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Weather Report and forecast -blacked out" by order of military authorities u siring possibly tltal Information to th enemy. Results Follow Think of reaching thouaanda at homaa with a email lee Irani ad. rrsrtlcally e-ery one read! three Ada. and conte qoently pleasing reeulta follow. If yon hare something ta sell, er trade oaa then. Tribune FORD fuU Associated Prai United Praea MEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBJ r j, 1941. NO. 232. ML DAB GfttHL Med lnirty-sixth Year News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Dn. 18 Navy Secretary Knox only hinted at what this government has dis covered about Japanese fifth eolumning when he said it was more efficient than the worm burrowing of the Nazis. A Pacific wide system of undergr o u n d c o m m u nica tions by short wave radio has been de tected as the l basis of Jap spy operations. rani Mallon Small sending sets, some especially adapted to use in cellars or ground shelters, are in daily operation over that half of the world, especially along our coast and in our island possessions. These reach only to small fishing boats offshore, but the fishermen relay the informa tion to battleships, and the re ports are then sent to Tokyo. Cases upon which our agents are working are not yet ready for disclosure, but a sample is furnished by the experiences of the Chinese in two instances known to our authorities. When the Japs seized Hainan, the Chi nese belatedly discovered that an old farmer, who spoke only Chinese and was married to a Chinese, had been radioing from a dugout cellar out on his farm, daily weather and other reports to the Japs for 20 years. His family was unaware of his activ ity. When the Jap forces steam ed in to take over Hainan, local guides met them in the darjc at remote beaches to lead them by hidden paths to places of stra tegic importance. They were ready to shoot before the Chi nese inhabitants were aware of being attacked. (Continued ot. Page Ten) DAIRYMEN SEEK DELAY IN RULE ON BOTTLE CAP Salem, Dec. 18. UP) A dele gation of dairymen asked the state board of agriculture yester day to postpone the state depart ment of agriculture's order re quiring grade A dairies which are inspected by the department to have the new sanitary cap, which covers the pouring Hp of the bottle. The board, however, has no authority in the matter, since it merely acts in an advisory ca pacity to the state director of agriculture. The board refused to express any opinion on the new cap. Dairymen speaking against the regulation said that because of the war, it would be difficult to obtain materials for the caps. The regulation goes into ef fect January 1. Dairymen pro- iMtin. it,. -Ac,i1ntlnn Included Frank Moser of Corvallis, and! D. M. Lay of fcugene. The board set Labor Day as the opening date for the 1942 state fair, the customary date. COPPER DRILL Sllverton, Ore., Dec 18. UP) The Silverton Junior Legion Auxiliary girls decided last night to hold a "copper drill" at each meeting. This consists of emptying their purses of pen nies to be used to buy defense stamps. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Arnel Butler challenging the big snow story by recalling the storm of eight or 10 years ago when 18 inches of powdered snow covered his front lawn, Eino Hemmila still In posses sion of a borrowed magazine he promised weeks ago to return without fail the next day. TALK WASHINGTON AS FOR STRATEGISTS Capitals of U. S., Britain China And Russia In Gen eral Agreement on Plan. Axis Won't Quit Berlin, Dec. 18. UP) (ANDI Agency to AP) Prop aganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels said today that Ger many, Italy and Japan are "going the whole way" in the war. Writing in the weekly Das Reich, he said the axis pow ers were forced to defend their lives and "they will do it in a manner which knows no sentimental considers tions." He called the three-power alliance a natural one and said all three were conduct ing the war in constant of fensive. London, Dec. 18. (P) Dis cussions are under way for es tablishment of a supreme allied war authority to direct high stra tegy against the axis, the author itative British press association said tonight, and some quarters here believe that Washington should be its headquarters. Informed opinion in London was divided on the desirability of Washington or London as the seat of the prospective allied grand council. Keynoting comment of Brit ish news organizations, the press association said: "In capitals of each of the four great allied powers (the United States, Britain, China and Rus sia) leaders and spokesmen have already indicated their agree ment to the general principle of a supreme authority for direc