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Let rOUH Answer to Bombs be BONDSI Boy DrffnH Bonds ul Itampl TODAY Con tribal to tho Mrvngtb of roor natron. PatrtotUm. yoor on orlf-pro-tertlon. demands that VOU do The Cost Small If yoo hare sonwtnlni lor Ml, trado or not. or wlb to bar bomo or s form too wtmj mttlj ploto roar problem la s Want Ad la Ihit atwipaper. Tho re sults will bo pleating and tbo Medford Tribune your put NOW! roll Associated Preee United Prats Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1942. NO. 311. o)(n)vp 13) ran A(o"u" 15) AT News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, March 21 Those criticisms of the Smith antl-forty-hour-week bill, which have been gushing from government officials, all came after they had privately heard from the boss In the White House. And the gushing seemed slightly painful for some of the officials who previously had taken a some what different view. Paul Malloa First, the pres ident brought the matter up at a conference with the legislative leaders of the house and senate last Mon day. Next day, Senate Leader Barkley made a statement on the floor raying Just what the president subsequently said In a press conference there are few strikes now and therefore no further restrictions should b placed on the unions. As Barkley was speaking, Mr. Roosevelt called into the White House the War Undersecretary Patterson, Navy Assistant Sec retary Ralph Bard and Admiral Land of the maritime commis sion. Wednesday they all ap peared before a senate appro priations sub-committee and strangely expressed the same sentiments, to a word. The objections were not wholly ex pected from Land and Patterson, both of whom testified some weeks back in favor of the Conally anti-strike bill, designed to cause government seizure 01 striking defense plants and the freezing of labor conditions In them until after the war. It is not the same in detail as the Smith hill, but obviously Land and Patterson had changed their opinions about anti-strike legis lation. Another legislative leader, Speaker Rayburn, thereupon came out simultaneously with the same Ideas, a little late, but nevertheless firm. While these men spoke for themselves, they agreed even down to the one voluntary re striction which Mr. Roosevelt wants labor to accept aban- Continued on Page Eight) AXIS SHIPS SHOT Valletta, Malta, March 21. UP) British Hurricane fighters, ranging out to meet persistent axis air attacks, downed 12 Ger man bombers and two Messer schmitt fighters in the 24-hour period ending at 7 p. m. tonight one of the best records made In the recent days of Malta's defense. Six other German bombers were damaged in the long ser ies of raids, a communique said tonight. The nazis suffered most of their casualties In a desperate half-hour attack on an airdrome on the islands. Curtains of antl aircraft shells burst over the field as the slow Junkers 88 tried to come in. NAB DRAFTEE FOR REPORT FAILURE Roseburg, Ore., March 21. UP) Robert E. Gilbert, 26, reg istered with the Douglas coun ty selective board, was taken Into custody today upon orders from the federal bureau of in vesication on a charge of sel ective service delinquency, Sheriff Cliff Thornton reported Gilbert was employed in logging on Smith river in western Doug las county. The sheriff reported that Gil bert had failed to obey an order to appear before the selective service board iir induction into the army. The FBI was noti fied and lmed a warrant for his arrest He is to be taken to Portland for questioning, the sheriff said. " 1 ,4 At BLAST SEA WOLF OFF EAST COAST hotographs Prove Victory N o Survivors H o n duras Liner Torpedoed. New York, March 21 UP) Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commanding the- eastern army torces, announced tonight that un American bomber had de stroyed an enemy submarine in an undisclosed area off the eastern United States coast. "Destruction of the submarine was complete," General Drum said. "The sea was covered with oil and debris. It Is considered improbable that there could have been any survivors." Four depth charges were dropped by the bomber, which spotted the sub from about two miles away while the plane was bound home from a pnoto- graphic mission, the general said. Second Lieutenant E. H. Ep person of Scott City, Kas., the bomber's pilot, declared: "We could see the conning tower clear of the water. We made four runs over the sub marine, and dropped one charge on each run. The first two were direct hits on the conning tower. "Crippled by the first hit. the submarine was a clay pigeon for the following runs. The third blast was a 'short,' the fourth was an 'over' (a near miss). Ruin Complet "It