seacoast iowa to day causing widespread prop arty damage. An entire row of shops was demolished by a 1,000-pound bomb which scored a direct hit. but only one woman was hurt. A church and several other public buildings were damaged. Cairo. Aug. 18 (IP) Freeh contingents of United States army troops. Including ground staffs for American air fore desert and other units, have been debarked in this war theater, it was disclosed to night. OF ATTACK PLAN Navy Says It Was Surprise Censorship Becomes Political Issue "Down Under." Sydney, Australia, Aug. 18 (IP) Prime Minister John Cur- sorshlp, declared in a speech to day, -1 am mora ima ever convinced- that-ths) Japanese had some knowledge of the Solomons attack.-?.' ' . "Tier were men yelling or offensives when they knew they were being undertaken." ' (Curtin's further remarks In- AlrntA 4hat thA rvnanrahin waa an internal political issue be tween curtins la Dor party ana the opposition. (Admiral Ernest J. King, com mander of the U. S. navy, in an announcement August 10 on the Solomon Islands landing said, "an Initial surprise was ef fected." iA IT S. naw communtaue of Mt.rniv reiterated: "the at tacks were a complete surprise to the enemy.") A.trlln rlrrlM aald it WBS believed that Curtin was consid ering calling an election u par liament should adopt what he deemed harassing tactics, and that was to be seen in his chal lenge to the opposition to try to Hofoat the government on the censorship issue. "Newspapers In Australia are afraid when the war is over the labor party will still be in con trol and the capitalist wolf will be unable to feed on ine iamu In faMnrlM and WOrkshODS Sf in the past 60 years," Curtin as serted. iT CAUSES 16 FIRES A dry lightning storm early last evening started 18 fires In the Butte Falls ami Union Creek 'llstrlcts, but excent for one on Red Blanket creek on the Cas cade Divide all were under con trol this afternoon. It was re ported by the Rogue River Na lonal Forest service. The blaze on Red Blanket creek, a tributary of the middle fork of Rogue river, was being fought by a crew of 10 men, the forest service said and was nar tlally under control. The fire. In rough back country hard to reach, had burned over about one acre. Last night's lightning storm Increased to 20 the number tf fires started by the Elements lnc Saturday nlsht. four others having been reported previously, Eleven of the free art In the Butte Falls district nine In the Union Creek area Two or more men were dispatched to each Maze, all of them small except for that on Red Blanket creek. ROUTINE COUNCIL MEET The city council will hold Its regular semi-monthly meeting In city hall tonight at 7:30. Only routine business is on the offi cial agenda. - - Japs Caught Flatfooted by Swift Attacks Allies Win by Land, Sea and Air. Melbourne). Ana IB 3 Big sea battles still brewing in omeny contested waters of the Solomon island chain may prove the turnintf nolnt In th fight for the barrier bases north ox Australia, a special correspon dent of the Melbourne Herald reported today from a south Pa cific port. He said that although allied headquarters in the south Paci fic area was issuing no state ments about the progress of the Solomon operations, it was clear that naval developments in the islands are attracting the great est attention. General MacArthur't head quarters, Australia, Aug. 18 (IP) United States marines have) won solid toeholds in the Solo man Islands, the first step to victory in the first Allied offen sive in the Pacific, while Allied lrmen comb the southern seas to blast the Japanese in their ships and harbors wherever they may be trying to go to the res cue. That was the broad picture today over thousands of square miles of the south Pacific where the fighting forces ot the United Nations have begun to roll back the -enemy In a campaign of growing magnitude, , It' was the official story of the United States navy and of General MacArthur'a headquar ters. A navy communique Issued in Washlneion showed the attack on the Solomons to have been a mighty onslaught which caught the Japanese flat-footed on Aug. 7 (Australian time) in the nuadaloanal-Tulagi area, one of their most valuable bases. The harbor of Tulagi is on of the best in the southwest Pa ciflc and the airfield on Guadal- oanal makes that Island a gigan tic aircraft carrier anchored athwart the sea lane from Amer ica to Australia. Wlthoul divulging details of the still continuing and still growing battle, the communlaue rave these assurances that the first ohase has ended In defeat for the Japanese in the air. ashor and afloat: 1. The marines have mad several 'andlngs In the Guad- alconal-Tulagt area. "Raoldly" overcoming enemy resistance. ind their captured shore posi tions "have since been devel ed and are now well establish ed " 2. Japanese naval forces dos ed tn for action with the Allied fleet on only one night. Aug. 8-9. and backed off "before reaching the vessels engaged in the landing operations." 3. Enemy air attempts on the first two days of the landings Inflicted only "minor damage" on the American troops. The communique mentioned damage to both sides in the naval encounter but it kept the enemy guessing, of course, both ahat the United States lost ana what the United States knows of Japan's cost in trying to de fend the Solomons' shores. Portland. Aug. 18 AP The state liquor control commission today suspended license of 16 dispensers in Oregon for period ranging from 10 to 30 day. Four license were revoked and one new license granted. The city of Prinevllle faced the possibility of being without a beer or wine dispensory inas much a seven license holder there faced suspension ot per mits because of charge they operated slot machines on the premises. The commission indi cated it might take more lenient action because the machine were licensed by tha city.
