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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1942.
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Comment
From Washington, D. C
Income Tax Make
People Watchful
Fuel Shortage Is
Seen Next Winter
Rubber Allowed
For Baseballs
Br Joha W. Kelly
Washington, D. C, March 28
Having paid an income tax
(many tor the first time) the
people will now give close at
tention to the hearings on the
new tax bill by the ways and
means committee. It will prob
ably be June or July before the
new tax bill has been written
and approved and the people
able to know exactly what they
are up against. Tentatively, how
ever, the treasury is urging
that the rate which the people
have Just paid be doubled on
the 1942 income.
The National Manufacturers
association, which detests taxes
in any form in peace time, has
petitioned the ways and means
committee to tax everyone to a
point above the bare cost of liv
ing. The association is afraid of
inflation unless the people are
deprived of every possible dol
lar. One of the controversial
points is what is "the bare cost
of living." With some people it
may be $5000 a year and by
one third of the people, it is
established by government, it is
$750 per family. There is less
and less sympathy for the sug
gestion that 10 percent be de
ducted from a worker's pay in
compulsory savings.
THAT part of the public
which uses coal for fuel (general
in Washington and Idaho but
only partly so in Oregon) is be
ing urged by tha goernment
to buy and stockpile all the fuel
required for next winter. This
is not called hoarding but only
long distance planning, and back
of the appeal to load up with
fuel is a desire to have the rail
roads handle the hard fuel now
before transportation lines be
come too congested, as they are
expected to be next fall.
Other species of fuel (oil, gas,
sawdust, briquets, cordwood)
are expected to be short for
other reasons. The curtailment
of fuel oil in Oregon and Wash
ington will affect those with oil
burners. Sawdust will be avail
able while sawmills operate
and there are trucks to deliver,
but the cordwood requires wood
choppers, and better wages are
open in war industries than in
bucking logs.
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DURING a blackout In the
national capital a congressman,
to kill time, inspected the de
partment of agriculture bill for
1943. He discovered that the de
partment was asking for $16,
000,000 for travel; soil conserva
tion alone requested $1,003,000.
Next morning he prepared 30
amendments to the bill, each
one reducing the mileage for
each of the various agencies.
(Continued on Pago Elgnt)
MYRNA LOY WILL
Beverly Hills. Calif., March
28 (P) The Myrna Loy-Arth-ur
Hornblow, Jr., marriage hit
the rocks again today, and
freckle-faced (off screen) Myrna
said it would stay there this
time.
Good looking Miss Loy Insist
ed the parting with her producer-husband
was a friendly one,
but announced she would start
divorce proceedings soon.
"Arthur and I are still the best
of friends," she declared, "but
after talking it over we both de
cided to continue our respective
careers apart."
The two separated in Novem
ber, 1940, and their troubles
headed for the divorce courts,
but they patched up differences
which apparently held firm un
til this decision.
COACH RESIGNS
Forest Grove, March 28 P)
Al Lemcke, coach at Forest
Grove high school, has resigned
to enter the navy as a physical
instructor.
NEW TROOPS POUR
NTO AUSTRALIA,
ALL REPORTS SAY
British Fleet Near India
Chinese Win In Burma
Tokyo Invasion Hint.
By tho Associated Press
A rising tide of reinforce
ments flowing to the United Na
tions in the Australian-Asiatic
war theaters gave fresh hope
last (Sat.) night that, if the al
lied forces are not yet sufficient
ly strong to undertake the long,
hard drive that leads at last to
Tokyo, still for the present they
may be able to pen the Japanese
within the bounds of their cur
rent conquests.
News of those reinforcements
came from virtually every sec
tor. In Australia seasoned, strap
ping New Zealanders joined the
growing armies under the ban
ner of Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
and according to one report a
full Dutch East Indies division
was landed in Brisbane to Join
the fight. From Burma came
word that new divisions had bol
stered the Chinese portion of the
allied line and had helped win
back a vital air field north of
Toungoo.
Even the axis had what for
it must have been a disquieting
report that Britain was dis
patching a powerful naval task
force into the Indian Ocean,
where Japanese fleet units were
observed earlier this week off
the newly-seized Andaman isl
ands in the Bay of Bengal.
Only in the holdout Philip
pines did the gallant American
and Filipino troops carry on the
fight alone. But even without
outside aid Lieut.-Gen. Jonathan
Wainwright's men were carving
out glittering new passages to
be incorporated into the annals
of their brilliant stand.
