Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 12, 1942, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAt Small Cost It yea mlatlu market far Keep 'Em Flying Boy DcfM Stamps or Bond! from joar bank, atom, paper rarrlrrs, or port office. Sara Medford Tribune trade, aiafc to ato, er kan H wwbi ior mn. M in Want ada, Ttaauanda af Ta ara ea thu par amy mnlng. Quirk rrsnlti anally follow and at small coat. and aid. TuU Associated Prs United Prase Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 19 NO. 252. ire lo) ASTrWO fn fin i 1RJ LTUU AM News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 11 Mr. Churchill paraded his produc tion dynamo Lord Beaverbrook so conspicuously here that a new pressure . we has been gen erated on the Capitol Hill folk for a com p 1 e t e rejug gling of the defense set-up which would leave one man like the lord on top. The British prime minister Paul Mallon is supposed to have talked closely to FDR about eliminating boards upon boards, commissions upon com missions and authority upon authority, as the existing set-up provides. The idea of one war control has caught favor in congress where they say that inasmuch as Mr. Roosevelt wants one man to run the price control regime (Mr. Henderson) he should also select one man with authority to cut through the red tape in the defense production department. Apparently Mr. Roosevelt has not found a production man like Lord Beaverbrook. He allowed the army and navy to slip Into their munitions board a few days back a strange, unconcern ed civilian for the first time in history. There are rumors that this board will increase its ener gy and function as a division of supply, which Is, in effect, the for which the critics have long pined. a MR. Roosevelt has said noth ing. Rumors that his Vice President Wallace was to take charge (being at least as ill-suited as anyone mentioned for a purely administrative Job) or that W. L. Batt, the real busi ness organizer in OPM, or per haps Donald Nelson, the man who is running it now, might be hit by the magic wand, have all been current for days. Seekers have found no confirmation. At bottom, unadvertised, is certainly a personnel fever against continuance of the pres- (Continued on Pag 81) T?ntin Jan. 12. P)-(USDA Very few inquiries were be ing received today tor aomesiic wools In- Boston. (Time Is Pacific standard) New York, Jan. 12. (Wide World) Listening tonight: The war, subject to change 5 MBS, 8:55 CBS, 7 MBS, 7:30 Blue; 7:45 CBS-East, 8 CBS, 8:30 MBS, 9 NBC CBS, 9:55 CBS NBC. . Blue 4:30 talk. Brig. Gen. D. N. Williams: 8 Rep. J. W. Martin on "National Unity." What to expect Tuesday: The war 5 NBC CBS, 5:45 NBC Red, 5:55 Blue, 6 CBS, 7 MBS. 7:15 Blue-MBS. 8 MBS, 8:15 MBS, 9 CBS MBS, 10:45 NBC, 11 MBS, 12:55 p. m. CBS, 1 MBS, 1:45 CBS MBS, 1:55 NBC-B. 3 CBS MBS, 3:25 NBC Red, 3:45 CBS-Blue. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS State Cod Sane O. A. Mac Kinnon filling up notebook after notebook with facts gleaned at the FBI civilian defense school. Ashland's Mayor T. S. Wiley and Recorder J. Q. Adams sign ing a $2 check for a book from the Medford Printing company, the check coming to the MT office Instead of the Oklahoma company of the same name in a city of the same name, pop. 1.121, where it belonged. ' Dick, Thelma and Billy Isaacs having their Sunday plans dis rupted when their canary got out of its cage, they having to spend the rest of the day chas ing tt through the neighbors' 1. a! Radio Highlightsj BATTLESHIP, TWO British Indicate Loss of Rubber Capital Dutch Counter-attack In Borneo By the Associated Press The sinking of two Japanese transports, hits on at least two others, a direct hit which caused fire on a battleship, direct hits on two cruisers and a near miss on a destroyer were marked up against the Japanese In Dutch and United States communiques over the week-end. The successes were divided as follows: Sinkings Two transports in the Gulf of Siam, the recent work of a Netherlands submarine cooper ating with the British fleet for east Asia. I Hits ; A battleship in Malaga bay, Davao gulf, Philippine islands, directly hit and left afire by formation of heavy bombers of the United States army. Also under United States at tack, with undetermined results, were a cruiser and two large transports In the Celebes sea. Two transports, hit by American-built planes of the Dutch off the Island of Tarakan, near Dutch Borneo. A cruiser directly hit twice by Dutch allied planes off Mina hassa, Celebes. A second cruiser