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av Let YOUR Answer to Bombs be BONDSI Buy Detent Bon as ana lump TOOaf Contribute to tli auenctb f roar nation. Patrtotltra. jjur eelf-pre-tectlon. demands ht IOC e rear pert SOW! Thirty-sixth Year News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, March 11. A sub-regional director of the CIO Steel Workers organizing com m 1 1 1 e e from Pittsburgh ap- peared the past '-?; 1 weekataDlant can Locomo tive works which has large defense orders mostly army. He told the m a n a gement Paul Mallon their contract with CIO was satisfactory. He had no objections. He was not demanding the closed shop or check-off. But, he said, many union members in the plant were be hind several months in their dues, and some employees had failed to Join the union. He announced he would put pickets at the entrance, collect those back dues before the men could get in to work, and cause non conformists to join, the union. The name of the CIO officer was Curtis (initials unspecified In reports here.) The basis for his picketing threat, he said, was "Donald Kelson's stirring ap Jpeal for greater production, urg ing creation of labor-management committees for each plant. Mr. Nelson said nothing about enforcing check-offs and closed shops where none existed, but apparently Mr. Curtis took it to mean the time was ripe for him in all respects. He said he hoped it would not be necessary for him to shut the plant. This sent the management scurrying to the long distance telephone, seeking advice from Its master contractor the gov ernment in Washington. Offici als here did not hesitate. They told the management to inform Mr. Curtis they would send troops in to see that the workers got a chance to turn out the precious war materials so vitally needed. Even the president's labor adviser, Sidney Hillman kgot In touch with Curtis and (Continued on Pa- flu) COORDINATOR MOVES TO C. OF C. BUILDING ' Frank J. Van Dyke, execu tive secretary of the cantonment civilian coordinating board, to day moved his office from AAA headquarters to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to be more centrally situated and allow more room for the homes registration bureau which will remain at the AAA place, North Riverside avenue and Fifth street. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight Blue 7. boxing, Gus Vsnevich vs. Jimmy Bevins; MBS 7:15, united nations speak, Leighton McCarthy, Canadian minister. Thursday The war, 8, MBS; 8:15, MBS; 9. NBC, CBS, MBS; 10, blue; 10:45, NBC; 11, MBS; 12:15 p. m., CBS: 1, MBS; 1:45, CBS; 3, CBS, MBS; 3:25, NBC; 3:45. CBS blue. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ed Lamport telling how he got lost in the middle of the cantonment area while trying to reach the new gun club grounds on a one-way road. J Marcia Stanley being unable to await the arrival of summer, (he going barefooted after school. Eve and Moore Hamilton's home harboring a lone cricket which makes the rounds of the radiators and chirps contentedly. 1 SGtIR 1 a Medford Full Associated Fret 1 i LOSSES FAIL TO HALT ONCOMING Battle For Approaches To Mainland Raging In Full Fury Observers Believe. Br ASSOCIATED PRESS American bombers smash, ing at Japanese invasion trains off the northeastern New Gui nea coast above th Australian mainland have destroyed sev en enemy ships, th war de partment announced late to day. Thu successes which left four of th enemy ships on fir, two sinking and on beached appeared to bar been those previously an nounced by th Royal Austra lian air force, whose com munique had used the expres sion "our bombers." thus leav ing the inference that It was an Australian action. By Roger D. Green (Associated Press War Editor) Australian bombers struck smashing blows at Japanese warships today and claimed to nave sunk or damaged at least seven, but unofficial reports said the enemy's great invasion bent convoys continued moving toward their eventual Jumping off bases in New Guinea. It seemed clear that the bat tle for the approaches to Aus tralia was now raging in full fury. Hitting their hardest blows of the war on the gathering Japan ese invasion armada, Australian airmen were reported to have sunk at least two ships and left five others beached, battered and burned. Attacks Continue Three waves of RAF bombers pounded the Japanese fleet yes terday and the aerial counter blows were continuing today. British dispatches from Can berra said Japanese invasion fleets were reported moving to ward Port Moresby, on the south coast of New Guinea, 300 miles from the Australian main- hand. A DUiieiin irom royai Aus tralian air force headquarters said waves of Australian bomb ers inflicted havoc on the Jap anese seaborne forces in yester day's raids. "When the aircraft left the target area (from the final at tack), one ship was burned out and three others were on fire, two were sinking and one was being beached," the account said. Other hits were believed to have raised the toll still higher. Next Move Rvald In Tokyo, apparently unmask ing Japan's next move, a gov ernment spokesman warned Australia to yield without a fight or suffer "the same fate that has befallen Singapore and Java." On other fronts