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Keep 'Em Flying Boy DtfrnM Sump or Bond tram your bank. MTtnfi and loan AMOclmtlonft, Mom, paper atfrkn, or poat office. Sara and aid. Find It Pays W roe an loaktaf for aa eHae Ura. aooaotaleml way U get ran ntaiaia to a 1st of pooplo an at tha auna time n tba Want ad War. In thu nawapaper. TobH find It para. TRIBUNE FORD Full Associated Proas United Praai Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1942. NO. 265. MED MPMM fl fnl vifnWniW nir jyuiyjiy;lil U Uli f . i i u in ii ) i i I, j oj I Tha group oi Unittd State: - -i laaw. troops above was part of tha , $ fc- J '- steel-helmatad contingent which Lt&PfZ V7 .1 trd"T " Tanguard of tha II - .UP 1 , .' Vj,. . . A.E.F. of World war No. 2: Be- '1-'L 4 y v 4 lowi Two of the first doughboys I tv - tizJ ir i ; hor ,h,k h,nd w,th Brlt- I JWiKy .'' . t- ST 1 ' Uh largaant (cantar.) (Photos by Ijr , ' , cable, wire and airmail to Mail fe4t;-:::m 4 j xCt MAJOR CHANEY IS i ' - - .t . - , t - Jr C . V DeValera Protests U.S. Force Arrival Dublin, Jan. 27. (AP) Prime Minister Eamon de Valera ls tucd a statement tonight protesting against the arrival of United. States troops in northern Ireland, across the border from Eire. Tha statement declared that Eire had not been consulted either by the British or Ameri can governments with regard to the coming of the troops. ' De Valera based his objection on the emphasis lent the split between Eire and northern Ire land by the establishment of the American forces on the northern side of the border. His statement referred to the fight 20 years ago when he said the Irish nation was partitioned "despite the express will of the Irish people." He compared the division of Ireland with the partition of Poland and called it "one of the cruellest wrongs that could be committed." However, he declared, the peo ple of Ireland have "no feeling of hostility toward and no desire to be brought In any way into conflict with the United States." SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Tora caine leaner running around, pounding on Cargill apartment doors, shouting to tenants to douse lights when the air raid sirens blew, Horace Bromley finally telling him it waa all only a test Trlends of Enid Funk won dering why she doesn't ac knowledge receipt of a glass crane for her bird collection at Tale time, American Troops Land on Old World Soil Washington, Jan. 27. (IP) The greatest single appropria tions bill In history, carrying $17,722,565,474 to finance the navy's goal of attaining unques tioned superiority on all the seas, was passed by the house today. Washington, Jan. 27. W) Rep. Robison (R.-Ky.) demanded on the house floor today to know why an American expeditionary force had been sent to the Brit ish Isles. Instead of "younder to the Philippines" to aid General Douglas MacArthur and his heroic force. Robison took the floor during debate on the $17,722,565,474 naval appropriations bill de signed to make the United States navy the strongest in the world. APPEAL GREEN VERDICT TO HIGHER STATE COURT Charles W. Reames, attorney for the defendant, said today he had filed a notice of appeal to the state supreme court in the case of Waldo Green against J. N. Adams, due to alleged errors in law In the recent circuit court trial In which the Jury returned a $11,000 verdict in favor of the plaintiff for broken leg. Loss of Battleship In Mediterranean Is Admitted By British London, Jan. 27. (JP) The sinking of the battleship Bar- ham, 31,000-ton veteran of Brit ain't navy, In the Mediterranean last Nov. 25 was announced by the admiralty today after it had kept the loss a secret for two months to cheat the enemy of any profit from knowledge of its blow. The loss of the Barham, which the axis long had claimed as sunk in the Mediterranean, cut Britain's capital ships to 13. She had 15 when she entered the war and since has added three but five have been lost the battleships Prince of Wales, Royal Oak and Barham and the battle cruisers Repulse and Hood. How many of the Barham's crew of 1,100 to 1,200 were lost was not disclosed. Explaining the admiralty's se crecy over the loss, the com munique said: "Next of kin of casualties were informed but loss of the ship was not announced since it was clear at that time that the enemy did not know she had been sunk and It was im portant to make certain disposi tions before loss of this ship was made public." Dance Will Open New Labor Temple The new labor temple of the Carpenters Union, local 2067, which was constructed on North Riverside avenue In two weeks, will be open for inspection Wednesday night at 8 o'clock Starting at 9 o'clock a dance wUl be held In the building, free to all union men, their ta-aiUe and their Invited guests. 