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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1941)
i i t - : ; Thorough Service - - Local acwi and picture? Turn to The Oregon State', man. World 'irsews?. -i The Statesman tells ft all la ac curate, speedily deUvered Associated Press dispatches i r - i T7eallier : ! ' tMU ralu today ! aad r T wsday. Iax. Trap Toes- JrUl," Ma. -S3. - Krth - ad. RU ,I tach.: Hirer ; . Jt. Partly cloedj. . ' j ' r -' ' - r ' ' '- KEimrrn yeab Scxltnu Qrcjoiv WsdiiMdoy Morning, January 8. ' 1341 Prlcsj 3oC Newsstands 5c i Ha. 245 feci in. I, TV" .!:, : CDinniia)!0 - 0 111: 1 Kill ;U?aiyJI A : T0( - 1 1Y i I Til 11 UU II '"If V? I aw mm im .j. .: i . - New Four-Man Defense Board Has Authority Knudsen, Hilbnan Equal Power; priorities May Be Dictated i .r' . ' Nori - Cooperative . Plants May Be Taken brer. Is Wordirigpf pifder By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON, Jan. 7-(ff)-To hasten ths production of war ma terials for both the United States -and Great Britain, President Roo seTelt today formally- established ,. the new four-man ("office of pro daction managemeBt" with broad .authority, including the power to " take oTer any Industrial plants considered non-cooperative. , -As working heads of the. new agency, he appointed William S. Knudsen, former president of General Motors, and Sidney Hill m a n, CIO Tice president. Both were members of the old advisory defense commission. Knudsen will be director general and HilK man associate director general as they will act. Mr. Roosevelt said, as a team or partnership in wield ing the tremendous powers at their disposal. Secretaries Stimson and Knox of the war and navy de partments, respectively, are mem bers exofficio. ! (The president had announced last month that he intended to set up the new agency, but his executive orders issued today gave hitherto undisclosed details of the agency's authority.) After Mr. Roosevelt had ex plained his orders at his regular Tuesday press conference a re porter asked: "Mr. ; President, why Is It that you do not want to appoint a single responsible head for the defense program?:' , Says: "KnnUsen JliUmaB" Is Single Authority l , , The ine. airy - pointedly recalled receat'-charges-that . the defense program was bogging down for (Turn to Page f, Col. 1) aul TJaiuer't Column We are happy to announce that a use has finally been found for . the Christmas necktie. You'd nev er guess it, el ther. It ma y, of course, be used 5 to flax trains or! hang on the rear end . of trucksif carrying explo-s , i 1 ' 'i 1 slves, but it isn't every person who has a chance to. flag a train or carry explosives. I we don t want to I carry explosives I s even It it is a""11 1 " 11 chance to use a H. Hanssr, Jr. Christmas necktie. If you can't flag trains or cart TNT you can at least have your house broken into and burglarized like Harry L. Miller did in White Plains, NT. And It the burglar ' happens to take the Christmas tie like he took Miller's, why that'aJ ; a pearl in your oyster, as we say, or a feather in your bonnet, as you -'say..-.' i ' I And if a couple of weeks later , you happen to see that tie, of which there could be only one in existence because no tie manufac turer would make the same mis take twice, on the neck of a shifty-eyed individual, why you nab him and there Is your; bur glar and the 'ease is solved. Provided all burglars have bad taste In ties like the one Mr. Mil ler caught. '. , Simple, isn't it? j; Jii..'-'- OFFICE BEATJTIFTL NOTE -' It was unreliably reported i city. haU circles yesterday that City Recorder Hannah Martin wiU install pink curtains with, ; blue bows in her office and the councfl chambers. Mrs. Martte - confirmed the rumor, bnt that , ; wasn't chewlns gum in her cheek; ft' - r- i The legislature will come Into town next week and; some of the legislators have been around look ing; for logs to roll. THAT'S JUST FIXE DEPT. "Shanghai welcomes " back the entire Mark I Moody family There ' isn't thing doing - around town of comma I nity interest which wUl , i benefit by Uetr return." . - Shanghai China Press. ., i ' '-1 MARITIME NOTE " Somewhat belatedly the" , commander of ! the; ., Wheatland r Ferry learned last week - that' an elevator was instaUed aboard . - the Cruiser Tuscaloosa for the - benefit of the president and ins-, mediately requested the Marion ' county -admiralty j for same. "How can I ffht a war with . out an elevator? the couiman- : der was quoted. 