The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 1

Vp -w -I lollopipooiies 4 H' artmeiyaa I wHte lt I fatriy steady for the 1 days Our big guaa an BY FBANK HEWLETT WITH TBB UNITED STATES FORCES IN THE BATAAN PENINSULA Jan The Uelted States nd FhUlp-ptaee feme have smashed J-pen's hope of wlaalag BM-ring victory la the Fh i oinnoli a and nnr ha' pletod dlntag la for a fight Men go as supplies materl-als have been concentrated on this peninsula 7AM miles from the American mainland from ports docks and warehouses all over the Philippines In one of the most brllUaat tactical and Phlllp-mrler for the it aa we dived la at at least la artUleiy they are fighting downhill la the 1 st with attack by the which rule the air of the sua-of outpost Is for of of leaving oa their Hghta while they nsov- ms knocked them ott one by one as fast aa OiTto the health of the to of toe ed to a ifpe old longer true They are to the 1 aad guaatag aad they we heavy fire daring tl draws! to the the A la a the Bold with the MaeArthur la concentrating men Ha artillery and Us piles la this stubby Tike meet Jo ducts the Ja its stringing: Uaes1 have the big I1 So They Say The Tides 24: 47 aju it ft: 59 US ft bb pjm 119 aja LS ft 10:17 pie 17 ft sa S5: 55 a as 41 ft 61 pTm LI ft 15:47 aa 9 ft 116 bl 1 ft The Meals which men have cherished have always throughout the course of history proved themselves to be more potent than any other factor Welles undersecretary of state to the Bio conference SAN LUIS OBISPO CALIFORNIA FRIDAY JANUARY 23 1942 NO 129 Gty Schools Mold Graduation Elites Members of three graduating classes of as many city schools will receive diplomas at combined mid-year commencement exercises in the senior high school auditorium at 8 pm this evening Finishing students af the San Luis Obispo Junior College six -Ain all will receive the associated First Picture from Singapore Shows Japanese Bomb Damage To Open Bids On County Health Unit Bids on the construction of the new 5122477 health center building to be situated on Johnson avenue immediately across the street from the General hospital are to be opened Feb 5 In Washington Charles Eggleston county building superintendent announced today He said the federal works agency has notified contractors to have bids prepared and In the hands of the Washington office by the Febu 5 deadline Work Eggleston added should start within a short time following the opening of bids He said the federal works agency usually allows 10 nays following --the awarding of the contract for the start -of oenstrucUoc The building under present plans will house the county health department cm the first floor the welfare department on the second floor and the local office of surplus commodities in the basement The project is being financed by the federal government as a defense area construction Job but the county will probably be re qulred to pay a put of construction cost sometime in the distant future SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR Governor Will Sign Guard Bill By JOHN DUNLAP SACRAMENTO Cal Jan 23 (UP) Gov Culbert Olson indicated today he would sign the $8000000 compromise State Guard bill passed by the California legislature last night The assembly wrangled 11 days and defeated five different measures before approving an amended version introduced by Ben Ed Fletcher San Diego Final vote was 63 to 5 In the assembly 31 to In the senate The legislature then adjourned sine die The Fletcher bill reorganises the guard force into 13 regiments of 28780 men divided into a mobile force of 9360 men of whoip no more than 7000 can be cm active duty at one time a reserve force of 1820 men which can be expanded if necessary by the adjutant-general and a nautical force of 700 Army Base Fay Guard officers on active duty will receive the same pay as army officers Enlisted men will be paid 32 a day and 31-20 for subsistence Non-commissioned officers will earn from 3220 to 335 dally according to rank oSsonhad asked for 5170000 and no restrictions for the guard but bitter opposition threatened several times to block any guard bill whatever even to eliminating the present guard which was swelled from 10000 to 26500 at the outbreak of war The minority assembly bloc stubbornly resisted all restrictions and compromise until last night Then in return for a promise to adjourn sine die it agreed to vote the restricted measure if the mobile force was raised from 5000 to 7000 Recess Move Loses A last-minute hitch in the promise to adjourn when Speaker Gordon Garland led a move to recess so he and the senate president pro tern could reconvene the session at any time (Turn to page eight) Paso Evening School Term Opens Monday PASO The Faso Robles adult evening school will open registration for the spring semester starting Monday it was announced