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IT JU HIT UffiK N iviLA XT IE Let YOUR Auwir to Bombs be BONDSI Boy war Bonds and Stamps TODAY Contribute to the war tffort of jour nation, Patriot ism, your own arlt-protcctlon, rmandi that YOU do your part NOW! Um Tha KAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick RnulU at Small Cost MEDFORD lIBUNE full Associated Proa United Proaa Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1942. NO. 33. v yui Hero (yHare Waves To l It-la f7ts WPWi r Tf V i Lieut. Commdr. Eddie O'Hare. sixth in one light, waves to admirers in hit native city of St. Louis mother. Mrs. Selma O'Harei on the automobile. News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, April 29. Hit- )Ier has been reported massing troops in the southern Ukraine for several months now to start his promised b i g drive, the one which Is to make or break his cause. German gen erals have been running in and out of Berlin. The pam w e a t tier nas been suitable for fighting on that front for several weeks. Yet there has been no action. The answer is he is still mass ing, still struggling to accumu late every possible force. He has lifted Italian soldiers from Italy not for the fighting, of course but to relieve Germans to go to the front. Rumanians, Hungarians, Bul garians also are being used for this purpose. Planes are being gathered in from the occupied regions along the Atlantic sea board (which should leave that way easier for the British.) German troops have been shift ed from the central Russian front, south to the scene of prospective fighting. This certainly means action Is coming. But If it does not get started within the next three weeks, Hitler will have to furn ish some tall excuses. HITLER is evidently counting on the big thaw, Just now developing on the central and northern front to keep the Rus sians from breaking through his weakened forces there. His transportation facilities are so much better than the Russians a hat he can move from the cen ter to the south much faster. But he seems to have depleted his center to such an extent that he will need this fast transpor tation to get them back when the thaws pass in a few weeks. Therefore time weighs heavily on his shoulders, and every moment he loses in getting his southern drive going means that (Continued ob Pmga Pour) SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS City School "Supe" E. H. Hed rick willing to be quoted con cerning the weather. a Building Inspector Frank Rog rs being able to give a lengthy discourse on a certain subject which would be Greek to the public. U.. IrW-W'IMl.M,. .,11.11 U aco of tha Navy, who shot down right Mrs. Eddie O'Hare. Naval ON FREEZE ORDER By the Associated Press An appeal by the clothing in dustry for release from the OPA's price freezing order was predicted today by a large Cleveland manufacturer of men's clothes. A spokesman said several pro-1 uuieis iibu Bnnouncea price in creases on fall lines before the OPA order was issued, and as serted no clothing maker would be able to sell stocks six months from now at the highest levels of March. "On May 4, the Industry gen erally will start paying higher wages. In addition, the industry has bought materials for fall and winter clothing at far higher prices than those in clothes on the market now," the spokesman said, asking his name not be used. "It will be Impossible to oper ate and stay within the OPA's freezing order." DISTRICT AG AGENT TED TIBBUTTS QUITS Salem, April 29 (IP) Ted Tibbutts, department of agricul ture district agent for Jackson and Josephine county, has re signed, and will be succeeded by Tom Stott, Jr., of Grants Pass, the department announced today. POLITE BURGLAR Eugene, April 29. (IP) A polite burglar robbed the apart ment of Elsie Maye Moore, Eugene, last night. He ransack ed her dwelling, took $7.50 in cash, and left a note thanking her for the money. F.D.R. Washington, April 29. (IP) The guns of American warships confronted Hitler and Mussolini in the Mediterranean today end President Roosevelt warned that the united nations would fight any nazi attempt anywhere to use Vichy French territory for military bases. In a detailed war report to the nation by radio last night the president disclosed that American warships "are now in combat" in the Mediterranean and that American troops have taken stations in the Near East and Middle East a fact which British commentators declared had been "one of the best kept naval secrets of the war." Mr. Roosevelt took cogniz ance of Collaborationist Pierre Laval's rise to power in Vichy and declared that the united nations would not hesitate to act anywhere "to prevent assist Admires liTa Jap planet and disabled a during a parade. At left is his guard of honor flanks the FOR RENT SLICE Washington, April 29. (IP) The office of price administra tion named five Oregon com munities yesterday in its rent control program. The recommended maximum date for each was March 1, 1942. The communities, their extent, and 1940 populations, were: Astoria, Clatsop county, 24, 697; Corvallis, Benton and Linn counties, 49,114; Medford, Jack son county, 36,213; Pendleton, Umatilla county, 26.030; Portland-Vancouver, Wash., Clacka mas, Multnomah and Washing ton counties, Ore., and Clark county, Wash., 501,275.' Plans formulated by the Med ford homes registration