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NO. 247
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by Paul Mallon
. Washington, Jan. 5 A highly
placed British authority expects
the German war front to collapse
ind bring
oeace to Eu
rope by April.
Another Brit
ish official,
whose opinion
Is less to be re
spected than
the first au
thority, has
more definite
ly marked Eas
ter, April 25.
on his calendar
as the ultimate
rani Malloa
day to which Hitler can hold out.
Both of these opinions are only
personal guesses but well-made
guesses.
- They are not necessarily based
on any specific knowledge of
events to come, but rather rep
resent superior judgment on the
prospects which all can see
namely, the pressure of the Rus
sian winter campaign, plus the
closing Anglo-American strangle
hold on Italy, and intensified
bombing of the continent (if not
a new front in northern Europe)
should break the war-will of the
German army.
Japan is another matter,
matter of at least a year or more,
CONGRESSMEN who have
been trotting In and out of
the White House lately have
talked vaguely of postwar plan
ning, and there is a report among
the topmost politicians that Mr.
Roosevelt has a definite formula
prepared 'ahaready.'
Indeed, this report Is what
caused Mr. Hoover to speak out,
a few days back, in favor of a
long armistice to allow war
wrath to cool before any definite
peace move Is attempted. Mr.
Hoover did not say so, but what
he means by "a long ccoling-off
period" Is a term of many years.
at least ten.
In some public statements
since the war started, Mr. Roose
velt it supposed to haver Intimat
ed, or directly said, he would fa
vor a long armistice period ' of
perhaps a year.
But no one around the White
House can recollect the exact oc
casion, and possibly it was an
off-the-record observation drop
ped at a press conference. At
(Continued on Page Pour)
Chicago, Jan. S (U.RX Major
league baseball clubs today
agreed to hold their spring
training close to home and
adopted a 154-game schedule
for the 1943 season.
The majors have played a
154-game schedule annually
since 1920.
The season will open Wednes
day, April 21, and close Sunday,
October 3. Under the original
schedule drafted at the Decem
ber meetings of the major
leagues, the season was to have
opened April 13 and closed Sep
tember 20.
COUNTY ENJOYS RECORD
CASH ON HAND BALANCE
Jackson county closed 1942
with the largest cash balance on
hand in Its history, $1,114,
483.26, according to the report
of County Treasurer Ralph E.
Sweeney. This was due to more
than 80 per cent of the current
taxes being paid. Taxes are de
ductible from 1942 income taxes
if paid before January 1.
SIDE GLANCES
Br
TRIBUNE REPORTER
Doris Murdock, Grace Madi
gan and Eve Prentice displaying
their ability at baking ginger
bread. Police Chief Clatus McCredit
and Traffic Officer Walt Rein
king hard at work placing 1943
license sticker on the 'police
ear),.
ALLIES FEEL OUT
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March to Sea Between
Tunis and Bizerte Believed
. Planned Nazis Retreat.
London, Jan. 5 (U.R) Signs
of Impending big-scale fighting
in Tuniria increased today.
Allied North African head
quarters announced that ar
mored forces had reconnoitered
in force around Medjez-El-Bab,
27 miles southwest of Tunis,
without meeting effective enemy
opposition.
This might indicate that the
Allies were feeling out enemy
positions before making a quick
stab to the sea between Tunis
and Bizerte.
Nails Retreat
The Germans attacked around
Fondouk-El-Aouared, 59 miles
southwest of the port of Housse,
met a stinging defeat and were
retreating.
Gen. Henri Honore Giraud's
headquarters announced that the
Germans attacked Sunday with
20 to 30 tanks. For a time the sit
uation was precarious, the enemy
having surrounded Allied de
fenses.
Then French forces, American
fighter planes and bombers and
tank destroyer forces presum
ably the heavy guns mounted on
tractor treads that had spread
havoc among the Afrika Korps
armored forces in Egypt and Lib
yasmashed into the Axis tanks.
-- Bnamy Losses Heavy.
The ' enemy's losses were
heavy. Gen. Glraud reported.
They were retreating and the Al-
lied situation was considered
safe.
"The enemy left 10 large tanks
destroyed by our air force and
anti-tank guns on the battle
field," Radio Algiers said today,
quoting French headquarters..
