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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1942.
NO. 23.
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British engineers destroyed the Yenangyaung oil fields as
Jap forces (black arrows) advancing up the Irrawaddy river (1)
pushed allied defenders back to a point north of Magwe and
threatened to split the British and Chinese forces at Thagaya
and thereby endanger the Chinese flank. The main Chinese army
is under heavy attack by Japanese columns striking up the Sittang
river and is threatened with being cut off by other Jap invaders
driving at the Shan States from
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, April 20. The
Germans have opened their drive
on the Near East In Vichy.
The point in
lifting their
puppet Laval
into the driv
er's seat at this
time is discern
ible in the poll
cles he set
forth at once
one policy in
particular. La
val wants re
st o r a tion of
ram Maiion French col
onies. It was clear he was not talk
ing about Indo-China which is
in the hands of the Japs, or
Equatorial Africa, which is held
by the Free French. Plainly he
wanted Syria, where the British
are standing guard against Hit
ler's hopes for conquest of the
Near East oil fields.
If Laval can get Syria for Hit
ler, the nazis. will have won a
PI
a,aitiiiaji
ft bigger military objective than
aaV . u ; A .Via kilila frrint
in Russia.
It is a plot of typical nail de
sign, involving treacherous use
of the French fleet, although the
honor of France has been
pledged that those ships would
not be turned upon the British
or upon us, the honor of France
is to some extent in nazi nanas.
France no doubt has more
naval strength in the Mediter
ranean than the British. If La-
r val can get Darlan to send these
neutralized ships forth to occupy
Syrian ports, it is doubtful that
the British will be able to stop
them. Such a conquest has an
excellent chance of success.
And while it would be done
in the name of France, Hitler's
soldiers would be moving to
ward Cyprus before the first
A French war vessel had dropped
" anchor in Syrian ports.
Thus nazi Germany, blocked
so far from reaching oil by the
Russian army, and stopped by
the vastness and insistent neu
trality of Turkey, has schemed
a flank attack through Vichy to
reach the same objective.
A DMIRAL DARLAN, the new
commander-in-chief of land.
sea and air forces, is the only
figure apparent in Vichy who
mieht stand asainst this nazi
(Continued tm Pas Pour)
Myrna Loy Readies
For "Renovation"
Reno, April 20. (P) Film
Actress Myrna Loy is staying at
a gust rancn at Washoe Pines,
20 miles south of Reno, to estab
lish legal residence preparatory
to seeking a Nevada divorce
from Film Producer Arthur
Hornblow, Jr.
Accompanied by her maid,
the actress arrived bera early
Sunday.
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10 Per Cent Minimum
From Every American
Is Defense Bond Aim
Washington, April 20. (JPh
Every American who receives
an income will be urged to in
vest at least 10 per cent of it
in war bonds or stamps.
Treasury Secretary Morgen
thau, announcing that quotas
would be set for each of the
nation's 3,070 counties begin
ning May 1, said "ten per cent
of every company payroll is the
minimum war bond goal."
Bond sales, which soared to
$1,000,000,000 in January, have
dropped off recently to about
$500,000,000 a month.
The treasury said the quotas
would be "revised and stepped
up" in the months after May,
and that it was the plan to reach
every person in the United
States who received income of
any sort though it recognized
that "some people, because of
family circumstances, cannot af
ford to save 1 per cent of their
income, while other persons can
afford an even higher percent
age." Fuel Gas Rationing
Required As Floods
Rupture Pipe Lines
Denver, Colo., April 20. (JP
Rationing of natural gas cut
ting off fuel for cooking and
heating In many homes con
tinued today in a dozen Color
ado and Wyoming cities while
Dressure along a flood-broken
pipe-line was slowly built up
through an emergency oy-pass.
Tired, mud-covered worxmen
who had struggled for two days
nt the site of the break in nor
thern New Mexico, completed
welding a six-inch emergency
nine to the main 22-lnch line
last night.
