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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1942. Chapter IS Plane In The Night DOWN at Headquarter that morning, excitement raxed like a prairie Hre. Stephanie an iwered telephones, enrolled vol unteers, recorded subscriptions, ran err-tnds, grateful lor the in tense preoccupation that kept her thoughts away from the detail! of tha carnai; at Pearl Harbor that were gradually silting back to the mainland. And Kurt, where was he? But she wouldn't let herself go on. Instead, she drove her mind ruthlessly to the work piled high before her. Work in terms of mountains of sliced bread to be made into sandwiches for the boys posted on the bridges, guarding tha docks, the power stations, the nerve centers ot the great, busy city. Stacks and stacks of sand wiches, gallons of coffee, hun dreds of trips to the string of cars and station wagons Red Cross workers would drive bear ing food to boys patrolling cold, lonely beats. Stephanie herself would have taken her place at the wheel of on of tha cars but for Henri. "My dear girl," he protested, meeting her at the doorway as ahe staggered under the burden of a huge carton of food. "You look so fatigued. You must get some rest" "Can't. Henri." she muttered. "Too much to do." "But you will not be abla to help if you wear yourself out, Stephanie." he argued reasonably. "You cannot do everything In one day." "He's right. Miss Merrill." one of the older women agreed. "You've done your part for to day, certainly. And to Henri. Tike her home, young man." Stephanie smiled wearily. "Okay, Henri." And let him lead her to his car. "How did you hap pen to be down here anyway, in terfering with the work of the Bed Cross?" she asked as they drove across busy Market Street, headed for the hilly residential district. He smiled. "I had an Idea you would be there, working too hard. You must not do so much." "But there is so much to be done and so few" She stopped as the rising wail of a siren swelled from an ominous whine to a heart-chilling scream. "What's that!" Street lights winked off giving her the answer before Henri's cool, "Air-raid signal, Stephanie. This Is a blackout." Blackout THEY had reached the crest of the Sonoma Street hill. Henri pulled the car to the curb, snapped off the engine. Instantly. btenhame cum bra out, siooa watching the lights In the City below disappearing In whole blocks at one stroke. Lights on the Bridge below, on the shores across the throat of the harbor, all blotted up now by darkness. "A blackout!" Stephanie whis pered, appalled. "San Francisco blacked out for an air raidl It can't be happening!" "But it can be," Henri said quietly at her shoulder. "It is hanoenlng." Her fists curled deep In the pockets of her warm coat "They wouldn't dare!" She felt rather than saw him ahrug. "But they are daring!" "Come on. Let's walk the rest of the way to the house. We can watch the Bay better from our porch." Stephanie suggested and started off without waiting for his answer. For a while as sha stood lean ing against a porch pillar, look ing out over the so-familiar scene that darkness was gradually cov ering with its pall. Stephanie for got about Henri. And suddenly, tears were streaming down her cheeks. Bitter, angry tears of furious defiance. "What can they do to us?" she henrd her own voice blurt an grily. "Not much, Henri soothed