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Find a Tenant Keep that keoss er apart- aint rent. When yam rinS tenant U meting ant. nee the Want Ada, Hate another reeay and am any lew ef rent. Tha Want Ada are etfeMrre ctUl tn expenslTe. Medford Tribune Weather Ssr""p t'nder army rder all weath er reports ar prohibited. Full Associated Pr United Press Thirty-sixth Year F. R. Uffll VAST MB! 113 HBMBB P Mi 11 M News Behind The News By Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 6. A phony optimism Is springing up In this country. It Is being fed by extrava gant Russian communiqu e s, and oft-repeat-e d rose-color-ed observa tions about our chances in the far east. As a back ground for the red communi ques, just re member that rani Mallon n nrrtinarv winter would cover the fighting front in Russia with 8 to 12 feet of snow along bout now, certainly within a week or two. Only the south ernmost front can be excepted, and do not forget the Crimea, at the southern tip, is as far north of the equator as Nova Scotia and Minneapolis. The Black sea keeps it relatively warm, but the whole central and northern fronts will become stabilized for winter shortly, It is reason able to expect Then will come spring, and another campaign. No one blames the reds for making as much propaganda as possible out of their aston ishing successes, but for our peo ple to use it as a guide, is fool ish. In war, people have a ten dency to believe only what fits in with their wishes. They should know officials here now are saying: "We can lose this war." They mean we can lose ft right now by slipping into condition of unreal security tha same false sense which pre vented our rearmament In time. a a TIE public should be aware of these following possibili ties which must occupy the mili tary mind: If the nazis get the French fleet we will be outnumbered in the Atlantic as we now are in the Pacific. Nearest Jap base to Hawaii (Continued on Page four) MURDER DENIED Oregon City, Jan. 6. (AP) A plea of Innocent was entered in circuit court here yesterday by Clarence McPherson, 56, charged with murder in the death of Dave Smith, 48. Both were stablemen at the Oswego hunt club where the shooting is alleged to have taken place Dec. 16, following a card game argument. (Time is Pacific Standard) As a preview to the broadcast of the Joe Louis-Buddy Baer fight Friday night for the bene fit of the navy relief fund, MBS is planning a half-hour at 6:30 Wednesday night in which Walt er Winchell, a lieutenant com mander in the navy, is to act as master of ceremonies. Louis is to be Interviewed, and fight an nouncer Don Dunphy is to read a statement from Baer. Tonight: MBS 6:30, fight for freedom rally, Gov. Keen John son of Ky. and others. Wednesday: The war 8 MBS, 8:15 MBS, 9 CBS MBS, 10:45 NBC, 11 MBS, 12:53 p. m., CBS MBS, 1 MBS, 1:45 CBS MBS. 1:55 NBC-Blue, 3 CBS MBS. 8 33 NBC-Red, 3:43 CBS NBC Blue. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Ivan Gay still oohing and ah lng over the puppy layette that Santa brought him. Vic Tengwald dashing madly from one office to another to catch telephone calls, the parties Invariably hanging up just as he grabs, for tha receiver. Ma Radio Highlights Task Is Hard, Time Is Short, Congress Told Washington, Jan. 6. (AP) President Roosevelt promised con gress and the nation today that the war would end in victory and outlined a tremendous production plan embracing an output of 123,000 planes, 75,000 tanks, 35,000 anti-aircraft guns and 10,000, 000 tons of shipping in 1943. For this year 1942 he declared that "we shall produce 60,000 planes, 10,000 more than the goal set a year and a half ago," 45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and 8,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant vessels. In a grimly worded message delivered in person to a Joint ses sion of the senate and house, the chief executive declared that the task was hard and unprecedented He spoke of sacrifices to come , and said that it would appear in his budget message tomorrow that "our war program for the coming fiscal year will cost fifty- six billion dollars or, in other words, more than one-half of the estimated annual national In come." Means Ail-Out War "This means taxes and bonds and bonds and taxes," Mr. Roose velt asserted. "It means cutting luxuries and other non-essentials. In a word, it means an 'all-out' war by individual