1 . ..... . ' . . T A Labor Tfoiibl doming In Portlariu Shipyards A nd Furniture F actor Three Giants Face CIO jurisdictional issue;, JUoeriibecher Kunning Despite isrmte;iolencea PORTLAND; larK fe(fAPSfficUls of th fcTO Uim Scalers', union saidtonisrht they.wotil4 call a strike Wedns- iay m wiree rortiana snipysrxJs involved in a jurisdictional dispute.'-; v. . .:-vV .' rT ! I?. ': : : : t ; ; ' ' I Roscoe Craycraf t. CIO official said the combanies ire- fused to renew a six-year-old Scout Movement : Founder. Dies;83 ROBERT BADEN-POWtXI, . NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, Jan. 8 -JP)-Liord Baden - Powell, 83, founder . of the Boy Scout move ment, died today at Nyeri, his home in Kenya Colony. He had been reported critically ill in November, but after two weeks was said to be much im proved. Lord Baden-PoweU, a lineal de scendant of the early American settler John Smith, had resided in Africa since 1937. when he was forced by falling health to aban don his active life la London. Loehner to Make Tests for Sanity Psychiatrist is Assigned by Judge; Waltz Asks County Position ' Dr. C. A. Loehner, psychiatrist and part-time instructor In the psychology department .of Will amette university, will examine all insanity cases appearing for commitment to the state hospital from Marion county If satisfactory arrangements can be made, Marion County Judge Leroy Hew lett announced yesterday. . "Dr. Loehner is' ; an expert psychiatrist, I am Informed, has specialized as such and does not use guesswork on psychiatric cases," Judge Hewlett indicated yesterday. The county judge auto matically handles commitm ents for the county to the state hos pital. Dr. Loehner appeared as - a witness for the plaintiff in the recent habeas corpus proceedings of Earl H. Fehl, former judge of Jackson county now a patient in the state hospital. The judge also indicated that Dr. Ray M. Waltz, Salem p by (Turn to Page 2, CoL 8) Speeding Wood Wood haulers, especially wood haulers who are in' the habit -of traveling on county roads at ex cessive speeds, came in for sharp censure yesterday on ' the part of Marion County Judge Leroy Hew lett.' ft'? - : - - J' - The judge, who Monday upheld the request of a Donald mill for a permit to haul logs over an oiled road contrary to previous county court poller declared, I believe that the wood haulers who speed their trucks do more damage to the roads than the log haulers.' - "If there - Is - any way " to curb this speeding I believe it can be worked out, so these roads can be used as ' something else -than boulevards without doing any special damage. i :-- " T h e ? judge "emphatically an nounced a break with the vast court policy" in -, stating 1 that "I don't believe this -county, coart Is going on the basis of the past and make boulevards out of these oiled roads to the - exclusion of Log Hauling -Strike Today Involving agreement with the CIO after afju unions had warned they would r not work alongside members. CIO longshoremen CIO and marine unions will observe t e 8trikef. he said. , At least one of the shipyard Is engaged - in" national: defense work.; ;.: - ;. r 1 - AFL employes called a strike in a claim for recognition at the Doem&eeher Manufacturing com' pany today. - . The AFL accused the furniture company of signing a contract with the. CIO despite the fact the AFL had a elosed shop agreement in effect at the time. The plant continued in tlon. - opera- - PORTLAND, Jan. 7 (flP)-Charges of violence flew In the strike of AFL employes at the Montgom ery Ward company store here today, -i Police Capt. J. J. Keegan said he would take to the grand jury charges by two persons that they were assaulted by pickets. .' Rock throwers broke three win dows at the store last, night. ; OAKLAND, Calif.. JanJ 7-(4V Reports.of three men they were beaten after : leaving the f track Montgomery ward store ) here, drew a threat today from an AFL teamster official .to .withdraw truck dru-ers'j support t strikers. Two ttst6mers Elmer E. Four- hots, 40, Colusa rancher, and Bev ey Franklin, it, riding stable em ploye said they were attacked today. William D. Matthews, 31, stock clerk, said he was beaten last night. In each case several automobiles loaded with men forced the victim's ear to the curb. Fourhots and his wife were halted after a police escort, which accompanied them for 30 blocks, had left. Mrs. Fourhots was not bothered. None of the three men was badly hurt. ; j Charles W. Real, teamster chief tain here, said he would withdraw support of the strike if there; was any more violence. AFL warehousemen, affiliated with the Teamsters' union,! and AFL clerks have been on strike for more than a month, in an ef fort to force the store to bargain collectively with them and sign a contract. Sutherland's Body Is Found in River ONTARIO, Ore., Jan. 7.