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V Let fOUR Answer to Bomb be BONDSI Boy Detente Bonds anS luxpa tolv ContrtboU ta the strength ef four nation. Patrtollain. four own orlf-pro-Irrtlon. trnunih that 1OU e eoui port SOWI Splendid Results Ton an aleart depend on th Wont Add In thtt newspaper ortnflnf tpiradlo neulta. Mora people are dpprndlni on thla method of adrertlilnf mr a and yon shoal get tha habit It Mif. Medford Full Associated Pin Thirty seventh Year. fTMM A IMl yi MTHIBUNE ' United Press 1 1 MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 22, 1942. NQ 2? 1 i r News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, April 22. No news has been good news from the Atlantic lately. Reports of nazi sinkings ii- vona dropped Oil nearly to zero after a peak about three weeks back. Per manent conclusions are not warranted because an no u n cements of both our losses and Ger- paiii u:nin man claims are ordinarily delayed a week or two. Yet there are many stories . In circulation in shipping quart I ers wholly unofficial, of course suggesting the navy has ac complished decisive results. One Is that 30 German and Italian subs have been sunk by us in the last two weeks. Not many more than this number could have been involved at the peak of the attack. There is another story about the bodies of 29 axis seamen re trieved from the waters of the sea and brought for burial to a special plot near one of our Atlantic ports. Still another (this one is more unofficial) suggests an American fishing vessel, hard at work off shore was suddenly confronted by a rising nazi periscope. The fishermen expected the worst and were getting ready for it when a German voice, from the now risen conning tower asked If they had any fish for sale. While negotiations were In ) progress, under the duress of an Imminent torpedo, the nazis got some fish they did not expect, flying fish. A patrol plane spotted the sub and sank same. a nPHE painful silence of the navy and army after the bombing of Japan was not pain ful around headquarters. The authorities here enjoyed their best laughs of the war listening to the Tokyo radio. Obviously the Japs never knew what hit them. First they said the planes were B-2S med ium Martins, then B-2S North Americans and on both occasions (Continued on Page- 91x) Typewriter Dealers Must File Inventory The Jackson county rationing , board today Issued notice that all typewriter dealers, whole salers, retailers, second-hand stores or any other concern hav ing In their possession typewrit ers either new or used, must file an Inventory of such typewrit ers with the board not later than April 25. Those who do not have Inven tory blanks may obtain them at the Chamber of Commerce, the board's notice said. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight: MBS, 8:30, J. Pier pont Moffat, U. S. minister to Canada, on "Canada and the U. S. Today." Thursday: CBS, 12:30 p. m., Cincinnati Conservatory con 'Xft cert; 1:30, Mary I Barber on "How to Feed the Army;" 3:13. Quenton Reynolds on "Our Al lies." Blue, 11 a. m., A. E. F. how from northern Ireland. MBS, 9:15, New Eleanor Early Women's series: 11:13, Be Kind to Animals Program. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS L. P. Older proudly display ing his German-made synthttic rubber tire. Two Central Point ladies not being handicapped by a stop light since they wanted to shop down the other direction any way. I City Dad Tom Bradley bring ing roars of laughter from other city Dads with remarks of his personal opinion of an off-the-record subject P 1 W BRITISH SURVEY NAZI DEFENSE IN BRILLIANT FORAY Two Hours Spent Ashore By Small Reconnaisance Force Casualties Light. By the Associated Frets Britain's daring commandos stormed the Nazi-occupied French coast near Boulogne this morning, drove back the Ger mans guarding the coast and withdrew after two hours, Brit ish headquarters announced after the rumble of heavy cen nonade was heard over the Do ver strait before daylight. A communique said the com mandos, striking in the first com bined operations raid since the spectacular attack on the Ger man U-boat base at St. Nazaire, March 28, ranged the French coastal region testing Nazi de fenses and collecting military in formation. Casualties Light Such raids might be part of a program to find "soft spots" in the German coastal defenses as a prelude to a British invasion attempt. The communique said British casualties were "very light" and that a naval force accompanying the commandos damaged a Ger man trawler which attempted to Intercept the raiding party. A second Nazi trawler was re ported set afire. The new cross-channel thrust one of a