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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 8, 1942)
'' i ' ' i . . w """"" - ' - "-" " j " . " ... . " ' Dimout Comploto TmH flad m newspaper eaa give mk real satisf ae- ' Hon than yonr local morn- ; Inr paper, with Its WORLD NEWS pin nOUZ COM- tlUNITZ NEWS. Britisfc 1(1111 f i)i :ISiMi(l DQD MtfUGc.. n 111 . i ,i iii . . 1 I 1 : ii j i, ii i ,1 ii - i - . . i : 3 Traps Most of... Axis? Beds Hold 5IS8 Japs Killed in Three Months inSoloThons; Yariks In Guinea; Italy Bombed - By . The Associated Press The remnants of the shattered axis African army, with perhaps 100,000 of its 140,000 front line effectives reported either captured or trapped, fled westward toward Libya " Saturday night in a desperate effort to avert total disaster -and merciless liquidation by allied planes, guns and tanks. ' Equally cheering was a navy communique listing 5188 Japanese killed in land fighting in the Solomons in the three months' offensive. The marines Were advancing again to the east on Guadalcanal, widening their northern beachhead to 12 miles, double its size of a month ago. The casualties Evans Predicts Aerial Trains - Lebanon Plywood Mill Owner Says Plant : Largest Producer PORTLAND, Ore, Nov, 7-(ff) Air freight trains wUl irevolu- tkmize the world's transportation after the , war, CoL Edward S. Evans. Detroit, predicted i Satur- ' day. " ' The trains, comprised of huge transports and gliders a word he doesnt like will be in general , use as soon as the war is over, the president of the Evans Products company said in an interview. "This means a radical ; change in the seaports and railroad cen ters of the world," he said, j: r Of the glider he said, "That's a ? bad expression. It should be called ' a trailer plane. New trailer planes ' will have a speed of 185 miles an . hour and can be made to carry up to 120 men each.V , r ; He said he would inspect his Oregon properties while here, and added, "We would.like to develop - cur Lebanon interests, $o we would - have, in addition to the plywood plant, a large paper mm ana a saw mill. We would like to have from 200 to 300 employed in Leb anon, v Right now our plywood unit there is the largest producing plant in the world." - ; ir ' , " J - 2 Women Hurt :As Vehicle X,eaves Road When a car driven by Mrs. - JSaude Murphy, Sutherlin, hurtled w th,s Pacific highway two jnilea north of Brook at approxi mately 1:30 Saturday anerrxxm, 'the driver's 18-year-old daughter, Etta, sustained severe sprains and " bruises of back and leg and the car was badly damagea. -, No descripUon of the car or ita ,5fnd-run driver she laid had struck her automobile could be given by Mrs. Murphy, who suf fered from shock, state police saicL With her daughter she was taken by ambulance w oseiu Deaconess hospital," from ; which the was dismissed i$ a short time. TTii Murohy wiU 5 remain under a rAvsician'j care here for sev eral days, it was -said at the hos- P1Thei Murphy car was traveling iouth v, v :n the accident occurred. Tha two - -omen. with I.Irs. Mur phy's daughter-in-law. had driv en to Portland from their Doug ; : las county home Friday night to place the 'third occupant of the car in a hcrpilsi : i ' jar a a a. v - ti l i ill; i a i . a i r-ri oirit a i .a. i i - ; F. s . ss. ssiiei , a & -t i av- its s . i . . : j j , 1 j did not include those drowned or killed by bombs far from the fighting scenes. - , , ; - f In 'New Guinea, Gen. JDouglas MacArthurs r tieadquarter " an nounced "that the alliecnbw con trol all of Papua except' the Buna-Gona beach .area on the north New; Guinea coast and that American combat troops are now operating near Buna.' He also dis closed the allies have occupied Guinea, in an obvious flanker. I This was the first disclosure that US ground forces were fight ing In New Guinea with the Aus tralian jungle troops which have pushed the Japanese back across the Owen Stanley mountains and removed ; the t h r e a t to Port Moresby, i . The axis chance e-f escaping 1 1 e r destruction In Egypt grew slimmer by the hoar. Al ready the r Germans had been driven 102 miles beyond Ma trnh, halfway to Libya, and the annonneedj bag of 20,000 pris oners mounted. ' Six Italian divisions number ing 80,000 ;men were by-passed and left behind by the running Germans. They had little food, water or ammunition and were waiting only for a chance to sur render. ;: British bombers were over It aly again Saturday night for the second successive : night, it was announced Sunday in London. i The red army held its. ground on all fronts Saturday, . the 25th anniversary! of the Russian revo lution, and killed more than 1800 Germans in Stalingrad, the cen tral Caucasus and the western front; the 50viet midnight com munique indicated Sunday. The Germans continued to at tack fiercely on the Nalchik plains at the foot of the 18,000 foot Caucasus mountains, where the Russians threw two armored trains into i the battle Saturday, but failed to gain, the communi que said. .