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tbm OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, Oregon, r'ridaY Morning. Dcnbr 19. 1941
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Test Blackout
Time Arrangedl
System of Signals
Linked by Phones;
Orders Clarified
(Continued from page 1)
dared Thursday nif ht as he issued
list of clarifying statements.
All blackouts, he declared, are
to be ordered by the Second
Interceptor command, although
practice blackouts for a purpose
such as that planned In Salem
for Sunday nlfht may be held
within communities. Second In
terceptor army commands are
officially broadcast through Se
attle radio. station KIRO and
Portland station KOIN to coun-
' ty defense council offices.
Other orders relating to civil
lan defense are to come from the
president of the United States, na
tional coordinator, regional direc
tor, state director, state coordina
tor, county coordinator and dis
trict chairmen, in the order named
and pertaining only to the dis
trict over which the particular of
ficial has authority.
In Marion county 12 district
chairmen have been named, Con-
ley said, listing:
Salem, L. F. LeGarie; Jeffer
son. Dr. J. O. Van Winkle;
Turner, William Ball; SUyton,
George Duncan; Mill City, Tom
Allen; SllTerton, L. C. Eastman;
Mt. Angel, J. H. Fornler; Auro
ra, Pphaen Sayre, sr.; Wood
burn. Wlnton J. Hunt; Gervals,
J. II. Brewster; Brooks, Ronald
Jones; St. Paul, Ross Coleman.
Marion county's registrar and
liaison officer, Ed Colby, is to
attend the school In chemical
"warfare opening a three-day ses
sion in Portland on Monday, it
was announced Thursday night.
In letters to all county defense
councils Thursday, Gov. Charles
A. Sprague urged representation
at the school, which is sponsored
by the state defense council and
the army.
Got. Sprague said It was the
duty of each county defense
council to have at least one key
man at the school who can be
used as an instructor upon his
return. County defense council
represents tires at the school
will receive $4.15 a day for he
tel expense and meals.
The instructors, trained in Eng
land, ' possess first - hand experi
ence in handling incendiary and
demolition bombs, he said.
All persons enrolling in the
school must complete the entire
course, which is designed partic
ularly for fire-fighters, police,
medical men, representatives of
public works and utilities, harbor
and dock experts and air raid
wardens.
US, Colonial
French Agree
Neutral Pact Made
In Caribbean With
Martinique Chief
(Continued from page 1)
Usual Spirit
In Christmas
Plans Urged
Got. Charles A. Spragoe
Thursday night encouraged
Oregonlans to proceed with
their plans for celebrating
Christmas.
"The army requests no eon
trating of large bodies of peo
ple," the governor said, "but
none such Is contemplated.
Otherwise, normal activities
should continue.
"In spite of the sober over
tone of the war Christmas
should be observed as It has
for centuries past both in war
and peace. Let the people ro
ahead with their shopping and
other preparations so Christ'
mas day of 1941 may be ap
propnately observed all over
Oregon. I know we will not for-
cet our men In the flf htlnr
forces and suggest that we re
member also those from other
states who are stationed here
for military service."
tive the one place In ail Russia
where they held it with assaults
before Sevastopol in the Crimea.
Tokyo raised its sights again
and made more sweeping and
even more unsupported claims
than before. This time, it was al
leged that "aerial observation"
has shown that five United States
battleships and two crisers had
been sunk off Hawaii, and that
in more recent operations three
"enemy submarines" had been
sunk in the Pacific.
US Submarine!
Prove Deadly
Transport, Destroyer
Sunk by 'Pigboats'
In Far East Seas
(Continued from page 1)
the sections of the city bordering
the sound.
District naval headquarters re
ported Thursday night that depth
bombs had been exploded in tim
ing tests across the sound from
Seattle. A navy official expressed
doubt, however, that the charges
were forceful enough to have been
felt in Seattle.
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danger of the French West In
dies topped off the news of gen'
eral improvement in American
and allied positions in every the
atre of war except Hongkong, and
Malaya.
The Japanese claimed to have
gained a toehold on Hongkong
Island, and the British pulled
their main Malayan line back to
about 300 miles north of Singa
pore. Elsewhere the axis was not
faring so well.
