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iniTY-nilST TEAB Salem Oregon Thursday Morning. January 1, 1S42 Prlco ,3ci Newsstand 5e No. 213 n ! City Fetes Newear Quietly Cold, Patriotism Declared Reason; US Celebrates " : Cries d? the little New Year .were muted and brief bat Salem celebrated I .a Bidding the old an unwept farewell and the new year a hearty good morning, a ma jority or tne mid-valley's adult residents participated in some form of observance. , Police credited the qui e t New . Year's ere to the cold weather; defense officials fe .dared it was patriotism, but all agreed that reckless driving in toxication in public, shouting and raucous singing were notieeableia jyhlch the British said the axis At their radios, ' thousand of . home-staying Salem folk heard New York's celebration, "distin guished less yfbr; its exuberance than for itheomnipresent aura of war," acwJrding to The Asso ciated fttss. . : ? " . Times'l square was policed i by the largest aggregation of author ities in history as an assemblage, a far bigger target than the transferred west coast Bos Bowl game, pursued its celebration on the streets, of the 34-block area. Mid-western observances, de scribed as "hysterical tut the faee of Increasing enlistments and selective- service calls," . rolled in over ether waves and westerners, prepared to black-u . out on a moment's ' notice made f ready: their toasts to 1942. Thirty persons watched the exit '. of '41 from civilian defense head- quarters in the basement of Vet erans' hall while an unannounced number patroled the county arid . the river areas of Polk, aa civilian ' defenders Joined armed forces in m special holiday "alert ' . Defense activities centered also , in the preparation of educational . materials for the public on meth- ods of fighting gas and incendiary , attacks, and budgeting funds for continuance of activities through : 1942. ' - Declaring themselves even .. more Interested In the future of . Salem thaflj they had been In . celebrating the glories of Its past, the Salem WhLlerinot this week contributed tiOO left . from Salem Centennial funds to Marion Conni? civilian defense council. I The . $61.84 balance of ; their funds was added to the (Turn to Page 2. CoL 1) iPplicePlan Plate Qieck The work of checking automo bile owners who have not yet re ceived or made application for 1942 automobile license plates, ; probably wHJrget under way early X Thursday, police here, indicated ; Wednesday. ? A total of 162,000 sets of auto i mobile plates covering the 1942 t license period were issued by the : state motor vehicle department up to Tuesday night It was estimated that 450,000 cars would be 11- censed during the year. Whiskerinos Give Funds to All Wldskertnos during Salem's centennial celebration la 1948 as their badges Indicate and now Inter ested In defense of the capital city and Marlon county, this group met this week to turn over S408 of Its funds to Marion County Civilian Defense council. Left to right, art n. J, Wendereth, Tin Llnd strandY Defense Council Chairman Douglas McKay, Mayor W. W Cbadwick, George C. EslI, Hat , Iljart and Walter Chambers. The S balance of the fund was turned over to the Bed Cross emerg ency war relief fund. , - . , . German Tank Units ... J ! .... , Smashed By Allies in Rmsi&yMfoya V! CAIRO, Egypt, Dee. 31 British tanks and airplanes J&D ing away at the remnants of .4 , Erwin RbmrneTa 'Libyan fari wera reported Wednesday i night closing in for a New Year's eve kill of the desert troops pocketed along the Gulf of Sirte at Age dabia. . -. j The .British officially an nounced that the German lead er hurled his dwindling tank unite and Infantry against an enveloping southern British arm In an attempt to prevent encirclement. - ': "A heavy engagement ensued in which, we again inflicted considerable damage on enemy Armored fighting vehicles - and motor transport," the commun ique said. 