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Let YOUR Auwit to Bombs be BONDSI Bar v Beads ana tump TOD T Contribute te the var effort of jour natloa. Patriot Urn. jour otb arlt-protertloa. drmandi that VOU da roar part .NOW I Uu The MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Medford Tribune Quick Results at Small Coit J Full Asaociated Prasa United Praaa Thirty seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 3, 1942. NO. 36. FALL IF MAK balm Nl UUM ft jUW ml X o - News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, May 2 Mr. Roose velt was disgusted when his civilian defense administrator, Jim Landis, used the phrase "termination of the illumina tion" to describe what people should do in a black-out. He demanded plain English and changed it to "turn out the lights." So when the president de scribed his la bor purposes to "stabilize the remuneration," a bo.d report er at his press .w i conference Paul Mallun asked him If he could not translate that into plain Eng lish. The president only told the reporter to listen to a sub sequent speech which afforded no greater clarity about what is to be done. The president did not direct the war labor board to freeze wages. He told it merely to try to stabilize them, case by case, on the basis of the cost of living. That is Just about what the gov ernment is supposed U. have been doing the last few months, holding down the cost of living and holding down wages with out freezing them. But In the 45 labor cases tried so far by the board, 43 unions shave been granted wage h "creases. Only one of these was directly ordered. The other in creases were granted by nego tiations under the benevolent Influence of the board. Exactly what the board is now to do further to "stabilize the remuneration" Is not yet clear to anybody, including the board. Mr. Roosevelt seems to have handed it a bewildering phrase and a problem, not a solution. Four important cases are now pending in which specific an swers must be found. The workers of Little Steel, General Motors, the Aluminum com pany and Bethlehem Shipbuild ing company are all asking the board for a dollar a day in crease. a a a MOW, if the board employs Mr. Roosevelt's formula, it J will have to grant much more than the unions asked. The Little Steel contract was made April 1, a year ago. Since that time, the cost of living has increased 12 percent. But the dollar a day increase the unions are asking is only a 10 percent increase, and apparently no of ficial authority believes even this is justified. All advance off the - record comment from the board indi cates a very small increase Is all that will be seriously con sidered. Thus the policy is ob- ( Continued on Page 6U) FARM VOTE OKAYS QU0TAS ON WHEAT Washington, May 2 (IP) In complete returns from today's farmer referendum gave a fav orable majority for an agricul ture department proposal to con tinue rigid marketing quotas for wneat. Partial returns from 14 of the 40 wheat-growing states gave 28.835 votes for quotas and 0.420 against This was a majority of about 72 per cent. Approval by at least two-thirds of the farm ers voting was required. Represented in these returns were Colorado. Deleware, Geor gia. Illinois. Indiana, Iowa, Ken tucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Virginia. New Jersey and Arkansas. Returns were still to come from such major wheat states as Kansas. Oklahoma. Texas. North Dakota. 'South Dakota and Nebraska. The early vote in Ohio. Mary land and New Jersey gave quo tas less than two-thirds major tty. Hi; a W- j NIPPON MAY TRY II War Bulletins T Far East Overshadows All Other Fronts Jap Drive Swift Earth Scorched. London', May 2. UP) Man dalay, the Pagoda-crowned city made famous by a song, was claimed today by the invading Japanese army, which appar ently was driving ever-wider wedges between the British and Chinese defenders of .the frag ment of Burma which remains in allied hands. Lashio, the terminus of the famous Burma road to China 135 miles northeast of Manda lay, was captured from the Chinese on Wednesdy in a push which now has carried the in vaders north of Hsenwi, only 45 miles from the border of China. A Chungking communique said the Japanese had been re pulsed with heavy casualties at an undisclosed point north of Hsenwi. Today Imperial headquarters in Tokyo, in one of its rare communiques on the long months of bitter battle in Bur ma, claimed that Mandalay was taken from the British yester day and that the occupying forces had destroyed all the city's vital military establish ments. While the allies did not acknowledge the loss, informed quarters said the metropolis of upper Burma probably soon would fall if it had not already done so. A British communique from New Delhi, India, made the plight of the allies gloomily evi dent. British Retire It said all British troops on the Mandalay front were being withdrawn "from a position north of the Irrawaddy." Sig nificantly, Mandalay Is on the