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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
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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
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The cards game of cribbage
is an outgrowth of a similar
game called "Noddy."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1942,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."