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OENIX GROWS 1939 -O $487.377,057.00 S30S.6M ,932.00 ARIZO1 5lst Year, No. 234, Phoenix, Arizona £8 FTTBLIC Today I Pages 112 N. CENTRAL AVE. TELEPHONE 3-1111 Tuesday Morning, January 7, ROOSEVELT SEEKS BILLIONS Osborn Asks Jones' Men To Resign A Big Program Is Mapped By NewGovernor Pictures, Additional Stories, Page 5) IDNEY P. OSBORN took his oath of office as Arizona's seventh governor shortly before noon yesterday and immediately called for the resignation of all his predecessor's appointees so that, in accepting responsibility for the state's management, he might deal through subordinates of his owni selection.

Demand for the resignations brought cheers from a trowd estimated at between 3,000 and 5,000 which filled the capitol lawn during the ceremony and later filed for two hours through the executive chambers to congratulate ernor and Mrs. Osbom. i If II' The responsibility of a A1YIV governor is a tremendous nillj ITlUlliaUll one( Governor Qsborn said. "I am willing to assume that I responsibility. More than that, I i welcome it i "In order to fully accept that responsibility it is necessary that the great departments of To The Best Of My Ability.

Mollison Dies In Leap FromAirplane Noted Flier Bails Out! And Plunges Into Thames River 10NDON, Jan. Amy Johnson Mollison, Britain's greatest Eviatrix, drowned in the icy iraters of the Thames estuary yesterday after she was forced to bail oat of the aircraft she was flying lor the air transport auxiliary. Surface craft tried in vain to rescue the war-working ladybird who had winged, during her spectacular career, from Britain to Australia and to America, Japan China and across Africa. For hours, searching boats criss- trossed the scene where the 32- year-old flier fell but were unable to find her body. Papers Are Found The searchers did find her night tuthprization papers and some gear bearing her name.

The papers radicated she was 'off her course, Possibly lost, when her machine state be directed by 'men and women of the governor's own choosing, and for that reason I shall expect the resignations of all heads of departments and all members of boards and commissions without be upon my desk by closing I mean 5 afternoon." Among these responsibilities are: 1. The problem of solving the state's continuously unbalanced financial condition. The state was $251,554.18 in the red as he took office and faced an additional outlay of more than 5500,000 within a week for the quarterly school apportionment. 2. The problem of increasing the state's revenue to absorb a shift! of more than $4,000.000 of the an- i nual school burden from the ties to the state, which will increase the state school apportionment from the present $2,244,538.08 to about $6,314,130.

3. The. problem of curbing increasing expenditures in nearly department of state. And, in addition, he pointed out these needs in his inaugural address: 1. An equitable system of taxation founded upon the principle I into the choppy estuary.

that taxes should be levied accord- The accident occurred in mid- ing to the ability to pay. afternoon. Lookouts on ships in; Obtaining adequate water toe estuary sighted the plane about i50 feet up. It started to climb, lien suddenly turned and made a 1'RR glide into the water. At about 200 feet a figure with I parachute fluttered away from toe plane and plummeted-into the was the end, in the from the Colorado river.

3. Obtaining hydro-electric power and distributing in such manner that any savings will be passed on to the consumers. Old Friend Opens.Program The -inaugural program was opened by Robert B. Sims, Coolidge, who served in the state's con- of home, for the woman who stituticnal convention with the gov- dared the vast expanses' of ernor. The Most Rev.

Daniel J. Gercke, bishop of the Tucson Diocese of the Catholic Church, gave the invocation: Six-year-old Shari Ann Whaley of Miami, who accompanied Governor Osborn during the election crmpaign as an entertainer, sang the governor's favorite song, "Home on the Range," playing her own accordion accompaniment. Lockwood Administers Oath Chief Justice Alfred C. Lockwood administered the oath of office to the new governor and, following an inaugural prayer by the Rev. James B.

Curry, all elected state officials were introduced by Dan C. McKinnev, Tucson, chairman of the Democratic State Central Commit- As master of ceremonies, Mr. Sims returned to introduce Governor Osborn for his inaugural address. "His great ambition," Mr. Sims said, "is to accomplish things the people are entitled to, but have not received.

"No man living today is better prepared and qualified than Governor Osborn to be chief execu- the world around. Hcked Up Women Pilots "Whether anyone was with her not definitely known. As a 1 member of the air transport aux- she was engaged in flying one airfield to another, up other women pilots who "fried planes from the factories. noted British aviatrix. Duchess of Bedford, was lust far away in 1937.

when she Wed a plane from East Anglia Towards the North sea and van- Wied, But Amy Johnson Mollison was more famous. 6 laughing, happy she was known to 'Wlow pilots, gained world-wide wtention in 1930 when she set liRht airplane for Australia own England. Made Trip In 20 Days at the she had flown more than 140 tence from London to her mounted to en- home. World interest as shp was reported in Istanbul, Aleppo and on successive days. Shc- India in six days, two days previous record, but dam- fler plane at Rangoon and arrived at Port Darwin, months later she tried to -Peiping via Siberia, but was down near Warsaw.

