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FORD
Full AuocilUd Prooa
United Pros
Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942.
NO. 244.
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News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
. Washington, Jan. 2. The year
1042 will not be as bad for busi
ness as those now crowding
FSosswl the mourners
bench suggest.
Sales will be
great. Nearly
everyone will
b e employed.
There will be
?wws more money In
W KYI the hands of
Ni ,SjJ the people and
greater stocks
of goods on
merchant
shelves or in
Panl Mallon
warehouses than ever before.
It is true no new cars or tires
will be available, but 3,750,000
new passenger autos were sold
this year. Not many people will
lack efficient transportation. All
metal goods products will be
tight (sewing machines, iceboxes,
etc.), but the average American
will not have to tighten his belt
yet as the Germans did, only
ease his foot from the accelerator
of living.
The careful calculations of the
commerce department suggest
retail and service sales through
the year will average as high as
1936, which was not bad.
o
A LABOR shortage Is in pros
pect for the latter part of the
year. The old defense program
contemplated 3,000,000 addition
al workers; the new one will re
quire twice as many. Taxes will
be terrific. You can expect
heavier nuisance taxes, probably
a slight increase in income taxes,
possibly a payroll tax. The mid
dle classes and successful people
(doctors, lawyers, teachers) will
be hit hard. For them there will
be no prosperity. Their pre-war
Incomes will be cut tremen
dously by taxes and higHer
prices. But a fairly formidable
price restriction bill will be
passed by congress to stave off
the giddiest heights of inflation
for 1942 at least. The national
income as a whole will rise from
$92,000,000,000 this old year to
about $110,000,000,000 in the
new.
Small manufacturers will suf-
(Cominued ou Ptge Elevn
Ellsworth Heads
Alumni of Oregon
Eugene, Jan. 2. (APV Mail
balloting resulted in election of
Harris Ellsworth, publisher of
the Roseburg News-Review, as
president of the University of
Oregon alumni association, tell
ers reported today;
Radio Hlghlightsj
(Time is Pacific Standard)
Tonight, the war, subject to
change 4 MBS; 4:15 NBC-red;
8 MBS; 8:55 CBS; 6:15 MBS 7
MBS; 7:30 NBC-blue; 7:45 CBS
cast; 9 NBC CBS; 9:55 NBS
CBS.
Saturday, the war 715
MBS; 8 CBS MBS; 10 45 NBC;
11 CBS; 1 NBC-red; 1 30 CBS;
8 MBS; 3:25 NBC; 3:30 CBS;
3:45 CBS NBC-blue.
Football MBS 11:45 a. m.,
East vs. West at New Orleans.
NBC-red 11 a. m., Oklahoma
City U. choir; 1:15 races at
Tropical Park. CBS 2 Cleve
land orchestra. NBC-blue 9:30
Four-H club program.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Alex and Nancy Hamilton be
having like a gentleman and a
lady, respectively, at a very ex
citing occurrence.
Armyman Ray Garcia relax
ing after the hustle and bustle
of moving himself and family
Into new residence.
Dean Showers encountering a
customer who wanted to know
If there wasn't a discount for
quantity buying of defense
savings stamps, such as three
ten-Cent ones for a quarter.
And MT Carrier Philip Gates
finding it hard to satisfy cus
tomers as he waits for a new
supply of dime defense savings
stamps to reach town.
I I At -1
SHORTENED LINES
ADD STRENGTH TO
DEFENDEOLOWS
Cavite Evacuated Before
Japanese Entry Japs
Hint Australia Move.
By the Associated Press
Japan's invasion armies cap
tured Manila today and the U.
S. naval base at Cavite has been
evacuated, the government an
nounced, while a Tokyo broad
cast asserted that Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's defense forces had
fallen back to Corregidor island
and to Batan peninsula for a
"last stand."
A war department communi
que, however, indicated that
American and Filipino troops
were still fiercely battling the
invaders north and south of
Manila.
Maneuver Praised
The communique declared
that Gen. MacArthur's brilliant
tactical maneuver in shortening
his lines, permitting the Japa
nese to take the Philippine capi
tal, would enable him to strike
harder, co-ordinated . blows at
the enemy than if he had elected
to defend the city.