tion of the war. "Discussions which now are proceeding between service and political experts are designed to bring the necessary machinery into being." DRAFTlYSTENI L VOLUNTEER USE Washington, Dec. 18. IP) General George C. Marshall appealed to the senate today to notify all men between 19 and 44 years, inclusive, that they were liable for active mili tary service. Washington, Dec. 18. UP) Secretary Stimson announced today the war department was planning to expand the army to the greatest strength needed and would depend for the in crease entirely on the selective service system. All voluntary enlistments are to be halted as soon as "the present rush subsides," Stimson told a press conference. An immediate Increase of more than 130.000 men already has been recommended In a bill which Stimson said was on Pres ident Roosevelt's desk. Stimson announced: All reserve officers not yet called to active duty have been ordered to take physical exami nations, but he said this step did not mean they necessarily would be called out lmmedl ately. After January 1 all graduates of officer candidate schools will be ordered to duty immediately. Previously those so desiring have been awarded certificates of capacity and permitted to return to their former enlisted ranks. Commanders of the four air force interceptor commands in the United States have been charged with ordering black outs, air raid alarms, all clear charged with ordering blackouts, air raid alarms, all clear signals and silencing radio signals. Germany is reported to be using sound waves to locate schools of fishes. Axis Defeat on Two Fronts May Be Turning Point; Japanese Drive on Singapore Develops Dire Threat By the Associated Press A great, perhaps decisive turning-point marked Europe's war on two fronts today as Britain announced officially that the axis front In north Africa has been completely shattered and Russia declared that Adolf Hit ler's invasion armies were flee ing in chaos. . A Soviet broadcast reported bitter hatred flaring among the axis forces, asserting that Rus sian cavalry in the Donets basin had captured retreating German, Italian and Rumanian troops when they fell to fight ing one another. Gang Up Oa Nails The broadcast said Rumanian soldiers Joined with the Italians against the Germans. Nearly one month to the day after Britain's desert armies struck back into Libya In their second north African offensive, British middle east headquar ters announced: "Axis forces In eastern Ciren alca (Libya) are now In full re treat. . . . The enemy front has everywhere been broken. . . . Yesterday- eur troops relentless ly pursued the enemy for a dis tance of nearly 30 miles. . . ." Thus, In staccato sentences, the British command foretold the apparent beginning of the end of the African campaign, while on the Russian front, the story of axis disaster was even greater. Premier Joseph Stalin was quoted as describing the ill-clad, fleeting Germans as "resem bling the forces of Napoleon" in the bloody retreat from Mot cow In 1812. Havas (French news agency) dispatches said the German withdrawal In the Ukraine had brought the great Industrial city of Kharkov, the "Russian Pittsburgh," into the battle zone once more, and on the central front, Russian cavalrymen were reported to have chased Ger man troops to within 19 miles of Orel, 200 miles south of Mos cow. Everywhere along the 1,200 mile front from Leningrad to the southernmost Ukraine, the Germans were declared to be falling back in a retreat unpar alleled since Hitler sent his armies smashing through Bel gium, Holland and France more than 18 months ago. Scharnhorst Given Regular Bombing London, Dec. 18. (JP) The RAF bombed the German bat tleships Scharnhorst and Gneise nau in daylight today with a powerful force of its heaviest bombers, the British announced. An air ministry communique said "the ships are believed to have been hit. Husbands of Working Men Recently Married Washington, Dee, 18 UP) The government will become hard-boiled about drafting hus bands whose wives are self-supporting, the senate was told to day, as military leaders made known their view that this country must have an army much larger than 4,000,000 men. "Four million men Isn't an army today," Brig-Gen. Wade H. Halslip, assistant chief of staff for personnel, declared to the senate military committee. The army will be expanded as rapidly as equipment can be ob tained, he said, "without any set number in view." A system of allowances for the families of married men In ducted Into service was advo cated by Brig -Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. director of the select ive service system. II Mid the Results of n ' : ' zjKz; " - m t ,.J I - a ,.- .., ,,, ,i .... ,.1,.