- H ', ' . . p. In Stalingrad they also threw I their tanks and infantry against a Rassian stronghold fat sev l era! attacks, but the red army rfpnlsed I all the attacks and 5 killed about 700 Germans. The Kasciaaa also- were able to eon ! aoUdate their positions la other - parts of the city. , : Comparable American losses in the Solomons can be estimated . (Turn to Pago 2) - - Navy Enlistments 4 PORTLAND, Nov. "J.-VPy-tJtc-Minnville is Oregon's top, city for navy enlistments. ! . Announcing an award of an "E" pennant to the "Yamhill county seat, - Lt. i Cmdr. Glenn ; Degrave, Oregon district recruiting officer, said Saturday that the city's ave rage for October was 205 enlist ments fori each 100,000 population. j McMmnville's record was only one poin (above Corvallis. Med f ord, " Pendleton, Klamath Falls and Marshfield followed in the or der named. ' - : -' 7 i : - . . II ilia . i a - a s s ..' s. i . s v a i jb is-iii-r a a v l - i i i r t i i . a i a a v i w r m.: i . i AtflvfliimtP.00 Ally Ship V Oregon M, UCLA 7 osc onfd 20, Wash, 7 USC 2L CaliL7 WSC 25, Michigan State 13 Salem 6, i - Milwaiikie 7 Notre Dame 13, Army 0 Navy 7, Penn 0 Georgia Tech 47, Kentucky 7 Ga. 75, Florida 0 la. 6. Wis. 0 Ind. 7, Minn. 0 6 State 59, Pitt 19 Texas Tecii 13, Tex. Christian 6 (For additional scores of Sat urday's games, - turn to sports page.) Program Ready Parade and Exercises Slated in Morning; Schedule Full For the general public, high light of the Armistice day celebra tion in Salem on Wednesday will be the parade at , 10:15 ajn and the patriotic exercises at 11 ajn., at the Victory center in front of the courthouse or, in case of un favorable weather, in the Capitol Special church observance of Armistice day will be held at the First Methodist church at 10:50 a. ni. today, according to announcement by R. J. Stnmbe, general ehalrmaa of the holi day 'a. observance, being spon--sered by the Federation of Pa triotic Societies. , theater. Maj. Gen. Gflbert R. Cook will be the principal speak er.! Salem stores will be closed the entire day, merchants voted Friday, . : ir ;?'' - " V- ' - Buti Salem's 25111" Armistice celebration will be an all-dav af fair tor veterans of World war X, their families and. friends, and some' of the events in addition to the patriotic exercises are for the general public Following Is the days program arranged by the Federated Patriotic Societies: " 9 ajn. Past commanders break fast, TQRrican Legion. 9:15 Veterans ' of ForeignJWars and auxiliary flag raising, YFW building. t , 10:00 Assembly for Darade at Marion square. All civic, frater- (Turn to Page 2) Force Trains 10 Months s -t t LONDON, Sunday, Nov. JHJP) For ten months the United States has been building up in the Brit ish Isles a great army and.; air force of untold i striking i power which is getting its first test In French North Africa Sundav. An army of hundreds of thou sands has been increased constant ly, with the arrival of additional troops, including, many special units ,; such as : parachute : troops, rangers, amphibious v - Engineers, tank destroyer battalions and air borne soldiers. ' ! ; "4 H , t c iiu. - Operating in conjunction with the army is a United States navy task force of undisclosed size un der Rear Adm. Robert C Griffin and attached to the British home fleet. - " , , . . t. 1 Armistice av I - , . Q I y -- Uf f iiiaiw,Jaaaitaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ;in tiwaaiwiwiaiajtaaaaaajaaa!w Armada Great r 4 Carriers May? Be in Convoy; AP Saw Ahead'; LONDON, Sunday, Not 8 (AP) Possibly the greatest invasion armada assembled in Europe since the start of the war undertook the Invasion of French North Africa Sun day in the first large scale action In the European thea tre in which the United States has participated. '., A force of 24 warships; transports an freighters, fol lowed by the great battleship Rodney and a heavy air es cort were reported by the German news agency' DNB to have left Gibraltar .Thursday night.";...,:; j ; : . Later, Rome said, another bigofcror-of (troops and n$i plies entered , he Mediterranean under escort o seven destroyers and numerous speed boats . and was reinforced! at Gibraltar by two cruisers and an aircraft car- ier. - A possibility that as many as four aircraft carriers accompanied the attack fleet was seen in axis reports. German broadcasts said the Furious, the Argus and an other unidentified "flattop" had been observed 'in the harbor at Gibraltar and a later Vichy re port said four carriers were seen there.' ... j ' In addition to the vessels which set out eastward Into the Mediterranean, DNB said, at least 10 other ships waited at Gibraltar, j Among the ls originally there, the German reports said, .were six cruisers, one auxiliary cruis er, 26 to 28 destroyers, four sub marines and one monitor. To transport men! equipment I and supplies there were . two trans ports, one of them large, and pos sibly 40 merchantmen and, 12 tankers. 