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PAGE SIX MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 13, 1942 BRITISH WRITER FOE JFBRITISH Charges Branded As "Pure Bunk" Speeches Cited As Evidence. London. Dee. 12 U.B The Sunday Dispatch, in report from New York, charged tonight that WendeU L. Willkie has launched a series of "unre strained attacks upon so-called British Imperialism and British leaders. The Dispatch's story, from its pew York correspondent, Don Iddon, charged that the result of Wlllkie's attacks was "to tre at lack of faith in British war aims among people of power and Influence in the united states." The motive behind the cam palgn, the Dispatch charged, "is known only to Wlllkle himself and possibly a small group round him. The Wlllkle speeches, said the report, are supposed to be off the record but actually art be ing "quoted up and down the country." Wlllkle was described as ad dressing large groups of newspa permen, banks and industrialists, making much the same speech la each instance. The Wlllkle speeches were described as pri vate "but the charges he has made art echoing in clubrooms nd restaurants of New York nd Washington." Iddon reported he attended one such meeting held in a huge hotel ballroom in New York where Wlllkle talked for two hours while "waiters, bellboys, levator operators, policemen nd numerous strangers wan dered in and out." New York, Dec, 12 (U.R) WendeU L. Willkie, commenting tonight upon the London Sunday Dispatch story concerning him aid: "The article la pur bunk and fictional writing. I made an off-the-record talk to group of newspapermen soma three or four weeks ago on their Invita tion. "The report of the talk as car ried by the Dispatch does not bear the slightest resemblance to the facts. I could not so re flect on any Allied leader or the British war effort as I hold them and it in the greatest respect." Singapore Now Used By Japs As Base London, Dec. 12 (U.R) Ex change Telegraph agency today ' quoted the Berlin radio as say ing that all naval installations in Singapore, Including the base t Selatar with its floating dry dock, had been restored and that Singapore now was used as the main Japanese naval base in southern east Asia. Il nunc ll I! I l l LUYCS PIIILLIS! (Se Pag 3) aai aaSk M Jl-vii : 1 ' t&j IX I . ' j f . - . 1 ti-4; ' - ; -: - : . ' '' ' ' t V ' 'SZ0000: i-. 1. ; - ' : ; ' . , It . ' " Ft'- mn n i mm jiwh ar m li i' The U. B. 8. 6mn Francisco, the cruiser which bested a Jsp battleship In recent action In the Solomon Island area, is shown returning to bar home town" for well-deserved rest for herself and craw, wilicb. lines the rail. INF CORN REMOVER lui M la London, Dec. 12 (U.R) Those American and British air fight era who believe that the best way to win the war is to "bomb hell out of Germany" are eating their hearts out in the control rooms of a hundred airdromes today while the war rages on other fronts. They are young pilots and crewmen eager to prove that the Reich can be pounded into submission from the skies with great, roaring fleets of bombers operating day after day, night after night until German pro duction and communications are blasted into chaos. As Italian cities have good reason to testify, a still mighty aerial striking fore Is based in the British Isles. Flying fort resses and other giant bombers still raid the fringes of Hitler's continental system periodically. But these, to the allied airmen, are just sample of real air offensive. , Six months ago, these, men saw the dreams of Gen. Billy Mitchell and other great proph ets of mass air power about to take tangible form. But today there are no thousand-plane raids, no 24-hour, day after day raids. - The answer lies partially in the weather of Northern Eur ope. But the real answer, ob servers believe. Is the dispersal of air power which always has plagued the allies and which our fliers think is robbing them of a chance to show the world how to win a modern war. Nobody here denies the im portance of the Tunisian and Libyan campaigns, nor the necessity of patrolling the North Atlantic and blanketing the Pa cific. At the same time, our ! airmen in Britain believe that they alone are in position to snap the mainspring of the Axis. Whether air Dower alone could ! knock out Germany Is beside the point, they argue. Men who have devoted years of atudy to air attack and who have con vincing photographs to show what the RAF has done to Ger many and the United States air force to industrial and naval tar gets in Northern France, believe that air power can make war production and communications so punch drunk that they will begin to crumble. MM buUal rUl few Ml . dk all, n '" iuual U Stat Sanaa. (MM "'l- Wk, m mt1 tek Exclusively at WESTERN THRIFT TEST STOPPED HIM Coeur d'Alene, Ida., (U.R) A charge of draft evasion was filed here against Csroll Pratt Taylor, 20, who told FBI agents the reason he ddl not report for physical examination was be cause his religion forbade the pricking of the skin even a finger to draw blood for I blood test SPORTS PROGRAM BREAK-UP NEARS San Francisco, Dec. 12 (U.R) A possible wartime break-up'of the far-flung Pacific Coast con ference sports program appeared likely tonight as faculty and ath letic officials of the 10 confer ence colleges began gathering her for critical last-minute con sideration of vital war problems Monday. Coming In the wake of Univer sity of California's virtual with drawal from conference spring sports in favor of a stay-at-home schedule for the duration, the meeting took on new importance as possibly the last chance to avert complete disintegration of he great league. Wih Stanford unofficially re ported ready to follow Califor nia lead In de-emphasis of spring athletic trips, the confer ence s southern division basket ball circuit already appeared headed for wartime oblivian or sharp curtailment Baseball track, crew and minor sports programs definitely will not be carried out on the peacetime seal. F Stockholm, Dec. 12 (U.R) The newspaper Tldningen said today that a traveler in France had brought back reports of the Germans building a new defense line north of the Aisne river which they called the second defense line against possible Al lied invasion. The paper also told of extensive guerrilla war fare in France resulting in heavy German casualties and damage to railroads. MARINES GET ACTOR Hollywood, Dec. 12 0J.R3 Actor Glenn Ford, whose name has been linked with that of Eleanor Powell, dancing star, will be Inducted Into the marine corps tomorrow morning, his studio announced tonight. 