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PAGE TWO TH OIEGO!f STATECJ-IAW,! Salon Oregon. Friday Mcitfng,.NovmIor 19, 1S12 U Clark Boosted For Mission General Dared Trip Into Africa for Raid Readiness ... (Continued from Page 1) Gallagher, that's large group of " Frenchmen in north Africa was anxious to cooperate and that it .t would be desirable to send a " group of officers there tosiien- tact them and obtain essential , . military information. . ?Clark and all men on the mis sion volunteered enthusiastical ly," he added. Leaving London secretly by 'J train, the party " reached Africa by devious meanSjAt an unnamd . point in north Africa a light was to have been flashed in a house , to let the men know the coast j j was clear. . Bui the appointed hear ar rived and passed withent any light appearing, and the party , had to wait for some time in extreme danger before the sig nal finally was given. The members of the party en tered the house, where they en Ja ' gaged in close consultation with French officers who had arrived there, mostly in civilian clothes. "We conferred all day and all . night until we had gathered all " the information we wanted,' Clark said. A suspicious Arab servant, . meanwhile, informed the police. The French officers received word that the police were on the way. i "I never saw such excitement In my life," Clark said with a laugh. "Maps disappeared like i lightning. A French general in ,' military uniform changed into ci vilian clothes in a minute flat, and I last saw him going out the -window. They were going in all I . directions" - ". Clark and his staff gathered vp papers and guns and hid In a wine cellar. The owner of the honse met the police. The gen eral crouched in the cellar with a revolver In one. hand and . 15,000 francs In the other. "If the police came down, I was uncertain whether to shoot them or bribe them," he said. - Meanwhile, a British comman do ofticer who accompanied the nartv whisoered: "I'm afraid if I hold this cough back any long er I'm going to choke to death. "I'm afraid you won't choke," Clark told him. The police went away after an hour. A boat upset crossing a small piece of water nearby caused the loss of clothing and money but not of papers."' "We lost almost every stitch of our clothes and I lost some $18,000 in gold," Clark said. "I wonder if Morgenthau (the secre tary of the treasury) will get aft er me for that." Bombers Hit Tunisia Area . X (Continued from Page 1)1 least remove themselves from the German grasp. , No matter what the French feeling at heme was, the French v .in north Africa were beginning to swing over to. the allies. French stevedores m Algiers - now are aiding the nnloadiag of equipment to speed the allied advance. - ' Although official silence cloaked the actual progress thus far, the allied ground troops were said in 'a Vichy broadcast to have been bolstered by US troops landed from British ships nt occupied Bone. ; . The allied troops were trying - with the utmost speed to close a 1000 mile coastal gap and catch the remnants of Marshal Rom mel's troops which now are be tween them and the British Eighth army crossing into eastern Libya from Egypt. Airs. Roosevelt Says Hard Work To Shorten War . - EDINBURGH. Scotland, Nov, 12 Mrs. Roosevelt- called Thursday night for harder work : to shorten the war. ; "I am not a military expert but I think the events of the last few days give- one ; a feeling that we all - want to- work harder," she aid. "If we can give all the equip ment, ships and everything want ed we might do much more than ; we have done to shorten the war. - The president's wife finished a ; week's tour of the English hinter- . land,' Ireland , and - Scotland, de "daring she had "learned a great " deal" and would take", every op , portunity to tell " people in ' the United States all she had seen. Although she has. average only five hours of sleep a night, the only sign of fatigue she showed was a cold. Her amazing energy "during her three weeks in Eng land has worn out relays of re porters, who traveled with" her. One asked today if she needed a new pair - of .-'shoes; t "r "r:--:. "No, but I wish I had a new pair of feet,; she said. She told .a press conference one of her main impressions ; of England: . "The women really have taken r. full share in the war work and tr i l.".yi"2 an important part in the vzr effort." - . . . -. ON the HOME FRONT ! By BABSL CHILDS Not long ago, as the world counts time, the most undesirable place : in the universe was bed. How we struggled against the afternoon nap in p re-kindergarten years, were equally vociferous in our objections to the 7:30 or 8 P-in .bedtime in early school years.; j .