Chinese troops smashing at
the Japanese to relieve pressure
on Hongkong were reported in
Chunrkinr to have captured a
number of Japanese outposts.
Moreover, Chungking stated
that to support their offensive
on new Pacific fronts the Jap
anese had been forced to with
draw from five districts In
North China.
The American position in the
Philippines and the strategic al
lied position generally appeared
improved Thursday night,
Luzon, the citadel of the Phil
ippines, held iirmiy against
doubtfully-held Japanese beach
heads. The invader has been driv
en back many miles in past fight
ing.
This was an indication that an
initial Japanese effort to push
south toward Manila, some 200
miles to the south, had been
smashed almost before it got un
der way.
Early today, it was announced
in Manila by US army headquar
ters that more than 30 Jap planes
had bombed the southern Philip
pine port of Iloilo on Panay Is
land, in the center of the Philip
pines. This represented an exten
cinn nt tVia .Tan a r i a 1 attack.
change was not made until Wed- em were civiiian casualties and
nesaay.
On Friday, Dargue left Mis
The Japanese high command
admitted, however, the loss of
five special type submarines in
the Pearl Harbor assault, and
acknowledged as false its pre
vious claim that an American
aircraft carrier had been sunk
there.
The day also brought word that
the Australians successfully
bombed Greenwich, the southern
most of the Japanese
Caroline Island group.
Nazis Curtail
Information
On Russ Lines
Yankee Tanks,
son and Secretary of the Navy RF BoHlberS
AJBOX.
Knox introduced Nimitz to re -rr A
porters and the admiral told IUTSUe AXIS
"I am very sensible of the fact CAIRO, Dec. 18-)-The shat-
hat T m Mntt intrusted with a tered German and Italian armies
verv irreat responsibility, which in eastern Cirenaica were official
I intend to discharge to the best ly reported Thursday night in full
of mv ability." retreat, pursued by British-man-
Washington, meanwhile, heard ned American tanxs ana masted
an increasing discussion of plans by RAF bombers.
mandated fr unifying the allied high Allied troops were pressing
command so that grand strategy nonnwara xowara uenu arxer
for prosecuting the war the reaching the east-west Tmimi-
world over would procede from Mekili road some 160 miles inside
a single source. Washington was Libya, the British communique
mentioned, in London dispatches, said.
as its probable base of operations. "The enemy's front has every-
m 1 M mw
r- fMi. Sx.trv wnere Deen DroKen, me none
Japs Qaiming
Isle Control
British Twice Reject
Ultimatums to Quit
Fight for Hongkong
(Continued from page 1)
ties set afire ta Hongkong by
air and artillery attacks.
An air ' raid en Fenang off
the west Malayan coast which
sank one large British ship and
several smaller transports.
Destruction on nine British
planes Including: two Buffalo
(Brewster) fighters at Ipoh.
Malaya.
Destruction of nine British
JectiTes at Kunming, the Chi
nese end of the Burma road,
in air attacks.
Bomber Crash
Kills 6, Plane
With 8 Lost
(Continued from page 1)
BERN, Switzerland, Dec. 19-
(Friday)-(P)-T h e Berlin corre
spondent of the Basel National
Zeitung quoted a German high
command speaker today as say
ing detailed positions of the Ger
man line in Russia no longer
would be made public.
This speaker was quoted as
saying that all territory won
need not be held in all circum
stances, since the Germans have
destroyed transport systems and
all other facilities in the areas
from which they have withdrawn.
He said that Rostov, for
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chell Field, NT, bound for
Hamilton Field near San Fran
cisco. Among those flying with
him were two general staff of
fleers Colonel Charles W.
Bundy and Lieut. Colonel
George W. Rlcker, both of
Washington. Their plane was a
transport which was Dargue's
flylnr office.
In addition to Bundy and Rick
er, others in Dargue's plane were
Major Hugh F. McCaffery, Mit
chel Field; Captain J. G. Leavitt,
Los Angeles; First Lieutenant Ho
mer C. Burns, Spokane, Wash.;
Staff Sergeant Stephen Hoffman,
Charlerol, Pa., and Private Sam
uel J. Van Hamm, jr., Twin Falls,
Idaho.