'That action followed Monday's lost 42 Unks to Britain's 14, The RAF increasingly prayed a vital role Mn the bitter fighting 80 miles below Bengasi, raining explosives on axis positions. British planes also bombed and machine-gunned x effectively axis motorized convoys along; the coastal road to Tripoli far to the west. Whether theses axis troops were in flight westward or rep resented reinforcementkforRora mel was not stated. f ' Some observers interpreted the heavy axis air attacks on the British Island of Malta aa evidence of German-Italian de termination to smash a pathway x across the Mediterranean fat. an effort to retrieve Bommers battered army. But Malta, between. Italian Sicily and Tripoli, held fart and continued to . send waves of bombers against the Tripolitania coastal road. - First Aiders i swer06S Galls in '41 Persons treated by Salem's first aid car in 1941 totaled 906 Wed nesday night when the clock boosted another ease, -j "old Father Time," to the crew at the east Salem fire station. i Final call on the list, which does not include extremely minor hurts, "came when an automobile driven by Charles, Weigle, jr., 18, 1690" Mill street, collided with a train at the intersection of Win ter and Union streets at 10:30 Wednesday night. He was bruis ed but not seriously. , other, occupants of tne: car were bis brother, Albert Weigle, 20, who sustained a cut on the head; Gearhardt Unrein, 24, 837 South Commercial, a cut on the right eye and a -bump oil the forehead; and Doris Millery 17, 290 Fisher avenue, a. cut : over and back of the ear. They were taken to the Salem General hos pital, because of shock. Also treated during the day was Charles Simmons of Carlton, who fell fn the boiler room at the paper mill here and suffered a possible fracture of the back. In 1940 the calls totaled 809, which number was reached in the first 11 months of 1941. it 'iop AerAr MOSCOW, Thursday, Jan. 1 -JP-The: red army announced today the recapture of the Im portant city of Kaluga, final de feat of CoL Gen. Heins Gude rian's tank army, and routing of 16 German divisions compris ing, six entire army corps on the-entire central front. In addition, a special brigade of Hitler's black-shirt ed elite guards, flown to the front from Cracow, Poland, has been routed, a spe cial communique said. The nazi invaders are fleeing westward under heavy blows of the pursuing ' Russians, abandon ing military equipment and even their wounded as they seek to hasten their escape, the soviet communique said. Kaluga, an old city on the left bank of the Oka, is 110 miles southwest of Moscow. Its capture liberated an additional large sec tor of the rail and road network southwest of the capital, r There were indications that after routing Gnderian's armor ed army In the Tula vicinity, the reds entered Kaluga but thai the . town changed hands several times In days of furious fighting which led up to today's triumphant announcement of the final smashing of the tank expert's forces and the Infan trymen of Ton Kluge. f , The Russian announcement, opening the new year, told of a victory as great as any yet claim ed by either side in the great war which began with the German in vasion on June 22. In occupying Kaluga the Rus sians ! also took the big 'railway Junction of Novy Kirishi (presum ably Just west of Kaluga on the Moscow-Bryansk and Tula-Vy- asma railways). ' Powerful Russian forces in the Crimea-drove tonight toward re lief of the besieged red navy base of Sevastopol, carrying out a plan self for recapture of the key Black sea peninsula. This, apparently, was to be the first major battlefield of 1942 on the eastern front. Milk Prices Hike Ordered Milk prices in Salem were rais ed 1 cent a quart nn 4 per cent milk and 2. cents on the 5 per cent product at 12:01 this morn ing as a result of a decision an nounced Wednesday' by the state milk control board increasing the price of butterfat from 67 to 75 cents a pound. Four per cent milk now sells at 13 cents a quart retail and 5 per cent milk at 15 cents.. Retail coffee cream prices now are: Half pints. 18 cents, pints . 29 cents, and quarts 55 cents. Whipping : cream -. retail prices are as follows: Half pints, 22; pints, 40, and quarts, 77. Racial "War" Flares , "EL CENTRO, Calif XJBec. 31- (V- Two Japanesmen were shot Wednesday night as anti Japanese feeling among Filipinos flared with the New Year's eve celebration. Civil Defense Churchill Talks On WarPlan ays; Singapore ToSurvive Jap V - Aerial Attacks OTTAWA, Dec. 31 (AP) Winston Churciiil predict ed with supreme surety that the British and their allies will hold Singapore, the naval base so essential to major op erations of allied warships in tne rar rasi. Beneath a green and white striped canopy in the "tent room" of Canada's govern ment house, the British prime minister, puffing a six-inch cigar, sent to him by President Batista of Cuba, spoke with glowing con fidence to a long press confer ence attended by some 200 Brit ish empire and American news papermen. I . , He talked with feeling of the courageous stand of the Philip pine army and predicted that the Japanese, before the fight ended, would get some surprises. Asked, then, 4f hep could say when the allies would bomb the Japanese, he replied more grimly