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troopa now raleasad from tha Philippine war. Among tha possibilities discussed in Washington wara:
(1) A surprise attack on Ruuiai (2) grand acala thruit at Hawaii) (3) invasion of Australia) (4) an at
tempt to claan up tha China war quickly (5) or reinforcad drive into Burma and India.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 14 A cer
tain sluggishness within the
Nazi military is now visible
to the eye.
General Rom
mell's drive In
Libya should
have been
started weeks
before if the
Nazi war ma
chine was still
clicking at its
old-time pace,
His prepara
tions were not
rani Mallon well concealed
and lagged behind former Hit
ler tempo.
Now he has only about six
weeks left before sweltering
desert heat Joins the side of the
British defenders on the near
east.
The Russians have lately
nicked up some German prison-
fjrs with no more than five or
six weeks' training. It is mur
der to send men with no more
experience into battle, even to
fill out depleted units, as is
apparently being done.
Certainly the German general
staff would not be using them
anywhere if manpower was not
a pressing problem.
THE best balanced
estimate
here of Hitler's losses
to
date, mostly in Russia, Is 1.750.
000 killed and about the same
number severely wounded. This
would mean around 3,500,000
Nazis out of action
These are the best trained
German troops, specialized
shock troops, sappers, engineers,
parachutists (the flower of the
German army as Berlin would
call It).
O They cannot be replaced. They
were especially selected for their
superior talents and physical
stamina
(Continued on Pa -a fllx)
INDIAN GAS LOW
New Delhi. April 14
India's basic gasoline ration
which permits fuel for 100 miles
of driving a month, was reduced
one-third effective May 1 by
government order today,
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sawing wood for the construc
tion of ha political fence.
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AUSTRALIA;
Knockout Blow For China
Jap Aim In Burma Drive
Is Belief of MacKenzie
BY DeWITT MACKENZIE
Wide World War Analyst
With the compass being boxed by speculation as to where
the Japanese are likely to strike next; attention has been di
verted from one of the great allied danger spots in which the
Nipponese already are achieving success, and that is in their
fierce drive through the Burmese back-door to China.
There are, of course, several
offensives which the Japanese
might undertake against In
dia, Australia, Russian Siberia
but there's one thing about
which we can be dead sure
that they intend to conquer Chi
na. After al, China is the key
stone of their grandiose expan
sionist program. Hence their as
sault on Burma, which is a mat
ter of anxiety for the allies.
Famed Burma Road
Already Blocked
Already the Japs have over
run lower Burma, blocking the
famous Burma road over which
China was getting all her mili
tary supplies from the outside
world; they have fought their
way up the Irrawaddi river into
the oil fields upon which the
Chinese have been depending
for their vital oil supply; and
unless the invaders can be held
there, they may stagger the
world by putting an army into
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's
capital of Chungking and over
running all the rest of southern
China.
, China certainly would be
hard hit by such a triple trag
edy loss of her lifeline to the
outside world, loss of the oil
which Is essential to war, and
loss of the rich southern terri
tory upon which she depends
so much for food and minerals.
Yet those losses surely repre
sent the goal of the Japanese,
who today are reported to have
made still further gains in Bur
ma. British Premier Churchill's
disclosure in the house of com'
mons that the Nipponese are
operating a great naval and air
fleet in the Bay of Bengal, be
tween Burma and India, fits in
perfectly with Japan's designs
on China. Of course, it s quite
possible that this fleet presages
an attempted invasion of India,
but it certainly means that the
Japanese intend to cut the
American and British sea com
munications, since that helps
consolidate the invaders posi
tion In Burma.
Aim to Cut Allied
Lanes to Mid-East
Undoubtedly, the Japs also
are bent on more extensive nav
al and air operations, reaching
throughout the Indian ocean
and calculated to cut allied
shipping lanes with the whole
Middle East. Recognition of this
likely is the explanation of to
day's news that Iran (Persia)
has broken off relations with
Japan. The allies are getting
set for action.
