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Lit YOUR Answer to Bombs be BONDSI Buy Hu Bontfa ens Stamps TOIMY Centnbote to tha war tffort af your nation. Patriot bm. four own Mir-protactloa. ermanda that TOD do your part NOW I Us Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Tribune FORD Quick Raiults t 8 mall Cost Full Atsocistsd brats United Prass Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1942 NO. 131 W WAl Ok battle BAG Nlfru V mm Med News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Aug. 21. Dear Mr. , Cincinnati, Ohio: I am omitting the use of your . name, in pub- f.S1, i.i. lishing this re ply to your letter, because I do not be lieve you can really feel about our gov ernment and our war cause In the way you have written me. When you think it over Paul Mallon honestly with yourself, I know you will change your mind, especially as you say you have a boy in service. But you have given expres sion to many of the foolish ab surdities that are being passed around conversationally among some people in this country who are either too busy or careless to reason out truth for them selves. You say: "The conduct of the British In India and the silence' of our state department proves we are not In a war . for four free doms,' we have been hoaxed into allowing our boys to be sent to all parts of the world and Into buying war bonds. I buy no more bonds and if my boy does not come back whole someone Is going to pay." If you buy no bonds, you may u ... .... Raw will not come back whole. This government will then not have the money to furnish him with .the .weapons necessary to make him equal to our enemies, or to supply him with good food- and . good .medi cal care to keep him well. You can see that. And If he does not come back tvin hu the one who WUU.C, JVl ..... . . Is responsible, not the officials of this government, .ior . wuu .. - hi nrnficiencles or inadequacies In leadership, the responsioiuiy 01 xurouiium mnni in sunnlv VDllT bOV DTOD- rlv lies, not with them, but with you. That's your end of the war. If you do not hold It up by buy- tr .m war hnnd VOU Can. you are only punishing your Continued on Paa Eicnt) . TURN OVER LANDS " Washington, Aug. 21 (AP Interior Secretary icxes looay rr,ri available 172.500.000 acres of public lands and their non- mineral resources to tne war pro gram. EUGENE PILOT HURT Brownsville, Tex., Aug. 21 (Ap) Frank H. Seale of Eugene, Hr. and Dr. A. Holmarr. of Portland, Ore., civil air patrol pilots, were in a local . hospital today folloVing a crash of their plane yesterday at padre isiana HARNEY OIL HEARING Washington, Aug. 21, (JPl A request that the senate min eral resources sub-committee hold hearings at Burns. Ore., to investigate oil l o '.uction possl bilities In Harn- y county has been made by Senator McNary (R.-Ore.) LiMj d Radio Highlights New York, Aug. 21 (Wide World) First broadcast of a world series in wartime Is to be made as nearly as possible a service men's radio event. At least that is the plan of MBS after signing exclusively to car ry baseball's climatic battle for the fourth year. All details are not yet com plete, but an extensive short wave relay is to be set up so that play by play can be carried to any point in the world where Uncle Sam's boys are stationed. In addition a Spanish description is to be sent to Latin-America. On the air tonight: MBS 5:30, This Is Navy Norfolk, Var iety; 7, boxing, Ruben Shank vs. Ray Robinson. What to Expect Saturday kNBC 8:15 a. m. consumer's ftime; I p. m. Pan-American hol iday. BLUE 8 a. m.. Service Men's Hop: 9:30 a. m.. Farmer's Union. MBS 12:30 p. m , Lin coln MacVeagh on "Why Greece Is Starving." BRITISH REPORT F( AFTERJAP FLEET Tokyo Says landing Attack on Makin Island Repulsed No Confirmation. Lisbon, Aug. 21 (P) A re port from Algarve province to night said a fierce naval and air battle was raging off Cape Saint Vincent, the southwest tip of Portugal. The dispatch did not say who was fighting, and gave no par ticulars of the reported engage ment. Cape St. Vincent is famous in naval history as the scene of many encounters, notably a Brit ish victory over the Spanish February 14, 1797. It was in that battle that Lord Kelson established his fame, when as captain of one of the 15 British ships he left the line without orders and interposed his ves. to prevent the escape of the Spanish fleet of 27 men o'war. The British commander. Sir John Jervis, was named the Earl of St. Vincent as a result of the victory. A Reuters dispatch quoting the Vichy radio reported that a British cruiser and four destroy ers had left Gibraltar In the di rection of England, and that one British battleship and two air craft carriers as well as four de stroyers had departed . In an easterly direction. The aircraft carrier illustri ous, the Vichy radio said, was severely damaged in the recent Axis attack on a Malta convoy and was still laid up. (By Associated Prass) The Japanese enemy reported today a landing attack by United States forces on Makin Isiana in the Gilberts. 