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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1942.
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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Jan. IS The sen
ate runaway on farm prices was
the result of some very quiet
scheming of a few farm bloc
plotters on me
senate banking
committee.
Mr. Roose
velt's price fix
er, Leon Hen
derson, bad
been lobbying
ardently
around, but
did not sus
pect the reins
were being cut
until one day
Paul Mallon
the committee tried to keep him
out of a hearing. He and Agri
culture Secretary Wickard were
sitting outside.
The committee called In Wick
..a H.,t .aid nothing about
l.ft'inir Henderson Into their
executive session, on his own
bill. He literally elbowed his
. thrnncrri the door, and there
engaged both Wickard and the
farm blockers noiiy bob uv.
What had thrown him further
off their trail, was the fact that
. farm leader. Senator Bank
head, had made an agreement
tn the committee to oppose
the O'Mahoney-Russell runaway
.n.nHmont (120 rjer cent of par
ity and up). Bankhead kept his
agreement. He vottd against it.
But It developed wnen ine
vote was taken, he was not
leading the farm bloc this time.
When the tellers looked around
for the farm army usually be
hind him, it was discovered he
was general standing alone.
DT the time Mr.
Henderson
boss, Mr.
a and his busy
Hoosevelt, found they were
faced with a farm price boost
ing bill, it was too late to stop
the stampede. The bulk of the
final votes against them were
being contributed by their own
leading senators from southern
states.
It was rather generally un
derstood in the cloakrooms that
cotton and potatoes would fare
better than other commodities
under the bill. Trying to stop
a southern senator after a cotton
price increase proved to be Just
like stopping an axis tank with
a red light. They felt labor had
been allowed to get away with
wage increases, and saw retribu
tion If not righteousness In their
own positions.
. No one seemed very proud of
' the senate afterward, however.
The debate had furnished no
recognition that a war was on.
(Continued on Paga Six)
Radio Highlights
New York, Jan. 15. Wlde
World) Topics tonight: The
War and Pan-American Confer
ence, 4 MBS, 4:15 NBC. MBS,
4:30 MBS, 5:55 CBS, 7 MBS.
7:30 Blue, 7:45 CBS-Blue, 8
CBS, 8:30 MBS, 9 NBC, CBS
Blue, 9:55 NBC, CBS-Blue.
Talks: Blue, 6. America's
Town Meeting, "Can We Win
the War Without Hate?" MBS.
6.15, Assistant Secretary of
State A. A. Berle Jr.
What to expect Friday: The
Owar 5 a. m., NBC. CBS-Blue,
5:45 NBC, 5:55 Blue, 6 CBS,
7 MBS, 7:15 Blue. MBS, 8 MBS.
8:15 MBS. 9 CBS, MBS, 10:45
NBC and Blue, 11 MBS, 12:55
p. m CBS, 145 CBS, MBS.
1:55 Blue, 3 CBS, MBS, 3.25
NBC, 3:45 CBS, Blue.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Carol Acheson taking issue
with Hubby Russ on basketball
maneuvers of a very technical
character and being convinced
the Tiger coach knew of which
he spoke only after lengthy ex
planations. Judge Bill Coleman thinking
seriously about taking his sec
ond vacation in nine years, this
being considered an opportune
time seeing as how law enforce
ment officers are not bringing
him any business these days,
FIRST THREE NEW
DIVISIONS TO BE
READYJNMARCH
Air and Ground Forces Will
Be Doubled Expansion
Calls For 9 New Camps.
Washington, Jan. 15. (IP)
Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey
said today it would be necessary
to draw from the 9,000,000 men
between 20 and 44, inclusive,
who will register February 16,
to achieve the 1942 army
strength of 3,600,000 announced
earlier in the day by Secretary
of War Stimson.
General Hershey told a press
conference that the additional
1,900,000 men to be sought by
the end of this calendar year
present army strength is around
1,700,000 could be raised from
present registrants, but added:
"I don't think that would be
public policy."
Washington, Jan. 15 WV A
mighty army of 3,600,000 men
is in the making, Secretary of
War Stimson said today, to
hasten the victory fought for so
far against heavy odds.
Stimson said the increase,
authorized by President Roose
velt, would be made this year,
with the first three new divi
sions to be organized by March
25.
