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( Let YOUR Ana w at To Bomb Be bONDSI Bur War Bond! as (tamps TODAY Contribute M th war irort ml jour natloa. Patrlot Um. your eir-protacttoa, demand llul VOC year put NOW! Uw The MAIL TRIBUlfl Want Ad Way Quick Result At Small Cost Medford RIBUNE United Prru full Lmm4 Win United Prose Full Leased Wire Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1942 NO. 234 r n nrv n a-"V IU1 0 o P InUJIiu LIU HI HE l II I f rk Al fVl i I vsr uj v nrt r mr r U UUDU L Y, , Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C RFC Loan Flood Hit By Congress Global Relief Funds Unround Some of RFC List Escapes Secrecy c-b Br J aha W. Kelly ' 'Washington, D. C, Dec. 21. : To the president went, dated November 30, a report from Reconstruction Finance corpora, tion, via Jesse Jones, stating that RFC has authorized loans and other commitments in con nection with the war amounting to $48,289,576,761. The presi dent notified his congressional leaders that he wanted RFC authorized to sell another five billion dollars of securities to take care of war activities. Congress balked. . Of these billions of . dollars there was no consulting of con gress. Unless a congressman learned accidentally of some operation the legislative branch was in total ignorance. Sena tors Danaher and McNary de cided something should be done , about it to let the white light of publicity stream in on RFC operations. They discovered that one way of circumventing congress had been to have the president issue a directive order to Jesse Jones for him to furn ish bureau of economic warfare, for example, so many hundreds of millions of dollars. And Jones had to produce, without consulting other members of RFC board. Danaher and Mc Nary proposed that executive orders be ignored ana.wnen request came "for ," a" loan ' "it should be acted upon by the RFC board and based on "satis factory security." Immediately certain column ists friendly to the administra tion charged Jones with having Inspired the resistance of the senators because Jones wished to have final decision on all loans. Then In an executive committee hearing, with doors closed and no reporters allowed. Vice President Wallace of bureau economic warfare panned, roasted and flayed Jones; asserted the war effort Is so very confidential that it can not be told to Jones or congress -all Jones has to do is turn over the money and the Wallace organization will do the rest. So the committee reported out the bill favorably, but it struck a snag on the floor when the committee declined to reveal the testimony at the hearings and was held up on the conten tion that this was legislation by committee and not by the senate. CONGRESS has a notion that these war agencies should come to it and request such appropria- (Continued on Page Pour) HEATER MAKING FOR WAR HOUSING ONLY Washington, Dec. 21 (U.B The war Production Doara io iln nrnhlhlted the manufacture of gas-fired and oil-fired water heaters in law except tor war hnusine. Officials advised the substitution of coal heaters where replacements are neces sary. SIDE GLANCES TRIBUNE REPORTER BiU Hutchlns all excited about decorating a Christmas tree. Meryl Daws admitting she was busy with Christmas decora tions, too. Bob Brewer home from col lege and ushering at the Sunday candlelight service at the Pres byterian church. The tall Christmas tree be ' hind the chamber of commerce building glittering with colored lights through the fog. John Hirschler worrying for fear his USO hockey boys and their opponents might become too mad at each other to play a nice, clean game. Loot Ken Luckey of the Camp White news factory seeking L mays and means of inaugurating camp publication. . 1 150-SHIP CONVOY Coup Trap, Axis Force in Liby. BEING READIED IN w -.""l SOUTHERNFRANCE y J Plea by Desert Fox and Col.- i , yrgSrLunvm Gen. Nehring Indicates I Vlriitr9 ?S Stand Planned in Tunisia. i "SX-teic ... ' - Br Edward W. Seattle United Press Correspondent London, Dec. 21 U.R Mar shal Edwin Rommel has appeal ed to Adolf Hitlet for reinforce ments to help keep the German toe-hold in North Africa and an Axis convoy of 150 ships is massed in southern French ports, Madrid dispatches said today. Col.