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r It It Possible Problems which sometimes seem Impoaatbla to work out are often solTed ths Want Ad Way. It Is poMlbla for IM Want Ad In this nevipaper to help yoo and do It promptly. Why not try eneT Keep 'Em Flying Boy DcfrnM Sumps or Bond from your bank. Mom, paper carrier, or post office. San and aid. Tribune FORD Full AstocUtd PrM Thirty-sixth Year M.EDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1942. NO. 260. Nl Med "ee sHP.eTj ataaia' ULII IK SL - asass.a..aa.ssassBSBSBSse OHawawawaw . 1st m i i ? . o -aaaamlaaalsaaaaaaaaaa--a J l """ I News Behind The News by Paul Mallcn Washington, Jan. 21 Jap suc cesses in the "impenetrable" Jungle of Malaya is not hard to under stand. Their tactics have contrib uted nothing new to war fare. No new weapons have been unveiled. To get a notion of what hap pened there (to disturb iiiln world 1 Paul Mallon nations of do-1 fense security) tt Is necessary first to appreel-) ate that the ncninsnla i Tint ill Jungle. Tin and rubber indus-1 tries have built fairly good roads through much of the territory along the coast. They- raised towns and villages, nearly all furnished with air fields, as the airplane was a common means of commercial transportation. Much of the ground is prairie like and suitable to tank war fare. The British defense relied on the sea on one side, the Jungle on the other and overestimated the defense nature of rice fields (through which Jap tanks rolled without much effort). The flank protection of the sea and Jungle was broken down by the elementary Jap device of circumvention. When the British formed a strong line, the Japs merely moved around it on,., both sides with small bodies of troops. ' ' . . . T3X Jungle side was penetrat ed by especially trained Jap troops, armed with machetes to cut a path to the British rear. (Continued on Page Pour) reds Celebrate Br the Associated Press Russia celebrated her greatest victory of the war today as the Red armies drove six miles be yond fallen Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, in pursuit of Adolf Hitler's battered invaders along the Napoleonic road of ) retreat to Smolensk. Simultaneously, a bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters acknowledged that Soviet troops had broken through German lines on the upper Donets river presumably in the fierce bat tle for the big Donets river steel city of Kharkov, Russia s "Pitts burgh" in the Ukraine. Radio Highlights (Time Is Pacific Standard) Tonight: MBS 8:15 Fight In fantile Paralysis, Paul V. Mc Nutt; 7:45. Dean Austin Pardue on "Our Morale." Thursday: The War 8:55 Blue; 6 CBS; 7 MBS: 7:15 Blue MBS; 8 MBS: 8:15 MBS: 9 CBS MBS; 10:45 NBC and Blue; 11 OMBS; 12:55 p. m., CBS; 1 MBS; 1:45 CBS, MBS; 1:55 Blue; 3 CBS, MBS; 3:25 NBC; 3:45 CBS Blue. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS New City Treasurer Oris Crawford passing out cigars and candy at council meeting. Poleeece Chief Clatous Mc Credie and Doc L. Dow Inskeep keeping up an animated conver sation all through council meet ing, their mumbling being at least 10 decibels above ordinance-reading Frank FarreU's best. Councilman Clarence Meeker wishing Copco would talk in terms of the understandable "watt" instead of the unintel ligible 'lumen" in discussing light contracts. WARSHIPS AIDING I Aam8t EFFORT TO HALT E Admission From Tokyo Re veals Allied Ships Firing On Nippons- In Malay. Br Roger D. Greene (Associated Press War Editor) Allied warships were report ed shelling Japan's invasion armies swarming down the Ma lay coast 60 miles north of Singapore today, and the United Nations were further heartened by President Roose- vein disclosure that "the YanKs are coming" with A.E.F. van- guards already in action or en route to far-flung battle zones. In the Philippines, a war de partment bulletin said Gen. Douglas MacArthur's valiant American-Filipino defense forces had driven back the Japanese invaders with heavy losses "in particularly savage fighting" on the Batan peninsula. Jap Losses Heavy The communique said Japan ese troops had gained "some in itial successes" by infiltrations and frontal attack near the cen ter of the line before counter attacking U. S. army forces hurled them back and. recap tured all lost ground. Enemy losses were very heavy," the communique said. "Our casualties were relatively moderate." Far north of the main battle sector, , in upper Luzon island, the war department said a guer rilla band of Gen. MacArthur's forces staged a surprise raid on a Japanese airfield at Tugue garao, killing 110 enemy troops and putting 300 others to flight. Colncldentally, the Russian army newspaper Red Star esti mated that about 