Looking to further increases
of undisclosed size next year,
camp facilities are to be expand
ed in the meantime.
The expansion, announced
at a press conference, calls
for:
More than double the num
ber of air combat units.
Creation of 32 motorized or
triangular divisions, In addi
tion to the 27 conventional
ground troop divisions now In
service, and doubling the
number of armored units.
A proportionate increase In
anti-aircraft, engineer, and
similar special units.
Formation of 50 or more
military police battalions to
replace troops now guarding
critical facilities in continen
tal United States.
More In Training
A large increase in the num
ber of men in training centers
to provide replacement for all
organized units ana ine person
nel for "the additional units to
be created in the spring of
1943."
As a part of the vast expan
sion, Stimson announced at the
same time, 75,000 officers will
be commissioned In special offi
cer candidate schools this year
and requirements for air force
niint. hombardiers and naviga
tors had been lowered from 20
to 18 years.
Married men now
un mav train as fliers, and in-
telllgence tests have been sub-
stituted for educational require-
ments. , I
Stimson said the army In
crease called for vast expan
sion also for housing and train
ing facilities which, he added,
has already started.
The army now is building
nine new camps to accommodate
30.000 men each, he said. All
training centers are being ex
panded to accommodate addi
tional 200,000. In addition, five
temporary tent camps are being
set up. .
"In this way be hope to be
able to house all the men induct
ed and left in the continental
United States by the time the
last men are inducted," Stimson
said.
"By that time some divisions
may be out of the United States,
making their quarters also
available."
The war secretary noted the
expansion had been started well
in advance of peacetime sched
ules for wartime increases.
CONTRAST
Stelnauer, Neb., Jan. 15 (JP)
George Wolf, who would have
observed his 101st birthday
April 19, died at his farm home
near here. His hair was still Jet
black, but his beard was snow
white,
Boston, Jan. 15 WWSDA)
Medium grades of territory
wool were receiving some de
mand at mostly 96 98 cents,
scoured bails.
Enemy Sub Hits Second Shi 2 Days Off East Coast
Survives Ship
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About SO men lost their lives whan a ship was torpedoed 160
miles off Nova Scotia, it was disclosed whan some 80 survivors of
the ship ware brought to an eastern Canadian port. This seaman.
Ming carried, naa bis loot t roien.
L
SERVE NATION IN
TECHNICAL FIELD
Washington, Jan. 15
Charles A. Lindbergh will not
return to active duty with the
army air corps, Secretary of
War Henry L. Stimson said to
day, but for the present will en
gage in technical research on a
commercial project in which
the war department is directly
interested.
The secretary told his press
conference that Lindbergh, for
merly an air corps reserve col
onel, called on him last Monday
to ask whether he could be of
any use to the government or
the war department.
'1 told him," Stimson said,
"that we were always glad to
receive Information, help or ad-
i vice from anyone who thought
he could be of service, and I
asked him what he thought he
vuuiu uu must usciuuy.
'He replied that he thought
for the present he could be most
useful in the line of technical
experimentation."
The next day, Stimson said.
Lindbergh conferred with Lieut.
General H. H. Arnold, chief of
the army air forces, and Robert
A. Lovett, assistant secretary of
war for air.
All that I can say now,
Stimson concluded, "is that he
decided, with our approval, to
devote his time for the present
to a technical commercial pro
ject in which this department
is directly interested. I think
that covers all that can be said
at this time."
'VICTORY' TALK
Berlin, Jan. 13. (Official
Broadcast Recorded by AP)
"If we win, we have won every
thing, if we lose, we lose more
than all," German Propoganda
Minister Goebbels told a meet
ing of German political and cul
tural leader; tn Hamburg today.
Again Goebbels referred to
the "dumb stubborness' of the
Russian armies as proof of "the
magnitude of the danger which
has been hanging over us but
again he expressed confidence
that ultimate German victory
was certain.
Torpedoing
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TORI
LOANS ASKED BY
SILL BUSINESS
Washington, Jan. 15. (JP) '
Independent tire dealers recom
mended to the house small busi
ness committee today that the
government arrange for long-
term, low-cost loans and busi
ness debt moratoriums to tide
them over the period of tire
rationing.
