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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1941.
NO. 229.
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Kelly's
Comment
From Washington
Coast Japanese
Form Problem
Yule Furlough
Plan Upset
Army Expansion
Meant New Camps
, Br John W. Kelly.
Washington, D. C, Dec. 15.
With every shipyard, aircraft
factory, water system and public
utility plant in the northwest
under guard from possible sabot
age; with Japanese prohibited
from slipping into British Co
lumbia or from one state to an
other, the war department and
the treasury have taken prelimi
nary steps to curb enemy activi
ties. There is no Japanese prob
lem in any section of the United
States, except along the Pacific
coast; the Nipponese in Chicago,
New York, Philadelphia and else
where are insignificant in num
bers and readily located. But
California, Oregon and Washing
ton have a population of many
thousands of the little brown
men who have never been popu
lar with their white neighbors.
What to do with the Japanese
on the Pacific coast has been
puzzling federal officials. The
nationals of the mikado are
headed for concentration camps.
Another group is a headache.
These are the American-born of
Japanese parentage, and they are
as completely citizens as are
those whose ancestry is British,
Irish, German .Swedish or Rus
sian. No statistics are available
in the national capital for Wash
ington or Oregon, but in Cali
fornia the statement is made that
142,000 of these Japanese-Americans
are registered voters.
Gravely debated by congressmen
is whether these native-born Japanese-Americans
are loyal to the
United States. Societies of the
native-born have telegraphed
President Roosevelt assuring him
of their full support in the war
against the land of their fathers
and similar word has been ca
bled from Honolulu, but mem
bers of congress, especially those
from the west coast, are reluct
ant to accept these protestations
without a grain of salt.
Law requiring registration of
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Radio Highlights
(Time is Pacific Standard)
Greater significance than ever
la being attached to tonight's
special broadcasts marking the
ISOth anniversary of the ratifi
cation of the bill of rights. High
light of the schedule is a one
hour program in which Presi
dent Roosevelt is to speak at 7,
which will be carried by all net
works. Forty-five minutes will
be devoted to Norman Corwin's
drama, "We Hold These Truths,"
with the cast to include Lionel
Barrymore, Walter Huston, Ed
ward' G. Robinson, Bob Burns
and others.
After the president speaks,
Leopold Stokowski will lead the
NBC symphony in 'The Star
Spangled Banner."
In addition, these speakers, all
discussing the bill of rights in
the light of current develop
ments, have been scheduled:
MBS 5:15. Sen. C. Wayland
Brooks of Illinois.
NBC-blue 6, Rep. Sol Bloom
of New York.
MBS 6:15, Sen. Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana.
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUKI stEPORTERS
Mary Lou Mann and Ann
Scripter getting caught in the
rain and bribing a friend for a
ride with chocolata covered car
mels the bribe work In J.
Marjorie Kelly betas trailed
over town by a Ions distance
telephone call.
Roy Lee remarking" 4 would
be nice to be streamline) so one
could eat desserts with Whipped
cream with no fear of weighty
after effects. r
DEFENSE SERVICES
'NOT ON ALERT IS
Battleship Arizona, Five
Other Warcraft Lost
2,729 Dead To Probe.
Washington, Dec. 15. AP)
Secretary of the Navy Knox re
ported today the battleship Ari
zona and five other warships
were lost in Sunday's Japanese
air raid on the Pearl Harbor
naval base in Hawaii.
He said 91 officers and 2,638
enlisted men were known dead.
Known Japanese losses, Knox
said, included 3 submarines and
41 aircraft.
After reporting to President
Roosevelt on his return from a
hurried five-day round trip to
survey the effect of the raid at
first hand, the naval secretary
told a press conference that
aside from the Arizona, ships de
stroyed included the old target
ship Utah, 3 destroyers the Cas-
sin, Downes, and Shaw and
also the mine layer Oglala.
Damaged vessels Included the
old battleship Oklahoma, which
capsized, but can be repaired.
Fleet at Sea
"The entire balance of the Pa
cific fleet with its aircraft car
riers, its heavy cruisers, its light
cruisers, its destroyers and sub
marines are uninjured and are
all at sea seeking contact with
the enemy," Knox 'said.
Quickly he told a questioner
that the fleet included battle
ships as well.
"The Japanese failed," Knox
said, in their purpose "to knock
out the United States before the
war began."
