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Let YOUR Answer Te Bomb Be bOMDSI Buy War Bonds tad Stamps TOliAV lunlrlbult la Iha war ffort of tuar aallna. Patriot. Liu. your iwa arlf-protsrttoa. demands that VOU da your part NOWI Um The MAIL TBIBUHB Want Ad Way Quick Results At Small Cat FORD RIBUNE United Press rvl -I Win MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1943 NO. 255 o o) MEB i -a n T . Onltdd Press Full LMMd WU i ! Thirty-seventh Year. 4 !---, - .- : . Kelly's Comment Fiera Washington, D. C Additional Spud Production Urged Reclamation Coin Prospects Bright Spinner Maker's Copper Wanted t Joha W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Jan. 14 N. E. Dodd, formerly of eastern Oregon and the only official of Triple A who knows and under stands the problems of the Pa- jtlfli nnrtViuro.t wants an nrlril. tional 100,000 acres planted to. nettea gem poiaioes, a similar acreage to long staple cotton and still more acreage for soybeans. jWThe nights are. either too cool or 9JTAhm Brnwintf aeason la too short t for soybeans or cotton in Wash Ulgion or uregon, our puiavues are right up the alley of these two states. It is predicted by Triple A that sometime In the future northern California and eastern Oregon and Washington will be the principal potato growing areas in the United States. The land east of the Cascade moun tains is mostly volcanic ash. Ideal for spuds, and the famous ntt nom trarlntv thri VP from Klamath basin north through this land of extinct volcanic e 4in tr VoUimn vallev and be yond. In this particular area is the place wnere somn iu 100,000 acres can be planted. In the western part of Washington and Oregon the potatoes carry more water and are not as good, being more like the Maine po- itato. . I At Beltsville, dozen mirea n. th. national caoital. there are 2000 acres under glass where government scientists are graft ing tomatoes on potato plants, these belonging to the same family. The scientists are seek ing to find a stronger fiber for tomatoes grown west of the Cas cades. They explain that on the west side the tomatoes keel over and spoil while tomatoes grown east of the mountains are red and grow on strong stems. Mr. Dodd Is striving for an . fnnrl in 1943. He cites the potatoes, cotton and soybeans as nigniy impurim. ... addition to these Items the de-...-.., nffrlmiHure is anx- ious to develop the frozen food field. Dried and frozen xooas are tn niav n potential role during the war, both for the civilian population and tne armea lorcea well as the lend-lease pro- tran Thorn la no delav in grant ing priorities tor estaDiisnmenia which have the necessary back-n-Aiind nH wish to hecin nack- ing of frozen vegetables this sea son, one sucn piani nas rrecu approved for a northwest sec tion where Japanese gardeners raised vegetables until they were removed to tne interior. . IT has been the intended pol- (Continued on Page Pour) CABLE CONCERN CITED . ON DEFECTIVE SUPPLY Washington, Jan. 14 U.B Attorney General Francis Biddle today announced that a federal grand Jury at Providence, R. I. has returned an indictment charging that the Anaconda Wire fta,& Cable Co. of Pawtucket, R. I., tjf lold defective wire and cable for combat use to the U. S. army sig nal corps and the British war ministry. This was the second Indict ment returned against the com pany. SIDE GLANCES By TRIBUNE REPORTER Gladys York going "buy buy' with one of those little shopping Daskets on wheels. Jack Garrett bragging to Jeal ous Brother orchardlsts that his labor problems are all solved with the arrival of an 8 14-pound son yesterday. Sarah Tolle and a group of friends going to Camp White to teacn me soldiers square danc ing and remaining to learn bow to jitterbug 3,000 JAPS SLAIN ' n IN BIGGEST FIGHT ' L A C'"j LAST SIX MONTHS .W Jy Battle For Sinyang Now Sixty Hours Old Result May Decide Japs' Fate, By Karl Eskdlund (United Press Correspondent) Chungking, Jan. 14. (U.R Chinese troops, checking a major enemy campaign In the Honan-Anhwel-Hupeh border triangle, have killed at least 3,000 Jap anese in the heaviest fighting in occupied China pf the last six months, a military spokesman said today. Advancing Chinese and Jap anese columns, supported by ar tillery, converged on the Sin yang In southern Honan pro vince and turned the city into a "sea of flames' during a fierce battle still reported rag ing today, the spokesman said. Battle 60 Hour The battle within Sinyang, al ready nearly 60 hours old, found the Chinese clinging tenaciously to position Inside the city's west gate and repulsing attacks by reinforced Japanese columns. The spokesman said Chinese