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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
Washington, Jan. 28. A nazi
rumor factory has been discov
ered In Stockholm. It centers
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Grand hotel.
a name full
of movie spy
Mstory. The
nights are
long, the wea
ther cold and
the Brannvin
(Swedish vod
ka stimulat
ing. The hostel-
raol Malloa
ry Is over-run with nazi agents,
bearing credentials from remote
German newspapers unable to
afford even a correspondent at
home In Berlin. The official Nazi
news agency DNB also presides
there. Plenty of German money
Is floating around, although it is
necessary only to pay the bar
bill in most instances. Swedish
officials dare not risk the ire of
the nazis. Hemmed in as they
are by nazi might The Swedish
press likewise furnishes fertile
rumor soil as it ranges in Interest
from straight communist to
straight nazi. Hitler has even
Installed a press attache at his
Stockholm legation to make his
machine complete.
Out of this murky atmosphere
has floated most of the stories of
probable German collapse and of
the troubles between Hitler and
his generals. That is why most
officials here do not believe this
most comforting news that has
come out of this war so far. They
have full reports on the rumor
factory, and they cannot con
ceive of any Information displeas
ing to Hitler escaping from
Stockholm.
Common suspicion Is that Hlt-
Continued en Ff Four)
LONO DAYS AHEAD
Ontario, Ore., Jan. 20.
Malheur county merchants said
today that with daylight saving
time coming into effect it will
not get dark here during the
summer until 10:30 p. m, -
tha U. 8. irmr. Private Wlllla
JAPS USE TRICKS
T FORCES
DEFENDING BATAN
By Clark Lee
With the U. S. Army, Baton
Front, Jan. 21. (Delayed) The
Japanese are trying every form
of trickery aguinst Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's defenders of Batan
peninsula but the Americans
refuse to be fooled.
Take, for example, the Japan
ese attempt to pass American
sentries by dressing soldiers In
American or Filipino uniforms.
The Americans discovered an
infallible way to detect them due
to the Inability of the Japanese
to pronounce the letter L, which
they say as R. They simply pick
a password with -numerous L's,
such as lollapalooza.
Sentries challenge approach
ing figures and if the first two
syllables of lollapalooze, for In
stance, should come back as "Tor
re" they open fire without wait
ing to hear the remainder. -
The Japanese also have resort
ed to one of tha oldest tricks of
Oriental warfare the setting off
of firecrackers throughout the
night along several sectors of the
front.
The Idea la to frighten and
confuse the enemy but the
Americans and Filipinos have re
fused to be frightened or con
fused.
Japanese ' snipers are using
fl ashless powder, which makes
them difficult to detect
In straight fighting, the fa
natical Japanese disregard for
human life has resulted In sev
eral sectors of no man's land
being piled high with Japanese
bodies.
Portland. Jan. 26. 4") The
Oregon state Gideon cabinet
yesterday announced plans for
supplying copies of the New
Testament to personnel of the
armed services stationed in Ore
gon or departing from the state.
Ralph Arensmeler, Eugene.
vice-president, said 63S.O0O cop
ies had been provided service
wen.
FIRST CONTINGENT
GREETED;
Yankee Combat Troops Jour
ney Overseas Less Than
2 Months After War Start
A Port In Northern Ireland,
Jan. 28. UP) The second AEF
has arrived In northern Ireland,
less than two months after tha
United States went to war with
Germany and Italy.
The prompt arrival of this first
contingent of United States
army combat troops, in striking
contrast to the later arrival of
their - counterpart of the first
AEF nearly a quarter of a cen
tury before, greatly impressed
the British.
Ma). Gen. Russell P. Hartle,
the commanding officer of the
disembarking troops, stepped
ashore first and was warmly wel
comed by British officials and
British and United States army
officers.
Band Plays .
A band broke into the strains
of "America" as he reached the
end of the gangplank.
A speech of welcome was de
livered by Sir Archibald Sin
clair, British air minister, after
the troops had formed ranks in
front of a flag-draped shed.
