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In Her Urgent Need" of U. S. Aid, England No Longer Worries Over Whether American Ambassadors Will Wear Knee-Length Breeches at Royal Receptions. THE WEATHER By U. 8. Weather Bureau Fulr longhl mid Saturday. Morn ing log. Continued cold. Sea page 4 for statistic!. WAR i Follow daily development! through NEWS-RKVIF.W service, Ah accurate as possible, considering censorship at points of origin, and prompt. OL XLV NO. 213 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURg, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 3, I94C VOL. XXIXNO. 111 OF THE EVENING NEW9 S) 5) IM mwi m r fHrOOUGLRS. COUNTY DAL? o)p)irir mm IMS In The Day's News fly FRANK JKNKINS fS Tuesday, official Itritulii list ened to Hitler's speech and Mzed it up. On Wednesday (to day) Herbert Morrison, ihitish home secretary, replies: "Many people vould be ready Id listen If (iennany could bold out a convincing promise of a Kurope enriched by economic unity and jmctfied by the removal of national rivalries." Then he added: "llut the organization the nnzls offer is that of n SI.AVK PLAN TATION." fXKFICIAL Britain, that is, sumed that Hitler was say- Ing: "I've, olready ACHIKVKI") this Vnited States of Kurope. that peo ple have been discussing. So bow about culling it nulls, with your keeping your empire and tne keep ing the Kurope I've unified with he sword?" Oflcinl Britain replies: "NO! ' Your unified Kuropo Won't work because It Is merely an aggregation of conquered peo ples kept quiet by deadly fear. Wo want nothing to do with it." fn Hitler's championship of the have-nots against the haves, Morrison answers: "We see n post-war world in which class privilege will he- In defensible and intolerable anil monopolies will he revised and adapted lo the public good. We must look forward to a society that is free from the twin pests of extreme riches and extreme poverty." That is to say. Hitler WAS seeking to set class against class in Knglnnd, and official Britain goes him ono better and promises a new and better world after the war ends. A Ai this, of course, is merely VVi guess on this writer's part. It seems, however, a rather rea sonable guess.) pASSINfi from the war of words to the war of deeds, the Brit ish intimate that they have dupli cated General J. E. H. Stuart's fa mous feat In riding clear around the Union army In the Seven Days (Continued on pace 4.) 200 Jews Drown In Crack-Up of Ship ISTANBUL. Per. 13. fAP) Anproximately 2on Jewish refu gees, among nenrlv 400 bound Imn- rtnlnria to Palestine, drown r,T when their ship broke to pieres In high seas near Istanbul. Turk ish newspapers reported today. The disaster was said to have occurred in the Sea of Marmora, vent, of Istanbul, when a motors-hip flying the Uruguayan flag r:n into heavy seas and broke up t;ear the shore. Approximately passengers, including rinny children and their furthers, were thrown Into th sea without an opportunity to tali1 to lifeboats, a newspaper reported. The captain of the boat succed e 1 In swimming ashore and raMd givernnient resc.ie crews to tie scope. About 10 survivors were picked up nnd taken to hospitals. Wanted Youths Nabbed in Chase on Santiam Pass BEND. Ore.. Dec. 13. (AP) Sheriff Herbert Hamilton arrested two youths after a OO-milean-hour ebnse over the Santiam pass during which he opened fire on the flee ing pair yesterday. The bullets forced Donald IT. Tlood of Iowa and Everett Aeltnn Yarwood nf Wisconsin to hair. The Downtown Christmas decoration sheriff said the youths, both armed. Mfrhts will shine on. The mer were wanted on charges of robbing chants have underwritten them. I ll.n n- mm1-., at'ltlun i fr,trl.. f ..lit U.. .. The chap boron after officers aw the pair driving an automo-.thev bile reported missing from Salem, Narragansett Turkey Show's Grand Champ Yearling Tom of A. D. Hudson Adjudged Live Division's Best; Association Names Officers; Banquet Tonight. Awards announced today at the Northwestern Turkey show at Oak land were as follows: GRAND CHAMPION L STANDARD LIVE DIVISION Narragansett Yearling Tom A. D. Hudson, Tangent, RESERVE CHAMPION White Holland Old Hen Eugene Hamrick, Salem. BREED CHAMPIONS Narragansett Yearling Tom A. D. Hudson, Tangent. Bronze Yealing Hen Roy Med ley, Oakland. White Holland Old Hen Eugene Hamrick, Salem. Bourbon Red Yearling Tom Mrr, Nella Butler, HMIsboro. Black Yearling Hen Mrs. Fay Leatherwood, Oakland. CLASS