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Ij V Allies Qose I j ' , .: - -. i - 1 BoinrAslffilt Skips; f7 TVX V hThTa 3 Allies Advance in Guinea; Jap Destroyer May Be in Toll; Guadalcanal Fights GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Aus tralia, Friday, Nov. 13 i-(AP) Sharpshooting American fliers banged their bombs into four troop-laden enemy ships in a dawn raid on the Buin-Faisi base of the northern Solo mons Friday, inflicting heavy damage on the enemy, the high command reported in its noon communique. This was the high spot of a heartening communique which also told of fresh advances in the strongly rolling drive to push the Japanese out of New Guinea, and of re newed aerial blows at the enemy in Portuguese Timor. Friday's raid at 'Buin-Faisi, made at dawn, caught Jap ships in the harbor , loaded : with troops and equipment. The bombers, supporting the defense of Guadal canal in the Solomons to ihe southeast of Buin-Faisi, hit four of the loaded ships and losses in- flicted were believed heavy. The ships were of the cargo r type, used for transports, and their ' total tonnage Vwas estimated at 37,000. One ship appeared to be of 12,000 ton "type, another, 10, 000, a third 8000 and the fourth 7000. One of the four" ships had suf : 'fered a previous hit In Thursday's raid. Mean w&lle.-the land battle e tat .control f northeastern New Guinea procressed In' the al lies' favor with the Japs cleared nt of the Oivi-Gorari area, some 50 miles southwest of the coastal base of Bona. The Japs were Tetreating toward Wairopl, having lost heavily in equip ment and yielded some of their number as prisoners. Eqaip losses included field guns and horses. ; ; ; Allied planes strafed installa tions to the rear of the retreating Japs. , ' ; . !. - Prior to the attack by heavy c bombers on the ships in the Buin l Falsi - area,. 1 medium bombers struck at the Buin airfield, catch- ' (Turn to Page 13) . j Mrs. Albert, Native of Salem, Dies Death of Mrs.. Jessie D. Albert Thursday morning in a Portland hospital came as a shock to resi dents of Salem, her native city and lifelong home. 4 Widow of the . late Joseph H. Albert, she had1 a wide cire!e of friends and ae . cjuaintances here. She had under gone an operation Wednesday ' morning from which she failed to rally. ... - - Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.: J. Dalrymple, she was educated i in the schools of Salem, where her father was a pioneer merchant. She was graduated from the Wil lamette university school of music and in her youth was a prominent - pianist here. In October, 1895, she was mar ried to Joseph H. Albert, who was - for many years cashier of ': the Capital National bank here and later trust officer in Ladd and Bush bank.; He died January s 1, 1939. Both he and Mrs. Albert were longtime members of -the Salem First Presbyterian church. Funeral services are to be held from Cloug-Barrick chapel s at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Sur vivors include two daughters, Mrs. Asel ESff of Salem and Mrs. Bruce Spaulding of Dallas; a sis ter, Mrs. J- C. Griffith of Salem; three grandchildreiv. Dimpifr and Jean Spaulding of Dallas and Jos eph Eoff of Salem, and a niece, Mrs. Glenn Siegel of Portland, j ; Brooks Re Safe, Casablanca : RusseU N. Brooks, US consul at Casablanca, French Morocco, j is - safe along with other members of -the consul general's staff, it was learned in Salem Thursday night Brook's mother, : Mrs. i Mildred Robertson Brooks, former Mar ion county recorder, was notified . by the consul general 'through CordellH ull, secretary of state. 4 Jab Siiilbs Get 7D, n Current Tax Plan Favored Grange May Support Move; Strength Urged Confab WENATCHEE, Nov. 12 (P) The j national grange convention was advised in an official report Thursday that support was in creasing for a pay-as-we-go in come tax program for the nation, and several delegates said a, reso lution probably v would ; be' inlro duceed in an attempt to put the grangers on record for the plan. The report of increased sup port for the plan came from Fred Brenckman, the grange's Wash ington, DC, representative. In his absence, his annual report was read to the convention. "If this plan should be adopted, 1942 taxes would be omitted while those for 1943 would be paid currently. Many men who formerly earned good incomes in private life now have been in ducted Into the armed services where their pay will be insuffi cient to pay high income taxes." Brenckman said he believed the ; war would bring extension of rural electrification systems, if and when materials are available. Most of his report dealt with con gressional committee reports. -. . Oranre leaders said resolu tions were beinr drawn to put the organisation aggressively a 1 record ' arainst any- efforts of the United Mine Workers' onion' to organise farmers or farm hands. Master Albert