They complained, also, against
the refusal of government ra
tioning officials to permit the
delivery to buyers of tires
bought and paid for prior to the
rationing order and merely held
by dealers for storage.
This brought from Represen
tative Bulwinkle (D., N.C.)
recommendation that the com
mittee take the case up Immed
iately with the proper officials.
"These tires should be re
leased immediately," Bulwinkle
said.
Through Its president, L.
Clare Gargile of Texarkanna,
Tex., the National Automobile
Dealers association complained
against an OPA order requiring
that tires on "frozen" cars be
turned over to OPA.
Gargile said the association
was "shocked beyond expres
sion" by the requirement, which
he said was announced yester
day. RETREADED TIRE
RATIONING SEEN
Washington, Jan. 13. 4?V-
Rationing of retreaded, as well
as new tires, appeared probable
today, with disclosure by OPM
officials that only 300 tons of
crude rubber had been made
available this month to make
retreading material for passen
ger car tires.
This amount, it was estimated
unofficially, could take care of
only about 20 per cent of the
heavy demand by motorists re
sulting from the new tire ra
tioning program.
OPM rubber experts said rub
ber shortages had forced estab
lishment of fe quota on crude
rubber available to make "cam
elback," the national used for
retreading and recapping tires.
FRONTAL ATTACK
BY
Z
Escape Route of Nazis Nar
rowedGiant Red Trap
Closing.
Kuibyshev, Russia, Jan. 15.
(JP) Russian troops attacking in
clinging, knee-deep snow have
recaptured Medyn and other
settlements in the Mozhaisk
area to gain the initiative on
every segment of the Moscow
front, Soviet dispatches said to
day.
(By Associated Press)
Russian shock trops were re
ported smashing in a direct
frontal assault today against
100,000 Germans massed at
MozhAisk, 57 miles west of
Moscow, in what appeared to
be one of the greatest and per
haps most decisive battles of
the war.
Mozhaisk is the keystone of
the dwindling German defense
corridor on the Napoleonic road
from Moscow to Smolensk.
The British radio said that a
savage battle was raging at the
gates of Mozhaisk and that "one
key position Is said to have
changed hands several times."
Other Red army forces, slowly
clusiag . a- giant trap around
Mozhaisk, were officially report
ed to have recaptured the town
of Medyn, 35 miles to the south
west. This meant that the Ger
mans now had only a 70-mile-wide
escape route from Mo
zhaisk, with Soviet troops press
ing down from Volokolamsk in
the north and Medyn in the
south. '
Volokolamsk Is 35 miles north
of Mozhaisk.
A bulletin from Adolf Hitler's
high command, tersely noting
defensive battles on the Mos
cow and Leningrad fronts, ac
knowledged that the Russians
were making a new drive along
the sea of Azov toward Tagan
rog, 40 miles west of Rostov-
on-Don,
The offensive was termed
"unsuccessful."
The Berlin radio admitted
that Russian reinforcements for
the new battle of the Crimea
were landing at Feodosiya, on
the Kerch peninsula, and said
German fliers had bombed large
Soviet shipping concentrations,
disembarking troops and war
materials of all kinds. The Nazi
high command said three Rus
sian ships were damaged by
bomb hits.
FOR MAJOR TEST
Singapore, Jan. 18. WV-So
bered by the fact that only one
fifth of British Malaya remains
in British control after five
weeks of the Japanese offensive.
imperial armed forces and ci
vilians knuckled down today for
the major test which all be
lieved to be in the offing: the
battle of Singapore.
New positions were consoli
dated in the dripping green
jungles of southern Malaya.
While rain squalls and stiffened
defense tactics gave this naval
base-metropolis comparative re
spite from Japanese air attacks
Relays of British and Dutch
fighter planes, however, battled
raiders over the Singapore area
using rain clouds for conceal
ment.
Japanese planes broke
through the fighter defenses for
at least one raid on the city It
self during the day, but caused
little military damage and lost
one of their planes in a dogfight.
POWER MILLIONS OKAYED
Portland, Ore., Jan. 15. W)
Authorization for Grand
Coulee-Covlngton transmission
line to ultimately cost more
than 19,000,000 was Issued yes
terday by the Bonneville admin
titration.