that he could not say when but "they have something coming to them one of these days." Meticulously, Churchill called them "the Japanese," explaining with an impish smile: "I dont like to call them Japs. It's a bit too familiar.' A London correspondent ask ed him: "Do you . think we will hold Singapore?" ; Churchill hesitated not a mo ment, p I sure dor he said. , Churchill's questioners took the prime minister figuratively around the world, ' and this was the result: :- f Did he . think. Italy would be soctirlmdck'eir ut'of the ? wrfir " Unfortunately, the organ grin der seems to have -too firm a hold on the monkey's collar." ;l Have the allies received : any peace feelers, recently? "The axis must be hard press ed for materials of all kinds, and can not afford to waste the ink and paper." 1! r WIU Hitler march into Spain? 1 really: do not know; he not told me. If you happen to hear, please tell me." Had the prime minister made any New Years resolutions! Only one: To go on doing my best to keep , things going in the right direction.'' '' . (Turn to Page 2, CoL 3) j Snow.; Rain, Cold Occur In Dember The first snowfalt In two years, and two threatened Salem floods marked weather reports for DeXl cember. 1941. The snow, which fell first lightly on Saturday eight, December . 27, on Sunday ard . Monday continued and covered Salem and surrounding hills to a depth of two or three inches in some places. Heavy rains in the first part of the month raised the river on De cember & to 15.1 feet On Decem ber 21, the river rose to 19.2 and flooded the lowlands surround ing the city. J '' Although complete data on the amount of rainfall is unobtain able, December' was a wet month as Decembers go, with heavy, rain fall at both!; the beginning and the end of the month. . ' Maximum temperature for . the month, 62, occurred on the first day of the month, and the mini mum, 21, came on the final day. Review o - Irr the history books of the na tion the year 1941 will be writ ten in red a the year of the at tack on Pearl Harbor and the siege of Manila. While Salem resi dents may find in the files of old newspapers a larger variety of news, .they will: recall as most outstanding those occurrences con nected with the capital city's de-, fense preparedness. ' -' The first month of the year saw approval of airport de velopment plans, expanded thnrahoat tho spring and early summer months and culminating" ta the completion during the fall of the first I of tfiree surfaced '.runways. Af CAA project r de signed to snake the municipal flying" field a possible defense base, an original expenditure of $153,CCS was planned. " 1 US Trb(0)Ta) StabbbrioOlY Mesistio MacAriEmr Nation Starts New Year fith Day of Prayer Tfrnevlt rTinrrliill To Join in Servicers; A Defense Work Rolls ! WASHINGTON, Dec. il-iff)-America Is beginning the new year the , first since Uncle Sam again shouldered his guh with prayer and extra work but yet is finding time to pi - There is a. possibility that President Roosevelt wife Britain's Prime Minister Churchill, who is returning here from Canada, will slip quietly into church x some where in the capital to join their prayers with those . offered x in democracy's cause throughout the world. , President Roosevelt on. Decem ber 22, a fortnight after the United States replied with a. quick dec laration of war to Japan's"; attack on Pearl Harbor, issued a proclar mation designating the first, day of 1942 as a national day of prayer. In churches . in Washington, along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in cities and at crossroads inland, special services are being held in response to the president's proclamation that January 1 be a: : "Day of prayer, of asking for giveness for oar shorteomlnrs of the past, of consecration to the tasks of the present, and of askma. God's help In. the day tocome," v England, which In years past nasnt made muchof New f5f ear's day, is' Joining this nation in prayer and is observing its sixth official day of prayer since Brit ain entered .the war three! years 1 (Turn to-Page 2, Col. 4) Oregon Getsi US Road Aid i , 1 . r t AUotments Annonnced Bat Work Mast Hate Approval of Army I WASHINGTON, Dec. Zi-VPh Ailotments Wednesday by the federal works agency among states and territories for highway construction and improvement in 1942 totaled $13700,000 Regular aid for Oregon totaled $1,649,132; secondary or leeder roads, $288,598, and railrcad cross ing eliminations, $228,533. f i Federal aid road funds for the fiscal year starting July h 1942, apportioned to the states by the federal werkr agency