-. i ; Never did the constantly later bedtime keep up with our ideas ad to what it should be. Even last night or should I say this morning? I sat up until 2 jajiL, reading. Of course, I had worked until well past midnight, but .. ; -v- " t. Tis possible that it may be old age, the lateness of last night's hours but it feels suspiciously like the 'flu this grogginess that makes the thought of bed the hap piest I can conceive. So, to bed and to blankets, and if my doctor is among my readers ' this is an invitation to come by in the room ing so that he can tell my boss I shouldn't be working! . Opera Singer tivates Audience By MAXINE BUREN A gracious lady, dressed in black taffeta, wearing black gloves and an intriguing magenta flower at her- throat, captivated an auditorium full of people on Thursday night in the first of the winter's -scheduled concerts. Bidu Sayao, leading soprano of the Metropolitan opera and favorite of the concert stage, came to Sa lem under the banner of the Com munity Concert association and sang at the high school. ; Although her entire program was well chosen and greatly ap preciated, it was in the arias that Miss Sayao produced those flow ing tones and gentle shading of a well trained coloratura soprano voice. She sang the aria "Caro nome," from Verdi's "Riggoletto" with charm and beauty, and later her aria of Rosina from "The Barber of Seville" was presented with equal skill. Space does not permit recogni tion to each number, for she was generous in both listed numbers and encores, but among her most beautiful were Think on Me, a moving love song i by Alicia Scott, and Graham Peel's "The Early Morning," both sung in English, Among the encores especially adapted to her . voice, which is as sweet in the low as in the high notes, were "Estralita" and a Ve netian serenade in which she ideftly accomplished dramatic runs by means of trills, all in perfect tune. j The Brazilian singer is spending several days in Salem with her mother, manager and accompan ist, who plan a sightseeing trip around the city and countryside iioaay. House Warned Of Revolution wAaiuwuruN. Nov. 12 (& Rep. Hoffman (R-Mich.) told the nouse Thursday it was evident to some people that "unless Wash ington mends its ways," there would be in this country "revo lution that will not be bloodless, a revolution which' may be a repetition of the French revolu tion." , "If this administration, and I Include the president, and this congress, and that means ail of us. do not get about the peoples' business wholeheartedly," he de clared, "there will be an account ing in the no too distant future ana some c us may answer -as did the thoughtless and heedless in the days of the French revo lution" - ': He said- he had- talked with men and women, particularly with, those in the factories, and found their "sense of Justiee has been outraged by labor racketeers and politicians." f r- FR Assures WASHINGTON, , N o v. ll-(JPl President i Roosevelt's assurances that the African offensive pre saged no move against neutral Portugal or its possessions drew a cordial response Thursday from the Portuguese president. Gen eral Antonio v Oscar DTragoso Carmona. - ''. No reply has. yet-been made public from General Franc&co Franco of Spain, to whom Mr. Roosevelt sent a similar message when the African campaign was launched. Spain has an ever more direct interest than'; Portugal in the African operations because of its, possession of Spanish Morocco opposite Gibraltar; 'v "i -:-r General Carmona said he did not : fwish to lose any time in thanking" the president for his as surances i and declared that these constituted "another proof of the unalterable and confident friend ship existing between our two na tions" ; ... - ... VaP Portua CraxentTax Plan Favored : ": J" ; -'- "' i t ' j . Grange May Support Move; Strength ? Urged Confab (Continued from Page 1) fire losses jumped considerably during the current year, ij "It is difficult in analyzing this situation to determine exactly the cause," - Sullivan asserted, "but undoubtedly many farmers, troubled with finding help, have taken shortcuts which have prov en dangerous. Further, there have been a marked increase in grain acreage without suitable fare breaks." j " Thursday was the second of the 76th annual convention. ! The national organization pur chased a $1000 war bond at civic rally here Thursday.) Dr. E. O. Holland, of Poll- man, Wash president of Wash lagton State college, told the grange la a secret