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1 Let YOUR Anwn To Bomb B bONDSI Bur War Brats ant lunpt Toiiav Coairlbata to the wmr ' effort of yoor aatloa. Patriot hm. sour l arlf-protcrtloa. demand tnat TOO 4a rear part NOWI Dh Th MAIL TRIBUHE Medford RIBUNE Want Ad Way Quick Raaultt At Small Coat United Pma' full Leaaed Win United Praai full Leased Win Thirty -seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1942 NO. 222 Mil Wli Ml ..I I 1 0 v nrmiii irrinin Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C. F.R. Planning To Make U.S. SanU I American Farmer To Carry Load Forty Million Needy At Home Br John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Dec. 7. Without permission from con gress, President Roosevelt is planning the greatest philan thropic undertaking since the dawn of history. He intends feeding, clothing and rehabili tating all of Europe, north Afri ca, Russia, China and other sec tions of the world which have been under the heel of Hitler or Japan. The burden of feeding more than 400,000,000 people (that is a, rough 'guess) will fall upon the six million farmers of the United States who, besides feeding the foreigners, must raise enough to -meet the necessi ties of their fellow 131,000,000 Americans. The word "necessi ties" is correct; there will be no luxuries for Americans, who will be rationed for years to come. The American diet and eating habits will be changed, simplified clothing also. As rapidly as a country is "liberated" Herbert Lehman will function as the United States director of foreign relief and rehabilitation. Governor Lehman will be. the Santa Claus of tha world, wherever there is a hungry mouth on a naked body. Already organized and on its way is a special mis sion to north Africa to show the natives how to cultivate, their fields and straighten out their finances. As gold and silver are scarce everywhere, except in the hole in the ground at Fort Knox, Ky and the silver at West Point, plan is to have the bureau of printing and engraving pre pare a special currency for each country sustained by the gold and silver held in the United States. There will be fiscal ex perts sent from this country to see that the new financial set-up is put in operation. Secretary of AgricuLture Claude Wickard informed farm' ers a year ago to increase pro duction and accumulate a sur plus to feed Europe after the (Continued on Paga Four) LOSSES IN YEAR By United Press Japan, in one of a series of broadcasts on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, said that in the first year of the Pacific war it had lost 49 warships sunk and 20 damaged and 63 transports and cargo, ships sunk or dam aged. The Japanese navy put its air force losses at 556 planes "lost or self-destroyed on enemy ob jectives." Army authorities said that during the year army casualties in killed and wounded had to taled 63,736, of whom 31,160 were killed and 32,576 wounded. Army plane losses were ;iven as 391 and it was said that 62 army "vessels" were lost. Between claims of tremendous victories over the American navy the Tokyo radio said in dignantly that American sub marines were attacking fishing boats off the Japanese coast "as if they were shooting wild ducks." SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTER Del Clifford warning that he did not want his name in side glances. Florence Winn taking time out for lunch from the busy rou tine of the rationing board of fice. Ma). Don Mace of the army air corps discovering many changes in the town where he formerly handled publicity for tha late CCC utKMIAIIAuAo , FIERCE ARTILLERY BLAST Battle Increasing In Fury Allied Tanks and Infantry Follow Retreating Enemy. London, Dec. 7 (U.R) Radio Vichy reported tonight that considerable reinforcements of infantry and artillery have reached Allied forces on the Tebourba front. By Edward W. Beattle United Press Staff Correspondent London, Dec. 7 (U.R) Allied artillery, mounted in a semi circle in the hills back of Tebour ba, was reported tonight to be laying down a fierce barrage against German armored forma tions attempting to attack the American and British positions. The battle in the Tebourba-Djedeida-Mateur second was re ported steadily growing in in tensity. A report from Madrid said that the Allies had placed two in fantry divisions, one British and one American, and portions of two armored divisions in strong emplacements on the high ground back of Tebourba. Take Punishment The Germans were said to be attacking persistently in an ef fort to break the Allied grip on the Tebourba position which is vital to communications between Bizerte and Tunis. Nazi armored elements were said to be taking severe punish ment from accurate Allied artil lery fire. In the Mateur sector, north of the Tebourba area, a German column which attempted to ad vance into a valley was com pelled to retreat with heavy losses, Madrid advices said. The Nazis were attacked by Allied forces equipped with mechan ized artillery. Allied tanks and infantry were reported following up the re treating Nazis in the Mateur sec tion. LIST AIR LOSSES IVE Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Dec. 6 (Delayed) U.R) Allied planes and guns have shot down 186 Axis planes ill the four weeks of the African campaign, a recapitulation of communiques showed today, against a loss of 56 allied planes. Of the enemy planes downed, 114 were destroyed by the Brit ish Air Force, 