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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1942.
NO. 17.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 10 This 6
percent war-profits limitation
legislation dropped out of the
skies into the
lap of the ad
minlstra 1 1 o n
some days
back and since
then Mr.
Rooil velt's
congression a I
lea ders have
been passing
it around like
an incendiary
bomb, looking
for a political
Paul Mallon
ly suitable
4.
place to throw it.
Not that this administration
Qwants anyone to make more
than 6 percent, but everyone
knows the initially proposed
method was not Just or work
able. The administration wants
to get at'excess profits in an
other more effective way, thru
taxes.
The proposed 8 percent limi
tation, for one thing, would fall
before taxes were paid by busi
ness and hence would leave
manufacturers considerably less
than 6 percent. For another
thing it would apply on each
contract, so a manufacturer
handling swiftly-produced arti
cles, could make 6 percent three
or four times in a a year, while
a manufacturer working on a
more slowly processed article of
the same value, could make only
one 6 percent in the same length
of time.
'HE Idea came out of the sky
one Saturday in the house
about 3:30 p. m., when no one
was looking. Most of the merrf
bers had gone home for the day
The proposition was offered
by Rep. Francis Case, Republi
can, of the western half of South
Dakota, where there are no war
industries of great importance.
He suggested it as an amend
ment to the $19,000,000,000 war
department appropriations bill.
The vote was officially an
nounced as 70 to 8 in favor of
the amendment, but whoever
was in the chair did some liber
al counting. Only SO to 60 of the
(Continued on Page Twelve)
WHITE FRONTIER
By the Aisociatad Prats
British and axis troops fought
with increasing violence on the
north African desert today, while
or. the Soviet front, Vichy radio
reports via Stockholm said Red
army troops had crossed the
frontier into White Russia and
were continuing their advance.
The drive into White Russia, a
Soviet republic, was said to have
teken place in a sector 75 miles
northwest of Smolensk, between
Vitebsk and Nevel.
If continued the thrust would
be a serious threat to the import
ant Vitebsk defenses guarding
the flank of the German "escape
corridor" from Moscow on the
old Napoleonic road to Smolensk.
Ol Radio Highlights
(Pacific War Time)
Tonight: BLU 5:30 Meet
your Navy, Donald Nelson.
Saturday: NBC 12:45, 1:45.
3 Masters golf tournament.
CBS 11:05 Of Men and
Books, Sen. E. D. Thomas.
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Lois Lovejoy making a last
desperate attempt to further re
inforce the back yard fence to
keep the dog from getting out.
Officer Walter Reinking buy
ing another package of seed for
k his Victory Garden.
Sarge Ray Garcia checking
up on an Important news story
he somehow missed.
JAP NAVAL UNITS
SEEK TO PREVENT
War Department Says Flag
Still Flies On Beleagured
Fortress At Corregidor.
Washington, April 10 VFh
Most of an estimated 3,500 ma
rines and bluejackets in the
original American forces in the
Bataan sector of the Philippines
are presumed to have been
evacuated to the fortress island
of Coii-egidor, the navy an
nounced today, reporting they
were removed under cover of
darkness when collapse of pe
ninsula defenses appeared im
minent. By Roger D. Graana
Associated Press War Editor.
Corregidor s big guns still
blazed defiance in Manila bay
today, and the Japanese re
ported at 3:50 a. m., PWT that
hostilities were continuing ' on
Bataan peninsula itself, despite
previous assertions that Lieut.-
Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright's
heroic defenders had ' begged"
foa truce.
A war department bulletin
reported that American torpedo
boats sank a Japanese cruiser
off Cebu, in the central Philip
pines, but that fighting on the
Bataan peninsula ' apparently
had ceased.
The communique said Gen.
Wainwright reported this morn
ing that all communication be
tween Bataan and Corregidor
had been cut off for nearly 24
hours.
Flag Still Flies
"Gen. Wainwright declared
that our flag still flies on the
beleaguered island fortress of
Corregidor," the war depart
ment added.
The cruiser sunk was one of
an armada of five warships and
10 transports landing troops in
Cebu.
