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Let YOUR Answer to Bembt be BONDSI Bay War Bond! an Stamp TODAY Contrlbota la tha war ffort at roar nation. Patriot ism, roar awa Mlf-pratactloa. armaads that TOO ee J oar part NOWI Um Tha MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Results at Small Coat Medford Tribune 1 Full Associated Pros United Fran Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1942. NO. 32. i HOT 0 1 KAL IIffi.Nl WAS BAY - Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. Booze and Vice Camp Problem Stimton Sees Need For Action Sulphur Supply May Be Short Br Joha W. rally Washington, D. C, April 28 To the governors of Oregon and Washington have gone commun ications from Secretary of War Henry Stlmson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Paul V. McNutt, of federal security ad ministration, requesting cooper- Qtion with the federal govern ment in curbing liquor and vice round military and naval res ervations in those states. These high officials make no recom mendations as to what the gov ernors should do other than to ask that local laws be enforced by the local agencies, which would be police departments and sheriffs. There Is a boom In prostitu tion and liquor drinking spread' Ing around every military res ervation U. the country with rapid Increasing amount of soc ial disease. The secretaries of war nd navy and McNutt, who has the public health service under him, are now calling for assis tance from the civil authorities to curb the situation. Senator O'Daniel of Texas, championing S. B. 860, which Is designed to suppress most of the Q vils, has received petitions from 8 communities hi Washington supporting the measure. No pe tition has been received by O'Daniel from Oregon, although Hep. James W. Mott has been ent a few. The towns In Wash ington which are asking passage of S. B. 660 are . Bellingham, Bremerton, Brewster Burlington, Castle Rock, Centralis, Chelan, Coupeville, Custer, Elma, Ever- son, Kelso, Kirkland, Longview, Manette, Mount Vernon, . Port Orchard, Seattle, Shelton, Sno homish, Tacoma Vancouver, Washington and Winlock. Few ef these communities are near military or naval reservations. wiin two cantonments now under construction in Oregon, ene at Medford and the other at Corvallis, where many troops will be domiciled, the vice prob lem will soon be in the lap of local authorities. The problem Oss already developed with the tflux of thousands of craftsmen (Continued on Page Four) COFFEE DRINKERS Washington, April 28 VP) -nere are the keys to the pan try, Jeeves; I feel like having ome coffee and sugar with my cream mis morning. It's not quite as bad as that. but a start may have been taken with the announcement that a Ti percent cut has been ordered In the consumption of coffee. This means that wholesalers stafom now on will be permitted Vfo release only enough coffee to afford the average American 2.1 cups a day, instead of the It cups to which he has been accustomed. "Uncertainties about future supplies," were blamed by the war production board for the order. Sugar sales stopped at mid right, preparatory to a half pound-per-person-per-week ra tioning program starting May S. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Aviation minded Frank le Handy all In a dither over the approach of an airplane which Jumed out to be the wrong one. " Elsie Sauer enthusing over the "Victory garden" Hubby Lou furled and it nursing with the utmost care. POSSIBLE AHACK P ON INDIA SEEN IN Nippon Columns Threaten Key Allied Cities of Man dalay, Lashio in Burma. (By the Associated Press) Japanese invasion armadas, apparently transporting heavy reinforcements for the battle of Burma, were reported sighted in the bay of Bengal today 4s tank- led Japanese troop columns sharply theatened the two key allied cities of Mandalay and Lashio in northern Burma. Allied reconnaissance planes were said to have observed large amounts of Japanese ship ping headed toward Burma caastal ports. Conceivably, they might also be en route to attack India. v Grave New Crisis British reports said Japanese vanguards, reinforced by fresh divisions from Malaya, had ad vanced to a point 85 miles due east of Mandalay. Chungking dispatches said the Invaders appeared on the verge of slamming the Burma back door to China and pinching off the entire British-Chinese forces in a grave new crisis. The