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Let YOUR KnMmmi Te Bomb B- bOMDSI Bur War Bona aa BUmpa TOIlAV toatrlbule u Iha arar allort at rear aattae) ralrlot. Ism. tomt arti-aratertloe. Srnianea Ibal fOU aa fan art NOSH Dm Th MAIL TKIBDHB Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Coat Medford RIBUWE United Prat Full Leased Win "nlted Pn Full Leased Win Thirty-seventh Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 1943 NO. 251 News Behind The News by Paul Mallon Washington, Jan. 9 Solid Fuellit Harold Ickes announced everyona ihould convert to coal, even though there is a mi nor ihortage in New England. People are Just refusing to do so because it ia an inconven ience," he as serted. Well, Washington is not New Eng land, so I de cided to try it again. Six Paul Malloa months ago no furnaces or grates were available. Today my oil dealer, who also handles coal and furnaces, said: . "Fine. 1 have just the fur nace for you. It will cost $200." ' Now $200 is something more than an inconvenience to me, but not as much inconvenience as my inability to get oil her. Adequate oil coupons,' or oil deliveries now at a time wheu the government daily announces (erroneously) plenty of oil is available. a a a I HAD finally obtained 300 gal lons shortly af .er my furnace went out last night. The air Tl-i frnm fhp tank to tha burner thus became locked with air and I had to call my furnace repair man. But I finally got the furnace going again today and went to aee the dealer about conversion, carying my fuel oil coupons with me to pay up for oil used so far this winter, the same having been allotted to me un der the complicated formula of Leon Henderson's bright young men, who proved themselves to be such damned fools that they figured only the floor space of every house instead of the cubic footaga (heating space to the ceiling) in making oil alloca- ' tlons. - a a a TIE dealer took half my cou pons, saying I had already used them so far this winter. As the winter has hardly begun In this section, I could see I can't get through on oil. So I decided to suffer the $200 Inconvenience, on Mr. Ickes' advice, and told the dealer I would order the furnace. He aid: "Well. $200 is the price with out installation, and I can't tell you when I could get it in stalled, because we have no help." "But If I once get It installed can I get all the coal I want?" I asked. (Continued on Pge Pour) CLOSE TO AKYAB, New Delhi, Jan. 9 01.0 Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wa vell's troops, aided by powerful air support, have penetrated the Japanese defenses of Burma to within 25 miles of the key port of Akyab on the Bay of Bengal, a communique reported today. Resuming the offensive first launched in mid-December, Wa vell's forces now are in contact with the enemy on both sides of the Mayu river on the Mayu peninsula and in the vicinity of Rathedaung, about 60 miles from the Indian border, the communique said. "Occasional encounters have taken place during the past few days," it said. Wavell's communique and one issued by Lieut Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's American headquar ters in China reported Allied air attacks on widely-separated points throughout Japanese-held Burma. No enemy interception was reported at any of the points raided. North American B-25 Mitchell bombers escorted by fighters yesterday bombed explosives on warehouses and strafed enemy positions at Bahmo on the Burma-Yunnan (China) border, starting large fires and causing a big explosion, Stilwell said. His communique also report ed P-40 fighter-plane attacks on Japanese installations at Mag shin on the Yunnan border, where several hundred gasoline drums were destroyed, and ion the Irrlwaddy river, where two barges were strafed with undetermined results. WAVELL'S TROOPS DEADLOCK LOOMS OVER PRESIDENCY OF STATE.SENATE Caucus Called Tonight To End Tie M'Allister Slat ed As House Speaker. Salem, Ore., Jan. 9 (U.R) The Oregon legislature, faced with a session geared to the tempo and tune of the national war program, may go into its open ing session here Monday morn ing with the issue of the presi dency of the senate still in doubt. Assertedly split, 15-15, on pledged votes tor the seat which carries with it the honors and responsibilities of the lieutenant governorship, Senators Dorothy McCullough Lee of Portland and W. H. Steiwer of Fossil will cross swords in the first bout Sunday night at a pre-session caucus called by Sen. Dean H. Walker, retiring president, but the bat tie may last through the caucus and onto the floor of the senate, Sen. Steiwer reportedly would rather see the election cut and dried in the caucus, while his feminine opponent is said to fa vor delaying the showdown un til the formal ballot in the sen ate Monday. In either case, darkhorse candidate may . slip tnrougn the rut and into the cov eted seat. Reports that the three pro tem senators are pledged 2-1 in fa vor of Steiwer have raised a rumor that their qualification may be an issue in the election. No weight has been given, how ever, to any contention that these wartime