Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 30, 1942, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textft YOUR Answtr to Bombs be BONDS. Buy War Bonds ana Stamps TOUAT ContiiboU to the war effort of your nation. Patrlot lm. your own tr I (-protection, demands that 'OU tfo your part N OH I Dh Th MAIL TRIBUNB Medford Tribune Want Ad Way Quick Retulta at Small Cott Full Associated Prws United Press Thirty seventh Year. liliiiKIl CLASH Mil g I I : . Here She Comes! ! '"MA4-..-. ' " ' ,r.-.. Approach el th tornado which destroyed Pryor. Okla., U ihown above' photographad from tho backyard oi homa In tha city 'a outskirts law momanta bafora tha twiatar toarad through tha city. News Behind The News ' By Paul Mallon Washington, April 30. A purge of the Nazi leadership is probably forecast by the Hitler p e e c h. A guess is that either Himm ler, overlord of the secret police,, or Goebbels, the propagandi s t, may go, to cre ate a fresh po litical front at home to re place the pre sent fading Paul Multuo one. Hitler spoke In a new calm appealing tone when he asked the reichstag to give him the legal right to remove anyone from office, but the tone was ft ollow. He controls both the "elchstag and the office holders. He already had the right he asks. The only excuse for him to mention the matter in such a way was to seek popular sup port for another bootkicking ouster from high Nazi chairs. As pudgy Herr Goering seems to be in favor for the moment, it looks like Himmler or Goeb bels have reason to feel uneasy. T"F.R Boss has shaken the army until all its top teeth have fallen out, and asked no one's authority. He fired Von Lieb from the Leningrad front. Von Beck from the center. Von Run stedt from the south (shifting him to France as a mere police man). Von Brauchitsch. the gen eralissimo (he went back only in n advisory capacity and not as Tiead of the armies) and even Keisel his right hand man. No one knows who replaced these generals. All that is known is that General Jodl is now doing Hitler's military bminwork. But the biggest point of the speech, a point evident in nearly every paragraph except one, (Continued on Psgt E1;M) SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Gien Swanson puffing on a black cigar almost as big as he is. L. E. "Bing" Francis and O'ackson Matlack cooking up ians for a steak eating contest the latter remarking that he practiced recently in Portland by eating two steak dinners at TV2, i one sitting "I ; f I t ' : 14 Killed as Tornado Strikes Kansas Farms Oberlin.Kas April .30 VP) A tornado ripped through a rural section of southern Decatur county lata last night, kill ing 14 persons and injuring 13 others. Two entire families were wiped out by the storm. The small hospital here was Jammed and other injured were taken to McCook, Neb., hospitals. The city, itself, escaped damage. The furious blast carried . away livestock and levelled farm buildings through an area a half mile wide. In several instances not a trace of the buildings remained. In others, only splintered boards showed where homes and stock barns formerly stood. One of the victims, Mrs. Dale Paddock, was found on a creek bank, her head and shoulders driven into the ground by the twister. Her four-year-old son was blown into the creek and his body was not found until daylight. Her husband, the third member of the family, was killed also. Gus Leinwetter, his wife, son and daughter were killed in the wreckage of their home. The dead: Gus Leinwetter, 40. Mrs. Gus Leinwetter, 33. Stanley Leinwetter, 12, a son. Naomi Leinwetter, 7, a daughter. Mardell Lelpner, 7, spending the night at the Leinwetter home. ' Dale Paddock, 33. Mrs. Dale Paddock, 29. Elvin Paddock, 4, a son. Leon Railsback, 17, brother of Mrs. Paddock. Mrs. James Beneda, Jr. Aileen Beneda. a daughter Norma Nicholson, 14. Mrs. Frank Urban, 65. Duane Harold, 18. Oberliri is in the northwest corner of Kansas, about 30 miles south of the Nebraska line. Ambulances from Norton, Kas 28 miles east of the stricken area had moved nine injured to McCook, Neb., hospitals. Six teen others were reported taken to the hospital in Oberlin. C. J. Jacoby, Norton news paper man, said a returning ambulance driver told him it appeared only a half dozen farm houses were hit by the freak twister which dipped into a valley about a mile east of Oberlin. HAPPY DAYS Fairview. N. J., April 30 t!P) Happy days are here for Fair view's 1.500 school children. The local rationing board turn ed down Truant Officer Oscar Stoffel's request for new tires. Roseburg. Ore., April 30 (JP George Herman Kerr, 42 recent arrival In Roseburg from Crescent City. Calif., died last night from injuries suffered while employed as trailerman on a logging truck hauling pil Intf in