south bank of the river, which flows west at that point. The British also announced defensive destruction of road and rail bridges across the tributary Myitnge river and that two spans of the famous Ava bridge had been demol ished. Fighting was In progress in and around Monywa, across the Irrawaddy some 50 miles west of Mandalay, indicating that the British withdrawal may have progressed that far In the face of the breath-taking Jap anese thrusts. (By the Associated Press) Fateful Decision The Japanese invaders of Burma announced the capture of Mandalay yesterday (Satur day) climaxing one of the swiftest campaigns on any front and placing in the direst peril the hard-driven British and Chi nese forces fighting to main tain the remaining and tenuous overland links between Free China and the outside world With the famous Burma road already cut and Japanese troops within 40-odd miles of the Chi nese border. Emperor Hirohito's high command was on the verge of disclosing a fateful de cision: Whether to try to knock China out of the war by invas ion from the west, to march in the opposite direction toward the tempting land of India, or to attempt both simultaneously. That situation rendered com paratively insignificant all other developments on the far fronts where the united nations oppose the axis. Those developments included the appearance of Japanese reconnaissance planes 700 miles from the east coast of Australia: reports that the Russians were driving deeper wedges into German positions on the front west of Moscow; and official announcement that American army service troops are sup porting the British in north Africa In steadily increasing numbers. It was in ravaged Burma that the war burned fiercest as the Japanese sped ahead in the fare of the first vagrant breezes and showers of the imminent mon soon season. About 3.000 volunteer observ ers assist the U. S. Weather bur eau. Charleston. S. C May 2 UP) Charleston had a 20 minute blackout tonight. The sirens wailed an alarm at 11 p. m. and at 11:20 the all-clear signal sounded. There was no explanation from official quarters. New York. May 2 UP) Canaral Henri Giraud, the high French officer who high ly reliable European inform ants said had bean handed back to the Germans, was re turned to Vichy, Franca, to night atill in custody and with his future In consider able doubt. New York. May 2 (IP) Between 49 and 50 Germans have been killed in another train wreck in occupied France, reliable reports reach ing New York said tonight. German authorities immedi ately made sharp reprisals and arrested a large number of hostages, according to these reports. The wreck, it was re ported, occurred near Rouen, the scene of a wreck only a week ago. Valletta, Malta, May 2 (IP) An authoritative statement issued here today said foreign reports that a United States aircraft carrier manned by Americans was operating in the Mediterranean constituted "a patent attempt by the ene my to extract information." Cairo, Egypt, May 2 (FV Libyan front operations yes terday were dismissed by Bri tish general headquarters to day with a one-sentence com munique which said "during our patrols had occasional brushes with enemy patrols." OFF NORWAY RAKE NAZI DESTROYER London, May 2.-(P) Brit ish bombers crippled a swift nazi destroyer off the Norweg ian coast and chopped away at enemy airdromes in northern France overnight, but the weather intervented again to keep the great swarms of RAF and German planes tied to the ground. The pilot of an American made Hudson bomber glided silently down on the fast-moving German warship, loosed two bombs which hit the deck squarely, and fled away before the astonished enemy seamen could fire a shot. Another de stroyer hurried to the aid of the stricken ship. Heavy channel mists held sky skirmishing to a minimum during the day as the great British bombers, some capable of packing eight tons of ex plosives, stayed in their hangars while their crews waited im patiently for clearing weather to allow further raids on the tortured German industrial tar gets. It was the second night of comparative inactivity after eight fruitful nights in which the RAF had spread vast de struction over three quarters of Hitler's reich. Photographic evidence re leased tonight disclosed that the chimney-top daylight bomb ing of the great M.A.N. Diesel engine works at Augsburg, within 100 miles of Hitler's mountain headquarters, had left vast destruction two weeks ago. Great bomb holes, some 80 feet wide, appeared in the roof of the plant, and, the air min istry commented, "There is no doubt that the interior of the building . and its machinery were most severely damaged if not entirely wrecked." The factory produced most of the power plants for the German submarines raiding At lantic shipping, and tank mo tors for the Russian campaign. PIRATE BOSS FINED New York, May 2 UP) Ford Frick. president of the National league, today imposed fines of $50 each on Frank Frisch. man