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4iT Let TOUR Answer ta Bombs be BONDSI Bar Band! sai lunpi TODAY Contribute to the war effort of your nation, ratrtot ba. tour own erlf.protertlea. entanda that YOU do your part NOWI Medford Ue The MAIL TRIBUNE Tribune II Want Ad Way Quick Heiulti at Small Coat Full Associated Press United Press Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1942. NO. 35. mm ra Jl Mr -l II. Il M a .11-.. 1 t News Behind The News I By Paul Mallon Washington, May 1 The lack of enthusiasm in congressional comment on Mr. Roosevelt's new price-freezing apparatus forecasts trouble on the few features which congress was called upon to enact. It was quite evident from what some of the prominent leaders did not say, and from V. said behind At I their hands, "l.r I of f-therecord. ram mhiiuo that all three of the presi dent's suggested courses of leg islative action will encounter difficulties. The farm bloc will strenu ously resist the suggestion that Its 110 percent of parity goal be moved back. Instead the senate appropriations commit tee Is expected to write into the agricultural appropriations bill a restriction against gov ernment dumping of surpluses. The proposed $25,000 limit on income found an equally unwelcome reception, although this was not quite as evident. The restriction smacks too much of confiscation. No doubt congress will enact some kind of additional excess profits tax, but not one as drastic as the treasury and the president have in mind. Thus on all three points the president's purpoces will be jnoderated. Q THE prevailing opinion in the congressional cloakrooms Is that Mr. Roosevelt well knew that these three suggestions would meet a cold reception. The general thought was the message was intended to pre pare public opinion for the price-fixing and to stop the congressional drive on labor. From the first standpoint, the program let congress and the country have a real understand ing of overall economic policy. (Continued on age Ten) SHERIFF BRINGS BACK BAD CHECK SUSPECT William J. Drbousek, wanted here for alleged uttering of spur ious checks was returned late yesterday from Vancouver, Wash., by sheriff Syd I. Brown. de was lodged in the county il pending hearing. On the trip, the sheriff de livered two local boys, senten ced to the state industrial school for juvenile delinquency. Radio Highlights (Pacific War Time) Tonight: NBC 5:30 Informa tion Please, Jame3 M. Land is; 7:30 Night of May 1 Variety. CBS 7:15 Rep. W. B. Disney on "Limitation of War Profits". MBS 8:15 Analysis of Propa ganda; 8:30 Kentucky Colonels Annual Dinner. Saturday: Kentucky Derby CBS 2:45 Preview and 3:15 Race. Blu 12 noon Canadian Air Force band; 1:45 Horse Oice, Rhode Island Handicap. BS 10 a. m.. Discussion "Fu ture of Fashion"; 1:15 p. m. Horse Race, Jamaica Handicap Charles V. Galloway, state tax commission chairman speaks over KGW, Portland, Saturday at p. m. He will discuss the tax situation in Oregon. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Central Point Recorder Guy T announcing with much elation the city's first day tax receipts on game devices. "Doc" Goldberry locking him !f out of house and car and having to hitch a ride to town. Qa group of Washington school 'fls Jumping mud puddles en route to school, outfitted in white shoes and dresses to wind We May Pole 250 KILLED AND 1,000 HURT BY TERRIFIC BLAST Anti-German "White Bri gade" Destroys Plant Turning Out Explosives. London, May 1 yp) A chem ical factory at Tessenderloo, in the new industrial district of northern Belgium a particular zone of activity for the anti-Ger man "white brigade" of the con quered Belgians has been de stroyed in an explosion which, according to the German radio, killed 250 persons and injured about 1,000. Berlin belatedly relayed an announcement today of the Nazi-dominated Belgian govern ment that not only the plant but a technical school and a number of nearby houses were destroyed or severely damaged by the blast two days ago. No cause was given. The announcement empha sized that the factory produced "artificial fertilizers of various kinds and washing preparations for the Belgian market only." The free Belgian news agency Identifying the factory as a unit of La Societe Anonyme Des Produits Chimlques, asserted, contrary to Berlin, that the fac tory turned out sulphuric acid, synthetic ammonia and nitric acid for explosives and gas. It was reported equipped with modern machinery at which about 1,000 persons worked when- Belgium was free. Supreme Effort of Germany's Workers Urged for Victory Berlin, (From German Broad casts), May l.