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Newspaper Page TextIHNTTY -SECOND YEAB Salem, Oregon. Tbmadaf Morning. - llorvinbcr 12. ! 1S42 Price 5c He.! ICS 4-. n m : . AV ; .U Ch : , :TiTrnn CD SIS J o n Co .1111 0i vi Routed; Banes Wrecl VS Troops Block Retreat - :In:Guinea; Aerial' Score Made in Solomons, Attn GENERAL Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Aus tralia, Thursday, Not. 12 -(AP) Jap forces have been routed ; at, Oivi and face entrapment ' while another enemy group at Gorrari has been enveloped and destroyed in battles for control of northeastern New Guinea, the high command announced Thursday. As the climax of a week-long battle at Oivi, 55 miles southwest of the coastal base of Buna, Australian troops which have been battling their way across the Owen Stanley mountains forced the Japs 'from their positions, inflicting heavy losses. Lack of Food Goss Warns Grange 'j New Production x Helps Needed ''A WENATCHEE, Nov. lMa-Al-bert S. Goss, master of the Na tional Grange, opened the 76th ! annual . convention Wednesday with a warning that today's farm , problem Instead of being one of surplus,' was one of maintaining . ample, production. L "Unless something Is done," he said, "food production will fall off. We have had 'surplus crops so long , that we seem to have taken it for . granted that they would continue, and no adequate safeguards haje been provided to give farmers the protection neces sary to secure needed production.' "With increased consumption, serious food shortages loom in many lines," he warned. He dealt at long length in an analysis of farm problems and assailed gov ernment policies on manpower " and price control. 1 ' At one point , In his address he declared that the policies followed by the office of price . administration had been an Im portant factor in creatine food shortages in the nation. . . Goss' address was the only pub lie function of the convention Wednesday. - " , New Threat . Closed committee ' meetings and - fraternal - rituals occupied the "grangers most of .the day and v night. . Most of the sessions for . the next three days will be closed : and resolutions will not be brought, before a general conven tion session until next week. T- About 4000 grangers were here I ; to attend the convention, many arriving only at the last minute because of late train schedules and ; crowded transportation con ditions. Every hotel room in the, ciiy was occupiea ana many aeje- gates ' were rooming at. private Jiomes. v-- :- ' - The national master pledged the united efforts of the Ameri can farmers to a unified war program, but at , the same time warned against centralization of power in Washington, DC 7 f Declaring two rights of the people : had been V threatened, Goss stressed preservation of the freedom of the press and of the right of criticism of the methods of government. Goss said every step in the progress, of civilization had been marked by greater consumption of goods and services. To point the (Turn to Page 2) Canada to Lead European Front. ; HAMILTON, OnC Nov. ll-W Canada's oversees army "is ticket ed to be the spearhead of the European second ' front,' " Gillis Purcell, assistant general mana ger of the Canadian press, said Wednesday night in an address to the Hamilton section of the Cana dian Medical association. "To Canadians the new off en aive in North Africa has a spe cial significance,, said . Purcell, who was press relations officer for the Canadian corps until injured cn maneuvers in England late last year. "It means that the Canadian army is definitely nominated to be the darker that strikes into Ber lin." :'7';;J;::;.rj;:-:,.;. Enemy But the Japs' only course of re treat is into the hands of Ameri can troops which were flown by aerial transport to the vicinity of Buna, i Allied planes were active near Jap coastal bases of Lae and Sala mua on the north New Guinea coast above; Buna and also at tacked supplies and troop concen trations between Oivi and Buna. - "The ; enemy was forced from his main positions near Oivi with heavy loss," the high command announced. "His retreat has been blocked by or enveloplnf troops astride the main track and he is en deavoring teeuthls way 1 to the rear. Simultaneously oar - forces enveloped and destroyed enemy forces- trapped south' of Gorrari." J -Off Lae, . allied planes - bombed a Jap destroyer Wednesday night but did not observe results. Off Salamua, allied planes shot down two out of four Zeros which at tempted interception.1 Near Shortland island in the Solomons, allied planes shot down two enemy fighters out of a for mation of 10. At Buin, town at the southern tip of Bougainville island in the northern Solomons, and Faisy, tiny island south cf Bougainville, allied Ti e a v y bombers attacked, shipping and shore 1 installations with unobserved results. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 -P) Destruction of 12 Japanese planes ; by aerial attacks In the North and South Pacific was announced by the navy Wednes day In a communique which also reported that v American troops on Guadalcanal island in the Solomons were conducting "offensive operations" on both their ! eastern and western flanks. " Damaging of. two enemy cargo vessels r by ; aerial ; bombardment also was announced. ; ; - There was no explanation of the -meaning of ; "offensive opera' (Turn to Page 2) , Loggers Moving to Winter Work ' SAN J FRANCISCO, Nov. 11.-(iT-Pacific northwest loggers and other workers in certain lumbering areas are being shift ed to other, localities where cli mate will Uow lumber opera tions to continue throughout the winter. . . The situation was disclosed here We dnesday by the war man power commission, which said it was of paramount importance to keep such workers employed : in ways in which their special skills could be used fully in the war effort, i , . Many - lumbering " operations in eastern Washington, eastern Ore gon, Idaho, Montana and north ern California have ( already closed, r soon will be closed be cause of season conditions. The regional office of the WMC instructed its field agents to sur vey the number of workers to be moved, and the points from and to which the transfer will occur. Employment clearance arrange ments were expanded at the same , tune to include Klamath Falls, i Medford, Bend, Eugene, Marshfield and Roseburg, Ore gon; and Alturas, iunsmuir. Eu reka, Q u i n e y, SusanvQle and Redding, Calif. ' - - The manpower , comml ssion previously had imposed a sta bilization order on the lumber in dustry so that .lumber .workers wculd rerialn cn their jobs. Led o . ... 400 iiiiHiiiii-iliiA - f1T!?k - - - -""r Bijiif ; SPAI N-Jira iifegsai mm Spanish MOROCCO VL CASABLANCA iMOGADOR IfARRAKECH iAGAOIR MOROCCO ( VICHY),' French North Africa, except for Tunisia, ceased hostilities , against allied forces Wednesday, altow lag added US troops to poor Into porta, Casablanca 1) at last felL Oran ' surrendered as had Algeria earlier. Axis troops, especially airmen, were reported! to have landed, at Tunis (3) to prevent its conquest by the allies, who were already following the broken arrow to the east to meet the re treating Marshal Rommel. Hitler legions had occupied the remainder of France, bat the fate of the French fleet at Toulon was as, yet unknown. Associated -Press Telemat. War Work,; 'Front ' Promises Features of Armistice Day Oregon Challenged To Assume First In Fight Spirit Oregon was challenged, to earn another "first" in the national war effort, that"of being first in fight ing spirit, by Maj. Gen. Gilbert R. Cook,- division commander from Camp Adair, in. the principal Ar mistice day address in Salem Wednesday morning. The general spoke from a flag and bunting decorated' platform on the courthouse grounds follow ing a long parade led by soldiers and state guardsmen, and com memorative exercises before the American War Mothers monu ment - . "Oregon has been ! first In every war activity pot on by the nation," Gen. Cook said. "1 would like to see Oregon first In the fighting spirit; that is needed tn the nation to win the war. f t ; The commander o f o n e of Adair's fighting units in training declared that fighting spirit in the army's men began at home. C - They will sacrifice for 'ideals to just the same extent that you will at home. Gen. Cook " said "Today you should dedicate your selves to building up this fighting spirit of the armed forces. These men must be tough. Cheering and uniforms alone won't do it" Gen. cook- called on newspa pers, churches, schools and. homes to build up the nation's f ighting spirit. - . .