49 by the Ameri can Air Force, 16 by antiaircraft guns and seven by unspecified means. Of the allied planes lost, 39 were British and 21 American. Thirteen of the British pilots were saved. Cuba With Allies Batista Assures Miami, Fla., Dec. 7 (U.R) General Fulgencio Batista, pres ident of Cuba, said today upon his arrival in the United States that his country "now more than ever is ready to make any sacrifices with the United States" in the war effort. Batista arrived here on a Pan American clipper en route to Washington. He was invited to the United States by President Roosevelt. Cement Workers Accept Pay Hike Santa Cruz, Cal., Dec. 7 U.R Three hundred emploees of Santa Cruz-Portland Cement Co voted today to accept five-cent- an-hour wage increases. The two to one yoe ended three-way negotiations begun last August among representatives of the company, U. S. concilia tion - service and members of United Cement, Lime and Gyp sum Workers union. Local No. 46. Michigan sells more game li censes than any other state in tha union- Jackson County Women Make Dressings i m.. -i,...v- . .. ,su.-i.w- - liar iij i Shown above are the patriotic Jackson County women who mat Tuesday at the court house auditorium and made 3003 surgical dressings for the American Red Cross. (Shangle Photo). Red Gross Workers Turn Out Over 3,000 Surgical Dressings Mrs. Frank Mork, area repre sentative of the American Red Cross in charge of making sur gical dressings throughout Ore gon, visited the local workers in the court house auditorium last Tuesday. Between 79 and 80 women registered during the day and 3,003 surgical dressings were completed, according to Mrs. Gus Newbury, chairman for the activity. A photograph was made of the impressive group which made the largest number of dressings of any one day since the work started. Each Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, between 9:13 a. m. and 3:30 p. m. the making of dress ings will continue as there is still material on hand to keep all volunteer workers busy un til after the Christmas holidays. IS DEMANDED BY FIGHTING F London, Dec. 7 (U.R) Gen. Georges C a t r o u x, Fighting French spokesman, demanded to day that Admiral Jean Francois Darlan be removed from Africa because he "is a direct threat to the already poor Allied commu nications." Catfoux asserted that Allied communications may be further endangered by a possible thrust by Adolf Hitler through Spain against Gibraltar. 'Darlan is a man who cannot be trusted," said Catroux. "Hit ler is a man who is liable to at tempt anything." He said that if Hitler moved through Spain and tried to Jump the straits into Spanish Morocco in order to strike at the Allies from the rear, disloyal French guerillas could attack the Amer ican and British lines across Al geria to Tunisia. The attack by Catroux ap peared to indicate that any com promise between the adherents of Gen. Charles DeGaulle and Darlan was still in the future despite some previous Indica tions of easing tension between the two French groups. RAIL BROTHERHOODS WANT WAGE INCREASE Washington, Dec. 7. (U.R) Representatives of five railroad operating brotherhoods met to day to discuss demrnds for wage increases for their 350.000 mem bers for the first time since a 1941 compromise that averted threat of a general strike of all railroad workers. David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen, called the confer ence following action of 13 non operating brotherhoods asking wage boosts of 20 cents an hour with minimum of 70 cents an hour. - J- V J Jt. I " 'ijiii - Jr-e M 1 City's School 3,506; Gain of 306 Children The annual school census for- Medford has been completed and shows a total of 3,506 youth between the ages of four and 20 years of age. This number is compared with 3,200 for the 1941 census and shows a gain of 306 children, according to tha city school superintendent's office. The ratio of children to adults Is considerably less this year than last year due to the recent Increase in population which has brought more 'adults than chil dren. ' The census showed that this year there are 193 girls less than 20 years of age who are married compared to 94 girls last year. Only 10 boys under the age of 20 were married this year. Census workers discovered from census figures that there were 20 pairs of twins, 11 fam ilies with more than five children in a family and four children who were born on Feb. 29 in Medford. , u. BY Tampa, Fla., Dec. 7. (U.R) Rear Admiral James L. Kauff man said today at the launching of seven fighting ships here that it took a "dastardly attack" such as Pearl Harbor to bring the United States to the fighting pitch essential to the war effort. "I offer no alibis for the re sponsible officers at Pearl Har bor, but In my opinion their errors were errors in Judgment," he said. "This dastardly attack was the only thing that could have brought every man, wom an and child in the United States into the war." Ottawa. Dec. 7 (U.R) Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King returned here today after con ferring with President Roosevelt at the White House over the weekend. The prime minister said they discussed "conditions, past, present and future, the progress of the war to date, and post-war problems. War Bulletins Washington. Dec. 7. 