appointees differ in status from the 13 other newly-elected senators whose qualifications must be Judged be fore the senate holds its election. Overshadowed by the senate fireworks, the house of repre sentatives is slated to run quick ly through the formality of nam ing i William H. McAllister of Medford aa speaker and await organization of the senate to that the two houses can convene in joint session for Governor Charles Sprague's report and the inauguration of Earl Snell as his successor. The Inauguration cere mony is scheduled for about 2 p. m. . . For his part, Sprague has in dicated that his final address as governor will be confined large ly to a review of his administra tion and the state's place in the war effort, leaving the field of legislative recommendations to Snell. Following Incoming Governor Snell s - inaugural address, the two houses will be ready to plunge into the study of finances and legislation. Both are likely to be colored to a great extent by the change from peace to war since the lawmakers last met. War prosperity has resulted in a surplus of over $11,000,000 in income tax revenues, which may attract efforts to enlarge appro priations or reduce taxes, or which again may figure strongly in plans for the time when the state changes back to a peace time economy. The war also brought with it restrictions and shortages of materials and labor, together with threats of de cline in various sources of reve nue such as liquor and gasoline taxes, and an opposing trend toward higher costs. Mingled with war-borne prob lems will be other measuresold age pensions, milk control, re organization of the state tax structure, sales tax, modernize tion of the state hospital and improvements at the state peni tentiary. TRAIL OF BLOOD LEADS TO ARREST San Francisco, Jan. 9 (U.R) Police tonight held John Coch ran, 20-year-old merchant ma rine seaman, in connection with the attempted rape of a blonde army nurse in her room at Fort Mason. He was trailed to his ship by blood dripping from his hand after he was hurt in leaping from a second-story window. Officer Mervyn Chtolno aald the nurse was asleep in her room i.t the army military reservation wh' . she was awakened by the youth. She screamed, and the in", uder Jumped from the win dow, cutting his hand. When police discovered blood beneath the window, they followed the trail to Cochran snip. - Admiral Nimitz I i "V" -' V'- , V- ; ; ' , " .: v:.:-' '4 - -- J (Acmt Radio-TtUphotot For successful accomplishment of a dangerous mission in enemy con trolled waters. Lieutenant Chester W. Nlmlts Jr, right, submarine execu tive officer, receives the Silver Star Medal from his father. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander-ln-chle! of the U. S. Pacific Fleet. The ceremonj took Dlaca at Pearl Harbor SEEK PROBE FOR JAP CAMPS FOOD, L 'Washington, Jan. 9 (U.R) Reports that scarce foodstuffs were made available in plenty to Japanese-American war relo cation camps in the far west, while, resident of surrounding areas were' subject to strict ra tioning, brought congressional demands tonight for investiga tion of various phases of the re location program. Rep. F. Leroy Johnson, R., Cal., said he had received "nu merous reports and rumors" that huge shipments of scarce foods including - eggs, butter, sugar, coffee and meats were fur nished the camps. Residents of nearby areas had difficulty in obtaining their allotted amounts under the rationing program, ac cording to the reports. Johnson introduced a resolu tion calling for an investigation of these reports, and of the al legedly "elaborate system of ed ucation" contemplated for the relocation projects. YANKEE SUB WITH DECK GUN New London, Conn., Jan. 9 (U.R) The American submar ine was cruising on the surface "at the very doorstep of Japan" when a big enemy merchant vessel loomed directly ahead. The crew, witness to the Jap anese treachery at Pearl Harbor, "was a blood-thirsty lot," and the captain apparently had neither the time nor the inclination to submerge. He turned to his gun pointer and said: "Hit the bridge with the frst shell." The gun pointer, Ensign Sam uel E. Clark, of Birmingham, Ala., turned hi sights on a per fect target dead ahead a big red rising sun painted on the bridge and the submarine's deck gun went off. Two more shells slammed into the Japanese craft. She caught fire and then went down. . That was the story told by En sign Clark today at this submar ine base, the story of the first United States submarine, to pa trol boldly off Tokyo's harbor, and the first undersea boat to ink an enemy with its deck gun. This was only the-beginning, for Clark's sub went on to claim six of seven other enemy ihips during on-the-surface engage ments. Several more enemy craft are listed in it log as sunk by torpedoes. . A submarine need 250,000 pound of lead for storage bat teries and 200.000 pounds for batteries, altogether as much as goes into the storage batteries of 8,200 automobiles. Honors Son CONGRESS PLANS CLOSE SCRUTINY OF ALL SPENDING Washington, Jan. 9 (U.R) An economy minded congress to night awaited a presidential budget message expected to call for spending in one year more than two-thirds of the total gov ernmentar outlay during the en tire 10 year of the Roosevelt administration. In his annual budget message to congress on Monday, Presi dent Roosevelt is expected to pro pose spending about $100,000,- 000,000 during the 12 months from July 1 1943, to June 30, 1944. That would be only $42,000,- 000,000 less than the total federal spending since Mr. Roosevelt en tered the White House in March. 