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Let IfOUR Aniwer to Bomb! be BONOSI Buy DWrna Bondt an mimpi IOIIAV Contribute to Ilia Mtrtngtte of your nation, ratrlultftiii. jour on aalf-pro-lartlun. demanila thai I'OU do jour part NOW! Want Ad Way Too can ranch tnoMenaa of bomra ha Want Ad Way, and quk-kiy Ion . at email M prnw. If you hare aonmhlnf tor sale, Iradr, rant, or wtia to buy, tha moat aatUfartory war la tha want Ad War. Medford Tribune Full Associated Prau Onl tad Praia Thirty -seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1942. NO. 8. ussbs sm m iiiwi 1 - - Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Tin Lack to Hit Canning Industry Rationing of Soap Also on Program Reclamation Fund Sharply Reduced By John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, March 31 The general public does not yet know, and only a few of the canneries of the northwest are aware that canning, one of the great resources of the area, is to be hard hit. Briefly, the war production board has a program of trying to make a normal one year's supply of tin stretch over live years WfB realizes that this will cause inconvenience and mucli loss to many people; but that is the plan. Most of the tin supply for the United States came from the Dutch East Indies. It was sup posed thai although there might be a temporary interruption of supplies, the Japanese would be shortly disposed of and tin would again flow. Unfortunate ly, the Japanese swarmed in and captured the Dutch East Indies and now no tin is ex pected from that source until after the duration. Sometime before the war is over it is hoped that a smelter will be operating on tin ore from Bo livia, the smelter having been located in Texas, although the engineers had recommended Ta coma. Despite this possible . relief "from Bolivia, WPB is not plac ing too much confidence in it and declares that the outlook for an adequate tin supply dur ing the next few years is so bad that the tendency will be to tighten the restrictions rather than to make them more liberal War production board proposes telling what size cans can be used. It recognizes that the small cans are more convenient for the needs of consumers but small cans require proportion ately much more tin plate per ounce of contents than large cans. As between accommodat ing the consumer and conserv ing tin plate, WPB Is for the (Continued on Page Pour) Radio Highlights (Pacific war time ) New York, March 31 (Wide World) Easter morn on the radio is to be greeted with broadcasts of sunrise services from various parts of the coun try. So far nine programs have been listed. The broadcasts will cover the period from 3 a. m. to approxi . mately 7 o'clock, to include pick ups from both coasts and Inter mediate points. Tonight: CBS 7 Passover program. Blue 6:30 Stokowskl NBC symphony Lenten concert; 7:30 fight, Belio Bcttina vs. Gus Co razio. Wednesday: The war 8 MBS 8:15 MBS: 9 CBS MBS: 10 BLU: 10:45 NBC; 11 MBS; 11 30 BLU: 12 15 p. m., CBS: 1 MBS; 1:45 CBS MBS: 3:15 MBS; 3:25 NBC; '3.45 CBS MBS. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS A "Merry Christmas" slide flashin' on the screen at the Craterian maybe as a preview to April Fool's day. Gene Riebe dressed in his natty navy uniform and receiv ing a lot of feminine attention. Coordinator Frank VanDyke very thoroughly explaining the mysterious ramifications of pri orities and such to a willing telephone listener. Moore Hamilton being some what startled to look a police revolver in the eye as he en tered headquarters, there being fo danger involved in the situ ation, however, as the weapon was merely reclining cn the counter and facing the door. 5,000 KILLED BY E FORCES I Heavy Battle Still Raging About Burma Key Town; Japs Move on Right Flank By Roger D. Green (Associated Press War Editor) Chinese headquarters de clared late today that more than 5.000 Japanese troops had been killed in bloody fighting around Toungoo, on the left flank of the allied line in central Burma, while on the other end of the front, the British admit ted a critical turn in the strug gle. Previous reports had listed 18,000 Japanese troops engaged in the Toungoo sector, where the invaders had apparently wrested control of at least half the town from Chinese defend ers. Heavy fighting is still raging around the town, a Chinese communique said, adding that Chinese soldiers had recaptured