L I JAP LINER
SUNK BY U-BOAT
FAR EASTWATERS
Navy Reports Possibly a
Converted Carrier
Bombers Downed At
Manila.
Washington, Jan. 13
The navy announced today that
a 17,000-ton Japanese merchant
liner had been sunk by an
American submarine.
The vessel was of the fast
Yawata class, owned and operat
ed by the NYK lines, and prob
ably convertible into an aircraft
carrier.
The communique, untuned,
read:
"Far east:
"A 17,000-ton Japanese mer
chant ship of the Yawata class
has been sunk by an American
submarine.
"There is nothing to report
from other Pacific areas.
The three Yawata class ships
are called the "Three Graces of
the NYK" and are among the
finest and newest ships of the
Japanese merchant fleet. Their
names are Yawata Maru, Nltta
Maru and Kasuga Maru. The
first two were constructed in
1939 and the Kasuga was under
construction last year and may
have been ' the one converted
into an aircraft carrier.
The ships have a passenger
capacity of 300 each and a listed
speed of 22 knots although they
undoubtedly are faster, as Japan
usually conceals such ship sta
tistics. Washington. Jan. 15. (flV-
The war department announced
today that defenders of the
Philippine fortifications shot
down two heavy Japanese
bombers and hit others In
flight of nine which attacked
Corregldor island in Manila
bay.
Casualties among the Ameri
can and Philippine troops were
slight, the department said, and
only minor damage was sin
tered by the island fortress.
The text of the department's
communique No. 80, based on
reports received here up to 7:30
m, PST today:
"1. Philippine theater.
"Nine heavy Japanese bomb
ers attacked the fortification on
Corregidor island on Manila
bay. Two were shot down by
our anti-aircraft artillery and
others were hit. Damage to for
tifications and casualties among
our troops were slight.
'Aggressive enemy ground
activity continues, with attempts
at general Infiltration all along
the line. Although greatly out
numbered, American and Philip
pine troops are holding well-
prepared positions with courage
and determination.
"2. There is nothing to report
from other areas.
ATTACKING MALTA
Valetta. Malta, Jan. 15 (TV-
German bombers still were at
tacking this Mediterranean
island fortress tonight during
the seventh straight raid of the
day.
A communique Issued at 0
p. m. while the axis planes ami
were roaring overhead said that
no casualties thus far had re
sulted and only slight property
damage because of heavy anti
aircraft fire kept the raiders
very high.
The Germans were dropping
parachute flares in an effort to
find their targets.
CIVILIAN PILOT TRAINING
Portland, Ore., Jan. IS. (JP)
The future of the civilian
pilot training program In 12
Oregon and Washington colleges
was discussed here yesterday
and will be studied again next
Tuesday,
i
War Bulletins
London. Jan. 15. (JP) The
Chungking radio said tonight
that a new Chinese offensive
had bean started wast of Can
ton. South China, and now is
la full swing.
Cairo, Egypt Jan. 13 (IP)
Britlah imperial and allied
Infantry moved forward to
new positions againat axis
holdout forces In the Halfaya
region of Egypt, facing Libya,
under cover of a destructive
aerial and artillery bombard
ment, British middle east
headquarters announced to
day. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Jan.
13. (JP) Undersecretary of
State Bumne.' Wallas of the
United States and Foreign
Minister Enrique Rula Qui
nasu of Argentina consulted
for 2S minutes today and sue
cess or failure of the Pan
American conference at hand
may have been bound up In
that meeting.
The two met In the Argen
tine's hotel room and, leaving
the plare aeparataly, they
withheld precise comment On
their talk.
SISKIYOU JOINS
-TRAINS REMOVAL
Claim Two Trains Idle At
Division Points All Day-
Unity Urged.
Yreka, Calif., Jan. 15. VP)
Border counties which recently
threatened to secede from Ore
gon and California and form
forty-ninth state because they
were neglected, charged today
they were discriminated against
again.
This time they accused the
Southern Pacific of needlessly
curtailing rail service in Sis
kiyou county, California, and
Josephine and Jackson counties
In Oregon.
Local officials charged the
railway cut out the service
under the pretext of defense,
although the army did not sug
gest the curtailment and there
was no shortage of rolling stock,
Two passenger trains were elim
inated, which officials said now
sit all day long on sidings at
Dunsmulr, Calif- and Ashland,
Ore.