6,000 Ameri can and 32,000 Filipino native troops were opposing - 100,000 Japanese in Luzon. An official Tokyo broadcast asserted that allied warships had entered the critical battle of Singapore even as Japan's navy minister, Vice Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, boasted that the Japanese navy "virtually commands the Pacific from Malaya and the Indies to the west coast of the United States." To jo Boastful On the same exultant note. Premier Gen. Hideki Tojo as serted that Japan planned "in creasingly vigorous operations" in the Pacific and would con tinue fighting until the United States and Britain were "brought to their knees." Japanese front-line dispatches said battle flags of the rising sun were advancing southward along the Malayan west coast "in spite of gunfire from enemy ships" in the Strait of Malacca. which lies between the Malay peninsula and tte Dutch East Indies island of Sumatra. British military quarters con ceded that Japanese troops, ap parently arriving in small boats which hugged the shore, con- tinued to land along the Malay coast during the past 24 hours. striking ahead of the main Jap anese invasion army to harass the British west flank $65.52 Collected In Warplane Drive Contents of half of the 100 tins being used In the Redmen Pocahontas "pe n n y -a -plane" campaign were collected for the first time yesterdav and the pen nies totalled 165 52. it was an nounced at a meeting of the lndges last night. The other 50 cans were to be emptied today. The tins were first put out around town a week ago yester day. The money is to be sent di rectly to the secretary of war for use in paying for fighter planes. BEACH BAN CLARIFIED Astoria, Ore., Jan. 21. tJP The army said yesterday that northern Clatsop county beaches except those in the immediate vicinity of military installations would remain open to the pub lie. The announcement eUrified an order which was believed at fi'st to prohibit the use of re sort beaches and commercial clam-digging areas Enrique RuU Gulnasu. Argeo Una's foreign minister (above), says his country will not partici pate In any move that would involve her in "belligerent or pre-belligerent actions" against the axis. Rio De Janeiro, Jan. 21. (IP) The defense committee of the Pan American conference unani mously adopted a resolution to day expressing sympathy for axis-occupied countries and as suring recognition to their gov ernments in exile. Delegates said the Dig test Of Pan American solidarity action on the resolution to break off relations with the axis which Argentina has said she would oppose would not come to com mittee vote until tomorrow. Hopes that Argentina might fall into line on the proposal to break relations with the axis were dealt a blow last night by Argentina s acting president, Ra mon S. Castillo, who said his government could not modify its attitude toward the proposal. E SAVI PLEDGE CAMPAIGN The general response was ex cellent on the first day of the national defense savings bond pledge campaign, Moore Hamil ton, director, stated today. The house to house canvass will continue for a week and much of the calling will have to be transferred to the evening because so few persons are home during the day, Mr. Hamilton said. The campaign started off aus piciously for Mr. Hamilton him self. Right after sunup a patri otic business man and World war 1 veteran called upon Mr. Hamilton and pledged to buy a $100 bond every month. Several other such pledges were made during the day, the director said, adding, however, that pledges of any amount, includ ing a ten-cent stamp, are Just as welcome because the pledge campaign is Intended to show the government bow much de fense stamp and bond money can be expected regularly eacb week and month. "No one should pledge more than he feels he can afford to keep up regularly," Mr. Hamil ton said. Cupid Takes Holiday Since First of Year A lull has come in activities of Dan Cupid in Jackson coun ty, and so far this month only nine marriage licenses have been Issued by the county clerk s of fice. Another license department is also not doing so well. So far, only 69 dog licenses have been issued. The fee is $1.50 per dog. irrespective of sex. March 1 is final date for procuring a II- I cense, without payment of a I penalty, heretofore $1. I CONFEREES VOICE SYMPATHY - FOR CONQUERED Nelson to Abolish PM L TRAILERJNFLUX Ten-Year Renewal of Coico Franchise Is Approved Up Contractor License. Anticipating an Influx of transient army cantonment workers, the city council last night adopted a comprehensive ordinance regulating trailers and trailer camps. The ordinance pertained prin cipally to health and sanitation. A license fee of S3 was estab