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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
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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.)
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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
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