1 LEADER OF FORCE SENT TO IRELAND A North Ireland Port, Jan. 27. W) MaJ. Gen. E. Chaney, rated both as a combat pilot and a combat observer by the U. S. air corps, has been made com manding general of the United States army forces in the British isles, it was officially announced today. With the AEF In Northern Ire land, Jan, 27. Iff) From the vast wheat fields of Minnesota and the tall corn of Iowa, from the teeming factories of the cities came the first American expeditionary force to land on these embattled islands in World war II. To British soldiers snapped to attention as the Yanks marched toward their encampment, their first question with a grin was: "What are the girls like?" And they also wanted to know where they were going and where they were to fight. But the answers to these grimmer questions were couched in mili tary secrecy. The city's three new air raid warning sirens performed satis factorily In their second test last night though checkers re ported they were not heard so distinctly in a few homes as they were in the first test in the morning, Fire Chief Roy Elliott said today. Both tests, however, gave such satisfactory results in all parts of town that no further experimentation is c o n t e m plated for the time being, the chief stated. TO UP CANNERY PAT Oakland, Calif., Jan. 21. VP) Sixty thousand cannery work ers In central and northern Cali fornia will receive wage in creases under a new labor agree ment, signed by representatives of 12 unions and 33 fruit and vegetable packing companies. BAN TtExTcoTTADIOS Mexico City, Jan. 27. W) President Manuel Avails Ca ma cho put into effect today nation wide measures closing amateur and private experimental radio transmitting stations. . . U.S. DOWN 34 IN 5-DAY CLASH Tokyo Admits Loss of Four Transports In Landing Operations at Balik Papan Box Score The box score of Japanese craft sunk or crippled show ed: by Dutch by U.S. Total Warships a 2 11 Transports 7 10 17 Planes 8 6 13 (A tabulation. In Washing ton showed a Joint American Dutch toll of 34 Japanese ships 11 as certainly sunk, at least six probably sunk and 17 more damaged but the list in Batavia was only for January 23 through 25, the first three days of the five-day engagement). By Roger D. Greene (Associated Press War Editor) American battle forces domi nated the news on far-flung war fronts today as Britons wildly cheered the arrival of a second EF vanguard in northern Ire land, and, halfway around the world, U. S, planes and sub marines slashed at the remnants of a once-powerful Japanese in vasion armda off Dutch Bor neo. Pressing home Japan's first major defeat in the seven- weeks-old. ' conflict) : American and Dutch' forces already had sunk or damaged 34 Japanese warships and troop transports in the shark-Infested Strait of Macassar. The running battle continued into it fifth day to day. Japs Admit Leal Imperial Tokyo headquarters acknowledged that four Japan ese transports were lost in a battle last Friday during land ing operations at Ballk Papan, rich oil center on the east coast of Dutch Borneo, facing Macas sar strait. ik A Tokyo bulletin said Japan ese warships escorting the trans ports clashed with allied de stroyers, submarines and air craft, and sank one of the at tacking submarines. The Dutch already had de stroyed the Balik Papan oil fields In pursuance of a "scorch ed earth" policy. On the Malayan front, the critical battle for Singapore raged with heightening fury as Japanese troops scored a 12- mile advance on the west coast and bitter fighting developed at Senggarang, only 48 miles north of Singapore. Kluana rails Front-line dispatches said the key rail and highway town of Kluang, SO miles above Singa pore, had apparently fallen. The British acknowledged fighting south of there. By D. Witt Hancock Batavia, Jan. 27. iff) A heavy Japanese warship sunk In the first day of Japan's dis astrous effort to run the Straits of Macassar was identified tent atively today as a battleship In a Dutch recapitulation of the enemy's losses. This would raise Japan's toll to two capital ships so far. The first was the battleship Haruna, sunk by Capt Colin P. Kelly, Jr., of fthe Philippine In the first days of the war. A special Dutch communi que iday said a "large war ship," together with two cruisers and a transport, suffer ed direct hits with 660-pound bombs when Dutch filers attack ed the Japanese convoy. It is this "large warship" that now is believed to be a battleship. The summary by authorita tive sources said that In three days of a running Dutch-Amer ican air and sea assault on great Japanese convoy in the