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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1942.
NO. 15.
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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
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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