session that "when we go into Germany and destroy heavy industries ' so that they cannot make funs and tanks I hope we wont stop there." , ' "We must go into the I schools and teach the ideals of liberty. If we don t do this, I am afraid we may have another war ion our hands." -: ; v , ' . .. Albert S. Goss, master; of: the national fraternity, said in an ad dress before a civic group, that the burning farm issue in the na tional capital was whether agri culture "shall feed out of the sub sidy through, and thus be held under a stranglehold of Washing' ton, DC, bureaucracy, or whether it will stand upon its own feet under a program of fair parity prices." ! Goss recounted what he termed as a step by step story of Presi dent Roosevelt's famous order to congress to act on farm price ceilings before October 1. Goss said the issue resulted in "farm ceilings so low agri culture cannot produce. Instead of changing those ceilings they Intend to subsidize the fanner so they can Increase produc tion." Goss said the program back in Washington, DC, was "to tie American Agriculture tight so they can dictate its every move. I'm saying to you that farmers of America are never going j to sub mit to subsidy," the grange master said. i CIO Declares John Lewis Just Memory BOSTON, Nov. 12-flPHThe CIO put out the latchkey for the Unit ed Mine Workers of America Thursday but officially declared its president, John 1 Lewis, "memory." Convention delegates rose and bowed their heads in silence in what CIO President Philip Mur ray described as a "tribute to the memory" of the man who founded the CIO seven years ago but with drew last month. "Mr. Lewis is an established na tional prevaricator," Murray told the convention. "He," added Mur ray, when the applause subsided, "is universally recognized and very definitely placed in that cat egory by members of organized labor and the citizens of the Unit ed States." I Murray and three others , who had been closely associated .'with the miners' chief denounced him as a deserter. The convention unanimously adopted a resolution condemning Lewis for "studied policies of dis ruption, ratdmg and disunity." The convention also proposed that the war labor board gear its machinery to its -expanded re sponsibilities by operating on an industry-wide basis instead of the case or company method.1 The convention also I ! adopted. witnout discussion or ! dissent, a report of the committee on press ana publicity . condemning newo- paper campaigns "hostile; and in jurious to our country's war ef fort" I M The resolution also said: '! "The trend toward monoDoliza- uon oz tne press by existing daily newspapers and their allied com mercial interests a trend which is typified by refusal of the Asso ciated Press to serve new and in dependent papers is a direct menace to a free press: The CIO takes the position that this trend should be combatted by labor and ail progressive-minded people." Germans Claim Big liner Sunk'' BERLIN (From German Broad casts) Nov. 12-W)-The I German nigh -command announced Thurs day that the British passenger lin er Queen Elizabeth had been tor pedoed and damaged in the north Atlantic and that German forces' had scored considerable successes in attacks on the Americans and British in North Africaj. , , "The Germans Wednesday, "had reported it was a battleship of J me vueen JJizabeth class which was damaged but today the high command corrected Its report to make it the 85,000-ton passenger vessel; largest in the world. (There was no confirmation of these reports from other sources),' I ' British Yank f Takes9 Toivn ALLIED FORCE HEADQUAR TERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 12.-(flVFront line reports told Thursday the amusing story o: how a British officer in an Amer ican major's , uniform "captured' the town of St Cloud, near Oran in the name of the Uhited States army. - v V' : V-L The officer had come ashore -on reconnaissance and to facilitate his traveling he bad been given an American uniform and a jeep. Coming to a road block near St Cloud, the : jeep was stopped by an American private who said "glad to see you, sir. The people of this town want . to surrender and you are the only American officer I have : seen who j can ac cept the surrender." ( Not giving away his .-identity, the Briton solemnly accepted the surrender of the town and re mained there until more American troops arrived to take over. Pepco Change Objected hy Bondholder PHILADELPHIA, Novi 12.