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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AFRIL 5, 1942.
NO. 12.
BOTH!
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 4. They
aaid when France fell, the day
of the fortress was dead, but
Corregidor and Malta are still
standing against the most ter
rific air-DomD-ing
attacks
the mechani
cal mind of
man has been
able to devise.
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ed Corregidor
. for days with everything he had
t in the air shortly after he took
command. Thereafter he sent
over only two or three bombers
a day, indicating he had reach
ed the same conclusion as his
suiciding predecessor.
The British dot of Malta,
south of Sicily, has been sub
jected to the unbelievable total
of more than 1,600 air attacks
since the war began, without
appreciable result (which may
explain why the nazis have not
fooled with Gibraltar).
The explanation - Is clear.
Anti-aircraft fire from a small
prepared rocky fort apparently
can make it impregnable. The
rocky formations permit build
ing of safe bomb shelters, be
yond reach of the thousand-
pounders.
Large three-Inch anti-aircraft
guns can erert impenetrable
a walls of fire in a defensive cir
" cle above the fort. The bomb
ers are thus forced so high
their chance of hitting their
target is virtually nil, and most
of their bombs are wasted.
Unfortunately ships at sea
and cities cannot maintain such
defenses. Only the larger ships
can carry 3-inch A-A's and their
aim is hindered by the motion
of the vessels. Cities have their
valuables above ground and
are generally built on earth
where bomb shelters 60 feet
deep would be needed for such
complete protection.
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COMMUNIQUES have been
speaking tersely of night as
saults by the Japs against Wain
Wright's line in Bataan, hinting
at a new wrinkle in warfare,
stolen from the Russian book.
There are new wrinkles but
not very well pressed. As the
a Japs use them, they are Just
P glorified raids against outposts,
organized more extensively
than usual, so they can em
ploy artillery and mortars in
the dark.
In preparation for the night
attack, aerial photographs are
made of certain American po
sitions. The guns are set and
when darkness falls, the blaze
away at the fixed invisible
point.
Generally this night artillery
barrage prepares the way for
Infantry assault against machine
gun nests, the locations of
which are plotted out on paper
In daylight.
Fortunately most of Bataan
Is a Jungle so deep and dark
It can hardly be penetrated in
daylight. The Japs, therefore,
have concentrated their night
attacks generally on the Abucay
I plain, an open level space near
the east end of Wainwright's
line, where a stream falls Into
rice paddies.
Wainwright does the same
thing to the Japs, but only as
far as his daytime vision per
mits planning, because he has
no aerial reconnaissance.
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NO SALVACC
Seattle, April 4 W) The
13th naval district said toda
efforts to salvage the naw
patrol bomber which crashed
into the Columbia river near
the Tongue Point naval air
station March 8 with the loss
of eight lives has been discon
tinued. Seattle. April 4 (4') Third
of a fleet of destroyers to be
launched at the Harbor Island
plant of the Seattle-Taroma
l Shipbuilding corporation, the
U. S. S. Endicott will slide down
the ways tomorrow night. It
will be Seattle's first night
launching of the wax.
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News From India Cheering
Fortresses Bomb And
aman Ships Torpedoed.
By the Associated Prats
The United States navy, al
ready mightily strengthened
since the attack on Pearl Harbor,
added seven more Japanese ships
last (Sat.) night to the unceasing
tell which its surface and under
sea craft are taking of enemy
vessels in Far Pacific and East
Indies waters.
The navy announced that
American submarines had sunk
one light cruiser and probably
sent another to the bottom, dam
aged two seaplane tenders and
scored torpedo hits on the other
ships all in actions not previ
ously reported in Washington
communiques.
Thus was furnished the climax
to a day which, on the whole,
was one of encouragement for
the fighters against the axis on
all of the world's many and
united battlef ronts. These
straws in the wind of the event
ual victory came from east and
west, north and south, from
such widely-separated yet inevit
ably allied fronts as:
India Still the highlight In
the military news was the word
that U. S. army Flying Fort
resses, which already have prov-
ed potent poison to the Japanese
over the Dutch Indies and Aus
tralia's outer islands, had fired
a Japanese cruiser and a trans
port in an 800-mile foray from
their Indian base to the enemy
held Andaman islands in the Bay
of Bengal; on the political side
was the cheering prospect that
entry of Gen. Sir Archibald P.
