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The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 18. The
nazi drive in Libya which threw
considerable terror into the
linotype ma
chines turned
out to be a
small thrust.
A few local
advances were
made, but
there is some
reason to be
lieve no more
than a regi
ment was In
raol Halloa
volved In any
of the skir
mishes. No large amount ol
tanks took part on either side.
OThus the expected great drive
to Alexandria turned eut to be
a foray.
That raises the question what
is Hitler waiting for? Sand
storms have already started in
that area. He has only a few
weeks left before the heat will
keep his army prone.
If he Is able to go at all, he
.hni.iri have been on his way
long before this. He has been
throwing everything he has
handy in the way of bombing
at Malta, and if he can obliter
ate that obstacle, he can push
whatever supplies of men and
material he has across the
straits into General Rommel s
Inert right arm. But he and
everybody else knows the clock
is running out were.
a a
TIERE is more excuse for his
t.iiiiw tn develop the long
advertised soring offensive in
O Russia. Thaws have started in
the north now. No one can
move much around mat irom
for a few weeks.
The weather has not been
good in the south either, so he
can blame his sluggishness on
the weather there also.
But if he has anything he had
better show It soon, else he will
(Continued on Page Nine)
japanWTenter
ai iule lake to
San Francisco, April 18 (JP)
Construction will begin tomor
row on a l.DUU-acre reception
center to accommodate 10,000
Japanese on the Tule lake rec
lamation project in northern
California, Lieut. Gen. J. L. De
Witt, commanding general of
the western defense command
and fourth army, announced to
night. "Army engineers will direct
the construction project, the site
is in Siskiyou county, lust south
cf the Oregon state line.
"The project," General De
Witt said, "will be rushed to
completion and should be ready
for occupancy within 30 days.
Following completion of ttn re
ception center the area will be
turned over to and operated by
the war relocation authority
which will develop some d 500
additional acres for use of north
.rrn California and southern
F)regon Japanese.
IS
F
RE
Chicago, April 18. (IP)
Chaisman Joseph W. Martin of
the republican national commit
tee asserted today his party
would "rather win the war, win
it quickly, than win an elec
tion." and declared candidates
in the 1942 campaign would ad
vocate the most vigorous prose
cution of the war.
Martin told reporters the com
mittee undoubtedly would issue
a statement on its war position
at a meeting here Monday and
(.added:
J "I don't think any great par
ty could meet now without of
fering some stimulus to vig
erous prosecution of the war.
Certainly our party wouldn't.
Tokyo, 3
Cities Targets in
Most Daring Air
Tokyo (from Japanese broad
casts), April 18. (IP) The great
cities of Japan Toyko, Yoko
hama, Kobe and Nagoya were
bombed for the first time in his
tory today, imperial held
quarters announced, by planes
which bore the bright insignia
of the United States air forces.
Thus the very heart of the
Japanese empire, its capital,
two principal ports and the cen
ter of its aircraft production,
were attacked in what may
prove the most daring and spec
tacular air exploit of the war
thus far when the rest of the
story is told.
It came less than 24 hours
after Secretary of War Stimson
in Washington said the Amer
ican army was "getting pretty
near to the stage of being ready
for an offensive." '
Tokyo In Dark
Tokyo could not say whence
the raiders came. Chungking
said they did not come from
China.
But the official report that
Tokyo was attacked first, half
an hour after .noon, and Kobe.
376 miles to the west, two
hours later, suggests an east-to-west
sweep.
Such an operation could have
been carried out by a naval
task- force built around one or
more aircraft carriers approach.!
ing Japan from the northeast,
where the heavy- April fogs
might hide their approach.
Long-range bombers from the
Aleutians, some 2,500 miles
from Tokyo, might conceivably
have cooperated with carrier
borne craft. Flights from hidden
bases in the Philippines or
China also are possibilities.
There were an undisclosed
number of casualties, head
quarters for the defense of east
Japan announcing that "we ex
Dress to the next of kin of per
sons killed our condolences."
This account, like other official
accounts, said damage was
light.
Incendiary Bombs Fall
Incendiary bombs fell in the
Tokyo-Yokohama area, Nagoya
and Kobe but fires were report
ed auickly controlled.
This suggests, however, that
the raiders carried to the crowd
ed Industrial centers the type of
war the Japanese fear most,
fire bombs on cities which for
the most part are built of wood).
The high command an
nounced that nine attacking
planes were shot down over the
Tokvo-Yokohama district, sug
gesting the raiding force totaiea
several times that numDer.
