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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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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