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Pf wer Pool Quiz
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Washington, D. C, Dec. 28
The power pool embracing
Grand Coulee, Bonneville and
the private utilities of Idaho,
Montana, Oregon, Washington
and Utah (and -the municipally
owned plant at Eugene) which
hat been a life-saver recently to
the government projects and cer
tain private companies, is a de
vice of the private companies to
filch the government power and
undermine the two projects on
Columbia river,, according to
Walter M. Pierce, government
ownership advocate, in his swan
song in congress. Mr. Pierce,
who failed to make the grade in
the November election, has re
1 quested the federal power com
mission and federal trade com
mission to investigate this power
pool.
' The pool is the result of pro
posals initiated by several large
power companies to increase
available power during the war.
At first Dr. Paul J. Raver, Bon
neville administrator, opposed
the Idea, but the energy from
Coulee and Bonneville Is now
mingled with that from the priv
ate utilities and the municipal
plant. Story of the power pool
appeared in the house organ of
PGE company in Portland, No
vember number, and promptly
excited the suspicions of Pierce.
He made quite an issue of it in
the Congressional Record of De
cember 14: said citizens of
Washington and Oregon should
I learn why their resources are
being siphoned out from under
them and taken to Idaho, Mon
tana and Utah to supply indus
trial plants that would not have
been possible if their locations
had been based on available
power capacity,
This - house organ ("Bull'a
Eye"), in an effort to prove
patriotic accomplishments, ad
mits an unlawful application un
der the Bonneville act. It ad
mits displacing payrolls in the
Columbia river basin and mov
ing such opportunities into the
(Continued on Page Pour)
An appeal for Victory Recrea
i tion Volunteers to attend Camp
White parties was made today
by Mrs. Marjorie Pena of the
Outpost Mrs. Pena is particu
larly interested in signing up
a number of Medford girls and
women to attend holiday parties
scheduled for the camp this
week. Tomorrow evening a
party is planned for the 21st
field hospital, Wednesday a
dance is planned for Service
Club No. 1 and Thursday a
New Year's eve formal dance
is to be held at Service Club
No. 2.
Mrs. Pena states that recrea'
tional volunteers must be more
than IS years of age and Amer
ican citizens. Any woman Inter
ested is asked to call the Out
post, S76S.
SIDE GLANCES
By
TRIBUNE REPORTER
Dorothy Hoppe being all of a
dither about a certain piece of
pink paper.
Deputy U. S. Marshall Paul
Hanlin learning how to do the
family washing.
George McBee eliminating
'Tubby" Dean as suspect In
the robbery of his establishment
the culprit having climbed
through a tiny opening to enter
the place.
TO
FOR UNIFICATION
Mutually Willing To Cooper
ate De Gaulle Calls On
Eden May Visit F.D.R.
London. Dee. 28 (U.R)
Radio Vichy broadcast e
t patch by Marshal Hanri Phil
lippe Pttaln today denouncing
French collaboration with the
allies in North Africa, and
then the radio announced that
the council of ministers had
deprived Gen. Henri Giraud
oi his French nationality.
London, Dec. 28 (IMS Gen.
Charles De Gaulle, Fighting
French leader, and Gen. Henri
Honora Giraud, new French
chieftan in Africa, have been
Negotiating for 48 hours on uni
fication of all French, Empire
forces and have already pledged
their mutual willingness to co
operate with one another, re
liable informants said today.
Negotiations were now center
ed on arrangements for an early
meeting between De Gaulle and
Giraud, and it was blieved in
some quarters that It might take
place in the next 10 days.
De Gaulle Bees fcaan
De Gaulle called at the foreign
office today and talked with
Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden, who had been unable to
attend yesterday's conference be
tween Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and De Gaulle. '
There were unconfirmed re
ports that De Gaulle also would
go to Washington to confer with
President Roosevelt, and might
be accompanied by Gen. Georges
Catroux, Fightint French leader
for the Middle East,
It was believed that De Gaulle
might go to Africa to confer
with Giraud, newly elected
French high commissioner In
succession to assassinated Ad
miral Jean Francois Darlan.
Washington, Dec. 28. (U.R)
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
said today that greater unifica
tion of the various French elem
ents would result from the
leadership of Gen. Henri Honore
Giraud of French North Africa.
