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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1942)
Parade Let rOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDSI Buy rttltnie Bnndi en ftlampa lOllAV Conlrtbolt la tha trrnstn of your nalloa. ratrlotlnni. four own rlf pro tection, drmanita that YOU do jour part sunt Thirty-seventh Year. American Plane Over Japanese-Held Island of Wake r- -war--- - ? V ' .. Uaoa '- TMrV Swinging out orer tin Wak Island, on of a iquadron of fighter plants from a U. S. aircraft carrier get! a good view of enemy lnitallations during the Navy raid on the Japanese-held island. Gasoline stores, warehouses, hangars and other installations were de stroyed. Official U. S. Nary photograph. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, April 6. A fair sifting of the charges of rubber treason against Standard Oil as sensati o n ally disclosed and answered in the Truman com mittee will show the following resi due of facts: The synthetic rubber on which our ar my will roll in the future will process which Faul Mnllnn be buna, the Standard obtained from Hitler's I. G. Farben. The manufacture of this syn thetic rubber in anything like Bvjhe quantity needed was started if nly after the war began. The evidence as to why it was not started sooner can be twisted around to blame nearly any one. You can blame Standard on the suspicion that its early of fers to the government were not ardently pursued because it wanted royalties. You can praise Standard, if you choose, because its officials were at least ahead of the gov ernment in seeing a probable need for synthetic rubber. You can blame the Japs for not telling us they were going (Continued on Pag Four) The cards game of cribbage is an outgrowth of a similar game called "Noddy." lafl q SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Clyde "Curlcy" Leonard start ing off Monday morning with a big cigar. Motor corps gals regretting that they have no uniforms to wear in the parade tonight, but Mrs. Jack Morrill, captain, sug gesting a possible remedy. Lieut. Dick Roberts home for the first time in three years and catching up on old acquain tances. Dick Christphier not minding the early spring bath when he slipped in a rain barrel, but ad mitting that the edges of the barrel were a little tough on his k-ibs. City Judee Bill Allen proudly displaj-ing his new court room and bench of justice. I and Mass Meeting Tonight Feature "Total War' Day Medford Full Associated Prs .-r: '.Vai V I' , , , . , . J . . w I ; V J J r;.r-: ', v. 1 4 W I 1 i ... . 161 Plane Loss Makes Costly Week For Axis ' (By the Associated Press) Germany, Italy and Japan suffered one of their costliest week ends of the air war during the past two days, according to official allied announcements listing at least 161 axis planes shot down or destroyed on the ground, with 51 Against this total, Russian, British, Australian and United States losses of 30 planes were announced in the allied com muniques. The Russians said they lost 16. Britain lost six planes in Malta and Libya and five more in the RAF's tremendous bat tering of the Parish industrial area and the Rhineland Sunday night. An Australian communi que listed three planes lost dur ing the Australian-United States air blows at the Japanese. The heaviest toll was taken on the Russian front. The Russians said 102 German planes were shot down or blasted to bits on the ground on Saturday alone, and the red air force was cred ited in a communique today with knocking down four more. Japan took the second heaviest loss destruction of at least 27 of the 75 planes she hurled against Ceylon Easter morning The British, who met the raid with a hard-hitting fighter plane and anti-aircraft defense, said five more Japanese planes prob ably were destroyed, and 25 were damaged. Twenty more Japanese planes were destroyed and others were damaged in the trading of aerial blows with United States and Australian fighting forces. Of these, 11 were destroyed and 14 damaged in United States and Australian raids on Keopang, Dutch Timor, Saturday. Seven were destroyed in Japanese at tacks on Darwin and Port Mores by the same day, and two others were shot down near Port Moresby Sunday. At the British mid-Mediter ranean stronghold of Malta six axis planes were shot down, a seventh probably was destroyed. and six more were damaged during attacks by German and Italian planes Saturday and Sun day. Two planes were destroyed by the British in the Libyan desert. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight: The war 5:55 CBS; 7 MBS; 7:30 BLU: 7:45 CBS East: 8 CBS; 8:30 MBS; 0 NBC CBS BIu; 9:30 MBS: 9:55 NBC Blu. Tuesday: The war 7:15 Blu MBS; 8 MBS: 9 CBS; 10 Blu MBS; 10:45 NBC: 11 MBS; 11:30 Bin; 12:15 p. m.. CBS: 12:30 Blu: 1 MBS: 1 45 CNBS: 1J5 Blu; 3 CNBS MBS; 3:25 NBC; 3:15 CBS Blu. & : ' or more others damaged. 