the Japanese-held airdrome at Kyungon, 10 miles north of Toungoo. A whole Japanese battalion was reported annihil ated there. Oil Fields Periled On the right flank, Japanese columns driving toward the oil fields of northwest Burma and the gateway to India were ac knowledged to have advanced within' 10" miles of Prome, sup ported by traitorous . Burmese natives. Prome Is the British-held anchor on the right wing of the allied defense line in central Burma. The city is strategically Im portant as a barrier to the rich Yenangyaung oil fields, and also guards the Irrawaddy river route to Mandalay. A British communique said the Japanese penetrated to Shwedaung, 10 miles below Prome, In heavy fighting in which Imperial Indian frontier troops inflicted 300 casualties and captured 70 prisoners. Other developments in the far Pacific theater included: Philippines A war depart ment bulletin reported that Jap anese planes attacked a base hospital in American-defended Bataan peninsula, inflicting a number of casualties. The hos pital was plainly marked. The communique said heavy aerial bombardment of Manila bay fortresses, accompanied by fire from enemy short batteries, continued day and night, caus ing little damage. Bataan Blow Waits O n Bataan, sharp patrol clashes were reported, but there was still no sin of the threat ened all-out Japanese offensive against long-besieged American and Filipino troops. A u s t r a 1 i a United States bombing crews were officially credited with destroying 50 Japanese fighter planes in aer ial combat alone and sinking or damaging 46 enemy transports and 16 warships up to March 1. The blows were inflicted in the battles of the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. Fast Talkers Get $10 Short Change Tacoma, March 31 CP) You see it done in the movies, but Store Clerk R. L. Hagerson, was chagrined to find a couple of men had done him out of $10 change on a 50 cent transaction today. Hagerson explained to police ho wthe trick is worked: 'They talked so fast and changed their orders so many times and gave me so many dif ferent pieces of money and ask ed so many questions wnile I was trying to figure it all out. that it wasn't until they had walked out of the store that I discoered I was $10 short." WED IN RENO Reno, Nev.. March 31 (TV Dorothy E. Sargent, former Mount Vernon. N. Y.. beauty parlor operator, nd William iBill) F. Skiff. 46. manager of the Seattle baseball club of the Pacific Coast league, w:re mar Iried here today Reds Creep -"' ear i.iir m i.r itaiifat. Soviet soldiers, thair whit troops from on village with tha pictur. which was radioed from R 1 o m. Unoccupied France, March 3 1 . (IP) Bull-n e c k e d former Premier Edouard Dala- dier, irritated over charges that Frances tank force was infer ior to Germany's, shouted a public warning today that the French may beat the Germans in another war, "Never mind about who got licked," the irate defendant told Gen. Joseph Keller who had just finished saying Ger man tanks outnumbered the French about 2 to 1. "It will not always be the same ones who will get licked." SENATE REJECTS Washington, March 31 (IP) The senate rejected on a voice vote today amendments to pending legislation which would have suspended the 40-hour week, outlawed the closed shop and made it unlawful to use threats or violence to keep workers from their jobs. The amendments were offer ed By Senator O'Daniel (D-Tex.) to a pending bill designed to help small business concerns get a greater share of war con tracts. O'Daniel sought unsuccessful ly to force a roll call vote on his proposals. Cairo, March 31. (IP) Nine persons died of suffocation at Alexandria Sunday during a daylight air raid alert when 2,000 persons rushed into a shelter meant to accommodate only 100. No bombs were dropped. I'ii i ' win, j.iw im" ' '! H"'f a l.jWi.i-Jil.swai "sal t C O t v' New Jersey Standard Chief Denies Rubber Frustration Washington,' March 31 (IP) W. S. Farish, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, described today as with out "a shadow of foundation'' testimony that the company had prevented or delayed develop ment of synthetic rubber in the United States. 'The facts and the record," he told the senate defense invest!