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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORDfe&JTl? TRTTMT? I- Let YOUR Aniwer to Bomb be BONDSI Buy War Boaes ui Ittaai ' TODAY Contrlbate to the war mart of Tonr natloa. ratrloc- lim. your ova arlf-protectloa. drmandi thai VOL' 4o your prt SOW I full AoeUted Pre. y BU Co., " United Preae j Thirty-seventh Year. . MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 271943 ' ' i mifflyi max mm mm News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washineton. Anril 27 Fie- ures showing exactly how many gallons of gasoline are available in the eastern seaboard have been hard to find since the rationing d i s- cusstons began But the American Pet rol eum Insti tute, a private organization of the oil indus try, has some figures, usual- very accurate, that Messrs, lit I rUI Mallue ly considered which indicate Henderson and Ickes were not only right when they repudiated the published unofficial state ment from an official in Hend ersons office threatening to limit motorists to 2Vi but they were very, very right Nothing like that kind of a limitation seems Justified. - The Institute figures show stocks were but little under last year, and. Instead of declining in the last three weeks, have been Increasing. - Barrels of gas on hand In the critical area the lait avallnhla weeks to April 11: (These are 1 two weeKs behind because one ' week Is held up by the censor). This Year Last Year April 1117,035,000 20,633,000 April 4. ...17, 319, 000 20,322,000 March 28..16,470,000 20,495,000 This mav be enough tn 1utl fy rationing but certainly not xne Kina ine urA omcial was talking about. o pUBTHERMORE, after all the iik mat nas gone on ior weeks and weeks about revert ing those three Pennsylvania pipelines so as to push fuel oil Into eastern states, little has been accomplished. Two of the (Continued on Pag four) Cantonment Payday Moved To Saturday L. B. DeWitt, project mana- )ger, announced today that effec tive this week contractors of the Medford cantonment would pay their workers on Saturdays in stead of Fridays, as has been the custom since construction was started. Pendleton, April 27. (JP) George Corwin of Boardman has been named superintendent of the Heppner school system, re placing Alden Blankenship, who has resigned to do graduate work at Columbia university. Fixation of Wages. Farm Parity Chancre Among Suggestions Washington. April 27. (AP) President Roosevelt said to day mat during me war "no American citizen ought to have a net income, after he has paid his taxes, of more than $25,000 a year" In proposing to congress a seven-point program' de- sikucu to corneal me upward spiral In living costs. xiic president proposed siaDU RED DRIVE SEEN KNOCKOUT BLOW AT Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight: MBS, 7:30, U. S. C. of C. convention, speaker Bar clay Achaeson. lursuay: us, :ju, nemucxy Jerby trials: blue. 8:30. Farm and Home program. Sec. Wick ard; MBS. 9:15, U. S. C. of C. convention, B. H. Namm on "Supplying the Home Front;' 12:30, Philadelphia orchestra children's concert. lzation of wages and salaries of individuals, aavine 'T twltov that stabilizing the cost of liv ing will mean that wabm in n. eral can and should be kept at existing levels" and asked re peal of the provisions of the price-fixing law which allnw farm commodities to rise to 110 percent of parity. "We must fix ceilines on the prices which consumers, retail ers, wholesalers anrl manufar-tiii. ers pay for the things they buy," me president said as he outlined his plans to keep the cost of liv ing down, and added "ceilings on rents for dwellings in all areas affected by war indus tries" to the steps that must be taken. Mr. Roosevelt also rlwlai-srl l was "indefensible that those who enjoy large incomes from state and local securities xhnnlH K. Immune from taxation while we are at war" and urged that stale, municipal and similar bonds "be subject at least to sur FlatlV OODOsinff aurMnlnn the 40-hour work week law rh president said: Most workers In munition In. dustries are working far more than 40 hours a week anrl ahnnlri continue to be paid at time and a nan ior overtime. Otherwise their weekly pay envelopes would De