CHAMPIONS Old Tom, Black Mrs. Fay Lea therwood, Oakland. Yearling Tom, Narragansett A, D. Hudson, Tangent. Young Tom Narragansett A. D. Hudson, Tangent. Old Hen, White Holland Eugene Hamrick. Salem. Yearling Hen, Black Mrs. Fay Leatherwood, Oakland. Pullet, Bronze Roy Medley, Oak land. MASTER BREEDER'S DISPLAY Strongs, Oakland first. Mrs. Fay Leatherwood, Oakland second. The annual Northwestern Turkey Show In progress at Oakland was scheduled to reach its climax with the awarding lain today of the grand championship, breed nnd class championships nnd special prizes. It was anticipated the final Judging would be completed late in lite afternoon. Kxhibitors win ning the coveted honors will re ceive their trophies at the turkey show banquet to he held tonight. The banquet program will fea ture an address by K. B. Mnc Naugbton of Portland. Clyde K. Williamson of Albany will act as toast master. Oherlln Kvenson, baritone, of the University or Ore gon school of music, will be featur ed in the musical program. Assn. Elects Officers. The N01 Ihwestern Turkey Breed ers association, which sponsors the (Continued on pngo (1) New Officer Heads Defense Building WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. (AP) The war department announced today that Lieutenant Colonel lire hon B. Somervell, who has the re putation of being a hard-hitting administrator, has been placed In command of Its lagging JLHT.dOO. iMio construction program. The department said in a state ment that Brigadier General Charles Hartman. who had been in eharrp of construction, entered a hospital Wednesday "for obser vation and treatment following a long period of overwork." General Oeorge C. Marshall, chief of staff, said that delays in certain construction projects "had no bearing on the assignment of Colonel Somervill." These delays, lie added, bad been due to causes beyond the control of the construe lion division. Secretary of War RNmson dis closed at a press conference yes terday that tentative dates for taking 96.00ft national guardsmen Into the federal service had been revised because pome housing and other facilities inevitably were not being completed on schedule. Colonel Somervell, a native of Little Itork, Ark., recently has been WPA administrator In N York City. He is a former presi dent of the Mississippi river com mission and once was in charge of cim struct ion on the controversial Florida ship canal. Cash Basis Law Forces City Into Yule Blackout COLUMBUS. Has.. Dec. IT CAPi The streot lights in this southeastern Kansas citv of 3.2VO will he blacked out tonight and ev ery night fnr the rest of December by peacetime nerpssity by the Kansn ruth basis law their car lights. As for pedestrian. miy cany lantorm If they choose. 'I Am' Witness 3 E 1 ' 1 Harry Sieber , above, first business manager of the "I Am" movement, a government wit ness In the Los Angeles $3,000, 000 mail fraud trial against lead ers of the cult. He told of a busi ness manager's "cut" of "love gifts" donated by followers. Former Teacher Of 1). of 0. Accused Dr. Ralph C. Bennett Booked On Assault Charge as Sequel ..To Money Litigations . .... i EL MONTI-:, Calif.. Dec. 13. (AP) Dr. Ralph Culver Bennett, T-9, former law professor at the University ol Oregon, faced ar raignment today on assault, charges niter officers asserted he attacked two persons with a ham mer. Dr. Bennett, a resident of Pasa dena, was accused on two accounts of assault with a deadly weapon. Sheriffs deputies asserted he at tacked William T. Cleeson, fi2, a process server, and Mrs. Helen Chivers, fill, proprietor of a sani tarium. Neither was seriously hurt. The alleged assault occurred out side the court or Justice of Ihe Peaco Kldred K. Wolford. who had refused to set aside a $150 judg ment obtained by Mrs. Chivers against Bennett for support of his fU-year-old mother, Mrs. Clara Henuett. Sheriff's Deputies Robert. Jones and Dan Holloway said Bennett attacked Mrs. Chivers and Clee son when the latter attempted to serve a suhpeona in another ac tion In which Mrs. Chivers seeks collection of $:i additional. Bennett was returned to the court, where the charges were fil ed and his bond fixed at Sl.Ooo. He was lodged later in the Ios Angeles county jail. Bennett declared he acted in self-defense. "I knew these people expected to waylay me." he asserted, "and that is why I took the hammer with me when I went to court. I was ready for them when they set upon