-Gen. W a 1 1 h e r Nehring, Axis commander in. Tunisia, joined Rommel in the plea, the London Daild Mail's Madrid cor respondent reported, indicating that Rommel has abandoned hope of defending Tripolitania and plans to make his stand in Tunisia. Planes, Tanks Needed The Daily Mail, quoting re ports from Vichy, said the Ger mans were preparing a large scale attempt to relieve the sorely-pressed Axis forces in Tripoli tania and Tunisia. Rommel and Nehring were said to have asked especially for planes, tanks and gasoline. British military observers were convinced Rommel no longer was going to offer more than delaying actions against the British Eighth army advancing toward the Axis base of Tripoli. Instead, it appeared, that henow was bending all his energlesfr ward effecting a junction with Nehring's Tunisian army. The German Afrika Korps now is retreating at an average rate of IS miles a day, front dis patches said. JOBS OFFERED IN APPLY AT C. OF C. Camp White, Dec. 21. (Spl.) Major Merrill G. Weiler, exe cutive officer, in charge of all Camp White post exchanges, an nounced today the opening of an employment office in the Chamber of Commerce build ing, Medford, to be used as a clearing house for the employ ing of all civilian personnel. A frank appeal is . made to the wives of all enlisted men mak ing their homes in Medford. This office is open for inter views each day between 10 a. m. and 1 p. m. There is no in tention to limit employment to wives of soldiers at the camp. Application of any civilian ap plying will receive the same consideration, with no prefer ence shown. All post exchanges are run for convenience of the enlisted men. Help is needed in all de partments immediately. Girls are urgently needed for the cafe, merchandise counter and cafe fountain. All civilians In this territory with experience or who would like to do this work are urged to present ap plication immediately. The compensation for this type of work has recently been increased. Major Weiler pointed out, adding that civilians will find the jobs pay well and that they are doing their bit to lend a helping hand In military work. Yankee Paratroops Wipe Out Italians Allied Headquarters, North Africa. Dec. 20 (Delayed) CU.R) The United States parachute troops of Lieut. Col. Edson D Raff have met an Italian gar rison force In southern Tunisia and destroyed it, dispatches dis closed today. On patrol, some of Raffs men, who ever since the opening days of the Tunisian campaign have been operating as ground troops, sneaked up on a railroad sta tion to find It full of sleeping Italian. l i b Ymm&., rha plight of Nasi Marshal Brwln Rommel's Afrika Korps (rows worse. The latest blow to retreating Axis forces In Libya was a brilliant flanking movement by the pursuing British Eighth Army, which reached around and cut off approximately halt of the fleeing Nazis about 60 miles west at the broken 'El Agheila line. Armored unite were said to be Included In the force trapped near the coastal town of Wadi Matratin. Medford High's Military Training Termed "Medford Medford high's revolutionary militarized physical education program, designed to prepare its male students for the time when they will be fighting the Japs or Germans, received na tional publicity in an article captioned "Mayhem in Medford" in the December 21 issue of Time magazine. REPRESENTATIVE Appointment of a state repre sentative irr the legislature from this county to take the place of Attorney Frank Van Dyket of Ashland, who is unable to at tend the coming session be cause of army duties, will be made within the next three or four days. County Judge J. B. (Blln) Coleman said today. No formal notice of Van Dyke's resignation has yet been received from the secretary of state, and no appointment can be made until it is forthcoming. The appointment rests with the county court.: The county Judge said it was necessary to speed the wppoint ment as soon as possible, so the appointee could make arrange ments to find living quarters ui Salem, and be in line for com mittee appointments in the leg islature. There are now a half dozen citizens of the county in tne mood to accept the appoint ment. One of the latest is re- nortnl tn be Charles A. Wing orchardist and dairyman. Fred Homes of Ashland, long active in Grange and farm circles, is an avowed candite. Others men tioned are R. F. Kyle and Ike Staples, Medford, and William Briggs, Jr., and Ralph Billings, Ashland. Though no statement has been made, it is the generally ac cepted belief among the politi cal wise of the county that the appointee will be an Ashland district republican. The appoint- ment will be for a pro tern period. San Francisco. Dec. 21 U-B John R. Bayliss, Alcatraz prisoner serving a 25-year term for bank robbery, made a break for freedom in the federal dis trict courtroom today but was captured near the judge's bench by Lt. J. H. Simpson, an Alcatraz guard. Bayliss tried to escape when handcuffs were taken off him during his habeas corpus hearing before