-(AP) Robert Ley, Adolf Hitler's lieutenant for labor affairs, appealed to the workers of Germany in a May Day message today to make "a last supreme effort for victory." Speaking of hardships of the past winter, he asserted, "the high qualities of the German sol diers and their allies have pre served our continent from being overrun by a second wave of vandals, which would have meant the end of millions of people. "It is the duty of all to help lighten the burden of the men at the front and avoid bloodshed as much as possible, for in this war it is not capital, not the dollar or the pound, which will be victorious, but the most indus trious and the bravest people." FOREST FIRE AREA Boston, May 1 (IP) Three Rhode Island towns were placed under martial law today as the most serious of several New England forest fires continued to blaze after burning over 50 square miles of timber and brush land and destroying 250, 000 feet of government stored lumber. While the flames, confined to the towns of Coventry, West Greenwich and Scituate, ap peared to be under control. Governor J. Howard McGrath of Rhode Island ordered the communities placed under mar tial law after visiting the scene. Other fires in Maine and Massachusetts appeared to be checked after the loss of one life. WILLAMETTE SAWMILLS AGREE TO ARBITRATION Washington, May 1 (IP) Twenty-five of 37 Willamette valley lumber companies in volved In a dispute over wager have agreed to accept the award of an arbiter, the war labor board reported yesterday. The remaining 12 will be asked to show cause whey they, too, should not be subject to the award. Rio De Janeiro, May 1 AP) President Getulio Vargas of Brazil was Injured today in an automobile accident. I MARTIAL LAW FOR Japs Advance In Burma J1 F7 B UR) r PAKOKKU MVINGVAN A PAGAN U I MEIKTlLA CHAUK YENANGYAUNG IOO MILES iff Japanese In the Hopong-Loilem area (1). smashed to within 60 miles of Hsipaw, and have captured Laihio, menacing the Mandalay-Lashlo link of the Butra.i Road and threatening to en circle troops to the southwest. Chinese said essential supplies had been removed from Lashio (2). On the vest Japs captured Chauk. Jagged line (3) was approximate front in central Burma. YEAR IN PRISON FOR FILM MAKER New York, May 1. (AP) Joseph M. Schenck, former chairman of the board of 20th Century Fox Film Corp., was sentenced today to a year and a day in prison on a plea of guilty to perjury Immediately after fed eral court suspended a previous three-year sentence for income tax evasion. The court accepted the lesser plea and ordered the suspension of the three-year sentence after the government - said that Schenck had aided the prosecu tion of Willie Bioff, west coast labor leader, and George F. Browne, former president of the International Alliance of The atrical Stage Employes, who were convicted of extortion from n.ajor movie producers. Schenck also was placed on probation for three years. Federal Judge Grover M. Mos cowitz gave Schenck until tomor row to surrender to begin his new sentence. As a condition of the proba tion, Schenck placed in escrow 80,000 shares of stock of the 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., as a guarantee that his tax liabili ties, estimated at $400,000, will be paid. Rattlesnake Harder Paid For on Gibbet San Quentin, Calif., May 1 (IP) The wife-slaying that came to be known as "the rattlesnake murder case" was avenged to day as the hangman's rope killed Robert S. James, 48. He was convicted of stinging his sixth wife with reptiles and of drowning her in a bathtub. The paunchy, beady-eyed man smiled as they slipped the noose about his neck. There was no word not even the customary "good-bye" to the warden. "I realize I've lived a bad life." James told the prison chaplain a moment before the execution. "But I've asked the Lord's forgiveness and I think he has forgiven me." SALMON SEASON OPENS Astoria, Ore., May 1 iJP Columbia river fishing pros pects were poor today as the commercial season opened at noon. A temporary price truce sent some 100 to the fishing grounds. Low escapement over Bonneville dam and a falling river at Celilo brought fears that the catch would be light M A A HSlPAW LASHIO 0 MANDALAY 4 KYANKS T m4P t j09 'IOILEI HOPONG YEDASHE .TOUNGOO V Siiiok Vjllty Although