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Let fOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDS1 The Best Market I Tha Want Aai ttt yoa a 1 ntck. eeoaeaikal war to ftna Bay Detune Bond an lump TOKAY ContrlbnU M tr etreoste of your aatloa. PatrtoiUm. your own arir-pre-Ifcllon. demand that YOU o row part NOWI Thirty-seventh Year. Torpedo Victim! of Palm Sunday torpadolng and sink lng of an Amarlcan freighter-passenger thlp man mm oar toaether in ena and of a .omad tham and landed tham apparently to avoid lunburn. in ona of tna survivors. Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Northwest' Air Defense Expands a Boeing Output At High Volume Loans Proposed For Auto Dealers By John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, April 16 Original plan of the army air corps in connection with civil aeronautics authority was to establish 124 landing fields in the northwest. No such number has been prepared or funds made available, but most of the major towns have been, desig nated for field and several million dollars are now being spent in developing these fields to a point far beyond a simple place to land. The theory of the air corps is that landing fields should be scattered everywhere as places where planes can go in event of an enemy bombing estab lished interceptor bases. The enemy could bomb hangars at a group base but fighter planes and bombers would be weU concealed miles away. In like manner the planes could be assembled at two or three fields in preparation for an assault or counterattack. Where the lay of the land permits the air corps wants trees on the edge of the field, these acting as shields and preventing an enemy high flier from observing the grounded plane. -ea Modification of plans of the (Contlnujd ol Page Ten) During the last four years the pneumonia death rate in the U. S. has been reduced approxi mately 50 per cent. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) Fight broadcasts Friday night Include: 7 o'clock MBS from Detroit. Ray Robinson and Harvey Dubs; 7:15 BLL, from Cleveland. Bob Pastor vs. Jimmy Bivins; 8:30 CBS from Boston, National A A. U. boxing championships. Tonight: Talks CBS 5:30 People'r Platform, "India, China and the War '; MBS 5:45 Rep Celler on "Youth and the ar": tsLU 6 America s Town Meeting From Columbia, Mo.. "What Are the Essentials of a Lasting Peace?" Friday: NBC 10:30 p. m. Archibald MacLeish on 'Gov ernment and the Press." CBS 2 30 Paul V. McNutt on Htalth. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Shorty" Morris offering friends a chew off a piece of genuine Missouri Twist chawin' tobaccy. Ex-Mavor Earl Caddis on the business end of a wheelbp.rrow hile fixing a dent in the road Q'ongsidc his home. Bob Merritt up and round ?in recovering from a disas trous episode with a dry kiln &o several weeks age. Medford Full Associated Pr Survivors Take lilaboat which drifted at sea at Lawas. Del. Ona survivor covert nil hoad with handkerchief. this picture taken by Mil Anna Surcher, a SwUi citisen. who was Plumbing "Freeze" Order Carries Heavy Penalties Washington, April 16 VP)U your plumber has a worried look today, it is understandable. And, if he is Installing some plumbing or heating equip ment in your home, it might be advisable for you to worry too There is a question of a possible $10,000 fine and a year's im prisonment hanging over both your heads, if the plumber hasn't been keeping up with war production board orders. IN ENEMY LINES Washington, April 18. .IP) The war department reported today that Corregidor's guns scored hits on troop concentra tions and truck columns on the Philippines' Bataan peninsula, and that enemy ammunition dumps were hit and blown up. Japanese casualties were be lieved to have been numerous, a communique said. Fierce fighting continued on the island of Cebu, more than 300 miles to the south, where the Japanese last week landed an invasion force estimated at 12,000, which was supported by dive bombers and tanks. Corregidor was raided five times yesterday, the communi que said, but the defenders' antl aircraft artillery forced the Japanese planes as on most other occasions to fly so high bombing was ineffective. Lieutenant General Jonathan M. Wainwright, the Philippine under, reported that in the week since April 9 the fort ress island had been raided 65 times, but the war department said that "despite the almost constant bombing, the damage to military installations has been relatively slight, and the morale of the troops is unim paired." WPA WILL HALT OREGON EFFORT Portland, Ore.. April 18 Because eligible WPA workers prefer war Jobs, Oregon projects are to be closed. State Adminis trator H. E. Devereaux said vesterday. Non-defense protects will be halted within two weeks. WPA will remain suspended until men and materials again are available. Jack Shirley, dis trict WPA director, said. Marine Cantonment Goes to Washington Tamma. Aoril 16 UP) Con demnation papers were filed in federal court today by the fed eral government for acquisition of 3.000 acres ol lana in maun county for establishment of a large U. S. marine corps canton ment and combat range. The papers of declaration of taking and petition for condem