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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-
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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