- I gating committee, "are exactly to the contrary. Farish appeared before the committee to reply to testimony by Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general in charge of Lnti-truxt enforcement, that the company had frustrated develop-1 ment of synthetic rubber In the United States as a result of cartel agreements made witn V a TPWA M S. I G. Farben of Germany before the United States entered the war. "Any charges that the Stand ard Oil company or any of its officers has been in the slightest respect disloyal to the United 'States u unwarranted and un - Over Snow Toward Nazis J uniforms blending with tha snowy landscape, dlslodg Carman support of artillery, according to tha Russian caption for this Moscow to Na w York DEFENSE CONTROL New Delhi, March 31. (IP) Growing indications that the British proposal to grant India dominion status might break down over the British insist ence on retaining control of India's defense during the war came today from the all-India congress executive committee and other sources. Mohandas Gandhi's son De- vadas wrote in the Hindustan Times that the defense issue might cause the congress, dom inant political party of the great sub-continent, to reject the of fer Sir Stafford Cripps brought from the British government. The younger Gandhi said oppo sition was strong in the con gress. Sir Stafford has stated em phatically at a press conference that there would be no revision in Britain's decision to retain defense control during the war. An atmosphere of depression grew tonight as a result of a general feeling that the confer ences would prove unsuccessful. Harriman Lodge On Klamath Lake Burns Klamath Falls, March 31. (IP) Harriman Lodge, a land mark on upper Klamath lake 20 miles north of here, was de stroyed by fire of undetermined origin yesterday. The lodge, built as a summer home by the late E. R. Harri man, president of the Southern Pacific railroad, in 1907, has been operated as a private sum mer resort recently. true," Farish asserted, reading from a statement. "I repel all such insinuations with all the vigor at my com mand. I do so with indignation and resentment. "Moreover, I wish to assert with conviction that whether the several contracts made , with the I. G. did or did not fall within the borders set by the patent statutes or the Sherman act, they did inure greatly to the advance of American indus try and more than any other cne thing have made possible cur present war activities in aviation gasoline, toluol and explosives and in synthetic rub ber Itself. Arnold had testified that the cart(,, ,grements had ' f rostra t tne creation of an American fynthetle rubber Industry." 1 .... Farish said It was "entirely untrue" that "as late as 1939 Standard was engaged In an effort to establish relations with Japan contrary to the Interests of the United States and with : out the knowledge of our gov 1 crnment " PRIMARY RACE Filing for county offices In the May primary closed yesterday. with no candidates filing against Syd I, Brown, democratic candi date for sheriff, William Perry, Eagle Point, republican candi date for county commissioner; Paul B. Rynning, Republican, county surveyor candidate, and Niok S. Young, seeking re-election on the Republican ticket for constable for the Medford dis trict. The following filed for pre cinct committeemen: Republicans: Otto Fuhrman, Foots Creek; Ethel Florey, North Central, Medford; C. Y. Teng wald, Orchard Home; Frank Davis, Ashland West; G. M. Green, Ashland Northwest; H. N. Butler, Medford, North Central; H. C. Galey, Ashland Boulevard; Lucy P. Hast, Ashland West, and Myrtle Blakelcy, Medford North Main. Democrats: Fay Carver, Phoe nix East; Ward Spatz, Medford Southeast; William Grenbemer, Oakdale; Nora E. Walton, Talent East; Parenthia Tcrrill, Talent West; J. B. Weterrer, Jackson ville South; Vera D. Rippon, Flounce Rock, and Ray J. Schu macher, Talent East. Damita Divorces Film Hero Flynn Los Angeles, March 31 (IP) The stormy marriage of Lili Damita and Errol Fiynn of swashbuckling movie fame end ed today when the French-born actress was granted a divorce on grounds of mental cruelty. Miss Damita told Judge Palm er: "He told me he wanted to lead his own life in his own way.