ager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Al Lopez, the Pirates' vet eran catcher, for their part in ninth-tnning argument with Umpire Larry Goetz during the Pittsburgh-Brooklyn game. NAVY LISTS 5,486 WAR TO APRIL 15 First Publication Tuesday Wounded Placed At 907 Policy Stated. Washington, May 2 (JP) The Navy announced today the loss of 5,486 dead and missing in the first four months of world-wide naval warfare. The casualty recapitulation, the first of the war, included marine and coast guard person nel as parts of the Navy and covered the period from Dec. 7 to April 15 inclusive. It gave this summary: Dead, 2,991. Missing, 2,495. Wounded, 907. Totnl, 6,393. Officials said most of the cas ualties resulted from direct ac tion with the enemy but includ ed some lost in accidents at sea, in the air, or on war duty. Nat ural deaths were not included. The total may be Increased somewhat by late-arriving re ports from distant war zones. The fourth-month total was half again as large as the casu alty figure for the entire World War, when some 3,500 officers and men were killed in action or lost. Publication of the totals Is to be followed by announcement next week of casualty lists. The Navy laid down this policy on issuance of the lists: "The Navy department has compiled its casualty lists by states, and has restricted publi cation or radio broadcasting ol the lists to the states or imme diate areas which publications and local radio stations serve. "Lists of the -2,991 reported dead wll be released for publi cation May 5. Lists of the 2,- 495 reported missing and the 907 reported wounded will oe ready for publication two or three days later." ALLIES IN LIBYA rial. Mav 2 UPl United States service troops In steadily increasing numbers are in posi tinns aunnortinE the main Brit tah AtmT armv and air forces ranged against the threatening German Afrika Korps ol Mar shal Erwin Rommel. Malnr Gen. Russell L. Max well, commander of the fourth African mission, permitted ais closure of their presence from here for the first time toaay. One officer of the U. S. mis Inn la Malnr Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, who started his military career as a captain in Ohio less than two years ago. Gen. Maxwell emphasized thai the soldiers stationec In this tnrrid area, barring the axis from conquest of Egypt and the Suez canal, were entirely service personnel--mechanics, technical experts, supply specialists and trainers. Their Job Is to support com bat troops of the British, In dians, South Africans, Free French, and New Zealanders poised on the desert front 80 miles west of Tobruk In Mus solini's colony of Libya, PILOTLESSPLANE LEAPSJTO BARN Tupelo, Miss., May 2 IIP) A pilotless army plane circled W. D. Partlow's barn lot, hit the ground and then bounded neatly through a big door into the barn hayloft. The two fliers had bailed out after they lost their way to Key field at Columbus, Miss., and gave out of gas. One engine was shaken loose and the plnr-e's wings were splintered when it 1 struck the earth. I Kilkd I OREGON JAPANESE p7 ! EVACUATION MOVE1 I L5 NOW UNDERWAY a Brig. Gen. H. H. George. (Above) of the U. S. Army air force, was killed in an airplane crash it was announced by al lied headquarters In Australia. Also killed in the crash was Melville Jacoby, Time and Life correspondent. Gen. George ac companied General Douglas Mac Arthur in his journey from the Philippines. QUOTA CAMPAIGN Portland, May 2 (IP) Maj. Gen. Charles H. Martin told Oregon's war savings bond sales men today that "we've got to get down to the realization that only blood, sweat and a ter rible loss of manpower will win the war." Members of bond staffs from every county In the state, here to design a campalt, to sell Oregon's quota of $100,000,000 in bonds the coming year, heard the retired army veteran warn that Japanese soldiers are tough, well trained, competently led "If you think those fellows are going to give up easily you've got another guess com ing," Martin, former Oregon governor, said. Col. Joseph L. Stromme, com mander of the army air base here, appealed for "our people at home to match the courage and sacrifice of the boys on the front lines. During the afternoon the con vention heard bond staff leaders outline plans for Increasing sales in the state. Later .the group visited the air base and the Oregon Shipbuilding corpo ration yard here. GOV. SPRAGUE TALKS John Day, May 2 UP) Stay on the job and produce meat, hides and wool. Governor Sprague advised the Oregon Cattle and Horse Raisers asso ciation today. Ranchers and farmers can best serve the nation by meeting the wartime demand for food stuffs and other raw materials, the governor said, telling young men to keep their Jobs until called for military service. BULLETIN Portland, Ore., May 2 (ZD Oakland and Portland finally got their weather-delayed coast league baseball series going to night, and Portland walked off with the first game of a double