.4 .... Scrvico IJcn 1 f:v Opr boys 1 Saiera as 4 Vicinity are la ualloron with Cade Sam ever the face of the globe. Follow them dally la The Statesman' 'Service Ilea colamn. ' ; Complete ; (YeaH find a Mwtinper can give mora real satisfac tion than your local mora. In paper, with its WORLD NEWS plus HOME COM MUNITY NEWS. 1 irzirrY-crcorit) yeah Salem. Oregon. Thursday Morning, November 5. 1942 Frfc 5a Ko. 157 i M .f :F1( O V7 vr n uiv-iv;vv o A - v.v Republic, Margins Blare Congress Majority Kept By In' Administration ; Loses Many Strong Men; GOP Seats 205 WASHINGTON, Nov. MP) Sweeping republican successes in . a t e n s e .wartime r election - made actual voting control of the house a touch-and-go affair Wednesday night, although the - democrats salvaged enough seats to block republicans from naming a new speaker. The democratic party also re tained a ! majority in the senate, though the republican flood-tide . ripped wide gaps in the adminis tration forces there. President Roosevelt's party fi nally pieced together a bare ma jority of the house membership Wednesday night, but the opposi tion had edged so close that even alight defections from party reg ularity might shift the tally on Important roll calls. v ; With anly 8 house races un , decided, repvblieans conn ted 205 seats, compared j with 218 for the democrats, two held by progressives, and one each by 'American-labor and farmer-la- bor lawmakei:j:J-?:,i;.-?;u:'::., -Ji The new senate lineup stood at 66 democrats.. 39,. .republicans, and one progressive, with Jtte -outcome - ofa contest in ' Montana unde termined. Sen. James E. Murray, Democrat, held the lead in that state. The republicans had made a net cafin of nine senate seats, includ tog that of ; 8 1-year-old George W. Norris, Nebraska independent. As a result, they had their largest representation since the new deal - drove to power nationally in 1932. ; Republican strength had dwindled i ' to only 17 senate seats in 1937. 1 m Xt the 15 democratic . senators ! elected Tuesday, 10 were from 1 the p a r t y's stronghold in the , ; south. But Oklahoma elected its second republican senator in 35 jrears when E. H. j Moore, Tulsa oil man, retired democrat Josh Lee.- - Vv " The administration lost other strong supporters In the ' sen- V- (Turn to Page 2) Few Judicial Races Need Decision PORTLAND, Nov. 4-(-Up- state Oregon voters decided only a few district 'attorn7 and circuit court races in Tuescay's election. Most candidates wens without op position, i" . ' . : In the third judicial district, - Marion county, George R. Dun- can defeated the incumbent, L. H. McMahan, for position No. 1 of ;the circuit bench by 8117 to 7858 votes. - ' " ! In the eighth judicial district, . Baker county, Forrest L. Hubbard, veteran Baker attorney, led Lett D. Brown, 240 votes and was con- - sjdered a sure winner: . ! ' Republican candidates for dis trict attorney in' several counties 'carried their party's state land slide into : their elections. ' Fred McHenry of Benton coun ty, incumbent republican, defeat ed Karl T. Huston, democrat, for district attorney there, 2681 to J886. In Curry county Grant J Wil liams, Incumbent republican, ; wen. by a margin of about two to one over Jay Moltzner, democrat ! - In Hood River county Teunis J. Wyers, repulican recently ap pointed to fill out an unexpired term, defeated John Baker, In dependent, 1214 to 1119. 1 Robert I Welch Lake county republican district attorney can didate, had a StMrote lead over (Turn to Page 2) H Dimcut ';S;- It'-'-f-T-' - Thcrsiay's sunset ; 5:52 p. m. f ' Triay's sssrise .7:5:1 a'm. r; Weather: Taeifi y's max, i temp 55, mla 42. EJver Wed nesday 2-9 ft. Ey request, weather forecasts are withheld "and temrsratare Cata delayed. Party 9 Sweep Oregon .... ii . - 1 ;;' "C lrt'lJ'': '!!'' Sprague Sees 944 Promise, Republicans Showing made by the repnb 1 leans in Tuesday's election, both in Oreron and throughout the nation, fives promise of a sweepinr republican victory at the presidential election two years hence. Gov. Charles A. Spratne declared here Wednes day. Governor Sprague r e f e rred particularly to the substantial sains made by republicans both In the United States senate and house of representatives. "Republicans should accept the results of Tuesday's election as most gratifying," Governor Sprague said. Duncan Vote Margin 359 Incumbent Loses as Judge; 46 per Cent Vote Cast, County George H. Duncan, republican state representative and Stayton city attorney, received a,359-vote majority over