Wavell into the discussions, an
nounced during the day, may
swing India's leaders to accep
tance of British proposals for
post-war freedom.
Australia U. S. and Australl
"one great army", an army
an troops are being forged into
which, true to the code of its
leader, Gen. Douglas MacArthur,
will be committed irrevocably to
a policy of attack. The allied air
strength, credited with at least
10 Japanese planes destroyed in
its latest raids on enemy bases,
now is established so firmly that
it can supply ample warning
should the enemy set in motion
any direct invasion thrust.
Britain The RAF, lashing out
In its own spring campaign with
increasing forces of bombers and
fighters, hinted broadly that the
past weeks' assaults on nazi in
dustries and key defenses are
merely a beginning. Even in day
light yesterday British squadrons
roared across the channel in sky
darkening swarms, losing 11
fighters in bitter dogfights but
taking a toll of at least five nazi
aircraft in fulfilling the objec
tives of their raids.
The torpedoing of three mer
chant ships by axis submarines
one in the Atlantic and two In
the Caribbean was announced
yesterday (Sat.) by the naw.
bringing to 20 the official score
of ships sunk off the United
States east coast in the week nf
March 29 through April 4. Losses
since Fearl Harbor in that area
total 114.
Seattle, April 4 (AP) The
Washington state defense coun
cil today adopted a series of res
olutions designed to alleviate
farm labor and equipment prob
lems during the war harvests
Introduced by John G. Kelly,
walla Walla, chairman of the
agricultural advisory committee,
the resolutions proposed federal
maintenance of mobile migra
tory labor camps of the farm
security administration, urged
more rationing of trucks to far
mers and asked parents and em
ployers to furnish selective ser
vice boards with information
Justifying deferment of farm la
borer
Japs Reported on West Coast of Burma
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would threaten rear of Brltith-Chlneie forces In Central Burma (broken line), now guarding Prome
and holding line north of Toungoo (2).
WAR PRODUCTION
EM NEARJELSON
America 'Doing Impossible'
War Chief Says Record
Since Pearl Harbor Cited.
New York, April 4. m
Donald M. Nelson, chairman of
the war production board, as
serted tonight that "America's
industrial plant is really begin
ning to roll" and "a new era of
management-labor cooperation Is
developing, which will prove of
Immense value to the entire
nation."
Although he admonished that
"this is no time for easy opti
mism," Nelson asserted in a pre
pared address at an Army day
banquet of the military order
of the World war that "we have
not yet done the Impossible
but we are doing it."
In a detailed review of the
progress of the nation's war ef
fort. Nelson stressed that its re
lative success thus far was still
dwarfed by the fact that "it is
the biggest Job, bar done, that
this or any other country ever
tackled at any time in history
It is so huge that we can break
every record we ever made and
still fall short of the need."
Then he called the roll of
achievement since Pearl Harbor:
'The airplane production pro
gram adopted after Pearl Har
bor was presumed by practically
everyone to be bigger than could
possibly be attained. It was 'im
possible program if there ever
was one. We met our schedules
in January and we made 23 per
cent more planes than we had
made in December. We exceeded
our schedules in February which.
of course, called for an increase
over January. In March again
we met the schedule."
With regard to tanks: "We
are ahead of schedule on tank
production."
Ships: "Our production of
merchant shipping is rising rap
idly we should meet this year's
schedule."
Anti-aircraft and anti-tank
guns: 'The same is true."
He declared that no American
need fear that the nation's sol
diers were going into battle with
inferior weapons, asserting:
"Our planes have turned In
outstanding performance records
all over the world in the Far
East, in North Africa with the
British, and on all other battle
fronts. . . . Every American can
be proud, not only of the heroic
men who are flying those planes,
but also of the men In the army
and In our aviation industry who
designed and built them."
Ottawa, April 4 CP) Prime
Minister W. L. MacKenzie King
is considering making a trip to
Washington late next week to at
tend a meeting of the Pacific
council.
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FORECAST TODAY
Parade of Finery After
Church On Fifth Avenue
Men To Wear Solid
Colors.
New York, April 4 (AP) A
multi-million dollar fashion show
up and down Fifth and Park
Avenues tomorrow was predict
ed by the sartorial soothsayers;
the U. S. dept. of commerce says
Easter merchandise is "up" 25
per cent over last year. So it's
up to the women and the
weather.
