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Sage Observations on the War: ( I ) The More Rubber the Japs' Set, the Longer'the War Will Stretch; (2) Time to Quit Wailing "Ifs" and Start Flailing "Biffs."
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WAR
' In all Its intensity and horrors,
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U.S. Urged To
Rush Help To
Pacific Area
O Singapore's Fate Must
Be Offset, Nation Told;
Dutch Given Army Aid
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (AP)
Grim congressional leaders told
the nation today It must do its
utmost to offset the Impending
loss of Singapore by redoubling
efforts to get quantities of planes,
tanks and guns to the East Indies,
Australia and Burma.
This earnest admonition follow
ed a fresh demand on the coun
v try's existing military resources
V by the dispatch of U. S. army
contingents to the Dutch Island
of Curacao off the northern coast
of Venezuela. ; -. .
The troops reinforced the
Dutch units which have been
guarding the highly important oil
O refinery centers on the main is
land of Curacao and on Aruba,
another island in the colony.
This move was another tactit
reminder of the unpredictable,
worldwide character of the war,
for the Curacao colony lies well
, behind the anglo-American shield
of bases commanding the south
ern approaches to the Caribbean
and thus would seem protected
adequately enough already.
Past Mistakes Heeded :
However,' American and Dutch
military authorities evidently de
cided that this was not sufficient
because of the possibility of a
destructive sneak raid, and the
garrisons were reinforced..:
The decision bespoke a deter,
mination not to repeat ' in this'
hemisphere the costly mistakes of
the Philippines, Singapore and
other key Pacific points where in
adequate garrisons have helped
make possible spectacular enemy
successes. ....... .
Envoy Warns America ' ,
O . United States citizens were
warned by Admiral William H.
Standley, new U. S. ambassador
to Moscow, that "America can be
licked" by the axis. In an inter
view at San Diego, Calif., Stand
ley pleaded for "absolute unity in
our war effort." .
"We've been too damned suc
cessful in previous wars," Stand
ley said, 'othor countries thought
(Continued on page 6)
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS .
ADD San Diego to your list of
' boom towns. Its population
on January 1 was estimated to be
ft 276,000. The 1940 census gave it
203,341.
' An Increase of approximately a
third in a little less than two
years Is something.
COME idea of the character of
" the new population may be
gained from the fact that the city
now has 44 trailer camps.
These mushrooming institutions
are causing considerable worry
to residential property owners,
and the city council is consider
ing an ordinance to require per
mission by the planning commis
sion before a new trailer camp
can be established.
OIF the sight sought is In a resi
1 dentlal district, the permit
would be granted only after an
open hearing at which property
owners could present their objections.
TTHE burgeoning growth of
trailer camps, of course, is a
reflection of the fact' that San
Diego's new population is made
up extensively of defense work
ers. Add to these a steady increase
In army, navy and marine eorp
personnel and you will get a pic
ture of what has been happening
here since the war clouds began to
roll up on the horizon.
A IN 1940, bank debits, generally
accepted as a fair measurement
of the money passing over coun
ters In trade, amounted to $688,-,
(Continued on page 2)
Change Leaders Whenever Bungling
Endangers War Victory, Landon Urges In
Keynote Address to Republican Party
' WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. (API Lincoln day rallies open
the republican party's congressional election campaign today
with a keynote set by Alf M. Landon a call for "new leaders"
whenever victory is endangered by official bungling. . ' ''.'."
The 1936 republican presidential nominee charged the ad
ministration with treating the war as "just another political alpha
betical project." He spoke to a Lincoln day dinner here last night
which was the forerunner of dozens of similar gatherings over the
nanon ronignr.
Wendell L. Wlllkie speaks at
Boston tonight, Thomas E. Dew
ey at New York, Senator Taft at
Knoxvllle, Tenn., and other high
party members in other cities. Ad
ditional Lincoln dinners will be
held tomorrow and Saturday
nights. '
Landon demanded a 25 per cent
cut in non-military appropriations
and a ban on war profiteering
He declared that "every citizen
owes it to his country to give the
president wholehearted support
in his 'prosecution of the war,"
but added that President Roose
velt had failed to make clear "the
staggering sacrifices" ahead.
"In the end," he said, "our" great
and comparatively unspent re
sources of materials and men
must, triumph. But that triumph
must not be delayed or even
threatened by incompetent and
unskillfull leadership, at home or
on the battlefield.