main Japanese forces were said to have thrust within 60 miles of the Mandalay-Lashio road, imperilling the already difficult allied , transport be tween China and India and threatening the allied -defenders with disastrous entrapment. Chinese reports declared es sential supplies had already been moved out of Lashio, 130 miles northeast of Mandalay, and that inhabitants were flee ing. Lashio Is the northeast gate way to China on the Burma road, once the life-line of China's war supplies. Race With Rains British military quarters said the Japanese were only 60 miles from Hsipaw, which lies on the Burma road, 100 miles north east of Mandalay and 30 miles southwest of Lashio. Chinese dispatches said the Japanese hoped to conquer Bur ma before start of the monsoon rains and protect their flank for a land Invasion of India. Other military informants, however, believe Japan may strike into China from Burma, in an attempt to wind up the costly five-year-old war with China, before invading India. On the Australian front, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head quarters reported that allied bombers spreading the United Nations' aerial offensive on an ever-widening scale attacked Japanese shipping at Kavieng, New Ireland, in the Bismarck archipelago 700 miles northeast of Australia, and also bombed enemy installations at Falsi, in tne oolomon islands. A communique said the raid' ers sank a Japanese transport at Kavieng. Allied fighter planes, defend' ing the Australian mainland, were officially credited with shooting down seven more Jap anese aircraft out of a 26-plane formation which attacked Dar win. Eight Japanese bombers and three fighters had prevl ously been shot down on Satur day, raising the three-day total to is. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Tune) New York, April 28 UP) President Roosevelt's broadcast to the nation tonight on the gen eral theme of the cost of living has been announced for 7 o'clock on all networks. Pre viously listed programs for that time have been cancelled. CBS 6:30, Report to Nation, Rationing. Blue 6:30, NBC Summer Symphony Series begins. Wednesday: NBC 10:15 a m League of Women Voters, Dr. Hu Shih. MBS Chamber of Commerce convention, 8:30 m Roundtable on "Where Do We Stand Today" and 12:30 p m., A. S. Coss on "Farm Organiza tion Viewpoint"; 1:30 and 3:13, new baseball summary, daily. Ten Votes The 10 children of Peter Welch. World War 1 flier, said ooodby in Portland, Ore., to their dad (left), one of Portland's bald eagles, returning to army duty as a major for air corps ground service. Death Toll Heavy in ; Boom Town Tornado Pryor, Okla., April 28 (JP) The toll of known dead in the savage tornado that ripped down Main street of this war boom town rose to 70 late today and State Safety Commis sioner Walter John declared he went to 125 or 150." The highway patrol reported finding 23 more bodies in flat tened frame houses along high way 20 near here. It was not determined immediately if those 23 were included in the known dead total of 70. The list of hospitalized in jured ran between ISO and 300. the patrol said, and score more were given only first aid treat ment. Mayor Thomas J. Harrison estimated property damage would be at least $2,000,000. "We are going to start re building right now," he said. "We believe we can get priori ties for the materials because we are In a defense area." This town of 5,000 to 6,000, next door to the multi-million dollar Oklahoma ordnance works, was ordered under mar tial law. The martial law was announc ed by and is being enforced by the state highway patrol, the state's national guard having been mustered Into the army The booming town has no sher iff or city marshal force suffic ient to cope with such an emer gency. Hundreds of workers and ma chinery from the ordnance works, which escaped serious damaee. were rushed to the scene. Giant bulldozers shovel Ml throueh the wreckage in search of victims. The tornado struck yesterday at 4:45 p.m. (Central War Time). Most of the six block business district on Main street was re duced to rubble. Dryden Becomes WPA Acting Head Washington. April 28 WV F. H. Dryden, deputy commis sioner of works projects, be came acting head of the WPA today, to serve until President Roosevelt names a successor to Commissioner Howard O. Hun ter, who announced his resigna tion in New Orleans last night. Hunter