Hull said that Giraud's leader
ship "will go far to assure the
common victory with the restor
ation of French liberty every
where." AMERICAN PLANES
IN BIG OFFENSIVE
ON TUNISIA FRONT
'London, Dec. 28 U.B Fly
ing Fortresses and the newest,
deadliest American fighting
planes were believed engaged
today in a supreme offensive to
utterly wreck axis communica
tion lines and transport in
Tunisia.
The German controled radio
Vichy said there had been vio
lent fighting in Tunisia for the
last 24 hours. .
Allied North African head
quarters announced that United
States bombers and fighters re
sumed their smashing attacks
against the Port of Bizerte and
Sfax, on the Tunisian east coast.
Saturday.
Apparently there had been a
break in heavy winter rains,
holding up the allies both In the
air and on land.
Flying Fortresses sank two
large vessels and a small one,
damaged a medium-sized ship
and scored hits with heavy
bombs on the docks at Sfax.
Radio Vichy broadcast early
today that one American bomber
and two fighters had landed In
Portugal and been Interned. A
United Press dispatch from Lis
bon said an A Ira cobra, with two
pilots in It, had landed on the
International airfield.
Byesvllle, O., Dec. 28 (UJD
Three coal miners were trapped
while approximately 30 escaped
safely today following a gas ex
plosion at the Byesvllle Coal Co
Bin
Food Rationing
Fails To Spark
Jap Navy Planes
Claim 14 Yankee
Machines Downed
Tokyo, Dec. 28 (Japanese
Broadcast Recorded by U.P.
in New York) Imperial head
quarters announced today that
Japanese luival fighter planes
had shot down 14 of 20 Ameri
can planes over Munda, on
New Georgia island in the
Solomons.
r "Japanese naval fighters on
Dec. 23 intercepted more than
20 enemy planes coming from
the area of Guadalcanal Is
land and shot down 14, of
which six were unconfirmed,
over Munda, New Georgia
island," a communique said.
HOMES TO MAKE
CAPITAL TRIP IN
VAN DYKE'S PLACE
Fred C. Homes, of Ashland,
stockman and farmer, was select
ed today by the county court, as
state representative pro tem
from Jackson count, to fill the
vacancy cause' by the absence
of Attorney Frank J. Van Dyke,
of Ashland, representative-elect.
who is unable to attend legisla
tive session starting January 11
next, because of army duties.
The appointment will be formal
ly made by the court tomorrow.
Homes was recommended to
the county court by the republi
can county central committee.
R. F. Kyle of this city was also
an avowed candidate, and the
choice between the two was re
ported close. A petition bearing
the names of 80 Ashland resi
dents was filed In behalf of
Homes.
Homes, a native of Iowa, re
ceived his education In the pub
lic schools of that state, and the
old Southern Oregon Normal
school at Ashland. He received a
teacher's certificate, and for a
few years was employed by the
Southern Pacific railroad. Since
1901, he has engaged in farming
ana stocKraising, operating a
900-acre wheat ranch, and a
dairy farm in the Bellview dis
trict. He is county chairman of
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration and has been active
in Grange and civic affairs in
the south end of the county for
years. He is past exalted ruler
of the Ashland Elks, president
of the Bellview Telephone com
pany, active In the Ashland
Chamber of Commerce, and the
republican party. He is S3 years
oi age.
UP SEASON TOTAL
TO
Rainfall of 4.68 this month. In
eluding yesterday, brought the
seasonal total for the past four
months up to 17.S0 inches, an
all-time high, according to the
federal weather bureau staff at
the airport The season's total is
10.62 Inches above normal, it
was stated.
It was pointed out that Novem
ber's record-breaking rainfall of
8.62 helped materially to boost
the season's figures. This was
more rainfall than In any other
single month since records have
been kept starting In 1011. De
cember figures were slightly
mote than normal.
Rains of the past week have
flooded many fields and pastures
of rural areas, causing farmers
to fear some of their fall sown
grain will be "drowned out."
Country roads are also In bad
shape from excessive rain. Both
orchard Ists and farmers would
welcome sunMne, so they can
catch up with their work.
AROUND FOE;
E NEW GAINS
Defenders Press Ahead On
All Sectors In Night Of
Bitter Fighting, Is Word.
