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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Jan. 10. Fast
readers may have the notion
from Mr. Roosevelt'! speech
that he is dis-
catchlnK land.
V J-v3 i nd ex-
, f nedi 1 1 o n a to
Britain. He
did not cay
that. Note well
his words that
they are to
"take stations
In the British
Isles."
England
needs troops
Paul Malloa
less than New
castle needs coal. She is over
run with more than 3,000,000
men In uniform, but there is
a very large unprotected sec
tion of the "British Isles" which
could use American land, air
and sea forces to a good ad
vantage, politically, economical
ly and belligerently.
A one-paragraph item out of
Dublin the following day be
trayed the prospects. It said the
Irish would rather have Amer
ican than British troops.
As American forces go into
those valuable bases, however,
they will have to furnish ex
tensive anti-aircraft protection
to Irish cities. Once established,
they can clean the Atlantic of
German submarines.
TJ D.R. was astonished by one
item in his own budget
the appropriation for free-food
disposition under the food
stamp plan. In his budget ex
planation conference for news
men, his finger stopped when
he reached the Item of $7,000,
000 a month for this purpose.
He asked a budget adviser why
the amount was so large, and
then remarked someone else
would have to justify such a
large expenditure before con
gress. Free distribution of food
hardly fits in with Mr. Roose
velt's program of food conser
vation to meet war and post
war requirements.
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ANOTHER thing Mr. Roose
velt or someone else will
have to Justify to congress is
the new Roosevelt position on
business and taxes. He said he
not only wants to abolish war
profits (which already has been
done In the excess profits tax)
but to abolish the peace-time
profits which some businesses
(Continued on Paaa Nina)
JAPAN LOSES 29,
Washington, Jan. 10. (IP)
Japan has lost at least 29 naval
vessels and transports and the
United States, six, since hostili
ties broke out between the two
nations a month ago.
A compilation of official re
ports by the army and navy
shows these Japanese losses:
Two battleships (the Kongo
and the Haruna), one light cruis
er, five destroyers, five submar
ines, one gunboat, one mine
sweeper, 10 transports, four
supply vessels.
United States losses reported
by the navy were:
One battleship (the Arizona),
one target ship (the Utah), three
destroyers and one minelayer,
all lost in the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor on December
7.
Chungking. Jan. 10. A
There was one humorous twist
to the Japanese propaganda tac
tics in the siege of Hongkong,
which fell Christmas day.
Loudspeakers blaring from
somewhere across the harbor
frequently played such tunes
as "Home Sweet Home" and
"Swanee River.' presumably to
try to make the garrison of
Britons. Canadians and Indians
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NIPPON IDEA HAS
HUMOROUS TWIST
ADMISSION MADE
BY HIRER'S AIDE
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Deny Revolt In Reich Faith
In Fuehrer And More
Recruits Urged Surprise
Action.
(By the Associated Press)
Somewhere on the German
Frontier, Jan. 10. The nazl
leadership has taken extraord
tnorv mpaure to denv rerjorts
of incipient revolution within
the reich, advices to this border
point disclosed tonight. .
Th measures Including the
awakening of foreign corres
pondents in the middle of the
nleht to inform them of the
rumors and the foreign office
denials came at a time when
Adolf Hitler's own press chief
and all the German newspapers
were acknowledging the gravity
of the military situation in Rus
sia.
The arlmiiulnna. counled with
appeals for a renewal of faith In
the fuehrer, showed that tne
winter camnaien in Russia is
written off by the German lead
ers as lost.
Tn everv available Quarter.
meanwhile, the German army
launched recruiting drive in
the hope of building a fresh
force for the planned spring of
fensive. Highly reliable advices
said that because of German
losses and the need for a far
greater army in any new push,
thla rirlva had unread into Bul
garia, the occupied Baltic states
and even Into Norway. The re
cruiting campaign, perhaps,
prompted the German paper in
Norway, Deutsche Zeitung In
Nnrweeian. to attack Sweden
for not aiding Finland and for
hnnnlns esnnrtation Of Clothing
which Germans In Sweden
wanted to send to the Russian
front.
Writers Pussled
As far as the Internal German
situation goes, it is known here
that the first meat German fail
ures in the east Inspired feel
ings of concern ana unresi i
home. However, the corres
pondents who were called from
(hoi hoH. in hear teleDhoned
denials of reports of an imminent
state of revolution saia n
nnita annarent that there was no
evidence of such a thing in Ber
lin, and the best information od
ta unable elsewhere is that no
organized effort to revolt exists
or is likely to exist soon.