In this great national effort
we might take a leaf from the
book of our English cousins. Their
determination to win ultimate
victory never changes. But they
do change leaders, In the field or
at home, whenever bungling man
agement of their wars endangers
military "success." , " :-'
NATION HONORS MEMORY
OF GREAT LIBERATOR ,,.
' (By the Associated Press) :
President Roosevelt drove to
the Lincoln memorial beside the
Potomac today to honor, on the
anniversary of his birth, another
president who was the leader of
his people in time of' war. - n
Mr. Roosevelt stood barehead
ed while a military aide placed a
wreath at the base of a statue of
(Continued on page 6)
Cut in Use of Tin
As Food Container
Will Begin March 1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (AP)
A sharp reduction in the supply
of tin cans posed a fresh war
time problem today for America's
housewives, already facing sugar
rationing, doing without silk hose
and walking to the store to save
tires. . .
The war production board an
nounced that after March 1 such
common products as pork, and
beans, coffee, dog food, beer, to
bacco and oil must not be packed
In tinned containers. Use of tin
cans for certain "secondary" and
'special" products will be re
stricted to the 1940 output, and
the manufacture of- small-size
cans will be' eliminated.
No limit was set, however, on
the use of tin for preserving
such perishable products as Im
portant fruits and vegetables, to
mato juice, milk -and fish.
Tin is on the list of critical
metals as a result of the war in
the Pacific. America customarily
has obtained most of Its tin from
Malaya. WPB experts estimated
that the new order would cut the
use of tin by can manufacturers
as much as 40 per cent, saving at
least 15,500 tons a year.
Assurance that the public
need have no fear that there will
be any shortage of the essential
food products came from Paul
S. Willis, president of the Asso
ciated Grocery Manufacturers of
America. He said that warehouse
stocks of canned goods were so
large that the public could not no
tice the effect of the order for
some time. Meanwhile, research
experts are working on substitute
packaging methods, Willis said.
The secondary food products,
cans for which will be limited to
last year's number, include ap
ples, peaches, pineapples, prunes
and other fruits and vegetables
not regarded as of primary im
portance. Special products cov
ered by the order take In medi
cal, chemical dental and indus
trial supplies.
Abe Lincoln as
Soldier at 23
Like many ' an American
youth today, Abraham Lincoln
served his country as a soldier.
This statue, discovered by
chance In Dixon, III., memo
rializes the wartime presi
dent's service In the Black
Hawk war of 1832, when" he
was 23. ...
Plane Crashes Kill
Eleven Army Fliers
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn., Feb;
12. (AP) Five army fliers
went to their deaths and a sixth
was reported missing In the crash
of their multi-motored plane on a
routine flight yesterday, between
East Granby and Tarif fville, just
west of Bradley field here.
Army officers at the field said
in their brief announcement of
the tragedy that an open para
chute had been picked up near
East Willington, Conn., but no
trace of its occupant was found.
They withheld the name of the
missing man. . '
The dead: Second Lieut. Walter
C. Boyle of La Crosse, Wis.; Staff
Sergeant Michael Kaufman of
Windsor Locks; Sergeant Gordon
G. Johnson of Renovo, Pa.; Ser
geant John T. Howey, Jr., of New
York City; Sergeant Thomas F.
Quinn of Darby, Pa.
MCCHORD FIELD, Wash.,
Feb. 12 (AP) Army air corps
officers announced today that
four men were killed late last
night In the crash of a McChord
field bomber in a swamp land
near Tolt, 20 miles east of Seattle.
The men were identified as:
Lieut. H. Hosfelt, pilot; Second
Lieut. H. A. Kelin, co-pilot; Corp.
W. W. Bentley; Pvt. W. M. Dings.
TAFT, Calif., Feb. 12 (API
Lieut. Gordon D. McKenney, 27,
and Aviation Cadet Miller
Draughon, 22, attached to an air
corps training base here, were
instantly killed when their train
ing plane crashed while attempt
ing a landing on a nearby aux
iliary field yesterday.
Nazis Again
On Offensive
Against Reds
Foe Repulsed in Ukraine,'.
Berlin Says; RAF Raids ,
Mannheim,' French Ports
(By the Associated Press)
Adolf Hitler's high command
asserted today that German, Ru
manian and Croatian troops had
driven back the Russians, on the
Donets river front where the red
armies have been storming at the
gates of Kharkov, Russia's "Pitts
burgh" in the Ukraine, and other
key cities.