series which is said to have spread jitters among German garrisons along the French "invasion coast" was accompanied by heavy firing along the thick-misted Dover strait. Lookouts on the Kent coast said the thunder of artillery came from the direction of Bou logne and that a second period of cannon fire was heard later, lasting about 15 minutes. British headquarters said the raid was carried out by "a small reconnaissance" force. No Brit ish ships were damaged, the communique said. Boulogne is one of the main German defense strongholds along the coast nearest to Eng land. Peace Try Seen A possible new phase of an axis peace offensive, already launched by Japan with an un official "trial balloon," develop ed today as round-about reports asserted that secret negotiations were under way in Italy for a separate peace. A dispatch from Ankara, Tur key, to the London News Chron icle quoted a "Rome diplomatic message" as authority for the re port. The dispatch said the recent exchange of British and Italian prisoners and other incidents had "encouraged the Italians to believe that Britain still does not hate the Italians in the manner in which the Nazis are loathed and despised." In the Russian campaign, So viet dispatches reported that the Red army had broken a second hole through Finnish front lines In Karelia, northeast of Lenin grad, knifing six miles deep Into positions manned by reserves. An Associated Press corres pondent who fled over the long battlefront reported that the winter snowline was rolling steadily north, laying bare a large part of the fighting area, The correspondent said the Soviet Caucasus, probable target of Adolf Hitler's long-awaited spring offensive, was alrea'y hard and dry under a warm sun Coincidentally, a Berlin broad cast denied that any official Nazi spokesman ever prophesied that the German offensive would start in April, declaring the date would be "determined solely by the fuehrer. Non-axis reports recently have said Hitler s plans for a spring renewal of "blitz" warfare had been delayed several months by shaken morale, terrific losses in the Russian winter campaign and destructive blows delivered by the RAF against Germany's vital war foundries In the reich. On the north African front, the German high command re ported "no Important military operations.' Japs Pressed Hard In Burma ALLIED AIRMEN PRICE . HE FOR I Ha, Labor Plan FIRST RATIONING Jfo- 1 SCOREVIGTORY BLANKET FREEZE I Ov i BY FOOD STAMPS I kOHUam"".' I V I Ml II II I II IkVk 111 WWilllllU 1 1 1ft 2 t . II U I I L faJ A II 1 i DiAiMffA a a j i n ivi r-. i kyaukpadaungO MEIKTILA K9k YENANGYAUNGW MAoWE ALLANMYO PROME SANDOWAY IE, Va. X V Aided by British tanks, Chinese forces operating on the Irra waddy front, launched a counter-offensive from Kyaukpadaung and recaptured Yenangyaung (1), in the Burma oil area. Other Chinese forces were forced to withdraw to the vicinity of Ela (2), from Myohla. Captured Hongkong a "Japanese-Made Hell" (Henry Bough, a member of the Reuters staff formerly in Hongkong, escaped to Free China from , the one-time , British Crown colony after three months in the Japanese-ocupied city. He wrote the following dispatch for Reuters and the Associa ted press.) By Henry Bough Chungking, April 22 A Japanese-made hell that was Hong kong three months after its oc cupation. Starvation faces a large pro portion of the population. When the Japanese seized the island it was esimated there was a nine month supply of food on hand. But large quantities were com mandeered by the Japanese army and shipped away. Food supplied the prisopers of war Is poor and scarce, and there is much sickness. Civilian internees are somewhat better off, for they occasionally get fish and meat. The prisoners of war are given only rice and beans. Murder and Rape I can confirm the appalling stories of murder and rape which have been reported. Many of the worst atrocities were committed In the presence of Japanese officers. They are only too true. Many of the women, after being attacked, were shot. In the early days of the occu pation the Japanese troops en gaged in widespread looting. Men and women were stopped in the streets and watches and money were taken from them. Under the pretext of searching for arms, Japanese troops un der the command of offi.