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I Quick Results Article job ban far ml. tor trade, far rent, rtc, ihoaU k a4trtlv In the Want Adu. Ihu u the mm; to get quirk molts. Toa will bo urprtord to ore ho llttlo It com to aStortlio. Keep 'Em Flying Bay Defeat Stamp r Boad from your bank. MVlngt ani luaa awocUtloiit, ttre, paoer carrten, or pott office, tfav and aid. Medford Tribune full Associated Press United Preee Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1942. NO. 271. News Behind The News by Paul Mallon ME! TAX map fff RGm WE O Washington, Feb. 3. The British could use a Rommel or two. No wonder Is expressed here wai nn ler has made his Libyan e o mmander a (ield marshal (second class). He duped the British out of Ben gazi, Im mediately aft er getting his promotion. The nazi sent rial Million a feinting force straight east from his base couth of Bengazi as If he were , going on a wide arc, the same strategem he used when he (wept around and isolated Tob ruk last year. The British sent a strong force out to meet him, leaving Bengazi lightly defend ed. But Rommel cut his east- m Oward procession, turned his main force north toward the city and captured it. The launching of his whole counter-drive out of defeat was just as well screened. Two or three weeks ago Hitler started concentrating planes in Sicily and Sardinia, simultaneously opening an air attack on Malta Naturally the British expected a Cretian blow at their tiny island fortress, send a good portion of their Libyan planes to defend it. The nazis continued their daily air menacing to keep these British planes occupied. But in stead of attacking Malta, they slipped ten transports (10,000 tons each) loaded with troops and supplies across to Tripoli to reinforce Rommel for this drive. MOTE Both the Nazis and Japs can get away with these swift moving deceptions because they are attacking from the cen ter of a circle while the united nations must run around the outer arc. The shorter radius of center lines enables the aggres sors to Shift troops and planes with great speed. The Japs from Formosa, for instance, sent their bombers against MacArthur one day, Malaya the next. This basic defect will be met when we are able to take the offensive, choose our place of attack and marshal superiority of force at that point. 00 IX kinds of stories are going the rounds about agriculture Secretack Wickard's change of mind against inflating farm prices to the limit. One told to (Continued on Page Four) 100,000th Joins For Navy Service Washington, Feb. 3 (IP) The 100,000th volunteer to join the ! navy since the Japanese attack on Pearl harbor December 7 enlisted yesterday. The navy department said today that day and night opera Hons of the navy recruiting service, on a seven-day week basis had brought an average of 1,786 enlistments a day dur ing the eight weeks period since the war began. Clark Gable Coming On Oregon Vacation Willows, Calif., Feb. 3. UP) .Clark Gable, film star whose wife, Carole Lombard, was killed In a recent plane crash, left here yesterday en route to Oregon for a vacation. Only hit chauffeur accompanied him. Radio Highlights (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight: Blue 5:30, Meet Your Secretaries Knox and Mor genthau. Wednesday: The war 8 MBS; 8:13 MBS; 9. CBS. MBS; 10 Blue; 10:45 NBC; 11 MBS; 12:15 pm., CBS: 1 MBS; 1:45 CBS, MS; 3 CBS, MBS; 3:25 NBC; 3:45 CBS, Blue. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Eino Hcmmila agree that it was refusing to late Soldier" rather than 'Tanks a Million" that packed 'em into the Ria'.to Sunday, he it w vice versa. Jack Jewitt being a lit'le more than surprised when he sat on a stool in a coffee shop and ft gave way under his eight. GROCERS UPHELD BY HIGHER COURT $45,0C0 Already Collected To Be Held Until People Decide Issue In November Salem, Feb. 3. (IP) The state supreme court today or dered unanimously the two-cent cigarette tax law placed on the ballot at the next general elec tion in November, and compel led the state tax commission to cease collecting the tax im mediately. Earl B. Day, member of the tax commission, said the com mission would stop collecting the tax at once, "The commission," Day said, "won't have any formal state ment. The decision stops collec tion of the tax. And I can t ima gine any cigarette dealer send ing in any more money to the commission after he hears about the decision." Grocers File The law was passed by the 1941 legislature, but the State Retail Grocers association filed a referendum against it. Attor ney General 1. H. Van Winkle