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Let fOUR Answer to Bombt be BONDS! Buy Defame Bnnda an Stamp! TODAY Contrlbata to Mr Qn Th MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Oulck RatulU at Small Coat Medford Tribune tli frrntlh at "our nation, r.lrlnllam. four owa aflf-pro- trrttun. demand that VOU do your part NOW! Full Associated Pr United Press Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1942. NO. 19. Ml in 1 GA News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, April 13 Daily localized successes of the Rus sians during the winter may have blinded us to the reality of their criti- '"vvjwv" cal spring con r X, dition. ' Cv Tne unwel- H come truth is ( dH? they have not Kl capuirea niuiu 1 fhnt the Ger mans tried desperately to hold. An assess ment of the Paul Mnimn winter fight ing, now nearing an end, shows they saved Moscow and won Kalinin, Rostov and the Valdai hills, but they were not able fully to relieve Leningrad. While they have frequently been reported marching into the outskirts of Kharkov, they have not won the city. They thought they had 150,000 Nazis trapped at Mozhaisk and 100,000 more at Staraya Russa, but they claimed no such captures in the end. It would be well for us to face the fact that, at the end of an advantageous period for Russian fighting, most of the key positions are still in Nazi hands. The Reds have regained only about IS percent of the territory they had lost. TO start off the spring, about 40 percent of Russian In dustry Is in German hands. Our shipments to their fighting front have been "lbstnntL l.-'jut an- ynot replace this loss. Strangely, their plane produc tion is up beyond a year ago, which is a very encouraging factor, though all other produc tion is down. Ttie Nazis, however, are not In such a good productive posi tion as you would surmise from their vast Industrial seizures in France, the lowlands and south eastern Europe. Hitler passed his peak in both manpower and materials a year ago. German plane production has not increased in the past 12 months. (Incidentally our pro duction Is yet nowhere near its peak, in fact, is just beginning to rise.) Greatest Russian victory Is one which could not be esti mated In communiques the (Continued on Page Four) SIGN HAITI PACT . Washington, April 13 (IP) 'The United States announced to day the signing of four agree ments with Haiti, including one designed to materially strength en defense of the Caribbean re public. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Replacing the usual broadcast of the radio forum at 6 tonight, the blue will switch to Mexico City for ceremonies at te open ing of the Benjamin Franklin library. Speakers include Pre sident Avila Chamacho of Mexi co and U. S. Ambassador George Messersmith. o SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Claude Haggard participating in a bicycle party that ended with a steak feed at the Bert Elliott farm. Coaches Ed Eilertson of Pros pect and Dwight Catherwood of Phoenix talking over the poten tialities of their baseball teams. Edith Nichols of the city supe'i office refusing to forecast the weather for fear she might reveal military information. Sid Jones and George Robert son going into not-too-severe training for their gigantic forth coming tennis duel while Russ Olson, the promoter, busily makes final arrangements. I An Arnold Lane resident tell ing how one of his pet mallards was killed by a fen-cent sport" who saw it by the side of the road, stopped his car and shot it ALLIED STRENGTH HUGEJEA FORCE Churchill Reveals Enemy Op erations at Door of India Allied Strategy Hinted, London, April 13. (IP) Prime Minister Churchill dis closed today that the Japanese are operating in the bay of Ben gal with powerful naval forces headed by at least three battle ships and five aircraft carriers and including heavy and 'light cruisers and several flotillas of destroyers. Reporting to commons on the loss of the aircraft carrier Her mes and the cruisers Dorsetshire and Cornwall, whose sinking by Japanese bombers in the bay of Bengal was announced last weeK, the premier said the Japanese battleships there included at least one of the modernized, 16- inch gun Nagato type of 32,720 tons. It was against this vastly su perior