2.400 miles from Hawaii, and the wording of the communique aroused specula tion that the action had been a task force raid in strength. Imperial Japanese headquar ters said the landing was made by about 200 troops four days ago and that they were - com pletely repelled" by the Jap anese garrison. This, however, was the usual Japanese formula for beating the opponent to an nouncement ol a Japanese re verse. Meanwhile a British radio re port said American flying fort resses had made a large-scale attack on Japanese warships off the Solomon Islands. However, this report had received no elab oration after several nours ana i. nvi.lv it was merely a restatement of General Mac ahnr'a rnnimiiniaue of Thurs day, announcing such an attack on enemy naval units on raisi, at the northern tip of the Solo mons. BT.1NES REPELLED ' London, Aug. 21 (IP) Six of Germany's new Focke-Wulfe 190 .... . j i net A a m. fighters were aesiruycu j ..... Um Mnrth Spa tndaY BgtfU UVCI 1,111. wa ... - as a flight of eleven U. S. army flying fortresses, U. S. army headquarters in o"""1 nouncru. The 20-minute Dame, in un... one fortress was damaged heat .... ,j on to 25 of the sDeedy German fighters swarm- ed to auacn planes, a communique said. The damaged fortress return ed to its base. An enemy shell killed the co-pilot and injured the pilot. Two of the planes engines were destroyed. . . LUMBER ORDERS Portland, Ore., Aug. 21 OP) Orders for white, ponderosa. sugar and associated species of pine for the week ending Aug ust 15 total 80,933.000 board feet, up almost seven million from the previous week, the Western Pine Associated report ed today. ANTI-TRUST COMPLAINT New York, Aug. 21 JP The justice department today filed a complaint charging violation of the Sherman anti-trust act and entered a consent decree In fed eral court against five principal American producers and dis tributors of Molybdenum, a steel I hardening alloy vitally import ant to armor plat Where This Is an airvlew of lha outer harbor at Dieppe, Important German-held port on tha Eng lish channel, where a huge Commando raid was ia progress. American forces Joined British and other allied troops in tha attack. REVENUE TALKED Washington, Aug. 21. UP) A 'proposal' to 'increase' federal revenue by requiring the pur chase of special savings stamps with each purchase of goods was considered by a senate finance sub-committee today. Chairman Clark (D.-Mo.) de scribed it as "enforced savings using the machinery of the sales tax." The plan, put forward by Senator Danaher (R.-Conn.), a member of the sub-committee. was discussed by Meyer Jacob- stein and Charles O. Hardy of the Brookings institution. In addition to the purchase price of an article, consumers would have to buy a stipulated percentage of the special stamps, which they would paste in books, eventually turning In the books for government bonds which would be non-negotiable until after the war. Under a variation of the pro posal, each consumer might be allowed an exemption of per haps $200 a year. Coupon books containing $200 worth of coup ons of various . denominations would be Issued to each con. sumer, and as long as he had coupons to turn in to the re tailers, he would not have to buy the special stamps. F IN COAST STATES San Francisco, Aug. 21. (P) Consumers spent about one- fourth more In Pacific coast food stores in July this year than last. Changes In food store sales as reported to the Bureau of the Census ran like this: In Califor nia up 25 per cent from a year ago: in Oregon up 24 per cent; in Washington up 31 per cent. C. Capt, director of the Census Bureau, reported aggre gate sales of some 4.800 stores in various lines of business in the three states showed gains in July over the 1941 month. Total sales ran higher In spite of losses In automobile dealer sales running to 70 per cent in California, 72 per cent In Ore gon and 66 per cent In Wash ington. ROMANCE RENEWED Spokane, Aug. 