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Using Daily If roe aatd ta reach thoa audi of homas and natt prae tloa aconomf ihm yon anaald dm tha Want Ad Way. T.irrj ana rrada tha Want ads and mora and mora peopl ara ailng them dally. Olra thm trial. Lei rOUR Amwh to Bomb be BONDSI Medford Tribune Bay Deftnaa Band! u tamp TOUT Contribute M lha atrrgftb ol roar nil Ion. Patriotism, foot an arir-pra. (Milan, dtmands thai VOU da joai part NOWl raU Associated Pre United Prau MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1942. Thirty-seventh Year. NO. 26. BAHY lo)M 0 iY. IVI UUU U Ml ah a 0 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon PART OF ISLANDS Wa.hineton. April 21 The man-power mobllizer, Paul Mc Nutt, has done a spectacular Job of lighting hi way up to ward the presidential elections of. 1944 an event of which he is clearly not nam iia unmindful. His big draw 7 m2Tj back as a can g didate has been 49 gfM labor opposi- fm lion, uascu vi &I Viia nlrl Indiana gubernator i a 1 Hv", record. But a rt Mil few davs back i i 1 "A V3 . .... hntn Ja m : i - " - 1 aVTlilf ! of him was dis- Pam tributed, taken 'at Pittsburgh, standing between AFL's William Green and CIO's Philip Murray with an arm around each, which shows how he has been getting around lately. Mr. Mc..utt's new Job, how ever, involves as many of the hazards of political popularity 1 ? v mil Symptom of Fear Seen in Prolonged Worry No Plane Visits Mentioned. baseball 'HOPKINS REPORT National Philadelphia at New York postponed, weather. Boston 1 -13 S 19 Brooklyn Javery, Errlckson, Hatchings and Klutz; Head and Sullivan. Chicago (By tha Associated Pra) New air raid alarms kept cen tral and western Japan, contain ing vital naval bases, ports and industrial cities, under prolonged alerts this (Tuesday) afternoon, axis sources reported, even while Japanese broadcasts continued to minimize the effects of Sat urday's attacks attributed to American planes. The Japanese themselves said nothing of the alarms, stating instead that the cabinet received reports from its ministers that Japanese life had been affected only to a small degree by the Saturday raids and that postal service was quickly resumed. The Berlin radio, however, re ported under a Tokyo dateline that alarms sounded in cenirai Pittsburgh 5 8 1 Bithorn. Schmltz and McCul lough; Sewell and Phelps. American New York 10 10 0 Philadelphia 4 10 1 Ruffing and Rdsar; Wolfe, Christopher and Wagner. FOUR BOYS HELD AS SUSPECTS IN as the civilian defense post which set Mayor La Guardiaand western Japan today be- DacK. ine aramng oi men lur industry may give him a chance to meet millions of new people, but not necessarily favorable. It Involves a delicate process of dealing with labor shortages, taking men from one Job and putting them into another, help ing one industry and hurting another, and it is entirely a new idea to which the country has not been accustomed as it has to military drafts. OMr. Roosevelt has apparently delegated the whole touchy problem of policy formation (the all important question of how deep Mr. McNutt shall dig in) to this rising late arrival in the new deal, and his board, with a little private advice from tha White House on the side, no doubt. Obviously Mr. McNutt could work himself into a backseat without very much trouble, a a THE crisis for McNutt will come before the end of the year, when a general labor shortage is expected. Shortages (Continued on Paga Four) SECRET SESSION London, April 21 (P) The house of lords met in secret session today for a discussion of the progress of battleship construction and replacement the royal navy. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) A Joint call to the nation from government, business and labor officials for an increased sale of war bonds is to be the theme of a special broadcast being arranged for Thursday night on the BLU network. Among speakers are Secre taries Morgenthau and Wickard W. P. Witherow, P. C. Cashen, William Green and Phillip Mur ray. General subject will be Dollars In the Draft." CBS 6:30 Report to Nation Transportation; 7:30 Rep. Ditter on Fundamental Freedoms. BLU 7:45 Rep. J. S. Gibson on "Labor Relations Act." tween 4 and 3 p. m., (midnight and 1 a. m. PWT). No Planes Seen The broadcast made no men tion of planes seen or bombs dropped and the alarm may have been merely a symptom of Japanese fears of air attack since the high command reporiea raids Saturday on Tokyo, Yoko hama. Nagoya and Obe). Meanwhile. Chinese reporxs said the Japanese were speeding reoarations for possible war against Russia, heavily reinforc ing their garrisons m inner Mon golia, which borders Soviet Si beria west of Manchukuo. On the Burma war front, a furious battle was reported rag ing around Yenangyaang, in the heart of Burmas ruined on fields, as British tank-led infan try and a Chinese rifle regiment soueht to annihilate isolated Japanese troops. Yenangyaang Retaken Chinese military dispatches said Chinese reinforcements had recaptured Yenangyaang, saving 7,000 encircled British troops and 100 supply trucks in the first allied victory of the Burma campaign. Chinese troops drove the Invaders three miles south of the oil town. The Chinese reported they had killed 500 Japanese and lost only 100 in the