Yet, the correspondents ex
pressed surprise that the drastic
form of denial was deemed
necessary in the Wllhelmstrasse.
Blame Britain
In making its denial, the for
eign office blamed the reports
on British and American sources.
Today the Berlin radio, quoting
the Berlin correspondent for the
Rumanian newspaper Timpul,
said that "rumors of growing dis
satisfaction in Germany . . . were
launched in the hope of influence
the forthcoming conference (of
American foreign ministers) at
Rio de Janeiro." By indirection,
the broadcast said the rumors
had it that machine guns were
mounted on the roofs of Berlin
hotels, adding that Rumanian
lonmaliata in Germany could
themselves see that this was not
true.
Germany's fountain-heads of
public information appeared to
be trying to convince Germans
that they were talking frankly
about what is going on in Russia.
Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hitler's own
press chief, told newspaper read
era in a universallv-Dublished
article that Germany military op
erations "have entered an ex
tremely serious and Indeed crit
ical phase". He asked the people
tn remember that the fuehrer
had led them to victory in the
past ana urgea them to Deiieve
that he would do an affair.
"Der Fuehrer will know how
to overcome this crisis," said Die
trich. Echoing Dietrich, the Import
ant Deutsche Allffemine Zeituna
said the toughness of the Russian
enemy and the cruel Russian
winter "nereatitnte the laat orain
of physical and moral courage
irom our soiaiers.
There are four towns named
Comfort In America.
Japs Push Down Peninsula
SUMATRA
Invading Japanese, striking by land and air tn British Malaya,
had the key city of Kuala Lumpur as a major objective as thay
tried to push down the main road from Ipoh. Singapore diapatches
said the British had launched a counter-offensive in the Kuala Se
langor sector. On the east coast the British said there was no
word of further Japanese advance from Kuantaa, 190 miles north
of Singapore.
SENATE APPROVES
IE RULE BILL;
EAVORS
Washington, Jan. 10. (APV
The administration's wartime
price control legislation emerged
from a weary senate today so
much amended by Its farm bloc
that Democratic Leader Berkley
(Ky.) called It a "farm relief
bill."
The vote on passage was 83
to 1 with Senator Nye (R-Ind.)
casting the only dissenting tally.
Beforehand, however, the farm
bloc, in a S3 to 31 division, had
succeeded in writing in a series
of restrictions on ceilings rver
agricultural products' with the
result, administration men said,
that many farm commodities
were left free to rise 25 per cent
or more above present levels.
The far reaching and compli
cated measure intended to help
prevent inflation and sky-rocketing
living costs now goes back
to the house. A senate-house con
ference committee is expected to
be appointed to redraft Import
ant sections before the measure
comes up for final consideration.
Whether this group could
work out and secure senate and
house approval of a measure sat
isfactory to the administration
was, however, an open question.
FIVE STATES CALL
Chicago, Jan. 10 (AP) Only
five states Maine. Illinois, Cali
fornia, Massachusetts and Mich
igan have called special ses
sions to deal with problems aris
ing from America a entry Into
the war, a survey by the council
of state governments showed to
day.
However, eight other states
will act on emergency war meas
ures in regular sessions this year,
and special assemblies are un
der consideration in Pennsyl
vania, Connecticut and Colorado,
CIGARlTTAXTO
FACE COURT TEST
Portland, Jan. 10. CP) Os
wald West, Portland, attorney
and former governor, said to
day opponents of the new state
cigaret tax probably would ask
for an injunction against the
tax law Monday.
He did not disclose identity
of the opponents.
BAKER PLANT BURKS
Baker, Jan. 10. (AP A
$200,000 fire destroyed the Stod
dard Lumber company's planing
mile, box factory and dry shed
early today.
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MILES
BR. MALAYA
ASK
CRATER LAKE PARK
FISCAL YEAR
Washington, Jan. 10. W)
.FresldentRoosevelt's 1943 budg
et made provision for continued
operation of the nation's national
parks during the year starting
next July 1, recommending con
gress appropriate $4,833,655 for
the activity.
The amounts asked for the
parks In the Pacific coast states
were:
Crater Lake, Oregon, $80,043;
Kings Canyon, California $37,
600; Lassen Volcanic, California,
$58,080; Mount Rainier, Wash.,
$146,460; Olympic. Washington,
$62,535; Sequoia, $133,925; Yo
semite, California, $317,060;
Boulder Dam Recreational area,
$91,590.
