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News Behind
The News
by Paul Mallon
' Washington, Jan. 12 It is
4fme we faced the full facts of
What has happened to us in
4 Tunisia.
Two months
ago (Novem
ber 8) we went
in there with
a light force.
The size of our
force shows
we expected a
quick and easy
victory. A
Nazi delaying
action was all
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rani Malloa we had cause
ito anticipate.
Aitt TTItler MteA in male
. fight for Africa. He withdrew
C crack veteran troops and his
planes from more important
places, even Russia, In order to
' make stand. He stopped us.
"f While mud and long com
. municatlon lines are given as
.the official reasons for our lack
of Immediate success, and were
mentioned oy tne president,
these can furnish only secondary'
excuses. Our generals knew in
: advance the rainy season was
' at hand. The plain fact Is we
. were unexpectedly stopped by
V superior Nazi concentration.
This rainy season will con-
tlnue until the last of January
i or the first week of February,
'i if it follows the normal weather
line. The promised big offensive
' sugge3iea vy uic j-itrsiueufc, gun
i not come before then.
i There is every reason to ex
t pect, however, that it will com
j plete the victory, which Hitler
1 denied us at the start.
Fl He had about 40,000 troops In
VJ Tunisia and another 60,000 in
I Rommel's army down in Tripoli
I when a fairly accurate estimate
was obtained few days back.
He will have a few more by the
end of January.
But we should have accumu
lated enough by then to assert
superiority.
- His plane concentrations in
Tunisia have so far counted no
higher than 200 to 250, most of
which are fighters. Counting all
he has in Sardinia, Sicily and a
few more he has lately rushed
to Rommel, or whoever is now
in charge of the Nazi army in
Tripoli, he has no more than
600 in all that area. We can top
that. Perhaps we have done so
already.
a a a
DISPATCHES refer to "the
fighting line" In Tunisia.
(Continued on Page Four)
Last of Big Four
Physicians Passes
Baltimore, Jan. 12 (U.R)
Dr. Howard A. Kelly, last of
the four great physicians who
made John Hopkins a world
famed medical school, died here
early today. He would have
been 85 years old Jan. 20.
Dr. Kelly joined the staff of
John Hopkins in 1889 and re
tired as professor-emeritus, in
gynecology in 1919.
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE
PINCH COMING LATER
Cincinnati, O., Jan. 12 (U.R)
The National League of Whole
sale Fresh Fruits and Vegetable
Distributors reported today that
the current crop of citrus fruits
was the largest in history and
that the supplies of fruits and
vegetables should remain at the
present level for several months.
. League members here In con
vention warned, however, that
scarcities could be expected later
in vegetables and fruits. ....
SIDE GLANCES
TRIBUNE REPORTER
Edith Nichols and Neva Sam
ueli saying they knew some
side glances but they were mill'
tary secrets.
Marl Prochnow braving the
weather and dropping back to
her old haunts to visit with
friends.
. An anonymous communication
seeping Into the office and the
office "FB-eye" seeing the fine
hand of Sally BuUer In it.
34 ROLL CALLS
FAIL TO BREAK
PRESIDENCY TIE
Sprague Continues to Hold
Office as Solons Stymie
Inauguration of Earl Snell
By Arthur Bramar
United Press Staff Correspondent
Salem, Ore., Jan. 12 (U.R)
The Oregon senate recessed at
noon today with the presidency
race still deadlocked but with
signs that a break in the situa
tion was imminent.
Indication that the senators
were wearying of casting tie bal
lots for Sen. Dorothy McCul-
lough Lee and Sen. W. H. Stei
wer arose Just before noon when
Sen. Steiwer, at the conclusion
of a long recess, arose and .of
fered to withdraw his candidacy
if Sen. Lee would do likewise.
Sen. Lee, Asserting that she
could not take such action with
out first consulting her support
ers, asked for a recess until 1:30
p. m., but the motion lost, 14-16,
in the roll call, Chairman Stray
er adding his vote to the Steiwer
forces' "nos." Sen. Lee's motion
for a 10-minute recess also lost,
but the noon recess finally was
voted after Sen. William Walsh
of Marshfield, a Lee supporter,
asked the intermission to allow
both forces to appoint commit
tees to meet over the matter.
Thirty-four roll-call ballots
had been cast on the presidency
of the senate up to the noon re
cess. . .