- He said he wanted to be free, that he didn't want a child or a wife and would rather be alone." Pickets Delaying Army Hut Order Detroit, March 31 P) The Currier Lumber Co. said today two pickets for the Detroit Building Trades Council-AFL today were delaying shipment of 900 pre fabricated army huts. Ed Thai, secretary of the building trades council, said he did not know the plant was be ing picketed. MINE PRIORITY ORDER MODIFICATION COMING Washington. March 31. JP, Senator Johnson (D., Colo.) said today he had been told by a war production board official that the WPB order restricting priorities for mines producing more than 30 percent gold and silver money value would be modified within a few days. ODD FELLOWS CHANGE PLACE OF CONVENTION Roseburg, Ore., March 31. (iPh The annual state conven tion of the I.O.O.F. lodge, orig inally scheduled to be held in Roseburg May IT to 21 Indus - Ive, will be held Instead In Port land, according to word re ceived her today tR UIPAtGN SEEN AS ENTRY ENDS Competition For Most Major Offices; Wide-open Races In New Fourth District. By Paul W. Harvey. Jr. Salem, March 31. (IP) Bit ter battles for most of Oregon's major offices, including that of Senator Charles L. McNary. were predicted today after yes terday's last-minute rush of 141 candidates for the May 13 pri mary election boosted the tot-J number of candidates to 306, compared with 357 four years ago when the same offices were filled. McNary, who had been unop posed In either party until yes terday, will face Arthur M. Geary, Portland attorney. In the Republican primary. Democratic candidates are Walter W. Whit beck and Dr. Mac Beth A. Milne, dentist, both of Port land. Mott Unopposed Congressman James W. Mott of the first district. Republican, is the only congressman who won't have any primary oppo sition. Democratic candidates for his seat are Earl A. Nott, McMinnvllle, Yamhill county district attorney, and Lyman Ross, Aloha, former state rep resentative from Washington county. - - In the second district, Con gressman Walter M. Pierce will be opposed for the Democratic nomination by Charles H. Mack, Klamath Falls, former newspa per man and county as sessor, who filed at the last minute. Republican candidates for the job are Lowell Stock man,. Pendleton, former state liquor commissioner; and Mar vin Klemme, Burns, veteran em ploye of federal and state graz ing departments. Rep. Homer D. Angell, Port land, representing the third dis trict, will be opposed In the Re publican primary by John M. Schofield, Portland insurance adjuster. Democratic candidates are E. J. Griffith, former state WPA administrator; State Sen Thomas R. Mahoney, and A. W O'Connell, all of Portland. Fourth District Races There will be wide-open races in both parties In the newly- created fourth congressional dis trict. Republicans seeking the IContloutd on Paa nciti Lew Ayres Objector; Sent To Work Camp Hollywood, March 81 UP) Lew Ayres as the boyish, war hating German soldier who died trying to catch a butterfly on No-Man s Land maae screen history a dozen years ago In "All Quiet On the Western Front." It was a poignant scene, that ' death on the battlefield a dra- J matlc summa tion of the hate that young sol dler had for ' war. Today hand-, I ' - ' ail. some, mood j , wa nrcv4.,i ty train Wyeth, near; Portland, Ore.. I to take his place in a camp for conscien tious objectors to war. Even his studio didn't know of his plans or his plea for classification as a conscientious objector. Born In Minneapolis, where he attended high school, Ayres drifted Into California with a small-time band. He played the banjo, piano and guitar. The band prospered and so did young Ayres Soon he was in pictures He played the youth 'ful lover in Greta Garbo'i 'The , Kiss," aro.ind 1930 and he mar ried Lola Lane, on of the Lane I lister "A New Elks Ruler V. J J Dr. Stanley E. Phillips (abova) will b installed as xaltad ruler of the Medford Elks lodga at ceremonies In the tampl Thursday night, along with other naw officers elected at the last meeting. ELKS TD INSTALL NEW OFFICERS AT THURSDAY MEET Installation of officers for the coming year will be held by the Medford Elks lodge Thursday night, ceremonies to be con ducted by Past Exalted Ruler Millard Grubb of the Ashland lodge and a group of Ashland Elks. Elected exalted ruler to suc ceed Ernest Scott was Dr. Stan ley E. Phillips. Other officer named were C. C. Leonard, es teemed leading knight; Dr. C. H. Paske, esteemed loyal knight: Melvin R. Plaskett, esttemed lecturing night; Ernest L. Scott secretary; George T. Frey, treas urer; Dr. W. E. Lantis, trustee for three yeas and Ralph Mc Kay, tiler. The regular lodge session will be preceded by the annual