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MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1941.
NO. 240.
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Are
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
Washington, Dec 29 Every
one here knew what Churchill
meant when he hinted there
may be darker
dayi ahead.
We must be
prepared (or
the loss of the
far east Slng
aporc, the
Dutch East In
dies, and
ever y t h i n g
west of Hawaii
except Austra
lia. pioi Maiion Everyone
also knows the
reason. Neither we nor the Brit
ish had sufficient air or sea
forces on the job to warrant
high hopes of immediate suc
cess. Valor cannot always sub
stitute for machines.
When the first Jap bombers
came over Clark Field, Manila,
our pursuits took to the air
promptly. The Japs disappeared
without fighting but our pursuit
group was so small it could not
maintain a continuous formid
able patrol m the air. The mo
ment that the bulk of it "landed
for refueling, the Jap bombers
were back. A goocjmany; too
many, of our ships ' were de
stroyed on the ground.
. . .
pUHSUIT ships could not be
flown , out In quantities.
Their range is too short, even
for the shortest land hops across'
from South America to Africa
and India. But avjn if we Iiad
utem tHerr, we Would" no'. Aave
had sufficient Philippine . air
fields. Serious preparations for
the defense of Lu on were not
undertaken until ths Japs start
ed moving down the. French
Indo China coast acquiring bases
on the Philippine flrnk a few
months back. The ling rainy
season set in thereafter and
fields could not be adequately
prepared. Just as the season
ended, the Japs struck.
But - the main reason was
truthfully presented by Church
Ill. We concentrated all the
(Cootlaued on Pa-e Biz)
PICKET LINE FORMED
AT SHIPYARD GATE
Los Angeles, Dec. 29 ")
A picket line was established
today at one of the gates of the
California Shipbuilding corpora
tion on Terminal Island.
Company officials said inde
pendent welders were picketing
their members who had paid up
AFL dues in the boilermakers
union. The. welders, breaking
away from the boilermakers, are
seeking autonomy, claiming
they have been required to hold
multiple cards.
(Time is Pacific Standard)
Despite the war, each net
work is to have its annual New
Year's eve dancing parties
across the country to bid good
bye to 1941 and greet 1942. All
the parties will continue until
1 a. m.
Tonight: The War, 5 MBS,
B:1J CBS. 7 MBS, 7:30 NBC
Blue. 7:45 CBS-East. 8:30 MBS.
9 NBC CBS, 9:95 NBC CBS.
Tuesday, the War, 7 MBS,
7:15 NBC-Blue MBS, 8 MBS.
8:15 MBS, 9 CBS MBS, 10:45
NBC, 11 MBS, 12:55 p. m. CBS
MBS, 1 MBS, 1:45 CBS MBS,
1:55 NBC-Blue, 3 CBS MBS,
3:35 NBC-Red, 3:45 CBS NBC
Blue. SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
The girls in the Hotel Holland
coffee shop misunderstanding
Max Henne's wish for a blond
mama doll for Christmas, they
giving him a blond mammy doll.
Joe and Elizabeth Rinard be
ing the "life of the party" at a
turkey dinner with tricks to fool
their guests and they fooled
'em too.
Radio Highlights
FIGHT INVADERS
TO STAND-STILL
Japanese Land Reinforce
ments In South Bomb
ing of Open City Halted.
Aid Pledged
Washington, Dec. 29. (AP)
President Roosevelt pledged
to the war-scourged people of
the Philippines today that
"their freedom will be re
deemed and their independ
ence established and pro
tected." "The entire resources, in
men and material of the
United States stand behind
that pledge," the president
said.
At almost the same time
that the short wave radio
broadcast the president's per
sonal message to the Filipinos,
the navy issued a statement
saying the fleet was intensive
ly engaged against the Japs.
"The fleet is not idle," the
navy said. "The United States
navy is following an intensive
and well-planned campaign
against th'. Japanese forces
which tviII result in positive
asslstr nee to the defense of the
Philippine islands."