Federal Judgj A. r. St. Rure. He had been sentenced for t -obery of the Farmers and Mer chants Bank of Mansfield, Mo., tn 1937. The handcuffs were removed as Bayliss went to the witness stand. He suddenly broke loose and Jumped over th railing. Mayhem" by Time Information for the article was -obtained, by Bill Gray of Time and Life, Inc., when he was in Medford recently. Next Sunday the Portland Oregonian will publish a full page feature story, with pic tures, on the program. Following is the Time article: "An appealing fact dawned reeentlv en Principal Leonard Mayf leld of the Medford. Ore., high school there had not been a single fist fight among his 350 little gentlemen in a year. A husky old wrestler himself, Prin cipal Mayfiela realistically re flected that many of his boys would soon have to know how to kill others boys. By last week Medhord high's physical educa tion program had been radically revised. The new course, called 'Personal Combat', Is ranger style training in high school. Says Mayfleld: 'It's gang-fighting, that's what it is.' "Boys are- taught how to creep and crawl, break arms, kill with bayonets and knives gouge eyes, knee the enemy in the groin. They are warned at the start to expect bloody noses and black eyes especially when teams tear into each other with no holds barred. They take their lessons in flirty fighting seri ously. "If they can lick themselves," say their instructor, "they can lick the Germans and Japs. I don't want -any kid from Med ford high school bellyaching, committing suicide or getting sent to the garbage detail when he goes into the army." WITH C1ANQ, LAVAL London. Dec. 21 U.B Adolf Hitler, beset by allied offensive, the deterioration of Italy and dissention in France, has held conferences with Galeazzo Ciano Italian foreign minister, and Pierre Laval of France, Axis broadcasts announced to day. Ciano, substituting for his father-in-law Benito Mussolini, arrived at Hitler's headquarters Friday and remained until Sun day morning. Laval, fighting for his political life as dictator at Vichy, was permitted into the conference briefly Saturday and left the same day. An Axis communique an nounced that Ciano and Hitler discussed the common pursuit of war aims by Italy and Ger many. The fect'4hat Benito Mus solini, as executive head of the Italian government, did not at tend the conference might be taken to mean either that re ports of his ill health were cor rect or that Hitler nad snubbed him as he snubbed Laval. Portland, Ore, Dec. 21 U.R) The state OPA advised coffee roasters today th deadline for A ii.rla. rr nurphaa. (a,. rr. nt. ! had. been extended from Decern - I ber 28 to January 23. Gas, Fuel Oil Restriction. REDS THREATEN E Russians Drive Hard Toward Millerovo to Win as Birth day Gift For Stalin. Moscow,- Dec. 21 (U.B Red army forces, driving ahead hard in an attempt to win the city of Millerovo as a birthday present for Premier Josef Stalin were believed to have threatened addi tional units of the German army with encirclement near the im portant Junction on the Voronezh-Rostov railroad. Stalin is 63 today. Nasi Losses Mount Front dispatches indicated there was fighting In the out skirts of Millerovo, which is about 200 miles southwest of Stalingrad. The Red army, fighting in bitter weather, was rolling the Germans southwest ward and Inflicting mounting losses on the enemy. The Rus sian noon communique - an nounced that the Germans had suffered 43.230 killed or cap tured since the offensive started five days ago. (The German high command communique admitted that the Russians had broken through on the central Don. fcoo,ftsvat tacks by strong tanir formations. The German claimed the Rus sians suffered heavy losses and that the fighting was continuing with "unabated vigor.") There were 1,730 Germans killed along the central Don front In the latest operations. the noon communique said.. By United Press Most of the eastern half of the United States suffered today in an intense cold wave which ex tended well into the middle west and southward beyond Washington, with temperatures ranging down to 45 below zero in upstate New York. Snow covered a large part of the area. Railroad traffic, as well as highway travel, was hampered by the severe cold. Trains were delayed also by Christmas mail which piled up at stations on main routes, and heavy passen ger freight business. Weather forecasts Indicated that the cold was diminishing. Official temperatures ranged from 1 below zero at Albany, N. Y., to 1 above at Washington, the lowest December temperature for the nation's capital since 1880. New York City had its