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MEDFORn, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1941.
NO. 228.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Dec. 13. It is
said the small Investor were
the ones who got fluttery and
rrw-jjssjfKw sold their
'F Tt! stocks, sending
f ,"WJ the market In
to a tailspin at
the outset of
the war. The
larger and
wiser Investors
(banks and in
surance com
panies) held
on. They well
knew that 11
this country is
Paul Ms lion
going to win this war and who
doubts it the investments they
had, were just as good as any
they could get.
It seems, however, a great
many people, upset by the shock
of war cannot see the woods for
looking at certain falling or
leaning trees.
Certainly, taxes are going
higher. Surely, some lines of
business are suffering. Autos,
for instance, may not maintain
their recent profits during a
change-over to defense arma
ments. But their earnings will
be restored later when they get
going in their new line, and af
ter the war they will have a big
ger world market than they ever
dreamed of in the past. (So also
with all our business in some
degree). Public utilities may
suffer from costs rising against
fixed rate limitations. Little
business will be squeezed.
.
OUT look at the woods as a
whole. Taxes are not going
to be raised to the point of con-
(Continued on Page Twelve)
, RAILROADSSEEK
BOOST IN RATES
Washington, Dec. 13.-
The nation's railroads asked
permission today to increase
freight and passenger rates to
bring In an estimated $356,956,
00 Oannually, telling the Inter
state Commerce commission ad
ditional revenue was needed to
suiting from recent wage in
sulting fro mrecent wage in
creases and other causes.
The carriers asked the com
mission to act "promptly" and
Chairman Joseph B. Eastman
told reporters the" commission
would meet Monday to consider
procedure. He declined, how
ever, to predict how long it
might be before the commission
made its decision, but other in
formed sources called three to
four months a reasonable guess,
ASKS f.r:s help
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 13.
(P) James McElveen, 18, who
has never grown a tooth, asked
President Roosevelt today for
help In Joining the marines.
A Postal Telegraph messen
ger, McElveen wired:
"I would like very much to
Join the U. S. marines, but have
never grown any teeth. I am
in good condition in every other
way, but they will not let me
in. I can eat as good as any
body with a good set of teeth.
Please wire back collect if you
can help me."
Cincinnati, Dec. 13
When Dr. Carroll De Couroy
made plans for a new home last
summer, he decided ne mignt
as well put a bomb shelter in
while he was at it.
So while the rest of the house
went up. workmen pouted con
crete walls for the she'ter ad
Joining. It needed a good strong
roof, of steel-reinforced con
crete. But th Office of Produc
tion Management had other uses
for the materials and now Dr.
De Couroy has a roofless bomb
(belter.
BOMB SHELTER IS
ONLY SHORT ROOF
MANILA SUFFERS
WORST BOMBINGS;
FEAR GUAM LOST
Capture No Surprise Wake
And Midway Resist
Battle Continues.
Manila. Sunday, Dec. 14. (IP)
The Philippine army wiped out
Japanese forces which naa
sained a foothold on western
Luzon island Saturday and
American fliers smashed hard
at a Japanese bombing attack
on Manila the war's worst on
the Philippine capital in which
at least 75 persons were killed
and 300 wounded.
A check-up today showed
that a three-mile residential
area near Nichols airfield was
wrecked, although the Ameri
can air fighters and strong
anti-aircraft defenses forced the
Japanese attackers, flying in
tight formation, to undershoot
and overshoot their target.
From the mountains of north
central Luzon a civilian eye
witness returned to Manila with
the first story of the landing
of parachute troops, declaring
that Filipino soldiers wiped out
hundreds of Japanese parachut
ists and land troops on Thursday
in hand-to-hand fighting which
lasted several hours.
An army spokesman said at
7:55 a. m. today (6:55 p. m. EST
Saturday) that operations were
proceeding against the Japanese
at each of their three Luzon
landing points in the region of
Aparri, in the north, Viagan,
in the northwest, and Legaspl
in the southeast.
"There is no Chang In the
situation," he added.
The night passed without In
cident throughout the archipel
ago, he said, except for a bomb-
less air raid alarm here from
5:20 a. m. to 6:15 a. m.
Ground troops were credited
officially with having disposed
of the Japanese force which had
landed in the Lingayen area
some 110 miles north of Manila,
within striking distance of the
capital. Lingayen is a port at
the head of Lingayen gulf, the
most sheltered spot on the west
side of Luzon with the excep
tion of Manila bay itself.
