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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1941.
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Forecasts Which Might Aid
Enemy in Operations Off
Coast Must be Silenced.
Seattle, Dec 24. (IP) The
army's 2nd Interceptor com
mand today issued a memoran
dum clarifying the reasons for
the ban on certain weather
data, with the statement that
storm warnings which might
save lives and property will be
permitted, but other forecasts
which might aid the enemy will
be prohibited.
"We know that an enemy Is
operating off the coast," the
statement added. "He Is in pos
session of certain weather in
formation, of course, but he Is
out in the same weather which
will reach us later.
Foe Needs Data
"The enemy, in planning an
attack. Is in desperate need of
confirmation from shore as to
whether his calculations are
correct. With the information
he has, every little fact he can
pick up from us is invaluable
and may furnish the clue he
needs as to the best day and
hour for the attack. Even a
light remark about 'how hard
it rained here this afternoon,'
may be the tip-off on how fast
the weather front has ad
vanced. "Therefore radio stations
have been ordered to use noth
ing on weather except temper
ature forecasts (to warn against
freeze damage and icy roads)
and one or two other Items.
The enemy may have ways of
getting this Information to ships
offshore, but at least let's not
broadcast it to him.
Permit Storm Warnings
"Storm warnings will be
flown, without Indicating the
wind direction, and will be re
leased to newspapers and to
radio stations for broadcast In
emergencies, as protection to
life and property.
"The weather bureau la co
operating in every way possible
with restrictions required by
military agencies. The items
quoted below are Intended to
cover the area in Washington
and Oregon west 'of the 120th
meridian (which Is just east of
Yakima, Ellensburg and Wen
atchee. Wash., and Heppner.
Condon and Lakeview, Ore.)
"1. Temperature will be fore
east for periods not exceeding
28 hours and may be published
but not broadcast by radio.
"2. Sky and precipitation ele
ments will not be forecast.
"I. Special warnings. Includ
ing storm, flood, cold waves and
livestock conditions will be
forecast and published In modi
lied form.
"However these special warn
ings will be broadcast by radio
only after each such warning
has been submitted to the 2nd
Interceptor command.
"4. Precipitation and wind
data, both local and for the
area west of the 120th merid
ian, will neither be published,
nor broadcast by radio until
such data are at least one week
old.
"5. Weather maps have been
discontinued for the duration of
the emergency. However, lim
ited weather bulletins contaln
' ing mostly temperature data
will be substituted for the for
mer weather maps.
'These are only a few of the
restrictions In effect pertaining
to the distribution of weather
Information. With military ap
proval and within certain limi
tations, special forecasts will be
prepared for responsible offic
ials of public utility concerns,
city, state and federal agencies.
Also, private concerns known to
be under contract to produce
material for defense when
weather Is a factor In produc
tion, will be given forecasts if
such forecssts are approved by
the 2nd Interceptor command."
President Roosevelt and War-Time Cabinet Meet
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Augmented by administrators charged with special war-time duti?s, the csblnet met with President Roosevelt at a regular
conference. Clockwise around the table, starting at lower left corner, are: Lease-lsnd Administrator Harry Hopkins, Secretary
el Labor Frances Perkins, Brlg.-General Philip B. Fleming. Federal Works adminlstratort Vice-President Henry A. Wallace; Civi
lian Defense Director 7. H. LaGuardlat Federal Security admlni: trator Paul V. McNuttt Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jonesi Sec
retary of Interior Harold L. Ickest Postmaster General Frank C. Walkeri Secretary of War Henry L. Stimsom Secretary of State
Cordell Hull) the president Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau. Jrj Attorney General Francis Blddlei Secretary of
Nary Frank Knox, and Secretary ot Agriculture Claude Wlckard.
Chromile Ore Pries
Increased to Bring
Domestic Sipplies
Grants Pass, Dec. 24
Chromite ore prices have been
increased and government pur
chase contracts have been made
more favorable for the .induc
tion of war-essential chromite
by small mine operators.
Earl K. Nixon at Portland,
director of the Oregon depart
ment of geolrT and mineral
industries, told the Grants Pass
Courier that he had Just re
ceived the information Tuesday
by telephone from H. Dewitt
Smith, president of the govern
ment's Metals Reserve com
pany. War In Atlantic and Pacific
oceans has handicapped the
flow of foreign sources upon
which the United States has
largely relied.
