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Lt YOUR Answer Te Bomb Be BONDSI Dm Tho MAIL TRIBUNE Want Ad Way Oulck Results At Small Coat Medford Tribune Buy War Bond an Stampa TODAY Coninbutt u llw WW flort of four natloa. ratrlot torn, four hi clf-pratoetlon. tfemands that YOU do yoor part NOWI United Press full Leased Wlro United Proaa Full Loasod Wlro Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1942 NO. 228 in Ell Flilffi UBVA HE 0 i Kelly's Comment From Washington, D. C. RCF Fund Spigot May Be Tightened Best Kaiser Yarn Is From Portland Grocers Facing Inventory Maze 3 Br Ma . Koftr -, Washington, D. C, Dee. 14 It works like this: If a timber man wants a loan ol $60,000 or a sawmill a loan of SI. 000,000, or a little business applies for a loan with which to handle a war contract, RFC holds a meet ing of the board, makes a pains taking examination consuming months and finally decides whether the security Is suffi cient and stipulates, usually, that a local bank assume part of the loan. But if one of the in numerable war agencies wants a loan it obtains an executive order from the president, pre sents the order to Jesse Holman Jones and, without quibble, the sum stipulated in the order Is turned over by Jones. Congress has no control of this money, does not even know the purpose for which it is wanted when it Is drawn from RFC by execu tive order. There are plenty of Instances where RFC loans have been ob tained on Washington timber, Oregon sawmills, etc., only after a struggle and so much time wasted that when the money is made available it is almost too late. A few days ago Congress was asked to authorize RFC to obtain five billion dollars in ad dition to its current revenue. There had been a secret session of a committee at which it was revealed that the president was issuing executive orders with a free hand. It meant, the committee dis covered, placing the five billion dollars with RFC to be drawn on without strings by the president through executive orders. A sen ator offered an amendment re quiring that when a government agency wanted money from RFC the entire board should consider the proposal and study the secur ity with the same care that RFC does with an application from private business. Furthermore, (Continued on Pago Four) Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) Censorship of mail between this country and Alaska has resulted In the apprehension of enemy agents who sought to transmit vitally important military infor mation in letters. Attorney Gen eral Francis Biddle and Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said to day. Testifying before the senate Judiciary committee, they cited instance after instance in which foreign spies had attempted to get information to their Axis masters via the malls between the Northern Territory and the United States. Biddle cited many cases In which censored Alaskan mail . was found to contain secret mil- itary information. ETHIOPIA DECLARES WAR ON AXIS TRIO London, Dec. 14 U.R The Ethiopian legation announced today that Ethiopia had pro claimed a state of war with Ger many, Italy, and Japan. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTER Ole Alenderfer confessing he was only one lump ahead of the flu and expecting the disease to floor him any minute. "Tubby" Dean losing Louie Older In their daily matching game for a cup of that rare rationed product. Charley Clay et al having their hands full with the Sunday Influx of troops. ALLIED OFFENSIVE EL AGHEILA LINE Rommel Retreating West Ward Relentlessly Pur sued by 8th Army, Report, By Loon Kay United Press Correspondent Cairo, Dec. 14 (U.R) The Axis forces in Libya are retreat ing westward toward Tripoli un der relentless pursuit by Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery s eighth army and an attack of un precedented scale of allied air forces, a communique of the middle eastern command an nounced today. German and Italian forces were thrown out of their El Agheila line in the first phase of the renewed allied offensive. (Berlin admitted officially in a broadcast, that the Axis forces had withdrawn westward from El Agheila.) The eighth army yesterday turned Rommel (Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commanding German Afrika Korps and the combined Axis forces) out of his strong position at Mersa Brega with little cost to them selves," the middle eastern com mand communique said. "The enemy is retreating westward, relentlessly pursued by our forces. "Allied fighter and bomber planes are operating on an un precedented