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He is the nazi lightning caster although he did not cast very much in Russia. Sweden, of course, does not merit such high class military attention. A nazi sweep in from Norway, coupled with landings from Denmark and Germany at Malmo and Trollerborg, should duplicate the Norwegian job with the use of no more than 10 or 12 German divisions. Sweden, while promising now hard fight, is not known to have the military wherewithal for formidable resistance against a force of 150,000 or more. Thus is the familiar pattern of conquest Deing laid, first diplomatic pressure, then sup- nrpscinn nf rtpwsnanprs fhpn visits from German officials, ?(-w from a blitz general. All the while propaganda has een circulated to make the iiwedes fear a Russian victory dnd conquest from that quar ' ter, if Germany loses. Finally now there has come the lull of security, which means the time I la rn for licrhtninff . JEW here were impressed with the threat to Sweden when discussions were warm in the press a week or so ago. There is not much for Hitler to gain there. He is getting the (Continued oo Pa -a Stal C. S. BUTTERFIELD v Charles S. Butterfield passed 0-way at the family residence, , 1407 East Main street, early this morning after a sudden illness. He had been a resident of Med- ford for many years, engaging in the real estate business. A complete obituary will be published later. Perl funeral home is in charge. I Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Another of the Arturo Tos- I canini treasury concerts with I the NBC symphony orchestra is 1 scheduled for Saturday night on the blue network. Tonight: MBS, 7:15, United Nations speak, Sir Gerald Camp bell. i Thursday: CBS, 3:15 p. m.. , "new series, 'Things We Are Fighting For." Blue, 1, inaug uration of Chilean president. MBS, 11:30, Kentucky school; 1, oly Thursday services. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Dalf Burns discovering when he went to get his mail that the Central Point post office had moved overnight and that he had gone a block too fir. Frank DcSouza and Fred Kellv reminiscing about excit ing murder triali and otherwise in which they had been involved in lawful roles. targaret "Peggy" Gardner n awakened early this morn ing by the door bell ringing and upon answering it receiving a Ixany 'April fool" greeting. BESIEGED F T JAPANESE CIRCLE Gen. Stilwell Leads Column To Relief Of Encircled Defenders; Losses Heavy By Roger D. Greene (Associated Press War Editor) Hard-fighting Chinese defend ers of Burma were reported to have escaped a Japanese trap at Toungoo today, falling back to the north after the fiercest battle of the whole Burma cam paign so far. Toungoo, 155 airline miles from Rangoon, was the eastern anchor of the allied line in cen tral Burma. Lleut.-Gen. Joseph W. Stil well, fiery American comman der of Chinese forces in that theater, personally led a col umn to relieve Chinese troops at Toungoo. Scatter in Woods Front-line dispatches said remnants of the Toungoo garri son, originally estimated at 10, 000 Chinese agrinst 18,000 Jap anese, slashed their way through enemy lines, crossed the Sittang river under point-blank fire, and scattered in the woody hills to make contact with a Chinese relief army. Five thousand Japanese were reported killed in the bloody five-day siege of the town. Chi nese losses were not disclosed, but many fought to the death in shallow machine-gun and rifle pits under incessant dive bombing assaults and enemy artillery fire. On the British-held western flank, the situation was equally grave. Japi Hold Shwadaung British headquarters acknow ledged that strong Japanese forces were holding Shwedaung. 10 miles south of Prome, on the road to the west Burma oil fields, after a fierce battle with British and imperial Indian battalions. A communique further con ceded that the Japanese had gained complete control of the air and that British patrols along the Irrawaddy river had been forced to withdraw to pro tect their right flank against enemy infiltration. While the crisis In Burma grew more acute, allied fliers battling to defend the ap proaches to Australia were of ficially credited with destroying or damaging at least 18 Japan ese planes in two days without losses to themselves. Attack Walnwrlght In the Philippines, a war de partment bulletin reported, Jap anese troops heavily attacked the right center of Lieut. -Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright's line on Bataan peninsula last night and captured some of the ad vanced positions. The communique said the in vaders were halted, however, in fierce hand-to-hand combat before they could reach the main America n-Filipino de fenses. The communique added that the Japanese imperial high com mand in the Philippines had broadcast a formal apology for the aerial bombing of an Amer ican base hospital in Bataan, de claring the attack was uninten tional. GEN. JOYCE NEW 9TH CORPS HEAD San Francisco, April 1. (AP) Command of the vital ninth corps area which embraces the strategic western states was placed in the hands today of 62 year-old Major General Kenyon A. Joyce, who started soldiering as an enlisted private in the Spanish-American war. Joyce relinquishes command of the IX army corps at Fort Lewis, Wash., a