nation were filed by Assistant U. S. Attorney John W. Fish burne. The papers stated the fed eral government already has ap propriated $90,000 to build bar racks and officer quarters. The post will be In what is 1 known as the Oak Patch axes. Picture 13 dart Berore a navel veeaei The latest wrinkle in nis prow probably resulted from yester day's WPB order "freezing" all stocks of plumbing and heating equipment to conserve present supplies for defense housing and military construction. Under terms of the order, plumbing and heating materials costing $5 or less are not affect ed nor are orders carrying pri ority ratings of A-10 or better, Neither you nor your plumber have to worry on that score. If it is a question of emergency repair and maintenance, the $3 leeway still holds, but if mater ials needed for repair or main tenance cost more than $5 and less than $50, that's when the plumber should start worrying if the materials cost more than $50 you and the plumber should worry together. Yesterday's "freeze" supple ments a previous WPB order on maintenance and repair. Under its terms a plumber may auto matically apply an A-10 rating on your materials costing be tween $5 and $50 provided he certifies that they are required for repairs, rather than new con. struction or modernization. If the materials cost more than $50, both you and the plumber must certify that it will replace something for which re pair is impracticable. Akron, O., April 18(AP) Goodyear Tire 4c Rubber Co. is testing automobile tires made without rubber. "We now have test cars on the road which are running on tires made without rubber," said an announcement. "We can make no further comment on this develop ment at this time." Officials said no rubber natu ral, synthetic or reclaimed wis used in the new tire, but refused any hint of the materials it does contain. The brief announcement fol lowed disclosure at Detroit that Ford Motor Co. engineers have developed process for manu facturing automobile tires with not more than one-sixteenth of the rubber heretofore used. Thieves Visiting Mountain Cabins Complaints have been re ceived by the sheriff's office that a number of cabins in the Hiatt Prairie and Dead Indian districts have been broken into recently and rifled of furniture, fond and other articles. In a couple of Instances win dows were smashed and other damage done. No reports of cabin prowling have been re ceived from other sections as yet. JAP TRAINS HIT Tokyo (From Japanese broadcasts) April 18 (P Two underground railway trains crashed this afternoon at sta tion in Osaka, killing or injur ing approximately 150 psen gers. Japanese broadcast re- ported today. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942. RANGE VI I1MIL Al at turn Mass Arrests and Executions Follow Disorders in Paris By Roger D. Green Associated Press War Editor Reports of marching demonstrations in Paris against col laboration with Germany accompanied announcement late today that the pro-nazi Pierre Laval, France s No. 1 advocate of closer ties with reich, had formed a new sumed the post of "chief of government." Dispatches from Bern, Switzerland, said there had been numerous reports of mass arrests of persons demonstrating against collaboration and that 25 persons had been executed in Paris in the past few days. - Disorders were also reported In German-occupied Belgium. Vichy dispatches said nazi authorities in southern Belgium had ordered an 8 p.m. curfew and 7:30 p.m. closing of public buildings In reprisal for a wave of terrorist and anti-German activities. Nine persons have been sentenced to death in 18 convictions in recent military trials In Belgium. OF FRENCH FLEET Washington, April 18. The increasing threat tha' Nazi Germany may gain control of the French fleet was regarded by naval authorities today as a grave menace to Britain's sup ply lines in the Mediterranean and thus a direct threat to the security of her armies in North Africa. Beyond this Immediate result, these experts said, an out-and out Vichy-Berlin coalition even tually would jeopardize Anglo American domination of the North Atlantic supply routes to England and Russia, and a gen eral realignment of allied naval strategy would have to be un dertaken. In making effective use of the French ships, however, it would be imperative that the axis have the enthusiastic support of their officers and crews, and there was considerable speculation here as to whether that could be counted on in all cases. Some experts suggested that the French might have no more stomach for fighting the axis battle than the Italians seem to have shown to date. These au thorities said there was no ques tion that the Italian navy had made a consistently poor show ing In the Mediterranean large ly because "their hearts Just aren't in their work." FEnRLMOIS Washington, April 16. (IP) Lieut. Col. S. R. HarTis, chief of the air corps safety section, disclosed today that 79 98 per cent of all army aircraft acci dents in the last fiscal year were caused by errors or omis sions on the part of personnel. "The viUl drive, the urge to fly in manner approaching recklessness, the lack of feai that makes our pilots feared and respected in combat also makes