force headed for Ceylon, he disclosed, that the Hermes, Dorsetshire and Cornwall were preparing to make their stand when they were sent to the bot tom by Japanese bombs. India Stan Goal Military observers, comment ing on the size of the Japanese naval force, said that it probably had been sent Into the bay of Bengal to support Japanese in vasion of India. With such a force ,'ne" said, the Japanese could guard the seaward flank of a descent from Burma across the Bengal border into the Ganges basin. Churchill said thunderstorms and low-hanging clouds which enveloped the Japanese aircraft carriers and warships interfered with British counter-attacks by air. Nevertheless, h e asserted, British bombers, torpedo planes and fighters pressed the attack until all available planes had been knocked out. SINK JAP BOATS Washington. April 13 (IP) The war department reported today that Corregidor's gunners sank a number of small Japan ese boats and kept enemy air raiders so high over the Philip pine island fortress that bomb ings in a series of new raids caused only minor damage. A communique said the Jap anese boats were in the harbor of the fishing village of Mari veles at the tip of the aban doned Bataan peninsula. Sever al were set afire in addition to those sunk. Meanwhile, communication be tween Corregidor and Cebu was cut off for the past 48 hours so Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright was unable to report on the efforts to beat off an invasion of the central Phil ippine island, more than 300 miles south of Corregidor. The cummunique reported be latedly the sinking by enemy action of two army freight ships, the Liberty and the Meigs. The Liberty was torpedoed I twice by an enemy submarine January 11 when 12 miles from The Netherlands Indies island of Ball No lives were lost, ine ves sel was beached and S3 crew men and one passenger were rescued by Dutch planes. The Meigs was sunk February 19 in a bombing raid on the harbor of Darwin, Australia. One crew member was killed and eigl-t were wounded. Ten raids were made on Cor regidor in the past twenty-four hours, the war department said, raising the total to 22 in the last two days. HOOD RIVER PEAR TREES FULL BLOOM WEDNESDAY Hood River. Ore., April 13. (AP) Hood River valley pear growers advised tourists today that their orchards would be in bloom beginning Wednesday. Bataan Creek Serves as Open Air Bath I ! ..... mv&' Irs - AVc--lJ&VWri Arm hACnital nil,,.! nu beauty shop adjacent to on of 5-Year War Minimum Rickenbacker's Guess; Vast Plane Need Told Mitchel Field, N. Y., April 13 (JP) Col. Eddie Rickenbacker, American flying ace of the first world war, told the fighters at this air base today that in his opinion "this war will last a minimum of five years, barring miracles, with a possibility of it lasting. 10 years.", "And since no navy can fufltf tion effectively without the su periority or control of the air, which also goes for the land forces of the army," he said, "we will need at least 300 000 pilots to achieve victory 100, 000 as instructors and 200,000 combat pilots, scattered over the four corners of the world. Col. Rickenbacker, who has lust completed a 15,000-mile survey flight of all our air com bat units, said the men of the U. S. air force "are as full of fire and spirit today as were the minute men of Concord" and added: "I c:vi tell you without bat ting an eye that man for man, and plane for plane. Uncle Sam has the greatest aerial fighting machine in the world today." Two minor traffic mishaps occurred in Medford Saturday evening, according to reports on jle. i'.e coupes of Floyd Hatfield, Medford, and Paul Andrews. Route 4, were involved in an accident on Central avenue near 9th street. A coach operated by Hugh Shellabarger, Jackson ville, and a coupe driven by Dorothy M. Vicars, 1036 Court street, collided at the corner of Central avenue and 8th street. Passenger cars of Ellsworth Lee Ollom, 335 South River side, and L. G. Foster, 54 Rose avenue, collided at the inter section of Jackson boulevard and Bartlctt street Saturday afternoon, according to a report filed Saturday. Autos of W. B. Crenshaw and George Nelson, both of Phoenix, collided on 4th street Friday, according to information filed Saturday. Anti-Jew Accusation