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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1942.
NO. 304.
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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
- Washington, March 13. Com
ments tive moping ,about far
cut results seems to hold that
campaign up
A'i.p'a as the feeblest-
witted of all
Including
Norway and
Greece.
The British
lost their en
tire Malayan
army at Sing
apore (the
Japs say it
numbered 78,
000 on surren
rani Malloa
der day).
The Dutch, British and our
own navy seem to have lost
much of the far eastern fleet.
The Dutch are supposed to have
surrendered one army In Java
numbering 93,000, although
only untrustworthy Jap figures
again are available.
Noting this evidence, current
popular reasoning seems run
ning along the line that Gen.
Wavell's defensive strategy was
stupid and that of the Dutch
nearly as bad. . . . 'Too little,
too late," they say. ... "If these
scattered 171,000 troops had
been put together with all the
scattered naval forces tor a
drive against the China coast
the results might have been dif
ferent," they say. ... If ... If
... If .
VOU can get nearly any better
result than the one that hap
pened by reshuffling strategy
and forces on paper now, but
all this discussion overlooks the
'basic reason why the far - east
is gone.
The original error was the
fatal one, the all inclusive one
which never could be redeemed.
It was simply that the British
and Dutch were sitting out
there for years upon the rich
est portion of the earth and
failed to take modern precau
tions for Its protection.
Specifically they had no air
force worthy of the name. They
had not even built air fields
enough to house an airforce If
one came. If every allied plane
In the world had been shipped
out there last December 7, few
(Continued oo Pag Twelve)
FBI Agent Killed
By Army Fugitive
t Abingdon, Va., March 13
tUP) Two army deserters who
shot and killed one FBI agent
and wounded another seriously
were captured in an abandoned
house on the outskirts of Abing
don this afternoon.
More than a hundred federal
state and local officers sur
rounded the house and a num-
ber of shots were exchanged
before tear gas forced the sold'
iers out.
NAME MEDICAL OFFICER
FOR CIVILIAN DEFENSE
Salem, March 13 UP) Dr.
Vernon A. Douglas. Marion coun
ty health officer, was appointed
by Governor Charles A. Sprague
today as state medical officer
for the state civilian defense
council. Dr. Douglas, who will
serve without compensation, will
coordinate the work of county
medical disaster relief units. -
Radio Highlights
(Pacific war time)
Tonight: Blue 4:45 Prime
Minister Curtin from Canberra,
Australia.
MBS 7 boxing, Johnny Co-
lan vs. Jimmy Webb.
Saturday: CBS 11:30 Dr. Hu
Shih, Chinese ambassador, on
International situation.
SIDE GLANCES
BT
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
9 Ralph Furrer becoming a very
irate papa upon seeing that a
typographical error had de
prived his new baby of almost a
whole pound, the babe weighing I
seven pounds and 14 ounces to
be exact.
I iZ 5
RE
$25,000,000 Lopped Off
Allotment For Adminis
tration Expenses, Grants.
Washington. March 13 (IP)
The house passed lata today
the 1943 agriculture appropri
ations bill, carrying a total of
S820.06S.859 in authorised ex
penditures and loans. A total
of 8S6.810.722 was cut from
the bill in nine days of debate.
Washington. March 31 (AP)
The house tentatively slashed
$25,000,000 from the agriculture
appropriations bill today, cutting
in half the allotment for adminis
trative expenses and grants In
the farm rehabilitation program.
The action on the reduction-
largest single cut thus far in the
farm supply bill came on a
teller vote of 142 to 110 as Presi
dent Roosevelt was reported re
liably as considering a veto of
the entire measure.
Money Goes Begging
Rep. Hope (R.-Kas.) said the
$25,000,000 cut would put the re
habilitation program "out of
business," but Rep. Woodrum (D
Va.) told the house that adminis
trators of the program "have to
advertise to get these people to
come in and take the money" of
fered as rehabilitation grants.
Mr. Roosevelt was asked ear
lier at his press conference if
progress was being made in con
trolling inflation. In some ways
yes, replied Mr. Roosevelt, in
some ways no, placing in the lat
ter category the house action in
writing into the appropriations
bill a clause designed to prevent
sale of government-held surplus
crops at less than parity.
