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Lot rOOH Aniwar to Bombs bo BONDS! Boy DcfenM Bonds an camps TODAY ContrlDut to tha alre-neto of your oatloB potrtotlim. yoor oaro arlf-pro- The Beat By Far quick solas wlta the hast orfort an prodoeat I ha Waat Ad Way. Th-T an tonproaln. loo. A ts Ad wiu inch thooa. aads of homes almoat too ohrap to so tood bat th an tho hnt or far. Medford Tribune Itectl tectloo. demands that YOU do -our part NOW! Full Associated Proas Unitod Pros Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1942. NO. 15. HI OF 1 I IF MM News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, April 8 A lone American flying fortress met 27 Zero fighters of the Japs at low altitude the other day. That meant cot- tains for the fortress. The Zero naval pursuit plane is the best ship the Japs have, and on of the best in the busi ness. It can climb faster than our stan dard purs u i t Paul Mallon sBoBSosaBfsataaaaoapajBBBBaJs; ship, the P-40 Qmd has greater maneuverabil ty. To get this superiority, it has sacrificed armor so that If you hit one, you are apt to collect. But when 27 of these speedy fighters catch one lumbering big bomber, the fight is supposed to be over before it starts. This is especially true at low altitudes where the greater maneuver ability of the Zero has full play. The fortresses generally try to escape by going higher than the Zero can climb. Nothing could be done this time, except fight it out. Every body stayed around as long as his ammunition lasted or until he dropped. When the last bul let had been fired, the Flying Fortress went on home, count ing 12 Jap planes missing from the squadron of 27. In 'an encounter against 1m- C possible . odds, it actually snoi awn nearly.half the enemy planes and escaped. a a a NOTHING could better tell superiority of our big bomb er, the type of ship best suited to the long hauls of the far east. It is proving its name. Its arm ament seems to have made it invulnerable to the explosive type of bullet which the Japs favor. .. ,. Tha Zeros can theoretically shoot It down. They carry 50 calibre machine guns and a 20 mm. cannon. But they must get it in the right spots. They have (Continued on Pa-a 8ti TRAFFIC TOLL LOWER Salem. April 8 P Only 13 persons lost their lives in Ore gon traffic accidents during March, compared with 35 in March, 1941, the state depart ment said today in announcing Qhat the March toll was the low est in history for that monh. Four of the 13 deaths in March were pedestrians. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Tims) Tonight: The War 5 MBS; 5:55 CBS; 6:15 MBS; 7 MBS; 7:30 BLU; 7:45 CBS; 8 NBC CBS; S NBC CBS BLU; 9:30 MBS; 9:55 NBC BLU. Thursday: The War 8 MBS; 9 CBS MBS; 10 BLU MBS; 10:45 NBC; 11 MBS; 11:30 BLU; 12:15 p. m., CBS; 12:30 BLU; 1:55 BLU; 3 CBS MBS; 3:15 CBS: 3:25 NBC; 3:45 CBS MBS. NBC 3:30 Roundtable on YMCA on war fronts. MBS J:15 Opening Jamaica race sea LJon. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS The civilian guards prancing along Jauntily behind their lead er, Cappy Herb Moore. Fred Erickson trying to get a friend in "Sideglances" and j landing here himself. Vern Dragrr whipping up in terest in the Footprinters" Jaunt for a Joint meeting with the Klamath Falls unit. Ed Klrtley hooking a ride when some of his first aid stu dents demonstrated methods of transporting an injured person. 9 Laura York volunteering to te a victim for first aid demon stration of a broken neck, she being bundled into a car aboard a stretcher befote it was over. MASS ATTACK ON COAST OF FRANCE E! . S. Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins Arrive In London As Reports Published. Expansion Is Aim London, April 8 VP) The purpose of United States forces in Europe is to "ex pand". General George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the U. S. army, declared tonight. Harry Hopkins, lend-lease expediter who came to Lon don with Marshall, seconded the general's thought, saying that production alone is not going to win the war but that "soldiers under General Mar shall and sailors under Ad miral King" would be the de ciding factor. By the Associated Press Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff of the United States army, arrived in London today on the heels of British reports that the bulk of the American army was training for a mass invasion of contin ental Europe. Gen. Marshall was accompan ied by Harry Hopkins, chair man of the British-American munitions assignments boards, and by senior military advisers. London newspapers yesterday