1933. But Democrats and Repub licans in both houses of congress have announced plans to give every item, regardless of size, the closest scrutiny. Members of the house appro priations committee have an nounced that every item will have to be Justified by "compe tent persons. "Congress must recapture and hold the purse strings," is the at titude of Sen. Gerald P. Nye. R, N. D., ranking minority member of the senate appropriations com mittee. Not only will congress be con cerned over the dollar-for-dotlar need in new appropriation re quests, but some members ex pect to demand specific infor mation on the spending of funds previously appropriated. Some members want to know more about the lend-lease pro gram. Some question the need for continuing such depression-born agencies as the National Youth Administration. Washington, Jan. 9 (U.R) A heated fight appeared to be brewing tonight among Repub lican members of the house over whether Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, newly-elected Republican congresswoman from Connecti cut, should be given a seat on the house foreign affairs com mittee. The controversy apparently is part of the lntra-party row between isolationist and sup porter of Wende.l I,. Villkie in hi efforts to force the G. O. P. to abandon its traditional isola tionism. Mrs. Luce, attractive wife of Publisher Henry Luce, is regarded as a Willkielte and had his support in last Novem ber's elections. The fight also Involves the effort of Rep. Hamilton Fish., R., N. Y- to force his minority colleagues to adhere to an old rule limiting each Republican member of the house to rank ing t membership on only one commute. CLARE .BOOTH IS CENTER GOP. ROW ERROL FLYNN TO DENY STORIES OF TEEN-AGE GIRLS Film Star Goes On Trial To morrow "Shakedown" Try Hinted. : Hollywood, Jan. 9 (UJ9 Er rol Flynn, swashbuckler of the movie heroics, will testify In his own defense and deny the stories of two teen-age girl that he at tacked them, on one occasion without removing his shoes, his attorney announced tonight. Flynn goes on trial Monday on three counts of statutory rape in the film city most sensational case since Actress Mary As tor's lurid diary was read into court records in 1936. Betty Hansen, 17, screenstruck Nebraska school girl, testified at Flynn's preliminary hearing that she permitted Flynn to undress her, remove all his own clothing except his footwear, and then become intimate with her in an upstaid bedroom at a gay Hol lywood party. Peggy Larue Satterlee, 17, Hollywood dancer, asserted at the hearing that Flynn invited her to view the moon from porthole of his palatial yacht, the Sirocco, during a trip to Cherry Cove at Catalina island She added that she submitted twice to his advance after he pushed her upon the stateroom bunk below the porthole. "When the defense gets it In ning, Flynn will take the stand in a complete and frank personal defense," Attorney Jerry Giesler, one of the west's outstanding criminal lawyers, revealed. "We are planning to develop all the facts and all particulars In this case to the utmost. And that includes the motives of all parties concerned, every angle and every detail that has any bearing." The handsome film "actor ha steadfastly, maintained his in- nocense and appealed to hi world-wide screen audience to withhold Judgment. Flynn re turned a week ago from a va cation in Mexico during which he saw much of Ann Sheridan, curvesome film beauty. The defense was expected to develop statements of Peter Stackpole, photographer for Life and Time magazines, who took pictures of Flynn and Miss Sat terlee aboard the star's yacht. His testimony at Flynn's hearing last November hinted at possi bility of a "shakedown" attempt, Eugene, Ore.. Jan. 9 (U.R) L. C. Stoll, Oregon area direc tor for the war manpower com mission, today predicted the ap proach of a general "leveling off" of the record employment at Portland shipyards. Speaking before the annual meeting of the CJ.O. State In dustrial Union council, Stoll told delegates that April 1 had been forecast as the date on which the leveling off process would be manifested. He said facts and figure would be released shortly to substantiate his prediction. Stoll waa optimistic over la bor prospects in agriculture. "I think the agricultural sit uation will be better," he said. "I realize it is a broad statement and that I'm out on a limb, though," he added. NEW BOMBING DRILL Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 9 (U.R) Realistic maneuvers combining tear cas. smoke bombs, camou flaged sniper, "flour" bomb from airplane, and hand-to- hand combat were