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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1942.
NO. 253.
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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Jan. 13. A gov
ernment report has been pre
pared showing a revolutionary
labor draft will be necessary,
if Mr. Roosevelt's plan to over
whelm the axis with production
is to succeed.
Women, who are Idle, will
have to be drawn into factory
service (as in England). All
WPA and CCC workers will
have to go into the army or fac
tory, or into substitute work to
relieve someone else for the
twin front lines. Elderly per
sons who have retired, will have
I to step back to the wheels. Sub
sistence farmers will have to
drop their feebly paying ploughs
and get into productive employ
ment. And even then, all labor
union regulations and laws re
stricting output (8-hour day, 40-
hour week, holidays, etc.), must
be abandoned to furnish the
necessary human power.
A shortage of around 8,000,
000 to 7,000,000 new workers
Is foreseen, a final net shortage
which can be made up in no
other way, except by tapping
fresh sources. It might be done
with a nation-wide enlistment
campaign. It certainly could be
done by a labor draft act. Either
way It will be done.
SOS
ONLY two failures could ruin
the Roosevelt nlan to win
victory with production a de
ficiency of raw materials or a
shortage of labor. (Everyone
agrees the government can get
the stupendous amount of
money necessary In one way or
. another, so that obstacles can
t be eliminated at the start).
The only doubt existing In
side OPM about FDR's 185,000
plane figure centered around
the question whether we could
produce enough aluminum for
that many. This doubt was elim
inated before the president
spoke, when a motor manufac-
(Continued on Pags rour)
OKAY LEND LEASE
Washington, Jan. S. VP)
The United States and Uruguay
today signed a lend-lease agree
ment, whereby this country will
I supply military and naval goods
to the South American republic.
Uruguay Ambassador Juan
Carlos Blanco announced sign
ing of the agreement but said
he could not reveal the amount
of aid involved.
It was rumored to be between
f 17,000,000 and $20,000,000.
Signing of the lend lease
agreement was the second major
accord signed with a Latin
American power within the past
24 hours, as a pact for military
collaboration was approved yes
terday between Mexico and the
United States.
Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 13. VP)
finance Minister J. L. IlSley an
nounced today that Canada's
second victory loan of the war
will be for $600,000,000 and will
be placed before the public next
month.
Salem, Jan. 13. P) Forrest
L. Hubbard, Baker, filed can
didacy yesterday for circuit
Judge of the eighth Judicial dis
trict C. B. McColloch is in-
cumbent.
SIDE GLANCES
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TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Educator Leonard Mayfield
being very much pleased over
the return of a lost article, and
even more surprised to learn
where it was found.
George Brown, feeling quite
comfortable in his new long,
99 44-100 percent pure wool un
I dergarments.
Teacher Precia Medley being
somewhat perturbed when her
little dog "Tidewater" followed
her to school . and had to be
taken home three times only to
return egiua.
JAPAN'S ADVANCE
MAY FORCE ALLIES
10 LAST
Washington Takes Dark
View As Nips Keep Up
March In Malaya.
Washington, Jan. 13
The pace of Japan's expanding
conquests aroused the capital to
day to the grim possibility that
the united nations may be forc
ed back to Australia, the last
bastion from which a major
counter-offensive can be launch
ed in the south Pacific.
This admittedly was taking a
long view, but the tide of bat
tle In the far east encouraged
scant optimism even though
Washington held doggedly to
the hope that somewhere in the
East Indies the enemy would be
brought up short by a serious
defeat.
On Celebes and Borneo the
Japanese invaders were gaining
ground. The desperate situation
in the Philippines was no bet
ter. On the Malay peninsula the
monotonous story of enemy suc
cesses continued.
In this drive toward Singa
pore, the Japanese already were
in a position for a flanking at
tack on the Dutch island of Su
matra. Should both Borneo and
Sumatra fall, the Invaders
would be poised for pincers
assault on Java, the strongly de
fended island which Is the core
of Netherlands resistance..
Jap Line Thin
There were a number of Im
ponderables In the situation.
The Japanese Have spread their
forces dangerously thin. The
Dutch stoutly assert that they
can hold out if reinforcements
arrive, particularly In the air.
And Anglo-American reinforce
ments are reported en route, al
though there has been no hint
as to their air strength.
However, the disposition In
many quarters of the capital
was to face the worst possibili
ties squarely on the theory that
if the worst did not happen, so
much the better. This attitude
was strengthened by the re
marks of Navy Secretary Knox,
who said yesterday that no de
cisive showdown with the Jap
anese fleet could be expected
in the near future.