Libelous Says Court Washington, April 13. (AP) The supreme court upheld today a circuit court decision which was interpreted by opposing liti gants to hold that under New York law a published charge that a public official holds anti semi tic views is libelous. The litigation involved a suit brought by Representative Swee ney (D-Ohio) against the Sche nectady (N. Y.) Union Publishing company, charging that he had been libeled by statements pub lished in the Schnectady Union Star that he was opposing the appointment of Emerich Burt Freed as federal district judge at Cleveland on the ground that Freed was a Jew. lr tl. nnl. w.il.V.la amnlf Bataan's two army hospital. 14 FLIERS TO DEATH LIvermore, Calif., April 13. (AP) Fourteen U. S. navy fliers perished yesterday when two o.fc PBY-5A patrol bombers crashed and burned near each other in the Livermore hills. A fifteenth man survived, without serious injury. The crack-Ups occurred In foggy weather as the giant land-and-sea ships were flying on an undisclosed mission at a point about 30 miles southeast of their base at the Alameda naval air station. The 12th naval district head quarters in San Francisco re leased this list of the dead: Plane No. 1 Lieut. Frank S. Femald; Lieut. Edward F. Denney; James M. Wagner, aviation ma chinists' mate, 1st class; Henry T. Morgan, aviation ma chinists' mate, 2nd class; Roscoe E. Rambo, aviation ra dioman, 1st class; Robert A. Frank, radioman, 2nd class; Plane No. 2 Lieut. Com. Loren A. Morris; Charles J. Hcrriott, radioman, 1st class; Algie Belcher, aviation ma chinists' mate, 2nd class; Robert W. Hastings, aviation chief radioman; Benjamin F. Johnson, aviation radioman, 3rd class. The navy withheld the names of the other two dead, one man from each plane, until the next of kin could be notified. The sole survivor was Earl P. Patrick, 29, aviation machinists' mate, 1st class. He was flung clear when plane No. 2 struck, and was found walking about dazedly, but suffering only from cuts and bruises, by rescue crews reaching the scene. French Line Closed Waiting Vichy Word Bern, Switzerland, April 13 (IP) France's demarkation line frontier, separating the occupied and unoccupied territories, was reported closed today awaiting expected developments from Vichy on collaboration conver sations between Marshal Petain and pro-axis former Vice-Pre mier Pierre Laval. German dispatches hinted that sensational announcements, pos sibly including Laval's re-entry into the French cabinet and indefinite postponement of the Riom trial on France's military defeat, may be made tomorrow. Washington, April 13 VP) Congressional action was com pleted by the house today on legislation to prohibit state ments of alcoholic content of wines in advertisements and to fix the maximum penal sum of any bond required for a bondid winery or bonded storeroom at $30,000. f a r-i 1 1 1 i fn htft Imnil, miA Tuesday Final Day for Registration to Vote in Primaries Salem, April 13. (AP) Tues day is the last day on which per sons may register in order to vote in the May 1 5 primary elec tion, but the total registration for the state is expected to be less than the figure for the 1940 pri mary. --The state electrons division said the number would be less for two reasons thousands of names have been eliminated from Multnomah county's regis tration books, and there has been no rush to the county registra tion clerks. The total registration two years ago was 538,100, including 278,246 Republicans and 254,749 Democrats. The bureau of the census reported that 717,121 Ore gonians are eligible to register. Tomorrow also Is the last day for county clerks to send printed election notices to election judges and clerks. These notices must be posted in public places in each precinct. Charleston, S. C, April 13. (IP) A medium-sized passenger ship with refugees from the war zone In the Far East was tor pedoed and sunk off the Atlantic coast Saturday afternoon with out the loss of a life. Quartered here until arrange ments could be made for their transfer, the 290 survivors, ap parently none the worse for their experience, praised the navy forces responsible for their res cue and described the calm on board when their vessel was attacked. Japs Cannot Kill American Spirit Says Much