header, 7 to 4. (First game) Oakland 4 8 4 Portland 7 IS 0 Corbett and Raimondi; Speece and Leovich. EUGENE LEADER PASSES Eugene, May 2 'IP) Mrs. Merle C. Stuart, 80, prominent in Eugene social affairs, died at her home today. A Democrat, she was district census director in 1940. Funeral services will be held Monday. PEA HARVE3T PAY Pendleton, May 2 0?0 Pea harvest workers will receivs 65 cents an hour 15 cents more than last year in Umatilla county fields this year. IT T1 t35 1 iL FORMERGOVERNOR OPENS WAR BONDS First Contingent Moves Into Portland Assembly Center Majority Happy Portland, Ore., May 2 UP) Oregon's Japanese began a mass movement today that will end in their evacuation from the western defense zone. Starting in early morning, hundreds of alien and American born Japanese, their belongings in traveling and army duffle bags, reported to the assembly center that will be their home possibly for several months. By the end of the day. 350 of the scheduled 500 were quartered in the Pacific Livestock Exposition pavilion. Lawyers, surgeons and other professional men, shopkeepers. farmers and laborers, with their families, made up the first con tingent They came in taxis, trucks, moving vans, their own automobiles, and some were transported by Portland resi dents of other ancestry. One woman, mother to two small children, reported m tears, but most of them appeared happy. The children considered it a lark, and were at play In the pavilion show ring even be fore their parents had occupied assigned, apartments. Some 4,000 persons all of Oregon's population of Japanese ancestry plus a few from Wash ington will occupy the pavilion until evacuation centers are pre pared outside the defense zone All should be cleared through the assembly center here before fall, army officers said. PLANES DAMAGED IN GUINEA FRAY Allied Headquarters, Austra lia, Sunday, May 3 (IP) Allied planes scored a direct hit on a Japanese transport, damaged an other, capsized a tender, des troyed six Japanese planes and damaged six more in fierce new action over New Britain and New Guinea yesterday. General MacArthurs headquarters an nounced today. The entire region of Towns ville, far north on Australia's east coast, was put on guard against a surprise invasion or air assault today as the result of the first appearance of mys terious scouting planes over that strategic area and numerous signs that the Japanese are pre paring ne wblows In the Aus tralian theater. The flight of the two suspect plane over Townsvllle at 30,000 feet altitude In good observation weather yesterday was reported by General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters. ' Allied anti-aircraft batteries opened fire and Interceptor planes took the air, but were unable to overhaul the strangers. Pawhuska, Okla., May 2 OP) Savage spring tornadoes bat tered communities and rural areas In many sections of north east Oklahoma and eastern Kan sas today, leaving 21 persons dead or missing, Injuring scores of others and causing heavy pro ne rty damage. One twister swept a 12-squsre block area of the Lynn addition on the southeast edge of Paw huska, leaving three known dead and from 50 to 75 Injured. Ten persons nine of them negroes were killed and up wards of 40 Injured by a torna do at Childsville, near Okemah Springfield. 111., May 2 UPh Tornadic winds cut across three Central Illinois counties today Injuring at least 11 persons and causing property damage esti mated upwards ol (200,000. OKLAHOMA TOWNS RAKED BYTORNADO Interpreting The War News By Kirk L. Simpson (Wide World War Analyst) Developments in the Wash ington-Vichy crisis precipitated by return of axis-minded Pierre Laval to political power may be impending with the arrival of Admiral William D. Leahy in this country. Fresh from personal contacts with all members of the new Vichy triumvirate, the Ameri can sailor-ambassador left the Friday on his way home. President Roosevelt, In his recent fireside broadcast, left no doubt here or In France that any French yielding to Nazi pressure for military aid against the united nations would lead to reprisals. Leahy was called him "for consultations" as a gesture to emphasize the Wash ington view that Laval is a Nazi stooge, a virtual Quisling. Before he left Vichy, how ever, the former American chief of naval operations talked at some length with Marshal Pe- tain, still nominally the sole source of authority at Vichy, with Laval and above all in Importance with Admiral Jean Darlan. The Leahy talk with Laval is not Important. Even that with Petain could be of secon dary consequence. What Ad miral Darlan may have said or implied to his fellow sailor- statesman, however, could great ly clarify Vichy-Washington re lations one way or the other. For it is Darlan, not Laval, who Is designated heir-apparent to Petain as chief of state. It is Darlan, not Laval, who com mands all Vichy French military force of land, air and sea. 