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Lt YOUR Answer to Bombs b BONDS. Buy Wir Bonds anfl Stamps TODAY ContnbuU to tht war effort of your nation. Patriot ism, your own srlt-protertlon. rinand that VOL do jour part NOW. Many Duties Tit Want Ada hjira muuty nttee ana ihrj nu them with credit. If jom have eomethlng te aril, trade, rent, er with Jo bar. JuM pUre email Ad In thle nrwtpaprr and watch re aulia It pajra. Medford Tribune Full Associated Press United Pre Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1942. NO. 28. Jap Reception Camp Takes Shape in Tule Lake Basin gy IHSII7 S RCSCFVC PoW6r Drained for Russian Front VM.lf.'riitr'"ttim toweVMel "" ."!.-. UtA. -ut a" stress Short houra after the go-ahead algnal wai given for construction of the Japaneee reception camp In the Tula Lake bastn. workmen were on the ground laying out foundations aa shown above in pictures taken about noon Sunday. The upper view shows the foundation in place for the administration building near th highway- Lower view shows workmen laying out platforms and unloading equipment at the base of the peninsula farther south. (Photo Courtesy Evening Herald) TULE LAKE CAMP SHIFTED MILE TO HIGHER GROUND Klamath Falls, April 23. (Spl.) The Tulelake Japanese camp site was shifted a mile northeast Tuesday morning, when soil and drainage condi tions on the original grounds were found unsatisfactory. Shift to tl.e new location was accomplished almost without loss of construction stride. Buildings already started on the old site will be used as tempo rary quarters for construction workers. The new site lies opposite the end of the peninsula, adjoining the east side of the highway. It . !s on a government lease now 40tield by Liskey brothers, the land being described by the reclamation bureau as "cheap pasture." No Crop Diiruption Meanwhile, it was stated by bureau officials they had been informed there will be no dis ruption of regular agricultural activity in the Tule laUe basin this year through the location of the camp there. B. E. Hayden, reclamation su perintendent, said that farmers in that area will go ahead with ' their crops as usual. He added that it will probably be too late for an agricultural program in connection with the camp by the time evacuees are actually mov ed into the area. The change to the new site was decided upon, it was learn- "d. because the barracks on the 4)ld site would be on ground that would be mushy a part of the year, and because drainage was not satisfactory for installa tion of sanitary facilities. Firmer Ground The new site is about seven miles south of Tulelake. adjoin ing the Klamath Falls-Reno high way, and it includes about 800 acres. Hiring of men for the con struction program proceeded at full speed Tuesday, with activ ity centered at the AFL hiring headquarters at Tulelake. La borers, carpenters, welders and particularly mechanics with tools are wanted, it was stated at the Labor temple here. In terested men should apply at Tulelake. it was said. Well drilling will continue on the -original site. Water will be piped under the hiehway and ie Southern Pacific railroad iine to the new site. The earth's axis continually points in the same direction. o "-ajk. . c3a S?-':.'--. . . ..... . "in el., iJL.MJ,.-- .A , ..:.kl A-.. ... Ickes Denies Extreme Cut , Planned in East Coast Gas Washington, April 23 OP) Petroleum Coordinator Tckes declared today there was "no justification" for anticipating that eastern motorists would be limited to as little as 2Va to 3 gallons of gasoline a week. Such figures had been men tioned as likely under the card rationing system announced yes terday by Price Administrator Leon Henderson, to be effective May 15 but Ickes told his press conference, "if we are able to carry out our plans there will be no such cut." He added: "We refuse to believe that people will be put on such short rations. Our objective is to sup ply as much gasoline as possi ble." Ickes said he knew of no such figure having been discussed and did not contain the 2V4-to-S-gallon figure. Semi-official estimates of the probable ration allowances in the east had ranged from this figure to 25 gallons a month. Some OPA sources, not speak ing officially, still clung today to the 2Vi-to-5 estimate and said it might well be less. In discussing the rationing plan, heads of five top-ranking war agencies stated flatly in a joint statement that the govern ment no longer would risk lives of American seamen on tankers "so someone will have gasoline to go to a bridge party or a ball game." Ickes foresaw the likelihood of increased prices for gasoline and fuel oil in the east, saying that the petroleum industry had estimated its costs had been in creased by $300,000,000 annu ally. BLAZE DESTROYS T UflM I Roseburg. Ore., April 23 IIP) The Douglas county indigent home and hospital, located two miles east of Roseburg, was de stroyed by fire shortly before noon today. Thirty-six patients, many of them helpless, were re moved from the burning build ing without mishap, while near ly aH furnishings and fixtures were sived. The fire started on the roof of the two-story wooden structure, apparently as the result of sparks from the flue, according to R. T. Blakely, superintend ent. The eight members of the staff were