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Lei COUR Au to Bomb b BONDSI Get A Surprise Bras the Want Ad tola mora Ini. White job mmj not t In tmattd la ajmhlnt la part Ira Ur, yoa aiiiht art a anrprlar ana that would pa 70a dlrl- Medford Tribune Bar Drtenta Bond! ul iupi TOOAY Cantrlbate M 1 tha wrrnRni jHU, ri'"" J trcllun. drni.nd. tbat VOU So arndt wrll worth your tl Who Snowat your P",v Full Associated Praia United Prtu Thirty -seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1942. NO. 18. TO MB Mm fn)r MIS News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, April 11. Now what? Will the Japs switch to the defensive, develop the raw materials they have amassed, in careful pre paration for the day when they will have to face their major blow of this war from us? Or will they seek a swift c o nclusion in the Pacific by returning to Pearl Harbor to destroy our fleet in as great an Q:tack as they can muster? The Panama canal is obvious ly beyond their range. So is our Pacific coast as long as we hold Hawaii. Only surprise raids seem possible in those quarters. Alaska Is vulnerable, and by attack there Japan might hope to draw our fleet away from Pearl Harbor for a major en gagement. But there is a thorn in that area to which she may have to attend first. The threat of Vladivostok is in her side. By attacking there simultane ously with Hitler in the Ukaine, she would serve her own pur poses and "help" Germany. Japan has long hungered for everything in Siberia east of Lake Baikal. Certainly an at tack to cut off Vladivostok would constitute a bid for this derritory at the remote German icace table at which she hopes to be present. . Nothing very advantageous to her cause apparently lies in Aus tralia, and India is a pillow as big as China, without great strategic military value In the immediate situation. So the major alternatives con fronting the ambitious Nippon ese are to prepare for the future, or risk an immediate end of the war, by sending her fleet into Pearl Harbor. She probably will decide to-prepare. IT TELL she knows, her recep- tion in Hawaii next time will not be like the last. We can reinforce that point daily with fnnri nlanea. shiDS. It is nnt a far-off fortress like Bataan, Furthermore, the Japs cannot ffpt air suDeriority there. Their land hases are too far away Thi.v rnnld flv a few bombers 0 rom Wake island, but not enough to sustain an invasion, For that venture, all their air craft rarriera and their fleet wnnlri h rpnuired. Pearl Harbor is too strong for thorn tnn far BW8V. The odds therefore seem to (Continued on Pa-e Ola) WORDSOTCHEER IT Corregldor Fortress, April 9 (Delayed) (AP) Amid the swish and roar of bomus ana shells, tired, blood-stained Filip ino-American forces tonight Qard the radio "Voice of Free dom" assuring them that they had done far more than could be humanly expected in the epic siege of Bataan. Men and nurses who had fought to the last and then run a two-mile gauntlet of Japanese bombs and machine gun bullets and Manila Bay sharks to get irom Bataan to Corregldor isi and received the praise in vary ing fashion some with tears, others with fixed stares, some without sign of emotion. This Voice of Freedom, which has been broadcasting encour agement to the defer.ders from some place in the Philippines ever since the Japanese overran Luzon island, delivered a stir ring word salute even while the men of Correffidor were still 'chting back at the invaders and wondering what had become of dir thirty-odd thousand com 'des trapped on Bataan. Managua, Nicaragua. April 11 Two strong earth shocks we felt here beginning at 4 m., today. til Paul Mallon ACTION EXPECTED I A n IfiUl TO HOP RUSSIA Offset to Hitler's Drive and Jap Siberian Attack Vic tory This Year Soviet Aim London, April 11 VP) The United States air force will join the RAF in blasting Germany within a month, and the two allies will do everything in their power to help Russia's epic ef fort to crush the common Nazi enemy, highly placed experts predicted tonight. This, they said, would be the upshot of the visit here of the United States chief of staff, Gen. George C. Marshall, and Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's trusted supply man. The British and Americans were pictured as expecting Ger many s supreme effort this sum. mer to be directed at the two supply lines over which increas ing quantities of vital war ma terial are moving to the decisive Russian battlefront to equip the vast Soviet, long on manpower Dut snort on machines of war. The German thrusts are ex pected toward the oil riches of the Caucasus and the Persian gulf, and against