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A. refinery in that area has afforded Chi na its best supply of gas oline, and is what the Jap Paul Malloa airmen have been looking for. The dispatches say the British fell back from Prome in West Burma and tried to cluster their defense lines around an oil field to the north at their backs. There are four Jap divisions in that district fighting against one British division. The odds therefore forecast a blow to the Chinese which will tax their Ingenuity to find new Sources of oil. o o nrHE Japs do not need this oil " for themselves. They are now sitting on fields richer than any except ours, in Texas and Venezuela. Around Tarakan In Borneo, here Is unlimited "bunker oil" DOO or 300 feet down, and only a few hundred feet from the docks. This fuel can be brought Into their ships with ordinary water-well digging equipment. No special derricks are needed. The product is of such good Duality It does not require re fining, but can be pumped di rect into the tanks of diesel warshirj. Thus the Japs have acquired In four months what their axis ally the Nazis have sought in vain for 2V4 years, the indis pensible wherewithal for perm anent military power. No way is yet apparent In which the Japs could transport oil to the beseiged Hitler, but if (Continued on Page Pour) Radio Highlights " (Pacific War Time) Talks CBS, 7, Lord Halifax on "India;" MBS, 7:15, CIO "United for Victory" rally, Philip Murray, Wm. Green, Paul V. McNutt. Wednesday: CBS, 1 p. m., Dr. Timothy Ting-Fang Lew on "Students in China's Crisis." Council to Act On Lease to Air Line Leasing of the hangar at mu nicipal airport to the U. S. army and final action on the o'di r.ance executing a new lease to United Air Lines for use of the airport are among matters to be taken up by the city council at its semi-monthly meeting in the council chambers of city hall .tonight at 7:30. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Doris Hussong showing De lia Walker how the new spray worked in her kitchen sink and completely spraying the latter In the demonstration. Savings and Loaner A. P Butler showing his patriotism by walking down Main street in new suit with cuffless trous- Fire Chief Roy Elliott receiv ing a big cheer from the multi tude before he could even be introduced at the "Total War" -day demonstration. House Candidate Bill McAl lister doing a little Inexpensive but gratefully-received campaigning. LEADERS SHY AT COOPERATION AS Offer to Appoint Indian as Defense Minister Fails to Bring Alignment. New Delhi, April !. (&) The working committee of the all-India congress was reported tonight to have decided to ad here to its stand against the British Independence plan in spite of a British offer to ap point an Indian as defense mini ster. By Roger D. Graano Associated Press War Editor Britain made the first con cession in the critical negotia tions over Indian self-rule today as Mohammed All Jinnah, presi dent of the Moslem league, an nounced that the British had agreed to appoint an Indian as defense minister. Previously, Britain's take-it-or-leave-it proposals had insist ed on complete British control of India's defense effort. The concession came as lead ers of India's 390,000,000 still shied at full wartime coopera tion with the United Nations, despite the fact that Japanese warplanes have already attack ed her cities, and as signs point ed to a new breakdown in the important negotiations. Bataan War Flares in the Philippine theater, a war dej tment bulletin report ed that heavy casualticr on both sides marked furious lighting along the Bataan peninsula front, with Japans invasion forces continuing to score "some success. The communique said that the Japanese were hurling re peated heavy attacks against the center of Lieut -Gen. Jonathan Wainwright's American-Filipino defense line and that aerial bombing of the rear areas and the Bataan south coast was par ticularly severe throughout yes terday. American anti-aircraft gun ners were credited with destroy- ing a Japanese amphibian plane in Manila Bay. The war department also quo ted Dr. Hubertus Van Mook, acting head of the Dutch East Indies government, as saying that two Dutch forces of con siderable size were continuing to resist the Japanese invasion of Java. The city of Madras on India's Bay of Bengal coast, underwent its first air-raid alarm, lasting an hour and 25 minutes. Retreat in Burma In Burma, British headquart ers acknowledged that British troops again had fallen back to new positions only 65 miles be low the main oil-producing sec tion of Minbu after demolishing oil Installations at Thayetmyo and Allanmyo. This indicated a British with drawal of at least 40 miles, since Thayetmyo is 40 miles north of Prome. the former right wing anchor of the British-Chinese defense line in central Burma. Allanmyo is Just north across the Irrawaddy river irom may. etmyo, about 225 miles from the Indian frontier. Final capitulation of the al lied defenders of Sumatra, rub ber-rich Netherlands East Indies island upon which the Japanese i sprang Feb. 14 from Malaya. was announced by Imperial To kyo headquarters which told of the capture of 3,100 British, Dutch and native troops. Fishing Excitement Kills Railroad Man Portland.' April 7 m The excitement of hooking a salmon in