Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 02, 1941, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textrun u a. wetu- Weather ir"u npon Forecast: Occasional rain to night and Wednesday. Cooler lYrdntftday. Tempermtnro IllXhest Yesterday 60 Lowest this Morninr 6 Prerlpttalion past 14 hour .40 Get The Cash It u tlm now to befta thlnJOnff about that extra Chrutmaa money. HmVi an our way to tet It Just clean np nnuerd artlrlee around the home. Sell them and fe tha cah. Help other a and help Medford Tribune Full Associated Press youreelr. United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1941. NO. 218. ITIVI A VI yi iriyjTO , i i N i 0 Kelly's Comment From Washington , Curb on Building Causes Job Lack Lumber Industry Given Hard Blow $6000 Ceiling Due to Remain Br John W. Kelly- Washington, D. C, Dec. 2. Oregon is facing critical unem ployment through drastic cur tailment of home building. So certifies the office of produc tion management. Word is spreading throughout the state that Portland is booming and this is causing the unemployed in other sections to move to the metropolis for a job. This ln migration is causing a strain in housing as the up-state people sweep in to get work in the shipyards. Such are the aspects kot the Oregon situation as made )in official statements at the na tional capital. Admiral Emery S. Land, chairman of the federal marl time commission, has challenged the statements, made by Ore gon elements, that there are 35,000 workers available in Portland for Jobs, principally in shipyard work. In the entire state, he says, there are less than 20,000 Job hunters and of these only 6000 to 9000, at most, re suitable for ship building. Portland yards, he indicates, will add an approximate 12,000 workers In the next four months, by March 1942. Oregon's surplus labor is largely unskilled, it Is asserted; at least they ere not skilled as mechanics, although they know the tricks of the trade of lum berjacks and sawmill workers and know how to stow a cargo )ln the hold of a freighter. Many are striving to fit themselves for shipyard activities by tak ing training courses. There are 2,400 now enrolled in these courses calculated to equip them for important occupations in the yards. Registered for jobs with Lee C. Stoll, in charge of unemployment, are 11,500. In the past few weeks Mr. (Continued on Page Four) Britain to Declare War on Finns Soon London, Dec. 2 (IP) Informed sources today predicted that British declarations of war against Finland, Rumania and Hungary would come toward the end of the week. They said Finland had been h given her last chance to cease 'attacking Russia. These sources indicated that British reluctance to declare war on Finland had been over come to a considerable degree when Finland adhered to the anti-comlntern pact. Radio Highlights By Associated Preii (Time is Pacific Standard) "Anchors Away," a show pro duced by the U. S. navy, will be presented by MBS at 2:30 p. m. Saturdays, beginning De cember 13. Tonight, the war: 4:45 NBC Red, 5:55 CBS, 6:15 MBS, 7:30 N'BC-Blue, 7:45 CBS. 8 NBC Red, 9 NBC, CBS. NBC-Blue: 5 Treasury Hour. Wednesday, the war: 10:45 NBC, 12:55 p. m., CBS. NBC; 3 NBC. CBS: 3:25 NBC.Red; 3:45 CBS, NBC-Blue. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Fireman Fred Stevens going into ecstacics upon becoming a grandpa for the first time. Al Wimer translating U. of O. Joe College talk for friends, a "devastating face" being a "glamour girl." Mildred Lausmann and Inez ivine getting in the wrong car a the dark while trying to es cape the furies of Rogue val ly wind. HITLERITES FLEE IT Latest Moscow Drive Cost Nazis Half Million Men, Say Reds Near Moscow By tha Associated Press Soviet dispatches declared to day that the retreat of Adolf Hitler's Ukraine armies from Rostov-on-Don had become a rout, with the nazis fleeing westward along the shores of the Azov sea after retreat which "puts an end to tales about the invincibility of the German army." A British broadcast quoted Soviet Vice Commissar S. A. Lozovsky as saying that "the latest attempt of the Germans to take Moscow has cost them half a million men." Soviet dispatches reported that beside the German defeat at Rostov, Red army troops had also put the Germans to flight through deep snow drifts around Stalinogorsk, 120 miles south east of Moscow Plan New Stand Advices reaching London said that the German southern forces, commanded by Gen. Ewald