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TRIBUNE
Report and forecast "stacked
at" by order of military
authorities as flrtnc possibly
TllJ Informal Ion to the enemy.
FuU Associated Ptms
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Thirty-sixth Year
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Frem Washington
Northwst Found
Lacking Defense
Honolulu Debacle
Dispel Trust
Aluminum Plants
May Be Changed
, Br John W. Kelly
Washington. D. C, Dec. 17.
In the past few dayi observers
in the national capital have
come to the conclusion that the
Pacific northwest is open to an
attack by Japanese. By "ob
aervers" is meant senators and
representatives, army and navy
officers and a certain percent
age of the administration and
the various agencies, such as
Office of Production Manage
ment, SPAB and Reconstruction
Finance corporation.
It so happens that the Pa
cific coast from northern Cali
fornia to the straits of Juan de
Fuca is defenseless. Puget sound
Is partly protected, but for hun
dreds of miles there is no naval
defense. Section bases are being
established by the navy at Coos
bay and on the Washington
coast, but these are neither
completed nor equipped. Tongue
Point Is building houses, com
pleting its camouflaged maga
zines, but repeated application
to head men in Washington has
failed to have a single amphib
ian assigned to Tongue Point
for scouting and patrol pur
poses. Millions of dollars have, been
appropriate for defense of the
northwest but the process is in
the making; some contracts
have been awarded; In other
Instances only the ground for a
site has been optioned. War
with Japan came a year too
soon. December. 1942, would
have found the coast defense
in good shape.
o o o
THE debacle at Honolulu has
shocked the national capital and
shaken the long held belief that
the navy could prevent any en-
amy from breaking through and
attacking the northwest. There
is a very lively Impression that
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18 TO 64 DRAFT
Washington, Dec. 17.
The house approved tentatively
today the registration of all men
from 18 to 64, inclusive, then
began sharp debate on whether
the minimum age for active
military service should be 19,
20, or 21.
The military committee rec
ommended the 21 figure while
Rep Andrews (R., N. Y.) pro
posed that the service age
brackets be put at 19 to 44, in
elusive, in conformity with re
auests of President Roosevelt
and the war depa.tment.
Employers have paid more
than $16,000,000 in wage resti
tution to about 800,000 em
ployees working under tha Fed'
eral Wage and Hour Law.
Radio Highlights
(Tune Is Pacific standard)
Tonight: CBS 7:15 John T.
Tlynn on the International asso
ciation. Thursday: CBS 1 Christmas
carols; 3:30 discussion "What
we are fighting for"; NBC-Blue
8:13 a. m. What can I do?
SIDE GLANCES
BY
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Margaret Gardner venturing
out in the rain, and although
well soaked by the downpour
looking perky in a white turban.
Maury Spatz, George Field
and George Robertson climbing
to the top of a hotel to spot
enemy raiders, their friends
fearing they would topple off in
their teal
EXECUTIVE U RGESH
AGREEMENT FOR
War To Go On For Long
Time- Labor-Industry
Conference Is Advised.
Washington, Dec. 17. yP)
President Roosevelt told a la
bor-Industry conference to curb
wartime strikes today that the
war was "going to go on for a
long time" and appealed for
unanimous agreement by Friday
night on a plan to speed up
defense production without
hindrance.
'I want speed," the chief ex
ecutive said in an informal ad
dress to the conferees.
"Speed now is of the essence,
just as much in turning out
things in plants as it Is among
the fighting forces. It is Just as
necessary to turn out equip
ment as it is to drill an army,
or build up a navy after the
equipment is turned out. Speed
is very, very 'much ol the es
sence.
No Early Mop-Up
Warning against any feeling
that we could "mop up and
bring a quick end to the war
in the Pacific, the president
told the group there was "a
very real danger to the world"
because of what he called a
new philisophy which would
end for all time private indus
try and trade unionism.
"It is a real danger," ne as
serted, "we haven't won the
war by a long shot It is going
to go on for a long time."