The budget asked $131,300 for
forest protection, and fire pre
vention and prevention of spread
of forest Insects and tree disease.
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Portland, Ore., Jan. 10. (P)
The Bonneville guard station
reported tonight that a soldier
guarding Bonneville dam ex
changed shots with a passing
motorist.
A shot was fired from an east
bound sedan, the soldier said,
and he fired two bullets in re
turn. FIND MISSING FLIER
Hanna. Wyo.. Jan. 10. (IP)
The body of an army flier, miss
ing since the crash of a four
motored bomber Thursday '.ight,
was found today beside his par-
iiauy-openea parachute on a
snowy slope eight miles south
of Hanna.
STARVING CHILDREN
Istanbul, Turiey, Jan. 9. (De
lay) (IP) Turkish and Greek
authorities said today they were
seeking to arrange for transpor
tation of 500,000 starving chil
dren from Greece for adoption
by Turkish families for duration
of the war.
MORE POWER
Portland, Ore., Jan. 10. CP)
Bonneville A d m I n I s trator
Paul J. Raver said today an
additional 180,000 kilowatts of
power would be available by
fall for war iadustrles in the
Pacific northwest.
BULLETIN
Klamath Falls high school de
feated Ashland 13 to 28 in a bas
ketball game at Ashland last
night. Ashland led at half-time,
IS to 14
SjprS j N GAPOftETp
$89,045 FOR
SIGNS POINT TO
Enemy Fleet Off Mindanao
Luzon Battle Lulls
Malay Rubber Center
Falls.
Washington, Jan. 10. (AP)
Fragmentary news from the
Philippines led some tacticians
here tonight to the opinion that
the Japanese might be planning
an immediate full scale assault
upon the Dutch East Indies, si
multaneously with an effort to
drive General Douglas MacAr-
thur s forces off the island of Lu-
n.
This view was bolstered, they
said, by army reports of an ene
my fleet concentration off Min
danao, the southernmost of the
lare Philippine islands, together
with a massing of Japanese rein
forcements on the Luzon front.
The fighting on Luzon was.
meanwhile, in a lull. The artil
lery of the two armies banged
away at each other from a dis
tance. There were sporadic skir
mishes between Japanese and
American patrols. Enemy air ac
tivity was confined to observa
tion flights.
By the Associated Press
Britain grimly swore Its "ab
solute determination" to defend
Singapore and "other vital
areas" today (Sunday) as its
troops fought an apparently los
ing battle for Kuala Lumpur,
crude rubber center 180 miles
north of Singapore j
Gen. Sir Henry. R. Pownal,
British commander at the Bri
tish naval base In Malaya, told
defenders in a broadcast tonight
that there were days of bitter
struggle ahead but that Britain
and her allies were not idle.
"We are engaged," he said
upon the task of holding the
enemy from vital areas and as
far from them as possible while
we renew, regroup and supple
ment our forces."
FILM M IK
Ballard, Calif., Jan. 10. W)
Fame came to this tiny com
munity in the rich Santa Ynez
valley today.
Mickey Rooney, who coaxes
more money Into theater cash
registers than anybody else in
Hollywood, waa married to his
soft-spoken North Carolina
sweetheart In the little rustic,
Presbyterian church.
The simple ceremony was
double ring, pronounced while
the pastor's wife played "I Love
You Truly" on the piano. First
thing the newlyweds did after
two affectionate kisses was call
Mrs. Mary Baker Gardner, the
bride's mother, in Wilson, N. C.
Mickey's parents, Joe Yule and
Mrs. Nell Pankey, were In at
tendance. His closest friend, Les
Petersen, was best man. The
bride's sister, Beatrice, attended
her.
The couple left for a honey
moon In Del Monte, Calif., with
in an hour after the ceremony.
They'll return to Hollywood next
week.
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Berlin, Jan. 10. (Official
Broadcast Recorded by AP)
German radio reports from
Bangkok today said the British
carried out a heavy aerial raid
on the Japanese-occupied Thai
capital Friday night, dropping
large number of bombs.
Many casualties were reported
among the Indian and Chinese
population.
(The account gave no details
of military damage. Two raids
were made on Bangkok by Brit
ish air forces based In Burma
earlier this week.)
