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TRIBUNE
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United Praai
Thirty-sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1942.
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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
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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.
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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.
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