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The army main tains its own American expert, Knlep, former consul general at New York. , The foreign office, the minis try of information, the army and others have been scrapping among themselves, as usual, but largely in the way of competing for Hitler's favor Oust as gov ernment departments here fight for the support of Roosevelt on various projects.) . Hitler encourages this by the way he works. When an import ant decision is to be made, he calls in his generals, admirals, departmental chiefs and lets them fight it out in front of him. He has been known to goad them to the point of fist fight ing. Something like that hap pened when the decision to move into Russia was made. Many of his generals wanted to eliminate the reds before attack ing England. Goering opposed this violently. He did not want to use up his air force in Russia favored an all-out blow against England. After hearing the argu ments. Hitler went oft alone aud mad his decision. The dismissal of General Von Brauchitsch also may have been over-emphasized in the outside world. Hitler's personal military strategist is General Jodl. He is always with Hitler. He planned tha tactics of the campaigns. After the conquest of the Balk ans he arranged the surrender of Yugoslavia and Greece for Hitler. He has not been replaced. Recall of Von Bock from the front may mean that this lead ing offensive general is being fired, or it may mean he will suddenly reappear leading a new offensive for Hitler (as the British did with Wavell.) Shift- (Continued on Page Pour) NIAYORSTElL OF Washington, Jan. 14. (IP) Tha United States Conference of Mavors wound up its annual meeting today with adoption of a resolution saying the mayors were "greatly disturbed at the danger of inflation." Their president. Mayor Flor ello H. La Guardla of New York, was directed to commun icate this expression to senate and house conferees on price control legislation. Programs tonight: The war and Pan-American conference 4 MBS: 4:13 NBC-Red: S MBS: 5:55 CBS; 7 MBS; 7:45 CBS; 8 CBS NBC-Red; 8:30 NBC-Red MBS; 9 NBC CBS; 9:55 NBC CBS. MBS 8:15, Talk, Donald M. Nelson; 7:45, Dean Austin Padre on "Our Morale." What to Expect Thursday: The war 5 a. m., NBC CBS Blue; 5:45 NBC; 5:55 Blue; 6 CBS; 7 MBS; 7:15 Blue MBS: 8 MBS; 9 CBS MBS; 10:45 NBC & Blue; 11 MBS; 12:55 p. m CBS; 1 MBS: 1:45 CBS MBS; 1:45 CBS MBS; 3:25 NBC; 3:45 CBS Blue. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Irene Stedman just being so fearfully busy she simply couldn't stop to talk to aa old friend, Radio Highlights 1 E TO AHACK N1PP0 Dutch Open Counter-At tacks, American Bombers Pepper Warships Off Oil Island. Washington, Jan. 14. VP) The army said today three American bombers, fighting with the Netherlands Indies forces, attacked a Japanese naval forces near Tarakan, the vital oil island off northeast Borneo that has fallen to the enemy. Fu" results of the attack are not uown, a communique said, but two Japanese lighters were destroyed. The American planes return ed to their undisclosed base un damaged. Rangoon, Burma, Jan. 14 VP) Land and air reinforcements for the defense of Burma have arrived and more are on the way, it was announced tonight officially. The new reinforcements will serve in the forces of Lieutenant General T. J. Hutton, former chief of the general staff of India, who was appointed last month as British officer com manding In Burma. Defend Key Points Anti-aircraft batteries for Ran goon and other key points were reinforced and additional ground crews for air units were4anded in Burmese airfields, soma of them hidden in the jungle close to the frontier of Japanese-held Thailand, a communique said. Fresh British and . Indian troops equipped for instant ac tion were regarded as a sign that Burma would become the base for an offensive against Japan's long and exposed west ern flank in Malaya. Allied Command Arrives . (By the Associated Press) Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, commander in chief of the new allied far east command, has ar rived in the Dutch East Indies and already launched a series of dynamic counter - blows against Japanese invasion forces, military ditpatches said today. Dutch troops' were reported moving into action on the bor der of the "White Rajah" king dom of Sarawak, where Japa nese troops had seized the capi tal, Kuching, and most of the northern territory. Gen. Wavell's second In com mand. Lleut.