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Raid Signal I , .TIItrfvery live sec L33. ' - TODAY'S NEWS TODAY MBHr t v NT i NT y y ' . LANE COUNTY HOME NEWSPAPER. - Home Edition nfi bir j-ft Trr? B ,4': f'1 ur EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942 ON STREETS 3c; NEWS STANDS 5c NO. 21 Reds Take Mozhaisk, Pursue Nazi Troops; es Allied Ships Shell Japs in Malay Two More U.S. Vessels Hit in Atlantic Jungl Hitler's Forces Still In Retreat On Wide Front PROBLEMS of Eugene units of the Oregon Women's Ambulance corps are taken . nffirers shown above. Left to right are Lt. Ruth Warner. Maior Lucille Dvott. it, Mary Sue Jackson, Lt.Lila Hughes, and Capt. Ann Dillard. (Register-Guard photo, lire engraving.) . . : . isi Production n Announced Hemisphere r JACK BEARDWOOD KINGTON, Jan. 21-OW Intlc war production plan western hemisphere includes. abolition of all briers, establishment of a p currency for all anti-axis md use- of United .States' nil air units to . convoy lerlc shipping was dis loday by a high commerce pat official program, drawn uo bv the States, was expected to be upon at the American con- ot foreign ministers, now fa at Rio de Janeiro. The ce official, who declined nis name, predicted it be applied to all nation pmg to the plan, hentina, Chile, or any other not enter the hemis tollaboratlon nlan. h P be Ignored and th nlan pursued by the remainins i tepuoucs. 'IEEMENT WANTED OAMEERO. Jan 1 1 Mn defense commWoo , Mean conference unani r adopted a rnit; u I, 'un wudr ft sympathy for axis-oc- COUntriM in J . wwr governments Ptei said the big test of fencan solidariti. "solution tn hn.b Vm "s would op- to com- - '"u tomorrow. W Suit Filed se0fAccident ,6r M53.75 fl.m.-.. BnW cm- . ' f-i PlDe mr,.. tte Plain DemS r.d- Thieves Take Cash, Bonds, Checks From Hogan's Grocery Women's Ambulance Corps Takes Part In Home Defense The armory Is being taken by a feminine "storm" every Tuesday evening these days. The invading forces are the OWACs. three platoons of Oregon Women's Ambulance corps members, who drill like veterans, shout commands like seasoned sergeants, and bid fair to put members of the Oregon State Guard (with whom they have a drill competition scheduled) to shame. Patterned after the well-known Canadian and English "WACS", the corps is one of the women's agencies which will be available lor service in civilian defense. The Epgerae unit, which now numbers approximately 130 mem-. bers-has beerf -organized - since August. Top-ranking officer is Ma jor Lucille Dyott, commander of the 2nd battalion, with headquar ters in Eugene.- . Oregon's Second Largest ' '. ' This battalion includes com panies at Eugene, Corvallis, Salem, Newport, Toledo and Marshfield. The Eugene unit ranks as the sec ond largest in the state, being ex ceeded only by Portland. Other local ; of fleers are Cap tain Ann Dillard, First Lt. Mary Sue Jackson, Second Lt. Ruth Warner and Second Lt. Lila Hughes. An intensive training course is planned for all members. Military drill is practiced one night each week. In addition all members are required, to take instruction in first aid, fire- fighting, motor me chanics,, and communications. ' : A large program of elective courses is also planned. Underway at the present time is a class in flag signalling, being taught by deaneit wnitley, Girl Scout direc tor. They Learn to Shoot To start this week I: n rlnsa In riflery, which will be given at the ROTC building on the University campus under the direction of (-apt. Harvey BIythe. Recruiting has been closed tern porarily, as the enrollment here was- -.boosted": after. December - 7. The corps is. open to all women over is who are-American citi zens, have a driver's license, and who can produce a birth certifi cate. Applications to . enter the corps are still beine taken. Although the sound of feminine voices ordering "column right" or 1M for doctor' fense toviBai8rtens JfS5 1? Glen- m. U ' Rel Cross ,. lstri.. ' Swlth. chief ff .seconn, assl ratt nut hj. - . any SEE WOMEN STORY PAGE 10 Hogan's Grocery at 544 Thir teenth avenue east was the scene of a thorough robbery Tuesday night, city police records reveal. Thieves used a small drill on a panel , of the back door, then smashed the structure with an axe which .they had picked up in the alley behind Robinson's cafe. Loss amounted to at least $325 in money and checks, police said. Robbers took $10 in currency from the cash register and lifted the McCIaskey safe which con tained two $25 defense bonds, $60 in currency and $200 in checks. Included in these checks were one on the Nehi Bottling- company payable to Earl Ware,' one pay able to Hogan's drawn on Oren Brownson, and another payable to Hogan's from Mrs. Pete Chase. The