calmly. "This coast is well-forti Oregon Delegation Finds Southerners Put Fast One Over Portland, April 22 (P) The Washington correspondent of the Oregonlan reported today that $3,000,000 phosphorus plant, tentatively located at The Dalles, apparently would be built instead at Mobile, Ala. The newspaper's dispatch said that war department favored The Dalles' site because it had an Idle 3S.00O kilowatt Bonne ville power line and was rela tively close to phosphate sources in Idaho and Montana. But representatives from the south inserted in the independ entt offices bill an appropriation for the plant to be built in the south. Then the senate passed the sixth deficiency bill and members of the Oregon delega tlon discovered, too late, thai the appropriation had been lift ed from the house-approved In dependent offices bill and Insert ed In the deficiency bill. Parliamentarians now must decide whether the appropria Medford's LARGEST complete stock ot ARROW SKIRTS $2.25 to $3.00 Store tor Man n' U fied.. Besides, no Invading army could get close enough to do any serious damage. Not with ail the big guns olanted around this har bor, for example. And down there.' he pointed to the narrow opening of the Gate, "there are submarine net under the sur face, secret guns hidden on the banks. Out there.' he pointed to ward the vast black chasm of tha ocean, "are hundreds of scouting planes, destroyers, cutters all pa trolling these waters." "Let s hope so." "You have nothing to worry about. A country as wealthy, as strong, as great as this one could not be seriously damaged." "I wonder" Stephanie shook her head. "Maybe we have been too sure." Then "Listen!" Only a murmur at first so faint that it could be something one's imagination dreamed up. Then stronger, steadily stronger. A roar of planes flying high. And flying nearer every moment "Planes!" Henri laughed. "Probably American planes." Fingers of searchlights played now against the1 black curtain of the night Slim, stabbing shafts of light dwarfed by the overwhelm ing darkness. "What If they are foreign planes?" she demanded. "What Henri's hand touched her arm reassuringly. "Don't torture your, self by fancied dangers. If they were enemy planes, don't you suppose American Army or Navy planes would be shooting them down? This is only a precaution ary measure, Stephanie." Still unconvinced, Stephanie's chin notched higher. Peering up at the overcast skies, she knew Henri was only trying to be help, ful This was no mock raid. This was warl "Let's walk down to the end ol the garden. We can see the fool of the bridge from there," sht suggested, starting down the steps. "Take care. You might stumble Perhaps it would be better " The Light BUT Stephanie didn't wait foi his remonstrance. A moment later, she heard him following her down the gravelled path. Then, even as she shuddered with the eerie sense of being in a strange world, she was aware of a light Leaping like a beacon ray, it stabbed the darkness from behind her. "Where Is that light coming from?" she called to Henri. "What light?" "There!" She ran back up the path. "It looks like one of nui own bedrooms. Maybe Tsong for got to" "Probably. Anyway, one light won't matter." "Of course It matters!" She brushed past him. "It stands out like a lighthouse." But it wasn't Tsong's forgetful. ness. At the top of the slope, she stopped, staring. That light came