Von Kleist, were head ing back to Mariupol, 100 miles west of Rostov, to make a new stand around that city, which they captured on October 7. The German high command said bitter fighting was contin uing but gave no details. On the central front, a bul letin from Hitler's field head quarters asserted that German troops pressing the two-months-old offensive against Moscow had penetrated deep Into the capital's defense system how far was not stated while a Soviet spokesman countered with a statement that "the Ger mans can register so far only tremendous losses In all direc tions, without exception." Dispatches to the Soviet news paper Pravda said Red army troops had repulsed attacks by three German divisions, about 45,000 soldiers, in the Klin and Volokolamsk sectors, respective ly 50 and 65 miles northwest of Moscow. Rome reports said heavy fighting had broken out in the Italian sector in the Donets river basin, near Voloshllov grad, 100 miles north of Rostov, with "considerable" losses in flicted on the Russians. African Units Marge On the flaming north African battle front, British headquart ers admitted that the Germans, throwing all their available armored forces into a desperate lunge, had succeeded in con solidating their divided armies in the Libyan desert wastes. A British communique said German troops advancing from the south and southwest in bit ter all-day fighting managed to reach other nazi forces trapped south of Rezegh. 90 miles from the Libyan-Egyptian frontier. Premier Mussolini's high com mand reported the capture of 1.500 British prisoners in the Rezegh zone, while the German high command claimed that more than 9,000 British, in cluding three generals, had been- taken captive so far In the 15-day-old campaign. The nazi high command also reported the destruction of 814 British tanks and 127 planes. Official nazi dispatches said the battle on the Tobruk front had taken a favorable turn for the axis in the past few days. Turn Due Soon A nazi military spokesman said developments indicated a "definite turn of events in a few days," indicating that a de cisive phase in the conflict was imminent. Powerful sea-borne British reinforcements were reported (pouring into Tobruk whose I narrow corridor eastward to ! Da,aah haul tAn f,it htf the German success. In the waters outside Tobruk harbor, the Italian high com mand reported the sinking of a 5.00O-ton British cruiser of the Aurora class under three aerial torpedo hits. All of Florida is farther south than the most southern limits of i California. - - - - Nazis Puncture British Encirclement BIR EL 0":CAPUZ2 LIBYA fea Shaded arrow Indicates main British drive in the offensive in Libya, reported to hava smashed close to Tobruk, where a besieged British garrison attacking southward closed a ring around axis units to the east. The RAF said German tanks and trucks were moving wast from Salum (broken arrow). Smaller arrows and wedges Indicate British moves in addition to tha main push. Women May Be Conscripted In Britain's Army Expansion London, Dec. 2. (IP) Prime Minister Churchill told par liament today that "a crisis of manpower and womanpower" will dominate the year 1942 for Britain, proposed that military conscription age limits be lowered to 18Va and raised to 50 and warned that eventually men of 60 might be called. RAILROAD STRIKE THREAT IS LIFTED BY SETTLEMENT Washington, Dee. 2. (IP) A presidential fact finding board reported to President Roosevelt today that railroad labor and management repre sentatives had reached a com promise agreement calling for basic wage increases of 78 cents a day for the operating brotherhoods and 80 cents a day for the non-operating brotherhoods. Washington, Dec. 2. (IP) The threat of a strike was lifted to day from the nation's railroads, simplifying the problems of traf fic chiefs who must accommo date the heaviest holiday busi ness in two decades on lines already jammed with defense freight. Settlement of the dispute over wages and vacations was announced last night by Wayne L. Morse, chairman of an emer gency board appointed by Pres ident Roosevelt. Morse withheld exact terms of the peace agreement until it could be submitted to Mr. Roosevelt today, but other sources declared the pact would add from $300,000,00 to $325, 000,000 a year to the carriers payrolls. The walkout had been set for next Sunday, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers, due for Christmas