today Registration for clashes will be held each evening next week There Is no charge for registration and only a nominal charge for materials used in some of the classes Classes are held in the high school building from 7 pm to 9 pm weekday evenings Nearly 600 people were enrolled in the school during the fall semester 71m public has been invited to visit the school to learn of available classes and class schedules will be mailed to persons requests PRICE 5 CENTS Nipponese Offensive By JOE ALEX MORBIS United Press Foreign Editor' Armed forces of the United Nations inflicted heavy losses on the enemy today in counterattacks against a spreading Japanese 'o ffensive from Burma to the Dutch East Indies and the strategic outpost Islands of Australia American Dutch British aad Chinese fliers apparently strongly reinforced with newest typo war planes Masted i eight Japan-warships and transports with losen direct hits dumped 20 tons of explosives cm the Mg enemy base -at Hanoi in fodo-Ghina and shot down 19 to 26 Jap- anese planes that vainly attempted to raid the Burmese pot of Rangoon Heavy Toll In Rangoon The American aad British fight-: era over Rangoon took a sensational possibly 85 pa of an estimated 70 attacking aircraft while not a bomb fell on the city itself the Rangoon radio reported Two Allied planes were lost for a 10 to one triumph over the Japanese The rapidly improving per- formance of Allied air faces' throughout the Far Eastern fighting acme came at a time when the Japanese were thrusting into the Bismarck Solomon and New Guinea island sector northeast of Australia and pushing closer to Singapore on a hotly-contested land front In Mataya Japs Advance There was no question however that the Japanese offensive stretching from Burma to the north of Australia still was pushing forward The Australian government again made an urgent appeal to the United States and Britain to speed reinforcements that might turn the enemy back and cabinet members -reiterated that the danger of invasion and of on our was extremely grave Still another Japanese invasion force headed toward the Mg Dutch oil port of Balik Papan on the east coast of Borneo suffered large lossed when Dutch war planes scored 12 hits with bombs weighing up to 660 pounds on eight enemy vessels On other fronts: The forces of Gen Douglas MaeArthur fought off continuous attacks by re-(Tura to Po Eight) Air Work Day is Postponed Work day fa air raid wi in San Luis 1 OMspo originally scheduled fa Sunday baa beat: postponed and will be announced lata according to J'E Gooding air raid warden super visa Wardens planned to distribute buckets of sand throughout the city hut the recent rain soaked the sand and made postponement nee-mry 4 i QnnMnf ha obtained from the British library of Information of New York City a course of Instruction for wardens ths first of which will open Monday at 7 in room 20 Junta Uib sdMoL' Clifford Jordan win betastmeta Monday evenings win bo rcaerv-scf for aU-wardrus and their aa-of the Fourth district to- of FoUoe CUM districts of the city May Ration Wool To Rod Cross WASHINGTON Jan 23 The truly patriotic housewife who wants to knit for the armed forces should save all odds and ends of unused yarn and return them with the finished garment to her Red Cross chapter To clear up confusion among knitters created by reports of a growing scarcity of wool a responsible Red Ckoss official revealed today it may ultimately become necessary to ration wool among the Red Cross chapters Other officials pointing out that the normally produces only about 500000000 pounds against the 1000000000 pounds used in Scout £atei wa ne ty by 1941 believe it later might even Bushnell council scout ex Principal Lawrence Griffin of the high school and Hubert Semens junior high school will present members of their graduating classes and Dr Campbell chairman of the city school board of trustees will present members of the Junior Ool-(Turn to Page Eight) Scout Leaders Gather for Green Dor Camp Announcement of the Green Bar Training Camp program at Rout-sahn Park for the training of Boy degree of arts for successful com pletion of the two-year course Thirty-three senior high school graduates will receive diplomas as will 37 graduates of the Ban Luis Obispo Junior high school Close of Semester Commencement exercises this evening marks the dose of the first 'semester of Ban Luis 1941-42 school year and heralds the opening of the second semester Monday Classes in the Senior high school and Junior high school will start immediately Monday while one day will be spent for registration- in the Junior College exercises will feature no special speaker save partld- Ktlng members of the graduat-f risssfs Nancy Rosenberg who with June Lusardi is an honor scholarship society member of the junior high school