Dome!, the Japanese news
agency, said Gen. MacArthur
himself had moved to the heavily-armed
Corregidor fortress,
whose 12-inch guns and bristling
anti-aircraft batteries make it a
powerful defense bastion.
The navy said Cavite naval
base, 10 miles southwest of Ma
nila on Manila bay, was evacu
ated before the Japanese entered
the capital.
Meanwhile, an official Tokyo
broadcast reported cryptically
that Japanese reconnaissance
planes had returned safely from
a flight "in the direction of Aus
tralia." Imply New Drive
No details were given, but
underneath lay the clear impli
cation that the flight may have
been a scouting mission prelud
ing a Japanese attempt to invade
Australia, many of whose troops
have left the colony to defend
Singapore.
A Japanese military spokes
man declared that the fall of
Manila would mean collapse
sooner or later of the entire
Philippine defense system and
asserted there was little chance
that Manila would become an
East Asia Dunkerque.
"All ships in the Manila bight
which could have been used to
remove troops have been sue
cessfull bombed by the Japanese
air force," the spokesman said,
indicating that any hope of
escape by sea had thus been cut
off.
A German broadcast reported
that Japanese warships bom
barded Manila's fortifications
and harbor facilities and shelled
the big Cavite naval base across
the bay.
Terse Statement
With all communications with
Manila blanked out for the third
day, except for official messages
the war department gave this
terse summary of the situation
at 7 a. m. Manila time:
"All available forces have
now been united.
"In addition to the land posi
tions, the harbor defenses and
(Continued on Page Nine)
FlILYSiNGS
GAMBLED BY WIFE
San Franciscc, Jan. 2. (Pi
Across the breaMas table Wil
liam Reed, 54-ycar-old deep sea
diver, told his wife that he was
going to withdraw theii $10,000
savings from the bank today and
Invest it all In defense bonds.
After breakfast he went out
for shave. When he returned
he found his wife, Jewell Reed,
35, lying dead across the gas
stove with all Jets turned on
and a bullet hole through ner
mouth.
A note beside her ariced his
forgiveness and explained she
had gambled away all but $4,000
of their savings.
Transplanted Rose Bowl Chilly Place
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Spectators at the Rote Bowl game, transplanted to Durham, N. C huddled together yester
day under covers in this fashion as they saw Oregon State defeat Duke. 20 to 16, in a real grid
Iron thriller. (A.P. photo by wire and Airmail to Mail Tribune). .
Pacific Fleet Operations
Must Wait Air Protection
London, Jan. 2. (Pi A British spokesman declared today
that British and American fleets cannot be expected to operate
effectively in the south Pacific until they can obtain adequate
air support.
He asserted the Japanese I
might even be able to neutralixe
the use of Singapore as a naval
base by bombing from air bases
in Malaya.
"However, he said, "we must
keep the long view of the Pacif
ic situation, remembering that
in the long run the allies can
outbalance the Japs.
But the situation needs care
ful handling at the present mo
ment. "The fall of Manila," said this
source, "will allow the Japanese
to use their forces to the south."
He added that Singapore would
be in a "tough position" if the
Japanese retained their hold in
Malay.
He labelled as "nonsense" the
Japanese claim that they sank
nine British destroyers in their
capture of Hongkong, adding
"there was only one old de
stroyer at Hongkong, and most
of the guns had been taken from
it for use on land."
PRICE CONTROL PLAN
HAS COMMITTEE 0KEH
Washington, Jan. 2. (JP) A
broad-termed wartime price con
trol measure was approved to
day by a senate banking sub
committee after listening to a
lengthy dispute between Price
Administrator Leon Henderson
and Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard over who should con
trol farm prices.
Chairman Brown (D-Mtch)
said that the measure was a
"much stronger bill" than one
passed by the house before the
outbreak of war.
ICE WATER SWIM IS
NEW YEAR FEATURE
Seattle, Jan. 2. OP) Nine
persons tne eldest was 60-year-
old R. W. Smith swam off Alkl
New Year's day under auspices
of the Polar Bear club. Three
thousand watched the chilled
bathers' antics. The Polai Bear
club founders, Clarence Carlsen
and Harold Wlnqulst, did not at
tend because of the death of
Winqulsfs- father, Carl L. Win
quist, builder.