free crab feed to be served at 6:30 Retiring Exalted Ruler Scott urged all Elks In southern Ore gon to attend. The world's total stock of radium, valued at $18,000,000 I amounts to about two pounds. Must Toe Mark Wyeth. Ore., March 31 (IP) Lew Ayres. the movie "Dr. Kildare" and the other men who hold "thou shalt not kill" above all else love of coun try, respect of fellow men, even freedom itself. In this camp must toe the mark. Military discipline prevails, under supervision of the se lective service board They must work eight hours a day, five days a week In actual constructive work. It is similar in all respect to that performed by civilian conservation corps cnrollees In this area. Camp No. 21. in fact, formerly was a CCC camp. Came the role In "All Quiet 1 It brought more fame, more wealth. He and Lola were dl vorced and he married Ginger Rogers. Presently Ginger's stock was high and Ayres' dipped. Years went by and they sepa rated, were divorced. Suddenly Ayres found himself again, as "Dr. Kildare." At the Wyeth camp, Ayres will get up at 9 a m. daily and swing an x 40 hours a week end pay $33 a month for the privilege. The $3A will defray his expenses. Along with 100 other objectors there, he'll be on call for forest fir fighting dutv Rfl FNTI FQQ BITIQ -VIU-LUULLUJ lLUJ BATTER AT NAZIS ONftEHlT Germans Claim Aerial Suc cesses And Destruction Of Many Russian Tanks,- (By Associated Press) Russla'a armies, pressing a relentless spring offensive amid the thawing snows of winter, were reported battering heavily at key German bases along tha entire front today while tha Nazi high command claimed aerial successes and the destruo tion of 183 Soviet tanks between March 23 and March 30. In the battle to keep allied supplies pouring Into the U. S. S. R the British admiralty re ported that British and Russian naval forces crippled a German destroyer and drove off at tacks by Nazi surface craft and U-boats Sunday while escorting; a convoy to Russia. Three German submarine were severely damaged "if not sunk," the admiralty said, whiia a British cruiser and a destroyer were damaged but reached port safely. Red Socc eases On the Russian land front, Soviet dispatches reported im portant new successes befora Leningrad, with the Red army starting to roll back German and Finnish forces along tha whole sector. .. . The Soviet radio announced the capture of an "important strategic point" in the Lenin grad area. The point was not identified, but Leningrad's de fenders have long been seeking to recapture Schluesselburg, on Lake Ladoga, to open a new land route of supplies to tha beleaguered metropolis. German field headquarters! acknowledged severe Russian pressure in the Ukraine, on tha central (Moscow) front, and in the far north, but asserted that Nazi dive-bnmbers had "frus trated" a tank-led Soviet attack: In the critical battle around Lake Ilmen. The high command described the dive-bombing assault as tak ing place "northeast of Lake Ilmen," presumably referring to the Staraya Russa sector whera the German 16th army has been trapped for many weeks. Soviet front-line dispatches said Red army cavalrymen, at tacking In the same region northwest of Moscow, beat off a stiff German attack, forced tha Nazis to retreat and seized an important populated place. Clarksvllle, Ga., March 31. (IP) Officers disclosed today the arrest of two farm women, each accusing the other of kill ing the husband of one of them in a tangled triangle case. Deputy Sheriff Lew Allen said Mrs. Australia Baker was arrested on a murder warrant sworn out by Mrs. Flossie D. Thomas who accused Mrs. Ba ker of poisoning her 50-year-old tenant fanner husband, William Baker. Mrs. Baker swore out a similar warrant against Mrs. Thomas. Baker died Nov. 11, 1941. while suffering from tubercu losis, the officer said. The body has been exhumed for examina tion but the exact cause of death has not been determined. Meanwhile both women re mained In jail without bond pending a special session of the Habersham county grand jury. Dennis Thomas, husband of one of the accused, was jailed as a material witness and on charges of abandoning his wife and children, Allen said. SO MORE GUERILLAS Pendleton, Ore., March Jl- (IP) Fifty men enlisted with tha Umatilla county guerilla organi zation here over the weekend, with applicants coming from Pilot Rock, Hermiston and many other outside point s