graduating class will deliver a talk entitled Carries On The senior high achooiplayers eight in all will present a one-act- play -V Marjorie Gottfredson honor student of the high school graduating class will be awarded the and Lomb honorary science award for work done in her years in high school flrholastlr Awards Four senior high school graduating girls are to receive scholastic federation awards for having maintained far above standard grades during their high years The students are Mary Drumm Lois Persson Marjorie Gottfredson and Margaret Luth ecutlve First session of the long-range program designed to train scoutmasters and the)r troop leaden will be held tonight and Saturday at the Arroyo Grande county park The Green Bar camp will be conducted throughout the spring aad summer every other month Scoutmasters and their troop leaden will gather at the park this afternoon to establish camp Tonight they will conduct a conference to discuss scout problems in the county Early tomorrow ths group' will participate in demonstrations of scout skills comping advancement helps and organisation of patrols Participating in the program an the following scoutmasten: Robert Btans Marvin Willard William Turner and Fred Osborne of San Luis Obispo Frank Kipp of Mono-Bay Harry Davis of Fismo Beech Yard Loomis of Arroyo Grande and Robert San-den of Atascadero Completion of -four sessions at the Green Bar camp program and the required projects will quality scoutmasten for scoutmaster training certificates bar awards Boy leaden com lag the' course outlined 01 be entitled to patrol leader certificates and the green bar award Hnshnell who Is directing the program' potato oat that the night camp every will alternate with 1 Individual the month arm out during the camp period The Boy Scouts own a cabin at Rout-sahn Park' taauriag the program In' i For Troops By BBYDON TAVRS MELBOURNE Australia Jan 23 (UP) Australia sent outlying defense forces into 'action and appealed urgently today for American and British reinforcements against Japanese invaden striking in force at strategic Melanesian Talanda north-eaat of this embattled continent Seeking control of vital Allied supply lines in the southwest Pacific and a base for invasion of Australia the Japanese sent Mg air and naval fleets into the New Guinea Bismarck and Solomon Taiend ucu commanding the ap-proaches to the whole East Indies defense nontr 111 War Minister Forde coo-finning aa official report of a Japanese landing in the Solomons "declared: Will Resist will resist and we will fight back to the uttermost of our capacity We are a tough people and wUl not be intimidated by Japanese threats that they will show no mercy If we Forde said Australia had emphasised directly to leaders of the British and American governments that the Pacific battle "can easily lose the entire sufficient forces of guns and planes had been sent to Malaya the Pacific battle need not have reached this stage and become the battle of he said only thing that can stop the battle from being fought on our beaches and In our cities is Immediate Allied reinforcement of Landing at Kieta A definite report of landing at Kieta harbor cm Bougainville Island in the Solomons was announced officially and other landings were reported in New Guinea and the Blsmarcks (Forde amid over the radio that Australian militia was believed to be battling the Japanese invader but that bombing 'attacks and invasion thrusts against Australia must be expected) Official 1 communication lines with the Australian island outposts in the Melanesia group were disrupted and the government said there was no definite word regarding opposition to the enemy Defense preparations had been made as for as possible in the outlying territory and officials said it was presumed that defense action was automatic Tiro Recap Sales May De Restricted To Independents WASHINGTON Jan 23 Ire sales under rationing regulations aa well as retreading and recapping work may he restricted to independent dealers under a plan being studied by defense officials Chairman Wright Patman XX Tex told the house -small business committee today He said he hoped officials would adopt that policy and if they did not the committee would take action Lester A Malkaraon Minneapolis' MIml independent tire and service dealer charged that major tire manufacturers with company owned stores were attempting to drive independents out of businees Hale Colorado Springs Goto independent dealer and former Firestone lire and Rabbar-Odl store manaaer said in 16B2 told store that a a nickel a "a to give claimed their farces were (NEA Telephoto) -Labor Peace Plan Accepted by Two Leaders WASHINGTON Jan 23 Presidents William Green of the AFL and Philip Murray of the CIO today accepted a labor peace proposal advanced by President Roosevelt Under toe