then advised Secretary of State Earl Snell not to accept the ref erendum. Van Winkle holding that the association's expense ac counts in connection with the referendum movement were in adequate. Snell then accepted Van Win kle's advice, and ordered the tax commission to begin collecting the tax. Collection began on Jan uary 8, after which the associa tion filed the supreme court suit against Snell. $45,000 Collected ' The commission has collec'ed about $45,000, which will be placed In the state treasury and kept there until the people de cide next November whether they want the tax. Today's decision, by Justice Bailey, said that the statute re quiring filing of expense state ments by sponsors of referen dum movements "does not re quire that the service for which money is paid be minutely des cribed or that everything an em ploye does to earn his stipend be set forth in the statement of disbursements. It is our opinion that the statement of contribu tions as expenditures filed by the State Retail Grocers associ ation is in substantial compli ance with the provisions ' of that statute. BILL APPROVED IN SENATE VOTE Washington. Feb. 3.- The senate passed today a bill setting up a $1,000,000,000 fund to insure private property against damages resulting from bombing and other enemy at tacks. On a voice vote, it authorized the government War Damage corporation to provide this pro tection and at the same time increased the lending and bor rowing authority of the Recon struction Finance corporation by $2,500,000,000. Senator Vandenberg (R., Mich.) demanded that all war costs, including loans by govern ment corporations, be listed as part of the public debt. Senator Maloney (D.. Conn.), floor leader for the war dam age measure, had told Vanden berg that the pending bill would raise the total lending author ity of the RFC, headed by Fed eral Loan Administrator Jesse The Choco.H. Jones, to about $10,000,000, 000. The measure would authorize arguing free Insurance against war dam lage up to $15,000. and there after a "reasonable premium' would be charged. The Constitution of the Uni ted States originally consisted of a preamble aud seven articles. Allies in Big Move ; .o Counter Nipponese MacArthur Scores Again f ALBUM. VmAlML I I kjrvnMi 11. 8 jr BATAN o "3 MARIVELES lO MILES Artillery fir laid down br forces smashed a Japanese mass near Pilar (arrow). On the opposite side of the Batan Peninsula, the Invaders were forced back to coast along South China tea and either destroyed, captured or drowned. MacArtmir said the Jap anese now occupy aoout nail ot Farm Produce Heading for Washington, Feb. 3 (P The from headquarters today that the their products has gone about as far as the agriculture depart ment and the office of price administration will permit. Leon Henderson, the price1 administrator, and Secretary of Agriculture Wickard disclosed yesterday they were In "com plete agreement" that the cost of living should be stabilized. The agriculture department will do its part by using government-owned stocks of grains and cotton "to supplement private stocks" and by keeping feed prices at levels which will en courage production of meat and livestock products. The price administrator will reciprocate by bearing down on the prices of things farmers buy. The joint statement did not disclose how high they planned to let farm prices go, but Wick ard provided clue Saturday when he told the senate agri culture committee he thought "around parity" would be about right. Parity Is a price which would give farm products the same purchasing power as they had in a stipulated previous period --for most crops, the years 1909-14. Farm prices averaged 102 per cent of parity as of January 15, the agriculture department re ported. Some were much high er, some much lower. Portland. Feb. 3 (fl3) Ap proximately 300 Pacific tiorth west lumbermen, most of them from Oregon, attended an auc tion here today In which the army let contracts for approxi mately 60,000.000 board feet of lumber. The lumber was for canton ment conduction in various sections of the west and mid west, including some work at Medford. Originally the auction was to have Included sufficient lumber for cantonments at Cor vallis. Ore., and Maryrville, Calif., but purchasing for these projects has been delayed. 