Corregidor Victory
Not content to wage a purely
defensive fight, Wainwright's
troops on Bataan and on the
island of Mindano 800 miles to
the south Jabbed at Japanese
outposts in daring raids. The
sharpshooting gunners of Cor
regidor and the other Manila bay
forts, meanwhile, raised such a
destructive hail of anti-aircraft
fire that enemy bombers were
forced to a height from which
their aim could be no better
than "very inaccurate."
The enemy still hesitated In
his frontal assault on Australia,
and even the air attacks that
are the inevitable prelude to in
vasion lacked authority.
Port Moresby and Darwin,
twin keys to successful defense
of the continent, had their 21st
and seventh air raids, respec
tively. But neither was effec
tive, and Port Moresby's garris
on now likened to the men who
held Tobruk boasted that some
190 enemy planes which have
dropped nearly 2,000 bombs
have caused only negligible da
mage. While allied bombing planes
roared out in a fresh assault
upon the enemy base on the isl
and of Timor, there was one un
confirmed report that United
States submarines had played a
vital role in upsetting Tokyo's
timetable of attack.
The navy department in Wash
ington said it could not confirm
the story.
But the Australian correspon
dent for a London paper declar
ed that within the past three
weeks our undersea raiders
have sunk 36 enemy ships five
destroyers, an airplane carrier
and 30 transports and damaged
36 more five cruisers, another
carrier and 30 transports and
damaged 36 more five cruisers,
another carrier, and 30 more
transports and supply ships in
waters "around Australia."
On the Burma land front
there appeared to be some slight
improvement in the allied sit
uation. While the British Imper
ials standing before Prome had
to straighten their lines slightly
to guard against a possible ene
my flanking thrust, the reinforc
ed Chinese wiped out an enemy
force which had seized an air
port north of Toungoo and were
said to be more than holding
their own in fierce hand-to-hand
combat with the Japanese
around and in the outskirts of
the town itself.
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World's Heavyweight Champion Jo Louis (left), watches while Referee Eddie Josephs moves In
after counting out challenger Abe Simon in the sixth round of the scheduled 15-round bout at Madi
son Square Garden in New York, Down once in the second and again in the fifth, Simon didn't get
up after taking heavy blows thrown by Louis.
NEED OF SECOND
FRONT IN EUROPE
. Moscow, March 28 WV-r-Drlv-
en back upon the defense of
fortified villages and cities by
the crushing waves of the Soviet
winter offensive, the German
armies have switched tactics to
open-field fighting in savage
counter-attacks aimed at shaking
off the Russians' iron grip and
gaining them fresh footholds for
a spring push.
Tmat was the picture of the
military situation as it was
drawn tonight both by an au
thoritative foreign military
source who has been with the
Red army at the front, and by
the army newspaper Red Star.
Each conceded that the Nazis,
on all sectors of the huge front,
are counter-attacking furiously
at tremendcus cost in this all-or-nothing
effort to regain the
Initiative. But both agrecl that
the initiative still was firmly
held by the Russians and that
the present German army can
not compare in power to the
divisions which blasted their
way into Russia last summer.
The midnight Russian com
munique said that these German
counter-attacks in some sectors
were repulsed with heavy losses
for the Germans and that Rus
sian troops continued their of
fensive fighting, occupying sev
eral inhabited localities. Eight
German planes were reported
destroyed Friday.
While the foreign military ob
server expressed the utmost con
fidence in the current Soviet
campaign with Its constant
threat of outflanking and en
circling the Germans, he de
clared that it would be essential
for the allies to open a second
front against the Nazis in order
to enable '.he Red army to de
liver a knockout blow this year.
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New Delhi, India. March 28.
The British defending the cen
tral Burma oil fields effected a
straightening of their lines to
day in the Prome area on their
right flank but reported that the
situation on their left about
Toungoo had improved greatly
as the result of stoic resistance
by the Chinese.
The British maneuver about
prome, involving a slight with
drawal caused by earlier Japan
ese advances on the allied left,
was effected without major
contact with the Japanese only
"large parties of mixed Bur-
mans. Japanese and local free
booters'' were reported active in
the area.
for Challenger Simon
War Bulletins
London, March 28. (IP)
Reuters, British news agency,
reported hearing the Rome
radio say today that "a major
British naval force passed the
Cap of Good Hop (southern
most Africa) on its way to the
Indian ocean."
The broadcast was quoted
further)
"Tho fore Included two
largo battleships, two aircraft
carriers, several cruisers and
smaller ships."
