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They Get Returns Thar enllflitea aa keep roe Informed taste knsy littlo Want Ada dally la this aawt papcr. Ma favoritism la purae. BTsrjona la prtrtUrr to aaa them. Thy gat Malta a sauUI Keep 'Em Flying Bay Defense Stamps or Bond from joor hank. attnt an loan aMocUtlont, atarea, paper carriers, or post office. Sara ana aid. Medforb Tribune full Associated Proa United Prou Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1942. NO. 266. mm m V n o)fl fnW a jnJLLU Ltl 1) - News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 28. The price control bill represents victory for the farm and labor blocs. Not so with business. The farm bloc fought for par ity prices. Now it wanted uu per cent of parity and is getting it Wheat can go to $1.39 bushel; corn to $1.01; cotton 21.4 cents; po tatoes to $1.2S under the bill. These figures are from Price rani Mallon Fixer Hender son's testimony as to what 110 per cent parity would mean. As prices now generally are about 99 per cent of parity, it is clear Henderson will be doing fairly well if he holds the cost of liv ing to another 10 per cent in crease. The administration is comforting itself, however, with the hope that existing surpluses will prevent or delay even that much of an Increase. , No restriction on wages were placed in the bill, and the mov able farm parity is tied to wage. The agriculture depart ment announces new parity nricea from time to time. These are price goals fixed by the relationship of farm prices to labor wages in 1914-1919. If waaei continue to go up, the parity will have to go up to pre serve that old ratio. The oDooslte is true of bust k. mil Kmrfrana Uuuv. can fix margins of profits as well as profits. He can issue licenses and cancel them to force compliance to his will. There is no parity for business. LESS cheering Is going up 1 from the congressional lead ers over this legislation than any passed in this war so far. One outstanding house leader confesses he does not like the legislation. Most objective news men closely covering the subject consider it a fairly good bill from the standpoint of avoiding high inflation, but a shameful bill for wartime. The inspiration of individual or class sacrifice for national interest seems to (Continued on Pae raur) Portlanders Hoard Staple Groceries Portland, Jan 28 7P Port land grocers reported today that consumers are continuing to lay in supplies of coffee, spices, soap, flour and sugar. They said the run on sugar Is especially heavy, despite a rationing scheme to limit cus tomers to two pound purchases. Individual family members are making separate purchases to evade the limit, they said. (Time la Pacific Standard) Tonight: The War 5 MBS; 8:55 CBS; 6:15 MBS; 7 MBS; 7:30 Blue: 7:45 CBS; 8 NBC CBS; 8:30 MBS; 9 NBC CBS Blue; 9:55 NBC CBS Blue. MBS 8 BasketbaU. Thursday: The War 8 MBS; 8:15 MBS; 9 CBS MBS; 10:45 NBC and Blue; 11 MBS; 12.55 p. m., CBS; 1 MBS. 1:45 CBS MBS; 1:95 Blue; S CBS MBS; 8:25 NBC; 3:45 CBS Blue. . SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBUNE REPORTERS Mary Lou Tygart hoping she will recover her lost purse con taining her glasses and some money she had collected for ber Cold Hill high school paper. - Friends worrying lest Frank Van Dyke catch cold in the light coat he's wearing and hoping his lost dark blue coat, missing since last Friday, will be restored to him soon. Jerry Jerome donning his long underwear lor the duration. Ml Radio Highlights SIX IAP PLANES DOWNED IN TILT; Macassar Invaders Suffer New Losses Four-Motored Bombers Turn Trick Singapore. Jan. 28. Orders ware issued today for the evacuation by noon Fri day of all civilians and live stock from a strip one mile deep on the northern shore of Singapore island which faces the Malayan mainland across the narrow Johore strait. Rangoon, Burma, Jan. 28 VP) Yankee volunteer fliers achieved another air-fighting miracle east of Rangoon today when, in daylight dogfight they destroyed six Japanese fighter planes by unofficial count, probably de stroyed six more and damaged nine others of a disrupted for mation of 37. The American fighters return ed to their base without suffer ing any casualties. Unofficial reports said that formation of RAF bombers in flicted heavy damage in a raid last night on Bangkok, capital of