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Full Associated Praia
United Press
Thirty-seventh Year.
BEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1942.
NO. 11.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 3 The
surprising discovery of two
American ship survivors that a
Nazi U-boat commander knew
the conte n t s
nd d e s t Ina
tion of their
ill-fated freigh
ter was no
surprise with
in officialdom
here.
This govern
m e n t has
known tor
some time the
existence of an
elaborate Ger
raul Mallon
man spy sys
tem reporting to Berlin speedily
land efficiently on American
ships.
The system is working In
such an open field and was or
ganized with such usual German
thoroughness that it has been
found difficult to smash.
The FBI raided the German
seamen's home in Hoboken last
Saturday and found again how
some news was being sent out.
What was described as a "dia
thermy machine" was seized,
along with 71 inmates.
This Is a piece of common
electrical apparatus, capable of
creating high frequency oscilla
tions, which could be heard as
far away as Germany if proper
reception, through a similar set,
had been provided there as it no
doubt has.
The apparatus which can
make intelligible short wave vi
brations, under expert handling,
.has been sold commercially
MrroTJlhouf 'ftifrtountry for ther
apeutic treatment of tissues by
heat. You could buy them any
where. A number of Japs on the Pa
cific coast seem to have suffered
the same rash as the Nazi sea
men. These machines were first
discovered in their homes.
But the problem would be
difficult to meet, even if there
were not so many of thesa ma
chines in private hands. The
maritime commission here oper
ates our ships, but the private
companies and the hiring halls
employ the seamen. The govern
ment therefore has no control
over who is to be employed.
Before a sailor will sign tor a
voyage, naturally he must know
when and where the ship is go-
(Continued on Pago Twelve)
Milk Prices Jump
J in Coast Region
Toledo, April 3 P Milk
prices advanced one cent a
quart in the Toledo, Newport,
Yachats and Waldport area yes
terday on authorization of the
milk control board. Five per
cent milk advanced 2 cents a
quart.
The new prices are 13 cents
for 4 per cent and 13 cents lor
6 per cent.
Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Tonight: Good Friday pro
grams MBS 7:15 "Seven Last
Words of Christ" by Brooklyn
Philharmonic chorus; NBC 7:30
sermon "The Crucifixion" Msgr.
Fulton J. Sheen.
A Saturday: NBC 1:45 Tropi
cal park racing. CBS 3:15 Call
ing Pan-America, tribute to
Cecil B. DeMille. BLU 3:15
Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum on
"Army Day."
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Carl Von der Hellen appear
ing in town after nearly a five
month hibernation at Wellen.
Lela Rogers enthusiastically
revealing the progress being
made on her and Daughter Gin
ger's Rogue ranch.
Bob Spalding Joyfully return
ing from a successful mission in
Portland.
w Vern Pendleton peeking from
beneath a truck and saying that
there was still enough service
station work to get nan dirty.
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Action Would Bring Return
Of Prices To Levels Of
Several Months Ago.
Washington, April S. W)
An order freezing prices of all
consumer goods not already un
der ceiling orders, it was learned
today, is under discussion be
tween high officials of the office
of price administration and the
war production board.
Such a blanket freezing order,
to be applied at both retail and
wholesale levels, has been dis
cussed for some time, respons
ible OPA sources said and "the
meetings have been more fre
quent recently." A definite de
cision has not been reached, it
was said.
The action, if forthcoming,
would take the form of a per
manent freezing order, cutting
prices back to the levels of some
chosen date, probably several
months ago, it was reported.
Numerous administration of
ficials have voiced dissatisfac
tion which present price control
methods, holding them to be too
slow to check an inflationary
trend. .
This feeling has been accentu
ated with the flood of new WPB
curtailment and production stop
page orders of recent weeks, af
fecting radios, phonographs,
vacuum cleaners, electrical ap
pliances and many other major
and minor consumer items. As
each curtailment order hav ap
peared, a buying rush has oc
curred and prices have moved
up. resulting in such emergency
action as last night's freezing of
bicycle sales.