Yenangyaang area, where British engineers had already blown up o.uuu on wells to prevent them from fall ing into Japanese hands. The Japanese troops cut oil in the Yenangyaang sector were described as part of a force which drove into the oil fields last week, cutting off the British rearguard south of the fields. TO WAR COUNCIL IS ENCOURAGING Mission to London Discussed In White House Confab Dr. Soong Sees Progress YANKEE PLANES TO JOIN RAF IN ITI London Says Dromes All Over Britain to Base Hun dreds of U. S. Aircraft. Three local youths aged 16 years and one aged 18, are being held in the county Jail today Dending investigation concern- iog their alleged participation in a series of burglaries during the past week. The boys were apprehended by city police yesterday and today and their appearance tn Juvenile court, possibly tomor row, awaits filing of formal complaints against them. According to statements signed by three of the boys, the Currier grocery, 328 Hamilton street, was entered by members of the group on April 19 and on April 19. The loot was cigarettes cigars, gum, a watch and several dollars in cash. They are alleged to have en tered the Whitelaw Candy com pany building, 31 North Grape street, where they took several boxes of chocolates earty Mon day morning. The youths were said to have prowled a house on the Jacksonville highway Sunday afternoon. Statements on file say they broke into the A-One brewery. 301 North Fir street, and took two cases of beer during the week-end. The boys were said also to have ransacked the Rogue River Canal company building on the Crater Lake highway and the Sterling mine property. Two other youths, aged 13 and 17, are in custody of police in the city Jail in connection with their alleged theft of gas engine and pump from the Hubbard-Wray company about March 14. Washington, April 21. AP) A report they described as in teresting and encouraging" was liven members of the Pacific war council today at the White House by Harry L. Hopkins, who discussed the mission he and General George C. Marshall un dertook to London. Hopkins, President Roosevelt's right-hand man on war supplies, and Marshall, army chief of staff, returned from Britain Sunday. Today's meeting of the coun cil, the fourth these representa tives of seven nations fighting in the Pacific have had with Mr. Roosevelt, was fitted into a day of presidential appointments of an international flavor. One of these engagements brought to the White House Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, lieuten ant governor general of the Dutch East Indies, who told re porters afterward that "I think at least the (Japanese) march to the southeast has been stopped for the time being." Dutch Still Resist He said the Dutch still were re sisting in the East Indies and that a number of Dutch air and naval forces had reached Australia. Leighton McCarthy, Canalai minister to the United States and a war council member, said that I think we all agree we are get ting places. Everybody seems to be more cheerful." Lord Halifax, the British am bassador, and Herbert V. Evatt, Australian minister of external affairs, agreed that it was a "very good meeting at which a wide range of subjects were con sidered. Dr. T. V. Soong, Chinese for eign minister, remarked that "we are progressing. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Slash Burning Ban Urged for May 15 Salem. April 21. (JP) The state forestry board recommend ed to Governor Charles A. Sprague today that he prohibit the burning of slashings and de bris in Oregon forests after May 15. It was believed that the governor, who is chairman of the board, would do so. From May 1 to May 15 burn ing will be allowed only by per mit. The board has been advised by army officials that they will not allow fires in forests after May 15. War Bulletins L APRIL 28 TO 29 Washington, April 21 (IP) The navy reported today that two United States torpedo boats operating against a Jap anese squadron ol five war ships near tha Philippine Isl and of Cebu had "seriously damaged one enemy light cruiser and left It in a sink ing condition." Washington. AprU 21 W The navy announced today that two merchant vessels, a small United States ship and a medium sised Norwegian ship, had been torpedoed olf the Atlantic coast. Survivors have been landed at ports en the east coast and Gulf of Mexico. By the Associated Press United States warplanes, now blasting the axis on many fronts, are already being fer ried to British operational bases to Join in the RAF's great aerial offensive against the continent, London sources reported today. Meanwhile, signs multiplied of German nervousness over a possible allied invasion of nazi dominated Europe. Norwegian advices reaching London reported several more German divisions had arrived in Norway as a precaution against possible allied invas ion and that the Germans were barricading the coast with con crete strongpoints and masses ol barbed wire. Build Bicycle Army Dutch quarters in London said German Field Marshal Gerd Von Runstedt was build ing up a nazi bicycle army in northern France and Belgium in defense against new British Commando raids and a possible allied invasion attempt. Dutchmen escaping from Hol land said the Germans were taking the entire production of