Knox said flatly that the
"United States services were not
on the alert against the surprise
attack."
A formal investigation, he
said, would be Instituted by
President Roosevelt immedi
ately. In the meantime, he said,
there had been no changes in
command.
Tiny Subs Attack
Taking part in the Japanese
attack, Knox revealed, were two
man submarines.
Of the three submersibles
known to have been lost, he said,
one was normal size, one small.
and the third, which was cap
tured, was also a small one.
Aside from those killed, 20
officers and 636 men were listed
as wounded.
The ratio of dead was heavy.
Knox explained, because some
ships rolled over.
Fifth Column Busy
"I think the most effective
fifth column work of the entire
war was done in Hawaii, with
the possible exception of Nor
way," Knox said.
Responding to reporters' ques
tions, Knox said:
He believed between 150 to
300 planes took part in the
attack too many to come from
a single aircraft carrier.
The attacks apparently were
made only by single-engined
planes and apparently none was
land-based.
As far as known, none was
flown by Germans, and no new
weapons of any kind made their
appearance.
Knox declined to say whether
the navy had known of the
existence of the two-man sub
marines.
Dry docks escaped damage
he said, as did all oil storage
and other important base facil
ities. Lucky Hit Scored
The secretary said the Ari
zona went down from a "lucky
hit."
(The Arizona was built In
the New York navy yard and
launched June 19, 1915, a 32,-600-ton
ship of the Pennsylvania
class. Its normal .complement
was 1,358 officers and men. It
carried, according to Jane's
fighting ships, twelve 14-inch
guns, twelve 5-inch guns and
eight 5-inch anti-aircraft weap
ons, as well as three aircraft
It cost 87,425,000.
(The Oklahoma was another
of the older battleships, launched
March 23, 1914, at the yards of
the New York Shipbuilding com
pany. It had displacement of
29,000 tons, and a normal com
plement of 1,301. It carried ten
14-inch guns, twelve 9-inch
jcosuaued on re r.nj.
Assembly Lines Rush Combat Planes
Assembly linn such as these at a Curtis-Wright plant at Buffalo, N. Y are rushing
fast, hard-hitting pursuit planes for the war effort, Two of the company's plants now oper
ate a total of 13 asssembly lines and are near peak production.
SOLDIER HELD IN
OF LOS A: WOMAN
1 Los Angeles, Dee. 15. (AP)-
A 19-year-old army private who
fired when a motorist ignored his
command to halt was in Jail on
a suspicion of murder booking '
today as the army issued an ap
peal for cooperation with senti
nels and patrols.
The army gave Private Eugene
I. Tuttle of Divide, Mont., into
the custody of the sheriff last
night after Mrs. Adele Brandel,
52, socially prominent Los Ange
les woman, was shot to death
near the municipal airport.
Sheriff's Inspector Walter
Hunter said Tuttle, of the 65th
field artillery, told him a motor
cycle officer asked several sol
diers to help him strip blue cov
erings from automobile head
lights. When the automobile bearing
Mrs. Brandel and her husband,
Dr. Harry M. Brandel, failed to
stop at Tuttle's command, said
Hunter, the youth fired. "I
thought I fired into the air," the
soldier was quoted as saying.
After last week's initial air
raid alert, many motorists in
stalled blue coverings on their
automobile lights in the mis
taken belief they would be per
mitted to drive during blackouts
in that manner.
The fatality follows two other
Instances of gunfire involving
soldier guards.
Two army sentries guarding
the Southern Pacific railroad
tunnel, where five railroadmen
perished in disaster Nov. 19,
were fired on twice in daylight
Sunday by an unseen assailant.
Saturday night there was a
mysterious attack upon soldiers
guarding the Montalva bridge
over the Santa Clara river near
Oxnard.
STILL HOLD OUT
Washington, Dec. 15. (AP
A brief war department com
munique today omitted mention
of Hawaii and the United States
Pacific coast for the first time
in several days. .
Old Glory still flew over the
tiny outposts on Wake and Mid
way islands, where a handful of
marines kept up the amazing re
sistance which has covered them
with glory.