Rrthiirff. The accident occurred 20 miles east of Rose jburg on the Little River road. NORTHWEST AREA Washington, April 30 VP) A possibility that curtailment of gasoline consumption in the Pacific northwest may be eased or lifted was seen in oil circles today, as the petroleum coordi nation office reported a sub stantial improvement in that area's motor fuel stocks. The coordination office dis closed that the west coast pe troleum marketing committee had asked that the restrictions in Oregon and Washington be lifted, due to better stock and transportation conditions. Through the cooperation of all local service station dealers, gasoline distributors and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, a brief will be sent tixiay to A. G. Britzman, Los Angeles, petroleum coordinator for the Pacific coast, citing the increase in population and auto mobiles here due to Camp White and requesting that this local ity be allocated more gasoline to compensate for the increase, according to Frank Hull, cham ber manager. Hull said it was the feeling here that gasoline curtailment would be eased in this area in view of the facts presented in the brief, although no assur ance this would happen Kd been forthcoming. Admiral Stark In London For Duty London, April 30. (P Ad miral Harold R. Stark of the U. S. Navy arrived In London by air this evening to assume his duties as Commander in Chief of American Naval operations in European waters. Stark was accompanied by V. S. Ambassador John G. Winant. BASEBALL American Score: R. H. E. St. Louis 0 4 1 New York 3 8 0 Harris, HollinRsworth and Swift, Terrell; Bonhara and Dicker. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1942. GIGANTIC BATTLE FOLLOWS FORAYS Watchers on Coast See Va por Trails 25,000 Feet Up Peace Offers Heard. By Rogar D. Graan Associated Press War Editor " British and German warplanes clashed in a gigantic air battle 25.000 feet over the German occupied French "invasion coast" today following overnight assaults in which RAF bombers violently attacked German war foundries in Paris. Watchers on the English coast said vapor trails of dogfights streaked the skies above Cap Gris Nez and Boulogne and that heavy explosions thundered across Dover strait in the after noon. Paaca Offers Claimed Meanwhile, London heard un confirmed reports that Germany had offered a "Nazi peace" to England three times since mid March. Simultaneously, a Tokyo broadcast quoted well-informed circles in Berlin as saying that Adolf Hitler and Benito Musso lini would meet In a few days. The news agency A.F.I., affili ated with Gen. Charles de Gaulle's free French govern ment, said the German peace offers were based on a nine page memorandum by Relchs marshal Herman Wilhelm Goer ing which would give the third reich undisputed mastery of continental Europe. Both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill have scorned any suggestion of nego tiations with the Nazis, describ ed by Churchill as "the guilty men who have let hell loose upon the world." Paris Bombed A Vichy broadcast said 52 persons were killed and 100 in jured in one section In the RAF's heavy new assault on Paris the fifth attack on the German-occupied French capital In less than two months. A large number of houses were destroyed. It was the eighth successive night of big-scale RAF raids against the continent. Striking in bright moonlight, the British bombardiers rained their explosives chiefly on the Gnome-Rhone Aero Works at Gennevilliers, on the Seine, 10 miles from the heart of Paris, which the British described as producing warplane engines for Germany. German night raiders carried out a short but sharp attack on the ancient city of Norwich, In northeast England, demolishing large stores in the shopping dis trict and killing. at least seven persons. On the Russian war front, Soviet dispatches said regiments of the German 5th division, de scribed as one of Hitler's "spring offensive" divisions, were slash ed to ribbons by the red army 12 hours after they entered the front lines. 1.000 Nasls Killed A Russian communique said the red armies "wiped out about 1.000 enemy officers and men" in two days of fighting in the Smolensk zone, 200 miles west of Moscow. Hitler's field headquarters acknowledged that Russian troops "succeeded in breaking through our positions" on the outskirts of a large locality, but declared they were thrown back by a counterattack. The city was not specifically Identified, but the Nazi high command said the Russians had been using strong tank forces in fighting around Orel, key Nazi bate 200 miles south of Moscow Orinoco Indians Harvest Rubber Caracas. Venezuela, April 30 4With the incentive of a 33-cents-a-pound gover n m e n t offer, the Indians of Amazonas territory