The greater part of the Jap
anese homeland was under air
raid alarm for varying periods
during the afternoon, from the
northern tip of HoKKaioo to
Shikoku and western Honshu, a
sweeD of some 1,000 miles em
bracing three of the four main
islands. Even the lourtn, ono-
koku. in the southwest, was
given "precautionary warnings."
Nine pianos Lost
Military communiques and of
ficial broadcasts gave this pic
ture:
Tokyo the capital, third city
of the world, population, 7,uuu
000; military, political, financial
heart of the empire:
"It has been confirmed thus
far that nine enemy planes were
shot down when hostile aircraft
attacked the Tokyo-Yokohama
region this afternoon for the
firt time since the war began,"
read an announcement by east
cm defense headquarters.
"The enemy planes approach
ed from several directions about
12:30 p. m. and were immed
iately repulsed by air and
ground defenses. It is revealed
that damages inflicted by the
air attack are slight."
Follow Axis Pattora
Dnmei elaborated:
"The raiders failed to pene
trate into the heart of the me
tropolitan area, but dropped
their bombs in residential dis
tricts in the suburbs. Schools
and hospitals unfortunately re
ceived several hits."
(But Tokyo's suburbs contain
huge industrial plants as well
as residences airplane plants
arsena's, munitions factories,
huge military depots and can-
Great Industrial
I "Smacked 'Em"
i i
"""Sam. ' lA
I
Llaut Co.l. J. H. Davles
(above) of Oakland, Calif., who
lad U. S. army B25 bombers
from Australia against Jap bases
in the Philippines, said on his
return to Australia: "We smack
ed hell out of 'em and gained
at least a little revenge for mem
bers of our squadron who fought
in the front trenches in Bataan ,
He was awarded the distinguish
ed flying cross for the achieve
ment.
tonments. The reports of schools
and hospitals bombed follow
the normal pattern of axis prop
aganda).
Domel continued: "The planes
which carried out "blind raids'
on the Tokyo-Yokohama region
were without doubt United
States planes, observers de
clared. They said the American
air lnsignuai of a blue star
against a red circle could be
seen clearly from the ground.
"A Domei reporter described
one enemy plane which was
shot down as falling like a 'smok
ing comet.
Nagoya (Japan's third city,
population 1,400,000, site of the
big Kawanishi, Mitsubishi and
other aircraft plants.)
Largest Port Hit
"At 2:30 this afternoon two
enemy planes raided Nagoya,"
central defense headquarters an
nounced. "A 1 1 h o u g h they
dropped bombs, damage was
slight."
A later communique said in
cendiary bombs fell at six places
in the vicinity of Nagoya but
the fires were soon brought un
der control.
Kobe (population 1,200,000,
Japan's largest port, shipping
point for a large proportion of
the supplies flowing to the Jap
anese forces in the southwestern
Pacific war theater, major ship
building center.)
"A single enemy plane raided
Kobe around 2:30 p. m., drop
ping incendiary bombs but no
serious damage was caused,"
said a communique. A latei
announcement said single bombs
fell at three places in Kobe;
fires were soon controlled.
Yokohama (050,000 popula
tion, port for Tokyo, 18 miles
away, chief port on the Pacific,
site of big shipyards and a wide
variety of industries): Any dam
age done there was covered by
the general communique cover
ing the Tokyo-Yokohama dis
trict. Osaka defense headquarters
reported one other area under
attack:
The enemy strafed farming
villages in Wakayama prefec
ture, Shiga prefecture and the
Yokkaichl area with machine-
War's
Attack
CAPITAL ELATED,
DETAILS OF RAID
Washington, April 18 (AP)
Word that American planes had
finally slashed -at the great cities
of Japan exhilirated and excited
this capital today and was hailed
by members of congress as the
harbinger of a vast offensive that
ultimately will crumble the Mik
ado's empire.
It was balm for the wounds of
Pearl Harbor and Bataan to
learn that the war had been car
ried in direct and punishing fash
ion to the Japanese people. In
combination with this week's air
raids on Japanese bases in the
Philippines it cheered a country,
which, contrary to its traditions,
had been fighting a defensive
war. .
Officials at the war and navy
departments were wearing
broad smiles but saying nothms.
Presumably no announcement
will be made until the operatiot)
is completed, planes are back at
their bases or carriers, and of
ficial reports have been received.
At the capitol, Senator Hill
(D-Ala) echoed a popular state
ment when he said:
'This is just a beginning; it's
hardly a token compared with
what we're going to give them."
"That's the way we're going
to win the war," said Senator
Clark (D-Ida.), "bombing them
right at home."
"There was a possibility of re
prisal raids," Clark said, but
added, "if we have sufficient air
craft on the Pacific coast, enemy
bombers can be knocked down
as they come in."