hit once by Dutch bombers off Tarakan. Near Miss . .., A destroyer, rocked by nearby blast, off Minahassa, To New Position Singapore, Jan. 12 UP) Loss of Kula Lumpur, important rub ber center and capital of the Federated Malay States, was In dicated by the British today In a communique announcing that their troops had retreated to new positions before Seremban, 35 miles airline southeast of that city, under heavy Japanese assaults. The Tokyo radio broadcast an omciai announcement una . ,, morning that Japanese troops Five principal mills and sev had entered Kuala Lumpur Sun- 1 small concerns of-southern day.) The British withdrawal drop ped the battle lines to little more than 150 miles north of Johore Strait, the narrow chan nel over which a causeway con nects Singapore island with the Malayan mainland, More than two-tniras oi ma-, laya thus were left in Japanese hands and the invaders were re-1 ported continuing their attack on the land and in the air. "Our withdrawal was closely followed up by enemy infantry, with continued attacks from en emy aircraft," said a terse com munique announcing the British retreat. While intimating the loss of Kuala Lumpur, the communique Indicated that Selangor state, in which the city is situated, had not been entirely surrendered to the Japanese. Batavia, N.E.I., Jan. 12 OP) Hatd-hitting forces of the Neth erlands Indies' allies (presum. ably bomber and fighter squad rons from the United States and Australia) were declared offlci-1 ally today to be taking part in vigorous counter action in which the fiehtine Dutch battled strong I Japanese Invasions of Borneo and Celebes. Japanese parachutists and sea bome forces were battling dog' gedly in an effort to improve ,ne SMU',e ,uctlon wouM the positions they won early 1 or ,rmy .,,. yesterday at the oil center island menU Medforj ,nd Colorado of Tarakan. off northeastern Springgi Col. In. all the g-jvern-Borneo and on the northern j ment bought several hundred arm of Celebes. ! mmion board feet. The fight at both Invasion points continues stubbornly, a special NEI armed forces state ment declared. Of the NEI and allied aerial blows at the shipping which car ried and supported the invasion, the special statement said: "Our allies are energetically taking part in the fight against the invaders." .... Brazil is the world's greatest potential producer of vegetable oils and vegetable products. Senator Broadcasts In Japanese ( Ij Senator Elbert D. Thomas (D-Utah), a former Mormon oils sionarv to Jaoan. works in Washington on the translation of a script for a short wave broadcast Pacific coast to Japan. Dolor blm on the desk is an English Japanese dictionary and soma reference books. MILLS GET HUG E Part of 20 Million Feet Ear marked for Colorado and Local Camps. urCKUIl vain) mvtmj vin - lumber auction in Seattle Sat urday with combined orders for 18 to 20 million board feet of lumber for the government's huge task of building canton ments over the nation to accom modate the swiftly-expanding army, B. L. Nutting, general th. Mrtfnrrt Cnrmr jaUon uid today after hl, return (rom tne Washington city. It was the largest single order of. its nature for the southern Oregon mills. The principal southern Oregon mills receiving orders lncluaea the Medford Corporation, South ern Oregon Sugar Pine company. Central Point, Alley Brothers, Prospect, Tiller Mill tt Lumber company, and the Ingham Lum ber company, Glendale. Mr. Nutting said these com panies took orders primarily for green fir, which means that the lumber can be milled and ship ped quickly without drying or i seasoning. It was specified that I shipments were to begin Febru- , J, wm be utnlzed to f, the orderf he reUted Me,ntlme , wlll be continued, he added. Before the auction, a bulletin Issued by the West Coast Lum ; 000 00() fwt of t, Jumber bermen s association said 100, ' sought by the government in Emergency Romance San Diego, Calif., Jan. 12. (JP) An advertisement in the personal column of a news paper gave evidence today of the effectiveness of the gov ernment's ban on sale of new automobile tires. The ad read: "Gentleman would like to meet attractive young lady with four ood tiren." in Japanese beamed from the NEW JERSEY TURNS T TO BE FBI Reveals Ardent Member as Confidence Lady With Long Prison Record. Newark, N. J, Jan. 12 (IP) The people of the parish of staid Roseville Methodist church were astounded today at the news that their most ardent church worker had been arrested as a confidence woman with a record of a half-century of