100 RAID-SHELTERS Portland, Feb. .3. OP Port land has 100 downtown build ings containing qiartert that would serve as air raid shelters, en air raid shelter committee said today after a survey. BALANGA PILAR ORIOM LIMAY LAMAOl 1 4 CORRECIDOR I. General MacArthur's Philippine attack at an important junction tno remniuia (dotted area). War Boom Early Ceiling nation's farmers heard straight war boom in the market for COMMUNITY NEEDS AUSED BY CAN ARE TALKED HERE More conferences on various community needs created by the army cantonment were held here today. Here fur a late afternoon conference with the cantonment civilian coordinating board's housing committee were L. E, Srarbrough, Seattle, regional co ordinator for the federal office for defense housing coordina tion, Folger Johnson, Portland, state director of the federal housing agency, W. G. Craw ford, Salem, executive director of the Oregon Economic council, and Fred Cuthbert, Portland consultant of the Northwest Regional Planning board. Executives of the farm secur ity administration were here also to confer with representa tives of Medford Trailer Camps, Inc., incorporated yesterday by local men to help solve the ex pected housing problem. Conferences on cantonment community problems, with the idea of receiving government help on housing, water service enlargement, sewer and sewage plant expansion, and hosDltal and school extension, have been a regular feature here and else where since last May. Physician Held in Abortion Fatality Centralis, Wash., Feb. 3. (IP) Dr. J, G. Sargent. Centralis physician, was still In the Lewis county jail today unable 1o raise $2,000 bail after his arrest on charges of manslaughter and performing an abortion. He pleaded Innocent when ar raigned In justice court, and was bound over to the higher court for trial during the next jury term. New York, Feb. 3. AP Two gunmen robbed Berthold d'AIesandre of $7 In Central I park -and then shot him in the 'right foot so he couldn't chase I them REGISTRY PLACES SET FOR COUNTY BY DRAFT BOARD A.M. To 9 P.M. Will Be Hours For Feb. 16 Regis tration; Name Registrars. Headquarters of Jackson county selective service boards today announced the following as places of the new registra tion to be held February 16: City and Place Medford, Courthouse Auditor ium. Ashland, City Hall or Arm ory. Butte Falls, Town Hall. Eagle Point, Brown's Hall. Central Point, Old City Hall. Gold Hill, City Hall. Jacksonville, Old Courthouse. Applegate, Community Hall. Prospect, Prospect Gymnas ium. Talent, City Hall. Trail, Engineer's Office. All registration places will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. Although registration on days prior to February 16 Is permis sible, there will be only the one day of registration in Jackson county, it was announced by Ernest L. Scott, in charge of publicity for the two selective service boards here. Mr. Scott explained that the services of the registrars are entirely gratis and voluntary and that there fore it was unfair to ask them to give unnecessary time to this work. Mr. Scott said the following had been appointed chief regis trars under the American Le gion volunteer plan of which Frank H. Ray Is chairman: Butte Falls, Clyde Smith; Eagle Point, Dale Ensminger; Central Point, Elmer Wilson; Gold Hill Cleo Gilchrist; Jacksonville, Ray Wilson; Applegate, Ed Kubli; Trail, Dr. John H. Mallory; Prospect, Dewey Hill; Ashland, Harry D. McNair; Talent, Bert F. Simmons; Medford, board No. 1, Walter J. Looker and board No. 2, Lyle B. Thurman. Required by law to register February 16 are all men not previously registered for select ive service who were born on or after February 17, 1897, and or before December 31, 1921, or, in other words, those who attained their 20th birth day on or before Dwember 31, 1941, and who will not have at tained their 45th birthday, on or before February 16, 1942. Both boards will hold a meet ing at 7:30 p. m, February 13 in the county courthouse audi torlum for all chief registrars and any other citizens who have the time and are willing to vol unteer their service to help In the registration February 16, Mr. Scott said. At thU meeting all necessary supplies and In structions will be given and oath of office administered, he stated. As the registration job is a big one, he asked all who can help as registrars to attend the meeting February 13. California D. A.'s Favor Alien Ouster San Francisco, Feb. 3. (IP) Strict enforcement of Califor nia's alien land act through civil suits for state seizure of land held Illegally by Japanese has been endorsed by nearly 100 dis trict attorneys and sheriffs. Where the alien land Uw hat been violated in a flagrant man ner or near military establish ments, criminal prosecutions al so will be undertaken, the law enforcement officers decided at a conference with State Attor ney General Earl Warren. TO TALK HIGHWAY Washington, Feb. 3. (IP) The house public lands commit tee will take testimony tomor row from Gov. Ernest H. Omen ing of Alaska and other terri torial officials on a bill to con struct a $25,000,000 highway from the United States to Alaska, FOR WALBERTS IN COW CREK AREA Belated Information Gives Hope of Finding Medford Couple Missing On Flight. Roseburg, Ore., Feb. 3. (IP) Search for the plane in which Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Walbert of Medford disappeared Nov. 29. 