ASHLAND GREENHOUSE
HIT BY $2,500 FIRE
Ashland, Jan. 2. (AP) The
boiler room and office of the
Ashland Flower Shop green
house were destroyed by a fire
yesterday at an estimated $2500
damage.
Fire fighters were hampered
by ice which formed in the 12
degree temperature.
RATES REVISED
Portland, Ore., Jan. 2. AP
Bonneville's optional wholesale
power rate was revised today to
that all kilowatt hours In excess
of 50 per cent load factor will
cost one mill Instead of two and
one-halt
km i
i ii ' 'I ft
Big Stem Whistle ,.
Will Undergo Test
At Medco Saturday
The public was reminded to
day that steam whistle at the
Medford Corporation will be
tested three times for volume to
morrow, at 10 a. m., 3 p. m. and
6 p. m. The public was asked
by Fire Chief Roy Elliott not to
get excited when the whistle
blows.
If the whistle is audible
enough it will replace the fire
siren, in giving air raid alarms
for blackouts, Chief Elliott ex
plained. There will be 150
pounds of steam behind the
whistle and the hope is that the
blast will be loud enough to be
heard In all parts of tha city, he
said. Checkers will be stationed
throughout the town to report
on audibility.
If the steam whistle proves
satisfactory, the fire siren will
be used only for fires and will
no longer signal blackouts, the
chief said. He added that he had
been working for some time on
plans to procure a whistle that
could be heard In all parts of
the city under all wind condi
tions. The Jackson County Council
of Defense asked to have a post
card mailed to it at the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce
by persons on the outskirts of
town who hear the test whistles.
Marriage licenses Issued by
the county clerk the past year
numbered 330, 25' more than In
1940 when the total was 303.
June lead with 35 licenses end
January was lowest with only
10, and February , with 11. In
March Dan Cupid's business
started to pick up with 22. In
April 20 were Issued, May. 29;
July, 28; August, 20; September
29; October, 24; November, 21
and last December, 24,
LAST KNOWN DRIVER
OF STAGE LINE DIES
Roseburg, Ore., Jan. i.4JPy
Thomas B. Burnett, 83, last
known surviving driver for the
old Oregon and California Stage
company, will be burled here
today. He died Tuesday at
Eugene. Burnett drove the last
horse-drawn stage conch for his
company out of Roseburg on
completion of the Southern Pa
cific railway to this point in
1882.
TOO MINUTE.SAYS
I
Grants Pass,' Jan. I CD
Hope that tin; a war-essential
metal, has been found In Oregon
in commercial quantities has
been blasted Insofar as the state
department of geology and min
eral industries is concerned.
A state report, specially is
sued here by Director Earl K.
Nixon, says "the Juniper ridge
tin' deposits near Burns, Ore
gon, are reported not to be com
mercial." Presence of tin in minute
quantities, is reported, however,
by Dr. H. C. Harrison, spectro
scopist and chief chemist, who
made more than 5,000 individ
ual tests In a five-month period
on. samples secured by John
Eliot Allen of the department
Dr. Harrison concluded: "No
data have been obtained by me
to Indicate that any of the Juni
per ridge samples, believed by
us to be representative, that I
have analyzed contain commer
cial quantities of tin in any
form. The tin content of this
rock probably varies from .001
per cent to .05 per cent."
Previously, the United States
geological survey had reported
no significant amount of tin
present in the deposits, a report
which the state department la
belled at that time as "prema
ture." Washington, Jan. 2 (JP
President Roosevelt .disclosed
today that the question of mov
ing airplane and other war in
dustries, from vulnerable sea-
coast points to the interior was
receiving new consideration.
Fall of Manila to Japanese
Recalls Its Capture by U. S.
By the Associated Press
It was nearly 44 years ago
that the American people were
electrified by the news that the
Spanish fleet had been destroy
ed In Manila bay In a dawn-to-lunch
battle with Dewey's cruis
ers. Passing the then lightly arm
ed island of Corregidor, where
big guns now guard the en
trance. Commodore George
Dewey attacked the Spanish
fleet anchored In the bay on
May 1, 1898, and destroyed it
to the last ship.
The surrender of Manila fol
lowed on Aug. 13. Previously
the Philippine capital had been
occupied by the Spaniards In
1565, captured and sacked by
the British in 1762 and returned
by them to the Spaniards In
1763.