bicycle factories in the low countries and Denmark and re ported mounting anxiety among nazi occupation troops over the prospect of a British invasion.. Dutch refugees- said German authorities had forbidden sol diers to sing the song so popu lar a year ago We are Sail ing Against England. U. S. Planes Coming London observers said they expected to see the red, white and blue insignia of U. S. army bombers in the sky any day now, and the London Daily Sketch declared "Soon at airdromes all over Britain there will be gathered the force of planes that will make this country the world greatest air base . . . hundreds of United States aircraft giant bombers, medium bombers and dive bombers flown by Amer ican air crews. Other developments: Sea warfare A Berlin radio broadcast asserted that more than 2,000,000 tons of shipping had been sunk by axis submar ines operating off the American Atlantic and Pacific coasts In the last three months. (Note: this figure Is far in excess of losses disclosed by the United States.) The broadcast said that 1, 772,000 tons of British and American ships had been sunk off the Atlantic seaboard be tween Jan. 15 and April 14, and that Japanese underseas raiders in the same period had sunk 22 ships off the Pacific coast. Vichy crisis Admiral Jean Darlan, commander of all France's armed forces, told his fighting men that "you can rely on me as I rely on you to pro ceed further along the path of honor and to defend the em pire." With this enigmatic expres sion, Darlan left open the all- Important question of how tar Japanese Cities Raided By Bombers 1 a . , - ..-r- r -5ar.TT t j -i w:wMjtr -m. - - "V-.- i a j' akk.. .iMr r a iaa - - i ' .f.U- .- i -r A general view of Yokohama (top), the port fo r Tokyo, showing docks and harbor In background. This was one of the citias that the Japanese reported were raided by enemy warplanes. Japanese re ports also stated that fires were started by Incendiary bombs in the city oi Kobe (bottom), on of the leading Japanese ports. Predicted Jap Peace Feeler Planted By Christian Leader Distribution of sugar outlet cards to dealers in Jackson county will be made April 28 and 29, from the high schools of the county, It was announced today. The county clerk s office today sent out the material and information to the various high schools. Consumer cards will be Is sued on May 4, 5, 6 and 7 and will be distributed from the various grade schools. The high schools from which the sugar outlet cards will be distributed and the estimated number for each are: Medford senior high, 200 cards: Ashland, 125 cards; Cen tral Point, 20; Jacksonville 35: Talent 20; Eagle Point 25; Gold Hill 25: Roaue River 20: Butte Falls 15: ProsDect 15. and Sams the "path of honor" would lead Valley 3. I toward active military aid to Leonaia carpenter is neaa iunminy. Tokyo (From Japanese Broad casts), April 21. (JP) The Tok yo radio broadcast today a Dome! dispatch quoting Toyo- hiko Kagawa, most famous of Japanese Christian leaders, as asserting that among Japanese Christians "prayers are being said for an early conclusion of the war and the restoration of peace throughout the world." The purpose or tnis Droaacasi bv the aovernment-controlled radio is obscure but it might be the beginning of a Japanese "nence offensive. Japanese leaders may be counting on Kagawa's reputa tion in the United States, where he has lectured widely and where hi. books, in translation, have had considerable circula tion, to gain attention for the suggestion that Japanese Chris- lty Sphere.") tians, at least, want peace. Archibald MacLelsh, director of the office of Facts and Fig ures, in en address at the annual meeting of the Associated Press yesterday, warned that the axis would launch a "peace olien- sive" this summer. He said "a peace offensive Is an offensive in political warfare," which "won victories In France which dive bombers and flame throw ers and tank and parachute troops could never have won. He declared there could be no negotiated peace except the kind that "free men make." (ExDericnced observers have predicted that Japan might be gin a peace drive as soon as she had conquered the territories she wanted to Include In her Greater East Asia Co-Prosper- 41 CCC BOYS OF CAMPPRESCOTT El An unidentified man wanting to know if nightcrawlers were low-wheeled trucks used at night and being quite surprised m-Vi . n ItnrntViv Rrrtntip infnrmH him that "crawlers" were f ish-: tigation, said today the FBI Hitler Birthday Parties Are Visited by FBI Agents Newark, N. J., April 21 HP) E. E. Conroy, New Jersey head of the Federal Bureau of Inves- Found at what Conroy called the largest Hitler celebration In the state, at the City Hall of the local sugar rationing board. More explicit details will be given later. Mora Japs Ordered Fram Caasf al Area behind nazl while the red rigm UHdSiai WC l army ,,, r,ported gains on the Russian campaign Soviet parachute troops, described as strong enough to free German occupied villages and "hold them against all counterat- were reported landing Moscow and Leningrad fronts. " Soviet dlsratches said Rus- celebrated Adolf Hitler's 53rd i of the disbanded German-Amer- San Francisco, April 21.