Salem, Ore., Jan. 12 (U.R)
The battle for the presidency of
the Oregon senate went into its
second day today while for the
first time in Oregon history a
retiring governor, Charles A
Spragiie, continued to hold of
fice as the Inauguration of his
successor. Earl Snell, was held
up by a legislative deadlock.
The 15-15 tie vote between
Sen. Dorothy McCullough Lee
of Portland and Sen. W. H. Stei
wer of Fossil survived 28 bal
lots yesterday, including four
roll-calls at an extra session
which recessed at 9:30 p m. with
both camps holding on stubborn
ly but without visible signs of
temper. .
Drawing Proposed
Two attempts to dissolve the
deadlock yesterday were unsuc
cessful. The first, at the after'
noon session shortly after the
scheduled time for Snell's in
auguration, was proposed by
Sen. W. A. Strayer, dean of the
senate and temporary chairman.
who suggested that the senate
agree on a compromise president
who would resign after the in
auguration to allow the two prin
cipal candidates to continue their
contest. The .plan fell through
when Strayer himself refused
the nomination to serve In what
he termed the role of a "stooge.1
The other ripple in the monot
ony of repeated roll-calls was an
unsuccessful attempt to have the
race, decided by lot, which, it
was pointed out. Is the method
provided by law for deciding
tie votes in primary elections in
Oregon.
Sen. W. E. Burke of Yamhill
county, one of the Lee support
ers, first suggested the draw,
and after a long recess Sen. Lee
herself echoed the proposal, ex
pressing willingness to submit
her candidacy to chance. Both
candidates previously had re
leased all pledges, Steiwer after
the 12th roll-call and Mrs. Lee
after the 14th.
REV. t H. EATON
TAKEN BY DEATH
The Rev. W. H. Eaton, retired
Baptist minister, died this morn
ing at the family home on
Route 1 after a brief illness.
Rev. Eaton, who for many years
wss pastor of the Medford Bap
tist church, was 75 years of age.
He is survived by his wife
and a son, Myron, who is in
the army. The body is at Perl's
Funeral Home and funeral ar
rangements will be announced
later. "
Jaywalker's Dream Realized in Eastern Gas Ban
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Acmt TmUphott
It used to be the busiest crossroads in the world, Times Square, but now it's Just a barren stretch of pave
ment over which pedestrians may wander as they have often dreamed. Reason for all this Is the Federal baa
on pleasure driving. Only aabs, trucks and other "essential" vehicle may go out on the road.
Roosevelt Calls Upon
For Unprecedented
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R) President Roosevelt, calling on
farmers for unprecedented production this year, said today
that food already sent to the people of North Africa Is saving
the energies and the lives of American troops there.
TIRE INSPECTION
DEADLINE
TO END OF
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)
The Office of Price Administra
tion, acting to minimize incon
venience to motorists today re
vised the tire inspection pro
gram. The deadline for the first In
spection for holders of "A" gas
oline ration books was extended
to the end of March from Jan.
31. Subsequent examinations
for this group will be held once
every six months instead of
once every four months.
Motorists with "B" or "C"
or bulk coupons for fleets of
trucks will be required to un
dergo their first tire inspections
by the end of February under
the new plan Instead of Jan.
31. Subsequent inspections for
"B" book holders will be held
once every four months and for
"C" and bulk' coupon holders
once every three months.
Formerly "B" and "C' cards
were required to have tire ex
aminations every two months.
Deputy Administrator Paul
M. O'Leary in charge of ration
ing urged motorists not to wait
for deadlines to have their tires
inspected.
"You will help yourself by
waiting in line by having your
tire inspected in the middle of
the periods," he said.
S. F. DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, Jan. 12 (U.R)
Dairy market: Butter, cheese,
eggs unchanged.
Legion Chief Opposes Planning
For World Utopia at War's End
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)
Roane Waring, the new national
commander - of the American
Legion, was on record today as
opposing several of the war aims
recently expressed by adminis
tration spokesmen.
He believes that the war ef
fort will be weakened by "vain
and premature planning for a
new and never to be attained
world Utopia," and that the
umiea siaies is not iignung
either to preserve the British
Commonwealth of Nations or to
restore freedom to the oppressed
people of Europe.