inaugurated today at McClellan field as a new training method for the maintenance men who "keep 'em flying" for Uncle Sam on the war front. AGITATOR ARRAIGNED Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 9 (U.R) George Deatherage, one time head of the Anti-Semitic KnighU of the Whit Camellia, today was arraigned and releas ed under bond on federal charg I of conspiring to damage the mor ale of the armed forces. With the American Forces In New Guinea, Jan. 9 (U.R) American doughboys place the Garand rifle at the top of a list of "seven wonders" that brought success in the allied campaign gain t Buna. PRP ,M STARTS Ull 1 Ration Stamps Are To Be Cleared Through Nation's Banks Is Compulsory. Washington, Jan. 9 (U.R) The Office of Price Administra tion tonight announced detail of its new ration banking program under which coupon taken in by itorekeeper and other sellers of rationed commodities will flow back to primary suppliers through the nation 15,000 com mercial banks. Operation of the program which will begin on a nation wide basis Jan. 27 parallel that of the ordinary checking ac count. The public is not directly affected since the program starts where public buying of rationed commodities leaves off. Its pur pose is to simplify clearance of ration "paper" through the many necessary steps. Afrjr the public has turned in ration stamps and certificates to storekeepers and coupons to gasoline dealers, they will be cleared through the banks in stead of through local rationing boards. Consumers will continue to get their stamps, coupons, and certificates from the boards, however. Those for whom ration bank ing becomes compulsory Jan 27 are: 1. Retailers of rationed foods whose December, 1942, sales of all food merchandise totaled $5,000 or more. (Other food re tailers may open ration bank ac counts if they wish.) 2. Chain stores. 3. Food wholesalers and other food distributors below the re tail level. 4. Gasoline wholesalers and other distributors of gasoline ex cept retailers. (Fuel oil is ex cepted from the, plan. .tor th present.) JOBS FOR ALL IS PRESIDENT'S PLAN Washington, Jan. 9 (U.R) Jobs for all rather than social security will receive the major emphasis when and If President Roosevelt presents to congress a blueprint for post-war planning, it was learned tonight. A concrete plan already has been submitted to Mr. Roosevelt, but thus far its drafters have been unable to persuade him to place it before the public. This plan is radically different from the still-undisclosed "American Beveridge report" drawn by the National Resources Planning Board, which the "Jobs-for-aU" group believes is Inadequate and unworkable. It was said that the president thus far has made no decision on whether the new plan should be submitted to congress for con sideration, or whether a differ ent course the mere presenta tion of a basis for discussion would be followed, y In the latter event, it would be up to congress to dig in, devel op the plan from scratch and enact implementing legislation. Social security, it was said, will not be overlooked. The post-war program would be ex tended to cover virtually every person. GAS CARDS LOOMS Washington, Jan. 9 (U.R) Price and Ration Administrator Leon Henderson held out hopes today to more than 7,500,000 Eastern motorist that the value of their rationing coupon will not be further reduced in the near future, and pledged contin ued opposition to proposals that "A" books be eliminated. He took this stand at a press conference during which he also: Endorsed an OPA-prepared plan calling for the Investment of billions of dollar In consum ers goods during the war, for de livery in post-war years. Declared that coffee supplies are adequate to meet rationed de War Bulletins Maw York. Jan. I (U.R) Gutav Siegfried Eina, the clandestine radio station un derstood to be operated by dissident Germans, said to night that Gen. Kurt Zaitslar waa abaut to be dismissed by Adolf Hitler as chief of staff of the German high com mand. Hitler was said to bo disap point ad in the results Zeltaler was achieving on the Russian front. He has held tha post alnce Hitler, following his "military intuition" discharg ed Gen. Fran Haider as chief of staff. With the United State Army Air Forces in China. Jan. (D 1 a 7 d) U.R American bombers, stabbing again at key Japanese supply bases In Burma, rained de struction today on a mile-long barracks and warehouse area at the Burma-Yunnan border town of Bhamo. AT. Results Of Aleutian "Soft ening Up" Attack Not Ob served, Navy Says. By Alton B. Parker Washington, Jan. 9 (U.R) American airmen on Thursday continued their relentless pound ing at Japanese Installations on both ends of the Pacific battle line the Solomons and the Aleu tians the navy revealed today, They bombed "enemy posi tions" at Kiska In the Aleutian but were unable to observe re sults; bombed 'enemy areas" and shot down two Japanese Zero fighter plane at Bougainville Island, about 800 mile north west of Guadalcanal, and started big fires and damaged two float type enemy planes at Rekata bay, 135 