0. Ashland, April . (SpU Fred D. Wagner, 73, former Ash land postmaster and member of one of Jackson county's oldest pioneer families, died in his home at 47 Granite street last night after an illness of a month. Funeral services will be held from the J. P. Dodge and Sons chapel at 10:30 a. m. Wednes day, with burial in Ashland. Mr. Wagner's death came ex actly six years after his retire ment on April 5, 1936, as Ash land postmaster, a position he filled for 12 years. For 30 years prior to becoming postmaster he was with the Ashland Tidings, the last 20 years of which he served as editor. Pioneer Leader In 1915 he was a Jackson county republican representative to the state legislature, was sev eral times head of the Southern Oregon Pioneer society, served at various times at the head of each of the Masonic orders in this district, was a long-time member of the Ashland Elks lodge and until his death was a member of the Ashland Library board. He was born in Ashland, Octo ber 9, 1868, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wagner who settled on what is now Wagner creek in 1852. His father some time later obtained the controlling in terest in the old Ashland flour mills, the only one in the Rogue River valley, and was head of that concern for 26 years. . Schooled in Ashland Fred D. Wagner received his schooling in Ashland and at the University of Oregon, and re sided in Ashland all his life. He was married to Stella Case, a faculty member of the old Ash land Normal school. Besides his wife he ts survived by three sons. Paul Wagner of San Mateo, Calif., and Lawrence and Wilfred, both of New York City; two sisters, Mrs. A. E. Kin ney of Ashland and Mrs. T. W. Miles of Medford. and by one brother, J. M. Wagner of Ashland. Mr J-l&gxr LIZA " MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1942, V." 300 BOMBERS HIT TERRIFIC BLOWS By the Associated Press The Germans, gathering their strength for the battle of Rus sia, were struck last night by one of the largest task forces ever marshaled by the RAF more than 300 bombers and it was reported concurrently that British troops, presumably com mandos, had assailed their Nor- j wegian flank. Cologne, a Rhineland center of German war industry, and an aerial engine works near Paris were principal targets of the RAF night-riders with 1,000 tons of explosions and incendiaries. Only five British planes were lost "a very satisfactory" ratio. It was the 105th raid on Co logne. Stockholm heard that British troops, apparently a commando force, raided the Narvik area of German-held Norway last Friday night, supported by planes. Ex plosions could be heard on the Swedish side of the frontier, which runs close to the coast in that far northern area, almost touching the inner reaches of Narvik fjord. Masses of German and axis-allied soldiers are clashing with soviet Russian troops today in the snow and mud of the long, thawing Russian battlefield in particularly heavy fighting ap parently preliminary to Adolf Hitler's expected spring offen sive. The Russians declared that 102 German planes were shot down or destroyed on the ground Saturday and announced that the invaders lost 40.000 officers and men killed on the central front between March 23 and April 4. The Moscow radio said Ger man planes raided Leningrad Saturday night, the first big raid on Russia's second city in months. Bombs were said to have killed some persons In the city. The Germans announced yes terday their planes had bombed with heavy explosives two Rus sian battleships and two heavy cruisers at Leningrad Kronstadt, Red naval bases. KLAMATH MAN KILLED IN SMASHUP NEAR G. P. Grants Pass, April 6 Hoe Wood. 18, Klamath Falls, suffered fatal Injuries in an ac cident on the Pacific highway yesterday near here. A passen ger In Wood's automobile, Rich ard Prairie, said Wrx,,1 tp;mr ently fell asleep at the wheel. "I if 1 Willi llMinlllAN iDffTlfo) T SEEK CARRIER IN BAYOFBENGAL Nizampatam and Cocanada on Madras Shore Suffer Minor Damage in Attack. By Clyde A. Farnsworth A. P. War Editor Punctuating Japan's broad cast threats to invade India carrier-based planes bombed two Indian coastal towi.s in the first enemy assaults on India proper today even while British war ships hunted the naval force from which the attacks sprang The enemy's bombs fell with minor damage and slight cas ualties resulting on Nizampatam and Cocanada on the Madras shore of the eastern Indian ocean, or Bengal Bay, north of Ceylon. The Japanese force was sup posed to include at least one, and nnRftihlv turn nirernft "nf. rlers the floating bases from which the Easter morn, attack was launched on Colombo, Cey lon'. Merchantmen Attacked An official announcement at New Delhi, besides telling of the raids, said that the Japanese force recently had attacked merchant ships of the United Nations. The Japanese warships could be based either on Singa pore, Britain's fallen Gibraltar of the East, or on the Andaman islands. The air arm of the raiders undoubtedly had been crippled. with the destruction, probable destruction or damaging of 57 planes yesterday over Ceylon. Naval experts at London said British warships were seeking to find the foe and destroy him. The battle for India shaped up today as an expanding conlt-st by earth, sea and sky