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Keep 'Em Flying Boy DefrnM Stamps or Bon tit from your bank, tavtnga mn loan aMOclatlona, kotn, paper camera, or poet oillce. and aid. Quick Result ArtielM ja awe for ml. far traaa. for mt, Ma. ikMI k adnrtlar ta tha Waal AS. Thu to tha way t frt quick mult. Tan will k surprise U m how Uttla u easts la ad Tenia Medford Tribune Full sedated Pre United Piau Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1942. NO. 270. Singapore Defenders In Final Stand Against Japs rjj AFfUS ST ANMIWS I0 AKM'tlACO. MUNIO'M. SUMM UMIIS', .' , . ,4ffV - . ' C A. f ll"" - -'Tf'"1 ; yerrH,v VT,"PV 7';' , " J II f t - II 0 1! . , 1 - .( L 1 ' W I ' ; y ' - : U c' The highland! of the Rhlo Archipelago, In the Dutch East Indiei, are pointed out (above) In thii genera! view of Singapore and Singapore Strait. Axii report said Japanese troop, in an encirclement of Singapore, hid landed in the island of the Rhio Archipelago. This view of Singapore is looking south from the top of a tall hotel. It was made by Deane Dickaon, American lecturer-traveler. News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Feb. 2. Latest rechecks confirm earlier Infor mation that about 31 nazl under- sea wolves VIA. .3 started In that pack operating tic coast They off our Atlan are working on t- yZ: A-l a mathematical It;- P'an- They did V-fiVjl no lirst strike & the New York V rea and then ipread out lan wise north and Paal Mallon south a the lowly released records of the sinkings might suggest. Each U boat was assigned an area along our narrow coastal shipping lane off shore. The assigned areas run anywhere from 60 to 150 miles. The prowlers hide in daylight, then move Into their allotted section of the lane at night and await their prey. The plan was obviously blocked out on maps before they left Germany and represents a skillful campaign designed to 1 force us to convoy our coastal traffic. THESE ships are probably not being refueled by mother hips as popularly supposed. Talk has been heard about Hit ler developing a new submarine mother for his wolf -pack, a kind of undersea tanker designed to sustain the raiders in rendezvous at night. . That may not be necessary be cause the nazis have fabulously extended the range of their subs by contriving to store Diesel oil in many of their ballast tanks. This has increased their range, aome susrject. to 20.000 miles. It is only about 4,000 miles from Bremen to New York, probably much farther by the route the subs took; but even so, they could hang around offshore here a considerable time without re I fueling, especially under their area allotment plan, which does not require much cruising. If any tenders are around, they are carrying torpedoes rather than fuel. The German tubs have four torpedo tubes (Continued on Pa Cl(nt) GOVERNOR ORDERS Salem, Feb 2. (AP) Gov ernor Charles A. Sprague, in a proclamation today urged every Oregon citizen to advance their 0 Wh4 atlii" '-i n clocks one hour at 11 p. m. next deducted as he has been wait Sunday. I ing sentence that length of time. The proclamation, In which i The charge grew out of a knife the governor ordered all state! fight in a local alley, activities under his control to o ! Billy Dean Collin, charted on daylight saving time con-1 with indecency, was sentenced forms with a federal law pre- to six months in the ccunty Jail, scribing such tin-. for federal Collins was arrested a week ecUViUt. lags Big Mediterranean Campaign Hinted in New Axis Activities 12 ASK CERTIFICATES .1 Up to 1:30 p. m. 13 persons had applied at Medford post- . ,j . caxes 01 laenuiicauon. x-osv master Frank DeSouza estimated that there were aoout 73 aliens of enemy nationality, Japanese, Germans and Italians, in Jack son county. Applications for certificates of Identification may be made in this county at the Medford or the Ashland post office. In the general registra tion of all aliens in 1940, 386 of Jackson county were registered at the Medford postoffice. All aliens of enemy nationality in western states must apply this week for certificates of identifi cation. When they apply, they must have three unmounted photographs of themselves, 2 by 2 inches in size, showing a full face view without hat and taken within the past month. The cer tificates of identification are be ing issued in the courtroom on the second floor of the Medford Federal building. DRAFT REGISTRY MAY BE 3 DAYS Salem, Feb. 2. VP) All places of registration of men for selective service must be open on February 18, but local boards also may keep them open on the two preceding days. Lieutenant Colonel Elmer V. Wooton, state selective service director, said today. He estimated that 73,000 men would be registered on those dates in Oregon. Of this num ber, 12,000 will be 20 or 21 years of age, while the rest will ! be in the 36-44 age group. Jackson county local boards 1 land 2 were to meet this after- 1 noon to complete aeiau 01 uic registration set-up. Knife Wielder Given Sentence A charge of assault with a deadly weapon against Dennis Delworth was reduced in Justice of the Peace Coleman's court today to disorderly conduct and he was given