forced an entry into the city three days ago and assaulted the Japanese headquarters. The ene my brought in fresh troops, and while the city burned, the battle reached a stalemate. Outcome of the Sinyang bat tle, said the spokesman, will de cide the fate of a Japanese col umn fighting at Loshan, east of Sinyang. If the main army at Sinyang falls into Chinese hands. the Japanese at Loshan will De cut off, he said. The campaign began two weeks ago when nearly 10 Jap anese columns, consisting oi about 90,000 men, began a two pronged advance on Chinese positions In the Tapieh moun tains. The Japanese armies started eastward from the area north of Hankow in Hupeh dis trict, and westward from the Yangtze river, near Wuhu, in Anhwel province. Japs Move Fast The Japanese advanced rapid' ly at first and captured about 10 important cities in the Honan- Anhwel-Hupeh area. Within five days the Japanese covered hundreds of miles. Local inin ese forces in the beginning were not equipped sufficiently, to halt the enemy. Chinese reinforcements were dispatched to the battle area. The Japanese failed to leave garrisons at many of the "cap tured" cities, and the fresh Chinese troops, using "elastic ribbon" tactics, recaptured dis tricts which the Japanese had Just passed through. LACK IS DAMPER Washington, Jan. 14 (U.B Members of the special defense committee headed by Sen. Harry S. Truman, D., Mo., charged at a hearing today that farmers are being hampered In their efforts for record wartime food produc tion by a government-induced shortage of farm machinery. Target of the senators' criti cism were quotas determined by the War Production Board s of fice of civilian supply setting production of new farm machin ery in 1943 at 23 per cent of 1940 tonnage, and of repair parts at 167 per cent of 1940. BROKER CLERK IS HELD AS ESPIONAGE SUSPECT Boston, Jan. 14 (U.B A for mer Wall street broker's clerk who Joined the merchant marine two years ago and allegedly attempted to smuggle letters into the United States was Jailed today pending federal grand Jury action while FBI agents and the army and navy intern gence departments investigated for possible espionage. The defendant was Davis J. Jacobs. 39-ycar-old Syrian who gave his address as New York City. Acm T tit phot Democratic National Committee Chairman Edward J. Flynn, left, nom inated by President Roosevelt to be minister to Australia, Is shown con ferring wim Postmaster General Frank Walker In Washington Imme diately after Flynn'a nomination to the cost Democratic Senators Refuse To Hear Flynn's Detractor Washington, Jan. 14 (U.B Only two Democrat! stayed In the senate today to hear Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., make charges of "unfitness for any diplomatic post" against Edward J. Flynn, retiring Democratic national inee as minister to Australia. CITY EMPLOYES .GET PAY BOOST: OF 10 PER CENT City employes were granted a 10 per cent wage increase effec tive January 1 at a special city council meeting held Tuesday evening at the city hall. There has been no general raise in sal aries for city employes for the past six or seven years and the action was taken to bring sal aries up to an equitable point In consideration of the higher cost of living. All city employes with the ex ception of the two .elective of fices, city recorder and treas urer were covered by the raise, The fire department, which re ceived a two per cent raise about six months ago, was also covered. The mayor and city council members receive no sal aries. Members of the finance com mittee for the city explained that the amount in new wages will be approximately $8,000 per year but that the Increase will involve no burden on Medford residents. City expenditures have been pared and it Is antici pated that the present budget will cover the Increase satisfac torily. The salary increase was made with the understanding that it will be lowered when cost of living Is reduced. AT EARLIER AGE Chicago, Jan. 14 (U.R) Mor tality of bralnworkers appears to be considerably higher than that of handworkers, a group of executives were told last night by Dr. Walter Alvarez of the Mayo clinic, Rochester, Minn. He said executives not only work too many hours In the office but spend most of their outside time talking shop and making contacts helpful to them in business. He said most executives tend to smoke too much because of nervous tension. "Heavy smok ing is even more harmful than is fairly heavy drinking," he told the managers. He also said they often eat too much. Supplies to China Still Too Little London. Jan. 14 (U.B Dr. Georce K. C. Yeh. director of Chinese information