-. ,. n ,l, ill i l Biasing from Japanese bombing attacks en the army's Hlckam field near Honolulu, are B-17 bombers seen (at top) behind two motors of one of the bombers which escaped dam age. Belowi The Japanese surprise attack left (his wreckage in a. thriving business district of Honolulu. Incendiary bombs started a fire which destroyed 20 buildings. NEBRASKA VOLUNTEER GOES THE WHOLE WAY Hay Springs, Neb., Dec. 18. UP) When Harvey Benschul ter, 23,' a ranch employe, de cided his country needed his help, he went the whole way. He sold his car, horse and personal property for $500, In vested the money In defense bonds and then set out for Den ver to enlist In the cavalry. The American Medical Aaeoclatloii was founded m Philadelphia In 1S44. attitude of draft boards toward dependency and hardship cases must "inevitably" become tight er. However, about 1,000 farm boys inducted into the army will be returned to the farm this spring, he announced, add ing that Induction of many farm youths would threaten vital agricultural production. The testimony of both officers, given at a closed committee ses sion, reached the senate In printed form today. Hershey's proposed system of allowances would be modeled, be explained, on the world war practice of requiring a selectee with dependents to make an allotment from his pay to sup port his family, which the gov ernment matched with an allowance. Japanese Surprise Attack Australian Plasss Bombard Greenwich Melbourne, Australia, Dec, 18. UP) Australian planes have successfully bombed Jap anese Installations on Green wich Island, a communique an nounced tonight. . The Island Is one degree north of the equator and Is the southernmost of the Japanese mandated Caroline group In the Pacific. Wives and Face Call 1 think In (reference to) late marriages," he said, "they will not be a problem any more, be cause we are going to take them in I don't think we can do any thing else. "And I submit the congress will have to be asked to pass an allowance and allotment law discipline him, If you will so that there Is some means of sup porting that wife who may in fact become dependent upon him ..." He predicted that local boards would call fur service the hus bands of "marriages of conveni ence" whose wives earn enough to support themselves. But the allowance system will be neces sary, he added, because "these boys are going to marry, and a lot of them are not marrying to evade." AIR FORCE CHIEF IN MISSING PLANE Washington, Dee. 18. UP) The war department announced today an army plane carrying Major General Herbert A. Dar- gue, commander of the 1st air force, had been missing since December 12 on a transcontinen tal flight. There were seven other pas sengers In the plane, five of them officers and two enlisted men. Secretary of War Stimson said the ship was last reported near Palmdale, Calif., and It was be lieved that it had crashed or teen forced down in that vicin ity. Those listed as missing with Dargue weref Col. Charles W. Bundy, war department general staff. Lieut. Col. George W. Rlcker, war departrm it general staff. Major Hugh F. McCaffery, Mitchell field. New York. Captain J. G. Leavltt, March field, Calif. First Lieutenant Homer C. Burns, March field. Staff Sergeant Stephen Hoff man, March field. Private Samuel J. Van Hamm, Jr., March field. London, Dee. 18. (IP) A son was born today to the Duchess of Gloucester, consort ot King George's younger brother. This was the Gloucester's, first child. )FATE OF PENANG, STRAITS STATE, FEARED SEALED Singapore, Dee. 18. (JP) Japan s offensive by und, sea and air, smashing at many points along a vast arc from Burma and the Malay peninsula to the Jagged coast ot Dutch New Guinea, developed Its direst threat today on the road to Singapore. That threat In northwestern British Malaya seemed to have all but sealed the fate of the Island state and port ot Penang. Penang and another . Straits settlement state. Province Wei lesley have been cut off from direct connection with the rest ot Malaya by a British with drawal In Kedah province. Official concessions Indicated that all ot the 115-mile-long state of Kedah had been yielded. This meant that the Japanese were able to advance the full length ot Kedah, on the north western side of Malaya, along the coastal railway-terminating at Singapore, bastion ot British naval and air power In the far east. Within the curve of the Japa nese are of offensive lie the Philippine Islands and. to . their northwest the Important but Isolated contest for Hongkong, where Britain's chief hope was a reportedly growing Chinese offensive at the rear and on the flank of the Japanese besiegers. The latest direct word from Hongkong was that of Governor Sir Mark Young, who tele graphed London, "we are going to hold on." Manila, Decc. 