In six was off again across iria and China to Tokyo, she covered 1,650 another record, to pridc in "Johnny" knew 1 135 and she was made com- of the Order of the British ff 1932 she was A. Mollison, married himself widely-known flier. ivorced in 1936. Taey ootn 70, Get License Jan 6 "It is a great honor," the new governor said, "to be chosen by one's fellow citizens as governor of his state, but I deem it more a call to service, and the honor accorded should be measured by the quality of service given." Governor Osborn said he felt that, in choosing him, the people of Arizona had not sought to honor him, but to accomplish certain things that "will return the government to the people, responsive their will." "It is purpose to give the State of Arizona an honest government and one of courage, integrity and vision," Governor Osborn concluded "I pray for the guidance of Almighty God and I ask the assistance and the co-operation of the citizens of Arizona." Attending the ceremony were Governor Osborn's mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.

Neri Osborn, who have resided in' Arizona since its territorial government began, and three ex-governors. The 'benediction was pronouncec by William Ronald Ellsworth, of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and the Work Projects Administration Band which provided music, closed the program with the national anthem British Labor Control Given To Ministers Churchill Attempts To Tighten Home Situation LONDON, Jan. Bri- ain's insistent demand for speed and more speed on the home front every Englishman believes will be the most decisive year of Lhe war was met by the prime min- ster, Winston Churchill, today with the dramatically timed creation of three new executive bodies deal with production, imports and postwar reconstruction. In the first major move to draft labor, Churchill put into the hands of three members of his- government sweeping powers over the men and women who constitute Jiese islands' industrial forces. They are the labor minister Ernest Bevin, who was placed in charge of a new production organization, the minister of supply, Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, who is to boss the all-important import group; and a minister without portfolio, Arthur Greenwood, who will make a study of postwar reconstruction.

SO HELP ME And as Governor Osborn finished repeating the oath of office after Chief Justice Alfred C. Lockwood, Arizona's seventh governor was ready to take over the destinies of the state. Thousands crowded the lawn in front of the capitol, where once the new governor played as a barefoot boy, to watch the Staff Photo). Units Co-Operate While Sir Andrew's group at- Bevin's organization, "know- what our output must be, tends to "the vital war business of bringing food from overseas, supplying the fighting forces and keeping the life of the country going-' mg must achieve it" Bevin's "executive," as the three new bodies were defined in an official announcement from No. 10 Downing Street, will get broad authority to do what it likes with raw materials, with factories and workshops of Britain.

Will Have Broad Power In a move to insure en further co-ordination, chairmen will the newly created sit with the heads of the existing committees of defense, home policy and food policy to advise the war cabinet concerning the home front. Sir John Anderson, lard president of the council, will sit as chairman of all these It was pointed out that if there should develop any threat of departure from the government's policy "the guiding hand of the prime minister and the war cabinet will always be there to rectify Churchill thus has assumed responsibility for insuring that the work of the imports and production bodies would correspond with general policy. Five Die In Crash RIVERS, Jan. Five men were killed when a twin- engined airplane from the British Commonwealth Air Training School here crashed late todays' Bulgar Conquest By Nazis Looms (Additional War Starlet, Page 10) By EVERETT K. HOLJLES (Copyright, 1941, By United Press) LITTLE BULGARIA, bloody cockpit of wars since 1908, is about to capitulate to another 1 of Adolf Hitler's ultimatums and within a few days German troops may be the masters of King Ill's Balkan nation, according to private advices received by the United Press.

The German ultimatum was delivered'Saturday, according to these advices, and, because she is powerless to resist, Bulgaria- consented, or at least made it clear to the Nazis that she will give in without struggle. Quick Denial Made The Bulgarian government the southern entrance to the vital Dardanelles, perhaps closing a mighty trap on the Greek forces in cutting Turkey off at Albania and from Greece. A means of bringing pressure on Greece to end her war against Italy with an "equitable were noncommittal and in London M. information, the Nazis in Berlin British quarters were skeptical. Bulgaria, a nation of 6,171,000 people about the size of Kentucky, appeared to have fallen as Rumania fell to Hitler's bloodless march across the Balkans, with the stage all set for a move of perhaps the widest ramifications, for Greece, for Turkey, for Britain's position in the Near East and for Soviet Russia as well.

