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Sunday Want Ads Benfe rrtdar wltb aa afaln. Pat m row thinklBf cap. graa a pencil and paper and prepare that Want Ad for tha Bandar mornlnf edition. Manr aner people haT more Una Bnnday U tnTeatlrata. Keep 'Em Flying Buy Defense Stamp or Bonds from your bank. Mom, paper carrier I, or port etflee. Sere and aid. Tribune FORD full Associated Proa United Praaa Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1942. NO. 250. 1E MED so fflF VHU i iF4 mum I Navy Releases Pearl Harbor Pictures "4 1 r- ' , V I First Word Since Dec. 31 Comes 0 From A. P. Writer in Philippines (The following dispatch by 39-year-old Clark Vet of Oak land Cal Is the first received from any of the three Asso ciated Press reporters in the Philippines since December. 31, and the first from any American correspondent in the islands since the fall of Manila two days later. Lee apparently was able to evade the Japanese forces which marched into Man ila and reach Fort Mills on the fortress Island of Corregldor, ..k v.- n with San Francisco by radio. His disoatch did not mention his bureau, R. P. Cronin, Jr., chief Brines). By Clark Lea Fort Mills, Luzon Island, P.I.. Jan. 9.-7-By r a d 1 o (AP) A strange story came to light to day in the adventure of five youthful American soldiers who escaped encirclement by Japan ese invaders by a daring ruse In which three of them "played ead" for 28 hours. Th men were Set. Emil Mor- relly and a Sgt Mitchel, and Privates William Anson, Joe Cillis and William M. Hall, all of Salinas, Cal. Their unit engaged th Jp- r V 5 J. S" 1 t colleagues of th A.P. Manila of ' bureau, and Russell anM In southern Luron on Christmas day but was cut off 1 t ; v by an invading force wnicn greatly outnumbered them. Mitchel and Anson made their way through Japanese lines while the other three convinc ingly played dead. Japanese re peatedly paused over their prostrate forms, and one In vader detachment ate lunch within a few feet of them. All five met in the hills later and made their way over rugged country to rejoin th main United States force . ' ; . . ; 1 1 , '. , . t t . . . N ' ! ' ? . '-" : .v' r 1 aMni That official photographs Jut releaied by tha U. S. narr giTo a cloaa-up of action In tha aerial attack on Pearl Harbor. At top U. S. nary seamen x amine tha wreckage of a Jap anese torpedo plana shot down during tha surprise raid on the big naval base. Below, a Jap anese dire bomber. Its diving . flaps down, shown as It ap proached its objective. Bottom: Japanese diva bomber in flames after being hit by naval anti aircraft fir. (A. P. Photo Serv ice by JkAt Mail to MaU Trl buna). U.S.O. PREPARES FOR RECREATION CENTERS IN AREA Wheels were being set In mo tion today for the establishment of a Salvation Army-operated U.S.O. recreation center for the soldiers of the cantonment to be erected in ihe Beagle-Antelope district. While the Immediate plana concerned only Medford, centers for Ashland, Central Point and Grants Pass were also in mind. Plant were started this morn ing at a meeting of the advisory board of the Salvation Army to submit location ' recommenda tions to the U.S.O. through the Salvation Army's regional office in San Francisco. The board, meeting at breakfast in - the Jackson hotel, was called to gether by George T. Frey, chair man, after a visit here yesterday by Col. William S. Barker of San Francisco, chief executive on the west coast for the Salva tion Army In U.S.O. military and naval work. Buildings Eyed Col. Barker arrived from San Francisco in mid-afternoon by United Mainllner for confer ence here with Adjutant Charles K. Cox, head of the Medford corps, and Glenn L. . Jackson, chairman of the civilian canton ment coordinating - board. He was to have continued to Seattle by plane but the Mainllner he arrived on was returned south ward and other Medford sched ules north were cancelled. Col. Barker continued northward last night by train. Two U.S.O. executives who were with him on the plane continued Immedi ately to Spokane, Wash., by bus. Adjutant Cox quoted Col. Barker as saying the Salvation Army had filed application for establishment of a US.O. recrea tional center here. With Adju tant Cox, the colonel looked over a number of possible build ings and sites for new buildings. In order to release labor for other construction, the U.S.O. is no longer putting up new build ings when existing buildings can be procured and converted Into