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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1942.
NO. 19.
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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
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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.
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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
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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. - -