This indicated ti.at the Jap
anese were extending their con
quest of the 7,000 islands in the
Philippines archipelago, where
native Filipino guerillas and
possibly a few United States
troops are resisting.
Cebu lies 350 air-line miles
south of Manila.
The war department said Gen.
Wainwright sent a message to
President Roosevelt reporting
that "everything possible had
been done to hold Bataan" but
that "the overwhelming air
and artillery superiority of (he
Japanese finally overcame the
dogged resistance of the hun
gry and exhausted defenders."
A German radio broadcast
quoting Japanese frontline dis
patches said Gen. Wainwright
had assembled - a few small
transport ships in an attempt
to evacuate American-Filipino
survivors from Bataan to Cor
regidor fortress, five miles out
in Manila bay.
Domei, the Japanese news
agency, said Japanese vanguards
were pressing forward against
American and Filipino positions
on the peninsula and had cap
tured the towns of Limay and
uunao on tne east coast, cap
turing several thousand pris
oners. At his united nations head
quarters in Australia, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, the hero
of Bataan's first successful de
fense, commented:
"The Bataan force went out
as it would have wished fight
ing to the end of its flickering,
forlorn hope.
"No army has ever done so
much with so little.
"To the weeping mothers of
its dead, I can only say that the
tacrifice and halo of Jesus of
Nazareth has descended upon
their sons and tnat God will
take them unto himself"
Thus Gen. MacArthur sig
naled the end of the lung, des
perate struggle against nopeless
odds as Bataan's surviving de
lenders continued the last stages
cf resistance.
Astoria, Ore, April 10 (P
Sheriff Paul Kearney said today
the body of Sven Olson, local
troller tisherman missing since
March 17, was found yesterday
in the Columbia river by a
U. S. customs boarding boat.
Bataan
- - Wounded from the fighting on
aula by Americans has apparently
Jesse Jones Shakes
Publisher Meyer at
Good Fellows Club
Washington, April 10. (AP)
The Evening Star said today
that Secretary of Commerce
Jesse Jones last night shook Eu
gene Meyer, editor and publish
er of the Washington Post, so
that Meyer s glasses -fell to the
floor and were shattered after
Jones earlier had expressed dis
pleasure at a Post editorial
aimed at him.
The action took place at a
meeting of the Alfalfa club, one
of Washington's oldest and most
prominent good-fellowship or
ganizations. The Star said Jones was leav
ing the gathering and as he walk
ed toward an exit he met Meyer.
"Mr. Jones," the paper said,
"addressing some words that
come from deep in the heart of
Texas, to Mr. Meyer, then took
him by both shoulders and shook
him. Mr. Meyer's glasses fell to
the floor and shattered. Several
observers, thinking at first that
Mr. Jones and Mr. Meyer were
merely over-enthusiastic in their
greetings, smiled happily at the
good fellowship thus displayed
for they are old friends. But with
the tinkle of Mr. Meyer's glasses
on the floor, others sensed that
action was needed. It came in a
rush of friends to separate the
gentlemen and lead them to
widely separated seats.
Fate of Philippines Sealed Early in Conflict
By Overwhelming Attack of Jap Air Force
Editor's Notai Hew the Japa
nese air force crippled the Unit
ed Stataa air strength in tha
Philippines is told in tha follow
ing dispatch by Clark Lea. Asso
ciated Press war correspondent
who lived through tha battle of
Luson and most of the siege of
Bataan before going to Austra
lia. Ha saw much of tha action
in tha fight waged by tha out
numbered United States and
Filipino forces.)
By Clark Lae
Melbourne, Australia, April
10 (!) The fate of Luzon and
Bataan was sealed Just before 1
p. m. on December 8, some 10
hours after the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor.
Our main bomber force was
lined up on Clark Field, 40
miles north of Manila on Luzon
Island, with the crews standing
by awaiting orders to take off
and bomb Japanese air and
naval bases on the Island of
Formosa.
Japanese Surprise
Yankees on Ground
Most of the pursuit planes
were at nearby Iba Field.
The pursuits and some bomb
ers had been aloft during the
morning but had returned to the
ground for orders.
