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As Rommel Drives
ROME (From Italian
Broadcasts) Jan. 29(AP)
The shell- battered, often
bombed Libyan seaport of
Bengasi has been recaptured
in the counter-off ensive by
Gen.' Erwin Rommel's African
army, the Italian high com
mand announced Thursday in
a special communique.
German and Italian troops en
tered Bengasi, capital of Cirenai
ca and formerly a major axis
supply port, this morning.
(The occupation of Bengasi al
ao was announced in Berlin.
(Thus" the city, on the western
side of i the Cirenaican hump,
changed hands for the fourth time
since the start of the African
campaign. First taken by the
British oin February 7. 1941, in
their initial Libyan thrust, it was
recaptured by Rommel's forces
two months later.
(The British drive to the west
which started last November 18
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eVrfcXnfo;aTW Brit
ish c o m m an d acknowledged
Thursday , that Gen. Erwin Rom
mell's German and Italian forces,
striking with the full weight of
their resources, appeared to have
hemmed In Bengasi from south
and east, in a drive that Wednes
day brought the axis spearhead
to El Regima, 16 miles east of the
Cirenaican capital on the highway
leading into the Gebel El Achdar
mountains.
An authoritative British
source In London said there was
no confirmation of the axis re
capture of Benxasi, but that It
would not be surprising if the
port, generally considered in
defensible, had been evacuated.
Even the Italians, to whom its
loss presumably meant much since
it is the second city In their north
African empire, failed to defend it
last winter. When they returned
In March and April, with the sup
port of the German "Afrika
korps," the British in turn with
drew from the city.
Again, when MaJorGeneral NeU
M. Ritchie's imperial eighth army
' drove into Libya 'this winter,
Rommel gave Bengasi a wide
. berth in his retreat The port was
occupied after only fitful resist
- ance by the Italians, who took
their stand well east of the city
itself. :
The drive on Bengasi marked a
shard ohiXVto the direction of the
axis thrust; Virtually naltftd twa
days ago by, RAF attacks in its at-
! tempt to push f avther eastward,
. Rommel's army veered north and
northwest.
1 wo Aldermen
;?May Join JU
Army Soon
Two i city V aldermen whose
terms expire at the end of 1942
mav- lave tho council soon to
:" enter tho US army, It was learned
Thursday - If the vacancies oc-
' eur, they will be- f Uled .by the
council appointees. .
7 George : Belt of ward three
stated ho has taken the prelim
inary physical examination and
. made application for enlistment
-in u vawred division. He Is
chairman . of the ' ordinance
committee.' ' ' ,
Application lor army service
' in Washington, DC, has been
made by Bert T. Ford of ward
" sevn, and he Is expecting a call
. soon to report for duty, friends
said.' Ford was out of the city
.Thursday and the report could
not be confirmed.- .
Wednesday's Weather -
. Forecasts withheld and tem
peratore data delayed by army
request Elver, Thursday, CJ
feet., lilax. temp. Wednesday,
52, inhL, 21. , .
Admit Serious
Civilians Near Sin savor e
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cautionary measure." Japanese
State Control Board
Secretary Qu its Job
Daniel JFjry in Surprise Move Tells
Of Accepting Position
Roy H.- Mills Named as Successor f -Daniel
J. Fry, secretary of the state board of control since
February 15, 1935, resigned the
succeeded by Roy H. Mills.
Members of the board said
and came as a complete surprise.
Mills, in addition to serving as
secretary of the board will con-
tinue as supervisor of state Insti
tutions. He has been employed
in the latter capacity for the past
two years.
Fry originally was appointed
board of control secretary early
In the Charles H. Martin ad
ministration. Other members of
the board at that time were
Secretary of. State Earl Snell-
and State Treasurer Rufus C
Holman.
Fry announced that he had ac
cepted a position with a large
eastern wholesale drug concern
which is Interested in the produc
tion of medicinal drugs In Oregon
and Washington. The name of the
drug concern was not announced,
The company, according to
Fry, Intends to establish drug
processing plants in Oregon and
Washington bat the locations
were not divulged. He will be
In charge of the Company's pro
duction and marketing.;
Besides ,ervizuL.aau board of
control Secretary Try also -dis-
charged-thft-&it:: r I-t&tl. ?UT
chasing agent . '
"Mills VrecWil'lliy "w a appointed
state budget director to succeed
David Eccles but will not qualify
because of taking over Fry's
duties. Gov. Charles A. Sprague
said. The governor said a budget
director would be selected later
by his office. , .
Eccles is now serving as -state
war industries coordinator.
All three members of the
board of control approved Mills
as a successor to Fry. Members
of the board, other than Got.