Cr JED STORM
WWST 20 YEARS,
TREE LOSS HIGH
Damage Heavy In 'Salem,
Eugene And Albany
Many Autos Ditched.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 10. (AP)
With censorship barriers drop
ped by an elapsed time of 48
hours, Oregon could announce
today that it had a storm and
what a storm earlier in the
week.
Snow, sleet and a silver thaw
combined to coat the Willamette
valley and many other areas
with ice, disrupting traffic, caus
ing accidents, straining transpor
tation systems, breaking off tele
phone and telegraph communica
tons and causing untold damage
to trees.
The federal weather bureau
Indicated that Portland was on
the edge of the storm, which cen
tered somewhere In the middle
Willamette valley.
Salem called the storm its
worst in 20 years and damage
was extensive there, at Albany,
Corvallis and Eugene. Salem es
timated that 80 per cent of its
trees were damaged, some ruin
ed, including rare species on the
capitol grounds. Many orchards
were seriously damaged.
At Corvallis, fallen limbs
blocked sidewalks but thousands
of trees In the Oregon State col
lege school of forestry's arbore
tum escaped Injury. They were
planted so close together that
they supported each other des
pite tons of ice on their limbs.
Travel over most highways
was hazardous and hundreds of
automobiles were ditched by the
icy surface. Power failures were
common at Sheridan, Wlllamlne,
Grand Ronde, Salem, Corvallis,
Albany and Eugene.
Numerous communities, In
cluding Portland, closed their
schools.
One death, that of Thomas
Jubb, 78, Lebanon, was attribu
ted directly to the storm. He was
found dead in his driveway after
going out to clear off the snow.
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Washington, Jan. 10. (AP)
Members of the house ways and
means committee, searching for
$7,000,000,000 In new general
revenue, appeared to be giving
Increasing, though reluctant at
tention to a general sales tax.
A poll of the 29 members
showed that only a few were wil
ling at this time to commit them
selves to that method of obtain
ing new funds to help pay for
1942's $36,000,000,000 war pro
gram. But many others said they
regarded It as a comparatively
painless tax that "we may have
to come around to."
ALIENlMlU
LAID TO LEVINE
New York. Jan. If! IAm
Charles A. Levlne, who Tew the
Atlantic as an airplane passen
ger in 1927, was arrested today
on a federal Indictment for
smuggling Into the country an
alien whose name waa given as
Edgar Scinek, alias Edward Sle
gel. Levlne waived removal pro
ceedings and was held In $1,000
ball by U. S. Commissioner Isaac
Piatt Federal agents said that
Levins was charred In a Pall
fornla Indictment.
NO RACETRACK
Portland, Jan. 10. P) Hen
ry Collins, chairman of the Ore
gon Racing commission, said to
day that plans had been dropped
temporarily for construction of
a horse-racing track at Portland.
Berlin, Jan. 10. (Official
Broadcast Recorded by AP
German warplanes sank a 4,000-
ton soviet transport and dam
aged three merchant ships and
light cruiser In the Black sea,
tha high command said today.
War Bulletins
London. Jan. 10. (AP) Bri
taln'a first women conscripts
registered for national service
today. Girls of the 1921 class,
they numbered about 350.000
and will be called to the ser
vices probably at the end of
the month.
Singapore, Jan. VtJPh
The British commander tn the
far east General Sir Henry R.
Pownall, declared tonight that
"the most vital of the areas
which are to be defended and
the one which we are ebso
lutely determined to defend
is Singapore."
He warned. In a broadcast
commentary on the war, that
"there are difficult days ahead
with much hard fighting."
Alexandria, Egypt, Jan. 10.
(AP) The British light
cruiser Galatea, struck by
three torpedoes from aa axis
submarine, flopped over like
a stabbed turtle and went
down within three minutes off
the Egyptian Mediterranean
coast In the Inky darkness Just
alter midnight the morning of
Dee. II.
Singapore, Jan. 10, (IP)
The Singapore radio in a
broadcast tonight said that
Amerlcao-made Hudson bomb
ers el the royal Australian air
force had scored four direct
hits oa a Japanese ship off the
east coast of Malaya.
The account said subsequent
reconnaissance failed to locate
the ship, which waa presumed
to have been sunk.
London, Jan. 10JJP) Car
man bombers were reported
over a northwest England area
tonight
High explosives were drop
ped la scattered areas along
the east and northeast coasts.
-Damage was slight aad there
were ne casualties.