-fiP -Objection to independent trust ees proposed reorganization of Portland Electric Power company on the ground that valuations of Pepco assets were "exaggerated' ly excessive" leaving no equity for stockholders and bondholders, was filed Thursday with the se curities and exchange cornmis ion. ;h The objection was stated in an 18-page brief submitted by Paul E. Peltason, of St Louis, a bond holder, and was filed by William W. Swift trial examiner for the commission in the fourth day of the hearings on the trustees' plan for Pepco's dissolution. I Sec approval must be obtained, under section 11 (F) of the hold ing company act before! the plan is submitted to the US district court for Oregon. Peltason stated "that the valu ation of $25,000,000 arrived at by the trustees for the stock of the Portland General Electric, com pany (Pepco's main subsidiary) is unsound and cannot j be .sup ported." j Thomas W. Delzell, Pepco trus tee, testifying at the commission's hearing Thursday, stated that Portland General Electric may be faced with a $400,000 increase in power costs if the Bonneville pow er administration decides to "re examine" the present wholesale rate of $17.50 per kilowatt year at which it supplies power to the company. After the hearing he said he be lieved there : was no prospect of a rate increase if the Bonneville ad ministration bought Portland Gen eral Electric at its own figure- At a previous session he testified that Bonneville offered "somewhat less" than the $59,900,000 asked by Portland General! Electric's management Pelatson in his ob jection gave Bonneville's offer as $54,400,000. Alcan Road Opening Set . WHITEHORSE, Yukon Terri tory, Nov. 12-iPi-ln the spruce and pine wilderness near the Alaska-Yukon boundary, representa tives of wo great nations will join November 20 in clipping a red, white and .blue ribbon for the symbolic opening of the first land link between the United States and its vast northern territory. Under plans completed Thurs day for the! formal ceremonies, E. L. Bartlett, secretary of j state and acting governor of Alaska. ; will wield one blade of the specially engraved - scissors and Charles Camsell, commissioner ! of - the northwest territories, will repre sent the Dominion of Canada with the other blade. ' To four ; enlisted men of the army will fall the coveted honor of holding the ribbon. They will be chosen ; by their ' commanding officer for particularly note worthy service. After "the cere mony the ribbon will "be cut Into small souvenirs of ; the historic event ' . :, ' ll ' Rain Hiu Gibraltar ' VICHY, Nov. 12iP) (From French Broadcasts) Torrential rains at dawn Thursday halted -all air traffic in the Gibraltar area, the Havas (French) News agency said. " . Two Action , Features .E ALSO - NEWS, CARTOON, FINAL CHAPTER SERIAL, JUNGLE GHIL" Supplies Are v Taken, Axis British Army Rushes To Keep Apace of Rommel Retreat ' (Continued from Page 1) eight months under fierce siege operations. , . i Even before Kennedy's mes sage was received from the fron tier, the heavy westward move ment of axis transport spotted by allied planes far beyond the Lib yan border indicated Rommel might have decided to make no stand at Tobruk. - Moving their b o m b 1 1 n e" steadily forward behind t the. re treating axis troops, the allied air forces Wednesday night attacked concentrations of . enemy ' trans port between Gazala and To bruk, using heavy and medium bombers and starting numerous fires. . ; . . . : ' " (In London, a Reuters dispatch from Cairo said that "a large number of fires have been -seen in the Tobruk area, suggesting Rommel is destroying his stores.1 There was no confirmation of this theory from official sources. (The Reuters dispatch also told of fires being started when the allied heavy and medium bomb ers attacked dispersed axis trans port on the Tobruk-Gazala road.) The gap between the British Eighth army driving Rommel's remnants from the east and the Americans and British pressing In from the west , still was up wards of 1000 miles wide, but was narrowing swiftly.. At Tunis Thursday, the long range British fighters destroyed 11 Junkers-88s, five Junkers-52s (transport , planes), two Focke-wulf-201s, a small Fiesler S torch and a glider. The only enemy troops remain ing in Egypt were prisoners, in cluding nine Italian generals. A tenth Italian general was 'killed. On land and in the air, the main British problem was keeping pace with the fleeing enemy and his planes. Axis air forces finally were brought to battle Thursday in the Tobruk area and 23 of them including six large trans port carriers were shot down. The main blows at the axis sur vivors of the Egyptian debacle, however, were