Moscow. March 28. (IP)
A Tass dispatch from Iitan
bul said today there were re
ports in military circles in
Turkey that Field Marshal
Gen. Walther von Brau
chistch, removed by Adolf
Hitler from command of the
German army had arrived in
Greece on a special mission
connected with concentration
of nasi parachutists at island
bases in tho eastern Meditor-
Helsinki, Finland. March
28 P) The Finnish high
command reported tonight
that its forces had captured
the island of Suursaarl, in the
middle of the Gulf of Finland,
north of Estonia and west of
Leningrad.
Sydney. Australia, March
28. P) Darwin, port cap
ital of Australia's northern
territory, underwent its sev
enth raid of the war shortly
after noon today, it was an
nounced in a special com.
muniqu.
Salem, March 28. (IP) The
state highway commission will
seek new bids at a meeting on
April 2 for construction of the
south unit of the Medford can
tonment access road, R. H. Bal
dock, chief engineer, announced
here today.
The project Is being split into
two contracts in an effort to
obtain satisfactory bids, he said.
Proposals opened March IS
were rejected as too high.
Baldock said the department
would attempt to clear the way
for receiving of bids by late
April or early May on 15 miles
of widening and relocation of
the west side Pacific highway
in Polk and Benton counties
leading through Camp Adair.
The project will include a new
bridge over the Luckiamute
river.
STATER SHOTS WIN
Corvallis, Ore., March 28.
(AP) Oregon State college won
the Pacific northwest intercol
legiate rifle championship here
today, scoring 1361 points to
edge out Idaho by 14 points.
San Francisco, March 28.
(APMUSDA) Butter, 92 score,
36; 91-25H; 9035H; 80-34 Vi.
Eggs and cheese unchanged.
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SURVIVORS FIVE
By the Associated Press
The survivors of five torpe
doed vessels have reached the
safety of widely scattered At
lantic ports, but at least 24 of
their shipmates are known to
be lost and hope is rapidly wan
ing for another group adrift in
a lifeboat.
Twenty-two crewmen from an
American merchantman who ar
rived in Norfolk recounted the
heroism of their pilot, able sea
man Oscar G. Chappell, who
burned to death at the helm
while he kept his ship headed
into the wind so 22 others could
escape. The sinking occurred off
the Atlantic coast Thursday.
At Savannah 23 members of
the crew of another tanker said
13 were missing and believed
lost. The survivors left their
boat In lifeboats and rafts, also
in Atlantic waters near the
coast, after two torpedoes smash
amidships. Thirty-four survivors from an
allied merchant ship reached an
east Canadian port after drift
ing four and one-half days in
their lifeboats before an allied
freighter picked them up.
The entire crew of a Greek
freighter reached Miami safely
from Nassau after a submarine
torpedoed their vessel once and
then came to the surface in West
Indian waters to shell it with a
deck gun.
The torpedoing of a United
Nations motor tanker by an Ital
Ian submarine was described by
34 survivors who reached New
York after their three lifeboats
were oigMod and picked up by
a United Suites destroyer.
HAS STENOG JOB
Los Angeles, March 28 (IP)
Mrs. Colin P. Kelly, 25, widow
of the heroic American air force
captain who was killed after he
had sunk t Japanese battleship
in the Philippines December 9,
went to work yesterday as a
secretary-stenographer at a war
plant.
She had traveled over the
country selling defense bonds
and aiding in Red Cross drives.
"But now," she ald, "the time
has come for me to go about tne
business of earning a llvii.g for
myself and our son. Corky
He is Colin P. Kelly III, 2 years
old.
.PROTEST TRAIN CUT
Astoria, March 28 (IP) Con
munities acived by the Portland-
Astoria-Spokane line of the
Spokane, PortlanJ It S-attle
railroad today protested a com
pany proposal to abandon pas
TORPEDOED SHIPS
ARRIVE U.S. PORTS
AIR HERO'S WIDOW
senger service.
MuuaE APPROVES
LITJPROFIT
Rep. Tabor Urges Unity,
And Hits Madame Per
kins Still In Cabinet.
Washington, March 28 P)
After sharp debate over the
nations war production effort,
the house tonight passed a $18,
301,961,345 army appropriation
containing a provision to limit
war profits on contracts paid for
rrom the appropriation.
Sponsored by Rep. Case (R..
S. D.) the profits limitation was
accepted by a standing vote of
(0 to 8 without debate, a few
minutes before the bill was
passed by a voice vote.