A dispatch from a United Press
staff correspondent with the Al
lied armies in Tunisia said that
a few days of blazing sun had
baked a thin crust on the thick
mud, but It was not yet strong
enough to stand the maneuver
ing of 30-ton tanks in a full
fledged battle.
SPRAGUE CLEANS
SLATE FOR 8NELL
Salem, Ore., Jan. 5 (U.R)
Gov. Charles A. Sprague, who
will be succeeded at the head
of the state government next
Monday by Earl Snell, today an
nounced that he had dissolved
the state defense advisory coun
cil and other similar organiza
tions to give the new governor
a clean slate to start on.
Governor Sprague also dis
solved the state advisory coun
cil of the employment service,
the agriculture committee of the
employment service and the Ore
gon economic council, which has
funtioned in place of a state
planning board in carrying on
industrial and economic research
in behalf of the goveror.
Carole Landis and
Air Fighter Marry
London, Jan. 5 (U.R) Carole
Landis, film actress, was married
at the Church of Assumption to
day to Capt. Thomas C. Wallace,
a United States fighter command
pilot from Pasadena, Cal.
Mitzl Mayfair, American danc
er, who, with Miss Landis, has
been entertaining American sol
diers in England, was brides
maid. The guests included Act
resses Kay Francis, Bebe Daniels
and Martha Raye.
Beefsteak Rare In
S. F. Butcher Shops
San Francisco, Jan. 5. (U.R)
There was scarcely a retail beef
steak for sal" today on the main
street of San Francisco, the
west coast's second largest city.
There were' filets of steelhead
trout, pompano, fresh crab,
prawns, a few chickens and tur
keys, an occasional gob of ham
burger and sausage but practi
cally co pork chops or veal cutlet.
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Rood waten from the rarlzif WUlametta River swirl around the Hawle Pulp A Paper Oo Oregon City, dur
Inf the height ot the recent western Oregon floods. Coast Guardsmen and soldiers aided other agencies in
evacuation and care of lainiliea.
E
Gen. MacArthur's Headquar
ters, Australia, Jan. 6 (U.R)
United States and Australian
troops have wiped out the last
Japanese resistance in the Buna
area of Northern New Guinea
by smashing a small enemy poc
ket inland from the captured
area, reports from the front said
today.
About 50 Japanese bodies
rere found in the pocket area.
Mopping up parties combed
the cocoanut groves for possible
stragglers isolated from the
force which defended the pocket
to the death.
Washington, Jan. 5 (U.R)
The navy announced today that
U. S. forces on Guadalcanal have
gained new ground positions
and killed 170 more Japanese.
American air forces operating
from Henderson Field also have
executed another series of air
attacks on the Munda area, in
the New Georgia group ot the
Solomons. Near Munda the
enemy has established a new air
base.
Double Bad Luck
For Bingo Player
Pntprnnn. N. J.. Jan. 5 (U.R)
Mrs. Veronica Dersch, 39, had
not fared well at a bingo game
and was gloomily walking nome.
A little man, holding one hand
in his overcoat pocket as if he
had a gun, tried to rob her. She
hit him one terrific blow in the
face, he sailed backard, picked
himself up and fled. But he did
not fare worse than Mrs. Dersch.
She broke her wrist
Qualified Salesmen
Promised Gasoline
Washington, Jan. S (UJ!)
The Office of Price administra
tion announced today that quali
fied salesmen-except in the" In
state eastern shortage area will
be supplied with gasoline rations
sufficient to enable them to
drive up to 65 per cent of their
last year's mileage or 8,600 miles
a year, whichever is less.
ELLSWORTH ANNOUNCES
EXAMS FOR ACADEMIES
Washington, Jan. 5 (U.R)
Rep. Harris Ellsworth. R-, Ore.,
announced today that prelim
inary qualifying examinations
for the U. S. military and naval
academies will be held January
23 at the post office building in
Eugene, Medford, Marshfield,
and Roseburg, towns in the
fourth congressional district of
Oregon. Ellsworth said candi
dates must notify him at his
offices here In the house office
building by January 12, giving
date of their birth.
