SIX ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1942. Halt Called On Price Boom In America's Food , WASHINGTON, Fob. 3. (AP) -"-The nations' farmers heard straight from headquarters to day that the war boom in the market for their products has pone about as far as the agricul ture department and the office of price administration will permit, . Leon Henderson, the price ad mlnlstrator, and Secretary of Ag riculture Wickard disclosed yes terday they were in "complete agreement" that the cost of living should be stabilized. . The agriculture department will do Its part by using government-owned stocks of grains and cotton "to supplement private stocks" and by keeping feed prices at levels which will encour age production ot meat and live stock products. ' The price administrator will re ciprocate by bearing down on the prices ol things farmers buy. The Joint statement did not dis close how high they planned to let farm prices go, but Wickard provided a clue Saturday when he told the senate agriculture committee ho thought "around parity" would be about right. Parity is a price which would give farm products the same pur chasing power as they had in a stipulated previous period for most crops, the years 1909-14. Farm prices averaged 102 per cent of parity as of January 15, the agriculture department re ported. Some were much higher, some much lower. Under the recently enacted price control bill, the secretary of agriculture was given veto power over farm price ceilings fixed by the price administrator. President Roosevelt was critical of the clause, but signed the bill Into law and yesterday formally nominated Henderson as administrator. passengers are eligible to receive (troops to make up for casualties. tires, but the present rules ao not These might be headed for Ma Welders Back on Job In Pugcf Sound Yards TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 3 (AP) With employers reporting a back-to-work move under way, idle welders of the Pugct sound area announced today they would pursue an undisclosed new course in their rebellion against com pulsory membership In AFL. unions. . i Yard officials at Seattle report ed welders returned to work to day "practically 100 per cent." - Tho change in tactics, which Shelly Knutson, new welders' loader at Seattle said he could not reveal yet, followed a stinging in dictment by war leaders ot the welders' walkout In Seattle and Tacoma shipyards. The statement issued yesterday by War Production Director Don ald Nelson, Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox and Mari time Commission Chairman Em ory S. Land branded the walkout as "an attempted Impairment of the war effort." provide tires for ordinary pas senger cars used as taxlcabs. I council's letter to the board will stress the Importance of the serv ice In lioseburg and win urge modification of rules In favor the taxioab operators. Claims Allowed The usual routine business was conducted, Including the reading of reports from various city off! cers and departments and the payment of bills accumulated during the past, month as fol lows: M. Bartley, repairs po lice car S 2.15 California Oregon Power Co., water & light 836.41 Peter Crumctt, repairs gas pump 5.20 Douglas National bank, rental safe deposit box .. 3.60 Douglas Abstract Co., blue prints for airport 1.50 Thomas Fletcher, care of dogs 6.50 Howard-Cooper Corp., re pairs, fire truck 50.S0 Quine & Company, Insur ance library building .... 118.00 Rensselaer Valve Corp., repairs fire hydrants .... 22.06 Richfield Oil Corp., kero sene, street Dept 6.89 Sterling Richmond, repairs to damaged car 12.10 Roseburg Electric, light bulbs & light repairs Roseburg Lumber Co.,. 6 units sawdust Sanderson Safety Supply Co., first aid supplies .... Silver Nook Grille, meals for prisoners Standard Oil Co., gasoline Standard station, Robt. Miller, repairs street truck ; Union Oil Co., car of as phalt ..: 485.29 G. W. Young & Son, pre mium Treas. bond Sewer Emergency Fund California Oregon Power Co., water, light, power Denver Fire Clay Co., sew er plant supplies , 1.22 Standard OH Co., 5 gals. Pearl oil , 4.05 12.00 24.13 2.80 34.58 1.50 50.00 83.27 .75 Singapore Battles Fire Following Jap Raids (Continued from page 1) Stronger Air Raid Alarm System Urged (Continued from page 1) Ing a type of signal designed In that city and using compressed air or gas for operation. Cost Placed Around $1,000 " It is anticipated as a result of the discussions held last night, that the city council will contact manufacturers of signal devices to obtain more Information on tho effective range of various pieces