Judge ' L .L Mc Mahan Tuesday to win election to the Marion county circuit 'court Representative John Steel- hammer," Marion eomtt.T. vh Tuesday -wVs reelected for an other term, announced Wed nesday that he definitely Is a candidate for speaker of . the house of representatives at the 1943 legislative session. Steelhammer said he already has ; received a number o f pledges of support from house members. He Is now serving his second term In the legislature. bench, position number one, the unofficial count by the county clerk's staff of complete returns from "t all precincts showed -Wed nesday afternoon. '. The clerk's "official unofficial" tabulation brought no changes in the indicated - outcome of the county votes on county, state and congressional races as they ap peared from - election night re ports. - , Because of the high interest shown by the public in the Dun- can-McMahan contest, Clerk Lee Ohmart said Wednesday he would ask the official canvassing board to complete its check of election boards' tally sheets first. Approximately 46 " per cent of Marion county's registered voters cast ballots Tuesday. - PORTLAND, Ore- Nov. 4.-Jft -State representatives of Multno mah and Clackamas counties will meet here Thursday night to con sider candidates for speaker of the house. . Harvey Wells, veteran Multno mah representative, said at least three candidates would speak. They are William M. McAllis ter, Jackson county; Herman M (Turn to Page 2) British Ship , Sinking Told WASHINGTON, Nov. 4-(ff The navy announced Wednesday that a medium sized British merchant vessel i had been tor pedoed and - sunk ' by an enemy submarine in the middle of Sep tember in the Atlantic off the northern coast of South Ameri ca. Survivors have been landed at an east coast port. ' All of the 4 7 -man crew were picked up by an American naval vessel about; ten hours after the sinking. - They were landed at a Caribbean port and finally were brought to the United States. The sinking, including the loss of a small American merchant man announced earlier in the day by the navy, brought to 515 the Associated Press tabulation of an nounced wetter n Atlantic ship losses since Pearl Harbor. Six crewmen were killed in the submarine attack on the other ship, but 25 others, including the captain, were rescued. Late Returns Oust Pierce; Edges iLarge Stockman Added to All-Republican Congress Body PORTLAND, Nov. 4-(JP) Straggling returns from eastern Oregon Wednesday night ousted the veteran i Walter M. Pierce, democrat from congress and gave republicans a clean elec- Kion, seeking his sixth term in theh o u s e -of representatives, trailed Lowell Stockman, re publican, 25,764 to 15,994, in 383 of the second district's 433 pre cincts. Pierce's defeat meant that Ore gon, for the first time since 1931, would send an all-republican del egation to congress. This was the state picture: I i Dem. Rep. US Senate U- . 0 2 US Representatives- 0 State Senate j . 3 State Representatives 9 4 27 51 The overwlielmmg . republic an victory was best illustrated In the state house of representa tives,, where! the GOP gained 13 seats at the democrats' ex pense. Net a single republican incumbent was - defeated, and three of . the nine elected demo- dermis :were'un$Pttfsrr, The margin' of senate -mmonty leader, Charles j L. McNary, who did not even Come home to cam paign, kept mounting over his democratic opponent, Walter Whitbeck. It jwas 203,884 to 61,- 383 in 1691 of the state's 1770 pre cincts. ; , Rep. James W. Mott held a 48,- 827-to-27,021 lead over Earl A. Nott, democrat. In 497 of 500 pre cincts in the third district Harris. Ells worth, Roseburg publisher, ' defeated Edward C. Kelly, Medford, in the new fourth district of southwestern Oregon, In 332 on 394 precincts Ellsworth's margin was 26,992 to 16,969. State offices likewise went to the GOP. i ; Earl SneU was swept Into the governor's chair by a huge 211, 39 to 61,812 margin over Dem ocrat Lew Wallace In 1691 of the 1776 precincts. In the same number of precincts Robert 8. Farrell, Jr led Democrat Fran cis Lambert,! 