As for an Indian Invasion, oc
cupation of the eastern part of
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that country would sever allied
communications with China via
India over the ancient caravan
routes, and would perfect the
protective ring about the Bur
mese conquest. Whether the
Japanese would try to overrun
the whole of the vast Indian
empire is questionable, since
they would be spreading them
selves most awfuUy thin. Prob
ably they would be governed
by circumstances after they
started the invasion, that is,
whether things went easily for
them.
DRIVE FOR BOOKS
TO REACH CLIMAX
E
There will be no special drive
to collect books in Medford next
Friday, proclaimed "Victory
Book Day" by President Roose
velt, Fay E. Woolsey, Medford
city librarian, said today.
A drive for books to send to
army camps has been under way
since the first of March and the
collection is being made through
the agencies of public libraries,
Safeway stores, Standard Oil
stations and the Boy and Girl
Scouts.
Friday, April 17, will bring
special emphasis to that drive
when Americans everywhere
will be asked to give all books
they can spare to the armed
forces. However, according to
Miss Woolsey, the drive will not
end on that date but will con
tinue as long as the nation is at
war.
Many books are being turned
in but many more are needed.
About 7S0 books have been
turned into the Medford public
library and havt been sent to
the state library in Salem.
Scout headquarters said today
that those who had books to
contribute could have them
picked up by Scouts upon noti
fication of headquarters by
phone, 2350.
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I LAVAL, DARLAN TO GRANT
BE GIVEN SEATS
IN NEWJIABINET
Riom Trials Also Suspended
Stronger Measures
Seen Necessary By Allies.
Laval Termed Judas
Washington, April 14.
(AP) An authoritative source
said today that the sudden re
turn of axis admirer Pierre
Laval to power in Vichy "ob
viously" called for a complete
re-examination of United
States relations with the
Vichy French government.
United States seizure of
French possessions was de
manded in the house as a re
ply to plans of Vichy France
for a new government embrac
ing axis admirer Pierre Laval.
"Today a traitor received
his thirty pieces of silver,"
commented Rep. Poage (D
Tex.), who described Laval as
"the enemy of all free peo
ple." By Taylor Henry
Vichy, April 14 ) The
Petain government, which once
ousted Pierre Laval, made a
place today for the return of
France's leading exponent of
collaboration and, at the same
time, suspended the Riom trials
of France's republican leaders,
to which Hitler himself had ob
jected. Marshal Petain, it was an
nounced, decided to form a new
government with Laval and Ad
miral Jean Darlan, who has
been vice premier since Laval's
ouster from the position on Dec.
13, 1940.
Meet Next Thursday
The announcement said the
three leaders met today and de
cided on "the constitution of a
government established on new
foundations." Their next meet
ing was set for Thursday when,
presumably, the places of Laval
and Darlan will be allotted.
On the day that the Riom
trials were to have resumed af
ter the Easter recess, a special
law decreed their indefinite sus
pension to permit broadening of
their scope to Include political
as well as military "mistakes
which led to war and defeat"
for the, Third Republic.
The special law, signed by
Petain, was based on a report to
me cniei oi state by Darlan and
Justice Minister Joseph Bartel
my which said in part:
ine responsibilities Incurred
from the fact of inadequacies in
our national defense and of po
litical ana military mistakes
which led to war and defeat are
indivisible because they contri
buted to the same disaster."
The immediate reaction in
London was that the United Na
tions had suffered a diplomatic
defeat in their attempt to sway
France from collaboration with
Germany.
Both Vichy government decis
ions fitted into the nazi scheme,
and the feeling was manifest in
high diplomatic quarters in Lon
don that much stronger meas
ures against Vichy are the only
answer prooaniy including a
tighter blockade and new
strength for General Charles
de Gaulle's Free French.
Some sources predicted that
with both Darlan and Laval in
the French cabinet, Germany
stands better chance than ev
er of getting the French fleet
for axis operations against Bri
tain.