furloughs, had been wondering how they were to get home from camp. Mink Raiser Has Crop Worth $8000 Waldport, Ore., Dec. 2. (IP) Over $8,000 in mink pelts have gone to California for storage from his farm on Scott creek, according to Julian Smallwood, who started the enterprise four years ago and this year raised 784 animals. Five hundred pelts were Included in the California shipment, worth between $17 and $20 each. Chicago, Dec. 2. IIP) An Oregon 4-H club girl was award ed a $200 college scholarship today for all-around homemak mg achievements in a national contest. The girl Is Lorraine Filliger, 17, Astoria, Ore., who in eight years raised a garden, handled five dairy cattle, put up 1,471 quarts of food and planted 10 trees and 2,662 flowers and shrubs. Powers to, compel unmarried women between the ages of 20 and 30 to join the. uniformed forces also will be . sought, he said,, although only volunteer women will be assigned to "le thal or combatant services." The present conscription lim it for men is 19 to 41. Declaring to a solemn and crowded house of commons that Britain's "crisis of equipment is largely over and an ever-broadening flow is now assured," partly because of United States aid and partly because of newly completed British empire fac tories, he said the drain on Bri tain's manpower was arising from five causes: 1. The necessity of staffing the new factories. 2. The maintenance and ex pansion of forces in the east. 3. The supplying of Russia from British production. - 4. The prospective expansion of the air force, and the contin uous growth of the navy, and 5. The continuous guard against "two vultures" the danger of invasion and the air raider which "will hang over us until the end of the war." The expanded military con scription will bring more than 3,000,000 more men and women under review for armed service. Churchill coupled his call for Increased manpower and wo manpower with the warning that "at anytime Hitler may rec ognize his defeat by the Russian armies and to recover his disas ter visit us with all his fury." "We are all ready for him. We shall receive him when he comes, by day or night, by far greater forces and with every modern Improvement, but we must always be ready." All Marines Out Of Shanghai Now Manila. Dec. 2 (IPl All Tin!. ted States marines have been ; evacuated from Shanghai on President Roosevelt's orders, the navy announced today. Along with a number of civil ian evacuees, the marines cross ed In two contingents on the liners President Madison and President Harrison, which dock ed today several hours apart. Officers said the marines would remain In the Philippines, assigned to the 16th naval dis trict. 'The marines hava landed and are ready for anything," the navy announced. "There was no mishap during the voy age or landing." , Walla Walla, Wash., Dec. 2. (JP Walla Walla's hectic may oralty campaign was climaxed here last night with the elec tion of Herbert G. West, water ways executive, by a margin of 462 votes over Incumbent Va) Jensen. - WsSMsHatsflslHsHsMasHHaHisstslMaslasHsllM N EG Y P Tea ITALY DISCOVERS VASTCONSPIRACY Rome, Dec. 2. (IP) A "vast" anti-Fascist conspiracy which in cluded an attempt on Premier Mussolini's life and sabotage of Italian munitions plants has been discovered at Trieste, the official agency Stefanl reported tonight. (Trieste is seaport In north eastern Italy near the Yugoslav border and formerly was the old Austrian empire's principal port. It has a population of 248,000.) Sixty persons have been ar rested and put on trial before a special tribunal for defense of the state, the agency said. Terroristic attacks attributed to the conspiratorial network besides the undetailed attempt on Mussolini's life Included ex plosions at munitions factories at Plagcnza, Bologna and Clana in which "hundreds" of persons were killed and injured. Attempts also were made to blow up Italian railways, Stef anl said. POLICE MUST PAY Cambridge, Mass., Dec. 2. (IP) A superior court Jury to day awarded $21,000 to a cou ple In suits In which they charg ed a Boston police sergeant made a wrongful entry into their hotel room and subjected them to questioning reflecting on their marital status. Police Sergeant George Smith of Sydney, N. S alleged that the police made forceful en try into their room In January, 1939, questioned Mrs. Hatch while she was unclothed, and then ordered them from the ho tel. GASQUET SPLASHED BY ' SIX