the Willamette river Monday afternoon was too much for Fred E. OrtschilJ, 63, Union Pacific switchman of Portland. He succumbed to a heart attack. FUTURE FARMER Portland, April 7. Wil liam Gale, 17-year-old Union boy, today won the Oregon Future Farmers of America ora torical contest in the state finals. He will be Oregon's representa tive at the regional contert at Kansas City, May 4. His topic was "Foor for Thought Food for Defense." Two Children Cremated In Lindbergh Reports to Ford GO v f ,V'I - In 7 : i0m',s ??f Charles A. Lindbergh (right), began his first' day's work for the Ford Motor Company at Detroit with a conference with Henry Ford (left). Lindbergh declined Japanese Losing Sting, View of Military Men Washington, April 7 W) The lightning has gone out of Japan's lightning war after four months of spectacular ad vances, military men agreed today. .They expect further enemy gains and possibly such a bold new stroke as an attack on Si beria. But concentrations of al lied.air power in Australia and India have stemmed the main Japanese onrush. Here is the view of military and navaL-jnen as the war en ters its fifth month: The United Nations are ap proaching, if they have not ac tually attained, numerical air plane equality with Japan in the Australia and Burma-India theaters. This was shown March 11 in the smashing of the first big in vasion thrust at Australia be fore it could even get under way from New Guinea. It was shown again last week-end when a "Pearl Harbor" attack on Ceylon became bitter Jap anese defeat. Over the western Pacific as whole, however, Japan still has superiority of plain strength and may have it for months. Thus if she makes an all-out drive in any particular region she undoubtedly can win con trol of the air there. Airmen recently returned from the fighting zones report that the best Japanese pursuit plane", the "zero fighter," can outmaneuver the American P-40 type, although the P-40 compen sates for this with great armor protection and leak-proof gaso line tanks. Japanese pilots are excellent fliers, but American pilots have been able to outfight them re peatedly, even when greatly outnumbered. Canada is largest producer of maple sugar and syrup in the world. 'War Savings Bond' New Official Name Washington, April 7. UP) Buy a bond today, the treasury advised this time a war savings bond. That's the new official name of defense bonds. Sav ings stamps likewise got the war designation, a change fre quently advocated since Pearl Harbor. Vvy ., : v- k : to say what his duties would bo. BEAGLE RANCHERS GIRD FOR BATTLE A group of farmers and ranch ers in the Beagle area, dissatis fied with government appraisals of their land, needed for the con struction of Camp White, have passed a resolution retaining At torney Edward C. Kelly as their legal counsel and plan to fight condemnation suits expected to be filed by the U. S. attorney's office. Mr. Kelly said today the first step the land owners would un dertake in preparing their cases would be to ask the cantonment committee of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to send local real estate men to the district for the purpose of making appraisals of the land, these appraisals to be used as evidence in the condemnation the land owners planned to fight suit trials in federal court. The attorney said about 20 of the suits, none of which have yet been filed. The farmers, it was explained, feel that the prices of fered them by the government for options on their land are not fair. The heaviest week-end busi ness since 1929 was reported today by Medford merchants. stores being crowded Saturday by the normal pre Easter trade and by cantonment workers who received checks the last of the week. Nearby towns also report (ocd business during the period. Ash- ! land. Eagle Point and Central Point, all sharing In th influx. I $25,000 LIMIT ON ALL INCOMES L UAW Board Says Workers Would Accept Bonds In Lieu Of Overtime Pay. Detroit, April 7. (AP) President Roosevelt, in a letter read to special war conference of the United Automobile Work ers (CIO) here today, stated the government s intention to re negotiate contracts with the em ployers wherever necessary to ensure that the savings from the relinquishments of double or premium time go not to the em ployer but to the nation." . Detroit, April 7. (AP) United Automobile Workers (CIO) executive board proposed today a legal limit of $25,000 a year on family and individual in comes for the war's duration, in return for which union workers would accept non-negotiable de fense bonds in lieu of all over time pay for more than 40 hours a week. The UAW-CIO international board presented these proposals in what it termed an "equality of sacrifice program to a special war conference here of delegates irom local unions. Other parts of the program in eluded rigid price fixing on all necessities and limiting war pro duction profits to three per cent on capital investment Ask Double Time Ban Union delegates were called here to act on the national CIO's executive board recommendation that double-time wages for Sun day and holiday work be waived in response to suggestions from President Roosevelt and Donald M. Nelson, war production chief. Acceptance of this was recom mended by the auto union's board provided that time and a half were paid for work over eight hours a day or 40 hours a week, lime and a half for a sixth consecutive day's work, and dou ble time lor a seventh. Compromise Offered To Avoid Showdown On Profits, Labor Washington, April 7 m The senate voted 51 to 10 today to suspend its rules In order to consider a modified profit limit provision on war contracts of fered by administration leaders as a compromise amendment to the $19,222,773,260 war appro priations bill. Washington, April 7. (JP) Administration supporters of fered a compromise in the sen ate today In an effort to avoid a showdown at this time upon welter of proposals dealing with profits, labor and other proposed controversial riders to the $19.