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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 7 The sit
uation In Burma is serious.
Single objective of the crafty
Japs Is the oil field which Is
just about the only good source
left to the Chinese for this ln
dispensible food of fighting ma
chines. Dispatches from the front say
"Japs bomb Mandalay." They
could add in
truth that
Mandalay has
more import
ance now than
Kipling at
tached to It.
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
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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 ., :
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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
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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. '