. The nazt high command said
mixed axis forces, "continuing
their attacks, threw the enemy
further bad: in spite of stubborn
resistance." ' ' . '
It was one of the first tlmes-ln
many weeks that the Germans
claimed they had again taken the
initiative, although soviet front
line dispatches this week have
noted a gradual stiffening of
nazl resistance after two months
of steady retreat.
Russia, however, claimed fur
ther gains by the red army
against Hitler's divisions In the
winter offensive and said guer
rillas had wiped out 1,462 German
soldiers during January In the
Leningrad district alone;
The Berlin foreign office, seek
ing to justify measures taken to
control irregulars behind the
lines, declared resistance of the
Russian population In German-occupied
territory was such that it
could pot be overlooked by "any
armyJn-.the world without .en
dangering its own security." '
RAF Hits At Nazis
The German city of Mannheim
artd the nazi-hold French ports of
Brest and Le Havre were RAF
targets last night, the air minis
try at London announced today.
The attacks were, respectively,
the 52nd the RAF has made on
the Industrial center of, Mann
heim; the 112th on Brest,' where
the German battleships Gnelse
nau and Scharnhorst and the
cruiser Prinz Eugen have been
reported taking shelter, and the
66th on Le Havre, a port where
the nazis heve- large oil storage
tanks, and which th6y may bo
using as a base for submarines
(Continued on page 6)
45 Hostages Face
Nazi Death Decree
VICHY, Unoccupied France,
Feb. 12 (AP) The nazl authori
ties in occupied France have or
dered execution of 45 Frenchmen
as hostages if the instigators of
two recent attacks against Ger
mans in the occupied zone are
not discovered within the next
few days, it was learned here to
day. Large numbers of other
Frenchmen face the threat of de
portation to nazl work camps in
Poland. - ' . - '
The first reprisals, at Rouen,
were announced last Saturday,
when 200 persons were arrested
for what was described as a
thwarted attempt to blow up a
nazl-occupied army . building.
(The Vichy dispatch made no
mention of German reprisals for
the four latest antl-nazi demon
stations which were reported yes
terday the bombing of a German
officers' mess and of three head
quarters of the extreme rightist
"social revolutionary movement,"
which favors . collaboration with
Germany, all In the Paris area.)
Youth Draws Ten Months '
For Theft of Tires
The fact that magistrates in
Douglas county do not plan to
deal lightly with tire thieves was
evidenced today when Justice of
th? peace T. L. Weaver Imposed
a sentence of 10 months In the
county jail upon Donald Law
rence Costello, 21, Sutherlln, who
pleaded guilty to a charge of pet
It larceny. State Police Sergeant
Paul Morgan reported that Cos
tello admitted theft of a pair of
used automobile tlrej at the Al
pine lodge near Canyonville. He
was apprehended by the state po
lice and taken - before Judge
Weaver et Canyonville for sent-ence.
Publisher Gets -State
Budget Job
)
Oregon's new budget dlreo-
tor,- named by Governor
Sprague, Is George K. Aiken,
above, newspaper publisher and
.former , rhayor ot . Ontario.
;Alken, whose salary wljl be
55,000 a year, 'also served for
several years as a member of
ihe state game commission.
He Is a republican. :
Bad Eggs in Cake Lead
To Govt. Prosecution
'-SPOKANE, Feb. 12. (AP)
Russell C. White didn't like the
cake his wife baked In their
Portland home, and the Commer
cial Creamery company of Spo
kane is defending Itself in federal
court because ol It, ; . , .. .
'White, Inspector for the V. S.
food and drug administration,
said he took a sniff of the caWe
and immediately asked where the
eggs for It had been obtained. He
testified In court yesterday that
the retailer said they had come
from Spokane. Several cans of
processed eggs were "putrid,"
White said.
The Spokane company Is
charged with shipping adulterat
ed processed eggs to Portland.-
Two Destroyers, Cruiser
Added to American Navy
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12
(AP) Three new fighting ships
were added to Uncle Sam's rapid
ly txpandlng navy today with the
launching of two destroyers at
the Philadelphia navy yard and
a cruiser at Camden, N. J.
At both scenes, the fanfare that
usually accompanies the launch
ing of ships was dispensed with
because of war-time regulations.
Officials, after congratulating the
sponsors,, hurried back to busy
desks.
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A RELIC, passed from genera
tion to generation from the night
of April 14, 1865, which had as Its
beginning that fatal time when
Abraham Lincoln attended Ford's
theatre to view the performance
of one Edwin Booth, pre-eminent
actor. The world knows, now,
what he saw.