tne." EUOKNK. Dec. 13. (AP) Br, Ralph Culver Bennett, arrested in Del Monte. Calif., on a charge of assault, was a law professor at the University of Oregon during ithe year of 1014-15. The school whs then located in Portland. Earlier Assessment Date In Oregon to Be Asked PORTLAND Dec. 13. (AP) A tax commission attorney outlined plans yesterday to change county I assessment dates from March 1 to January 1 and to shift filing dates I for county budgets from November x o May or June 1. James o. Smith told the state district attorneys' association that the proposals would be presented at the state legislature. He also presented a plan to exempt non profit cooperative telephone lines and farmers' lines from taxation. Actor Novarro Hurt in Crash of Automobile HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 1(AP Ramon Novarro. 11-year-old screen : tor. was seriously injured early today in an automobile accident. Physicians at Hollywood police, h'lfpjtal. where he was taken, said be suffered undetermined chest In juries, concussion of the brain and cuts. Winter's Icy Clutch Holds MuchofU.S: Sub-Zero .Temperatures, Snow and Rain Experienced in Various Areas; Utah Town Awash, Air Traffic Hit. (By the Associated Press) It was winter by the thermometer if. not by the calendar in a wide area of the nation today. Winter does not mnko its official debut for more than a week but wintry weather prevailed over the great plains and upper Mississippi valley. Sub-zero' temperatures marked the pr ogress of a cold wave ncross Montana, the Dakotas, and Minne sota. A low of 25 below was re ported yesterday at Warroad, Minn. The same cold wave swept ovor the Rocky mountains on to the Pa cific, coast, bringing northern and central California the coldest weather in four years. "Much colder" was the forecast for most of the central states to- duy and the eastern states tonight. armer weather was predicted for the week-end. The wen'.her bureau warned shippers against temperatures of B to l:i below in the northwest nnd west, zero to 10 above in the north, and 10 to 20 above In the south and east. Snow and Rain Fall!. Snow blanketed the plains states. Rocky mountain region, portions of the lake region and the tipper Mis sissippi valley while rain pelted the gulf states, Ohio valley and the Appalachian region. A gale whipped fresh snow Into deep drifts in Colorado mountain areas but major highways were open. The snow fall In Colorado ranged from four and a half Inches at Denver to III Inches at Tellurlde, a mountain mining town which was hit by a blizzard shortly after noon yesterday. A seven-Inch fall at Beaver, in southern Utah, clogged nu irriga tion ditch nnd sent flood waters into the business district. Wet snow proved a boon to the dry range lands In southwestern Utah nnd drought affected parts of Wyoming. his incites of snow covered the western section of Nebraska and (Continued on page 6) Conscription Act Repeal Urged by CIO Groups ASTORIA. Ore.. Dec. 13. (AP) The CIO International Fishermen and Allied Workers union urged re pen 1 of the Burke-Wndsworth con scription net yesterday. The union claimed the act wns unwarranted nnd passed In an "un democratic nnd hysterical manner." I-or the first time fishermen fa vored prohibiting ocean trolling In March, April and May. Oregon and Washington were asked in a supplementary resolu tion to prevent landing 01 troll- caught salmon during those months. Friday, 13th, Registers in Various Forms it i if III Luck, Oddities Mingle in Record fRy the Associated Press) Thirreens Aplenty MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 13. (AP) -On this Friday, the 13th, little Shirley Johnson has more 1Tb than you ean shake n Jinx at. It was on Friday the 13lh that Mrs. Johnson took out n hospitali zation policy in January. 19.'tn. Shirley was born on Fridny the 1.1th of September. 1010. She was born at 11 a. m. which appears as the 13th hour in some time reckonings. She weighed seven pounds, 1.1 ounces at birth. Today she is 13 weeks old and weighs exactly 13 pounds. Hoodoo WATERLOO, la. Traffic Officer Donald Malcolm kept his fingers crossed today. Thirteen weeks ago to the day (Friday 13th). his mo torcycle collided with a truck while he was chasing a speeder. He Is still on crutches. Quadruple Misfortune ONEIDA. Wis. Talk about Fri day ihe nib lurk, listen to this la ment by Mrs. Carl Dwyer: Returning from a trip he found her home burglarized. She started for the constable's office, but the ax!