declared American and British expeditionary forces eventually would strike together at the heart of Industrial Germany through France. Train In Ireland Thousands of American troops already are training in battle maneuvers in northern Ireland. Recent dispatches have sug gested that if British and Amer ican forces should open a sec ond front, as repeatedly urged by Russia, they might attack along the French channel coast or tbroueh Norway. Meanwhile, signs of a major new campaign brewing in the middle east were seen in a ser ies of violent axis assaults that ranged from north Africa through Egypt and Malta to the Russian Crimea. With spring mud and snow bogging the battlefields of cen tral Russia, these significant re ports indicated that Adolf Hit ler may be preparing a drive to the south: Africa A London spokesman Intimated that Field Marshal Erwin Rommels axis armies had started a new offensive, breaking the weeks-old stale mate on the Libyan desert front 100 miles southwest of Tobruk. British Pushod Back Both the German and Italian high commands said British ad vanced forces had been pushed back in the new surge of fight ing. Egypt Axis warplanes again pounded Britain's great naval base at Alexandria this morn ing, following up yesterday's at tack in which 52 persons were killed and 80 wounded In the heaviest raid of the year, Malta Massed German bomb era save the British island trnnohold its worst attack of the war yesterday and touched off the 2,000th alarm at the bomb-scarred Mediterranean base since June, 1940. Four nazi planes were reported de stroyed and three others dam aged. Crimea Soviet dispatches said the Germans launched a heavy attack against Russian positions today, striking with 100 tanks, but were thrown back after several hours of fighting. Other Soviet forces were cred ited with capturing a fortified German -held point on the Ukraine mainland front. Roads Improve Improvement of road condi tions in the south the area In which Adolf Hitler is expected to make his supreme bid for Caucasus oil was indicated in reports of the combat. Footing may already have firmed suffi ciently after the spring thaws for the opening of large-Kale opera lions. British Plane Photos Nazi A British roconnalssanc piano brought back this alrvlsw of tha Gorman battleship Tirplts at Aas Fjord, hoar Trondhslm, Norway. Broken linos at left mark a torpedo boom, British sources said. Tho Tirpits put to ssa last month but returned when attacked by British pianos. Picture cabled from London to Now York. Cold-Blooded Killing of Jap Captives Is Told at PI. Moresby Sydney, Australia, April 8 VPy Charges that the Japanese killed their captives in cold blood on the islands of New Guinea and New Britain were made today in a statement Is sued officially at Port Moresby. Army Minister Francis M. Forde said he had asked that the report be forwarded, to him by senior Australian officers. The statement told the story of three Australian servicemen who said they were the only survivors of one group of 10 officers and men who were trapped on New Britain after the fall of Rabaul. The others, with their hands tied behind their backs, were shot or bayonetted to death after they were captured by a landing party from a Japanese destroyer, it stated. The three survivors said they wandered, bleeding from their wounds and numb from the hor rors they had seen, for several days with their hands bound be hind them before they were rescued. (How they escaped was unexplained.) New Academic Honor for Roger Henselman Awarded at Harvard Academic honors continue to shower down on Roger Hensel man. son of Mrs. and the late George Henselman of this city, who is completing a lour years course at Harvard university under a national scholarship. Last summer Roger was given ii extra holiday-scholarship which included a good-will trip to South America and Import ant contact work there, and now the Committee on Scholarships for Harvard university has awarded him another additional scholarship for study In the Harvard Law school. While war service may Inter fere witH the taking up of law studies this next fall, it Is prac tically certain that the oppor tunity will still be available at the close of hostilities. In an nouncing the award Mr. Henry Chauncey, assistant dean of Harvard, In congratulating the recipient, closed with these words: "Let me congratulate you upon the excellent record you have made at Harvard. You have more than Justified our faith in you when you were awarded a National Scholarship I four years ago. The Russians said the Ger