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1-ull U Weett- Weather ZJT"""0" Forecast : Shower tn colder tonight. Partly cloudy Thursday Temperature ' Hlgnett Yc-terday 87 Lowest this Morning 49 precipitation past 14 hrs 1.71 An Easy Way Km; articles job no Ion far ate BUfht prove nrj helpful t ethers. MaJte a tour over the premiers and pttk Bp the artlrtts dlemrdtd, adiertlie them and set 'he cub. An mtj way to help other. Medford Tribune Full Associated Preee United Pint Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941. NO. 219. ii 1111 ii u w ui rr n n s n n rnOv nrn3.0v- n nrscrTJn nnrri ni q nrc.n7 zrrx . I 1 4 t 1 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Dec. 3. The house crushed the price bill amendment ior the licensing of business on the fejjf'M'iiMiMjm-KKW1! ground It would Impose a Hitleresque govern m e n t control. It was d e f e a ted so loudly by voice, the lead ers did not seek a roll call conf irmati o n. But no one, In the debate, said anything Paul Mallon about the 250,000 to federal licensing of 300,000 businesses starting today without any re cent authority of congress. Regulation W, it is called. As Imposed by the federal reserve board, it provides that any firm in this country selling on, the Installment plan or making, loans, must register and receive blanket license. No certificates are to be issued, but if any firm violates the rules of the board, it will be notified its license has been revoked. It will be out of the installment business, if its officers do not go to jail and pay fine for their waywardness from official regulation. The legal authority for this federal licensing is an executive order Issued by Mr, Roosevelt last August 8. The relatively re mote legal spot where his attor ney general discovered a legal peg upon which to hand such a regulation is "the trading with the enemy act," passed 21 years ago by congress for other pur poses of another war (Oct, 6, 1917.) SOME question will no doubt arise as to whether you can put a man in Jail by executive order, without specific authority of congress. Regulation W will no doubt get into the courts. But meanwhile all automobile, fur niture, refrigerator, radio, jew elry and what-not concerns sell ing anything on the installment plan (excepting real estate and houses) will feel the weight of executive decree. At the top of the list will be department stores, finance companies and auto dealers. The 15,000 banks (Continued on Page Six) Tacoma Students Remain at Home Tacoma, Dec. 3. (AP) This city of more than 100,000 popu lation was without schooling for Its 17,000 pupils again today be cause of a strike called yester day by maintenance men, and of ficials said there were no de velopments to indicate an early settlement. , No conferences or negotiations were scheduled on the union's de mands for a 20 per cent pay raise with a minimum wage of $125 a month. One report said a mediator from the federal de partment of labor might be called in. Radio Highlights By Associated Press (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight: The war, 5:55 CBS. 7:45 CBS, 8 NBC-Red, 9 NBC ) Blue. Thursday, the war, 7 MBS, 10:45 NBC, 12:55 p. m., CBS, MBS; 1:45 CBS, 3:25 NBC-Red, 3:45 NBC-Blue. NBC-Red, 245, National Asso ciation of Manufacturers; CBS, 12 30, Jobs After Defense; NBC Blue, 8:45 a. m.. What Can I Do? SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Deputy Marshal Paul Hanlin being rushed with official work at a time when he'd like to stop n dwell upon Christmas. iO Coy not even getting a m ot his luscious birthday cake met with a misfortune be reaching the surprise birth M Pny. VA FLEEING GERMANS I Boy' 12 b HerJ ;dUKN UK AbAHUUN I ... ft nrnnpn niiurii i lir-iw MIIM IMHKK MUCH FniHPMFNT Irt-XSM 'rn .7. Frozen Bodies of Invaders Found In Donets Basin Desert War Tempo Slows By the Associated Press R u s s i a's Ukraine armies. pressing triumphant "counter tlitzkrieg," were reported to day to have advanced into the suburbs of Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov-on-Don, and driven the- Germans out of 40 villages, while on the blizzard swept Moscow front, other Sov iet troops sent the Germans reeling back 12 to 24 miles. A Soviet radio broadcast an nounced that "bloody battles were fought yesterday eveninj in the suburbs of Taganrog," and Soviet dispatches said the nazis were Itl headlong flight. A Reuteff' (British news agency) dispatch. ! said the Ger mans had fallen back 38 miles in three days in the retreat from Rostov. Bura Equipment A Soviet broadcast said the Germans were putting up sign posts pointing "to Mariupol" and were fleeing so precipitately that they were burning and abandoning tanks, trucks, carts and other equipment. "All attempts to halt the ad vance of