Australia has one big advan
tage that cannot be duplicated
anywhere In all Oceania. Its
great land mass provides space
for as many air fields as are
necessary, for the "down under"
continent Is 32 times the size
of the United Kingdom, or about
the area of the continental Uni
ted States, minus Arkansas or
Iowa.
Dutch Iilo Taken
Batavia, N. E. I., Jan. 13.
UP) Japanese Invaders have
captured the little oil-producing
island of Tarakan off northeast
Born eon, but a stubbornly
fighting little Dutch garrison
held them off until all oil fields
and all equipment were thor
oughly demolished, It was an
nounced officially late tonight.
Only then, the Aneta news
agency said, did the garrison s
survivors surrender.
Large numbers of Japanese
had poured onto Tarakan, liter
ally overrunning it, and a com
munique said only remnants of
the garrison escaped to the
mainland.
This first Japanese conquest
of Dutch East Indies territory,
however, was made "very costly
to the Invader," and the Dutch
and allied air forces are contin
noiind the Japanese
uis f . . ,
... ,4. .n1 fleet lving off
the Island, It was announced.
Sineanore. Jan. 13. VPh
Japanese bomber formations,
lashing out ahead of enemy
troops only about 150 miles
north of this defense bastion,
literally shook Singapore today
with bursting bombs.
Preliminary surveys disclosed
that little damage was done.
Unlike yesterday, when the
air battle was fought high in the
clouds or at a distance from the
city, the 750.000 Inhabitants of
the Island were aware that a
battle of the skies was on in
dead earnest.
Fort Drum Guns Roar At Japs Now
ii i-y
Thsss 14-Inch rifles, shown la targst practice, are located en
Fort Drum in Manila Bay and mutt be captured before the Jap
anese can uis Manila's harbor. Fort Drum literally is a concrete
battleship, built on bedrock, and is one el a series of island lort
r ssi ss guarding the entrance to the ha;. . .; . .-t
largTsteamshipIroosevelt hits
TORPEDOED, LOST,
OFF NOVA SCOTIA
An East Coast Canadian
Port, Jan. 13. UP) A large
steamship has been torpedoed
and sunk by a submarine 160
miles off the Nova Scotia coast
within the last 36 hours and
survivors reaching here esti
mated today that 94 lives had
been lost. Eighty-nine were
saved.
The sinking was nearer the
north Atlantic coast than any
hitherto reported.
Of those rescued 66 were Chi
nese and 23 were white. Four
white crewmen and about 90
Chinese crewmen and passen
gers were lost. Most of those
lost were victims of near zero
weather while afloat on rafts
and small boats.
Although Japanese sub
marines have operated within
sight of the United States west
coast and submarines have
been reported within sight of
Newfoundland, this is the
closest sinking that has occurred
in the battle of the Atlantic.
Many of those lost died on
rafts and lifeboats.
Dennis P. Carroll of South
hampton, England, one of the
survivors, said the ship went
down 20 minutes after she was
hit by a torpedo on the star
board side about 7:40 p. m. and
by a second torpedo soon after
from the port side.
One of the men lost, an Irish
naval gunner, was thrown over
board by the first explosion and
the second torpedo struck him
before It hit the ship, one of
the survivors reported.
Five boats and six rafts got
away, but David Hughes of Van
couver, B. C, one of the sur
vivors, said that out of 39 Chi
nese on one raft only one was
alive when a rescue ship ar
rived.
BACK SHORTAGE LOOMS
Corvallls, Jan. 13 OP) How
to meet the emergency created
by the shortage of burlap and
other bags will be one of the
subjects discussed at the first
annual meeting of the Oregon
Seed Growers league at O.S.C.
January IS and 16.
Most British Columbia pulp
and paper producers have ar
ranged for plant expansion since
i the beginning of the war.
IT
TO CONTROL BILL
Washington, Jan. 13. IP)
President Roosevelt was report
ed today to have told a group
of house members that farm
amendments in the senate price
control bill would lead to a
spiral of increased prices for
both labor and the farmer.
Members of the banking com
mittee had said earlier as they
left the White House conference
that the president had left them
with a "free hand."
Wei Mnformed congressional
sources said that Mr. Roosevelt
had told the five congressmen
that the O'Mahoney amendment
written into the bill on the sen
ate floor last week tying parity
prices directly to the level of
industrial wages was the most
objectionable action that body
had taken.