mans lost 32 tanks and hundreds of dead under the blasting of red army shells on the Crimean battlefield. Seven tanks were reported captured at the south western front village, from which the radio declared "the Germans retreated in disorder." Nine-day totals of aerial war fare, as listed by the Soviet in formation bureau, stood through Monday at 494 German planes destroyed against 103 Russian aircraU lust. JAPS HIT HARD AT NEW BATAAN LINE; CASUALTIES HEAVY Washington, April 8. VP) The war, department reported Ijate today that fresh Japanese troops, continuing their forward. drive In Bataan with great vigor, have launched a heavy at tack on the new line established by the American-Filipino forces last night after a general with drawal. - Diva bombers and attack planes are bombing and machine gunning the front lines and heavy bombers are continuing attacks on rear installations in what the department described as tha longest sustained push by the enemy since operations began in Bataan early in January. . Casualties again have been heavy on both sides, a communi que said. - On the Burma front, next door to India, the situation remained extremely grave, with Japan's Invasion columns reforming to Otack British troops now hold ZLt a line only 65 miles south or the rich central Burma oil fields. British military quarters gave this description of the campaign, indicating ultimate disaster un less reinforcements arrive: ' 'The Japanese attack (With su perior forces. We stay .as long as we can. Inflict as mO'ch loss as we can, gain as much time as we can, and then go back to the next suitable position." Allied planes based In Aus tralia were reported still slash lng at Japanese air power on islands to the north. TAKEN BY DEATH Robert J. Forsyth, a resident of Medford for the past 13 years, passed away In a Portland hos pital late Sunday evening at the age of 62. He had been In falling health for several months. Mr. For syth was born at Governeur, N, Y.. September 23. 1879. He came to Medford with his family from Neligh, Neb. Besides his wife. Pearl For syth, he leaves two children Thelma Frady of Mllwaukle, Ore., and Robert. Jr., of Eugene Also three sisters, Mrs. Cassle Kincaid of Randolph, N-b.; Mrs Mime Poynter of Elizabeth, Minn., and Mrs. Frances Ship- man of O Ne II, Neb. The remains arrived In Med ford this morning and services will be held In the Conger chapel at 1 p. m. Thursday with Dr. Sherman L. Divine officiat ing. Interment In Siskiyou Memorial park. Mr. Forsyth will be rememb ered by many as business man ager of the Community hoiDital I for t.U tai. Warship U. S. Envoy's Advice Bringing Indians to United Nation Side New Delhi, India, April 8 VP) Prospects for satisfactory settlement of the entire Indian question and alignment of India actively In favor of the United Nations war cause took a slight turn for the better today, large ly because of mediation by Louis Johnson, special envoy from the united States. It was reported reliably that Johnson had created confidence among the Indians by assurances that the United States endorsed Britain's promise of post-war self-government for India and by stating that this was Ameri ca s war and that Americans were confident of winning It. As a result, a new formula for handling India's defense was re ported worked out today at an All-India Congress party com mittee session. Many Sympathizers Write to Conschie Wyeth. Ore.. Am-il 8 JP Lew Ayres, the film star who chose a conscientious objectors' camp here to army service. planned today to organize a first aid unit In addition to his rou tine camp duties. He said his chief worry was inability to answer his mall which has totaled 1,100 letters since his arrival a week ago today. Twenty-four of every 25 letters have been sympathetic, he said. HULL RECOVERED Washington, April 8 VP) Secretary of State Hull has re covered from an illness which forced him to go south In Feb ruary for a rest. He will resume the functions of his office soon, Acting Secretary Sumner Welles said today. 200,000 More War Industry Hands Needed In Northwest In Next Year Portland, Ore., April 8 VP) The Pacific northwest must find 200,000 additional workers for war Industries within the next year, MaJ.