our troops have fail ed," the Russians said. "Yes terday and today our units on the southern front continued in pursuit of the enemy, who is fleeing in disorder." On the central front, the nazis were apparently suffering further reverses. Quoting latest advices from Moscow, the British radio said the Russians had sent the panzer forces of Col. Gen. Heinz Gud- erian spinning in reverse. A communique from Adolf H 1 1 1 e r's field headquarters claimed fresh gains in violent tank and infantry battles before Moscow, but the Russians said the Germans had been thrown back into two key sectors and generally painted a brightening picture of. the two-month-old struggle for the capital. Find Froien Nails In the Ukraine, Soviet dis patches said Red armies counter marching back through the Donets river industrial ' basin were finding the frozen bodies of Germans wrapped in flimsy blankets, huddled in roadside ditches, and that to save them selves from the bitter cold the nazis were fighting with sui cidal fury to hold villages where they could find warmth and shelter. A London broadcast said Hit ler had rushed Field Marshal Walther Von Brauchitsch, commander-in-chief of the entire German army, to the Ukraine in an attempt to "stop the rout at all cost." Soviet front-line dispatches said the battered German forces under Field Marshal Ewald Von Klclst had lost more than 21, 000 men killed and wounded in the running battle along the shores of the Sea of Avoz. On the north African front, British imperial headquarters said the desert conflict contin ued to rage over a wide area but that the tempo of battle had decreased "for the time be ing." Acknowledging that Italian troops hold Bardia, Mediterran ean port 10 miles west of the World Federation to Result From War, Thinks Henry Ford Detroit, Dec. 3. Henry Ford said in an Interview here today that out of the war In Europe ill come a federatlpn of the world In which "all barriers of nationality will be levelled and i.. unniu nf the world live in common peace and prosperity." It will be a federation in which politics will be definitely dis carded; one In which a universal currency, universal economy and a universal market will pre vail, he asserted. i Unless such a federation u es .A-'rA-fx-1 n Mturunu fira .,,.p,. runun buaku aa if m Clarence Wald, IS. cashed into a burning house at Joplln. Mo., to rescue his nephew, Clyde Leon Ward, six months old, and got out with the baby just before the roof caved In. The baby was burned badly enough to require medical at tention. ORDER FOR ARMY San Francisco, Dec. 3. (fll Members of the constructing quartermaster's corps trekked back to zone headquarters today from three prospective army ramps for triangular divisions In Oregon and Washington. Their engineering survey work completed, the men were called back from Marysvllle, Calif.; Medford, -and Albany, Ore., to await future expansion of the army. The cantonments will be developed, army offic ers said, only after congress de cides to increase the army and appropriates money for their de velopment. Zone offices said no money has been spent for land or equip ment in any of the three places. But everything is in readiness (or immediate development, when and if the word comes. Full p'ans have been drawn, the exact sites chosen and even the titles to the land checked. (See story on page 5) BRITAIN TO EXACT WORK FROM WAR PRISONERS London, - Dec. 3. (Pi Lord Moyne, colonial secretary, today told the house of lords that the government was arranging to put 28,000 Italian war prison ers to work on British farms Egyptian-Libyan frontier, the British declared they still held Ed Duda at the southeast term inal of the 10-mile corridor to Tobruk while axis forces occu pied nearby Rezegh and Blr El Hamed. tablished, the 78-year-old indus Uialist added, the present war will be only a dress rehearsal for another and more terrible con flict. "The United States Is a practl car example of federation. We federated because it was the only way to save ourselves from ruin. Europe Is finding she can not live unfederated today," Ford said. "II the United States puts its Influence behind It, the same type of agreement can be arrived at In Europe," Strong Labor Contr , Bill Is 4 DURING 24 HOURS 2.71 Inches Recorded At Weather Bureau No Ex tensive Damage Reported Record precipitation for a 24 hour period fell in Medford and vicinity yesterday according to weather bureau reports with 2.71 inches recorded for the 24 hour period beginning yesterday at 4:30 a. m. With the .40 inches recorded for the previous day the total rainfall 3.11 inches, for Dec. 1 and 2 equalled the aver age rainfall usually recorded for December. Greatest previous rainfall re corded for a 24-hour period at the weather bureau was 2.32 inches