reduced." Mr. Roosevelt renorteH thai all strikes are at a minimum The program, outlined in messaffe to Cnncrrc iiro a 4Vt administration's plan for gearing me economy of the nation and Its Deonle to emereenrv war mn. ditions. The chief exerutiva ! posed heavy taxes, holding per sonal and corporate profits to reasonable levels, stabilizatinn of prices received by farmers, discouraging credit and install ment buying, rationing of all essential scare and stimulation nf fh oi war oonds. The Dresident will n.illlr,. k. anti-inflation program to the nation over the radio tomorrow night, but the hour for the broadcast was not annnnn,.. Only taxes anrl rlshlllintln. larm prices, Mr. Roosevelt said, require legislative action. But he added In his messaee read to the senate and house oy clerks: "1 assure the congress that If the required objectives are not attained, and if th r-nt f Kit ing should continue to rise sub stantially, I shall so advise the congress, and shall ask for any additional legislation which may be necessary." Mr. Roosevelt said there were obvious reasons for taking every step necessary to prevent a rise in the cost of living, which already has moved up about 15 percent since the autumn of 1939 and which might soar "an other 80 percent or 90 percent during the next year or two." LOIR LEVEL ON :e Activity On Eastern Front Is Effort to Outflank Germans' North Anchors. TRAIL MAN KILLED QUICKLY SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS War Bulletins Washington,, April 27. (JP apeeay congressional opposition arose today to President Roose velt's Drorjosal In h anti. infla tion messaee to rpHur-s tho la.,.l ai wnicn price controls could be applied to farm products. And, In the house, Rep. Cox (U.-Oa.) quickly told his col leagues the messaee "Hr... nn gO far enoueh nartir-ularlv In regard to labor," while Senator repper (D.-Fla.) and some who have been advocating passage of restrictive lahnr lefficlatlnn they were willing to wait and see wneiner the president s pro posal to stabilize wages would make such measures necessary. Senator Bankheari m .Ala V a larm bloc leader, said he was flatly opposed to the president's SUffBestion that Mnrrpu malro parity the level at "which price ceilings would be applied to farm products. Under existing law. no such ceiltne mav h nrrl. ered lower than 110 per cent of parity. Parity is a figure, usu ally based on 1909-14 farm In come, calculated to give farmers equal purchasing power with others. "I am opposed to the presi dent s recommendation for re- ducinff the formula nn affrlml, tural commodities from 110 pen cent to flat cantv. Bankhead told reporters. "Such action would make it impossible for the farmer ever to get parity on the basis of fluctuating rjrices on the exenanges. Other comment: Vice President Wallace: "A comprehensive, well - rounded program. Knakr Pavhurn- 'T think- that the aubiecta covered In the president's message are the mings mai must De done in nrripr tn nrpupnt iinrpannahlf nrirea anrl th rnt nf livlntf anrl for an all out effort in the war. The message proves that all ele ments in our population are go ing to have to sacrifice and serve." L IS SHOT IN SCUFFLE By Clyde A. Farnsworth. Associated Press War Editor. While the RAF cracker! the whip over western Europe there were signs today on the eastern front that Russia had launrherl upon an offensive to knock Fin land out of the war and out flank the Germans on their main northern anchors about Leningrad and southward. Nearly 2,000 Finnish soldiers were reported killed last week in mis apparent offensive lik ened in hittina Dower to the coupe de erace dealt the Finns by the Red army two years ago lo end tnelr short winter war, Also Protect Ports The rjresent Russian rlrtva might have the additional effect of protecting the lease-lend DOrts of Murmansk anrl Arrh angel while Adolf Hitler's main forces still mark time In the slush and mud from Leningrad soutn to the Crimea. The RAF ruled the sklei of western Eurona todav In Ita greatest offensive of the war. a strategical factor upon which the whole courseof th rnnfllrt may depend. It thratpnit riatrn.tatlnn centers of German power, one by one, in the deliberate man ner Of the last fnnr niehta nf