Heavy Ship Losses
Suffered by Foes
Is Claim of Nazis
Berlin (from German broad
casts) April 3. (iP) The high
command said today that during
February and March the Ger
man navy, operating against the
fleets of the United States and
Britain, sank one cruiser, eight
destroyers, three corvettes, four
torpedo boats, 12 motor torpedo
boats and motor gunboats, five
escort vessels and three subma
rine chasers.
In addition during the same
period, a communique said, the
German air force sank two mo
tor gunboats and three escort
vessels.
"Another 37 warships. in
eluding 10 cruisers, 11 destroy
ers and five submarines were
tiamaged In offensive operations
by German naval forces and in
air attacks by the luftwaffe," it
added.
By the Associated Prats
Three new ship sinkings In
the axis submarine campaign
against American shipping were
announced today by the navy.
Seventeen men were missing
from their crews.
Maritime sources In Havana
said a fourth United States ship,
a freighter, had been torpedoed
and sunk somewhere north of
Cuba. '
Tola! War Day Plans
Nearing Completion;
Parade Is al 7:15
Plans for observance of 'Total
War Day" Monday In this city
are being rapidly completed and
those In charge of the parade
announced today that it will
begin at Sixth and Bartlett
streets at 7:15 p. m. Definite
line of march will be outlined
In the Sunday edition of the
Mail Tribune.
With Mayor T. S. Wiley's an
nouncement of cooperation from
Ashland citizens, it is expected
that numerous Ashland civic
and fraternal organizations will
participate in the parade which
terminates at the Medford foot
ball stadium. A demonstration
of practical value concerning
Incendiary bombs and first aid
will be featured as are talks by
Lieut Colonel George C. Ferch.
commander of Camp White:
Major Theron W. Bean, also of
,Camp White, and other official.
Tell How They Downed Nine Jap Planes
Lieut. Comm. John S. Thach (right), Fordyca, Ark., squadron commander and Lieut. Edward
(Butch) O'Hara (left), St. Louis, Mo., at Pearl Har bor tall how they downed nina Jap bombers ba.
twaan them when tha Japs attacked a U. S. fleet unit in force in tha Southwest Pacific recently.
Thach was credited with three Japs, O'Hara. six.
LA FOLLETTE HAS
PLAN TO ASSURE
Washington, April 3. (JP)
With the assertion that labor
needed to be assured that the
war emergency would not be
used to deprive it of its rights,
Senator LaFollette (Prog.-Wis.) (
introduced a bill today fixing
criminal penalties for "oppres
sive labor practices."
LaFollette, chairman of a lab
or sub-committee that made a
four-year investigation of anti
union activities, took cognizance
of other pending labor legisla
tion, including proposals to sus
pend the 40-hour week, when he
said:
"If the nation has time for
consideration of any labor legis
lation, then, by all means, this
proposed act should be carefully
weighed."
The measure, an amplified
version of an oppressive-labor-practices
act which passed the
senate In 1940 only to die in the
house labor committee, sets
maximum penalties of a $10,000
fine or six months imprisonment
for proscribed acts. These In
clude the use of strike-breakers,
private armed guards, the pos
session or use of firearms or tear
gas during labor disputes, and
Intel f erence with peaceful pick
eting. In addition, the principle of
the wage and hour act is applied
so as to make it criminal for an
employer who engages in oppres
sive labor practices to ship his
goods in interstate commerce.
LaFollette declared his com
mittee had unearthed "sordid
violations of the rights of labor"
In virtually every state.
Byron . Crowell, 604 Plum
street, is confined in the Sacred
Heart hospital suffering from a
hip injury received when the
Valley Fuel Co. truck he was
driving overturned on North
Riverside near the 99 Motel
about noon today.
Seriousness of the Injury is
not yet known, his physician
said.
According to Charles Hobbs.
