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Lei YOUR Answer T Bomb Be bOMDSI Bay Wat Bona as lump TODAY Coairlbute U Iha aar effort of your aatloa. ratrtot Urn. ymat arlf-profarlloa, demand! that 101) da jour part NOW! Oh The MAIL TRIBUJT1 Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Coat Tribune' ford United Pieaa full Leased Wire United Praaa ruU Leased Win . Thirty -seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1943 NO. 245 59 Med 5 STAKE BBMft MEA ffiilB i : : : . : APKS Kelly's Comment From Washington. D. C Army To Start Training Boys Grand WPA Plan Waiting Lehman Nylon Bristle Replace Imports Br Jona W. Kelly Washington. D. C. Jan. 2 For almost a year the brass hats had been denying that they had any designs on the boys in high school; sniffed at the Idea of using teen-year-olds in college. Now the army has "come clean" and announced a program that will begin giving special train ing to boys as soon as they leave the grades and enter high school. The military forces in tend taking over the youngsters at about the age of 14 and pre paring them for induction into the army when they are 18. For the high school kids the program calls for vocational training rather than academic. Greater weight will be' given Instruction in mechanics, elec tricity and radio than English literature and composition. Army contends that boys of high school age like to "make things" and will quickly adapt themselves to vocational train ing. Four years instruction in mechanics will be invaluable when the students are 18 and ready to be sent to college by the army or Into service. Parents, of course, will pro test but their objections will be brushed aside by the brass hats. The plan sheds light on one point: the length of time the high command believes it will be necessary to win the global war. And another prediction: look for the time when 19-year-old boys are trained as pilots and become veterans by the time they are 21. a a a COLONIAL administration Is being taught at one of the uni versities in the east Similar in struction will be taken up at other schools In the near future, with at least one institution on the west coast dealing with the subject. The government knows that as occupied countries are taken over it will be necessary to install qualified army officers to administer the affairs of the country until such time as the natives are in position to assume this responsibility. This requires specialized Instruction and also familiarity with the customs oi each country that is taken over (Continued on Page Four) SEN. TAFT URGES DURATION TAXES Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., said tonight the new congress should start woiV immediately after convening next week on a new tax bill which. could stand un changed for the duration of the war. "I think the joint congression al tax committee should proceed immediately with a tax plan without waiting either for the treasury or the March returns," he told reporters. ' "I think we're at the point where we can draw up a per manent tax program for the war period and the sooner the peo ple know what it is, the better." Manchester, Jan. 2 (U.R) Denis N. Pritt, Socialist member of Commons, urged in a speech today that the allies open a sec ond front in Europe to eliminate the possibil'ty of Axis advances In a new offensive in Russia next spring. Asserting that Europe is the only place where Adolf Hitler can be decisively beaten, Pritt said a large scale allied landing In Ital, or elsewhere on the con tinent "obviously" would seal Der Fuehrer's fats. AERIAL ASSAULTS UPON KISKA GAIN AS ENEMY ACTIVE Yankee Subs Take Toll Of Jap Shipping Pacific Bases Blasted. Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) U. S. submarines have sunk seven additional Japanese ships and U. S. planes have carried out destructive raids upon Japanese bases at both ends of the Pacific front, the navy announced to day. The newest report of sub marine activity in Pacific and Far Eastern waters brought the jtal of enemy vessels sunk by U. S. submersibles to 112, with 22 others probably sunk and 29 damaged. In the air, the most Importa.it news was from the Aleutians where American planes intensi fied assaults against the enemy's submarine base at Kiska follow ing the sudden strengthening of the Island's fighter plane de fenses. ' General MacArthur's head quarters, Australia, Jan. 3 (Sunday) (U.PJ Allied troops rolled through the cocoanut groves on the right of the Bona area Friday and delivered a gen eral assault which crushed Jap anese resistance today a com munique reported. Describing action In the Buna area, the communique said, "on the right, our troops, in a gen eral assault, have broken the back. of enemy resistance and are destroying his shattered forces." The assault was made west of Gairopa, one of the three main segments of Japanese resistance in the Buna sector. "The attack was completely successful," an allied spokesman said. 