- on her automobile snapped. Windsor May , Be Next Envoy To U. S., Rumor MIAMI, Fin., Doc. 13. (AD Tho dulio of Windsor flow away from Miami In a naval nlnne to day for iin undisclosed destination, amid HprondliiK reports that Jin would confer with President ItooRe velt nnd mlKht become nrltlsh am bassador to the United Stnte9. "I am sorry I am unable to make any Htntemeut,' he said. Speculation on tho possibility that tho former kins might repre sont his nation officially at Wash ington was stirred nfresh today when the duke's nldo do camp. Captain lii-ury. disclosed through n. press representative thnt Windsor was flying In a naval plane, today to- "an undisclosed destination on important official business." it wuii added that tho stote depart ment wished nil details withheld at present. Vhe duke carried no luggage nnd Cnptulu Ilrury told reporters "I ex port you'll be seeing him ngnlu soon." bolstering belief thnt ho might lie heading; for a meeting wllh the chief execullve who Is cruising In . nearby llahamlan waters. ODDITIES (Fly the Assoclnted Press) Canine Gold SAI.lSlimv, Md. "Raleigh." nn Knglish bulldog owned by Dr. Ver non W. Itichni-ds. has a golden grin thene days. "Italeigh" lost a tooth, so the dentist made him n gold ono and tho shiny lower left cuspid stic ks out of tho jntllng uiuler-Jaw beyond all other teeth. Vfcnison Vanishes CIIICAtiO Frank Fenern plnn ned a venison dinner In his tavern and hung tho deer enrenss on a sign high nbnve the front door. To day he bad to cancel (he dinner. The deer was gone. On the side walk beneath Ihe sign wns n long pole with a knife lied lo tho end. Warning WASHINGTON M.ivbo It's on nccount of Ibo shopping throngs, but tile census bureau snys wntch out for automobile accidents tho Salurdny before Christinns. Records nf the bureau showed that the automobile death toll on that day Is two to three times ns largo ns usunl. Preview of Phone Movie Shown Rorarians, Guests Members of the Roseburg Rotary club nnd their guests yesterday saw a preview of the Telephone com pany talking movio entitled "A New Voice for Mr. X." Tho film depict ed lax telephone "manners," how to improve them und Ihe flno results of doing so. Ihe annual Christmas party of tho club was set for Friday eve ning, December 20. She went to a brother-ln tnw's farm and took a horse from the barn. As she prepared to have the horse pull the car off the road, the horse felt dead. She went home. Returning later she found someone had stolen tho 1'iip battery and rear-view mirror. Stork Deals Hand MIDDLETOWN, Conn Friday the LHli meant something to the Middlesex county hospital. Superintendent Howard Sf. Pflr mnn paid there were 13 mothers and 13 Infants In the maternity ward (oday nnd that the 13th ar rival came 13 hours after the moth er was admitted. Tho child. Raymond Clovls Mor row, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Morrow of Chester, has 13 letters In his given names nnd Is the 13th grand' hlld. Only Half Worry SEATTLE Todav. Friday the 13th. Is nlso the 13th birthday for Claire Wilson, but she's not wor ried. "I figure It ought to be extra good luck. Iislead of had. having two tblrteens that way." she said. She's more troubled, though, fear ing her 42 schoolmates In the fith grade nt St. Benedict's srhool will find out about It. Thirteen ear- putling or the like 42 times, would be something. Italians9 Main Coastal Base Blasted, Airfields Wrecked Nazis Blast Steel Center Of Sheffield Many Buildings Destroyed, Fires Set, Casualties Inflicted; Berlin Reports Additional Toll of British Vessels. LONDON. Dec. 13. (API Shef field, great steel center in the north of Knglaud, drew the concentrated blows of (iermauy's night raiders lust night. A number of buildings were de stroyed nnd roads damaged or tem porarily Mocked, the government reported. From nnrly last nlgbl until Parly today, largo formations of raiders scattered incendiary, high explo sive and delayed-action bombs on the city. Exchange Telegraph. Hrltlsh news agency, said raiding planes machine-gunned firemen us they fought the blazes. Most of tho fires were extinguished quickly, but somo of tho larger ones burned for hours. The total killed nnd Injured, Ex change Telegraph said, "while con siderable, was umazingly low con sidering the , consist cy and weight of the raid." A number of bodies have still to be taken from widespread wreck age, In commercial, shopping