18 UP) JP nese invaders have been shoved back many miles In the Vlgan area of northwestern Luzon, the United States far eastern com mand announced today. An Indefinite number of Japa nese dead and wounded were left on the field ot battle, south of Vlgan, In that action on Mon day afternoon. It was said. There was no further word on what had developed since then. Manila had its first air raid alarm In three days at 1:83 p. m.. today (11:55 p. m, Wednes day) and before the all clear came 35 minutes later Japanese bombers, preceded by a small number of fighters, flew across the city. "Enemy activity today has been confined to the air," said the afternoon U.S. communlque- The communique also an nounced amalgamation of the entire Philippine army with the United States army In the far east. . . It also was announced that Lleut.-Gen. MacArthur had giv en President Manuel Quezon a check for 810,000,000 for public relief and civilian defense. an Washington Philippines sources said the $10,000,000 came from President Roosevelt's emergency fund, having been sent to the Islands yesterday, at the same time It was announced that a similar allotment had been made to Hawaii.) pnnmiFiKiRfK lllllllll all 1 IIIUI1U I 1TII Ml I .Ml Dll I IU1 UILLIUI1 UILLP Washington, Dee. 18. (JP) President Roosevelt today sign ed Into law the bill carrying $10,077,000,000 In appropria tions and contract authority to expand the already huge pro duction program for the army and navy. The measure, providing funds for huge increases in ordnance equipment, essential supplies for an army of 2,000,000 men, and funds and contract author ity for 800 naval patrol vessels, reached the White House only lata yesterday. It provides $0,283,000,000 In cash and $784,000,000 In con tract authoritj", , LAURA INGALLS. NOTED AVIATRIX, HELDAS AGENT Alleged Activities In Behalf Of Germany 40vep- reached Herself She Says Washington, Dee. 18. UP) Laura Ingalls, noted woman flier, was arraigned today on charge of failure to register aa a foreign agent In connection with alleged activities on behalf of the German government. Needham Turnage, United States commissioner, fixed Misa Ingalls' bonds at $7,500 and port poned the arraignment hearing until December 26 after she ask. ed for time to consult an attor ney. Without Funds The flier said she had no money and a government offld lal said she would be taken to the District of Columbia Jail. Miss Inffalla tnlri lha sloner that she had been arrest ed yesterday by federal bureau ot Investigation agents and held In a small room without sleep. She said that they had declined to answer her questions, or let her speak to any one and had taken away her money. The government's complaint charged that since August 1 Misa Ingalls had "acted. ene-ao-Mf tn act, and agreed to act as an agent ana representative for, and received compensation from and was under the direction of, the government ot the German, retch" and therefore was requir ed to register as a foreign agent with the state department. Took Me Orders Asked by Turnage how she Wished to nlead. Mlae Tns.lt. asked question after question and then said that she wished to telephone a lawyer m New York. FBI asenta eaM that thla call would be arranged. One question Miss Ingalls asked was whether being an agent meant "taking an oath and swearing allegiance, which I never did." "I was a frae) ae?nft arut fme no orders," she said. , I followed no orders other than my own. I was doing some- thlno? whlrh T knw ml.ht k. questioned If It were found out. i unaeriooa: something that I thought I could handle alona and I guess I overreached my. self." War Bulletins Washington, Dee. It. CP) The navy department report ed today that United States submarines active In the far east had sunk an enemy transport and probably sunk a destroyer as well. Lisbon. Portugal, Dee. la. (P) Premier Antonio da Ollvetra Salaaar summoned the Portuguese national as sembly for an extraordinary muetlng tomorrow afternoon. The premier said he would "make aa Important state ment." , Berlin. Dee. 18 (IP) (Offi cial Radio received by AP) The Berlin radio said today Oermaa planes have scored two torpedo hits ea a heavy British cruiser, one la a for mation of ships attacked la the Mediterranean off eastern Libya. Radio Hydighli (Time is Pacific standard) Tonight: NBC-Blue 5:30 Ft Indlantown Gay variety; 7:1$ light heavyweight fight, Billy Sooae vs. Jimmy Reeves. Friday, the War 7 MBS; 7:1 NBC-Blue; 8 MBS; 0 CBS MBS; 10:43 NBC; 11 MBS; 12:55 p. ra, CBS; 1:45 CBS MBS; 1:55 NBC Blue; 8 CBS MBS; 3:23 NBC Red; 3:43 CBS NBC-Blue. NBC-Red 8:30 a. m. Christ mas carols. CBS 12:45 East the Christ mas Star; Christmas carols; 1:30 Dedication Southeastern Pipe Line. Both eoal and oil are la maouiact urine plastic.