looked as if we had struck an oil well. The submarine dis appeared from sight. My report reads: 'Complete destruction of enemy submarine " The co-pilot. Second Lieut. Barney L. Johnson, of Fort Worth, Texas, said the bombing was from an altitude of 100 feet. "We were on a photographic mission," Johnson said. "We went Immediately to the sub marine to launch our attack. There Is no question about it. The submarine was destroyed." In addition to the depth charges, the plane machine gunned the U-boat. Corporal Clifton A. Cyr, Spokane, Wash., was the gunner. "I gave the sub four bursts of fire from my machine guns, ' Corporal Cyr said. "That was while we were bombing. I saw a lot of oil, and I didn't see any survivors.-' The plane's photographer. Pvt. J. A. Boyle, of Brooklyn, re ported taking seven pictures of the submarine with his camera. Five were developable, he said. Three showed the conning tower. The prints clinch our rsport that we got it," he said. Corporal Charles G. Parrolt. of Clay City, Kas., the bombardier. declared the plane "released each depth charge carefully as our ship levelled out on each of the four runs." The other member of the crew was Sergeant Robert P. Ed- waras, rranklin. Ky., a me chanic. He also declared that the submarine was wrecked and that he saw no survivors. 44 PERISH New York. March i11Pi The torpedo-sinking of a Hon- uran passenger liner on March IB off the Jersev coast with a probsb e loss of 44 lives was disclosed today by the third naval district. Six battered sur vivors reached here ThnrtHav The 44 missing persons were u crew members and 12 pas sengers three women, two girls a 7-year-old bov and ii m... A single toreedo blasted Into the port side of the vessel Just wow me oriage at 8:43 p. m (EWT) sinking it In three min utes. It was the first HorHtmr ship lost in the war. Six South American ships have been tor- pea oea. AFFIRM CONVICTIONS New York. March 21 (P The U. S. circuit court of ar peals today affirmed the con victions ot Joseph M. Schc-nck lormer cnairman of the board o: 20th Centurv-Ftx Film rnrrtnro tion, and Joseph H. Moskowltz. nis confidential associate, income tax evasion charges. on Exchange Blows in Battle ifcaa z I KCNOARI AMIOINA 0Wo- 5 KOEPA S""Y Trnttr 5 moAHwii JUVNDHAM Ugnh AUSTRALIA S 1 JJiSHWiXTJ-CRUK United nations filers, bombing lowing the action at Lae and Salamaua (2) where 23 Jap ships reported advancing overland from Darwin (4) was again bombed, as bombed the Jap airdrome at Xoepang, Timor (6). NEW DEAL CHIEF Public, Small Business, Need Protection Mis deeds Charged.' " Washington, March 21 UP) Attacking organized labor in terms seldom, if ever, used by new deal official, Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney gen eral, accused the unions today of a long list of misdeeds which, he asserted, were preventing the efficient use of men and ma chines and hampering the dis tribution of civilian necessities. He charged organized labor with Injuring or destroying in dependent business men, and holding farmers and consumers ' at its mercy," of Impeding the distribution of housing and food, and of "undemocratic proced ures" within itself. On the witness stand of the nouse judiciary committee, he said a pending bill to require the registration of labor unions was insufficient to protect the public from the practices which he alleged. "No other group in our society" could do anything like the things of which he com plained and escape punishment, he said. 'Today, under federal law. there is no right of the farmer which labor is bound to re spect, there is no right of the consumer which labor is bound to respect, and there is no riaht of the small business man which labor is bound to respect." he asserted. Arnold added that all three groups were "entirely subject to the will of the labor union People complain to us and we have to say to them thai here Is nothing we can do." Arnold Is in charge of anti trust prosecutions for the Justice de partment. He said that state laws were inadequate to meet the situation explaining that even if an em ployer was successful In obtain ing an Injunction against a labor organization, the labor organ! ation could boycott the employ er's good in another state. inaepenaent Duslness men all over the United States are completely at the mercy of organized labor groups," Arnold said. In discussing proposal thai both labor union and trade aaso- clation finances must be made public, Arnold declared that he could not "see any reason why contributions should not be made public and I can see every rea son wny tney should." GRAIN PRICE UP Chicago, March 21 (AP Grain prices took an upward course today, rallying moderate ly from the 1942 lows posted in most futures pita yesterday. PACIFIC OCEAN l . lit MARCH "rs7ci,. KAvitNd Ntw NEW W.