-KP)- ine Doay 01 unanes Sutherland, 3, prominent eastern Oregon sheepman, waa 'found in the Mal heur river near here today, Cor oner K. A. Tacke said. ,. The coroner said Sutherland, who recently was injured in! an automobile accident, was driving from here to Vale when his car left the . highway and became stuck on the river's edge. Sutherland,: walking with cane, apparently left the carl and hiked over a wide area looking for helpi Tacke reported, j f The coroner said Sutherland's tracks were traced into the Shal low water and out again several times. Indicating that he finally became exhausted and r collapsed In the water.: i , . j . The 1 body was ' discovered by Harold Long while helping! his father operate a trap line tor the state game commission," n (:' Trucks tritc Is Favored farmers, log haulers and ethers. In . eosnection - with ths court's study of a number of applications for log permits, most f them for permission to haul over gravel or paved roads and not over 'oiled highwsys. Commissioner J; E. Smith pointed out that In the past the court . has ? strongly . favored routing of log trucks over grSvel ed or payed roads exclusively. 1 : 1 The . commissioner ' referred to the old Turner - road, - which 'i re cently required extensive repairs because of the breakup of t h e surface. This highway, however, has been .barred to log haulers, it was pointed out, except tor some who may have used it surrepti tiously at, night. . , ! .s ; i i - Before ! shelving the topic the court heard reports ; that paved roads are : suffering 1 under t,h stress of log trucks; ' and" a greed to surrey the matter carefully be fore making final decision on a number of permits." --is!-, - ... Britain Voices Belief Tide of War Is Turned ' ... ': . " : i Roosevelt Message Aids in Bolstering Morafe; : . Italy 'Knocked out' "; : - .... ; ... .': ; --) ' i Easy Conquest of BardiaH . . Points Again o Low Morale of Troopa By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Britain's official .comment on President Roosevelt's "help-our. friends" speech strikes s .Tinging note of confidence that the criti cal corner of, the war has already been turned. ..-r. i : ' . i : ' 'Fresh encouragement" : has come, from the United states, the London - statement -' said,- "at ' a time when - there -is . good, , cause to believe' that the tide of war is. turning. Behind this lies the conclusion of British war leadership that Italy , has , already been knocked out of the war In effect and that disaster awaits Germany if she strikes to retrieve the situation, either against England or in - the Balkans. . " .. - - In contrast with that British attitude, an Italian cabinet utter ance "solemnly reaffirming" fasc ist fidelity to the Berlin-Rome axis and the will to fight to finish . Is possibly significant. It was timed to offset Rome's ad' mission of the fall of Bardia, yet It was clearly aimed at der featiaxn In Italy of unknown strength. The Rome version of the fasc 1st disaster at Bardla hardly squares with known fscts as. re ported by neutral eye witnesses on the spot. These eye witnesses concur in British reports that the Italians surrendered on a scale that embarrassed the victors. Apathy of Italians Affects Strategy - U -War pathyamonr Italian con scripts in Africa, Greece and Al bania' has been as Important a factor in reshaping British plans toward a 1941 decision fa the war as the military successes achieved. It was ths factor that asurred Prime Minister Churchill I A urn iu rigv vw. t Junior Gtizen Is Already Selected But Identity Will not Be Told Until January 20 by Junior C of C Who is Salem's junior first citi zen for 1940? Unsuspected' and unsuspecting. he has been chosen but, is accord ance with a practice begun a year ago when Salem first junior first citizen Don Douris was chosen under auspices of the Junior chamber of commerce, his Identity wiU not be revealed until that or ganization holds Its annual Foun ders' day banquet the night 01 January 20. . 