Sailing from Mir bay new
RAUJS
FOR AUTOS, TIRES;
QUOTASARE FIXED
Jackson County Allowed 56
Tires for Cars, 137 for
Trucks, Busses In Jan.
Salem, Jan. 2. (AP) Gov
ernor Charles A. Sprague, an
nouncing today appointment of
52 local rationing committees,
said the committees would han
dle rationing of new automobiles.
as well as tires and tubes.
Secretary of State Earl Snell
estimated that 108 tons of rub
ber could be saved in Oregon
each month if motorists would
drive at reduced speeds, avoid
sudden stops, and have their
wheels aligned properly.
Rationing committees appoint
ed today Include:
Jackson county Ashland dis
trict: Harry McNair, Henry G.
Enders and Marchial Stansbury,
Ashland; Medford district: A. C.
Hubbard, Leonard Carpenter,
both of Medford, and Mrs. Ruth
Sparrow, Central Point.
Josephine county Sam Baker,
Marvin Clark and Mrs. Louis
Gerlinger, Grants Pass.
Klamath county Percy Mur
ray, Don Drury and Mrs. Effle
Garcelon, Klamath Falls.
Tire and tube quotas for Ore
gon counties during January
were announced by the governor
with rationing to begin January
5. No tires or tubes will be al
lowed for private use.
The state's quota for passen
ger cars, motorcycle and light
trucks Is 1,646 Urea and 1,204
tubes. For trucks and buses
3,200 tires and 2,683 tubes.
Following are tire quotas for
southern Oregon counties, the
first figure being the number of
tires allowed for passenger cars,
trucks and motorcycles, and the
second figure being the number
that can be bought for trucks
and buses:
Jackson 56 and 137; Josephine
24 and 60; Klamath 64 and 150;
Lake 0 and 84.
265 Violent Deaths
Listed On Holiday;
171 In Auto Mishaps
(By the Associated Press)
A total of 265 persons lost
their lives over the New Year's
holiday in automobile accident!.
drownings, falls, shootings and
by other violent means, a nation
wide survey showed today.
Automobile accidents ac
counted for 171 of the total. An
army bomber crash on Long Is
land took five lives,
Two Ute Indian brothers froze
to death after their automobile
stalled within a mile of their
Utah ranch home. In Forth
Worth, Tex., a Mexican and four
of his children perished In their
burning home.
The New Year's figures com.
pared with national total of
j 431
for the Christmas holiday
of which 334 deaths were in traf-
'.fie, 07 elsewhere.
Hongkong, Dewey disregarded
the danger of mines and torpe
does to take his four little arm
ored cruisers Olympla, Balti
more, Raleigh and Boston, the
unarmored cruiser Concord, the
gunboat Petrel, and the armed
revenue cutter Hugh McCul
loch Into the bay at dawn on
May 1, 1898.
Admiral Montojo of Spain
had anchored his two armored
cruisers, two gunboats, an old
wooden steamer and two other
warships in line just cast of the
spit on the south side of the bay
that became the United States
naval base of Cavite.
Dewey, parading his ships
past in a line, opened fire st
5,000 yards at 8:41 a. m., "You
may fire when you are ready,
Grldley" and then quit at 7:33
a. m., for breakfast.
Just before lunch he resumed
Family Car Due
For Early Sal
Or Life of Ease
New York, Jan. 2. ()
The average family car is
either going to be sold or else
treated like a baby in the
next few months, automobile
dealers and service mea said
today.
Repair Inquiries picked up
"terrifically" this morning:
almost as large was the num
ber of owners seeking to sell.
Those were the first results
her of the federal ban on
new car sales and the an
nouncement that rationing
would follow.
The nation's 41,000 dealers
in new passenger cars and
trucks were reported looking
for new angles to the car
business. Most planned to
expand repair departments,
it was reported. There were
numerous unofficial predic
tions of unemployment for
iome of the sales and service
employes, estimated to total
around 1.300.000.
SALE OF ALL NEW
Washington, Jan. 1. -tPV
Price Administrator Leon Hen
derson said today that the gov
ernment might eventually . have
to buy or commandeer private
automobiles when available
stocks of new cars estimated
at maximum of 650,000 units
exhausted.