'The enemy was divided into small groups which are be ing quickly reduced." Some Japanese were observed swimming, with the aid of life belts or logs, from the Gairopa area toward the government sta tion. Others evidently were try ing to escape by swimming from the government station west ward. The allied assault was opened behind an artillery barrage and tank screen which pulverized the enemy strong points. Operations of the past few days may be sumarized thus: 1. Early in the week an allied column drove a wedge through the government gardens, reach ing the beach between the mis sion and Gairopa. 2. A second column, attack ing from the air strip area, drove another corridor to the sea at Gairopa Point Friday, thereby dividing the Japanese forces into three segments. 3. The latest assault was launched frori the Gairopa cor ridor westward along the coast toward the first corridor. The infantry now mopping up in this area may be assumed to be two allied forces which short ly will establish contact, al though this has not been claimed as yet. WALLACES TALKS New York, Jan. 2 (U.R Wendell Willkle took Issue In directly today with Vice-Presi dent Wallace's recent speeches on post-war International co operation, asserting that peace aims were a "mere dream" un less they were developed by a "common council" while the war is being fought. "I have been quite deliber- tely prodding our official lead ers to discuss such questions," the 1940 Republican presidential candidate said at a victory rally at the Metropolitan opera house. "It is idle to talk," he contin ued, "about creating after the war is over a machinery for pre venting economic warfare and promoting peace between na tions, unless the parts of that machinery have been assembled under the unifying effort and common purpose of seeking to Triple Drive Threatens Rommel v KlTNi";v"'-i'"v",;"Jv'irv Wadi lei II Chcbir , kllicd Patrols ALGERIA S Mk LIBYA s ' if 6 AFRICA tU EQUATORIAL MILES PaSi AFR1CA l-V-a5 Jl ( VFT.LAMY A new threat to Nazi Marshal Erwln Rommel's battered Afrika Korps turned up when a communique from the long-unreported Fighting French force from Lake Chad indicated that the powerful mechanized unita wera only 450 miles south of Tripoli and striking northward. Meanwhile, an American column In Tunisia moved to cut oif Rommel's westward re treat by driving toward the Important port of Oabea. On the east, tba British Eighth Army continued to close In on Tripoli. COOS BAY BOMBER!! RAIDS BLAST CRASH CLAIMS 7; IVOR F San Francisco, Jan. 2 (U.R) Seven crew members of a big navy PBY patrol bomber which crashed into the ocean off Coos Bay, Ore., Thursday night were officially listed as missing to night by the navy. Ensign Roderick McLeod Brush, of Jacksonville, Fla., was the sole known survivor of the crash. He was found unconscious on a cliff along the Oregon coast, and taken to a hospital at Wald port. Ore., on serious condition. The navy listed as missing: Lieut. James E. Breeding, plane captain, McMinnville, Ore.; En sign Alvin L. Chamberlln 2nd pilot, Yakima, Wash.; Loyd Helming, AMML-C, Des Moines, Iowa; Howard Stanley Gordon, ARML-C, Hastings, Neb.; George Franklin O'Callaghan, ARM3-C, Tupelo, Miss.; Henry LeRoy Burtz, AMM3-C, Langlie, S. C; Newell Smith, SK2-C, Seattle, Wash. A widespread search for the missing fliers by ground parties and the coast guard will be con tinued, the navy said. Two life rafts and one life jacket were found on the beach where Brush was found, and the navy said it was possible other crewmen had reached shore. The plane crashed about 7:30 p. m. Thursday in heavy seas about a mile offshore. Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., announced to day that December s victory fund drive netted a record-breaking total of $12,906,000,000. His announcement coincided with disclosure in the treasury's daily statement that the United States ended 1942 with a fed eral public debt of $112,470,920, 266.79 exactly $48,108,785.