recreational centers. Adjutant Cox explained. Th buildings looked over her were not specified. ALLIED SUBMARINE TORPEDOES SHIP CLOSE TO SHORE Freighter Unkal Mara Dam aged Is Tokyo Admission U.S. Navy Sinks Four. By th Associated Press Japan got a preview taste to day of the thing she dreads most a possible blockade of tier densely populated Island em pire as imperial headquarters acknowledged an allied subma rine raid within 100 miles of Tokyo in which the 2,223-ton freighter Unkal Maru No. 1 was torpedoed and damaged. The nationality of the attack ing craft was not given. Previously, a U. S. navy bul letin reported that submarines of the American Asiatic fleet had sunk a 10,000-ton Japanese trans port and three lO.OOO-pn Japan ese supply ships. Island War Lulls In the Philippine campaign, the war department reported that "combat operations dwin dled to minor skirmishes" as the Japanese moved up troops for a climactic drive against uen. Douglas MacArthur'i forces on Batan peninsula. The navy's communique was the first report in many days from the siseable underseas force operating in far east waters at the start of the war, a month ago, but naval officials emphasized that th dangerous missions of the submarines made prompt re ports foolhardy while operations arj proceeding. ' Imperial Tokyo headquarters said th attack In Japanese waters occurred early yesterday morning off the Izu Shlchlto islands, 100 miles south of Tokyo and Yokohama. On the Malayan fighting front, a Tokyo communique as serted that Japanese troops had driven the British out of defense lines at Troika, on the north- south Singapore railroad SO miles north of Kuala Lumpur, 240. miles above Singapore, where the British had taken i new stand. Close to Lumpur Front-line dispatches to Do me!, the official Japanese news paper, declared that the Japan ese army was even closer to Ku ala Lumpur, crude rubber capital of the world, with the British in general retreat. Domel said the British were hastily destroying bridges and roads and that troops in south ern sectors of Selangor state were Joining in the retreat to ward the state of Negri Sembi lan, south of Kuala Lumpur. British far east headquarters said a violent all-day battle raged yesterday In the Slim river sector, 80 miles above Kuala Lumpur, as waves of tank-paced Japanese infantry attacked on the main road to Singapore. Heavy casualties were report ed on Dotn sides. The outcome of th battle was not disclosed, but earlier reports said the British were "holding fast" in their newly-formed lines. Singapore dispatches acknowl edged that the mikado's Invasion hordes still were Infiltrating tnrougn selangor state, in a wil derness of mangrove swamps and steaming Jungles southwest of the main battle sector threaten ing Kuala Lumpur and the Brit ish rear. . TIRE INSPECTORS ASKED TO APPLY All authorized tire dealers who desire to assist as Inspect ors for th tlra rationing board wer asked by the board today to notify the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in writ ing Immediately, All obsolete tires may be purchased by anyone at any time but an authorized certifi cate is necessary, the board said. "HAROLD BROWN" COURT Washington, - Jan. B. CT "Harold Brown Court" has been approved by the federal works agency as the nam for an 85-dwelling housing project at Pendleton, Or. Army Inductions Speeded Up; 4,000,000 Men VOTE DAYLIGHT ROOSEVELT PLEA if feet On Farmers Major Topic In House Debate 'Can't Regulate Sun.' Washington, Jan. 9 VP) The house passed today, on a stand ing vote of 67 to 20, a daylight- saving bill ordering a uniform one-hour advance of th nation's clocks. Th senate previously had ap proved a bill giving the presi dent discretion to move the clocks ahead as much as two hours. The differences between the two versions were expected to require appointment of a con ference committee to shape the legislation into its final form. Under the house bill, the one- hour tim advance would begin 20 days after enactment and re main in effect until six months after th var ended.