By Russell Brines
Manila, Dec. 29. VP) "Sul
ci je squads" of young Filipino
soldiers were credited today
with halting the first rush of
the Japanese advance in north-cm-i.uzon
arid helping lo drive
back, the Invaders in at least
one sector. But U. S. army head
quarters at the same time warn
ed of a fresh threat in the south,
where they said the Japanese
were landing reinforcements.
Army advices otherwise were
meager, simply reporting "no
material change" in the north or
south. An officer returned from
the northern front said the Jap
anese appeared to be falling
back from Tayug, 100 miles
north of Manila and 20 miles
inland from Lingayen gulf, and
a Manila Bulletin reporter back
from the same sector told of the
work of the "suicide squads".
Four Towns Retaken
(Bert Sllen, NBC reporter in
Manila, said eyewitnesses re
turning from the front report
ed the Japanese "in full retreat'
in the province of Pangasisnan,
just south of Lingayen gulf, with
tour towns recaptured out of
the six they had occupied. In
the south, Silen said, the de
fenders' lines "are In excellent
position . , expected to hold the
enemy In check' .)
The young Filipinos, he said,
had fought off the Japanese for
at least 48 hours beginning
Christmas morning, thus enab
ling the army command to re
organize the main body of the
defense forces and redispose
them in more favorable terrain.
One tank commander told tht
reporter that "during our many
sallies into enemy territory those
Filipinos Just rushed in front of
our tanks to get at the Japs.
Hell, what do they think our
tanks are here for?"
Long Range Duel
After the American lines had
been reestablished, the fighting
settled down into long-range ar
tillery exchanges, with frequent
intense tank action in which the
Japanese infantry, following up
its tanks, was said to have lost
heavily.
A fleet of Japanese transports
in Lingayen gulf, off the coast
of the province of La Union, was
driven off by the American gun
without even attempting any
further landings.
Manila, meanwhile, after two
days of successive bombing In
pite of its designation as an
open city, saw no raiders today.
There was a 58 minute air raid
alarm starting at 12:37 p.m. (7:37
p.m., PST Sunday) but no raid
ers appeared.
(Silen reported two alarms
without bombs being dropped.
jne said there were unconfirm
ed rrpuria inai Luicn planes nan
sunk 12 Japanese ' transports
seeking to land reinforcements
at Davao, on the island of Min
danao.) Japanese planes raided the
Island fortress, of Corregidor. at
the entrance to Manila bay, for
two hours, but lost a number of
planes In the operation, four
Believed Killed
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Canadian defense quarters
said Brigadier J. K. Lawton
(above), commander of the Cana
dian force in Hongkong, was be
lieved to have been killed.
BRIEF EARTHQUAKE
VISITS PORTLAND;
DAMAGE IS SMALL
The Medford weather bureau
had no record of an earthquake
in this vicinity today, and so far
as. the Mail Tribune was able to
learn the shock felt in Portland
did not extojM to southern Ore4
gon.
Portland, Ore., Dee. 29. (AP)
A short, sharp earthquake
broke windows and shook the
entire city at about 10:35 a. m
today.
A display window In a down
town store was shattered by the
tremor, which lasted only a few
seconds. In various parts of the
city residents reported that up
stairs windows rattled violently,
and some were broken.
A flood of telephone calls blew
several fuses in exchange switch
boards, and service in many sec.
tlons of the city was disrupted
for several minutes.
The shock seemed to be
heaviest in the northwest part of
the city, which is mountainous.
One resident said "it seemed
to be a repercussion from a tre
mendous blast," although she did
not hear a report.
One shattered window down
town was attributed to the shock,
but police said that a rock, pos
sibly thrown from a passing auto
mobile, was responsible. How
ever, another display window
downtown was shattered and sev
eral were reported to have been
broken in residential districts.
Spokane, Dec. 29. (AP)
Brother Franklin, of Mount St.
Michael's scholasticate, reported
today the seismograph there
showed a "very feeble" record of
an earth tremor at 10:37 Jk m.