Stockpiles will be established
in Oregon and California with
in 100 miles of the mines and
in some cases at railhead. One
stockpile will be in the Coo:
Bay district and presumably one
In the Grants Pass district,
Nixon was told.
' Ore will be purchased In
single carlots. The price of 48
percent chromic oxide with
three to one iron ratio will be
$50 per ton at stockpiles. Price
of 40 percent chromic oxide,
two to one iron ration, is $28
per ton.
ASTORIA DUMP MOVES
Astoria, Dec. 24 (JP The
Astoria city dump slid from its
old location on hiU at the
edge of town into the quarry of
the Tidepoint company yester
day, burying the rock pit fat 29
feet of tin cans, wrecked auto
mobiles and sundry refuse. Tha
slide followed heavy rains. Tha
dump dropped about 1000 feet.
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Laura Ingalls Cited
As Publicity Agent
Of Nazi Government
Washington, Dee. 24. JP) A
federal grand jury today Indict
ed Laura Ingalls, 38, of New
York, one of the nation's best
known women pilots, on a
charge of falling to register as
a foreign agent.
The Indictment charged she
had been paid as a publicity
agent by Baron Ulrich von
Glenanth, second secretary of
the German embassy.
Miss Ingalls was arrested last
Wednesday. She was released
from jail under $7,500 bond on
Sunday, but will be required to
appear in court and have new
bond fixed under the Indictment
The Indictment charged, the
Justice department said, that be
tween March 1 and December
18 Miss Ingalls had "acted as
a public relations counsel, pub
licity agent, and representative
for the German government
through its accredited represen
tative and diplomatic officer,
Baron Von- Gienanth, second
secretary of the German em
bassy, in matters pertaining to
political Interest, public rela
tions, and public policy."
Defense Instructions
Say 'Phone Systems
Should Be Kept Open
Salem. Dee. 24. (IP) All
school officials and county de
fense councils were advised to
day by Defense Coordinator
Jerrold Owen that pupils should
not be sent home during an air
raid.
Pupils should be allowed to
go home only when there Is a
precautionary alarm at least 20
minutes before enemy planes
are expected. After the actual
warning sounds, It is too late
to send them home.
Other orders contained on
Owen's bulletin:
Counties In which telephone
systems are not In operation 24
hours a day should provide wo
men volunteers to keep the
lines open at all times.
All amateur radio operators
are asked to volunteer for the
state civilian defense radio net
work, which might be allowed
to go on the air If the army
grants special permission for the
network to operate. All ama
teurs now are- banned from the
air.
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Washington, Dec. 24. IP)
Democratic and Republican
leaders In the senate Joined to
day in a demand that some
thing be done at ence to keep
small business and Industry op
erating during the wartime
emergency.
Majority Leader Barkley (D.
Ky.) said he feared that dup
lication of defense and congres
sional action might cause "con
fusion in the minds of small
businessmen as to where to go
for relief."
Minority Leader McNary (R..
Ore.) said It was necessary to
do something to protect small
buslnjs "as early as possible."
The discussion preceded sen
ate approval of a $10,000 in
crease in funds for Its special
small business committee head
ed by Senator Murray (D.,
Mont.) who said that It was a
"well known fact that small
business Is rapidly being driven
out of the country."
URUGUAYANS WOULD AID
U. S. WITH WARPLANES
Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec.
24. A subscription was
launched today to equip and
send 90 Uruguay airmen to
serve In the United States' air
forces.
Uruguayan cattle raisers also
have begun a fund-raising drive
to buy an ambulance as a gift
for the United States army.
They previously had bought one
for Britain.
FIVE BAIL OUT WHEN
BOMBER ENGINE FAILS
Wlnterset, Iowa, Dec. 24. (IP)
Five United States army of
ficers were reported to have
bailed out of their twin-motored
transport four miles south
east of here this afternoon and
landed safely while the ship
crashed and burned.
The crew members were re
ported to have been flying east
rrom Utah when motor trouble
developed.
Battleship Arizona
Went Down Fighting
Photograph Reveals
Washington, Dec. 24. (P)
The navy released today a pho
tograph of the ravaged battle
ship Arizona, hit by bombs and
aerial torpedoes, showing that
the dreadnaught sank to the
bottom of Pearl harbor with
flag flying and anti-aircraft
guns turned aloft.
