PACS TWO
' 1 1 - . . . . -- . --
Manila's Fall
Appears Soon
US Lines Give Way to
Overwhelming Jap""
Force and Bombers
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the allies in the Pacific not a
catastrophe even if the worst
should befall, for it had been long
accepted in many quarters that
Manila could not be held against
an assailant willing to spend
enough in blood and military
force and it had been plain for
some days that MacArthur's men
were gallantly casting the dice
against terrible odds. Moreover,
there are other and stronger and
more vital allied Pacific bastions;
Singapore among them.
Before the bad news ef Ma
nila's morning communique, the
Japanese had been reported un
officially to have advanced to
within 45 miles of Manila on
the south and in the north it
had been understood that Gen
eral Mac Arthur had thrown up
a strong new lino across the
central valley, some 65 miles
above the capital.
The war department's last aft
ernoon communique spoke of
heavy enemy pressure in the
northeast and of continued fight
ing in the south, along with wide
spread enemy air attacks.
The US navy reported without
elaboration that submarine oper
ations against enemy surface craft
were going forward.
Unofficial accounts of the Jap
anese thrust from southern Luzon
stated that it was made in two
columns, which apparently were
trying for a rendezvous at a point
ef highway convergence below
Laguna de Bay preparatory to
splitting again and attempting to
skirt the lake on east and west
via first-class roads running up
to Manila.
One column had gone forward
35 miles west of the Atimonan
beachhead on Lamon bay; the
other 15 miles from Mauban In
the same area.
AH this, however, was by the
available accounts not accom
plished against frontal and ma
jor American resistance: this
MacArthur was preparing for
the assailant in new positions in
the south as well as the north.
This shortening of his linM in
both areas had concentrated the
power of his defense and it ap
peared that before attempting the
next major lunge the Japanese
were calling for reinforcements.
In some Manila miartor it wa
believed that the veteran Japanese
troops used In the siege of Hong
Kong were joining the Luzon
force.
For Japanese bombings of Ma
nila after It had been formalin
declared an open city and left
unaeienaed it appeared that a full
revenge was in the making, long
in coming though It may be.
The war department, stating
umj centers or Christianity ap
parently had been deliberately se
lected for assault, announced that
from his field headquarters Mac
Arthur had sent the message:
"At the proper time, I bespeak
due retaliatory measures."
Polk County
Woman Dies;
Rites HaM
Independence Funeral
services for Mrs. Ida Maude Raf
ferty, who died at the family
home, south of Independence
Sunday, were held from the
e.UL r .
ounui-DBTn mortuary Tuesday
afternoon with Rev. L. L. vick
ers officating. Interment was in
the I OOF cemetery south of In
repenrence. - Mrs. Rafferty was the daugh
ter of John and Laura Mode and
was born in North Carolina on
October 19, 1880. October 20,
1896, she was married to Henry
Rafferty. In 1902 they came to
Oregon from Kentucky. She was
a member of the Christian church
for many years.
Surviving her are her widower
of Independence; and one son,
trnle; four daughters, Mrs.
Wright Huber, Mrs. Art Dokke,
Mrs. Leo Callies and Mrs. Ted
Funk, all of Hoquiam, Wash.;! her
father, J. W. Mode of Independ
ence; also nine brothers, Rosea,
Centralis, Wash, Jack, Walter
ville, Ore, Mack, Hoquiam,
-Wash-, Henry, Rjll, Charlie, and
Joe, all of Independence, Bob and
Dock of Willamina, Ore., and two
sisters, Mrs. Max Simpson, Mon
mouth, and Mrs. Arnie Bridges,
Portland; seven grandchildren
ndtwo great-grandchildren.
Leon's
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Authority to
Eiilisiar
Vets Asked
WASHINGTON. Dec. SO-fJPW
To make more marines available
for combat service, Secretary of
the Navy Knox asked congress
Tuesday for authority to accept
for marine enlistment approxi
mately 6000 World war veterans
and men beyond the normal re
cruiting age.
The older men would serve as
guards at naval shore establish
ments, relievins; regular "Devil
Dogs' now doing such work.
The new service, Knox said in
a letter to Speaker Rayburn,
would be known as the "limited
service marine corps reserve."