for airplane accidents in routine operations," he told Senator Johnson (D-Colo.) DELAY ROAD MEET Salem, April 16 UP) The state highway commission to day tentatively postponed its April 30 meeting, for which bids were called yesterday on six projects, including reloca tion of the Pacific Highway west in Benton county and other pro J ecU In Baker, Douglas, Harney, Lane and Linn counties. HEART BALM DENIED Portland, April 16 0F Cir cuit Judge E. C. Latourette yes terday granted a defense mo tion for a non-suit In the $100, 000 alienation of affections suit brought by Ann Mills, Portland, against Alsea Hawley of , Cottage Grove district. the Vichy cabinet and himself as A British broadcast reported that 40 German soldiers were killed in a train derailment in occupied France, in what may have been sabotage attack re flecting popular bitterness over the return of pro-nazi Pierre Laval into the French govern, ment. The Washington-Vichy crisis was believed nearing a show down amid general expectations that France would proclaim her solidarity with Germany and that Adolf Hitler might soon gain control of the French fleet. U. S. consular officials urged all Americans to leave unoccu pied France as soon as possible. Vichy's ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye had an appointment to meet Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles today, and Washington observers expressed belief that he would deliver of ficial notification of an openly pro-nazi collaborationist policy by Pierre Laval's new regime. Welles has already made It emphatically clear that the Uni ted States has nothing but scorn for collaborationists and would consider such a regime unquali fied to represent the French people. Laval himself, now France's most powerful figure, with the aged Marshal Philippe Petain only a figurehead, returned o Vichy from Paris where he was said to have conferred with Hit ler's agents presumably receiv ing the fuehrer's orders for the future government of France. BYJ.C. Seven directors of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce were reelected and one new director was named In the annual election which closed yesterday noon, it was announc ed today by Frank Hull, cham ber manager. Floyd Hart was the new di rector chosen by chamber, mem bers. Reelected were Glenn L, Jackson, Eugene Thorndike Karl L. Janouch. W. A. Gates, George T. Frey, C. C. Furnas and Lee P. Bishop. All will serve one year. There were nine holdover directors. Y A rumor that 700 negro workmen had been Imported to Medford by Camp White con tractors yesterday was spiked today by Frank J. Van Dyke, coordinator, who said that a sur vey of the working personnel at the cantonment revealed no more than 25 negroes were now employed there. VanDyke said It was possible that number of negro work men had passed through Med tard yesterday en route to the Corvallls cantonment, but added that if thev did none of them stopped here tot employment. Tribune United TO L0CA1PR0BLENI Representatives From Dis trict Office To Meet With Oil, Army, Local Officials. H. E. Britzen, northwest rep resentative of the district direc tor for marketing, office of the petroleum coordinator, Los An geles, will be here Saturday morning to discuss phases of the gasoline curtailment in this area. Britzen will meet with Jack son County Chamber of Com merce representatives, oil com pany heads In this district, army officials and Frank J.Van Dyke, coordinator, in order to deter mine what effect the canton ment has had on local gasoline demands. The consumption of gasoline has been curtailed here as it has In all of Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho and 17 eastern states. It was pointed out nowevei, that while Medford wants to co operate as much as possible with the curtailment program, the sharply Increased popula tion hei-e and the much greater rnnmmntlon resulting has creat ed a real gasoline problem, and one that may become worse un less adjustments are made. Medford, it was explained, u at present under the same cur tailment as areas wnicn nv not Increased in population. T Washington, April 16 (IP) A new, severe reduction in gaso line cotisumntion became effec tive today in the east and Pacific northwest, and petroleum inuus trv sources said millions of mo torists would have to get along with 40 to 50 per cent less than their normal use ot motor luei. The overall curtailment was raised to one-third, an increase of 13 1-3 per cent over the 20 per cent reduction instituted mnnth affo. Essential vehicles. Including those necessary to health and safety, commerce, schools end sovernment. will continue to get full supplies, and the gaso line used in non-essential driv ing thus will be curtailed by considerable more than one- third. First Sugar Allowance Half Pound for Week Washington, April 16. (JPt The government announced to day that the nation's first rugar ration allowance would be half a pound a week per person. This quota will apply only to the first two weeks of rationing. which is scheduled to begin sometime during the week of May 4-7 the period during which all citizens must register and obtain books of ration stamps. Under present plans, each ra tion stamp