from the Miller house! A skylight window from tha attic blazed with a white light. "Look" she called over net shoulder fn Henri. "It's at Mil lers'. I'm going to tell them " Again, Henri tried to detain her. "One of the servants will dis cover it in a moment." Stephanie faced him. "What's the matter with you? Don't you want that light off?" "Certainly, if it matters that much to vou." Henri smiled dis armingly. "Only I think you are making a great deal of trouble over an Insignificance." "Maybe! And again, maybe one of those Jap servants over there didn't leave that light on by mis take!" Henri chuckled. "Stephanie darling, you've been seeing too many movies Those things don't happen in these United States!" But Stephanie didn't step long er to argue. She raced down the drive, ducked through thi- hedge, across the darkened garden. To be conUauca tlon Is legal, having passed the house in one bill and the senate in another. TIRADES BY CLOSE Ottawa, April 22 . The Canadian parliament has receiv ed assurances that weekly broadcasts by L'pton Close, de scribed by one house member as "offensive tirades against Uritaln." will be toned down or otherwise dealt with. The assurances came from J. T. Thorson, war services minis ter, who Informed commons that complaints had been made to the National Broadcasting Co., of the United States. NliC replied that action had been taken "which, It Is believ ed, will be effective." Thorson said. (Close, a California author unsympathetic with Great Brl tain, has been broadcasting each Sunday from an NUC station in Hollywood.) Portland Feeling Gas Curtailment Portland, April n took only four dn.vs fur the ef- 111 11 fc.HNIIHT 1 (II IMlllllt'lll IV, become apparent here. "Out of gas" signs appeared this morn ing in several Portland service stations after deliveries to sta lions were trimmed by a third. dieted the number of cars on the streets would drop sharply On the Radio Chains STATIONS! Chain affiliation an bert tbe are en the atali If ALU (MH use, Partiana KtX (MHCHlue) Hue. Portland. k(M NH('-Hlue Mllni isie apokane: kuo (NBC'-Bloe) sis. r'ranrlM-os KUW (Mir-Hull SM. fort li nd! kjk (NHC-Hlurl IOOO. ftratlto; KNX tru 101 Los Antrim HO (NHP-Hrdl M rtrnfm KOIN ('B tie. fort, land; KOMO (NHr-itm) sso SrallleS KPO (MIC-Rrd) San Franrlwn; KSL (CBS) 1164 Mil Lake City. "" I Imr mown IS PST Wednesday 0:00 p. m. "flying Patroi, KEX. KOO. KJR; SUra ot Today, KOW; Don Wlmlow of the Navy. KPO; Ken Btevens, KOIN; Brewster Boy. KSL. SSO p. m. Dr. Christian, KSL; It Happened In tha Service, KPO. KOMO, KOW: Eyes of the World, KOIN; News of the World, KEX. KOO. KJR: Harry W. Plannery. KNX. 6 00 p. m. Eddie Cantor, KPO. KOW. KOMO; Buln Street Chamber Music. KOO. KEX. KJR; Shirley Temple. KMX, KOIN; Sports, KSL. 8:30 p. m. Dr. Cab Calloway, KOO. KEX; Mr. District Attorney. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Rtneom Sherman Show. KNX. KOIN; News, KJR. 7:00 p. m. Glenn Miller's Oreb... KNX, KSL, KOIN; Kay Kyser-a Mu sical Quia, KPO, KOW, KOMO; Time to Relax, KJR. 7:30 p. m. News of the World. KSL; Jean Cavall, KOO, KJR. 8:00 p. m. Quia Kids. KOO, KJR. KEX; Amos 'n' Andy, KPO, KOW, KOMO. 16 p. m. Lanny Boss, KNX, KSL. KOIN. 8:30 p. m. Dr. Christian. KKX. KSL, KOIN; Unci Walter's Dog House, KPO. KOW. KOMO; Man hattan at Midnight, KOO, KJR, KEX; News, KSL. 8:00 p. m. Paul Martin's Orch., KPO; News, KEX, KJR; That Brew