- 114.37 more than at the close of 1941. "The $12,906,000,000 of bor rowing Is a reflection of the scale in which the war Is being carried to the enemy In our grow ing offensives," Morgenthau said. London, Jan. 2 U.R Allied air forces, maintaining their around the clock offensive against ports through which the axis Is striving to push reinforce ments and supplies into Tunisia, started fires among harbor" In stallations and railroad yards In another attack on Tunis yester day, allied headquarters nounced tonight. The axis sought to counter with an attack on the Algerian port of Bone, but allied fighters intercepted and turned back two waves of raiders, the communi que said. Four axis planes were destroyed and a number dam aged, while six allied planes ::Ued to return from all opera tions, It was added. The communique said there was nothing to report on ground activity In Tunisia, where con tinual rain continued to prevent large-scale operations by both sides. London Jan. 2 (U.R) A "fairly strong" force of Roysl Air Force bombers snd fighter- bombers swept northern France this, afternoon, raiding railway targets and ground troop con centrations. The air ministry said there were no RAF losses. New Delhi, Jan. 2 flJ.R) Allied air forces, paced by Amer ican units, are blasting Japanese installations and communica tions In a non-stop aerial offen sive spanning Burma, official re ports disclosed today. While Field Marshal Sir Archi bald P. Wavell's British Indian army Inched its way to within 23 miles of the western Burma port of Akyab, the principal objective of its offensive thrust, British and American planes de livered blistering attacks on widespread areas of the enemy held British colony. LIQUID DYNAMITE Belfast, Northern Ireland, Jan 2 (U.PJ Police magistrate John Campbell today urged American authorities to Investigate the bootleg sale to American sol diers of sn Irish brand of "fire water" which has the kick of a mule and provides a fortnight of headaches- ITS ON JAPAN PROPER Mikado And Tokyo War Lords Taunted By Pacific Commander. With the U. S. Fleet In the South Pacific, Dec. 31 (Delayed) (U.R) Admiral William J. Halsey, commander In chief of the U. S. naval forces In the southwest Pacific, today predicted complete victory for the United Nations over the Axis In 1943, and di rected this warning to Tokyo: "Hirohito, your time is short!" The fighting admiral, who won smashing naval victories over the Japanese In the Solomons campaign, promised the enemy that the distant rumbling of the 1943 Allied offensive will grow into a shriek of bursting bombs and falling shells upon Japan proper. "We have the initiative," the grim-jawed, gray-haired veteran pounded home in an interview. "Hirohito, your time Is short. "Admiral Yamamoto (com mander of the Jap fleet), you will be present at a dictated peace in the White House, but it will not be as you envisage. "To Tojo (Japanese war lord premier), when you. unleashed your attack on Pearl Harbor, you started something which will make you wish you. had died when you were a baby' Adm Halse declared. -", - - . 'To the Japanese 'people, you are hearing the distant rumbling now of the handwriting on the wall. This rumbling will grow into the shriek of bursting bombs and falling shells and clashing of swords on your own sou. Wearing no necktie, Adm. Halsey tore into his predictions for 1943; warning the Axis, "We are just starting now. We have the initiative and we won't stop at Rabaul." Rabaul, Japanese base on New Britain island, is under per sistent bombing by Allied planes and has been mentionel as the next step in the Allied south Pa cific offensive after the Japs are driven from New Guinea. Japs are getting harder and harder to find, the admiral com mented. CRUISER LOST FAR NORTH FRAY London, Jan. 2 (U.R) The story of a naval battle in Euro pean waters began to take form tonight as Germany admitted loss of an auxiliary cruiser and a destroyer, while Britain con ceded the sinking of a corvette. The German high command had issued a communique giv ing the first Axis version of naval battle which previously had been described vaguely by the British.' The Germans said the engage ment took place Thursday near Bear island, 319 miles south of Cape South, Spltzbergen, that it lasted several hours, and that German cruisers damaged several Allied cruisers snd de stroyers. The communique, broadcast by DNB, admitted loss of one destroyer and claimed destruc tion of one Allied destroyer. The British admiralty, which declined to comment on the German communique, previous ly had announced merely that a battle was underway and that considerable damage had been done to a German cruiser and destroyer. The latter was left In a sinking condition, the ad miralty said. The German high command said merely that the auxiliary cruiser was lost In an engage ment with a British cruiser of the 9,803-ton Devonshire type The high command said the auxiliary cruiser was of the Atlantis type, which Is not list ed In available shipping hand books, LOG JAM MENACES FLOOD CREST DUE Break In Oregon City Dam Serious