One report said that Wednesday would be the "zero hour" for the Germans to strike across the frontier from Rumania, where from 350,000 to 600,000 Nazi troops are massed. Move May Be Under Way This movement may already be under way, it was intimated in a dispatch from Budapest quoting fairly well-substantiated reports that Germany has "loaned" Bulgaria 2,500 warplanes and that German antiaircraft crews in mania close to the Bulgarian border have been increased. Germany's ultimatum is understood to have been presented to the Bulgarian premier, Dr. Bogden Filoff, by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrpp, at a secret conference Saturday at Von Ribbentrop's- Fuschl Castle home near Salzburg. It was highly significant that in Berlin the diplomatic spotlight was turned on full glare yesterday on the Balkans and the Mediterranean and authorized spokesmen, asked about the reported ultimatum to Bulgaria, said merely: "We' know nothing." Dual Objective Seen The soecific objective of a German military occupation of Bulgaria has not been made clear, but Hitler undoubtedly foresees two major possibilities: 1 A direct "blitz" drive upon Greece's Aegean port ka, placing German.

forces close by peace" under threat of a German invasion, and at the same time bring pressure on the Turks Britain's mutual-aid ally in the Eastern Mediterranean to keep out of the war. Turkey Is Silent Turkey appeared to be. alarmed and carefully silent, although informed quarters in Istanbul told the United Press that Turkey would fight if Germany comes through Bulgaria. By this the Turks meant an attack upon Turkey from Bulgarian soil a modified analysis of -Turkey's position compared with previous Turkish warnings that, if German troops should enter Bulgaria, the Turkish army would immediately move across the frontier of Thrace. This cautious Turkish attitude can be attributed to Russia's silence in the whole affair, for if the Soviet has agreed to Germany's move, then Turkey certainly will not defy it with arms.

Chinese Claim Battle Victory CHUNGKING, Jan. Three columns of Japanese were flung back with casualties of 3,000, the.Chinese Central News Agency reported tonight, in a four-day battle on the Northern- Front, where some of the severest fighting of the Sino-Japanese war has occurred in the past two weeks. Veteran troops of the invader fcegan the assault oh December 22, agency reported, against Chinese intrenchments in the Tai Shang mountain range abutting Shansi, Hopei and Honan provinces The Japanese said to have ordered a retreat to Yellow river positions after the battle, German Tanks Hold Greeks FrorouTirana Mid Albanian Base Of Efibasan Is Warj Scene Jan. German tanksj leading an Italian counterattack an the western slopes of mountains today hurled brfck Greek troops attempting to j-'Ujh upon Italy's mid- Albanian bf-sp pf Elbasan, according to frontier-sports. The German jtanks, recently arrived on the JNorthern Albanian front, were to be defending El- basan and "Albanian capital of Tirana.

The battle occurred early today after the GreeVj. had fallen back to the Malisra'ilf slopes yesterday from their positions along the Stermen iher. Officers Are Captured Two Greek officers, 220 soldiers and a large of war ma- erials were reported to have been captured. The Greek Casualties were reported from Si ruga on the Yugoslav frontier tr: have included five officers and 84 soldiers killed and three officers' and 150 soldiers wounded while' the Italian losses were said to have been "very small." Along Albania's Adriatic coastal sector, where Greeks are push- ng upon the -y port and landing iase of Valon i against stiffened Italian resistance, heavy fighting was reported the northern! slopes of Khors mountain. Attack 7s Continued The Greeks said to be con- inually attacking strong Italian forcing the enemy to withdraw Valona in several encounters.

I Italian plane! bombed Greek positions on the toastal and central southern fronts and Greek antiaircraft fire was siiid to have brought down a Fascist bomber in flames near the villafc; of Brezda along the Northern Slikumbi valley front near Elbasan. In the Tepeliiii sector, it was reported from Struga, the Greeks jarly today caotured the village of Ilan after a brief assault. BLACKSHIKT-5 HURLED BACK 'ATHENS, Jan. soldiers, pushing through the Albanian coastal section toward the important seapqrt of Valona, hurled back veteraj; Italian Blackshirt Greek in the Democracies Given Pledge Of US. Aid (Text, Additional Stories, Page 6) Jan.

Roosevelt to- day firmly rejected the theory of United States isolation from the international crisis and asked congress to vote billions in war aid to the democracies which are fighting the "new order of tyranny" of the axis powers. Appearing before a joint session of the new congress to report on the state of the union, the President was applauded- loudly and often as he flayed the methods and motives of dictators, pledged all-out aid to Great Britain, Greece and China, and promised unrelenting opposition to any peace "dictated by aggressors and sponsored by appeasers." In the opinion of veteran foreign affairs experts he definitely launched the nation upon a foreign policy which, while not envisioning foreign alliances, puts the world on notice that this nation never will compromise with the doctrines of totalitarianism. Diplomats, legislators, supreme court justices, cabinet officers and other federal dignitaries were present to hear him outline this country's course in one of the most difficult periods in modern history. Axis Envoys Are Absent Conspicuously absent were envoys of Germany, Italy and Japan. Constantino Oumansky, the Soviet ambassador, sat in.

the diplomatic. section and listened intently. Also present was Mrs. Roosevelt, who established precedent by bringing with her members of the Norwegian royal Prince Olaf and his wife. Princess Martha.