for Oct. 31, 1924. Record At Talent Prof. F. C. Reimer of the Talent experiment station said today that a record rain fell at the station for the 24-hour, period beginning at 8 p. m. Dec. 1. Total precipitation measured 2.39 Inches as compared to the previous record of 2.38 on Oct. 31, 1924. Cooler weather last night brought snow in the high hills, and caused streams to drop, fol lowing the general two-day downpour. There was no extens ive damage, though rises were reported in streams and irriga tion and roadside ditches over flowed. The ' Big Applegate river flowed bankfull and residents of the area said the river was higher yesterday than any time last winter. Eagle Point Wet ' Autolsts said they had never seen so much water on the Cra ter Lake highway. In Eagle Point a slough overflowed and backed the water into a few yards and streets. The Oasis tavern on the highway was en tirely surrounded by water. Crater Lake national park headquarters here were unable to establish short-wave radio communication with the winter staff at the lake this morning for latest weather data but it was reported by radio at 4 p. m. yesterday that a new 24-hour rainfall record had been estab lished. In the 24 hours ended at 4 p. m. yesterday, 4.97 Inches of rain fell, more than half the average precipitation of 0 inches for the entire month of Decem ber. Previous record for 24-hour precipitation was established April 13, 1937, with 4.19 inches. Portland, Dec. 3. Raln swollen rivers threatened minor floods today in several sections of Oregon. The Santlam river was ex pected to go 3V4 feet over flood stage of 13 feet at Jefferson, where it flows into the Willam ette. The Necanlcum river was lap ping the top of banks In Sea side. Streets were Inundated In some sections of Eugene, de- luied by 3.18 inches of rain in 24 hours, but only a slow and moderate rise in the Willamette river was expected. NEWS5AUT0TAX Washington, Dec. The house appropriations com mittee threw a monkey wrench into the elaborate machinery proposed by the treasury depart ment for collection of the new $5 annual automobile um tax. If the house permits the mon key wrench to tay there, it will make the auto tax Inoperative. The committee withheld the 84.502.554 the treasury said the bureau of Internal revenue re quired to collect an estimated $160,000,000 in taxes with the comment It was "not satisfied with the manner and cost of col lection proposed Turkey Included On U. S. List For Lease-Lend Help By the Associated Press . Turkey, Britain's non-belligerent ally at the gates to the middle east, was brought under the U. S. lease-lend act today by President Roosevelt in a move instantly interpret ed as intended to strengthen her against German pressure and to put her solidly in the anti-axis front. How much aid would thus be extended was not stated. SERVICE STATIONS AND LAUNDRY ARE BURGLED IN NOT The Walter Severln service station at 1303 North Riverside avenue, the Standard Oil station at 144 South Central avenue and the, Medford Domestic Laundry were burglarized last night, just a day after the recent armed stickups of two other filling sta tions and a pair of local dairies had been cleared up by the guilty plea made in circuit court by Thomas Milton Smith, 22. Police said $4 was stolen out of a money box at the Severln station, along with five quarts of oi! and 10 gallons of gasoline, that an unspecified amount of money was taken from the cash drawer at the Standard station and that only a record book waa stolen at the laundry. Entrance to the Severln estab lishment was effected through a window on the north side of the station. The burglar ransacked the desk in the office, scattering papers all over the room then pried open the locked money box. An unsuccessful attempt was first made to enter the building by breaking down the back door with the front bumper of an au tomobile, police said. Severin told police he was sleeping in a room in the rear of the radio shop about 30 feet from the service station, but heard nothing. A west side window provided entrance to the Standard station, police said. The cash drawer inside the station was pried open, the monejeYemoved, and the box was found lying on the hoist in the lubrication room, police said. George Goodman, operator of the station, told police evidently nothing else was missing. Police said they found several good fingerprints around the windows of both service stations. Entrance to the laundry was effected through a back window near the roof of the building, and although the Coca Cola vending machine was tampered with it was not opened and noth ing else was taken. The record book was found this morning in front ot 414 South Riverside avenue, by E. K. Huitt of 422 South Riverside avenua. Spokane Air Depot