Hats will be tilted at Jaunty
angles and colors will run to all
shades in defiance of the grim
war overtones cast by the pres
ence of the heaviest police guard
for the parade in many years and
the metal signs along Fifth Ave
nue with instructions for behav
ior in case of an air raid.
Flanking the flowery hats,
mink furs and orchids will be
the military khaki and navy
blue, by necessity the leading
fashion note for the man of to
day. In the city's humble churches
and great cathedrals the faith
ful will gather to hear again the
old, old Easter story. Church
out, the parade of finery starts.
Malcolm Butt, New York tail-
o. and president of the Master
Tailors Council of America, pre
dicted tomorrow's well-dressed
man would wear sharkskin fab
ric in solid color as mean as the
"nailhead" with stripes.
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AT EUGENE MEET
Eugene, Ore., April 4. (JPt
Ned Liebman, Medford, won the
extempore speaking contest to
day at the annual Oregon high
school speech tournament.
John Brown, Salem, was sec
ond and Robert Sayre, Beaver
ton, third.
Sayre won the public discus
sion contest, and Brown and
Leroy Dillon, Hillsboro, tied for
second.
Kenneth Brown, Salem, won
the after-dinner trophy. Richard
Smurthwaite, Beaverton, was
second, and Vivian Miller, Rose
burg, third.
In the radio speaking division
Margaret Thompson, Roseburg,
was first, and three were tied
for second, Lee Chase, Medford:
Harold Laduke, OakridRe, and
Richard Smurthwaite, Beaverton.
IN BATTLE AHEAD
Confidence' Mounts As
United Nations Gird For
Offensive Air Power Up
United States Army Head
quarters In Australia, April 4
(P) Gen. Douglas MacArthur
bespoke Easter-tide divine guid
ance "in the great struggle that
looms ahead today as confi
dence mounted in allied quar
ters that the united nations will
be able to defend this Australian
springboard for an eventual of
fensive in the southwest Pacific
Much of this confidence, it was
disclosed, sprang from steady
aerial reinforcements now mak
ing possible an air patrol of
Australia's approaches so com
prehenslve that it should give
three or four days advance
warning of the appearance of
Japanese Invasion forces.
Allied aviation continued to
dominate the skies, shooting
down at least 10 Japanese planes
and orobably 12.
Six were destroyed In a raid
on Koepang, Dutch Timor and
four others bombers were
shot down In breaking up a
raid on Darwin, where anti
aircraft bagged two and fight
ing planes two. Two Japanese
fighting planes also were listed
as probably destroyed.
The few bombs dropped at
Darwin killed two civilians, but
caused no damage, said a com
munique
General MacArthur, an Epis
copalian from Little Rock, Ark.,
Introduced the religious note In
his military preparations In
reply to a radiogram from W. P.
Witsell, director of Little Rock's
Christ church, who said, "the
church of your baptism sends
Eastei greetings and expression
of faith and loving pride In you."
In answer Gen. MacArthur
messaged: "At the altar where
I first Joined the sanctuary ot
God, I ask that you seek divine
guidance for me In the great
struggle that looms ahead."
War Bulletins
Lltbon, April 4 O A
British bomber made a forced
landing tonight on the beach
at Cotta Decaparlca. 10 mile
southwest of Lisbon. The four
man craw fired the craft,
dined at a nearby hotel, than
surrendered for Internment.
London, April 4. Mande
la y. storied city In eastern
Burma toward which the
Japanese have pointed an In
vasion army, was heavily
bombed yesterday by the
Japanese air force but no
military damage was done,
the British reported today.
T01AL WAR' DAY
PARADE AT 7:15
Army Officers And Civic
Leaders To Talk Other
Cities To Participate.
Jackson county's observation
of Army day as 'Total War"
day, will center In Medford Mon
day with a monster parade,
starting at 7:15 and followed by
a defense demonstration and
talks by army officers and civil
defense leaders at the senior
high school football field.
"Total War" day has been pro
claimed by President Roosevelt,
Governor Charles A. Spreague
and Mayor H. S. Deuel, as a
time for appropriate demonstra
tions In honor ot the men of the
United States army in action
overseas and in training at home.