Guam's fate was not officially
known, but the presumption was
that the island, girdled by forti
fied enemy bases, had been cap
tured. An all-out Japanese offensive
was hammering at the gates of
Hongkong and the Japanese also
were striking down the Malay
peninsula toward Singapore, and
a major battle appeared In pro -
gress in the Jungle north of the first of three such NLRB elec
great British base, I tlons this week
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Roosevelt Booer
Given $200 Fine
Chicago, Dec. 15. (IP)
Edward A. Loss, Jr., 23, of
suburban Oak Park, who
booed a sound movie of Pre
sident Roosevelt in a news
reel theatre, was fined $200,
the maximum, on a disorderly
conduct charge In municipal
court today.
He told the Judge "I didn't
know what I was doing."
He said he had been turned
down by both the navy and
marine corps because of his
eyes but will go into service
gladly if drafted.
British Acknowledge
Japs Gaining Ground
In Northern Malaya
Singapore, Dec. 15. (IP) A
British communique acknowl
edged tonight that the Japanese
have gained ground In the Ke
dah area of northern Malaya
despite heavy losses.
The announcement said that
heavy fighting continued In
south Kedah, on the west side of
the Malay peninsula, and that
the situation in the difficult
Jungle country was "confused."
Some fighting was going on
the east side of the peninsula In
Kelantan also, the communique
said.
The Japanese were using arm
ored troops in their southern
push.
London, Dec. 15. (IP) A Bri
tish source announced today that
British troops were withdraw
ing from Kowloon, a part of
the British crown colony of
Hongkong which Is on the Chi
nese mainland, to the island of
Hongkong.
The withdrawal Is still In pro
gress and "progressing accord
ing to plan," he said.
Special Session Is
Aim In California
Sacramento, Dec. 15. (IP)
Governor Olson announced de
finitely today he will call a war
time special session of the Cali
fornia legislature, probably be
fore Christmas, to consider de
fense matters.
WILLKIE GETS DETAILS
OF HONOLULU DAMAGE
Washington, Dec. 15. (IP)
Wendell L. Willkie received
from President Roosevelt today
detailed picture of the damage
done by the Japanese In Hawaii
and asserted afterward that he
"felt much better" because he
found no basis for rumors that
the damage was so serious as to
Impair America's ability to de
feat Japan.
Willkie and the man who beat
him at the polls in 1940 confer
red for more than an hour over
a Whit House luncheon.
Portland. Dec. 15. (V-Wes
tern Union Telegraph company
production employes voted to-
! day on labor representation, the
i
AMERICAN FLIERS
BLAST INVADERS
OFF PHILIPPINES
MamWDec. 15. (IP) United
States army bombers, resisting
I Japanese attempts to reinforce
troops landed at Legaspl. on the
southeastern tip of Luzon Island
250 miles from Manila, heavily
I damaged two Japanese trans
ports yesterday, U. S. army
headquarters reported today.
Japanese air raiders, mean
while, returned to the attack on
Luzon, sweeping over the Man
ila area about noon (8 p.m. PST
Sunday) and dropping bombs
which a brief communique said
fell in the vicinity of Nichols
field.
The communique, Issued at 4
p. m., (midnight PST), said that
enemy activities throughout the
day were confined entirely to
the air.
Four Japanese fighter planes
were shot down during yester
day's action off Legaspi, a com
munique declared.
The picture evoked by these
succeeding announcements, cou
pled with reports of successes
achieved by Netherlands sub
marines off Malaya, was one of
heavy Japanese losses.
The Dutch announced yester
day from Batavla that their sub
marines, previously reported to
have sunk four Japanese trans
ports in the Gulf of Slam, also
had sunk a Japanese tanker and
a freighter In the same area.
The situation in general in the
Philippines, which Lieut. Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur's head
quarters said Sunday was "well
in hand both on the ground and
in the air, was described offic
ially this morning as unchanged.
Japan's Aggression and Perfidy
Disgusting Record Says F. D. R.
Washington, Dec. 15. (ZD-
President . Roosevelt told cong
ress today how Japan's course
of aggression in the Pacific was
climaxed by an attack on the
United States at the very time
she was voicing a desire for
peace, and declared that "there
is the record for all history to
read In amazement. In sorrow,
In horror and In disgust!"
"We are now at war," the
president said. "We are fighting
in self defense. We are fighting
in defense of our national ex
istence, of our right to be se
cure, of our right to enjoy the
blessings of peace.