"We of the American Legion,"
he told government military
leaders and committee members
of the Legion at a meeting here
last night, "are more interested
to win pints of nitroglycerin
that go into bombs than in
quarts of milk for the rest of
the world."
That statement was an obvi
ous reference to Vice President
Henry A. Wallace's speech last
spring in which be said that on
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"Food Is a weapon In total
war1 fully as important in its
way as guns or planes or tanks."
The President said in a state
ment read by Stabilization Di
rector James F. Byrnes on a
special radio program marking
Farm Mobilization Day.
Food Earns Friends
- Mr. Roosevelt told farmers
that the United States is using
food' to earn the friendship -of
Inhabitants of liberated areas
and "as promise and an en
couragement to peoples who are
not yet free."
"Already, in North Africa, the
food we are sending the inhab
itants is saving the energies and
the lives of our troops there,"
his message said. "In short we
are using food, both in this coun
try and in allied countries, with
the single aim of helping to win
this -war."
The record crop produced last
year by American farmers was
among the major victories of the
United Nations in 1942, the
President said.
"Free people everywhere can
be grateful to the farm families
who made that victory possible,"
Mr. Roosevelt added, calling on
these same families for even
greater production in 1R43.
"This year, as never before,"
he said, "the entire nation is
looking to its farmers. Many
quarters of the free world are
looking to them too. I
know that once more the farm
ers will rise to their responsibil
ity. COLLEGE USE URGED
Olivet, Mich., Jan. 12 (UB
Dr. Robert G. Ramsay, dean of
students at Olivet college, pro
posed to Manpower Director Paul
V. McNutt today that the na
tion's smaller colleges be used
by the federal government for
Te-educatlon of wounded serv
icemen. of the objectives of this war
should be to obtain for everyone
in the world the opportunity of
drinking a quart of milk a day.
Waring Insisted that the main
emphasis now must be on mak
ing war.
"Absolute military victory, a
dictated peace and never a ne
gotiated peace should be our
single resolve In meeting the
challenge of the hour," he said.
"Our objective U to kill, to
destroy, to wipe out the Axis
government from the face of the
earth ...
"We (the American Legion)
are more interested in armor for
tanks than in silk linings for
Eskimo coat.
"We are interested In a rope
with which to hang Mussolini
and a straitjacket for Hitler,
more than in starched collars
and shorts and fancy pants for
people of the rest of the world.
"This war must be won with
bullets, with guns, with tanks
and planes and ships. It cannot
be won with hybrid corn and
social reforms."
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Farmers
Production
EVERY FARMER IN
PRODUCTION DRIVE
IS COUNTY PLAN
Following a meeting to in
struct supervisors, to be held ini.
the courthouse auditorium to
morrow, a drive to enlist every
Jackson county farmer in - the
1943 production program will be
started. Every farm in the coun
ty will be visited and a detailed
survey made to make sure that
each - farm la equipped for pro
duction of essential foods to its
full capacity. This drive will be
under the supervision of the
Jackson County War Board, John
Niedermeyer, chairman. .
Meetings have been arranged
In every Grange In the county
to give information as to what
Is required of each farmer pre
liminary to the farm survey
which will continue until each
farmer is contacted. The super
visor will help each farmer work
out a plan which will enable his
farm to contribute a maximum
of the essential commodities
needed to win the war. This will
be an Inventory of the farm's
production resources.
Objectives Listed
This drive, which follows Farm
Mobilization Day, Is not to gather
statistics entirely, but to carry
out the five following objec
tives: (1) Developing a 1943 pro
duction plan for every farm in
line with the war goals accepted
as this county's share of the
minimum amounts of food need
ed during the coming year. (2)
(Continued on Pag Blcht)
ALL CORN PRICES
Fl
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)
The Office of Price Administra
tion today froze corn prices on
all exchanges and in every cash
and local market over the coun
try generally at the highest lev
els at which sales were made
yesterday.
The action, which was de
signed to halt further sharp price
advances, was taken upon in
structions from Stabilization Di
rector James F. Byrnes and was
approved by Secretary of Agri
culture Claude R. Wickard.
Corn America's largest farm
crop was previously uncon
trolled at all levels of distribu
tlon, OPA pointed out.
RENO DIVORCE
Reno, Nev., Jan. 12 (U.R)
Mrs. Gladys Greenan, former
wife of Lewis Luckenback, of
the steamship family, has been
granted a divorce here from
James Owen Greenan, promi
nent In Nevada and California
mining circles. The Greenan's
married in Reno, March 14,
1941, and bad one child.