The chief executive was rep
resented as believing that if that
formula were adopted, the ceil
ings on agricultural commodi
ties which might be imposed
would be raised considerably
higher than otherwise. Then
labor would demand higher
wages which. If granted, would
raise the farm ceilings still
further.
The president called the
meeting of the house members,
it was reported, to enlist their
support in a campaign to defeat
in a Joint senate-house confer
ence committee that amend
ment, as well as one by Senator
Bankhead (D., Ala.) which
would give Secretary of Agri
culture Wlckard veto power
over any farm price ceilings
that Leon Henderson, price ad
ministrator, might set.
One of the conferees express
ed the opinion that the contro
versy between two appointees
of the chief executive could be
settled more quickly than the
argument over the farm sections
of the legislation.
LAKEVIEW MAN NAMED
San Francisco, Jan. I3s(JP)
James E. Harper, Lakevlew,
Ore., has been appointed chief
of the lumber and building ma
terials section of the office of
price administration, the Wash
ington office has notified offic
ials here. Harper was formerly
with DeArmond Brothers Lum
ber company at Lakevlew and
Lakin and Company at Bend.
F
TENTATIVELY SETAL iED
T
Col. Moore Stresses Date
Is Tentative No Addi
tional Details Disclosed.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 13. UP)
The United States army engi
neers' office here probably will
ask bids Monday, Jan. J 9, on
construction of the entire army
cantonment to be located near
Medford, Col. Cecil Moore an
nounced today.
Col. Moore stressed that the
date was tentative as was Feb. 9,
date mentioned for opening
bids.
Col. Moore said engineers
might construct their own office
building somewhere on the site
prior to general construction of
the cantonment. Plans for con
struction of an administration
building wait final setting of
cantonment boundaries and ac
quisition of all needed land.
Colonel Moore would not dis
close any additional details of
the cantonment construction, In
cluding number of employes,
time of construction, types of
buildings and precise locations.
The cantonment civilian co
ordinating board at a meeting
this afternoon In the Hotel Med
ford considered emergency proj
ects that are to be presented
immediately to the defense pub
lic works division of the federal
security, agency-for government
assistance. -Such projects In
clude extension of sewer, water
and other public services that
would have to be expanded to
meet cantonment needs.
Alan C. Blanchard, San Fran
cisco, associate field representa
tive of the division of social
protection, addressed a meeting
of law enforcement officers of
Jackson and Josephine counties
at the Hotel Medford last night
WILLI BLASTS
New York, Jan. 13. (JPh-In
this war the United Statta "is
paying the bitter price of our
worship of expediency, our end
less seeking of the easy way
out." says Wendell L. Willkie.
"We will be doing our Jnb the
hard way because we have so
long sought the easy way the
1940 Republican presidential
candidate said last night.
"It would have been hard to
guard democracy In 1931 when
Japan broke the peace of the
League of Nation by matching
into Manchuria. It would have
been hard to guard It when
Mussolini moved on Ethiopia, or
in 1938 when Czecho-Slovakia
was betrayed.
"In all those cases the guar
dianship of democracy might
have meant war And yet today,
when we can no longer put It
off, today when the .easy way
is at last closed to us, the task
is even harder."
He said U. S. standards had
been too low and "the econo
mists have become the high
priests of our civilization."
'They have told us what to
UU .IIU V.IIS. IIU. W Ul', II.
declared, "and we have followed
them. Even In matters of
state we have not sought to do
what was good, or noble, or
courageous, or generous or
worthy. We have rather sought
to do what was expedient. Ex
pediency Is a poor standard for
mankind."
Willkie spoke at a dinner
opening a drive for $750,000 to
modernize St. Vincent a hospital.
FEDERAL JUDGE RETIRES
Boise, Idaho, Jan. 13. TV
The retirement of Federal Judge
C. C. Cavanah which had been
planned for January and later
postponed will probably take
place next month, the judge in
dicated yesterday.
Fishing and fish drying are
the principal industries of St.
Pierre, and iilquelon Islands.
ON BATUN FRONT
American And Filipino Artil
lery Fire Disperses All
Day Attack.
Washlntgon, Jan. 13. VP)
The war department said today
American-Filipino artillery fire
had blasted back at Japanese
guns In the battle for the Philip
pines in a 24-houi battle of the
Philippine campaign.