Sequel to Pressure
Today's steps were the sequel
to sharply intensified pressure
by the nazis on the Vichy gov
ernment in recent day's.
Hitler personally disparaged
the Riom trials in a speech last
March 16, declaring their char
acteristic was that "not a single
word of guilt of those respon
sible for the war is mentioned."
The Berlin radio today broad
cast DN'B, official German
news agency, statement that the
Riom decree means "the ques
tion of responsibility for the
war will be raised."
A school slate owned by Ruby
Buchanan of Stroud, Okla., wai
used by her great grandfather
in 1805. It weighs lli pounds.
SERVICE TO CAMP
IS
Action Due to Lack of Pat
ronage Ashland Service
Stepped Up To 7 Trips.
Because of lack of patronage,
the Rogue Valley Transit com
pany has discontinued its bus
service between Grants Pass and
Camp White, while at the same
time increasing to seven buses
daily its service between Ash
land and the cantonment to take
care of the large number of
workmen residing in Ashland.
In order to retain Its franchise
for Grants Pass-Camp White
operations, however, the transit
company will run one bus be
tween these points each month,
according to A. L. Schneider,
manager.
Seek Lower Fare
Ashland's campaign to pro
cure a 40-cent round trip bus
rate between there and the can
tonment, a necessary require
ment if Ashland is to be des
ignated as a defense housing
critical area, was being pushed
this week.
The transit company's fran
chise from Ashland to Camp
White is based on the SS-cent
round-trip rate now in effect,
the same fare that Greyhound
charges for round-trip between
Ashland and Medford which
makes the cantonment run non
competitive with Greyhound's
Ashland Medford service.
Ashland hopes to obtain Grey
hound's cooperation in the cam
paign to reduce the Ashland-
cantonment rate to 40 cents a
round trip, and it was stated
that if this cooperation cannot
be procured the only recourse
would be for the transit com
pany to petition the P. U. C. for
authority to reduce its rate to
40 cents.
A petition is also being made
to Greyhound to reduce its Ash-
land-Medford round trip rate to
40 cents to coincide with the
proposed Ashland-Camp White
rate of 40 cents. It wns point
ed out that this would benefit
many persons now con. muting
between Ashland and Medford,
as well as the general traveling
public.
The procurement of the 40-
cent rate between Ashland and
the cantonment, It was believed,
would assure the designation of
Ashland as a defense housing
critical area, which in turn
would provide priorities on crit
ical building materials for de
fense housing projects.
CALL JURY FOR
Y
The circuit court petit Jury has
been summoned to report next
Monday at 9:30 a. m. to hear
the civil suit of Corinthta E. Stal
ley against J. B. Thomas, to re
cover money. The case has been
pending for several months.
Judge H. K. Hanna Is hearing
cases this week in Grants Pass,
but expects to return near the
end of the week.
The revised Jury list Is as fol
lows: L. L. Olsen, Ashland; Edgar J.
Brown, Ashland; Nell C. Carlton,
Medford; Alice E. Gowland, Ash
land; Bernice Ashpole, Medford;
Vabel Sims, Medford; Neal
Heard, Ashland; Frank Davis,
Ashland; C. D. Elhart, Ashland;
Donna V. Straus, Gold Hill.
Henry C. Galey, Ashland; Ed
ward W. Kubli, Applrgate; Ma
r'c DAlblni, L. O. Penland, S. T.
Shults, Hazel Kincaid, Margaret
E. Schuler, Verl G. Walker, Dia
mond L. Flynn and Chester Hub
bard, Medford.
Portland Police
Will Join Union
Portland, April 14 UP) The
Oregon Journal said today
charter In the State, County
and Municipal Employes union,
Local 88, AFL, will be Issued
fhortly to an organization of
Portland policemen.
Outnumbered Americans and
Filipinos Put Up Stubborn
Resistance RAF Scores.