Military censors prevented
identification of the units In the
new American expeditionary
force or publication, of their ex
act aumbers.'
" The ships steamed slowly In
to this port as a large group of
American and British army of
ficers and Journalists stood wait
ing, straining their eyes to catch
the first glimpse of the Yanks
lined against the deck railings.-
There was no announcement
of plans for the troops, but it
was understood that they were
being taken to an encampment
somewhere in northern Ireland.
Immediately after announcing
the arrival of the troops, the
British broadcasting company
noted tonight that there had
been "slight enemy air activity"
over northern Ireland but that
there had been no damage or
casualties.-'
The BBC tonight on Its S p.
m. (noon PST) program gave the
general British public its first
news of the arrival of American
troops.
BY
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Washington, Jan. 26. W
Angry. demands came from con
gress members today for the ex
pulsion of any "incompetents
holding responsible position in
the war effort and tor courta
martial to mete out punishment
on those responsible for the deb
acle of Pearl Harbor.
A furore of rare bitterness on
both sides of Capitol Hill fol
lowed the week-end report of
a presidential Investigating com
mission, blaming non-cooperation
and "dereliction of duty"
by Hawaii area commanders of
the army and navy for success
of the Japanese sneak attack on
the great Pacific naval base. .
Many senators and represen
tatives asserted that the commis
sion' conclusions pointed to a.
pressing need for a super-command
with control over the op
erations of both armed services
Defense Head Says
Mask Plan FoolUh
Salem. Jan. 26. UP) The
federal government's plans to
supply civilians In coastal areas
with gas masks were criticized
today by State Defense Coordin
ator Jen-old Owen, who said
"the possibility of concentrated
gas attacks in this area la noth
ing short of fantastic."
Owen said that space in ene
my bombers Is too valuable to
waste on gas bombs.
Salem, Jan. 26. W Govern
or Charles A. Sprague today ap
pointed David Eccles, his execu
tive secretary and budget direc
tor, to coordinate wartime indus
trial production for Oregon.
Easy Success in Libya Puzzles Axis
War Bulletins I
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London. Jan. 26 (APV The
Swiss radio reported tonight
that the French government
-will return to Paris March 1.
- -The source of the Informa
tion was not given.
Moscow, Tuesday. Jan. 17
(AP) The Soviet post-midnight
communique said the red
army registered new advances
and liberated numeroua addi
tional villages la fiercely-contested
engagements which cost
the Germans heavy losses.
IT
The city's three new air raid
warning sirens gave perfect re
mits in their first test at 10
o'clock this morning. Fire Chief
Roy Elliott announced after re
ceiving reports from checkers in
45 houses in all parts of town.
Warren S. Barnes, Portland,
manager of the fire apparatus
division of the Nelson equipment
company from whom the sirens
were bought said that Medford
was the first city in Oregon to
obtain a satisfactory air raid
alarm system. Mr. Barnes, here
to help install the sirens and
check results, has worked on this
phase of civilian defense in nu
merous nortn west cities ana sua
all have had difficulty in attain
ing sufficient volume of sound. -Another
test will be made at
8:45 tonight to check the sirens
under ' night . time conditions
when they would be used in
actual warnings. The test sched
uled for 3 p. ra. was cancelled.
Chief ElUott counselled the pub
lic not to become excited at the
test blasts at 8:43.
As reports were received, Mr.
Barnes checked a large map of
the city and environs and when
the map was completed it showed
that the sirens this morning were
heard in closed houses at Cen
tral Point. Inside the Medford
Corporation, the municipal air
port and the CCC central repair
unit at the old county fair
grounds south of town, Chief El
liott said, adding that in the Med
ford homes checked the radios,
washing machines and other
electrical appliances were kept
going to determine whether the
sirens could be heard ' above
them.
SUB SINKS TANKER
OFF NEW JERSEY
Sea Isle City, N. J, Jan. 26.
W) Striking without warning.
an enemy submarine sunk the
Norwegian tanker Varanger In
p re-dawn attack only 39 miles
off the Atlantic coast yesterday
but the crew of 42 was saved.