-rs en tered and ransacked private premises. Everything possible Is done to lower western prestige. Britons are orders to sweep the streets while others must carry away dead bodies. British subjects are struck In the face on the slight est provocation. Given Short Notice All of these incidents took place before British and allied subjects were interned. One day notices appeared ordering all "enemy" nationals to report the following morning. They were given a few hours to settle their private affairs and were allowed to take with them only their clothing and personal belongings: The internees first were concentrated in several thlrd-r ate Chinese boarding houses. After about two weeks all were removed to a large prison at Stanley, about four miles across from Victoria on Hong kong Island. No visitors were al lowed there. The plight of eld erly people perhaps was worst of all. WHALERS TO OPERATE Seattle. April 22 AP Idle since 1939, five "killer" boats of the whaling fleet moored in a Lake Washington bay will oper ate in north r.clflc waters this summer. One vessel has been taken over by the government. NTHIN i TAUNGDWI TAUNGDWI NGYI YAM t NTH IN 1 HA MYOHLA IOUNGOO H I Sinjok Valley CCC ENROLLEES ENJOY VISITS TO Although no organized recre ational facilities are in opera tion here for the benefit of CCC enrollees in this 'area while off duty, it was indicated today by Nelson F. Smith, commander of the detachment at the old coun ty fairgrounds, that the boys are making out well and enjoying themselves during their leisure hours. Members of the detachment receive Wednesday and Satur day nights off, at which times most of the boys attend dances or patronize the theatres, Nelson said. Many of them have formed acquaintances here that provide w e 1 c ome entertainment. On nights other than Wednesday and Saturday the enrollees must be in bed by 10 o'clock, the de tachment commander explained. Commenting on the possibil ity that CCC boys would be eligible to enjoy the facilities of the $93,000 recreational build ing the government plans to erect here for men in the armed forces, Nelson said that In Ketchikan, Ala., CCC enrollees were given the same privileges In a U.S.O. recreational building that soldiers and sailors were accorded. If such Is the case here, when the building is completed, it will be appreciated by the boys, Nelson said, as would any other recreational facility which might be made available to them In town. BASEBALL American League Philadelphia 5 9 1 New York 11 13 2 Beckman, Fowler and Hayes: Chandler and Dickey. National R. H. E. New York 3 8 1 Philadelphia 0 1 Koslo and Panning; Hughes and Warren. R. H. E. Chicago . 1 7 0 Pittsburgh . 10 0 Ericksun, Eaves, Fleming Kush and McCullough, Hernan dez; Hamlin and Phelps. flVFR IAPANRF IN HOMING WFFKbV s." I ! Four "Zero" Planes Downed Over Port Moresby With out Loss of Single Plane. By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor Allied sky fighters defending the approaches to Australia were credited officially today with scoring a 4-0 victory over Japanese "Zero" planes in a battle over Port Moresby, New Guinea, while U. S. navy torpe do boats were reported to have seriously damaged a Japanese light cruiser in the Philippines. A bulletin from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Australia said United Nations airmen shot down four Japanese planes without loss to them selves at Port Moresby, and that other allied fliers set num erous fires among wharves and buildings in an attack on Ra baul, New Britain. Retreat In Burma On the critical Burma war front, British headquarters an nounced that out numbered British and Chinese troops again were forced to retreat under heavy pressure by Japanese in vasion columns driving into the earth-scorched Yenangyaung oil fields in western Burma. A new Delhi communique said tRe allies completed a fight ing withdrawal across the Fin chaung river "but not without losses of personnel and equip ment." In the Philippines, a U. S. navy communique reported that two of Lieut. John D. Bulkeley's sharp-stinging mosquito boats, hiding in secret. Jungle-screened bases among the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago, bold ly attacked a Japanese cruiser protected by four destroyers in a recent night raid of Cebu island. Few Escape Bataan The navy's report somewhat offset an army communique dis closing that nearly 3,000 nation al guardsmen from nine states were among the 37,000 American-Filipino defenders killed, wounded or taken prisoner in the historic battle of Bataan. Only 107 guardsmen were evac uated to Corregidor island when Bataan fell, April 9. Domei, the Japanese news agency, reported that 62,600 prisoners had been captured so far In the Philippine campaign, including 10,600 United States officers and men. Of the Americans. 