5 first junior citizen la, accord ing to regulations established by the United States Junior of com merce,, the young man In e a e h community' who h as been out standing In civic affairs during the year prior to his selection. The quaUflcations, other than civic en terprise, are good character and being between the ages of 21 and 38, Inclusive. ' Salem's junior citizen is select ed each year by an anonymous committee-of business men, all of whom are above junior chamber age limits. This committee meets in December and Its report Is for warded to the national headquar ters of the junior chamber where an 'awards committee passes on the selection. . If the selection Is approved . a gold , key signifying the honor is forwarded to t h e committee ' to bs .swarded ths young man on the night set aside for that purpose. . - ' - ; : A. special program, with an out standing speaker, : is being ar ranged." Announcement f ths principals for the event will be made within a few days. ; ' ; Itofail Union Winst Ce&ga PORTLAND. V Jan. . 7-VCir cuit Judge James Crawford ruled today that the executive board ef the CIO Internatlonal'Longshore men's and Warehousemen's anion exceeded its authority in ousting officer's of local 1-2 1, Portland warehousemen's unit, ' The ruling denied the executive board's petition for an Injunction prohibiting the men from function ing- a officers of the local. An ILWA trial board convicted ' the officers of violating ths , union's constitution. ; ' ." , ' ': Judge Crawford said the execu tive board's action constituted "an actual and -- threatened invasion into ' the - internal affairs of the local --not justified -by the ' facts' nor within the limits of conferred authority.", . v -: PRESIDENT PLEADS FOR SPEEDIER ARMING With snembers' of both houses gathered in the house chambers for the first 'joint session of the TTth congress. President Roosevelt pleaded for a "swift and driving increase' ta prodnctlon of arusasBents aid to the fighting democracies.. Behind the president en the (left), and Speaker Sam Raybwm. AF Telemat. er. Wiilf meyer Bound ays .. ...... Three Forgery Counts Are Admitted; $1000 Bail Is not Furnislied Malcolm Wulf meyer. 17, held by Marlon county authorities yes terday on three- forgery charges. pleaded guilty to all three yes terday before Justice of the Peace Joseph B. Felton and was ordered held for the grand Jury, He was also placed under bail totalling 81080 for the three charges, and his commitment or dered when he failed to provide that sum. Wulf meyer was arrested on a similar eharge - several months ago. and was sent to tne stats Industrial school for boys to re main for six. months. He escaped from the school in September, and since according to deputies of Sheriff A. C. Burk, has vic timized small stores and service stations in Marlon and Polk coun ty with forged checks. KherlttV deputies also had Richard Mays in custody after he pleaded guilty in Wood burn justice court to a eharge of fail ure to have 1941 license pistes and was fined 85 and costs. Leslie Earl Terry was arraigned before Justice of the Peace Alf O. Nelson ef Sllverton on the same charge yesterday, and. was fined 82.80. assessed 84.60 eosts and sentenced to serve five days In Jail, the latter sentence being suspended en payment ei me fine and costs. Nine Men CaUed To Boeing Plant Orders to resort' to work today noon at the Boeing Aircraft fac tory in Seattle were received yes terday by nine young men, trained In national def ens classes st Sa- high school shops, C. A., Gu- darlan.L vocational coordinator. announced. This makes a total of 17 called from hero within ; ths past two-weeks. ' - The youths are Jack Schlff erer and Gordon Kanko . of Turner, Bay Xaser. Jack Peary, Roy Mur phy, Harlans Moorman,' Lester Graham. : Norman Wagner 'and Dale EUls, all of Salem, AH will bo riveters.. X,,-.;.. bout 140. other than some la special classifications, are at pres ent taking the training- at the-hlxh school, , Gadecian. said, and fa cilities win be increased, as cans for mere help come In A few classes still have Tacancles. Placements' are mads through ths Oregon stats employment serrice. Ttra XVartU of Juvenile' Court Reported Muting Anna Baker, 1 8. and Rosemarie Donvuan. 17, were reported miss ing from ' their foster - home by the Marion county sheriff's office last night. They had been turned over to . Mrs. Bender oi, route three,' box 888, by - Mrs. Nona White, former probation officer', after being assigned to Juvenile court here, officers said.- Guilty It'iTagDayao Green and White It's tag day In Salem. Salem police started yesterday tagging delinquent motorists who have not yet attached the green and white 1941 license plates to their automobiles. State police have been stopping motorists having 1940 plates since January 2. Arrested by city police yester day ; on "void license" charges were Eldon A. Snell. 