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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942. PAGE THRBB ON PACIFIC FRONT TOLD INGOMMONS Attlee Frankly Admits Japs Have Most Powerful Fleet In Waters of Pacific London, Jan. B.4JP) Major Clement R. Attlee, lord privy seal, speaking as Prime Minis ter Churchill's deputy, told the house of commons frankly today that Britain did not have suffi cient resources for complete preparation against the Japanese who, he declared, at present have the most powerful fleet tn the Pacific. ' House members cheered, how ever, when he summed up ac counts after the first month of war in the Pacific even though they were given little new In formation about the war effort. News of further steps to co ordinate manpower and muni tions of the united nations await ed the return of the prime min ister from America. The first mild criticism of the United States' role In the far east came from Commander Sir Archibald Southby, a conserva tive, who declared the Russian and African successes do not 'offset the loss of Guam and other Islands to Japan." Foresight Criticised "It might have been better," he told the house, "if the United States had augmented the de fense of those vitally important places rather than expend time and material in creation of the bases which we have leased to them In the West Indies and Newfoundland." In a broad summarization of the war Attlee told commons: "The fact that the United States has entered the war on our side has determined the result of the war, but does not offset the advantages that accrue to Japan In the beginning . . ." He declared that even if Brit ain had increased her own pro duction to the utmost she could not produce enough arms at present for the far east to equal the strong military force of Japan. Apparently In reply to criti cism of the seeming inadequacy of British military preparations in the far east, Attlee said the fact that Britain's Pacific posi tions were less strongly garri soned and equipped than might have been wished was not due to lack of foresight. Rather, he said, it was because It was beyond Britain's resources to be strong everywhere. Optimistic Picture But he drew a sharp picture ef Britain's utilization of her strength where it was concen trated and gave an optimistic, broad view of the war. British troops, he declared, already have advanced 600 miles from the starting point of their drive Into Libya and are engag ing General Erwin Rommel's German forces in "great tank battles." On the Russian front the "initiative definitely has passed to the Russians" beyond the ability of the German high com mand to pass off its retreat as a planned maneuver. From the Malaya front, how ever, Attlee reported a British withdrawal to a point about 60 miles north of Kuala Lumpur, which is 240 miles from Singa pore, and said that altogether the defenders of Malaya had had been forced to give up IS airdromes. WavtU In Charge He disclosed to the house that General Sir Archibald P. Wavell, as supreme commander of allied forces in the far east, will direct operations in vast area including Malaya, The Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines but excluding Aus tralia, India and Indo-China It was explained that United States, Australia and The Neth erlands Indies officers will be on General Wavell's staff. While Lord Addison, labor party leader, declared in the house of lords that Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Pop- ham, recently replaced com mander in the far east, was a "nincompoop," Attlee told com mons that commanders on the ground must not be blamed for results in Malaya. T.he government, Attlee as serted, accepted "full responsi bility." Word has been received from national headquarters of the Disabled American Veterans of the appointment of Francis H. Walker, of Medford, as sergeant at-arms for the national conven tion to be held at Eugene this year. The appointment was an nounced by Laurence R. Melton, national commander of the Dis abled American Veterans. Mr. Walker Is working on the convention committee for south era Oregon and is trying to get one of the four special trains to Oregon by way of Medford to bring National Commander Mel ton and his adjutant, Vivian D. Corbly through this city. Mr. Walker and Mr. Corbly are old friends and organized the first chapter of D.A.V. in Montana at Bozeman while attending college there. ' Mr. Walker Is at present chap ter adjutant of Jackson county, No. 8 and past chapter comman der of Lewis and Clark chapter No. 3, Helena, Mont.; past chief of staff of Montana. He is also a member of Crater Lake post 1833, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Medford post No. IS, Amer ican Legion. Ty Ty is the name of a Georgia town. TIRE BOARDS IN Rationing Work To Start First of Next Week, Is Outlook; Advice Is Given. ! At Big Y Market Friday lials The tire rationing boards for Jackson county are being set up as fast as possible and the Med ford board expects to be in op eration by the first of next week. The board will have an office in the Chamber of Com merce building. Although the board members have been des ignated by Gov. Sprague they are federal employes serving without pay or expense money and as yet they have not re ceived , their actual appoint ments. Speaking of the local new tire problem the county tire co-ordi- nator said today: ! "We do not think the number I of tires to be distributed 1 throughout the county will be ' exposition and have been fea more than 55 during any one j