- j . : . The general urged his : large audience to hew to two major purposes. - ' ' ;- -y . ; ; -nrst," he explained. -We've got to win the peace, i : "Second, after winning It. we've got to preserve the peace." The s civilian ; defense, agencies were urged by the general to pre pare themselves in fighting spirit to meet crises, of which he said aerial bombs fired In connection with -v Wednesday's celebration were "prophetic" . Ii j -v- "This war differs from the last in that today civilians as well as soldiers are being killed,' the gen eral emphasized. , ; ) f Gov. Charles A. Sprague pre sented Gen. Cook to the; audience following the - flag - raising pro gram, with firing of rifle volleys by regular army units f and the playing of taps by massed bugles. CoL Carle Abrams served as mas ter of ceremonies. -r A wide variety of mobile mfii (Turn to Page Tt) Restrictions Eased On Use of Lead WASHINGTON, N o V.' .. 11-CPf Restrictions .on the use; of lead. least critical of -1 h e important metals, were eased Wednesday by the war production board to per mit . a number of essential uses heretofore prohibited., v j i ;- The order -removes restrictions on the use of ' lead, in certain building supplies, in foil for in dustrial babbit, in certain food packaging, in lead sheathed cables, in caskets, and in name plates for industrial machinery. : Scene of 77-Hour Victory r-.-jrr . AI.OIE.tV9 , ., :.:::::::::::::. RABAT i l A. -..7n:u::i:nHrH::HIHH::H:Hni ti v Apttogmmm I v ivn ii t - f . "'. ' " :'r:--r' LIDYA Propaganda BpUSWins Middle East CAIRO, October U (delayed) (JP) Elmer Davis' ; boys . are meeting the enemy In the mid dle east and giving them a lick ing in the first round! of a great propaganda battle.' In less than six months time, a little band of American pio neers from' the office of war in formation has splashed the story of Uncle Sam's growing mill tary might from . one end of Africa to the other, through Palestine, Syria, Turkey, - Iran, Iraq and India. Millions of people: saturated by ; three years of axis propa ganda are hearing for the first (Turn to Page 2) War-Essential No Plans to Destroy . Says Nelson ; Allied Armada Greatest' NEW YORK, Nov, 1-VP) Ad vertising is an "essential part of our f communications system," a system which the. government has no remotest desire to ; destroy, Chairman Donald M. J Nelson : of the war production board asserted. Wednesday night. s ; . , At the same time, Capt Oliver Lyttleton, British minister of pro duction, called .the United Nations' invasion of Africa "the greatest amphibious operation in history" and said the number of vessels in convoy was well over plus more than Z5T ships of war. Nelson said the future does not hold a bright picture for the In dividual " businessman, but "the picture is not wholly black either" At a dinner meeting of the As sociation of National Advertisers, he skid: x ' , "I see no reason why any man should ; assume, - nowj . that no scope Is going to be loft for. the free exercise of his talents; I sec : no reason to assume that the field is going to tighten up so much .: that advertising will not stm have an important Job to do In the distribution of goods. "For advertising, I must repeat, is an essential part of our com munications system. - We dare not destroy or cripple that communi cations system in wartime, and we have no remotest desire to do so." 'V v ' ' ' - J - Nelson assured his hearers that whatever temporary - restrictions and limitations might have to be laid "on the free enterprise sys tem in the .coming year would not be "capricious." - , ; "The government recognizes ad vertising as a legitimate tool of business and believes it has a use ful- role in our war- effort," he summarized. ; ! (Turn to Trc? ") Advertising Roosevelt Says yictory Sure; France to Rise By tho Associated ' Press - : The democratic nations" com memorated the 24th anniversary of the last armistice Wednesday with the expressed determination that this conflict shall , end vic toriously in a lasting peace. President Roosevelt, standing bareheaded before the tomb of the unknown soldier in the national cemetery at Arlington, Va4 as serted that victory was inevitable as a conquered France appeared to be rising from her knees to Join her allies of other years. "On this day of all days," de clared the president, "it Is heart ening for us to know that soldiers of France go forward with the united nations. American soldiers are giving their lives today in all the con- tinents and, on all the seas in order that the dream of the un- ' known soldier may at last come 'trae."