rain partially delay ed the work at Camp White, the construction program Is pro gressing on schedule according to Major T. W. Bean, area engineer. Medford Klamath Falls Area. - The major strongly praised the men who stayed on the job yes terday and worked through the rain, saying "this is the same spirit shewn by the boys who are fighting in all kinds of wea ther overseas. The determination of construction men to work for something more than their pay checks will help make victory possible. Unfortunately some workers went home because of the rain. Men who can't take it come to light In a hurry at a time like this." Miss Burk High Among Essay Contestants Portland, May 1 (IP) Yvonne Zeek of Bend high school won first place in Oregon in a na tional essay contest initiated by the writers' war committee, it was disclosed today, i Dons Fountain of Springfield high tied for eighth place. Those winning honorable men tion included Johanne Burke. Medford. Miss Burk. a senior. Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd F. Burk, 53 Rose avenue. She wrote on the topic."I choose the American Way." The contest in this state was sponsored by the Oregon Journal. Six Feared Killed in Plant Explosion McKeesport, Pa., May 1 IIP) Six women workers were re ported killed and at least 12 more hurt today by an explo sion that shattered the Central Railways Signal company in nearby Versailles Borough. Eyewitnesses reported the blast which shook homes two miles distant, blew, the roof off the plant, which manufactures railroad flares and signals. SEEK NEW BUSES Portland, May 1 (P) The Portland Traction company an nounced today that application has been made to the reconstruc tion finance corporation for the purchase of 200 new 40 passen ger busses to rclve the city's preying wartime transportation needs. r n Jaoanese Twenty Miles PEP TALK GIVEN BRITISHJELIEVE Conjecture on Salzburg Pow-wow Between Axis Dictators Takes Angles. By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor Adolf Hitler and Benito Mus solini, whose meetings in the past have frequently signalled the approach of momentous events, met in a two-day confer ence ending yesterday at Salz burg, Aus.ria, it was announced officially today. In the usual stereotyped form, a German communique said the axis dictators met "in a spirit of close friendship and the indis soluble brotherhood-in arms of their nations." Three Points Eyed Allied conjecture, however, centered on the possibility that these points were discussed: 1. Last-minute decisions on the heralded German grand of fensive against Russia. 2. Reports of smouldering re volt and war-weariness in Italy. 3. A possible joint German- Italian "final offer" of peace, on axis lerms, to the allies. Informed British quarters de clared the purpose of the Salz burg conference obviously was to keep Mussolini In line. "Hitler must keep both ends of the axis moving in the same direction," these quarters said, "and to do this he must give Mussolini a pep talk." It was the first meeting of the fuehrer and il duce since their countries went to war against the United States last December. The official announcement said: "The meeting resulted in a perfect accord of views on the situation created by the over whelming victories of the tripar tite powers and on the further conduct of the war by the two nations in both political and military spheres." There was no mention of Japan, the third member of the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo bloc, having been represented at the meeting. NAN TAKES OFFICE Portland, May 1 (IP) Nan Wood Honeyman became col lector of customs for the Port land district today. The former congresswoman succeeded Fred Fisk, Eugene, whose term ex pired yesterday. Stalin Says War on Germany On Surrender-or-Death Basis Moscow, May 1 (AP) Jos eph Stalin declared in a May Day order of the day today that Soviet Russia, receiving more and more military aid from Brit ain and the United Statcz, must smash Adolf Hitler's troops on a surrender-or-death basis to make 1942 "a year of final defeat of the German fascist armies." "We are able to do this and we must do this, whatever hap pens," the premier-defense com missar told soviet armed forces, guerrillas, workers and peasants on this international labor holi day, which was observed within Russia at work instead of at play. He said Russia was fighting simply "a war of liberation, a Just war." Stalin declared "we have no such aims