Case Mid the amendment
would mean that "net profits"
on contracts, probably after
taxes had oecn computed, would
be limited to 6 per cent, but
there was uncertainty among
other members over operation
of the limitation.
Chairman Cannon CD., Mo.) of
the appropriations committee
told reporters that "while the
objective is splendid, the amend
ment is absolutely unworkable"
and would have to be revised
in the senate.
The big bill would provide
funds for 31,070 new warplanes
and scores of other combat
equipment and supplies. All
but about $1,000.000 000 will be
spent for the army, with the air
corps taking half of the sum for
planes and correlnry supplies
and parts as another step in
President Roosevelt's announced
goal nf 60.000 planes this year
and 125.000 in 1943.
Presenting the measure to the
house. Cannon spoke of "amaz
ing increases" In tank produc
tion and an output on planes
which he said "borders on the
miraculous "
Rep. Taber of New York, rank
ing Republican committeeman,
told the house that "production
is better than It was but I wish
that production was doubled
what it is today.'
He said he wished that the
nation could have the coopera
tion of Industry and labor, as
well as of President Roosevelt
and the congress "so that we
won't have to hung our heads."
There are those, he added,
who believe that "the retention
of Madame Perkins (secretary of
labor) is against the interest of
national defense" and that some
activities nf the national labor
relations board and of the wage
hour administration should be
revised.
BICYCLE DEATHS
IN NATION GAIN
New York. March 28. V
Approximately 1,100 lives were
lost in bicycle accidents In the
nation last year and the toll
this year may be even heavier,
says the Metropolitan Life In
surance company, as the war
time use of bicycles Is substi
tuted for automobiles. The war
production board has ordered
the output of "bikes" for adults
tripled, foreseeing a greater need
among workers.
Of the 1.100 bicycle fatalities,
more than 900 resulted from In
juries received in collisions with
automobiles. The 1941 fatality
total was 20 per cent above the
yearly average of 1936-1940, In
clusive. PORTLAND TRAFFIC DEATHS
Portland, March 28 AP
Portland eighth traffic fatality
of the year was recorded last
night with the death of Alt Gus-
tafson, 38, shipyard welder, who
was Injured 24 hours earlier by
a hit-run automobile.
AIR SOCIAL PROBLEMS
Portland, March 28. AP
Social problem arising from
wartime conditions will be dis
cussed at the 25th annual state
conference of social work here
April 8 11, President Donald E.
Long said today.
Sacramento, March 28. (AP)
Churning cream butterfat:
Fir.n grade, 4014; second grade,
I8',i.
Interpreting
The War News
By Kirk L. Simpson
(Wide World War Analyst)
Whatever their ultimata fate,
two tiny island bastion in far
seas, the one British and the
other American manned, are
proving sharp thorns in the
conquest pathway of the axis
mates.
They are Malta, dominating
the Mediterranean waistline al
though within hardly stone's
throw of the Italian shores, and
Corregidor, even more effect
ively denying Japan the use of
Manila bay, guarding the flank
of the AmericanFilipino army
on Bataan definitely disrupt
ing Tokyo s schedule.
As to Malta's role there can
be no question. It has been per
sistently bombed night and day
month after month at close
range. Yet axis boasts of bomb
hits on British warships there
sufficiently confirm continued
use of Valletta harbor as a sea
base within less than 60 miles
of Italy.
The British on Malta esti
mate that its defense has cost
the axis 50 planes downed dur
ing this month of March alone.
That the sea floor about the
island is strewn with the wreck
age of many, many times that
number of enemy aircraft and
the bodies of their crews goes
without saying. The battle of
Malta has been continuous since
Italy entered the war.
The men of Corregidor' bat
teries likewise have scored
heavily against otherwise un
challenged Japanese airpower.
The vital role of the fortress
and Its flanking forts in the
defense of Bataan that has
thrilled the allied world it un
contestable.
A new Japanese commander,
fresh from his victory at Singa
pore, was rushed to Luzon. It
Is his mission to erase the blot
on Japanese army prestige that
the names of Corregidor and
Bataan represent.
Corregidor and its batteries
still stand In his way. His first
move is to renew the air as
sault on that fortress in recog
nition of the fact that while
Corregidor holds out with flam
ing guns, his hopes of restoring
Japanese prestige except at pro
hibitive cost remain meager.