The pipeline, which brings
gas from Texas fields, was sev
ered Saturday by flood waters
roaring down normally-dry tor-
rumpa creek, 20 miles nortnwesi
of Clayton, N. M.
Prolonged rains and scattered
snow sent streams but of their
banks in eastern Colorado, inun
dating farm lands of the Platte
river valley.
Rock slides blocked several
mountain htahways.
From three to four feet of
nnur marooned more than 50
persons in the Cripple Creek
nivide-Florissant area of cen
tral Colorado. Men on horse
back carried 20 to safety.
FORMER SPEAKERS TO
BE SINGER PALLBEARERS
Portland. April 20 W
rioht fnrmer sDeaken of the
nninn legislature were named
todav as honorary pallbearers
for the funeral of Joe Singer
veteran legislature sergeant-at
mi here tomorrow.
They are Robert N. Stanfield,
K. K. Kubli, Denton Burdick
Jnhn Carkin. Raich Hamilton
Frank Lonergan, Earl Snell and
Robert S. Farrell, Jr. Singer
died In a hospital here Saturday.
pfifi n r n
Is Pierre Laval's Word . lo French
PRO-AXIS CHIEF
J
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Rapproachement Between
France, Germany Condi
tion for European Peace.
Vichy, Unoccupied France,
April 20. (P) Pierre Laval,
new pro-Axis chief of the French
government, told the French
people today that declaration of
war against Germany was a
"crime," that Britain, "after hav
ing let us down in the fight now
is treating us as an enemy," and
that "rapproachment between
France and Germany is the con
dition for peace in Europe."
In a broadcast appealing for
support, Laval insisted he had
"no responsibility whatever in
the misfortune which has befal
len us."
Nothing To Fear
He urged the farmers to "till
their soil with the same passion
as you would use to defend it,"
and told workers "you have
nothing to fear, but everything
to hope, from the regime which
is being born. . . This war car
ries in itself the veritable germs
of revolution."
He riromised to "do every
thing to try to bring about the
salvation of the country."
The first broadcast by the
new chief of government came
after the first formal cabinet
meeting at which Marshal Petain
nresided.
The speech was maae against
a background of unrest, empna
sized by the German announce
ment that 30 hostages had been
condemned to death at Rouen in
connection with a railway wreck
in which many German soldiers
were killed.
Tribute To Conquerors
"When I snoke in the name
of victorious France (as premier
before the war) I never thought
to humiliate Germany," Lavai
said, "and I must pay this tn
hiitu tn our conauerors: that they
have never tried to numuiaie
France.
'I do not speak to Germany
in the language of the van
quished." Laval asked:
Do you accept mai wim
RHtish helD you will be SUD-
mittpri tn system which will
hrinir vou into misery, or do
vnu want to be integrated into
new Europe where our honor
and vital interests woum De re
spected?" J
"I warn you, n
'ncrainst all rumors that this pol
icy is only possible at untold
sacrifices and untold humilia
tions. . .
"I can only tell you that tne
situation is grave."
Laval promised the peasania
h would do everything to re
duce to a minimum the restric
tive measures operating against
them.
r.vm time we can do it witn-
out risk to the country we shall
try to give you back the free
dom to which you are so justly
and so profoundly attached," he
said.
E
PUT ON WORKERS
Washlnelon. Aorll 20. (AP)
The navy announced today that
a cturt of inquiry had placed full
responsibility for the disastrous
Normandie fire In New York
February B on employes of the
Robins Drydock and Repair com
pany of Brooklyn, N. Y., which
was converting the former
French liner into a troop trans
port named the U. 5. S. Laiay
ette.
An official summary of the
naval court's report said the "di
rect and sole" cause of the fire,
which led indirectly to the cap
sizing of the 83,423-ton ship, was
"gross carelessness and utter vio
lation of rules of common sense,"
by the company's workmen
The court recommended that
proceedings be instituted against
the Robins company for damages
U. the full extent of liability.
The American Academy of
Arts and Sciences is limited to
800 fellows and 130 foreign
honorary members.