as the cspture of other countries or enslaving of other peoples," but added that the only way to win the war was to smash the Invaders to the last man if they did not sur render. "We must do this at any cost," he stated. C - TV Burma Advance War Bulletins London, May 1 (IP) Brit ish night fighter pilots and anti-aircraft batteries estab lished a record last night and early today by destroying 10 of 39 German "culture raid ers" over Britain. Moscow, May 1 (P) The Moscow radio said today that a German battleship had been sunk by Russia's Baltic fleet. This was the first Russian claim of destruction of one of Germany's few capital .ships, and came in a resume of operations in which the Bal tic fleet was said to have sunk 447 ships, presumably in the course of the whole war. The battleship was not identi fied. London, May 1 (IP) Wing Commander Max Aitken, son of Lord Beaverbrook, shot down a Dornier 217, on of Germany's latest type bomb ers, while leading his squad ron aqain German raiders over England last night, it was announced today. Registry of Women for Wartime Work Dropped Says F.D.R. Washington, May 1 (IP) President Roosevelt announced today that plana for voluntary registration of women for war time has been dropped. The chief executive disclosed this had been done after Paul V. McNutt, in charge of mobilizing man and woman power for the war effort, had consulted wom en members of the social secur ity board's federal advisory council and had been told that over the country there are mote women who want jobs than there are openings for them. The president indicated to his press Conference that the de cision not to go ahead with a voluntary registration for wom en was not necessarily perma nent and that such a listing might be necessary at some future time. Almost 1,500,000 women, Mr. Roosevelt said, are registered with local employment service offices. Any woman can register at these offices, he said, and there are 1,500 of them. Bong of Wong In War on Japanese New Delhi, India, May 1 (VP) The Bong of Wong, chieftain of one of the biggest tribes of Naga hill headhunters in Assam, British Indian province, has de clared war on Japan, it was announced today. His message was carried to all Russian billboards, newspapers, radio and a nationwide network of loudspeakers that drowned out the hum of machinery in flag-draped factories. Stalin blamed imperialist agents of "German bankers and plutocrats" for the struggle; named Hitler, Reichsmarshal Herman Wilhelm Goering, For eign Minister Joachim von Rib bentrop, Heinrich Himmler and other rulers of present-day Ger many as "the watchdogs of the German bankers." The premier-defense commis sar, who directed the successful defense of Moscow and ordered the Soviet winter counter-offensive launched five months ago, asserted that Germany had weak ened while "our country has be come stronger" since the Inva sion June 22, 1941. "War has brought to the Ger man people great disappoint ment, millions of human lives sacrificed, hunger and Impover ishment," Stalin said. "Human reserves are running out. Oil Is running out. Raw materials are running out." South of BASEBALL American Score: R. H. E. Detroit 7 18 1 New York 2 4 0 Trout, Newhouser and Teb- betts; Bruer, Borowy, Lindell and Dickey. Score: R. ' H. E. Chicago 5 7 1 Philadelphia 2 8 0 Rigney and Turner; Harris, Christopher and Wagner. Score: R. H. E. St. Louis 10 15 0 Boston 8 11 4 Niggeling and Ferrell; Dob son, Hughson, Butland, Brown and Peacock. Cleveland 13 18 3 Washington 8 12 1 Harder, and Desautels, Den ning; Kennedy, Masterson, Car rasquel, Cahey and Early. National Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia , 5 11 1 Cincinnati 8 8 3 Podgajny, Beck, Nahem and Livingston; Riddle and La manno. FAVOR HIGH TAX Washington, May 1. (APV The house ways and means mittee approved today a I $2,500,000,000 corporation cent excess profits levy, a It program based on a flat 04 per cent normal tax and a 18 per cent surtax. Chairman Doughton (D-NO of the committee announced the surtax rate at the end of a day long session and said that the question of repealing the capital stock tax and the related de clared value excess profits tax, and of writing a formula by which the government would hold top layers of profits for post-war corporation needs would be discussed by the mem bers Monday. 