on the ap proaches to rich, restive empire and a duel of propaganda and diplomacy marked by United States intervention and Japan ese threats of invasion. Louis Johnson, President Roosevelt's personal minister to India, held exploratory talks with India's native leaders in what was widely believed to be injection of United Stalls influ ence to settle the problem of making India free but yet a bas tion for the United Nations. Johnson Sees Pandit Johnson, newly arrived, con ferred at length with Pandit Ja- waharlal Nehru and Mauluna Abul Kalan Azad, respectively past and present presidents of the All-India Congress party. Land fighting in Burma con tinued without decisive turn. On other fronts, Australia's position was officially described as much safer, despite rounda bout Sydney reports of additinn- l small Japanese landings In the Solomon islands on Austra lia's northeastern sea flank, and on the Bataan front In the Phil ippines the enemy had been stopped again, dead in his tracks. Imperial headquarters at To kyo announced that naval units had been battering at Colombo, naval base-capital of the large British-owned island, since Sat urday and had inflicted heavy damage. It was possible that the an nouncement meant only an at tack by carrier-based planes, which the British already had turned Into a stinging defeat with 87 of about 75 attacking planes destroyed, probably des troyed or damaged. Informed sources at London said they had no Information that Colombo was under war ship attack. Beef ranked first as a source of agricultural income in Ari zona in 1941. Tribune United o o- SatEvePost Stockholder Sues for Policy Change Philadelphia, April 8. (IP) A stockholder of the Curtis Pub lishing company asked U. S. district court today to compel the Saturday Evening Post to abandon ist" policies and to cease publication of articles he said tended to stir up racial feeling. In one of the most unusual suits ever filed in the federal courts here, George E. Wander man of New York declared that such policies are injurious to the financial Interests of the 25,500 Curtis stockholders and ulti mately will result In "complete dissipation" of the company's good will. Wanderman, who owns f 0 of the 3,393.821 shares of Curtis common stock, said that already the Post's "isolationist" policies had caused numerous subscrip tion cancellations and that num erous advertisers bad refused to renew their contracts. An article entitled 'The Case Against the Jews," written by Milton Mayer and published in the March 28 issue of the Post, especially antagonized both read ers and advertisers, the stock holder asserted. Wanderman asked the court not only to compel the Post to change its policies but also to direct the company to withhold the salaries of 10 officers and directors whom he also named defendants; Sil-Down by Sailors Glassed As Mutiny; NLRB Is Overruled Washington, April 8 (IP) The supreme court ruled today that the federal mutiny statute outlaws "a rebellion by seamen against their officers on boa id a vessel anywhere within the ad miralty and maritime jurisdic tion of the United States." Justice Byrnes delivered the 5 to 4 opinion that set aside a labor board order directing the Southern Steamship company of Philadelphia to reinstate searien who went on strike July 18, 1938, aboard the vessel, City of Fort Worth, at Houston, Tex. The majority opinion over ruled the labor board's conten tion that the Wagner lubor act permitted a reinstatement otder even though the men had en gaged in a sit-down strike. "The board," Byrnes assert ed, "has not been commissioned to effectuate the policies on the labor relations act so siugle- mindedly that It may wholly Ig nore other and equally Import ant congressional objectives." Justice Reed wrote the dis senting opinion, in which Jus tices Black, Douglas and Mur phy concurred. Lightning Calculator Passes at Ripe Age Kansas City. Kas., April 8. IIP) Arthur Pleasant Landress, 70, a mathematics genius who became famous through his ability to work out intricate calculations faster mentally than machines could be operated, died last night. For 20 years he was employed by large stores to take inven tory. As a test he once was given packet of Invoice sheets to total and completed the work in 10 minutes. It took nine girls five hours to check the sheets. Not an error was found. WARTIME EASTER Portland. April 8 tP) Port land observed a wartime Easter yesterday by launching a liberty freighter, the John G. Whlttler. In the Willamette river. A brief Easter service for workmen at the Oregon Shipbuilding corpo ration preceded the launching. NO WAR HERE Portland, April 8. P Just as If there were no war in the Orient, David W. Lee, Chinese, today closed a deal for purchase of a grocery store from James K. Kida, Japanese, his next door competitor for years. Praas what he termed its "isolation CIVIC, FRATERNAL Merchants and citizens dis played American flags today in observance of "Total War" day and tonight at 7:15 p.m. a pa triotic parade will leave Sixth and Bartlett streets and traverse Main and