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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.
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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