Many Homeless In Springfield Area. Portland, Ore., Jan. 2 (U.R) Harbor crews rounded up hun dreds of logs above the Industry-thronged Portland harbor to day to avert a serious jam In the flood-swollen Willamette river. - More than a million feet of timber, officials estimated, rolled through a crack in a wing-dam at Oregon City, 14 miles above Portland, but nastily mobilized rivermen corralled the floating logs Into small clusters to keep them from jamming bridges and seawalls. Additional thousands of logs were reported by the coast guard to be rolling down the stream from points above Oregon City, but nq serious log jams were re ported yet. Meanwhile, residents of Eu gene, In the southern Willam ette valley, began returning to their homes tonight as the river dropped to 12.2 feet, only a lit tle above flood stage. However, In the West Springfield area. hundreds were still homeless be cause of bad sanitary conditions. Red Cross disaster relief com mittees were completing arrange ments to care for the homeless. Th flood crest of about 21 feet is expected to reach Portland early tomorrow morning, but the harbor seawall, erected some years ago after a previous flood could withstand a top level of 29 feet. Another death from the floods was reported today, making the toll seven. The latest victim was John Heffner, a farmer on a small Island nar Corvallls, who was drowned when his rowboat over turned after he had removed his wife and children to safety. Portland's war Industries were not disrupted as yet by the high waters except for the sub-chaser yards of the Alblna Engine and Machine Works, where 300 weld ers were barred from their jobs by high water in the ways of the plant. (By Untied Press) The Ohio river left many thousands homeless in its wake and caused damage estimated at $2,500,000 to cities on Its banks as the crest swept through Ports mouth. Thousands of refugees up stream from Portsmouth re turned to their homes but other thousands downstream evacuated lowlands -as the flood crest of about 62 feet moved toward Cin cinnati. The Ohio visited destruction on the valleys of West Virginia, Indiana, Kentucky and threat ened southern Illinois. CONGRESS AWAITS E T Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) Representatives and senators were drifting back to the capital tonight for the opening of a new congress expected to claim more direct share in the formula tion of war policy. The 78th congress whose pre decessor wound up its business Dec. 16 after a flurry of fili busters had made further legis lative progress Impossible faces the problems of the new year with democratic majorities In both houses cut to their lowest point since President Roosevelt entered the White House In 1933. Mr. Roosevelt Is expected to deliver his annual message on the state of the Union to con gress on Thursday and on the following day will send up budget message expected to call for expenditures in the neighbor hood of $100,000,000,000 In the 1944 fiscal year which begins July L ii i War Bulletins La Lines, Spain. Jan. t (U.R) The British aircraft carrier Formidable, two battle ships and several other war ships steamed out of Gibraltar tonight, presumably bound for a Mediterranean destination. The battleships ware the Nelson and Rodney. In addi tion there were several Brit ish destroyers and cruisers and two French warships. Heavy air activity continued day and night on the Rock. Re cent landinga included a num ber of Boeing Flying Fort resses. Allied North African Head man dive bombers, escorted quarters, Jan. 2 (U.R) Gar by Focke-Wldf-lSOs. attacked Bone Harbor. Important Al lied Algerian supply port, yes terday morning despite stiff opposition from British Spit fires. 11 waa disclosed today. Two additional groups oi Gorman planes attempted to raid Bone In the afternoon, but were Intercepted by Allied aircraft before they could reach their target. Three Focke-WulMSOa and a Junk-ert-87 were destroyed by the defending plana and other war damaged. OF SOVIET LINE Reds Near Latvian Frontier Substantial Gain Near Stalingrad Much Booty. Moscow, Sunday, Jan. S (U.R) Soviet troops forged ahead west of Velikle Lukl today, driv ing the Germans back toward the Latvian frontier, while other red army units pressed forward In the Caucasus, around Stalingrad and along the middle Don. The Russian midnight com. munlque reported that Soviet troops dislodged German forces from a fortified position west of Valikie Lukl, destroying five enemy tanks and killing 160 axis soldiers. Front dispatches Indi cated, meanwhile, that the Rus sians had advanced 24 miles to Novosokolnikovi, only 60 miles from the Latvian frontier. Substantial gains