Berkeley. Calif., April 13 (JP) Bombs, machine gun nd shrapnel can't destroy the spirit of Americans, Captain Frank S. Link said at his home today af ter his return from Australia where his ship was shot out from under him. The SI year-old captain should know for he was wounded in the neck, shoulder, back, thUh and wrist before he and his crew abandoned the lightly armed freighter Meigs F-biu-ary 19 at the end of a three-day running battle with Japanese planes. (The war department early to day reported that Link died of his wounds, but later announced it was 'gratified to advise" that he is alive and is recovering.) A hundred Japanese bombers swarmed over Americau ships in Russia Warns Japanese To Observe All Phases Of Nonaggression Pact - I ROOSEVELT PLANS EARLY ACTION TO HALTJNFLATION Special Massage to Con gress Expected in Fort nightMethod Undecided Washington, April 13. (IPh President Roosevelt got down to "spade work" today on the Issue of checking an inflation spiral, and there were indications he would direct a special message to congress on the subject with in a fortnight. While it was emphasized that final decisions had not been reached on the method of at tacking inflation and the corol lary problems of taxes, credit, wages and prices, Mr. Roosevelt had only two appointments to day and the White House said he would restrict engagements for the rest of the week so as to have an "opportunity" to do much spade work along the lines that he gave at a. recent , press conference. Among the points of attack against inflation understood to be under consideration are re strictions on wage increases, boosting the tax bill beyond tne $7,600,000,000 level now con templated, freezing all prices or Imposing a celling on them, greater curtailment of retail credit control and installment purchasing, more stringent ra tioning of scarce goods and com modities, and perhaps compul sory saving- through invest ments in war savings bonds. HULL AND PEIPER Portland, April 13 (IP) The Oregon Commercial Secretaries association Saturday electea Ar thur J. Farmer, manager of the Portlattl Chamber of Com merce, as president. Frank Hull. Medford. was named vice-president; Dean Pel per, Ashland, secretary-treasurer: and James Baker, Marsh- field, Fred Brenne, Eugene, Carl Curlee. Albany. Don Peoples, Bend. Earl Reynolds. Klamath Falls, and Ralph Buynes, Ore gon City, directors. Mr. Hull is manager of the Jackson County Chamber of fnmmprre and Mr. Pelper Is secretary of the Ashland chanv ber. NAMED TO OFFICE LABORMOYER - Wounded Sea Captain the. battle at Darwin, the cap tain said, before the Meigs went down In a boiling stew of her own oil and blood Link said he didn't see all the action because he was so busy maneuvering his own ship, but he did see the destroyer Peary and a Matson freighter go down. He saw a Japanese bomb make a direct hit on an American munitions ship. He ducked to avoid the falling frag ments. "But nothing ca ne down," he said. 'That ship was blown to dust." The officer spoke with rasp ing voire, the result ot a ma chine gun slug a fraction ot an inch from his windpipe He was first injured by a bomb that struck the ship 20 feet from him. The bur.t killed John Clrbome, 23 Orinda. Cal., only member of th crew lost. Duce Hysterical, Italy in Chaos, London Is Told London, April 13 A spe cial correspondent of the Daily Mail on the Italian fron tier cabled today that Pre mier Mussolini was found in a state of "complete prostra tion" when examined by a specialist. The dispatch said: "During the interview II Duce sobbed bitterly, then burst Into hysterical laughter. The specialist said Mussolini had lost all control of him self and no longer was able to manage his affairs as dic tator of Italy, which now are reported in a chaotic condition." OFF BRAZIL COAST Fortaleza, Brazil, April 13. (AP) Four united nations mer chant ships were torpedoed and sunk last week by submarines off the north coast of Brazil, ac cording to reports published to day which said that so far there had been no word of survivors from two of the ships. The ships were identified as the United States tankers T. C. McCob and Eugene V. R. Thayer, the Norwegian merchantman Balkis and the British merchant man Peregrine. The published reports said there