The relic (pictured In the little
frame on the table above) is a
portion of the drapes which dec
orated the box In which Mr. Lin
coln sat, on that night. It has
been preserved throughout these
yean by Mrs. Cynthia L. Knick
erbocker of Avon, Illinois, whose
husband, after having served
Scorning Surrender Demand,
Defenders Take Heavy Toll
Japs Await
Aid for New
Bataan Blow
Attacks on MacArthur
Halt Because of Series
Of Costly Repulses .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (AP)
A lull in the Philippine fight
ing was reported today by the
war department which said the
enemy evidently was reorganiz
ing forces and awaiting rein
forcements before resuming the
offensive on the Bataan penin
sula front.
The invaders meanwhile have
occupied the island of Masbate,
near the center of the Philippine
archipelago, a communique said,
indicating the first recent exten
sion of the Japanese occupation
of the islands. . .'
The Japanese are appealing to
the Filipino farmers as "dear
brethren, the communique said,
to return to their farms and re
sume work on sugar and other
crops. ' - r i .
Jap "Friendship" 8purned ;
Reports reaching General
Douglas MacArthur's headquar
ters Indicated that ihe farmers
evicted by the Invaders had
crowded Into Manila or hidden in'
tha mtounwma to "escape Itorsh
treatment;' As a result oX the con
sequent shortage of laborers, fopd
supplies are becoming scarce, it
was said. ; ' " :- ; - - !
Authoritative advlces'from Ma-
(Continued on page 6)
Japanese Ambassador to
France Killed in Fall
PARIS (From German Broad
casts), Feb. 12 (AP) Sotomatsu
Kato, Japanese ambassador to
France and former minister to
Canada, was injured fatally last
night when he fell from a win
dow of the embassy building.
(Kato, 52, plnyed a major role
in the' negotatlons whereby
France last summer permitted
Japan to establish her armies and
air force in French Indo-Chlna.)
The ambassador was seized by
a shortage of breath while open
ing a window. He fell Into the
embassy yard and died shortly
after being moved to a hospital.
Kato formerly was counselor of
the Japanese embassy in Wash
ington. Jenkins
News-HBVIew Pnoto and Enffr&vlhff,
through much of the Civil war,
was a member of the military po
lice guarding the theatre that
night.
These drapes, used for first aid
bandaging, are stained with Mr.
Lincoln's blood.
. y
Sitting at the table pictured
above Is Art M. Aylesworth, resi
dent of South Myrtle Creek, who
Is a grandson of Mrs. Knicker
bocker's, and who has preserved
the relic shown herewith.
Mrs. Knickerbocker celebrated
her 100th birthday the 28th of
June, last year..
U.S. Navy Gets
Criticism From
Canada Official
TORONTO, Feb. 12. (API
Premier Mitchell F. Hepburn
of Ontario, noting he had been
criticized at Ottawa for saying
that the United States fleet "i
in hiding, declared today that
"the trouble Is that we can't
face the facti the Japanese
have a much better navy than
the United States."
"The nay secretary (Col,
Frank Knox) said the navy was
seeking contact with the enemy.
If they haven't been able to find
them, I'll tell where they are,"
Hepburn told ' a Toronto gath
ering. "They're right at Manila, sur
rounding a gallant force of
American troops. They're . at
Singapore and at Shanghai,
where the once-proud U. S. ma
rines are now being humiliated
by beinq forced to draw rick'
'haws through the strr.ets." '
Thinks Canada In peril, . .
"The fact Is they're afraid to
make contact because they
haven't the supremacy they boast
ed of over the alleged tissue
paper navy of Japan."
Hepburn said that the United
States was the only country Ja
pan feared, and that therefore he
believed it possible; Japan would
Invade i Canada within, rthrao
months in order to block a direct
attack by the United States on Ja
pan itself.
"Any disillusions as to the Japs'
strength and fighting capacity
have now been disBlpated,"ne
added. ; '
Soviet Aid Need Stressed.
" Turning to the European war,
Hepburn said Germany's superior
productive and mechanical ability
would give her a considerable ad
vantage over the Russians for a
spring offensive unless the Boviet
receives aid from the united na
tlons. i . i
"It the shipping losses continue
at the present rate, It is prob
lematical whether we'll be able
to get sufficient supplies to
them," he declared.