William H. Davis, chairman
of the defense mediation board
and named by the president as
moderator for today's confer
ence, told the group that it
would not get down to business
until after tha White House
meeting.
Some government quarters
forecast creation of a new med
iation agency, patterned on the
1918 war labor Doara.
AIRPORT VISITS
Anyone having business
transact will be admitted
Medford municipal airport with
out a oass but everyone musi
identify himself and state the
nature of his business at the
gate, it was announced today by
Thomas A. Culbertson, Jr., air
port superintendent.
All employes at the airport
and others who regularly have
business at the airport must
have passes to get in, Mr. Cul
bertson said. Tne passes are is
sued at his office at the airport.
Everyone without a pass must
stop at the gate, give his name
and address and state the nature
of his business to the guard on
duty, Mr. Culbertson said. This
Information Is relayed over an
inter-communications system to
Mr. Culbertson's office whence
permission to enter the airport
It Issued.
There Is no Interference with
persons who have business with
any of the offices at the airport,
Mr. Culbertson emphasised,
pointing out, for instance, that
United Air Lines passengers
come and go upon Identifying
themselves at the gate.
The airport is under 24-hour
guard and Mr. Culbertson asked
the cooperation of the public in
abiding by the simple precau
tionary rules thus far adopted.
He discouraged motoring to the
airport out of idle curiosity.
Installment Houses
Ordered to Register
Washington, Dec. 17. UP)
The federal reserve board today
warned all businessmen giving
installment credit to customers
to register by January 1.
Failure to file a registration
will make it Illegal for them to
NOW RESTRICTED;
GUARDS ON DUTY
extend installment credit after 1 43 miles southwest ot nong
that date. The filing may beikonx.
made at the nearest federal re- WhlW London quarters ap
aerve bank or branch. 'peared gloomy over tha pros
Two-Man Japanese Submarine Captured
eta.
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Tha United Statoe hae
submarine, one that didn't
picture, taken after the tiny vessel's capture, was made
bv the navr department. The submarines. 41 feet lona and
wide, apparently operate
to have a cruising range of
were destroyed at Pearl
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U. S. Submarines Score Against Japs
By the Associated Press '
Japan took alarm today at the reported presence of 20 U. S.
submarines operating In Japanese waters even as Admiral
Thomas C. Hart, commander of the Asiatic fleet, announced
that American submarines had gone into action for the first
time in the 11-day-old conflict and scored success in two out of
three attacks.
U. S. army headquarters In
Manila reported also that at
least 26 Japanese planes had
been destroyed yesterday at VI
gan, 200 miles northwest pf Ma
nila, where the Japanese still
maintained one of their three
toeholds on Luzon island.
Admiral Hart's cryptical state
ment did not identify the vic
tims of the American counter
blows whether Japanese war
ships or merchant craft or the
locale of the sinkings.
It seemed plausible, however,
that the United States was
tightening a blockade around
the Mikado's densely-populated
island empire.
Meanwhile, British headquar
ters in Singapore acknowledged
that Japanese troops had landed
In Sarawak on the northwest
coast of Borneo, British-protected
domain of the famous "White
Rajah", Sir Charles Vyner
Brooke, within 300 miles bomb
ing range of Singapore Itself
end 600 miles from Manila.
A Batavia communique said
a Dutch bomber scored a direct
hit on a Japanese destroyer cov
ering hostile landing operations
at Miri, Sarawak, close to the
frontier between Sarawak and
British North Borneo. The south
em part of Borneo is Dutch.
With the Japanese throwing
their land, sea and air forces in
to a spreading offensive around
the south China sea, military ex
perts said Tokyo war strategy
evidently aimed at a quick
knockout of British and Dutch
strongholds, seizure of vital re
sources and control of the sea
lanes by which reinforcements
could reach the allies.
In London, a government
spokesman told parliament that
all steps had now been taken to
coordinate British. United States
and allied war plans In accord
with President Roosevelt's call
for "world-scale strategy", but
that Britain has not yet asked
Russia to declare war on Japan.