Sprague. are Secretary of State
SneU and State Treasurer Les
lie M. Scott " ;
Members of the board expressed
themselves as highly pleased with
Fry's administration. ' "
Raise Allowed
InBiii Fares
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2(The
nation's highway bus lines , re
ceived permission Thursday to In
crease their fares by 10 per cent
- In authorizing 'the increase, the
interstate commerce - .commission
stipulated that the carriers could
put the higher-fares', into 'effect
10 days after filing schedules..
Exempted from the higher fares
are members of the army navy,
marine corps and coast guard and
personnel of the British military
forces traveling In uniform,. '.
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strip along the southern Up of JohorA state, directly north of Singa
evacuation of civilians and llvestocn was ordered as a "purely pre
Invaders were still about 40 miles
With Drug Krm ;
position Thursday and will be
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the resignation was voluntary
Farms Called
Tront lines9
Sprague Greets 266 .
Rural Residents in
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Annual Credit Meet
In this second World war, unl
versally recognized I as a war of
production, the farms of America
constitute its "front line," A. B.
Robertson of Spokane, vice-presi
dent of - the Production Credit
corporation, ' told 266 rural resi
dents of western Oregon, at the
luncheon which closed the,5 Wil
lamette Production Credit asso
ciation's annual meeting Friday
in- Salem. ' v. jjr
Individual farmers contribu
tions to this "food for freedom"
campaign must be sound and
intelligently aimed, Kobertson
added. There Is for example
plenty of wheat;! range live
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Plants toeetL Women
DETROIT, Jan. 29-(p)-Tk3
war effort of the nation's auto
motive industry Is going to re
quire the' employment of "lots
of women" in its I factories, Er
nest' Kanzler, chief of the auto
mobile division off the war pro-'
duction board said Thursday.
nitial Program . at
Initial program in celebration
Of the 100th anniversary of Wil
lamette university will be Sunday
morning at 10:50 o'clock In - the
First Methodist church, which ob
served its centennial In 1941. In
n44itfisn i Kt kn wKne fhrm i oV)
out Oregon w till recognize the E
centenary, . .
The speakers will be Bishop .
Bruce R. Baxter; president . of -WUlamette
from 1334 to IS 4 3,
on Wlllamette University A
Glorious Fasti and Br Carl S.
Knopf, now president on Wil
Lunette University T o m o r-
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; At Jason Lee Methodist church,
Dr. , Robert M. Gatke, .uniyersity
professor, J,will occupy the pulpit
Sunday morning. Rev., W. Irvin
Williams of Salem First Presbyr
terian church will preach at Eu
gene First Methodist church, and
Dr. B. Earl Parker of the latter
engasi;
Evacuated
aWay from Singapore.
ien Enemies
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o Be Moved
Specified Areas in l-
WColitdtl
Oosed to Hundreds
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29-iJP)
Attorney General Biddle Thurs
day night ordered all German,
Japanese and Italian nationals to
leave specified vital areas in
San Francisco and Los Angeles
by February 24 and announced
that 27 additional prohibited
areas recommended by the war
department would be published
Friday.
The order was only the first
of numerous such actions to be
taken as the Justice department
receives additional recommen-
ations from the war and navy
departments, Biddle said in
hastily summoned press confer
ence. The initial' areas include, at
Kan Francisco, the entire water-
ront from China lsin to the
Presidio reservation boundary
ine, including the embarcadero
and some nearby areas, and, at
Los Angeles, the area at the
shoreline near the Intersection of
Bepulveda boulevard and Rose
(Turn to Pago 2, Cot 4)
Britain Hit
By Snowstorm
LONDON, Jan. 30-(Friday)
m-ow it can be told. A severe
U.a villages and blocked
ail ways and roads.
Trains . between Scotland - and
southern England were 14 to 18
hours late, and at some stations
t was so cold that beer froze in
the pumps.
Speakers At Centennial Opening
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Depth Charges
Dropped After
Enemy Sighted
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29
(AP)- Ait enemy subma
rine was sighted Thursday
a short distance off Point
Vicente, overlooking Los
Angeles harbor, and navy
craft went into action,
dropping depth charges
without apparent result, a
navy announcement said.
Hundreds of persons along
the coastline beard tho explo
sions and aircraft factory work
ers' In the vicinity reported
they heard gunfire, but an of
ficial navy statement said:
"At 1 p.m. an army plane on
routine patrol sighted a pre
sumably hostile submarine off
Pt Vicente.
"After being sighted the sub
marine submerged at once.
Shortly thereafter, two depth
charges were dropped in the
area by navy planes. A patrol
of air and surface craft scoured
the area for several hours there
after, with no reports of hostile
forces sighted."
Twenty officers of the Los
Angeles field operations squad
were sent at once to Point Flr
min. When first reports mt the
presence of the submarine were
reported, Deputy Police Chief
Ross R. McDonald said he an-
ticlpaiul X trouble i. neec . Point t
Flrmin "and things are happen
lnjr off tho coast" Two men
were sent to guard headquarters
of the aircraft warning system.