S. Goss told the convention fas his a naval message Wednesday that the John L. Lewis-led on ion ' was trying to make Inroads on farm labor. Harry A. Caton,: the national grange secretary from Coshock ton, Ohio, said in an interview: "I think labor will come out of this war ; with stronger organ izations. Commerce, finance and industry will -not only maintain their organizations, but will build them during the war. The chal lenge -to agriculture is to strengthen its organization so it too may participate in post-war problems on an equal footing with these other groups. . WCliam - Sullivan, Washington state, insurance commissioner, re ported to the grange that grain ! (Turn to Page 2) CAMP ADAIR, Nov. 12 State officials, ' publishers and civic leaders of the Willamette - valley earned their "diplomas" Thursday as Inductees into the Timber Wolf division at this camp. - - In a special, high-powered and day-long program which kaleide scoped an entire picture of train ing : routine of a ! United States fighting man, visiting dignitaries were put through! the paces as temporary members of the Tim ber Wolf division under the sup ervision of Maj. Gen. Gilbert R. Cook, commanding! general. At 10 a. m. the guests arrived and J were ; escorted far jeeps to classification headquarters. Gov. Charles A. Sprague, first to be classified, was interview ed by Sgt. Millard Willis and rated as an A-1 public relations v prospect From then on dignitaries were given a streamlined personal con yalley C Sendee Passed Draft Year's Training Dropped; j Farm Provision Kept By FRANCIS J". KELLY WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 (P) The senate approved the 'teen-age draft bill late Thurs day and sent it itO the White House. Signature of the meas ure by President Roosevelt will make an" estimated 1,500,000 youths of7 18 and 19 immediate ly liable for service in the armed forces. The bill lowers the minimum induction age from 20 to 18 in response to Gen. j George C. Marshall's plea for "combat units of vigorous, aggressive soldiers." Senators reluctantly receded from their demand that the 'teen-agers be trained at least a year in this country before being sent into cambat overseas. There were nearly five hours of debate, however, before the senate approved the bin on a voice vote. It had previously been revised by a Joint senate house conference committee and accepted by the honse. Much of the argument centered on a provision directing local draft boards to defer necessary farm workers as long as they remain on the farm and j until satisfac tory replacements can be trained. Senator Pepper (D-Fla) con tended the provision would multi ply manpower problems. Jay "freezing": farm workers on their fob'-without determination by a' national agency that particular workers were best serving the war effort in their existing occupa tions. Senator Gurney (R-SD), senate "manager of the bill, denied Pepper's contention.'! "The manpower program has been muddled administratively and now congress is about to mud dle It legislatively," Pepper as serted. 1 However, the farm provision was retained in the bill without change. Senator after senator took, the floor to advocate a mandatory one-year training claase and to explain he was agreeing to its elimination only because of the strongly expressed swill of the house and because ; the general staff had asked for a free hand in training and asing the young fixhting men. Senator Brooks (R-Bl) said no senator wanted to "tie the hands of our military leaders." French Help WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 - (P) Gen. John J. Pershing, aging leader of the armies in France in 1917, said Thursday night "the axis has met its Marne" and in vited his,, former i French comrades-in-arms to join the , ranks of the allies so they "will ; once more be .free." : , .' - Pershing, who now holds the rank of general of the armies, appeared Wednesday with Pres ident Roosevelt at the Armistice day ' ceremonies at . the tomb, of the unknown soldier. ' - He expressed - himself to the French people through the me dium of a letter written to Mr. Roosevelt Thursday. Pershing ivic Eeadersu'In tact picture of army trainings, simulated actual combat ; condi tions and light weapon, artillery firing. ; ' - -r? y 'U - The civilian selectees. Col. Gor don H. McCoy,' post commander of Camp Adair, and officers and en listed men of the Timber Wolves ran through what' Brig. Gen. Wil liam C. DunckeL in charge of ar rangements,:: described : as- the "carnival system" of training!. They participated in the initial phases of soldier. training worked out in stability tests, "yaxdbird" instruction, lessons in personal neatness and ' efficiency of : the American soldier. ' . - " They rode fat jeeps over the rugged terrain and saw soldiers run the assault and the blitx courses; saw the ; laying and traversing of