ster Boy, KNX, KOIN: News. KOO; Most Honored Music, KOW: Highlight Hour, KOMO: Hymn Service, KSL. 11:30 p. m. Henry King's Orch., KOO; Pred Wartng's Orch., KOMO. KOW, KPO: News, KJR, KSL, KEX: William Winter, KNX; Northwest Neighbors, KOIN; Off tha Record, KOMO. 10:00 p. m. Reporter News, KPO, KOW, KOMO; Ran Wilde's Orch., KOO, KEX: News, KNX. KOIN; Mas terworka of Music, KSL; Chamber Music, KJR. 10:30 p. m. Sonny Dunham's Orch.. KOO. KOMO; Howard Beck er's Orch., KSL; Al Donahue's Orch., KPO; Broadway Bandwagon, KEX; Serenade, KJR; War Time Women. KOIN. 11:00 p. m. Organ, KPO, KOW; Wilbur Hatch'a Orch., KOIN, KSL: This Moving World, KEX: News. KNX, KOO: Polk Music. KJR; Eve ning Reveries, KOMO. Thursday 8:00 p. m. Death Valley Days. KSL; Eyes of the World, KOIN; Dance Orch., KOMO: Plying Patrol, KEX. KOO, KJR; Stars of Today. KOW: Don Wlnslow ot the Navy, KPO. DIFFICULT DECISIONS VTiNhrPlKA UirflKO -ft O fVU TROM "ME SfAlRS AND frlilS REVEAL THE TAlY TMM" VOU eHfl'r 601 Btp vt1"' 0R lu 1HAT TAWER VJttH 51tP On If WHEN HE COMK UP IM 1HE PARK, WirH DIRE RESULT'S AIL AROUND ' '" i-.wwt. Mainly TfcMTstoWaaTft atiattl fe ACROSS I. Pp rvr 1 rHurt Ian; .1 OrnMfii: II Not irlct 14 K- calf tft. Oil "I mM! variant It Oona by .1. AlKtrtan M U ntia ot a monk Si. Bristlaa Ik Given to tnadiutloa tl Dacurata 19 Animal a fool 40 Ouldtd 41 Cotton fabiia 41 Roguish 41 lnnrj 44 Evarcrn trg 44 Conoarnlni 4T Llffit carriMffa 'I Ptaiar la rata 0 Hair ointment 10 lrylni clot ha 14. Not profe. tl Nina alonaJ tl S-olT II tumiii flntaj It Anvlhtng 17 Kngllah Hvajr t rift it trtia i cnaractar la ff. ifgrmnt ol ft Tha RMnrfold" I Rnilltb lallar 4)0, Oiala comb, form 1. Perralva y touch '1 Indian of Tlorra dal ruco U J j is I ; Id If la Li hzzlz T """" "" " "7" """" """" """" """" jTIT 7f" IT 2T Jo" 3T" Ti, "Ji M 7s 1 pj- . J 43" f so 7Tj sT - 6 30 p. ra. News of the World. KOO. KJR. KEX: Harry W. Plannery, KNX: People's Platform, KSL; Mast era of Muale, KPO; Afternoon Dances, KNX; Leon P. Drews, KOIN; Stream lined Pair Tales, KOMO. 6:00 p. m. Muale Hall with Blng Crosby, KPO, KOW, KOMO; Major Bowes Original Amateur Hour, KNX. KSL. KOIN; Voice of Victory. KOO; Old Timers, KJR. 8:30 p. m. Big Town, KNX, KSL. KOIN: Music by Bovero. KOO. KEX; Armchair Cruises, KJR. 7:00 p. m. At Pearoe'a Oang. KPO. KOMO. KOW; Rudy Valle. KOO, KEX, KJR; Olenn Miller's Orch, KNX. KOIN. KSL. 7:30 p. m. Red Ryder. KOO, KJR. KEX. 8:00 p. m. Amoa V Andy, KNX, KSL, KOIN: Pred Waring. KPO. KOMO, KOW; Dorothy Thompson, KOO. KJR, KEX. ' 8:1ft p. m. 6ur Lea Boulevards, KOO, KJR; Lanny Ross. KNX, KOIN, KSL: Plowera for the Living, KEX. 8:30 p. m. Death Valley Daya, KNX, KOIN: Panny Brlce, KPO. KOMO, KOW; News, KSL. 9:00 p. m. Buddy Franklin's Orch., News, KEX, KJR; News, Dick Rogers' Orch., KOIN; Aldrlch Pamlly, KPO. KOMO, KOW; Maudle's Diary. KSL. 9:80 p. ra. Ellery Queen. KPO. KOW, KOMO; Maudle's Diary, KNX, KOIN-, News, KEX: Home Offensive, KOO. 10:00 p. m, America's Town Meet ing of tha Air, KEX. KOO, KJR: Re porter News, KPO. KOMO, KOW: News, KNX: Masterworka of Music, KSL: Plve Star Pinal, KOIN. 10:30 p. m. Sun Kenton's Orch.. KSL; Ozzle Nelson's Orch., KPO, KOMO: Moonlight Souata, KOW; War Time Women, KOIN. 11:00 p. m. Swing Your Partner, KPO, KOW; This Moving World, KEX. KJR; Wilbur Hatch'a Orch, KOIN Evening Reveries, KOMO; News, KNX, KOO. T Washington, April 22 (P) The government ordered