N0RMAND1E BLAW1
j- jnn Qf War On 'azis Was Crime
NAVY TAKES OVER
BREWSTER PLANTS
HEADEDJYALIENS
Dissatisfaction With Man
agement Cited as Reason
for White House Order.
Washington, April 20 F
The navy, acting on orders from
President Roosevelt, today took
over plants of the Brewster
Aeronautical corporation at Long
Island City, N. Y Newark, N. J.,
and Johnsville, Pa.
This action, White House offi
cials explained, was taken over
because of "dissatisfaction with
the management."
Presidential Secretary Steph
en Early did not explain on
what the dissatisfaction was
based, and he added that "I
don t think there is any labor
trouble."
R. J. Thomas, president of
United Automobile Workers un
ion and a member of the presi
dent's labor war board, said
after a White House conference
Thursday that the union had
informed the FBI that there
were a large number of aliens
in the Brewster management.
It was through the instrumen
tality of an executive order.
dated Saturday, that the author
ity for the navy's taking posses
sion of the plants was given.
rne order said this was
"deemed essential" because the
the construction of "essential
war materials."
CENTRAL PT JILL
Approximately 20 men, com
posing the yard crew at the
Southern Oregon Sugar Pine
company mill at Central Point
walked out on strike this morn
ing when the management re
fused to reinstate an edgerman
who had declined to work the
night shift, according to Chaun
cey Florey, mill manager.
The mill is still running, how
ever, Florey said, and the crew
from another plant will be
brought in to continue the ship
ment of vital war orders.
The company posseses an A-l-A
priority rating and has orders
for lumber to be used in the re
pair of Pearl Harbor. Employed
by the company in its two mills
and In the woods are 150 men.
JIM THORPE BIDS
F(
Eugene, Ore., April 20 (JP)
Jim Thorpe, famed Indian atn
lete, today applied for the post
as head football coach at the
University of Oregon.
It was regarded as foregone
conclusion, however, that John
Warren, freshman coach, would
be named by the athletic board
tonight to succeed Tex Oliver
and Vaughn Corley, who follow
ed each other into the navy in
rapid succession last week.
Thorpe, believed by many
sports followers to have been
the greatest athlete of all time
was decathlon and pentathlon
champion in the 1912 Olympics,
played major league baseball
with the New York Giants and
'or 25 years played and coached
.ootball.
BASEBALL
American
New York at Philadelphia
postponed, weather.
First game:
Washington
Boston
Wilson and
R.
.10
- 4
H.
15
8
Early;
Dobson,
Ryba and Conroy.
National
Boston 2 7 0
Brooklyn 9 11 2
Early, Spahn, Tost and Lorn
berdl. Kluttz; Higbe and Sulli
van, Dapper.
QUIT AT
ADA A: POELLNITZ
OF
Medford Woman Succumbs
In Hospital After Accident
Near Savage Rapids Dam
Mrs. Ada A. Poellnitz. SO. a
long time and well known resi
dent of this city, died in a Grants
Pass hospital Sunday afternoon
of injuries sustained early Sat
urday morning, when the auto in
which she was riding with Rob
ert Swoape of this city, plunged
off the Pacific highway, two
miles south of Savage Rapids
dam.
Mrs. Poellnitz made her home
at 1121 East Main street. Her
husband, Dr. R. W. Poellnitz,
passed away here in 1932.
There were no eye-witnesses
to the accident. Shortly after
wards motorists arrived while
Swoape was pulling his com
panion out of the overturned
car. According to Deputy Cor
oner Carlos W. Morris, the state
police officer Investigating, re
ported evidence of high speed,
as there were skid marks on the
pavement for a distance of 300
feet. The auto had careened in
to a roadside ditch and continued
for another 200 feet before drop
ping oft a small embankment
and overturning.