1,600 were said to be hospitalized. One of the largest deals of Its kind in southern Oregon In several years was consummated vesterday by the sale of the 900- acre J. H. Lucas cattle ranch north of Ashland to Reese R. Es- ear of Modesto. Calif., accord ing to V. D. "Bert" Miller of the Miller Realty agency of Ash land. Mr. Miller, who handled nego tiations for the transaction said that a large sum of money was involved and that Lucas gained valuable business property in the heart of Modesto. The build ing there is of modern steel front construction and is occupied by four firms. The Ashland ranch Is well stocked and equipped and Esgar obtains grazing right In the trade. Mr. Lucas told Miller that he was giving up the ranch because of inability to care for it. His son, Kenneth, Is in the service and another son. Glen, Is about to be called. Lucas, himself, is suffering from a recent Injury, BLAST KILLS FOUR Ottawa, Ont., April 22 AP) Four men were killed today and several Injured in an explo sion at the MacDonald chemical works, Waterloo, Que., the mu- n'tions and supply department announced. Henderson Expected to Take Action Tuesday To Hold Tags at March Levels. Washington, April 22 (;P) Authoritative sources said today a blanket price order freezing virtually all retail, wholesale and manufacturers' prices at their March levels probably will be announced by Price Admin istrator Leon Henderson at a press conference next Tuesday. It was understood the ceiling order, covering all consumer items with the probable excep tion of foods, would permit each store to use as its maximum the highest price charged for each item last month. The sweeping abandonment of the existing piecemeal price control technique has been In preparation for weeks by OPA, but action has been deferred, it was said, pending Piesident Roosevelt's presentation to con gress of a broad inflation control program. F. R. To Broadcast The White House has disclosed that Mr. Roosevelt would short ly send a message to congress covering all cost-of-living prob lems, including labor, taxes, prices and profits, and that it would be followed Monday night by a broadcast to the nation by the chief executive. Meanwhile it wai reported that retail officials had attempt ed to Induce the office of price administration to set wholesal ers' prices back to December, instead of March, levels In the proposed overall price action. ' Washington, April 22 CP) President Roosevelt ordered to day that his appointments this week be held to those of a "must nature so he would be free to make his final determin ations on his anti-Inflation pro gram to be laid before congress within a week. As Presidential Secretary Ste phen Early said that none of the program had been finally deter mined, the ways and means com mittee started work in closed meetings on a new tax bill which many house members said would contain some form of general sales tax. DISGUSTED FRENCHMEN QUIT CONSULAR STAFF Washington, April 22 (Pi Four members of the French embassy and consular staff here have resigned, it was disclosed today. In protest against the col laborationist regime set up in Vichy by Pierre Laval. A fifth Is expected to hand In his resignation this afternoon. "BIO TREE" CONFERENCE Eugene, April 22. (AP) The Pacific northwest "Big Tree" conference of Girl Scouts open ed here today, with Mrs. Alan H. Means, Salt Lake City, na tional president, In charge. Six Breadless Weeks Faced By Frenchmen By Ovid A. Martin Washington, April 22 m The agriculture department. In a recent summary of recent ca bles on European food develop ments, told today of Increasing difficulties confronting Germ any and Nazi-occupied countries in producing and supplying their people with food and fiber crops. Unoccupied France was said to be facing six breadless weeks before the new wheat harvest because of diversion of grain by the black markets, illegal use of wheat for feeding live stock and poultry, counterfeit ration cards, and failure of farm ers to deliver the quantities ex pected. The department said reports coming out of Germany indica ted that stringent measures were being taken against viola 55 at . .' Paul V. McNutt (above), chair man of the war manpower com mission, announced to a press conference in Washington that he planned creation of a system of labor priorities. He said he did not contemplate a work or fight method of forcing men into war production. E IN EFFORT TO NIP Vichy, Unoccupied France. April 22 P Lieut. Gen. Ernst Von Schaumburg, Car man commander in the Great er Paris area, announced to day that more than IS persons had been shot in reprisal for recent attacks on German oc cupation forces but that 20 more had been reprieved be cause French civilians had handed over to police those responsible for the killing ei a German soldier. Vichy, Unoccupied France, April 22. (P) German authori ties in Paris announced today the execution of a number of Frenchmen described