- . . Farmers Cited Daylight saving legislation was requested oy rresiaeni Roosevelt as a means of' con serving electricity. House debate centered large ly on the effect of daylight sav ing time on the farmers. This bill doesn't save any daylight," said Representative Leland M. Ford tK-caiuj. "it doesn't change the sun. You can't change the sun." Ford maintained farmers would lose on hour on both ends of the day if the bill, de- sinned to save electricity, be came law. "You shouldn't try to regulate the sun," said Representative Andresen (R-Mlnn) who noted also that the bill would inter fere with duck hunters, whose hours for actual hunting are limited by statute and are based on the time the sun is shining. ASSESSOR MAILS The. enuntv assessor's office this week mailed out 3800 tax mlnatinn hlanke to JSCklOn county residents, who. will fill out tha questionnaires ana re turn them to the assessor's of- fir. The av litem is belnc intro duced this year in this county, as in Klamath, Lane and oos counties, in lieu of sending out field assessors as in previous years. The miMtlonnalres are model led after the old forms and con tain th same general informa tion. In th event a taxpayer falls to fill out tha questionnaire a deputy assessor will be sent out for the work. Farm Price Control Hoover Idee, Claim Washington, Jan. Ph Senator Bankhead (D-AIa) told the senate today that former President Herbert Hoover orig inated th farm price control proposal opposed by President Roosevelt. Senate leaders expected a vote late in th day on th Bankhead amendment and to the price control bill. The Alabaman said Mr. Hoov er, food administrator during th last war, first suggested that the secretary of agriculture should control prices as well as supply and production of farm products. BREAK SIEGE OF Leningrad and Sevastopol Virtually Freed of Nazi Threat Is Soviet Claim. By th Associated Press Russia's armies wer declared today to have vii.ually broken the long-drawn sieges of Lenin grad and Sevastopol, and Soviet dispatches reported that "east of Leningrad the Germans have now lost everything they have been able to capture in th past three months." This would indicate that the Invaders had been thrown back from th eastern arc of their siege ring, with defenders of the old czarist capital once more in direct communication with th rest of Russia. Reds In Wave Advices reaching London re ported that Red army storm troops now wer battering the Germans in wave after wave in a sanguinary four-day-old battle 'at Povensta, at the mouth of th Stalin canal. While maps failed to show Poventsa, presumably it was a village In t h vicinity of Schluesselburg, 25 miles east of Leningrad, where th Neva river flows into th . Stalin canal. In th .Crimea, Red army troops who stubbornly defend ed Russia's great Black sea naval base at Sevastopol for two months were reported sal lying forth and crushing the Germans' own sleg positions. Meanwhile, Premier Gen. Wladyslaw Slkorskl of the Pol- ish government-ln-exil declared in London that the next three months would see th Germans hurled back to a defense line anchored at Smolensk, S10 miles west of Moscow, and said he had information that 12 of the 22 panzer divisions Hitler sent into Russia had been wiped out. DEATH COMES TO H. Gus H. Samuels of 301 Valley View Drive, city treasurer sine July 1B30, died In local hospi tal this forenoon after brief illness. Funeral arrangements will be announced Sunday by Perl's Funeral Home, together with a complete obituary. Radio Highlights (Tim Is Pacific Standard) Tonight: Heavyweight fight MBS 7 Jo Louis vs. Buddy Baer. NBC-Blue 7:45 Reserve of ficers dinner, Sen. Connelly and Gen. Geo. P. Marshall. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Harold L. Brown and Harold H. Brown wondering which on it 1 tha government has hon ored by naming a bousing pro ject at Pendleton "Harold Brown Court." Royal Clare, back from th north, declaring his son's dog didn't like th way Its name was misspelled in th public prints. Immediate Aim . SfillltlG War Bulletins Tokyo. Jan. Official Broadcast Recorded by AP) Imperial headquarters de clared today th United States aircraft tender Langley had been sunk by Japanese sub marines yesterday southwest of Johnston Island. (The Japanese have previ ously mad various assertions that they had aunk or dam aged the Langley ia what Americans have construed to be "fishing expeditions" for information). TRYING TO CARRY TO Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 9. VP) With its land supply routes un der almost incessant - assault from the Mr, tha axis has at tempted by sea to provision th retreating Libyan corps of Gen eral Erwin Rommel, the British announced today, but the coast wise ships drew a storm of di rect hits from th RAF, "Our air forces operating In support of our mobile -columns over wide