-Gen. George H. Brett, former chief of the U. S, 1 lii v mi twin. .uito M same time to help direct strat - egy for the Indies' fighting de fense. New British Line Singapore, Jan. 14 (IP) British troops slowly withdraw ing toward the narrowest part of the Malay peninsula left widespread destruction today In the path of Japanese forces pressing hard upon their heels. Continuation of the British re treat was acknowledged last night in a communique which told of extensive demolition of facilities which might have been employed by tha Japanese in their advance. The bulletin failed to disclose the extent of the withdrawal from the positions which the British took up only two days ago north of Seremban in Negri Sembilan state, about ISO miles from Singapore. But as the battlellnes ap proached Singapore tha front which the British ara called upon to defend was being gradu ally shortened. FARM MEETING FRIDAY Salem, Jan. 14. (JP) The agricultural committee of the state advisory council of the U. S. employment service will meet here Friday to discuss vital labor problems in connection with the 1942 harvest of Ore gon's farm crops. Boston, Jan. 14 VP) (U. 8. Dept. Agr.) Domestic wools were receiving very little oe-1 was 18 , observed his 4ln Dunn mand today in tha Boston mar- day anniversary yesterday. Ha keU lit la food health, - Production Czar Plans Too U. S. Air Heroes Over Hawaii Get Decorations ml 3 r -aiJl .L ' Ah Major Gansral Frederick L. Martin pinned Distinguished Service Cresses en Second Lt. George S. Welch, who downed four Japanese planes during the Dee. 7 attack on Hawaii, and Second Lt. Kenneth M. Taylor, who dawned two Jap planes. The ceremony was held at Wheeler Field. Left to righti Lt. Welch, Lt. Taylor and Major General Martin. SEC. KNOX SAYS STORIES OF NAZI Washington, Jan. 14. (AP) Secretary of the Navy Knox to day said he believed stories of internal unrest in Germany were spurious and deliberately spread to take the edge off America's war effort. "Almost every one of the stories about the terrible situa tion "in Germany originates in territory controlled . by Ger many," Knox told a press confer ence. This alone should raise suspicion." "Assuming that they are doing It deliberately, lt is intended to take the fine edge of the sense of urgency and singleness of pur pose with which this country is pushing its war effort. Knox said also that German withdrawals in Russia should not be regarded as a sign of German military debacle. "In many cases there has been hasty retirement, but I don't be lieve there is a German rout In Russia," he said. 'To assume that i ! 1'n "tire",!nt on round which they have won is a rout would be an assumption as silly as we could make. It Is very unwise to assume that they are about to fall apart. Germany still has the greatest military ma chine in the world. "The Germans ara adept at using psychological weapons, think they are operating on us now. FIRE PH1LLY OIL Claymont, Del., Jan. it. OP) A fast-spreading fire, accom panied by two terrific explos ions, today destroyed a large warehouse and part of the Dela ware river terminus pier of the Texas Oil company. Firemen from six nearby rural companies and about 200 oil workers brought tha flames under control two hours after they were discovered at 1:35 p. m. (EST). The causa was not Immediately determined. A t least three men were burned or injured. AT 94. ADMITS FIBS Portland. Jan. 14 4V-William Thompson of Portland, who fibbed about his age to get in the Union army and who sayi he "voted for Lincoln before I ar-V af". . J" TANKER ATTACKED OFF NEW ENGLAND Washington. Jan. 14 (,?V Tha navy deported today that an American tanker was awash 80 miles south of Block Island off the New England coast, and said that the sub marine menace to Atlantic coastwise shipping was In creasing. The name of the tanker was not known here. Naval du ctals la tha New England area ware reported by the navy here to believe that the vessel had been torpedoed by a U-boat. - Crew men from the tanker have not yet been brought ashore, the navy said. Merchant shipping has been warned, a navy spokesman said, of the Increasing submarine hazard to coastal cargo opera tions, In order that steps may be taken to counter the peril. When last seen by a patrol plane the tanker's bow was about 20 feet above water and lifeboats were bobbing nearby carrying members of the crew. Patrol vessels and aircraft were dispatched from the New London, Conn., naval center to rescue the crew men. The location of the supposed torpedoing was apparently somewhere off Long Island sound, but the navy spokesman said the range of hostile U-boat activities appeared to spread "pretty well up and down the east coast. Navy sources would not dis close what steps were being taken to combat tha U-boat activities. ML SHASTA STORE San Francisco, Jan. 14 VP) Frank Glrlmonte. 42, identified on the police report as a depart ment store owner at Mt. Shasta, was arrested by San Francisco police today on a warrant from Yreka, charging forgery. Police Inspector Matt Savasta said merchandise contracts total ing $40,000 were Involved in the Yreka case, and that Glrl monte also was to be questioned about asserted Irregularities In $20,000 worth of acceptance contracts originating in Sacra mento. Washington, Jan. 14. VP) Portland, Ore., topped every city in the United States in navy recruiting for December in pro portion to population, with a mark of 90.89 enlistments for each 100,000 of population, the navy announced today. :, .V. -V 7 t 1 ana,. L,J,tX ,,r MILLIONS CACHED ERE MANILA FELL TO THWART JAPS Washington. Jan. 14. (IP) Tha treasury announced today that American authorities had destroyed or removed "many millions of dollars" worth .of assets In the Philippines to pre vent them from falling Into tha hands of the invading Japanese, Prior to tha evacuation of Manila, the treasury