assisted by mechan ics and warehousemen from the county shops, located about a quarter of a mile from the insti tution, in the removal of pa tients. prior to the arrival of the fire department and volunteer workers. Shirley Temple Has 14th Birthday; Gels Small Diamond Ring Hollywood, April 23 Shirley Temple received her first diamond today, and felt very grown up. It's her 14th birthday. Father George Temple gave the small gem, her birthstone, in a ring. "I'm beginning to get grown up." Shirley said, happily. Her once blond curls have deepened to a golden chestnut and she likes them better that shade. She still has her dimples. But Shirley, a freshman ("I'm going on a sophomore," she in sists) at Westlake School for Girls, IS growing up. "She's a little more Indepen dent," explained Mrs. Temple. "That Is, she has Ideas of her own. For instance, she likes to pick out her own clothes. "In the past year she has acquired an appreciation for symphony music and we're glad that she has." LEFT $1,089,872 Poughkeepsle, N. Y., April 23 (zP) Mrs. Sara Delano Roose velt, mother of the president, left a net estate estimated at $1,089,872, a New York state transfer tax appraisal showed today. This figure was reached after deduction of funeral and admin istrative expenses and debts to uting $38,489. A state tax of $48 431 was imposed. Under a will probated earli er, President Roosevelt receives nine-tenths of the entire estate and his mother's Hyde Park N. Y., property. Mrs. Roosevelt died last Sep tember 7 at Hyde Park. TO TRAIN AT K. F. Eugene, April 23. tlP) Sixty University of Oregon students will leave toon for civilian pilot training at Klamath Falls, CPT Coordinator J. C. Stovall said today. Ground training courses iwill be comDleted here .Dril 25 and those passing examinations i will leave at once for Klamath Ifalls. 1 1 PLACES LISTED Some changes have been found necessary in the places for Monday's draft registration the selective service boards serving Jackson county announced to day. Registration in the Phoe nix district will be at the Grange hall and for the Rogue River district, at the Boy Scout hall All male citizens between the ages of 45 and 64 must register and the selective service boards urge registrants come as early as possible as it Is expected the registration will be at least 50 per cent larger than for the age group registered on Feb ruary 18. The places of registry will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. Other registration places as previously published include: Butte Falls, Town Hall. Eagle Point, Brown's Hall. Central Point, Old City Hall. Gold Hill, City Hall. Jacksonville, Old City Hall. Applegate, Community Hall. Prospect, Gymnasium. Trail, Engineer's office. Talent, City Hall. Ashland, City Hall. Medford, Courthouse audito rium. Cantonment, at various divi sion offices. Jackson Co. Trailer Camp. Prescott CCC Camp, office. Radio Highlights (Pacific war time.) The Bing Crosby hour will switch to Washington for the last IS minutes tonight, starting at about 6:45 for a talk by Leon Hendersen, price administrator, on "High Cost of Living." An other addition for tonight at 8:15 on CBS will be a discus sion of "The Psychological War Front" In which newspaper, radio and naval men will de scribe the manner in which news of U. S. naval activities is released. Talks CBS 5:30 People's Plat form from London; Blu 6 Amer ica's Town Meeting from Den ver "What Economic Sacrifices for a Lasting Peace?"; Blue 7, Buy War Bond campaign, Sec retaries Morgenthau. Wickard and others; MBS 7:15 Lord Beaverbrook and Francis B. Say re at Bureau of Advertising dinner, New York. Friday: CDS 130 p. m.,Pcnn relays. MBS 3:15 p. m. Drake relays STALINITES CLAIM ENOUGH STRENGTH TO 1VI EETJHREAT Growing Nervousness Over Allied Invasion Threat Is Displayed in Hitlerland. (By the Associated Press) Adolf Hitler has called up 1,- 900,000 fresh reserves including teen-aged youths and now has nine-tenths of his fighting force massed on the Russian war front, an official soviet spokesman said today as Stockholm dis patches reported mounting Ger man nervousness over the pros pect of an allied invasion of Europe. The soviet spokesman, S. A. Lozovsky, said the nazi re serves called to bolster Hitler's winter-battered armies included 900,000 youths of 17 and 18 years in two new military classes. RAF Celebrates Meanwhile, British RAF war- planes celebrated the feast day of St. George, the patron saint of England, with a smashing new assault on the German in dustrial Rhineland and the docks at Le Havre in German-occupied r ranee. During the night, big guns on the English channel coast also boomed across Dover strait and continued firing for about 30 minutes. The aerial t h r u s 1 1 against Adoir rimer s Khlneland war foundries and Le Havre capped yesterday's spectacular raid by Lritish Commandos who- landed on the nazi-occupied French "in vasion coast" near Boulogne, cut German communications and probed enemy fortifications for two hours. The nazi high command ask nowledged "some casualties" and material damage in western Ger many, but declared that German night raiders struck back with an attack on an English south coast munitions factory which caused "violent explosions." The Germans said five RAF bombers were shot down over the