Japanese occupied Thailand. By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor. American fliers were official ly credited today with striking furious new blows at a Japanese invasion armada . trapped in Macassar Strait, where 25,000 to 30,000 Japanese were said to have drowned already. . - A Dutch East Indies commu nique said giant four-motor J. S. bombers sank a big Japanese transport, left another in flames and straddled a cruiser with sticks of bombs in the 400-mile Macassar Strait north of Java. A war department bulletin said a formation of eight U. S. army bombers engaged in the attack, in which one of the bombers was lost. A direct hit was scored on the cruiser. 36 Ships Suffer Pounding home Japan's great est naval disaster of the war. United States fliers thus boosted to at least 36 the number of Japanese ships sunk or damaged in a five-day battle. - Macassar Strait, the roadway to Java, headquarters of CSen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell's Unit ed Nations command, lies be tween Dutch East Borneo and Celebes Island. An N.E.I. communique ac knowledged that the Japanese had apparently occupied the burned-out oil center of Balik papan, East Borneo port on Ma cassar Strait. It was apparent, however, that the invaders had been lured into a deadly trap, set by the Dutch more than a week ago when they announced that Balakpapan'i great oil fields had been destroyed and implied that land defense had been with drawn. Japs Take Bait In accepting the "invitation", the Japanese armada unwarily sailed into a hornet's nest of allied submarines, bombers and surface warcraft. While the Dutch listed only 30 Japanese troopships and war ships sunk or badly damaged, American accounts put the five- day toll at 36, including a battle ship. Dispatches from Batavia did not disclose whether the battle in the shark-infested strait stiU e o n t i nued after yesterday's smashing blows by United States bombers. "Japanese fighter aircraft which attempted to intercept our bombers were roughly han dled.' Gen. Wavell's headquar ters said. "Two were shot down and one was damaged." On the far Pacific land front Japan's Invasion hordes drove perilously closer to Singapore today as wavering British de fense lines executed a new with drawal, less than SO miles north of the 1400,000,000 island stronghold, amid the heaviest fighting of the Malayan canv Daicn. ' A British spokesman said that Japanese troops knifing south ward from the Kluang sector, in central Malaya, were pressing Utt crtst threat to Singapore. Strait of Macassar Trap 1 MALAYA rawkrakJV j E$T?M AMBOINA VaL BATAVIA .,MiCRABAJA 9 a o 3001 AST INDIES P MILES 1 JSi Solid arrows from the Japanese base at Davao. In the southern Philippines, indicate the shortest sea route to the prised Island of Java through the Strait of Macassar, which has been the scene of a four-day running battle in which United Nations sea and air forces have sunk or damaged at least 34 Japanese ships. Dotted lines Indicate possible alternate but long Jap routes to Java. Flag symbols denote sites of known Jap landing and bases. OLD SCHOOL SITE FOR NEW MARKET The Medford school district, through Superintendent E. H. Hedrlck, announced today sale of the west portion Of its pro perty at Bartlett and Fifth streets to Safeway Stores, Inc., which will start Immediate con struction of modern $20,000 food market on the ground. Sale price was announced at $15,000. The transaction had Been pending for some time, final ratification occurring at a spec ial meeting of the school board last night. The Mark A. Goldy agency handled the deal. Safeway, according to Goiay will construct a new food mar ket Identical with the one it will build at the corner of Main street and Oakdale avenue on property the grocery concern recently purchased from the First Methodist church. It will be of concrete, the standard Safeway .type,, with a 50-foot frontage on Bartlett street and a 148-foot depth. A spa.ous paved parking area, 148 feet long on Finn street and 100 feet long on Bart lett, will be constructed for pa trons, Goldy stated. The size of the lot purchased by Safeway is 184.4 feet on Bartlett street and 148 feet on Fifth street. The horseshoe courts now located on the pro perty will be eliminated to make way for the building and park ing area. Disposition of