21. & De puty County Auditor R. W. But ler said today he could find no record of a marriage license ever having been Issued to Mr. and Mrs. Fred F. Travis of Seattle, who yesterday announced they would go through a second mar riage ceremony after 18 years of married life because no rec ord of the wedding here was available. Commandos Struck 'HIGH GRADE' ORE ' Sacramento, Aug. 21 OP) Carl Trevethick, 51, gold buyer of Nevada City, was held today on- a charge of filing false affi davits with the United States Treasury in connection with the purchase of approximately $75, 000 worth of gold from high graders. Trevethick was arrested by Secret Service Agent Walter C. Flsk, and was ordered held un der $5000 bond. Fisk said Trevethick admitted buying the gold, a few ounces at a time, from miners who high- graded it from various proper ties in the Nevada City area. He said the purchases totaled ap proximately 2.300 ounces, larg est amount traced to highgrad ers In years. As a front, the agent declared. the prisoner owned the Omega Quartz mine and a quartz mill at the Queen Lil mine. Treveth ick insisted he obtained the gold from these sources. Fisk said Trevethick would pay miners around $22 an ounce for stolen gold "and sell It to other buyers for around $26 an ounce." INSISTS PATENT PACT NOT CARTEL Washington, Aug. 21 IIP) W S. Farish. president of Stan dard Oil Company (New Jr- sey). Insisted that his company's pre-war agreements with Ger manys L G. Farbenlndustrie did not constitute an Inter-national cartel. Under a fire of questioning by Creekmore Fath, committee counsel, Farish denied the agree ments were Intended to divide trade territory, control pro duction and fix prices Farish and Frank Howard president of Standard Develop ment company, a subsidiary of the New Jersey company, con. tended the agreements, reached in 1927 and 1929, provided principally for Standard s use if I G. patents In the rest of the world outside of Germany The agreements were terminated by an anti-trust consent decree last March. FARLEY RENAMED New York. Aug. 21 (IP) James A. Farley, victorious In obtaining the Democratic nomi nation of Attorney General John J. Bennett. Jr. for governor, was reelected today for another two year term as chairman of the Democratic State committee. WOMAN IN ATTACK CASE RELUCTANT TO FILE CHARGES Reluctance of the woman Ire volved to sign a complaint has further complicated the Investi gation being carried on by the district attorney s office and army authorities In connection with the alleged attack on the 31-year-old married white wo man by three negro soldiers about midnight last Tuesday. District Attorney George W Neilson, who talked to the wo man at length yesterday after noon, said today that she- was apparently unwilling to make a formal complaint because ol tne fear of resultant publicity. Thus far the woman's name has been withheld. Meanwhile, the district attor ney and army authorities are seeking to straighten out and learn the true facts of the case. Statements made by the two negroes in custody, the woman and the white soldier are "con flicting and widely discrepant,' according to Neilson. 'We are attempting to learn exactly what happened and how it haDDened. and so far none oi the persons involved seem to pe in accord," the district attorney stated. F DIEPPE 'HAD FUN' London, Aug. 21 W Four American rangers who fought on the beach at Dieppe with the fourth. British commandos said today before the bloody day was over "we found we were having fun." They are Corporal William Brady, of Grand Forks, N. D., Staff Sergeant Kenneth Stemp son, of Russell, Minn., Corporal Franklin M. Koons of Sway City, la., and Sergeant Alex J. Szima of Dayton, Ohio. They said they believed they were the first United States troops to fight on French soil In this war. HOPS CARRY-OVER Salem, Ore.. Aug. 21 (AP) A total of 22.065,340 pounds of hops produced In Oregon, Cali fornia and Washington In 1941 and prior years remained In the hands of growers, dealers and brewers on July 1, the hop eon trol board here disclosed toda y They comprised 110.326 bales. MeNUTT TELLS PROGRAM Washington, Aug. 21. (API War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt announced to day a program designed to keep miners of metals vitally needed for war production on their Jobs by making the appeal of the Jobs "more nearly comparable with those in other war Industries. DUE AXIS LORDS Leaders Will Be Tried For Hostage Slayings, Presi dent