reich; the British said four planes were missing. Nazis Jittery Stockholm advices said Ger man expectancy of an allied in vasion of western Europe had increased considerably, with the nazis taking feverish precau tions along the entire "front" from the top of Norway to south ern f ranee. The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper Dag ens Nyheter reported that "cer tain optimists are convinced the British will come by May 1," and London quarters said this was a feeler so obvious that nazi anxiety must have dictated It. Other signs of German "Jit ters" were reports that the nazis had set 40,000 laborers to work on anti-invasion defenses in Norway and that German au thorities in France had barred civilians from Normandy's coast al roads between 7:30 p. m. and 6 a. m. leaving the clear as sumption that any person abroad in the forbidden hours would be a British Commando or other foe, subject ts being shot on sight. On the Russian war front, soviet dispatches reported that the German armies in the Ukraine, heavily battered in re cent weeks, had abandoned their counter-attacks and changed tac tics to a defense of fortified posi tions. The significance In this lay in well-informed military predic tions that Hitler's long-heralded offensive would strike its heavi est blows on the southern flank. In a drive toward the oil-rich Caucasus. Now, according to the Russians, the Germans' pre liminary "feeler" thrusts have been crushed and the nazis forced back on the defensive. Russian dispatches also re ported that on the central (Mos cow) front, at Yukhnov, thous ands of nazis bodies had been found when the melting snows uncovered a huge pit in the cen tral square of the town. TOKYO NOTE McMlnnville, April 23 UP) If it's any satisfaction to the Japanese, spring is here and the first rose has burst into bloom. P. S : It's an Empress of China rosebush JAPS MAY GET IT Hundreds of De Gaullists Ar restedNew French Role In War Is Emphasized. By Roger D. Greene (Associated Press War Editor) A virtual reign of terror on the key French island of Mada gascar, with the arrest of hun dreds of De Gaullists, was re ported today amid quickening speculation that France's new pro-German Premier Pierre La val may be planning to turn the Island over to Japan. The world's fourth largest isl and, Madagascar lies off the east coast of Africa athwar. vital al lied lines of communication with India. Not Defended "Madagascar is not being de fended against Japanese infil tration, and it cannot be defend ed against Japanese invasion," said dispatches reaching Lon don. France's new role in the war, particularly her collaboration with the axis, was sharply em phasized today by a series of de velopments: 1. The Union of South Africa, a part of the British Empire which would probably be given the task of dealing with Mada gascar, broke off relations with Vichy. It Is about 800 miles from Durdan, South Atrlcs, to Mada gascar. " 2. In London, a British spokes man said "it Is now reported that 90,000 tons of French ship ping have been taken over by Japan." 3. High-ranking United States diplomats. It was disclosed, have been newly transferred to Braz zaville, in Free French West Africa, and to Nigeria and Li beria in an evident move to strengthen the U. S. diplomatic front in Africa. Observers said these stations are usually assigned to newcom ers. 4. In Vichy, Premier Laval himself received the Japanese ambassador-designate, Takonobu Mitani. 5. The Vichy government went to the length of Issuing an official denial of Moscow radio reports (hat German sailors were arriving at the French Mediterranean naval base of Toulon and that French war ships were being turned over to Germany. The statement also denied re ports "of a fight between French and German sailors. On Laval's Orders Advices reaching London said the mass arrests of Gen. Charles De Gaulle's Free French follow- Aussies and Dutch Fight On In Interior of Allied Headquarters, Austra lia. April 23 JP Australian and Dutch forces still are fight ing In the Interior of the half Dutch, half-Portuguese island of Timor, some 400 miles off the northwest tip of Australia, an allied headquarters communique declared today. The bulletin also announced that allied aircraft had made another attack yesterday on the Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain, bombing docks and shore structures. The assault followed a sur prise attack on the same objec tive the previous afternoon, during which direct hits were scored on buildings, the com munique added. In reference to the situation In the Philippines, headquarters reported the Japanese had made intermittent divebomblng at tacks on Corregldor fortress, but declared that enemy aerial ac tivity there was diminishing. "Our forces are in contact with the enemy In southern Panay island," the communique said tersely, and added that BASEBALL PICKETS PLACED American Chicago 0 5 1 Detroit 9 16 1 Lyons and Tresh: White and Tebbetts. National Score: R. H. E. Cincinnati 5 7 0 Pittsburgh 3 8 0 Vendermeer and Hemsley; Lanning, Strlncevich, Klingei and Lopez. COUPLE INJURED Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bravo of Richland, Calif., are confined in the Community hospital with serious Injuries resulting from a head-on collision between their