Senator Holman (R-Ore.) ex
pressed gratification at news of
the bombing of Japanese cities,
remarking that the "best defense
is an efficient offense".
guns but no damage was caused."
Alarm In Osaka
These areas do contain manv
farming villages but they also
are thick with factories produc
ing war goods.
The great cities of Osako (3.
800,000) and Kyoto (1,200,000)
were under air raid alarm dur
ing much of the afternoon with
all the rest of the highly indus
trialized, densely populated dis
trict within 100 miles radius of
Osaka which, however, appar
ently was not bombed.) For
the main cities, including Tokyo,
the alarm ended at 3:50 p. m.,
three hours 20 minutes after the
first planes appeared over
Tokyo.
Also under alarm was the en
tire island of Hokkaido, north
ernmost of the main islands, and
Shikoku, just south of Honshu,
the principal island; all the
northeast coast of Honshu above
Tokyo; all the Tokaido coastal
district ' between Tokyo and
Osaka; western Honshu as far
as Ok.yana, 100 mile, west of
Osaka.
Domei gave this account of
Tokyo under air attack for the
first time in its history:
"In the downtown districts of
Ginza and Marunouchi (the Fifth
avenue shopping district and
Wall street financial center of
Tokyo, respectively) business
flowed on as usual with buses,
trolleys and other vehicles run
nine without interruption.
"While Japanese air defenses
smashed dowr the invaders
lunrh hour crowds unhurriedly
flnlsVd their meals and returned
to their offices satisfied that the
defense forces were doing theu
work well.
"Children peered Into the sky
for hostile craft. The people
remained calm and unruffled
Unp rturbed housewives and
civil defense units closed win
dows and checked anti-raid
equipment with the same cool
efficiency shown in practice,
CITY PUYGR0UN1
WILL BE SITE OF
Bear Creek Area Approved
By F.S.A. Will Be Leased
From City.
Medford's new $93,000 recre
ational building, made possible
with funds alloted by the Feder
a. Works Administration, will be
constructed on the Bear Creek
playgrounds area Just south of
the Main street 'Bear Creek
bridge under present plans, it
was stated yesterday by Don T.
Orput of Portland, field recre
ation representative for the Fed
eral Security Agency.
Mr. Orput said the area had
been fully approved by the FSA,
and that unless a better site was
offered by the city the building,
u be used by Camp White sol
diers for worship and recreation
al activities, would be built
there.
The area, to be leased from the
city at $1 a year for a period not
to exceed 10 years, embraces
about 300 feet along the east
bank of Bear creek running
south from the bridge, by 150
reet wide, according to Fred W.
Scheffel, city superintendent.
The area to be utilized by the
recreational building, a standard
type A structure with wings,
does not include the side of the
present uoy Scout and Girl
Scout headquarters at the north
east corner of the property. Mr,
Scheffel explained. These head
quarters will not be affected by
uie new Duuding, he said.
The project will be construc
ted by the Federal Works
Agency through the office of the
Regional Engineer, Region 7,
Seattle, Washington, and is to
be operated, according to tenta
tive plans, by the Y. W. C. A.
Fred T. Evans, acting regional
engineer of the FWA, is expect
ed to announce shortly the dale
for the start of construction of
the project
RAKED BYNAMES
New York. Sunday, April 19
(IP) Fire that started in sup
plies salvagers were removing
raged through a lower hold of
the former French liner Nor
mandle last night, but did no
damage to the vessel's structure,
it was said at 9:25 p. m. (PWT)
today nearly three hours after
the blaza was brought under
control.
Bern, Swltierland, April 18
(AP) Premier Mussoliai. dis
charging fascist party secre
taries in several towns and
cities today, called the pre
fects of all Italian provinces
to Rome April 18 for a confer
ence on now moans of enforc
ing discipline required by war.
London. April IS (AP
Reports reaching London said
tonight that Field Marshal
Gen. Wilholm Rittor Von
Loob, nasi commander on the
Leningrad front, has boon re
lieved of his post. His succes
sor was said to be CoL Can.
Goorg Von Kuechlen, who
commanded one wing of the
Gorman drive through Bol
glum in the spring of 1940.
Rome, (from Italian Broad-)
easts), April 18 AP) An
Italian destroyer has sunk a
submarine in the central Med
iterranean, the Italian high
command announced today.
On the Libya front, hoary
sandstorms wore reported to
have hindered patrol activity
in the Clronalca war sectors.