disclosed, President Roosevelt - delegated to Philippine High Commis sioner Francis B. Sayre the sweeping authority of tha new war powers act to enable him to dispose of any assets that might be useful to the Japan ese. No exact figures were avail able and no hint was given where tha valuables may be stored. In tha Philippine theater. where General Douglas Mac Arthur Is fighting to hold out as long as possible to keep the Japanese from diverting larger forces to the other areas, two attacks were thrown against the American and Filipino soldiers but both were repulsed. With supporting artillery and air craft, the enemy's operations were in the nature of testing stabs, the army said. Japanese losses were reported heavy and American-F i 1 1 p I n o casualties comparatively small. WALLACE ENTERS GOVERNOR'S RACE Salem, Jan. 14 VP) State Sen. Lew Wallace, Portland, completed his filing today for the Democratic nomination for governor at the May primary election. His petitions contained 1,500 signatures, while only 950 were needed. Wallace's opposition will in clude Howard Latouretta, Port land, Democratic national com mitteeman, who has not yet completed his petitions, Governor Charles A. sprague and Secretary of State Earl Snell ara expected to contest for the Republican nomination for governor, although others might file. ARMY PROMOTIONS Washington, Jan. 14. The president nominated ten high-ranking officers of tha navy and marina corps today tor temporary or permanent promotion. Much, Too Soon, MOSCOW REPORTS! HITLER'S ENTIRE FRONT IN MOTION Reds Storm Steel Center, Near Smolensk, Winter Quarters Of Fuehrer. (By the Assocalted Press) Russian troops were reported advancing within 100 miles of Adolf Hitler's winter headquar ters at Smolensk today, while in the south, red army forces were pictured as storming at the outer gates of Kharkov, Russia's "Pittsburgh" In the Ukraine. Soviet military dispatches said collapse of a German wing defending a flank of tha Mos-cow-to-Moihaisk highway had knocked out the Germans' "last zone of positional warfare" be fore Moscow and that "the whole front is now In motion.' The Russians declared that Hitler's reeling armies had lost 200,000 killed between Nov. 18 and Jan. 6, with 20,000 slain in recent fighting in the Donets river Industrial basin. Soviet troops were described as now battering heavily against German defenses at Mozhaisk itself. 87 miles west of Moscow, where a Nazi garrison of 100,000 men still held out despite the danger of being trapped by Rus sian pincers closing in from the north and south. - ' German military quarters acknowledged that tha Russians had broken into Mozhaisk lines Sunday, but asserted they were dislodged in a counterattack which cost tha Russians 300 dead. GILLFIBJT PRICE CEILINGS Silverton, Jan. 14 UP) State Grange Master Ray W. Gill, In his first speech since his return from a national grange execu tive meeting In Washington, D. C, declared last night that "if there is to be a celling on farm prices there should be a celling on all prices. Ha told a group of Marlon county grange officers that "when they say labor should not have a ceiling because labor la not a commodity, they forget that prices received by a farmer are largely payment for bis labor. "Tha danger of tha present bill In congress ... Is that it will freeze tha prices on farm products at a certain level while labor and other costs might rise above and cripple the farmer's ability to produce much of the needed crops. nationTneed old scrap iron Washington, Jan. A(JP)K group of responsible government officials today saw the nation's huge war program threatened in 1942 by a possible shortage of from four to six million tons of scrap steel the very metal which Japan bought up so avid ly hers In the pre-war years. Accordingly, they urged an Immediate rummage of the na tion's vacant lots, backyards and cellars for all available scrap. In a special memorandum for circulation among administra- I tloo leaders, these official as- serted that unless scrap collec tion were stimulated the 1942 production of steel so urgently needed for munitions would be smaller than 184 I s. NOTHING IN NAME Camp Forrest, Tenn- Jan. 14. VP) T ha n e w 1 y-appolnted camp transportation officer here is First Lieutenant Carr. Pullman War Bulletins Ottawa, Jan. 14. VP) Jap anese and enemy aliens of whatever origin, except those holding police permits to re main, are to be removed from the defense areas of British Columbia and other parts of Canada. It was announced to day. Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. IS. (Delayed) (AP) Informa tion of a semi-diplomatic na ture reaching here tonight said that Field Marshal Bleg mund Wilhelm List, tha Car man conqueror of tha Bal kans, had disappeared, and that his friends In Berlin were concerned for his safety. Two months ago List waa reported In command of nasi troops In southeastern Europe with headquarters in Athens. A month ago Russian sources said he had replaced Field Marshal Fedor Von Bock, German eommander oa tha central front in Russia. E BLUNTLY ATTACK No Grounds For Optimism In Pacific British Mal ayan Campaign Hit. Chungking. Jan. H.VP) Tha Chinese press declared to day that signs of British and American reinforcements in the far east were lacking, that tha situation allowed of no opti mism, and turned severe criti cism upon the conduct of the war in tha Pacific. "British authorities In Malaya have shown themselves wanting in both vision and determina tion," was the blunt assertion of the Chinese army organ, Sao Tang Pao. "The term -Pacific War" ap peared In publications 20 years ago and was tha subject of con stant discussion in Japan, yet Americans were caught off guard at Pearl harbor, and the Philippines are left to look after themselves with small force," lt continued. "Signs of Anglo-American re inforcements are absent while British and American authori ties continue to Indulge in side tracking remarks. Both Knox (United States secretary of the navy) and A. V. Alexander (Britain's first lord of tha ad miralty) urged tha allies to strike Hitler first. If Japan is allowed to take Singapore and Tha Netherlands East Indies it will be easier said than done for America and Britain to start the counter-off ensive. While other papers strongly suoDorted demands for the soeedy dispatch of land, naval and air reinforcements to tne far east, Soa Tang Pao took the eioomv view that if Japan gain ed control of Malaya and the Dutch Indies she would attain self-sufficiency and become free to use "against America and Britain tha economic weapon they onca employed against her." Ta Kung Pao urged Russia to strike before Japan Is ready to attack Vladivostok. Salem, Jan. 14. VP) The state department of agriculture said today It la Investigating more complaints about short measure of wood than aver be fore, and tha department blamed it all on tha war. There is a wood shortage be cause wood cutters have (one Into higher paying Jobs in de fense industries. Hence, soma dealers ara gyplng their custom ers by making tha dealers' wood I supplies spread over as many Icuftotnarg a for War PRESIDENT PUTS NELSON IN FUL0 Move, Long Advocated, Comes As Surprise No More 'Too Little, Too Late.' Washington, Jan. 14. lV America's new war production boss, . Donald M. Nelson, told the army, navy and OPM to day that he was ready to shake up tha entire defense setup if necessary "to Uck Hitler aad tha Japs." Washington, Jan. 14. VP) President Roosevelt pointed tha nation's industry today toward the "brilliant . . . pitiless' peaka of wot Id war efficiency by mak ing Donald M. Nelson tha all powerful production czar of tha herculean arms program. It will be Nelson's job to du plicate, if not surpass, the mast erly economic generalship which wrung tribute from Field Mar shal Von Hindenburg after the last conflict, and tha grudging acknowledgement: "they under stood war." The creation of one-man pro duction control a step long urged on Mr. Roosevelt by hut friend aad -critics alike momentarily- distracted tha capi tal's attention from tha Pacifio war fronts. It promised initia tive in tha production field where lies the allied hope for ultimata victory. It was with high Interest that Washington received President Roosevelt's surprise announce, ment last night, investing Nel son, former mall order execu tive, with supreme authority for war material production. Only a few hours earlier Nel son had made plain that his goal was to substitute "too much, too soon" for the old "too little, too late" cry that has dogged allied arms. We're going to build so many planes and tanks,' be said, speak ing in his old role as OPM'a priority director, "that when this is all over those of us who had anything to do with it are going to be criticized because we built too much." Now tha big bulky, bespec tacled man will have everything to do with it In announcing hi decision to establish tha new war produc tion Board, Mr. Roosevelt said it would have tha powers now exercised by the suppy priori ties and allocations board, and that Vice President Wallace as well as tha other present mere- ' bers of SPAB would serve on lt. Nelson has been SPAB't execu- . tive director. Besides being chairman of tha board, Nelson "will be charged with tha direction of the pro duction program and have gen eral supervision over all pro duction agencies," tha White House said. "His decision as to questions of procurement and production will be final. "Mr. Nelson will report to the president as to tha progress of the program. Ha will no longer serve as director of the (OPM) priorities division but will de vote his entire time to directing the production program." Thus Nelson emerged a tha combination Beaverbrook-Bar-uch of the war's production front battle. His board appeared roughly comparable to tha war industries board which Bernard M. Baruch directed ao astutely in World War I. and will exer cise powers similar to those wielded by Britain's ministry of supply, headed by Lord Beaver brook. Washington, Jan, 14 VP) The state and navy departments told Senator McNary (R-Ora) yesterday they had no Informa tion about American civilian workers at Waka Island at tha time of tha Japanese attack. McNary said seven Roeeburg women whose husbands or sons ware at Waka implored him for BformaUen ia $ Joint 1 5