1940, while flying from Med ford to Portland is to be renew ed within the next week or ten days. Sheriff Cliff Thornton an nounced here today. New infor mation, belatedly received by the sheriff, has been transmitted to Leo G. Devaney, director of the state aeronautics board, who advised Thornton in a letter re ceived today that an aerial search is being organized and that a flight is contemplated in about one week if weather per mits. The search will be made along the Eden ridge, between the Rogue river and Cow Creek, about fifteen miles west ot West fork. Reports of a plane being heard In that vicinity were dis counted at the time the Wal- berts disappeared, because of what was regarded as more credible Information indicating that the plane had been flown as far north as Marcola, Lane county. Sheriff Thornton said that he was recently contacted by Frank Ingram, living about sev en miles up West Fork creek from Dothao station, In Cow creek valley, who reported that he heard a crash which he esti mated to be about eight or ten miles away. In correspondence with In gram the time element has been established fitting closely with the flight of the Walberts. The Medford Flying club's of fer ot a $250 reward for the finding of the Walberts or their plane was recently withdrawn. For many months after they took off from the local airport search was carried on, and re cently when it became certain they had perished their estate was settled. Mr. Walbert was local representative for the Stubbs Electric company of Portland. Mail Tribune's Carriers Top Defense Stamp Sale Mall Tribune carriers are far out front In the national av erage for the sale of defense saving stamps, a tabulation com piled by the U. S. treasury department shows. ine treasury department bul- letln listed figures on 493 of the 900-odd newspapers participa ting in the stamp-selling plan. Of the 493 newspapers listed, 107,303 carriers sold 38,265,370 of the ten-cent stamps up to January 10, the period covered In the report. This was an aver age of 356 stamps per carrier. In the same period the 36 parti cipating Mail Tribune carriers sold the equivalent of 60,880 stamps or an average ot- 1,658 stamps per carrier. The report showed also that Mail Tribune carriers had sold more stamps than the carriers of any newspaper In Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah and Montana. In the northwest area the Tacoma, Wash., Times was c!rut to th Mill Tribune, Its 235 carriers having sold 50,500 stamps. Up to February 1, when the plan had been In operation here for seven weeks, Mail Tribune carriers sold defense bonds and stamps with a total value of $8, 709.50, the equivalent of 87,093 stamps ot the ten-cent denomin ation. The ordinal plan was to sell only the ten-cent stamp but to many subscribers wanted to buy bonds through their carriers that arrangements were made for this too. Of the 36 participating Mall Tribune carriers, 29 have won War Bulletins New York, Feb. 3. ?V The London radio said today a Moscow broadcast claimed Soviet forces were "less than 20 miles from Dneprope trovsk." the site of the big hydroelectric power dam on the bend of the Dnieper. The Russians were last reported within 37 miles of the city. The broadcast was heard by NBC. REDS DRAG DUNS E By the Associated Press 1 Russian troops dragging ma chine guns and cannon on sledges at 40 degrees Fahrenheit below zero were reported surg ing forward at several points to day in a drive aimed against Smolensk, 210 miles west of Moscow. At the same time, the British radio said German generals had demanded that Hitler send 20 fresh, picked divisions to the Soviet front Immediately, threat ening that otherwise it would be "very difficult if not Impos sible to prevent a general Rus sian break-through." Reds Match Nails Soviet dispatches said Ger man air and ' tank reinforce ments arriving on the southern (Ukraine) front were being more than matched by Red army weanons. British north African troops, I . i thrown back 225 miles in less than two weeks, were reported attacking Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's