Mr. Roosevelt's-words were'broadcast both nationally and Internationally. For the most part they drew'praise, but Burton K. Wheeler, Democratic senator from Montana, leader of the congressional noninterventionist bloc, said they forecast the end of the "no entangling alliances" policy laid down by George Washington in his farewell address. "This speech was directly contrary to the advice given by Washington, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln," he said.

"To eall attention to this, however, probably is sufficient to brand one as a fifth columnist." He accused the President of trying to set up the United States as an international policeman, and said "this is the road to Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican senator from Michigan-, described the address as a "strong plea for peace through war-by- proxy'' and hoped that "for the sake of America his program never i' will have to go farther." Warren R. Austin of Vermont, assistant mi- 1 norlty leader of the senate and one of the few Republican supporters of the administration's foreign predicted the speech "wfll do much to crystallize harmony and unity in the defense effort." Sam Rayburn, Democrat, Texas, speaker of the house, and Alben W. Barkley, Democrat, Kentucky, senate majority leader, said Mr. Roosevelt's position had the "overwhelming.

support of the American people." Congress Probably Will Approve An analysis of the reaction indicated that congress probably will approve the President's plan to loan or lease war materials to embattled countries, but the extent of this assistance, and the manner in which it will be advanced, will create a fight. Mr. Roosevelt was emphatic in his insistence that the United States aid foreign nations fighting to keep their freedom. He recommended that this motto be adopted in relation to those countries: "We Americans are vitally interested in your defense of freedom. "We are putting forth our energies, our resources, and our organizing powers to give you the strength to regain and maintain a free world.

We shall send you in ever-increasing numbers ships, planes, tanks and guns. "This is our purpose and our pledge." The President's plan, proposing, in effect, unlimited credits to Britain and other nations resisting "aggression," envisioned repayment WASHINGTON, Jan. May, Democrat, Kentucky, of the house military affairs committee, introduced a- bill today to repeal the Johnson act -which prohibits loans to countries in default of their obligations to the United States. units today, vjhile other forces scored iiew gains Klisura area, a government spokesman said torushS. The Greeks -vere said to have captured more 'than 200 prisoners in the day's engagements, 173 in the clash withjthe Blackshirts on the coast.

"within a reasonable time following the close of hostilities, in similar materials, or, at our option, in other goods of many kinds which they can produce and which we need." He rejected the theory that the United States can isolate itself from world affairs; warned that all of the Americas are in serious danger- revealed that he will ask for higher taxes to aid in financing the defense program, and confessed that he is not satisfied with the progress of preparedness to date. "Moral Order" Versus Dictators Mr. Roosevelt challenged "the so-called new order of tyranny; which the dictators seek to create with the crash of bombs" with the declaration that, "to that new order we oppose the greater conception; the moral order." The moral order, he said, is based on freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and. freedom from to attained through the abolition of all armaments. He said the United States is committed to.this national policy: 1.

All-inclusive national defense. 2. Support of "all those resolute people, everywhere, who are resisting aggression and are thereby keeping war away from our hemisphere. 3. No acquiescence in a peace dictated by aggressors and' sponsored by appeasers.

The "justice and morality" of this policy, he said, "must and will win in the end." He gave assurance again that social gains will not be sacrificed in the current emergency, but he also made it clear that this will not tolerate disunity if it threatens the defense program. "The nation's hands must not be tied when the nation's lift is iq danger," he said. Unbroken Flow Of War Weapons He sketched only the outline of the "loan-lease" plan which protn ably will be dealt with in more detail in his budget message Wednesday. But he emphasized his determination to see that the embattled democracies get an unbroken flow of war weapons after their financial resources are exhausted. These nations, he said, do not need man power, they need of dollar's worth of the weapons of defense "and the time is near when, they will not be able to pay for them in ready cash." "We cannot, and will not, tell them they must surrender, merely because of present inability to pay for the weapons which we know they must have," he declared.

He also made it plain that this government will not be in fulfillment of this purpose by threats from dictators. Such aid, insisted, is not an act of war even if a dictator should "unilaterally claim it so to be." "When the dictators are ready to make war upon us," he said, "they will not wait for an act of war on our part. They did not wait for Norway or Belgium or the Netherlands to commit an act of war. "Their only interest is hi a new one-way international law, which lacks mutuality in its observance, and, therefore, becomes an instrument of oppression." He said future generations of may well depend upon, the effectiveness of American aid, to the.