In the far Pacific: 1. With signs pointing toward an early Japanese attack on India, Premier Winston Churchill held out to India's 400,000,000 a promise of domin ion status In full as soon after the war as possible. It was also announced that Sinp Stafford Cripps, Britain's energetic lord privy seal and government spokesman In the house of commons, would go to India for consultation with lead ers there who have been clamor ing for immediate independence as the price for India's support in the war. 2. In the dying battle of Java, a Domei dispatch said the Dutch commander, Lieut-Gen. Hein Ter Poorten, had ordered all Netherlands troops on the island to lay down their arms. Imperial Tokyo headquarters asserted that the Japanese had captured 93,000 troops, includ ing 2.000 commissioned offi cers, In the Indies' invasion OF JAP I New Jap Foothold Menaces Australia 1 2 -.NDOESJG L BATAVI .somas JAVA PERTH o L. 500 TRieT IOOO warn I - , . - , . , I I Landing on New Guinea (1), and previous landings en Timor (2), promls Japanese plncer action on Australia. Meanwhile in Java (3), th Japs claimed all Java forces had surrendered. Medford Team Wins First Aid Title in State Safety Kaet Portland, March 11. (AP A Medford team won the gov ernor's cup in the first aid finals of the Oregon Junior safety con gress here last night. On the winning team were Bob Hollenbeck, Morrta Wick ham, Jim Peyton, John Lang and Wayne Giles. The Salem cooperative team was second and the Salem ma chine shop team was the third. A safety poster contest was won by Richard Miller, Salem. Don Clark, Grants Pass, was third. Don Clark, Grants Pass, was elected president; Charles Dreese of Salem, secretary. The local team Is under the direction of L. A. Mentzer, in structor in Vocational education at Medford senior high school and the congress is sponsored by the state department of voca tional education. The team is composed of members of Future Craftsmen of America from sen ior high school. Last year Ment zer's team also placed first in the first aid finals. They planned to return to this city late to night. a scaling down of yesterday's claim of 98,000 taken In Java alone. In Melbourne, Lleut.-Gov. Hu bertus J. Van Mook of the Dutch Indies said that about 3,000 Australian troops were probably still fighting In the mountain Jungles east and west of Bandoeng, the Japanese-occupied former military capital, and that other defenders were battling In eastern Java. Van Mook said allied forces carrying on the fight in unoc cupied sectors of the 622-mile-long island were under orders not to obey commands from authorities who had fallen Into Japanese hands. 3. In London, authoritative quarters acknowledged that the strength of the main Japanese battle fleet had "not been im paired" by Japan's far-flung sweeps of conquest and de clared that Japan could now be expected to lash out in three directions against Ceylon, off the southern tip of India; against Australia, or farther east to ward the Fiji islands. 4. Japanese bombers attacked Port Moresby, on the Gulf of Papua In southeastern New Guinea, for the third day in succession. Port Moresby is only about 40 minutes flight from the Australian mainland. Japan's warning to Australia to submit without struggle was sounded by Tokyo spokes man with the declaration: 'They should see the hand writing on the will." MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1942. B7 5 PORT MORESBY' CAPE YORK BROOME (, V ( Delnj springs J A, A Y H.ghwjy V BRISBANE DONGR V r j ' ' i iy ADELAIDE, 1 MELBOURNE TASMANIa'SLuri TV CEILING ON TIRES TO HALT GOUGING Washington, March 11. VP) The government has answer ed widespread complaints of price gouging with an order set ting ceiling on prices of used tires and tubes on the basis of prices prevailing between Octo ber 1 and October 15. The ceiling becomes effective March 16. On standard four-ply 6.00x16 tires, the type used by most motorists, it varies from $8.10 to $1.50, depending on wear. The order prohibits deal ers from adding any charges for repairs or service charges which were not made by the seller prior to March 7. HART SAYS JAPS HAVE PAID DEAR Washington, March 11.- Admiral Thomas C. Hart de clared today that the Japanese had won the first great campaign of the war in the Pacific because of unfaltering aerial superiority but had paid a cost In ships sunk and damaged which must give them "great future concern." The former chief of allied naval forces in the western Pa cific, Just returned to Washing ton from the theater of opera tions, discussed the western Pa cific conflict in a statement Is sued at Secretary of Navy Knox's press conference. FOUR ENEMY ALIENS SOUGHT NEAR BORDER Snnkirw March 11 (Ft Al though practically every law en forcement officer in nonneasi Washington is on the lookout lor thim. no trace has been found this afternoon of an automobile believed to have escaped the hiMr nntrol at Renublte last niffht hrarinff four enemy aliens. The Spokane office of the state patrol said It was In con tact with sheriff s offices ana nnllr nver the entire area but had found no trace of the car. presumably a Ford convertible coupe carrying two Japanese and two Germans. WILL H. BENNETT Portland. March 11 W Will H. Bennett. 