Laval Agrees to Surrender
Part of Fleet to Germany
MUSICIANS' CZAR
WILL LIFT BAN IF
ROOSEVELT ASKS
Petrillo Says Union Will Re
sume Recording Making
If Requested by F. R. .
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.RV
President James C. Petrillo of
the American Federation of Mu
sicians said today that he would
lift a union ban on recordings if
President Roosevelt should re
quest it after hearing all the
facts in the case.
Petrillo, whose 138,000 union
members have not played for
recordings or transcriptions since
last August 1, told a senate- in
vestigating committee today:
"After an explanation to the
President of the United States,
if he decides to stop the ban and
says records shall be made
again for the duration of the
war, I say tha request will be
granted.
Otherwise, he said, union
members will not play for re
cordings until the broadcasting
companies, record manufactuih
ers, and Juke box manufacturers
sit down with union representa
tives and work out an agree
ment to give musicians more
work and a larger share in the
proceeds of the industry.
So far, Petrillo said, industry
representatives have made no
overtures to him to work out
such a settlement.
"I'll tell you why these peo
ple won't come to see me" he
said. They're counting on the
government to take care of us
and to tie us up in the courts.
This Is big business."
"You've got a pretty big busi
ness y o u r s e 1 f," Committee
Chairman D. Worth Clark, D
Ida., commented.
U. S. PLANES DOWN
4 ZERO FIGHTERS
TILT
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)
U. S. planes in an air battle in
the Solomons shot down four
Japanese Zero fighters, bringing
enemy aircraft losses In the
Solomons campaign to 80, the
navy announced today.
The action took place yester
day (island time) between Santa
Isabel and New Georgia islands
northwest of Guadalcanal when
12 Zeros attacked a force of
Douglas Dauntless dive bombers
escorted by Grumman Wildcat
fighters.
In addition to the four Zeros
shot down, two others were "pos
sibly destroyed," the navy said.
One Wildcat fighter failed to re
turn.
A force of fighter escorted
Martin medium bombers at
tacked Japanese positions at
Munda on New Georgia the
same day, the navy said, but
clouds prevented accurate bomb
ing and made observation of re
sults difficult.
RADIO COMMENTATOR
ADMITS FALSE CLAIM
San Francisco, Jan. 12 (U.R)
Arthur Linkletter, radio com
mentator, pleaded guilty today
to an Indictment charging him
with false claims to citizenship.
WATER PROMISED
Boise, Ida., Jan. 12 (U.R) A
water shortage next summer for
Irrigated farms of the Pacific
northwest appeared out of the
question today with a report that
the greatest snow cover in seven
years lies on watersheds of the
treat Columbia river basin.
War Bulletin, I
London, Jan. 12 (U.R) Ex
change telegraph quoted Radio
Morocco today as saying that
British Eighth army tanks had
started aa attack against Axis
positions at Wadl Zem Zam,
165 miles southeast of Tripoli.
London, Jan. 1 2 (U.R)
Gen. Kurt Dletmar, one of
Germany's leading military
critics, admitted today that
Russians had broken through.
German lines in depth on the1
southern front, that the situ
ation was becoming serious,
and that every man possible
must be sent to the front.
London Jan. 12 (U.R)
Brltiih bombers last night at
tacked objectives in Ger
many's industrial Ruhr re
gion, aha air ministry an
nounced today. Only one
plane failed to return.
YANKEE BOMBERS
RESUME ATTACKS
ON NAPLES PORT
' By United Frees)--
American heavy bombers from
the middle east raided Naples
again, renewing the air cam
paign against- the chief Italian
embarkation point for Axis re
inforcements and supplies des
tined for Tunisia, it was dis
closed today.
It was the year's first raid
on Naples, following a lapse
since mid-December, when the
port was raided four times by
Allied bombers, including Amer
ican. . Observers believed . the
resumption of the attack indi
cated that the Axis was achiev
ing too great success in getting
its men and materials through
Italy to Africa.
The air war continued at high
pitch in Africa. Flying bombing
Fortresses roared across the Tu
nisian border into Trlpolitania,
bombing the Axis stronghold at
Ghadames oasis. Other Allied
planes raided Gabes and shot
down three Axis transports off
the Tunisian coast.