tured in R'pley's "Believe It Or month. From this small number 1 Nt." will give their stunt Lobo, Junior and Queenie. famous trick-performing Pard dogs who appeared for 76 days at the Golden Gate International it will be necessary to furnish tires to all utilities such as Copco, sanitary services, county nurses, doctors, school buses, county trucks used in defense work, road repair machinery, rural mail carriers, ice, food and fuel trucks, freight trucks, as well as tor certain sorts of labor to and from places of employ ment. These defense activities together with a limited inclu sion of farm tractors and other farm implements, but not farm automobiles or trucks, are speci fied by federal law and regula tion to be the sole and only repertoire at the Big Y market Friday at 2:30 p. m. All boys and girls are cordially invited to witness the wizards of dog dom in their spectacular per formance. The dogs represent three gen erations of their family Lobo, a pure-bred Belgian sheep dog. is the seven-year-old father of Junior, the clown of the trio, and the grandfather of Queenie who, although only a year old, has mastered many difficult tricks. Trained to perform in front of the moving picture camera, the dogs do all their stunts at the command of their trainer, Ray Courtwright, by obeying Implicitly the signals he gives only with his hands and fingers. They do not need loudly shouted commands. 12 LOCAL YOUTHS LEAVE FOR IRK IN BOEING PLANT The Boeing Aircraft company in Seattle, producers of the Flying Fortress, has taken for employment 12 more local youths who have completed the free course In aviation sheet metal work being given at Med ford senior high school, tt was announced today by Lewis Ulrich, manager of the Oregon state employment service here. They will report for work Fri day of this week. Mr. Ulrich said there were several vacancies tn the classes, instructed by Scott Brill, and that those wishing to make ap plications for admittance could do so by contacting either him or E. H. Hedrick, city school superintendent. The course lasts 12 weeks, but aircraft factories many times employ enrolles be fore they complete their classes. Due to a government order, no youths with a number 1 draft classification will be con sidered. Mr. Ulrich said. Leaving to report tomorrow are William Norman Bailey, Miles Brownrigg, A. J. Eiler, R. B. Lamlson, F. V. Palmer, Kenneth Robeson, Harvey Thayer, W. A. White, Herbert Roberts, Lee Bechtold, P. P McNeil and Paul Newcomb. that Immediate attention should be given to flats when they oc cur to your tires. Finally the question of full inflation of tubes at all times is of great importance and any driver who wishes to have the continued use of his car should keep, his activities to which permission i tire 'ul)y inflated. So Import- Closing time (or Classified Ads 9 a. m. Too LaU to Classify 13:30 p. m. If WAIT TILL YOU SEETHE I -yr 1 Toast t can make vith (zt&j IbREAKFAST BREADfJ rSl to purchase new tires or tubes can be given. No AlternatW "The board has no alternative in the matter and so those who do not come under one of these classifications will not be able to obtain new rubber. "Each one of us should at this time realize that there is Just so many miles of use left in our weakest tire and then we should decide just how we are going to use the remaining miles left In the way which will be best for our country and for ourselves. We will all be wise to accept the word of our leaders in Wash ington in regard to the length of the war and make up our minds that as far as we private citizens are concerned there will be no more new tires available. 'The fact that many city people are already leaving their cars in the garage and walking to work should be made a gen eral practice and it would be wise for country people to try to combine their trips to the city in order to save their means of transportation. All of us will find these recommendations will work a certain hardship upon us and it will be necessary for us to slow down our way of doing business but it Is much wiser to slow down now than to come to a full atop in the not distant future. Slower Driving Urged "One further word of advice has been given to the tire ra tioning boards which Is: much longer life can be gotten from your tires if you will drive slowly and In such manner that you do not have to use your brakes. "Rationing of Inner tube will be even more stringent than of casings for the present at least because there are approximate ly 22 percent less tubes avail able for Jackson county than of tires. This would seem to mean ant Is this in tire-saving that the big auto freight lines have daily checks of air pressure on all their equipment. "At present there are some new 'obsolete' tires not on the rationing program and tire own ers can still have casings re capped and retreaded." Let your toaster show you why BREAKFAST BREAD deserves a permanent place on your table. Here's bread that's tailored for toast - a bread that gives you all of wheat's nutritional qualities including energizing Vitamins Bi, Bi (G) and body-building minerals. A bread that gives you added food value for your money. Try BREAKFAST BREAD today th loaf with the rooster on the wrap. Another Treat From ON SALE MONDAY At All Grocers and Restaurants! 