INCHES OF RAIN Grants Pass, Dec. 2. (AP) Six Inches of rain fell in the last 24 hours as Gasquet, Just south of the Oregon border, the forest service reported. Windows were blown in at Gold Beach. ' FIRST ACCESS ROAD Salem, Dec. 2. (IP) Roads connecting the Tongue Point naval base and the, Hermiston ordnance depot with tha state highway system will be the first to be constructed under the new federal appropriation for con struction of access roads to mili tary reservations and defense plants, State Highway Engineer H. H. Baldock said today. F R. Asks Japs to Explain Indo and Thailand Moves I SAN FRAN OFFICE Capt. Bean Says Move Not Significant So Far As Ulti mate Building Concerned. Announcement was made to day that the engineering offices of the proposed Marysville, Cal., and Albany and Medford army cantonments would be trans ferred to the San Francisco of fice. In announcing receipt of such instructions from the zone 9 con structing quartermaster's office, Capt Theron W. Bean, construct ing quartermaster here, said the work now being done by his staff at the Medford armory would be continued in the San Francisco office. Emphasizing that the change was simply a geographical transfer, Capt. Bean stated that the move had no significance so far as the prospects of ultimate construc tion of the camps were con cerned. Start Thursday The work at the Medford arm ory will be completed Thursday and the move to San Francisco then started. Capt. Bean said. - "This move means nothing In relation to the Job itself and has no significance other than the consolidation of the offices," Capt. Bean said. "We shall con tinue to do at the San Francisco office what we have been doing here." Since completion of the architect-engineer's work November 15, Capt. Bean's staff has been engaged in changing camp draw ings in accordance with orders from Washington D. C. The cap tain's staff was increased to han dle the additional work and to day comprised 38 civilians and six army officers. Civilians Through All of the civilian personnel will be let out excepting Claude M. Laird, administrative assist- (Continued on Pace Elcht) OH Replaces Terry As Giants' Manager Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. I (IP) The New York Giants made Mel Ott playing manager today and placed BUI Terry in charge of farm operations with the title of general manager. Each was given a two-year contract. Meanwhile the Cleveland In dians announced that Manager Lou Boudreau's new coaches would be Burt Shotton, manager of the Columbus (O.) Red Birds, and Oscar MpIIIIo, a Cleveland coach under Manager Oscar Vitt. "Jefferson State" Boosters Suffer Setback in Modoc Co. Alturas, Calif., Dec. J-WV-Secessionists working to form a 49th state of Jefferson from California-Oregon border coun ties suffered a major defeat tndav when Modoc county re- their advances and took a new vow of allegiance to California. Tha hnard of SUDervlsorS Of this northeastemmost corner of California, and the chamber of commerce protested against ef forts to set Modoc county to quit California. Failure to construct roads Into the wilderness for development of mineral resources Is the basis of complaints against California and Oreffnn bv secessionists In Siskiyou, Del Norte and Lassen counties In California and Curry county, Oregon. Grants Pass, Dec. 2. (IP) Gilbert E. Gable's secessionist followers In Josephine county called on the county court Mon day at the Port Orford mayor's Secessionist Dies OIIBCKT C. 0 A B I c Port Orford, Ore., Dec. 2. (AP) Gilbert E. Gable, 55, mayor of Port Orford and leader In the so-called Curry county se cession movement, died at 9 a. m. today. Acute indigestion was given as the Immediate cause of death. Gable had long been promi nently identified with various Port Orford enterprises, Includ ing the Port Orford Dock St Ter minal company, the object of considerable litigation a few years ago. Ha sought to build a railroad from Port Orford to Grants Pass, Ore. but failure to start work cost the ICC approval certificate. :. The secession movement of Curry county was instituted largely by him because of his belief that Oregon was not giving proper attention to development of mineral deposits in the city. Gable also was publisher of the weekly Port Orford Post, which he purchased two years ago. , No funeral arrangements were made immediately but it was In dicated by friends that a Masonic service probably would be held