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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Jan. 14 The of
ficial lines of information from
inside Germany fail to confirm
tha suggestions that Hitler's re
gime is about ready to crack. .
Disputes apparently have
risen among the Nazi leaders,
but there has always been per
sonal competition and friction
among them. Von Ribbentrop's
foreign office, for Instance, has
as its experts on American af
fairs, Hans Diekhoff, former
German ambassador to Washing
ton and Ritter, former ambassa
dor to Brazil. 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
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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.
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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.
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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
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