Chungking, April 18 (AF)
The main Chinese forces on
the Sittang front In central
Burma have withdrawn to a
new Una after many days of
powerful offonslve by over
whelming Jspanese forces, the
Chinos command announced
tonight.
N01ANDIE AGAIN
War Bulletins
AMERICAN FORCE
SEE
Gen. Marshall Says Air
Bases Will Be Established
All Over Britain.
With the U. S. Army In North
ern Ireland. April 18 JP) Gen.
George C. Marshall, chief of
staff of the United States army,
declaring "the time for action
is near" said today that Amer
ican troops "inevitably will join
the commandos," the British
shock force which has been
raiding the German-held con
tinent. Further forecasting offensive
action, he told a press confer
ence that United States air
forces will be established In
bases "all over the British isle."
Here for a flying inspection
of the United States contingents
already in Ulster, Generai Mar
shal said he had conferred at
length In London with Lord
Louis Mountbatten, chief of the
British commandos, as well as
with Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and other British serv
ice chiefs.
He pointed out that the U. S
army has long trained an entire
army corps in land cooperation
such as the recent British dash
to St. Nazaire, Nazi submarine
base' on the occupied Br-ttany
coast, and against other impor
tant Nazi coastal Installations in
both France and Norway .,
General Marshall flew here
Friday with two of President
Roosevelt's closets advisers Har
ry Hopkins and W. Averell Har-
riman, after 10 days of "the
most intimate and satisfactory"
discussions with the British
leaders.
He made a speedy Inspection
tour and review of the bulk of
the United States troops here
and then told officers that these
men are but the first of a
'steady flow."
The first U. S. troops of this
war arrived in Ulster in mid
January; a second contingent
followed In about a month.
Gen. Marshall told the unit
commanders that he was "very
much impressed with the ap
parent state of discipline and
the evidence of strenuous train
ing" of the American forces.
LAVAL WILL TAKE
Vichy.
Unoccupied France
-(.IP) Pierre Laval
April 18.
Frances No. 1 campaigner for
ail-out collaboration with Ger
many, reorganized the French
government on a pro-axis basis
today, but agreed to submit to
the final authority of Marshal
retain, still chief of state.
Laval won the marshal's ap
proval, necessary under the con
stitution, of a 21-man govern
ment, 13 of whom have been
active supporters of his pro-Ger
man policy for France. He
split the civil and military divi
sions of government, abolished
the national defense ministry
and kept three important posts
for himself foreign affairs, in
terior and Information.
The aged marshal, by special
decree, delegated to Laval the
power to control France's domes
tic and foreign policies but sim
ultaneously placed hi heir ap
parent and former vice premier,
Admiral Jean Darlan, In com
plete command of all land, sea
and air forces, responsible only
to the chief of state.
CENTRAL PI PAIR
E
Reno, April 18. (JP) Marri
age licenses Issued here in
cluded: Arden Plnkham, 24, and Eliza
beth Hamilton, 19, both Central
Point; Adrian Wigley, 23, Cen
tral Point, and NelU Moon, 23,
Port Orfor
Interpreting
The War News
By Klrke L. Simpson
(Wide World War Analyst)
American bombing of Tokyo.
Yokohama and other Japanese
cities raises a question as to
whether the planes Involved
were carrier-based or struck
from land bases on the northern
tip of Luzon.
Until that question Is answer
ed in official statements from
Washington the full meaning
cannot be clear.
If four-engined bombers made
up the attacking groups, that
would indicate that they came
from land bases, presumably of
the Philippines. That is possible
but not probable. It is certain,
however, that if bombers of
such size were involved, they
came from land bases, not from
airplane carriers.
Assuming that the planes
were carrier-based. It would
mean that a powerful naval task
force had penetrated to within
600 miles or less of the Jap
anese coastline. Supporting
ships such as cruisers and de
stroyers to protect the carrier
or carriers would be essential
in that case.
It would put a strong Amer
ican naval and air unit peril
ously close to Japanese China
sea communication lines, the
most vulnerable sector of the
whole Japanese war front
If that be the case, Tokyo's
war lords may have cause to
reappraise their strategy In
sending powerful Japanese fleet
units from home waters to the
Indian ocean.
By the recent account of
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill to parliament, the Japanese
have at least three battleships,
five plane carriers and many
light craft in the Bay of Bengal.
That represents virtually half of
her known carriers and perhaps
third of her battleship
strength.
Aside from Its boost to morale
in the united nations, the bomb
ing attack might serve the stra
tegic purpose of leading Tokyo
to recall a part of that force
nearer home, thus easing the
threat to India.
There can be no doubt. In
any event, that Japan Is des
tined to feel the force of Amer
ican air power Increasingly
from now on.