gave no reason for his resignation, in his New Or leans announcement. EX-BASEBALL PREXY DIES OF HEART ILL Eugene, Ore., April 28. (F George W. Wilhelm, 60, promin ent Eugene realtor who for many years served as president of the State Baseball league, died here today of a heart at tack. Wilhelm was also active In civic affairs, at the time of his death serving a chairman of the Lane county USO drive. For a Hero i "wouldn't be surprised if it NAZIS FLANKED BY RED SUCCESS London, April 28 VP) The Russians appeared to have won control of the entire region around Lake Ilmen today except for German pockets at Novgorod and Staraya Russa by capturing Borok, key rail town on the northwestern front. The Moscow radio announced the victory at Borok, confirming earlier Stockholm reports, and military experts here said the advance flanked the German positions north and south of the big lake, 120 miles below Lenin grad. They said German com' munications to the rear also were threatened. Borok Is on the railway from Novgorod to Staraya Russa, where the German 16th army had long been reported trapped. This railway skirts the western shore of Lake Ilmen. German efforts to hammer a wedge Into Russian lines on the Smolensk front some 200 miles west of Moscow were repulsed with 1,000 Nazi casualties, the Soviet communique said. The Germans were using strong tank forces In this power drive, the Russians said, Indi cating the terrain was hardening after weeks of slush and mud. On other parts of the long front from Leningrad to the Crimea, both great armies appeared to be sparring for an opening. Adolf Hitler has cashiered the 163rd German division's commandant in exasperation at Red army gains on the Finnish front and seeks still more forced labor for Nazi farms and fac tories, war dispatches indicated today. Legion May Shift Convention Place Baton Rouge, La., April 28. (IP) The national convention of the American Legion, scheduled to be held at New Orleans, Sep tember 21-25, may be shifted to another site because of the crowded wartime homing con ditions there, it was reported today. Sen ate VOTER REGISTRY 640 More Republicans and 772 More Demos Since '40 Primary Registration. Total registration In Jackson county for the May 13 primary is 17,524 an increase of 1,395 over the 1940 primary registra tion, when it was 16,129, accord ing to figures released today by the county clerk's office. Both the Republican and Democratic voters show an in crease over 1940, and the mis cellaneous voters a decrease. The Republican registration this year is 9,524, an increase of 640 over 1940, when It was 8,884. The Democratic registra tion this year is 7,813. In 1940 it was 7,041, a gain of 772. The miscellaneous vote this year Is 187; in 1940 it was 204, a drop of 17. The registration in the 21 Medford precincts totals 3,911 with 3,318 Republicans, 2,343 Democrats, and 60 miscellaneous voters. The registration In the The registration by Medford precincts is: Rep Dem Mis TV North Maln 237 163 128 100 112 403 South Main, 171 N. Central 106 S. Central. 92 S. Riverside- 73 N. Riverside. 131 303 207 204 66 157 131 133 137 123 123 105 147 102 67 142 151 138 107 94 113 141 294 North , 109 192 171 197 181 137 187 162 169 242 327 311 320 306 244 335 266 240 305 371 368 297 198 229 Oakdale Newtown . King. Northeast Cottage Southeast Queen Anne. East Southwest 161 South - 216 West 229 Kenwood Northwest , Haven 184 100 113 Totals 3318 2543 SO 5911 O.S.C.TRESHMAN TAKESOWN LIFE Astoria, Ore, April 28 VP) Coroner Forrest Ginn today list ed the death of Dorothy Anne Wanstrom, 17, Oregon State col lege freshman, as a suicide. She was found Saturday In the basement of her home in Nehalem valley with .22 cali ber rifle beside her. Price Control Is Awaited From Henderson Washington, April 28 VP) On the brink of an historic plunge Into over-all price con trols, the capital today awaited announcement expected momen tarily on a blanket price ceil ing on virtually all consumer goods. A vertical regulation, preven ting prices from rising above the highest levels charted by each dealer In the n onth of March, was expected to be dis closed at a press conference scheduled for late today by Price Administrator Leon Hen derson. Advices accumulating for the last month indicated the ceiling would apply to retail, wholesale and manufacturers' levels. President Roosevelt's antl-ln nation message to congress yes terday gap a clear hint that rent controls in war-lime boom areas would be linked with the proposed lid on prices. 