in London, asserted today that Allied sup plies being sent to China still wen ridiculously small. chairman and presidential nom- Those remaining were Sen. Tom Connally, D., Tex., chair man of the foreign relations com mittee, which will meet tomor row to arrange for a hearing on Flynn s nomination, and Sen Tom Stewart, D., Term. . "Evidently the stench of the Ffynn appointment has become so nauseating to many members of the senate that they have gone to the cloakrooms during its con tinued discussion, remarked Bridges as he looked at the emp ty seats on the Democratic side. On Flynn Front Connally interrupted to ob serve that the "new front about which so many people have been inquiring is here. It a the Flynn front. Describing Flynn's nomination as "the most despicable appoint ment yet made by the present president of the United States,' Bridge charged that the law firm of Goldwater It Flynn had represented "a Serge Rubinstein who at the time had large Japa nese interests and was closely associated with one Guiji Kassai. a registered agent of the Japa nese government in this country until two weeks before Pearl Harbor." Other charges made by Bridges: Flynn as chancellor of New York city invested and lost more than $1,000,000 in public funds In the State Title & Mort gage company to which his law firm subsequently ' became gen eral counsel: he appointed the late gangster Dutch Schultz a deputy sheriff when Flynn was sheriff of Bronx county. N. Y, the grand Jury investigation of alleged use of city-owned pav ing blocks to pave a courtyard at Flynn's estate was "Improp erly Handled" and the foreman of the jury, Daniel Daly, re ceived a federal appointment In New York city "two months after the Flynn whitewash? Bridges exhibited on his desk a paving block from Flynn's Lake Mahopac, N. Y., estate which the "committee to reopen the Flynn case" had presented mm. Explaining that he would not here today," the New Hampshire here today," the Ne w Hampshire senator said that "reputable citizens are prepared to appear before the foreign relations com mittee to present evidence in proof of each." HOWLING DOG REVEALS MYSTERY IN HARLEM New York, Jan. 14 (U.B A dog howling in the moonlight, on the rooftop of a Harlem tene ment house led last night to the discovery of a dazed and beaten society girl lying on an adjoin ing roof and raised the curtain on a mystery. The girl told police she was Beatrice Hudson of Park avenue and that her mother was a "Mrs, W. Ross" of that address. The mother removed the girl from Harlem hospital to Doctors hos pital, a private institution, and refused to speak to reporters. Germans MINE OFFICIALS CITED jOJPPEAR WLB Orders Principals to Attend Hearing Friday For Statement on Work Halt. Washington, Jan. 14. (U.B The War Labor board today ord ered union leaders and represen tatives of anthracite companies to appear before it at 2 p. m. Friday "for the purpose of stat ing fully the reasons why the anthracite miners . . . are on strike against the national no strike policy and against the welfare of the nation in time of war." The board's telegram, which was signed by Chairman Wil liam H. Davis, said the contro versy would be considered "on its merits when the miners have returned to work." Public Disregarded The board order was Issued shortly after Secretary of In terior Harold L. Ickes had charged that the strike "shows a reckless disregard of the pub lic s good." He said the walk out already has cost the nation 300,000 tons of hard coal. Characterizing the strike "highly reprehensible," I ekes aald at a pressv conference that the issue involving Increased union dues might well have been postponed. He emphasized that he had no jurisdiction in the matter at all and said that it Is a "purely intra-unlon" problem, Latest reports from Pennsyl vania said only around 3,000 miners had acceeded to the board's request that they go back to work. Around 19,000 were reported still on strike. WALKER ACCEPTS Washington, Jan. 14 (U.R) Postmaster General Frank C Walker has been persuaded to accept the chairmanship of the Democratic national committee, it was learned definitely today. His name will be proposed in behalf of President Roosevelt when the committee meets in special session Monday at Chi cago on the call of Chairman Edward J. Flynn who is resign ing because of his nomination as minister to Australia. As Mr, Roosevelt's personal choice, lit tle if any opposition is ex pected from the committee. Walker will continue as post master general. It was under stood that he was taking the chairmanship with great reluct ance, but that his opposition was whittled down by the