Patriot Goes
All-Out for
Uncle Sam
Patriot of the day in Salem
Thursday, a capital city automo
bile dealer declared, was the
young man who sold a late model
car for $750, invested the whole
of its proceeds in defense bonds
and proceeded to enlist in the
marines.
Name of the young man was
given to The Statesman by the
enthusiastic purchaser of the car
with the request that it not be
made public without the marine
recruit's consent.
property damage.
While the Philippine situation
thus remained generally well In
hand, Dutch and Australian for
ces beat the marauding Japanese
to an island point important to
the defense of both the East In
dies and Australia.
This involved the occupation
of the Portuguese half of Timor
an Island whose other half
already was Dutch, which
which stands at the eastern tip
of the Indies and about 450
miles from Darwin, Australia.
On the other great fronts of the
world, the axis apparently was
near the hour of disaster in Afri
ca and about to be enveloped in
catastrophe by the weather and
by the Red armies in Russia.
The soviet forces reported that
the nazis had been thrown back
directly west of Moscow, as well
as on the flanks above and below
the capital, to a distance of nearly
60 miles and that 200 soviet settle
ments had been recaptured.
In the north, said soviet ac
counts, the Germans had been
beaten back 45 miles from Tikh
vin, the strategic town about 110
miles southeast of Leningrad.
British accounts said also that the
Finnish line between Lakes One
ga and Ladoga had been smashed
and that Leningrad's great garri
son of 1,000,000 men was falling
upon the Finns.
In the Russian south, 80 more
towns were reclaimed by Red
troops and it appeared that the
German grasp on captured
Kharkov, the great industrial
Ukrainian city, was weakened.
In the extreme south the Ger
mans themselves held the initia-
of War Stimson announced that
in a short while enlistments
would be refused, and the army
filled out entirely by t- draft
He also announced t all
reserve officers not . ailed
to duty had been or. .ed to
take physical examinations, al
though this did not necessarily
mean that they would 1 go on
active duty immediately.
To prevent false air raid alarms
and unnecessary interruption of
industrial production, he an
nounced, the commanding offi-
tln said.
The RAF reported smashing
blows against axis tanks and
troops transports fleeing west
ward from Derna Itself on the
long road to Bengasi In an ap
parent effort to escape British
encirclement.
A fierce five-day fight west and
southwest of Gazala preceded the
nazi rout, the British said.
Thus far in the month-old of
fensive against the armies of Gen.
Erwin Von Rommel and his
Italian helpers, the British were
blackouts, sounding alarms and
all-clear signals, and silencing
radio broadcasts.
ample, would be useless to the labor conference c'alled by p.
ex-
cers of the four kir force inter- reported to have taken almost 10,
ceptor commands have been gi- 000 prisoners. Axis casualties al
ven responsibility for ordering o were said to be heavy.
Altnougn the rout of the axis
desert legions caused hopes to
soar that a final knock-out blow
was near at hand, an informed
Russians.
dent Roosevelt recessed to draw
up separate recommendations for
BERN, Switzerland, Dec. 19- 811 anti-strike agreement.
(Friday)-(P) -A frank acknowl
edgement that the Russian sol
diers "equal us and are some
times even better," came today
from the military expert of Adolf
Hitler's own Voelkischer Beo-
bachter.
The expert, a lieutenant colo
nel soldan, was quoted by the
Swiss paper Neue Zurlcher Zei
tung as writing that, "new
troops brought in from Siberia
and other regions where they
are accustomed to the cold are
put into fighting where (Rus
sian) troops have been ten times
beaten and threaten to nullify
these defeats."
The Zurich paper commented
Nazi Airman
Muffs Second
Escape Try
MONTREAL, Dec. 18 - (JP) -Lieut.
Ulrich Steinhilper, 22-year-old
German airman, was thrown
for a loss again Thursday night
by the routine of the railroad
business, which thwarted his sec
ond clean break from a Canadian
prison camp in less than a month.
Steinhilper, a good man at bur
that "never before has a German rowing under fences, escaped from
militarv writer snoken so onenlv Bowmanville, Ont., camp in
I a a. M i -t i a a.
to the public of the great diffi- lasnion novemoei: 44 ana got
culties of carrying on war in the Pn a CanadianNational train bound
east. fQ the United States not. then
"His statements brina a new a war- He actually got to Niagara
pessimistic warning to the people FaUs but didn't know it until
of the severity of the struaele in after toe train returned to Niagara
which Germany and her comrades Falls T im crew,
presently find themselves."
source said frankly "well have
to capture a hell of a lot more
prisoners before the first real
sign of collapse."