According to Sheriff Syd I.
Brown, Swoape and Mrs. Poell
nitz were returning from trip
to Josephine county.
Disfrict Attorney George W
Neilson said an inquest would
be held probably tomorrow,
Swoape, according to the au
thorities, claims Mrs. Poellnitz
was at the wheel.
Mrs. Poellnitz was born Janu
ary 22, 1892, in Joe county, Kan
sas. She leaves to mourn her
mother, Mrs. Flora Welch of
Medford, and three brothers, M.
S. Welch of Klamath Falls,
Harry Welch of San Francisco
and O. D. Welch, residing In
Nevada.
Private service will be held at
Perl's funeral home at 10:30 a.
m. Wednesday, the Reverend R
W. Coleman of the First Chris
tian church, officiating. Inter
ment will be in Medford I.O.O X.
cemetery.
PIEPEOOlAD
REDDING C OF C
Ashland. April 20 Dean
Piener. manager of the Ashland
chamber of commerce, resigned
todav to become secretary of
the Redding, Calif., chamber.
Pleper, who has been mana
ger here since September, 1940
said his resignation will be ef
fective May 16. He said he also
is resigning as secretary of the
Oregon Commercial Secretaries
association, a post to which he
was elected a week ago Satur
day. Mr. Pleper, is a former Med
ford resident, having served as
correspondent for a number of
out-of-town newspapers here for
some time beiore moving to
Ashland two years ago.
Axis Peace Offensive Scheduled
This Summer!
New York, April 20.
An axis peace offensive Is due
to be launched this summer. Di
rector Archibald MacLeish of
the Federal office of Fact and
Figures told more than 600 pub
lishers and editors at the annual
luncheon of Associated Press
members today.
MacLeish, who is also librarian
of congress, emphasized that one
of the principal weapons vital
to the defeat of this forthcoming
offensive of the axis partners
was the one that journalists were
trained to use ideas and words.
"You have realized for a long
time and for a longer time than
most of us that an axis 'peace'
offensive is In the cards for next
summer," he told the editor.
"A "peace offensive' is an of
Xensivt in political warfare, and
Japanese Still Trying
To Figure Origin Of
Raiding War Planes
' By Clyde A. Farns worth
Associated Press War Editor.
With the Japanese still trying to figure out how they were
bombed In their own islands Saturday, the united nations drew
up plans today for an Australia -
southwest Pacific and the struggle
but still indecisive turn against
Chungking reported that Chi
nese troops swooping down from
the northeast had recaptured
Yenangyaung, Burmese oil cen
ter, and in two days of bitter
fighting had released a British
force of several thousand from
Japanese encirclement.
Chines Join Brltlin
Chinese Infantrymen who had
been defending the eastern wing
in Burma, Joined British tanks
which had been, helping on the
western wing and together they
executed the limited counter-
offensive which regained Ye
nangyaung.
The RAF made a sweep oi
200 miles alung the west Bur
ma coast in which the airfield
at Basscin, on the Irrawaddy
delta, was damaged and motor
launches, small barges and a
schooner strafed.
The British also reported raid
ing a Japanese-held airdrome at
Allanmyo, along the Irrawaddy
north of Prome, and credited
the American volunteer group,
the Flying Tigers, with destruc
tion of two Japanese planes over
another airfield.
Manila Points Bombed
As if trying to regain face
lost In the bold daylight assault
on the homeland, Japanese gun
ners on Bataan peninsula and
at Cavite opened Intense fire
yesterday on the United States'
insular forts in Manila bay
Fort Mills on corregldor and
nearby Hughes and Drum.
Return fire silenced at least
three enemy batteries and broke
up truck and troop concentra
tions on Bataan. Five dive-
bomber raids were made on
Corregldor, apart from high
level attacks there and on Fort
Hughes. One plane was downed.