commit tee at its Monday meeting, con cerning the rental situation here, are being held in abeyance pend ing the receipt of definite infor mation on federal control of rents as ordered by Leon Hend erson, price administrator. Robert F. Kyle, chairman of the committee, said this infor mation would probably be re ceived here within the next few days. AXIS SHIP SUNK London, April 28. (.IP) The admiralty announced today that a big enemy supply ship had been sunk off the Norwegian coast by the British submarine Trident. SILVER ACT SAFE Washington, April 29. (IP) Western senators were assured today by Secretary Morgenthau that the treasury did not plan to seek repeal of the silver pur chase acts. Bares "Best Kept Naval ance to the armies or navies or air forces of Germany, Italy and Japan." Calls All To Work At home he called all Ameri ca to war every man, woman and child. The price of victory, he said, Is hard work, sorrow and blood. He pledged the exercise of "all the executive power" at his command to prevent a spiral in the cost of living and summoned the nation to harsh self denial for a "tough" and long war pro gram that will reach a $73,000, 000.000 yearly rate before 1942 is over. He spoke Just after blanket price control was Im posed on virtually everything Americans eat, wear and use. Abroad, he gave this report on the war America now has "several hundreds of thousands of fight- territory will be bases for of than all the other united na ing men at bases and battle-1 tensive action and ws are de-1 tions put together." Government Sets Price Ceilings; War Highest March Levels To Be Maximum Price On Nearly All Articles Washington, April 29 UP) A government padlock forged In March will be placed May 18 on the price of virtually every article that appears on America in all war-boom towns will be battened down for the duration. In a sweeping order coinci dent with President Roosevelt's share-the-war economy program, Price Administrator Leon Hen derson last night announced that prices would be held to their highest March levels and direct ed that rents in areas housing more than half the nation's pop ulation be restored to their pre boom scales. 3 Per Cent Decline Henderson estimated the uni versal price ceiling would knock retail costs about 3 percent be low today's levels. That Is the amount of increase shown by April indices. They still will be about 13 percent above August, 1939, however. Labeled frankly as a frame work for other anti-inflation measures yet to come, includ ing higher income and excess Drofits taxes, vastly expanded rationing, wage stabilization and Income limitations, the over-all celling exempts only a limited number of food commodities. The government's stop-rise order will be aimed at such "cost of living" items as tobac co, meat, canned goods, cloth ing, and packaged household drugs, and Henderson estimated that housewives would find 60 to 75 percent of all foods back at March costs when the uni versal ceiling takes effect In retail stores May 18. Must Post Lists Retailers will be required after that date to post public lists of the ceiling prices on, "cost of liv ing" items. Wholesalers and manufactur ers prices will be affected May 11. Beginning July 1, rates charged for "retail services" such as garages, tailors, laun dries, dry cleaners and shoe re pair shops likewise must re vert to the March base. Loud protests against pegging both wholesale and retail prices to the same month were voiced by store owners who said they had not kept pace with increas ing wholesale prices during March. One Fifth Avenue, New York department store executive, de scribing Henderson s order as "completely unfair" to the re tailer, said stores that kept their prices to the public down while selling inventories purchased at earlier lower levels "were now being penalized." Although emphasizing that he expected business to cooper ate generally, and that stress would be placed upon govern ment administration rather than policing, Henderson called at tention to penalties permitting the office of price administration fronts thousands of miles from home." "American warships are now in combat in the north and south. Atlantic, in the Arctic, in the Mediterranean, and in the north and south Pacific. American troops have taken stations In South Amerlcs, Greenland. Ice land, the British isles, the Near East, the Middle East, the Far East, the continent of Aus tralia, and many islands of the Pacific." Axis Target Soon Swarms of American four motored bombers will soon at tack axis Europe. There have been serious losses in the orient, but there is good reason to believe that the southward drive of the Japanese has been checked. "Australia. i New Zealand and much other Boom Rents Due For s daily shopping list and rents to put violators out of business. Penalties Provided All stores and wholesalers selling products covered by the ceiling automatically will be li censed by the government, and after one warning, OPA, through court action, may have a vio lator's license suspended. In ad dition, the emergency price con trol act provides for fines of not more than $5,000 or a year's Imprisonment, or both; civil suits for treble damages, and li cense revocation. Eggs, fresh vegetables, milk products, (except milk and ice cream) flour, mutton and lamb, live animals, fresh fish and sea food, game and used automobiles are among the few items spec ifically exempted from the price ceiling. "Services" not affected In clude prices charged by barbers and beauty shops, professional fees, wages, insurance and un derwriting .premiums, public utility rates and advertising fees. No ceiling was fixed on raw agricultural commodities, but OPA emphasized that, In gener al, costs of such items are fixed at the time of their first pro cessing. As to rents, Henderson order ed them reduced within 60 days in 302 areas in 46 states and Puerto Rico, housing some 76. 