Insistence of the president that he take It. HULL GETS STAMPS Washington, Jan. 14 (0.F0 The first two sheets of the new United Nations issue of two-cent stamps were sold to Secretary of State Cordell Hull by Post master General Frank alker to day. Walker called at Hull's of fice to deliver the stamps. French Royalists Seen Implicated In Assassination of Jean Darlan . London, Jan. 14. U.B The British radio said today that French Royalists, trying to set up a monarchy in North Africa, were believed Implicated in the assassination of Admiral Jean Francois Darlan. It quoted the Algiers radio. The democrats, VIchyltes and royalists were the three most active political groups in North Africa, and the royalists, who have been trying to get back In power since the French revolu tion, strove for the most specta cular results, BBC said Algiers radio had broadcast. United Press Correspondent Stiffen Rostov Resistance SAYS SHE DIDNT REPULSEjLYNN Witness In Trial Claims She Thought Kindness Shown Because She Was III. Hollywood, Jan. 14 (U.B Moviestruck Betty Hansen ad mitted today she "didn't have no objections" when, she testi fied, handsome film star Errol Flynn ' attacked her In an up stairs boudoir during a Holly wood party on pretense of put ting her to bed for a stomach ache. Defense Attorney Jerry dea ler in cross-examining the blond Nebraska school girl who came to Hollywood to seek movie career, asked: Didn't you have any ldeaj what was going to happen?" I thought he was going to put me to bed because I felt sick." When was it that you first thought about what he was do ing to you?" "At the time." "So you thought this kindly man la going to take oft my things and help me rest because I was sick to my stomach' "Yes," . ' "But you did object when he locked the door to the bed room?" "Yes." "When he came over to the bed, didn't you object?" "No." Miss Hansen told In unprint able detail her story of Flynn's alleged attack. "He took me upstairs and said he was going to lay roe down because I didn't feel weU," Miss Hansen said in relating the events she said took place last September 27 at the home of Fred McEvoy, wealthy British sportsman. "The first thing he did was to lead me to the bedroom with the twin beds," she continued under prompting from Deputy District Attorney Thomas Cochran. 'The next was to sit me down on the bed. I told him I didn't want to stay up there. I was feeling all right by then and wanted to go downstairs and associate with the others at the party. "Flynn said you don't think I'd really let you go downstairs. do you? " "Yes I do," Miss Hansen said she replied. She glanced quick ly over at the handsome film star, who glared at her from the counsel table. Miss Hansen then went Into detail to describe the act of in timacy that she said occurred in the bedroom. "Afterward." she related, 1 got up and went to the bath room and put my clothes on. Miss Hansen said she went to the party at the McEvoy home in company of Armana n.napp, youthful studio worker who was originally charged with statutory rape upon Miss Hen- sen along with Flynn ana two other Hollywood men-BDoux town. Knapp was freed of tho charge when Betty refused to testify against him. C. R. Cunningham reported from Algiers several days ago that the French pretender, the Count of Paris, whom the royalists would like to Install as king of France, was walking around openly, New York, Jan. 14. (U.B Charles Collingwood, the Colum bia Broadcasting Systems cor respondent at Allied North Afri can headquarters, said last night In a broadcast that it was "com mon gossip" that royalists were Implicated In the assassination of Admiral Jean Francois Dar lan, because he would not fall in with their plan to set up monarchy. War Bulletins Moscow, Jan. 14 (U.B Russian tanks with Tommy gunners clinging to their sides ripped through fiercely resist ing German Infantry during the night and capturad a con centration camp deep in the enemy rear where herded Russian civilian and Red army prisoners Joyfully await ed them. London. Jan. 14 (U.B The air ministry announced to night that bombers of the coastal command bombed two and probably thro German merchant ships last night Tho air ministry also re ported that planes of the army cooperation command today attacked locomotives and other targets In norm Franca. All planea of both commands returned safely, the communique said. HOUSE BILL TAKES DIG AT SENATE FOR DEADLOCK DELAY Salem, Ore., Jan. 14 U.B A house bill striking at the delay in organizing the senate, and two measures that would revise the apportionment and terms of sen ators and representatives high lighted the first