swindling and prison life. The charge against Mrs. Ame lia Carr, gentle-voiced bespec tacled wife of the chairman of the church trustees, was de frauding another church woman of $4,700. Essex county Prosecu tor William A. Wachenfeld said a check of fingerprints by the FBI unveiled -a career of crime starting in 1891 during which Mrs. Carr, now 66, had swin dled numerous victims of more than $1,000,000. The husband, J. Clarence Carr, 70, was heartbroken. He couldn't believe tt. "She has been a queen to me. I know nothing about any unfortunate affairs of her past," he said. "I know nonly goodness about her. She was noble, good and loyal. I can't help but feel this is all a terrible mistake." The church pastor, the Rev. Edron R. Leach, could only say: "It simply amazes me, be- cause for the past five years I have watched her doing cnariv able work and acting the role of a good churchwoman." The police were likewise aghast when the charges were first brought last month, for no one stood higher in the church community. HEAVY FIRING ON E Washington, Jan. 12. VP A heavy artillery battle along the entire front In the Philip pines was reported today by the war department, with ground activity increasing as fresh Jap anese troops moved up, accom- panied by renewed air attacks on American and Philippine de- i fen. AT EARLY DATE WITH FLEET SEEN Battle of Atlantic More Vi tal, Secy. Knox Says U. S. Warships Not Idle. Washington, Jan. 12. (AP) Secretary of the Navy Knox said today that while the American fleet was not Idle no early con clusive showdown could be ex pected with the Japanese fleet and that the battle of the At lantic was still the war's most important struggle. The navy's number one Job, he said in a speech prepared for the annual United States confer ence of mayors, is keeping the sea lanes open between America and Britain to bring about the defeat of Hitler's Germany "our great enemy." "I would not be frank with you if I led you to believe that you could expect favorable, dra matic developments of trium phant, American, full-scale naval engagements In the Pacific In the near future," Knox said. "The elements of distance, of time, and the necessarily wide distribution of our naval forces preclude what I know you all wish me to suggest: Early con clusive showdown with the Jap anese navy. But you know that by this I do not mean to imply that the Pacific fleet is Idle. Strategy Dictates "It is not Idle and you will hear from it again and again when and where careful strate gic considerations dictate." Folifting out that Germany, by bringing Japan into the war sought to divert the attention of America and Britain from the Atlantic, Secretary Knox told the mayors: "It might easily have led to action out of the" excess of right eous anger but the cool-headed leadership provided Jjy our commander-in-chief, the president, kept us safe from that danger. Under Roosevelt, we have kept our heads and we will make our own plans in our own way and we will strike where and when we are ready, not before." "We know who our great enemy Is. The enemy who, be fore all others must be defeated first. It is not Japan, it is not Italy. It is Hitler and Hitler's I nazis. Hitler's Germanv. It is Hitler we must destroy. "That done, the whole axis fabric will collapse.' WINTER DEFENSE LINE OF HITLER Moscow, Jan. 12. (AP) On- rushing Russian soldiers have broken the new German winter defense line between Vyazma and Bryansk, on the central front, by capturing the steel-producing center of Lyudinovo, it was reported today. The midnight Russian commu nique announced toe reoccupa- tlon of Lyudinovo, 40 miles north of Bryansk, and the cap ture of the Important railway Junction of Tikhonova Pustyn, a few miles north of Kaluga, which is almost half-way between Mos cow and Bryansk. A mid-day communique re ported continued successes, chief of which was "annihilation of 2,700 German officers and men" and destruction of five anti-air craft batteries and three trench mortar batteries during a two day battle on the southwestern front. This communique added that soviet troops had occupied "an other populated place" and an nihilated a German infantry bat talion on the central, front and wiped out 240 officers and men and destroyed six enemy tanks in another unidentified sector, (Adolf Hitler was said Jan. 1 In Stockholm reports to London to have set up headquarters at I Smolensk, 110 miles northwest 1 of Lyudinovo and 220 miles west I of Moscow, after taking personal I charge of the army HEARING LIKELY ON TRAIN