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Let YOUR Aamt e Bomb b BONDS! Bay u Bond aat lump tDT Coatribale U the wmr -ffort at year aatloa. ratrlot lia. ur m a-lf-antertloa. armanda that YOU Am toot part SOWI Mr Medford Ready to Perform Tfce ifaat 44s ara ndy f arfarai BMat an- kla af er- tor ye. ria4 a. aril Tribune ee rana, atD taaaa Mvi mr am ar any ethar tuk aui plate attar taaaa. Full Associated Praia Doited Praas Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, APRIL 26, 1942. NO. 30. M Ell Ml IXfl J H M Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. Coast Prepared For Jap Attack War Insurance Plan Discussed Airplane Turnout Hits High Mark Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, April 25 Immediate reaction in the nation al capital to the bombing of To kyo and other metropolitan areas In Japan was that this will lr. all probability inspire the ' enemy to retaliate with a bomb ing raid on the Pacific northwest and, probably, Alaska. Should the enemy come, however, the navy which has charge of de- jfjVense of the coast (including the army air force) will be ready. In fact, from what can be gathered here the navy yearns for the Japanese to make the attempt; it has a score to settle with the Nipponese. The Alaska coast, plus the Aleutian islands, has an Immense army sprinkled at strategic points. (Many of the troopers are from the deep south). There is no secret that bases are located at Dutch Harbor, Kodiak and one or two other places, but In ad dition, and unadvertised, are a dozen or more landing fields hid den away where no one but the air force is aware of their loca tion. There has been a constant "inching" along the Aleutians to ward the Jumping off place. The late Billy Mitchell, courtmartial ed for his Insistence upon devel oping the air force, asserted that O whoever held Alaska had control of the world, and Mitchell's views are largely confirmed by the activity of the United States armed forces in the territory. London has broadcast that a new route to Moscow has been map ped across the north pole from Alaska. There Is considerable talk that the Americans want a base at Vladivostok from which to reach Japan In an easy flight However, although the Japanese are per mitting Russian ships to bring In lend-lease foodstuffs to Vladi vostok (they can blockade and destroy that Siberian port at any time), the real base for American planes if Russia permits will be Nikolosk, the terminus of the trans-Siberian railroad. Nikolosk Is being built up with war mu nitions from the United States, a point which can be reached with out going through Vladivostok. i V IN the event of a Japanese raid In the northwest or Alaska and token bombs are dropped, RFC will furnish war insurance (ConUsuM on Pa -a Out FURTHER GAS CUT Marshfield. April 23 Protest against any additional restrictions on gasoline sup plies for Oregon motorists was made today to Oil Coordinator Ickes and Price Administrator Henderson by Governor Sprague. "This state Is ready for any Secessary sacrifice but it should ot be deprived of essential sup plies without sufficient cause," the governor said." He told the federal officials that wooden barges could be used to augment rail, truck and ocean tanker shipments from California. 01 SPEECH PUIS TO SLEEP Louisville, Ky, April 2J (AP Mayor Wilson Wyatt In preparation for a trial blackout made a brief electrically trans cribed address to be broadcast by the local radio station. Curious as to how the talk ould sound, Wyatt placed the record on a reproducing machine id settled back in a comfortable 'fair. He heard himself start ht iszci oU &d awoke an hour Uttx. MOVE AIDS FREE STRATEGIC ISLE Outcry From Vichy Due Australian Supply Route Protection Aim. Washington. ADril 23 (AP) The United States announced to day it had landed troops in New Caledonia to assist the Free French in the defense of that vl tally strategic island which flanks the supply route between this Countrv and Australia The action, which the war de partment said was "taken with tne approval of local authori ties." was the first announce. ment of American troops mov ing into French territory. The size of the American force was not disclnced In view of the IVW rnllahnra. tionist regime of Pierre Laval at vicny and ol the previous ang- rv outburst from Virhv urh.n the United Stat tent nni,l. general to Brazzaville In Free Jrrencn Equatorial Africa ob servers exoected a new outrrv from Vichy over the troops in flew