26 MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING APRIL Marriage licenses Issued by the county clerk's office during April totalled 28, two more than were Issued during March. Sev eral of the April licenses were secured by California couples. Dog licenses issued by the same office up to May 1 totalled 2,998, which is close to a record for the county. A dog tax collec tor has ben busy for several weeks checking up on dogs in both town and rural districts. "Our aim is clear and noble. We want to liberate our broth ers, the ukranlans, Moldavians, White Russians , Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Karellans. from the shame and humiliation inflicted upon them by the Ger man fascist blackguards." (In this passage the' Russian premier Indicated an intention to restore the Soviet Union's west ern borders as of before the Ger man invasion. He might also have been hinting that he is satis fied with the status quo on the eastern frontier where the U. S. S. R. abuts the Japanese empire. (Before the German invasion of June, 1941, Soviet territory in the west, mostly by cession or occupation In 1939 and 1940, in cluded about halt of Poland, In corporated into the Ukranlan and White Russian Republics, a section of Karelia ceded by Fin land, Bessarabia and northern Bucovina ceded by Rumania and incorporated into the Ukranlan and Moldavian republics, and the three Baltic states of Lith uanla, Latvia and Estonia.) Mandalay BRITISH DEFENSE FALLS BACK FAST Chinese Claim Fall of La shio Won't Halt Flew of Reinforcements to Burma (By Associated Press) . Japanese trooDa were mmrt. ed attacking onlv 20 milM of bomb-wrecked Mandalay in ujoay aiier iirmsn troops defending the right flank of tie allied line had fallen hm-ir ly 100 miles. On the left flank, a late bul- letin from Chinese hpnHnn.p. ters reported that fight was in progress at Hsenwl, 25 miles northeast of Lashio, the gate way to China, urhirh th. .!- anese captured on Wednesday. The two late reports Indicat ed that the allies were rapidly losing grouna in me climactic stages of the battle for Burma. imperilled by the Japanese thrust to Lashio, 130 miles northeast of Mandalay, the Brit ish were said today to have withdrawn to protect the over land routes to India. While the crisis in Burma reissstiaed. acsttet ,-wttav the Jap aoeae invaders n standing at ,-' jr'"" " astraddle fh . 1 t- Unese an r I the fall . .' t halt the flow Of Chinese 'reinforcement for the continued defense of north Burma. Moreover, the Chinese said, alternative supply routes from India to China are alreaHv In working order. Chinese dispatches said La shio, captured by Japanese) mechanized enlnmne WrfnM. day, had been reduced from a teeming Doom town to smoking rubble heaps by Japanese bomb ing assaults and tho 1iiM scorched earth policy. Other developments in tha far Pacific theater Included: 1. Jananese wnrhlna ans troop transports were reported. massing among the Marshall islands in the south central Pacific, atirrintf rwnlntfnn thnft the mikado's sea-borne lnvdera might be preparing a major thrust against the American supply line to Australia. xne Marshall Islands are with in 1.500 miles nf Nn Pnlo. donia, where American troops are bolstering Free French de fense of the Island; about tha same distance from American Samoa, and 2,100 miles from Hawaii. In Australia, Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney, allied land commander under Gen. Douglas MacArthur, warned that the Jananeae vera preparing to strike anew in tha Anne zone. "Increased enemy activity means he has some further plan," Gen. Blarney said. z. in the Philippines, Jap anese dive-bombers renewed their assault nn rnmffiHnp la. land fortress, attack 12 times yesterday, but American gun ners shot three raiders from tha sky and damaged two others. Corregidor's big guns again pounded the enemy, scorini hits on Japanese shore bat teries, truck columns and sup ply dumps. No change was reported on Mindanao or Panay islands. In the southern mnii central Philippines. 3. In the battle for the ap proaches to Australia, allied Warnlanea bnmhed anti ma chine-gunned 30 Japanese planes unea up on an airdrome as Lae, New Guinea, and shot down three Japanese fighter plsnes which attempted to In tercept an attack on Salamaua, 20 miles south of Lae. "Our losses were slight,'' Gen. MacArthur's headquarters an nounced, terming tha operation "a brilliant attack." Condon, Ore., May 1 TV Extermination of Mormon crick eta has been started in northern Gilliam county by farmers who) are using 11 poison spreaders. I