Japanese warships, bombers
and land batteries also were re
ported violently pounding siege
bound Hongkong. Britain's sec
ond-greatest stronghold in the
Far East, and a Reuters dispatch
said Japanese forces had seized
i the Portuguese island of Macao,
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In euatod fhle teo.min Jinineu
get away from Pearl Harbor.
from a mother ship. They are reportec t
200 miles. Two other Japanese
Harbor. (AP Wlrephoto by airmail
pect of Hongkong holding out,
latest dispatches from the island
Itself reported that Americans
there were "all right" and that
the colony's fortifications were
"strong enough to resist all at
tempts at Invasion."
TIRE TlDfBAN
TO BE EXTENDED
Washington. Dec. 17 TAV
Price Administrator Leon
Henderson announced today
that government rationing of
automobile tires would begin
January 4.
Washington, Dec. 17. (P)
OPM officials said today that
the prohibition on manufacture
and sale of automobile tires and
tubes, except to fill top defense
orders, would be extended until
the first week In January.
The original order, effective
December 11, was to hava ex
pired December 22 and was de
scribed as preliminary to direct
rationing of tires to civilian
consumers.
Although no reason was of
ficially announced for the exten
sion of the ban, it was reported
that OPM had not yet decided
on details of tha rationing sys
tem.
OIL CONSERVATION PLAN
APPROVED IN CALIFORNIA
Washington. Dec. 17. UP
Secretary of Interior Ickes, the
defense petroleum coordinator,
today approved a far-reaching
oil conservation program for
California which he said was de
signed to assure an adequate
fuel supply for American and
allied forces fighting Japan in
the Pacific.
The program was drawn by
the Industry production commit
tee for district 3 (California,
Washington, Nevada and Ari
zona) at Ickes' request.
AMBASSADOR TO CUBA
Washington, Dec. 17. OP
Spruille Braden, now ambassa
dor to Colombia, was nomina
ted by President Roosevelt to
day to be ambassador to Cuba.
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Six Months' Pay and
Pension for Life to
Pearl Harbor Widows
Washington, Dee. 17. VP)
Widows ot the fighting men who
died at Pearl Harbor will receive-
six months' pay and a
pension for life.
Awaiting signature on the
president's desk is a measure to
increase tha pensions from the
peacetime range of $22-356
monthly to wartime levels of
330 to $83.
Uncle Sam's guarantees that
wife and children will be cared
for If death should strike are
matched by other government
protection which shields soldiers
and sailors, while they live and
serve the country, from finan
cial worry.
This is embodied In the
soldiers' and sailors' civil relief
act of last year which suspends
enforcement of civil liabilities
-and that includes taxes. In
stallment payments and insur
ance premiums In certain cases
to permit service men "to de
vote their entire energy to the
defense needs of the nation.''
Ban fr'ranelero Bolter
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Wage Earners
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Billion Dollar Monthly Goal .Announced
Chicago, Dec. 17. JP) The
nation's 33 million wage earn
ers must buy as many defense
savings bonds as they possibly
can afford, Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau
said today.
In a prepared address before
a national meeting of state de
fense bond sales chairmen end
administrators, Morgenthau
said that "token contributions"
from the wage earners would
not be enough and added:
'1 mean a real Investment,
the very limit that each person
can afford without actually
taking food and other necessi
ties from himself and family."
Intensification of the defense
bond sales Is necessary, Mor
genthau said, If the government
Is to succeed In financing the
expanding costs of the war
War Bulletins llCITY TO PURCHASE
London. Dec. 17 (P
Large scale Red army maneu
vers are In progress near the
Japanese Manchukuoan bor
der in Siberia, the Chungking
radio reported tonight in quo
ting a broadcast from the Sov
iet station at Khabarvosk.
London, Dec. 17. OTV
British bombers attacked the
German naval base of Wll
helmshaven In force last night
and blasted at Bremen and
other towns in northwest Ger
many, the air ministry an
nounced today. Large fires
were left burning among the
Wllhelmshaven docks, the
announcement said.
