MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 1942.
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SAYS MACKENZIE
Japs Continue Malaya Gains
" But Spread Lines Too
Thin No Vital Action.
(Br DWitt MacKenii
The Japanese continue to
clamp tighter the pincers with
which they are striving to clutch
the key defensive base of Singa
pore and the rich Dutch East
Indies.
The heavy Jap offensive down
the Malayan peninsula towards
Singapore has forced a further
withdrawal of the British and
apparently the abandonment
of Kuala Lumpur, known as the
crude rubber capital of the
world. The Nipponese also have
made three fresh landings on
the Dutch island of Celebes and
claim capture of the Dutch oil
island of Tarakan off Borneo.
This means that the Japanese
have acquired fresh bases much
closer to their quarry. The in
crease of the air-threat to the
allies in these gains is particu
larly serious. And, of course, the
corollary must be the loss of
valuable defensive bases to the
allies. However, nothing ap
proaching a decisive action has
yet taken place.
One of the most promising de
velopments in the battle of the
Pacific from the allied stand
point Is the remarkable striking
power and morale being dis
played by the Chinese In fresh
offensives against the Japanese
in several strategic sectors of
the long front. The outstanding
example of Generalissimo Chi
ang Kai-shek's new-born initia
tive thus far has been the dis
astrous defeat administered to
the invaders at the important
city of Changsha, Hunan prov
ince. This really great triumph
is reported today to have cost
the Japs 46,000 casualties al
ready, and the mopping-up is
continuing.
Such a grand exhibition by
the Chinese, after five terrible
years of standing off the far
better equipped war-machine of
the Mikado, certainly couldn't
be anticipated. That makes it
the more pleasing to see them
demonstrate that the rising sun
has got to climb a lot higher in
the sky before its rays carry
light and warmth to aU the
spets where the Japs need them.
The Nipponese have spread
themselves far too thin for safe
ty in their efforts to make
conquest of such a huge slice of
the world.
Because of the unexpected
ness of General C h i a n g't
strength, this column Is getting
inquiries as to the whys and
wherefore. There is a combina
tion of reasons which can be
summed up thus:
1. Chinese morale naturally
has received a tremendous lift
through the acquisition of great
new allies. That perhaps is the
outstanding cause of the Chinese
man's buoyant spirit, for there
must have been many times dur
ing the long struggle against the
invaders when he felt that he
was the forgotten man.
2. As already indicated, the
Japs are spreading themselves
too thin and likely have been
compelled to withdraw men and
material from the Chinese front
to meet the demands of the
hurry-up job they have under
taken against the Anglo-American-Dutch
combine. Thus we
must attribute part of the appar
ent increase in Chinese strength
to a weakening of the Nipponese
in that theater.
3. But that doesn't give the
whole story, for actually the
Chinese are stronger, as they
have been receiving war sup
i plies in increasing quantities
from the United States. These
shipments have included badly
needed fighting planes ' and
bombers and, more to the point,
a considerable contingent of
American military pilots and
mechanics have enlisted in Gen
eral Chiang's army and have
bolstered the Chinese air force
greatly. Then too the Burma
i road, China's lifeline, has been
' improved by American engi
neers, and new trucks have Deen
put to work, thereby increasing
the flow of supplies.
t .jv Vl
111 IS, sorted 10 per cent; m ab
mt, quoted S6.SO06.OO.
CktriiO
Chicago, Jan. 11 "WU8DA)
Salable hoca: Generally steady to 10
lower than mdaya average; bulk
iso-340 lbs. aiiJS-ao: top su ss
spartrrly; not J 40-300 lb. 611-00-65;
tol and choice 10-160 lb. un
derweight SU.IS-SO; good S8O-5O0 lb.
ova largely NtO 10.40; light"
weight up to 610.66.
Salable Cattle: Supply strictly beef
cattle largest in yeara; few stork cat
tle here; general market 15-40 lower
on steer, oowa and helfere: strictly
choice steers and yearling steady to
25 lower: common and medium
grade scarce but 35 down; only scat
tered fed ateer sold at 1 J.OOa; 13 50:
early top choice mixed yearling
614.40: next highest price 614.18 with
choice 1303 lb. steera eiS.SA and com
parable 1375 lb. offering 616.65; most
heifers til. 00 11.75,
Salable aheap; Bidding mostly 85
50 lower or 112 35 down on fat lamb
held at S1140 and above: few fat
sheep steady with good to choice
kinds e 00-80; better klnda held
higher.
Cash grain: No. I flax 6110.
Cash wheat (Did): soft white 61 00;
aoft white excluding rex S1.03: white I
club 61.06; western red S1.0S.
Hard red winter ordinary 51 51: 10
per cent 5103; 11 per cent 51.11H:
13 per cent 61.16,.