six months in the county Jail, two months to be Groundhog Censored in Reporting Views On Coming Weather ' Jackson county's groundhog, with an eye to national defense, joined other groundhogs throughout the country today in keeping his annual one-day re- j connaisance a military secret. TninIf h Joining in his censorship of the weather, prediction for the com ing six weeks was the local weather bureau at the Medford municipal airport which re ported that the groundhog's sur vey must be considered "unof ficial." The weather bureau stated "unofficially" that the ground hog might have seen his shadow early this morning and left the rest to the imagination of loyal Jackson county residents. So. if the groundhog arose early this morning, perhaps a bright sunrise cast his shadow and for those who remained abed until later perhaps the groundhog did not see his shadow. Who knows, Well, it really doesn't make much differ ence anyway because it's a "mili tary secret" regardless. GIANT NAVAL BILL Washington, Feb. 2. AP A $26,495,265,474 naval appro priations bill, largest measure of its kind ever to win approval of a legislative body, was passed by the senate today and returned to the house for action on amend ments. Increased more than $6,000, 000,000 over the total previously voted by the house, the measure would provide approximately $8,000,000,000 for new airplanes and a like amount for ships, in addition to $7,000,000,000 for maintaining the far-flung oper ations of the present fleet. Funds would be made avail able in the bill' to boost plane production to the navy's quota of 18,000 out of the 60,000 planes for which President Roosevelt has called this year. The measure was passed on voice vote two hours and five minutes after it was called up. Diners Get Rough When Sugar Denied Camden. N. J., Feb. 2. ;p Sugar rationing note: When a restaurant customer a;ked for a second spoonful of sugar for his coffee and didn't get It he and his two companions threw the waiter through a plate glass window and knocked the restaurant manager unconscious. The customers were held with - out pail lor u grand Jury. ED By the Associated Press New signs of an axis Mediter ranean campaign much more serious than the present counter offensive in eastern Libya ap peared today. Coinciding with the British retreat from Bengasi and Ital ian reports of intensified Ger man air assault on Malta, Ber lin let it be known by radio that Reichsmarshal Hermann Wil helm Goerlng has been in Italy since last Tuesday, conferring with Premier Mussolini and in rpecting German air force units in Sicily. The British Imperial retreat In north Africa found the erst while attackers fighting a de- I fensive engagement about 100 miles northeast of Bengasi. Besides being Adolf Hitler's chief lieutenant the corpulent Goering is chief of the German air force. What turn the axis offensive might take In the Mediterranean zone is conjectural ranging from powerful reinforcements of the land drive through eastern Libya, toward Alexandria and Suez, to a possible attempt at air-borne capture of the Alex andria base and the nearby can al. The African successes of the axis, however, were far short of offsetting the German misfor tunes in Russia, In sea warfare, the German high command reported the sink' ing of a destroyer off the Canad ian coast, a corvette west of Gi braltar and an "armed ship" off Cirenaica and another off M mansk all apparently credited to U-boat action and bomb hits on three merchantmen off the southeast coast of England. Radio Highlights (Time is Pacific standard) Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau are to speak on the Meet Your Navy pro gram. Blue network at 9:30 Tuesday night Tonight Talks, Blue 7:43, Rep. W. C. Ploeser on St Law rence seaway. Tuesday The war, 8:13 MBS; 9 CBS MBS; 10 Blue; 10:43 NBC; 11 MBS; 12:13 p. m. CBS; 1 MBS; 1:45 CBS MBS; 1:53 Blue; 3:23 NBC; 3:43 CBS Blue. Portland. Feb. 2. W The Sealy-Dresser company, in the food and catering business here for 64 years, will close March 1, 1 Jack Luihn, president said to- cay. HI mam mm HALT-JAPi Al AT M'ARTHUR MEN C0STLYFA1LURE Two Japanese Divisions Are Hurled Simultaneously at American-Filipino Fort. ROTARY UNDER FIRE With Gen. MacArthur on The Batan Peninsula, Jan. 30. (Delayed) (if) Gen. Doug las MacArthur was voted an honorary member of the Man ila Rotary club today, when the group met in a mountain grove amid the rumble of heavy artillery. The general had few du ties elsewhere, however, and was unable to accept the hon or personally. By Clyde A. Farnsworth (Associated Press War Editor) Another Japanese smash which Tokyo heralded as pos sibly the climactic drive in the battle of the Philippines has ended in costly failure although the enemy used his best troops and new tactics against General Douglas MacArthur' men, a war department .communique) an nounced today. This was the third triumph recorded by American forces in the Pacific in the last two days. General Offensive The Japanese had reported heavy gunfire along the east coast of Batan peninsula, ap parently signalling a general of fensive: hence this American success may rank with the de struction