Caledonia. Relations between the Wh ington and Vichy governments have steadily deteriorated since announcement that T.aval w returning to power. Ambassador William D. Leahy has been called to Washington for con sultations. This country has enunciated Policy of maintaining ralatinna With Vrannk -it ...I 1 -. .tt.ii.ii i.,tiCTia nnu arc in actual control of French terri tories. Thus, the wit fnr tha trnnn landing in New Caledonia was pavea last month with an an nouncement by the state deDart- ment that the United States ways chose Noumea, the capital, as a port of call for its San Francisco-Auckland, New Zealand. route. The Island, about 260 mlW long, has a white population of 1Y.3UU or which more than 13, 000 are French. About 1.430 Janan llva the island, most of them having come In as free immigrants but would aid Free French forces there in the defense of the island. Vital To Allies From a military atandnnlnt New Caledonia is of utmost im portance to the United Nations. Lying 800 miles east of Anitra. lia, it if close to the route for the ships carrying men and mu nitions to the Australian bases for the nrolected nffniv. against the Japanese. Its value as an air base was recognized even before the southward surge of the Japanese focused attention on the islands off Australia. Pan-American Air a small proportion as indentured lanorers in the mines. The landine of the AmnHran troops on the island represented, in a manner, the winning nf a race with Japan's Invading arm ies, tor weeks the Japanese have been moving steadily east and southward from Java. nnr and nearer to the transpacific route from the United States to Australia. The Nipponese now ara ho. lieved to be about 1.200 miles northwest of New Caledonia on the Island of New Britain and thev claim to have taken turn other smaller islands slightly east of New Britain. London, April 25 (AP) The arrival of United States troops in New Caledonia was described by a Free French source tonight as a "highly welcome step to in sure the common defense of the allied lifeline to Australia and New Zealand." He said the Free French agreed fully to participation of the United States in the defense of the island and that Cen. Charles de Gaulle had been in communication frequently with the United States commander there. New Caledonia had been un der Free French, rather than Vichy control, since shortly after the fall of France. Washington, April 23 The government imposed a blan ket price ceiling today on an commodities aad products sold j for export. ; Commandos Start for Boulogne Raid Lor Lovat (right canter), German-occupied port of Boulogne, reads over plana of the attack picture was radioed from London to New Vork. FIRST LADY HITS Blames It On - Propaganda Public Also Influenced Says It Must Stop. New York. Anrit 9 im Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt says that some "awfully clever peo ple are spreading anti-labor propaganda amnne th nation's armed forces and h hH. that labor and the American people should check such a move as a menace in m unit war effort. 'There has been a drMH propaganda drive aeaint la. bor," she said last nicht at a Y.W.C.A. round-tah! die,,.. sion. "It is not only directed at the DUbliC mind that nrnnlH be an easy matter but it is also being done in the armed forces. 'For the sake nf r)llP tniin. try, all of us should do all we can to beat that propaganda. It is trying to create classes, into which, Lord knows, we should not be divided. We need that feeling of urgency to win this war. The sooner we get it over with the more will come back alive." Mrs. Roosevelt said she had heard about service men re marking "We didn't hav mnh and such a thing because of a sirixe in a plant back home; if we had it, some boys' lives would have been saved." Now that isn't true" ha first lady said, "but whn tart. ed that story? That's a hard thing to find out. It is awfully easy to propagandize, and there are awfullv clever nen. pie doing it." ON UNION FUNDS Washington, April 25. (ZD Senator Holman (R.