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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1942.
NO. 9.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 1. The
nnzi blitz-general. List, arrived
in the north quietly few days
back, Just
"S about the time
soothsayers of
the Swedish
p r e 1 s were
concluding
Hitler would
not invade
them this
If 1
season.
List has
never been
known as a
raui Mniinn sigh tseer or
ski fancier, but Is the tank gen
ial who ravaged France, Yugo
Qavia and Greece with speed
unprecedented before in war
fare.. 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
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PAGAN;
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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
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VTOUNGOOJ
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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
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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.