Washington, Dec. 13. (IP)
The United States probably has
lost the Island of Guam to
invading Japanese, it was i
nounced today.
The sombre announcement
from the navy department that
Guam, 1,600 miles southeast of
Tokyo, was out of communica
tion with the department and
probably captured came as no
surprise.
The president had said earlier
In the week that the public must
be prepared for the fall of the
little, 30-mile long island, which
lay virtually without fortifica
tion in the midst of Japanese
mandated Islands east of the
Philippines.
The terse communique about
the fate of the Island said:
"The navy department an
nounced that it is unable to
communicate with Guam either
by radio or cable. The capture
of the island is probable. A
small force of less than 400
naval personel and 155 marines
were stationed in Guam. Ac
cording to the last reports from
Guam, the island had been
bombed repeatedly and Jap
anese troops had landed at sev
eral points on the island.
"Wake and Midway continue
to resist.
"The above is based on re
ports until 9 a. m. today."
It was feared that a large
number of civilian construction
workers may have been cap
ture: on the island. They had
been engaged In building sea
plane facilities for which con
gress had granted funds.
FIRST LADY LANDS
Portland, Dec. 13. (Pi Ore-
son i civilian defense prepara
tions are far ahead of those of
most states, Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt told leaders of city
and state defense activities here
yesterday.
Washington, Dec. 13
The navy department an
nounced today that all Its re
cruiting stations would remain
open 24 hours a day, seven days
n.-lr Irt Ir-i-nmmfvlnti thne
seeking to Join th navy.
The War in
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SEA 3 I MILES
I BABUYAN IS.
CAMP I iWGANv "YUGUEGARAO
I fZ w&a lingayen r
PAC,F,C
'BAlQii Iffl OCEAN
Y..fc CLARK FIELD
MANiLAVN'CHOLirTlELD
'he sinking of a Ka.UOO-tou Japanese wannip on tna coatt of
Luson (U. and the landing oi parachutiita at llagan, south of
Aparri, war reported. Th army in the Philippine said that
mopping up operation repelled Japan force at Lingayen (2).
CAMP BUILDING
DATE DUE
SOON
Publication Friday of the
declaration by Lieut -Col. Harold
D. Stetson, assistant construct
ing quartermaster of the ninth
corps area, that approval had
been received from Washington
for construction of three major
cantonments in the west Marys-
ville, Cal., and Medford and Cor
vallis. Ore. brought forth a
flood of conflicting rumors here.
Criticism of the story became
so numerous Saturday that the
Mail Tribune asked the Associ
ated Press to check with Lieut
Col. Stetson in San Francisco
as to whether he had been cor
rectly quoted. The officer, the
Associated Press later informed
the Mail Tribune, not only veri
fied the dispatch but added that
although date for start of work
had not yet been set. It was
expected early this week. He
also pointed out that congress
has to appropriate money for the
construction before activation of
the work. Supplying of the
money was considered a fore
gone conclusion in view of swift
action by congress on appropri
ations needed to provide the
sinews of war.
The Mail Tribune throughout
the cantonment effort has tried
to be strictly factual in report
ing prospects of obtaining the
giant project In line with this
policy, Friday's story was pub
lished as a pronouncement from
a high officer in the construct
ing quartermaster's office. The
dispatch was given prominence
by other newspapers in the area
affected, the Corvallis Times
Gazette publishing an extra, as
the news came too late for the
regular Friday edition of that
newspaper.
OTHER IN ERROR
Chehalls, Wash., Dec. 13.
IIP) State Patrolman George
Cobb, racing 80 miles an hour
through blackout, was unable
to catch a speeding car. He
radioed the next patrol officer
to nab the speeder.
As he was giving the license
number, patrolman Ted Bishop
broke in:
"That's me you ar chasing.
Lay off."
Bishop was leading an air
I corn officer.
called back to
I duty In California.
the Islands
THOMAS CHARGES
PEARL HARBOR iiAD
NO AIR DETECTOR
Washington, Dec. 13. (AP)
Publication of testinmony tak
er, by the senate appropriations
committee on a $10,572,000,000
military funds bill disclosed to
day a charge by Senator Thomas
(D-Okla.) that there was no air
plane detector service in oper
ation at Honolulu when Japan
ese bombers attacked Pearl Har
bor last Sunday.