-Ore.) said today that the "take" of a CIO union in dues from federal em ployes amounted to $270,000 an nually and declared this money should be taxed "to get revenue to help support the fighting men" around the world. The senator said this figure was given to him by a represen tative of a CIO affiliate who appeared before a senate appro priations subcommittee to ap peal for civil service status for a certain group of employes. NO EARLY OPENING Portland, Ore., April 25. (JPt Fishery departments of Wash ington and Oregon Jointly re jected today a fishing Industry proposal for an earlier opening ?f the commercial season, in the Columbia river. . - it JW- leader of the Britlih CimmM. War Bulletins Allied Headquarters, Aus tralia, Sunday, April 26 (P Allied air fighters shot down eight Japanese bombers and three fighters yesterday over the north Australian port of Darwin, one of three strategic allied positions raided by enaray planes. General Doug las MacArthur's headquarters announced today. The other targets of Jap anese raiders, a communique said, ware Port Moresby, New Guinea, and the Solomon is land port of Tulagi. All three were heavily at tacked, the war bulletin said, but the raiders encountered "brilliant" interception. London, April 25 (AP The German radio said today it was officially announced that Ma. Can. Gerhard Berth old, commander of a German Infantry division, had bean killed on the Smolensk front. TS FOR NEW ENGLAND Boston. Anril 9 V tax Ma jor General Sherman I. Milo. commanding officer of the first corps area, ordered tndav that all New England coastal lights airecuy visible from the sea, be shielded, dimmed or blacked out immediatedly until further notice. The order explained that: "Shore lighting? i ithnnt. ting passing ships, enabling en emy submarines to attack them." BULLETIN Dwight Catherwood, left field er, knocked in seven runs with a double and three singles in five trips as the Medford Craters crushed the Redding (Cal.) Cubs. 18 to 9, In an exhibition game at the fairgrounds park last night. The two teams play again today at 2 p. m. Manager Dutch Lleber gave up four hits and one run In the five Innings he worked, and fanned seven. Walt Snider fin ished the seven-Inning tilt and yielded three hits and four tallies. Score: R. H. Z. Redding 5 7 0 Medford 18 17 1 Hammerickson, Allen and Bottany, Marletto; Lleber, Sni der and Swanson. Portland, April 25.) Hollywood finally tripped up the rampaging Portland Beav ers tonight, winning 8 to 3. in a ten-inning coast league con test. R. H. I. Hollywood 6 9 2 Portland 9 14 2 Osburne and Atwood; Hilcher, OrreU and Castro. .. - it ... . with members of the unit. This DRAFT MANY IN Y New Rulings Sent Board No Deferment For Newly weds Ordered. Washington. Arjrll 25 IPi many men with dependents may be summoned to military duty this summer in Una with th. new instructions to local draft boards for "more drastic action" to meet the growing manpower neds of the armed forrea. Officials noted today that the instructions of national selective service headauartera tn tha lrwal boards followed estimate by major General Lewis B. Her shey, the national director, that existing auotaa nf man Imme diately available to meet the ex- panaing army s demands would De exhausted before fall. In anticipation of the time when large numbers of men with dependents may have to be called, the army has asked congress for legislation provid ing government payments and allotments from soldiers' pay to dependents. A pending meas ure would provide $40 a month for a wife and $10 additional for each child; $35 a month for one parents, or $45 for two. National headquarters also ad vised that no deferment be al lowed men who married since Pearl Harbor, who took wives with the "primary purpose" of avoiding military service or whose wives had been provid ing adequately .for their own support but who quit their Jobs "for the primary purpose of according a basis for dependency deferment." FOREST ON FIRE London, April 23. rP) The German radio said tonight that a vast fire was raging In the Grunewald district of Berlin because of the "carelessness of children." Der Grunewald Is a 7.300 acre forest In the southwest part of greater Berlin, between Charlottenburg and Potsdam. It is a favorite resort of Berliners and contains the fashionable villa colony of Gumewald, an area of small lakes and fine homes. The popular Wansee borders the area on the south. CAMP ADAIR PAPER Corvallls. April 25. P The Camp Adair Sentry, official newspaper of the army canton ment near here, made its first appearance this week. !BRP,U BATTER 3 FRENCH PORTS IN AIR ATTACKS Nazis Retaliate With Raids Rostock Again Blasted War's Fiercest Battles, London, Sunday, April 20 (AP) The Royal Air Force day- light offensive over France reached a new peak yesterday with six large-scale onslaughts in eleven hours in a fiery after math to a second violent night attack on Rostock. The Germans retaliated by sending