The Russians maintained the
pace of their Caucasus offensive,
starting a drive toward Armavir
and Voroshllovsk, northwest of
the Georgievsk rail center which
they captured yesterday, by 13
miles up the Caucasus railroad.
. Another Russian pincer was
menacing Salsk, a key Axis-held
point 100 miles southeast of
Rostov, the major objective of
the entire Caucasus campaign.
FLYNN'S ACCUSER
CHANGES HAIR DO
Hollywood, Jan. 12 U.R)
Errol Flynn, debonaire film
star, faced the second session
of his statutory rape trial in
a crowded superior courtroom
here today and in a Jocular
fashion took note of the fact
that one of his girl accusers had
changed her hair style.
"What, no pigtails?" the -actor
commented to newspapermen
when he noted that brunette
Peggy Larue Satterlee, a dancer,
wore her hair in ringlets.
As the second day of the trial
started, prosecution attorneys re
sumed routine questioning of
prospective Jurors who will de
cide Flynn's fate on three
charges of statutory rape.
KATE SMITH SUFFERING
FROM GALL BLADDER ILL
New York, Jan. 12 (U.R)
Kate Smith, radio singer, was
seriously ill with a gall bladder
ailment at her home today. Her
manager, Ted Collins, was pre
paring to take over her radio
shows for the present.
FRANHF TO SFNI1
1IIWH W Vasal lasF
IS ALSO AGREED
1
Pact Signed at Berchtesga-
den Gives Vlchy Leader
Increased Powers
London. Jan. 12 (U.R) Pierra
Laval, chief of the Vlchy gov-;
ernment, has agreed to stirrer,
der to Adolf Hitler five destroy
ers and two tugs, remnants of
the French fleet scuttled at I
Toulon, a fighting French1
spokesman said today.
The spokesman said the sur
render of the French fleet unite
was embodied in a 10-point
agreement concerning Franca
signed by Laval and Hitler last
month at Berchtesgaden.
Fighting French headquarters
received the gist of the 10-point
agreement reached by Laval.
Hitler and Count Galeazzo
Ciano, Italian foreign minister,
in their meeting at Berchtesga
den. The points were: -
1. ' Laval was assured that his
would be the last French gov.1
ernment with whlcM HUlar
wtjuld -negotiate. The Figl-lmg)
French spokesman pointed out
that this was a rebuff for Jae
ques Dorlot, Laval's chief poll
tlcal rival.
2. Laval was granted Increas
ed administrative powers and
direct control of the police in
formerly unoccupied France.
3. Hitler abandoned the plan
to form a French army on a
compulsory basis to fight
against the United Nations with
axis forces.
4. French-Italian negotiation
will be conducted under Hitler's
arbitration. It was suggested
here that such negotiations
would concern Italian demands
for Corsica - and other French,
territory after the war and tha
extent of Italian control over
occupied France.
8. Five French destroyers and
two tugs will be given to Ger
many. 8. France will send 400,000
workers to Germany.
7. French industry, finance
and agriculture will be placed
under complete German con
trol.
8. The departments of Nord
and Pas de Calais will not be
restored to the French state.
The spokesman said they would
remain in "the forbidden zones"
under German military admin
istratlon.
9. The old demarcation link
between the former occupied
and unoccupied zones of France
will not be abolished.
10. No definite agreement
was reached on the proposal to
return the French government
from Vlchy to Paris.
HUMORIST GUITERMAN
DIES OF HEART ILL1
Pittsburgh, Jan. 12 (U.R) Ar
thur Guiterman, 71, internation
ally famous humorous poet, play
wright and lecturer, died in
Presbyterian hospital here last
night from a heart attack.
Guiterman was stricken on tha
street yesterday while en route
to a lecture engagement at the
Twentieth Century club.
Guiterman for more than BO
years was a well-known figure
In American letters.
UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY
By Unitad Press
Field Marshal Hermann Goer
ing, German air chief and eco
nomic dictator, and Alfred Ro
senberg, Nazi party ideologist,
two of Adolf Hitler's most ruth
less sides, were SO years old to
day. TOLLS PROTESTED
Washington, Jan. 12 (U.R)
Secretary of War Henry L.
Stlmson has protested proposed
charging of tolls for government
vehicles crossing the Golden
Gate bridge at San Francisco, it
was disclosed today. '