consecutive bombing of Ros tock, a process which no doubt WOUlrl h anHH Itn uhttn mnA if Germany gets under way againsi nussia. It was estimated that 1,800, 000 rjounds of bnmha had hppn dumped on Hostock. u. s. To Help To Clinch this aerial anvor. elgnty: The British Had the promise that United States planes soon would be working with them wins to winff in a camnaiffn whirh alrarlv has shaded Germany's own 1941 DlllZ. The nrnsnrct nf TTnlterl States collaboration in the work of destruction was nnt new. Tt developed from the recent visit to Britain by the United States Chief of staff. General Gearie C. Marshall. But American par ticipation in the offensive was still in secretive preparation. Last nicrht'a RAF nnunriinff at Rostock, Baltic port of exit lor supplies and troops to the northern Russian front as well as a great plane-building center, was followed up by another riavliffht u,-rt nvar tho nnrih. era part of captive France. Rpfrtro nftnn ffl-ont hnrv, Kr. flghter formations of the RAF nan llnffM arrnsa fho pntflicn channel and back from the di rection of Boulogne. AT BYBEE CORNER Archie Ira Hall, 32, Thrown From Car Skull Crushed Companion Arrested. Archie Ira Hall, 32, of Trail, was instantlv killed ahnut mm p. m. Saturday night when his iimu f ord roadster crashed al most head-on Into the 1932 Chevrolet sedan of R. L. Clower of Phoenix at Bybee corner on the Medford-Jacksonville high way. Hall was thrown from th va. hide which overturned and the front of his skull was badly crushed. His two passengers, Ed ward A. Hinkle. 15. and Rav- mond Richard Garrett. 33, both of Jacksonville, sustained only minor Injuries. Both Cars Wrecked Clower and his brother, W. H. Clower, the only passenger, were not Injured. The cars, both total wrecks, cam to rest 40 to 50 yards apart. Hall was said by state police to have been operating his auto over the center line. Clower was following a vehicle driven by his father. T. T. Clower. whn swerved out barelv in tlmo tn miss Hall'i car, according to In formation received by County Coroner H. W. Conr. nH Clower did not sea the an. preaching machine In time to avom collision. The Clowers and Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Finley, occupant! of the father'a par had been visiting friends In Jacksonville and were returning to r-noenix. Hall had picked up Garrett, an acquaintance, In Medford and was taking him home. They picked up young Hinkle who was hitch-hiking to Jackson ville and who was not acquaint. ed with Hall. Garrett, according to District Attorney George W. Neilson, pleaded guilty this morning to the charge of being drunk on a public highway. Neither Conner nor Npilsnn from the evidence gathered, could see reason for an Inquest. Hall is survived by his mother. Mrs. Minnl Hall f Ashland; two sisters, Mrs. Mar ion Train of Coquille and Mrs. Thomas Lewman of Provolt and two brothers. Flovrl Hn t Grants Pass and Ralph Hall In the army. Funeral arrangements will be revealed later. Royal Air Force Hammers Rostock MILES 100 I ENGLAND) LV LONDON LIVERPOOL r - Sea R l l T l r C , ROSTOCK KIEL .1 ri" Ik Helgoland iaTHiii. ! 00' w. .r. ..ru.wr.,1 lltftCNaW TJ' 1 illlHIIIII BERLIN NFTMFPt A Nine. .THE 'AMSTERDAM HAGUE I sfarXl tVU AftatSaarVakVaal A....i I of. fAtfrn rALAiOrre?' , - English Channel PAKI5 i ESSEN ROUEN V -Tb ... - 1 a 1 HANOVER hp. ' LEiPna LCOLOCNC GERMANY FRANKFORT REIMS -4 ILUX. NUERNBERG FRANCE IM STUTT0ART MUNICH ii0'?!.A! Fire? w'r.PU" " h"T "Wed the German Baltle u.nort .f ,i . .iii siiiickii iioiiocK u nr th port o nn nurng out by previous riL which the RAT ported waa nearly OLDSTERS FLOCK TO REGISTER FOR CHINESE IMPROVE REAR RANK DUTY Registration of Jarlrann rrttin. iy men between the ages of 45 and 64 years, was underway to day, and draft board officials estimated that between 3,500 and 4,000 men would have their names on the dotted lines when the registration closes this eve ning at 9 o'clock. At the courthouse auditorium registering started at o'clock this morning, with a line oi men waning opening of the doors. There was heavy regis tration all morning with double lines filing Into the building. During a brief ihnur ih. m.n were lined up on the basement floor of the courthouse. Many of the