of an Invasion flotilla aimed at Corregidor and the slashing sea and air attack on six Japanese air and naval bases in the Pacific, announced yester day. Two Japanese divisions were hurled simultaneously against the American-Filipino lines on the east and west sides of the peninsula, the communique said. On the west, the south China sea ahore, the Japanese were driven back and destroyed, cap tured or drowned. On the east, facing Manila bay, artillery fire broke up a mass frontal attack before it sot fully under way. General MacArthur said pick ed troops known as Tatorl made the attack with courage which won his praise. But he said, at the end they "were glad to sur render." Navy Whacks Islands A naval blow on the broad flank of Japan's hop-skip-jump offensive raised the probability of a full-fledged. American as sault on the enemy's vulnerable island mandates in time to ease the siege of Singapore and check the pressure on the Dutch East Indies and Australia. Warships and planes of the Pa cific fleet, according to a Wash 1 n g t o n announcement, have turned a storm of torpedoes, bom os and shells onto six Jap anese air and naval bases in the Marshall and Gilbert islands in a surprise foray that destroyed or damaged many auxiliary ves sels of the enemy's fleet along with numerous planes and ground Installations. Loss of 11 American planes was reported. The announcement came yes terday, on the second day of the siege of Singapore and about tha time that the Japanese, per haps in their first feeler thrust into the moat-like Johore strait sent three small boats against the British base-fortress. They were promptly caught in a gale of shellfire and one of them was sunk. Singapore' guns also blasted Japanese forces moving Into Jo hore Bahru, across tha strait from Singapore Island. In London, a British military commentator said It was entirely possible that Singapore's big coast defense guns up to 18 Inches in caliber had been turned on Japanese I concentrations. mainland E WINS FIRST PRIZE IN SAFETYJFFORT National Honor and $100 Awarded Medford Organ ization Worked Hard. Salem, Feb. 2. AP) Roxy Ann Grange of Medford won the national first prize of $100 in the Grange safety contest for 1941, Secretary of State Earl Snell was advised today. The awards are based on con tributions to community high way safety. Deer Creek Grange of Selma and the North Fork Grange of Florence also were among the winners. Officers of Roxy Ann Grange were surprised this morning upon receipt of word from the Mall Tribune of their winning first prize in the national safety contest. Mrs. Eugene Nowlin, who acted as secretary for the group compiling the scrap book which was forwarded to the na tional contest the last of Decem ber said that the grange had worked on the safety contest be cause they realized the neces sity of safety in the home, school, farm traffic at d automobile driv lna. . ?i . ' The grange enlarged on the topic and the ladies included safety in health with proper foods and participated in first aid work. When the opportunity was open safety motion pictures were shown In the schools In Roxy Ann district and posters were displayed. Snapshots and newspaper clippings added to the scrapbook. Working on the committee were Mrs. Nowlin, Charles Rose, Elbert Robinson, George Hery ford and George Roberts, the lat ter master of the grange. Roscoe Roberts, a member of the city traffic council and of the grange assisted this ange also. Commit tee members said that the contest wa open to granges throughout the nation. YARDS CONTINUE Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 1. (AP) Shipyards here and at Seattle continued operations today when the welders' walkout, in their long-standing controversy with the American Federation of La bor, proved ineffective. Announced intentions of estab lishing picket lines failed to ma terlialize In Seattle when the forenoon shifts went to work. 'Chaotic Conditions' Here News to Sheriff's Office A report published In tha Al bany Democrat-Herald last Sat urday, under tha headline, "Med ford Experiencing Choatlc Con ditions,' and attributed to C. W. Llckess, Albany contractor and builder, was characterized to day, by Sheriff Syd I. Brown as "bosh". "If any chaotic conditions pre vail here, I don't know anything about it neither does anybody else. I have received no word of any chaos. A "number of new people are coming in, but not enough to make any difference. Everything is normal, and since work started on the army pro ject, things have been quieter than usual," the sheriff explain ed. "The state police, city police, and this office have made prep arations for more officers, if and when, conditions Justify. So far this has not been remotely nec- essary. It may be different in a J month or to, Tb mala problems Engineer Bean la Major Now Heretofore In answering the telephone, Theron W. Bean has always said 'Cap tain Bean talking." Today the area engineer, U. S. corps of engineers, said merely "Bean talking." The reason for tha change? Bean's Innate modesty. He is now a major. Notification of the promotion was received over the week-end, friends wild. Malor Bean said