armies "wherever found" In western Libya today in an attempt to check the head long axis counter-offensive. A British spokesman, empha sizing the prime necessity of de stroying the enemy's forces In desert warfare, declared: "Area is not. important. Tanks, men and trucks are." Cairo headquarters indicated that Gen. Rommel'i vanguards had reached the vicinity of Slonta, 105 miles northeast of Bengasi and 225 miles northeast of El Agheila, hlghwater mark ot the British January offensive. While the British said they now were taking the initiative, the German high command gave this version: About $250,C03 Is Pledged in County Earl Newbry. county general chairman, said today that about $250,000 a year was pledged in the recent savings bond canvass in which each person with a steady Income was asked to indicate voluntarily how much in bonds or stamps he would be able to buy for duration. The exact figure awaits confir mation from Portland Mr. New bry stated. He said the canvass throughout th county was com pleted and he again thanked all the solicitors. Portland, Feb. 3. (IP Rny Conway, acting state administra tor for the defense bond cm- paign, predicted today that 225. 000 Oregon residents will have pledged purchases of bonds and stamps by the end of the week. The average yearly pledge is for $100, a total to date ot $17 500,000, he added. the bronze shield awarded by the treasury department on the basis of sales. The carrier-selling plan here Is in direct charge of Gerald T. Latham, circulation manager of the Mall Tribune. BATAN DEFENDERS BEAT OFF FRESH JAP ONSLAUGHTS MacArthur's Force Takes Bloody Toll When Japs Attempt Shore Landings, By Roger D. Greene Associated Press War Editor. Australian Army Minister Francis M. Forde declared today that "a big movement by the allies is under way" to counter Japan's sweep in the far Pacific, even as Japanese dive-bombers struck violently at Singapore and a Tokyo military spokesman said that a direct assault on the island stronghold was imminent. In a broadcast to the Aus tralian imperial force at Singa pore, Forde declared that each hour Japan's siege armies were -held at bay permitted the mass ing and deployment of more reinforcements and the accumu lation of more weapons. Move Not Specified "It does not need my words to Impel you, therefore, to hold on, he said. Forde did not specify the nature or direction of the allied movement. In the Philippines, Gen. Doug las MacArthur's American-Filipino, defenders . wrotea -harolo new chapter In the battle of Batan peninsula, beating off two fresh Japanese attempts to land on the Batan west coast, on the night of Feb. 2. and suc cessfully counter-attacking the Japanese right flank. Three lines of enemy trenches were overrun, a war department bulletin said, a large amount of Japanese equipment fell into American hands. Gen. MacArthur reported that picked shock troops first at tempted to land on the west coast, only to be driven off by artillery fire. "A second and more serious attempt was made at midnight," the communique said. "A large number of barges under naval escort approached the coast. The raid was discovered by a few of our night-flying pursuit planes which Immediately attacked the convoy with light bombs and machine-gun fire." Bloody Reception American troops and artillery gunners waited on the beach as the Japanese approached, in flicting bloody casualties with their deadly tire. "None of the Invading group reached shore." Gen. MacArthur reported, adding that In the morning a number of shot-smash- (Continued on Pace Three) East Indies Ratbsr Still Coming; to U. S. Secy. Jones Reveals Washington. Feb. 3 VP) Sec retary of Commerce Jones de clared today the United States still was receiving practically the entire rubber output ot the Dutch East Indies and that 114, 000 tons had arrived In this country from the western Pa cific and other sources since the war began. Jones told the house banking and currency committee that rubber was arriving at an aver age rate of 33,000 to 40.000 tons month. During January, he said, 76.000 tons was received and 70,000 tons allocated "so that the stock pile actually waj Increased." Jones said he doubted If rub ber Imports would 'each normal bv next year "but I believe we'll have enough to get along if we're careful." London, Feb. 3 (IPh-An ar rangement between Britain and the United States for develop ment In the latter country of synthetic rubber "on an Im mense scale" was disclosed with out details In commons today. Yankee, meaning an Ameri can, was originally Dutch word.