MODERATE TEMBLORS
VISIT QUETTA, INDIA
Quetta, India, Dec. 29. (AP)
Ouetta. scene in 1935 of on
of the most destructive earth
quakes In modern times, was
shaken twice by moderate earth
shocks today.
The first was early In the day,
and the second at 12:10 p. m.
Buildings were shaken heavily
by the second quake, but no loss
of life was reported. More than
20.000 persons were killed In the
1935 quake.
8TEEL USE HIT
Washington, Dec. 29. (P)
Senator Mallgren (D-Wash) has
protested to Donald M. Nelson,
director of supplies of the pri
orities allocation board, against
the use of steel for manufacture
of window frames, asserting
wooden frames are just as satis
factory. planes staged an unsuccessful
I attain vn iwu unuKn ucHr v
lumplt in Balacan province, 28
: miles northwest of Manila,
I where three civilians were in
jured.
Anti-aircraft guns at the front
were reported to have brought
down nine Japanese planes Sat
urday, and official advices said
three more were shot down Sun
day.
E
N NORWAY FORAY
Oil Tanks, Ammunition
Stores and Industrial
Plant Also Damaged.
London, Dec. 29. JP) Eight
enemy ships totaling 15,650 tons,
oil tanks, ammunitions stores
and a Quisling-owned Industrial
plant were destroyed during a
British raid on the small Island
of Vaagso 100 miles north of
Bergen, Norway, it was an
nounced officially today.
The raid was carried out Sat
urday by the mysterious com
mando force of the British army,
aided by light forces of the home
fleet and by the RAF.
Assembly Point
The story of the daring thrust
against Germany's war machine
was told in a communique issued
Jointly by the admiralty, the war
office and the air ministry.
vaagso is the assembly point
of German convoys carrying
supplies to the far northern
front in Russia and an officer
who took part in the raid said
the destruction of shipping had
harmed German communications
to that front.
The entire German garrison
on an Island involved in the at
tack was captured or killed, the
communique said.
A wireless station and a cer
tain Industrial plant owned by
a Quisling and known to be
operating for, the Germans were
oestroyeo. ' .., .
An -officer of the combined
operations headquarters said the
German casualties totaled 120
men and 95 prisoners were
taken. .
The commandos suffered
"some casualties" but the raid
wat called a complete success.
E
Singapore, Dec. 29. (,P) The
British acknowledged today that
Japanese troops had swept south
of Ipoh, Malay, tin mining city
and communications center 290
miles north of Singapore, and
announced the fall of Kuching,
capital of Sarawak on the island
of Borneo.
A headquarters communique
id the British on the Perak
front in Malaya are "in close
contact with the enemy south
of Ipoh" but gave no further in
formation.
Elsewhere in Malaya the sit
uation remained unchanged, it
was said.
Batavia, N. E I, Dec. 29
OP) American-built bombers of
the N. E. I. army air force have
scored a direct hit on a large
Japanese transport and shot
down "probably" two Japanese
fighter planes in an attack on
Mirl, Sarawak, a communique
released by Aneta, N.E.I, news
agency, reported today.
TRADE EXPANSION
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 29. VP)
The Pacific northwest van ex
pect, "vast expansion of Oriental
trade and development after the
war is over,'.' George F. Yantls
of Olympia, member of the na
tional resources planning board
said today.
35 Per Cent Cut in
SOUTHIN MAUY CHURCHllLTALK
Predicted by Government Experts
Washington, Dec. 29 W A
35 per cent reduction In the na
tion's 1942 civilian gasoline con
sumption was considered likely
today by government petroleum
experts because of new restric
tions making It Impossible for
the ordinary motorist to obtain
new tires or inner tubes for his
car.
The effect of these regula
tions, these officials believed,
would be to make motorists use
their cars less to conserve their
tires for necessary motoring
and emergencies. Gasoline coo-
UTTER DEFEAT OF
Foreign Secretary Eden and
Stalin Reach Full Accord
For Future Guidance.