nothing Demo Fund Dinners Planned Feb. 28 As F. R. Makes Report Washington, Feb. 2. (AP) Democratic leaders gave heed to day to the problem of financing the 1942 campaigns in a nation preoccupied with war while some Republicans In congress toyed with hopes of winning enough seats In the fall elec tions to gain majority control in the house. Edward J. Flynn, chairman of the Democratic national commit tee, announced yesterday that the annual fund raising dinners heretofore held on January 8 would be staged February 23, the night when President Roose velt makes his next radio report to the nation. Flynn said tha party still owed $600,000 from the 1940 presi dential campaign and wanted to wipe this out "in order that we may enter the coming congres sional campaign unhampered and able to function effectively, for it la perhaps the most Important congressional election in our country's history." Meanwhile Senator Austin (R Vt.) gave voice to Republican ambitions for big congressional gains with the assertion that party leaders had high hopes of overturning Democratic control In the house. L ALIEN JAPS HELD San Pedro, Calif, Feb. 2. VP) Male Japanese aliens on Term inal Island were taken Into cus tody today by 180 federal, city and county officers and are be ing held at the immigration sta Hon on the island. Trent Doser, director of the station, would not say how many enemy aliens were taken in the round-up nor would he comment on Its purpose. The Japanese population of the island, a vital naval and ship building center In Los Angeles harbor. Is about 2,200, of whom about 800 are aliens. Male aliens, mostly fishermen and cannery workers, are said to total 400, will be traffic and housing," the sheriff concluded. The Albany-Corvallls area Is also slated for a cantonment The Democrat-Herald article follows: "C. W. Llckess, an Albany contractor rrd builder who has been spending the last two or three weeks in Medford, is spending the weekend at his home in Albany. He reports a chaotic condition In Medford as a result of tha large number of people arriving there to work at the cantonment 'The lack of housing facilities and the inconveniences for those who wish to camp and the con trol of the new arrivals by the police are all problems that are taxing the city. Many of the campers are pitching their camps on tha railroad right of way. A similar condition may exist in other sections of the state. It Is pointed out More people arrive at times on the freight train than by passenger trains." Trailer Camp Site Planned Near City Housing Ca pacity Expected Taxed. Articles of incorporation of Medford Trailer Camps, Inc., were filed In Salem today. Capi talized at $20,000, the corpora tion will engage principally la installing and operating a trailer camp designed primarily for construction workers on tha army cantonment to be estab lished In this locality. Stockholders were to meet this afternoon to elect a board of directors. The directors were to choose officers and conduct other business incident to get ting the corporation functioning. Matters to be studied by tha board Included selection of a site and installation of water lines, sewer facilities and other utilities. Half Subscribed At least half the capital stock has already been subscribed, it was indicated at the office of the cantonment civilian ooordl--natlng board. Merchant and others Interested in the project are putting up the capital. A site known to be under con sideration is tha Thomas tract of 70 acres on Crater Lake high way about mile out of Mad- ford. Other sites also have been considered, including tha old county fairgrounds and tha farm security administration camp site, but both of these are under stood to have been ruled out at least tentatively because they are south of town and the oc cupants would have to drive through Medford to get to tha cantonment. Other factors said to be against the sites south of town were the lack of shade trees and tha necessity of spread ing large quantities of gravel to avert mud in wet weather and dust In dry weather. Other altes considered war off Spring street and near Bybeo bridge. Must Have Trailers Occupants of the proposed camp must provide their own trailer houses, tha corporation providing tha land, utilities and management The incorporator were under- (Continued on Page rtra) Stimulated by tha cantonment authorization, Medford' build ing permit business rocketed to $40,880 in January, compared to $20,400 for tha same period in 1941 and to tha $2,863 la December, according to figures released by tha city Inspector today. Of tha 27 permit Issued six were for tha construction of new residences costing $18,230, 14 were for remodeling of resi dences at a cost of $3,630, three were for construction of new businesses costing $23,300 and four were for remodeling of business buildings at a cost of $3,500. First permit for February was issued by Irvln Dttpray of 1240 North Riverside avenue, to re model a room over a garage at a stated cost of $30. SIDE GLANCES BY TRIBOlfS REPORTERS Ed Pease whipping up soma home-made roll that would put as Utchea quean to ahajaa. , CANTONMENT UPS BUILDING PERMITS i t