Hard white-baart ordinary 51.14:
10 per cent SMTHi 11 par nt
U33V,; 13 per cent
Chicago Wheat
Chicago, Jan. H. -jpr Ormln price
took aharp rta today on the
atrength of aenat action to lift
minimum ceilings applicable to agri
culture commodities under the pend
ing plica control bill.
Wheat: Open nigh Low Close
May lJOWfe 1J3S 13014 133H
July 131 13S l S1 1S4H
Sept. 1.33 JS6 132
PRACTICE Maybe James
Barnes Is awkward now, dress
ing doll for a Philadelphia
Junior high school home nursing
course bat walt'll he finishes
course In June.
LIVESTOCK
54.50: fat dairy, cows 57.35-75: medium-good
beef cow 58.50 39.55: good
bulls 59.50tl0.00: choice restore up
to 514 00.
Hogs, salable 3400. total 8750:
market 35 below last Monday or
sharply under lat Friday: good
choice 170-316 lb. mostly 513.00. one
specialty lot 513.15: 330-370 lb. 511.35
50: light lights 51100-50; sows
around 35 lower, mostly 59.00-75. few
510.00; choice 44-lb. feeder plga
513.50; 135 lb. 511.00.
Sheep, salable 3000. total 3600: fat
lambs strong to 35 higher; good
choice fed wooled lambs 513.00-35:
truck-lna 611.76: common downward
to 68.50; fat ewea 66.50-90.
Portland
Portland. Ore.. Jan. 13 M)-(tJSDA)
Cattle, salable 8750. total 4100;
calves salable and total 135; market
uneven: best fed steers fully steady.
medium grade stow and weak; com
mon fully steady with laat Monday.
Instances stronger but part of late
advance discounted; bulls around 36
60 above last Monday: vealers steady;
good fed steers 613.35s 13.00, top
613.35: common 'diary type steers
j down to 68.30; few common-medium
i heifers 68 00 a 10.40: canner and cut
I ter cows 65.50 06.50; sheila down to
South San Francisco
South San Francisco. Jan. 13. 1P)
(Fed.-State Mkt. News) Cattle sal
able 400; active, steers strong. 3 cara
top good 1063 lb. and 1193 lb. fed
steers 613.00? 13.10; latter new re
cent high, load medium 1350 lb.
ateera 613.50: half car good 913 lb.
fed Nevada heflers 61150: two loads
good young Nevada cows 69.00-26:
cannera and cutter ateady, bulk
65.75 ( 7 .35, few packagea common
67.50-75: medium sausage bulls as.00
9.00. Calves salable 10; steady; good
to choice vealers quoted 613-00 jr 14.00.
Hogs salable 400; around 10 lower
than Friday; about 3 loads good 188
335 lb. barrows and gllta, 613.75,
choice grades scarce, packagea 340
348 lb. 613.35; few good sows 610.00.
Sheep salable 1.000: moatly 35-55
higher on shorn lambs; 8 decks 83
87 lb. 611.86. one deck good 73 lb.
Portland Produce
Portland, Ore., Jan. 13. If) But
ter F-rtnta, A grade, 40o In parch
ment wrappers, 41c In cartons: B
grade. 80c In parchment wrappers,
40e In cartons.
Butterfat Plrat quality, maximum
of .6 of 1 per cent acidity, delivered
in Portland, 89 v, -40c lb.: premium
quality, (maximum of 36 of 1 per
cent acidity), 40-41o bi valley
routes and country point. 3o leas
than nrst. or 880 lb.; second qual
lty at Portland, 3e under first, or
87 1, -38c.
Eggs Price to producers: A large.
33c; B large. 31c; A medium, 80c;
B medium. 80c do.; A small, 36c; B
small, 24c do.: resale to retailers. 4c
higher for caaea. cartons So higher.
Dressed turkey selling prices:
hens, 38c: toms, 37-38c lb. Buying
prices: toms, 34-35C lb.; hens, 36c lb.
Onions Yakima. 61 40-1.45; Ore
gon, 6i.3S-3.0O per 50-lb. sack.
Potatoes white locals. 63 35 cental:
Deschutes gems, 63.76 cental; Klam
ath 63 85 cental.
Country meat Selling price to
retailer: country killed hoge. best
butchers. 139 to 148 lbs, lo'ie lb.:
vealera, fancy, 31-31H lb.; light thin.
14-lBc; heavy, 15-lSc lb.; canner
cow. 13-14c; good cutter cows, 14
15c: bulls. lS-loo lb.; lamb. 30-31C
lb.; ewes, 6-lle.
Wool 1941 dip. Oregon Ranch,
nominal, 33-83o lb.; croaabreds, 84
37o lb.
Hay Belling price on tracks:
Alfalfa. Kb. 1, 831.00 ton: oat-vetch.
614.00 ton: valley prices: Willamette
clover, 813.00 ton, valley point; tim
othy, eastern Oregon, 21-50.