'The Remainder of the vessels were not identified. F, - Since the axis was fully aware of the departure of . the convoy there was reason to suspect that it might be attacked as strongly " , (Turn to Page 2): v Bulletins ALLIED BEADQUAKTE&S IN NORTH AFRICA Sanday, Nov. t. - (JP) 4 Reports reaching .allied headanarters Saturday disclosed . that- suecessfal land ings had been made by Amer ican assault parties on beaches of North Africa near two main objectives outlined la operation al plans. ' ! Headquarters stressed the . need, however, of , eaation in evaluatinr the first reports. - -i'.ml ... f :j . LONDON, Sanday, Nov. SV- . WP-Tho Vjkhy radio and the Vichy news agency gave the .French people the first news of the American landings in French North! Africa at a. m. . Sunday. . . - j . . The agefcey merely repeated the text of the Washington an nouncement of the landings and made no comment. f ; The voice of President Roose velt, speakingj French, high lighted the broadcasts with ' which BBC bombarded t h o French . people all- through the' nirht j-- ' . The French jlanrnage announ- cer, beginning at 2 a. m Crit Jsh time, read and reread th texts of British and American ? statements and instructions to the French people. yf - - WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Sun day .irv The office of war ia .... t, (Turn ; to Page 2) . Another 4'.-:-:-:-:.- . i The British empire's Eighth army is stUl grinding ahead hi Egypt, 'smashing Rommel's fortified lues ; and slasbins thronth his Italian and 'German forces. This sraphle Radio-soondphoto direct to New : York from Cairo. and transmitted to San Francis eo shows the survivors of a !nasl knocked-ovt tank " snrrenderins- to British, inf antrymav-JlN t Fhoto. . " TmjWU i ? Timing of Troop Xanding. Perfect . At 3Iany; Points sj . By WES GALLAGHER . . Allied, headquarters in North Africa, Sunday, Nov. 8 (P) American soldiers, marines and sailors from one of the greatest naval armadas ever- put into a single military operation swarmed ashorje Sunday on the Vichy-controlled North Africa shore before dawn, striking to break Hitler's hold on the Mediterranean;; Xtf - j First reports reaching allied headquarters said that American assault parties had. made success ful landings near two main objec tives, but official quarters warned that it. was too early to, properly evaluate these advices. i Tall, decisive Lt. Gen. Dwight TX f'Tktf Eisenhower,' supreme commander of the huge forces in volved In the operation, worked throughout the night directing the first - great American blow at the axis. ' v..t - . i r - " Included in the forces were crack combat troops. Hangers (air borne' units) and the cream; of America's airmen. . . ' ' ' ' r" ' - ' British naval and air force , units snppcrted the American landing forces, who were pre--ceded by a snowstorm of leaf lets and a radio barrage prom ising the French the . United States bad no htfention of sels- lag French possessions and only aooght to prevent axis' tafntra- It undoubtedly was the longest German Planes Collide in Air LONDON, Nov. 7 wo Focke-Wulf 190s, dodging to es cape fthe i guns of a r Fighting French flier in a Spitfore, col lided and fell into the channel off Beach head Saturday afternoon, the air ministry announced. ' The German planes, it was be lieved, were heading for the Eng lish southeast coast. They - were detected, by a French pilot who was on a practice "flight. He at tacked the enemy machines from the rear. ' " - Swerving sharply, one machine hit the tail of the other, and both crashed. -:. " " .. Nasi Tank Closes Career 8 f - i 'inriiW' ii ' i Invasion Heads Front i 1 LT. GEN. D.' D. EISENHOWER I f Supreme Tan kin Europe. qverwater military operation: ever attempted, with hundreds of ships in great convoys coming thous ands of miles under the protection of British and American sea and air might . ' I came on one of these big con voys." ' I Fighting-fit American soldiers and airmen, who did not know their destination until a few hours before scrambling . into assault barges, crowded the ships to the Very 1 funnels and were guarded fcy aircraft carriers, racing cruis ers and destroyers. I Our big convoy arrived at its destination - with the split-second British Too Busy To Take Prisoners 1 1 CAIRO, NoV. 7 -W- The " movement of events in the .Erpytian battle are so rapid, 'that some German, and Italian f soldiers are : having 7 difficulty lending anybody who has time j to take them prisoner. 7r l One large party of Germans -overtaken at aa : advance alr 4 base asked" RAF men to take them prisoners, hut were told they were too busy, . 1 !! "Kirn off and get captured by ; somebody with more time to spare,"' an RAF officer said. .