'And Darlan's last public word on the question of surrender of the French fleet or French colonial bases to Hitler was "never." That was almost year ago when there was no appafent possibility of Franco-American hostilities as a result of what ever action Vichy might take in Implementing "collaboration" with axis conquerors. The Unit ed States was not then at war with the axis. The situation Is now altered. American warcraft and battle planes, Mr. Roosevelt has said. are operating In combat over all oceans and all continents against the axis. The Mediter ranean as well as the southeast ern Atlantic are Included. Mr. Roosevelt's reference to Ameri can warships In the Mediterra nean was particularly pointed for French ears. LABOR CONFUSED OF F.D.R. WAGE ORDER Washington, May 2 UP) Five days after President Roosevelt's declaration that wages must be stabilized, leaders of organized labor are still notably silent, raising a question whether they are angered, pleased, suspicious or bewildered. 1 Neither AFL President Wil liam Green nor CIO President Philip Murray has made any public comment. The labor press has largely ignored the subject editorially and given It gingerly handling as news. Here Is how some labor papers treated the president's message to congress: The AFL Weekly News Serv ice, a cllpsheet of "news ac counts and editorial Interpreta tions," devoted its principal dis play columns to the message on a straight reportorlal basis. No interpretation accompanied It. The CIO News, published today, gave the story secondary dis play and reportorlal treatment only. Labor, weekly organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods, mani fested pleasure In a negative way. Its newspage story said the president's message and ra dio chat "did not please the 'sweat-shoppers' " but did not indicate whether railway labor was pleased. An editorial dealt only with the proposed $25,000 limit nn alarl iptfumanll against it, the paper said, "are I pretty thin.' 1 AIRLINER FALLS NEAR SALT LAKE No Explanation For Tragedy Plane Crashes, Then Burns On Ridge Probe Begun. Salt Lake City. May 2 UP) Army trucks crawled over sog gy and rough terrain today to a ridge at the city limits and re turned with the broken bodies of 17 persons killed In a mid. night transport crash. A crew of three and 14 pas sengers, one a child, died in the flaming wreckage of the United Airlines sleeper that struck a storm-lashed ridge within sight of the Salt Lake City airport Scars on the hillside showed the giant airliner struck the ground, split open, then boun ced and came to rest In a tan gled heap as flames flared up in the stormy night. Bodies and wreckage wera scattered over a wide area. Those near the main wreckage were sec red by flaming gaso line. The cargo of mail was destroyed. None could explain the acci dent The east-bound San Fran cisco transport had reported vis ibility good only a few minute earlier. Witnesses who watch ed the Ill-fated ship cruise pre paratory for a landing, said light rain was falling, but visi bility was good. Later, a wind driven sleet storm hampered rescue workers. The civil aeronautics author ity sent Inspector Perry Hodgen from Ooakland, Calif., to inves tigate and called a public hear ing "soon." United Airlines of ficials Investigated also,- but clues were meager. The pilot. Captain Donn W. Brown, of San Francisco, had flown some 650,000 miles since Joining U. A. L. nine years ago, and was ranked highly by hi employers. Guards watched throughout the night to keep curious people away while officials discussed plans to salvage as much metal as possible. Fate played grim Joke on the child. J. A. Lloyd, 3rd, 10- month.old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lloyd, Jr., of Burlingame, Calif. Mrs. Lloyd, enrouie to Grosse Point, Mich., to visit her parents. Mr. and Mrs. William Lowery, decided to take the plane because the trip would be easier on the baby The father Is a broker and deal with air craft Insurance. Two other victims, Com. John O. Burrow, U. S. N, and Lt (J. G.) Claire Tucker, U. S. N, were enroute to Washington after Inspecting a possible site for a cadet training station at Reno, Nev. START TOMORROW Washington, May 2 UP) American citizens, gettlnE their first taste of wartime food ra tioning, will begin registering Monday for "ration boom one" from now on, as necessary a money In purchasing sugar. Emphasizing that the four day registration might "serve as the basis for the later rationing of other commodities should thst become necessary," the of fice of price administration said today that "thi is an important reason why everyone should bo registered this week." Although registration Is not compulsory, t)PA advised all citizens to register and avoid the possibility of Inconvenience later. Except in hardship cases, cansumers who fall to reg ister between Monday end Thursday will be unable to ob tain raation books until May 21. Actual rationing sale will be gin Tuesday. WAR'S FIRST CARD RATIONING WILL'