(By the Associated Press)
Simultaneous British and Rus
sian blows on Germany from
east and west underscored the
vulnerability of the nazis' ex
posed, far-flung flanks today as
Britain and Russia announced a
new agreement aimed at "the
utter defeat of Hitlerite Ger
many." From the east, the Russians
kept up their remorseless pres
sure, shoving the receding Ger
man line still farther back from
the environs of Moscow.
The announcement of the al
lies' agreement came from Lon
don and from Moscow where. It
was disclosed, British Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden has
been in consultation with Soviet
Premier Joseph Stalin.
German Lines Shattered
On the Russian war front the
red army troops were reported
to have shattered a division of
German fledglings of 17 to 18
years of age on the Kalinin
front; ripped through the Ger
man lines south of Moscow to
Llkhvin, 50 miles west of Tula,
and Belev, 50 miles southeast of
Kaluga, menacing the German
retreat to Smolensk; and cap
tured Novosil, 100 miles south
of Tula in ji drive oa. Orel, 40
Reports reached Moscow of
the recapture by the Russians of
more than 450 towns and vill
ages. 1 ...
In Libya, the advancing Brit
ish pressed the fleeing axis
forces still farther west, but
their pace seemed to have slack
ened and Rome and Berlin, for
the first time In recent days,
claimed to have scored telling
counter-blows.
T
Ottawa, Ont, Dec. 29 (P
Prime Minister Winston Church-
Ill reached Ottawa by special
train from Washington today to
receive an enthusiastic welcome
from Canadians on his history-
making visit to North America.
He raised his hand in the "V
sign of victory, and lifted his
black hat as cheers of the crowd
rang through the station.
He is to give an important
address to the Canadian people
tomorrow.
Broadcast of Churchill's ad
dress to the Canadian parlia
ment is being arranged for Tues
day by the CBS, NBC-Blue and
MBS networks. Time is an
nounced as 10:45 a. m. PST, or
shortly thereafter.
ON SEXTON MT.
Grants Pass, Dec. 29. (IP)
Mrs. Francis Pound, 82, of Oak
land spent Sunday nlg',it In the
hospital here with minor In
juries received when the car
her husband was driving skidded
on snow-covered pavement and
rolled over six times down a Mt,
Sexton embankment.
Gasoline Use
sumption accordingly would be
sharply reduced.
The same quarters considered
that the rubber conservation
program might delay the need
of direct consumer rationing of
motor fuel. In event the war
effort ties up the extensive
transportation facilities used to
distribute some 27.200,000.000
gallons of gasoline annually
throughout the country.
At the direction of Secretary
of Interior Ickes, the petroleum
coordinator, a consumer gaso
line rationing system has been
prepared for use if an emer
gency demands such action. Its
details have not been revealed.
Japs Invading Luzon
Termed Fourth-Rate
By American Colonel
By Clark Lee
With the USAFFE In Central Luzon Dec. 29. (APV In the
opinion of one hard-bitten United
ment has seen some sharp ngnting
troops invacung me f-muppines
that, he says, is a charitable estimate,
They're no damned good on
the ground," declared the colonel
contemptuously. "We licked the
pants off them three times and
were beaten only by their tanks
and planes.
"When our tanks and planes
go into action we'll chase them
back to the sea.
Can't Shoot
"Those Charlies we call them
Charlies can't shoot. Somebody
gets hit about every 5,000 shots.
At Tayug Christmas day we
fought them for seven hours and
they were firing all the time.
making a wonderful display, lots
of noise and wasting ammuni
tion.
"When It was all over one of
my men was hit in the hand and
one horse was killed."
(Tayug Is . about 100 miles
north of Manila and 25 miles in
land from the Lingayen gulf.)
"At Binalonan (west of Tayug)
the previous day they surprise
attacked before dawn and cut us
off from our horses. Our line of
withdrawal was open, but we
love horses so we fought our way
back to our bivouac. That scrap
lasted five hours and ended when
we busted their tank attack."
Two American officers, whose
names were withheld, were cred
ited with playing an important
part in smashing this attack at
the price of their lives.