large numbers of bomb ers over the west of England last night and early today, cascading high explosives and fir bombs on one town. Maintaining attacks over the longest daylight raid period of the war, the RAF pounded tar gets at Cherbourg, Le Havre, Ca lais and other points between Saturday's dawn and sunset. During these operations the fiercest air battles of the year raged with swarms of the latest type German fighters challeng ing the British at levels ranging up to five miles high over a 230- mile front. The RAF took advantasa nf the lengthening daylight hours to wage lis massive offensive which forced the Germans to DUt into the air tha araatnt number of fighters encountered auring any one day of 1042. The Success Of these aweana and the comparatively small nruun tosses jo lighters and one bomber appeared to Indi cate the nazis. even bv training to the limit, now ara unable to muster enough fighters to match the RAF. German lntuaa fni tha day were given officially by the nnusn as eight fighters. While Spitfires and Hurri canes weaved and dived In dog fights, American-made Bostons unloaded their bombs on targets along the German-held coast ev en at Rostock, the important German Baltic port, still flamed and crumbled from its second straight British assault. Pilots of British fighter planes reported there was "tremendous fighting" yesterday high above France between British craft and formations of 10 and 20 German Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulf 109 s, Germany's latest and best fighters. Hardest blows however were dealt at Rostock, second of Hit ler's great Baltic bases for the German armies of Norway, Fin land and Northern Russia, to be turned Into a black wreck by British bombs. Nearly a million pounds of explosives wera used to blast that town in two of the most violent allied air raids of the war, the British said. ILKIESTTENT ON FEDERAL JOB New Vnrk A ...II a a Wendell L. Wlllkle said today, after registering for selective service, that he was aware of plans to draft him Into a gov ernment Job, but h added "I wouldn't want to say anything about that now." "I think It is very wis for the government to get the full measure of the country's man power," he id. .-It mar be necessary to call all men for some sort of service before the war is over." He declined to elaborate upon his remark about a government position. Willkle was on of the na tion's most prominent men be tween the ages of 43 to S3 to register on the first day of the three-day "skills and aptitude" liitintf nf mifinmMP whii-h antl. clpstes a nation-wide enrollment of approximately 13,000,000 by aionaay nignu BUTTER PRICE VP Portland, April 29. m Butter and butterfat prices ad vanced on the produce ex change here today as the state milk board continued to ponder dairymen's demands for in creased butterfat prices. Interpreting The War News By Kirks L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) By every lesson drawn from experience, this or some early week end should see Hitler's panzer Juggernauts loosed in Hussla in a final effort to an nihilate the Red armies that have given him his first bitter taste of defeat Rarely In this war has a Hit ler-timed stroke failed to fall on a week-end. The initial mili tary reasoning which dictated that may be outworn, but it has become a Hitler tnblt. Where he will strike first Is a much more difficult predic tion to arrive at. Full scale German attack is possible now in the Crimea and southern Ukraine. And there Is official British testimony that Hitler's prime objective, wherever and whenever he strikes, will be oil sources. "Be sure that the strategy of Germany and Japan is directly pointed at the Caucasus, Persia and Iraq, all oil producers," Lord Beaverbrook told an American audience. 'Thus above all do they hop to sub due the rest of the world to their will." That, however. Is only part of the picture. But the hope of crippling the nations war effectiveness by cutting their European oil life lines is only part of the picture. The other part is the axis' own urgent need for oil. Japan's stunningly swift sweep down the China sea to take possession of the vast oil fields of the Dutch East Indies and now her march Into Burma has achieved greater danger of allied oil strangulation on that front than all Hitler's victories hav accomplished In Europe, India and China ar already reeling the oil pinch. The last important producing field In Burma Is dangerously threat ened. If allied sources