fields, witnessed examples of men fighting arm ed and unarmed hand to hand combat. . - , . FleeinE ! Supplies Removed Much Embattled City Passed in Hasty Retreat CAIRO, Friday, Nov. 13 (AP) Retreating axis forces are withdrawing supplies from Tobruk, much-fought-over port 80 miles inside Lib ya, and apparently are pre paring to abandon this stronghold without making a serious stand. A delayed message reach ing here Friday morning from Edward Kennedy, Associated Press war correspondent on the Libyan border, said that the Ger mans and Italians were with drawing equipment westward from Tobruk as early as Wednes day. ' Front line advices Thursday told of heavy allied aerial bom bardment : of concentrations of enemy transport along the road between Tobruk and Gazala, an other 30 miles along the coast al highway. This apparent ; I decision by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to pass up Tobruk as the spot at which to try and stem the mounting! allied victory tide confirmed, estimates . of a W t badfy his -legions! have beCa mauled by " British - American land, sky and sea, power be cause Tobruk offers a tough obstacle to an attacking force when It is well manned. The British in an! earlier phase of the shifting north African cam paign once held Out there (Turn to Page' 2) for Brunk Leaves Contest for Postmaster ! : -l! ' One of the nine candidates for the J Salem postmastership, Dr. Estil L. Brunk, dentist, has with drawn his name, it (was disclosed Thursday. 1 1 Federal civil service examiners, it was also reported, have been in the city questioning -applicants for the $4200 a year ! I position, - for which the present postmaster, Henry R. Crawford, was not an applicant for reappointment. Dr. Brunk said he had decided to keep his professional, services "available for military or civilian use, as . the government may, de termine, to b' desired." y ; Remaining . candidates for the postmastership are Ira M. Darby, Paul Lynch, , T. J. Birabec, Francis Li Welch, -Joseph J Gallagher, F. Junior. Eckley,4 Gordon. D. Thomp son and Albert C Gragg. , The" postal -department makes its : selection fromk among" the three highest candidates picked by the civil ' service : commission on the basis of. educational qualifi cations and ' business . experience. The impending appointment , will be permanent, under terms of a 1937 amendment to jthe civil ser vice act. : : : - - ?i Conducted by CoL Welcome P Waltz, they saw a: thorough "on the battlefield" display of hasty field fortifications used in , defen sive (fighting, j y " On the firing range they wound up with complete display of light weapons as employed m ac tual field use. i. - - 'Among those receiving "diplo mas," in addition to Gov. Sprague, were Maj. Gen. Charles H, Mar tin; Mayor Earl ! Riley of Port land; Mayor . W W, Chadwkk of Salem; Pj L. Jackson, publisher of the Oregon v Journal; E. Don Ross, Arthur .J.Tarnier and James A. Ormanlly, all o j the Portland chamber of commerce; Secretary Clay Cochran, and Carl W; Hogg, Salem chamber of commerce; P. O. Urban and Claude Ingalls,Cor v all is publishers; R.1 B. Swenson, Monmouth, and R. i H. Kletzing, Independence. I r By Axis ducted Rommel Mauidloinis- Toteuik Pof Rommel ForgotlThis Equipment, Too -4 Mm - - i 'y T-yy it Here are Mune of the more than 10a enemy aircraft put out of action at El Dabs and captured last Saturday by the British Eighth army Africa. This official British photo shows fuselages , lined up, after picture was sent by radio from Cairo to the US.) Associated Press Hitler. Off ers Offe Territoriea " For Fleet's Help, Report Asserts k LONDON, Nov. 12 HPjr Adolf Hitler's terms for immediate peaoa .with t Vkhy restoring: to France lIl "her ' 93y "continental territory except Alsace and Lor raine, were Carried to Vichy by Arch-collaborationist Pierre La val from his Munich meeting with the fuehrer,! it was reported Thursday night in reliable conti nental circles with close Vichy connections, j The report 'was not confirmed. The report provisions especial ly that involving the loss to the French' of the two provinces, would prove decidedly distasteful and unacceptable to the , whole French nation. The cardinal terms of the pro posed peace as reported by tnese informed sources, . which, of course, could not be further iden tified, were: , , 1. ' France would regain all her continental area except' the prov inces of Alsace and Lorraine, 2. : Alsace and Lorraine would become -.autonomous.- (They have been incorporated into the reichl) a 3. France would keep her : em pire i (virtually 'all of which now is ' controlled by or allied With the United Nations). - 4. The French fleet would co operate with the Germans to re gain the empire, -y ,.5. ; Italy- would renounce terri torial claims on France. - The Italians in the past have yelled loudly for "Nice, Tunisia and; Corsica, v Tout an- Italian spokesman p in Rome - Wednesday said! Italy's share in the occupa tion was not "intended in the in terests of territory. . " ,Most reliable Vichy circles rW ported that -Laval, whohas con sistently ..favored, the Germans,, had nevertheless rejected a mili tary alliance -with Germany.