fat Washington Wednesday, . win not be available for expenditure) in Oregon except on Jobs speci fically approved by army -officials as being essential to mili tary defense, S. H. Baldock, state , highway engineer, aa- : nounced. All federal aid funds now avail able for expenditure, including al locations for the current year, have been frozen by executive or der and can be released for spe cific projects only by the district office of the FWA with approval of the army. ' V: Baldock said the state high way commission cannot contract any money allocated to Oregon ' j unit 1 such time as the armyv I has I designated what Oregon rotfds it, considers sUItary cthrtties. tlal for .. In August, Salem voted a $75, 000 bond issue to make possible the purchase of additional 'lands and enlargement of the airport and the constructmn.of Jan administra tion, building, to meet army, and commercial flying service require ments :-A -A't AS-fl- But before . that . capital city residents had gone to the polls to approve the issuance of a $200,000 bond issue . for; construction of a sewage disposal plant with WPA "matched funds, and the money thus raised has been partially in vested in defense bonds while the country awaits the cessation c! war. . - ' - July saw organisation In Sa fes! ef the Ilarion County Civil in Defense council. Com;rlscd o of representatives ' from every section el the eouniy a;pclbUJ 1941 In, Salem US Defense Lute Written Back , hwavui 4&jffAV?ia&gr, iluzon" ,Bfjfel(W OCEAN sea y3Lr&9 COWECIDOI The US war department said late Wednesday Philippine defense forces had been broktn in Pampanga province (1), indicating a new de fense line midday between Manila and the Lingayen gulf (2), " where the Japanese (black arrows) are driving inland. Manila heard' a report, before communications ceased, that the Japanese were falling back from Tayng (white arrow). Japanese reinforce ments were reported landing en saw the possibility, of a defense should arise. War Comm When W(miwJBd A rrive Transports Bring Back Hurt, but Eager to Get New CraeM? at Japs ; Army, Navy Wives, Children Disembark SAN FRANCIS CC. Dec Zl-VPhWar came home to America Wednesday in stretchers bearing the burned and shxapnel-torn bodies of young sailors and soldiers. J Dark gray transports also brought silent children, for whom there had been no Santa Claus. War came home to America . ? ; X: Wednesday as scores of wounded I tx . 1 Ta . . and more hundreds of army and navy wives were lanaea nere. ..TtlxrzZ'T,'. sailor said, lying- In - his nar row white stretcher, his eyes bright under curly brown hair. And that spirit was the fighting mood of all, undismayed by swooping death that came from the skies over Pearl Harbor, r They left Hawaii on Christmas day and they were back in the states in time for New Year's. A new year was ahead but berond (Turn to Page 2, CoL 2) - Admiral Wrns Japs May Bit Coast Cities PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, Jan, 1 -JF Admiral Chester W. Ni mitz, new commander of the United States Pacific fleet, warns that Japanese submarines operat ing off the west i coast of the United States might' attempt to shell coastal cities.; He said: "It is not beyond the bc-.rids of possibility that Japanese sub marines are operating - off the west coast of the United , S t. ies and may attempt to? lay ' t'isie sheila - into cities before . they leave.' - by Gov. Charles A. Spragne, the eonseauent ' election of State Sen., Douglas MeKay as chair man, and 'Ida appointment of . Bryan H. Conley, war veteran' as eoerdbutor. . - -Now, that it is history, Salem residents recall, the peaceful nights when lights ; burned loag P m county ' courtrooms where defense council workers had set up their headojiarters. ; They remember as outstanding the registration day - when more than1 3000 capital city folk, mur muring under' their " breath, "It can't happen here, but we should be prepared,- volunteered! their services aa members of the' state's civilian reserves. Not forgotten Is the ; 'Halloween . test blackout, termed "far-fetched by many. An entire nation rexasnLcu . - . Evaciiate Wooiided the southern front (S). Observers stand la Bataagaa province (4) if Sailors, Soldiers, j l1T.fty tlTtlfil In Broadcast Blames Opponents for Social Plan Failure; flays US, Britatri BiitlN, Dec. 31-(Official ra dio recorded by AP) Adolf Hit ler, in a New Year message broadcast to his people, Wednes day night blamed the imscrup ulousi sanguinary sacrifice of the bolshevik slaves'' for Germany's troubles on the eastern front, and told' his army the Russian