The president was beaten both
in senate and house on his plea
that the prohibition be elimi
nated to help prevent a further
rise in the cost of living. He was
reported to believe that only by
a veto could he win his point.
Passes Senate
The senate recently passed and
sent to the house a simple bill
containing the ban. The house,
which is still considering the ap
propriation bill, has refused to
remove a clause to prohibit the
commodity credit corporation
using any administrative funds
in connection with sales of its
surplus stocks below parity,
with minor exceptions.
A veto would mean that the
measure, carrying money for the
administration's farm programs
beginning July 1, would be re
turned to congress for further
consideration. Legislators said
that it would have to be ap
proved in some form soon after
that date to avoid suspension of
farmer benefit payments.
A strong economy bloc late
yesterday slashed a total of $21,
250,264 tenant act
Potsville, Pa., March 13 W)
A motherless 15-year-old farm
girl calmly related today. Dis
trict Attorney C. A. Whitehouse
said, that she shot and killed
her father with a shotgun as he
lay on a couch because "he beat
me once too often."
Peter Peoloetti, 44, was found
late yesterday in his isolated
Schuylkill county home near
Valley View, the back of his
head blown off.
Whitehouse said a charge of
murder would be filed late to
day against the girl, Emma, who
had lived alone with her father
since her mother's death several
years ago.
The district attorney said the
girl told him her father had
abused her frequently.
U. S. SKIP SUNK
Havana. Cuba, March 13 (JP)
Authoritative informants said
today the United States merch
ant vessel Texan had been sunk
by enemy U-boat action off
Nuevitae, north Cuba, and that
all but nine of the 47-mari crew
1 was accounted for.
Tanker Split by Torpedo
The bow (left), of the 8.768-ton Gulf Oil tanker Gulftrade Juts above the waves less than
four miles off shore near Barnegat, N. J., after a single submarine torpedo split the ship In
half. Another tanker (right), passes the scene.
Britain
Hitler's
LOG HAULERS ON
CITED TO COURT
The state highway ' commis
sion, through special weight
agents yesterday opened a drive
against overloaded trucks on
the Crater Lake highway and
issued complaints against 13
drivers. As many more are ex
pected to be served today. The
drivers are scheduled to appear
in Justice court tomorrow morn
ing. The complaints charged the
trucks carried excessive weights
and, in a couple of cases, ex
ceeded the legal limit, by as
much as 10,000 pounds.
District Attorney George W.
Neilson said today the law cov-
ering overloaded trucks would
be enforced, "as the Crater Lake
road cannot stand up under the
illegal traffic." He. also com
mented "it is taking a beating
from the increased hauls, and
will soon no longer be a road."
All the trucks were engaged
in hauling logs.
Complaints filed ' yesterday
were against:
Woodrow Wilson Atwood
Medford: Roy C. Lawrence,
Central Point; George L. Rob
erts, Roseburg; Bert Ellis, Med
ford: Charles I. Skeeter, Talent;
Ralph W. Sikes, Ashland; Henry
T. Stage, Talent; Guy B. Ellison,
Medford: E. Tenney. Agate; K
W. Griffiths, Prospect; Wendell
O. Sears, Shady Cove; Jacob S.
Meyers, Shady Cove; Charles E,
Carter. Medford.
Attorney Porter J. Neff has
been retained as counsel for the
truckers. .
Brazilians Routed
By Shots Into Air
Rio de Janeiro, March 13.
(AP Shots fired Into the air by
police and riot squads dispersed
a crowd of about 500 persons
gathering today in front of Ger
man stores, apparently Intent on
resuming yesterdays anti-nazi
disorders.
Newspapers and radio stations
told nothing of yesterday's riots
except the official announcement
that "special measures were
taken to maintain order."
SOLDIER KILLED
MsMinnville, Ore., March 13.
(AP) Lowell E. Burt, about
20, a private In the U. S. army
cavalry, died Instantly last night
when his motorcycle collided
with an automobile driven by
Harold F. McCreary of Independ
ence, Ore., State Policeman Hu
bert Hoxie reported.