Crimea Towns
Taken by Russ
Cornered Axis Army
In Libya Smashed
In British Drive
(Continued from page 1)
The Russians also retorted suc
cesses on other sectors of the
long front, especially a 80-mile
drive across the-Oka river above
Orel. The communique named
jvozeisx as one of the towns re
captured.
CAIRO, Dec. 30-(ff)-The cor-
ucicu axis army in Libya has
lost 42 of its remaining tanVa 4n
a rash, and costly effort to lash
A. At- .
uui Hi uie growing British pres
sure in the western sands of Cir
enaica. British miiin
headquarters announced Tuesday.
Attempting a last stand south
of Agedabla, on the eastern
shore of the Golf ef Slrte, an
enemy column spearheaded
with tanks "madeet a farther
attack to Interfere with our op
erations" operations bent on
complete destruction of nasi
Gen. Erwin Rommel's fighting
strength, the British said.
"In the ensuintr mmiumn
o
a communique added, "22 enemy
wuiM were destroyed and 20 oth
ers received serious damage."
Then, with the axis column
iscauerea ana retreating, a regi
ment Of British hlissara raron ir.
and rounded up five truck-loads
of the Germans infantry.
Belief that the axis Is trying
w oring up men and supplies
eastward was strfnirthm4 k
RAF reports of heavy raids on oil
transport and troop-trucks on the
Tripoli tanian coastal road east of
noma, some oo miles from Tripoli.
Nevertheless, the British wel
comed the resumption of heavy
tank fighting because they be
lieved it meant the final battle
to annihilate the German armored
force is either beginning or im
minent .
British pressure at all points of
the axis position was renewed
after the attack.
Salem Plans
To Fete New
Year Okehed
(Continued from Page- 1) '
and groups at night spots and in
homes, the capital city plans to
bid farewell to the old and greet
the new year.
Part of a nationwide celebra
tion, Salem's, observance of its
first war New Year's in a quarter
of a century will be more gala
than during depression years, if
dinner and dancing reservations
at hotels, clubs and roadhouses are
indicative.
Principal requests issued from
defense officials were that cele
brants refrain from any outdoor
noise-making activities which
might Conflict with air r-oM
ings or be mistaken fop&uch sig
nals, that they take care not to
leave car lights on or residences
lighted in their ahspnw ni th
all places where crowds are ex
pected to gather be prepared to
blackout on brief notice.
Coast Meets
Ruled Out
By Army ?
SAN FRANCISCO, rw uiwdv
-Army and US civilian defense
aumonues Tuesday night issued
a joint statement declaring anther-
ings of any nature in Pacific coast
states should be kept below 5000
persons.
' Authorised by Commanding
General Jhn L. De Witt of the
western defense command and
the fourth army, and Regional
Director Jack Helms of r the
ninth US office of civilian de
fense, the statement also placed
a ban on parades' daring the
holiday season.
The statement said that fh mi
against large Catherine was ha car)
upon the present military situation
and would remain In force until
further notice... -
Livestock -Values High
CHICAGO, Dec. 30 New
American wealth In the form of
meat ? "animals flowing i through
the union stock yards here hit a
new peak since ' 1930 during the
past ' year,; figures disclosed "to-
- f
The)
US To Spend
Large Sums
Half Annual Income
Of Nation to Be Used
For War on Axis :
(Continued from Page 1)
shut territory, lies north of Ja
pan and apparently within
striking distance ef that coon
try, bat the president gave no
farther indication how it might
fit Into the war strategy.
Expanding on the question of
the production program, he said
he had changed its name. Before
the war started, he said the OPM
had what was known as the all-
out program or victory program.
He preferred, he added, to use
less dramatic terminology and
call it the war program.
Before the Japanese attack on
Pearl harbor, a budget program
was drawn up which was pre
sented to him on the day of that
assault Saying he had to be very
careful these days, he applied to
it the algebraic symbol X.
That evening, he continued,
he looked It over and quickly
came to the conclusion that it
was insufficient. He sent it back
with a request that he added
to K. Then, in last week's dis
cussions with the British, he
decided, not reluctantly but
gladly, that Z should be added
to. the combined X plus Y pro
gram. He laughingly declined to an
swer a question, whether "X plus
Y plus Z equals 3X." but went
on to say that by the end of the
i nscai year, it involved de
voting half of the national in
come of $100,000,000,000 to the
war effort.