president's proposal a Joint committee will be established- comprising three re tatives from each of the labor organisations to maintain peace for duration of tna war The plan does not provide for uniting the rival organisations as did the proposal put forward by United Mine Workers President John Lewis a week ago Murray was said by -CIO officials to have advised Mr Roosevelt of his acceptance although formal announcement may be withheld until after the CIO executive board meets tomorrow in New York Green likewise advised Mr RoosevClt that the AFL would cooperate in the plan: The plan which apparently stymied CIO-AFL was said to stem from his that any merger of the two rival labor organizations at this time would create' too much intra-labor politics as various factions Jock' eyed fa top positions in -a unified organisation Lewis meantime was reported in labor circles to be to lead his 40000 UMW members out of the 1 CIO poo sibly because his peace plan was rejected Lewlspoeition: on the present laba controversy will be ra this weeks) for the -UMW dent said statement will' be issued late today a tomorrow' UiSfoekUp On Aufo Pari WASHINGTON Jam 28 md light i to last 'two win be said today Under aide a The War In Brief By UNITED PRESS Gen Douglas forces are stubbornly Masting back' at continuous Japanese attacks and have Inflicted a large casualty toll on troops the war depart Axis faces have re- occupied Agedabia 90 miles sooth of Benghazi la a auddea thrust from the salt marches of El Aghella oa the Cyrenaica-Trlpollteata border British Middle East said today Wv'-' RANGOON BURMA Well withdrawing to better positions of the mala objective of ef- SINGAPORE Australian Mtsea eight la the straits he- HUNG KING 19 to 20 aft ef aa v'Sl dais Gd Dm of the Wertd In Singapore bow sorelj up debris after one of -the first drawing closer to the British naval Only a Few New Registrants To Do Drafted WASHINGTON Jan 2 A (UE Only a few of the 9000000 men who will register for selective service on Feb 16-are likely to be called to the colors soon officials indicated today The bhlk of the manpower in the immediate future will come from the 17500000 already registered selective service authorities said The number of men over 36 years of age who will he called to complete this 8600000-man army will be very it wan aaUL Brigj Gen Lewis Hersbey selective service director hinted at this procedure when 1m aakl! you have grass already cut batter get It in the bam before you begin cutting any Sources available for new selectees exclusive of the men registering next month were listed as follows': 21 to 29 as 1-A '2 An estimated 20009 to 40909 whose tl-R daaeiflca-tlens prehabty win he 1 changed to 1-A wader a war-ttm of 1-A 65 4-A strength at L79M99 RIO DE JANEIRO 3Tan28ajjj Representatives cof' an 21-can rsnuhUcs' were understood today to have ftittiallsd the formula for a united' break la relations with tbs Axis Tin formula calHag for a 1 in at a Ar- be necessary to stop home knitting So far no halt has been put oa knitting activities Red Cross chapters can and will continue to buy wool for knitting up to the amount- of sums available on hand for the purchase NEW MARINES RANK WASHINGTON Jan 23 Thomas Holcomb who was appointed a second lieutenant in the marine corps 42 years ago became today its first lieutenant general highest rank ever held by a marine corps commandant company Present -buildings and residences alongside including the Railway Express agency will he moved according to 'plana Ths piano provide for new stm-tion approaches from both Osce and Santa Rosa streets There will be provided also ample space -and attractive lsndsHnpiiiy both on the railroad aad city aides of the station The building' will extend approximately 50 yards along the right-of-way and will have commodious and attractive waiting roman rest room offices and baggage rooms Track Changes Being Made For New SP Depot Here Track changes and topography feature changes required for the construction of Southern new $97000 railway station in San Luis Obispo are now being made and actual construction of the station will begin soon it was announced today by Ben Baumann division superintendent here First announcement of the con-o- struction Job was mads in October by Jordan coast superintendent of the company With 60 act as probable starting data cm the Job Outbreak of the war and the death of Angus McDonald SP president In December led to short delays in the project but construction has been authorised and money appropriated Difficulty in obtaining materials may alow' actual construction somewhat The new station will be stucco mission tile architecture and will be s'tuated directly In front of the pceeent office building of the vcl 'a' I 1 y- turn -out 150 Of 1941 thtaVE IMbta't of a 't 3- 4 I- 'y: -t vv r-.