Washington, March 13. (AP)
The national housing agency
announced today that President
Roosevelt had signed an authori
zation for the construction of
45,000 homes in the Detroit area,
30,000 by private enterprise and
the remainder by the federal
public housing authority.
and Russia Beat
Forces to Punch
By Associated Press
Germany's springtime offensive waited today on the calen
dar. oroDitious circumstances
and Russia's offensives in the
were in full awing.
The British announced a fire-i
raising raid on the great Ger
man naval base of Kiel while
the red army, having beaten
Hitler to the springtime punch,
was battering its way across the
Donets basin.
Via Stockholm came word
that Marshal Bemeon. Ximoshen-
ko and his southern army oi
from one and a quarter to one
and a half million men had
forced the enemy to draw once
more on reserves being pre
pared for Germany's own offen
sive effort.
The Germans admitted they
still were on the defensive
against "strong enemy forces"
in the Donets region gateway
to the Caucasus.
London observers held that
the objective of Timoshenko's
90 divisions was the Dnieper
Bend, natural defense line in
the heart of the' Ukraine.
Unofficial reports have placed
them only 30 to 40 miles from
this goal.
Although the calendar spring
is but a week away, snow on
the Staraya Russa front, below
Leningrad, was reported so deep
that ski troops still had to carry
the burden of the fighting
against the entrapped 16th Ger
man army.
The Russian army newspaper
Red Star declared there would
be only one spring offensive
the Russian.
It described the German In
vasion machine as worn out and
run down, with Hitler's soldiers
trying desperately to hold on.
counter-attacking repeatedly
but at heavy cost and not halt
ing th- red army's power drive.
Apparently attempting to
neutralize Kiel as a base for
springtime adventures of the
German fleet, the RAF unload
ed new bombs on shipyards
there for the 65th time over
night and the "many fires" re
sulting told departing bombar
diers that their mission was
achieved.
Naval installations were set
afire and the 26,000-ton battle
ship Gneisenau, the battered
fugitive from Brest, was also
among the targets. Eight planes
were lost mostly to strong anti
aircraft batteries with which
Kiel now Is ringed.
STRAY SHELL HITS
WALL ST. BUILDING
New York, March 13. UP)
An anti-aircraft crew stationed
near the metropolitan area re
ported to police today that at
12:40 p. m. (PWT) they acci
dentally fired eight shells from
an anti-aircraft gun .aimed in
the direction of the W1I street
area.
At about that time, a piece
of coping fell from the ledge
between the 37th and 38th
floors of the 40-story Equitable
Life building.
Goes Down I
4
and Adolf Hitler, but Britain's
air and on the land, respectively
MAC-HI TO MEET
(The Mall Tribune office will
answer telephonic inquiries re
garding tonight's game from
8:30 to 9:30 o'clock)
Salem, March 13 (Ore
gon City and McLoughlin high
of Milton-Freewater won their
consolation semi-final games to
day and the right to meet each
other at 9:30 a. m. Saturday in
a game to decide fifth place in
the Oregon state high school
basketball tournament.
Oregon City defeated Eugene
36 to 45. while Mac-Hi nosed
out Salem 33 to 32. The losers
were dropped out of the tourna
ment. (More basketball on Sport page)
E CEILING
ON PIECEMODS
Washington, March 13 (IP)
The office of price administra
tion today clamped a temporary
price ceiling on finished piece
goods made of cotton, rayon and
their mixtures to check what it
called a "rapid and unwarrant
ed rise in prices."
The 60-day order In effect
freezes prices at current levels,
since it provides that maximum
prices should not go higher
than those prevailing between
March 7 and 11.
The price action does not ap
ply to retail sales, but officials
said the effect of it should be to
prevent further increases In the
retail price of women s and chil
dren's dresses, women's suits,
coats, pajamas, house coats,
men's shirts, curtains and sim
ilar items.
GAS RATIONING SEEN
NEAR FOR PORTLAND
Portland, March 13 UP)
Gasoline companies here pre
dicted todsy gasoline rationing
would begin soon in Portland
but more to conserve tires on
delivery trucks than because of
gasoline shortage.