-Gen. H. G. Winsor, retired, Seattle, said last night Winsor, member of the region al labor supply committee of the war production board, urged all persons not doing essential labor to register with the federal em ployment service. "Otherwise," he warned. "I believe the government will have to conscript labor." En route to a labor supply conference at Los Angeles, lie told newsmen that the two states would need 75,000 work ers for shipbuilders and their sub-contractors; 25.000 in air craft industries, 30,000 for war Industry installations and 70.000 for other war industries and re placements. Training will be needed by 150,000 of them, he said. lis estimated 30,000 of tha to- jAIL MAN KILLED i WHEN AUTO LEAPS OFF 25-FOOT BANK John Gorden Warner, 43, Pinned Beneath Machine En Route Home At Night. John Gorden Warner, 43, of Trail, was killed last night when his model A Ford coupe plunged 25 feet over a bank on the Tiller road five and one-half miles above Trail, Deputy Cor oner Carlos W. Morris said this morning. The victim, returning home from work alone, was pin ned beneath the vehicle which overturned. Morris said War ner's chest was crushed and that he was probably killed In stantly. The accident was dis covered by a Ken Clark. Un ion Oil employee, from Chilo quin, about 1:30 a. m. According to I. H. Howe, Trail postmaster, who was in terviewed by phone this morn ing, Warner worked on the night shift at the Tiller mill and lumber company and the mill was said to have broken down about 8:30 p. m. Just what time Warner left for his home in Trail could not be definitely stated. On Wrong Side Tire marks indicated that Warner had driven approxi mately 132 feet on the left side of the road before the coupe plunged over the steep slope, Deputy Morris said. The acci dent occurred on a long gradual curve and the car was descend ing a six percent grade, accord ing to Morris. The body was taken to the Conger funeral home and the deputy stated that there prob ably would be no Inquest. War ner had resided 41 years in Trail. The deceased, whose wife passed away about five years ago, leaves to mourn three sis ters, Mrs. Wallace Cushman, Mrs. Howard Ash and Mrs. Ivan Snead, all of Trail: two broth ers, Fred Warner, Trail, and Ray Warner, Seattle, Wash ington; three daughters, Leona, Lorma and Alice, and two sons, Kenneth and James, all of Trail, Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Hollywood, April 6. VP) Babe Ruth, famous former New York Yankee baseball slugger was taken to a hospital this morning In a "tragically critical condition," but is "much better today," his physician. Dr. R Nicholas Smith, reported. He added: "Up to now, we don't know exactly what is wrong with nlm but It appears to be pulmcnary or lung condition. Mechanics Wanted Portland, Ore., April 8 VP) The army Intends to re cruit 300 mechanics from Ore gon for overseas duty, E. R. Hopper, Boise, disclosed last night. Hopper, lieutenant-colonel for the proposed mechanics' regiment, asked Oregon auto mobile dealers to distribute application forms to employes and former employes. He said the recruits would be trained at a camp In the south before being sent over- tal might be women, and said the housing problem made It necessary to recruit as many of the workers as possible from local fields. At the same time W. C. Rueg nitr, secretary-manager of the Columbia aia SwmiUa' asso War Bulletins Washington. April t (IP) The navy announced today that a United States merchant vosssl of medium siso had boon torpedoed off tho Atlan tic coast and a small freighter had boon shelled. Both actions took place ssvoral days ago, tho navy said, but no dstails wore mads public hare. Folkostono. England. April 8. VP) Squadron after squadron of RAF pianos roar ad across tho English channel for a half hour today In tha early morning sunlight. Vspor trails high In tho sky off tho Frsnch coast between Cap Grls Net and Calais Indicated Carman fighters angagad tha Britons. GOLD HILL WOMAN T BY ACCIDENT SHOT Mrs. Thomas West, 35, of Gold Hill was In a critical con dition In Sacred Heart hospital today with a bullet wound In her abdomen which authorities said was accidentally inflicted when she started to move 22 calibre rifle leaning against the wall of her home last night. Her attending physician said she was resting as well as could be ex pected. Mrs. West, married and tha mother of two children, was taken to Community hospital after the accident, by an un identified friend, and removed to Sacred Heart hospital almost Immediately in the Perl ambu lance because Community was already filled with patients. The complication of measles and the fact that she was an expectant mother makes Mrs. West's condition all xna mon serious, according to her doctor. Green and Murray Pledge War Unity Pittsburgh, April 8 P) CIO President Philip Murray and AFL President William Green, rivals In peacetime tJt