position he has held since October 25, 1940. He replaces Major General J. L. Benedict, who will assume a new command still to be announced. nim Burma Battle Increases in O 25 MILES IRAKYAB Bay rfjW PAGAN; 1 The Japanese stDDd id their been Akyab (1). while putting more pressure on the British imoarial forces at Paungda. about 30 miles south of Prom (2), the gateway to the rich oil fields. In the battle of Toungoo the trapped Chines forces batwaan Toungoo and Yadash (3), along the Mandator railway Una, ar said to hav slashed thir way through the besieging lines and eicaped into tha Jungle. RED BANNER FLIES IN DAR. HALL AT RELIEF CONCERT By Ruth Cowan Washington, April 1. (JP) It really did happen, and 4,000 people today can testify that it did. Amid applause from a fash ionable audience, the red banner ; of Soviet Russia was brought on- : to the platform of Constitution hall, built and owned by out spoken opponents of commun ism, the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution. The presentation of the flags of the 26 united nations the Soviet banner among them was an impressive high spot on the Russian war relief program given last night by the Boston symphony orchestra, and for this concert, brilliant in content and in attendance, the sponsors rented the stronghold of the D A R., the capital's only large auditorium. Included in the rental fee were usheri with D.A.R. arm bands. They stood at attention as did Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt; Maxim Litvinoff, the Soviet ambassador; Madame Litvinoff, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and the audience as Serge Koussevitzky conducted the playing of the In ternationale and the Star Span gled Banner. It was the first time that the Soviet national anthem had been played in the American capital by a major orchestra, and cer tainly the first time by anyone from the platform of Constitu tion hall. Surveying is believed to have originated in ancient Egypt. Empty Toothpaste Tubes Required In Buying New Washington, April J.. (JP) Uncle Sam has laid down his own send-in-a-box-top rule for saving precious tin: from now on, to buy a tube of toothpaste or shaving cream, you must turn in an old tube. The war production board fig ures there are innumerable lumps of tin and tin alloys in the form of empty collapsible tubes on the shelves of Amer ican bathiooms, and kitcheni as well. The order. Issued late yes terday, completely eliminates the use of such tubes for foods (such as fish pastes and cheeses), cosmetics and moist toilet prep arations. Retailers are to be held re sponsible for enforcing the tube trade-ins by purchasers of shav Ing cream and tooth paste. The trade-in tubes do not have to be exactly the same type. The merchants will hold the old lubes until further orders from the director of Industry opera BU R M PYINMANA ANA r a. 5 a . VE W VTOUNGOOJ Jo f SCHWEDUNGpauNGDE attack In Burma h hamhlna a Jap' Defender Points to Those Who Shipped Iron Seattle, April l'(JP) Atty. Henry Clay Agnew ar gued today in seeking free dom for Kenji Ito, Japanese American attorney on trial for failure to register as a Japanese agent, that white citizens of the United States were shipping scrap iron to Japan the same time Ito was "making speeches upholding the Japanese invasion of China." "Who was wrong?" Agnew demanded of a federal court Jury. "Are the people who sent that scrap charged with any thing now? Are our isolation ist senators charged with any thing for their criticism of de fense preparations? No. We have a right to be wrong in the United States." Check for $84,980 Donated by Louis New York, April l.(fl) Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and Promoter Mike Jacobs today presented a check for $64, 980.02 to the army emergency relief fund as the proceeds of Louis' successful title defense against Abe Simon at Madison Square Garden Friday. Louis' individual contribution, his entire share of the receipts, was $36,146. The bout drew a crowd of 18,200 and a gross gate of $132,430.41. Portland, Ore., April 1 (JP) U. S. army engineers opened an other lumber auction here to day, expecting to purchase 50, 000,000 board feet from west coast lumbermen during a two day session. tions. Eventually, it was under stood, the used tubes will be reprocessed and reallocated to manufacturers. With the rich tin mines of the Straits Settlements now In the hands of the Japanese, the once-common metal has assumed new importance in the nation's war economy. WPB officials estimated that the new order would reduce the tube Indus try's consumption from 5,000 tons a year to 578 tons. The restrictions on tubes were announced shortly after the is suance of other emergency orders designed to save essen tial materials and speed the con version of factories to war pro duction. Toymakcrs were in structed to quit making electric trains after July 1, and to quit using scarce metals, plastics and colorings. The use of iron, ateel I' and zinc in a long list of house hold gadgets was restricted. Production of vacuum cleaners must be halted after April 30. Intensity rMANDALAY A ,o , ) - ) CHIENGMAI ' C JHaMLAND rn.tl town " kallrf v.... Camden, N. J., April 1. (IP) The plant of the Radio Con denser company, employing ap proximately 800 workers on War contracts, was