- v f ' ; Informants, from the former un occupied - area said aged Marshal Petain.is .showing -.the. strain of rthe crisis. ;'ts :-y. " - He has not yet decided on his future course. --"-:; ain Not Changed .TANGIER, i Spanish Morocco, Nov.! 12 (Ay-The high commis sioner of Spanish Morocco Thurs day notified - all Spaniards and Moroccans under his jurisdiction that recent events in North Africa have not changed things in this region. . ; . ' - . ; He added , that the press will continue its I normal attitude and asked everybody to maintain good behavior. . He also invited people to denounce to the authorities those who do not do so. ; (Spanish Morocco is : a v strip about 200 "miles long and 50-73 miles wide along the North Afri can coast across from Gibraltar. It isurrounded on the land side by French Morocco, which has been occupied by . American and Brit ish forces.)- t sp Colony o -1 ' J4 Brooks FJier Ispecorated GENERAL. Mac ARTHUR'S H E A DQUARTERS, Australia, Friday, Nov.- 13-AVNine mem bersj of the US army, air forces were, awarded silver ! stars Fri day for gallantry la action while participating' In attacks against the Japanese la the Solomons, New! Guinea, and ether enemy- ; i i , ,. ' occupied territories north of vABsttaua. They Included:' . Thomas J, . Hayes, Jr route one,' Brooks, Ore. ' The award to Li. Hayes was for his scoring direct 'hits on eightj or tea enemy planes at Buna August 25 despite a heavy tropical storm aad limited visi bility. ; Soviets Trade Gains in Cold ' Battle Areas I - i. J !. - , . .. ' . . ...4. - . ' I : um,w, jfTlday, Nov. 13-(JP) Fighting in sub-zero cold, the Ger mans and Russians traded narrow stpps Of Stalingrad s battle-ripped earth ; Thursday while the reds in the j Caucasus successfully coun-Iter-attacker near Nalchik and held ifirm-at Tuapse, the. soviet -midnight communique reported. - I : The j Russians said' the Germans brought up reserves and attacked 1st several places inthe Stalingrad area; at one point penetrating, de fense lines in a wedge, 100 to: 200 jrards; deep but at enormous cost la a northern .sector of the. eltyi' the eommunieae declared, soviet counterattacks shoved the -Invaders . back 40t yards , aad cost j the Germans ' 28f dead while northwest of the city the. Germans were driven from sevi era! .!ouses..v,,i ..."j. .,.v.f .,u Despite the reference to re- feerves . there . was jjo : indication that the Germans were braving the I deep winter cold with "any thing: like the masses they were psingija few weeks ago at SUlin- (The- Berlin radio .aid that a Cold spell which had driven tem- peraturesT te 29 degrees below zero, fahrenheit, had forced abate ment of fighting in the Stalingrad -! I-5 :. 'v:-- -y South of Nalchik in the Caucas us, the Russians said, .counter-attacks Naroke the enemy's resist nce" I and drove the -Germans from two inhabited localities. The aazia ilost 170 motor vehicles and 400 j dead in that region, it ' was reported. , I Northeast of Tuapse along . the Black: ! sea . repeated light enemy attacks were repelled, the high Command said. 2 r ' 'Chutists i Wrong t t LONDON, Friday, Nov. 13- Reuters Friday reported from Tangier, Spanish zone of Morocco, that 54-United States parachute had ! made forced landing in var ious! partsTof. the Spanish zone. All their equipment -has been taken from them by authorities, the re port said. - - r by allied bombers on the airport In Its rapid sweep across North the airport was! occupied. (This Telemat. J '! !. -: Clark Boosted General Dared Trip Into Africa for Raid Readiness WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 -VP) A daring under-cover ' trip . to French 'VN prth "Africa by subma rine, during which a , commando- f escorted party "tiif Amerlcair."offi4 cers rprepared "the way for the occupation of that strategic area, won Maj. Gen. Mark W. Clark a promotion to lieutenant - general Thursday . and a place in history alongside the bearer of the "mes sage to Garcia." - , Three weeks before the current North African' campaign opened; Gen. Clark and his party landed there from a submarine. He open ed negotiations with representa tives of the French general, Henri Giraud, which led to his rallying French forces toj the United Na tions cause. He .obtained invalu able military- information. He ap praised the sentiment of French men in the area . and found ' it favorable to the Americans. '. All this was disclosed Thurs day, with a warj department an nouncement ' that! the tall, lanky. resourceful Clark, who later re turned to. Africa as second .in command - of - the expeditionary force,' had been promoted. J Meanwhile, dispatches from allied . headauarters la North ' Africa pieced together the de tails of his . amazing exploit, a -long tour, which used - almost every conceivable means of transportation,' Included a nar row escape- from capture by the -; axis-controUed ; Vichy , i police, ' and aa apset boat which result ed In the loss of most of the . party's clothing! aad $LS,M la The. details came . from .Clark himself, and from Lt. Gen..Dwight D. '. Eisenhower, commander-in-chief of the - North African . offen sive. It was cabled by Wes Galla gher. Associated. Press correspon dent in North Africa. '. ,.