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EUGENE, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942
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NO. 21
Reds Take Mozhaisk, Pursue Nazi Troops;
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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,
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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
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defense commWoo ,
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Ptei said the big test of
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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
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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
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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
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SEE LANE COUNTY STORY
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'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,
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