gateway" two present Medford stores has not been announced, but It la be lieved they will be discontinued after the two new markets are in operation. The $15,000 sale price of the Bartlett and Fifth street proper ty will be held in trust by the school board until the remain der of the old Junior high school property is disposed of. On January 15, 1931, a bond elec tion was held In which citizens of the school district voted in favor of a school building pro gram which included an addi tion to the present junior high school. The addition was to be financed by the sale of the entire old Junior high tract. Rommel' i Troop Remain Stymied Cairo, Jan. 28 (JP) General Erwln Rommel's armored col umns, which shoved the British back 150 miles In three days, have been stopped for two days and, apparently, have come to an Impasse in their Libyan counter-drive, British headquar ters reported today. The communique placed the British defenders on 90-mile line from Soluch, near the east ern shore of the Gulf of Sirte, to a point Just north of Maus. London, Jan. 28. V-The 19-day strike in the Kent coal mines was settled today by a negotiated agrtemeat. Everything In Stores Now Liable To Rationing Rules Washington. Jan. 28. (fh at the stores became liable to rationing today, and legal price fixing was only one short step away. The war production board delegated to Acting Price Ad ministrator Leon Henderson full power to ration retail commodi ties, only a short time before the senate , completed congres sional action yesterday, on a How They . Voted Washington, Jan. 28. (JP) Following is the vote of Oregon senators by which the senate approved the compro mise version of price control legislation: For the bill: Republican McNary. Against the bill: Republican Holman. much-amended price control bill and sent it on to President Roosevelt. Democratic leaders said they expected the chief executive to sign the measure, although some of it farm price sections were known to be distasteful to him. He had asked for the legislation more' than six months ago as check against inflation. Liv ing costs have risen more than 11 percent since September. 1939, government economists say, and parallel price rues have added several billion dol lars to the cost of the nation's armament program. The capital generally con ceded that Henderson would be retained in the price adminis tration post he now holds by virtue of an executive' order. The added rationing authority. given him with Mr. Roosevelt's approval, virtually guaranteed that the name of Henderson in the next few weeks would be come a by-word in the kitchens, corner stores and offices of America. Further rationing, the WPB board observed, "seems inevit able." Signature of the price fixing measure will not necessarily mean an immediate flood of price-fixing orders, said one of Henderson's lieutenants who de clared that situations will be met as they arise. Philadelphia, Jan. 28. 4P Sol A. Herzog of New York, counsel for the Eastern States Gasoline Dealers Conference, predicts that gasoline rationing is "Just around the corner, be cause of tanker-torpedoings and military requirements. He told about 400 delegates from 14 states yesterday that the fuel may be one of the first commodities rationed by Leon Henderson under his new powers. MOBILE FIRST AID Delake, Ore" Jan. 28. UP) One of the first mobile first aid units to be formed on this part of the coast is ready for war emergency, auto accident, home accident and fire duty. It composed of five fully equipped cart. For Japs Everything that Americans buy OF LAND IS STARTED FOR CANTONMENT Portland, Jan. 28. WV First step toward acquiring land for the Medford area U. S. army cantonment was taken in fed eral court today when condem nation proceedings against 8000 acres were filed. The land is owned by Deane and Ellen Owens and 27 other Individuals and corporations. Bernard H. Ramsey, special assistant to the attorney gen eral, said that other suits will follow and that the government will acquire 40,000 acre for the military base. Negotiation for purchase of the cantonment land will con tinue but filing of condemna tion proceedings permits the government to take possession immediately while the fixing of price 1 going on, it wa ex plained by a civilian observer here. Army officer here would make no comment, in