'U.R) The Office of War Informa tion reported today that the total announced casualties of the United 8 t a t e s armed forces from the outbreak ei war to date are 51.307, Includ ing killed, wounded, missing, interned In neutral countries and prisoners. London. Dec. 7 (U.R) British Whirlwind fighter bombers, escorted by Spitfire fighters, damaged three enemy ships off the coast of Brittany today, while other formations blasted German targets in tha Low Countries, the air minis try announced. The announcement that six British planet were misting In dicated that the attacking force war oi considerable sis. jj Census Shows Hamilton Field, Cal., Dec. 7 (U.R) Hamilton field headquar ters today identified five airmen killed and one missing in the crash yesterday of a heavy bomb er near Plantation, Cal., 100 miles north of San Francisco on the coastline. The dead: Pilot 2nd Lieut. Don E. Dedrazzini, Areata, Cel.; Co pilot Lieut. Herbert H. Knowl ton. Riverside, Cal.; Technical Sgt.-Joseph B. English, Monte verde, Fla.; Staff Sgt. William C. Malone, Riverside, Cal.: Pvt. Vera B. Smith, St. Paul, Minn. Missing: 2nd Lieut. Charles E. Meyer, Riverside, Cal. The plane crashed on a ridge near the old Marshall ranch In Sonoma county. Wreckage scat tered over a 500-yard area. The plane did not burn. There are four national parks in California Lassen, Yoscmite, Sequoia and King's Canyon. Willkie Urges War Aims Airing; Raps International Censorship London, Dec. 7 (U.R) Wendell Willkie urged today that the people of Britain and the United States Join In the discussion of war aims now and denounced "international censorship,' which, he said, had been used to "cover up official mistakes" and In one instance had prevented the people of Britain from knowing his views. In a dispatch written for the I London Evening Standard. Willkie said that if the two peoples do not reach agreement on war aims while we fight, "we will inevitably fall apart when the fighting is over." "It is for this reason," he said, "that I have been deliber ately trying to provoke and, if you will, 'prod' the leaders of both nations into frank state ments of their post-war pur poses. And it is for this reason that I fight for the right of your people and of mine to express themselves freely to each other, unhampered by unnecessary censorship. "Such international censor ship is generally invoked for one of two reasons, the first psychologically false and the second morally wrong. It is used either to protect our feel ings, as if we were supersensi tive children, or to cover up of ficial mistakes." Willkie expressed fear that, after this war, "international po litical and economic cooperation" may be abandoned by the United ' States as It was after the first World War. I "Tha only hop of avoiding WILLKIE IS ISSUE AS REPUBLICANS E National Committee Urged to Face Former Presiden tial Candidate's Ire. St. Louis, Dec. 7 (U.R) Fred erick E. Baker, Seattle, Wash., was the first person placed in nomination today before the Re publican national committee to succeed Joseph W. Martin, Jr., as chairman. He was nominated by Ralph W. Cake of Oregon. Others nominated were Wer ner M. Schroedcr of Illinois, Har rison E. Spangler of Iowa, Frank E. Gannett of New York, and Barak T. Mattlngly of Missouri. First balloting results failed to give any candidate a majority. The vote was Schroeder, 40; Spangler, IS; Baker, 40; Gannett, 3, and Mattingly, 1. St. Louis, Dec. 7 (U.R) The Republican National committee convened today in an angry mood for a showdown vote on whether Wendell Willkie is able to prevent election to the chair manship of Werner M. Schroad er, Illinois committeeman, whom the New Yorker challenges as an isolationist. Although Questions of post war policy, isolationism, and in tervention, seem to be the issues at stake in this unexpected po litical squabble, Willkie is the real issue before this committee. Sen. Robert A. Taft. of Ohio, is leading the committee fight against the GOP's presidential candidate. . Schroedec has re jected all compromise proposals so far Including a request from Chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr. that he withdraw. Taft and some others apparently feel that the republican party must have a showdown with willkie um mately so wrg not now. SACRIFICE FOR ALL URGED BY VFW CHIEF Denver, Dec. 7. (U.R) Rob ert T. Merrill, commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, says Americans must dis card their attitude that "every body should sacrifice every body but me." The Havre, Mont., man warn ed that all peacetime habits must be shelved if America is to re member Pearl Harbor. Merrill spoke on the eve of the first anniversary of Japan's attack in the Pacific at a Den ver banquet which honored the 44th anniversary of his organiza tion. such a tragedy lies In free pub lic and private discussion of its dangers," he said. Washington. Dec. 7 (U.R) Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox today denounced nagging fault-finders and scandal-mong ers and reminded Americans that this Is a United Nations war. leading to United Nations vie tory. Sly accusations, unsupported by proof, breed scandalous gos sip and discouraging rumor. Knox said In a statement for the Pearl Harbor anniversary issue of th Army and Navy Journal The remedy Is self-discipline in quelling and rejecting selfish fault-finding which gives aid and comfort to th enemy by Im planting doubt and discomfort In th nation and its allies," b said. v PRESIDENT Everett Case, monetary authority, former assistant dean of Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Inducted Into presidency of Colgate Univer sity, at Hamilton, N. Y. At 41 he's youngest man to hold the office in 123-year history of school. He's son-in-law of Owen D. Young. YANKEES OPERATE AS GUERILLAS IN By Charles Arnot (United Press Correspondent) With The U. S. Marines On Guadalcanal, Nov. 23. (De layed) (U.R) U. S. marines, combat-seasoned by their heroic drive on the beaches and thrcugh the Jungles, are operat ing as guerilla bands in system atlcally mopping up scattered pockets of Japanese resistance on Guadalcanal's fluid eastern front. At the same time, combined army and marine forces are driving back the main enemy concentration, five miles north. west of Henderson airfield. Both of these operations are proceeding "according to ached. ule," MaJ. Gen. A. A. Vande- grift, marina commandant, told me today. I was permitted to accompany the 93-year old officer on a tour by Jeep along the eastern front where 1,900 Japanese landed early this month. We bounced along over roads too narrow for more than one vehicle to reach the sector where our fighting men recently smashed the enemy landing force and killed at least 600, forcing the rest to separate into small bands and flee southward through the dense Jungles. Organized enemy resistance In this area has been broken completely, Vandegrift said. He described the operation on the northwestern front toward Ko kumbona as a deliberate, metho dical drive to crush the Japan ese so thoroughly that organ ized resistance would be impos sible. PEACE WRECKERS SAID PLOTTING Portland, Ore., Dec. 7 (U.R) Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson, D. Tex., denounced today "a minor ity of prospective wreckers on Capital Hill who, he said, are plotting against the establish ment of an enduring peace. Speaking at exercises accom panying the scrapping of the Battleship Oregon, Johnson said that the "hope for a peace that will live Is the silent mandate of millions." Del Monte Hotel To Be Navy School Monterey, Calif., Dec. 7 (U.R) Del Monte Hotel will be taken over by the navy for use as a pre-flight training school for aviation cadets, similar to the school at St. Mar's, a navy spokesman disclosed during the week-end. C a p t George Washington Steele, who organized and was in charge of th naval pre flight school at St. Mary's, ar rived at Del Mont yesterday to organize th station. ,RRED BY NEW McNutt Says Entire Popula tion Now in 'National Pool For Use Where Needed. Neither Jack M. Carnenter. GEM, local navy recruiter nor Pvt. F. L. Butler, army recruit. ing officer here, have as yet re ceived complete official instruc tions concerning the president' oraer ending voluntary enlist ments of men 18 to 38 in con nection with the transfer of the selective service system to tha War Manpower Commission un der Chairman Paul V. McNutt, they said today. Carpenter stated he had re ceived a telegram ordering him to accept no more enlistments of men 18 to 38, and that final Instructions were following. Hs said that 39 men between thoso ages had been accepted here for enlistment the past few days. prior to the presidential order, and that he was inclined to be lieve their final acceptance woud be allowed. Pvt. Butler, likewise, said ha had received no official instruc tions, but thai he understood tha applications of those he has ac cepted for army enlistment, prior to the order, could be sent in tor approval. He has six such appli cations. ' Washington, Dec. 7 (U.R) . , War Manpower Chief Paul V. McNutt said today that he con sidered tha entire population "a national pool from which tha needs of the armed forces, in dustry, agriculture and essen tial civilian activities will be supplied." McNutt told a press confer ence his first sine President Roosevelt on Saturday endowed him with vastly broadened pow ers that the chief executive' action was a "prerequisite to an adequate attack upon the tre mendous task" of allocating manpower between the armed forces and industry. Unified Plan Possible Transfer of the selective serv ice system to WMC and termi nation of voluntary enlistment of men 18 to 38, effected in the President's executive order, will make possible a unified plan lor orderly withdrawal of men from civilian life with the "least pos sible disturbance of essential war production," McNutt said. He added that he will meet tomorrow with the Joint chief of staff to discuss army ahd navy requirements. (By United Press) After record breaking day light attacks on France and Hol land in which more than 400 planes participated, the Royal Air force went back during the night with a smashing attack on Karlsruhe in southwest Ger many. Aircraft of the middle eastern command were on the offensive, too, raiding from the southern top of Italy to Tunisia and Sicily. In Russia the Red army con tinued to advance despite strong German counter-attacks both on the central Rzhev-Velikie Lukl front and the Stalingrad sector. WLB GIVES WARD CO. ULTIMATUM ON PLAN Washington, Dec. 7 (U.B Chairman William H. Davis of the War Labor Board today gave Montgomery Ward & Co. of Chi cago until 9:30 a. m. tomorrow to comply with an undisclosed proposition for settlement of dispute with Its employes. Th demand that th company comply with a plan advanced by Davis was made after a four hour conference among board, company and union official failed to reach agreement on un ion security provision of contract.