General Douglas MacArthur
and aides discussed offensive
plans today with Australia's
prime minister, John Curtin, at
Canberra. It was the first of
series of facilitating confer
ences between him, as con
firmed commander for the unit
ed nations in the southwest
Pacific, and Curtin, In his con
current capacity as defense min
ister.
The specific subject was "high
ly confidential."
40 Jap Planes Lost
American and Australian air
men chalked up 40 more Jap
anese planes destroyed aground
and in two raids at Rabaul, New
Britain, Japans kingpin Inva
sion base facing Australia. This
was the score of raids Saturday
and Sunday, the Sunday results
also including damage to at least
one Japanese ship in Rabaul
harbor.
Japan showed signs of Jitters
over the homeland attack. Two
more alarms sounded yesterday.
evidently with no real basis,
and Domel, Japanese news agen
cy, said the government was
trying to control "baseless ru
mors" concerning the Saturday
smashes.
By their latest official ac
count, the Japanese appeared
fairly convinced that the raiders
were United States medium
bombers launched by three war
ship-shielded aircraft carriers
Declares MacLeish
political warfare Is warfare
fought with the weapons journ
alists and publishers are trained
to use the weapons of Ideas
and words. It can be met and
turned only by employment
by the most skillful and effec
tive employment of these same
weapons. And it Is the press,
in a country which puts it reli
ance on a free and Independent
press, which has that skill and
can employ it."
New York. April i0.4Pi
A message from the editor of the
Honolulu Star .Bulletin saying
"we expect to continue publish
ing an American newspaper In
American territory in spite ot
hell and Hirohito' was ap
plauded today by Associated
Press members, holding their
42nd annual meeting here.
based counteroffensive in the
in Burma took a favorable
the enemy.
War Bulletins
Washington. AprU 20 P
The navy reported today that
an American submarine oper
ating In the western Pacific
had made a surprise attack on
a Japanese submarine and had
damaged 11 with torpedo fire.
Washington. AprU 20 m
Corregldor was bombarded
heavily today by Japat.es
guns of 240 millimeter caliber
(about nine inch), the war de
partment said, reporting that
"some casualties and some
damage resulted."
from considerable distance east
of Japan with instructions to
bomb Tokyo, Yokohama, Na-
goya and Kobe and then con
tinue on to landings in free
China.
It also appeared, from earlier
reports, that the venture was a
great success.
U. S. Still Silent '
The United States was still
officially silent on the raids.
To accept ths latest Tokyo
version at its face value, there
were about 10 planes In all and
only on of these went down in
Japan and this because of en
gine trouble. The crew of five
was taken prisoner, Tokyo said,
and subjected to searching ex
amination. Tokyo's designation of the
raiders as medium bombers of
an army type and Implication
tnat they came from aircraft
carriers seemed contradictory
unless the carriers had a secret
method of launching them In
considerably less than the run
way they normally require.
It was not impossible, of
course that Japan had been at
tacked by both land-based and
carrier-based craft.
In London the possibility that
the raiders came from advanced
positions in the Aleutian islands
was widely discussed and an
Italian newspaper expressed the
opinion that the planes were
from bases In Soviet Russia
secretly cedTfd to the United
States.
The Japanese Interest In ques
tioning the prisoners from the
plane reported downed seemed
to indicate that Tokyo itself did
not know all the answers.
A Chungking dispatch said
that the raiders had arrived
safely at their destination, but
did not Identify It. Chungking
declared Saturday that the raid
ers had not flown from Chinese
bases.
Heavy fighting continued on
the Burma approach to India,
with the British, now helped
on the right wing by Chinese
reinforcements, reported hold
ing their ground at Taungd
wlngyl. No on eouM aav vrt whpfhr
invasion of India, or Australia,!
or possibly both at once, was
next on japan s timetable.