724 Front street; John W. Hanna, route 3, and Milo R. Chrlsman. Crary Reelected By Labor Council Annual election of the Salem Trades - and Labor council" last night resulted in the reelection of President C. W. Crary and most other officers. - - Reelected officers were - Ivan Martin, vice-president; Herb Bar ker, : executive secretary; Archie Elliott, sergeant-at-arms; William J. Entrees and Art Peters, trus tees.! Miss' Margaret Burroughs was elected reading clerk and WU bnr pancan, trustee. '" - HJjacenoored! Writer Home From England Tells of Industrial Damage tlaltor'a at: Tartar Hmrr. .hack tnm aarvlc as a war cwmmlwt is Eafioa, toim f kabCMBaa ta Brit iak ia4aatfv ia taia arUcla fraa U W Slaa-tSa-aeaaaa vtawyeiai af vanaA ia aUUtarv aciaaea-aaS writar kasf fey -veaaanai. Ha la a graV aat. at tk tJS HiliXrf aaaSay.,.Ta waat.ats saa Jtrttaia aaaai d By TAYLOR HINRT- j NEW TORK. Jan. 7--While German; night bombers . in four months of blits' against England , m. . .- .n,haTS laid -waste I' -1 some-cities and - Jblastod and Ibmrned" hugs I thanks mt of I others. British ? lofficlalS'Slaim I that - damage - to i 1 the Island's es- 'sential war li f i dnstry so far has , bees - smrprislng-r I iiy smau. I Naturany. ths extent of damage to . military ob jectives in individual raids la a closely-guarded secret. That la ths-reason official coamnnlqnes constantly refer to the destruc tion'. of "homes, churches and slops' and never' mention , that factories, railroads or bridges have suffered as well. . . : v But the average of estimates I gathered from a large' number of observers; . places damage to an war industry In the country as less than 9 per cent,. while damage to the aviation Industry has been, no more than 10 per cent . . Just before I returned to New Tork! from: England as the old year ended,' I made a week's in tensive surrey of the damage nasi explosive and firs bombs had done to war Industry. -Jlithout official sponsorship, J If 4T r ...... .;. - ,. , . rostrum were Vice-President Gir . 'J -1 " Reception Honors:-' H$ltizcia " .1 Spirit and Pririlege r of Citizenship, Theme of Dr. Harrison Hope thst 40 new citizens who were recently awarded their final papers will catch the spirit of American citizenship and In "all the years to come have. la your hearts some of the enjoyment of this privilege we others have had" was expressed by Rev. J. C Har rison at a reception given at the chamber of commerce .last night in honor of the new citizens. --The reception , and program. sponsored by the; Federation ef Patriotic . Orders, was presided over by Herman Lafky. president of the Federation, who also wel comed the new citizens. About 180- new citizens and members of patriotic organizations attended the reception. Response to the address f wel come was made 'by Fern Crosier and R, A. Raamussen. County . Clerk U. G. Boyer di rected presentation of citizenship certificates to the new citizens. 4 west where I wanted to and saw what I wanted to.' , I visited fac tory after factory and talked to officials and workmen . In r every city that had been; blitzed; Coven try, Southampton,! Bristol, Birm ingham, Liverpool. " Manchester and dozens of smaller industrial centers In the midlands. . '- - . -1 found many . factories that had been destroyed or damaged sufficiently to stop production, but I found almost ten times as many that had not been hit. . And to your wartime English man all that matters Is to keep up war production. Two days before I left England, I talked with a high official who has charge of tabulating damage to what sro officially termed key points' - essential industry and communication. .' To us it is a question ef brutal realism ho said.- - : -Natarauy it's hard if your wife er children are kiUed by bombs. If ths business your family has worked generations to build has ,beea destroyed overnight. Bnt as far ss ths war is concerned, to use one of your favorite Ameri can expressions: So what? - " : "Our factories sro sUH turning out the arms with which to smash back at Germany; and our com munication networks are - still transporting them. Apart from .London the two hardest hit cities in England have been . Coventry and Southampton. There the damage Is almost unbe lievably bad. After the war Is over, it will take three to five years to rebuild theuu, . ; Birmingham Ont-Coventrized ! : In -Bristol, there are districts so badly hit they make Coventry look like a thriving city. In Bir- - (Turn to Page 2, CoL - f.