Eleven hostile batteries have
been silences In the continuous
artillery duel, reports from Gen
eral Douglas MacArthur said,
and Japanese batteries
been forced. to fall back
have
from
their earlier positions.
The war department said
American and Philippine bat
teries, "proved definitely supe
rior" and columns of enemy
tanks, other armored units and
large heavy Infantry forces had
been "shattered and dispersed"
by the relentless shelling from
the defenders. Losses to the
American-Filipino forces, as they
staunchly defend the Batun pe
ninsula west of Manila bay.
were called "relatively slight."
Japanese dive bombers sup
ported the enemy artillery tire,
the morning communique said.
but there were no enemy bomb
ing attacks on the fortificutlons
at the southern tip of Batan or
Corregldor island, the guardian
of Manila bay.
CONQUERED LANDS
MAP PUNISHMENT
FOR AXIS CHIEFS
London, Jan. 13. VP) The
governments of eight axis-oc
cupied nations and the Free
French pledged themselves to
day to post-war punishment of
axis leaders In what Anthony
Eden, British foreign secretary,
described as the "oppression and
brutality" imposed on Europe.
"The Quislings also have little
reason to look to the future with
any hope," Eden asserted at
their conference opening session
around a red plush covered
table in St. James' palace.
Eden said the session, con
vened on the initiative of the
governments In exile, would
show that the "German so-called
new order in Europe is a
sham."
'Today's meeting," he said,
"Is also a message of encourage
ment sent out to the oppressed
populations of Europe."
The governments-ln-exilo of
The Netherlands, Belgium, Yugo
slavia, Norway, Greece, Luxem
burg, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia
and the Free French committee
laid the groundwork for postwar
machinery which may some day
doom axis officials and soldiers
Judged to have behaved con
trary to the "accepted Ideas
concerning acts of war."
Prime ministers and foreign
ministers bitterly assailed Ger
mans and Italians for mass exe
cutions, mass expulsions, execu
tion of hostages and massacres
In their respective countries.
Each then signed a resolution
pledging his government to try
...im. u,..
and their
accomplices.
ON LABOR BOARD
Washington, Jan. 13
President Roosevelt has select
ed Wendell L. Willkie, the man
he defeated for the presidency
in 1940, as one of number of
umpires and arbitrators to as
sist the new 12-man war labor
board, and discussed the Job
with Willkie today.
Stephen Early, presidential
secretary. Indicated Willkie had
not definitely accepted the po
sition, and said the list was in
complete, - - - - -
NIPPON I War Bulletins I CHAS. PR1CKETT. 21
La Pas. Bolivia. Jan. 13
P Bolivia revoked the con
sular privileges today of Er
win Ksidsl. German consul
at Potosi, explaining that the
action was prompted by Keld
el's efforts to instigate disor
ders la the Bolivian tin-mining
district.
The government decreed
state of siege Sunday because
e! outbreaks la three areas as
the result ei an issue ever
whether taxes collected from
the Patlno mining Interests
should be used for provincial
public worka or. as the gov
ernment had decided, for fed
eral projects.
SUIT CONTESTING
2C CIGARET TAX
FILED AT SALEM
Hearing Set For Jan. 23 By
High Court No Restraint
On Collection Yet.
Salem, Jan. 13. VP) Suit
challenging the two-cent cigaret
tax law was filed in atsite su
preme court today by the state
Retail Grocer association, the
court accepting jurisdiction and
ordering Secretary of State Earl
Snell to show cause on Janu
ary 23 why he ahould not be
compelled to place the measure
on the referendum ballot next
November.
No effort was made to restrain
the state tax commission from
collecting the tax pending out
come of the case, but there were
indications that such action
might follow within a few days.
The association contended that
Snell had accepted its referen
dum petitions as adequate, and
that the attorney general's rul
ing, that the associations ex
pense statements were not suffi
cient, have no bearing on the
validity of the referendum.
The law was passed year
ago, but enforcement was de
layed by the referendum. After
the attorney general's opinion,
the state tax commission began
collecting the tax last Thursday.
If the court holds In favor of
the association, the tax will be
suspended and the people will
be permitted in November to
decide whether they want the
tax.
If the ruling Is In favor of
Snell, the tax will continue.
. The tax was expected to raise
about $1,200,000 a year, with
five- sixths of the revenue to
be used for old age pensions,
and one-eixth for vocational
education.
CAR DEALERS ASK
ICAT
Washington, Jan. IS. JP) L.