- i - r. -' ' -f " :-' '' -' '' no f:'.:.. 'i 'i - S ' I' i t ; 'Ike'j Eisenhower On Hand to Get . Combat Moving? timing of ai subway train despite storms for many days at sea and danger from i planes and subma rines. . The entire: operation was car ried out with the delicate syn chronization I of, an expensive watch," Justifying- the months of careful ' planning by Eisenhower and his British-American supreme command. - it'v .; 7'N -7777 -l, ' - The vastness of the project, j . not only . from the nnmber of ; troops involved but from the distances covered and military problems overcome, far dwarf i ed the only similar operatkm of .Its kind in this , theatre of the I- war thej nasi invasion of 'Norway. - At the ero hour, khaki-clad soldiers stumbled - into their- square nosed, assault boats in the darkness, phder the protecting guns of shadowy warships, while farther out jo sea planes - roared over the , speeding , carriers and disappeared in the darkness. . .. Landing-were made at numer ous , places i simultaneously, al though they were .. hundreds of miles apart, and .were participat ed in by eager young men from every, state, iin the union. To a num. their reaction was "we don't want to fight the French if it can be helped but,, boy, we hope to tangle with those nazis. - - . At dawn-low-flying .American planes roared' over French cities dropping white showers of leaf- - .v.,' .(Turn to IJage 2)- j . j OPA Threats Wesi Stores : SAN FRANCESCO, Nov. T -W1? Fifty seven stores in four western states were among the more than 4000 retailers in the United States threatened with license . revoca tion by the bffice of price admin istration, OPA's regional office disclced Saturday. 1 The merchants. were accused of violating ' the general ' maximum price regulation, in some instances unintentionally, ia others delib erately.' : - 'U. jr.. 1 -; Oregon: I Kienow's Food store. Portland; Kienow's -Food store No. 7; Portland; Safeway No. 41, Med ford; Fred Meyer store, Portland . Sunday's " sunset, I:f 3 : p. nv IXonay'a sunrise. t:C3 a. m, . .J Weather: Friday tut, temp. $9, min. it, By army -request, weather forecast' are withheld and tempera- tare data delayed. By Axis 2 French Coasts Hit; Cooperation ' Askefl in Colony By too WASHINGTON, Nor. 7 , Powerful American ex peditionay force are landing on the Atlantic, and Rlediterranean eoasts of the French colonies in Africa, in the first big-ecale offen sive of the war under the star spangled banner. Announcement of the action, obviously aimed at winning complete, domina tion of the dark continent and reopening the Medit erannean sea .for the Unit ed Nations in conjunction with the victorious British drive j westward from Egypt, was made in a simul taneous a n n o u nee ment Saturday night by . President Roosevelt and communique from the war department, i f ,. a: ; The Thit House i statement t. ,'- By th Associated Ptcm . - - ( -.!' 7 : ' A "powerful force of para ehnto troops, saarines and sail- ers swarmed ashore In Vichy con troUed French North and West Africa early Sanday In a pre-dawa strike to break the axis hold on the Mediterranean -and eventually cut Into the ex posed positions of Adolf Hitler in southern Europe. - said the purpose of the move was two-fold: . :7:--v! 'y A '7 7-- L To forestall an axis Invasion. there which "would constitute a direct threat to America across the. comparatively narrow ses. from western Africa. -t 2. To crovide "an effective sec ond front assistance to our heroie allies in Russia f Thus the axis- bad an emphatie answer to its attempts to "fish for information" by broadcasting ac- LONDON, Sunday,: Nov. , The Vichy radio reported that a landing attempt was carried out by ; British troops off Al giers shortly before dawn Ban day after a violent 'bombard-. ; ment. 7 i ,7,.!. . . .:. Some allied speedboats . were ; repelled with iosoes, the radio said, adding that calm prevail ed. In the city. . 7 4 . Other landing attempts were carried: out la -other points of North Africa, Including Oran, It waa stated. - : f;1 ' - Everywhere the allied land ing forces met with opposition from the Vichy French coastal defenses "and remained with out success," lt was said. ' counts of heavy allied troop con voys escorted by warships rc.:r tering at the Eock ct Gibrtll:? in recent days. . . The . troops apparently f were some of those which Lave beta concentrated la. tLe Eriilsh Lies for some time. Itching 'for ac tion as they went throcsh. tLa final stages of their battle tri'.a lag for they were cox. 'fj by Lt. Gen. Cwi;Lt D. Elscn tower, conuaaiier-la-chlcf la . the European theatre whose ' headquarters Lad teen la Erit aln. ; ''- i ' Eisenhower broadcast a. rnc-T! age to the people of French Ncn'i Africa on behalf cf the presiJ:-!, assuring - them that "we ccrr t among you solely to destroy j-c ; (Turn to Pas 2) Barred V