Oakdale to the Med ford senior high school football stadium. Civic, fraternal, patrio tic, religious and other groips are taking part In the parade which is dedicated to the U. S. armed forces. At the football stadium a di versified and educational pro gram Is planned. Included will be patriotic speeches by military leaders from Camp White and county and city officials, fol lowed by a first aid demonstra tion and Incendiary bumb dis play. Those in charge urge Jack son county citizens to attend the celebration. Men, Not Resources, Will Win the War, Warns Gen. Martin Portland, Ore., April 8 (IP) Strength, valor and the disci pline of men under arms, and not "any golden Maglnot line of resources," will win the war, Ma I. -Gen. Charles H. Martin (retired), told troops at the Port land army air base today. "You soldiers must maintain your morale. We, behind me lines, must stand strongly be hind you," the former Oregon govrnor said at the conclusion of a review at the base. Washington, April 8 (IP) Today is officially Army Day dedicated to an armed force which is expected to number more than 3,600,000 men before the end of 1942. It Is the 25th anniversary of the declaration which aligned the United States with the allies In Jie first World war, and it finds this nation side by side with the united nations In second world war of even great er magnitude. l25,GC3Boxes Pears Remain in Storage Packers estimate there are 125.000 boxes of D'Anjou and Winter Nelis pears remaining In the storage plants" of the valley. Ordinarily the plants are clear ed by May 1, and it is anticipated this will be the case this season, Packers reported the market the past week was strong with good prices. Orchardists predict the pears will be In full blossom in another week. The bright sun shine of the past few days has advanced all forms of vegetation. Head Cold Confines Roosevelt to Rooms Washington, April 8. AP) President Roosevelt, on orders of his physician, remained In his White House quarters today be cause of a head cold. The cold prevented his attend ance at Easter services yester day, and while Mr. Roosevelt was not running a temperature, Dr. Ross T. Mclntire preferred that he stay away from the ex ecutive offices today. However, the president had a series of rela tively minor appointments. Dh The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick RmuIU at Small Cost NO. 13. FREEZING OF ALL Opposition to Sliding Scale War Profits Limit Brings New Plan in Senate. Washington, April 6. OF) Senator Pepper (D.-Fla.) pro posed today that all prices and wages be frozen by presidential proclamation as opposition de veloped in the senate to a com mittee-approved sliding scale war profits limitation measure. Pepper told the senate that he would move for a suspension of rules tomorrow in order to at tach his price-wage stabilization amendment to the pending $19,- 212,000,000 military appropria tion bill. A two-thirds vote is necessary to suspend the rules. Another amendment offered by Pepper threatened to inject the controversy over labor legis lation in the appropriation- bill. This measure would outlaw the payment of union Initiation fees in war work. Tax Seen Best Control Chairman George (D.-A.) of the senate finance committee told reporters, meanwhile, ha would oppose the sliding scale Dronosal. which the appropria tions sub-committee approved in place of a flat six per cent limit imposed by the house, oeorge contended the proper way to control profit was through taxa tion. Senator Byrd (D.-Va.) said In statement that congress was voting money for war activities with such speed that government departments now had available f79,692,000,0UO in casn appro priations which bad not been spent. Earlier, Senator McNary of Oregon, the minority leader, had swung powerful repuDiican sup port behind the effort to writo drastic war profits limitations Into the huge military supply bill. Declaring that he would sup- nnrt anv workable scneme hi cut off excessive profits In mili tary production plants, McNary said he was comiaeni uuier re publicans in the senate felt the same way and would give whole hearted backing to penaing pro- P!s. ... . fc "We don I run wra millionaires," he told reporters. War Bulletins Washington. April UPf The war department reported "some gains" by the Japanese today on the flaming Bataan peninsula ei the Philippines during the third day ol a vir tually continuous enemy on slaught. Washington. April AP) Three merchant ships have put into port safely "follow ing Incidents with enemy sub marines at see," the navy an nounced today. Identifying them only as a Urge Pana manian ship, a Urge United States ship and a medium slsed U. S. ship. The navy gave no additional Informa tion. Sydney. Australia. April AP Large Japanese seU In Rabaul harbor were bit by United States and Austral ian bombers today, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The raiders also damaged air dromes at Rabaul and at Oas mata. both In New Britain, the paper said. The raids were described as "among the heaviest T made by the allies."