The Germans and tlalians were
estimated to number between 60,
000 and 100,000 when the British
offensive began, and this source
said there still are many more
strong defenses between Tmimi
and Bengasi.
Military observers also said
there was a possibility that axis
plane reinforcements still were
crossing the Mediterranean in an
attempt to keep the British away
from Bengasi, or Tripoli far to
the west and next to French
North Africa.
Bulletins
(Continued from page 1)
thoritatiyely report td
Thursday night to be con
ferring on establishment of
a supreme war council to
direct strategy, Pool re
sources, and checkerboard
their manpower around the
globe in the fight against
the axis.
Some quarters here felt
that Washington would be
a logical site for headquar
ters of the organization em
bracing representatives of
the United States, Britain,
Russia, China, The Nether
lands, and their allies.
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TACOMA, Dec. 18-p)-Four
136-foot navy minesweepers glid
down the weighs at separate Ta
coma yards Thursday and al
though traditional festivities at
tended the launching ceremonies,
wartime restrictions kept the
crowd small.
TEX Christmas spirit burns brightest
at homo. Tonll want to be there
and you'll want to make the trip swift
ly, comfcrt&bly, economically.
Go on The Milwaukee Road's famous
Olympian . Select accommodations to
suit your taate and budget: luxury
lounge coaches with Individual reclin
ing chairs; modern tourist sleepers that
ofier comfort and privacy at moderate
cost standard sleepers and bedroom
cars. OLYMPIAN meals are famous far
their appetizing goodness, yet prtoes
are rurpriLagly low.
Toull like the extras you get on the
Olympiax the happy holiday atmos
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Santa Played
By Salvation
Army Officers
The Salvation Army officer in
this community is ready again to se under
play Santa Claus to the poor and wouian t iaii
the needy. Everyone may do his
party by mailing a check to the
local Salvation Army officer, or
by dropping a contribution In the
Christmas kettles on downtown
street corners.
The collections in the Christ
mas kettles are behind the quota,
because of the inclement weather,
Major G. Houghton, Salem Army
officer, said Thursday.
on a routine check, found him on
a tender.
Thursday nlfht a railroad de
tective, on another routine
check, found Steinhilper secure
ly tied to the battery box under
a New York Central day coach
about to leave for New York
from Windsor station.
He readily admitted he had
gone under Bowmanville'a nine
foot fence again and had tied him-
the coach so he
Depth Charges
Thought Cause
Of Tremors
Checks to iwcU the Armv'a
Chrlstmu-Winter fund may be
mailed to MaJ. O. Houghton, The
omivauon Army, zti Bute meet,
Salem, or word left for a call hv
telephoning 94J7 or 539S. Contribu
tions also win be accepted at The
statesman eiitce lor delivery to
Mai. Houghton.
Bob Hope Tops
In Radio Poll
NEW YORK, Dec. 18-UPr-
MoUen Picture Daily announced
Thursday nlfht that Bob Hope,
comedian, had won top honors
in its sixth annual radio poll of
more than 600 radio editors and
columnists of the United States
and Canada.
Hope was named champion of
champions and also won first
place in the comedian group.
Jack Benny was second to Hope
in both classifications.
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SEATTLE, Dec. 18-;P)-Slight
earth tremors were registered
Thursday on the University of
Washington seismograph, and a
navy announcement Thursday
raised the possibiliy that depth
bombs in Puget Sound might have
caused it all.
The seismograph recorded the
tremor at 1:10 pm. Scores of tele
phone calls flooded newspaper of
fices, mainly from residents in
Call Board
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Saturday Nelson Eddy In "Tha
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ens. "The Gay Falcon" with George
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Alan MowDray in "l wake up
Screaming." Jan Withers. Bruce
Edwards. Jane Darwell in "Small
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"Three Cheers lor the inan." Thre
Mesquiteers in "Gauchos of Eldo
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ward in "Among the Living." Lloyd
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Louise in Phantom Submarine.
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