However Industry spokesmen
said solid trains of tank cars
and scores of tank trucks were
bringing gasoline into Oregon
and distributing It. So far they
have counteracted the growing
shortage of tank ships.
REGARDLESSI
Portland. March 13 AP-
Portland dairy workers declared
today that if dailies cut down on
deliveries to save tires their
unions will demand the regular
five-day pay scale, regardless.
JapS Take New Direction
In Drive
British,
TO SEEK!
G. W. DUNN S CHAIR
IN STATESENATE
Ashlander Not To Seek
Renomination Van Dyke
May Be House Aspirant.
Representative Earl Newbry
announced In Ashland today
that he plans to file next week
for the state senatorial post now
held by G. W. Dunn. Both are
Ashland Republicans.
The announcement set Jack
son county's political pot to sim
mering after a slow start in the
primary campaign. ,
Dunn, a veteran of two years
In the state house and 20 in
the senate, said he would not
seek renomination. For the last
18 years he has served on the
wavs and means committee. He
was Instrumental In passage of
the normal school bill in 1926.
Frank 3. Van Dyke, Ashland
city attorney and county canton
ment coordinator, indicated he
might become a candidate for
state representative.
William M. McAllister of Med
ford, representative, said he was
undecided whether to run again
FOR WAR PERIOD
Washington, March 13 UP)
President Roosevelt told a press
conference today that this la a
war and politics Is out.
He said his remarks applied
to congress as well as the press,
We read too much politics In the
papers these days and these
articles talk in terms of the
past, he commented.
Mr." Roosevelt made that re
mark when asked whether he
thought there could be a greater
concentration on the war effort
by political groups, newspapers
and others.
To a question as to whether
his remarks were "also true of
the cabinet," the chief executive
responded that ho found little
political implications in any
action taken by cabinet mem
bers. He said that whenever he
sees any such Implication, and
this Is in pretty rare cases, he
steps on It with both feet.
Finicky Appetites Problem
In Feeding New U.S. Army
Los Angeles, March 13 (JP) ,
Pampering mammal who devel
oped finicky appetites In their
sons have created quite a feed
ing problem for the army.
Everything will be all right,
however, if - the soldiers eat
what's set before them. They
should even, come out of the
service heavier, stronger, maybe
a little taller, and with better
eyes than when they were in
ducted. ...
That's what Mary I. Barber,
food consultant to the secretary
of war. told the Lt ague of Wom
en Voters last night.
She attributed failure of some
young men to pass army phys
ical tests to finicky appetites and
blamed their mothers for not
supplying them with the proper
diet.
Seeing that soldiers get their
vitamins in food instead of from
pills is quit, a problem. Many
Upon Australia;
Chinese Join Arms
war Bulletins liSEA PENETRATION
Vichy, March 13. UP)
Paris had a 45-mlnute air raid
alert today as an RAF scout
ing force cruised over the oc
cupied capital, forced suspen
sion of horse racing at the
Vincennae track and survey
ed the manufacturing area in
the southwestern workers dis
trict. No bombs were dropped.
Melbourne, Australia. Sat
urday, March 14 IP) Prime
Minister John Curtin an
nounced today the presumed
loss of the cruiser Perth and
the sloop Yarra, with loss ei
833 lives.
He said both warships had
fought successfully and with
out damage in the Java sea
and had later put in at a Java
port, but had not been heard
from since they left there for
home.
Tho Perth is an Australian
cruiser of 6,980 tons the
Yarra a sloop of 1.060 tons.
E CONTROL AS
WAR MEASURE IS
STUDIED BY F.D.R.
Washington, March IS VP)
The question of wage control
as a war measure is under
study, President Roosevelt as
serted today.
The chief executive declined
at a press conference to go into
the question of putting a celling
On wages as an anti-Inflation
step but he did disclose that the
whole problem was under con
sideration. Asked whether he was con
sidering "positive action on
wage control," he plied crisply.
It is under study.
Proponents of a wage celling
have contended it is necessary
to cut down purchasing power
of Individuals if inflation Is to
he checked. Just as it is neces
sary to control prices.