--vVieta'; CUINE aXj-aM. x . a , . Ww Sv Toms Strait Q ITVT.PORT . a. -S AAsF ksMitsV rswr !'r j i . Aonwri i JL shipping at Rabaul (1), scored a Lae toward Port Moresby, after was Tulagi (5), "stepping stone" in SEIZURE STRIKE Washlngtpn, March 21. (IP) President Roosevelt today broke the long deadlock In ef forts to arbitrate the Toledo, Peoria and Western railroad strike by ordering federal seiz ure and operation of the short line pending a strike settlement agreeable to the war labor board. The chief executive, declaring the management had refused to arbitrate the three-month-old dispute, directed that Joseph B. Eastman, head of the office of defense transportation, take over and operate the 239-mile line, with the aid of the armed forces, if necessary. It was the first time Mr Roosevelt had used his powers to seize private property since the United States entered the war. His order said that con tinued operation of the road, which by-passes Chicago with transcontinental freight, was es sentlal to the "successful prose cution of the war." The action climaxed a long series of exchanges between the war labor board and the chief executive, on the other hand, and George McNear, Jr., presi dent of the T. P. and W. Eastman appointed J. W. Bar- riger, associate director of the office of defense transportation, to be "federal manager" of the railroad and Instructed him to leave Immediately for Peoria and reinstate "with certain ex ceptions" all strikerj. Wages and working conditions prior to the strike December 29 will be put into effect until an agreement Is reached. FOR 'INVESTMENT' Hollywood, March 21. W In stiff legal phraseology. Cur vaceous Rita Hayworth ot the movies charged today that her wealthy oil operator-husband, Edward C. Judson, once told her: "That he is an old man going down hill; that plaintiff was young and just building up her career and that he married her as an investment for the purpose of exploiting her and that he knew she would pan out for him and that he Intended to get paid for the time he was married to her." An amended complaint, sup erseding divorce charges which she filed last month, also assert ed that he told her she would "have to pay him off or he would blast her career in motion pictures.' of Australia iAT MORESBY o soo MIL! $ AT EOUATOft direct hit on a Jap cruiser, fol were sunk or damaged. Japs were heavily bombing the port (3). the Solomon group. Allied fliers "Tens Of Divisions" Gath ered For Supreme Test OreTHexf ubTective.- Moscow, March 21. (Pi 'Tens of well-trained divisions,' drilled and equipped on the vast plains of Siberia, awaited the command tonight that would send them Into the front lines to lend added power to the Rus sian offensive driving forward relentlessly In the north, the center and the south. A dispatch from Siberia In dicated these were several hun dred thousand troops drawn from the Soviet's still untapped reserves of manpower. The sharpest spearhead of the Red army drive, according to latest reports to the army news paper Red Star, now is aimed at Orel, one of the principal German strong points 200 miles south and slightly west of Mos cow, which fell before the nazi invaders last October 8. Red Star located this thrust within 35 miles of Orel from the north and east, for it de clared the advancing Russians had captured a German-desig nated mayor of Krenln county In the Matsensk district. (The BBC, as heard In New York by CBS, quoted Moscow radio reports that the Red arm les were attacking six German divisions holding fortified vil lages around Kharkov, the great steel center, and that 83 miles beyond Kharkov to the west a fierce battle was raging for pos session of a nazi-built supply base at Poltava. This railway junction lies 60 miles above the Dnieper river). The midnight communique re ported the occupation of "sev eral populated places" during continued offensive) operations today and said that 33 German planes were brought down Fri day for the loss of five Russian planes. NVASION FEARS Tokyo (From Japanese Broad casts) March 21 (AP) Japan has "air tight" preparations against United States attacks by the northern route from Alaska and the Aleutian islands. Admir al Kayozo Nakamura wrote to day in the magazine Taihelyo, He added that fears that the United States will embark In the spring on surprise attacks on Japan by submarines and air craft "are unnecessary because they have no adequate base. TWf. CRUISERS ,1 IN RABAUL FIGHT Mikado Loses 28 Ships In Australia Driven Bombs On Broome. Melbourne, March 21 (AP) General Douglas MacArthur swiftly marshalled allied forces