on the upper Orinoco have started gathering wild rub ber and sending it to the river ports again after years of ne glect occasioned by low prices, the Venezuelan S I V. news agency reported today. I Two relief workars search through this rubbU of what was war-boom town of Pryor. following tha tornado which left a Injured and $2,000,000 damage. IN GEAR GREEK; BODY RECOVERED The body of Mrs. Vernon May Thompson, 35, wife of W. H. Thompson, a cantonment work er, was found this morning In shallow water in Bear creek near the Barneburg road bridge, by Deputy Coroner Carlos Mor ris and Deputy Sheriff William Grenbemer. Death was by drowning, due to suicide, the deputy coroner said. Desponden cy was given as the reason for the act. The couple lived in the Barneburg road district. Thompson has been here for a month, and his wife about ten days. They formerly lived in a little town near Marysville, Cal Thompson told Deputy Sher iff Grenbemer his wife had been dissatisfied since coming, and had given veiled hints of her intention. She is the mother of a girl age 15 years, now in California, and an infant one and one-half years old. She had asked Thompson how he would care for the children if she was gone, the husband told the offi cer. Wednesday night Thompson retired about 10 o'clock and left his wife washing the dishes, according to the report to the deputy sheriff. He awakened about 5:30 o'clock this morning and found his wife's bed in an other room had been unoccu pied. He called the sheriff s office and a search was started. Her tracks led to Bear creek. Deputy Sheriff Grenbemer after a lone search called for Deputy Coroner Morris, and to gether they grappled in the creek. Later, in a shallow pool they located the body, dressed In a light house dress and slip pers. Radio Highlights Tonight: Talks CBS 5:30 People's Platform from Kansas City 'Curbing Sixth Column ists"; Blu 6 America's Town Meeting from Fort Wayne, Ind., "Role of Criticism in War," Communications Commissioner J. L. Fly Moderator and George V. Denny, Jr., Norman Thomas, Jay Allen and Walter D. Fuller speakers; MBS 7:15 Discussion "Smal Business Legislation"; CBS 8:15 Francis B. Sayre on "Corregidor and after." NBC 7:30 Special War Stamp program. Madeleine Car roll and others. I Friday: CBS 12:30 P. M British-American music festival: 1 2:30 Kentucky Derby Preview. i Blu 12:45. Presentation to Mrs. Roosevelt of Freedom House Un ited Nations Emblem. MBS i 10.43 A. Don Norman. Whoosh! This Is 2& ?tI ' General and Correspondent Killed in Australia Air Crash Allied Headquarters, Australia, April 30. fl The death In an airplane crash of Brig.-Gen. Harold H. George of the Unit ed States army air force, was announced by allied headquarters. Also killed In the crash was Melville Jacoby, Time and Life magazine correspondent who came to Australia from Bataan last month with his wife after living with the Beleaguered U. S. and Filipino forces defending the peninsula against the Jap anese invaders. One of the brilliant staff of officers who served with Gen eral MacArthur In the Philip pines, Brig. Gen. George accom panied MacArthur to Australi in his epic Journey last month from Bataan peninsula. His distinguished service In the Philippines gained him his promotion to Brigadier General last January. The airplane accident occur red late Monday but details were withheld for the time be ing. Jacoby, a graduate of Stan ford University, went to the Ori ent soon after the European war broke out in 1930 and was sta tioned for a while at Chungking, China, as a newspaper and radio correspondent. He later went to French Indo- China where, in November, 1940, he and a U. S. Vice Con sul were arrested by a Japanese sentry for taking pictures, TO AID REGISTRY Stressing the necessity for su gar registration in Medford to be handled expeditiously and ef ficiently City School Superin tendent E. H. Hedrlck Issued a call today for 150 volunteers to aid the city's teachers next week. He estimated that the Med ford grade schools Would reg ister between 15,000 and 18,000 persons although the total might be higher, depending on the number of cantonment workers who register here. Hedrlck asked that those vol unteering inform him by phon ing 2157. He will meet with teachers and volunteers tomor row at 4 p. m. at the high school Volunteers should be good penmen with at least a small amount of clerical experience and mathematical training, he said. More detailed Informa tion will be given Sunday con cernlng the registration procedure. (Mora about tugu ea pig 12.) What's Left one a hardware stora In tha death toll oi ovar 123. hundreds ' WAR PROFIT CURB LAID ON TABLE BY Washington, April 30. (IP) By a single vote margin, the House Naval committee tabled today and probably