Mayor Deuel has asked that
business establishments of the
city close at 5 p. m. so that
personnel may take part In or
witness the program.
Ashland and other neighbor
ing cities will join in the obser
vance here.
The parade will form on North
Bartlett street in the vicinity of
Sixth and Fourth streets and
will move promptly at 7:15 p.
m. The line of march will be
south on Bartlett to Main, west
on Main to Oakdale and south
on Oakdale to the senior school
football field.
Upon arrival at the field the
parade will break ranks and, as
soon as the throng has found
vantage places. Mayor Deuel
will speak briefly on, the signi
ficance of the day and then in
troduce Mayor Thornton Wiley
of Ashland.
Lleut.-Col. George C. Ferch,
commanding corps area service
unit, Camp White and training
aids officer, will then be intro
duced and will deliver the ad
dress of the evening. Major
Theron W. Bean, area engineer
for Medford and vicinity, is also
to be Introduced and will be fol
lowed by Captain Joseph K,
Carson, Jr., United States army
engineers, and state commander
of the American Legion.
John C. Boyle, chairman of
Jackson county civil defense, W.
A. Gates, Jackson county chair
man for sale of defense stamps
and bonds, and R. G. Fowler,
chairman of the Jackson county
salvage committee, will also be
Introduced and will speak
briefly.
Following the speaking pro
gram, a house specially con
structed on the field for the
purpose, will be set afire with
magnesium bombs for a demons
tration of sand and water control
methods.
First aid demonstrations will
wind up the evening. This phase
Is expected to be especially in
teresting as the civilian defense
with the Red Cross has trainea
over 2,000 civilians In first aid.
FREE FRENCH IN
AFRICA GRANTED
Washington, April 4. &
The United State gave formal
recognition today to General
Charles de Gaulle's control over
French Equatorial West Africa
and the French Cameroons,
strategic territory along the
supply route to the Middle East
and India.
The action, bringing closer
ties between this country and
the Free French, came In the
announcement of the establish
ment of a consulate general In
Brazzaville, capital of the
French possession directly
across the Atlantic from Natal
Brazil, and taken "In view of
the importance of French Equa
torial Africa in the united war
effort."
Recognition of the African
Free French territory came
month after similar approval of
the de Gaulle authority over
New Caledonia, strategic Island
off the western coast ot Aus
tralia, valuable also for Its
large deposits of nickel.
RECOGNITION FOR
Interpreting
The War News
By Kirks L. Simpson
(Wide World War Analyst)
As April, the historical war
month, opens a new chapter of
somber significance in the axis
allied struggle, there is a baf
fling babble of prediction about
where its -main scene will be
laid.
A new and gTevlous disaster
In Burma for the united na
tions the loss of another great
oil reservoir seems to Impend,
but there are brightening skies
on the Australian flank of the
Pacific-Indian ocean war front.
The first meeting of the Pacific
war council in Washington
with President Roosevelt pre
siding revealed nothing of its
deliberations of planning; but
following it was a wave of ris
ing optimism over American-
Australian ability to hold the
Japanese at bay and prepare a
counter-attack In Australia.
That confidence strongly un
derscores every Washington de
velopment, to give a silver
tinge to otherwise dark war
clouds to westward.
General MacArthur shares It.
If he didn't, he would not have
assented to his assignment as
supreme commander in Aus
tralia. None who know him
could doubt that he would have
preferred otherwise to stay with
his gallant American-Filipino
troops.
In Europe, except for prob
ably premature demands in
Britain for an immediate coun
ter-offensive against Hitler by
land as well as by sea and air,
the Initiative rests with the
nazi warlord. Hope Is waning
that Russian armies can decis
ively clinch their winter gains
by capturing key points still in
German hands.
Moscow still forecasts en
larged victories. Hitler's own
terse war bulletins are the best
possible evidence that Red army
elan is undiminished. The Rus
sians are still on the attack all
along the front, nibbling at
nazi reserves, threatening nazi
strong points. Yet the Red army
seems now waging a war of at
trition rather than fighting to
ward definite strategic goals.
And the effect of that attrition
campaign on Hitler's resources.
the degree to which it may have
sapped . the striking power of
his armies, cannot be measured
until they strike.