Although Secretary of the
Navy Knox listed the 32,600-
ton battle wagon as "destroy
ed" and therefore presumably
beyond salvage, the photograph
showed the deck was about one
foot above the surface and
much of the stern superstruc
ture to outward appearance:
undamaged.
The photograph apparently
was taken within a day or so
after the Japanese onslaught of
December 7 for smoke still
poured from the blare which
gutted the Arizona amidships,
and a rescue and salvage tug
was moored at the stern of the
warship.
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Fluhrer's Bakery today gave
Christmas gifts of defense bonds
and stamps to its 58 employes.
Eight department heads and
five employes with 10 years of
service received paid up bonds
while other employes received
partially paid up bonds In ac
cordance with the number of
years of service.
Similar Christmas gifts were
given to the 52 employes of
Fluhrer's bakery at Klamath
Falls.
Seattle, Doc. 24. (T) Rep.
Henry Jackson (D., Wash.) of
Everett is In Seattle to conduct
hearings on the problem of
northwest shipping firms who
have lost their business because
of the direct buying by war
ring nations from producers.
Merry
Christmas
AND A
Prosperous New Year
to all Our Friends
Jackson County Federal
savings & loan association
126 East Main
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It got around that it was somehow
unmanly to believe in God. Sissy to say
your prayers. t
Those were the queer, sick years be
tween the two wars. When morality had
to do with vice, drinking and the other
fellow; when it was all right for even free
governments to get away with making
promises the instruments of their own
renunciation. Those were the years when
we forgot justice for "progress" while
the world's conscience slipped softly into
decline.
So now the half gods rule, loosed in
a tempest of our own making. It is the
day of the Black Faith, religion of neglect
and despair. The creed of brutality and
force drives its millions with the fury of
a holy war. Humanity is pretty sick, and
while planes, tanks and battleships may
save the patient just this once again
they cannot ever cure the disease.
Free men are face to face with a
mighty decision. Either they must meet the
Black Faith with a great Faith of their
own or surrender to the deluge.
The choice is plain. To oppose the
fanatic religion of negation and force with
the Faith of their fathers. To learn to live
by the creed of decency and justice, right
eousness, sympathy and understanding. To
find resolution in their belief in the Father
hood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
Or to deny all hope.
Decent men in their hearts are sick of
kindliness and charity just at
Christmastime and greed and
suspicion the rest of the year.
They are weary of a world
that has produced telephones
and printing presses but has
forgotten honesty and the Ten
Commandments.
We Wih Our
Many Patrons
and Friends
AVERY
MERRY
CHRISTMAS
Wt will serve a very fin
Deluxe Turkey Dinner 85c and $1.25
from 12 noon to 10 p. m.
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It h a pleasant and cheering custom to renew
friendly associations during tha Yuletide by ex
pressing a "Merry Christmas" greeting. This we
do most heartily and, because of the grave crisia
now facing our great Nation, we offer this added,
sobering message upon this occasion.
Through
FAITH
Alone Can
HOPE
Survive!
Decent men want to think of other men
as fellow human beings.
It is high time for free America to find
again the ideals of its founders. To take
pride in mothering the oppressed. To reach
out for the meaning of mercy, sympathy
and love. To share in proud humility a
Bimple belief in God.
It is a paradox that, in this critical
period in our history, we are employing
the death-dealing implements of warfare
in the struggle to perpetuate the American
ideals of liberty, freedom and justice.
Through no choice of ours we are plunged
into a world-wide war and we have
dedicated our lives and fortunes to the
"inevitable triumph."
As great as the questions of conflict
that now face America are the problems
of the years to come, the enormous, chal
lenging problems that we shall have to
solve as the great free people of the post
war world. We shall have to solve them
in the spirit of helpfulness and brother
hood. We shall have to dedicate our
strength and our free ideals in wisdom to
bring about the lasting peace that will find
no nation a pawn, no man a scape-goat,
but all peoples neighbors and friends. We
tried it the other way once. And it did
not work.
Perhaps, even now, unnoticed, the
ground swell is beginning. We like to
think that, quietly, out of these racking
times there may stem a new
dignity, never yet attained,
for all mankind; rooted in
Faith and flowering, not in
mere tolerance or respect, but
in kindliness and sympathy;
in a real wish to understand
our fellow men.
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