SLASH SAYS COMM. BEAN Salem Receives Protests No Word From ICC on Desist Order. Salem, Jan. 12. (P) Public Utilities Comrnlsloner Ormond R. Bean said today he has re ceived many protests from south ern Oregon against the South ern Pacific railroad's request to be permitted to discontinue pas senger service between Grants Pass and California points. He said the protests were made by the cities of Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland; the chambers of commerce of those cities; Jackson and Josephine counties; and by the Brother hood of Railroad Trainmen. Bean said he probably would grant a hearing, but that the is sue is up to the Interstate com merce commission. The Rogue river valley's last remaining passenger and mall railroad link with California was definitely severed today when the Southern Pacific com pany yanked off the last two trains in this service. The crawling, puffing, old train from the south did not ap pear this morning and the south bound train from Grants Pass made its final run last night. Passengers arriving from the south this morning came by Greyhound bus from Dunnulr, Cal., although the local railroad office said that special de luxe busses would ba substituted for the two trains, the 'stages' to op erate between Grants Pass and Dunsmuir vhere connectlonr are made with Klamath division trains. Meantime no word had been received here regarding the pro test and petition for a desist or der filed by various communi ties and organizations with the interstate commerce commis sion. A desist order was sought pending investigation of the company's contention that It was discontinuing the trains because of military necessity. It was pointed out by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, one of the protest signers, that ordinarily the issuance of a de sist order Is mandatory UDon the pending adjudication. Up 10 mis atternooit, however, not even an acknowledgement of the protest and petition had been received here. At a public meeting here last week, railroad representatives said the trains would be restored when the present "emergency was over. Community represen tatives at the meeting, however. expressed the fear that once the trains were taken off, they'd never De restored. STOCKllPTS AND PRICES HIGH Portland. Ore.. Jan. 12. UP) Cattle receipts at the north Port land stockyards were at the highest mark today since Oct. 8 1923, the U. S. department of agriculture reported, with 4,100 head in 178 cars. Despite the heavy volume, the market was generally steady and steers touched a 10-year top at $13.25. Fed lambs also reached 10-year high at a top of $12.25 The market reporting service said heavy demand occasioned by light receipts In the past three weeks supported the mar ket, but hogs were oft sharply, a local reaction to last week's prices regarded as too high. BANFIELD. ADVISORY HEAD Washington, Jan. 12. OP Thomas H. Banfleld, Portland, has been appointed chairman of the Oregon advisory committee of the OPM contract distribu tion division. HEADS WOOLMEIf La Grande, Jan. 12 (JP) Mae Hoke, Pendelton, was elected president for the third succes sive time by the Oregon Wool- growers' association here Satur- dar War Bulletins London. Jan. 12 (VP) Rus sia's Black sea ileat. operat ing from the great Sevastopol base which the Nails failed to destroy or capture, was shslllng retreating German columns la the eastern Cri mea today, reports reaching here said. One object el the ffast drive into the Crimea was to restrict the Black sea licet. Failure of that aim was ap parent when the red navy took a large and successful part In SovUt landings on the Kerch peninsula December 28. Washington. Jan. 12. W) Dactruction by fire of the army transport Cliveden in Alaskan waters was reported today by the war dapartmaut. The ship, a combination passenger and freight vessel of 7.3 IS tons was said to be a total loss, but all personnel war saved. The cause of the fire is be ing Investigated, the war de partment said, without Indi cating whether It was believed te have resulted from enemy action. The loss was reported In a late day communique which failed te mention develop ments in the Philippines. The communique said the Hawaiian department com mander had advised that of 897 soldiers wounded In the December 7 bombing of Pearl Harbor, 55 had returned te duty and the early recovery of most of the others was ex pected. CITY TREASURER EFFECTIVE JAN. 15 Appointment of Oris Craw ford as city treasurer to succeed the lata Gui Samuels was an nounced