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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 22, 1942. NQ 2?
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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
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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.'
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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.
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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
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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.