9 News Behind The News By Paul Mallon (Continued Prom Paga On) The report readily admits he outtalked them. MOTHER Perkins, the labor secretary, has been bother ing herself somewhat In the In terest of William H. Davis for the chairmanship of the new war labor board, but no one else has. Mr. Davis, chairman of the disintegrating defense mediation board, has some friends there who say the unan imous distaste for him among the C.I.O., A.F. of L chamber of commerce and National As sociatlon of Manufacturers makes him an Ideal candidate for the post. About 40 other names were in the lists placed a week ago on Mr. Roosevelt's desk. Near the top were James Landls, dean of the Harvard law school, and Lloyd Garrison of the Uni versity of Wisconsin. - see NO one could ask for more cooperation than this con gress Is giving Mr. Roosevelt. Little opposiUon can be heard publicly, and the only corridor criticism comes mainly from administration leaders, grum bling lightly about the way the war is going. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Tom Con nally, for example, went down to see Navy Secretary Knox to find out "where the fleet is." All he could tell his colleagues on his return was that it is sup posed to be out hunting Japs. But illustrative of the gen eral congressional tone is the case of the Iconoclastic Senator Wheeler. The one thing he fear- ed most for this country was the delegation of dictatorial powers to F.D.R. Now he Is championing an administration bill allowing Mr. Roosevelt alone to Juggle the hours of the nation into daylight savings for one or two hours. Asked about it, Wheeler said: "Well, there is no other way." In all, the new session marks no change from the old. It has the same leaders, same prob lems. A foreshadow of possible criticism against the conduct of the war has risen, but not very nign yet. THE political gas and oil ad- mlnistrator, Mr. Ickes, suf fered wing-clipping again in Mr. Roosevelt's orders setting up the office of defense trans portation under Joe Eastman. That office will now decide about new pipelines and the Nelson priority division (SPAB) will decide about materials for pipelines. Mr. Ickes and his merry men have an elegant rationing plan for gas and fuel oil all ready, but may not get a chance to use it. The Henderson auto and tire bans will certainly curtail the use of cars and gas con sumption increasingly, without other action. Too bad for Ickes. He tried so hard. By a 1940 agreement the U S. will get half of Bolivia's tin output for five years. BIG LUMBER BILL Seattle, Jan. 8. (IPs U. S. engineers bought 250,000,000 board feet of lumber from north west mills yesterday for the con struction of additional army can tonments. There were more than 160 bidders. Successful bidders were not announced. C. H. Herman, vice president of Timber Products company, and B. L. Nutting, general mana ger of the Medford Corporation, and Harry G. Dowson, sales manager, are in Seattle attend ing the lumber auction which Is expected to last the rest of the week. Mill men here understood that the government planned to pur chase close to a billion board feet of lumber in the Seattle market. A bulletin Issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's assoc iation earlier In the week said that 100.000,000 board feet of the lumber purchased would be earmarked for cantonments at Medford and Colorado Springs, Colo. MINK FARM PROSPERS Toledo, Ore. (UP) The Jul ian Smallwood mink farm, which began operations four years ago with one pair of minks, raised 784 this year. More than $8,000 worth of pelts went to market. They bring from $17 to $20 each. Sailor Son's Letfir Best Christmas Gift For Saws Vaiiay Folk C. L. Hockersmlth of Satma valley recalled with pleasure to day the "best Christmas present my wife and I ever received." The gift, he explained, wai In the form of a letter they re ceived on Christmas eve from their son, Delmar, an electric ian's mate, second class, station ed on a United States destroyer somewhere In the Pacific ocean. The letter, which was dated "December 17," informed the anxious parents that Delmar was "OK." Mr. Hnoke.T-.mlth said his son wrote that "I oould do with about 24 hours of sleep, but I guess I'll have to be con tent with four." Canada Fights COUGHS This New Amaxing Way Acts Like A Flash By far th largest telling cough medicine In all Canada la Buckleys CANADIOL Mixture. Compounded, from rare Canadian Pine Balaam (or a secret proceea) Buckley's la entirely different from anything else you aw tried. Oet a bonis today-ttaka a tea apoonful, let It He on your tongnia moment then awallow slowly. Instant ly you feel lta powerful effective ac tion apread thru throat, head and bronchial tubes. Coughing spaam ceasea. 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MUST TOPAY Yonf Regular Arm b calling for volunteer! Men between 18 and 33 are needed for all of the Artm'and Service. The Air Force wanta thouaandi of young men, immtJUtety. Training achooU are ready now for large number of Air Mechanic, Aerial Photographer and other aprrialiat. AVIATION CAD17S Many thooaandt of aviation cailet, 20 to 26 year of age, inclusive, are needed to become flying officer a bombardier, atarigaton and pilot. Too can help in bull ding the world1 moat powerful Air Force, and in the net eaaary expansion of the Regular Army. ACTION IS NEIDID NOWI Your country ha decided. The treach'er. oua attack on America ha aroused the United State a nothing else could. Your Army 2 ready. Call at the nearest Army Recruiting Station foe advice. You will be given full informa tion on how you can erve your country beat how you can defend that free dom which k your birthright. "Let' go! U.S. A. Keep 'em Flying!" lagaABCaT. 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