united In war, symbolized lab or's unity last night by pledging their organized millions to "stand together" to help win the war and exhorting labor's crit ics to "Join labor, not stab us In the back." The two labor leaders met on a speakers platform for the first time since labor's ranks split In 1936 before a cheering audience of mora than 4,000 workers at a Joint AFL-CIO "Unite for Victory" rally in Sy ria mosqua. CARLYLE ELLIS Palmdale, Calif., April 8 VP) Carlyle Ellis, 63, veteran news paperman, magazine editor, nov ellst and film producer, died at his home hei i yesterday. He had been 111 for mora than three years. ciation, estimated the lumber in dustry was 5 to 10 per cent un dermanned because workers had been lured by higher pay to war industries. He said government demand for lumber was Increasing, but production could not be raised sufficiently because of loss of manpower and priority restric tions, which make replacement of equipment difficult. The Oregon advisory commit tee on defense training was told by O. I. Paulson, vocational training director, that war In dustries were demanding wo men workers in Increasing num bers. He said one Portland plant had requested that 50 women be trained In aircraft sheet metal work. Another asked for 80 wo men trained in electrical work, Other orders total 70 women, he said, and training classes are be ing started as rapidly as pos sible. BUS LINE GIVEN SERVICE IN CITY Rogue Valley Transit Co. To Start Schedule About April 15; Get New Buses, Tha Rogue Valley Transit company. In an ordinance pass ed by the city council at Its semi-monthly meeting last night was granted a permit to operate ouses in jueaiord, and A. L. Schneider, manager of the cor, cern, said today that service would probably start on or about AprU 15. Although no definite schedule has yet been made, Mr. Schnei der said it was tentatively planned to operate buses at least every hour east and west on Main street between the city limits and north and south on Oakdale and Riverside avenues between tha city luftits. To Survey Moods A survey will be made within the next few days to determine definite -schedules and routes, and operation will start as soon as the company moves Into Its terminal building at 121 North Bartlett street, tha manager stated. Mr. Schneider said tha tenta tive tariff had been set at 10 cents for adults, five cents tor school children. Tha transit company, which operates buses between Medford and Camp White and between Camp White and Grants Pass, and Ashland, will receive six new buses this evening, Mr. Schneider said, and added that these would probably be placed on the Medford routes. License Alleys Tha council passed an ordi nance providing for the licens ing of bowling alleys, shooting galleries and arcades, the yearly license for a bowling establish ment to cost $75, for shooting galleries ISO and for arcades having 75 or less machine de vices $100. An ordinance was also passed prohibiting tha playing or oper ation of "Juke" boxes, jiayer pianos or phonographs between the hours of 11 p. m. and 7 a. m. and a previous ordinance was amended to prohibit the playing of cards In pool halls between midnight and 8 a. m. Tha sale of $19,256.90 or city of Medford improvement bonds. series E, to tha First National Bank of Portland, was approv ed. Tha bank bid at the interest rats of IVi per cent from 1943 to 1947 and at the rata of 1 per cent from 1948 to 192. Blythe and Company, Inc., of Portland bid 1V per cent for the entire Issue. City Court Reports City Judge William Allen' report for March showed that tha city collected $357.95 from all cases in rlty court, ranging from fines levied against drunks to reckless drivers. Included In City Superinten dent Fred W. Scheffel's report on work don by th various de partments during March wse the Information that WPA crew have completed 75 per cent of their work on the taxlway from th south end of th main run way to tha cast end of the cross runway at th municipal air port. Th council naa take further action on tha mat ter of the new leas to United Air Lines for us of th airpon, but this action was postponed Kaiiu of th failure oi xn document to arrive from Unit ed head office in Chicago. Pasadena, Calif, AprU 8 W An earthquake described as Very sever" was recorded to day on Instruments at Pasadena Institute of Technology. Seismo logists said It began at 8:54.40 (PWT) and was continuing with Intensity, an hour later. Its distance was estimated at about 7.500 miles. In an undo tenniutd direction. SEVERE TEMBLOR ON SEISMOGRAPH