By Roger D. Greene
Associated Press War Editor
Greatly out-numbered Amer
ican and Filipino troops were
officially reported putting ud
stubborn resistance to Japanese
invasion forces today on Cebu
island, in the central Philip
pines, while Lieut-Gen. Jona
than Wainwright's defenders of
Corregidor underwent four
more assaults b y Japanese
bombers.
The Japanese force on Cebu,
250 miles south of Manila, was
estimated at 12,000.
RAF Scores
In the battle for tha ap
proaches to India, British head
quarters reported that RAF
planes had destroyed or dam
aged 13 Japanese flying boats
in a smashing attack on Japan's
new bases in the Andaman isl
ands, in the Bay of Bengal.
A war department bulletin
said that communication be
tween Cebu and Corregidor had
been re-established and that
heavy fighting was in progress,
with "our troops stubbornly re
sisting the advance of the ene
my."
On Corregidor, tha last major
I American-Filipino bastion In the
battle of Luzon, tha war de
partment said heavy Japanese
bombers inflicted soma troop
casualties but only alight dam
age to military Installations.
Enemy batteries shelled Cor
regidor and Fort Frank from
positions on both sides of Man
ila bay, the communique said.
"Our guns returned the fire."
The war department also re
ported sharp skirmishes on Min
danao island, 600 miles south of
Manila.
Many Jap Captives
Imperial Tokyo headquarters
asserted today that Japan's In
vasion armies had captured 40,
000 prisoners, including 15 gen
erals, since the beginning of the
Bataan offensive in the Philip
pines, while on the Burma front
British headquarters acknowl
edged a dangerous new Japan
ese thrust toward the central
Burma oil fields.
A British communique said
Japanese troops driving up the
Irrawaddy river had captured
the village of Migyaungye
which is only 22 miles south of
the Minbu oil fields.
The British also reported in
creasing Japanese pressure be
low Taungdwlngyl, 90 miles
northeast of Prome, about mid
way between the British-defend
ed right flank and the Chinese-
guarded left flank of the main
allied defense Una.
"Tex" Oliver Now
Officer in Navy
Eugene, April 14 UP) Ger
ald A. 'Tex" Oliver today offi
cially became a lieutenant com
mander in the United States
r.avy when he was sworn in
here.
Vichy Officials Back-Pedal
On Sassy Statement to U. S.
Vichy, Unoccupied Franca,
April 14 (P) The French gov
ernment issued a statement to
day declaring It had rejected the
"injurious" terms of a note of
the United States government
explaining Its establishment of
a consulate-general In Free
French Equatorial Africa, but
half an hour later urgently re
quested correspondents to with
draw tha story from publica
tion. The French statement was
read to the American press rep
resentatives only a few hours
after a communique had an
nounced a change In the govern
ment bringing Pierre Laval, ad
vocate of collaboration of Ger
many, back Into a position of
power, and introducing a new
period of strain upon United
States-French relations.
Fought Japs
i V J
j 5 -
Lieut. Jesse H. Hague of Adel
la., told of one U. S. squadron
which shot down Japs at the rate
of two for one in sky-fighting
ever the Netherlands East Indies
in a dispatch from "somewhere
In Australia.?
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Salem, April 14. (AP) Gov
ernor Spragua today promoted
Colonel Ralph P. Cowglll, Port
land, state guard commander, to
brigadier general.
Cowgill now commands one
complete infantry regiment, arm
ed and uniformed by the govern
ment, as well as 26 battalions of
guardsmen ' who are providing
their own arms and equipment.
"The best features of the Brit
ish home guard and Russian
guerilla plans have been adapt
ed to needs of Oregon in the or
ganization of the state guard,"
the governor said. "General
Cowgill now has a versatile force
which can be utilized to good
advantage, either in cooperation
with federal troops or operating
separately."
A captain of engineers during
the World war, Cowgill has been
an officer of the Oregon National
Guard for 18 years. He was com
rr ending officer of the 186th in
fantry, 41st division, until last
December 2, when he was re
lieved from active service be
cause his age was over the limit
set for officers serving wth com
bat troops.