Moscow, Dec. 28 (U.R) Rus
sian forces narrowed the gap
today in a second ring- around
22 German divisions already
trapped between the Volga and
the Don and a Soviet commu
nique reported new Red army
gains on five other sectors from
Rzhev to the Caucasus.
Front dispatches said Soviet
troops had occupied the1 stra
tegic towns of Solonetzky, 75
miles west of Stalingrad, and
Brukov, several miles to the
south, strengthening the pocket
in which upward of 300,000
Axis troops were penned.
right In snow. Cold
In a night of bitter fighting,
the Russians had pressed ahead
on all sectors, battling the snow
with temperatures ranging far
below zero. . ..
Solonetzky, taken by the Rus
sians as they tightened their vise
around the Don-Volga pocket, is
on the Chir river, several miles
north of the Stalingrad-Kharkov
railroad and 18 miles west of
Surkovikino. Birukov is 18
miles south of Chernlshevsky
on the Kharkov-Stalingrad line
and due south of Solonetzky.
The second ring around the
pocketed Germans started 12
miles north of Kotelnikovsk,
between the Stalingrad-Tokho-
retsk railroad and the Don.
The Russians reached these
positions yesterday after driv
ing the Germans back 24 to
30 miles in four days of vi
cious fighting. The circle swung
northwestward across the Don
through Chepurin to Birukov
and northward, to Solonetzky.
Then it followed the north-
northwestern course of the Chir
river until it hinged on Col.-
Gen. N. F, Vatutin s armies
forging southward on the mid
dle Don front.
Soviet columns moving down
the west bank of the Don, south
west of Stalingrad, were ad
vancing westward now, moving
between the Stalingrad-Khar
kov railroad and the southern
arm of the Don. They captured
Vodyansky, 10 miles west of
the river, and moved on to
Birukov.
Southwest of Stalingrad, the
Russians recovered most of the
advanced positions they had
held prior to a fierce German
counteroffensive started Decem
ber 12. They advanced six to
nine miles yesterday.
SERGEANT SHOOTS SELF
Hamilton Field, Cai., Dec. 28
(U.R) A board of officers to
day was Investigating death of
Tech. Sgt. George Ward Clark,
37, of Chicago, 111., who appar
ently shot himself in the chest
last night with his service re
volver. Officers said there was
no evidence of foul play and
that companions of Clark re
ported he was cheerful when he
went to bed.
Hoarding Will be Useless,
Warning by Mrs. Roosevelt
Washington, Dee. 28. (U.R)
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said
today It would be useless for
people to hoard canned goods at
this time because no one can
buy enough to last through the
emergency.
"I hope people don't go out
and buy and buy," she told a
press conference. "It won't do
them any good anyway, because
they will be asked to declare
what they have when rationing
goes into effect."
A reporter commented that
many people might not declare
all they have on hand.
'Then,' Mrs. Roosevelt said,
Announcement
Buying Parade
T
E
One Coach Pushed Over Em
bankment Trains Re
routed Over Medford Line
Oakrldge, Ore., Dec. 28 (U.R)
An avalanche derailed eight
cars of the Southern Pacific's
northbound Klamath train late
last night. Injuring eight per
sons, some of them navy per
sonnel.
Two , dining cars were most
seriously damaged. One was
pushed over a 30-foot embank
ment, apparently when struck
by a large tree uprooted by the
landslide,
A dining car steward, Frank
Pilcher, of San Jose, suffered
two broken legs. Southern Pac
ific officials in San Francisco re
ported. All passengers were trans
ferred from the derailed cars to
the first nine cars, and the fore
shortened train continued. Other
traffio on the line was rerouted.
Names of the injured were not
ascertained immediately.
Five passenger and one
freight train were being routed
through Medford today while the
track was being cleared at the
accident scene for resumption of
traffic on that line. Three of the
passenger trains were south
bound and two northbound. It
was expected the trains would
be back on their normal run
tomorrow.
The avalanche, apparently
loosened by recent rains, struck
the train near Wickopee, a sid
ing 20 miles above Oakrldge in
the Cascade mountains.
IT
With the American Air Forces,
China, Dec. 26 )Delayed) U.R
Seven Japanese planes were
destroyed today in a brief air
battle over the rugged western
Yunnan mountains as the enemy
tried to retaliate for repeated
raids on bases in Burma and
Indo-China.