removable top of the safe held all the store s accounts ana mes, The cash register in Cook s mar ket, meat department of the store, was rifled of 515. The robbery occurred between 7:30 and 10 p. m. Tuesday. Police, investigating the theft, brought the axe that was used to smash the door- back to the police station They said that the. managers of Hogan's were especially anxious to retrieve their stolen safe and documentary material in it. tl is a McCIaskey brand, 16 inches high, 18 inches wide, and 24 inches deep, Police say it would have taken at least two robbers to get away with this amount of loot, and that the safe and its. non-monetary contents has probably been dump I ed somewhere. At Last, Way to Sobriety Shown; A Strong Will Does The Trick! The curse of drink can be over come! Even the evil supplications of the nastiest villain we have ever been privileged to boo cannot win over rum only it was- brandy if a man's heart is right. Tears, tears, tears! We weaklings, who dined on cider and popcorn (free) during the intermission, know now that the will to cast out the demon rum it was brandy, however can prevail, though a man may s'nk to the very depths of despair. The Very Little Theatre produc tion of "The Drunkard," or "The Fallen Saved," in its third annual Presentation Tuesday night at the fairgrounds showhouse, taught us this noble lesson. The show will continue through outout the present week (admis sion for civilians is 60 cents, and soldiers are admitted freel. First of a series of entertainments for jne soldiers quartered here, "The Drunkard" will be followed next week by a University of Oregon Germans Admit Reds Break Lines On Upper Donets ' .. (Auodated. Frets) .-. Russia celebrated her greatest victory of the war today as the Red -armies drove six miles be yond ' fallen Mozhaisk, 57 miles west , of Moscow,' in .pursuit of Adolf Hitler's battered invaders along the Napoleonic road of re- treate to Smolensk. Simultaneously, a bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters, ac knowledged that Soviet troops had broken through German lines on the upper Donets river presum ably in the fierce battle for the big Donets river steel city of Kharkov, Russia's , "Pittsburgh" , in the Ukraine, The high - command asserted however, that nazi counter-attacks had thrown the Russians back: Nn hint of the defeat on the central (Moscow) front was given the German nation. Nazi Version Told While Hitler's winter-scourged armies fell back . along the 70- mile-wide "escape corridor" from Mozhaisk, threatened by Russian flanking thrusts on both sides, the Berlin . radios-broadcast' this version of the struggle: ' : "The German line on the east ern front, reaching from the Sea of Azov to encircled Leningrad, is intact in spite of many and heavy Soviet attacks. ' "These attacks resulted in heavy losses being suffered by the Sov iets but without achieving the occupation of any important points." The fall of Mozhaisk, climaxed by bloody street fighting in the glare of burning buildings, was announced in four words by the Russian command: "Our. units captured Mozhaisk." "Last Battle" Now Lost The city, forward anchor of Hitler's winter defense faont, was occupied by triumphant Red army forces at 8:30 a. m. (12:30 a. m., EST) Monday. It had been cap tured by the Germans just three months ago in the heyday of their now broken offensive against Mos- Commission Has Reply To Hitchcock Answer ; A reply to the answer of George P. Hitchcock in the suit of the state highway commission against Hitchcock, seeking to condemn his home property for right of way for the new Eugene-Springfield super highway, was filed in circuit court Wednesday by the commission. The commission claims in its an swer that Hitchcock dug up and carried away shrubbery, plants and other vegetation, all of which were a part of the realty and contribut ed to the value of the property and were taken into consideration by the commission in connection with the negotiations for the ac quisition of the property. The commission declares that the prop erty is not worth $15,000, which is the amount asked by Hitchcock. VidimsOfSubs City Of Atlanta And reiahter Ciltvaira Latest Victims Lone Raider Gets Jap Ship SEE HITLER'S STORY PAGE 10 . J Lane County Gets Share From IP Benefit school of music Drescntations. Kenneth Griffith, in the role of Edward Mlddleton, who fell into bad hands under the influence of Lawver Cribbs (William Tugman). was a most convincing victim of spirituous liquors. You could prac tically smell his breath when he saw snakes. Ethan Newman as William Dow ton, who needed only a horse to bring the drarnmer up to Wild West heroics; Robert Horn, in the dual capacities of bar keeper and