-. . . J ! . t s - - ; 1 '.,. I " Tripoli Raided Mspl Lifantiy j Pressing West Airport Is' Captured fan 2 H40 Planes Seized, Is 1 f".-;.iv?.i- ':a.l- 1 ' . mic rmypuaira . Sreek : Destroyers Shell iVsIona; Uneasy.uiet -r : li Pervade Balkans .'-.... j i ,-- - fr.r t -:- t i n - tl I By . The Associated Press) t f. British ' airmen who have 1 been Using a number of Amerlcan-made Martln bombers against the Ital ians Is 'Libya carried out a heavy assault on Marshal Graziani'a base St Tobruk. 70 miles beyond fallen Bardla,- It was announced Tues day night in Cairo, t. j . Fires visible 30 miles 'awey were left among barracks, stores. Sheds, - aad motor- transport con- -cehtrations In Marshal Graxianl's sale whfcn also' Is threatened by British land- units, kbe high eem saind said. . ? : -. ' - : ; i A" heavy raid ' on Tripoli j seme IfeO miles by r sir "west of Tobruk " also was carried out by the Brit ish airmen who -dropped several boas of bombs among vessels in the harbor, -the communique as serted. - - . ' j ; ' t I Un RAF offlcUt In disclosing the appearance of f A m e r 1 e a n planes in - the- Llbysn ' operatiens said they had done, "exceptionally ftfod work." . I ' 1 ' tSinee the .war began is the Mediterranean area, morel than 800 Italian planes have been sket dawn to only about SO British losses air chiefs In Cairo said. -Graxlanl Will Not? ... ! Risk Desert Fight- - i j 'Marshal Grazlaai ' and his ap proximately 80,000 troops ta To bruk apparently, intended to stay behind their -28-mile rrng of fer t(lcaUons and . nojuriik . an open Jeaert tight with te Advancing fltflh. . - Ki . I,. - f-j fThs first BritHh nnfts-pusting an trom battered ardla already were reported knocking at Italian dutpesta in the Tobruk area, f Matching this bold thrust, Brit ain's little ally, Greece, reported si isquadron of Greek destroyers sailed on a daring raid Into the Gulf of . Valona, Albania, shelled the Italian-held port without in terference from fascist warships ort aircraft, and ' sailed leisurely home. , - j 1 , j .-! A Greek government spokesman simultaneously reported thst ta Italians have moved 25.000 .sick and wounded soldiers from Va- loSa ' alone. Fascist; casualties fer . tse-wsr. he said, fun into! "tens of f thousands . ; - j " I m tne air siege or urittn, speedy German fighter-bombers subjected London to a 3-hour raid, the longest and most devastating daytime attack on the capital &' weeks, and killed and wounded S number of people. j i' ! ' j Other casualties were csused in s iheavy German attack on a mid lands town and : the ' nails also raided East Anglia and the south east coast. The Germans have re turned to daytime raids after be injg balked recently by snow and bad weather. . J j - " Military Airport 1 of Tobruk Captured I An RAF eon m n n I q u e an nounced that British troops In the North African campaign captured Et jAdem. the military airport ef Tobruk, and fast British motor ized units were reported virtually atj Tobruk's gates, darting at the base's outer defenses to test its strength. Approximately 80,090 Italian soldiers comprise the To bruk garrison, i.-1'. - - i jThe RAF said British advance fortes captured 40 Italian planes at the airport, which lies only IB mites south of Tobruk. snd that this Italians had abandoned : ths position: apparently without fir tag a shot: t . I British official Quarters.- recs pltSUtlng the 28-dsyKld British eonkteroffenaive. said 94,000 Ital-. laa: troops have been knocked eat ef ; 5the campaign po far killed, wounded, captured or missing Including 70.000 prisoners. ' 'tAmid these reported reverses for; Premier Mussolini's dream ef a vast Italian empire stretchlasr istd southeast Europe and Africa, ths' fascist war cabinet met with n dace In Rome ta "solemnly rs aliirm" Italy's fidelity IS Us Rome-Berlin axis and vowed to fight on. I 40O.0OO Turkish Troops in Thrace i 3 Uneasy quiet prevailed ia the Balkans. With 490.000 Turkish trodps reported massed in Thrace, along the Bulgarian frontier, Tsr IdsH sources asserted that if A 5 oil HltBer ahould cross the Danube, thefTurks would march into Eal garia. to meet then. 14 the Greek-Italian war, flar ing with renewed Intensity ; asil clearing weather, the Greeks wers reported threatening Itallaa cos muxications between the stratfr'. J mountain town of Tepelenl and Valana. ' . . 1 ' Pltpatches froa tie central Al banian front, the scene cf inuch of ; the bitterest Crhting cf t war, said Italian defense Ln: j ca the heights above Kllsnra, t. t cf TepflenL had been jecparcilzel ty ths Greek seizure cf a liCC-:;:t peax north of KILssrz.