- In sweeping new exclusion 1 .ion trnnna In the Lenlnirad sec- tavern, Union City, were AU-ioroprs uxiay, i.ieui. uenerai J-1 tor had captured 17 nazi strong gust Klapprott, eastern leader IL. DeWitt ordered all Japanese ! hodi ln throwing back the Ger : . I birthday with the largest state- isaoeue miner modeling a - de raid since Pearl Harbor lean Bund, and the Rev. John C. Fitting. Hudson county Bund official. Both are naturalized citizens and they were released "priority formal" spruced up!ITesting , .core 0f enemy with a corsage of carrots and mi-,tlnnin more than Bttty Vilm being "the lady in 100 ,,,, .nd seizin much after Questioning red" at the Junior Guild fashion contraband. As the raiders entert-i the show. More than 150 agents and j Union City Hall, celebrants con- , . Tv M-rvmaM r, local police struck at 62 places ; tinued singing to the last bar i.gh aLS?. make speeches Qf -f ,HeM ElgM CfTm,n ntion.l, wre ' weu " " '' 11 were sent to Ellis island and found among the group, It was Dave Rees informing city pol- others were held pending action said, all of them without alien Ice concerning his notorious to be advised by the United . registration or selective service character. States attorney general. i registration cards. removed from 400 miles of the California coastline Incorporat ing most of the state's big mili tary encampments, and from wide area around the Mare is land navy yard. Thirteen new orders by the commanding general of the west ern defense command directed the evacuation of 12,800 Jap anese from 11 California coun ties and most of Seattle by May 3. Grizzly bears can climb only when they are cubs. man 217th division. On the central front, where the Russians have been slowly closing a giant pincers around the German "escape corridor" from Moscow, the soviet radio reported the capture of an Im portant point of resistance, with 1.300 nazis killed in 48 hours of heavy fighting. North African front British headquarters announced that clearing weather brovght a re sumption of "normal patrol activities." BT. FALLS RANCH The large frame dwelling on the old Ben Fredenburg ranch three miles northwest of Butte Falls caught fire early this af ternoon and the blaze was being fnusht bv nelshbors and per sonnel from the Butte Falls ranspr station, which hurriedly dispatched equipment to the scene when notified Dy me mea ford Cornoration fire warden In the vlcnlty, it was reported by the Rogue River National loresi. The fire, whipped by a nign wind, was endangering the large barn on the ranch, the forest service said. It was not Immedi ately learned how the blaze orig inated nor who occupied the house. DAY TO DAY Washington, April 21. re united States policy toward the new axis collaborationist regime ln Vichy remains on a day to day basis, Secretary of State Hull told his press conference today. POELLNITZ DEATH INQUIRY TONIGHT An Inquest concerning the death of Mrs. Ada Poellnitz from injuries sustained in an auto smash-up near Savage Rap Ids dam early Saturday morning will be held at 7 o'clock this evening at the Perl funeral home, Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris said this morning. Mrs. Poellnitz. long-time resi dent of Medford, succumbed Sunday afternoon ln Grants Pass hospital. Among those called upon to testify will be Dr. C. L. Okie of Grants Pass, who treated Mrs. Poellnitz and her companion, Robert Swoape of Medford, JAP LOSSES LISTED Melbourne, April 21. (JPh Airmen of the United Nations have "destroyed or probably de stroyed" some 66 Japanese planes and damaged about 50 others since April 1 In the air war ln southwest Pacific area, an authoritative tabulation from allied communiques showed today. The number of enrollees at Camp Prescott, one of the three remaining CCC camps ln this area, will be reduced to 159 Thursday when 41 boys leave here by train for Louisiana to be discharged, it was announced today. Last week 101 replace menta from North and South, Carolina arrived to swell tha camp personnel to 200. Since the absorption of trie Medford CCC district by the Vancouver, Wash., barracks dis trict last August, Camps Pres cott, South Fork and WlUiama Creek alone remain in this sec tor. South Fork has 108 en rollees, Williams Creek 170. The three camps are operating: directly under the Vancouver barracks district, there being no headquarters in Medford. Camo Prescott enrollees are at present working at the Med ford municipal airport on na tional defense project and doing other general work, Williams Creek enrollees have been cut ting timber In the area for use at the airport and South Fork enrollees are planting tree for the Rogue River National forest and working at the CCC central automotive repair depot at the county fairgrounds. Many CCC boys in tnia area have enlisted in the armed forces recently, some have been drafted and others are coming of draft age, it was announced. A considerable number . have also been discharged to accept work ln national defense plant and on national defense pro jects. Bubonic Plague In Jackson Co. Rodents Grant Fass, April 21. VP) Bubonic plague in rodent ha crossed the California state line Into this section of Oregon. Fleas infected with the dis ease have been found on squir rels in Josephine and Jackson sounties, Dr. S. B. Osgood, coun ty health physician, wa in formed Tuesday by letter from the state board of health. i