the northern route which ends at Murmansk and Archangel. Huge Plan Pool The growing U. S. military establishments which Marshall is inspecting and the increasing pool of United States planes in Britain were taken as indica tions that American pilots would be bombing Germany within a month to retard the Nazi's east ward offensive. The United States, Britain and Russia all see a Japanese stab in the Russian back in Siberia as one of the main dangers this yer. British military opinion is convinced that a Japanese at tack will take place either just before or coincident with the opening of Hitler's main effort. The Russians say simply, "We are ready if it comes." One highly placed Russian, discussing the possibility, asked what observers thought the Jap anese could put Into a Siberian attack. 'Fourteen to 17 divisions," was the reply. 'It won t be enough," said the Russian-. (By Associated Press) London, April 11 Still intent on achieving victory in 1942 despite reports that Germany is accumulating huge forces for new assaults, the Russians smashed hard today at the Nazi air strength being mustered for Adolf Hitler's post-thaw drive. Dispatches from Kuibyshev said Soviet airmen and ground defenses had destroyed 300 Ger man air force units in the last three days, 123 of them on the ground. The heaviest toll was reported from the northwest front around Staraya Russa, where the Red army still Is hacking at immo bilized units of the German loin army. Many of the planes destroyed were transferred only recently to the east from Yugoslavia France and north Africa, cap tured pilots said. On the land, battle reports from both sides Indicated stiff engagements from Finland to the Black sea, but no conclusive advance was claimed by either. The Russians did, however, re port that 3,000 Germans had been killed in the Bryansk area of the central front in the last few davs. and Pravda, the Com munist party newspaper, said the Germans had lost the ap proach to an important city in this general sector. President Praises Courage of Chinese Washington, April 11 (AP President Roosevelt, parttcipa ting in a program to raise a sev er million dollar relief fund for China, said tonight that "China has paid In blood, tears ana treasure as high a price as a people can pay for the freedom in which it believes." Sacramento. April 11 Churning cream butterfat: First grade, 41'.i; iccond sde, 39'' General Questions Jap Prisoners rllk A Smiling Japanese soldiers, lightly clad, submit to questioning by Brig. Gen. Clinton A. Piarc (left) and anothar American of ficer at headquarters on Bataan. That was before continued smash ing Jap attacks drove the defenders resulted in death and capture of Press reporter, made this picture, UNREST SEETHES OVER CONQUERED New York, April 11 JP Fresh reports of, violence and unrest came today from Euro pean countries dominated by Germany. The British radio reported four Poles were sentenced to death for attacks on German military transports at the border of Polund and East Prussia. Greek guerillas, who recently wrecked a German troop train killing or injuring 1,000 sol diers, were said by the BBC to have taken Nazi troops as hostages. The patriots were continuing to fight in the moun tains and one group recently raided a port, stormed the resi dence of the governor, killed him and carried off his guards Luxenbourg sources at Lon don said that more and more residents of the tiny duchy be tween Germany and France are being sentenced for anti- German activity." BBC reported also that the archbishop of Vilna, Lithuania, had been arrested by the Ger man occupation army and that soon afterwards the Catholic archbishop of Kaunas the pri mate of Lthuania was wound ed severely and a priest who was with him was killed. The Germans reported that "an ac cident took place." AH the BBC reports were heard here by CBS. War Job Slated For New York Governor New York, April 11 W The New York Times sayi in a dispatch from Albany that President Roosevelt is planning to call Governor Heibert H. Ikmin tn Waihincton to as sume " a high position in the 1 n,r effort " Democratic sources In the New Vrlr Ktnt Tan tal. the T mel reports, have asserted that the federal job Lehman would take has not yet been determined but Goernor Lehman has vol unteered his services In (what ever capacity the President deems best. P-40's PRAISED Buffalo, N. Y., April 11 (AP) Lieutenant General H. H. Ar nold, deputy chief of staff for air. advised the Curtiss-Wright corporation airplane Wlsion to day that Germar pilot! J re find ing Curtiss P-40 purmit planes hard to match in battle. faW-V I to abandon their positions