and residential areas. There were no reports nf damage In Loudon but a church and a fur niture factory were destroyed In a midlands town. The southeast coast and other areas also reported raiderH overhead. RAF RAIDS BREST A raiil on the docks at Brest, nazl-hehl French port on the At lantic, by "n small formal ion of aircraft of Ihe coastal command" was reported by the air ministry today. The ministry nlso reported an nt tack by a British plane on "nu ene my supply ship" off tho Dutch coast last night In which "a direct hit on tho flliip was obtained." Other bombing operations of the royal air force were cancelled last night owing lo unfavorable wea ther, said another announcement. Nazi Ship Sunk Tho BriliHh submarine Snnffsh has sunk a Herman supply ship of about 1 1.Otiu tons off tho Norwegian (Continued on page G) Europe Has Three Months' Food Left WASHINGTON. Dee. 13. (AP) State department Intervention tu behalf of foot! relief for Europe is unlikely for at least three mouMis, a hirh official said today, because the department has Infor mation that there are enough sup plies abroad to last until late next spring. A survey oT food conditions, com piled lor the department by au thor itativo Aincrlmu sou re es, shows that Europe faces no star vation for a minimum of five or six months, the official reported. This information, he said, cou pled with Britain's recent, refusal to pats food shipments through her blockade, has virtually decid ed Hie state department to defer any general action on the subject until the end of the winter. An exception may be made. In formed sources said, in behalf of Red Cross efforts lo send sup plies to Spain, where the food sit uation is believed critical, nnd for shipments of condensed milk and concentrated vitamin foods for Infants and children in unoc cupied France. Lions Offer Trophy for Best Yule Decoration Conforming to Its annual cus tom, the Roseburg Lions club 1b again offering a trophy for the best exterior decoration at a ItoHeburg residence during the Christmas season, ending Decem ber 25. Judging of the seasoml display will he made by a com mitter of three persons outside nf the club's membership on Ihe eve ning of December 21. An?iounce ment of the winner of the tnphy i handponm gold-lined, silver cup will appear In the New-Re view. The personnel or the judges Iwill not he divulged eltlnj. before or ."ter their decision is mad'-. Fresh Fascist Troops Fail To Halt Greek Tide ATHENS, Deo. 13. (AP) Fresh Italian troopR throwu into tho battlo In Albania were reported to day to have failed to halt the alanli lug (Ireek ndvance nKninat hnightfl mirronnding the coastal town nt C'hlmara, north of captured Porto ?hla, despite desperatB resistance. Hero and elsewherB tho Crocks said that tho Kalians wore replnc Infr large units with new troops but thnt the Intter were no more successful In checking tho tireoks. Especially large Italian concentra tions wore declared thrown Into tho fight along tho const in a dos perato effort to halt the flrocks. Ono dispatch from tho front snld that uftor tho flrnoks repulsed fns clst counter-attacks nt various points "tho Initiative along the en tire front passod once again to (lrnk troops and tho enemy Is con tinuing to retreat.' Captured Italian officers worn Raid by tho (Jreeks to havo ex pressed doubt of Italy's n,billly to continue the struggle after the likely fall of Kllflurn pass, where thoy hnd hoped to chock the flroek advance toward TepolenI, road Junction 20 miles north or fl reek hold Arglrocnstro. Kllsnra In JO miles northeast of TepolenI. "Thin statement coincides with other reports of internnl dissen sions In Ilnly," the (ireeks snld, "and a situation has developed creating Insurmountable difficul ties for the Italians who aro trying to nnd a way out." A ronnnnnlssanco lillot reported yesterday thnt Valonn, socond only to l)tirazo in Importance to tho fascists, had been nindo virtually useless for large vessels by bombs which smashed piers and Jetties. Influenza Increase In Oregon Is Not Checked ronTf.AN'n, Ore., T)ep. 13. (AP) A slight Increase In Oregon in fluenza, continued today. Wlllainutle university, Rnlem, cancelled nil uncial functions un til after C'hrlstmua nnd schools in lialbis closed until Monday. Absences roso to 22 per cent In Portland high schools and 12 per cent In grade schools. Total ab sences were RR71, Col. Clifton M. Irwin, comman der, ali! nt Camp Clatsop thnt