Labeling the European situa
tion as "not so bright'! as news
papers led their readers to be
lieve, Hepburn asserted:
"Our future is not so bright and
It may become even worse. Wo
may eventually become slaveB of
the axis. Don't say It can't hap
pen here. France had the best
army in Europe, and now there
are 45,000,000 Frenchmen under
subjugation."
Sinking of Another
Tanker Disclosed
NEW YORK, Feb. 12. (AP)
The third naval district announc
ed Wednesday the sinking by an
axis submarine of the Standard
Oil company tanker W. L. Steed
off the coast of New Jersey on
February 2. ,
The sinking was revealed when
three survivors Of a crew of 38
were landed here Wednesday.
Three lifeboats containing an un
given number of men still arc
missing. .
The 6182-ton tanker was built
at Quinty, Mass., In 1913. She
was 41G feet long and her home
port was Wilmington, Del. She
was considered almost a sister
ship of the tanker Allan Jackson,
which was sunk January 18.
Eugene Thief Takes New
Tires, Leaves Poor Ones
EUGENE, Feb. 12. (AP)
Somewhere in Eugene Is a thief
who Is considerate, and who has
an eye toward national defense.
C. W. Brest, 1588 Patterson,
told city police today that some
one had removed two practically
new tires from hi) truck, but was
kind enough to substitute other
tires in their places.
The eubstitutes?
They're quite old and almost
useless, but they're tires!
Nippon Lunge
Penetrates
City Suburbs
Japanese Planes Blast
At Ships Attempting to ..
Rescue Women, Children
(By the Associated Press)
British defenders of Singapore
launched four desperate counter
attacks against Japan's siege ar
mies today and the Singapore ra
dio told empire listeners with
music that radio communica
tions were still In British hand;
as 8:30 p. m. (6:30 a. m. P.W.T.)
Dispatches reaching London
said one of the counter-attacks
was successful. The other three
failed. . ' . '
An hour after the musical" '
broadcast, which Indicated that;
the city had not yet fallen, the
Singapore radio proclaimed de.
Ilantly: "we are not only going
to fight. We are going to win!
We shall, i emerge , from . this
struggle." ,
The broadcast said the Japan
ese radio was attempting "to ob
scure the real position on the is
land ot Singapore behind extrava
gant claims" an apparent refer
ence to Tokyo assertions that all
but two nests of resistance In
Singapore Itself had been wiped
OUt,.j v. . -. .; ';.-. 7-; I-'
Flames Ravage City ; ,
Singapore, lay under a black
pall of smoke from a hundred or '
more bomb-lit. fires as bloody
fighting raged ever nearer the
heart of the city and Japanese
dive-bombers smashed at a fleet
of 25 rescue ships in Singapore
harbor. , ;- ......
The Rome radio, whose reports
have often been premature,
broadcast- a Tokyo claim that tho
Japanese flag was flying over
Raffles square In the center of
Singapore. , . . . "
Simultaneously, a Tokyo broad
cast said Japanese troops in the
northwest outskirts ot the city
had launched an attack to drive
out the British "remnants."
The Tokyo report implied that
there had been a halt in the of
fensive while the British reject
ed a demand for capitulation and
that the battle for the city had .
(Continued on page 6)
Pay Differential
Cut in Favor Of
Southern CIO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (AP)
The national war labor board
today narrowed the differential
between wage scales In northern
and southern plants of the Alum
inum company of America by
granting CIO workers In two
southern plants a seven-cent
hourly minimum wage increase.
The decision, of vital import
ance to virtually every southern
Industry because it sets a prece
dent to govern future board ac
tions on altering the accepted
lower standard for southern
workers, was on a split vote,
7 to 4.
The four board members rep
resenting employers signed a dis
sent. By another spilt vote the board
granted higher pay for night
shift workers at Alcoa's new
Kensington,' Pa., plant. It gave a
three-cent hourly premium for
the shift 3 to 11 p. m. A five-cent
Increase for the shift of 11 p. m.
to 7 a. m.
Wayne L. Morse, who wrote
the majority opinion In the north
south aspect of the long-fought
Alcoa dispute, wrote the dissent
on the night shift question, hold
ing the night bonus should be
higher as a "work Incentive" es
sential to round-the-clock war
time production. He was joined
by the labor members, maklnjt
the board tally 7 to 5.
Five plants and 18,925 workers
were Involved in the north-south
dispute, a holdover from the old
national defense mediation board.