The objective was to turn
America's full productive capaci
ty into the battle against the
axis although, he said, necessary
civilian production would go on.
In some lines, he said, civilian
production may have to be elim
inated, and in others curtailed to
varying extents. .
With congress knocking off
work for 1941 TnesHav TWr
Roosevelt said he would deliver
his annual message on the state
of the union to a joint session on
the sixth or seventh of January.
The budget would, as usual, go
to the capitol on the following
day.
Canada Hears
Cturchill
British Chief TeUs
Dominion Solons of
Great War Effort
(Continued frontpage 1)
fortunes," he said. "We have been
concerting the 'united pacts and
resolves of more than an toa
and nations to fight on in unity
logeiner. . . There will be no
halting or half measures."
Churchill told Canadians their
contribution to the war effM-t VaA
been "magnificent."
ed that in a few months wlm
the invasion season returns, the
Canadian army may be engaged
in one of the most fateful hni
the world has ever seen."
A high point of Churchill's
speech Darticularlv
ands of French Canadians was
nis vigorous denunciation of "the
men of Vichy" who deserted th
common cause by not carrying on
me war rrom Africa, and his
praise of 'General Charles de
Gaulle's Free French.
"The Vichy government has
been content to live from day to
day, but even this will nn
indefinitely," he asserted.
"At any moment it may suit
Hitler's plans to brush them
away. Their only guarantee is
Hitler's good faith which, as
anyone knows bv the thfr al
ready has displayed, bites like
an aaaer anq stings like an asp."
Traffic Toll
In US Nears
New Record
(Continued from page 1)
time high of almost in nnn tMt
deaths."
The organization sta twi
New Year's eve may determine
whether 1941 will set a new peak
m lawmues. it urged motorists
and pedestrians to be extremely
careful and addedr
"Twenty four hours of con.
certed caution In drive and walk
ing could' turn the trick."
During - November alan
405(1 men, women and children U
wrar utci on streets and
highways despite the campaign
to conserve productive man
power smder- the slogan: Acci
dents help the axis."
The November toll wn th.
greatest of the year. It was the
fourth month m the nation'. ).
twy in which more than 4000
xataimes were registered. : i ' i
Petaiii Slites
Air Address
VICHY. XJnoccunied ViW.
Bet, 30-P)-Chief of State Petain
wiu Droadcast to the French peo
ple .Thursday at 7 nm flO am
EST).,-
The marshal win be preceded
by - Admiral Jean Darlan
broadcasts' Wednesday to t h
-French army, iiavy and air force
m qis capacity as national de
fense minister. The time of Tiar.
lan's broadcast was. not an
nounced; : ! 1 -
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Today Gen Autry, SmQcy Burnett,
Dorothy Lee, James
Ellison,
Jerry
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Today-Jack Holt in Great Train
Robb57 ypy Noln. Doris Dav
enport to "Behind the News."
ft2S. J"Rider- Chester Morris,
gochelle Hudson in "Meet Boston
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jniupiiy in -tuM and Shine.
rAt J2yce to "Marry the Boss's
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loaay Dorothy Lamour, Jon Han
.Al0 the South Seas."
CharUe Buggies in "The Parson of
capitol
ioy red MacMurray in New
ISJmrS P1V Weaver Brothers.
u.u ui xuzeao junction.
County Groups
oee Camp Soon
Council Holds Parley
At Monmouth; Army
Engineers Ready
(Continued from page IT
consultant working with the state
enonomic council; William H.
Crawford, economic council exe
cutive secretary; F. E. Neely,
West Salem chief of police, and
w. u. weist or the attorney gen
eral's office, resident west of
Monmouth.
ALBANY, Dec. 30-(Special )
The re-opened office for the pro
posed .pom-Benton cantonment Is
adding new civilian clerical and
engineering employes daily under
ine airection of Capt. T. E. Ditte-
brandt, who has returned here
from San Francisco.
Capt. Dittebrandt, who was
in charge of the planning work
carried on here during the
summer and fall, has been
transferred from the construct
ing quartermaster department
to the army engineering corps,
which is to be In charge of all
future camp building work. His
title now is area engineer in
charge. He Is assisted by Capt
Otto H. Myer, also transferred
from the quartermaster " corps
to the engineers.