lished. The council approved a ten- year renewal of a franchise and a lighting contract with the Cali fornia Oregon Power company. Aside from minor changes in phraseology, both franchise and contract were identical with the existing ones which are expir ing. City Attorney Frank P Far rell said. Councilman Harold Frye stated calculations he made showed the franchise to be fav orable to the city and Mr. Far rell said it was superior to the average city franchise. To Push Walk Repair The city attorney was author ized to bring such proceedings as may be necessary to accomp lish the repair of sidewalks which are considered hazardous and assess the cost against the abutting property. Councilman Frank J. Runtz reported that over the past, few years about 600 sidewalks have been re paired by the property owners themselves but that 171 walks where notices have been served remain to be done, the . total cost being estimated at about $1700. On recommendation of the building and light committee, the license fee for electrical con tractors was increased from $50 to $100 for the first year and from $25 to $50 for renewals: The electrical merchandise li cense was retained, merchants previously having petitioned for its repeal; and T. H. Barry war appointed a deputy plumbing inspector, his compensation to be part of the fees collected. Councilman Larry Schade said the electrical contractors them selves asked for the fee in crease. A retail beer class C license was granted Charles Bateman for the restaurant he plans open ing at 127 East Sixth street, the former Japanese-owned Diam ond cafe. The council approved sale of lot 21, block 2, Kenwood addi tion, to Lee E. Watson for the appraised price of $175. Councilman C. H. Herman was absent. FARE INCREASE Washington, Jan. 21. (IP) The Interstate commerce com mission granted today an in crease of approximately 10 per cent in railroad passenger fares. except for special rates to mem bers of the military or naval forces on furlough and certain extra fares applying to particu lar trains. The order did not cover the railroads' application for a sim ilar increase in freight rates, which the commission said it still has under consideration. ALERT AIR CONTROLLER PREVENTS BLACKOUT San Francisco, Jan. 21 (IP) Alertness of a controller on duty at the fourth interceptor com mand in establishing the Identi ty of an approaching airplane as friendly and thereby preventing a complete blackout of the San Francisco bay region early to day was commended by head quarters of the fourth army and western defense command. Tires and Tubes Slashed, Ruined; 100 Must Walk Hanover, Pa., Jan. 21. (IP) Three hundred automobiles and tractor tires and tubes were slashed and ruined here last night by an unidentified vandal, or vandals, who broke into garages and showrooms. Chief of Police Jesse Crabbs said 100 business men, farmers and defense workers are unable to use their ma chines as a result of the de struction. Crabbs expressed belief that the same instrument "probably a sharp knife" wa used on all the tires. INTERNING OF ALL WEST COAST JAPS Washington. Jan. 21. (IP) Rep. Leland M. Ford (R-Calif. ) said in a statement today that he was taking up with govern ment officials "the seriousness of the Japanese situation on the west coast" and advocated mov ing all Japanese, native born and alien, to concentration camps. Ford said ha was taking up the question with the secretaries of state, war, navy and the FBI. Ha said the question was "rath er touchy in some quarters due to the fact many Japanese are native born. "He feels that these native- born Japanese may not be any more loyal than are the foreign born," the statement said, "but stated that again there may be those who are loyal and there fore he is taking the position that those who are loyal, if they really are, should be willing to acquiese in the movement of all Japanese people to whatever lo cation the military authorities think they ought to be. and de velops the fact that otfier loyal Americans are enlisting in the army and navy and air forces and are willing to give their lives for their country, and if these men are willing to make their contribution to the safety and welfare of the country, he believes it is not asking too much of the Japanese to make theirs In the form of permitting inemseives to be placed in con centration camps, although they may De loyal." JACK DEMPSEY TAKES STATE GUARD RATING New York. Jan. 21. UP) Former heavyweight champion Jack Dcmpsey, who was refused by the army because of his age, 46, was sworn in today as a lieutenant in the New York state guard and assigned as aide-de-camp to the command ing general, Major General Wil liam Ottman. Vashon, Wash.. Jan. 