To Cosl 20 Million Ready for Bid Soon Spokane, Dec. 8. (Jf) Bids for the $20,000,000 second air supply and repair depot to be built west of Spokane will be called for within a week or two and opened by January I, the Chronicle said today It had learned from the army engin eers office. Assistant Chamber of Com merce Secretary Don Fry added he had been advised that the depot on opening would em ploye 3,000 civilians, 75 army officers and 250 enlisted mar ried men, for which housing accommodations would be nec essary. It is understood. Fry added, that 2.000 to 3.000 enlisted single men would be housed in barracks at the depot. - Rome, Dec. 3. AJPy The Al banian cabinet resigned today and Senator Mustafa Merlika Kruja was named as new premier. Ministerial Assn. Urges Complete Elimination Of Boards As Gambling. The city council last night adopted an ordinance imposing a license fee on punch boards. The Medford Ministerial associ ation filed an objection to pas sage of the prdlnance and called upon the council "to move to ward" the elimination of punch boards from the city. The ordinance becomes effec tive January 1. It provides for a license fee of $2 for each punch board operator for the calendar year or any part there of and 81.50 for each punch board licensed. "Punch board operator" is defined as any per son, firm or corporation having control over or In charge of any premises where a punch board is available for play. Must Not Gamble A section of the ordinance says: ' No permit shall be Issued for any punch board which in itself or in the operation thereof constitutes a lottery or gambling device or shall otherwise be pro hibited under laws of the State of Oregon or ordinances of the City of Medford." Another section says: 'The Is suance of r permit for any punch board shall not be deemed to be evidence of the legality thereof in any prosecution under any ordinance of of the City of Med ford relating to lottery or gamb ling cr unlawful use of any such board." The city recorder Is designat ed as the official to Issue the permits upon receipt of applica tion and payment of the requir ed license fees. The punch board permit is to be stamped on or attached to each board. Claimed Illegal On behalf of the Medford Min isterial association, of which he Is president, the Rev. R. W. Coleman filed a formal objec tion to passage of the ordinance, though he said conferences with council committees indicated the council had in mind the same aim as the association, the elimination of punch boards as far as. possible in the city. The association's formal statement, adopted at a meeting yesterday after considerable study and re search, declared that "punch hoards are Illegal and should be suppressed In our commun- (Continued on Pace n? ) City Dads Wearied by Calls Of Government for 'Surveys' City councllmen last night Indicated an Impatience with blind cooperation in every pro ject suggested by the "govern ments when the value ot the project was questionable and the objectives futile. Mayor H. S. Deuel, In his calm, suave manner, asked the councllmen for their views on the city's participation In 100 monthly expense to make and maintain a continuous inventory of housing here, explaining that the "government" wanted a monthly report showing the present status and all changes in occupancy ot houses and apartments during the month and that an office was being re established for this purpose on the same basis on which the civilian cantonment coordination committee's office was operated, Ashland, Medford and the coun ty contributing to Its upkeep, "Didn't we make a complete housing survey the past sum mer?" the mayor was asked. Yea, but now the "government" wanted continuous Inventory kept. "Who is the 'government?'" Councilman M. N. Hogan want ed to know. "Is It really the government or some minor em ploye who thinks up these ! things?" Favored Sneezy, Bashful Return to Hall; Firemen H appy Chester Merrlman of 813 North Bartlett street today restored to the fire depart ment Sneezy and Bashful, the two dwarfs taken by some one for souvenirs from the annual Firemen's Ball Thanksgiving Day. Merrlman said he found the two dwarfs, part of a set, on his porch this noon with a note attached, di recting him to return them to the firemen. He Is a volun teer fireman. A side glance In the Mail Tribune last week told how much the firemen were miss ing Sneezy and Bashful and how they'd like to have the little men back. JAPANESE MAKE By the Associated Press The Dutch East Indies mobil ized guards In her outer de fenses as Japan was reported massing powerful land, sea and air forces In southern Indo china. Observers were quick to point out that Japan, operating from Indo-Chlna bases, could strike against either Thailand or the rich Indies