Learns. Washington, Aug. 21. OP) President Roosevelt warned enemy nations in a formal state ment today of "fearful retribu tion" to come for what he called their "barbaric crimes" against civilian populations in axis-oc cupied countries. The chief executive issued his warning after Secretary of State Hull had given him a communi cation from The Netherlands am bassador and the Yugoslav and the Luxembourg ministers call ing attention to nazi slaying of hostages. Describing these as acts of desperate men, and promising that they would result in fear ful retribution, the president said the government of the United States had been receiv ing information of axis atroci ties from numerous sources and would welcome more. When the united nations achieve victory, he asserted, it is their purpose to make appro priate use of the amassed evi dence. The time will come, Mr. Roosevelt said, when the guilty persons will have to stand up in courts of law in countries they now are oppressing and answer for their acts.' Asked at his press conference whether he could commit the people of ravaged countries to acting through courts of law once "they got a chance" at their oppressors, the chief executive admitted probably he could not do so, but said he was expressing a hope that Judicial processes would prevail. ' , ' ABLEllD IN EARLY WAR CALL Evanstnn, HI., Aug. 21. (P) The selective service system needs men "at a rate which would have been considered super-human a year ago," MaJ. Gcn. Lewis B. Hershey, national director, said today and added that "the number of able-bodied men in industry must be drasti cally reduced in the very near' future." "Industry must replace so- called vital men otherwise elig ible for the draft with women and older men," he told the Na tional Institute for Commercial and Trade Organization Execu tives on Northwestern university campus. He continued: I can t talk too tough about the necessity of getting men in 2-A and 2-B replaced. SUPPLY REDUCED Washington, Aug. 21 (IP) The war production board today ordered a further 10 per cent re duction In the amount of coffee available to American consum ers, effective September 1. The reduction, representing a cu-xf about'. 15,000.000 pounds a month, is necessary because of the shipping situation," WPB said. Civilian coffee consumption under the order will be held to about 110,000,000 pounds a month, compared with normal unrestricted consumption ob about 147.000,000 pounds. The coffee quota for whole salers, retailers and other whole sale receivers will be reduced from 75 per cent to 65 per cent of the average monthly amount of coffee delivered during the corresponding quarter of 1941. This quota will be effective during September and each sun sequent month until revised. War Bulletins London, Aug. 21. 67) British bombers attacked a Gorman convoy off the Dutch coast last night, scoring hits on throe ships, tha air minis try announced today. All tha British planes returned safe ly, tha communique said. Folkestone, England. Aug. 21. lif) Two Gorman planaa bombed and machine-gunned the streets of a small south east coast town at noon to day, hitting a theater and some other buildings. A number of casualties resulted. ALLIED MASTERY OF AIR COMPLETE Mass Attack on France Un challenged Dieppe Vic tory Aids Reds. (By The Associated Press) London, Aug. 21 The clipped wings of the German air force in Western Europe was rated by British observers today as the first big dividend of Dieppe. Allied mastery of the air, they asserted, is complete beyond challenge, not only over Britain and the channel but even deep Into enemy territory Itself. These commentators, whose Identity could not be disclosed, said this was proved by the ex traordinary show of allied air power yesterday, with virtually no opposition and apparently without - tha loss of a single plane, over German-held soil. In broad daylight, 500 fighters swept across the French coast where never before had more than 300 planes made such a raid at one time and a force of the United States' big four englned flying fortresses rained explosives on the Amiens rail way . -ds without even sight ing Nazi fighter over the tar get. The smoke of battle has lifted from ruined Dieppe. The natur al surge of enthusiasm over the masterful assault on the most strongly guarded point of Nazi coast has given way to sober reasoning. ' But-even In the cold light of fact and figure, Britons regarded Wednesday as a day of allied triumph from every angle as a victory