Fighting Fills Hospital
Bataan panins ula fill this field
collapsed. (U. S. Signal Corps
Liquidation of
Due in 1942 Says Red Chief
Kuibyshev, Russia. April 10 ) The Red army will
liquidate the German army in Russia In 1942, S. A. Lozovsky,
Soviet vice commissar for foreign affairs told his press con
ference today, adding that United States supplies are reaching
the Russian forces and eing" "used to make Nazi-corpses." '
Asked how United States sup-l
plies are arriving, Lozovsky,
official press spokesman, "all
sorts of things for war" tie
being received "but precisely
in what quantities Is a secret.
'AH the supplies we produce
and those from the outside are
used to convert the German
army into corpses," Lozovsky
went on.
He ridiculed German reports
(evidently not circulated gen
erally) that Russian losses have
reached 20,000,000, saying that
anyone knows that only 10 to
12 per cent of a nation s popu
lation can be mobilized for the
army.
(Russia s population, by offi
cial estimate in 1940, was 193,-
000,000.)
Lozovsky said the Germans
had stopped giving information
on their dead and wounded.
"I suggest,'' he said, "that
they create a new category, the
'slightly killed ,
Asked to amplify the state
ment that the Red army would
liquidate the Germans on Soviet
soil, Lozovsky said he could not
While these instructions were
being issued, the Japanese
struck.
Fifty-four heavy bombers
roared over Clark Field at
10.000 feet and showered the
grounded planes, runways and
hangars with explosives.
Eighty-six Japanese "Zero"
fighters came in their wake and
straffed the planes, ground
forces and anti-aircraft batteries
in low level attacks.
Simultaneously other bomb
ers and fighters dived on the
parked planes at Iba Field.
They left a roaring hell of
flames at both airdromes.
Some of our planes were
saved, but the main strength of
our air force was gone.
After midnight that night
Japanese bombers came in over
Manila Bay and, aided by flares
and ires set by fifth columnists
on the ground, attacked Nichols
Field on the outskirts of Manila,
where planes assigned to de
fend the Cavite naval base were
stationed.
Secret Alrdomes
Suffer Early Raids
Earlier Monday the Japanese
air force had struck at Ameri
can outpost air fields strung
hospital, Daf ansa of the penln
Photo).
German Army
go Into battle plans. Asked if
his liquidation prediction was
based on establishment of a
second European front, he re
plied that a press conference
was not the proper place to
discuss second front.
DOCTOJUSELIEVES
Hollywood, April 10. (AP)
Babe Ruth, gravely ill with
pneumonia two days ago, appar
ently has passed the crisis and
will recover, his physician said
today,
Dr. Smith's morning bulletin
declared:
"George Ruth had a very good
night. Temperature normal. X
rays show marked improve
ment."
Automobile racing may be
discontinued in Argentina be
cause of shortage of cars, tires
and gasoline.
upon the western and northern
coasts of Luzon, even some sup
posedly secret fields completed
only a few days before. At each
some planes were destroyed on
the ground In perfectly coordi
nated attacks.
Japanese planes had been fly
ing over Luzon several nights
prior to the war. They had been
picked up by detectors and once
a flight of pursuits attempted to
intercept them, but missed.
The bombers used In the Dec.
8 raids apparently came from
Formosa and Hainan and the
fighters probably from two car
riers.
On the same day the Japanese
forces landed at Apsrri and
seized a large landing field
which had been previously pre
pared by their agenU. It was
disguised as rice Held.
Within a few days Japanese
planes were operating from this
field. On Dec. 10, about noon.
the Japanese attacked Cavite
with devastating success. With
out anti-aircraft or pursuit inter
ference their bombers criss
crossed the navsl'base for sev
eral hours.
The first bomb hit the power
plant, the second a fire station.
Damage was widespread, cas
1:3.422 WOMEN OFJ war Bulletins ) BRITISH CARRIER
JACKSON CO. AGREE
TO AID ON FARMS
Total of 8,846 Listed In Re
cent Industrial Mobiliza
tion; Many Have Training
Filing of Jackson county
questionnaires used In the re
cent state-wide industrial mob
ilization of women was complet
ed this week by a crew of vol
unteer workers under the super
vision of the United States Em
ployment office in Medford. A
total of 8,848 women were list
ed. Originally planned to cover a
month's work, a rush call from
officials at Salem asked for com
pletion of the filing by Tuesday
evening of this week. As the
call for volunteers went out
Medford women deserted their
usual Monday morning house
hold tasks and gathered at the
law library in the courthouse
where the filing was done. Ap
proximately 50 women assisted,
under the supervision of Mrs. T.