62. former state banks superintendent, died here today after long illness. He became a state bank examin er in 1908, after serving as cash ier of the Heppner bank. Later he was associated with Klamath Falls bank but returned to Sa lem to Join the tit banking board In 1918 NVASKN aiTT AKSI m UK BRITAIN SOLOMON IS NSW CALEDONIA DNEV WClllNGTONI NEW hi A vm Entire U. S. Strength Will Be Required, Is Rooseevirt: Warning Washington, March 1 1 . (P) President Roosevelt Informed congress today in a message analyzing the first year's opera tions of the lend-lease program that the offensive the united nations "must and will drive in to the heart of the axis" would take "the entire strength that we possess." The war can only be won by contact with the enemies, and by attack upon them," he as serted in a letter transmitting the lend-lease report. 'That takes time, for the united na tions need more and still more equipment and transportation. Success will come dearly, at the price of defeats and losses." Mr. Roosevelt said lend-lease was a prime mechanism through which the united nations were pooling their entire resources. The report, covering opera tions since the original lend- lease law Vas signed a year ago today, showed that the total value of aid was $2,570,452,441 HUNGARY, RUMANIA HATE NEW ORDER Istanbul, Turkey, March 10. (Delayed) (JP) A state o f near-mutiny against Adolf Hit ler's "new order" Is developing in Hungary and Rumania, ac cording to information Just re ceived here by well-informed circles. Hitler was reported calling on these nations for large new mill tary sacrifices to aid his spring offensive in Russia, but each was said to be refusing stead fastly to make any further do nations until she has received from Germany effective guaran tees against th other. (London sources reported that Germany had called on Hun gary to furnish 1,500,000 troops, but that Rumania's contribution of 1,000,000 men was regarded as exempting her from further levies). BUS SERVICE OKEH FOR CORVALLIS CANTONMENT Salem, March 11 P) Pub lic Utilities Commissioner Or mond R. Bean sail he would grant an application today to K. N. Wood for permission to operate bus service between Sa lem and the Corvalli canton ment. TRANSFER AIR CLASSES Corvallis, March 11. OR Oregon State college today an nounced that flight training courses would be transferred to Madras for spring term. The shift was necessitated by the military ban on private flying in rout areas. 1 1 il Tribune United IVf prlf ndl WlIlS 31-28 From PUSH BRAZIL NEAR President Vargas Clears Way For Action Seizure Of Axis Property Looms. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, March 11. (AP) President Getulio Vargas Issued a decree today giv ing himself the authority to de clare a state of war or a state o emergency throughout the coun try in case of foreign menace, imminence of internal disturb ance or existence of a plan of conspiracy. Promptly answering the tor pedolng of the fourth Brazilian ship oft the United States coast In three weeks, the decree clear ed the way for imprisonment of axis subjects and seizure of axis property.' " ' Action Near Orders for seizure of axis prop erty were expected within 48 hours. The decree, Issued as Brazil was experiencing increasing shipping losses as a result of axis submarine activity off the United States Atlantic coast, declared that "from the time the use of the armed forces for the defense of the state becomes necessary. the president will declare a state of war in all national territory or In part of it." Any endangering or the coun try's Institutions or the safety of its citizens or territory Is suf ficient cause for the president to declare a state of emergency In the whole country or any part of It. the decree provided. All constitutional guarantees relating to the life and property of citizens of foreign states which may have "practiced acts of aggression harmful to the Bra zilian state" would thereby be suspended, the decree said. At the same time the govern ment shipping line, Lloyd Bra sileiro, announced .that suspen sion of all sailings of Brazilian ships to the United States had been ordered by the government and all such ships en route to United States ports ordered to speed for home or the nearest port. This followed upon the loss of four Brazilian ships totaling 22,' 231 tons by submarine attacks off the north American coast. (Brazil's shipping losses In the World War led her to declare war against Germany). Escaped White Woman Tells Hongkong Horror By Spencer Moosa Chungking, March 11. P Phyllis Harrop, first foreign woman to escape from Japanese occupied Hongkong, gave an eye witness account today of the atrocities committed by the In vaders, in complete confirmation of the report before Britain's house of commons yesterday by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Miss Harrop, whose anti-vice crusades won her the name of "Hongkong's District Attorney Dewey" said both Chinese and Europeans were victims of the invaders. "My own houseboy wss killed bayonet ted in the stomach for no apparent reason," she de clared. "Fourteen other Chin ese In th same house were killed. My own amah (woman