Brlg.-Gen. Cowgill resided In
Medford for many years and
held a number of engineering
positions here.
TOP PRIORITY GIVEN
MINING ENTERPRISES
Washington, April 14. UP)
mining enterprises were granted
a top war priority rating by
WPB today to assist them in
obtaining explosives and ex
plosive equipment.
Fast on tha heels of the state
ment came the urgent official
request for its cancellation,
which was not immediately ex
plained. Tha statement ssld that the
American government's note
was "couched In injurious
terms," and that its presentation
nan been under "unusual con
ditions.
French officials said tha word
"insolent" for the French "In-
solite" was a poor translation
and that the word "unusual
was better.
(There was no Immediate In
dication whether the usa of the
word "Insolent" In soma dis
patches might have caused of
ficials to request that publica
tion of the statement ba can
celled).
DEEP BREACH IN
E
Timoshenko Scores Near
Kharkov Continent In
vasion Expected by Nazis.
By Associated Press
A Stockholm radio broadcast
today said Marshal Semeon
Timoshenko's Red armies in the
Ukraine had forced a "deep
breach" in the German lines 25
miles north of the great steel
city of Kharkov.
German reports also indicated
that the Russians had opened
big-scale new offensive on tha
Moscow front and had pierced
Nazi defenses at some points.
Meanwhile, reports reaching
London from neutral European
capitals indicated that Adolf Hit
ler's high command was resigned
to an impending allied Invasion
of the continent and afraid that
the attack would strike at an un
expected point.
The Berlin correspondent of
the Stockholm Demograten
quoted a Nazi high command
spokesman as saying: .
Ready. Is Boast
"We are expecting an invasion
at any time. Let them try it,
We are ready."
A Rome radio broadcast last
night said Canadian troops had
been assigned to spearhead tha
allied assault, and Stockholm
heard that the Germans had pro
claimed the Norwegian port of
Narvik a forbidden zone, as worst
was intensified on defenses along
the Norwegian coast.
Tha French coast and Italy
were also mentioned as logical
points of attack.
Altogether, London observers)
said, Germany now seemed to be
suffering an acuta "war of
nerves" such as Hitler exploited
against his enemlea earlier in
the war.
Other developments in tha
European war theater Included:
British Exchange Telegraph
Quoted the Berlin radio as an
nouncing that six Soviet divis
ions (perhaps 90,000 troops), in
cluding an entire tank division,
succeeded in dislocating German
lines at some points and that tha
battle was still In progress.
Gen. George C. Marshall. U. S.
army chief of staff, conferred
with one of Britain s top experts
oi invasion tactics, Lord Louis
Mountbatten, chief of British
commandos.
Hitler's high command assert
ed that German U-boats and
planes had sunk 15 more allied
merchant ships totalling 120,000
tons, Including two American
vessels in a convoy returning
from the Russian Arctic port of
Murmansk.
The high command said 13
ships were sunk in the Atlantic,
most of them "directly off tha
east coast of America."
North Africa Cairo head
quarters reported that British ar
tillery patrols blasted a column
of axis tanks, armored cars and
artillery in the Temrad sector,
60 miles across tha desert no
man's land from the main British
positions at Tobruk.
An Italian communique said
strong British columns, support
ed by armored units and artil
lery, were repulsed after fierce
fighting.
"Tha enemy, which suffered
heavy losses in killed and
wounded, retreated," tha Italian
high command said.
OFFICE OPEN LATE
The county clerk's office In
the court house will be open
until 8 o'clock tonight to accom
modate last minute registrant
for tha May primary election.
County Clark George R.
Carter reported today that ap
proximately 75 registered yes
terday but that voters have been
slow in protecting their fran
chise. Tha county clerk said
most of tha registrations wera
because of change of precinct
and that few new voters wara
registering.
Registration for the last gen
eral election was 16,129.
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