E. Knackstedt, with crew of
25 or more on hand at all times.
A tabulation of the files shows
that 951 were listed as having
had professional training, 2,240
are trained in the clerical lines
of work and 2.881 are listed
under the domestic and service
classification. Under experienc
ed agricultural workers are list
ed 1,875 women, 108 are classi
fied In the lumber Industry, 153
as skilled, 122 in uia . semi-
skilled trades'and 18 are listed
as unskilled. Five hundred are
listed under miscellaneous.
A separate listing was made
of all women who said they
would assist with harvesting of
crops or other agricultural work
In an emergency, and these
numbered 3.422. The filing was
done in three age groups and
according to whether the worn
en are married or single and
whether or not they have fam
ilies. Mrs. Knackstedt and other
leaders in the work commented
on the splendid response made
by Medford women when the
rush call went out for workers.
New Delhi, India, April 10
(P) The All-India congress
party has given a final and un
favorable answer to the British
plan for Indian Independence, it
was reported late tonight.
ualties were heavy and the Asi
atic fleet thus lost Its sole effec
tive operating base In the Phil
ippines. American submarines contin
ued to operate for. some days In
island waters, attacking several
enemy ships. But It was found
necessary to withdraw most of
the fleet to Java.
Two weeks later the Japanese
hit in force, landing almost
without sea or aerial opposition
In southeastern Luzon and in
Llngayen Gulf. - -
Most of General Douglas Mac
Arthur's army, was .green and
untested.
American officers did their
best to fight the Japanese on the
beaches but the enemy's air
control and overwhelming num
bers quickly overcame the op
position. Lacking effective ail
or sea support, MacArthur was
forced to fall back on the strate
gy of a withdrawal Into Bataan.
Withdrawal Plans
Long Prepared
The Bataan withdrawal had
been prepared years previously
It naturally did not call simply
for the withdrawal of forces
into Bataan only to fight until
overwhelmed.
Tha fore wss to hold until
Vichy. April 10 (AP)
Carman authorities notified
tha population of the coastal
city of Brant on tha English
channel today to ba ready for
a proclamation of state of
stage without advance notice.
London. April 10. (TV
RAF fighter squadrons shot
down six axis fighting planes
In a sweep over the Calais
Boulogne area of Franca this
evening, tha air ministry an
nounced. Five of tha British
planes which want across In
relays failed to gat back.
AREA
IS
SEEN
FOR CITY
Frank J. VanDyke, coordinator.
said today that an Associated
Press dispatch from Washing
ton, D. C, stating that President
Roosevelt had certified Medford
as a critical area to come under
the Federal Housing Adminis
tration's title VI plan would
clear the way for the con
struction of homes for defense
workers.
Under the plan the govern
ment Insures loans which banks
make to the builders. Recently,
VanDyke explained, the WPB
granted priorities for 75 perma
nent houses in Medford, and
added that several groups and
individuals, interested in build
ing the houses, had mad ap
plication to Folger Johnson of
Portland, state director-of the
FHA, for authorization for their
construction under the VI plan.
Tea was used as a medicine
long before its popularity as a
beverage was established.
Next Move
By Associated Press
With Gen. Yamashita't strong
forces freed from Philippine
operations, Washington quar
ters studied these possibilities:
1. A surprise Japanese at
tack on Siberia.
2. A reinforced drive Into
Burma and India. .
3. An attempt to finish
China.
4. Invasion of Australia.
5. A grand-scale assault on
Hawaii.
- Most observers predicted Si
beria would be next on the
list, with the Japanese strik
ing Russia's "back door" in
the east In a drive synchron
ized with the start of Adolf
Hitler's long-heralded spring
offensive In the west.
reinforcements arrived, estimat
ed to take 60 days.