being struck from the skies some 150 miles West of the Libyan frontier. Buqbuq, just Inside Egypt, and Sldi Barrasd both were cracked. Only a suicide rear guard was found at Buqbua., 205 miles west of Abunein where the offensive started. - Some 1 100 Germans and Ital ians were captured Wednesday at Half aya pass, dispatches said. raising axis casualties we$ above 00,000. only a small part of Rom mel s army managed to reach Libya, and those that did left most of their remaining war equipment on the Egyptian sands. Some 80 tanks had been, aban doned early in the retreat at EI Daba because they were too slow and lacked fuel. Sole Manpower Head Wanted WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 UP) The senate defense investigating committee urged Thursday the appointment of a single adminis trator to direct both industrial and civilian manpower mobiliza tion and recommended a 48-hour I week in industry. , ' To avert any inflationary trend from resulting overtime pay ments, the committee proposed that all overtime in excess of the 1942 average be paid in bonds re deemable after the war or usable for taxes. In war industries, where the government buys the output the committee suggested that all over- tune be paid for. at time- and a half, as at present In civilian industries, where price ceilings are a factor,? it suggested that overtime beyond the. present av erage command . no premium above the regular basic1 wage, - . ' i f.. Convoy Safety . : Worried Knox McKEXSFORT Pa Nov. 12 (-Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was so worried over the safety of the US troops being con voyed to north Africa that ho could hardly sleep for several nights. - r . , : Knox told an American Legion audience, Wednesday night that finally his wife "read me to sleep" reading from a bible ha nad carried through World war X. ( Tonight " Saturday tflf BATTLES JVy DZZPZZADOS! wttk BRAD RINI AK3T cly; DSp Awarded Colin Kelly . MARCH FIELD, CaliL, Nov. (ff-The nation's1 second highest military honor was paid posthu mously Thursday to Capt Colin P. Kelly, , . ; who sank a Japanese battleship joff the- Philippme Is lands in tbe early days of the war. j I - It vax the bronze distinguished service cross, awarded for ex traordinary ' heroism in connec tion w 1 Jtb f military . operations against an armed enemy M Capt. Kelly's widow, attired In a powder blue suit, received ft from! MaJ. Gen. B. M. Giles, com manding the Fourth air force, at impressive ceremonies participat ed in by many members of Kel ly old Outfit .. ... 1 atr 1 Contianous DaUy frosa 1 F. M. , . STARTS I . J , U ) ' -'Si,;' f ''- .'''" "' . StKARLOFF MAXXC AOSCNSLOOU .iw 1 w u a "V ' I V .'.I f ALSO : CHAPTER NO , LAST TIMES CARDBOARD LOVER- Nerms Shearer Cobert Taylor i . ' I - : I . US to Start Bbnfoivirig Drivegaih' . WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 UP) -rTo .eas .the , strain.: oa the na tion's : monetary machine, the government .Thursday started mobilizing a mammoth war fi nancing;, army to Dorrow money from all possible sources from the biggest banks to the smallest homes in the land. ' Announcitut that treasurv bor rowing to meet the rising cost of war is .to be resumed on an un precedented scale November SO, Secretory Morgenthau told his press conference that the pro gram would involve three points. 1. The nation's, need: for funds and its ' borrowing plans - will be taken to the people by a vast vol SALEM'S LCADINO THZATRE I Starting Tho Story of JA.rsj.corjcnT 'CDCTLTMAN JEX" Added Treat Snpsrnan Color Cartoon Latest News Events MwMMiMtUMMiM ' 9krta r 9 -"OVERLAND MAIL- TONIGHT "DEATH VALLEY -r OUTLAVS- . ViTith Den "Red" Carry 1 :v 1 cry unteer army of financiers, adver tising men and salesmen, Spear headed by a small group of paid workers and administrators. z. To provide breathing . spell between heavy borrowings and to check the effects, of the various Issues on the market the, treas ury, plans to do its financing on a bi-monthly basis, shifting from t h e present month-to-mon th -schedule but not returning to the old peacetime quarterly financing. 5, The treasury will do all pos sible 'borrowing from non-banking sources in an effort to spread the load '. and avert ' inflationary tendencies as far as possible. ! - 1 V7 V'Thelr Theme Sons I Has (ho Japs H TITTEH-BUGS- 9IDOG0Q T - i I i - All New Show Today .lie Two-Tunes The Outlaws ' . . fists crash . . . hoofs thun der ... guns blaze ... in a hair-raising ; saga of the West! j ice n ii:- ravi i K ;- -T -y toy kUd&etotc Jean Parker ierome Cowan is Jl : irl-cj I- Addeo I ' S .1