scale, harassing the enemv. Axis air activity is to tally ineffective in preventing these operations. German fight ers which attempted to inter- efere in few instances were successfully engaged and at least six enemy aircraft were shot down." Montgomery's Imperial army had hit the Axis line around Its anchor point at the little port of Brega, 14 miles east of El Agheila, and had driven through with hardly a fight. The Agheila line was broken and the Imperial rolled west ward under the momentum of hard driving armored forces and their umbrella of allied planes of all tvrjes. Operating far to the west of the battle area, middle eastern command planes attacked the ereat Axis reinforcement nar- bor of Palermo, Sicily, and the important port of Sousse, on the east coast of Tunisia, Saturday night, the communique said. Only four allied planes were lost in all operations, including those over the battle area, aiiixl Nnrth African Head quarters has broken up an Axis mtni rnliimn drivinff down the Medjerda river in Northeastern Tunisia, midway between Mi1ez-El-Bab and Tebourba, it was announced today. There was no change In the battle line. Activities along the Tunisian front were chiefly of patrol nature, with each side feeling out the other's strength. Denver. Dec. 14. (U.R) Dr. Hubert Work, 82, former secre tary of the interior during the Harding and Coolidge adminis trations, died today in Denver. The aged former cabinet mem ber had suffered a heart attack last week at his Denver home. Doctors believed he was recov ering until he suffered a sud den relapse today. Dr. Work, a nationally known republican leader, first was named as secretary of interior by the late President Warren O. Harding. He served ooin as in terior secretary and as post master general under Harding and again as secretary of In terior under the late President Calvin Coolidge. Dr. Work was a physician and after he left government service he returned to Colorado to prac tice. Detroit, Dec. 14 U.R Corne lius D. Tomy, 64, who as "uncle Neal" has appeared on children's radio broadcasts for the last 21 I years, died today after suffering a stroke. Radioed from London to New York, this Is the.flrst photo to reach the United States of any of the French naval .1 I, escaped from Toulon when most of the French fleet was scuttled last Nov. 27. This French sub, its Free and Fighting crew waving and its tricolor flying. Is shown arriving at Algiers. Four sub of the fleet of It got out of Toulon, three to Allied-held porta in North Africa, one to Internment at Barcelona. Spain. Vaxla aot ti rest. Hitler Demands Million More Slaves From Occupied Countries for -War Work FRENCH RELEASE Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) French authorities in Dakar have released all British in ternees in West Africa and have announced that they now are aligned firmly with the allied cause, it was learned authorita tively here today. The state departmnt was in formed by the American Con sulate at Dakar of the releases from internment. And the Dakar radio has carried a statement that "on all our frontiers the situation Is completely clarified and no dispute separates us any longer from the British." The Dakar announcement ap peared to end all doubt of Dakar's place in the allied cause and to foreshadow utilization of French naval forces at Dakar on the allied side. Lieut. Gen. Dwlght Eisen hower, commander of American forces in Africa, apparently ar ranged the peaceful settlement. R0XY ANN ROAD BLOCKED BY FIFTY-FOOT SLIDE The road on the north side of Roxy Ann has been blockaded due to a slide and residents are asked not to plan travel on it as recent heavy rains caused SO feet of the road to give way. A slide occurred in the same sec tion at a previous time but had been repaired, according to Frank Rogers, city superinten dent. Washington, Dec. 14.-01.(9 The supreme court today agreed to review the Federal Communi cations commission's order di recting the National Broadcast ing company and the Columbia Broadcasting System to end al legedly monopolistic practices. Including "exclusive dealing" contracts with affiliated stations. C. C. Hoover Credits Santa With Assist in Collecting Ancient Bill Charley Hoover believes in Santa Claus. Today he received a money order for f 5 from Mrs. L. Cole Simmons of Myrtle Creek, to pay a bill due 20 years ago. The bill was for only $3.11, so the customer included interest. "It was the Christmas spirit," observed Charley, "a grand thing in this war torn world." Charley also thinks milk had something to do