effort and family effort in a united coun try." The chief executive mentioned American reverses at the outset of the conflict, but he declared that powerful ' and offensive actions must and will be taken in proper time." The consolidation of the united nations' total war effort against our common enemies is being achieved, the president said. That was the purpose, he ex plained, of conferences which have been held during the past two weeks here, in Moscow and in Chungking and was the pri mary objective of the declara tion of solidarity signed in Wash ington at the start of the new year by 26 nations united against the axis forces. "The militarists In Berlin and Tokyo started this war," the chief executive charged sternly. "But the massed, angered forces of common humanity will finish it." The war cannot be waged In a defensive spirit, the president declared, adding: To Carry Attack "As our power and our re sources are fully mobilized, we shall carry the attack against the enemy we shall hit him and hit him again wherever and when ever we can reach him. "We must keep him far from our shores, for we Intend to bring this battle to him on his own home grounds." Wherever in the world it seems advisable to engage en emy forces, Mr. Roosevelt said. American armed forces must be used. The operations In some cases are to be defensive and in others offensive with a view to complete encirclement and "eventual total defeat" of the foes. "American armed forces will operate at many points in the Far East," the chief executive said. "American armed forces will be on all the oceans helping to guard the essential communi cations which are vital to the united nations. "American land and air and sea forces will take stations In the British isles, which consti tute an essential fortress in this world struggle. "American armed forces will help to protect this hemisphere and also bases outside this hemisphere, which could be used for an attack on the Amer icas." In these terse paragraphs, the president gave a sketchy picture of possible operations of an other American expeditionary force and of possible occupation of strategic bases across the seas which otherwise might be used as jumping off places for onslaughts on this hemisphere. Terror Raids Been Any long range bombing raids on America by suicide squad rons of enemy planes from Eur op or Asia, Mr. Roosevelt pra- and the time short. Western Solons Join in Praise Washington, Jan. 6. (AP) Democrats and Republicans of the congress joined today in praise of President Roose velt's address on the state of the union. Vice-President Wallace said the "speech speaks for itself." Senator Holman (R-Ore.), said "I endorse everything he said as to our purposes." Senator McNary of Oregon, the Republican leader, said the president made "a scrappy speech," adding that his pro gram "will cost a mountain of money and each item of ex penses must be carefully scru tinized." Senator Bone (D-Wash.): "A very realistic approach to the problem we have at hand." dieted, will be r.ttempted only in the hope of terrorizing our people and disrupting our mor ale. But our people are not afraid of that, he remarked. "We know that we muy have to pay a heavy price for free dom," he continued. "We will pay this price with a will. What ever the price, it is a thousand times worth it "No matter what our enemies, in their desperation may at tempt to do to us we will say, as the people of London have said, 'We can take it.' And what's more, we can give it back and we will give it back with compound interest. "When our enemies chal lenged our country to stand up and fight, they challenged each and every one of us. And each and every one of us has accept ed the challenge for himself and for the nation." The message was the annual one to congress on the state of the union. At the very outset, the president said ha was proud to report that the spirit of the American people was never higher, that the union was never more closely knit together, that the country was never more deeply determined to face the solemn tasks before It. He outlined the steps leading up to America's entry Into the new world conflict and de clared that our own objectives were clear: smashing the mill tarism imposed by war lords on their enslaved peoples, liberat ing subjugated nations, estab lishing and securing freedom of speech, freedom of religions, freedom from want and freedom