TIRE RAINING
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BY UNION LABOR
Washington, D. C, Jan. 10.
(AP) Labor organizations asso
ciated with retail delivery serv
ices are wiring their congression
al delegations here, urging
changes In the government's
drastic tire rationing program.
Two main revisions requested
are that the government restrict
tire retreading to commercial de
livery vehicles and taxlcabs and
that no restriction on tire sales
ba applied to delivery services
until all private automobile op
eration is abolished.
"Before taking action on taxi
cabs we urge you to bear down
on private cars," Seattle taxi
cab drivers urged.
A Salem, Ore., teamsters un
ion demanded that there be no
curtailment of retail delivery
without first "abolishing all pri
vate car operation."
FREE FRENCH TO
RETAIN ISLANDS
St Pierre, St Plerre-Mlquelon,
Jan. 10. The Free French will
remain in occupation of the
Islands of St Pierre and Mlque
lon, Vlce-Admlral Emlle Muse
lier declared today.
Museller, who commanded the
Free French units that occupied
the islands Dec. 24, said that the
plebiscite taken the following
day showed that the population
was In favor of the Free French
as against Vichy, which former
ly controlled the islands.
"In case anyone still remains
In doubt as to my position, I am
glad to repeat what I have ssid
before. Here we are, and here
we shall remain," Museller said.
NIPS BEAR DOWN
Tokyo, Jsn. 10 (Official
broadcast recorded by AP)
Tha Dome! news agency report
ed today that the Japanese com
mander In the Philippines had
ordered all United States and
British nationals to report to
the army Immediately for In
ternment "for their own pro
tection."
FOE RETREATING
Mozhaisk Trap Closing
Libya Armored Forces
Last Stand Site Chosen,
London, Jan. 10. VP) Like
a heavyweight champion keep
ing his foe off balance, the
Soviet army tonight was re
ported pressing its uninterrupt
ed counter-offensive with con.
sptcuously successful blows in
the central sector northwest and
southwest of Moscow,
The two arms of the pincers
seeking to trap perhaps 100,000
Nazis about Mozhaisk, 57 miles
west of the capital, were extend
ed further. Below Mozhaisk tha
Red army claimed recapture of
Mozalsk and to the north the
Nazis were said to be retreating
from Starltsa toward Rzhev
placing the Soviet advances at
least 30 miles beyond Mozhaisk
on either side, with the Jaws of
the pincers drawing ever closer.
In the Staritsa-Rzhev area tha
Germans apparently were trying
to make a stand, for the Moscow
radio broadcast dispatch to
the newspaper Izvestla reporting
that the Nazis were rushing up
planes "and infirmary units are
being brought up from deep in
the rear."
Cairo. Egypt, Jan. 10. UP)
Reports of tn RAF bombing and
machlnegun attack on axis tanks
grouped rear Ras El Aall ware
seen tonight as indicating that
General Erwln Rommel may
have chosen that section along
the Gulf of Birte for tha next
stand of his still-strong armored '
force.
The British middle east head
quarters said the axis with
drawal along the 70-mfle road
to El Agheila from their last
stand at Agedabla was so swift
that British advance troops were
unable to bring the enemy to
action.
The number of prisoners taken
since the British drove westward
from the Egyptian frontier ap
parently is not more than 20,000
and other axis casualties would
appear to account for rela
tively small part of the 150.000
axis troops which Prime Min
ister Churchill said confronted
the British at the outset
The rest some sources said.
apparently were in the hold-out
force near Halfaya pass and
scattered along the long com
munications Unas which Rom
mel must guard.
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Washington. Jan. lo 0P
The War department disclosed
today that the first of a number
of large transport gilders de
signed to carry air-borne infan
trymen with full fighting equip
menthad been delivered to tha
army air forces.
Similar to those employed by
the nazl air force in the con
quest of Crete, the gliders have
a wing span of mora than SO
feet The first was delivered to
Wright field, Ohio, the army's
aviation experimental station.
The War department said sev
eral manufacturing concerns had
been working for the last nine
months designing and building
tha gliders.
Washington, Jan, 10. UrV
Senator Brown (D Mich.) told
the senate today that Joe Louis,
heavyweight boxing champion,
"is a citizen of whom Michigan
and tha nation la proud,"
Tha senator called attention
to Louis' yictory over Buddy
Baer last night in which tha
Negro fighter risked his cham
pionship while donating has
puna for navy relief funds,