BLOCKADE RUNNER SUNK
London, Jan. 8 (U.R) A large
German vessel attempting to run
the blockade with a heavy cargo
of war materials for Germany
has been intercepted and sunk
by British patrols In the Atlantic,
the admiralty and air ministry
announced today.
Floods Sweep Through Western
Willamette
Revealing
Portland, Ore., Jan. 8 (U.R)
a sleeping giant that a week ago
western Oregon in a torrent of
day, signalling the' end of the region s worst flood in half a century.
In the wake of the roaring
flood were the reminders of the
raging heights it reached a toll
of ten persons dead or missing
and untqld millions in property
damage. --'
Weather -observers predicted
the river would continue to re
cede to normal' with no further
damage. .
Although 'the stream still
flowed above flood stage at many
points through the fertile Wil
lamette valley, ' transportation
services were operating general
ly 'on' schedule over regular
routes.
The river first burst from Its
banks a week ago near Eugene,
not far from where the McKen
zle and other upper valley tribu
taries converge. Thousands of
panic-stricken persons were hur
riedly evacuated by boat as the
waters swirled past their homes.
With a toll of ten victims, it
appeared unlikely there would
be additional casualties directly
attributable to the flood. Health
authorities, however, .moved
swiftly to take precautionary
measures against - possible epi
demics stemming from contam
inated water in the upriver
areas
Germany Has Less Food Now Than at Start
Of Fourth Winter of Previous World War
On the German Frontier, Jan.
5 (U.R) If the Germans could
buy the things that are displayed
in shop windows, they would be
well fed and warmly clothed.
But in too many cases there is
nothing on the shelves to cor
respond with the window dress
ing. Persons who have been in
side Germany report that there
is less food to be purchased in
the Reich .now than there was
at the beginning ot the fourth
winter of World War I.
"The windows of the big
shops are stocked with an as
sortment of good things," said
a Belgian who had escaped after
traveling across Germany, "but
they cannot be purchased with
out a permit. Inside the same
shops there is practically noth
ing for sale except plaited straw
articles and small glass trink
ets." VITAMINS B AND UT
There is a Joke in Berlin to
the effect that in addition to
ration cards two things are need
ed to buy food Vitamins B and
UT. Vitamin B stands for
"bezlehunger" to have a drag
or influence. Vitamin UT means
"unter demtlsch" trading un
der the counter.
There is still a black market
In Germany where delicacies
caa be purchased If one has the
Oregon
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Flood Ebbs
Heavy Loss
The turbulent Willamette river.
rose to sweep wildly through
destruction, slowly subsided to
TRAINS DELAYED
- BY FLOOD WATER
With the ebb of flood water
between Oregon City and Park
Place Portland-Medford South
ern Pacific trains service show
ed signs of improving today,
officials of the line said. Mon
day's train due to arrive at 8
a. m. did not arrive until after
9 o'clock in the evening. To
day's train was due to arrive
shortly after noon.
Greyhound busses, unable to
get through at all the middle of
last week, have been running on
schedule so far this week, the
dispatcher's office reported.
BIG BILL EDWARDS
New York, Jan. 5 (U.R) Wil
liam H. (Big Bill) Edwards, 66,
former Princeton football star,
died today in Post Graduate hos
pital, where he underwent an op
eration last night. Edwards, who
had conducted an insurance
business for many years, was
prominent in New York city po
litical life and sports circles.
money, but the supplies have
dwindled and prices are fan
tastic. Coffee costs $35 a pound;
butter, 18 a pound; a bottle of
cognac, $20. Only high party
officials, diplomats and a few
foreigners are able to meet such
high prices.
German rations were cut
heavily in April, 1942, but the
amount of food called for by a
ration card has almost lost its
meaning. There isn't enough
food to fill the ration require
ments. The Nazis are having difficul
ty meeting demands even for
potatoes and vegetables. Per
sons recently in Germany re
ported it was not enough to
present your potato and vege
table card, which entitles you
to as much as "available," but
that it was much more import
ant to make friends with the
shop keeper. Otherwise he prob
ably would tell you: "Sorry, I'm
all sold out."
RICH EAT OUT
A Swedish woman who re
cently came from Germany told
the United Press it was weeks
before she had become suffi
ciently friendly with a shop
keeper to get vegetables. If you
are rich enough, you do not
bother the grocer and butcher,
but eat In a restaurant where
Ford Strikers Ordered to Work
REDS THREATEN
TO SPLIT ENEMY
Determined Axis Counter
attacks Beaten Back
Nazis Face Annihilation.