of equipment and the cost of installation. It was roughly es timated that the probable cost of a system meeting the needs of the city of Roseburg would be about $1,000. The fact that the city's residential areas are brok en by hills makes Installation of more equipment necessary than if the city wore In a more open and level location. The council last night awarded the contract for gasoline and oil for the year of 1!M2 to tho Rich field OH company, which submit ted a bid of 14.20 cents per gal lon on gasoline. Seven major companies submitted bids, rang ing up to 10 cents per gallon. Four made uniform bids of 14.22 cents per gallon. Taxi Operators Aik Tires At the request of the operators of local taxi companies, the coun cil authorized a letter to the state tiro rationing board urging that siops be taken to Include the companies In the list o( those eligible to purchase tires. It was pointed out that the city has no form of public carrier other than the public taxlcabs, operated by two companies. Carriers operat ing vehicles carrying ten or more YOU CAN GET CREPE SlOLES Put On Your 8hoej at Hobday's Shoe Renewing and dive bomb attacks being car ried out and causing some fires," Urltish headquarters reported. "Military casualties have been slight." . , Java Base Raided. Other Japanese warplancs struck tor the first time at Java, heart of the Dutch East Indies, raiding the big Soerabaja naval Rasp. ' Java Is the headquarters of General Wavell's supreme united nations command In the far Pa cific. Besides attacking Soerabaja, the Indies' chief naval base, a formation of 26 Japanese bomb ers, strongly escorted by fighters, also pounded towns In eastern Java In what may have been the prelude to an invasion drive. A communique reported "consider able damage" and casualties. The main objectives of the raid ers, military observers told the Dutch agency, undoubtedly were to cripple the Soerabaja base, whose Importance to the united nations in the Pacific has become paramount now that Singapore Is under siege, and to Incapacitate airfields there, at Malang, Ma doicn and Magetan. U. S. Bombers Aid Fort. With American flying fortress bombers now helping in the de fense of Singapore, smashing at Japanese airfields on .the Malay peninsula, the atmosphere In the beleaguered island citadel was far from pessimistic. Military experts expressed be lief that a parachute attack or a night thrust by small boat crews across the mile-wide Johorc strait would open Japan's pres tige offensive, regarding a simple state or siege as foreign to Nip ponese strategy. Concentration of the reinforced defenders within a shortline of little more than 70 miles was cited by the British in a forecast that either aerial or maritime Infil tration tactics against the gun girt stronghold would fall. Japanese Losses Heavy. A Chinese army spokesman in Chungking said Japan's bloody losses In the eight-weeks-old con flict were forcing her to draw heavily on manpower reserves and that the bodies of 10,000 slain In the Malaya campaign alone had already arrived at Saigon, Indo-China. The spokesman reported that a huge Japanese convoy, Including 41 warships and 28 other vessels, had been sighted steaming south ward In Formosa strait, carrying laya, the Philippines or the Dutch Indies. Evidence of Increasing air strength In the Singapore area came from a U. S. army report that small formations of flying fortress type bombers had raid ed the Japanese air fields at Kuala Lumpur and Kuantan. Low visibility prevented accurate as sessment of the damage. All re turned to their base. In another theater of .the south west Pacific four heavy Ul S, bombers assigned to raid Japan ese shipping in the Borneo port of Balik Pappan were set upon by Japanese fighters. Nine Japanese planes were shot down against a loss of one of the bombers, the army communique said. Aid on Way, Singapore Told, Australian Army Minister Forde declared today that "a big movement by the allies is under way" to counter Japan s sweep In the far Pacific. In a broadcast to the Australian Imperial force at Singapore, Forde declared that each hour Japan's siege armies were held at bay permuted the massing and devel opment of more reinforcements and the accumulation of more weapons. "It docs not need my words to impel you, therefore, to hold on," he said. Fordo did not specify the na ture or direction of thp allied movement. M'Arthur Shatters Jap Troops in Bataan Blew (Continued from page 1) who was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., June 15, 1894, entered the army as a corporal In the Illinois na tional guard In 1916. He