closed today hy a strike railed by the AFL International Brotherhood o f Electrical Workers. Joseph Thompson, president of the union's local, said the strike resulted from the com pany's refusal of the union's re quest for a blanket 15 per cent wage increase. The union's con tract with the company expired last midnight. TO MAKE GIRDLES New York, April 1. (IP) War or no war, the American woman must continue to stand erect, trim, with no drooping here and there to mar the pic ture. To that end, the B. F. Good rich company has produced the first synthetic rubber thread ever developed In this country to replace natural rubber thread, essential in the manu facture of girdles, brassieres and foundation garments. The real McCoy for these articles has been banned be cause of the rubber scarcity. Senate Postpones Conally Debate Washington, April 1. P The senate agreed unanimously today to ctelay until April 20 debate on a motion to consider a bill by Senator Connally (D., Tex.) to permit the government to take over strike-bound war plants. Democratic Leader Berkley. of Kentucky, won approval of such an agreement in announc ing that the senate would begin at informal Easter recess this week-end expected to last until April 20. DEATH TAKES HOLIDAY IN BELLEVUE HOSPITAL New York, April 1AP) Death took his first holiday to day in more than ten yean at famoui Bellevue hospital. For a 24 hour period ending this morning, there were no deathi in the great red-brick city institution on the East river which houses from 2,500 to 3,000 patients. Deaths average six to ten a day. NEUBERCER IN ARMY BOON Portland, April 1. (AP) Richard L. Neuberger, Portland magazine writer and member of the state legislature, announced ii. the Oregonlan In a dispatch from Washington, D. C, today th' he would not seek reelec tion. He said ne expected to enter the army shortly. Sikhs, Mahasabhas Reject India Independence Offer CAMP WHITE LAND OWNERS TO FIGHT FOR HIGHER PRICE Many of 120 Ranchers In District Dissatisfied With Appraisal Price Offered. Many of the approximately 120 land-owners in the Beagle area, soon to evacuate their farms and ranches as Camp White engulfs that district, have expressed dissatisfaction with the price the government has offered for options on their land and plan to fight any condemna tion suits the United States at torney's office may file. This was the disclosure today by an unofficial spokesman for the group of land-owners, who have thus far held two meetings in the Antioch school house and elected a committee to gather Information relative to their rights and the procedure to be followed in fighting the suits, what steps should be taken to obtain witnesses, and what course to follow In meeting their problems of relocation. Land Appraised The spokesman explained that all land needed for the construc tion of the cantonment was ap praised by Federal Land bank appraisers in January and that these appraisal prices were be ing offered the farmers and ranchers through Norman G. Fuller, real estate project man ager of the land section of the U. S. army engineers, whose of fices are in the Federal build ing. Many of the land-owners have registered protests on the ap praisal prices with Mr. Fuller, it is understood, and have decided to await condemnation proceed ings, which are to be filed by Carl C. Donough, U. S. attorney. The suits are to come up in fed eral court here. The land-owners have been in formed their only recourse In protesting the appraisal prices is through condemnation suits to be instituted by the Justice de partment. The land-owners at first believed they, themselves, would be forced to institute pro ceedings, but were assured by Mr. Fuller that this was the function of the Justice depart ment. Not All Protest The spokesman for the land owners said that not all the families in the Beagle area were protesting the appraisal prices offered them. Many of them Mayor Deuel Proclaims Monday "Total War Day" Mayor H. S. Deuel, In keep ing with state and national of ficials has Issued the following proclamation setting aside Mon day as "Total War day." Fra ternal, civic and patriotic or ganizations are cooperating in plans for the celebration which will be climaxed with a mass parade dedicated to the Ameri can army now engaged in a fight for democracy. Whereas, by resolution of the congress and proclamation of the president of the United States, Monday, the sixth of April, has been designated as Army day, and Whereas, this designation has also been made by proclama tlon of the governor of the state of Oregon, and Whereas, In this critical time the people of this nation have a greater recognition of the Im portance of the armed forces and dependence upon the strength and efficiency of the army, and ' Whereas, the youth of this community Is well represented in the many branches of the army, now fighting oo many War Bulletins Washington, April 1 OP) In two spectacular raids on th Island oi Minadao. American-Filipino troops destroyed 22 warehouses at a Japanese supply baia near Digoi and pntratd to th heart of th occupied city of Zamboanga. destroying machln gun nests and other military installa tions there, th war depart ment announced today. Washington. April 1 OV Th United States army and navy forces hav destroyed a total of 25 axis