'To keep the cost of living from spirallng upward, we must fix ceilings on the prices whlrh consumers, retailers, wholcsal ers, and manufacturers pay for Shelves Tl GIVEN WEEK TO Evacuation of Entire City Decreed 2,000 Required Leave Multnomah Area. San Francisco, April 28. (P) Japanese today were ordered removed from the entire city of Portland by next Tuesday in the first order evacuating enemy aliens and American-Japanese from Oregon. Portland will be the first major Pacific coast city to be entirely cleared of persons of Japanese descent. Previous orders have directed the re moval of Japanese from sections of the other principal west coast ports Los Angeles, San Fran cisco, Seattle and San Diego and a 400 mile strip on the cen tral California coast. The two orders issued today by Lieut. General J. L. DeWitt, commanding general of the west ern defense command and the fourth army, provide for evacu ating nearly 2,000 Japanese. A new assembly center re cently constructed at the Pacific International Livestock Expos! tlon grounds near Portland will be used for the first time. "These first orders for move ment of Oregon Japanese, are another step in the swiftly mov ing program of the army to re move all Japanese from Import ant Pacific coast areas," said Col. Karl R. Bendetsen, head of the western defense command's civil affairs division. "With the completion of other assembly centers the program will con tinue to move even more swift ly." To be ready for the speeded up program, army officers urged Japanese throughout military area No. 1, comprising the west ern portions of California, Ore gon, Washington ana southern Arizona, to complete plans quickly for selling or storing their property. ROOSEVELfTALK AT 7 PJ. TODAY Washington, April 28 VP) The radio address In which President Roosevelt will discuss with the American people his plan to control the cost of liv ing will be delivered at 7 o'clock tonight, PWT. White House officials said the chief executive planned to speak for half an hour and It Is expected that all major networks will carry the speech. Announcement the things they buy; and cell ings on rents for dwellings In all areas affected by war indus tries," Mr. Roosevelt said. Official sources had indica ted previously that announce ment of the sweeping office of price administration action was awaiting only on the president s presentation to congress of an omnibus anti-inflation program Rent controls can be set up In any community merely by designating it as a defense rent al area. A score of communi ties were so designated on March 12. In this connection, Hender son gave notice last night that OPA would take stern steps to enforce rent reductions In these 20 areas as prescribed by OPA. The communities are given 60 days to reduce rents by local action, and after that time the government may move in if necessary to compel compliance The price chief said tha 20 com munities would be surveyed im mediately and that federal reg ltln UfftiiM afar with Jlina rents It any have failed to com - ply. Labor Control BASEBALL American League Detroit 114 Boston 6 7 0 White, Newhouse and Teb- betts; Wagner and Conroy, Pea cock. St. Louis New York 1 fl 0 Auker and Swift; Ruffing and Dickey. National Score: R. H. E Brooklyn 7 8 2 8 6 0 and Sullivan; Cincinnati Wyatt, Casey Riddle, Beggs and Lamanno. FULL WAR DUTY Ottawa, April 28 (P) Cana dian citizens authorized the use of Canadian conscripts any where in the world by vote approaching two-to-one In plebiscite yesterday. From Dominion ballot boxes came an affirmative answer to the question submitted by the regime of Prime Minister W, L. MacKenzie King: "Are you In favor of releasing the govern ment from any obligation aris ing out of any past commit ments restricting the method of raising men for military serv ice?" Returns from 23,481 of the 31,203 polls showed 2,233,113 voted yes and 1,306,782 no. Pre-election pledges had pre vented the King government from sending any but volun teers to Britain and the Orient. The only province to vote ad versely was French-Canadian Quebec, where the cry "a baa conscription" (down with con scription) had been raised fre quently In recent demonstra tions reminiscent of its draft riots during the World war. Returns from 