There was no damage to
shipping in the harbor because
of the action.
tluss Threaten
Winter Line
Recapture Key City
Between Dneiper and
Donets; 25,800 Slain
MOSCOW, Friday, Jan. 30-UP)
The Russians announced officially
tonight the recapture of Lozovaya,
midway between the .Donets' and
Dnieper rivers, disclosing a 83
mile drive in the industrial basin
of the south which threatened
the entire German winter line
down to the sea of Azov.
Four hundred populated
points were retaken by tho red
armies and 25400 nazis slain In
10 days of bitter fighting
through Tuesday, the communi
que said. .
The big soviet triumph In the
south followed by few days the
powerful red strides in the north
which reached and passed Kholm,
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1 HSlt; flae Stw1
caSts)-Friday Jan.; SCH-Adolf
Hitler . will broadcast an , address
oyer all German-controlled radio
stations at 5 p. m. today (7 a. m.,
PST) on ? the ninth anniversary
of his rise to power. It will be
rebroadcast at 8:15 p. m. (10:15
a. PST).
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Stars Converge
ipital to Aids
debration :;
WASHINGTON Jan.
Presiderir Roosevelt reached the
eve of his COth birttiday anni
versaryj , Thursday night in i
setting i so changed that even
Hollywood stars who came to
help the capital's celebration
wore the uniforms of the armed
services.
- Upwards of 2a score of the
film capital's high priced talent
hat arrived or were on the way
to Washington Thursday j night
The money that this crowded war
capital pays Friday night to at
tend various parties where' the
stars gejt top billing will go into
the infantile paralysis fund for
which Mr. Roosevelt has cam'
paignedj many years.
Along with Dorothy Lamour,
Rosalind Russell, Judy Canova,
Portly Edward Arnold and Cow
boy Gene A u t r y were Ensign
wayne jMorns, in ms naval unl
form, papt Cy Bartlett Holly
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Ifeks Sees;
Oil Shortage
-y ,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29-JP)
Although he side-stepped discus
sion of any gasoline -rationing,
Interior Secretary Ipkes ; said
Thursday ' the ' petroleum supply
situation In the east was becom
n-jserious because of the sink-
ll.r-?! 4anktr"-4Vi-
tionL-'i of such vessels for war
service,
The t secretary told his press
conference he might revive a pro
posal to build the world's largest
pipeline system, an $80,000,000
conduit- from Texas to Bayonne,
Jij, to rneet the emergency;
ette Slated
church and formerly at the First
Methodist Jiere will take Wii
liams pulpit
At First churclC district snp-
'erinfehdents of 1 the Or eg on
t Methodist ' conference will par
ticipate. Dr. Guy H. Goodsell of
Portland -district will offer the
: prayer; Dr. J. Edrar Pnrdy; of
.Salem the responsive scripture,
and Dr. ; Silas Fair ham of
Cascade , ther benedkUon.. .Dr.
J. C klarrlson, pastor, will eon
.duct -tho service.
The cathedral choir," directed
by TDjan- MelVia 'H. Geist will
sing tivo anthemsj Thus Speak'
eth the Lord of Hosts" by Stain
er andj "Jerusalem, O. Turn Thee
to' thej .Lod' - (from Gallia) by
Gounod, with ; Gladys Mclntrye
Thomas as soprano soloist Con
gregational hymns wIH he "Faith
of Ouir Fathers" and "G o d of
Grace land God of Glory."
To Java.
Yank Artillery Smashes New
Infantry Assaults on Luzon;
Invaders Qose to Singapore
J By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE
4; -- Asaoeiated Press War Editor
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The Japanese enemy, blown back on Luzon by American
artillery;' and still trying to hurl the surviving units of his
crippled;; southern invasion fleet through the terrible allied
fire covering Macassar strait extended bis landings in the
Dutch East Indies Thursday by another and less costly
approach. . ' '. J- "'
In Malaya, the invader was again , unhalted in his slow
marches In the central and eastern sections down upon Singa
pore, although his-columns in the western peninsula appar
ently had been checked.
At the center his troops
bayonet counter-attacks of the
Svooa wiuun a mues ui w oiRgar
pore base about the railway town;
of Layang-Layang. I . ;
. In the Indies, the enemy's new
incursions were made on the west4
ward side of Borneo.