Portland Wheat
Uortland, Or.. Jan. 13 fly Oraln:
Wheat: Open High Low Close
May 1.08 103V4 1 03 1.03ft
Wall St. Report
MEDIATE RITES
OF SECT LEADER
'Jehovah Witnesses' Head
Dies Last Wednesday,
Kept Secret Three Days.
New York. Jan. 12. AP
Recovery seeped into the stock
market today centering on steels,
rails and specialties.
While many leaders failed to
join the procession, gains of frac
tions to a point or so were posted
for favorites after an uneven
opening. There were scattered
advances of more than 2. Deal
ings were fairly active at times,
although slow-downs were fre
quent. Today's closing price for 84 se
lected stocks follow:
Al. Chem. 81 Dye 141
Am. Can 61 14
A. T. T. 1371,
Atch. T. a 8. P.
Bendls Avla.
Beth. Steel
Caterpillar Tract.
Chrysler
Curtlsa Wright
DoutTtaa Acft.
DiiPont
Otn. Klec. ,
Gen. Food
Or n. Mot.
Int. Harvest
Johns-Man.
Kennecott .. , ...
Monty Ward
No. Amn. Av'n .
North Amer. ....
Penney (J. C.) .
Penna. R. R.
Pbllllpa Pet
Radio
Sou. Pac.
Std. Branda -St.
Oil Cal.
St. Oil N. J.
Trans. Amer.
Union Carb.
Unit. Aircraft -United
Airline
U. S. Steel
. 37S
. 30
87 i
- 64
- 40
- 47l4
- 8'4
664
134,
- 37H
. 89
. S3
. 48 14
. 6714
. S.Vj
. 37t,
. 33H
. 10
. 78
, 33
. 88 "4
. 3H
. 137,
. 8
. JOIJ
. 88 S
..unquoted
69 H
33 H
,-unquoted
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San Diego, Calif., Jan. 12.
(AP) Lying on his deathbed,
Joseph Franklin Rutherford, 72,
world leader of Jehovah's Wit
nesses, voiced a last wish.
I He asked disciples to bury him
at dawn of the day after death
in a Hillside crypt at Beth-Sarim,
the estate he built here for the
biblical King David's return to
earth.
Rutherford died at the estate
last Thursday in a passing kept
secret until Saturday.
But today Rutherford's body
was still unburied, his last wish
thwarted by a county law for
bidding burial on the estate be
cause it is not a legally loned
cemetery.
Followers of the Jehovah's
Witnesses' movement obtained a
hearing date Jan. 24 to. present
their burial permit petition be
fore the county health commis
sion. Preparations went ahead,
meantime, on an apparently
elaborate memorial to be erect
ed at the estate.
Rutherford, who once termed
"organized Christianity" an "un
holy alliance against the com
mon people," had been ill here
for two months. Dr. George Roy
Stevenson, who signed the death
certificate, said Rutherford had
known for 18 months of the ma
lignant condition that eventually
brought his death. Chief of a
movement that spread to 38
Annual production of razors
In United States factories In
cludes 10,450,000 safety razors.
747,800 dry - shavers, 75.000
straight-edge and others, accord
ing to census bureau figures.
Relief At Last
For Your Cough
Oreomulslon relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
germ laden phlegm, and aid nature
to soothe and heal raw, tender, In
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way It
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughi, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
countries, Rutherford claimed
2,000,000 followers to whom he
prophesied a millenium.
Dignified and severe, the for
mer Missouri lawyer made thou
sands of addresses to gatherings
of witnesses and in later years
over the radio. H campaigned
for William Jennings Bryan in
1896, but sometime later aban
doned political affairs.
During recent years Jehovah's
Witnesses have been involved In
incidents attracting national at
tention, such as that of a 1940
contest before the U. S. supreme
court of a case of two Pennsyl
vania children who opposed a re
quirement they salute the Ameri
can flag In school.
SPECIAL TALK TO
ELKS SCHEDULED
Exalted Ruler Ernest h. Scott,
of the local lodge of Elks an
nounces that L. C. Oberlies of
Tacoma will give a special talk
to the Elks in the Elks Tempi
Thursday night, January 15th.
Mr. Oberlies is considered a
very outstanding speaker and
his subject for his talk Thursday
night will be "America's Intent
ible Weapon."
Scott slated that Mr. Oberlies
would have a special message
for Elks and he particularly
urges all Elks in the community
to attend. A lunch will b served
after the meeting.
IN NEW QUARTERS
The Jackson County Council of
Defense today opened central
headqaarters at the Jackses)
County Chamber of Commerce.
All civilian defense activities
under the council will hence
forth be centered at this new
office and persons having busi
ness with the council were asked
to call or telephone there. The
telephone numbers are 4808 and
2295. Heretofore the various di
visions of the council have been
more or less scattered, with M
central headquarters.
The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D. C, cited ai the
largest marble building in the
world, took less than four year
to build and cost about $1S,
000.000.
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