- 212,773,260 war appropriations bill. Senator McKellar (D.-Tenn.V floor leader for the measure, suggested that a "sliding scale' of profit limits, previously ap proved by U'.e senate appropria tions committee, be abandoned and that the huge appropriation be passed without this or any of the numerous pending proposals. Because the senate committee already had stricken out a house provision for a flat six per cent profit limitation which federal officials said would not work McKellar said that a Joint sen ate-house conference group would be able to work out de tails on the profits restrictions later. Teachers' Jobs Saved by Pupils Portland, April 7 VP) Three Parkrose grade school teachers cf 10 whose contracts hsd not been renewed, will be retained, the school board decided early today. Students went on a one-day strike several weeks ago In pro test to the discharge of the 10. Cabin Near Central Point E, ,500 In March Civic and Army Leaders Praise Army Day Demonstration. Proving that complacency toward the war is completely absent from the hearts and minds of Jackson county's civil ians, an estimated 4,000 pers ons packed the grandstand and bleachers at the senior high school field last night to see a defense demonstration and hear talks by army officers and civil defense leaders at the conclus ion of a gigantic "Total War" day parade that included 1,500 members of 60 veteran and pa triotic societies, defense units, labor unions, and civic organiz ations. Sponsored by the Jackson County Civilian War Council in compliance with 'Total War" day proclamations by President Roosevelt, Governor Charles A. Sprague and Mayor H. S. Deuel the county's observance of Ar my day was successful beyond the wildest dreams of those In charge. Leaders Praise And today, . Mayor . Deuel, Lieut.-Col. George C. Furch, commanding corps area service unit. Camp White, and Ma). Theron W. Bean, area engineer for Medford and vicinity, were lavish in their praise of every body and every organization that made possible the great parade, viewed by approximate ly 7,000 people, and the defense demonstration. Warning that "the immediate future looks very black and we may suffer many defeats before we gain the balance of power," Lieut.-Col. Furch, principal speaker, nevertheless struck a note of confidence when he sta ted: "Many great deeds have al ready been accomplished by our small forces against overwhelm ing odds, and you can visualize what might have happened if General MacArthur had had suf ficient men and equipment. Ac tion is needed to win this war and we will get this action, and with It the balance of power," With MacArthur The speaker, who served with General MacArthur in the Rain bow Division In the first World War, said; "We are engaged tn a great war against powerful enemies, and for this reason 'Army day' has a greater sig nificance now than ever before. "There is no problem of mor ale In the army," Lieut.-Col. Furch claimed, "it's the people at home that need Instruction in morale." He added that "we have reached a stage where all of you not in the service, men and women, will be actively en- gaged in war Industries and in the war effort." The lieutenant-colonel, stating that it wouldn't be long before troops started to arrive at Camp White, asked the people of Jackson county to treat the sol Cootlnued on Pace Saiht) Civilian Industry Halt Due Soon Says Nelson Washington, April 7. (JP) Production of most consumer durable goods will be stopped by May 31, Donald M. Nelson, war production head, disclosed today. Declaring that "history will record whether we have moved too fast or too slow" in the drive to curtail civilian indus tries and convert them to war production, Nelson said the high point of the program would be reached In a few days with issu ance of orders hslting most pri vate building construction and prohibiting use of iron and steel in hundreds of items. "Their Impact here and abroad War Bulletins London. April 7 W) A broadcast Japanese communi que heard by Reuters tonight said the aame Japanese units which raided Colombo Sunday had attacked a British naval unit in the Bay of Bengal. Cairo, April 7. (AP The British general headquarters communique on the Libyan front said today onlyt "Patrol activity continued throughout the day yesterday. There was nothing else to report." Washington. April 7 P) The navy announced today that a United States submar ine operating In the China Saa had sunk 10.000-ton Japanese passenger-cargo vas sal and a cargo ship of about 8.000 tons. GERMAN LINE IN (By the Associated Press) Russia's armies have broken into German lines southeast of Lake Ilmen on the bloody Star- aya Russa battlefield, the Berlin radio acknowledged today, while soviet dispatches indicated that Adolf Hitler now was throwing clouds of warplanes into the struggle as a prelude to the nazi spring offensive. Red army dispatches said the Intensified aerial assault cost the Germans 415 planes in eight days, with soviet losses held to 84. On Easter Sunday alone, dispatches said, Russian fliers and gunners destroyed 119 Ger man aircraft in sky combat and atacks on nazi airdromes.