today by Mayor H. 8. Deuel. Mr. Crawford Is assistant manager of the Medford office r. Oris Crawford of the First National Bank of Portland. The appointment be comes effective Jan. 15. In announcing the appoint ment, made with the advice and consent of the city council. Mayor Deuel said: "We feel Mr, Crawford will fill the position with honor and efficiency. He has lived here most of his life, he la thoroughly trained for the position and he is held In high esteem. We feel that w are indeed fortunate in procuring the services of one so eminently qualified to fill this important position." Mr. Crawford, who resides at 914 West Main street, completed 39 years of faithful service with the bank on January 1. The bank, then the First National of Medford, was only a year and a half old when he Joined the staff. Ha rose through the vari ous positions to assistant cashier and then to ccshier, position he held for many years. When the local bank was purchased by the Portland Institution a few years ago, Mr. Crawford was made assistant manager. Mr. Crawford went to work for the bank shortly after com ing to Medford. Prior to coming here he resided for four years in Jacksonville, where he served as a deputy sheriff, and for It yean In Cold Hill NAZI DISSENSION SPREADS TO NAVY; U-Boat Chief Charges Supe rior With False Reports About Sea Successes. (By the Associated Press) Disease, disunity and military disaster stalked the once con quering legions of Adolf Hitler today and, barring surprises, seemed to be hastening the day of Hitlerism's ultimate defeat Hundreds of additional doctors and nurses were reported by the Berlin correspondent of a Swiw newspaper to have been rushed recently to the eastern front to combat a wave of vermin-spread typhus, both among the waver ing troops in Russia and behind the lines in conquered countries. Berlin added a footnote to the chapter of European unrest with an announcement ail former of ficers of the Norwegian air fore . and navy had been ordered ar rested because some 100 of their number had escaped to England to fight for liberation of Norway; London, Jan. 12 (P Grow ing dissension in the Nazi high command was reliably reported to have spread to the navy to day with a sharp disagreement between Grand Admiral Erich Raeder and his submarine chief. Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz. Earlier the London Star quo-' ed a Moscow broadcast that Field Marshal General Wilhelm ' Keitel, chief of the Nazi nigh command, suddenly " had been taken 111. - - - . A foreign source, whoso in formation about Germany has almost invariably proved accur ate, said Doenitz had accused his superior of misleading him about successea . of submarine raiders and the availability of replacements. He flatly charged Raeder with "being responsible for the miscarriage of submarine warfare.", .... This source said the Doenttt. phrase, which ha described as a direct quotation, "bears out In dications that things are not go-, tag so well for the Germans in . the battle of the Atlantic." Doenitz, this source said. Is an admirer and friend of Field Marshal General Walther von Brauchitsch, whoea retirement from his command in Russia has been reported to have resulted from his Insistence that Hitler break off the campaign before winter set in and retire to lines behind Khalm, Smolensk and Kharkov. The submarine chief has been responsible for the main activ ities of Germanys' navy in raid ing commerce and transports. He was said to have occupied high place in the regard of naval experts. This source said that Doanlts' charged that Raeder deliberate ly permitted false reports to spread indicating the rate of sinkings of British and allied ships was much higher than it actually was. He also was said to have charged that the rate of new submarine construction was much lower than the Germans reported. SEVENPERISH III Fairfield, Calif., Jan. 12 (AP) Seven persons were killed to day in an automobile accident and subsequent fire. Highway Patrolman Leo Boyle said military buttons and pieces) of clothing indicated some of the victims, possibly five, were mem ber of the U. S. marina corps at Mare Island navy yard. Hours elapsed before the vte time could be Identified. Six of those killed were tat the) Kennedy car. The seventh wee the driver of a truck, killed ae the two machines met head-on. CALIFORNIA SOLONS MEET Sacramento, Calif, Jan. 12 (P After 20-day "think it over" recess, the California state) legislature met for the second part of wartime special session today.