Even as the Japanese raiding
force was being shot down in
flames, American bombers again
were over Lashio, Important
Japanese base in northern Bur
ma, blowing up warehouses and
wrecking the enemy airport.
Two American fighter planes
were shot down in the mountain
clash, near an advanced Ameri
can base, but the pilot of one
was known to be safe.
It was the second Japanese at
tempt this week to retaliate for
the attacks against Lashio.
which Brig.-Gen. Claire L. Chen
nault's bomber command now
has raided three times this week.
"their neighbors will probably
complain about the things they
have. It's wonderful what your
neighbors know about you. Any
way, hoarding Is stupid, because
no one can possibly buy enough
of any one thing to last until
the shortage la over."
Mrs. Roosevelt said that while
the White House will not hoard
any supplies, the housekeeper
will continue a long standing
practice of buying staples in
large quantities.
This practice, Mrs. Roosevelt
said, is widely recognized by
housewives as being more econ
omical than piecemeal buying.
GOOD SENSE ACT
AS DETERRENTS
Government Requirement of
Declaration On Hoarded
Goods Also Seen Helpful.
By United Press
The common sense and patri
otism of America's food merch
ants and housewives combined
today to prevent a serious run
on foodstuffs which will be ra
tioned under the point system In
February!
A United Press survey cover
ing all sections of the country
showed only Isolated instances
of rushes on canned goods. For
the most part the public and
storekeepers were taking the
announcement yesterday by Sec
retary of Agriculture Claude
Wickard in stride.
Capital Exception
One of the few exceptions was
at Washington, D, C, where gro
cers reported a serious run on
canned goods. Several stores
were jammed a few minutes
after opening with customers
demanding canned tomatoes,
fruits, and peas but grocers lim
ited purchases to one or two
cans of each item per customer.
Retail grocers reported that
limits on canned goods pur
chases voluntarily imposed sev
eral weeks ago were serving to
restrain buyers from hoarding in
some cases. The great majority
of reports were that there was
no unusual buying this morning
during the first business hours
after the government announce
ment. The government requirement
that hoarded canned goods be
declared before a ration book is
issued also served as a deterrent
to selfish buying.
Want Pork and Beans
A run on pork and beans and
pineapple developed in Dei
Moines, la., and stores quickly
limited purchases to two cans
per customer. 4
Heavy buying of canned fruit
luices was reported by one store
in Philadelphia, and other stores
there reported slight rushes for
canned goods particularly peas
and corn. But these were small
blots on an otherwise satisfac
tory picture.
Mrs. Rose Marie Klefer. seer.
tary of the National Association
or Retail Grocers in Chicago, in
cluding ou.uuu small grocery
aiure owners, attacKed the an
nouncement of rationing as pre
mature ana warned that It
would bring about "Just what
iney want to avoid unfair dis
tribution.
federal authorities pointed
out that a complicated adminis
tration must be set up to con
trol rationing and If the public
were not notified, rumors of
rationing might leak out and
cause hysterical buying. This
wouio result in unfair advan
tages to certain groups who
secured inside information.
STILL POURS IN
Don't feel concerned If you
haven't yet received Christmas
gifts you expected from diatant
relatives or friends, for parcels
are still pouring Into Medford
postoffice and will probably con
tinue to do so for several more
days.
Postmaster Frank DeSouza
said that 400 sacks of Christmas
parcels were received Sunday
and were being delivered today
and that incoming packages were
being taken to their destination
as quickly as possible.
A goodly number of the tem
porary Christmas employes arc
being retained to help In the
rush, and will be kept until all
! parcels are delivered, be said.
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In this (UmpM of battle action In the South Pacific an American Navy
plana, foreground, has landed askew on Its carrier or has been disabled
by a near bomb bunt. A column of am oka In the background rises front
planes, possibly Japs, which crashed into the tea during the tight. Phot
from Official U. B. Mara newireeL
P-38's Prove Their Mettle
In Fierce New Guinea Fight
By Son Caswell
' United Press Staff Correspondent
Somewhere in New Guinea, Dec. 28 (Delayed) UJ9 Lock
heed P-38 Lightning pilots, in one of the fiercest air battles of
the New Guinea campaign, today had the chance for which they
had long been waiting to show their stuff as fighters.