landlord; Agnes, played by Daisy Hamlin, who was beautifully un balanced in the mind; Julia, (Pat Colcrick in real life), whose olio song calling "father" out of the drunkard's lair wrung out the tears; Mary Wilson, the devoted mother, played by Adele Griffith; and all the rest of the cast, as well, instilled belly laughs, sobs and hisses In the right places. In other words, people who have never seen the play will be cheat- Fifty per cent of all money raised in Lane county for curbing and preventing infantile paralysis will be left here to spend for this type of work in this community, the other 50 per cent going to the national . infantile paralysis re search foundation, ' reports Mrs. R. E. Glass, chairman of the wo men's participation in the infantile paralysis fund benefits here. . This last year, local cases han died by one organization numbered eight, two other organizations carrying on such work not yet reporting. The money to be spent here will be used for buying braces, special shoes, and other necessities in the care of infantile paralysis cases. Last year, 26,000 cases were re WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 0 For a daring exploit brilliantly accomplished, the navy wrote new name on the role of its war heroes today and added one more ship to Japanese losses for The Philippines invasion. The name belonged to 30-year-old Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley 3f Long'Island city, New York, who rocketed a swift motor torpedo boat into enemy-held Binanga bay and torpedoed a 5,000-ton Japan ese vessel, despite a storm of enemy fire. Thus did the navy's new "P. T." boat-make, its spectacular debut in the pacific war theatre and the action undoubtedly heralded many similar attacks in the future.. The nocturnal assault, suggest ing anew the steadily wider oper ations of Admiral Thomas S Hart s Far Eastern command, was reported by the navy department in a communique last night which said that Bulkeley "has been com mended for executing his commis sion successfully." Bulkeley had eight seamen, as yet unidentified, in his crew, but the matter-of-fact navy statement hardly hints at the nerve-racking peril of their mad dash. It re ports merely that "this small boat Harried out its difficult task while under fire of machine guns and three-inch shore batteries." The greatest protection the men had was the speed of their power ful craft, whose 4,200 horsepower. engine is capable of producmg maximum of about 70 knots, or 84 miles an hour. Besides speed, there was the element of surprise in the night surprise increased by the fact that Binanga bay, tucked away inside Sublc bay on Luzon Island, is far from any known base of Allied operations in the Far East. The Japanese might reasonably have expected American submar rines in that vicinity but they ap parently were not on guard against a lightning attack by a lone small boat. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 U.R The navy announced today that the American steamer City of At lanta was sunk and the Latvian freighter Ciltvaira wat attacked and believed sunk by an-enemy submarine off the U. S. Atlantic coast. These were the fifth and sixth announced U-Boat victims since the undersea raiders became act ive of the eastern coast a Week ago. The City of Atlanta was sunk by a submarine off Cape Hatteras on the morning of Jan. 19 with apparent loss of 44 of its estimat ed crew of 46. The Ciltvaira lost two . of its crew of 32. SEE AT LAST STORY PAGE 10 SEE LANE COUNTY STORY PAGE 10 : , 'Junior Citizen' To Be Revealed At Banquet Eugene's first junior citizen of 1941 will be revealed and honored Wednesday evening at the junior chamber of commerce annual founders' day banquet, scheduled to begin at 6:30 p. m. in the Eu gene hotel. This will be the second time the award has been given. The selection of the first junior citizen has been made by the senior chamber board of directors. Earl Snell, secretary of state, will be the main speaker of the evening. He will address the group on "Problems of a Junior Cham ber of Commerce." The banquet is open to the public. Fire Damaging ToCushman Mill CUSHMAN, Jan. 21. (Special) An S8000 fire burnea consider able lumber and damaged part of the plant at the LaDuke Lumber company mill here Tuesday eve ning. The mill was saved as well as the office and the living quarters of the Oliver LaDuke family. Part of the wall at the boiler room was burned, the blaze being curbed before it took the mill, and a shed of dry lumber, a kiln full of lum ber, and a large pile of lumber were all destroyed. Most of the lumber burned was for defense orders. The fire Is believed to have started by Sparks blowing from the burning trash pile, a heavy east wind carrying