0 UsU Tmdum Want Ms. PILOTS NOW FLY GOODS TO CHINA ALL WAR PLANES Calcutta, Dec. 8 (DelayedV (U.R) Eight young American pllota who only few months ago were ferrying bombers across the Atlantic to Britain now are flying vital war sup plies to China over one of the world' most hazardous air routes. Happy-go-lucky, despite the knowledge that a forced landing means almost certain death in the jungle, all are veterans of at least five years' flying exper ience, and all of them are "damned glad to be doing a use ful war job again." Like score of American vol unteer group filers who signed up last July, the eight men have become transport pilots of the China National Aviation Corp., which now is engaged almost en tirely In carrying supplies which no longer can be moved over the Japanese-held Burma Road. On of their number James Browne, Winnetka. 111. has been missing for the last two weeks. He took off from the ter minal at the China end of the route and never was heard from again. His pals have scoured the jungle-clad mountains with their eyes on every subsequent trip, to no avail. The eight pilots clubbed to gether constantly during their 14 months as members of the air transport auxiliary of the Royal Air Force Ferry Command. They said they had decided to come to India in order "to do our part on this side of the world." AFRICAN BATTLE WILL BE BLOODY United Press Correspondent Washington, Dec. 12 (U.R) Secretary of War Henry L. Stlmson said today that the bat tle of North Africa will be long, arduous and bloody. "My Idea that there is to be no further toil and sweat and blood," he said at press con ference, "would simply lead this country to a tremendous disap pointment." Nevertheless, he added, the nation may be proud of the way American troops-rnever before tried in battle are standing up against the Germans in Tunisia. "These forces," he said, "are getting a chance to get over their 'buck fever' at being up against the strongest nation in the world on land. "They have had chance to make a show of themselves which has been very gratifying to them and undoubtedly dis heartening to the enemy." Stimson said the surprise ele ment of the North African offen sive, which accounted for its spectacular initial success, had worn off and that the battle was now entering a second, more difficult "step-by-step" phase. He described the current ac tions as "merely feeling-out and harassing operations on both sides." 'The big work," he said, "is still to be done when the steps the foundation steps are laid by which we get air superiority." Dm MaU Ttibun Want ada. AS IMS 1 (j Shoppi. 'TIL CHRISTMAS! Greeting Cards - Seals Wrappings SHOP For GIFTS at the West Side Pharmacy The Rexall Store. Medford. Oregon West Main and Grap Phon 3330 , BEST GIFTS on record! M4 wet Popular Classical Swing Records 34c and up fll (3) With gasoline and Urea rationed and commercial travel restricted, families will need home entertain ment. There is nothing bet ter, more peaceful, or more educational than good music played through the medium of phonograph records. Good music when you want it. We cordially Invite you to come In and see our stock of popular, classical and swing music and to hear them played right here in jU It. f Si SEA HiDums irom 91.09 g; nd CASES PRUITT'S MUSIC CENTER 111 W. Main St f hone 3022 All iT Washington, Dee. 12 U.PS War Production Board Chairman Donald M. Nelson, formally ter minating a prolonged dispute with the armed services, has placed in WPB Vice-Chairman Charles E. Wilson complete con trol over the 1943 war plane production program and wide supervisory powers over the out put of other munitions, it was revealed tonight Nelson signed four adminis trative orders which bore direct ly upon the authority which Wil son will have over arms output during the coming year, and specifically over the vital role of scheduling production which heretofore has been done by th army and navy. Nelson transferred scheduling powers to the services last March, and when he sought to recapture this authority the army and navy opposed him. Upon specific instructions from President Roosevelt that they work out the problems in con ferences, an agreement finally was reached. The agreement has never been made public and a sketchy out line of it announced by Nelson was subject to several interpre tations as to who won. Nelson's associates felt that he had emerged triumphant. Army and navy sources said the services had fared well. A third group regarded the pact as compromise.- Wilson's role is clarified by the administrative orders signed by Nelson on Dec. 9. They have not been made public, reportedly due to a desire by Nelson to avoid renewal of friction with the services. William M. Jeffers tonight to act as committee of one in rid ding streets, alleys and highways of broken glass, nails and other tire hazards. . "As our tires get older and thinner, they are less puncture- nroof ." he said to statement "It is Important that w all do whatever we can Upkeep our streets puncture-free." PRISONERS UNSHACKLED London. Dec. 12-U R)-Creat Britain and Canada struck the chains from German prisoners of war today In reply to a proposal of the Swiss government, but Germany said that its decision on the matter of unshackling allied prisoners was still in "the stag of diplomatic negotiations." 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