narrow waters between the Is lands of Borneo and Celebes 28 enemy ships were sunk or heav ily damaged and 13 warplanes downed, eleven ox ine snips wru war i vessels and 17 were transports. it Gro r ng Allied Might Pictured by Churchill In Confidence Request London, Jan. 27. (ff) Prime Minister Winston Churchill pre sented Britain today with a picture of growing allied might and unity today and demanded that parliament vote confidence in his government Against his frank admission that bad news has coma from the Pacific ocean battlefront, he told the house of commons: United States troops that have landed in northern Ireland are only a vanguard oi more to come. United States fighter planes will help defend Britain against air assault: United States bombers will Join the RAF in bombing Ger many. Considerable reinforcements have reached Malaya in the past week. Confidence Demand "We are taking many meas ures with the United States to increase the security of Australia and New Zealand, sending rein forcements, arms and equipment by the best routes." "It is because I see the light gleaming behind the clouds and broadening our path, he said at the end of his candid report of the good and evil in Britain's war fortunes, "that I make so bold now as to demand a de claration of confidence of the house of commons as an addi tional weapon In the armory of the united nations." At the close of the war lead er's speech, the house of com mons began debate on Britain's war .direction which Churchill will wind up with brief con cluding speech this week. The thunderous cheers that greeted his one hour and 24-mln-ute accounting left no doubt how the house of commons will vote when it finally puts the question of confidence to test. We shall presently regain naval command of the Pacific and begin to establish effective superiority in the air," the prime minister predicted, , Pacific Not Secondary He pledged that the Malay peninsula and Singapore would be defended to the last Inch and said he doubted that Japan would attempt an invasion of Australia ,"a very ambitious overseas operation In the pre carious and certainly limited time before the British and American navies regain, as they must regain, ultimate command of the Pacific." "There is no question of re garding the Pacific war as a sec ondary operation, he added. The United States navy Is linked in the most Intimate union with the admiralty both in the Atlantic and tha Pacific." Although Churchill said he "must confess to feeling the weight of war upon ma even more than in the tremendous summer days of 1840," he spoke with obvious confidence and ap peared to be in high good humor, Russians Collect Vast Booty in Nazis9 Wake By Eddy Ollmore With the Red Army on the Central Front Jan. 214ff) The Russian army, continuing its deadly flanking movements, moved deeply into Smolensk province today after clearing the last German from the province of Moscow. Mozhaisk, the battered and ruined high water mark of the German's advance west of the capital where they withstood the furious red army counter-attack for so long, has been converted Into an assembly point for tro phies captured from the nazis. When we passed through Moz haisk and moved up with the troops toward Gzhatsk we saw some of the soviet activities In collecting this booty. Tanks which litter the roads for miles are being hauled out of the snow and dragged by tractors to the Mozhaisk rail way. Some of them look to be In excellent condition. In the loot are many motor i vehicles trucks for transport BY DIG AT PERU Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 27. (AP) The final session of the Pan American conference at which the many agreements of the for eign ministers were to have been signed, was postponed today when Ecuador threatened a de nunciation of Peru over their border differences and declared herself prepared to leave the conference. The Ecuadorean minister to Rio de Janeiro, Enrique Arroyo Delgado, who is a member of his country's delegation, said: "Ecua dor is ready to make a strong denunciation of Peru at the ple nary session and leave the con ference without signing the final accords." As a consequence of the flare- up, Brazil's foreign minister, Os waldo Aranha, chairman of the conference, hoping that a solu tion would be found before this evening, postponed. the dosing session until tomorrow. Jurt before this hitch, events were moving smoothly to an al most general severance of rela tions between Latin American republics and the axis. COFEPDTAIDE A Jackson county warrant charging grand larceny has been issued for the arrest of Alvln John (Pat) Whltechat, 24, al leged to have stolen $350 from his employer, Carl