will be good for two weeks and stamp number one will permit purchase of one pound of sugar, OPA said. The ration allowance might be changed for each two weeks thereafter, depending upon avail able sugar supplies. At the same time, !n a pam phlet of official Instructions cov ering sugar rationing, OPA urged citizens to be careful of "war ration book number one, and the 28 stamps It contains since "it may, at a later time, be necessary to use It for other i commodities tloned ." if they are re 1 Ail sugar stocks and sales will Pro mewl Commandant J Rear Admiral David W. Bag- ley (above), 58. of Raleigh. N. C has been ordered to duty as com mandant of the 14th naval dis trict. Honolulu. T. H. DETAILS OF U. S. 0. PROJECT GIVEN IN The allocation by the Federal Security Administration of $93, 000 for recreational facility at Medford for Camp White troops represented funds needed for the purchase of land, the build ing of the structure and the as sembly of necessary equipment. acording to a telegram received here from Senator Charles L,. McNary. Sen. McNary said In his wire that the Federal Works Agency, which obtained the funds from the FSA, asserted that the build ing could be completed In 60 to 75 days, and that it was the larg est type being constructed for recreational purposes. The building would be used for the purposes of worship, for games, dances and other recre ational activities for cantonment soldiers while off duty and visit ing Medford. STORM WARNING San Francisco. April 16. IP) The weather bureau posted storm warnings today from San Francisco to the mouth of the Columbia river. Small craft warnings were Issued for the area from San Francisco to Point Conception, Santa Barbara coun ty, and along the Washington coast. be frozen during the week be ginning April 27. It was under stood that sales probably would not be permitted under the ra tioning program until "a day or two" after registration has be gun, thus preventing a first-day rush on schools where registra tion will be handled. No ration books will be Issued to any person possessing more than six pounds of sugar at the time of registration. No penalty Is provided for persons possess ing two pounds of sugar or leu at that time, but one ration stamp will be removed from the registrants book for each pound he possesses between the two pound minimum and the six pound maximum. Clarifying its position witn regard to individuals who may require more than the ration al lowance of sugar for home can ning. Illness, or other special rea son OPA directed such persons to take the problem to their local ration boards. These boards have been empowered to deter mine the amount ot additional sugar to be allowed In such cases and will Issue special certificates. 1 & mihi or anyiniDg hate for Ml, trad, rant. Ha, Thl erwspapcr la net by thousand any eranlaf. Malta an snra ta follow. NO. 22. RAFIN GREATEST Roar of Hundreds of Planes Fills Sky Battle Louder Than Great German Raid. London, April It UP) The thunderous roar of hundreds of British fighter planes filled the English channel sky today In what coast watchers believed to be the RAF's greatest daylight sweep of the war against Ger man holdings In France. To residents of the Kentish coast the road of battle was even louder than that of a year and half ago when the Ger man air form sent formations numbering as many as 600 planes against Britain In a sin gle day. Winding up the third succes sive day of dawn-to-dark raiding in northern France Spitfire for mations swept across the chan nel before dusk as many squad rons returned from the direc tion of Boulogne and Calais, still flying In perfect formations. British and German filers fought high over France as the RAF continued Its around-the-clock schedule. - Berlin (from German broad casts), April 18 UP) The Ger man high command said today two merchant ships were set afire and seven enemy planes were shot down in a Nazi air attack on the Soviet far north ern port of Murmansk. "A number of bomb hits was scored on quay Installations and supply depots," the communi que said. Strong formations of heavy fighter-bombers attacked harbor Installations and the British armament Industrial center on the Tyne estuary overnight, DNB said today. The high com mand said Sunderland was a major objective. Big explosions and fires were observed in military objectives, the Gerrou news agency re ported. SEVENHEDIN Tamoa. Fla.. April 16.- The entire crew of two officers and five enlisted men was killed shortly after noon today when a plane taking off at MacDill field crashed. MacDill field listed the deed as: Mai. James H. C Houston, Baltimore, Md. First Lieut. Floyd Messer, Makka City. Fla. Tech. Sgt. Sam T. Hiegger, Greenville, Tex. Tech. Sgt. Charles Mull, Bre vard, N. C. , Tech. Sgt. Malcolm maims, a.i- ba, Ala. Sgt. Stephee r. A. wysocau. Milwaukee, Wis. Sgt Edgar r. Mathews, Af bertvllle, Ala.. BASEBALL Americas Score: Philadelphia It H. 7 11 . 4 1 Boston Catlgiuri, McCrabb and Hayes; Wagner and Conroy. Cleveland .,, 4 S Detroit ' 3 Mllncr, Having, Brower end Denning, Desautels; Bridges and Tebbetts. Matieaal (Ten Innings:) Boston i SSI Philadelphia 16 0 Earles and Lombardl; Hughes and Livingston, Warren,