Buenos Aires, Dec. 17. W)
A German plot to halt the
export of Bolivian tin and
lead to the United States by
sabotaging railways running
to the Chilean ports of Arica
and Antofagasta has been
thwarted, according to infor
mation received here today.
It alio was learned that the
Bolivian government had im
posed a rigid censorship but
whether this was connected
with the reported nasi plot
was not clear.
Execntive Board for
Red Cross Campaign
Named by B.E. Harder
B. E. Harder, chairman of the
Jackson county chapter Red
Cross war relief drive, announc
ed today members of the execu
tive committee for the county.
The drive is to raise $12,000 in
Jackson county for the fund,
part of which will be retained
locally for war relief work.
Members of service clubs
hava been appointed to the
executive committee and ap
pointments thus far Include: E.
C. Corn, Rotary club; Ed Mann,
Lions club; Ernie Kofoed, Ki
wanls club; Ted Norby, Rotary
club, Ashland, and Ralph Bil
lings, Ashland. The members
met at 8 p. m. today at the
Chamber ot Commerce for an
organization session.
MEN FLOCK TO NAVY
AFTER HAWAII BLOW
Washington, Dec. 17. W)
Enlistment of 11,303 men In the
navy In tha eight days immedi
ately following the Japanese at
tack on Hawaii was announced
by the navy today as "indicating
the response of the nation's man
power to the threat against the
nation."
Must Go Limit
"while avoiding the Immense
and dangerous evils of Infla
tion." We are In reality fighting
two wars one, the great strug
gle on all the continents and
all the oceans, and the other
the war against an Insidious
enemy here at home. That en
emy is Inflation. . . .
"The most effective course
for us, as we have known from
the very beginning, has been to
enlist current Income and to di
vert excess spending, to per
suade our people to set aside
a part of their pay every pay
day in defense bonds and
stamps." . r
Farmers as well as wage
earners are expected to make
regular purchases of bonds In
the drive to make "every pay
day bond day."
House-to-house canvasses and
I voluntary payroll deductions
ADDITIONAL LAND
T USE
One Ten-Acre Parcel To Be
Bought Two Other Par
cels To Be Optioned.
The city council last night
voted to purchase two addition
al pieces of land for use In con
nection with the expansion and
improvement of the municipal
airport.
The council sanctioned pur
chase of ten acres of tha land
owned by Miss Eleanor F.
Maule for $2,500, the deal also
Including a one year option and
a two year option on two more
ten-acre pieces of the land at the
same price. It was explained by
J. C. Collins, chairman of the
airport committee, that the land
purchased was needed to ac
commodate taxi strips, the
property now jutting out into
the field south of the hangar.
The council also voted to buy
6.87 acres of the J. H. and Vlda
T. Carkin property on Bear
creek for $1,742.50. It was ex
plained that this property will
be used as a gravel pit and will
serve as a sponsor's contribution
under WPA projects by furnish
ing gravel for airport Improve
ment. The land adjoins the city'
present nine-acre gravel pit.
Lot Sale Approved
Tha council approved sale of
a lot on Earhart street near
Riverside avenue to Mr. and
Mrs. Ted R. Flurry for tha ap
praised price of $150. - -
- A letter written to tha council
by Charles W. Tower, secretary
of the Building and Construction
Trades Council, was read Into
the record. It follows:
I take pleasure in advising
you that at the regular meeting
of tha Medford Building Trades
Council held tha evening of
Wednesday, December 10 our
council, by unanimous consent,
pledged the full cooperation of
organized labor in this vicinity
to you and all other officials of
the city of Medford. Wa stand
ready to assist in every way
within our ability and will do
our utmost to see that this
pledge is kept by members of
organized labor."
t Thanks From Bean
In a letter to tha council,
Capt. Theron W. Bean, con
structing quartermaster, ex
pressed the army's thanks for
use of the armory during the
pre-planning of tha proposed
Medford cantonment and voiced
the army's appreciation of cour
tesies extended to the construct
ing quartermaster's office while
it was operated here.