coldest weather since Feb. 9 1934, when thermometers re corded 14 below. Thousands Left at Depots As Holiday Crowds Travel (By United Press) Holiday-bound service men and civilians took every available seat on trains, busses and planes today, leaving other thousands to be turned away for lack of accommodations. -.. , . ' Record crowds, apparently dis regarding pleas of the Office of Defense Transportation, poured through the nation' Important railroad terminals where trains were running hours late. All standing room was gone and platforms were filled with dis appointed passengers. Air reservations were sold out through the holiday season and one air line, reporting the heav iest backlog of reservations in years, said requests for reserva- itlons exceeded "three or four ! times our capacity, Ban Francisco reported rail- Forty-Hour Week Won't Win War, Is Pinkley's Warning By Olive Starches Mall Tribune Special Writer ' "It will be impossible to win this war on a 40-hour week basis," declared Virgil Plnkley, United Press foreign correspond ent and well known lecturer who spoke in Medford Saturday night before a large audience in the high school auditorium. Plnkley strongly denounced both labor and capital for quar relling over such issues as wages and hours while the war effort suffered and declared also that there is an over emphasis on cheap politics. 'There is absolutely no rea son why red blooded American men, well fed, well housed and suffering none from bombings, cannot work up to 70 hours a week if necessary. Women and children have been doing it in England for three years now, Pinklcy declared. He contrasted production conditions here with those in England stating that there was closer voluntary co operation between labor, capi tal and government in England. The speaker said that English labor had long since realized that the only way to safeguard the social gains of the past dec ades was to give them up tern porarlly in order to win the war Urx. tn realize thiaw. --1 4eome to realize thuv- Seventy per cent of total war effort is production," Mr. Plnk ley stated, "and all the allies need now is equipment and ma terial. This cannot be produced in sufficient quantity working a 40-hour week. In England war workers work up to 58 hours a week before over-time is pawl Wages average 20 a week. 1 visited 47 .factories and talked to many laborers and labor lead ers all of whom felt that by tem porarily giving up their rights they were merely pruvcv.ma their investment in the demo cratic way of life.' They realize that workers in the totalitarian countries are merely slaves." The speaker stated that many people in this country still failed to realize the nature of the men ace faced in this war and point ed out that militarily speaking, (Continued on Fag Threa) TEACHERS TALKED ASTAUDVISERS Washington. Dec. 21 U.R) School teachers, those public servants who must be experts in a good many things besides literature and arithmetic, now are being considered for Jpbs as Income tax advisers. Treasury officials said today that while they had no idea of trying to impose an "onerous burden" on teachers, they were studying the possibility of ask ing them to serve as tax advis ers. roads there were devoting their facilities primarily to service men and train were running two to six hours late. Detroit railroads, handling traffic "Immensely" over nor mal, were far behind schedules. Buffalo, N. Y, also reported trains running late. In New York City, trains, busses and plane were booked to capacity. Denver railroad officials said It was the "worst rush and tleup in history." Trains were run ning a minimum of three hours late and some were over eight hour behind. To facilitate movement of homeward bound service men, furlough tickets were honored on all railroad lines. Air lines were booked through January 1, and only bu line were able to accom modate all passengers. WHY PAPERS LATE Due to the tremendous volume of mail and packages being handled at Medford postoffice as Christmas ap proaches, rural subscribers by mail of the Mail Tribune oc casionally have not received their paper on. time. This in convenience is expected to be eliminated .when the Christ mas mailing rush Is over. AIRMEN UNITE FOR DAY, NIGHT RAIDS London, Dec. 21 (U.FD Brit ish planes from heavy bombers to fighters attacked Germany and occupied territory during the night in a new non-stop aer ial offensive" as part of which hundreds of planes including United States army Flying Fort resses and Liberators made one XffiWt.