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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1941.
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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been revoked.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
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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
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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.
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