best Inform ed as to oil resources of the axis are right about It, how ever, both Germany and Japan. to say nothing of Italy, are themselves approaching oil star vation. Cumulative deficits In their reserves are steadily pil ing up, deficits that no synthetic production has offset SMALL SHOPS BE Washington. Anril 2B l!P Senator McNary (R., Ore.) urged Donald M. Nelson, director of the war Droductlon board, today to take steps to provide war work for small shops of Oregon and the nation. Tha senator aald that nn tha basis of reports from his home state and conferences with busi ness men from Oregon he be lieved that one of the most Im portant issues before the WPB now Is to get the government procurement acenclea tn rn-. nlze the smaller concerns which have good equipment and skilled workers. "If conditions in ether atataa are similar to those reported to me by neoole from Oreann " McNary said, "there must be a very heavy war production ca pacity wnicn la not yet used." McNary said he knew Nelson was BDneallna tn tha nmmin. ment agencies and large private contractors to place business with smaller Mnmrai hut ha felt confident that a heavy pro ducing capacity was not yet enlisted. The senator aald that n' 7a metal working shops In Oregon wnicn nave oeen studied and listed some ar too email tn tak war work but experts have round a Urge number ot Oregon shops equipped and manned In a manner that would Insure good production. F.D.R. TO REGISTER Washlnston. Anril . tm President Roosevelt will register in the cabinet room of the Whit House Monday morning in the nationwide COuntina nf man ha. tween 45 and 63 to ascertain avatiamnty of man-power for non-military war duty. DESPITE F.R. PLEA FOR 401. WEEK President To Tell Views Over Radio Overtime Pay Disturbs. Washington, April 23 (Ift A high administration official said today that President Roose velt would make clear tn hi message to congress next week on the high cost ot living that he Is opposed to suspension ot the 40-hour week law. The presidential message is expected to outline program calling for freezing most com modity prices at about March 1 levels, drastic taxes on war profits and possibly wag con trol. It Is to be sent to congress Monday. Later, the president expects to discuss the program in a radio address to the nation. Mr. Roosevelt was represent ed as taking the attitude that sine most war plants were em ploying shifts ot 48 hours or longer, the Issue Involved In the dispute over tha 40-hour law was on of pay that could be handled satisfactorily In any directive he might make to government agencies . te keep wages In Una with living costs. The law requires time and one half pay for work In excess ol 40 hours a week. Furthermore, h was said to regard proposals to suspend or repeal the la was being tanta-. mount to changing the rules while the gam Is In progress. As for other labor questions,' It was predicted the president would say that such Issues as strikes and the open and closed shop wera being worked out sat isfactorily under existing agree ments. A pronouncement of this na ture, however, was not expected to quiet demands In congress for restrictive labor legislation. Senator George (D., Ga.) said ha regarded the 40-hour week question as the most Important Issue. "I don't think the public to going to be satisfied unless congress does something about the overtime pay situation,1 h told reporters. CUT DUE IN CCC Wsshlngton, April S5 (A8) A retrenchment In operations of the civilian conservation corps, reducing the number of camps to 330 and the personnel to approximately 70,000, was snnounced today by Paul V. McNutt, federal security admin istrator. A CCC spokesman described the sctlon as an adjustment to war-time conditions, particular ly to the present employment opportunities for youth. Of tha 800 camps now oper ating. McNutt said 202 would be closed before May SI and an additional 48 in June, mak ing total of 250 to cease oper ations within about two months. There ar about 89,000 en rollees In the CCC at present. JAPS HEAT PRISONERS FAIR Newton, Mass., April 23 (AP) An army officer recently returned from the Philippines said last night that b believes American fighting men captured In the fall ot "Bataan will bsj given fair consideration and treatment by the Japanese." Expressing hop that families ot the captured men would be reassured by bis words, Lt Col. Warren J. Clear told newspaper men that his views were based on "my knowledge of th Jspaa es arnyr." t