. .One of the officers, a young
lieutenant, took a supply of hand
grenades and crawled down an
exposed road toward the Japan
ese tanks. He had almost reach
ed his objective when he was
struck three times by machine
gun bullets. Though mortally
wounded he kept on ana hurled
his grenades.
Attack Halted
A short time later an Ameri
can major and an unidentified
driver operating a mounted 75
millimeter cannon drove off the
first few Japanese tanks and
then charged down the road with
its gun blazing. The leading Jap
anese tank was smashed by a di
rect hit, and the attack was
halted. The major was killed but
the driver somehow escaped.
Filipino scouts, inspired by the
action of the American officers,
rode In among the Japanese
tanks flinging gasoline-filled bot
tles at them and completed the
Job of breaking up the attack,
thus letting the main body of
cavalry make an orderly with
drawal. The only USAFFE members
who have seen recognizable Jap
anese officers are those who
have been taken prisoner,
Members of the Philippine
scouts who were captured and
then worked their way back to
rejoin their units report that be
hind the lines the officers can be
identified because they are
armed only with sabers. All Jap
anese troops in the front lines
lack identification marks,
Hood River Japanese
Special Problem for
Ninth Corps Officers
Washington, Dec. 29. UP)
Senator McNary (R-Ore) tele
graphed the Hood River county
(Ore) civil defense council that
the Ninth Corps area would
Issue order today or tomorrow
for enemy aliens to turn over to
the police at once firearms and
other contraband.
McNary sent the telegram
after conferring with the de
fense unit of the justice depart
ment about conditions in Hood
River county. The council told
him the county had a larger pro
portion of Japanese to the total
population than any other coun
ty in the state. It said It said It
wanted to treat the aliens "rea
sonably fair" and had suggested
they remain at home as much as
practicable in conduct of their
business.
The Justice department told
McNary the order to enemy
aliens to turn over firearms to
the police would be issued
promptly and the district attor
ney for Oregon would be In
structed to investigate the situ
ation at Hood River at once.
States cavalry colonel whose regi
in northern Luzon, the Japanese
are distinctly fourth-raters and
Evan Reames Named
Member of Oregon
Enemy Alien Board
Former United States Senator
A. E. Reames of this city was
notified today by wire of his
appointment as a member of the
Allen Enemy Hearing board for
Oregon, by Attorney-General
Francis Biddle, Washington, D.
C. Mr. Reames accepted. Two
other members of the board for
this state will be named.
The board Is created as a
clearing house for complaints
that may be filed against aliens
residing In Oregon. Carl Don-
augh, Portland, United States
attorney for this state, will
prosecute the complaints before
the board. The board will then
make its findings, and transmit
them to the attorney-general at
Washington, D. C, for final de
cision .
A few days before Christmas,
Mr. Reames was requested to
serve on the board. His accept
ance wire was delayed In trans
mission. Power of the board will em
brace the ' entire state, which
has but one federal judicial dis
trict, .
Albany CafttoESRSsI
Enginesrs Reoccspy
Headquarters Space
Albany, Ore., Dee. 29. (Pi
Equipment was moved Into Al
bany college campus quarters
formerly occupied by the con
structing quartermaster today as
headquarters were established
for U. S. army engineers here.
The headquarters will be used
while construction of the pro
jected Albany-Corvallls canton
ment Is under way.
Capt T. E. Dlttebrandt, form
erly constructing quartermaster
in charge, was returned as area
engineer In charge. He said he
did not know when construction
of the cantonment would be au
thorized, but added that a staff
of approximately 100 engineers
and civilian aides had been ap
proved.
VANDERBlETLEFT
LI
New York, Dec. 29 P)
Frederick W. Vanderbllt, rail
road director, yachting enthusi
ast and grandson of the late
Commodore Cornelius Vander
bllt, left net estate of $72,845.
478 at his death June 29, 1938,
and estate tax appraisal showed
today.
State Inheritance taxes total
ed $11,680,073 and the federal
tax assessment was listed at
(31,155,050. The appraisal pa
pers said, however, that the lat
ter sum was reduced by allow
ances deductible under the 1928
federal revenue act.