000,000 persons. In four-fifths of the areas, rents must be re stored to March 1, 1942 levels: in 64 areas, the freeze dates are in 1941 Jan. 1, April 1, or July 1. Accompanying the general price order were IS separate schedules establishing maxi mums for various products and commodities ranging from bi tuminous coal and gasoline to newsprint and farm equipment which OPA declared required special pricing treatment. The gasoline ceiling, applying to service stations In all but 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia pegged prices at the highest March levels. In the 17 eastern states and the District of Columbia, filling stations will be allowed to charge highest March prices, plus four-tenths of a cent a gal Ion on gasoline and two-tenths of a cent a gallon on dlesel fuel. MUMPS RECORD Prlneville, Ore., April 29 (JP) Prineville'a mumps epidemic appeared to have broken all records when 147 grade school students were absent In a single day, but then down came "Grandma" Evans, 87, with the disease. termlned that the territory which has been lost will be re gained." The situation in Burma Is serious. The Japanese may cut the Burma road. But "no mat ter what advances the Japanese may make, ways will be found to deliver airplanes and muni tions of war to the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. "For every advance that the Japanese have made since they started their frenzied career of conquest, they have had to pay a very heavy toll In warships, in transports, in planes and in men. They are feeling the ef fects of these losses." In Europe, the great Russian offensive is "destroying more armed power of our enemi troops, planes, tanks and guns RAF CAPS RAIDS WITH BIG PUNCH AT KIELSEABASE Great Fires Left in Before Dawn Attack Battle ship Lair Also Bombed. By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor British warplanes capped a devastating week-long air of fensive by smashing heavily at Germany's big naval base of Kiel before dawn today and bombed the nazt battleship lair at Trondhelm, Norway, for the second night in a row. Great fires were left raging at Kiel, toe British said, while the Germans asserted that the RAF aimed Its bombs at "cul tural monuments", dwellings and hospitals. The nazi high command ac knowledged an unspecified num ber of civilian casualties and said the raid cost the British 11 bombers, making a 48-hour total of 36 RAF bombers shot down. The high command said 23 were shot down Monday night alone. On the soviet front, Russia claimed an Important 43-mile advance In four days In which the Red armies stormed across a big river and sent the Germ ans reeling back to the south west. The river wis r.st Identified. but the Russians have been hammering nazt defenses along the Volkhov river below Lenin grad, the upper Volga in the Rzhev sector before Moscow, the Oka river 200 miles south of Moscow, and the Donets river In the Kharkov area of the Ukraine. It was the most sweeping ad vance described in soviet dis patches for weeks. Aside from helping to stem the flow of German war sup plies to the Russian front, the RAF's latest raids indicated that the British were smashing hard in an attempt to knockout Ger m."r naval bases along the chan nel "invasion coast". E RAZE MS TOWN Vernon, Texas, April 29 (IP) A tornado followed by a dev astating fire destroyed or dam aged every building In the west Texas county seat town of Crowell last night, killing at least eleven persons and injur ing hundreds. Hospitals were filled with In jured. All communications In the vicinity were down. George Self, Red Cross chair man at Crowell, said 1,000 per sons needed emergency aid and housing. Secret of War" Axis Realises Plight Defeatism is slowly spreading in the axis countries. The Ger mans and Italians have "a grow ing conviction that the cause of nazism and fascism is hopeless." The president said that the Mediterranean area was receiv ing "very careful attention," voired concern that the new Vichy regime might force the French people "to submit to nazi despotism," and issued this warning: "The united nations will take measures, if necessary, to pre vent the use of French territory In any part of the world for military purposes by the axis powers. The good people of France will readily understand that such action is essential for the united nations to prevent as sistance to the armies or navies or air forces of Germany, Italy and Japan. The overwhelming BASEBALL American Detroit Boston Benton, Manders, Gorsica and Tebbetts; Terry, M. Brown and Peacock. 