Three torpedoes rammed the
9,305-ton motorshlp within 12
minutes in one of the closest to
the U. S. Atlantic coast enemy
attacks of shipping, but for the
first time since the nation ent
ered the war, no lives were lost
in Atlantic waters. The explo
sions shook houses in several
South Jersey communities, in
cluding Atlantic City, 20 miles
north of here.
The Varanger was the sixth
vessel sunk by submarines in
Atlantic coast waters off the
United States within the last 12
days. A seventh, shelled and
damaged, reached port.
Service Restored
After Hard Blow
Portland, Jan. M-UjPh-Services
were back to normal today
after Saturday night's wind
storm which caused power fail
ures, two dozen small fires and
minor damage from uprooted
trees.
Power interruptions were gen
eral over the city for approxi
mately two hours. Falling wires
started several roof fires.
OVER 30
YANKS AND DUTCH
TAKE HEAVY TOLL
IN JAVA DEFENSE
Four Days Fighting In Ma
cassar Strait May Have
Shattered Invasion Try.
Washington, Jan. 26 ?"
The navy reported today that
an American submarine had
torpedoed a Japanese aircraft
carrier in the continuing bat
tle with enemy convoys in the
Macassar strait western Paci
fic, and that the aircraft car
rier "Is believed to have
sunk."
Further, the communique
reported that a second motor
torpedo boat raid Into Suble
bay along the Japanese-held
shore of the Philippine islands,
had resulted in the sinking of
a 5,000-toa enemy vessel.
By Clyde A. Famsworth
Associated Press War Editor.
United States and Dutch sea
and air forces, locked in a great
running battle with a Japanese
invasion -annaaa in in strait
of Macassar, have sunk or dam
aged upwards of 30 and per
haps 33 transports and war
ships in the four days of fight
ing and may have shattered an
attempt to invade Java, the
heart of the united nations de
fense in the southwest Pacific.
The next few days will tell
In what strength if any the
Japanese armada was able to
negotiate the narrow shortcut
to the inner arc of The Nether
lands East Indies. . I
Gain One Foothold
The Japanese, however, won
at least one foothold on this sea
road to Java the Dutch oil port
of Balik Papan, on the strait
side of the island of Borneo,
but the size of the invasion fleet
indicated that Tokyo was shoot
ing for higher stakes to the
south. I
The Strait of Macassar Is the
most direct route between Jap
anese concentration points in
the Philippines and the rich
Island of Java on which the
united nations have centered
their supreme command and
much of their armed strength.
Boerabala, the great Dutch
naval base, for example, lies
less than 830 miles southwest
of the southern mouth of the
strait
The score against tha Jap
anese in the Macassar straits
battle, as thus far reported in
the communiques from the Java
headquarters, Batavla and Wash
ingon, follows with possible
overlapping in some instances:
Destroyed! . ,
Ten transports, one destroyer.
Probably sunki
Six transports.
Damaged (excluding probable
sinkings): -
A warship, unclassified as to
type, five cruisers, two destroy
ers, eight transports.
Cruiser Hit
The damaged ships Included
a cruiser which may have gone
down. The submarine which
(ConUDtMd oa Paa fit.)
MARY LIVINGSTON IN
FAINT AFTER PROGRAM
Hollywood, Jan. 26. (P
Actress Mary Livingston, wife
of Jack Benny, was recovering
from a sinus attack today. She
fainted upor completion of the
Jack Benny radio program yes
terday and had to be carried
off stage.
Seattle, Jan. 26 AP Wash
ington state beet sugar growers.
who produced approximately
third of the sugar used by the
state s residents last year, will
undoubtedly Increase their plant
ings this year, Paul Kirker, state
representative of the Utah and
Idaho Sugar company, said to
day.