Moscow, Jan. 5 (U.R) Rus
sian forces driving through
the Caucasus have captured
Nalchik and Prokhladnanskl.
important German defense
points west of Mosdok, a spe
cial Soviet communique an
nounced tonight.
By United Press
Russian forces battered the
Germans in the Caucasus today,
beat back determined Axis
counterattacks and threatened to
split the enemy forces guarding
the road to Rostov.
There were indications that
two powerful Russian armies
soon might converge for a can-
Stockholm, Jan. 4 (Da
layed) (U.R Neutrol observ
ers in close contact with Ber
lin expressed belief today that
the Germans were beginning a
gigantic withdrawal . which
would take them entirely out
of the north Caucasus in Rus
sia. They said a considerable
proportion of the German
Caucasus army already had
retired behind the lower Don.
certed drive on Rostov, the gate
way to the Caucasus. The army
driving through the Kalmyk
public was reported less than 150
miles from another Soviet force
moving up from Mozdok, which
the Russians captured last Sun
day.
German forces in the snowy
mountains near Nalchik faced
annihilation as the two strong
Soviet forces moved closer to
gether.
In London, Labor Minister Er
nest Bevin predicted that Adolf
Hitler soon would be faced with
the greatest disaster of the war
as a result of the smashing Rus
sian offensives on four fronts.
Chicago. Jan. 5 (U.R) At
tendance at the winter national
furniture and home furnishings
market broke all records on the
opening day despite a boycott
by Defense Transportation Di
rector Joseph Eastman, the Mar
ket Daily reported today.
you can get at least the amount
of meat about three-quarters of
a pound per week to which
you are entitled.
But. the woman added, you
must arrive early or you will
not find a place all restau
rants are overcrowded or the
meat dishes will have been ex
hausted. The Nazis, under Reichsmar-
shal Herman Goering's cynical
slogan that "whatever happens
elsewhere (In occupied Europe)
Germans will not starve," have
exerted themselves to maintain
the food front at a subsistence
level. For morale, at Christmas
they announced a few extra ra
tions, including seven ounces of
meat, small additional allotments
ot vegetables, bread, flour and
margarine and two ounces of
ersatz coffee made from grain
or tea made from dried apple
leaves.
The big treat was an allot
ment of a half-bottle of German
brandy for each adult to go with
reduced quantities of watery,
weak beer. War workers were
granted an extra ration of cheap
wine.
FEED MANY ALIENS
The Reich Is trying to feed be
tween 7,000,000 and 8,000.000
foreign workers and war prison
ers working en farms. It also U
War Bulletins
London. Jan. 25 (U.R) Brit.
Ish bombers attacked Ger
many's industrial Ruhr valley
last night for the second suc
cessive night and despite in
tense anti-aircraft fire only
two planes were lost.
Returning pilots said they
saw the glow of fires through
thick clouds hanging low ever
the targets after the bombs
had been dropped,
Washington. Jan. 8 (U.R)
The Japanese are using two
new fighters over China thai
are superior to the Zero type.
Mai. David L. "Tax" Hill re
vealed at a press conference
today. He formerly was a mem
ber of the American volunteer
group and later was with the
U. S. army air forces in China.
Washington, Jan. 6 (U.R)
Admiral Emory S. Land, chair
man of the maritime commis
sion, predicted today that the
original merchant ship-building
goal of 16,000,000 tons set for
1943 will be surpassed if steel
and other required materials are
made available. 1
I-Land made this forecast at
press conference in which Ad
miral Howard L. Vickery, com
mission vice chairman, partici
pated. Vickery said the War Produc
tion board's new controlled ma
terials plan has been the best
thing thus far done in an ef
fort to relieve the steel shortage
Land said 746 victory fleet
vessels were delivered Into serv
ice in 1942 of which 542 were
liberty ships, 62 tankers, 62
long-range standard C types, 65
cargo ships for the British, five
oastal freighters, five ore car
riers and 15 special types.
These deliveries, he said,
broke every world record for
merchant ship construction.