Model A Ford passenger ear and two-ton CMC panel truck driven by Jack B. Burdick of Oswego, near Chalker s Motel on the Pacific highway about 6 a. m. today. Bravo sustained a fractured and dislocated hip, broken left arm, numerous cuts and lost several teeth. His wife suffered a dislocated left hip and possi ble skull fracture and lost two teeth. They were brought to Medford by the Hall ambulance of Grants Pass and by Perl ambulance. The Bravo machine was de molished and front end of the truck, which carried the Ore- gonlan, was damaged. Burdick was said to be slightly injured. Burdick was said by state police to have been passing a third machine at the time of the collision. Bravo was said to have worked at the cantonment recently. The couple's belongings were packed In to auto and they were north bound. Girdle Fitting New Occupation Hazard Brldgeton, N. J., April 23 JP) Occupational hazards: Bessie Swank, a saleswoman In a ladles' dress shop, has been discharged from Bridgeton hos pital,, where she had been treated for a back injury suf fered while attempting to fit a girdle over the unyielding form of a customer. era on Madagascar, Including members of the Island adminis tration, were carried out on or ders from Laval. Agents of the Vichy regime were said to be rounding up all sympathizers of the Free French movement on the island. In Washington, informed sources again suggested the pos sibility of a complete diploma tic rupture between the United States and France: Timor Island fighting also was continuing on Cebu Island but gave no details. (The Tokyo radio quoted the newspaper Asahl today as say ing Japanese forces had com pleted occupation of Panay.) The bulletin also reported that enemy seaplanes had carried out attacks on northern districts of Mindanao, the big island at the southern end of the Philippines. General Douglas MacArthur conferred today with Lieut Gen. George H. Brett, com mander of the allied air forces, after tha letter's return from a tour of air bases In Australia. It was believed that Brett gave his commander-in-chief a detailed report from personal observation of allied air opera tions against the Japanese. (The Australian radio, as heard by CBS, said that MacArthur accompanied by the commander of the allied land forces In Australia, General Sir Thomas Blarney, and other Australian service chiefs, spent three and one-half hours in conference with Prime Minister John Cur tin and the premiers of Austra lie's constituent states. T Labor Department Concilia tor Fails To Iron Out Dis pute With A.F.L. Workers. Pickets were placed at tho Southern Oregon Sugar Pine company mill at Central Point this morning following an un successful attempt by a U. S. la bor department conciliator, J. E. Jacobson, to mediate the disputa between the company and A. F. of L. sawmill workers, accord ing to J. G. Wolf, local union representative. Although Chauncey Florey. manager of the mill, could not be reached for a statement. It was believed that operations at - the mill were continuing. The company has an A-l-A priority rating on orders for lumber to be used in the repair of Pearl Harbor. Wolf stated that charges of unfair labor practices, alleging discrimination, coercion and in. timidation have been filed against the company with the National Labor Relations board. "With a few exceptions," Wolt stated, "all the company's Cen tral Point employes joined tho union several months ago, and when the union asked that the company recognize It as the bar gaining agency Manager Florey indicated that he had never dealt with a labor organization) and did not Intend to do so. "This was followed by dis crimination against union work- era by the company and some of its supervisors," Wolf continued, "which was climaxed last Mon day when the company transfer red from the day to the night shift a number of leaders of tha union who had seniority rights. replacing them on their day jobs with newly-hired n o n-unlon members and causing the walk out of all union members." E Reuel K. RIans of Jackson ville and for several years di vision credit msnager for tha, California Oregon Power com pany left Monday for Bremerton where he begins duty after re enlistment In the Marine corps. RIans who served in the mar ines during the last war, re enters as a private. He has been employed by the power com pany for about 21 years. Rians was stationed at Bremerton dur ing his first enlistment. His wife and three children will remain at Jacksonville for the present PURSUIT PLANE CRASHES IN SPOKANE OUTSKIRTS Spokane, Wash., April 23 (P A pursuit-type plane from Felta field here crashed about 10:30 this morning Inside the tart Spokane city limits, officials at Geiger field announced. The pilot First Lieut. Milton E. Connelly of Chicago, was killed. SIDE GLAKCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Sally Butler and Kit Huntress merging efforts to embarrass defenseless male. Marlon Beeson getting keep going signal from a complete stranger. L. E. "Bing" Francis declar ing that spring was definitely here (despite military censor ship) because he had blossomed out in his straw hat today. Raw rinr-h motinC a hilarious new dish this morning when he salted and peppered an oia iigm lobe and then asked directions Ion the best way of eating It