Army trucks were engaged
Monday in unloading office fur
niture, engineering equipment
and filing cabinets filled with
data, all of which had been pack
ed and shipped to San Francisco
a few weeks ago when orders
came to close the office..
While Capt. Dittebrandt states
he knows nothing about the mat
ter other than his orders to re
open the office, the action is taken
locally to mean an early date for
tne authorization of the canton
ment and the start of actual eon
struction of the camp to house
33,uoo men.
Joint Phone
Control Set
For Defense
Preparations for ranid MfaH-
lishment when necessary of a
city-county control center at the
city hall are to be completed by
tonight, Ed Colby, countv de
fense council liaison officer. uM
Tuesday.
Telephones in sufficient num
ber to allow segregation of in
coming and outgoing calls, ready
to De connected for service on
short notice, will have been in
stalled and defense executives
who will be expected to work
there will know "where. hm
and how," Colby declared.
The city hall quarters, he em
phasized are not to serve as
public headquarters for the
civilian defense organisation
bat as a point from which di
rections may be sent out by
telephone or messenger and at
which utilities may have repre
sentatives to direct their work
ers in an emergency.
A tentative agreement for
sharing of equipment was reached
early this week at a joint meeting
of dry council representatives
and members of the county court
County road equipment may be
used on city streets should war
time emergency, require rapid
clearing of debris and maHg of
repairs, u was agreed, while un
der similar circumstances city
ure-ngnung equipment may be
sent outside the limits ordinarily
prescribed for it
In Marion county Tuesday sev
eral alien families, apparently go
anxious to obey federal orders
that they relinquished radios of
a type not banned, were notified
they might call at the sheriffs
office and receive again their
Property. f i - .
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NEW YEAR
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rjtoU Sein'oehl at the V
Hammond Electric Organ ;
Oragon. Wednesday Morning,
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Jap Subs Reported
Off Kodiak Lsland;
Midway Said Safe
(Continued from page 1)
lies south and east of the Alaskan
peninsula.
The navy said further that
American submarines were
pressing ahead with then- op
erations in far eastern waters.
Since Christmas day, communi
ques have Indicated American
activity in waters near the Jap
anese islands. In them the navy
has announced the sinking of
two Japanese transports, one
mine sweeper and a supply ves
sel, and the probable sinking
of another transport and a sea
plane tender.
The navy labeled as "without
foundation" reports that a US de
stroyer and two American sub
marines were sunk over the
weekend.
Midway island was still in
American hands and had suffered
no further attacks, it added.
Here in Washington. President
Roosevelt gave some idea of this
country's tremendous Job during
the new year. He told newsmen
that half the national income
would have to be devoted to the
war effort by the end of the next
fiscal year, starting July 1, 1942.
Washington enthusiastically re
ceived a suggestion from Gen.
Douglas MacArthur that when
the proper time comes Japanese
cities be devastated from the air
In retaliation for the ruthlessly
cruel bombing of Manila.
The commandant of defend
ing forces in the Philippines re
ported to the war department
that the Japs struck at the is
land capital despite the fact
that it had been made an open
city, and that churches, schools,
hospitals and convents were
indiscriminately damaged.
Japan's "present actions can
only be deemed completely vio
lative of all the civilised proc
esses of international law," he
said.
To MacArthur's report the de
partment itself added a state
ment that a survey indicated the
churches "and other centers of
Christian worship and culture
were deliberately selected as spe
cial targets for enemy attacks."
But, it seemed likely that the
"proper time" mentioned by
MaeArthur for retaliation
might be many months away.
It probably eould be undertak
en only as the climactic blow
of the general allied offensive
which has been scheduled for
1943.
This was the date mentioned
by Prime Minister Churchill last
week for such an all-out assault
The intervening period Is to be
one of mustering the allied re
sources, and building the great
Industrial machine which will
produce the weapons, planes and
other equipment necessary to,
such an attack.
US of Europe
Declared Need
Henry Ford Foresees
Greater Prosperity
Under New System
DETROIT. Dec. 30-tiP-Henrv
Ford said in an interview Tues
day that the future well-being of
the world lay in the establishment
of a "United States of Eurone"
patterned along the lines of the
American system in which each
country would have the same free
doms and the same opportunities
as the 48 states.