Land said that Oregon Ship
building corporation at Portland
led the nation in ship produc
tion with a total of 113 vessels
In 1942.
MILK PRICES RISE
Reno Nev., Jan. 5 (U.PJ In
creased milk prices, both whole
sale and retail, were authorized
for 19 Nevada cities and towns
acting as a clearing house for
food supplies for almost all Eu
rope, prompting claims that Ger
many actually is feeding the
equivalent of 17,000,000 to 18,
000,000 more persons than be
fore the war.
Germany must be extremely
frugal with virtually every item
of food, except salt, but the
greatest and most persistent
shortages Include milk, fish and
fresh vegetables. Consequently
newspapers frequently praise
small children who scour fields
and woods in organized parties
tor weeds which can be used as
wartime vegetables.
Nazi propaganda makes much
of the food producing potentiali
ties of conquered areas, particu
larly the Ukraine, and Ger
many's future success in main
taining current rations will de
pend on how well she can ex
ploit these territories.
'The fuehrer is relieving us
from the . choking , dearth of
space," Herbert Backe, minister
for food and agriculture, said in
a speech at Poznan (Posei1, Po
land, in November, "but it will
be a permanent blessing only If
It Is tilled with Germans."
The accuracy of this statement
was indicated by a traveller's
report that up to December only
a single tralnload of wheat had
arrived in Berlin from the prom
ised land. Tha train was covered
T
Estimated 15,000 Workers
Idle by Action of River
Rouge Plant Employes,
Detroit. Jan. 5 (U.R) Strik
ing employes at the River
Rough plant of the Ford Mo
tor Co. began returning to
work late today in response to
orders from Local 600 of the
United Automobile Workers
(CIO).
Detroit, Jan. 5. U.R) Strlk.
ing employes at the vast River
Rouge plant of the Ford Motor
Co. were ordered to return to
work immediately today by
local 600 of the United Automo
bile Workers (CIO).
A statement issued by local
President Paul Ste. Marie, ap
proved unanimously by tha
union's executive board, de
scribed as unauthorized th
strike which left idle an esti
mated 15,000 workers on three)
shifts.
"No grievances will be eon
sldered or negotiated by local
union representative until all
men are back at work," Ste.
Marie said. "In view of tha
war situation and the urgent
necessity of maintaining con
tinuous war production it la Im
perative that the ROugiie plant
resume operations without fur
ther delay." -
The strike, which threatened
to shut down the entire plant,
started lata yesterday when
maintenance employes In sev
eral units walked out to protest
company action in reorganizing;
maintenance crews.
Alameda, Cal., Jan. 8 (U.R)
Thirty-four CIO machinists, who
said they had not worked since
last Wednesday, failed to report
to their jobs at the General En
gineering 4c Dry dock company
today in what was described aa
a dispute over union fines and
suspension of four leader-men.
The work stoppage followed
by 24 hours President Roosevelt's
order to San Francisco bay area
shipyard union leaders demand,
ing that they maintain uninter
rupted production here.
San Diego, Cal., Jan. 8 (U.PJ
John Alexander McPhee, Cin
clnnatl Reds' second baseman in
the first world series in 1882,
died here yesterday. He was 83.
with posters proclaiming that
"your soldiers send you this
food," but comparatively few
Germans could buy any of tbia
"soldiers' gift." Most of it went
to Nazi officials, military leader
and diplomats.
HEALTH SUFFERING
Nevertheless the Germans are)
not starving, although they are
far worse off than the British,
An ordinary meal at a better
class restaurant in Berlin or Mu
nich, costing about six marks)
($2.20 at the official rate ot ex
change), consists of thin soup
and the choice of two standard
dishes, a potato and cabbage
stew, or a small hamburger ot
less than two ounces of steak.
There Is no reliable compr.
henslve information available
here on what has happened to
the health of the German people
under their reduced diet, but th
welfare of babies and mothers is
known to be inferior to the pic
ture painted in official reports.
"Cases of scrofula and other
signs of undernourishment and
unsuitable feeding are becoming
Increasingly frequent," a med
ical visitor to Germany reported
after arriving In a neutral coun
try. It also is known that the de
crease in diet has reduced tha
people's energy, lowered their
resistance and made them U
creasing ly Irritable.