ri. TVTA T T Keep 'Em Flying Buy DeftnM Stamp mr Boadi from your bank. Mflngt anS loan aMorlatlont, tor, paper carrier , or port offlca. Ban and aid. Quick Result Articles roa ban lor lala, for iraaa, for rent, etc, ohoele bo aatonlMa la tho Wont Ado. Tali 10 tho n la get quirk reaulte. Too win a oarprtord ta Of kow lllllo K eoito u adTtnlao. Medford TRIBUNE full Associated Pna United Press Thirty-sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1942. NO. 272. J on vam ii News Behind The News by Paul MaHon Washington, Feb. 4. The navy raid on the Marshall and Gilbert islands was an effort to cut clear seaway for us through to the Dutch East Indies and A u s tralia, in my opinion. It does not represent the opening salvo of a drive to retake the stepping stuiies we have lost or to fight our way back Paul Mallon across the central Pacific. If we were ready for that, we would have captured the islands or have tried to recapture Wake or Guam. The Japs have an Inside track to the central Pacific area, well protected by the Vol cano and Marianne islands run ning straight south from Tokyo to Guam. We will have to wait to crack that. But they were sitting right across our transport route with large forces of scouting planes and bombers in the Marshall and Gilbert bases. (Their air forces must have been large be cause we lost 11 planes In the attack). Those bases had to be broken up to assure safety for our ships moving into the southern Pacific. Thus, it seems to me, the unexplained raid was neither a foray (like the commandos . raids on Norway) nor necessar ' lly the opening of a broad at tack. While this is purely a personal Interpretation, no other seems to lit the an nounced facts. o o MR. NELSON Is getting ready for some head-rolling. His sharp new arrangement for keeping daily track of progress on 300 main war items was a preparation for it. All who do not produce must go, and this new daily check-up will show (Continued on Pogo 8U) Radio Highlights (Time is Pacific Standard) Tonight: CBS 8:30. Dr. Tho mas P-irran on "Wartime At- tack on Venereal Disease." MBS 8. Basketball at New York. Thursday: The war 8, MBS; 8:15, MBS; 9 NBC, CBS, MBS; 10, Blue; 10:45 NBC; 11, MBS; 12:15 p m CBS; 1, MBS; 1:45 CBS, MBS, 3, MBS; 3:25, NBC; 3:45, CBS, Blue. Highway Relocation Is Military Secret Salem, Feb. 4 (JPh-State Highway Engineer R. H. Bal dock refused today to give any details regarding the relocating of the West Side Pacific high way, asserting such information has been put into the "confiden tial" class by the war depart ment. Relocation of the road will be necessary because of construe- tion of the cantonment between Corvallis and Monmouth. SIDE GLANCES BT TRIBUNE REPORTERS Educator EH Hedrick stump ing the honorable city council men with a letter of fa- cy words, "appurtenances" beln one big troublponme hurdle. Joe Fliegel showing great re straint in telling how good has been the conduct of the mem bers of the Medford Boxing Com mish, he, as secretary, recom mend i n g reappointments as terms expire. Ken Norwood forgetting his keys and having to slide down a sawdust chute to get in his house. Tiny pussy willows braving censored weather conditions and quietly announcing trie advent of spring. . r-, . .v aaw I TAKEN TO E SUPPLY OF Meter Installation Expected To Be Complete By June 1; Federal Aid Hoped For Medford will be metered for water In the immediate future, Robert A. Duff, superintendent of the city water commission, annoui.-xd today. Installation of the meters Is dictated by the wa ter needs of the army canton ment to be constructed in this locality. The water commission Is tak ing this step reluctantly and on ly because of the vital necessity of conserving water for the benefit of the armed forces that will occupy the camp, Mr. Duff said. "It must be remembered that we are at war and must make sacrifices," Mr. Duff said. The cantonment will draw its water from the Medford supply. Ready June 1 Installation of the meters will probably be started within a fortnight and completed about June 1. Mr. Duff stated, adding that meter rates, not yet adop ted, would not become effective until about June 1. It will cost about $58,000 to buy and install the meters Mr. Duff said. It is hoped, he added, that the fed eral government will help pay the cost. If the experience of other cities holds true here, about 20 per cent of the residents should pay less under a meter than at present under a flat rate of $2.35 a month, about 80 per cent will experience no change and about 30 per cent will pay more, Mr. Duff said. Paul B. Rynning, chairman of the water commission, could not be reached for a statement re garding the