accord ance with instructions not to di vulge or comment on military information. DRAFT REGISTRY SET FOR FEB. 16 Salem, Jan. 28. UP) Gover nor Charles A. Sprague Issued a proclamation today ordering all men between the ages of 20 and 44 to register for selective service between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on February 16, unless they already have registered. Local selective service boards will decide where the registra tion places will be located. Jackson county local board No. 2 was to meet this afternoon to determine registration place. Local board No. 1 will meet to morrow morning. Headquarters of both board are in the Liber ty building. , Kingfish'g Gang Back in Saddle New Orleans, Jan. 28. UP) The once riddled Huey P. Long political machine In Louisiana fought it way back to power In New Orleans yesterday with a (weeping re-election victory for Mayor Robert S. Maestri, former Long lieutenant The clearcut majority given Maestri by the city' Democrat challenged Governor 8am H. Jones, chosen Just two year ago on A "retonn" plaUona, - AxL Subs Add to Along GENERAL DEWITT VETOES HEARING ON TRAIN LOSS 4th Army Chief Authorizes Withdrawal Trains Neo essary For Military Use. San Francisco, Jan. 28. (IP) Lieut-General J. L. DeWltt, fourth army commandant, au thorized the state railroad com' mission today to withdraw from public service any railroad train necessary to meet mill' tary demands. While we have not asked any railroad to discontinue any particular train, we have and do Insist that they meet our demand in transporting troops and war materials." he wrote President Carl C. Baker of the commission. General DeWltt asked that no public hearing be held on complaints about the withdraw al of trains from service. For obvious reasons," ha said, 'it is not advisable to disclose the number of troops being transported or the amount of materiel and their destination. i "AU of these would have to be diaalosed if a public hearing Held.- ....... Washington, Jan. 28. W) Because of the importance of moving men and munitions ahead of anything else, the of fice of defense transportation today said it did not think it should interfere with restricted passenger service between Duns- muir. Calif., and Grants Pass. Ore. . Sent. McNary and Holman were so advised by V. V. Boat- ner, director of railway trans- (Ooounuad on Pae Three) Mount Harris, Colo., Jan. 28. vn Thirty-four miners per ished in an explosion in the Vic tor American Fuel company late last night, only four men escaped alive. Black damp, deadly carbon dioxide gas, filled the shaft after the blast and impeded the work of rescue crews, unable to reach the victim for nearly six hour. Nearly every family in this small mining community 200 mile northwest of Denver had relative employed in the mine. Mine Superintendent Henry Johnson said the 34 men were trapped about 8,500 feet inside the tunnel of the mine, which lope at an angle of about 10 degree Into Mount Ha it la. The four who escaped were working nearer the entrance. They heard the bust and fled. Germans Dumping War Loot In United States Is Claim New York, Jan. 28. W The German high command and their agent in New York City were accused in federal in dictment today of dumping plundered loot and spoils of war in United States market, the proceed to be used to finance propaganda work in North and South America. A New York corporation, it president and three other In dividuals were named In the conspiracy Indictment - Those indicted were the Pio neer Import corporation: Wer ner von Clemm, Its president said by federal agenta to be a cousin of the wife of German Foreign Minister Von Rlbben trop; Carl Von Clemm, Warner's twin proUtti. said by authori U. S. East v r : Robert S. Farrell. Jr. ROBT. S. FARRELL SPEAK AT Robert 8. Farrell, Jr, Port land attorney, speaker of the state house of representative and head of the speakers com mittee of the state defense sav in itarf. will be guest speaker at the annual banquet-meeting of the Jackson County Lincoln club at the Hotel Medford at 6:30 p. m. February 12. Mr. Farrell is known as . dynamic speaker and he ia ex pected to bring a message of im portance to all Republican of Jackson county. With the nation at war, the Lincoln club' ban- auet this year assume a new aspect, with the purely partisan politic of peace