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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
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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
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ASK CERTIFICATES
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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.
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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.
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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
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