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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.
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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
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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
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