JAP SHIPS SUNK
MacArthur Marks Birthday
By Whacking Jap Invaders
By Edward E. Bomar
Washington. Jan. 26 (if) General Douglas MacArthur. the
Jaunty beau sabreur of an already historic Philippines cam
paign, celebrated his sixty-second birthday today in tha thick
of the fighting on a crucial war front
His personality, martial spirit
and record as a soldier make it
evident that he would prefer no
finer setting for the occasion.
MacArthur and his indomit
able little army of American
and Filipino troops made the
birthday anniversary a doubly
auspicious event by registering
a spectacular victory yesterday
in a counter-attack which shat
tered the lines of a heavily su
perior enemy.
The war department normal
ly restrained In its language,
used the words "smashing suc
cess" to hail the MacArthur tri
umph which further dislocated
the Japanese timetable for con
quest in the South Pacific.
The official communique's ref
erence to the operation as a
"brilliant maneuver" testified to
the admiration felt by official
Washington and the nation for
this tost ditch fight In the Phil
ippines. '
The battle now raging in the
Philippines Is probably the sev
erest that MacArthur has. ever
faced. Under leas critical cir
cumstance be was decorated
several times in the first World
war for "great courage' and
"conspicuous courage" under
fire in France as a brigade com
mander of the 42nd or Rainbow
division. ,
PILOTLESS PLANE
Everett, Wash- Jan. 26. UP)
An army pursuit plane sliced
through two Everett houses, an
outbuilding and number of
trees yesterday in a high-speed
crash after its pilot had safely
bailed out over Puget sound.
The pilot Lieut. Laune C.
Erlckspn, former University of
Idaho boxer and football player,
took to his parachute when he
discovered that the plane, on
routine training flight was about
to crash. He came down in the
water a short distance from
shore and was rescued by boat
The Dalles, Ore., Jan, 26. OP)
An army bomber on a routine
training flight crashed without
Injury to its occupants as it at
tempted an emergency landing
on The Dalles airport late Sat
urday. The big ship, apparently
forced down by icing conditions,
missed the runway and nosed
over in soft ground.
Chsrcfcill Ssffcrt
Frea Heavy Cold
London, Jan. 26. UP) Prime
Minister Churchill is suffering
from a heavy cold and, acting
upon medical advice, will not
make a broadcast tomorrow, the
ministry of information said to
night
He hopes to make a statement
in commons shortly, however.
mo broadcast bad been an
nounced, but the statement In
dicated he had planned to make
one. ,
Nuisance Raid It
Expected in S. F.
San Francisco, Jan. 26. HP)
A submarine raid on San Fran
cisco Is 'Very probable," Ad
miral J. W, Greenslade, com
mandant of the 12th naval dis
trict, said today.
Such a raid, with a r. bmarlne
coming to the surface and firing
on the city with Its deck guns,
would have only a nuisance
value for Its effect on civilian
morale and use In Japanese
propaganda broadcasts;
E
U. S. WAR AIMS
(By the Associated Press)
Rio De Janeira. Jan. 26. The
political committee of the Pan-
American conference adopted to
day a proposal to declare the
United States and all her Ameri
can allies non-belligerents, and
approved the principles of the
Atlantic charter which embodied
the war alms of the United
States and Britain.
Action on both resolutions was
unanimous.
At the committee meeting rep
resentatives of Paraguay and
Bolivia announced formally that
their goKernraenta, following the
recommendation of the jconfer
ence, v had . severed diploma tlo
and economic relations with the
axis.! ir -
Delegates cheered the an
nouncement which raised to IT
the number of American repub
lics which have broken off with
Berlin, Rome and Tokyo.
Also approved were resolu
tions calling for an immediate
meeting of the general staffs of
all American nations, and pro
posing that no American nation
represent the interests of war
ring government not on this con
tinent in any other American
nation.
This last resolution on repre
sentation of foreign Interests was
redrafted in subcommittee to
get around objections by Argen
tina to its phrasing.
VQTEDBY HOUSE
Washington. Jan. 26. APV-
A compromise war-time price
control bill was approved finally
by the house today and sent to
the senate.