win ter counter-attack "must and will be frustrated." . In 1942, he said, "We shall again get hold of this enemy of man kind and we shall beat him." We all shall therefore ask God Almighty that the year 1942; bring the decision for the rescue of our people and of the nations allied with us." . i (At the same time last year Hitler said flatly that 1941 wffl bring completion of the ; greatest victory in our history.") . Wednesday's message continued bitterly: What I and the whole national socialist movement will be pre vented from accomplishing for years on account of this-war fUls (Turn to Page 2, CoL 5) Recalls Variety of i News December 7 as the day of the' flrst bombhig of Peart Harbor, but la the minds of citizens of ' Salem thoughts of that sad Sun daxJtre almost Inextricably en twined with memories of the " celebration hero of tho opening ' ' of United Ah-llnes mail, express -and passenger service en Friday, I Deeembee 5. ' Financiers in the city may re member the year as one disap pointingly low. in building, high in retail sales, -v r " ' It was the year of the 41st state legislature, the 221 hih achool basketball tourney in Calem. , Although unemployment ceased to hover over the mid-valley sec tor, the specter t desta came frequently, and the year saw the passing of County Recorder Al bert Ian, cf County Judje.Le- (DFt hi OnNe Capital's Fall Seen In Near Future; Navy - Denies IslesHurt r ' WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (AP) With the early fall of Manila a very real probabili ty, Genera! Douglas MaeAr thur nevertheless 'reported to the; war department "Wednes day night that a "stubborn resistance' was being offered ; the Japanese "according to pre-arranged defense plans.? The commanding: general in the Far East also said that American and Filipino wounded had been evacuated on the steam ship Mactan, bound for Austra lia. The vessel had been convert ed into and marked as a hospital ship, which by . treaty should make her immune from, enemy attack. -Meanwhile, from the navy came a communique, apparently . in tended as a denial of Tokyo, claims that Maui, Palmyra and Johnston Islands, in or near the Hawaiian group, had . been effec tively bombedV The : situation on those islands, the navy said, was unchanged since the last report, which was received December 24. In full,' the war I department's communique saJdi '. . . , ! MGeneral Douglas MacArthnr, J commanding the United States army forces in tho cast has ad- -vised' the war; department that' wounded of the American and Philippine i army have, been evacuated from the jtanila area on the steamship Mactan, which has been converted; into a hos pital ship and appropriately mnca ut accordance wim n Geneva convention Of 19f 7. The wounded will be taken to Aus-, faviu. - . . "American -and Fhllippino troops are continuing their stub-' bora " resistance according- to 1 pre-arranged" defense plans." All indications were that Man Ha must soon surrender to power Japanese forces Slashing their steadily toward the city from two directions regardless of tho fierce resistance of badly out- aumoena aexenomgi troops. . ' The enemy was driving upon the, island capital in great force from both north and south! Japan dive bombers dominated the roads. Great quantities! tanks and arm- -mm nv ayuA uuitcu against the American and Fili pino defenders. now iar tne japs actually were from the city was ;a quesuon. Messages uying from one axis radio station to another set the distance as less than ten miles. (Turn to Page 2j CoL ) rm ' n ; xuree aaiem Men Promoted To Colonels v WASHINGTON, Dec SI Promotion of 575 lieutenant col onels of all branches of the army to the temporary rank' of colonel was announced Wednesday, f T "Among them Were Leo A. Wal ton, air corps: Paul Steele, infan try, and Malcolm; H. Cox,' field artillery, all Salem. - Boy Hewlett and, of !thr county's vewran ciera, u. G. Boyer, short ly after his retiremnti ; v Miss Grace Elisabeth Smith, out standing In the state, bar records as an assistant attorney general; Charles P. Bishop, longtime, city business leaderj Willi H. Hawley, for many years representative ia congress from this district; Henry Steuernagel, Salem's ; last-surviving civil war veteran, and E. L. Wieder, prominent civic and Ma sonic leader, -were among - those Defenders Set w Junes- who answered the final calL -, In Salem, 1311 was a year cf anniversaries, even as 1310 be fore It bad been. Tho It 1-year-old city's eldest ncrryipcr, TLa Oregon Ks!rraa, " ctscfrti i'l SOth fclrtt54y. Elshcp's ttsre was 19 years - tTurn ta Pss 2, CtL"7) J