legal aspects of me ter instillation. In his absence other board members declined to be quoted. Counsel, Frank P., Farrell, said he was authorized to give legal opinions only to the commission. The cantonment has been al located 5,000.000 gallons of wa iter a day. Mr. Duff stated, this being slightly more than the av erage daily consumption in Med ford last year but far below the daily peak consumption of 9,- 450.000 consumed in this city last July 14. If serious trouble is to be averted, the peaks and not the averages must be pro vided for, he emphasized. New Line Hoped It Is hoped that the army or some other federal agency will build or help substantially in fi nancing another pipe line to the source of water supply but ev en if this project should be ap proved it could not be construc ted in time now to avoid use of meters, Mr. Duff said. While no meter rates have been adopted yet, for compari son purposes Mr. Duff pointed to the present meter rates paid Dy commercial users: (1.75 a month minimum for 5 000 gal Ions, 15 cents a thousand for the next 95,000 gallons and 12 cents a thousand for the next 200,000. He added that the wa ter commission figures that 5. 000 gallons a month would be ample tor family's domestic (Continued on Ptgo Bonn) Sugar Stamps Will Under System of Rationing Washington, Feb. 4. WP) Special "sugar stamps" to be ismed by the government to reg istered consumers, will be re quired before purchases can be made under the pending sugar rationing program, it was learn ed today. Each stamp will permit an Individual to buy 12 ounces of sugar his weekly ration. A spokesman for the office of price administration disclosed that booklets containing enough stamps to '.ast three months or more would be printed and that the time required for the print ing would delay operation of British Rain Shells on Japs Massed in Singapore Siege war Bulletins t Rangoon. Feb. 4. (API British aircraft today bombed Japanese invaders in the Mir taban sector, where strong enemy forces have been try ing to cross the Salween river on their westward thrust into Burma. Canberra. Australia. Feb. 4 (AP) Australian fliers scored a direct hit on a large Jap anese vessel in a raid last night on the occupied New Britain harbor of Rabaul, an air com munique Indicated today. L THROUGH SEWERS The city council last night ap proved an ordinance providing for the Installation of grease traps in restaurants and like places of business and regulat ing the disposal into the public sewer of grease, oil, cannery waste and certain industrial waste. ' It was indicated that the ordi nance was necessary because grease and cannery waste enter ing the sewer lines hinder oper ation of the sewage disposal plant. A report filed last night by Fred W. Scheffel, city super intendent, showed that the dis posal plant was closed during the entire month of Decen r while circulating pipes in the digester were repaired and the tanks cleaned. The ordinance requires eating places to install grease traps of adequate capacity approved by the plumbing Inspector. The ordinance also provides that it shall be unlawful "to dispose of into the public sewer of the city of Medford oil, grease, cannery waste or any industrial waste of a kind, quan tity or nature that shall be detri mental to or retard or interfere with the normal operation of the sewage disposal system . . ." The council approved the sale of lots 7 and 8, block 15, Imper ial addition, to A. L. McHenry for the appraised price of $450. The lots are on Willamette avenue near East Ninth street. Eugene Thorndike was reap pointed to the water commis sion. Councilman Harold Frye suggested that it was mutually advantageous to have a city councilman on the water com mission. The civil service commission certified three men for the posi tion of hoseman in the fire de partment and the council ap proved appointment of the top man, W. W. Coleman. Mr. Cole man will replace Hiram Martin who has resigned. Mayor H. S. Deuel was a few minutes late .ind M. N. Hogan, vice chairman, presided. the rationing machinery for at least another month. It was reported that the plan contemplates registration of con sumers families, with stamp booklets to be issued to each member of the family regardless of age. However, no more than one stamp per person may be used each week. This would al low a family of three, for ex ample, weekly ration of 38 ounces of sugar. The OPA spokesman said de tails of the registration require ments had not yet been worked out but that the registration would not be bandied by local BUSINESS LICENSE STUDIED FOR CITY Council Receives Petition Downtown Business Men Requesting Meter Use. The city council