had been no word yet of survivors of the T. C. McCob or the Peregrine. Twenty-six from the Eugene V, R. Thayer were brought ashore. Nine members of the crew were missing. The Norwegian consul here said 24 survivors of tho Balkis were brought ashore by a Swed ish ship. FREEZE IS URGED Washington, April 13. AP Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, chairman of the maritime com mission, advocated today "some form of freezing" labor and em ployer relationship to "do away with what I call this daily agl tation." Land told the house naval committee he believed open shop agreements, closed shop agree ments, and all other agreements between labor and management should be frozen in their present status "for the duration of the war." As Link went to his cabin to get a towel to bind hi wounds, another bomb burst almost at his feet, wrecked his cabin and toppled the Meigs' bridge in front of him. He crawled through the wreckage and bound his wounds with a towe: before giving the order to abandon ship after the Japanese lad stop ped machine-gunning the vessel. Australian doctors told him he should have bled to death, but the captain smiled, "you can't kill a pioneer American." He la going back as soon as he is mended. Captain Link is boiling mad i.' the Japanese and Just as mad at the Americans at home. "You're all asleep," he rasped. The people here don't know there is a war going on. "We've got to forget ethic with thx Japanese and pay them 'back in their own coin.' PRAVDA HITS AT JAP 'BLABBERING' T Reds Display Confidence by Bold Declaration Nazi Air Force Boosts Tempo, By th Associated Press In apparently growing con viction that the Red army hoids the whlphand on Russia s Euro pean front, one of the leading; mouthpieces of Russian policy declared sharply today that Jap anese "blabbering" about Invas ion in the Russian east "might damage, first of all and most of all, Japan herself." Thus, Pravda, newspaper or gan of the communist party, od dly observed the first annivers ary of the signing of the Japan ese-Russian neutrality pact, the basis of the uneasy peace be tween the two powers and strik ing in similarity to the Russian German nonaggression pact which Germany voided by Invas ion of . the Soviet union last June. Pravda firmly warned Japan to live up to all ramification of the agreement. The anniversary and the edi torial came while the new Jap anese ambassador Naotake Sato, and the new United States am bassador, Admiral William H. Standley,' were in Moscow to present their credentials. How much of Russia confi dence depended on the possibili ty of a second European front was a question. There have been repeated calls that the axis thus be diverted to facilitate Russia' position against Germany. The RAF smashed at axis ars enals in Germany and Italy dur ing the night. Not a bomber was reported lost on Jhe 1,500-mile roundtrip foray against Turin, a munitions making center of northern Italy, but at least 10 bombers and one fighter were lost in the sweep to Essen's Kxupp works, dock at Le Havre, France, and air dromes In France and th low countries. The British acknowledged those .losses, and the German high command put the cost ot the last 24 hours ot RAF offens ive action over Europe at 24 IS downed by day and nine by night. The German air force increas ed Its pace on the Russian front. In support of light counter-attacks by Infantry and tanks in a general attempt to feel out the depth of the Red army post tions. Warm weather and slush prevailed In the principal fight-, ing areas. THREE TO DEATH Midland, Tex., April 13 (IP) The army announced today that three men were killed last night In the crash ot a twin-engined bomber five miles south of th Midland bombardier school. The dead: Second Lieut. Frank C. Ham ilton, 24, pilot, ton of Mr. and Mrs. Clayton V. Hamilton. Bev erly Hills. Calif. Cadet Thomas L. Schade. 23. bombardier son of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Schade, Nashville. Tenn. Pvt Lloyd J. Leblanch. $1, mechanic, son of Mrs. Edward H. Leblanch, Church Point, La. Washington, April 13. (AP Senator Wallgren (D-Wah.) an nounced today that the war de partment would construct 1,000 bed hospital at Spokane and Walla Walla, at a cost ot approxi mately $3,800,000 each. - -