"We are fighting in defense
of principles ot law and order,
and Justice, against an effort of
unprecedented ferocity to over
throw those principles and to
Impose upon humanity a regime
of ruthless domination by un
restricted and arbitrary force."
The chief executive's message
was chronology ot American
i dim ljuuiiidi wc
Bring Heavy Loss
L EXPANSION
GETS QUICK OKEH
E
Type of Ships Left to Dis
cretion of President and
Navy No Battleships.
Washington. Dec. 15. (IP)
A draft expansion bill call
ing for registration of all men
from 18 to 64 Inclusive, and
making those from 21 to 44.
Inclusive, subject to military
service was approved today
by the house military commit
tee. Washington, Dec. 15. (IP)
Authorization for an expansion
of the United States two-ocean
navy was approved quickly to
day by the house naval affairs
committee after the size of the
contemplated increase was re
duced from 900,000 tons to 150,
000 tons at the request of the
navy.
The measure left the type of
ships to be constructed to the
discretion of the president and
the navy department, but Chair
man Vinson (D., Ga.) said that
it would Include no battleships.
He hastened to add, however,
that "this does not mean that
we are abandoning ,lhe idea of
battlesttips, but 1C takes fangtor
to build them."
War Power Coming
The senate Judiciary commit
tee Informally approved a bill
giving President Roosevelt ex
traordinary war-time powers
and Chairman Van Nuya CD.,
Ind.) said he expected a formal
unanimous vote of approval
later in the day. He said he
would ask the senate to pass
it tomorrow.
Van Nuys aald that Attorney
General Biddle had assured the
committee that a provision glV'
lng the president control over
communications would not In
volve any domestic censorship
of newspapers, radio stations or
other communications.
Also reenacted would be pro
visions of the 1917 "trading
with the enemy" act, giving the
president wide control over
commercial transactions.
Legislation to change draft
age limits was also ready for
swift congressional actions.
Charles Redding
Sworn As Judge
Portland, Dec. 15. (AP)
Charles W. Redding, 37, Port
land attorney, was sworn In by
Presiding Circuit Judge James
W. Crawford today as Judge of
Multnomah county circuit court,
department No. 6.
Judge Redding was appointed
to the office by Governor
Sprague to succeed the late
Judge James P. Stapleton, who
died recently.
and Japanese negotiations and
ot history prior to Japan's on
slaught In the Pacific eight days
ago.
Supporting his summary with
documents snd correspondence,
Mr. Roosevelt asserted that the
"barbaric aggression of Japan in
Manchuria," ten years sgo set
the example and pattern for the
course of conquest pursued by
the axis powers.
Through the years which
followed," he said, "Germany,
Italy and Japan reached an un
derstanding to time their acts
of aggression to their common
advantage and to bring about
the ultimate enslavement ot the
rest of the world."
He disclosed that several for
mulas were offered and discuss
ed In negotiations by which
United States hoped to achieve
an understanding with Japan for
achieving permanent peace In
the Pacific. But the Japanese
government, ha said, continued
War Bulletins HEIGHT TRANSPORTS
Washington, Dee. 15. )
The navy announced today a
Norwegian motor ship was
sunk while approaching the
Hawaiian islands.
Dover, England, Dec. 15
(AP) German long-range guns
on the coast of France pound
ed away for three hours today
In the longest and heaviest
bombardment of B r 1 1 a 1 n'a
southeast coast In several
weeks. Most of the shells
landed In the Dover area.
London, Dec 15. (AP)
Tha destruction of two large
Axis supply and transport
ships and the sinking or dam
aging of half a dosen smaller
vessels by submarines In the
Mediterranean was reported
by the admiralty today, and
Informed quarters said the ac
tion Indicated desperate axis
efforts to rush reinforcements
to Africa without regard to
losses.
REDS IN EFFORT
TO PURGE SOIL
(By the Associated Press)
. The. Russian army was report
ed today pressing an offensive
for the extermination of all Ger
man armies on nussian sou.
Pravda, communist party organ
In Moscow, said the soviet troops
already had destroyed "an en
tire generation of nazis."
The red army's general offen
sive, northwest of Moscow, was
concentrated on an effort to re
store the main Moscow-Leningrad
connection through Klin.