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Harvey Cassman, Central Point
night watchman, thinking he
had a prowler on his hands,
much amused when the stranger
turned out to be Sid Bristow
in search of a flashlfght
Officer Clyde Flchtner being
kidded about missing the oppor
tunity to write out a certain
gentleman's traffic ticket
Janet Mann garbed in a hilari
ous "victory garden" outfit for
the Junior Guild style show to
night. Joe and Elizabeth Rlnard, go
ing rural with the purchase of
a house In the country and want
ing friends to call them "Bruce
and Joan" after a radio program.
J "A House in tha Country."
People
F
BIG FIELD PIECES
Reds Only 18 Miles Front
German Field Headquar
ters on East Front.
By the Associated Press
Smolensk, which has served
the German high command as
field headquarters for the east
ern front, was reported within
range of Russia's big guns today,
and the central front army of
Gen. Gregory Zhukov, savior ot
Moscow, was said to have ad
vanced to within 18 miles of thej
city from the northeast
There was thus a possibility
that the Red army's initiative on
the central front had carried tha
war within the vision of Adolf
Hitler himself as an odd sort of
birthday present, for Berlin said
the fuehrer passed the day, his
53rd anniversary, at eastern
hedquarters "in Immedlata
charge of operations."
Turmoil Grow
. The turmoil in the new Europe;
at Hitler's back was depicted in
report of an attempt last night
to assassinate Jacques Doriot,
one of the backers of Hitler-spon
sored Pierre Laval, and in an of
ficial announcement that 30
more French hostage had been
ordered shot In occupied France.
A bomb hurled In theater at
Rennes, in Brittany, while Dor
tot wai lecturing, dropped in
front of the stage, A woman
picked It up and tossed it Into
the orchestra pit where it ex
ploded with harm to no one, ac
cording to an announcement by
the French popular party which
Doriot heads.
These advice flowed through
Vichy where Laval, as the new
chief of government, la now in
stalled. Besides 30 hostage doomed at
Rouen, 80 more execution wera
threatened If person guilty ot
attacking a German troop train
were not turned over for punish
ment by April 23. In addition,
1,000 "communist, Jew and
sympathizer" were ordered de
ported to eastern Europe.
The reprisals followed a famil
iar pattern. In similar cases last
week In ths Calais - region, 33
French lives were taken by the)
Germans.
The advices on the Smolensk:
operations came tn Moscow press)
dispatches via London and it was
Reuters wh'.ch placed the ad
vancing Russians so close to
Smolensk.
Concurrently, Russian sources
also reported new attack along
the Volkhov river south ot Len
ingrad and against the Finn, be
tween lake Ladoga and Onega.
Hitler was said by the Rus
sians to be trying to put the old
blitz back Into the air war with
attack by as many as 50 planes
against single secret objective.
The signs were that ha had
marshalled the bulk of hi air
force on that front,' at the ex
pense of his air strength in west
ern Europe. Poor visibility over
tha continent last night, how
ever, caused a pause in the Brit
ish offensive In the west.
Radio Highlight!
(Pacific Wartime)
Another program on behalf ot
the war effort starts on the blu
at 7 p. tn. Wednesday. Pre
sented as "Three-Third of A
Nation" on behalf of the war
production board, it will, wiUi
music and drama, seek to ac
quaint Mr. and Mrs. America
with the urgency ot the produc
tion drive and to depict how
they can help tha nation' tight
for victory.
Tonight: Talks, blue, 6. Radio
Forum, Rep. Mary T. Norton,
"Labor Legislation;" MBS, 7:19,
Safety Council Award dinner,
Joseph R 'Eastman.
Blue 0:30, boxing, Bob Mont
gomery vt. Joey Peralta, Phila
delphia. Eugene, April 20. Rob
ert L. White, two and a halt old
son of Floyd W. White, Eugene,
wa instantly killed her Sun
day when hi father accidentally
backed a truck over him.