the cotton textile industry today to convert approximately half of its facilities to war production within the next 60 days. Under terms of the order, cot ton mills must convert specified percentages of their looms, now making various cotton fabrics commonly used in clothing and home furnishings, to production of bag Osnaburg a coarse bag ging material and bag sheet ings. Effect of the action will be to double the production of mater ial required for sand bags, camouflage cloth and food and agriculture bagging. Use Mall Tribune waat ads. By GLUT AS WILLIAMS IB L'Mio Solution Of Yeatarday'a Putzlo a Old ttmaat poatlc It Dalinaatad DOWN L Withstand on 1 Architectural piar t aUia da at 4. Kind of cook la I. Uaacuitna nam t. Witty oaro T. Poratgn I. Small Moaaoa I Uirnini 10 t Mcant tarn U. WrltM 11 Hfwlng toot II Sltrta.n rlvar IS Pna li. Tartalntng t antraj point TS. PesMlva Mlf M. Churvh fjicnl. Ii7 ft Ltmo : refill 10. Cha rman'l maKat It. tbi. 11 Swamp 14. Carrntara U 14. rMa'rng it rt'ona near t aquator 1? P:;d 41 unl ago ot a ro:4 II R,r"Tirnll 4S Kt t i 44 AftirV'al larg uaf a 4T. atu-trjii char acter II Relent 4) A itail SO Artegatad M R'ti-tletl roof It. To -1 B L OllA N E WSJB A A &al PWHSNmR"'H IM EQfS S E OSIO P AlS Pe rie mTteI1si p e nTo i Ve)HeJs n a cBg EjgpllA R i IlIs A T T 1 1 cPr I p'SOl O p a i Muic s sn' R,A When Tokyo Played "Air Raid" ' -t(Sf", ,w I . Jl' l Mil Ml -aV " -yti. CA. - iV y . r - l , r ' -r. MtizfaM Smoke from a practice incendiary bomb rises from tha plasa directly in front of Tokyo's main railway station In tha pre-war Japanese air raid demonstration. Japanese civilians for several years have been trained through such demonstrations for tha "real thing" in air raids, which, ac cording to reports, cam to Japan when enemy planes bombed four cities. Air Fighter .a ir WW A deadly United States fighter plane Is unloaded from a transport at an Australian port after it crossed the Pacific in a convoy which brought American troops and war supplies to bolster United Nations' forces "down under." " O'Hare, Navy Air Hero, Given Promotion and Medal by Rocseveli Washington, April 22. 0T) Lieutenant Edward H. O'Hare, the intrepid naval aviator who destroyed five Japanese bombers and damaged a sixth in five eventual minutes, received from his commander in chief. Presi dent Roosevelt, Tuesday the Congressional Medal of Honor and a promotion to the rank of lieutenant commander. Standing at attention, with his eyes blinking rapidly, O'Hare heard the chief executive read a citation which called his feat "one of the most daring, if not HAP HOPPER, Washington Correspondent 'KALI, KM VC BEEN TMNKS, I V lOOK.-THESE'SOuf NTTN V" WHAT l W 0H' HE MARRIED MI4 CORNFFpTaaCl A MAN LIKt THAT V N-NO-1 MOPINfi ALL WEEK J U CONNIE MARPiNO DARSf TEN VfARi I HAPPENED I CHILDHOOD SWEETHFART AND .. WOULDN'T SACBlFKf Hit S-GUES J C0MEON-I'M&0:N5 U.-0UREA J A60 HE WA TMt MOW TO HIM? . I HE RUINED MIM5 HE EDITS AtM CAREER F03 ANYTHING I NOT! TO TAKE VDU0UT DEAR! J rao M iing gCTESfONPCNTh L A PLUMBIN6 CATALOGUE V- V SHOUIO HE? LI'L ABNER Step Into My Parlor By Al Capp l '"'". ME AM-THIS tf ANOTHER. COUPLE, U-rvyT Yf NiJ - -3 I f THIS WAY. " f U-J&T Ft- LI L CRITTER f CAME IN OCFORt ,, l I -f THtyStV Off l e A r I mc.m r-Mt 1 wi5me-5 t- V o r-MAH wife: an' I . willing-I course.' 1 kovArv? ' ( rl.tAit ... 