them into the plant. A passing motorist saw the blaze about 6 p. m. and notified the mill people. Because of the recent silver thaw which burst pipes and caused other troubles, fighting the blaze was handicapped. Help came from Florence and from the forest serv ice to fight the fire. tovy Announces War in Brief Nelson Plans To Kill 0PM WASHINGTON, Jan. : 21 MW- Donald M. Nelson announced to day he would abolish the Office of Production Management and bring all of its. functions and ac tivities under his authority as chairman of the new war produc tion board. - Nelson told a press conference he was setting up six major divi sions under the board, eliminating the old contract distribution divi sion entirely, and incorporating the priorities and allocations sys tern-under' a new division of in dustry operations charged.with full responsibility for the conversion of all possible American indus try to war production. He said an important branch of the new set-up would be a require ments committee, headed by Wil liam L. Batt, Philadelphia indus trialist, and composed of repre sentatives of the army and navy, lend-lease administration and all other agencies concerned with production of raw materials. . By the Associated Press TOKYO reports say Allied war ships shelling Japanese invasion forces on Malay coast; Japanese assert drive on Singapore gaining; British admit Japanese troops con tinue to land below main battle sector; Premier Tojo says Japan will fight until United States, Brit ain are "beaten to their knees;" Presiden Roosevelt discloses A. E. F. vanguards already in action or en route to Pacific battle zones; Singapore reports 12 Japanese planes shot down in morning raid. GEN. MACARTHUR'S Philip pine defenders hurl back Japanese with heavy losses; American, Fili pino troops counter-attack, regain lost positions; Filipino guerrilla band raids Japanese airfield in up per Luzon island, killing 110 ene my troops. . DUTCH high command acknow ledges Japanese parachute troops capture entire Minanassa peninsu la, in Celebes island; massed Jap anese bombers strike heavy blows at British New Guinea, new Bis- mark archipelago; ' Australia's Prime Minister Curtin warns of rising peril to Australia. BRITISH report Thai-Japanese thrust into Burma checked near frontier. RUSSIA celebrates her greatest victory of war; Red armies press on six miles beyond fallen Moz haisk, pursuing estimated 200,000 Germans . on Napoleonic road of retreat to Smolensk; Hitler's high command admits Russian break through nazi lines in - Ukraine, Red armies push assault on Khar kov; German public kept in dark on Moscow front reverses, Berlin radio asserts German line still in tact. - i BRITISH BOMBERS set fires In the Port of Emden; DNB says resi dential areas were hit. Four planes acknowledged missing. 'Yanks Coming' Note Of Cheer Offered By FDR Singapore Defenders Shoot Down 13 Planes; RAF Drives Launched Three Billions O.K'd For New U. S. Vessels Colonel Acquitted COLUMBUS, 0., Jan. 21 G4 Col. H. C. Kress Muhlenberg was found innocent today at a general court martial of charges that he wrongly criticized distribution of combat planes outside of the United States and its insular pos sessions. - FIREMEN CALLED Destruction recorded as "not serious" resulted Wednesday morning from an overheated elec tric motor at the Western Box factory at First and Chambers. The fire alarm sounded at about 9:30 a. m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 A $3,300,000,000 authorization for construction, of 1799 minor auxil iary, combatant and patrol naval vessels and authorization for ex penditure of $750,000,000 in addi tional ship-building facilities were passed swiftly by the house today. Action came on voice vote, just two days after the legislation was introduced. Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.), of the naval committee told his colleagues that specification of the number of ships to be con structed, rather than the total tonnage, marked a departure from the usual custom, and was done to hide their type "for military rea sons. Pelley Sentenced ASHEVILLE, N. C, Jan. 21 Superior Court Judge F. Don Phillips sentenced William Dudley Pelley to serve from two to three years In state prison yesterday after ruling that the 52-year-old leader of the Silver Shirts of America had violated the terms of a suspended sentence. The Officer Was Rude, Avers Woman ChargedWith Speeding By ROGER D. GREENE (Associate Presr War Editor), Allied , warships were reported shelling Japan's invasion armies swarmtng down the Malay, jungle coast 60 miles north of Singapore today, and the United : Nations, were further heartened by Presl- . dent Roosevelt's disclosure that "The Yanks Are Coming!" with A. E. F. vanguards already in ac tion or en route to far-flung battle zones. Singapore's defenders shot down - 13 Japanese raiders over the Sing apore island citadel today, ' and RAF bombers were officially re ported to have launched .'