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. U. S. warplane operating from Guadalcanal and Alaskan fields have been hammering at the enemy, wherever his instal lations are within reach, almost daily for some time. In the Aleutian, they appear to be trying to "soften up" the Japanese for a final effort to oust them from the area. In the Solomons, the raids apparently are also designed to help bomb' ers from Gen. Douglas MacAr thur'i southwest Pacific com mand In their effort to break up the huge shipping concentration which the Japanese are reported to be collecting at Rabaul and nearby bases. The Thursday raid on Kiska waa carried out by four-englned Consolidated "Liberator" bomb ers. They "dropped bombs on enemy positions at Kiska," the navy said, "but results were not observed." SENT TO CYPRUS London, Jan. 9 (U.R) United States air force units have been transferred from Syria to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, which Turkish official believe will become an important war theatre next spring, the German news agency JNB reported to day in a broadcast heard by the United Press. BULLETIN The Medford high school bas ketball team lost to Roseburg 27 to 28 in a hard fought and thrilling game at Roseburg last night. The Tornado was ahead 26 to 25, with less than 30 seconds to play. A desperation heave, with the ball in the air when the final gun sounded, whiffed through the basket. Friday night Medford was de feated 32 to 31. In the game Saturday night, Fawcett waa high man with eight points. Both teams play hard and fast ball. The teams were evenly matched. It was the first time in the memory of the oldest fan that two games In a row were lost by one point. Grants Pass defeated Ashland 24 to 27 Friday night at Ash- JAP AIR LOSSES IN NEW GUINEA Transports Sunk Off Lae Trap Sanananda Force Papuan Drive Ends. Genera MacArthur'a Head quarters, Sunday, Jan. 10 (U.R) The three-day battle between Allied planes and a Japanese convoy, which had heavy fight er plane coverage, haa ended off Lae in victory for the Allied forces which drove off the con voy's remnant after it had landed some troops, supplies and equipment, today' commu nique reported. Two more Japanese trans port were hit, the communique announced, and 39 Japanese fighter plane were shot down, in addition to the 73 previously reported shot down or dam aged, during the third 24-hour period of the battle between Friday and Saturday afternoons. The convoy consisted of two cruisers, four destroyers and six transport. Out of these, three transports were sunk and three received direct hit. Incessant dog fight over th. convoy resulted in a total of 77 Japanese fighters being de stroyed, while Allied losses were comparatively negligible. Gen. MacArthur'a Headquar ters, Australia, Sunday, Jan. 10 (U.R) Direct bomb hit were scored on two more Japanese transport off Lae, New Guinea, Saturday, a communique aald today. With the dawn, 39 more Jap fighter planes were shot down and four destroyed on the ground. Seventeen other Japan ese planea were "probably de stroyed." A spokesman said, "The en emy's air losses during the past days in this area may be regard ed aa serlou.".. - At Sanananda, New Guinea,' the allies were Increasing pres sure on tha Japanese ground force trapped there. Text of today' communique: Northeastern lector. N w Guinea Huon Gulf The convoy which attempted to reinforce the enemy garrison at.' Lae was Joined by two additional merchant vessels. Our air force of all categories continuously at tacked throughout tha day and night. One transport received six direct hits and was left burning. Another transport waa hit fore, aft and amidships and was beached. Gen. MacArthur'a Headquatv ten, Australia, Jan. 9 (U.R) Allied air forces gave warning today that they are ready to blast any attempt to reinforce sorely-pressed Japanese troops lit New Guinea. Allied planes attacked crippled transport, two cruisers and four destroyer at Lae on Huon Gulf after a three-day bat tle against a Japanese convoy In which American and Australian airmen had sunk three transports and either destroyed or damaged 73 enemy planes. Allied losses were reported to be relatively small. Gen. MacArthur returned to his Australian headquarters af ter personally directing the Papuan campaign in which all but one small Japanese center of Japanese resistance t h a t at Sanananda Point wer mopped up in the Buna sector. "The dead of Bataan should rest a little easier tonight," he said. NANKING PUPPET Tokyo, Jan. 9 (Japanese Broadcast Recorded by U.P. at New York) The Nanking gov ernment of China, pledging co operation with Japan toward es tablishment of "a new order In greater east Asia on an ethical basis," declared war on th United States and Britain yester day, the Japanese new agency Domel reported tonight. (At New York, the office of war information said the de claration wa made by Wang Ching-Wel, whom it described a "the Chinese Quisling who haa been cooperating fully with the Japanese since they set him up as head of the puppet Nanking government in the occupied part of China.") (Wang recently visited Tokyo, OWI saidj