-" ' Beside him stood Gen. John J. Peisnihg, Secretary of the Navy Knox, Secretary of War Stimson, Adm.. Ernest J. King, Command er in , Chief of the Fleet, ; Gen. George C. Marshall, chief-of-staff, and Lt, Gen. . Thomas Holcomb, commandant of the marine corps, f Four new ; US destroyers slid down the ways of i the Federal Shipbuilding' and Drydock Co in Kearney, NJ with 28 minutes in the swiftest . quadruple launching on'record." , 'L-t,- " King George VI cancelled the usual services at Britain's memor ial to her war 'dead in London. 'At Londonderry,' Northern Ireland, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose velt spent most of the day with 'American marines and naval : . (Turn to Page 2) Ickes Praises ! Output Boost CHICAGO, Nov. U-VPr-HiT-old L. Ickes, the war petroleum coordinator, reported Wednesday that the rapid expansion in pro duction of 100-octane gasoline in the- United States was a. "near miracle;';;:-;'f'r- r-f"f '''ty-J':: He recalled 'that in the summer of 1941 the nation was ."danger ously short", of capacity for such gas, that the output then was only about 40,00ft barrels a : day and.. that the, oil industry, agreed to double; then treble and quad ruple production. -. "I wish," he': added, hat I might make, public, as ' a tribute to your industry, the present pro duction of 100-octane because It represents a near miracle. . , - "It is this gasoline, which made possible the victories of the Coral sea and Midway; : the gasoline which carried marines over the Solomons; ; the : gasoline which opened that new front in Algiers, which chased Rommel out of Egypt, and which makes possible the destructive raids over the in dustrial centers cf the nazis." Erehch Fleet Q uestion Some Said Gone FromToulon; Allies Appeal - LONDON, Thursday, Nov. 12 (PWhereabouts of the bulk of the French fleet,, who controls it and .what they .are going to do with it provided a tense mys tery Thursday, . 24 hours after Hitler's legions started march ing ' across ' France toward .its base at Toulon. The 1 Daily ; Express published a report from a staff correspondent "on i the ; j French frontier?, Thurs day morning that, "several units" of the! French, navy, including a numberi ! of submarines,- steamed out of,j Toolon.-. early Wednesday morning 1 with the intention of joining the allies in Africa. Authoritative British sources remained silent on the fleet's location; but some mmally well informed observers said "there is every reason to believe" that at leastl a "substantial part" of it Is joining the forces of the United Nations, doe to the tn flaenee I of "Adm. Jean Parian, erstwhile commander of all Vichy French armed forces -who now Is being -held by the Ameri cans at Algiers. - There jreports on the departure of parts of the fleet from Toulon first : began appearing almost as soon as ;the invasion of France was begun, and1 Vichy sources denied them. A Vichy radio I broadcast late yesterday said the wcusuiya. iciuuucu a b uic iuwr terranean port. While 1 these conflicting reports circulated about Europe, the Vichy radio 1 quoting a Havas j news agency, dispatch also reported that the Germans had reached all their objectives in their march through -France. It this report was ac curate,! it would mean that Ger man forces were in Toulon Thurs day. ALLIED FORCE HEAD QUARTERS IN NORTH AFRI CA J N t. lMflVLt. Gen. Dwirht ; D. ' Eisenhower, com mander i of the - American ex peditionary forces in North -Africa, Wednesday broadcast an appeal to the French fleet ' to "Join the United Nations In the fight for freedom", by sailing for Gibraltar. ' '.