MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1942.
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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
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p. m.
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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."
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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. Right away It loosens up thick
choking phlegm opena up cloned
bronchial tubes makes nreathlne
easier. Now you'll know why oyer
10 million bottlea of Buckley's famous
cough mixture have been sold la
cold, wintry Canada.
Walnacott'a and moat good drua
glsts now have this great Canadian
discovery.
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tlit Octrx Tonlo TbMu rnt. onir ir BttA
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whera la Medford at Chat, fltranf
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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!"
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