area, had a partic ularly successful day, destroy ing a number of enemy aircraft in aerial combat," said a gen eral headquarters communique. "Enemy lines of communica tion west of El Agheila also wer repeatedly attacked. A number of direct hits wer ob tained on transport vehicles and also on coastal shipping which was being used to bring stores forward from Tripoli to beaches at various points on the Gulf of Sirte." Th supply effort of th axis Indicated that Rommel, falling back onto El Agheila, at the innermost curve of th Gulf of Sirte, might try to make a stand ther if supplies could be assured. Invasion of U. Philippine. Singapore Fall Forecast by Tokyo Paper Tokyo, Jan. t (Official broadcast recorded by AP Th) Jspan Times and Advertiser, controlled by the foreign office, declared today It was within th realm of probability "that th armed forces of this country will land on th American conti nent" In th Pacific war. One such a landing made, th newspaper said, "It will be a simple matter for a well trained and courageous army to sweep everything be fore It " "Can th United States be In vaded?" was its heading. "Th contention that the United States cannot be invad ed," the article declared. "Is as. much a myth as that the Magi not Una could not be taken, or that Singapore and Pearl Har bor are impregnable." Japanese naval craft already have carried the war near the Golden Gat and air attack alarms have sounded in many Pacific coast cities, "bringing panle among th frightened citizenry," it said. It said British had Invaded th United States in 1812 be cause "th American navy was not strong enough and declared "It will be Invaded again." Th newspaper's premise was an as sertion that tha U. S. Pacific fleet had been badly crippled at Pearl harbor. Th fall of both th Philip pine and Singapore was fore cast soon. After that, th news paper went on, "It will be for us to say when, where and how w will strike." 1A ON PRESENT LIST RECEIVING CALLS War Department Not Wait ing For New Registration Many Volunteers Also. Washington, Jan. 9. (AP) Officials disclosed today that in ductions into the army were) being stepped up to double or triple the peacetime rate, and in dications were that the imme diate goal was a hard-hitting land fi rce of four million men. The army is accelerating th Induction of present registrants, which Include about 1,000,000 al rehdy classified as 1A, without waiting to draw from the 9,000, 000 men between 20 and 44 in clusive who are expected to reg ister Feb. 10. Mo Limit Bet No limit has been set on th war-time size of the army to b sent to Britain and anywhere) els the high command may deem advisable. Secretary Stint son says the number to be drawn from the 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 available fit men will be deter mined by the needs as they aria. Present strength has - been placed at around 1,700,000 offl- l. U . kiiu tucu, vara ytmitm vaTOuy under way would increaa this to 1,000,000. Appropriations have been mad to provide com plete equipment for another mil lion. Although th war department has Issued orders against publica tion of draft calls and quotas for each area, officials mad no se cret of the fact that th draft rate was being doubled and might soon be trebled, If such has not already been ordered. Revised figures on th num ber of draftees to be put In uni form this month and next month from the present pool of regis trants will not be announced, but before th United States formal ly entered the war th combined January-February total had been set at 192.000. 004)00 Maw la Of th 17,500,000 men I (Continued ea rme Mine) S. Continent, U. S. Unstirred Washington, Jan. 9 VP) Talk in Tokyo about possibil ity of a Japanese invasion of th United States stirred not a ripple of apprehension In American military circles to day. Japan, It was noted, is now engaged In military gamble 2,000 miles from bom in its attempt to seize th entire southwest Pacific before coalition of powerful forces can reinforce their defenses. Invasion of th United States would have to follow success of this gamble, to gether with destruction of the United States fleet, capture of HawaU and at least th neutralization of larha, military men said. Today, without doubt" the) Times and Advertiser said, "Ja pan hat the most powerful navy In th world and th largest fleet of merchant vessels and her lend forces, allied with those of Germany and Italy, can crush any combination of arm-