21-W) Mr. and Mrs. George J. Smith swelled with pride when son John won an appointment to Annapolis. They were proud again when son George was cho sen for West Point. John and George are twins. Defense Profits Control Bill Is Result of Blunt Criticism Washington, Jan. 21. VP)' Far-reaching legislation to com pel "special Interest" groups to submit accountings of their funds and to limit profits on defense work was prepared to day to meet the house naval 'jmmlttM's blunt criticism of practices It declared were cur rent. Chairman Vinson (D., Ga.) said he would Introduce immed iately a bill to require "big chambers of commerce, labor unions and all special interest groups" to report to a federal agency their assets, liabilities, contributions and expenditures. Wall-Informed congressional SUPPLY OF MILK TO BEJISCUSSED Meeting Tonight at Court House To Be Attended By Producers, Distributors. The problems facing southern Oregon dairymen in providing an adequate supply of approved market milk for the army can tonment and the considerable increase in civilian population expected in this area will be discussed at a meeting of pro ducers and distributors in the county courthouse tonight at 7:30. All producers and distribu tors are urged to attend. The' meeting was called by the planning committee of the dairy Industry in this section, Frank R. Rowe, representative of the Oregon Milk Control Board In this district, Robert Fowler, county agent and Paul Carpenter, farm economist con nected with the extension serv ice at Oregon State college. Need Big Supply Mr. Rowe said the canton ment will tax to the utmost the dairy facilities of the Rogue River valley. He explained that the production of fluid market milk for human consumption must conform to rigid sanitary rules and regulations as laid down by the sanitary author ities. Citing figures, ha said that the total production of market milk by dairymen in the Med ford, Ashland and Grants Pass districts for December, 1941, was 87,000 gallons, and estimat ed that the demand to care for the cantonment and the ' in creased civilian population would be 185,000 gallons alter the camp was occupied, and 105,000 gallons during lis con struction. Sales in the bottle and can trade for December totaled 75.000 gallons, leaving a surplus of 12,000 gallons, much of which went into ice cream and otner products, he stated. British Primate Who Forced Edward Out Will Resign Office London. Jan. 21. (IP) The Archbishop of Canterbury, pri mate of all England and a cen tral figure in forcing the abdi cation of King Edward VIII, an nounced today he would resign March 31 to make way for a younger man. The archbishop, the Most Rev erend and Right Honorable Cos mo Gordon Lang, was 77 years old last October 31 and has been the Archbishop of Canterbury since July 27, 1928. Vichy, Unoccupied Franca Jan. 21. (IP) Thirty-three ml ners were killed and 30 injured today in a fire-damp explosion in a coal mine at St. Etlenne. only important coal mining town In unoccupied France, circles said that such a program had been discussed by Presi dent Roosevelt with conferees on labor legislation two months ago. At the same time, Vinson said he was working on a second bill designed to prevent the "ex cessive and unconscionable" profits which the committee de clared some corporations had made on naval contracts. The Georgian said that the legislation could not fairly be based on a fixed percentage of profit, but probably would be built around average profits over a given period of years. The naval committee tent in New War Bulletins Washington, Jan. 21 (JPh The navy department an nounced today two mora at tacks en steamers by enemy submarines off the Atlantic coast with one ship sunk, the other believed sunk, and a list of 41 men dead and miss ing. The steamers were the American ship City of Atlan ta, which was sunk either by shell fire or torpedoeing, and the Latvian steamer Clltvalra. Cairo. -Egypt. Jan. 21. W) The worst sand and rain storms seen la Libya in 10 years are hampering the movements of British land and air forces attempting to strike at Gen. Erwin Rom mel's axis forces along the Gulf of Sirte, British bead quarters said today. LOSS OF TRAINS SET FOR JAN. 26 Grants Pass, Jan. 21. (AV A preliminary PUC Investiga tion will be held Jan. 26 at I Salem on Southern Pacific aban donment of cassenaer service in part of southern Oregon. Com- raissioner . Qrmond" Bean . nounced In Salem today. The hearing in Yreka has been postponed to February . according to word received here late this afternoon. Plans have been made her for representatives of the Jack son county court, the city and the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce to attend a 'hearing the California railroad commis sion is to conduct In Yreka, Cel., next Monday on the Southern Pacific company s action in dis continuing the last remaining train service for passengers and mail between the Rogue River valley and northern California, Frank Hull, chamber of com merce manager said today. If the hearing in Salem should be held on the same day, as the announcement from Grants Pass states, mere win ds a acnoue conflict and a division In the strength that otherwise cor.ld be mustered, it was pointed out. There has been indication of a growing lack of confidence In the southern Oregon leadership in the railroad deal, there being a feeling that Yreka and Siski you county of California have shown greater resourcefulness and persistence than have been manifest here. In this connection it has been Indicated that the Ashland Chamber of Commerce Is look ing more to Yreka for leader ship than to Medford. The rail road protest for southern Oregon communities was placed in the hands of Nlel R. Allen of 6ranU Pass. Despite the war Rotary clubs are carrying on In Sweden, Fin land and Switzerland. voluminous report to the house yesterday summarizing Its in vestigation of 19,088 naval con tracts. All members approved the report as a whole, but nine dissented sharply from the ma jority's findings regarding labor. The heavily-documented re port made these observations: Manufacturers as a whole should not be criticized, but In view of the fact that many made profits far above 7 percent the highest was 247 percent on a small order "the necessity is clearly indicated for measures to be taken to prevent exces sive and unconscionable pro fits.'' . Set-Up I WAR PRODUCTION CHAIRMAN PLANS FULLJTHORITY Six Major Divisions Under Board To Displace Con tract Distribution Unit, Washington, Jan. 21 (JPy Donald M. Nelson announced to day he would abolish the office of production management and bring all of its functions and activities under his authority a chairman of the new war pro duction board. Nelson told a press conference he was setting up'six major divi sions under the board, eliminat ing the old contract distribution division entirely, and incorpor ating the priorities and alloca tions system under a new divuv ion of Industry operations charg ed with full responsibility for the conversion of all possible American industry to war pro duction. He said an Important branch of the new set-up would be a, requirements committee, head ed by William L. Batt, Philadel phia Industrialist, and composed of representatives of the army, navy, lend-lease administration and all other agencies concerned w" producttoii of raw mats. The reorganization, "effective. as soon as the orders can be drawn," was described by the war production chief as an In terim plan subject to possible future revision. "Any revolutionary change would only bring delay", he commented. As a first move In the conver sion program. Nelson appointed Ernest Kanzler, long-time asso ciate of Henry Ford and former ly In charge of Ford production, to head up the automobile con version program with "all the authority I've got to get that Job done." Illlustratlnf the authority delegated to Kanzler, Nelson asserted: "If there are tools in Ford's) factory that are needed In Gen eral Motors they will be moved over." Last night Nelson command ed the automobile Industry to halt production February 1 and turn its full power to war pro duction. Allotment to Faslly by Enlisted Eea Has Army, Navy Support Washington, Jan. ll(AP War and navy department sup port "in principle" was claimed! by interested legislators today for proposed legislation requir ing enlisted men In the armed! services to allot $15 of their monthly pay to dependent wive and children, with the govern ment matching or bettering that with an additional allowance to) families. Such was the system adopter! six months after the United States entered the world war in 1917. Before the armistice, about 400,000 men were making allot ments to relatives struggling in the economic backwash of the war. Rep. Edmlston (D-W. Va.) in troduced the new legislation after conferences with leaders of veterans' organizations. He said today that service officials fa vored its objective, but ques tioned its government allow ances, in some Instances much higher than those In the 191V act. The measure would covet regulars as well as selectees. BARRACKS COMMANDER ' Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 31--V Lieut-Col. Raymond F. Ed wards, Fort Custer, Mich., infan try officer, wv named yester day as new post commander for Vancouver Barracks. He will re place Lleut.-Col. J. W. Crlssy, who has held the position ta months. '