on the field itself, as a help to Soviet Russia, as a step forward in the whole master nlant of the United Nations. A communique summarizing the raid called it a "successful demonstration of coordination of all three services" land, sea and air. FRANCE FEASIBLE Bern, Switzerland, Aug. 21 (IP) Foreign military specialists expressed a belief today that the allied landing raid on Dieppe proved that a second front could be opened in France. Essential to its success, these sources said, would be sufficient superiority in land-based planes, adequate transport facilities, and a strong element of surprise. Published neutral descriptions of the recently completed Ger man system of channel fortifi cations lndici-ted that a full- scale allied Invasion effort would cost heavily, but would have a chance of advancing to the Meuse and Rhine provided the defenders could be out weighed in men and materials. SEA HEROES REWARDED Washington, Aug. 21 VP) The navy reported today that 17 officers and men who served on the U. S. S. Quail, a mine sweeper in the Philippines, had been rewarded for heroism with decorations and promotions. RUBBER VIEWS FILED Washington, Aug. 21. (IP) The senate small business com mittee laid before the presl- dent's special rubber committee today Its views on the general rubber situation. STALINGRAD FRAY Germans Sustain Setback on Other Sectors Crossing of Don Thwarted. Moscow. Aug. 21. UP) Tha Moscow radio announced to night that soviet planes bombed Warsaw, East Prussia and Up per Silesia last night. By The Associated Press) Bayonet-charging Russian troops were reported today to have slaughtered all but a few Germans who stormed across the Don river before Stalingrad ior ine second time in 12 hours, and Soviet dispatches declared tne invaders had suffered an other setback in bloody fighting south of the great Volga steel city. In the Western Caucasus, Sov iet dispatches said hundreds of Nazi parachute troops descended on the steppes at the approaches to Novorossisk, Black Sea naval base, only to be cut down by Kuban Cossacks. Warships of the Soviet Black Sea fleet left the Novorosskisk base mora than a week ago. Dispatches said several hun dred sky troops were annihilat ed in a two-hour battle west of Krasnador. German tanks and large Infantry forces also were reported attempting to breaic through the Northwest Caucasus foothills to the Black Sea coast. ' A bulletin from Red army headquarters said Russian in fantrymen and tank crews, bat. tling to hold the bend of tha Don as a final barrier before Stalingrad, "almost completely annihilated an enemy group which crossed tha river." . The fighting centered In th Kletskaya-Kalach region, 5 J miles west of Stalingrad. Other Nazi forces which crossed the river yesterday were said to have been wiped out. In tha Kotelnikovskl sector. 95 miles below Stalingrad, tha Russians reported they had driven back German tanks and motorized infantry in a fight for a railway town after the invad ers had driven a wedga into Soviet defenses. Dispatches to the Russian gov ernment newspaper Izvestia said great area was set aflame when Nazi tanks hit a Soviet minefield. Five German col umns of tanks and infantry were reported moving behind aerial and artillery bombardment in a thrust from Kotelnikovskl along the rail line to Stalingrad. In the Caucasus, the Russians conceded new reverses as hard fighting Soviet troops executed a further retreat south of Kras nodar, only 60 miles from the Black Sea naval base of Novor ossisk which appeared In Immi nent danger of being cut off. SOLDIERS READY TD FIGHT FIRES A battalion of well-trained soldiers of the 91st Infantry Division at Camp White is available at all times to assist the Rogue River National Forest service In fighting forest fires In the Medford vicinity. 91st division headquarters announ ced today. Through the cooperation or Karl L. Janouch. supervisor of the Rogue River National For est. 51 officers of the 91st dlv Ision were early this month giv en Intensive training In method! of fighting fires These officers, in turn, are now Instructing tha remaining personnel of their respective units In fire control methods. The forest service has pro vided a 100-man tool set which is part of the equipment of tha vlert unit at ail times. ThU unit Is ready upon Instant call from the forest service In case an emergency arises. Portland, Aug. 21. JPh-Alt but three or four leaders In a walkout of Union Cab company drivers were back at work to day. '