The question, then. Is both
where and when Hitler will
hstrike as April restores at least
some degree of mobility to his
armored battering-rams, the
panzer units. Hampered by mud,
snow, sub-zero temperatures
and now mud and flood again,
tanks have been of very limited
value to either side since late
fall.
This April, nevertheless, seems
certain to see the prelude of an
attempted final nazi victory
drive. It Is a favored Hitler
month for the attack and In
southern Russia, in the Ukraine
and Crimea, weather conditions
should permit major operations
before the end of April.
FIGHTER-PLANES
AND PILOTS LOST
Seattle, April 4 (AP Two
army fighter planes carried their
pilots to death In separate
crashes in western Washington
late this afternoon.
One, P-38 from McChord
field, swooped low over Olym
pia, Wash., with its motors stut
tering, managed to maintain alti
tude until it had cleared the
downtown section of the city and
then crashed into house in East
Olympia.
Near Edmonds, Wash., anoth
er army plane, this one from
Paine field, at Everett, exploded
In mid air, falling into the wa
ters of Puget sound. Witnesses
said the ship was in three dis
tinct pieces as it hit the water.
The body of the pilot was not
Immediately recovered.
LIST MACHINERY POOL
Pendleton, Ore., April 4. ()
All industrial equipment in
the Pendleton area. Including
Rieth and Pilot Rock, was listed
today by Guy V. Llntner of Port
land as the first step in a plan
to pool machinery here for war
production board contracts. -
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TO CRUSH NAZIS
Millions Ready To Throttle
Spring Offensive No
Changes In Land Battles,
London, April 4. WV-The
first of several million Red
army reserves, freshly trained
and brought from every part
of the Soviet Union, were mov
ing into the line from Lenin
grad to Taganrog on the Black
sea tonight on a plan designed
to throttle the German spring
offensive with a total force of
7,000,000 Russians.
Russians here said the rein
forced Red army had no Inten
tion of relinquishing the initi
ative which has carried it west
ward since early December, al
though it was apparent the
Soviet counter-offensive had
lost momentum In recent weeks.
While the midnight com
munique, as heard here over
the Moscow radio, again said
there had been "no substantial
changes" in the land fighting.
it reported destruction of 23
nazi planes on Friday, to Rus
sian losses of only three, and
the sinking of two enemy trans
ports, one of 7,000 tons, by Sov
iet warships In the Barents tea.
Soviet dispatches reaching
London said reinforcements had
been moved into the Leningrad
garrison over a double-track
railway laid cross the ice of
Lake Ladoga. "
On the Leningrad front, said
supplement to the midnight
war bulletin, 3,400 German of.
fleers and men were killed in
the last three days.
Besides capturing another
populated center in this area,
the Russians were described aa
steadily advancing In the Kal
inin region northwest of Mos
cow, making continued cavalry
sorties that cost the Germans
dearly.
One cavalry unit in two days
of fighting on this front was
said to have put out ot action
1,630 nazi officers and troops
while artillery fire destroyed
six enemy tanks and 37 trucks.
On the central front the Ger
mans were counter-attacking
near Bryansk with tanks. In
fantry and artillery. In one nar
row sector where the Germans
used two regiments of infantry
and 29 tanks, the Russians said
the counter-thrust was beaten
off with more than 1,000 Ger
man bodies left on the battle
field and 18 tanks damaged.
NIPS DROP HUGE
Washington, April 4.
Corregidor's unerring gunners
parried a new Japanese air
weapon, exploding incendiary
bombs, by shooting down two
enemy planes over the Philip.
pine Island fortress, and prob
ably damaging two others, the
war department reported today.
Frustrated in 12 days of In
tensive aerial attacks with usual
type bombs, the Japanese raid
ers dropped bombs which burst
In the air with huge flames.
The new tactics failed. Lieuten
ant General Jonathan M. Wain
wright advising that no damage
resulted.
By downing two additional
bombers, the anti-aircraft gun
ners swelled their score to 17
officially reported to have been
destroyed since the latest phase
of the hammering ot the Man
ila bay forts opened on
March 24.
On the nearby Bataan penln
aula, the American-Filipino
forces braced for a renewal ot
the Japanese offensive amid
signs that another savage attack
was Imminent.
Portland, April 4. OP) rtro
early today destroyed the main
building of the Portland Ship
building company which holds
government contracts for sea-going
barges.