Perl ambulance driver who was
called to the scene, Crowell's,
truck upset when he swerved
to avoid collision with another
vehicle which stopped suddenly
In front of him. Identity of occu
pants of tha other machine was
not given.
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Today's Axis Lie
Washington, April 3 UP)
Under the heading "To
day's Axis Lie," the office of
facts and figures released
without comment this item
from ' tha Berlin-, shortwave
radio? ,
"Further reports from Lis
bon state that four to five old
cars in the United States will
be turned into scrap iron.
The total number of cars
taken out of traffic on ac
count of tire and gasoline
shortages is estimated' at
twelve million."
Chiang Kai-Shek Asks
Indian Acceptance of
Dominion After War
New Delhi, India, April 3.
UP) Generalissimo Chiang Kai
Shek, advocate of war collabor
ation between 400,000,000 Chi
nese and 390,000,000 Indians,
was reported today to have In
tervened in British-Indian nego
tiations, urging acceptance of
Britain's proposal of post-war
dominion status for India.
The generalissimo was said to
have conveyed his views
through a special messenger to
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, a
former president of the All
India Congress party and a key
leader in the Indian politics.
The contents of the message
were not disclosed.
The Congress party's working
committee, which replied to the
British proposals yesterday with
detailed objections, met for an
hour and a half today and ad
journed until tomorrow.
British Bombs Rock
Whole Channel Area
London, April 3 UP) The
RAF, in a daylight continuation
of the most extensive two-sided
aerial operations in many
months, sent squadrons of fight
ers and bombers roaring across
the English channel late today
in blasting attacks on Nazi bases
at Boulogne and Calais and
other enemy-occupied areas fur
ther north.
Reverberations from their as
sault rocketed back across
Dover strait for some time, and
the entire area shook from the
distant Impact of the British
bombs.
Vanderbilt Seeks
Navy Commission
Beverly Hills, Calif.. April 3
(TV-Alfred Gynne Vanderbilt,
29-year-old millionaire turfman
id today he has applied for
a commission in the navy.
At his apartment here he said
he had "no idea whether the
application will be accepted or
not, but I hope It is, and soon."
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By the Associated Press 1
A heavy battle of tanks and
men, with the combat tempo
"rising with every hour that
passes," was reported raging on
the Leningrad front today, and
the Russians declared 25,000
German troops had been killed
and huge war supplies captured
in 13 days of fighting around
the old czarist capital and at
neighboring Staraya Russa.
It was not immediately clear
whether the Russians were
making a major att lpt to
break out of the long oesieged
northern metropolis, or whether
the Germans were on the offen
sive, hoping to knock out that
long and stubbornly defended
barrier.
The Leningrad radio, how
ever, reported that red army
troops had captured a fortified
settlement which served as the
center for several German-held
villages.
Soviet dispatches said 13,000
Nazis had been slain in the Len
ingrad fighting and 10,000 at
Staraya Russa, where the Ger
man 16th army has been trap
ped for weeks.
Portland. April 3 UP) Crown
Prince Olav of Norway will visit
Portland April 20 on a lecture
tour, Emll P. Slovarp, Norwe
gian consul here announced to
day.
Americans
Reported Well Treated by Japs
. By Walter R. Boattcher
Washington, April 3. UP)
The 368 United States prisoners
of war, who were captured on
Gilbert, Wake and Guam Islands
by the Japanese and Interned
at ZenumiJI. Island of Shlkoku.
are being well treated, the In
ternational Red Cross reported
in a cablegram made public to
day by Rep. White CD., Idaho).
However, the men want more
entertainment, fancier food and
mail from the folks back home.
This was the most detailed
account received through neu
tral sources to date on the wel
fare of men who fell Into enemy
hands.
Rep. White was chosen to re
lease the report, presumably be
cause many of the soldiers and
civilians captured in the Amer
ican outposts were residents of
Idaho, Oregon and Washington
Civilians from these and other
western states were engaged in
military construction work on
tha captured bland,
Allies Suffer New Reverses
In Effort
ROAD JOBS !