Recalling an inspection trip he
made as chairman of a subcom
mittee handling war department
appropriations, Thomas said that
a year ago when he visited Hon
olulu he found "practically no
detector service there.
"The results of Sunday con
firmed my failure to find them,
the committee record quoted
Thomas as declaring. "It wasn't
there Sunday if so, it is obvious
that it was not in successful op
eration. I am not a military man,
but it doesn't take a military
man to see some things that are
vitally wrong."
Thomas put into the record
letter he had written Harry
Woodring, then secretary of war,
on January 13, 1940, in which he
complained that there was in
adequate detector service not
only at Honolulu but at the Pan
ama Canal.
NAVAL BATTLE OFF
HAVANA, HINTED
Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Dec.
14. VP) A score of distant ex
plosions which rattled windows
along th seafront shortly after
midnight stirred belief here
early today that a naval en
gagement might be In progress
somewhere off the coast
Waterfront observers said the
sound of the explosions cam
from far out at sea and some
said they saw flashes In the sky
offshore.
BULLETIN
Ashland. Ore., Dec. 13.-
Southern Oregon College of Edu
cation chalked up it second
straight basketball win over
Eastern Oregon college tonight,
62 to 48.
Center Bob Mulder paced th
victor with 30 points.
MOSCOW REPORT
COMPLETE DEFEai
OF NAZI HORDES
Germans Flee Caucasus As
British Win In Libya
Red Workers Rejoice.
(By Associated Press)
London, Dec. 13. News of
Hitler's defeat north and south
of Moscow set off numerous
demonstrations of rejoicing in
the Red capital today as Russia's
winter army continued to pound
at the heels of retreating Ger
mans and loosed a new drive
to hurl back looping Nazi lines
which long had threatened the
complete encirclement of Len
ingrad. (By Associated Press)
'From the Russian battlefront,
the tidings were good. While
Moscow Joyfully announced the
complete defeat of a German
army of 750,000 in the wide de
fensive arc before Moscow,
London sources predicted dis
aster for Adolf Hitler's whole
onslaught on the Soviets.
But perhaps the most signi
ficant news at least from a
psychological standpoint was
the admission from the Japanese
Premier Hidekl Tojo that Nip
pon must be prepared for a long
war, despite initial successes.
Japan is considered the least
well-equipped et all the powers
for long war.
In Moscow well-earned work
ers' celebrations were touched
off by news that their govern-
vvnaiucicu ma vxermans
J. defeated on all major fronts.
" wu Buuicctcmis re
ports that red forces had cao-
tured 30 towns and villages in
the Yelets area 210 miles south
of 'Moscow, re-occupied Efremov
and Livny on the southern end
of the Moscow front below Tula,
and captured eight villages by
nerce counter attacks around
Kalinin. They also announced
the Germans were thrown out
of Volkhovo, 80 miles southeast
of Leningrad.
In the fight to sav the Cau
casus, the Russians were ham
mering away at retreating nazis
trying to reform a line along
the Mius river. Soviet reports
said in several places reds had
crossed the river and threatened
the newly-erected German pill
boxes with flank attacks.
On the Libyan desert the war
went almost equally badly for
the Germans. British reports
indicated General Erwln Rom
mel's forces had been seriously
cut up, with isolated groups de
fending at spots along the
Egyptian border while the main
fighting swept far to the west.
The main British force, with
New Zealanders in the van, was
reported advancing to the west
of the beleagured axis strong
hold of Gazala, under British at
tack. LAST COULEE DAM
Grand Coulee, Wash., Dec. 13
JP) The "Big Rock" is built.
The last bucket of concrete
was poured at Grand Coulee
dam yesterday, completing the
physical features of the most
massive man-made structure in
the world, the Bureau of Re
clamation reported today.
The last soupy mixtur of
cement, sand and gravel was
added to the Columbia river bar
rier just six years and two weeks
after former Governor Clarence
D. Martin dumped th first
bucket of concrete November
28, 1933.
And the last bucket was tipped
almost directly above the site of
that ceremony, now burled un
der more than 500 feet of man
made rock.
FARMERS PLEDGE AID
Pullman, Dec. 13 VP) Sev
enty thousand Washington farm
ers have pledged themselves to
do their utmost to Increase the
production of vital foodstuffs in
1942, Chairman Henry B. Ram
sey of th state defense board,
U. S. Department of Agriculture,
said today.
jLIDARITY pact
BY ALLIES HELD
EARLYJPROSPECT
No Separate Peace Pledge
Seen By London Sources
Aid To Malaya.