killed for the time-being a measure to lim it war profits, lift the statutory work week limit from 40 to 48 hours and freeze the status quo of closed and open shops for the duration of the war. The vote was 13 to 12, and came shortly after Chairman Vinson, (D-Ga.), told the mem bers that "the American people are going to have something to say about this racketeering In war plants and In labor unions In every congressional district In the nation In the November el ections." The action, climax of two months of stormy hearings on the profits-labor Issue, backed up President Roosevelt's mes sage to congress earlier this week that no labor legislation was necessary at this time. Voting against tabling was: Mott, (R-Ore.). Schoolboy. Rowe Sold to Dodgers Detroit, April 30 VP) The Detroit Tigers announced today sale of Lynwood (Schoolboy) Rowe, 30 year-old righthander. to the Brooklyn Dodgers for an undisclosed amount of cash. Rowe was In his tenth season in the American league and this year had won one and lost none. The six-foot, four-inch school boy reports to the National league club Immediately. BLACKOUT San Diego, Calif., April 30 W) San Diego residents last I night experienced a 33-minute biackout during which army searchlights played into the moonlit night to pick out planes Identified as friendly. The fourth Interceptor command ordered the blackout at 10:30 p. m. The all clear signal was given at 11:30 p. m. STORM WARNING San Francisco, April 30 (IP) The weather bureau posted small craft warnings at 8 a. m., today from Cape Blanco, on the Oregon coast, south to San Francisco bay. NO. 34. TAKENBY JAPS British and Chinese Forces Lose Contact Danger of Entrapment Seen Grave, By The Associated Press Chinese headquarters ac knowledged today that Japaneso troops had captured Lashio, tha gateway to China In Burma, while British and Chinese for ces were reported to have lost contact amid grave danger of en trapment. The fall of Lashio, taken by the invaders after a 170-mile ad vance In four days, Imperilled the entire allied defense of Bur ma. A Chinese communique said the Japanese captured the city yesterday after a battle In which both sides suffered heavy casu alties, and reported that fighting still continued In the Lashio vi cinity. , Fight To Last This apparently meant that the American Commander of th Chinese forces, Lleut.-Gen. Jo seph W. Stllwell, was fighting for every inch of ground rather than executing a general retreat to the north. Lashio, only 80 miles front the Chinese border, ties 130 miles northeast of Mandalay. Great fires were reported rag. Ing near the town, -but It waa not stated whether they were set by traitorous Burmese fifth col umnists or were part of a scor ched earth policy by the de fenders. Meanwhile, somewhat offset ting the grim turn of the Burma conflict, the allies rolled up) slashing new aerial victories ov er the enemy In the far Pacific. Batter Jap Bases Gen. Douglas MacArthur' headquarters reported that al lied airmen destroyed or dam aged 20 Japanese planes and started big fires In an attack oa the Japanese Air Base at Lae, New Guinea, and also battered anew at the enemy base at Koe pang, on Dutch Timor Island. "Flying Tigers" of the Amerl can volunteer group fighting In Burma were credited with spectacular victory over the Jap anese Air Force, shooting down 22 of 24 planes which attempted to raid Lolwlng on the Burma Yunnan border. The AVG fliers emerged with out loss of a single plane. On the fighting front, latest dispatches said allied troop fighting to hold bomb-wrecked Mandalay were sharply threat ening with envelopment. British military quarters said K t will. I V. i : I wwmvmi .iic iiivnucia BiailUlllg . T 1. I 11. ,t . ,,. i Miaiuu, apuuuiB auiea com munication lines, the British now could only withdraw rap idly northward to escape bein trapped and to guard the way to India in the west. KEEP TIMBERLINE OPEN Portland, April 30 VP) Travel restrictions Imposed -by tire and gasoline shortages mar reduce revenues, but Timber lino Lodge will continue operation this summer, A. A. Comrie, lodge president, said today. New Axis Cycle Now Completed Cayda Asserts ....Berlin (from German broadcasts), April 30 (IP) A Rome dispatch quoted Vlr ginlo Gayda as writing today that "a new cycle of contacts between the axis powers and the states of the three power pact has been completed In regard to big political and military events." (Axis powers apparently means Germany, Italy and their European satellites; Japan, Germany and Italy are the states of the three power pact. Gayda's hint may mean that Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese ambassador to Berlin already may have met. Radio reports heard In London today said they were meeting shortly )