- A Berlin broadcast said strong. tank-led Russian forces smashed into nazi positions in the Lake Ilmen sector, where remnants of the German 16th army have been trapped for many weeks, but declared that the Germans had "adjusted" their lines after heavy bayonet fighting. A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters conceded that the Russians were pressing attacks 'on several sectors" of the long. thawing front, but asserted that our own offensive operations brought further successes." No details were given. The high command said 69 soviet planes were shot down or destroyed on the ground yester day. DNB, the official German news agency, quoted nazi gen eral staff officers as saying that winter warfare had "completely exhausted the strength of the soviet armies." The news agency also reported that spring mud was "rendering roads Impassable and thus precluding large-scale movements." British RAF bombers, relent lessly continuing their great spring aerial offensive, struck again into the German Ruhr and Rhineland overnight despite "very bad weather" to blast nazi war foundries. While all mammals can swim, some of them do not like water. will be widespread and sweep ing," the WPB chief predicted, adding that the two orders were part of a pattern, carefully planned by WPB, which changes "the face of American industry, The goal of the program Is a "sound but lean civilian econo my," Nelson declared, adding that no one yet knew how "lean1 it can be but that it will "get leaner and leaner as the war program goes on." "We're taking away from the people things which make the standard of living," Nelson said In his discussion of the changes at a press conference, but "this Is the way of total all-out war and the price of early victory, TRAGEDY VISITS AS MOTHER ON TRIP TO STORE Norman Ray Michaels, 4 Years and Sister, Nancy, 10 Months, Victims of Fire The two small children of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Michaels, Norman Ray, age 4, and Nancy, age 10 months, were burned to death yesterday afternoon when their small home on tr.i rcihc highway about four miles north of Central Point waa destroyed by fire. The tots, both said to have been ill, were alone and napping at the time, according to William Grenbemer, deputy sheriff, who investigated the tragedy. Mrs. Michaels had gone to the Pine Tree auto camp, nearby, for groceries, Grenbemer said. Blase Seen H. F. Whetstone, neighbor, and Vera Coenenday, bakery truck driver, first noticed the structure, two-room cabin, burning, the deputy said. Coe nenday, who checked the time with his radio said the cabin was blazing at 2:45. According to reports, Mrs. Michaels had left only a short time before. . . Whetstone and Coenenday. . rushed to the scene but, accord ing to Grenbemer and County Coroner H. W. Conger, there was no water available with which to fight the flames. A nearby pump was said to be out of order. The two children were presumed to have suffo cated before the arrival of the two men who heard no outcries nd did not learn that the chilr. dren were In the cabin until the parents arrived a short time later. Rescue attempts were futile and Whetstone suffered a burned hand trying to break down a wall of the room where the chil dren were. The body of the girl was found in her bed and that of the boy on the floor. Both were badly charred. Cause Unknown Mrs. Michaels told Grenbemer and Conger that she did not know the cause of the blaze but that she had left a small fire in the kitchen stove and had left the door open. The sheriffs office theorized that spark from the stove Ignited the fire. The cabin was on the prop erty of C. E. Henagin and the Michaels had resided there since January. Michaels has resided in the county for 18 yean and now works at the cantonment. District Attorney George W. Nellson said this morning that there would be no Inquest. The bodies were taken to the Conger funeral parlors last night. The state supreme court In a decision handed down today af firmed the decision of the lata Circuit Judge H. D. Norton In the suit of the state game com mission against the Beaver Port land Cement company, to enjoin the cement firm from the con struction and maintenance of a hydro-electric plant on Rogue river near Gold Hill. The decision, favoring the ce ment company was written by Justice Bailey. The state game commission contended construction of a wing dam in Rogue River was detri mental to fish life, and hindered their migrations up and down the river. Local sportsmen took an Interest in the case. DEATH ON HIGHWAY Grants Pass, April 7 (JP) Charles Allen Wordcn, 75, was Instantly killed today when a 14-ton truck collided with his passenger car near O'Brien, throwing the body 150 feet and scattering parts of the car three times as far. '