164.127 to 92449, (Turn j to Page 2) Singer, DAR - Disagree Anew WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 JPf- Marian Anderson, Negro singer, and the Daughters of the Ameri can Revolution Wednesday disa greed again over plans for an ap pearance in i the , organization's constitution halt. The singer last month informed the DAR she would sing at a war benefit concert In the hall from which she was .barred in 1939 provided the ; management made no attempt to segregate the au dience! on the' basis- of color, and on condition that she be allowed the use of the hall on future oc casions. ' ' . - The executive committee of the DAR announced Wednesday it had rejected these conditions. Fred E. Hand, i managing direc tor of the hallj wrote the sing er's manager that 'no appearance of any artist I can ' ever be con sidered as a precedent insofar as future , engagements in constitu tion hall are i concerned. ' Yankees Arrive In Palestine JERUSALEM, Nov 4 (delayed) -(P)- News that United States troops 1 have arrived in Palestine as ' released I Wednesday with publication of ' an article in "TThe Palestine Monthly" entitled "Wel come to American Soldier Guests." (Hie Swiss t radio Tuesday broadcast a report that American troops had arrived in Syria and Palestine; Last, month the German and Italian radios had reported the arrival of American troops in Syria and Lebanon. There was no allied comment on these re ports.): : ' Truck Advances Through ,.-1' A British army truck carries Infantry through German minefields In the North African desert despite shells bursting alongside It. This official British picture was transmitted by radio from Cairo and shows action as the newest allied drive began to clear axis forces from North Africa Associated Press Telemat. 1 ; Winder Joins Aleutians Battle; Aircraft Only Way to Supply Yankees HEADQUARTERS, Alaska Defense Ctoinmand, Jfov. The business of defending Alaska has entered a new phase. 1 There will be no official changeover, nor, is the date exact! all over this! sprawling territory; but to all intents arid purposes,! winter is now beginning in ' a war front where the Japanese; put up much less of a fight than does the weather.1 j Actually, nobody knows yet just how the United States army will fare through jthe next six months with ice for highways and zero as a high mark on its thermome ter. Tests have been made; men deliberately have been cold and hungry discovering just how an army can expect to exist. But the actual experience begins now. Winter here offers a queer mixture of jeondiUona, some of them paralyzing, some of them better than j summer. For ex ample, scattered along the Are tie andT sub-Arctle coasts are United States army bases, out posts, airfields, manpower eon- ' centra tions and signal stations, which can h supplied oulj by sea or by air;: Plans were laid last winter to supply most 'of these during the summer months when vessels had to battle only heavy seas and bad anchoring conditions to reach them. Icebergs floated then, but the pack which acts as an im penetrable winter wall shutting off Bering straits and the "Arctic ocean was breaking up. Then the Japanese struck Dutch Harbor. 'While navy ships and army airplanes combined to drive them back from the continent, the supply ships for the cold weather posts had to wait Some of them were near the bottom of the bar rel on food.: Others, taking sudden new strategic Importance, had to be supplied immediately with men and ammunition.' Whole garrisons were moved by air transport while the sup ply ships were held up or busy en their argent jobs. ' ' The arriving troops dug Into (Turn to Page 2) ' . Moore Wins Council Race : Upset In i a previously-an nounced city election results was revealed Wednesday as the "offi ciay unofficial" count gave Lloyd L. Moore, active Salem Eagle and hardware company employe, a lead of six over Clark Craig for the post of alderman from the big sixth ward.'-! ---V R. O. Lewis was winner in the fourth ward, jwith 425 to Charles HeltzeTs 252 ivotes, while Alfred Mundt held a total of 4775 to L F. LeGarie's 3416 in m recorder ship contest. !. : y r Moore led in the third precinct, 119 to 78: in the 19th 148 to 134, and in the 20th 103 to 72. Craig took the 25th .ward 139 to 83 and the .first 159 to 127, ' - y t - Firm Warned By Morse of Labor Board WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -ff) A public member of the war la4 bor board warned Montgomery: Ward ft Company, Inx, Tuesday that if it defied the board there would be no alternative except to use "whatever forces of gov-; ernment are necessary to compel compliance. ; : j "It would be better for the duration of the war," said Dean Wayne L. Morse at a public hear-1 ing, "that the "country go along without Montgomery Ward than it try to go along with an eco nomic situation under which the no-strike agreement would be de- stroyed,ki'ij':t:-'-Ji Tne board was considering a panel recommendation .affecting Chicago employes of the mail or der house. The panel called for a maintenance-of -union-member ship clause, with a 15-day es cape" provision, the checkoff of union dues, as well as seniority and arbitration provisions.; r John 1 A. Barr, the company's labor relations manager, had con cluded his argument against the panel report . with .the ' ' remark: "Ward's must reject any proposal which requires it to enter into contracts which It believes to be Illegal, or to surrender principles which it considers to be funda mental. Morse, recalling that comment, asked whether it was a correct interpretation that if the board should order any. form of unions maintenance, "we would .be met with a non-compliance and a de fiance by; the company. ; Barr replied, "I think that is a reasonable conclusion." ' i : ' Morse said the company's posi tion '., raised a ; question whether the "government . shall r prevail i in time of war to protect the secur ity of this country over a position of rugged individualism on. the part of any employer He said that if ;tne company were ""permitted to sustain ttseu in such a position, American la bor, would be free then to . resort to the strike, which. I hope its patriotism would prevent it from doing, but nevertheless it would be free to do it." Shellfire Soviets Hold Ground, Gain Northwest and Black Sea Areaai Feel ! Red Initiative MOSCOW, ThursdayJ Nov. 5 fyff-The red arniy held Its ground in Stalingrad and the central Cau casus Wednesday and scored suc cesses on the Black sea front and northwest of Stalingrad, the soviet midnight communique said Thurs day, ir ziiv i The Germans continued to hurl masses of tanks into the I battle on the Nalchik plains, at the foot of the 18.000 foot Caucasus moun tains,; and in the rubble-strewn streets of Stalingrad, but the Rus sians repulsed an attacks, iniiicx- ing heavy losses, v" ; ' i On the other two major fronts .northwest of Stalingrad and in the Black sea area the red army continued to hold the initiative and captured a number of Ger man positions in both areas. The Germans were reported - to have been forced to withdraw I some of their elite troops from Stalingrad to meet the threat to I their left flank northwest of the I city after red army riflemen, I ferried by night across the Vol ga, entered the battle. ' The communique said, however. that the Germans continued to at tack all soviet positions inside the Volga city with' both tanks and infantrr. 'Indicating there had been no decrease in the intensity of the fighting, lit said 1000 Ger mans were killed and eight tanks disabled during the day, without any gains in ground. ; : : Strengthened by the reinforce ments, Russian j troops northwest of Stalingrad captured five dug outs and fortified positions, while soviet artillery f demolished nine blockhouses. About 130 Germans were killed in this area, the com munique said. 1 - ; 1 In the central Caucasus area, where the Germans are trying desperately to reach the historic Georgian military highway, main artery across the lofty mountain harrier, the Russians claimed to have repulsed an attacks' in the big battle southeast of ' Nalchik. (Vichy Gives Axis 35 Ships 1 LONDON, Nov. 4-itfVThe pro German Vichy ! government has decided to turn lover to the axis 3 former alhed nMrchantmen in fdediterranean ports, the British ministry of economic warfare said Wednesday, as new Fernanda were made by French Fascist Jacques Doriot for "an immediate under standing between France and Germany" about the ' defense of French ' colonial j- possessions in Africa- '?vTfo-; --- While Doriot was making his demands before the national con gress of the French peoples party in - Paris, - both (the Berlin and Vichy radios were -carrying re ports of huge allied . naval- con centrations ... at Gibraltar. The Vichy radio - quoted a ' dispatch from La Linea, Spain, as saying the . vessels included transports loaded with American troops. WeHM.etmat ' By Rommel : Hit From Skies I.!'!' ;' 1 ::,"'.;!:'-.":' - -. .? .' r'a J ' " " ' - "' ' " ' Allies Qaim Destruction Of 600 Planes, 260 Tanks : In Pursuit of Axis Force ''.