Wintermood, manager of the Coffee Pot on North Riverside avenue, late Saturday night. Wintermood, according to city police, became suspicious of Whltechat when he discovered the money was missing Satur day night, and with police went to Whitechat's downtown room. Whltechat was not there, police said, but the empty money bag was found In his room. Further police investigation disclosed that Whltechat had purchased a stage ticket for Cal ifornia early Sunday morning. California authorities have been furnished with description of Whltechat ing troops, machines for hauling big guns, small gun, carriers. Among other material were ISO tons of barbed wire. The Germans had removed the engines from eome of the ve hicles, but many other seemed capable of operating after over haul and repairs. Those badly smashed by Red army artillery and grenades are being combed for undamaged parts, and the rest shipped oft as scrap steel and Iron to Soviet munition mills. Lieut. Gen. Leonid Govorov told us the Germans are moving the remnant of their shattered tank division to Germany to prepare them for great tank offensive In tha spring. "W learn from the German prisoners that they want to hit us while they still have super iority In tanks," he said. "Will they still have superior ity In the spring?" he was asked. That depends partly on the fulfillment of our allies' pled ges," m replied. , SALE OF SUGAR IS LOCALjISTORY Grocers Blame Excitement For Rush To Stock Up Allotment Plan Soon. If consumers would not get excited over everything they hear about shortages, there would be enough sugar for ev eryone, grocers generally agreed today after going through on of the most hectic sugar-buying sprees in history. Many stores said they have sold more sugar in the past few days than at the height of the canning season. "It looks as though a lot of people have enough sugar now to last a long time," one grocer stated. "After February 1 there will be plenty of sugar and it will be handled on an allotment plan so that there won't be any hoarding." "The public can blame Itself for retail shortages and rising prices," another merchant said, "By making a run on a product, people deplete stocks and help create the very shortage they seem to fear, at the same time causing prices to rise. If people wouldn't get excited eevry time they hear a rumor, we'd all ba a lot better off." Purchases Limited Many stores today were limit ing sugar purchases to a 10 pound sack per customer aa long as supplies last. It was stated that no new supplies will ba available untlT February 1. At least on store, however, waa still selling 100-pound bag "a long aa they last" On grocer said he sold his last 100-pound bag Friday, while Saturday and Monday cleaned him out of 25- pound sacks. We have only a few 10-pound sacks left," n said. The Coca-Cola Bottling com pany here, like other units tit the Coca-Cola system through out the country, has been placed by the parent company on a basis of 1040 sales for rationing purposes. The local company is therefore making deliveries to retailers on pro rata basis in accordance with its 1940 sales. This limitation, however, doea not apply to deliveries to army or navy establishments. "The Coca-Cola company will continue regular service and the standard of the product will b maintained," said Oliver A. Gua- tafson, the local company! man ager. There must be restriction In deliveries, he added, because current sales had gone far be yond those of 1940. The Snider Dairy ft Produe company, which also handle soft drinks, said its business was) not being affected by tha sugar situation. SUB SUHVIVORS Rangoon, Burma, Jan. 27 Jf Survivor of two steamer tor pedoed in the bay of Bengal by a submarine believed to be Japanese landed her today and estimated that 22 lives had been lost in the double-barreled aU tack. (Tim Is Pacific Standard) Program in tribute to , dent Roosevelt and his sixtieth, birth anniversary get a promt nent place in the week's sched ule on the network. Among th feature scheduled: Radio greeting via NBC, MBS and Blue at 9 p. nv, Thursday thirty-minute program with Ed die Cantor, Katherln Hepburn, Maurice Evans, Walter WlncbaU and others. London tribute relayed by th Blue at 1:30 p. m. Friday to in clude representatives of allied nations, many of whoa govem-i mente are in exile In London, Vladimir Horowits recital, ea Blue at 7:18 p. m. Friday Con-, cert pianist to play special IS minute tribute. Annual birthday baS over 3 networks St 8: IS p. m. Frid-T-" Pickups of birthday clbrawital In various parts of th sour try. Tonight: CBS 7:15, Sao. Thomas, Kstelle Sternberg:, fcTtOfy lalUllfaV,, BaaBBBBBBBBwaBBBBBaaaaiaaBBwaai lRaoHh!lc!:li