- r- i The appeal was broadcast in Frenchl over British naval chan nels at frequent intervals.; - -, : Gen.tsenhower'sTtext follows: - "Hitler has denounced the arm istice. ' I invite the French fleet to join , the ! United Nations in the fight for freedom and "so hasten I (Turn to Page 2) CIOiDemands Larger Part, War Effort -H-t-- - ..r..:-; vv BOSTON, Nov. , 1 L - W3) - The CIO emphatically demanded a full share m the war of produc tion Wednesday ' during : a con vention which adopted a resolu tion calling for participation "in all j the I administrative agencies which make and execute our war policiesand at every level." Nearly all the prominent CIO leaders Supported the resolution from the- floor,- and President Phillip;, Murray declared: "I feel the' delay in winning the war is directly the result of the fact that labor has not been al lowed a fair share of the admin istration of sthe war effort." - - - ' Criticism of the handling of ship I cargoes : came from Harry Bridges, , j California .CIO leader, who 'said ."wine, champagne and brandy", had been placed aboard some vessels In 'place of war ma terials.,;H v - f):T-: y The resolution; seeking : further participation, in the making of war policies 'came . after." Senator Pepper tD-Fla)v.had demanded a centralization of war mobilization and had deplored utterances by "the leader of a great nation ;. that indicated that considerations of empirerhad"notbeen' elimina ted from ' the objectives of war.! ; In a later interview with news-' men. Senator Pepper , alluded di rectly to i Prime Minister Chur chill and declared he was sure that the British premier did not j intend to forget humanity "and become a spokesman for em pire." "A t -', K-:?H , 'ChutistsGo : 1500 Miles To Invade - By WES GALLAGHER - ALLIED HEAD CARTERS IN FRENCH NORTH AFRICA, Not. U-iP American parachntists staged the kgest airborne In- ! vasion In history when they flew i In transport planes 150S miles nonstop, from England ' to participate In the assaalt ea Oran. J. ,- i - -cA It was. disclosed Wednesday night thai tho parachute troops, led by CoL Ed Raff of New York, 34-year-old West .Feint grada . ate, and ' wearing ; camouflaged battle salts, boarded planes ear ly Saturday' night and flew con -Unaoasly for eight hours across -Enrope and the Mediterranean to land at dawn Sunday : near ' .0n- tit -4- . -i None of the. parachntists' ex cept Raff knew when they start ed where, they, were going. German Leave Russia Railways Swamped; Reds 'Chute Raid Nazi Airdrome ANKARA, Turkey, Nov. 1L-(ff-Adolf " Hitler was reported Wednesday night to be wheeling part .-of his great ! war machine westward from the' Russian front to face the American-British of fensive moving toward his south ern flank . from the Atlantic end of the 'Mediterranean. ; One report from a usually well- informed source' said that prep arations v were being made " has tily for billeting Sin Yugoslavia "and 7 Hungary ""4a: more German divisions withdrawn from Russia. This would constitute approxi mately a' quarter of Cbe 'entire nazi- forces now fighting the So viets -i ;. : - - F r o m Istanbul ' Wednesday i night came a report from an experienced. Balkan sonrce that railroads ' through Roma nia and Hungary were loaded ' heavily with German troops moving in the general direction of Greece and Italy. Another , report which could not be con-' firmed said two new German divisions had entered Bulgaria. MOSCOW, Thursday, Nov., 12. -ipy-Cold -weather; and a" bold parachute fire raid on a German airdrome . cheered .j Russians Thursday while .thjeir lines held firmly all along the .-front. " .' The broad picture was one of limited activity and increasing cold that is counted on to simpli fy the Reds'., defense problems. particularly -' at Stalingrad, i- and multiply the .hardships of; the German invaders. - ' Dramatic spot of jthe high com mand's : midnight ' t -communique was the brief account of a para chute raid on a nazi Black sea airport which told how 23 enemy planes , were put to; the. torch, 13 of them being destroyed and the others damaged. - i - ' Soviet : bombers flew over this target several; time to bring : on the lights and start the anti-aircraft guns to banging and then attack planes ' dived in to smash the lights and silence the cannon. .Immediately after this ?para- cutists - jumped from- transport planes and when landed set fire to planes on the airdrome and then made their getaway." The high command said several attacks were repelled in the Sta lingrad sector. I German thrusts also were de clared to have been turned back in the , Tuapse area V along . the Black sea and southeast of . Nal chik in the eastern Caucasus. ..' In the . Stalingrad area the reds also took the initiative In one assaalt, reporting that two Hitlerite companies were wiped , mUi- j .v -... -o; r; '4 The banks of the Volga were f rosea. Tie.StallBgrad-garrison shortly can be sopplled vast i quantities of material across tho frosea river, j - - -. , Strong nazi, forces were said to have . penetoated red. .army de f enses northeast of Tuapse on the Clack sea; only to be driven back or exterminated. ' '., ri'; . CAIRO, Nov.