Thursday here. NAMED FOR 41ST Tacoma, Dec. 2. WO Brig. Gen. Horace H. Fuller, 55, com mander of the army's command and general staff school at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., will be the new commander of the 41st dlvi' sion at nearby Fort Lewis, it was learned today. General Fuller, a graduate of West Point and formerly with the 3rd division, now stationed at Fort Lewis, will succeed the late Ma). Gen. George A. White who died last month. General Fuller commanded the 108th field artillery, Penn sylvania national guard, over seas in the last war. suggestion to press for union with the proposed "49th state of Jefferson. Although Gable and his local right-hand man, El wood Hussey of Cave Junction, made a defi nite date for 15 petitioning III- nois valley residents to appear at 1:30 and be photographed for a national picture magazine, the appointments didn't click. Perhaps by coincidence. Judge W. A. Johnson was absent. So were Commissioners Richard McElllgott and Pete Fredrick son. Sheriff A. Donley Barnes wasn't In the courthouse. Neith er was District Attorney Orval J. Millard. County Clerk Ben W. Coutant was busy. By that time the secessionists began to get the Idea. Photog rapher Otto Hagel plunked bearded Lou Webb In tha judge's chair and the delegation crowd ed around him to picture for national circulation "demands" for secession In tha county. Officially, the absent county court Is against secession. SINGAPORE FORCE Heavy Fleet Units Steant Into Great Naval Base Suspense Fills Orient, Washington. Dee. 9 tst . President Roosevelt was dls closed today to be asking Japan questions which diplomatic ob servers said Included request for an explanation of Japanese military moves Into tnd(vPhn and toward Thailand. The disclosure was in a atat department official's account of another visit there by Japanese; Ambassador Kichlsaburo No mura and special envoy Saburo Kurusu. He said Undersecretary Sum ner Welles had been directed by tha president to ask tha Japanese representatives to call on him In order to make cer tain inquiries of tha Japanese government, through them, for the Information of tha presl dent. This was taken by observers to mean that tha president was intervening personally in tha negotiations In order to get some satisfactory explanation of recent Japanese military steps. By tha Associated Press . Britain's new 35,000-ton bat tleshlp Prince of Wales steam ed Into the great Singapore) naval base today at tha head o a flotilla of powerful naval re lnforcements is Japanese dis patches asserted that British imperial troops were massing along the Thailand frontier for an invasion. , The Prince of Wales and other unspecified "heavy units" ara the first capital ships Brit aln ever has sent to the far east ready for action. Others hava mad only ceremonial visits. Troops March Simultaneously, a Renters (British news agency) dispatch from Rangoon said one of the largest columns of military ve hicles ever seen In Burma left the capital for duty with Brit ish troops at defense centers throughout the country. British fears of a Japanese thrust Into Burma or Thailand have been repeatedly empha sized in recent weeks, but Do mel, the Japanese news agency, declared bluntly: "Indications are that Britain herself is now seeking to in vade Thailand." Thailand herself rushed large reals preparations for defense in event of an attack, posting armed guards in Bangkok and the capital's suburbs and con structing concrete air-raid shelt ers at many street Junctions. The official Bangkok radio sought to calm fears that the little country might become a battleground for British and Japanese armies, declaring that the government had investi gated foreign reports of an im pending attack and . found "no country has any designs on Thailand." Nevertheless, tension ll electric throughout the orient. In Singapore, thousands of British, Malayan, Chinese and Eurasian volunteers went Into) camp on full-time soldiering basis as the British crown col ony prepared for any eventual ity. Only skeleton staffs wer left to man business establish ments and government offices throughout Malaya. TANK LIGHTERS FOR FORT LEWIS TROOPS Fort Lewis, Dec. 8. (flV-Ar undisclosed number of new tank lighters used to float tank across water arrived at this army's post today. The lighters can carry 30,009 pounds and can maneuver close) to beach where ramp Is let down for th tank to move off th deck. - "