last night Initiated a study of licensing every business and profession in town and of meters as a means of solving the parking problem in the downtown district. In a petition signed by 56 downtown business men, the council was asked to make ar rangements for installation of parking meters, it being under stood that the petitioners were looking forward to the time when the traffic would be in creased greatly by construction of a cantonment here. Council man M. N. Hogan, presiding, said the matter was so import ant that a special meeting of the council should be called as soon as a report became available. Mr. Hogan referred the peti tion to the public safety com mittee and suggested that the committee meet with a group of business men to thresh out a solution. Barbers Request On motion of J. C. Collins the license committee was in structed to study and report at the next council meeting on the advisability of licensing every business and profession in Med ford. This question was brought up by a. petition from barbers asking that an ordinance be adopted licensing barber shops, the initial fee to be $200 a year and the renewal fee $10. The barbers asked that barber shops in operation at the time the or dinance became effective be re quired to pay only the renewal fee. Mr. Collins said that what the barbers wanted was a protective tax and declared that while the petition had its humorous as pects it also had a serious side. Pointing out that at the request of electrical contractors the council had doubled the licens ing fees. Mr. Collins said others were entitled to the same con slderatioh. City Attorney Frank P. Farrell said the case of the electrical contractors was a lit tle different as the fee was In tended to cover the cost of the examination they must pass be fore they may engage in busi ness. Mr. Collins insisted, how -fever, that fundamentally the fee was a protective tax and there seemed to be general agreement. The council adopted an ordi nance doubling the license fee of electrical contractors. In creasing the original fee to $100 a year and the renewal fee to $50 The action was approved at me previous council meet ing. Barber shops do not pay a license fee, Mr. Farrell said. Be Issued postofflces. Stamp books will be issued at the time ol reg:stra tion. OPA said the rationing would be supervised by local boards, probably the same boards now handling tire rationing but aug mented by a member or mem bers drawn from the food in dustry. It was understood that retail ers accepting the sugar stamps would pane them on "sugar cards." When a card Is filled, the retailer then can present it to his wholesaler as authority to purchase the exact amount of sugar represented by the stamps jon the card- DEFENDERS TOLD ON SCENE S Heartening Word Given By Gen. Wavell Japs Blast Anew At Great Citadel By Rogor D. Greene Associated Press War Editor Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell. allied generalissimo, announced today that the United States and Great Britain were sending "great reinforcements" to the far Pacific battle theater, while in the five-day-old siege of Singapore, British guns rained shells into Japanese troops massed across the mile-wide Johore strait. Gen. Wavell's heartening mes sage was the second official word in 24 hours that mighty counter-blows against Japan are soon to be struck by the united nations. Australia's army minister, Francis M. Forde announced yesterday, without elaboration. that "a big allied movement ' is underway. Flanking Foiled Gen. Wavell, hero of the first British offensive into north Af fica and one of the world's shrewdest military strategists, also declared that the Japanese have now reached an area where we cannot be constantly out-flanked and where the en emy cannot exploit superior mobility." Japanese bombers blasted anew at the beleaguered Singa pore defenders, inflicting some damage but few military casual ties, British headquarters re ported. Embers still smouldered in the wreckage from yesterday's aerial assaults, in which the toll was listed officially as 22 killed and 90 wounded. By nightfall, all but two fires were reported under control. Today's communique tersely reported that there was "no change" in the five-day-old siege as reinforced British, Australian and imperial Indian troops worked steadily to install and camouflage, new machine-gun nests, rifle pits and gun em placements in the tangled man grove swamps facing the enemy. On other fronts in the far Pa cific conflict: Dutch East Indies Dutch and l Continued on Poso Seven) Washington, Feb. 4. (IP) Attorney General Biddle today designated as an area of sharp ly restricted movements for