(By Associated Press)
London, Sunday, Dec. 14
The United States, British, Rus
sia, China and The Netherlands
are expected to sign a joint
declaration of solidarity against
the axis with a solemn pledge
of no separate peace, high Lon
don Quarters said today.
Apparently Inspired report
of the prospective pact brought
this comment from- an autnon
tatlve informant:
"It Is very Intelligent specu
lation something which Is cer
tain to come sooner or later,
But it's bound to take consider
able time; the democracies at
present are pretty busy fighting
battles.
Coordination of military, po
litical and economic activities
already are under discussion, it
was understood with plans for
allocation of military forces and
supplies where they can best be
used.
One major move In the direc
tion of military coordination
will be to concentrate on at
taining air supremacy In the
fight to master the axis.
Britain announced that strong
RAF reinforcements ar being
sent Immediately to Malaya In
the fight with Japan, and to the
middle east In the Mediterra
nean front with Germany and
Italy.
Strategists here, surveying the
first attack of the Pacific war.
pointed out that Japan's exten
sive use of aircraft to attack
the defenders' Pacific fleets and
to covet her widespread land
and sea offensive heavily un
derscored the lessons already
learned about the Importance
of coordinating operations with
the air arm in modern war.
The obvious counter to early
Japanese successes, It was point
ed out. Is to blanket Japan's
air force.
AT FAIR WRECKED
New York, Dec. 13 (AP)
Demolition of th Japanese
World's Fair pavilion, the last of
foreign buildings to escape the
wreckers, was started by the
park department without men
tioning the war. Japanese offic
ials had asked the city to allow
the pavilion to stand "as a per
manent structure symbolizing
good will between th two na
tions." Washington, Dec. 13. (AP)
The Hungarian government In
formed the United States today
It considered a state of war to
exist between Hungary and th
United States.
County Defense Council
Instructions for Public
Th Jackson County Council of Defense lane another f a
aerlea. of statement la (ire the poblle official Inetraetlons retarding
arloiis phases af elTlllao defense. Tbe eeanetl eoiseete tbat thee all
statements be clipped out af tk snper an sate far rater retoreaet
an (or eomparteoa with en? ekaafee that snlsht b an la th
rrsalallone from lima to time, lay ehanice. tka eeanrll eel, win ke
telerre by somber t the eorrespondlns etatement W which It applies.
No. 4 AIR RAIDS
The following precaution should b observed during air
raids from the time of th air raid alarm until th all-clear sig
nal has been given.
"If an air raid occur during precautionary blackout per
iods, th usual procedure during precautionary blackout will
be observed after the all-clear signal following th air raid.
Should th air raid occur after dusk and prior to precautionary
blackout periods, th usual precautionary blackout rule should
be observed following the air raid.
"1. During an air raid every person should remain Indoors.
"2. All lights In residences and buildings must b turned out
"3.A11 vehicular traffic must ceaa except emergency fir,
police and first-aid cars. Automobiles should proceed to curb
jrvxUnguljhjJht
War Bulletins
Midland. Tex.. Lee. 13
(AP) Secretary Knox. n
rout to Washington after
quick trip to Honolulu, arrived
In a fast navy plan tonight
for an overnight stop.
H declined comment en th
war.
Manila. P. I.. Sunday. Dm.
14 AP Hundreds of Jap
anese parachutists and land
troops war wiped out In sev
eral hours of hand-to-hand
fighting with Filipino soldiers
In th mountains of north cen
tral Luson Island on Thursday,
an eyewitness told reporters
today.
New York. Dee. 13 (AP)
Th British radio reported
that Rangoon. Burma capital
and port terminus of th Bur
ma road Into China, had its
first air zald today but said
that 27 attacking Japan
plan! fled upon counter
ing RAF interceptors.
Th BBC said Tenassarln, In
southern Burma, was twice at
tacked but that casualties and
damage war slight. Th
broadcast was heard her by
NBC.
Washington. Dec 13. (AP)
Navy department announced
today that a fishing vassal of
U. S. registry operating off th
wett coast of Costa Rica had
been boarded and found to
hT eeven Japan in th
crew. They wer taken Into
custody.
Th rtuel was said ta hev
been loaded with ten thousand
gallons of diesel oil.
Chungking, Chins. Dee. 13.