were reoort- ed south snd southwest of Stalin grad and In the northern Cau casus, southeast-of Nalchik. Red army units captured the district center of Elkhotovo, 35 miles southeast of Nalchik and 10 miles due north of Alagir. Elkhotovo is sn important town on the Rostov-Baku railroad and its capture represented another sizeable gain for the Russians, South and southwest of Stalin grad, Soviet troops drove ahead, occupying several inhebited lo- allties, among them Dubovs- koye and the railway station at Remontnaya, the midnight com munique said. The capture of the rail station at Remontnaya rep resented a new advance south westward from Kotelhikovski. the chief German base southwest of Stalingrad, which fell to the Russians last week. Remontnaya Is 26 miles southwest of Kotel- nlkovski on the Stalingrad-Tik horetsk railroad. "In the fighting for Dubovs koye snd the railway station at Remontnaya," the communique said, "large booty was captured, among which are many tanks artillery, food stores, war mater ial and cattle." ARMY FEARS CONGRESS Washington, Jan. 2 (U.R) The army has become seriously concerned over the possibility that congress may take from it control of procurement and pro duction of planes, weapons and other war material and hand It over to some civilian authorlaty. Adolf Shuffles Diplomats (By United Press) Adolf 'Hitler has reshuffled three important diplomatic posts, naming men considered closer to the Nazi party as am bassadors to Spain and Japan and minister to Sweden, the Ber lin radio announced tonight. , F State Department White Book Reveals Diplomatio Secrets Know Jap Plans Washington, Jan. 2 (UR The United States had ample ad vance warning of all moves of aggression by the Axis powers in their program of world con quest, the state department re vealed tonight In a white book dealing with secret and open diplomacy of the decade preced ing Pearl Harbor. Information from diplomatic agents aboard accurately fore cast the war policies of Japan, ' Germany, and Italy, even to th warning of a surprise mass Qt. tack upon Pearl Harbor, it dis closed. - The publication, entitled "Peace and War", placed th blame for the war squarely upon in axis powers. It said that while this government's lnfor m a 1 1 o n convinced President Roosevelt and Secretary of Stat CordeU HuU that an ultimata attack upon th United States was inevitable, public opinion her lagged behind in an attfe tude of "illusory aloofness." The stars of America's keen diplomatic reporting were Jo eph c. Grew from Tokyo. George 8. Messersmlth from Berlin and Breckinridge Lons from Rome. - Grew, th U. 8. ambassador In Japan, kept- the department fully Informed of the dangers Inherent in Japan's ambitions for Asiatic domination. On Jan uary 27, 1941, he told the de partment of reports from many sources that Japanese military forces planned a surprise mass attack on Pearl Harbor in case of "trouble" with the United States. As far back as December 27. 1939, Grew said it would bo 'criminally shortsighted to dis card from calculations the possi bility of war with Japan. On November 3, 1941, h turned of Japanese prepara tions for measures which might make Inevitable a war with the United States. Two weeks later three weeks before Pearl Har bor Grew cabled from Tokyo that the Japanese probably would resort to surprise meas ures. Messersmlth. now U. S. am bassador to Mexico, was consul general In Berlin on June 20. 1933, when. In a letter to th department, he reported a "dan. gerous situation in Germany. On November 23, 1933, Mes sersmlth said leaders of Ger many had no desire for peace unless it was a peace In com pliance with German ambitions. Breckenridge Long, then U. S. ambassador to Italy, predict, ed Italy's 1933 attack n Ethiopia more than a year In advance. When it beccme apparent in early 1940 that Italy was plan ning to join Germany as an active war partner, Mr. Roose velt made numerous efforts to dissuade Mussolini. Finally, on June 1, Mussolini confirmed Italy's decision to enter the war and said he preferred not to receive any "further pressure from the President The white book related de tail, of the diDlomatlc discus sions with Japan prior to Pearl Harbor. It showed that Japan was deliberately plotting war while making protestations of peace. LOOSE LIPS AID U-BOAT SINKING Washington. Jan. 2 (U.R) The Office of War Information, cautioning against disclosure or war secrets, tonight told how th captain of a U-boat taunted an American crew before he sunk their ship. "Your ship Is several hours be hind schedule," the Nazi jeered, u And OWI said the crew knew It was true. "He knew their orders!" OWI said. - ' ' defeat the enemy."