from fear everywhere in the world. No Halfwit Victory "We shall not stop short of these objectives nor shall we be satisfied merely to gain them and then call it a day," Mr. Roosevelt asserted. He explained that this time we are determined not only to win the war but also "to main tain the security of the peace which will follow." Midway in his address he spoke of a need for attaining "overwhelming superiority of armaments." It was then that he said he had just sent a let ter to appropriate governmental departments and agencies order ing immediate steps: "1. To Increase our produc tion rate of airplanes so rapid jConuauea oa fate eTa MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1942. AMERICAN PLANES ARRIVE TO HELP ISLAND DEFENSE Tokyo Lets Admission Slip That Drive Against Mac Arthur Progresses Little. By the Associated Press Imperial Tokyo headquarters let slip what seemed an admis sion today that Japanese troops have made little progress in at tempting to drive Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forces back into Batan peninsula, and more good news came with the reported arrival of American aerial re inforcements in the Philippine conflict U. S. ahti -aircraft gunners were officially reported to have hit at least seven Japanese planes during a four-hour aerial assault yesterday upon Corregl dor Island fortress and Marl veles. 60 Planes Attack A war department communi que said 60 Japanese planes took part in the attacks but that "material damage and casualties were light" The war department added: "While ground activity was considerably less than on the previous day, enemy pressure is continuing on all American and Philippine outposts." Tokyo itself claimed no fresh gains. Japanese military aircraft. cooperating with land forces on Batan peninsula, have bombed enemy concentrations at Riraal, Balanga and Sublc," a Tokyo communique said. The key to the Japanese acknowledgement lay in the reference to Sublc which lies In Zambales province, six miles north of the Batan province border, at the head of Sublc bay. With Gen. MacArthur a troops still holding Sublc, it appeared to follow that the Japanese had failed to achieve any deep thrust into Batan, since a ma jor advance would out-flank Subic's defenders and presum ably force them to withdraw southward Into Batan. COPCO REVENUES UP; INCOME DIPS San Francisco, Jan. 8 California Oregon Power com pany reports a rise in revenues but a decline In net income for the final month of 1941 com pared with 1940. Revenues Increased to $476, 993 from $433,927, while net in come declined to $83,074 from $94,971. Figures for the first 11 months of the year followed a similar pattern. Revenues rose to $5,076,410 from $4,819,827, while net Income tapered off to $864,970 from $888,027. Willkie Says Shakeup Necessary ' If Armament Program to Succeed New York. Jan. . W) Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Repub lican presidential candldata. to day had this to say in regard to President Roosevelt's arma ment program as outlined to congress: The president's recital of the directions which he has given as to our production of air planes and tanks and guns for 1942 and 1943 was the predic tion of an accomplishment which none of us thought pos sible. "It Is a msgnlflcent program It is to be hoped that he Im mediately reorganize his gov ernment and policies to the end that these ccomrjlInments may b mad possible. They cannot SEVASTOPOL REDS :il AFTERLONG SIEGE Berlin Radio Admits Breach German Line Before Mos cow; Center Drive Rages. By the Associated Press Russia's long-besieged garris on at Sevastopol appeared to have broken German lines around that key Black sea naval base today, while Soviet trans ports boldly attempted to land troops on the Crimean west coast 40 miles to the rear of the Nazi siege armies. Front-line dispatches said Rus sian troops had sallied forth from Sevastopol, advancing at a number of points to smash German outposts and destroy fortifications. Nasi Line Broken At the same time, the Berlin radio acknowledged that the Red armies had broken "the German main line" before Mos cow perhaps referring to the vital Mozhaisk sector, 37 miles west of the Russian capital, where the Germans have con centrated powerful forces. It seemed clear that the Rus sians, already over-running the eastern Crimea in a tempestu ous counter-invasion, were seek ing to gain a toehold on