with It. Before C. H. became the Seed Croesus of the Northwest, ha was milk By John A. Parris United Press Staff Correspondent London, Dec. 14 (U.R) Adolf Hitler has invited new rebel lion in occupied Europe by demanding another million work era to speed up production for Germany's faltering war ma chine and build new fortifications against the threat of allied invasion, it was learned today. During the last eight weeks, a bait million workers were re ported to have been deported from occupied countries to Ger many, swelling the European slave ranks to more than 8,000,- 000. Hitler also has demanded that Holland mobilize 250,000 Dutch for the German army, and that Bulgaria, Hungary, and Ru mania furnish troops to make up for Nazi losses in Russia and North Africa, according to word reaching London. Fighting French headquarters in London reported that Hitler had ordered 400,000 French workers to the Reich within two months. It was recalled that Berlin recently demanded ISO, 000 skilled workers but fewer than 90,000 Frenchmen respond ed with the result that nine out of ten skilled workers were en rolled forcibly. A fighting French spokesman said that the vast enslavement of French labor contemplated by Germany may lead to grave trouble. He said that resistance was growing daily. Belgian sources in-London re ported that since November, be tween 100,000 and 200,000 work ers had been deported to Ger many and Northern France to construct fortifications. There are already 300,000 Belgian workers In Germany. . CONSTRUCTION UNIONS TO STUDY WAGE PLAN Salem, Dre., Dec. 14 (U.B The Oregon State Building and Construction Trades Council re cessed yesterday until Jan. after referring the controversial state-wide uniform ' wage scale plan to a committee tor further study. Terms of the proposed state wide agreement were chief topic of discussion at Sunday's session of the tenth semi-annual conven- tion of the council, attended by 134 delegates of AFL unions Involved in construction work man, and there Is something pure and wholesome about the lacteal fluid, he claims, which tends to honesty and righteous ness. If this hadn't been a charge for milk he is certain It would never have been paid, but being for milk it was. In all his ex perience In the dairy business Poa Bulbosa Hoover never lost more than one-half of one per cent In poor accounts and most of these went bankrupt or the debtors died. But he wants to five Santa Claus soma credit. JAPANESE LOSE IN NEW EFFORT L Washington, Dec. 14 (U.R) The Japanese have tried to come back to Guadalcanal three times this month and three times they have been smashed by American forces. The latest attempt cost the Japanese a destroyer sunk. second probably sunk and six others damaged. The last naval communique covered action in the battle of the Solomons for last Friday and Saturday (Solomons time). Near ly as important as the smashing of the Japanese sea force Friday night and early Saturday morn ing were two American air raids, on Friday and Saturday, on the enemy's new central air base at Munda on New Georgia Island, only ISO miles northwest of Guadalcanal. Direct hits with four 1.000 pound bombs chewed up a new landing strip on Saturday. The latest Japanese sea force headed for Guadalcanal was sighted and attacked by U. S airmen at 0 p. m. Friday, appar ently north of Cape Esperance The enemy force consisted of 11 destroyers, and bomb hits were scored on five of them. Six hours later, at 12:35 a. m Saturday, an American surface force moved In and attacked the enemy force which still was moving toward Guadalcanal. De tails of that night battle have not been released, except for the announcement that one destroy er was sunk, one set on fire and probably sung and one damaged One American torpedo boat was lost. The navy did not say whether the enemy force withdrew or continued the attempt to land reinforcements. Increased Amer ican naval and air strength In the area has prevented any Jap anese troops landing on Guadal canal since early November. WPB PENALTY San Francisco, Dec. 14. (U.R) The War Production board re ported today the H. C. Rhodes Bakery Equipment company of Portland, Ore., had been penal ized for an alleged violation of a general limitation order. The limitation order forbids sale of Industrial machinery In excess of 8200 valuation, without speci fic authority from the board, the WPB regional compliance division said NAZIS ATTEMPT 2,000 More Hitlerites Killed at Stalingrad Enemy Losses Said 8,000,000. By M. 8. Handler United Press Correspondent Moscow, Dec. 