registrants were cantonment workers. About 29 clerlra w.r. on duty. A force Was buav at th ran. tonment yesterday and today registering men, within the pre scribed ages. Reports from other cities and towns of the countv said the registering was proceeding briskly. BURMA POSITION IS By the Associated Praas The Chinese in Burma have Improved their positions against the Japanese drive, the Indica tions In the Australian theater of war point toward an Imminent showdown with Japan, and Unl ted States guns on Corregldor are still answerlna- tha nm, in caiaan. inose were the salient re ports today from the broad zone or conflict In Asia and the west ern Pacific. Corregldor, rockbound fast ness in Manila bav. the Phllin. pines, underwent Its 250th air raia alarm said the war depart ment. Japanese dive-bombers sirucK Dotn there and at nurhv con nugnes. Japanese sruna In aleva nnl tlons on Bataan peninsula to Ihe north and on the shore nf Mani. la bay to the south shelled Cor regldor for four hours, and the answering fire of tha Americans Drone up a Hostile troop con centratlon In Bataan and set I truck park on fire," the Wash ington communique said. Hitler's Address to Reichstag Carries Hint of Deep Worry George Green proving a patri otic civic booster by making a present of a big box of apples to a group of soldier boys passing through, they being gratefully received. "Doc" Dwight Findley trying to dodge the good old Oregon drizzle this a.m. en route to his ffice. Marie Ulrich sporting cor sage of green orchids as she took in Cinema "Sullivan's Travels." Cairo, April 27 4AP) British submarines, prowling the central Mediterranean, were credited today with sinking four axis ships heav ily laden with supplies in tended for Marshal Erwln Rommel's stalemated armies In North Africa. London, April 27 Pi The RAF shot down 10 Ger man fightar planes In offen sive sweeps over northern France today and lost two bombers and nine fighters from a large force of American-made Boston (Douglas) bombers and bomb-carrying Hurricanes, It was learned authoritatively today. Euffen Ore Anrll 27. Claude Sherman, Cottage Grove American Legion commander, waa in the Euffn hrtanltal tn. day in fair condition after suf- iermg a gunsnot wound in a ruffle earlv Sunrlev mnmln at the Cottage Grove police sta lion. Held In the Lane county Jail was Earl Morgan, 37, Creswell, who was arrested by Cottage Grove police early Sunday on a charge of drunken driving fol lowing an accident. Myron Perry, Cottage Grove police chief, said officers, with the aid of Sherman, were at tempting to nut Morgan in a cell when he grabbed the gun of Patrolman Vernon Lamb and fired it. The bullet save Lamb a sur erficial fiej'n wound and hit Sherman in the right leg. District Attorney William Bar- tie todav filed a charse of as sault with a dangerous weapon against Morgan. He Is also charged with drunken driving. Retail Sugar Sales Cease at Midnight To Wait Rationing Waahlnfftnn. Anrll 97 im neiaii sugar sales cease at mid night tonight when a one-week freeze " sets in. They will be resumed on Tuesday, May 5, on a rationing bails. The office of price adminis tration, expecting a heavy de mand as soon as the "freeze" Deriod endt. cautioner! rtaHr to stock up to the limit of their May quota. Books of rationing stamps for individual consumers will or erate this way: The first stamp will permit the rjurrhaui nf nna nniin4 nf susar in the neriod Ma s ift the second will be valid for the' May 17-30 period; the third for May 31-June 13, and the fourth for June 14-2Z. The immml allowed for each stamp after June 27 will be announced later. London, April 27 (P) Adolf Hitler made himself the supreme master of Germany y.