Unfortunately the develop
ment of the Japanese air power
and blows to Pearl Harbor made
the dispatch of reinforcements
Impossible.
In Bataan they felt that
help could have been sent, and
that American forces could have
fought their way through to re
lieve the peninsula.
When it did not come day
after day some officers began to
realize it was not coming. The
majority of the army, however,
refused to believe this.
Day after day heartening re
ports spread among the troops
that help was on the way. The
most frequent rumor was that
aircraft carriers were landing
planes to operate from Bataan
airfields.
Men waited dally for reports
that Tokyo was bombed. They
momentarily expected reports
of some smashing American vic
tory. American officers who
knew the truth had the heart
wrenching Job of sending young
Filipinos to death on the battle
field in lost cause. Young
American officers who led them
fnnahi m.ngi,iii, until hir
death.
IN CEYLON SEAS
10,850-Ton Craft Lost Soon
After Sinking of 2 Heavy
Cruisers, Is Amltted,
By the Associated Press
London, April 10. Britain's
first aircraft carrier, the 2.1-year-old
Hermes, has been sunk
in Japan's unabated effort to
beat down the sea and air shield
against Invasion of India, but
the enemy's total claims of vio
tory are too extravagant, tha
British admiralty said today la
a communique,
Japanese planes, either bomb
ers or torpedo craft, sank tha
10.850-ton Hermes about 10
miles off Ceylon, a pivot of
British strength at the tip of
India on the western side of tha
broad Bay of Bengal.
Losses Mount
The loss of the Hermes came
soon after the sinking of tha
heavy cruisers Dorsetshire and
Cornwall, acknowledged yester
day, in the same area. Tha
cruiser losses had seriously
crippled Britlth protection of
the sea road to India. Now, In
the loss of the Hermes, the royal
navy has been stripped of an
other formidable weapon.
The Japanese, however,
claimed even greater successes)
In the flaming, intermittent
battle which has become per
haps the war's greatest test of
seapower versus air power.
A Japanese naval communl
que said that besides tha
Hermes, a 9,100-ton cruiser of
the Birmingham class and
7,550-ton cruiser of the Emerald
class were sunk yesterday off
Trincomalee naval station, Cey
lon. -To
this the London admiralty
countered:
"The Japanese claim to hava
sunk cruisers oft Trincomalee,
is known to be quite untrue."
Yesterday the Japanese claim
ed 21 merchant vessels and tha
two cruisers had been sunk in)
Indian ocean operations up to
Tuesday, April 7.
Today's claim added tha
Hermes, two cruisers, a de
stroyer, a patrol vessel and six
other ships to the Japanese list
of sinkings, but of these tha
British confirmed only that of
the Hermes. The Japanese said
also that a cruiser of the 7,270
ton Leander class was damaged.
FIVE DlElTALL
Sacramento, April 10 (PV
Three officers and two aviation
cadets were killed last night in
the crash of an army training
plane on the Mojave desert near
Bagdad, Calif., Mather Field
authorities announced today.
The accident occurred on a
navigation flight from tha air
corps field here to Tucson, Ariz.
Army spokesmen said causa of
the crash had not been deter
mined as yet
The five victims were listed
as:
1st Lieut. Richard W. Ford,
29, son of Mrs. Arthur W. Ford,
San Anselmo, Calif.
2nd Lieut. Byron V. vanden
berg, Jr., 22, son of Byron F.
Vandenberg, Sacramento Darnc
official.
2nd Lieut. William W. Hovey,
24, of Challls, Idaho.
Cadet Robert A. Baker, 24;
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur F.
Baker, Binghamton, N. Y.
Cadet Leonard H. Ballleff,
Jr., 21: father, L. H. BaiUeff,
Portland, Ore. ,'
HORSE THIEF GETS
PROBLEM OF RETREAD
Portland, April 10 WV-May
ba its tha tire shortage and
maybe it isn't, but Comanche,
nine-year-old black and whita
horse of soma 1,100 pounds, was
stolen today.
Emily Siefert. Comanche'
owner, warned that whoever
not the horse also got retread
problem. Comanche ia unshod.