Formal protests asserted the
substituted bus - truck service
had proven Inadequate for the
counties, with a combined popu
lation of 90,000. Under the new
system, they pointed out, a let
ter mailed at Yreka has to
travel 200 miles to Redding
and most of the way back to
get to Gazelle, 17 miles from
Yreka.
Siskiyou county supervisors
sent a strongly worded protest
to the California state railroad
commission. Mayors of Ashland,
Medford and Grants Pass, Ore.,
and various chambers of com
merce, sent similar protests to
ine interstate commerce com'
mission.
Sines the Southern Pacific
company yanked off the only
two remaining trains connecting
California and the Rogue valley
last Sunday, sentiment here has
crystallized even stronger than
it had been against the rail
road's action in again making
this part of the state suffer from
continually decreasing service.
Business men here were of
the opinion that Yreka and
Siskiyou county, Cal were
showing a vigor In protesting
the train discontinuance that
should be folio- ed by united
Rogue river vl.ey A telegram
received hers today from inter
ests in Yreka urged every inter
ested person and organization
to wire or writs to ths Califor
nia State Railroad Commission,
Civic Center, San Francisco,
protesting th railroad's action
and requesting that ths trains
be restored Immediate 1.
SAFE
Second Assault Occurs 73
Miles From New York
Navy Warns Shipping.
New York, Jan. 15 IIP)
Enemy warships for the second
time in two days struck at com
mercial shipping in New York
waters when a tanker was at
tacked today within sight of
watchers on the south shore of
Long Island.
The coast guard at Quogue,
Long Island, said that survivors
were being brought in and that
some had landed by mldafter
noon. A coast guard plane had
dropped food and whisky to
about 10 survivors seen in a life
boat and on raft.
The name of the ship was not
Immediately learned. Details of
the attack, about miles from
shore, also were lacking, but it
was believed the attacking ves
sel was a submarine.
Reports from Hampton Bays,
Long Island, about 75 miles
from New York City, said on
lookers from shore had seen the
tanker during or Immediately
after the attack.
By the Associated Frets
Survivors from the ''second
ship attacked off ths Long
Island coast in two days were
being brought in late today by
the United States coast guard
in an Incident sharply underlin
ing earlier warnings by the navy
that tha enemy submarine men
ace off the east coast "remains
substantial."
The details of this second aa
rult in American waters were
not immediately available from
the coast guard.
New York, Jan. 15W
The coast guard station at Quo
gue, Long Island, said today that
survivors of a ship attacked off
the Long Island coast were be
ing brought to shore.
The duty officer at the Quo
gue coast guard station said sur
vivors were being brought to
Shinnecock inlet which links
the Atlantic ocean with Shinne
cock bay.
It waa not known as once)
what vessels made the rescues.
Disclosure that an enemy sub
marine had deliberately circled
a Panamanian tanker Just off
Long Island, exploding two tor
pedoes in her port side and on
in her starboard, waa made to
day by navy officials in detail
ing the closest approach of ac
tual warfare to the nations east
coast.
Rear Admiral Edward c.
Kalbfus, commander of ths
Newport naval base, disclosed
that the attack by an unidenti
fied submarine on the tanker
Norness had resulted In ths
death of two men revising an
earlier rsv estimate. He said
38 officers and men had been
rescued and were in "good
shape."
The Norness was still partial
ly afloat today her bow stick
ing almost vertically out of ths
water and Admiral Kalbfus
notified tha navy department
that ths vessel constituted a
menses to navigation.
Ths torpedoing occurred at
1:20 s. m. (EST) on Wednesday
Just 60 miles southeast of Mon
tauk point. Long island, mui
more than 100 miles from Nsw
York harbor.
Higher Ceppsr Prl&s
Protect TT.it Yesr
Portland. Jan. 15 High
er prices for copper, lead and
zinc will bs paid by the metals
reserve company in Washing
ton, Earl K. Nixon, director of
ths Oregon department of geo
logy and mineral industries, said
today.
Ths higher prices will bs paid
on ths production of nsw mines
or those not producing at all In
1841, and on production in ex
cess of 1041 tonnage for those
operating tart tar.