JAP PEACE ENVOY
LEAVES CAPITAL
Washington, Dee. 29. (JPh-
Japan's special "peace envoy,"
Saburo Kurusu, who was at the
state department conducting ne
gotlations for settlement of Jap
anese-American prjblems when
the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor,
left the capital today with the
Japanese embassy staff, which
was taken to Hot Springs, Va.
Ambassador Klchi Saburo No
mura and Kurusu headed the
party. A heavy polk guard sup
erlntended the removal of the
staff from the embassy to the
station, where) tbey boarded a
train for Virginia.
FEW LOCAL ALIENS
BANNEDBY EDICT
Five Japanese, One German
Turn in Two Guns, Three
Radios, Three Cameras
Complying with a department
of justice order, enemy aliens
in this area were today surrend
ering firearms, radios and cam
eras to police authorities, but
up to one o'clock this afternoon
only two guns, three radios ana
three cameras had been turned
over, all to city police.
Five Japanese and one Ger
man alien took the forbidden
articles to city police headquar
ters in city hall. Both guns,
pistol and a rifle, and one radio,
belonged to one Japanese boy
who lives In a house occupied
by an alien, police said. Stat
police and the sheriff's office re
ported receipt of no articles.
City police said the aliens took
the matter good-naturedly, be
ing more interested In when the)
articles, especially the radios,
would be returned to them, than
anything else.
Applies to All
Applying to all Japanese, Ger
man and Italian aliens In Ore
gon, Washington, California,
Montana, Utah, Idaho and Ne
vada, the order specifies that
all forbidden articles must be
surrendered to police by 11
o'clock tonight. Local aliens may
turn over their articles at the)
city police station In city hall.
the state police headquarter on
the north Pacific highway or ths -sheriff's
. office in the county
courthouse. Receipts for the ur
rendered articles will be issued.
According to the order, will
ful failure to surrender the)
banned articles will result la
their seizure and arrest of their
owners, with internment in an
army concentration camp for
duration of-the war.
Salem, Dec. 29. VP) Twelve
Japanese families had turned
over a large quantity of guns,
cameras and short wave radio,
equipment to the county sheriff
up to noon today. The deadline)
was 11 p. m. tonight.
Seattle. Dec. 29. UP) Up
and down the Pacific coast, Ger
man, Italian and Japanese na
tionals are turning cameras and
radios capable of receiving short
wave broadcasts In an ever in
creasing flow as the deadline for
complying with the department
of Justice order to give up the)
equipment neart.
In some cities there has been
but a trickle of enemy aliens in
to police stations, in others of
ficers have been deluged with)
equipment varying in value from
few cents to many dollars.
while In San Francisco police
officials refused to accept tha
articles until late Sunday when
Police Chief Dullea received In
structions from FBI officials to
cooperate In the collection.
Some surprising results of the)
order were noted in a number
of cities as the nationals hasten
ed to comply. In Alameda, Cali
fornia, a German surrendered
17 cameras to police; at San
Francisco a Japanese divested
himself of four cameras, a Ger
man surrendered a camera and
a German made short-wave Te
celvlng set; Los Angeles Japan
ese insisted upon turning In fire
arms and one, Geoige S. HIroo
ka, vegetable stand operator, re
vealed he la giving a 10-cent de
fense savings stamp with every
vegetable purchase of 91 or
more.
JAPANESE IN MEXICO
MUST SHOW PAPERS
Mexico City, Dee. 39. VP)
Germans, Italian and Japanese)
living along the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts of Mexico in
cluding those who have acquir
ed Mexican citizenship wens
ordered today to present their
papers immediately for Inspec
tion by Immigration authorities.
It was announced this was
part of the government system
for keeping a strict check on
their movements.
London, Dec 29 VP) The)
British air ministry announced
tonight that the Mediterranean
Island fortress of Malta under
went 60 axis air attacks during
Christmas week and said the de
fenders destroyed wvtn raldaca
t
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