with their resources of rubber, tin, oil and other war needs. . Dispatches from Batavia, the Indies capital, said Holland's far east colony had placed its army and navy on a war foot ing and that troops had taken their stations In the outer de fense ' sectors presumably In Borneo, Celebes and New Gu inea, north of the Malayan arch ipelago and nearer Japan. Terming the arrival of British warships at Singapore "the last strong warning to Japan," the Indies newspaper Javabode de clared: "We hope Tokyo Is not yet too blind to understand this warning." In Tokyo, the Japanese peo ple were told that President Roosevelt had asked certain questions about "Japan's Inten tions regarding current prob lem" but the nature of the questions was not made pub lic. What Mr. Roosevelt asked Ja pan, In forthright terms, was what Japan meant by Increasing her armed forces In Indo- China. "Isn't there some alphabei!c agency to do this kind of work?" asked Larry Schada. "Yes," the mayor, still calm and suave, re plied, "but they want some one else to pay tor It." "Well," said Mr. Hogan, after being told the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce had re ceived all the information from some governmental agency, "I want to know more about this before I vote any money. I want to know who's writing to whom." "If the survey we made a short time ago Is now antiquat ed, why keep on filing reports that by the end of another month also become antiquated?" Mr. Hogan asked. It was pointed out that the housing survey was supposed to be useful In case an army can tonment or air base Is establish ed here, "We can make survey In a week," commented J. C, Collins. "It they want to build a canton ment here, they can let us know when they are ready and we'll see to It that they have a com plete picture of the housing situ ation Inside of a week." No action was taken on the calm, suave Mayor Deuel's ques tion about contributing to the housing survey expense, by House COOL-OFF PERIOD OF SIXTY DAYS IS Violence, Jurisdictional, Boy cott And Sympathy Walk outs Forbidden by Ruling. Washington, Dec. 3. (JFh The house tentatively approved today far-reaching legislation to control defense strikes chiefly through a "cooling oft period" and prohibitions against vio lence and jurisdictional, boycott and sympathy walkouts. The bill, by Rep. Smith (W., Va.) and the most drastic of three major proposals presented to the house, was adopted on a teller vote of 182 to 143. as a substitute for less drastlo measures by Rep. Vinson (D., Ga.) and Rep. Ramspeck (D Ga.). The vote was subject to confirmation later. 60-Day Cool-Off Smith's bill would compel la bor disputants to maintain the) status quo for 60 days during which the national defense med iation board would seek a set tlement of the controversy and would forbid strikes unless a majority ot the workers gave) their consent by secret ballot. It further would deny bene fits ot the Wagner labor rela tions, social security and unem ployment compensation laws to workers who violated the law -and would require unions to register with the government. 8 eiiure Erased Smith himself struck out an original provision which would have authorized the government to take over and operate a de fense plant where production was Impeded by labor dis pute. Before getting to a vote the house decided tentatively, on motion of Rep. Dies (D., Tex.), to deny benefits of the national labor relations act to unions) which chose officers who were members of the communist party, the Young Communist League or the German-American bund. Ten Uon Airports May 6a Develops, la Oregon Progrra Washington, Dec. 3 WP De velopment of 104 additional air ports was recommended to the house today by ita appropria tions committee. The cost of this expansion ot the emergency program was estimated at 857.863,300, and the committee recommended, 150,000,000 of that amount Im mediately. Except for the distribution by states, the airport locations were not disclosed in the transcript of committee hearings made public today. Although defense require ments dictated locations, the fields would not be reserved ex cluslvely for military use. The program by states In cludes: Cost of new No. ot program locations California . 83,429,102 11 Idaho .... 405,950 1 Montana... 3,783,073 Oregon .... 4,210,656 10 Washington. 4,284,869 7 KILLED IN PARIS r.rl. fWunlMi France). Dee. 3 j (P) The German command In Paris announced today mat a nfien medical Mnn officer had tK-n shot last night In the Boulevard Magenta, and 1mm ed. lately Imposed a 6:30 p. m. cur few on the entire tenth arron diasemenL The announcement said tho curfew would continue indefin itely and specified that German authorities "reserved the right to take gravtr measures" later. LAW REQUIREMENT
