PAGE 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'
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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.
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rtrnfm KOIN ('B tie. fort,
land; KOMO (NHr-itm) sso
SrallleS KPO (MIC-Rrd)
San Franrlwn; KSL (CBS) 1164
Mil Lake City.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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