Boastful Basso in
Custody as Alien
New York, March 13 (IP)
The oft-repeated boast that he
was Mussolini's friend has re
sulted In the seizure of Ezio
Plnza, Metropolitan opera basso
for the last 15 years, and his
detention on Ellis Island as an
enemy alien.
Agents of the federal bureau
of investigation separated the
Italian-born singer, 50, from his
American - wife, the former
Doris Neal Leak of Larch
mont Manor, N. Y., yesterday.
He now awaits a hearing by
local alien board.
don't drink the half pint of milk
offered each man daily, so
menus Include cheese and, once
week or oftener, Ice cream.
Powdered milk is used freely
In cooking. Butter is used on
as many vegetables as possible
because some soldiers cat it
tnarlr.elv.
Ml Barber's Job Is to feed
millions of men healthfully and
adequately on 52 cents a day
meanwhile being careful not to
upset civilian food prices or
supplies.
As a consequence, menus are
staggered throughout the coun
try so that not every camp Is
serving baked potatoes and roast
veal on the same day.
"Before staggering was put
into practice, we had camps bid
ding against each other for food.
In one Instance, such competi
Hon tripled the price of grape
fruit and left none for the civil
ian consumer," she
OF SOLOMON ISLES
SIGHTED FROM AIR
New Move May Be Feint of
Thrust Aimed At United
Nations Route To Asia..
By Clyde A. Farnswortk
(Associated Press War Editor)
.Japan's offensive against Aus
tralia, still taking form in the
welter of islands curving alone
the vast northern shore of the
continent, has speared off In
tangent of naval penetration of
the Solomon Islands.
In the second chief theater of
the war with Japan, the British
Imperials withdrawing north of
Rangoon have for the first time
Joined Chinese troops, attempt
ing to consolidate a front be
tween two main routes out of
Rangoon, 60 to 80 miles from
the abandoned port city of the
Irrawaddy delta. . -
Bataaa Quiet
In the Philippines, the United
States reported no change in the
Bataan peninsula situation a
watchful waiting for the next
all-out Japanese attack on Gen
eral MacArthur's forces.
Japan's Solomon islands move
was evidently either a feint to
district attention from establish
ment of New Guinea bases for
the prospective lunge at Aus
tralia or actually a thrust to
ward the New Hebrides and
New Zealand along the island
chain pointed at the united na
tions sea rout, to Australia.
ahead of any direct attempt to
Invade the continent.
The move was disclosed by
Australian air reconnaissance
over the Australian-mandated
part of the Solomon group. The
warship force was sighted three
days ago off Kessa, on tiny
Buka island stepping it on.
from New Britain to th. Solo
mons. There was no further in
dication that the Japanese had
landed there.
Attack Airfield
Buka is 180 miles southeast
of Japanese-occupied Rabaul.
New Britain, and 900 miles
northeast of Australia's north
eastern extremity, th. Cap.
York peninsula. '
Australian bombers smashing
at the potential Island route to
ward New Zealand attacked th.
enemy-held airfield at Gasmata,
on th. south coast of New Brit
ain, yesterday. '
The Japanese ollenilve was
crippled to some extent in th.
sinking of seven ships by air
attack last Tuesday on saia-
maua, a Japanese foothold in
New Guinea. ,
The war department an
nounced that five Japanese
planes were destroyed two days
ago by five United States army
heavy bombers in a raid on Jap
anese-held airdromes at salam
auua and Lae, both in New
Guinea.
All th. airdrome buildings
were destroyed and harbor
pier at La. was hit directly.
Again Japanese fighters cnM-
lenged the raiders, but flv.
were shot down and th. big
bombers escaped unscathed.
SENTENCE VIERECK
TWO TO SIX YEARS
Washington, March 13 UPh
The maximum sentenc of two
to six years was Imposed in dis
trict court today upon George
Sylvester Vlereck, convicted of
hiding his activities aa a Ger
man propaganda agent.
In addition. Justice T. Dickin
son Letts fined th. German-born
American citizen total of
81.500 and assessed him cost of
(thai