The communist organ Pravda
said the Russians had recaptured
Solnetschnogorskl, 31 miles
northwest of Moscow and east
of Klin, having taken 42 com
munities and 75 German tanks
in a single day.
The Tikhvln-Volkhov railway,
southeast ot Leningrad, has
been cleared of the enemy, Prav
da said.
As the Russians took tha of
fensive after reporting the suc
cessful defense of Moscow, Len
ingrad and the Caucasus, they
claimed Adolf Hitler had lost,
since the Invasion began June
22, 6,000,000 men, mora than
15.000 tanks, 13,000 planes and
19,000 cannon.
German forces in the southern
Russian port ot Taganrog, 40
miles west of Rostov, now are
surrounded, the Russians de
clared. Hlllsboro, Ore., Dec.
An automobile killed Joseph
A. Dvsack, 65, Portland pedes
trian, near Camp Manning on
the Wolf creek highway shortly
after midnight today.
upon Its course ot war and con
quest.
Japan's real reply to the um
mate effort to preserve peace,
made by the war lords and evi
dently formulated many days
before, the president said, "took
the form of the attack which
had already been made without
warning upon our territories at
various points In the Pacific.
For the record of history, he
noted that tha actual air and
submarine attack In tha Hawal-
ian Islands this wss tha first
disclosure that undersea craft
craft had attacked the Islands
alone with planes began at
1:20 p. m., Washington time, on
Sunday. December 7.
At 2:20 p. m., the Japanese
ambassador here delivered to
Secretary of State Hull, he said,
message which said that es
tablishment of peace In the Pa
cific and the world had been
"the cherished desire" ot the
'Japanese emperor.
nuairio
for Japs
SENT TO BOTTOM
Five Other Jap Transports
Reported Damaged Jap
ane'se Officials Worried-
By the Associated Press
Japanese officials took wor
ried cognizance today of an al
lied aerial and submarine counter-offensive
which has taken a
toll ot uncounted thousands of
Japanese troops enroute to Ori
ental battlegrounds.
A Joint army-navy communi
que warned the Japanese people
today "against the lurking dan
ger of enemy submarines" off
Japan's island coasts and urged
them to "prepare for a protract
ed war wherein hostile subma
rines and aircraft bombing will
play a role."
Thus far, between them, the
United States air force and tha
Dutch submarine fleet, operating
over and under the China sea,
have sunk eight troop-laden ves
sels headed for Philippine and
Malayan landings, along with
two supply ships, while the air
force la credited with damaging
five additional transports.
Formosa Alarmed
Formosa, Japanese island off
the southeast China coast, was
alarmed Saturday night when 12
planes, apparently on reconnals- 4
sance, were sighted off Wako.
Tha Japanese statement indi
cated that the war on tha sea
and in tha air was drawing
closer to the Island empire.
The struggle In the Philippines
was resolved today Into a con
test for air supremacy while tha
British acknowledged that that
Japanese had gained ground in
the Kedah area of northern Ma
laya where "confused" warfare)
has taken root in tha Jungle fast
nesses. ALL INVITED TO
PATRIOTIC MEET
Everyone is Invited to attend
tha "Bill of Rights" program In
tha Holly theater at 7:30 tonight.
The program is being given hero
ss part of a national observance-
of the 150th anniversary of tha
adoption of tha bill of rights
which guarantees fundamental
liberties and freedom to the)
American people.
Tha program follows;
Music High School Band.
Presentation ot Colors Boy
Scouts.
Pledge of Allegiance Boy
Scouts,
"Star Spangled Banner"
Band.
Songs High School Quar
tette. Prayer Tha Rev. It W. Colt
man. "God Bless America" Audi
ence. Address N I el R. Allan,
Grants Pass.
Prayer Father Francis W.
Black. t
NAN HONEYMAN TO BE
) CUSTOMS COLLECTOR
Washington, Dee. 15 HP)
President Roosevelt nominated
Nsn Wood Honeyman, Portland,
former congresswoman from
Oregon, today to be customs col
lector tor district 29, with head
quarters at Portland.
j METZOER INJURED
Robert Metzger, SO, of Jack
sonville suffered compound
fracture of tha lower right leg,
several broken ribs. Internal in
juries and shock In an accident
this afternoon at the county poor
farm where he was working. It
was reported that a concrete
mixer being unloaded from a
truck rolled on him. Ho was
taken to Community hospital.