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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
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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
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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
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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. ,
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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.
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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.
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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.