the west coast where they could trap the Germans by cutting off the escape route north to the narrow Perekop Isthmus. Dispatches to the Soviet gov ernment newspaper Izvestla said Russian troops which landed at Feodosiya, In the eastern Cri mea, had reached the Sea of Azov, cutting off the entire Kerch peninsula. Izvestia's correspondent said the Germans tried to shift part of their Sevastopol forces to stem the Russian onslaught on the Kerch peninsula, only to meet a deadly hail of shells from Soviet warships and coast al artillery and bombs from Rus sian naval aircraft. On the central front, the lengthening arm of the Soviet counter-offensive was reported sweeping the Germans back up on Kursk, 280 miles below Mos cow and about 100 miles south of Orel. Soviet dispatches said that Red army troops who routed the Germans from Tim, 40 miles east of Kursk, were advancing rapidly and that the road In this sector was littered for IS miles with Nazi corpses, shot-torn cars and trucks. VEGETABLES HIT HARD IN IMPERIAL VALLEY El Centro, Calif., Jan. 8. UP) Winter vegetables In Imperial Valley have been damaged up to SO per cent by frost, reports Agricultural Commissioner B. A. Harrigan. In the Westmorland district, ha said, 80 per cent of the to matoes and 73 of squash have been lost be brought about by his present organization and administrative methods." Detroit Jan. 6. (JP) Henry Ford, commenting on Presi dent Roosevelt's war production program, said today that Its achievement not only was as sured but that It meant an early end of the war possibly in 1943. Pittsburgh, Jan. 6. UP) Wil liam P. Witherow, president of the National Association of Man ufacturers, said today President Roosevelt's proposal for ship, tank and plane production was a "stupendous" program and "if It's within the realm of possi bility, it will ba dona" Life Jackets p.- -,..11 i mmii"tmm ..mm. ' ' ' I Mi ... tmmtu iu mi i a-""'- "tI 'rM" -"'""" -v . . "Vf?.;- , . , jaRsav-; ' - -; V" ""'""', -. The life jacket was standard garb aboard transport which bora Jack Rice, Associated Press photographer, to an unannounced Pacific destination soon after the war started. Men are pictured at tha rail of one ship with another transport seen in the distance, War Bulletins London. Jan. -4P The main German radio station including thosa at Berlin. Hamburg. Cologne, Leipzig, and Stuttgart closed down to night after the 7 p. m. news bulletin. Singapore, Jan. t-4JP) British troop on the Malaya front "are undertaking local offensives with most satlsfae tory results," a military spokesman declared tonight He specified no localities, but said that "the enemy's firing power is Inferior to that of the British." New York. Jan. 8- W Tha British radio said today that Husslans were reported to have crossed the upper Donets river as part of aa at tack on a broad front This could ba In the region of Kharkov. The broadcast was beard by CBS. PROFESSOR VANCE OF O.S.C. KILLED .-' . , , Corva'lls. Ore.. Jan. 8. (IP) Herbert Townsend Vance, 63. Oregon State college department head jlnee 1919, was killed in stantly this morning by an auto mobile as he was walking to work. Witnesses said the educator, crossing a street near the cam pus, slipped and lunged into the path of a car driven by a nurse fiom a Corvallls hospital. He came to OSC in 1916, headed the department of secre tarial training In 1919 and, when the department was reorganized continued as head of the degree granting department of secre tarial science. The widow and five married daughters survive. He was a member of the Alpha Delta Sigma, national profession al advertising fraternity; Alpha Kappa Psl, commerce fraternity: Delia Chi. social fratrrnlty; a master Mason and a member of the board of trustees of the Methodist church here. City Patrolman Tom Logan who Investigated the accident. said Marjorie Lange, driver of the car, was net at fault mm on Pacific 40,000 JAPANESE Chungking, Jan. 6. (IP) For ty thousand Japanese troops are caught In a Chinese trap on the plains between the Laotao and Liuyang rivers northeast of Changsha in Hunan province and Chinese forces are confident of wiping out most of them, Chinese spokesman acid today, Estimating that the Japanese had suffered 30.000 casualties in the battle before Changsha, the spokesman said only .30.000 of the original force of 100,000 had escaped toward their jumping off point at Yochow, 100 mile to