and many. Clark Lee. Associated released by the War Department. NORTHWEST GETS T Washington, April 11 JP Senator McNary IR., Ore.) has been Informed by Robert P. Pat terson, undersecretary of war, that the war department "is using all available means of protecting the Pacific northwest, fully realizing the military im portance of the area." The minority leader recently wrote Patterson asking him to elaborate on the policy of the department In planning its de fenses of the Pacific nortl a sst "Troops of all branches and services, with adequate arms and equlpmit, have been stra tegically located within this region, forming a protective force," Patterson replied. "As necessity may require, such ad ditional forces as may be avail able will be located in this region to afford complete pro tection and defense which any given situation may demand. STATElESlNTS TO Seattle, April 11. (IP) A prediction that 200.000 Washing ton and Oregon residents would hacnge jobs to get into direct war production in coming months was made to day by Maj. Gen H. G. Winsor chairman of the Washington area labor sup ply committee, General Winsor said at least 30.000 of these would be women. and at least 130.000 would re quire a-lvance training before making the change The figures ; he said, are minimims to supply expanding war Industries and replace men being called into "rmea .i-rvii.. .. no uruiso uuwn the totals as follows: 75 000 will be needed for shipbuilding and subcontracting; 25 000 for air craft Industries; 25 000 to replace men going into armed service; 30,000 for new major plants, and 45000 for smaller plants being converted to war produc tion. FILM PAIR WED Hollywood, April ll-(AP) Pretty Vir;.nla Flelc. English born actress, and Paul Douglas, f rmer radio announcer, were married today in the Hollywood Congregational church. OVERALL CONTROL OF Both Held Inflation Preven tivesCompulsory Thrift Nears. Washington. April 11 (AP) A program of "induced savings" to help ward off inflation and fi nance the war was advocated to day by Chairman George (D-Ga.) of the senate finance committee. At the same time George and other senators urged overall con trol of prices and wages, replac ing the present selective price control system, as part of the general anti-inflation campaign that President Roosevelt said yesterday was being mapped. "If we were brutally realistic we would know that some sys tem of compulsory savings Is not far off," George said in an inter view. "Before we get to that I favor trying a voluntary system of induced savings, as part of the pending new tax bill. He explained that by "induced savings" he had in mind a system whereby a taxpayer would be allowed certain deductions from net taxable income for income invested in government bonds, or other war securities. George also said he felt that a withholding tax is inevitable now or later" and suggested this might be started at 5 per cent of all wages, salaries, dividends. and Interest payable . at the source . While treasury authori ties have talked about a IS per cent withholding tax, George said he favored a start at the S per cent level, adding that this should raise $4,000,000,000 in revenue. George, discussing excessive profits, said he believed these could best be reclaimed under tax programs, but that some special overall limit on profits from war contract profits might be advisable. ON ERAUD CLAIM Pendleton, Ore., April 11 (AP) A federal court Jury to night cleared Tom Boylen, Pen dleton rancher, of charge of converting mortgaged property to his own use. The jury, which listened to two weeks' of testimony, reached the verdict in 5 hours and 45 minutes. It was the second exoneration for Boylen on charges of selling mortgaged sheep. In the first, Federal Judge Claude McCol loch directed a verdict of acquit tal. ' A third Indictment, charging Boylen and Robert McGreer of Pine City, Ore., with conspiracy to defraud the government, is yet to be faced. The trial will begin in Portland April 28. TON OF BOMBS A London, April 11 (AP) New four-motored sterling bombers, capable of carying eight tons of bombs, were being added today to the British squadrons whose continuing offensive against In dustrial targets In Germany and German occupied territory brought fresh destruction to the Ruhr last night. "Some thousands of tons of bombs were dropped on Ger many during four nights of raids by British planes this week, the air ministry news service said The rvcrage was "well over a ton a minute" for the duration of the raids. Portland. Ore.. April 11. OP) A masked man, carrying a single-barreled shotgun beneath his coat, held up the Mutual