servant) was raped by three or four Japanese soldiers and left 1 in very serious condition. Pru Mac High Five War Bulletins Washington. March 11. W) The navy announced today that th Matsoa Navigation company's freighter "Malama" Is presumed to be lost In th Pacific. The Malama, 3.275-ton steam veeiel, was built In 1919, at Newark, N. J., by th Submarine Boat corporation. Her home port was San Fran cisco. Tokyo (from Japanese broadcasts), March 11 Of) Imperial headquarters de clared today that a Japan cruiser squadron operating In th Indian ocean west of Aus tralia had sunk th United State cruiser Marblehead. Th sinking wy said to hav occurred March 2. HITLER DEMANDS FROM SATELLITES (By th Associated Press) Adolf Hitler was reported to day to have called upon Italy, Hungary and Slovakia for 2,600, 000 fresh troops to bolster the heralded nazl spring offensive and fill the gaps left by nine months of slaughter In the war with Russia. Advices reaching London said Hitler, desperately needing manpower to replace the nazi losses In dead, wounded and missing, had demanded 1,000,- 000 troops from Italy, 1,500,000 from Hungary and 100,000 irom Slovakia. Soviet authorities declared on February 22 that Germany had lost 6,000,000 men on the Rus sian front. With pre-sprlng thaws already melting snow on the long battle line, dispatches indicated that the Russians were smashing with ever increasing fury to demora lize the Germans and keep them reeling backwards Instead of or ganizing a spring counter-drive. A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters acknowledged that the red armies were striking In mass attacks on the southern (Ukraine) front and holding the initiative on the Moscow and Leningrad fronts. "Heavy and bloody losses were Inflicted upon the enemy," the German high command said, in a communique which also noted "uninterrupted heavy defense fighting" by German troops. "Foreign women also were raped, including an English woman I knew who first was slashed in the face with a sol dier's belt. Her husband after wards found her dead with bay onet wounds In the stomach. "The Japanese did not shoot any of their victims, but invari ably bayonetted them to death." Miss Harrop, an Englishwom an who escaped from the former crown colony In mid-January, said all American, Dutch and British men, women and chil dren were Interned In th Stan ley district on Hongkong Island, while prisoners of war were In terned at Kowloon, on the main land. There was no foreign food available, she declared, since the Japanese gathered up all the small stocks In the shops and warehouses and shipped them off to Japan. Not the Case Think of a tie fut ad fotac Into thoniudi of homes. That I what happen when jam plao your Ad la thu am. paper. Bonnd to cheap I a food hat that la not th eaaa. Try adTrrtlalnc f tor yourself. NO. 302. TIGERS CHALK UP EVERYJUARTER Niedermeyer Leads Scoring With 7 Magruder, Mac Hi, Tosses In 15 Points. Salem, March 11 ( The Medford Tigers battled their way Into the second round of the Oregon State high school bask etball tournament today by up setting McLoughlln high of Mil-ton-Freewater 31 to 28. Medford led at the end of each quarter, leading 15 to 12 at the half, but the Tigers never were more than three points ahead at any stage. Magruder, Mac-HI forward, scored 14 points In the second half, or all but two of his team's 16 points in that half. r Summary: Medford (31) (28) Mac-Hi Niedermeyer 7F1S Magruder Montelth 4. , F Monahan Herman 6..C..6 Heldenrlcb Fawcett 8 O 3 Yantla Reynolds G 1 George Substitutes: Medford Wall 4. Webber 4. Mac-Hi Rand 1, Metzger, Ellis 2. Officials: Coleman and Hen Iges. MORE BASKETBALL ON SPORT PAGE BRITISH PLANES ATTACK TIRPITZ London, March 11 6fV-Ger many's newest and mightiest battleship, the 35,000-ton Tir- pitz, made Its first known con tact with British forces Monday when it was attacked by torpedo planes off the Norwegian west coast, the admiralty announced today. The damage, if any. could not be determined, for th Tirpitx, sister ship of the ill-fated Bis marck, was last seen retiring under cover of heavy smoke screen. British warshlos which steam ed toward the scene of action, near Trondheim, some 800 miles from the German coast, were unable to locate the huge Ger man battleship. In London It baa been sug gested that the Germans were organizing strong battle forces at Trondheim perhaps for raid ing uie Russian supply lines from Britain and the United States. Soldier to Start Highway to Alaska Edmonton, Alberta, March 11 W Civilian workers will not be used this year In the con struction of the Alaska highway, the Edmonton Journal said yes terday It has learned from its correspondent at Dawson Creek, u. c, where a number of U. S. army engineers are already at work. The Journal said It has "be come apparent" the work will be done solely by th United States army. HONOR MacARTHQR Portland. March 1 1 Douglas MacArthur Smith, born March I, the fourth child of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer W. Smith, Portland, was crlstened today. Astoria, Or., March 11. (IP) Packers boosted crab prices from $1.25 to $1.50 a dozen to day, giving fishermen their big gest return In several years, , 4
