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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1942.
Thirty-seventh Year.
NO. 26.
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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
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Symptom of Fear Seen in
Prolonged Worry No
Plane Visits Mentioned.
baseball 'HOPKINS REPORT
National
Philadelphia at New York
postponed, weather.
Boston
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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
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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
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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.
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