Clare Carglle, president of the
Automobile Dealers association.
said today after talk with
price control officials that there
were prospects for continued
operation by the dealers despite
restrictions on the sale of motor
vehicles.
Carglle told the house ems 11
business committee that "some
very satisfactory negotiations'
had been held.
He was called as witness
after his return from the office
of Leon Henderson, price ad'
minis trator.
Washington. Jan. IS.
Organized Automobile Dealers
told a house committee today
government orders curtailing
the production of automobiles
and freezing sales of cars and
trucks constituted death sen
tence for their business, unless
relief is provided.
Their case was presented by
Ray Chamberlain, of Washing
ton, executive vice president of
the Nstlonal Automobile Deal
era association, as the special
house committee created to
study problems of small busi
ness opened 1U healings.
OF
Woodcutter Found In Caf
This Morning By Aged
Man Was Accident
With almost a third of hla
head blown away by a shotgun
charge the coroner's office and
state police said was undoubt
edly accidental, Charles Clifford,
Prlckett, 21-year-old woodcut,
ter, was found dying at 7:30)
a.m. today In his 1932 Chevrolet
coupe which was parked on a
little-used road some 200 feet
from the Griffin Creek road to
Sterling mine.
Prlckett died about 11 a. m.
in the Perl ambulance, which
was rushing him to a local hos
pital. According to Deputy Cor
oner Carlos W. Morris and
George Davis, ambulance driv
er, the youth could never have
been conscious after the shot-'
gun shell entered Just above his
left eye and blew a large por
tion of hla head off.
The dying man was discover
ed by George Davis, 71, of SIS
Jeannette avenue, who has been
living in a cabin In the vicinity
while cutting wood, and with
whom Prlckett had been work
ing for the past two weeks.
Davis related to Deputy Cor
oner Morris that he saw Prick
ett's car parked on the side road
near the crown of a hill, and
noticed blood on the running
board and left aide of the ma
chine.. The doors of the car
were closed and the wlndowa
r, Davis told Morris, and
added that at first he thought
Prlckett had killed a deer and
put it in the car.
Davis pounded en tna door
of the car, and when he received
no response he pulled it open
and made the discovery, he told
Morris. The youth was- sitting
in the driver's seat with hie
hands on the wheel, his body
slumped against the door on the
driver's aide, Davia reiatea vm
Morris. 1
A hammerlesa 13-gauge Rem
ington double-barreled shotgun,
with Its right barrel fired, lay
diagonally aerosa Frickeua
chest. Its butt was on the other
side of the car on the floor,
Davis told Morris.
Seeing the boy was still alive.
Davis told Morris he ran to the
Griffin Creek road and called
to two other woodcutters. W. E.
Davidson and W. J. Quicken-
bush, both of Talent, who were
working nearby. They stayed
with Prlckett while Davis, seek
ing help, met Elmer Brandon la
truck which took nun to insj
Pierce residence in the Sterling
district.
The Pierce telephone was out
of order, so Davis and Mrs.
Pierce took the tatter's car back
to the Griffin Creek district
where a state policeman waa
called." Dr. Geo. 1C Goodrich.
Medford dentist, cut In on the
call, heard the conversation and
hurried to the scene where, with
Davidson and Quackenbush, ha
took Prltchett out of, the ear
and wrapped him up ei the
ground by a fire to await the
arrival of the state policeman
and a local physician, and the)
ambulance.
Davis told Morris that between
S and S Monday afternoon
Prlckett took Davis shotgun
from the cabin in which they
i living and told E. C Bel
cher, another woodcutter, to
Inform Davis of this.
Morris and the state police
man agreed the death waa un
doubtedly accidental, but could
offer no theories on how It hap
pened. Morris aald the amount
of frost on the car and mark
In the road indicated the ma
chine had been parked thrre all
night, but added he couldiit tell
when the accident occurred Ha
said there would be no Inquest
Charles Clifford Prlckett waa
born in Outlook, Wash., July S7,
1921, and had resided here en
Plum street for the past year.
He la survived by bis parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Prlckett
of Outlook and the following
brothers and sisters: Cecil of
Washington, D. C Haroid of
the U. S. navy, Raymond of
Medford, Mrs. Hasel Nonmaker
of Kelso, Wash, Margaret Prlc
kett of Yakima, Wash., Paulina
Prlckett of Port Townsend,
Wash, gad Faarla Hale. ,