14 (U.R) Rus- Lslan troops have smashed a Ger man attempt to crack the south era arm of the Soviet pincers en circling axis forces in the Stalin grad area, and have penetrated the second enemy line of defense in the city's southern outskirts, front dispatches said today. Battle line reports said 2.000 more axis troops had been killed at Stalingrad, while on the cen tral front west of Rzhev. up wards of l.soo more enemy troops had been killed in the last 24 hours. Say 8.000.000 Lost German casualties, already es timated by the army news Da mr reed star at more than 8,000,000 Killed, wounded or caDtured since the start of the Russian war, were mounting rapidly on an active fronts, It was said. Soviet communiaues rerrted that the Russians had surged through the first line of German trenches and now were fishtins in tne second line in the south ern outskirts of Stalinn-ad. Shock troops battered into the German positions, capturing 130 prisoners and destroying three field guns and four me&hlnei una. - MORNING PAPERS New York. Dec. 14 (U.R) New York's millions went with out their morning newspapers loaay with little prospect of get ting four of the six afternoon newspapers because of a sudden strike by members of the New York newspaper and mail de liveries union. An all night conference of representatives of the New York Publishers association, the union, and Dr. Fred C. Croxton, of the federal conciliation serv ice, broke up at 6:20 a. m. with out agreement. The four morning newspapers, the Times, the Herald-Tribune, the Daily News, and the Mir ror, reached only those of their readers able to call at their plants for an over-the-counter purchase, a minute fraction of their normal circulation. All drastically curtailed their press runs. The Daily News, with circulation of 1,030,000 was un derstood to have had a press run for one major edition of less than 3.000. No More "Ploughing Under" Is Wickard Word to Farmers New York, Dec. 14 (U.R) Food Administrator Claude R. Wickard, outlining a port-war program of abundance, today told farmers that the United States must not return to the "plough-under" program of scarcity followed during the 1930s. In a speech prepared for de livery to a meeting of eastern farm program directors, Wickard said the war program for capa city food production next year must be kept In high gear after the war to feed war-ravished na tions and to give Americans a better diet. "We must find the way to get full distribution and full produc tion." Wickard, who also Is ser. retary of agriculture, said. "We must and we will work out an economy of abundance. "Already we can be certain of one thing, the need for great farm production will not end when peace comes. In general the same kinds of production which ara so greatly needed dur ing the war will be the ones that War Bulletins! London, Dec. 14. (U.R) British bombers and fighters attacked railway targets In northern France and Belgium today, an air ministry com m u a 1 q u announced. No enemy planes ware encount ered and all British aircraft returned safely. London. Dec 14. (U.R) The foreign office and the French national committee announced Jointly today that the civil administration in Madagascar, recently occupied by the British, would be sur rendered to Gen. Charles De Gaulle's fighting French. DONALD WOLFF, REGISTER FIRST Donald Milton Bowers of 24 Mistletoe, was the first Medford youth to register In the draft for 18 year old male citizens Friday at Selective Service board No. 1 in the city hall. Bowers Is 18 years of age, student and assistant manager of the shoe department at J. C. Penney com pany. Board Number two, for dis tricts outside of Medford stated that Donald Eugene Wolff, route 1, Box 39S of Central Point was the first registrant In that of fice. He is employed by his father on their farm. Walter Lee Dye of 827 Mae street, who is employed at the post exchange No. 19 at Camp White . registered second, with the local board and Dallas H. Hart, of Central Point, regis tered second with the local board No. 2. The latter is em ployed In a Central Point serv ice station. Selective service board mem bers pointed out today the urg ency of youth who attained the age of 18 during July or Aug ust of this year registering with their draft board before Decem ber 17. Young men were asked not to overlook this registration. Numerous registration places will be open throughout the county Tuesday for registration of male citizens who have reach ed the age of 18 during July and August of this year. The local board In the city