full session of the Oregon legislature today. The house bill, prepared for Introduction by two tyro repre sentatives. Dean Bryson of Mult nomah and Clackamas counties and Robert E. Duniway of Mult nomah, would make organization of the legislature mandatory by p. m. on the opening day of each session. The two representatives, serv ing their first terms In the legis lature, said then bill would forestall a move to create the post of Ueutenant-ogvernor, as well as prevent repetition of the senate deadlock which delayed the inauguration of Governor Snell for two days. The remainder of the senate morning session was devoted to the naming of committees and routine business. On the basis of Governor Earl Snell's Inaugural address and comments in the capltol corri dors, taxation appeared as the leading business of this session Among the first bills Intro duced in the house was a meas ure which would grant a SO per cent reduction on the whole scale of income taxes. Sen. Thomas Mahoney of Portland moved to Implement another Snell recommendation by Introducing bill to abolish the milk control board and trans fer Its functions to the state de partment of agriculture. E Portland, Ore., Jan. 14 (U.B The Oregon State Highway commission today received bids on five of six rock production projects today, and In four cases the liiw and only bidder was the same contractor, M. C. Llninger of Medford. The Llninger bids Included: Baker County Rlchland-Half- way rock production project. $28,000; Crook and Wheeler Counties Ochoco Summit proj ect! 24,730; Klamath County Chemult project. $34,430; Wallo wa County Rock Creek-Joseph Rock project, S39.400. On the fifth project, Trent Rock Creek in Lane County, A. H. Saxton St Son, Corvallls, sub mitted low bid of f 32,480. AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER DIES Gardiner, Me., Jan. 14 (U.B Mrs. Laura E. Richards, 92 suthor snd daughter of Julia Ward Howe, who wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," died from pneumonia today. !T MADE TO RETAIN Red Air Force Softens Kras nodar For Ground Troops French Active in Tunis. By United Press The Russion army advanced over slushy battlefields in th Caucasus today, encountering; stiff German resistance that was blocking the path to Rostov. The Axis troops were stub bornly defending railroad sta tions and Important roads in an effort to slow down the Soviet advance. The Russian air fores kept up a 24-hour offensive against Krasnodar, 130 miles south of Rostov, trying to soften the ap proach of ground troops by knocking out the big German air base. The Russians were preparing; for a drive through the Kuban valley. French Active On the Tunisian front, French forces smashed several Axis) strongholds to win control of si 1 2-mile line in the mountain northwest of Kalrouan. The) French troops were supported by planes of the Lafayette Is cadrille, which had been pre sented to the famous flying group Dy tne American air force. Allied air forces in North At rica continued to hammer at the defensive positions of the Ger man Afrtka Korps In Tripolita nla. A navy communique Issued at Washington disclosed that tor pedo boats bsd scored two hits) on one Japanese destroyer. single hit on another, and two possible hits on a third In ths Solomons area on the night of Jan. 10. The extent of the dam age to the enemy ships was not reported. A force of medium bombers, supported by fighter planes, bombed Japanese lnstab lations at Rekata bay on Jan. 13. Washington. Jan. 14 (U.B The Distinguished Flying cross nas Deen awarded to David T. Manus, aviation radioman 3-c, 19, Medford, Ore., whose father. Joseph E. Manus, lives In Indi anapolis. Young Manus visited his sister. Miss Virginia Manus, Medford high school student, during the Christmas holidays. While hers) he related to friends details of the Incident which led to award ing of the flying cross. Young Manus snd the pilot of navy airplane operating in the south seas were shot down and were adrift on the ocean for 10 daya in a rubber life raft. After their rescue he was allowed to return to this country on leave. Manus attended Medford high school last year, leaving school to enlist in the navy. Local war price and rationing board members stated today that they had received no Informa tion on the decentralization re visions being made In the OPA nor had they any knowledge of district office being possibly established in this city. Recent dispatches have Indi cated that OPA plans supervi sion by districts rather than states and that a district head quarters office might be located In Medford or Klamath Falls. . FLYING CROSS TO MEDFORD AIRMAN ( v