SEE NO RUSH FOR
Announcement of the forth
coming point system for ration
ing by the government caused
no particular rush on Medford
grocery stores a survey of local
large groceries shows. Managers
of the Big Y, Groceterias and
Safeway stores all said this noon
that so far there had been no
noticeable rush to purchase
canned goods.
"There has been no run on
canned goods at this store", stat
ed Lester F. Nielsen of the Big
Y. "Buying has been noticeably
heavy however over the past 90
days. Indicating that people an
ticipated the rationing."
"It's a little too early to say
what effect the announcement
will have locally," M. H. Hall
of the Groceteria said. "We had
a few large orders late y ester
day afternoon, but these did not
seem to be on any one commod
ity Just routine orders. How
ever, It the trend follows that
caused by coffee and sugar ra
tioning, we will have a rush
Our stores had no trouble sup
plying coiree until the rationing
was announced when we were
cleaned out in a few days." He
added that perhaps the appeal to
patriotism made by government
officials, and experience, had
combined to forestall a rush for
canned goods.
M. J. Maulsby, manager of
the West Main street Safewav
store, reported that there was
no unusual buying at his estab
lishment. He offered the In tor.
estlng theory that had the an
nouncement been mads at u.
other time than immediatolv
following Christmas, the result
might have been different.
Many people had no spare cash,
due to the heavy Christmas buy
ing, he said, "and therefore
were absolutely unable to make
heavy purchases had th.v .n
desired." Purchases of cannpd
goods have been unusually
heavy for the past two or three
months, he also said, tending to
offset the effect of the rationing
announcement
BOMB MEMENTO
Salem, Ore., Dec. 28 01.(9
A SOUVenIr Of tha arll Knw
ing near Brookings Sept. 8 was
received by Governor Charles
Sprague today from Lieut Gen.
John L. DeWltt head of the
Western Defense Commany and
Fourth army. The memento con
sists of a fragment of the bomb,
engraved and mounted on
wooden pen tray.
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dam Talaakaw
The Lightnings, previously
used for patrols and reconnaut
sance, streaked to the front after
an ale alarm and In one brief
clash at altitudes from 18,000
feet down to 8,000 feet, 12 of
them shot down IS Zeros and
dive bombers.
(Today's communique official
ly placed the score at IS Japan
ese planes out of a formation of
42.)
Two Zeros tried to decoy the
swift, twin-fuselaged and twin
engined Lightnings to low levels,
while other enemy planes hid in
a cloud layer 20,000 feet up.
The Lightning pilots didn't fall
for It. -
All the Zeros and dive bomb
ers then plummeted from the
clouds and Jumped the dozen
Lightnings at 18,000 feet. By the
time the battle was down to
5,000 feet, the remaining Japan
ese decided they had had enough
and sped for home while other
allied fighter units were still
rushing the fray.
Second Lieut, Kenneth C
Sparks, BlackweU, Okla., had
the roughest trip, downing oqo
Zero and one dive bomber but
received damage to his plana
that made landing difficult
"My flight hit the main group
of about 30 Japanese planes at
12,000 feet over laud," Sparks
said, "but we milled out over the
sea. I got a Zero on my first pass,
setting bis motor afire.
"Then I climbed back to 12,
000 feet and began working on
a dive bomber. Suddenly I dis
covered five Nips on my talL
They hit my left motor, dis
abling it, and I started diving
away.
"On the way down, I found
two Juicy dive bombers in my
sights. I saw my tracers entering
the cockpit of one of them. My
shots must have killed the pilot
because' the bomber Just went
straight down to the Jungle.
However, his rear gunner still
was alive and shot up my nose
wheel."
The Lightnings have a tricycle
landing gear.
Washington, Dec. 28 (UR)
The Navy reported today that
214 officers and 80 enlisted
members of the Women's Naval
Reserve reported for duty in
departmental offices here last
week to release men from desk
work.
Radio Highlights
Washington, Dec. 28 -0J.P5
Vice-President Henry A. Wallace
will speak at 8:30 p. m. (PWT)
tonlsht over the National Broad
casting Co. network on "Amer
ica's Part in World Reconstruc- '
tion." The speech, which will
originate here, wiU be In connec
tion with observances of the 88tb
anniversary of the birth of the
late President Woodrow WUtoo.