went to the Philippines In January, 1940. Sea Toll Increased, Meanwhile, General Wavell's headquarters in Java, announced heavy new blows inflicted on the battered Japanese invasion ar mada in Macassar strait, between Dutch East Borneo and Celebes island. United States warplanes twice attacked the enemy convoy yes terday off Balik Papan, sinking two transports and probably an other. Combined Dutch and United States air and naval attacks are now credited with sinking a total f 46 ships In the shark-infested Macassar strait New U. 8. Blows Expected. Daring new American air and sea attacks to slow the onrush of Japanese forces in the southwest ern Pacific were confidently ex- nected In Washington today on the basis of official statements. An army report that formations of heavy American bombers wore helping the defense of Singapore by raids on - Japanese airfields gave evidence of increasing air strength in that vital area. As for the warfare at sea, Ad miral Chester W. Nimitz, com mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, declared that every man and every vessel of his command was being used to the fullest ex tent to take the war to the ene my's front door.. Small formations of flying for- ress type bombers raided the Japanese airfields at Kula Lum pur and Kuantan, on the Malay peninsula, the army said. Poor visibility prevented a check on csults of the attacks, but the lanes returned safely to their bases. Another formation, consisting four heavy bombers, was In tercepted by Japanese fighter pianos while on the way to at tack shipping in the Borneo port Balik Papan. One of the bomb 's was lost but nine Japanese ancs were shot down In the en suing battle. penditures filed by the State Re tall Grocers association Is In sub stantial compliance with the pro visions" of that statute. The decision, overruling the at torney general's demurrer to the action, "is overruled, and It is or dered that a peremtory writ Is sue, directing the secretary of state to place on the official bal lot for the general election of November 3, 1942, as a referen dum measure, house bill 558 (the I clgaret tax law), passed by the 1941 legislative assembly." The attorney general had con tended that the term "field work" in the association's expense state ment was not properly defined, but the court said the term could be understood by any layman. Those participating In the una nimous decision were Chief Jus tice Kelly, and Justices Bolt, Bail ey, Lusk, Hand, ftossman and Brand. British Turn on Axis Pursuers in Libya (Continued from page 1) armies were declared to have in flicted heavy new losses on the Germans and beaten off nazl counter-attacks launched In vain attempt to halt the red armies' advance. In the Ukraine, the Gorman high command acknowledged fresh soviet pressure northeast of nazi-held Taganrog, on the Sea of Azov, but asserted that elsewhere on the 1,200-mlie Daitieirom German troops scored local suc cesses despite "stubborn enemy resistance." The Russians, fighting on the biggest land front of the whole war, said the Germans naa sui- fered heavy losses In vain at tempts to seize the initiative and reported 1,400 killed in three engagements. The soviet information bureau acknowledged that Feodosiya, a Black sea port used in the red rmy s recent Invasion of the Crimean panhandle, had been abandoned "some days ago." Germany announced recapture of Feodosiya Jan. 19, saying more than 4,600 Russian soldiers and large quantities of equipment in cluding 73 tanks and 77 guns had been seized, s More Executions In Paris Meanwhile, new evidence arose of militant unrest in German-occupied France. ' ' Six bombings and shootings di rected against German army In stallations or soldiers between Jan. 7 and 28 have led to the execution of six Parisian youths and orders for deportation to the east of 100 others officially de scribed as "members of the com munist youth and Jews." The retaliatory measures grim buf representing a marked recession from mass executions earlier which drew protests from the Petain government were an nounced by the nazi military commander In Paris. regon Cigaret Tax Law Put Up to State Voters (Continued from page 1) November whether they want the tax. xpense Statement Okay Today's decision, by Justice Bailey, said that the statute re quiring filing of expense state ments by sponsors ot referendum movements "docs not require that tho service for which money is paid be minutely described or that everything an employee does to earn his stipend bo set forth in tho statement of disburse ments. 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