Malta and Corregidor are
again demonstrating the lesson
jo bitterly brought home to the
British by the escape of the
nazi battlecraft Gnelsenau,
Scharnhorst and Prlnz Eugen
from Brest. High altitude bomb
ing against small targets is a
hit-or-mlss affair. The attackers
must swoop low within the
range of anti-aircraft fir to be
sure of a hit and Invariably
they pay heavily for that.
GOVEWFILES
GIVES PLATFORM
Salem, March 28. (AP)
Gov. Charles A. Spragua filed
formal declaration of his candi
dacy for renominatlon on the
Republican ticket today with the
ballot slogan, "Keep Oregon's
war-time governor on the Job."
Secretary of State Earl Snell,
avowed opponent of the govern
or, said he did not plan to file
his declaration until Monday,
last day on which candidates for
nomination at the May primary
election may get their names on
the ballot
The governor proposed. In the
campaign statement accompany
ing hi declaration, to "give ef
fective leadership to Oregon's
war efforts; to operate state gov
ernment in the broad public in
terest; to protect the public
treasury against waste and ex
travagance; to promote agrlcul
tural, forest, mineral and indus
trial development of the state; to
safeguard the welfare of all the
people."
STATE BLANK LIN FIELD
Corvallis, March 28. W)
Oregon Stat college's varsity
baseball team blanked the Lin
field college nln here, 6-0.
Three Beaver pitchers held the
Llnfleld team to three hits while
the Staters rapped Partlow and
Hagedora for nine,
BLAST
ST.
OFNAZIU-BOATS
Former U.S. Destroyer Used
As Time Bomb British
Claim, Berlin Denies Win.
(By th Associated Press)
London, March 28. Britain's
combined force of commandos,
airmen and sailors making their
most spectacular raid yet upon
the German - occupied French
coast, converted a former United
States destroyer into a giant
time-bomb, laden with five tons
of explosives and blasted the
main dock gate of the big Ger
man submarine base at St Na
zal re early today.
In a special communique to
night, the British said "there la
every hope" that through this
daring assault the gate of tha
large dock at St Nazalre, tha
largest on the Atlantic coast,
was destroyed.
Special service troops were
landed and carried out pre-ar.
ranged demolitions in the dock
yard before, the 1,090-ton de
stroyer Campbletown, former
the U. S. S. Buchanan, was sent
nosing toward the main gate
with her giant load of explo
sives. "This ex-American destroyer
had had her bows specially stif
fened and filled with five tons
of high explosive," the communi
que said. "A delayed action fuse)
had been fitted to give our
forces sufficient time to complete
other demolition work and with
draw before th main explosion
took place.
The British acknowledged tha
sortie was made "not without
some casualties" and indicated
some of those lost may hava
been aboard the destroyer.
"The majority of the Campbel.
town's crew were evacuated by
motor launches," th communi
que said.
"A signal has been received
from the St Nazalre raiding
force, which Is returning safely
from the raid, saying that HMS
Campbeltown ran the main dock
gat at 1:34 thi morning, only
four minutes late on the pro
gram time.
If this sacrifice of th de
stroyer did what It was Intended
to do, it wrought havoc in one
of the main lairs of Nazi subma
rine preying upon allied ship
ping In th Atlantic and knocked
out th only dock on th conti
nental Atlantic coast capable of
accommodating the 35,000-tom
German battleship Tirpltz.
Certainly tremendous damage
was caused by the explosion of
such a quantity of explosives and
with the destruction Inflicted by
the commandos the raid appear
ed a highly profitable on.
Th Campbletown, built la
1919, was obtained by Britain in
the deal for SO U. S. destroyers
In exchange for western hemis
phere bases.
The latest hit-and-run smash at
nazl coastal bases was patterned
after the world war naval action
a Zeebrugge, Belgium, when tha
British navy bottled up the Ger
mans there by sinking concrete
filled ships in th harbor en
trance. Th commandos admittedly
ran into heavy German opposi
tion at St Nazalre, and it appar
ently was among these tough air
and seaborne fighters that tha
heaviest casualties were in
flicted. The RAF aided th operation
by diversionary bombings and
Beaufighter of th coastal com
mand covered the return trip.
Before the British gave their
side of the picture, the Germans
trumpeted to the world that tha
expedition had met with dis
aster. "Walt and see," said th Brit
ish, who explained that no de
tailed announcement would b
Issued until their forces wcra
safe home from th hazardous
return voyage of 270 mile
across th western end of tha
English channel and around Brit
tany peninsula to the nearest
English ports on th Cornish,
coast
Portland, Or., March 2S.
(AP) All Portland produce
price steady, unchanged.