-".'jf - By EDWARD KENNEDY ; : ,' J CAIRO, Nov. AP)-f Marshal Erwin Rommers axi3 desert forces were officially declared In fall and disordered retreat Wednesday night across the sands of western Egypt, pursued relentlessly by.; British imperial ground forces and, under constant attack from above by American and allied airmen. "The Nile valley Is y saved," London " military : : commentators added. - v- "General j Montgomery has accomplished his objective of smashing the enemy's military force. J ,.. ;;: : - :':". --: They Indicated - that a "pellmell rush" across the, desert, with re sultant exhaustion of troops and machines and strain on , supply lines, could not be expected; How ever, the I Eighth army still was advancing; A special allied communique said General Von Stumme, nazi second In command, had been killed in the. 12-day : fiit i which preceded the . flight of the "dis ordered columns", and 9000 axis prisoners had been taken,' includ ing Gen. Ritter Von Thoma7 com mander of the Afrika Korps, and other topflight German and Ital ian officers. . The - joint communique an nounced 1 these, tremendous axis losses in less than two weeks of battle:-! '-' Exceptionally high" casual ties la dead and wounded; v 09 planes; " . 268 tanks destroyed : or eap- ; "d :. f ':':'. ':'::r'rH '". i . 270- cans and; ' 1 - 50.0d tons of shipping lad-, en with supplies." - . r , Allied air losses were described as "lights in the 12-dayj bloody break-through , by which ' the British Imperials hope to smash with finality the axis position in Africa. ' t h -.': : - . . (The British communique 'was issued about - the" time the .Berlin radio was admitting "British local successes" ; but insisting that Mar shal1 Rommel still retained the in itiative. The radio quoted one German agency-dispatch as saying that Rommel personally led one successful i counterattack against the British center which - com pelled the British "to relinquish captured, ground."- ' - (Later the Berlin radio Issued a series of bulletins in which it (Turn to Page 2J Razors. Blades Cut: Not (Menace r WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 -P) The war production board cut-off safety razor . , manufacture for civilian use and placed all razors and blades under strict restric tions Wednesday but (hear! hear!) the nation's menfolks were assured there's no , need to' start bristling up. .;;,iV. In the first place, the WPB pre dicted that there would be "blades for .'everybody in civilian life in 1943,- since millions of the men are ' in , uniform, 1 1" ';.' And. besides, if worse came to worse, the average .American male 1 . could whistle . happily through his whiskers with the as surance that the SOO-odd tons of high grade steel to be saved by the shutdown would go into such things as commando knives. , 'i' To prove, there should be plenty 1 , blades for ; some time, WPB pointed knit that production next year' will be . approximately 2,750,000,000, which is a 20 per cent reduction from . the ; record 1941 output, but a 12 per cent increase over 1940. Demos Lose NY NEW - YORK. Nov. 4-6IV-New York democrats 1 last hoie : of keeping a ; hand in .the' adminis tration of the nation's most non- ulous state after 20 years of rule faded out Wednesday night as late . returns apparently elected Thomas W. Wallace, republican, lieutenant governor. Scarcity Leads Fight xaV ' lsT GEN. B. L. MONTGOMERY Commander af British Eighty army In North African ' desert. Nazis Rusliing . A a 1 . " ' a ga o iiidto Ainca ' Greece Says Three 1 Or Four Divisions V Sent from Russia j ISTANBUL, Turkey, Nov. 4 (JPy Reports ' from , Greece said Wednesday that the Germans are rushing three or four divisions c( troops from the Russian front ta Africa to aid Field Marshal Rom- meL . Four train! oads of - nazi troops passed through Athens Monday at great speed en route to embarka tion points for transfer to the Is land of Crete and then across the Mediterranean to Africa, thess reports said. . 'h : ' 1. LONDON, -Thursday. Nov. 5 WV-A Reuters dispatch said Thursday that the Italians had asked the British for a truce ta enable them to bury their dead in Egypt. ; , ; ; The ditpatch, from Cairo, did not say whether the request ap plied to the whole of the Italian forces ; on ' the Mediterranean- Qattara front. 1 BERLIN f From Gr Casts). 1 NOV. 4 The Tram. ocean News agency quoted Ger man military authorities Wednes- aay nignt as saying that the pres ent fightins in Russia is nn1 r aocal importance"' In comparison with the lerocity of the battle now going on in Egypt ' OI Milccgo Explained Are yon one of the many motorists who are wenfn" Jast what this "mileage ra'..' lag prcrram Is ail aLout, ! :-.r Jt worts and what yon have t Co to ottain a gasoline t :? If so yon Ul want ta st. a, list of 43 qsestlors an3 -; on the subject rrfparel Ij ; office f price Z;':r.:: : ' The' list arrears ca i: -? i : : today's lli'r