- i It was evident,' Eisenhower told (Turn, to Page 2) v' entma . Likes Action : BUENOS AIRES,- Argentina, Nov. 12 -VP)- Foreign . Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinaru Thursday night expressed to Secretary Hull Argentina's : solidarity ' with., the United States' operations in North Africa, ending aa official suiu.e o:the ;campaignJ--:;-. vf.''v' a The foreign, minister' message to Hull aroused particular inter est because Argentina and ' Chile are the only South American na tions not having" broken relations with the axis. . iy'y.yy--.:yi : President Juan' Antonio Rios of Chile previously had 'cabled Pres ident Roosevelt expressing ap proval of the African action. Ruiz Guinazu's message said that the Argentine people witch "with solidarity and interest the efforts , made by. the great end friendly nation in safeguarding the security of the Americas." It also reiterated faith' in the "high continental ideals" of the United States, i, -;- - ; . ' . - Are Bomlbers Attack' ; Gapiial 2000 Nazis Said Landed to Hold Back Americans ; ;f ! ..... 'i - By the Associated Press LONDON, Friday, Nov. 13 (AP) A powerful allied striking force" advancing at a 75-miIe-a-day clip early Fri day was nearinsr the frontier of Tunisia where reports said the nazis had landed at least 2000 men by air in an expand ing effort to hold that strate gic Mediterranean corner now urider PAF assault from the ! op posite direction. " ir. RAF j twin-engined bombers based on Malta aided the .allied, land forces by heavily attacking the axis-infiltrated region of Tu nis, capital of Tunisia, Thursday, and these blows were expected to increase in coordination with the US -British advance from the west. n . - t .-, The Vichy radio said the Tunis area was again attacked Thursday night and that anti-aircraft guns in the French protectorate were in action during an alert , lasting from 8:15 p.m. to 10;30 p.m. . i ' Continuously fed from the' sea and gathering momentum by land, the combined assault srmie had reached and occupied Benp, east ern Algeria, only 1 60 miles from) the. Tunisian , frontier, Thursday morning, according to Vichy re ports. . v . '. . By now it was belie-ed here the Americans and battle veter ans of the British first army might might . have plunged across the frontier. " ' j ' . In France meanwhile the axis divisions that overran the re mainder of that country placed the naval station of Toulon on a ! strange sone of quarantine, mysteriously failing to occupy that port or to lay hands on the battle fleet which so long has , lain of f shore. ! From Algeria A dm. Jean Dar lah, the old commander of the fleet and former head of all Vichy French armed forces, broadcast a request to the Toulon commanders that they bring their ships to north Africa. . - 1- The former collaborationist. who was taken by the Americana . in the capture of Algiers, did not order the ships to sail, but only suggested they join the allies or at (Turn to Page 2) . ' RAF Bombers Sink 2 Subs In Campaign LONDON, - Friday; Nov. 13- British Hudson bombers of the. RAF caused havoc to hostile sub marine operations in the opening stages of the north African - cam paign, sinking at least two and perhaps more, a ' British corres pondent called from allied head quarters in north Africa Friday. Pilots reported four attacks on U-boats which were menacing the great allied convoys. One pilot said he brought a submarine to the surface with depth charges and thenletgo with a bomb and scored a direct hit and blew it in two:" A New Zealand pilot told how he attacked first one and then a second German U-boat Just after a US convoy passed through the Strait of Gibraltar. Four depth ) charges! blew the stern ! off the first craft to surface, the, pilct said. Later, returning to his base, he dropped two ' bombs on the second. U-boat but could not see the result. ' , J A third ' pilot reported an at tack with a salvo of depth charges on a submarine In the At lantic approaches to the straits at it attempted to submerge. Tunis Fieltl Raided VICHY. (From French broad casts) Nov. 2-(A)-At air field at Tunis la north Africa was attack ed Thursday night, the Vichy ra dio reported. The air alarm last ed more. than two hours and anti aircraft guns were in action. no