German, Japanese and Italian nationals, the California coast from the Oregon border south to a point fifty miles above Los Angeles and running Inland from 30 to 150 miles. The order is effective Febru ary 24. After that date, enemy aliens in that area must remain in their residences from 9 cm to 8 a.m., and at all other times they must be at their homes or heir places of employment or cn route between the two, or In any case within five miles of their residences. Interment is the penalty for violations. EKWALL FAVORED Washington, Feb. 4. Ph Senate Judiciary committee of ficials said today the commit tee probably would report fav orably Monday on the nomina tion of William A. Ekwall, Portland, Ore., to be Judje of the United States customs coin J. S. Striking !" few- ! Wit United States Navy scout bombers fly In formation (above) over Teasels of the fleet on an offen sive patrol somewhere In the Pacific. Closely packed planes lined up on the deck ol aa aircraft carrier (bolow), are ready for a quick take-off during patrol in the Pacific. Axis Submarine Sinks United Fruit Freighter Lewes. Del., Feb 4. VPt The freighter San Gil. owned by the United Fruit company, was torpedoed and shelled jy aa enemy submarine off the Maryland const at 11:50 o'clock last night with the loss of two lives, it was disclosed with the landing of survivors here today. Thirty nine other members of i the crew and on passenger, Stewart Wlnslow Condon, 26, of Rosllndale, Mass., an accountant for the fruit lines, were saved. Four of the crew were injured. The ship was struck first by a torpedo on the port side, a navy spokesman said. The two missing numbers of the crew apparently were killed by an engine-room explosion. They were Beaumont Barge, 26, of Antwerp, Belgium, and Secon dino Castro, 36, of Honduras. . The crew launched two life boats and the submarine then shelled the ship. All but about four of 15 shells hit the Urget, Captain Walter W. Koch, 44, of Canasuta, N. reported. A second torpedo struck the ship as it rank by the stern. A coast guard cutter picked up the survivors after they had spent seven hours in the life boats. Clergy Not Eligible For Tire Purchase Portland, Feb. 4 fflV-O. L. Price, state rationing adminis trator, said yesterday the office of price administration had ad vised him that clergy members are not eligible for tires under present rationing regulations. Detailed regulations will be sent from Washington, D. C, in t week or ten days, be added. Power In Air I 1 rr PAWNEE BILL OF WILD WESI DIES Pawr.ae, Okla.. Feb. 4. (IP) Major Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill" Llllle, frontiersman, wild west showman and last surviv ing leader of the Oklahoma boomers, 1 dead. The stocky, white-haired old veteran died last night at his Buffalo ranch. He would have celebrated his 82nd birthday on Valentine's day. He had been an Invalid since 1918, when he was injured In an automobile accident near Cleveland, Okla. His wife, May Llllle, was killed. Pawnee Bill was eaptain of the boomer movement which had for Its purpose the colon ization of Oklahoma territory. OLCOTT'S SON HELD BY JAPS IS BELIEF Portland, Feb. 4. m For mer Gov. Ben W. Olcott said yesterday the navy had advised him that his son. Ensign Chet W. Olcott, probably is a Japan ese prisoner. Olcott was on duty at Wake Island at the time of the Ja lanese attack. - - and On Sea -Ve. FIERCE BATTLES FOR KEY TOWNS NEAR SMOLENSK By the Associated Presa Soviet front-line dispatches re ported heavy battles were raging today near several key towns in the Smolensk sector, 230 miles west of Moscow, with the Ger mans falling back under the as sault of a powerful Russian counter-offensive. While none of the "key towns" was specified, the Russians have been driving close upon Yelna, only 35 miles southeast of Smo lensk, in a thrust to cut oft the escape of German armies retreat ing along the old Napoleonic road from Moscow. , Fierce fighting also waa re ported on the Leningrad front, where a British broadcast said the Germans had been thrown back 18 miles south of the one time czarist capital by heavy Russian attacks. On the North African front, the sweep of Field Marshal Gen. Erwln Rommel's axis forces en croached upon Derna, only 05 miles west of Tobruk, after driv ing the British 160 miles north east of Bengasi. London quartet;, however, de clared flatly that the main Brit ish force had cot yet clashed with Gen. Rommel's army and that only patrol and rearguard actions had been fought There was still no official ex planation for the sudden British retreat after hurling the Ger mane back more than 350 miles from the Egyptian-Libyan fron tier last month, -