3rA Draftees Face Reclassification if Dependency Recent Camp Murray, April 29 (IP) Selective service officials were instructed today by the national headquarters in Washington, D. C, to delve more deeply Into the reasons for dependency of their class 3 registrants, and to reclassify all those who have acquired dependents "for reason of providing deferment or when Induction was Imminent." Adjutant General Walter J. DeLong disclosed today part of the directive received from the national headquarters. "In cases where the depend ency status (such as marriage) was acquired after December 8, or acquired when induction was imminent, the registrant shall not be classed In 3A," said the directive. Dependency deferment such as pregnancy, birth or acquiring a child since December 8, also shall not prevent a registrant from being drafted. EUGENEFLiER one OF SEVEN KILLED Orlando, Fla., April 29. (JP) Seven army flyers were killed when a bomber and pursuit ship collided in mid-air about nine miles west of here. Tha dead were announced by Colonel Thomas S. Voss, com mandant of the Orlando air base, as: Second Lieut. Ernest W. Rob ertson of Eugene, Ore. Second Lieut. Joseph S. Smith of Yoakum, Tex. Second Lieut. Richard R. Carnevale of Columbus, Ohio, Private M. C. Brown of De troit. Mich. Private L. A. Gerhart of Wrenersville, Pa. Private Wm. E. Wimf of Hol land, Mich. Second Lieut. Robert S. Boyce of Chllicothe, Ohio, pilot of the pursuit ship. The bomber, carrying the crew of six, was attached to MacDill field at Tampa and the pursuit plant was from the Orlando air base. Eugene, April 29 (IP) Ern est Robertson, 23-year-old Eu gene youth, killed In Florida to day In the crash of an army bomber, is a former University of Oregon football star. He played for three seasons undei Coaches Callison and Tex Oli ver, and In 1939 was considered one of the' leading linemen in Pacific coast conference foot ball. majority of the French people understand that the fight of the united nations is fundamentally their fight, that our victory means the restoration of a free and independent France and the saving of France from the slavery which would be Im posed upon her by her external enemies and her internal trait ors. "We know how the French people really feel. We know that a deep-seated determina tion to obstruct every step in the axis plan extends from occu pied France through Vichy France to the people of their colonies In every ocean and on every continent, "Our planes are helping In the defenses of French colonies today, and soon American fly ing fortresses will be fighting for the liberation of the dark ened continent of Europe." Freeze Invaders Entry In Lashio Threatens Complete Iso lation From Allied Help. By the Associated Press Advanced JaDanese tmnn. have broken Into the suburbs of Lashio, railhead of the Burma road to China, a Chinese com munique disclosed tonight inia disastrous development indicated that barrina some m ir- acle of defense the Mandalay Lashio railroad soon would be cut and China Isolated from all presently eilective communica tion with the allies. President Roosevelt's disclo sure that America now has "sev eral hundreds of thousands of iignting men at bases and battle fronts thousands of miles from home" was quickly followed to day by an official announce ment that strong new reinforce ments of U. S. troops and equip ment have arrived In Australia. Sink Jap Ship Other good news for the allies centered on the valiant resist ance of Lieut.-Gen. Jonathan Wainwright's defenders in tha Philippines. A war department bulletin said American gunners on Cor regidorand other island forts In Manila bay sank an armed Jap anese ship, broke up enemy troop concentrations and silenc ed several Japanese batteries on the opposite shores. The communique said that Japanese guns heavily shelled the forts, but that enemy air attacks on Corregidor were de creasing. On Panay Island, In the cen tral Philippines, the war depart, meet reported that American Filipino troops continued to fight against Japanese Invasion forces but that enemy naval strength had been increased near Panay and nearby Islands. The size of the new American expeditionary contingent which landed in Australia was not given, but officials said it was "strong and well supplied." Commenting on the arrival of the Americans, A u s t r a 1 1 a's Prime Minister John Curtin de clared Australia was mobiliz ing to take the offensive against Japan despite the "constant and undiminished" threat of Jap anese invasion of the down under continent itself. Radio Highlights (Paelfie War Time) The Kentucky Derby will have broadcast space on CBS Saturday afternoon at 2:45. Ted Husing will do the color while Clem McCarthy, loaned by NBC will handle the actual running. Madeline Carroll, Red Skel ton, Jean Hersholt, Bea Wain and Peter Van Steeden's orches tra are combining for a special one-time broadcast at 7:30 p. rru Thursday on NBC to introduce a war savings stamp drive by the drug industry. Radio facilities and talent are being contribut ed. Tonight: Talks MBS 5:30 James A. MacKinnon, Canadian minister of trade and commerce, on "Inter-American Relations,' MBS 7:13 United Nations speak, Alexander Loudon, Netherlands minister. BLU and MBS 8:30 from St. Paul "Buy a Bomber Show." Paul V. McNutt on "Manpower Mobilization." Thursday: NBC 3:30 p. m.. American Legion Child Health Day program. CBS 2:30 Ken tuck Derby preview; 3:15 Her bert Agar on "What Are We Fighting For?" SUNDAY HOLIDAY OUT London. April 29 VP) The Berlin radio was heard tonight broadcasting a decree abolishing all Sunday holiday. y ;