Loan company In a downtown building today and escaped with approximately 800 la currency HOYT CRITICISES Speedier Release of News, Good or Bad, Asked by Oregonian Head. Dallas, Tex., April 11 (.Tl Publisher Palmer Hoyt of the Portland Oregonian tonight criti cized the handling of war news by the navy and sugested the U. S. press should unite to de mand that the government s pe ed ly release such information, good or bad. He likewise berated the press for mislcadingly presenting news of the war, saying headlines and picture captions often distorted the actuol meaning of the newt columns. The Oregon publisher spoke at a founders' day banquet of Sigma Delta Chi, national jour nalism fraternity of which he is president. Freedcm of the press, he de clared, "is the people's right to know." When the nation is fight ing, he added, the people must know their weaknesses, no mat ter how vast, as well as their strength. "They must know their losses, no matter how bitter, as well as their victories. " When the English were dealt a body blow by the sink ing of the Prince of Wales and the Repulse off Ma!aya they did not withhold the news, Hoyt sain. "The realistic British decided it was good business to tell the truth all the time particular ly about naval losses. . . It has kept England in business. TO BE TURNED OVER Washington, April 11. P The war department announced tonight that the army air forces would take over approximately 25 per cent of the domestic com mercial airliners and use them for carrying military cargoes and personnel. They will be operated under direction of the commanding general of the air service com mand, the department said, and added: "Key airline personnel will be encouraged to stay at their posts as the most effective and patriotic course unless and un til their country Indicates its re quires them in the armed forces. Latest available statistics credit the commercial airlines with about 340 transports. Twenty-five per cent of this number would be 85. Since the war began the ar my has received at least 30 air liners from operating companies. On January 20, it announced that Transcontinental and West ern Air had turned over its fleet of five stratoliners ships equipped for operation at very high altitudes. A month later, the department said that 25 transports, urgently needed for military service, were being made available by. commercial companies. PORTLAlICKS Portland, April 11 AP While ''out of gas" signs appear ed on few, scattered service stations, the Portland Automo-1 tive Trades Association protest ed against reduction of the Pa cific Northwest's gasoline quota. A telegram to Ha.-old L. Ickes. petroleum coordinator, said war Industries had brought 200,000 persons to Oregon and WashL. ton, mora arr expected and more gasoline, not less, Is needed. Already, the association said, 20 Portland servica stations hav doted. Interpreting The War News By Kirk L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) The expected April upsurge In the war on all fronts la in full swing, marked by events everywhere which are putting the united nations grand strat egy to an acid test. That strategy, by every Indi cation, rests on the conclusion that the crux of the war this summer will come in Russia. If that Is true, (and much has been risked and lost across the Pacific and the Mediterranean In grim allied determination not to be diverted from the job of bolstering Russia) there is some silver lining to the war clouds. Help for Russia has not been halted nor seriously delayed. The only positive news yet crop ping out of the mission of Gen eral Marshall and Harry Hop kins to London was that re peated assurance. War cargoes for Russia are going through despite Nazi bat tleships, submarines and planes striking at convoys from close up bases in Norway and a swarm of axis submarine raid ers in American waters taking heavy toll of shipping. Axis efforts to cut that lifeline or seriously impair the flow, or to force withdrawal to other dan ger points of the British-Amer ican patrols that keep it open have failed. That Is the most cheering aspect of the struggle, other wise blurred by such allied disasters aa the overwhelming of the American-Filipino army on Bataan and Initial British sea losses in the Indian ocean. Lacking knowledge of present British strength In the Bay of Bengal to cope with the widen ing Japanese attack, the out come in that battle area Is be yond prediction. There Is much to indicate, however, that im pressive British naval and air forces may have been ordered to Indian waters to protect the flank of the Burma defense front and deal with any am bitious