(AP) Chines plan and
troop moved today against
th rear of th Japan lore
attacking Hongkong In what
promised to b a full-seal of
fensive aimed at recapturing
occupied Chinas territory and
relieving th pressure on th
British.
Tokyo, Sunday, Dec. 14.
(official radio received by AP)
Th navy section of th Jap
anese Imperial headquarters
announced today that Jap
anese destroyer sank an Amer
ican submarine off th Philip
pine Islands yesterday.
Th army section of Im
perial headquarters announced
army plan yesterday carried
out mass raids en bases la
Burma and Malaya and In
flicted sever damage.
FOR SPUDS ASKED
Salt Lake City, Dec. 13. VP)
Representatives of western po
tato growers today endorsed in
general provisions of a proposed
federal measure which would
set up marketing quotas.
Fred Northrup of Washington,
D. C, assistant agricultural ad
justment administrator, presid
ed at the meeting which was
the third of five to be held
throughout the United States.
Participants Included growers
from Washington, California,
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colo
rado and Utah.
PORTLAND'S NO. 1 CITIZEN
Portland, Dec. 13 VP) Mrs.
Thomas D. Honeyman, member
of the stat public welfare com
mission and long-tlm social
worker, was named Portland's
first citizen of 1941 by th Port
land Realty board today.
RUSS VIRTUALLY
STANDS WITH U.S.
LITVINOFF SAYS
Japan Held 'Common En
emy' Congress Cheered
By Words No Rest For
Hitler.
Washington. Dec. 13 Pl .
Russia virtually took stand
with th United States In th
war with Japan today when
Maxim Litvlnoff, Soviet ambas
sador, declared Nippon was "a
common enemy" belonging to
the same bunch of axis gang.
sters."
But, In formal statement on
Russia's position and In answer
to questions at a press confer
ence, the ambassador carefully
avoided making at this Urn any
commitment concerning actual
Soviet military operations In th
far east
And, when asked whether
Russia would permit allied
forces to fight on Russian ter
ritory, or permit th United
States to us air bases In Si
berla for attacks against Japan,
he replied:
That the Soviet Union "would
welcome help on any front In.
the common cause."
That h could mak no an
swer In public concerning th
question about th air bases.
Lltvinoffs statement, despite
its reservations, was received
enthusiastically in congress.
Chairman Connally (D Tex.)
of th senate foreign relations
committee hailed it as an indi
cation of activ Soviet support
for th American war effort
and proposed that th United.
State ask for us of Siberian
base from which It bombers
and warships could "smother"
Japan.
Senator Wheeler (D, Mont)
said b regarded th ambassa
dor's statement as offering
great hop of th possibility of
obtaining these bases.
"C o m p 1 t understanding
exists, or will be arrived at"
Jtvlnoff said, "in decision
concerning th sector In which
tt great power concentrate
their strength, with th decla
ims to b mads solely in th
interest of th common caus."
That declaration was Inter
prvted generally a meaning
that Russia felt her area teat
contribution to th defeat of thai
axis sould be mad by main
taining an offensive on th east
ern iront with th possibility
of wir with Japan in th P.
ciflc depending on eventuali
ties.
We ar all In th sam boat"
th ambassador asserted, "and
must crash, or triumph together
over th greatest menac oi our
time and we will triumph!"
Painting word pictur of
Adolf Hitler a th great en
emy of mankind, h emphasized
tnat Hitler and nazi Germany,
were th powers that must b
destroyed.
"Hitler's defeat on th st
ern front," Litvlnoff promised,
"will seal hi fat forever. Ha
is th chief culprit of th pres
ent war and th destruction of
Hitler will mean th end of
them all."
Declaring that Russia, after
suffering initial defeats, had
struck back powerfully ana
was already taking th offen
sive against German forces, th
ambassador declared that "w
hav no intention of allowing
Hitler to hibernate."
Th Soviet" h said, "will
smash at Hitler until his mon
strous war machine ha ben
destroyed. W feel no on can
do this for us or without us and
w will fight to th and."
TRAFFIClOlAI ;
Moscow, Dec 13. (AP) A
group of English and American
newspaper correspondents. In
cluding Henry C. Cassldy, chiaf
of th Associated Press Moscow
bureau, paid a flying visit to th
capital today from Kuibyshev,
alternate Russian capital.
Traffic 1 normal and fw
buildings hav been damaged,
th correspondents said. -