-sterday, with fiat power even above his own nazl law, and his act rous ed the hopeful suspicion of his enemies that Germany Is In deep Internal trouble after a winter of near-catastrophe. Tha extraordinary power to require absolute obedience from evirv Herman waa vntH at Hit. ler's demand by the reichstag alter he had addressed Its uni formed members In a speech strangely mixing his usual bom bast and confident predictions of victory with a new undercur rent of anxiety. One of those predictions was that soviet Russia would be the decisive battleground of the world conflict and that It would be a scene of nazl triumph. Sign of Cracking But Hitler'a Hemanrl ramo Im. mediately after he had mnrHd to the reichstag that the German army survived a "threatening catastrophe" and suffered hard ships for which the reich had been unnrenared during tha tr. rible cold of the Russian winter. Germany'! military as well as civil overlord during the winter crisis on the soviet front, should now demand strengthening of his dictatorial nower waa halted both In Britain and Ruli a a sign that nazidom's home front was cracking. The London Dallv HraM de clared it would not be surprised If Hitler planned a purge "or some move so desperate that Its accomplishment will necessitate a purge." Most British reaction rrflor-tarl the surmise of the Daily Mall that "the shadow of onnoaltlnn" has risen within the third reich The Dally Te earanh recalled that Hitler resorted to a purge in 1934 and Inferred that aa-aln he might be reachinc for the whip. Impotency Seen Hitler. In the Times' view haa found himself "lmnotent to bring his war to victorious conclusion" and. as comrjensa- tlon, has made himself "supreme law iora. - The Moscow radio called the speech "a sure sign that the nazls see the apDroach of their end" and declared that Hitler'a assumption of still greater pow 1 That tha fuehrer, who became er 'made It abundantly clear that ha had no other alternative than to admit his utter failure In the field and at home." As broadcast by tha Berlin radio. Hitler turned from his as surances that the next winter would find Germany ready on ine nussian rroni ana made this demand: "For this Durnosa. I nmrl however, one thing: that tha na tion entitles ma to Intervene and act mvself. lmmedlatolv In every case where In the aervlrw of the greater causa which de cides on our existence not the strictest, unreserved obedience is shown . . . Full Power Asked "T therefore bee nf tha rw. man reichstag exnliclt confirm ation that I am legally entitled to hold anyone to his duties or to sentence to cashiering or to oust from office and nniltinn anyone without consideration of his person . . . who In my con scientious opinion does not ful fill his duties." Experienced radio listener In London said they detected ex citement In Hitler's voice when he dealt with this phase of his message which, In widespread British opinion, was tha chief reason for tha speech. SAFETY EFFORT AT CAMP WHITE HELD ADEQUATE Washington- Anrfl 7 an Major General Thomas J. Rob. Ins, acting chief of engineers, haa advised Senator ftcNary that safety conditions at the army camp at Medford. Dr. .u to be well In hand. William J. MrT.n . Ore.. had comnlained tn th. a tor about the nunhar nf n,.t. and fire hazards and inquired uui uie loyalty of some per sons employed to work at camp. Robins said there were 145 guards at the camp working In three elsht-hour ah in. .-j - V uuva patrol cars which made constant rounds of tha camp. Ho said there was one fire house with f .re truck manniwi K , . . uu valu ed firemen under the direction veteran lire chief, who had organized fire volunteers. The general added two mora fir trucks would bo delivered at tha camp May 1, while seven wero on order. Robins said all . the government and private con- ... , nan to do citizens of tha United rt.t.. u.j -!l .. 1 w aign axu- davits they did not txlnn. . organization which advrv.tJf the overthrow of the government nd al were fingerprinted and tha prints cherkoH k . . ...I I . . " "uu oi investigation. RENTAL SITUATION GROWS BAD AGAIN 3?. !fn county housing committee. Robert Kyle, chair, man, will meet In the chamber Of commerce ( t. discuss the acute local rental """"" wnicn is said to have grown from the exhorbltant rents being charo-erf f. quarters by number of land- lords. It was nolnterl w,t k- w J. Van Dvka. mnnlln.lM few landlords are Indulging In iMoi'uccs wnicn, it continued. Will force tha ovrmmant Place a ceiline- On rat . mndL erably below tho pre, it aver age. This will result, ha ax plained. In causing a lost to all landlords, Including those who are charging reasonable ratea for their houses and apartments. Rationing nf altln atrwlra of rubber in Argentina has Just Deen ordered by the govern