the north. The spokesman's estimate of 30,000 casualties was a reduc tion from previous estimates of 52.000. The Japanese had retreated more than 10 miles from the Hunan province capital, dis patches said. The third major Japanese de feat at Changsha in three years was attributed to their inability to move heavy armament south of the Mllo river because of water-filled rice fields and ob literation of the roads by Chin ese forces who for the first time were able to concentrate superior artillery fire upon their foe. Four Aotoisls Fined For Lack of License Four motorists were assessed $1 fines and $4.50 costs In jus tice court yesterday on charges of displaying no 1942 license plates on their vehicles. They were Lewis O. Gilman, route 3, Medford: Ralph L. Haz- elton, Medford; Richard N. Milestone, and Mary FulXord Webster. Three others, Camden X. Wheaton, Will Algora Whltelaw, and Albert Oliver Helm, charged with the same offense. were scheduled to appear today. MEDIATION OFFER Salem, Jan. 6 . OP) Gover nor Sprague said yesterday he would lend his good offices in an attempt to settle a five-day' old strike of 1600 CIO employes at the Doernbecher Furniture company at Portland. No. 247. HA Mo II OF TRAINS SOUTH Representatives of Neighbor Communities Reach De cision at Conference Heret Tha gathering, before ad journing, adopted a resolution to file a formal protest with the Oregon public utilities commissioner and the Inter state commerce commission against discontinuance of the two trains and to petition the ICC for a desist order for such discontinuance unless U should ba found that the curtailment la necessitated by military ex pedience. More than 30 community rep resentatives of Medford, Ashland and Grants Pas thl afternoon discussed the advisability of pro testing the action of tha South ern Pacific company in discon tinuing the only two trains con necting southern Oregon and California January 12 after exe cutives of the railroad had al lured tha gathering that only the most urgent military neces sity was behind the curtailment in service and promised that tha trains would ba restored attar the present emergency." - " . Claude E. Peterson, assistant to the vice president of tho Southern Pacific company at Son Francisco, read a prepared statement setting forth tha mill tary demand mad upon the) railroad and citing curtailment of passenger service la Califor nia. - Return Pledged J. A. Ormandy of Portland, general passenger agent, said that in a curtailment notice filed with th Oregon public utilities commission the railroad stipu lated that after tho emergency the two trains would be restored to southern Oregon. He added that the commission had been requested by tha company to file this stipulation with tha in terstate commerce commission so that it would form part of tha federal record. Mr. Peterson volunteered that the stipulation was made In good faith and would ba kept. Despite these assurances. George M. Roberts made a mo tion that the curtailment action be protested and a desist order sought until it could be determ ined to the satisfaction of tha communities affected what th reasons behind the move were. The motion set off a lengthy dis cussion. Nlel R. Allen of Grant Pas laid he was convinced that military reason war tha only basis of th curtailment and ex pressed confidence that th rail road was endeavoring to serve th nation' war need before) any other consideration. Moor Differ Rawle Moor said ba differ ed In every particular with what wai said by Mr. Allen, who gave tha longest talk of th discus sion which followed a luncheon in the Hotel Medford. 1 frankly don't believe well ever get thosa trains back if wa lose them now," Mr. Moor said. "Every time w try to play ball with tha Southern Pacific, w get it In tha neck. That ba bwm our experience for ten year. I can't believe," Mr. Moor continued, "that tha military emergency la o great that tak ing off a couple of old locomo tives and a few dilapidated pas senger cars from southern Ore gon service will be of any value) to th war effort." Glenn L. Jackson, president of tha Jackson County Chamber of Commerce presided. HIGHWAY DANGEROUS Portland, Jan. 6. iP) Tha second interceptor command authorized th following state ment this afternoon: "Danger ous road conditions exist at present in tha area between Portland and Eugene. Motorists are advised not to travel miles it I absolutely I