for his rendezvous with destiny on this embattled continent while planes ot his command sank a heavy Japanese cruiser and damaged another In Rabaul harbor and the enemy struck back at northwest Australian ports. The heavy Japanese cruiser was sent flaming to the bottom of the New Britain harbor. The damaged cruiser was In addition to one heavily battered late Wed nesday. The score of Japanese warships and merchant vessels sunk or damaged at the ap proaches to Australia was thus raised to 28. Enemy bombers struck again at the pearl-fishing port of Broome, 600 miles southwest of Darwin, centering their attack on the airport. Some commercial planes were damaged to SO bombs dropped and a civilian was killed. Derby, 73 miles southwest of Broome, was attacked for the first time by two bullet spitting Japanese fighters which did no damage. A lone merchant ship survived undamaged an attack off Darwin by an enemy plane. The. enemy maintained cease less reconnaissance over the vast Uland of New Guinea, Just to the northeast of the mainland and a heavy Japanese bomber which approached Port Moresby was driven away by anti-air craft fire. Port Moresby, however, had two raids during the morning. Single planes reconnoltered the area persistently during the af ternoon. NEW OFFENSIVES FRONTS BREWING Washington, March 21. WP) The long smouldering Philippine lighting front burst into flame today, and the American-Fili pino defenders braced for a new full-scale Japanese offensive. While patrols skirmished sharply on the Bataan peninsula, enemy batteries hammered at the Manila bay fortifications, the war department reported. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Walnwright, General Doug las MacArtnur s successor, re ported to the war department that a renewed assault on the peninsula appeared probable A late day communique added that the resumption of activity, after a lull of weeks. Indicated that Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashlta, the new Japanese commander, might be regroup lng his forces tor a long-delayed olfenslve. Mandalay, March 21. UP Strong Japanese forces were re ported massed tonight for crosswise drive through the Sit- tang river defenses near Toun- goo toward the Irrawaddy, 80 miles to the west, on the Burmn flank where Chinese troops of the fiery American commander, Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell already have gone Into action, Dispatches from the Sittang front, where the Chinese dealt their first stiff blow Thursday and Friday to the Japanese near Pyu, 20 miles down river from Toungoo, Indicated that this skirmish might be the forerun ner of the main fight. Portland. March 21. VP) Monthly payments to dependents of American civilians affected by enemy action outside the con tinental United States will be made by the Portland office of the Social Security board, Man ager James E. Peebles said to day. Interpreting The War News By Klrko L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) April soon will replace blust ery and uncertain March on the calendar ot the world, and there j is every indication that the sap of war is rising with the ap proach ot the new month. The nazl warlord has revised his predictions to talk of a sum mer instead of a spring renewal of the German "annihilation" campaign in Russia. Conditions not under his control, such as the Russian weather and Rus sian war morale account for that postponement. Yet whatever the month for a nazl attempted offensive in Russia and wher ever the major blow on that front Is to fall, April will see a stepping up of the battle tem po on the related fronts. As Is to be expected at this season, war reports from neu tral observation posts and bel ligerent capitals alike In Europe are full of rumors and predic tions ot what Hitler Intends to do next. That is part ot Hit lerian , strategy, of the war-of-nerves technique. It may not perplex allied high command ers, shaping their own war plans but it does tend to con fuse the public mind in anti- axis countries. Nazism has thrived since Its birth on confusion In opposing ranks. It won Its way to poli tical and military mastery in Germany In that fashion and by the same means lulled Britain and France Into a false sense of security led to French downfall and the gravest crisis in British history. For almost a decade Berlin has put out annually rumors and gossip to create a pre-spring mania of speculation about what Hitler would do next. The nerve siege Is on again now but this time backed by grim facts that virtually Insure 1x42 a place in history as the year of decision in the world's great est war. This Is not to say that the war will end this year. There Is no means ot saying when or how that will come. Yet it seems, even now, that It what ever vast new war enterprise Hitler is supposed to mapping proves as futile to destroy the will and ability of his foes to fight on as did the kaisers last great spring offensive in France Just 24 years ago. Hitler's ulti mate collapse will be as clearly forecast as was the kaiser . 