a cold caHt wind had revived Influ enza, after It appeared tho dlsonse was abating. ' Deputy Sheriff Faces Fund Shortage Charge TUB nAIJ.KS, Doc IS (AP) Sheriff Harold Sexton haled Deputy Sheriff (iuy Duvnll Into Justice court yesterday aflor auditors re ported a shortage of sheriff office funds. Duvnll. who waived preliminary hearing, was held lo tUo grand Jury under bond of $12.0(10. He had been u deputy for 12 years. Creswell Mill Workers Strike for Wage Boost Rt'OENR. Dec. 13. (AP) The Pacific Lumber mill fit Creswell rUmcil yenterday as workmen wont on strike for a wage Increase from lid to Ml cents an hour. The action wns scparato from tho demand by Atf. unions In other plants of tills area for a 7b cent In crease. Postmaster of Troutdale Found Dead in His Car . Pnp.TI.ANn. Ilec. 13. (AP) The hoily of Charles Purrell. 02. Troulihile iHistmasler, was found In his nutomobllo in a ditch off tho Mnsellne road today. Deputy Cor oner (lldeon Snook said he appar ently had succumbed to a heart nt tack. 500 Italians Yield to One Tank; What to Do? AnoAni) a nnrnsir tie- STHOYICIt OFF THE EOYP TIAN COAST. Dec. 13. (AP) A radio tnensngo picked up to day by this warship from tho officer of a Hrltlsh tnnk taking part In Ihe offensive beyond Sldl Ilarrani said: "I am In tho middle of C00 In fantrymen, all with their hands up but I cannot hold them much longer. Bend Infantry quickly." Prisoner Jar Supply Takes Rise Heavily Retreating Italians Strafed By Warships; British May Launch Counter Invasion Over Border Into Libya. LONDON, Deo. 13. (AP) British forces In Egypt's west ern desert were reported to night by Reuters, British news agency, In a Cairo dispatch to have captured the entire stock of fuel and food which the Italians had for the Invasion of Egypt. CAIRO. Deo. 13. (ATM Brit ish ItAF bombers and fighting planes blasted Italian bases, am munition dumps, troops, com munications and grounded aircraft in tho 6-dny-old battle of Egypt, tho Hrltlsh command reported to day. More than twelvo Italian air fields were said to have been bombed. Striking throughout last night nnd yesterday, the command said, uio iiaf attacked Italy's main war base of Tobmk, on tho Libyan coast, and "completely gutted" hangars at El Adorn airdrome neat Tobruk. "Many tons nf bomb were drop ped on the town tof Tobruk anil harbor." the ministry reported. "Fires were observed burning fiercely In many places and vio lent explosions and fires near petrol dumps wero so)i from So lum bay by our aircraft ion tho re turn Journey. Thorn wero nlso heavy explosions In tliei vicinity of nmmuiiitlnn ''stores;" At El Adorn nlrdromo, "'nlrcrnft on tho ground were heavily inn-chine-gunned by our reconnais sance machines." Heavy raids were nlso made on Itardla. about 15 miles Inside tho Libyan border, the announcement said, nnd homb hlls set off a vio lent explosion In a "stores dump which resulted In flames rising lo a thousand feet." rim report said Italian air craft on the ground were machine gunned and three CM 42's de stroyed. Prisoners Increased The number of Italian raptured troops has been "Increased by several tlinusumls" over the 20, 000 previously announced, n com munique reported today from tho western desert front. Five general are among tho cap tives, the coiuinunifiio said. It milled that Hrltlsh patrols all along the Anglo-Egyptian Kudnn frontier are continuing to inflict casualties on the Italians. Tho British victory. at Sidi P.-ir. rani bus broken any imniedUid threat to the Hues canni, Hrit.sli military qunrters said today, as Hrltaln's forces were report, id S'.:ll rolling forward with growin? mo mentum In the western desert. There wns nn Inillrntln y.it hoyr fnr the Hrltlsh intend to press (Continued on pnge (1) Norway's Finest Liner Strikes Mine and Sinks NEW YOHK. Dec. 13. (AP) Authoritative shipping circles snld tnilay that the IS. 073-ton passenger liner Oslofjord, Nunvny's largest and finest, ship, struck a mine and sank two days ngo off Nowcastlo in the Hrltlsh Isles. Chartered by Englnnd after seek ing refuge hero from the war, the Oslorjord sailed secretly Inst Oct. 2fi for Halifax, where she reported ly picked up Canadian aviators for England. She was reported to have lnndeil tho aviators nnd to havo started back to Canada when she struck the mine. MORE DAYS toSHOP Tubcftulotl fan no b Innanicd. W htlptd buy thai truth with Ch hit mot Scali. 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