hall will re main open until 7 p. m. to facili tate registration proceedings. Clemency Granted. Soldier Motorist Leon Chester Mlnlx, 22, of the Camp White quartermaster corps, charged with violation of the basic rule, and reckless driv ing a month ago, was granted a suspended sentence of IS days in the county Jail on each of the charges by Justice of the Peace W. R. Coleman. The case has been pending for several weeks. The sentences were suspended on the grounds Minlx had re ceived penalties at the bands of military authorities. are needed after the war. Far mers will not have nearly the problem of converting back to a peacetime basis as many Indus tries will have. "For several years aftr the war, the United Natlcfhs will have to feed the people of Europe and Asia whose, agricul ture has been crippled- by the axis Invasion. At the same time we will be sending them seeds and materials to help put them back on their feet. I "But even when the period of emergency relief comes to an end, the need for full farm pro duction will not end with it. If we finally succeed in making It possible for everyone In this country to have all ha needs to eat, American farmers will be as busy or busier than they are now. "If everyone In this country could have a liberal diet, they would need 73 per cent -more eggs than people are eating now, twice as much milk and large In creases In other protective foods." INDRED BODIES 1 FOUND IN ASHES OF SERVICE CLUB 102 In Hospitals Men Aid Women In Escape When Fire Invades Hostel Scene St. Johns, Newfoundland, Dee. 14 (U.R) One hundred charred and trampled bodies gave mute testimony today to the ferocity of the fire and panic that swept the St. Johns hostel for service men of the Knights of Colum bus Saturday night. Authorities feared that the bones and ashes of as many as 100 bodies may be mingled in the ashes of the two-story wood en building which burned to its foundations, but 100 was the official death toll until such time as checks of missing mili tary and naval personnel and civilians establishes a higher one. 00 In Hostel Though some 600 persons were in the hotel, of whom a sizable proportion were women, there were only seven bodies of wom en in the morgues to which the victims were taken. Authorities ascribed this to gallantry, feel ing that despite the hysterical panic which overwhelmed, the Saturday night merrymakers al most as quickly as did the fire. the men saved the lives of their women, some at the cost of their own. In hospitals today'' were 102 men and women, many of them so, severely burned they were expected - to die. Of the dead, the bodies of 64 of the 93 men and tour of the seven women had been- Identified. Some 20 of the dead were said to be United States military personnel and a large percentage of the remainder were Canadian serv icemen. The tragedy was a startllne- parallel to that which took 488 lives In the Cocoanut Grove night club in Boston the night of Nov. 28. In both cases, fire in. terrupted dancing and laughter. Washington. Dee. 14. (U.R) The Office of Price administra tion today permitted wholesal ers and retailers to pass on to the consumer price Increases In 17 additional grocery products. The items are those in which wholesalers and retailers have been squeezed by price increases allowed manufacturers. The list Includes: Various canned fruits and berries, frozen fruits, berries and vegetables, fruit preserves. Jams and Jellies, apple butter, canned shrimp, do mestic canned crabmeat, canned apples, apple sauce, apple Juice, vinegar cured herring, canned boned chicken and turkey, maple sugar, blended maple syrup, fountain fruits, egg noodles, tamales, tortillas, pota to chips, raisin filled or topped biscuits and crackers, fig bars, peanut candy and honey (ex tracted.) The OPA also announced plans to offset increased costs of material and labor In the manu facture of women's, girls' and children's garments for next spring and summer by strict control over garment makers' mark-ups and selling prices. The OPA hopes that its plan will make it possible for the shopper next spring to pay substantially the same price as In the spring of 1942 for comparable quality In coats, dresses, blouses and other outer apparel. Sydney, Australia, Dec 14. (U.R) A Nazi attempt to trans port supplies from Japan to Ger many through United Nations naval blockade wns revealed to day with an announcement that the German 8,000-ton freighter which was scuttled by her crew when Intercepted by allied war ships In the Indian ocean had been loaded with Japanese oods.