submarine to data, th navy reported to day in announcing thra new sinkings of undersea craft. London, April 1 (P) A fore of British plana with fighting escort attacked th Boulogne docks this after noon, th air ministry an nounced. On bomber was lost In havy anti-aircraft fir. Early Induction of Last Registrants Is Draft Service Plan Washington, April 1. (IP) Selective service headquarters announced today that men who registered February 16 would be immediately classified and some probably would be inducted into service in May or June. There had been some confu sion as to whether the February 16 registrants would be integ rated with men who registered prior to that date or be called after exhaustion of all previous registrants but today's announce ment said: "Local boards throughout the nation were instructed to start classification at once of the sev eral million men who enrolled on February 16 and to prepare to fill the army's June call for men, and possibly the May call with these registrants and regis trants from the first age group." The announcement explained that men who registered October 16, 1940, and July 1, 1941 con stituted one group which was referred to in the memorandum to local boards as the "first age group" with those who regis tered February 16 being referred to as the "second age group." have signed the government op tions and believe the prices fair. The Justice department may file one condemnation suit to embrace all the land whose owners are protesting the ap praisal prices, but each case will be tried separately to avoid con fusion, it was understood. (Continued ou Paga Two) fronts in defense of this com munity and our nation; Now, Therefore, I, H. S Deuel, Mayor of Medford, do proclaim that Monday, April 6th, shall be observed as Army day in this city with proper honors paid to the military forces, and general display of the nation's colors. Furthermore, I urge the busi ness establishments of the city to close at 5:00 p. m. on Army day so that their personnel may take an active part in the cere monies and parade planned for this signal occasion. I further urge that all civic, fraternal and patriotic organiza tions lend full cooperation in making Medford's Army day parade a fitting tribute to the American army now struggling to crush the axis aggressors. Therefore, let us make this day a patriotic occasion In this com munity, bringing to our people a greater appreciation of the sacrifices of thevs who serve in our army, H. S. Deuel, Mayor of Medford. March 31st, 1942. IN CRIPPJ PATH Sikhs Fear Acceptance Would Leave Them At Mercy of Moslem Hordes New Delhi, April 1 (IP) Two of India's most Important minority groups rejected the British proposals for post-war dominion status for India today, the extremist Hindu organiza tion Mahasabha joining tha Sikhs in registering a negative response. The working committee of the. Mahasabha announced decis- ion that the proposals were In acceptable a few hours after tho Sikh all-parties committee had turned thumbs down. The Sikhs, a Hindu warrior caste, rejected the plan as sub mitted by Britain's special en voy. Sir Stafford Crlpps, on the grounds that It would leave (hem at the mercy of the Mos lem majority In Punjab pro vince. The chief stumbling block to acccolance was the requirement that India's wartime detenscs be left In British hands. It appeared likely that Sir Stafford would not have the fi nal decisions of all the major Indian groups before Friday. HITLERMOVING VAST FORCE TO EASTERN FRONT By th Associated Prats Adolf Hitler was reported moving 1,500,000 fresh troops into the eastern front today as signs multiplied that the fuehrer was orenaring to ooen his long heralded spring offensive for climactic struggle involving nearly 12.000.000 German and Russian soldiers. Stockholm dispatches said 13.000 German troop trains had moved eastward in the last three months. London quarters estimated that about 4.500.00 Germans and 7,000.000 Russians were mass ing for the great battles already beginning to take shape along; the 2 000-mile Soviet front. Indications that "zero hour may be near for the German drive were seen in recent com muniques reporting nazi offens ive thrusts, after months of stres sing the bitter defensive natura of German operations. Thus, to day's bulletin from German field headquarters reported that "in an attack of our own," nazi mo torized troops dislodged Russian forces from positions northeast of Orel, 200 miles bebw Mos cow. Yesterday's communique also) noted 'our own offensive opera tions" elsewhere on the front London military observers) said they expected Hitler to aim his heaviest blows against Mar shal Semeon Tlmoshenko'i arm ies on the southern front, in art attempt to break through th 400-mile line between Orel and Taganrog and seize the oil-rich Caucasus. There remained the difficulty, however, of halting the Soviet luggrrnaut, and Hitler's field headquarters again acknowledg ed powerful Russian attack were continuing in the Ukraine, on the Moscow front and in the northwest around Leningtad. Salem. April 1. (AP) Gov emor Charles A. Sprague today reappointed Huron W. Clough, Canyonville, Douglas county, to the state highway commission. Clough, originally appointed by Governor Sprague three years ago, began serving his new term today.
