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Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY. DECEMBER 2, 1941.
NO. 218.
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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)
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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-
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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. - "