'if,;rrjco; commit i boy usually serve: ' M A r r J v J zga.r ro Z makriage:.' )f a- wiTNLssfS-Bur il 'i You? AtlTTn, ex I 4 TIL J THFA RE LiONC. A V'V ' i ' V-r. V V Vtl 1 "".') -yX. 1 1 you YOUNG TA i ' ' I 1 1 X$ Wknf- ! ( iJ COUPLC5 CAM ) V . f V TrfM ('. H f-ltJi m, . r-l .IfW lr T1 I I ' r m-.- THE NCBBS Surpris Party HAV)J SON A.T loCiS ANO SFSJ CALLS IT A, SULOASkJ 4vAMBRliSETC0USlN ' T SttIjOuS- CL " ss Sl 1 f 'tis For Men "Down Under" 0 W.5 the most daring single action In I the history of combat aviatioh." Then, while the president clasped his hand, O'Hare watched his bride place the medal around his neck. Almost inaudibly, O'Hare ack nowledged his promotion, "that is very nice," "thank you very much." Then the chief executive read the citation, which he said was more important than awarding the promotion. 48 REACH SHORE FROM TORPEDOED FREIGHTER Norfolk, Va., April 22 P) Forty-eight crewmen reached shore safely after their medium sized cargo ship of Panamanian registry was blasted by two tor- Career First l am a M pedoes from an axis submarine off the Atlantic coast early on the morning of April 12, the fifth naval district announced today. One man whose name was not available was reported missing. BRITISH RATION FUEL London, April 22 (F) Hugh Dalton, president of the board of trade said today the govern ment had decided to institute household fuel rationing with the hope of reducing domestic consumption of coal by 10,000, 000 tons a year. Coke, gas and electricity will also be affected. Burmese crude oil production in 1940 was about equal to that of Germany and almost triple that of Japan. 1 cauea T ivh e Vj ,'Jrf l Tt 1 - it ki JUlJLI'' 15 rl LA .1 CHIEF-N.T. Kep. Michael Joseph Kennedy Is new leader, of Tammany Hall, famed crsdla of Democratic politics. F T AREA OPERATIONS U. S. Army Headquarters hi Australia, April 22. (IP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur signalized the establishment of his new i southwestern Pacific headquar. ters and completion of his staff Tuesday by issuing his first daily communique which embraced operations in the Philippines, Dutch East Indies and Australia. With a staff composed largely oi' his aides who were In tha Philippines, he also highlighted ha ultant nn Ym la riAUAtintf n Announcing a new raid Mon day on Salamaua, Japanese foot hold on New Guinea, north of Australia, Gen. MacArthur said the Japanese headquarters build ings were smashed along with some hangars. Gen. MacArthur's headquar ters, which said its communiques will supplant henceforth those, which have been issued by th Australian government, also told of allied air attacks upon Koe pang in Dutch Timor and Rabaul in New Britain. Cuba, which formerly pro duced from 35 to 40 million coconuts annually now has a yield of only from two to thre million. Plans to revert to horse-drawa delivery of merchandise are be ing considered by many mer- cnanis in i.anaoa. YES... W Give You 2 Pr. Pants With Cuffs on Them GUS THE TAILOR 419 E. Main aj ww raorson ana bod Alien And if you think vou know wiun OOIHQ TO HAPPtN -YOURE WOHQ " By Hast ...c .. ' 1 1 that sector of his command by announcing that Japanese artil lery firing upon Corregidor fort ress in Manila bay was abating. The big American guns firing from the island had registered telling hits upon enemy troops, his communique said, and enemy shelling and bombing was hav ing negligible effect. - . Jl within 48 hours.