-.J 1 An Amerlcanarmy spokesman said a "great many" German planes were shot down In yester day' terrific air battles over oc cupied France, by Flying Fort resses and Consolidated Libera tors which made the daylight raids with the aid of swarms of fighter planes. In the night raids four-motored British bomber attacked Dulsburg, great German indus trial - city and communication center. British Whirlwind bombers. used for the first time as in truder planes, shot up trains In France, one as far inland as Or leans, 140 miles from the coast, and Boston bombers also pene trated deep Into France to bomb an ammunition dump and rail roads while others attacked a small ship in a Belgian harbor. The raids deep inside France marked a new phase in the Al lied aerial offensive, Orleans Is 70 miles south of Paris, close to the Vichy zone, and the Ameri can bombers had gone 180 miles into France yesterday to attack Romllly. Yesterday's daylight planes had hardly finished their opera tions when the Royal Air Force night shift went to work. JAPANESE STAGE E New Delhi, Dee. 21 0J.B Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell's British-Indian army pushed an unopposed drive along the Bay of Bengal coast li Burma today while the Japanese retorted with a sudden counter-drive into southwestern China. Moving out from their Baun gaw-Buthidaung line, where they had thrust 30 mile into Burma, Wavell's forces drove ahead along a front of about 20 miles between the coast and the Mayu river toward Akyal , the Import ant Japanese-held port 00 miles to th south. Japan opened Its counter-drive SOO miles east of Wavell's offen sive area. Japane- troops based on the Burmese town of Keng Tung advanced northeastward to cross the Nan Let river into China' Yunnan province In the corner where China, Burma, French Indo-Chlna and Thai land adjoin. KILLED IN ACTION London, Dec. 21. OI.PJ Lord Apsley, 47, member c. com mons, has been killed In action with hi regiment In the Middle East, It was reported today. He received the Distinguished Serv ice order la th World war. To Stay DASHES HOPE FOR Further Discussion Sched uled Wednesday East's A.B.C. Rations Restored. Washington, Dee. 21 (U.B-. Economic Stabilization Director James F. Byrnes reported today after a conference with official in charge of the government petroleum program that there i "no hope for any lessening of the restrictions upon the us of gasoline and fuel oil.' "The agencies Involved have shown splendid spirit of co operation in the effort to solve the immediate problem resultln from unanticipated demands for military purposes. It la not ex pected that for the present there will be any material change in the procedure adopted by th respective agencies. Further Discussion "The agenda wlU submit to me In writing suggestions to various phases of the problem and we will meet Wednesday morning for further discussion. in tne meantime step will be taken by the respective seen- cie to increase the supply, arid to improve rationing methods. However, In view 4nf Increased military demands and the delay in securing critical materials to extend terminal facilities and complete pipeline and barge construction, the agencies in volved hold out no hope for any lessening of the restrictions upon the use of gasoline and fuel oil." The most drastic development 60-hour ban on lasollne sales to some 7,000,000 private motorists in 17 eastern states ended at 12:01 a. m. today. The value of "B" and "C ration coupons was cut from four to three gallons. "A" cou pons, which were cut from four to three gallons last month. remained unchanged. FRAUTCHARGED E Fort Wayne, Nnd., Dee. 21 (U.R) The first federal charge of wilful manufacture of Infer ior war equipment were reveal ed today in . an eight-count in dictment charging the Anaconda Wire & Cable company and five official with conspiracy to de fraud. The Indictment Involved M 000,000 worth o war contract held by the Anaconda Wire Cable company of Marlon, Ind., a subsidiary of the Anaconda Copper company. The Marlon plant Is engaged in making fine gauge wire used for battlefield communications. The company wa charged with secretly installing device which made tests of Inferior wire appear perfect. Official at the plant declined to comment on the charge. RENO DIVORCES HAVE HIGH COURT BLESSING Washington, Dec. 21 (U.B The supreme court In effect upheld legality of Reno divorce today when it reversed the bigamy conviction of a North Carolina couple who had di vorced their former mates In Nevada. Radio Highlights New York, Dec. 21 CU.B The British Broadcasting cor poration announced today that King George V would speak to the world by radio at 10 a. m. (EWT) (7 a. m. PWT) en Christ ina day