7,437 of Que bec province's 7,973 polls gave: 367,361 yes, 909,833 no. LEFT IN FLAMES By the Associated Press Britain's great aerial offens ive pounded Cologne In the Ruhr Industrial valley before dawn today In the fifth succes sive night foray Into Germany, an RAF communique announc ed, while German night talders heavily attacked Norwich, 100 miles northeast of London. Huge fires were left burning In Cologne, tha British said. Other RAF planes struck In force at the German-occupied naval base of Trondhelm, Nor way, where the Germans are building an Atlantic battle fleet base, and bombed the docks at Dunkerque and nazi airdromes. Eighteen planes were acknow led Bed missing. By daylight, swarms of RAF warplanes roared back across tha channel to oiasi tna nazi- occupied French "invasion coast." Small, early flights which be gan at dawn were followed by a giant formation covering a square mile of sky. Described as "the largest single unit ever to attack occupied France," the raiders disappeared In tha di rection of Calais, The magnitude of the RAFs around-the-clock assaults was Indicated by a German high command assertion that 38 Brit ish planes had been destroyed In 24 hours. Chrome Plant it Plan At Bandon ' Coqullle. Ore., April 28. VP) Construction of a 1000-ton dally ore capacity chroma con' centrating plant near Bandon by tha Krnm, rnl-TOTmtinn. Fort 1 Worth, Texas, was announced I today by tha Coot county court. CONNALLY BALKS AT CONTROVERSY T Texan Withdraws Motion For Consideration of Bill Granting Plant Seizure. Washington, April 28 VP) Consideration of labor legisla tion was postponed indefinitely in the senate today after Sena tor Connelly (Ex-Tex.) withdrew a motion to bring up a war plant seizure bill, saying that he did not desire to press the matter and be in "apparent con troversy with the president of the United States." Asserting that Connally'i ac tion "means the death of the Connelly bill and perhaps any other labor legislation." Sena tor Byrd (D-Va.) sought unsuc cessfully to obtain an agreement to delay consideration for a single day or for, at most, a week. Byrd told his colleagues that some senators had prepared amendments to the Connelly measure which would suspend operation of the 40-hour week and restrict certain union activi ties. The Connelly bill would authorize the government to take over strike-bound war plants, freezing working condi tions In such firms but permit ting the adjustment of wages. ' Byrd. Connelly Argue Connelly and Byrd engaged In a lengthy argument In which Byrd demanded to know wheth er Connally could give assur ance that President Roosevelt would outline a war labor pol icy In a radio address sched uled tonight. Byrd said the president's cost of living message to congress yesterday had "practically noth ing In it about a labor pro sram." The president recom mended wage controls by exec utive agencies and opposed en actment of legislation which would suspend tha 40-hour Connally aald ha didn't know what tha president Intended to y- . "Tha senator wants me xo wu him what kind of message tha president is going to deliver to night," he saia, wavin m arms. "Why aoesns ne tu i tha White Housel" CAA SEEKS FUNDS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC PORTS whlneton. Anrll 28. APV The senate received from Presi dent Roosevelt today a requeis that $203,451,885 be appropri ated for a huge civilian aviation improvement program. Including construction and repairs at hun dreds of public alrporU over tha country. The money would be used by the civil aeronautics administra tion during the fiscal year Begin ning July 1 for projects of mili tary value, according to a letter from tha budget bureau to tha president. Largest single Item proposed was $199,740,000 for continua tion of the CAA program of con struction, improvement and re pair of public airports and other public landing areas in tha United States and territories. It is proposed to develop an ad ditional 164 new airport loca tions. Improve existing airports, provide additional landing facul ties for use of the army ferrying command, all within tha conti nental United States, and to com plete the development of certain landing fields in Alaska. Other expenditures contem plated with tha appropriation In cludes: Emergency project for tha training of soma 2,000 aviation instructors and speclal-servlca ' pilots, 12,000,000. I