time cuDmergea in the necessity of an America united for victory. Mr. Farrell ha been closely identified with the financing phase of the war effort through his position as head of the speak ers committee of the state de fense savings staff. He returned to Portland only recently from Chicago where he conferred per sonally with Henry Morgenthau. Jr., secretary of the treasury, and other executive of the U. S. treasury department which 1 the final authority in the sale of defense saving bond and stamp. In hi telegram of acceptance, Mr. Farrell (aid he would be accompanied to Medford by his Wife. Mrs. C. L. Hopkins, president of the Lincoln club, will preside at the banquet BULLETIN Washlaaten. Jan. 2ia-(;p The senate pawed and sent to the White House today 812456.672.474 army appro priationa bill providing funds for 23.000 fighting plane and 104)00 trainers. ties to be a Germany emissary in Italy; Ernest Cremer, man ager of the Diamond Control Office, a regulative body estab lished by the nasi In the low countries following their occu pation, and Carlo Hoepfner, European vice president of Pio neer corporation and believed to be now in Germany. Named as co-consplratora, but not a defendants, were "per sons constituting the high com mand of the German army;" members and partner of the In ternational Mortgage Handels- gellschaft G M B H., European purchasing agent for Pioneer corporation; and "person con stituting the Diamond Control Office of the German army ia Antwerp," ' ' LINCOLNBANQUET Toll Coast 374 LATEST SINKING IN TEXAS SEAS 14 American And Allied Ships Lost In Recent Activity of Submarines. By the Associated Pre Axis submarines, rans-g the) eastern American coast from the Gulf of Mexico to northern Can adian waters, have mink at least 14 American and allied ship since the undersea raiders ap peared off Nova Scotia, Jan. 12. Latest announced blow was the torpedoing of a large allied passenger liner carrying 450 passenger and crew from Ber muda to an eastern port. Only 71 have been caved, five bodies recovered, and 174 persons are missing from the liner. As this blow was announced the navy at Corpus Christ!, Tex, Id that submarine "doubt lessly German" had been sighted IB mile from nearby port Aran, sa and that probably another U-boat wa in the vicinity. Tanker Sunk This announcement followed upon last night's report of a. . U-boat's '(taking the 7,06-toa American tanker Francis X. Powell off Lewes, Del, with an indicated loss of three lives. ; The fate of another American tanker,- the Pan-Maine, 7,287' ton, remained in doubt follow. Ing a radio report yesterday af ternoon that she was being at tacked. The Pan-Maine carried!' 38 men. Thirty-three survivors from a Greek freighter and Norweg ian tanker arrived at an eastern Canadian port last night and re ported that 61 men were missing or dead in successful attacks on their vessels. Official navy statements list eight ships sunk off the eastern American coast in 14 days. These (hips, totaling 86,448 tons, went down with a loss of 80 live while 178 men were saved in widespread rescues. Two American ah! pa totaling 7,858 tons were sunk in black out collisions a condition some skipper fear more than U-boat attack. BRAZIL SEVERS AXISJpOiiS Rio de Janeiro, Jan. IS. (M President Getullo Vargas to day signed decree breaking Brazil' diplomatic and commer cial relations with Germany, Italy and Japan. The decree cited the fact that Brazil, "faithful to the Pan American tradition, never ban failed in Immediate fulfillment of continental decision" and therefore . was following the unanimous recommendation of the conference of American for eign ministers recommending the 21 republics break with the axis. The 100-year-old boundary dispute between Peru and Ecua dor, which was believed last night to have been settled, stum bled on 11th hour obstacles ones again today, threatening hopes for a harmonious adjourn ment of the 12-day war con ference of American foreign ministers. Seven Million Army Auerted U. 5. Cod London. Jan. 18. United States Ambassador John O. Wlnant told national de fense luncheon today that tne United States plans to recruit an army of 7.000,000 men. "If it la necessary for the wo men of America to scrub, drive or transport or man anti-aircraft batteries or pilot planes er whatever else, they will an tt MISSING IN