Washington, Jan. 2 (IP)
Sale of new passenger cars and
trucks was prohibited through
out the United States today
under government orders mobil
izing the entire American auto
mobile industry for war produc
tion only.
To put the country's army
on wheels and give it the guns,
planes and tanks to fight with,
the factories which in peacetime
made four times as many auto
mobiles as the rest of the world
put together will be required to
halt all manufacture of new cars
and light trucks for civilian use
"within a few weeks," it was
announced.
The 450,000 passenger cars
and the light and heavy trucks
now in stock with dealers can
be bought only by government,
lend-lease and the most essential
civilian users. Pending establish
ment of a rationing system to
handle distribution of these
automobiles, the purchase, sale
and delivery of all new cars and
trucks is prohibited.
The rationing set-up 1 expect
ed to be in operation by Jan. IS.
It will be supervised by Price
Administrator Leon Henderson,
whose office yesterday imposed
drastic quotas reducing by about
00 per cent the number of new
Urea and tubes available for sale
to civilians.
Luzon, the most American of
the 7,000 Philippine islands, is
about as big as Virginia.
the battle, but by that time two
of Montojo's best warships were
afire, and aU Dewey had to do
was sink the rest of them and
silence the shore batteries.
Just seven Americans were
wounded. The Spaniards lost
167 killed and 214 wounded.
Taking possession of Cavite,
Dewey sent word to Washington
he could capture Manila any
time, but lacked the men to hold
It. He waited there most of the
summer until nearly 11,000
troops had arrived from San
Francisco. Then the Americans
entrenched within 1,000 yards
of the city on Aug. 7.
The 13,000 Spaniards within
the city were surrounded by
Filipino Insurgents and were un
able to put up a prolonged fight
when the general assault began
on the morning of Aug. 13. They
raised the white flag at 11 a. m.
U. S. FLEET
Netherlands Communique
Discloses One American
Warship Attacked.
Batavla, N. E. I., Jan. 2. (ff?
Units of the United State
fleet have joined the Dutch navy
In defense of the widespread East
Indies archipelago.
The official disclosure came in
today's communique from the
Dutch high command, which re
ported that "one of the war
ships belonging to the American
forces which are cooperating
with the Netherlands navy in
the defense of these regions" had
been attacked without suffer
ing "serioua damage" by Jap
anese; planes in the northern
part of the islands.
An official communique said
that in the same area Japanese
aircraft also Attacked two U. S.
planes. The American planes
were not damaged.
In their "continued attempts
to terrorize the population," the
high command added, three Jap
anese planes bombed the east
coast of Sumatra yesterday.
E ALL
,S.
Baltimore, Jan. 1 (---Col.
John M. Andrews of federal
selective service headquarters
declared today the time may
come soon when all available
manpower must be made avail
able at once for the total defense
effort.
Ha spoke at the meeting of
the American Association o(
Junior Colleges at the sam
time its big brother organization
the Association of American
Colleges, heard a message from
PresidentRooasve't that the one
great task before them was "to .
win the war."
Colonel Andrews said that
when all manpower was needed
"not only should the young col
lege men rush to Join the armed
forces, but all men capable of
military and naval service
should do this. All others not
qualified for rich service should
make themselves available for
defense work of other types."
PORTLAlilSTS
Portland, Jan. 2 (AP There
are about 1000 new passenger
automobiles and light trucks in
local warehouses and show
rooms, the Oregon Journal said
today.
Dealers said the order halt
ing sales of new cars and light
trucks was shattering blow to
them. They had expected a sus
pension of passenger car manu
facturing, but did not dream de
liveries would be frozen.
Several dealers held automo
biles for purchasers who didnt
want delivery until after Jan. 1
and in some such esses the dealer
already had sold the used car
turned In.
LONO STRETCH
Olympla, Wash.,- Jan. S, UP)
Richard Jennings, attorney for
the regional OPM office at San
Francisco, described the nation's
tire-rationing program today as
aimed to stretch a two-months
supply of rubber tires in this
couLtry over two-year period.
War Bulletins
Cairo. Egypt. Jsn. IWr
South African troops with
fixed beyonets, rushing Into
battle behind powerful BriV
Ish tanks, have occupied the
Libyan port of Bardla and
killed or captured all of tke
S.000 axis defenders. It was
announced tonight. The de
fenders numbered about 4.000
Italians and 1.000 1