0L0 TIRES OUT AS San Francisco, March 21 UP) There's be a better smell in west coast orchards If an OPA warning Is heeded by orchardists. Happy Camp, regional direc tor of the office ot price ad ministration, asks orchardists to find something else for anti frost smudges except old tires and worn out tubes. 'To burn tires and tubes at this time Is a thoughtless act of the most serious character," he declared In a press statement. Substitute measures should be used by the grower who In the past made his smudge of old rubber." T STATE TREASURER Salem, March 21. UP) State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott today accused some Oregon Justice of the peace of levying excessive costs In traffic violation cases In a prepared statement Scott said some Justices listed costs at more than $8 a case In In stances in which defendants pleaded guilty to ordinary traf fic law violations. Others, he said, limited costs to $2.30. "It is difficult to understand why a traffic law offender who has committed a minor infrac tion of the traffic laws should be compelled to pay excessive costs to subsidize a jutlce court but pay little or no fine," Scott said. NOTHING MATTERS BUT WAR EFFORT. M'NAftY DECLARES Senior Senator Seeking Fifth Term Issues State ment On National Needs, Washington, March 21 (AP) Senator McNary (R-Ore.), min ority leader of the senate, an nounced today his candidacy for reelection to a fifth term with an assertion that "neither profits, service charges, social gains nor any other factor" should be per mitted to stand In the way of completely equipping the war forces. The senator said the task now was to work out a formula that would command the support ot all and prevent internal strife. McNary, republican nomtnea for vice president In 1940, added that because of his duties ha might not be able to return to Oregon for the coming campaign. "The attack upon our nation and our form of government la without precedent," McNary said In a statement. "Therefore, the successful prosecution of the war must take first place In the minds of every American. For this reason and because of tha exacting duties of my position, my uninterrupted service at tha nation'a capltol Is Imperative. These demands may prevent ma from returning to Oregon for thai campaign. In whatever capacity we serve the government, the) nation's crisis permits no neglect ot dutlea in these perilous times." "Rightly, public sentiment U demanding that neither profits, service charges, social gains nor any other factor be permitted to stand In the way of producing every item of equipment for American soldiers or sailors overseas or those who are de fending tha home front This sit uation la desirable In the sens that it promises to force the tak ing of certain corrective steps which will -assure more effective and less wasteful methods of conducting our war activities. Our task now is to work out a formula which will command tha support of all and prevent Inter nal strife which might nullify the progress made at the cost of great sacrifices. In a small way I am striving to do my part. "I am sure, therefore, that those who have supported ma for many years and others in my state will not fall to recognize my full appreciation for their confidence and support" War Bulletins London, Msrcb UP) Exchange Telegraph. British news agency, reported hear ing a Tokyo dispatch oa tha German radio today asserting that Japanese shock troops had reached the Gulf of Papua, on the southern side of New Guinea, and that thus "the last decisive attack for complete occupation of New Guinea" had begun. Chungking. China. March Il5) Guerrillas have ro poatoly raided Amoy Island. Important Japanese supply base at the mouth of tha Klulung river, and Japanese batterlo shelled Chinese posi tions oa the mainland In aa attempt to discourage further attacks, the Chinese Central news agency said today. Berlin (From Gorman Broad casts). March 21 API The German high command claim ed tonight that two United States coastal patrol warshlpa and 11 freighters totaling 7 000 tons had been sunk off tha U. B. Atlantic coast In tha past week. Berlin (from Gorman broad casts). March 21--W) U-boats have sunk six mora ships total ing 13,000 tons and a U. S. coastal patrol boat In opera tions off the American and West African coasts, tha high command said today. .