Japanese undertaking against India. It Is wholly pos sible that the greatest sea fight of this war may be shaping up there. I OF INDEPEi FOR INDIA FALLS New Delhi, India, April 11 (AP) The mission of Sir Staf ford Crlpps came to naught in an atmosphere of gloom iof r with rejection by V- congress party and the Moslem league f the British proposals for Indian dominion. "With the enemy at the gates," Sir Stafford announced, his pro posals had run afoul of a "spate o. criticism" and a "critical and unconstructtve attitude." He said ha waa wlthdr: wing the offers and returning to London tomor row. Neither the congress party in which the country's 240,000,000 Hindus are dominant, nor the' Moslem league, which widely represents the 77,000,000 Mos lems, the two powerful parties which stand at the poles, found the proposals acceptable. It was on tha Issue of forma tion of an Interim government pending settlement of India's constitutional problems after the war that negotiations were wrecked. Involved were defense powers which such a government would wield. Congress party leaders Inslst ef upon a national government functioning with full powers aa a cabinet, and said the British plan bore too much resemblance to the present executive council of the Viceroy. War Bulletins Stockholm. April 11 P) The Moscow correspondent of the Swedish newspaper Swenska Dagbladet reported today that a larga detachment from German tank division commanded by General Von Appel had suffered heavy daieat la the Crimea sector. CEBU LOSS HIGH 1 Corregldor Guns Duel Witfi Shore Batteries Invader Suffers In Attack. Washington. April 11. M American submarines, prowlini; the western Pacific, have sunic four more Japanese vessels in eluding a destroyer and a larga ' transport, the navy announced today. The other ships sent to the) bottom were a 7,000-ton mer chant vessel and a submarinn chaser. In addition, hits wera scored on a cruiser, another large transport and a 4,000-ton freighter. The latter vessel, a communique said, possibly sank. The communique covered operations by two submarines. It said one had sunk the mer chant ship, the aub chaser and hit the freighter. Some operations of the other submarine had been reported in a communique week ago. To day's announcement, revising and enlarging the earlier report. added the transports, the de stroyer and the cruiser to its score, but withdrew an earlier announcement that this submar ine had hit two seaplane tend ers. One of the transports, tha navy said, was mistakenly iden tified earlier aa two seaplane tenders. Against these successes th.. navy had to report that tha sub marine Perch was a month over due and was presumed to be lost. She was last reported, a communique said. In the Java sea. Washington, April 11. (IP) Japanese forces have made at least six landings on the Philip pine island of Cebu, but a small band of Americans and Filipinos has been holding them close to the coast and inflicting heavy casualties upon the invader. An army communique made thla announcement late today. and reported also that big guns of Corregldor were engaged, during the day, in a duel with enemy artillery emplaced on tho south shore of Manila bay. Cor regldor and the other bland forts of Manila bay were re peatedly bombed from the air. The army's late day com munique said fighting continued on Cebu, although the Japs had established beachheads at Cebu City, Argao, Plnamungajan, Naga and Tallsay. Thus far, it added, "little progress in land has been made" and "Japanese losses are reported to be mount ing." The announucement supple mented an earlier communique which told of heavy Japanese casualties at Cebu, and of sav age attacks on the Manila bar fortresses yesterday, with part of the enemy's artillery fire com ing from Bataan peninsula where the Japanese were fin ally victorious on Thursday. NORTHWEST FACES POWER SHORTAGE Portland, Ore.. April 11 (AP) The Bonneville administration warned the Pacific northwest yesterday of possible power shortages In the next two win tets. U. J. Gendron, assistant Bon neville administrator, told thJ Portland realty board, "this may mean curtailment, but we kno that If thli should become neces sary In order to keep war in dustries in production, this sac rifice would not be too -treat for the people of the region." Nlnet) per cent of Bonneville dam'a output Is going lito in dustrial use, he said, adding that additional generating units are being Installed aa rapidly as pos sible at Bonneville and Grand Coulee. Nairobi, Kenya Colony, April 11. (p) The government today urged all women and children who can do so to leave Kenya Colony voluntarily.