- 11 f -PH Allied air forces destroyed 22 enemy aircraft over the Egyptian-Libyan battle area Wednesday, including 11 Junkers dive-bombers. V South African fighters inter cepted the Junkers over the Gam- but-Eardia road and shot down eight of IS. American fighters in tercepted the remnants and got (Turn to Tzz 2) Troops Tunisia invaded By Axis Daiflan Orders Cea8e Firing9; ' ; Vichy Oosed By, tb AasocUted Press LONDON, Nov. 11. German and Italian troops wept ; through Vichy, France, to the Blediterran- ean shore Wednesday night invading Corsica and in filtrating Tunisia by air,: while the United Statea armies clinched their vast North African position by getting a cease-fire order, from Adm. Jean Darlanuto all- rrench forces on the contin ent. V-.r '. American i: columns fjreinforced by crack elements of i the British First, army smashed at least one third of the way from Algiers to the Tunisian borders in a deter mined 'effort to get there first with , the most men. . . Field reports indicated the Ger mans - had about: 1000 airmen, with dive-bombers and fighters, in Tunisia, plus some Italian ma rines; .Earlier reports that Ger man air infantry had reached Tunisia, "it - was indicated, may nave Deen premature. i However, wa keiieved" that German Marshal Erwin Rommel was trying to reach Tunisia by land with, what he has left of tho army which was, beaten in Egypt - Back in dismal Vichy. Mar- - shal Fetaln's first shocked pro testations against the ocenpa- uon of ; thev nnoccupied" sono diminished in direct ratio to - the general advance of the Ger man r divisions to "all object Ivestn France. L With high German officers all around him, Petain and his cab inet issued a communique1 which said . the marshal was "counting on" the French army in Africa "to continue the struggle to the limit of its forces." With Petain was Pierre Laval, just back from conference with Hitler In Mu nich.' : - '".'" " The ."cease-fire-order from Ad miral Darlan, however, was clear recognition that after 77 hours, the American-Vichy "war" across more than 1000 miles of Atlantic and Mediterranean coast was at an end.- US. troops, by then; had possession of every important center of resistance. , 4 Darlan. who as commander-in- chief of all Vichy armed forces f . (Turn to Page 2) ?Teen Draft for Final Action Today WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 The bill lowering the selective service induction age from 20 to 18 appears-headed for final con gressional approval Thursday, exactly four weeks after it was reported favorably to the house. The last impediment to enact ment of the sharply debated measure seemingly was removed Wednesday when a group of sen ators decided- not to press their attempt to require a full year's training for the It and 1 9 -y car olds before they could be sent into combat service overseas. Senator McKellar (prTenn), said that war department of f i rials had. given assurance that the youngsters would receive ad- quate" training before going Into battle. - ; , ' The bill provides for deferment. of essential farm workers, 'and for deferment, until the end of . the scholastic' year from high school 'teen-agers, called up in ' the second semester. In addition. registrants now past 43 could not . be "inducted without their con sent., '. . .- i: : Meanwhile It u riisclnsed hv selective service headquarters " that local boards had been ad- Vised that increasing demands cf , the armed forces require that large numbers of men in essen tial "activities who are liable for. service be released for indection. The boards - were cautioned. however, to, release the men "i.v an orderly manner, civir. con sideration to their cualificaticns . and the time necessary to secure cr train rcjlaccncsu. "