E
E
SHORE BATTERIES
Washington, April 18.
Corregidor's sharp shooting gun
ners encouraged hopes of a pro
longed defense of the Philippine
stronghold today by blasting
into silence additional batteries
of enemy siege guns.
As a result of the effective
counter-blows, the war depart
ment said, Japanese bombing
and shelling of the Island fort
ress at the entrance to Manila
bay showed "somewhat de
creased intensity."
Reporting on the situation
elsewhere in the Islands, Lieu
tenant General Jonathan Wain-
wright advised that Cebu, the
Philippines second city, was in
enemy hands and was burning.
Fierce fighting continued in
the vicinity of the city which
mors than 300 miles south
of Corregldor in the central
portion of the Philippine arch!
pelago. On the island of Panay,
where an Invasion force landed
Thursday from a fleet of eight
transports supported by war
ships, the Japanese likewise
were still meeting determined
resistance from the defenders.
The war department's an
nouncement that the Corregldor
gunners had silenced several en
emy batteries, all on Bataan,
followed an official report on
Friday that three enemy bat
teries had been put out of ac
tion in the past 24 hours. These
batteries were on Bataan and
In Cavlte, on the south shore of
Manila bay.
In addition, the guns of Cor-
regidor and the three outlying
Manila bay forts blasted roads
and bridges In Bataan, disrupt
ing enemy communications.
Sacramento, April 18. (ZD
Churning cream butterfat; First
grade 42 Vi; second grade 40 Vt
AXIS FEELS AIR
Destruction Rained On Ger
many And Rangoon"
Washington Silent On
Attack Disasters Hinted
By Richard McMurrsy
Associated Press War Editor
Tokyo and three other great
Japanese cities shuddered yester
day (Sat.) from the destructive)
crash of United States bombs In
what may well have been the
start of an offensive to destroy
the very heart of the spraddled
Nipponese war machine.
Other huge and lethal Ameri
can planes rained destruction on
Rangoon In Burma and Rabaul
at Australia's outer fringe where
Japan's ambitious vanguards ara
based. 1
In Europe, the RAF continued
Its ceaseless attacks against vital
German war plants in the over
run continent.
The British blows In effect had
opened a second front against
Germany, already locked In
death struggle with Russia,
whose armies were reported
crushing the last spark from pup
petized Finland, and nearlng the
major German Ukraine base of
Dnleperopetrovsk.
Lone Bright Boot
The lone bright spot in the
picture for Japan was the con
tinued success of. her army la .
Burma, which applied relentless
pressure to the swaying British
lines, pushed now Into the flam
ing ruins of the Yenangyuang
oil fields.
But all these developments
were far overshadowed by tha
daring assaults on Tokyo, tha
plane-producing center of Na
goya and the major industrial
portst of Yokohama and Kobe.
All the accounts came from
Tokyo and her Berlin ally, and
the frequency and varrlanco of
the stories suggested that great
damage had been done and that
people of the tightly packed isl
ands were hysterical. ,
The very fact that the Japan
ese radios shouted officially that
"the imperial family is safe"
suggested a major disaster, be
cause only at times of great
emergency are such assurances
given.
The lack of flamboyant claims
expected from an axis govern'
ment about destruction of any
great percentage of the raiders
suggested a vital weakness in the
Japanese home defenses, and
that the island air forces had
been spread exceedingly thin to
support Japan's far-flung con. -quests
of Burma, China, tha
Philippines, Netherlands ' East
Indies and Malaya.
It was reasonable to expect
that Japan would call on her
German partner for face-saving
reprisal attack on United
States cities. German bombers in
France are within striking dis
tance of the eastern U. S. sea
board, and soma of the nazi long
range planea could make nuis
ance raids.
Freedom Spurred
The blow against Japan was
a great fillip to the freedom.
loving world. It also brought
home in grim reality the horrors
of total war which Japan for
nearly five years has carried
mercilessly to China and other
peoples of the Pacific. It was par
tial payment for the treachery
of Pearl Harbor and a promise of
more to come.
The real story may be with
held for days until the planes or
carriers are safely back at their
bases.
The ascendency of Laval, of
course, was a blow to the United
Nations but old Marshal Petain
retained final authority over the
acta of the white-tied nazi col
laborater. The Vichy govern
ment, from which the United
States ordered its ambassador
home to "consult", was formed
on pro-axis basis, with Laval
holding the portfolios of foreign
affairs, Interior and information.
LAST RITES
Corvallis, April 18.
Funeral services for Solon T.
White, who died suddenly at
Spokane last night, will be held
here Tuesday afternoon,
w