Absent were Councllmen
Larry Schade, who has been
sick, and M. N. Hogan. Council
man Collins arrived near the
end of the meeting.
PLANE CRASHES
Spokane, Dec. 17. W Mai
Gen. Millard F. Harmon, com
manding general of the second
air force, said today "an air
plane returning to Cleger field
for an emergency landing crasn
ed." No details were given.
on Bonds;
will form the basis of nation
wide drive to get everyone Into
the habit ot buying defense sav
lngs bonds.
A sales goal of $1,000,000,000
a month was announced yester
day at a conference of represen
tative of the 48 states and treas
ury officials.
Through the canvasses all
citizens will be asked to sign
printed pledges to buy bonds.
Under the payroll plan wage
earners will authorize their em
ployers to make regular deduc
tions from their pay to pur
chase bonds.
The billton-e-month goal for
sale of all types ot bonds was
set by Harold N. Graves, as
sistant to the secretary of the
treasury. He set the goal tor
sale of small bonds, with an Is
sue price of $18.73 and matur
ity value of $23, at $400,000,
000 month.
ALL NOT WELL IN
i, AFRICA
Russia Proclaims Series of
Smashing Victories; Mos
cow Leningrad Relinked,
By tha Associated Press
Russia proclaimed a series of
smashing new victories in the
war with Germany today, and
for the first time Adolf Hitler's
high command wryly acknowl
edged that tha German Invasion
armies were "shortening their
lines" along the Soviet front
and were hard-pressed on the
defensive in north Africa.
The extent of the German re
treat along the whole 1,200
mile Russian battleline was high
lighted by a British broadcast
reporting that all communica
tions between Moscow and long-
sieged Leningrad had been re
established.
Nasls In Rout
Soviet dispatches said tha red
armies were pushing a vast
counter-offensive from Lenin
grad to the Black sea, capturing
hundreds ot villages and towns
In one sector after another, and
that in soma instances tha Ger
mans were running without a
fight.
In perhaps the gloomiest Nazi
communique of the entire war
giving tha German people at
least an Inkling that tha tide ot
conquest has been thrown Into
reverse the high command re
ported:
"In tha course of transition
from aggressive operations to
stationary warfare for tha win
ter months, necessary Improve
ments involving tha shortening
of lines now are being system
atically undertaken on various
sectors of tha eastern front."
But Soviet dispatches pictured
tha Germans In headlong flight,
by no means effecting a strate
gic withdrawal, with a Moscow
communique declaring:
The fleeing enemy Is being
pursued and annihilated by our
troops.
Red army soldiers who recap
tured strategic Kalinin, 93 miles
northwest of Moscow, said they
found that German troops had
built four-tiered plank beds in
houses throughout tha Kalinin
zona "evidently Intending to
spend tha winter there."
British Progress
On tha north African front.
British imperial headquarters
reported that heavy British pres
sure was being maintained on
the left flank of Hitler's battered
desert armies and that new pro
gress was registered despite
fierce sandstorms during tha
past 24 hours.
Tha German high commana
gave this terse summary of the
fighting, which clearly appeared
to be turning into an axis ae
bacle: .
"A heavy defensls battle
west ot Tobruk continued yes
terday. Strong enemy attacks
near Bardia were repulsed with
considerable . losses to the en
emy." Premier Mussolini's high
command said particularly
heavy fighting raged all day
yesterday In tha Gazala sector.
40 miles west ot Tobruk. with
the British continually throwing
fresh forces Into the battle.
STORM REVEALED
San Francisco, Dee. 17. (D
Now It can be told. Northern
California was battered by the
winter's worst storm the first
of the week, but until today It
was a military secret.
Since naval officers and
weather bureau observers, who
guard the weather from Japan
ese spies, agree that 24-hour-old
weather wouldn't do the enemy
any good. It's safe to report that
a nine-Inch rainfall in three days
filled the Sacramento river and
its tributaries to their banks.
Highway crews worked
throughout sections of the
northern part of the state to
clear blocked roads,