as com munists, Jews and "persons re sponsible through solidarity" In reprisal for alleged assassina tion attempts against German soldiers on April 2, 8 and 20. Additional hostages will be shot unless the so-called "terror ists" are turned into the authori ties within a week, the announce ment said. Failure to do so also wllr result in the deportation of an additional several hundred persons to forced labor camps in eastern Europe, it added. The executions announced In Paris, which followed the exe cution of 33 hostages in northern France announced last week, ap parently came under the head ing of the "further measures" which Lieut. Gen. Ernest Von Schaumburg, commander in -the Greater Paris area, reserved the right to take after placing all of Paris under strict three-day curfew yesterday. tors of food rationing regula tions. Recent restrictions upon the milling of wheat and rye indi cate, the department said, that German grain stocks have de clined to a level where econo mies must be affected in order to insure against a poor crop at home this year and the possibil ity of supplies from southeastern Europe falling below expecta tions. Agricultural production In Denmark, which In 1941 was less than half of normal, was said to be seriously threatened this year by the late spring, shortages of fertilizers, seed and labor. The department said Germany hoped to secure the production of sufficient food In occupied Ukranian Russia to meet the needs of nazi occupation forces and for the bare maintenance of me local population, - x 10 SM MAY 5 OPA Announces First Stamp Good For Pound of Sugar Registry Dates Told. Washington, April 22 The nation's first rationing of food by stamps will start May 8, umce or price adminlstra. tion announced today, with the first StamD BOOd for nnrxh... one pound of sugar during the fcriuu may o to May 16. In an order aettinv fnrtK a. tails of the sugar rationing sys- ., aisciosea mat allot ments to restaurants, hotels and the like would be cut 80 per cent under the amount used last year, while bakers, confection ers, beverage hnltlm i. - . " ' tlU cream and dairy product pro- uui-cro wouia be limited to 70 per cent of past use. Register May 4-7 Household mninm.,, w v . will register at grade 'schools throughout the country May 4-7, nciusive, will te entitled to purchase one nnnnH nf with each of the first four stamps in war ration book No. 1. The first stamp is valid May 5-16. tha aeennH Mg, n.w third. May 31-June 13, and the lunrin, june H-Z7. Retail and whnlwula 4.wiiw- ments handling sugar will reg ister ai nign schools April 28 and 29, as will industrial and in stitutional users. Susar dealera r Jav ... kuuir ty may pick up application and registration blanlra k.i. sugar allotment at any of the high schools on Anrtl 99 99 94 or 27, the county administrator saia toaay. The blanks, the administrator explained, are to be filled In and returned to the schools on April o or zh alter which they will be checked and sugar purchase certificates will be Issued. Ada Poellnitz Death Doe to Own Action Is Coroner Jury Finding Mrs. Ada Poellnlta an -l-t- reSDonsible inr (h. ih.1 Jm, - awumt early Saturday morning which claimed her life according to the verdict of a coroner's Jury which convenea at the Perl funeral home last night Mrs. Poellnitz died In a Grants Pass hospital Sunday afternoon from injuries sustained in the accident. According to Deputy Coroner Carlos Morris, Dr. C. L. Ogle of Grants Pass, who trl the victim and who was que. uonea last nignt, gave the cause of death as concussion of tha brain. He aafrl. hnaww chest Injuries Mrs. Poellnitx re- ceivea were severe enough to have caused hed death. Other witnesses raltjwt ann Robert Swoape of Medford, pas senger oi me wrecked machine, and J. A. Myers of Grant Pass, first to arrive at the scene of the accident. Swoape contended that Mrs. Poellnitz was driving at the time of the mishap. Jurvmen arvin at th In. quest were Walter Johnson, A. u. Toueison, u. a. oavis, Homer narvey, u. u. Mile and George Howard. Few m Bottles Only Salvage Frca Fredesfcsrg Claze Only 14 milk bottles were saved from the home of Mr. and Mrs, Ted Fredenburg, three miles northwest of Butt Falls, which was completely destroyed by fire of undetermined origin Tuesday afternoon, the Rogue River National forest reported today. The blaze started on th sec ond floor of the two-story frame building and was discovered by Dwlght Fredenburg, five, who was sick In bed, according to the forest service. Dwlght called to Ms parent and was removed to safety, but effort of neigh bors and equipment and men from the Butt Falls ranger sta tion, to save the house and furn ishings, war futile.