"I believe," said Ford, "that if
all the parliaments of Europe
from Russia to France, from
Norway Jo Greece would meet
in Joint session to established the
United States of Europe and
adopt a bill of rights, there
would be a speedy return to
common prosperity and an end
so this periodic slaughter of
Europe's inhabitants which has
lasted for 2099 years. Such a
bill of rights should guarantee
among other things freedom of
speech and freedom of worship."
Ford, who has advocated a world
federation, said the establishment
oi sucn a union in which all
countries could exist without en
croaching upon or mating war on
their neighbors also would bring
the end of power nolitics. H niH
politics were long overdue at the
scrap heap.
"We know what we are fiffhtin
against" Ford said. "We shall have
to define just as sharply what
we are fighting for. We know th
war is making a lot of temporary
employment; the next thing is to
make sure that peace win not turn
it into unemployment
"One of the best signs of the
Seen Dangered
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December 3L Ul
sew year b that people are W
Itonlag to think abomt these
things.
V-The Idea of a United slaUe
of Europe is not new. It is rest,
rally accepted. The turn U
five it momentum is new.
"It will help us -as we 1 a
Europe. The United - States cant
be a Garden of Eden separated
from the rest of the world. The
rest of the world can hinder us,
and It has. But we can help the
world get on its feet again If It
settles down. In doing so we fTl
be helping ourselves; it win guar
antee us against a' slump after the
war. This country is largely de
pendent onwhat Europe wm be
after the war."
The extension of the American
system to Europe, Ford said,
"used to be called idealism."
The last couple of years," he
concluded, "it has come to be
known as common sense."
Singapore Hit
In Air Attack
British Bastion Get
Four Heavy Raids but
Beats Off Bombers
(Continued from page 1)
casualties have been reported."
The British positions of Kuan
tan, on the eastern side of the
Malayan peninsula where the in
vader apparently had made no
progress, also were bombed. In
this case, there was neither dam
age nor a single casualty.-1
An instance of high native
morale was singled out by head
quarters which reported that a
large labor force present at a
railway station put under at
tack by Japanese planes "be
haved with great calmness".
British aircraft meantime
were busy, bat the details of
action were not disclosed.
Japanese ground gain about
Ipoh apparently were made dos
sible principally by Infiltration
and clearly at the cost of enorm
ous losses, a report of a British
correspondent at the front showed.
He said that the assailant in some
instances lost 40 men to one.
New support for the British
defenders came during the day
from a quarter wluch until re
cently had been proscribed
through Malaya: The Chinese
communist party called upon its
members to "turn each street
lane, mine village and rubber
estate into a bulwark for the
defense of our land."
At the other end of the Ideoloei
cal scale, the sultan of the great
ruDDer-producing state of Negri
Sembilan summoned his Deoole
to the struggle "to destroy the
common enemy.
Production
.Committee
Suggested
Organization of a PmdnrMrm
Facilities committee for western
Oregon, to cooperate with the of
fice of production manaffpmnt in
Washington, DC, in connection
with defense contract distribu
tion, will be discussed at a meet
ing here Friday, W. H. Crawford,
uucvior oi uie uregon economic
council, announced Tuesday.
in event the proposal is approv
ed another similar
1 -
probably will be organized in
eastern Oregon. The Salem meet
ing may be followed by a series
of meetings in each western Ore
gon county. The state employ
ment service, now federalized,
will participate In the Salem
meeting.
A recent survey indicated that
there are a number of metal
working plants in western Ore
gon which could be utilized for
the manufacture of war mater
ials.
Free French
Wire Pledge
NEW YORK. Dec 30-UP-Edi-
tors of the Nation, weekly maga
zine, announced tonight that Voe-
Aamirai mile Muselier, who
commanded the Free French
forces that seized the islands of
St Pierre and Miquelon, had
wired tnem:
"Whatever happens we will
hold on mntn the end."
Muselier's message, dated and
sent from St Pierre-Miouelon.
was in reply to one from the
Nation, which said the Free
French and the people ot the
islands had the unqualified sup
port "of all patriotic Americans
'who feel "mg but shame at
ue government's betrayal of our
common cause."
of dependence
Yank Bomber Crashes
On Mexican Island v
.'MEXICO CITY, Dec
The defense ministry reported
Tuesday night a two-motored US
army plane had crashed and
burned on Tiburon island in the
Gulf of California.
' The . military commandant of
the zone, who received reports of
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