.'heavy and successful attacks" . 1 against Japanese-held airdromes in Ma laya during the night. .. An official Tokyo broadcast claimed without confirmation elsewhere that Japanese . spear- -heads had thrust within six miles of Johore Strait, mile-wide" water barrier to Singapore, and asserted that large Japanese forces "were moving up for a direct assault on. the island stronghold. . . British Version Different ' British headquarters, however. declared that the main battle sec tor was still many miles away, with heavy fighting raging in northwest Johore state, in the Bakri and Buhit Payong areas, where British . artillery inflicted bloody losses on the invaders' in close-range firing. Domel, official Japanese news agency, said that British and Australian defense fighters, batt ling along a 30-mile coastal strip, were being thrown back with heavy losses and that Singapore itself was under Incessant aerial assault. Death Toll Grows The British admitted a rising -casualty toll in Singapore, with 64 persons killed and 154 wounded in an attack yesterday by 90 Japa nese bombers. In the Philippines, a war depart ment bulletin said Gen. Douglas MacArthur's valiant American Filipino defense forces had driven back the Japanese invaders with heavy losses "in particularly sav age fighting" on the Batan penin sula. . The communique said Japanese troops had gained "some initial successes" by infiltrations and frontal attack near the center of the line before counter-attacking U. S. army forces hurled them back and recaptured all lost ground. "Enemy losses were very heavy," the communique said. "Our cas ualties were relatively moderate." Japs Surprised Far north of the main' battle sector, in upper Luzon island, the war department said a guerilla band of Gen. MacArthur's forces staged a surprise raid on a Japa- SEE YANKS STORY PAGE 10 ' CASHIER RESIGNS REEDSPORT, Jan. 21 OP) A. Peters, Jr., resigned yesterday as cashier of the First National Bank of Gardiner. Peters, a former state superintendent . of banks deputy, s secretary of the North west Bankers' association and state president of the National Bankers' solent; disdainful, . as contnmellus association. taunts; a contumellua lip,) Law enforcemenTofficials of Eu gene will give no promise of a "charm .school for cops" in' an swer to a complaint filed Tuesday by Allert Bain of Portland against City Policeman Otis A. Dyer. Mrs. Bain charges Dyer with "conduct unbecoming an officer" when he arrested her here for speeding on Nov. 22. Mrs. Bain's complaint was ad dressed to the city council and be fore the police committee.- Acting as her counsel Is her father, Fred E. Smith, local attorney. . The complaint asserted that she was driving on Franklin boule vard about 200 yards Inside the city limits on Nov. 22, when she was stopped by Officer Dyer. She says he approached her in a sneering, contumellus, and Insult- ing" manner to inform her that she was breaking Eugene's traffic law. (Editor's note; According to Webster, contomellus means: "Ex hlblting contumely; despiteful; in Mrs. Bain further points out in the complaint that she told the! policeman that she wanted to take her four-year-old daughter to the home where she was visiting here, and that she was in a hurry to get Back to feed her five-month-old baby. But the officer, says Mrs. Bain's statement, only answered that he "took orders from the chief of police" and that she would have to appear at the police station right away. So she did. The complaint declares that Dyer Is an "unfit atvi unsuitable person to act as such officer," and requests that he appear before the council's police committee with a counsel to answer the charges. In official capacity, Chief of Po lice C. F. Bergman refused to com ment on the charge. City Record er John Fields, in whose hands the document now rests, says that this is the first tlme'such an order has been filed in Eugene. He said the case would probably come before the civil service commission, but gave no indication of when. The next city council meeting is slated lor Monday, Jan. 28, 13 WANTED! REFRIGERATORS ' There are thirteen people In Eugene in the market for refrigerators that we know of. Thirteen people called- . to buy this refrigerator after it was sold. You can reach these people who answered the ad last week-end by running your own ad this week-end. LATE model refrigerator, excellent condition, $60 cash, $70, terms. 2060 E. 17th. Ph.'4962-J. 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