ON FEDERAL
Contracts To Be Awarded
On Basis of Bids Opened
Yesterday If Funds Found
Portland, April 3. (P)1t the
federal government Increases its
allocation for highway improve
ment in the Medford cantonment
area, contracts will be awarded
on the basis of bids opened yes
terday by the State Highway
commission.
Casts have increased since the
original allotment was made, the
commission was advised, and the
Public Roads administration is
seeking additional money.
Berke Bros., Portland, was
low at $252,908 for paving and
grading 3.4 miles of the south
unit of the Antelope creek-Med-
ford section of the Crater Lake
and Pacific highways. Jacobsen-
Jensen, Portland, bid low at
$123,278 for grading and paving
1.4 miles of the same highway.
The Tru-Mix Concrete company
Medford, submitted low bid of
$19,980 for structures on the
route.
Wagelnereases for all commis
sion employes receiving less than
$230 monthly were approved.
The Increases, ranging from '
flat $10 a month for those on
salary, to eight cents an hour or
$14.72 monthly for those on an
hourly basis, affect about 2,320
employes.
The new scale, R. H. Baldcock,
engineer, said was Imperative to
meet advanced living costs.
F. L. Somers, one of the pro
prietors of the Tru-Mix Concrete
company of Medford said today
the company's bid called for the
construction of culverts, a bridge
over Bear creek near the present
railroad bridge and culverts,
curbs and traffic dividers on the
five-highway Cloverleaf intersec
tion near the Big Y it arket.
Construction will start as soon
as the government Increases its
allocation for the highway im
ment, Mr. Somers stated.
Crosbys Reconcile
Account Children
Los Angeles, April 3 fl
For the sake of their 2-year-old
daughter Cathleen, and for an
other child expected in July, the
Bob Crosbys have become recon
ciled. Mrs. Jane Crosby yesterday
withdrew her divorce suit
against the orchestra leader.
She had charged cruelty. Bob
is a brother of Crooner Blng
Crosby.
Captured on Islands
The cablegram from an agent
of the International Red Cross
was transmitted to the navy de
partment here and then turned
over to White. Ha made it pub
lic as follows:
"Visited camp for prisoners
of war at ZenUuiJl March 12.
Camp on large island of Shl
koku in the north near Inland
sea on fertile plain - between
hills covered with pines; good
climate; no endemical diseases.
"Market town of ZentsuiJI
with 23,000 Inhabitant nearby.
Camp covers six acres sur
rounded by barbed wire and a
wooden fence. Two army bar
racks, two stories high, well
ventilated, 12,000 cubic meters
In all. Capacity 500; present
number 374. One Englishman
from Shanghai, two Dutchmen,
five Australians and rest Amer
leans of whom eight are from
Gilbert Island, 20 from Wake
and the rest from Guam. Forty
five officers, 10 doctors, two
vugglits, one dentist
to Defend Burma
1 .
Objector
Law Arras, film star, was
photographed In Portland en
route to a conscientious object
ors' camp at Wyath. He said
"ideallstie principles" caused
him to shun an army uniform
in favor of swinging an axe
while the country is at war.
LOCAL MAN HOME
F
Indication that he would not
care to re-live his Midway
island experience was given by
Clarence Edwards In an Inter
view this morning.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Edwards, 1103 West 4th
street, Edwards was a carry-all
driver on the Island at the time
of tha Japanese attack in De
cember. He arrived In San Fran
cisco on March 22 after a three
weeks evacuation trip from Mid
way via Honolulu and has been
visiting friends and relatives in
southern Oregon for the past
week.
Edwards, who was ordered to
divulge little Information, stat
ed, however, that dangers were
most apparent at sea during the
evacuation.
Workers scoffed, Edwards
said,' at the false rumors con
cerning them that came by
radio from the United States.
He served a full year on the
isle, leaving Portland in March
of last year. Commenting upon
his Job, he said, "It was a good
Job before the war."