Passage came after the house
rejected on 209 to 189 roll-call
vote a Republican demand that
the legislation be sent back to a
Joint conference committee with
instructions to eliminate provis
ions ror licensing of business and
to create a board of review te
study price orders.
Democratic Leader McCor
mack of Massachusetts had told
uie house earlier that some of
the Republican objections to the
measure were not sound and that
rresident Roosevelt would sign
the bill into law, even though
additional remedial legislation
migm De necessary.
Radio Highlights
(Time Is Pacific Standard)
Tonight Talks Blue 8 Radio
Forum, E. O. Harrison, "Control
of Allen Enemies;" Blue 7:48,
President's Birthday Ball, Sec
Morgenthau.
MBS 8:19 Amateur Boxing at
Boston.
Tueadsy: The War 8 MBS;
9:19 MBS; 9 CBS, MBS; 10:49
NBC and Blue; 11 MBS; 12:89
p. m., CBS; 1 MBS; 1:49 CBS,
MBS; 1:59 Blue; 8 MBS; 3.25
NBC; i:49 CBS Blue.
BOX MAGNATE DIES
London, Ontario, Jan. 28.
(CP) Clifford J. Munce, 83,
president of six of the world's
largest corrugated box com-
panles, died her today after
soon ii mesa. . N
COUNTER-ATTACK
MAKES 40 MILES
SINCEYESTERDAY
Bengasi Again Threatened;
Italian Spokesman Says
Retreat Reason Unclear.
(By Associated Press)
Bengasi in north Africa again
was threatened today by axle
forces which had developed
their "reconnaissance in force"
of last week Into a full-scale
offensive.
The British admitted the mala
battle was now in the Zouiet
Msus.area, which meant they
had been driven back 40 miles
since yesterday and 143 miles
from the westernmost point of
their advance in the Elaghella
area.
Zouiet Msus lg only about
70 miles southeast of Bengasi
which the British captured on
Christmas day in their second
Libyan offensive.
Lack Explanation
That the axis itself was some
what puzzled by Its own success
was Indicated by Roma
spokesman who spoke of tha
i "improvised counterattack"
and said "it is not quite clear
what has happened to the pow
erful British army. While It la
true that the nature of tha ter
rain in Clrenalca calls for long- .
range operations, this would not
be a sufficient explanation for
the retreat" .
The Italian hlch command
claimed huge losses had been
inflicted, including the destruc
tion or capture of 238 tanks and
armored ears and 198 guns.
it was evident that the Ger
mans and Italians were rushing
heavy reinforcements and that
tha British may.' be In for an
even' more difficult time.
The Italians - announced 4m
arrival of another important
convoy at Tripoli, despite heavy
British bombing and torpedo
attacks which were acknowl
edged to nave sunk one' large
liner.
The Germans said Malta had
been bombed heavily again, and
eight British fighter planes shot
down. They said their bombers
also Intercepted a British fleet
ir Tobruk and hit light
cruiser.
Rasslsas Men Op
Russian soldiers fighting their
way forward in tha coldest
weather in decades were re
ported mopplni up vast areas
of tha Russian front after virtu
ally wiping out the winter line
established by Adolf Hitler.
Russian reports said clean-up
operations were in full swing in
the section east of a 270-mUe
line running from the vicinity
of Smolensk, 230 miles west of
Moscow, to Orel and Kursk.
There was no information tost
how far the Russians were from
Smolensk but the British radio
broadcast Stockholm report
that Hitler had moved his head
quarters from Smolensk 800
miles west to Minsk, capital of
White 'Russia.
CALIFI'UIS
I
Sacramento. Jan. 88.
Daylight time for California, ef
fective February 8, was estab
lished in a proclamation today
by Governor Culberf L. Olson.
On that date, Olson said, at
11 p. m. clocks will be advanced
one hour to put the state on day
light saving time and will re
main that way until six months
after the termination of war er
until congress shall designate an
earlier termination,
Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 26. tN
All Canada will go on daylight
saving time on February 9, coin
cident with similar action in tha
United States, Munitions Mini
ster Howe told the
today.