There, Japanese! troops landed
at Pemangkat some 525 miles
above Java. Heavy landing fight
ing in J that same general area
suggested also that a supplemen
tary invasion overland was being
directed from the enemy-occupied
Sarawak portion f. Borneo. j
x Tb- general Japanese pattern
iaOheJhus far jtueieffort te get
at Java Speared; tobtn twp
sections: They appeared deter
mined, in spite of already tre
mendous losses figured by Wash
ington at not' Jess than 28. ships
sunk or damaged, to bore through
Macassar strait at any cost in
tending ' to divide what force
might survive the passage for
dual thrusts at the lower Celebes
and -Borneo Coasts to put them
selves in position to strike across
the Java sea at the main Dutch
naval base of Soerabaja on Java
island.
The Japs were hacking down
into western Borneo as a sec-;
ondary part of this offensive,
and the only part that had had
any success at alt At the port
of Pbntlanak, ' 85 miles beloW
Pemangkat the Dutch garrison
smashed all equipment of value.
Australian airmen, still exact
ing good installments upon ine
price the Japanese are paying for
their landing on . the Australian
island of New Britain above the
mainland, reported a direct bomb
hit on a Japanese ship in the har
bor there and a probable hit on ja
second. Previously, four of thI
Invasion ships there had been
knocked out ! ,
Aside from Macassar, where
American bomber action crippled
two more enemy transports, the
day's sharpest - triumph over the
Japanese was accomplished on
Luzon inthe Phmnes. 1 7 l 11
n ltsxiorniug conununique
: department reported
that Gen. Douxlas MaeArthur's
batteries had smashed headlong
' Japanese Infantry ' assaults on
the American right and left;
flanks.
fin the Burma theatre, Ameri
can and British fliers shot down
at least 13 and possibly 17 raid
ing Japanese planes over Ran
goon without loss to. themselves
and increased to not less than 111
the number,; of enemy craft de
stroyed by them -since the war
began,
- The same communique also an
nounced that two enemy subma
rines which sought to shell Mid
way: Island In i the- Pacific- were
driven- off by the garrison's ar
tniery fire and that one of them
was' hit" ; ; f'V , l ",;'. . T.
. From the White House,.
. meanwhile, came word that '
President Roosevelt . plans la
- radio' iddress for about FebnS-1
ary .22, in, which he expects to
; give ; the ; nation .a report on'
'.the war effort-It was quite
; possible, a secretary said fa
making tho announcement that
he would "have things of Im
portance" to say by thai tune, !
The , White House has been re
ceiving, it was ? said, numerous
requests that the chief executive
deliver another speech "to dissi
pate .' poisonous and troublesome
rumors and insofar as possible! to
give the . country a clearer and
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having overrun the desperate
out-numbered Australians,
Yank Troops
Set to Fight
Churchill Gets
Okeh
After Telling Plant
Of AEF in Ireland
LONDON, Jan. ?Mff)-Winston
Churchill declared Thursday that
America wants the' second AEF
to 'come to grips with tho Gorman
enemy "a . close and as soon at
possible," and. emerged from the
house of commons with a heart
ening 464-to-l vote of confidence.
; . In a sweeping, five-fold fore
east of the world-wide advan
tage which the United Nations
will gain by having US armies
on the western front the prime
minister disclosed thai their
movements to these islands will
r permit Britain to send her own
' seasoned troops la greater num
bers to the Pacific and Africa,
rather than reinforce these ac
tive fronts "with troops of an
ther nation." -
The lone member of parliament i
who registered his dissent to the
confidence vote was . James Max
ton, of 'the irreconcilable three
man independent labor party.
Maxton's two colleagues in the :
extreme left Jock McGovern and
Campbell Stephen, were assigned
as tellers and thus could not vote.
The authoritative British press
association and London papers
predicted that over the weekend
Churchill would announce ap
pointment of Lord . Beaverbrook
to a new post as minister of "pro
duction. . , .--1 -
Accompanying- forecasts said'
Sir, Stafford Crippv embassador
to Moscow, would, be offered Bea-
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House Balks
New Probe of
Pearl Harbor
WASHINGTON, j a n. 2 - UPi
The possibility of a congressional
investigation into the Pearl Har
bor disaster apparently: faded
Thursday when the house naval
committee voted 14 to 6 against
undertaking one. t .
. Sentiment at the capitol for an
inquiry had appeared to be cen
tered chiefly in this group al-'
though members of , the house
military committee, as well as
some senators, also have talked
of an investigation. ;
; Chairman Vinson (D-Ga) an
nounced'the vote which was dl
. reetly ' on ; a motion ; to request
; that : the committee' be given
documentary evidence collect
ed by the president's . Investl .
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British May Use US
Funds for Purcjiases t, 1
WASHINGTON, Jan 29-(JP)-A
hint that' arrangements are being '
made to use American "money to .
help the ! British buy -whatever .
they need in Latin America came ;
Thursday from Secretary. ; of - the '
Treasury Morgenthau. I, ' ;.
The secretary declined to ive
any details of the plan which also
would be of financial help, to Lat
in America. . .