Edwards has no plans con
cerning work at present and is
waiting word from his Klamath
Falls draft board.
"Barracks recently divided
Into rooms of from one to 14
camp beds, each having five
blankets, a pillow and mattress
for officers, heating by modern
stoves,
"Daily rations 300 grams of
bread, 300 rice, 160 wheat plus
potatoes, sweet potatoes, green
vegetables, fish, eggs, etc. Total
3,200 calories. Meat, sugared
food and in this season, fruits
are rather rare. Young and act
ive prisoners arc losing weight:
old and idle prisoners gain
weight.
"Cooks chosen from prison
ers work In separate kitchens
which are large and clean.
"Tobacco ration is 10 cigar
ettes per one to three days ac
cording to rank.
"Clothing sufficient for the
moment but 120 pairs of shoes
requested as soon as possible.
Dally laundering; good hygiene;
large hot Japanese bath daily
for workers and weekly for
others. Latrines clean and iso-
Hated "
my
BRITISH FALL BP
E JAPANESE
E SECTOR
News From Long-Besieged
Bataan More Heartening
Mop Up Pocketed Japs,
By Roger D.Greene
Associated Press War Editor'
Grave new reverses marked
the allied defense of Burma to
day as British headquarters
acknowledged that the Japanese
had cracked the right wing an
chor at Prome, key to Burma'a
vital oil fields, but the newa
from the Philippines was mora
heartening.
On long-besieged Bataan pe
ninsula, Lieut.-Gen. Jonathan M.
Wainwright's American and Fill
pino fighters were officially re
ported mopping up pocketed Jap
anese units which yesterday
burst through the main line in
two heavy assaults,
Japs Trapped
Tha war department said "
"considerable" number of Japan
ese got through, only to be trap
ped as U. S. troops counter-attacked
fiercely and sealed the
bf- . u,
In Burma, the situation was
critical at both ends of the British-Chinese
defense line guard
ing the Burmese oil fields, a ma
jor source of China's gasoline
and oil suppllef, and the road
to Mandalay, '
The British acknowledged
that they had been forced to re
tire to the north of Prome, less
than 100 miles south of the Ye
nangyaung oil fields, falling;
back after night-long fighting in
the Jungles south of the Irra.
waddy river town.
However, British headquar
ters denied reports of a landing
by Japanese sea-borne troops at
the west Burma port of Akyab,
only 100 miles from tha Indian
frontier, which would have been
an even greater setback.
A Chinese spokesman at
Chungking said yesterday tha
Japanese had landed under cover
of cruisers and destroyers, but
the British declared officially
they had "been in direct contact
with Akyab this morning" and
no landing had been attempted.
simultaneously, a V 1 e h
broadcast reported that Chinese
forces In the east, commanded
by Lieut.-Gen. Joseph W. Stll-
well, were retreating farther
north from enemy-occupied
Toungoo.
The broadcast said Jananeaa
advance, guards pursuing the
(.ninese had pushed almost 43
miles north of Toungoo on the
road to Mandalay. A British
communique, however, declared
the invaders' spearheads had
only reached a point southwest
of Yedashe, 15 miles north of
Toungoo,
On the right flank, around
Prome, a British communiaue
said strong Japanese forces cap-
lurea neignis soutn of the town
in an attack from the cover of
Jungles east of the Prome-Ran-goon
road.
"Our forces moved back to
fresh covering positions north of
the town early yesterday morn
ing," it said.
Whites asd Negress
Battle at Fort Dix
Fort Dix. N. J April 3 W)
White and negro soldiers
fought a bloody 15-mlnute bat
tle on the darkened plains of
Fort Dix last night in which
three men were shot to death
and five others felled in a furi
ous exchange of bullets.
The sudden, bitter outburst
ended when negro and white
officers appeared on the scene
and ordered the embattled
white military police and negro
enlisted men to cease firing.
BUTTERFAT
Sacramento, April 3. VP)
Churning cream butterfat: First
grade, 41c; second grade, 9o- ,