6Mae Dimout '.. Tuesday's sunset, 5:28 p. in., 'Wednesday's s a r 1 s e, 9:18 ajov Weather: Sunday's max. Temp. 50, min 49. River Monday C7 ft By army request, weather fore casts are withheld and tern . perature data delayed. Takes KTTY -SECOND YEAH Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning. November 17. 1942. '4 r Prlca Sc. No. m Again! Generals in Field for . Buna Drive r KCIETY -SECOND YEAXI : Scdam. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. November 17. 1943 ' i j U a fifes GEN. MacARTHUITS HEADQUARTERS, A a stra lia, Tuesday, Nov, 17- (AP) G e n. Douglas Mac Arthur and his senior aides personal ly took the field Tuesday as Australian and US troops driving after the retreating Japanese reached a point only 30 miles from the enemy's coastal foothold at Buna in New Guinea. - i A communique Tuesday said the allied forces were closing in j on uie Japanese irom Doin nanas and "the enemy is steadily re treating.'' Allied heavy bombers under General MacArthur also were giving effective and continuing support to the Solomons action to - the east, the communique said in reporting the damaging of a Jap anese destroyer - and transport caught in the Buin-Faisi area " north of embattled Guadalcanal. In the New Guinea; campaign advance Australian patrols were - reported to have reached the vi ' cinity of Awala, only 30 miles by trail from Buna, and allied medi um bombers and fighters swept ' lew over the trail ahead to strafe the enemy which is about to. be pinned against the sea. American B-25s, A-20s, and Australian Beaaftghters thrice "bombed and strafed canoes in which remnants of the Japan- . esc forces, in the Wairopl area were attempting to escape in disordered flight, dispatches aid. The Kumusi river winds north ward from Wairopi reaching the sea on the coast northwest of (Turn to Page 2) CiJ 1 IglltClS Hit Germans; Qenoa Raided 'XjONDON. Nov.5- lHPhAmer ican fighter planes shot up troop laden German trucks, military pests and - gun emplacements in -low level strafing assaults on the continent Monday after the RAF struck ; a destructive , new blow overnight at Genoa, Italian sup ply i: port for battered axis forces in north Africa. Hundreds of bombs, from 1000 pounders up to the two-ton block busters, fell on Genoa for 25 min utes, the air ministry said, starting hundreds of explosions and fires which roared through warehouses bulging with Taxis supplies and sending clouds of smoke rolling out over the Gulf of Genoa. One pilot of a four-motored Halifax said he saw a "fire start at one end of a line of warehouses on a strip of land Jutting into the Inner harbor and spread along the whole line." - RAF fighters also made small scale daylight raids on the conti nent, shooting up and bombing trucks and a locomotive near Le Trepert and a factory near Bra chy, southwest of Dieppe in France, and barges on the Bruges Ostend canal in Belgium. One of the Americans flew so low over a factory that his plane hit a tree, but he managed to re turn to base. In both Sunday night's WOO- mile RAF round trip to Genoa and in Monday's American raids not a single allied plane was lost. Yanks Roll Natural On 'Unlucky' Day WASHINGTON, Nov. lHfl The Tanks rolled : a "natural on Friday the 13th. In the naval battle sUrtlng that day they - damaged seven Jap warships and sank eleven. Gas Signup Begjns Wednesday Get ready set Wednesday is synonomous with "go" in the twice-deferred registration for gasoline , rationing on the west coast, and in Marion county, pub lic school teachers, janitors of 27 school buildings, paid and volun teer rationing board workers are prepared for the three-day stream lined period of registration. - If every applicant for a gasoline ration card will go to. his place of For added details of how to register for gasoline rationing and what tars are entitled to which ration? books, turn to page 12 of today's Statesman. l;v. registration with the "Tire Record and Application for Basic Mileage JJcok 'A' or (For Passenger Automobiles or Motorcycle Only) . : : l ft il L i HENRY J. KAISER Kaiser Makes - a 3-Day Vessel Tank-Landing Craft Launched for New Record, Vancouver VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 16 (JP) The Henry "J. Kaiser ship yard here Monday night claimed a national record by launching a ship in less than three days after start of construction. It was one of the navy's new tank landing craft. Exact size is a secret, but the navy said it was smaller than the 10,000 ton Lib erty freighters on which Kaiser has specialised. The craft splashed into the Colombia river 71 hours and 40 minutes after the keel was laid. Yard officials said ft was . launch in one-fourth the normal time, largely because of exten . sire use of prefabrieatlon. Kaiser's record for Liberty ship launchings was set by his Rich mond, Calif.,; yard, which sent the 10,500-ton RoJaert E.fPeary down the, was four days, y 5 ; hours after : keel-laying. - The Pacific Bridge company,, Alameda, Calif., however, launch ed the 400-ton cargo vessel, Sam uel Very, in three days, eight hours-last week. Grange Asks Experienced Appointees WENATCHEE, Wash., Nov. 16 IP) The 76th national grange convention, officially adopted its first resolutions Monday night, one. of which reported rumors of the impending appointment of a national food administrator cloth ed with power to completely co ordinate production and market ings of essential foods. The resolution stated that ". . . the defense of America and its freedom requires the production and conservation of an abundant supply of essential foods . . . rum ors are current that a food ad ministrator is to be appointed . ." be It resolved'1 the resolution declared, "that In - the event a food administrator is appointed, a sua be selected who has had actual farm exper ience and who - Is thoroughly . familiar with the practical side of agricultural problems. Another resolution said that "confusion exists today on all farms and in all sections by rea sons of uncertainties in produc tion requirements, price control, labor policies, transportation, se lective, service and. priorities on farm ; equipment and supplies." .The resolution called upon President Roosevelt, the depart ment of agriculture and several . i , (Turn to Page 2) which he obtained from' his gas oline: retailer properly filled out, he may have to take less than five minutes for the entire process of registering. County Chairman John Heltzel said Monday night. Each applicant must take with him to his place of registration his state auto registration card and the number of his s federal use stamp; upon ' his application he should have listed the serial num bers of his five, or less, tires. He must be ready to certify that he owns no other tires (except those mounted on other vehicles, : for each of which be may possess one spare), that he will care for tires and not use them beyond the re capping point, will not drive in ex cess of 35 miles on hour. - Any person falsifying, an appli cation, or giving false information to a registrar or rationing board o to French Cooperate In Fighting Axis In North British Control Sea in West, but U-Boats Active By the Associated Press LONDON, Nov; 16. Mo torized United States troops were disclosed off icially Mon day night to have reinforced the British First army pour ing into Tunisia and, evident ly, already were fighting against German and Italian troops in the first stages of the decisive battle for North Africa. An allied headquarters com munique disclosed the reinforce ment, perhaps involving Ameri can armored troops. ! It said also that in both the east and center of the North Af rican front, small French mili tary units had begun to cooper ate with the allied task forces. The communique menti oned specifically a French force which had joined United States troops at their stations in Oran. Unoffi cial reports said anti-axis French soldiers in Tunisia 'had ciasped with the Germans oft Sunday. ;: H Giving the lie to extravagant axis claims of heavy damage to the allied battle, supply and transport fleets in the continuing operation, the communique said confidently: The Royal navy maintains control of the western Mediter ranean and its approaches. This naval force' has sus tained losses, but these have been small in proportion to the size of the operations, and casu alties on the whole have been lia-ht.- It also was announced that the officer and crew of a U-boat (Turn to Page 2) Institutions Sign, Coffee Institutions of Salem 1 are to Tegister for coffee November 23, 24 and 25,-war price and ration ing board offices here were no-4 tifiedV Monday. - Salem retailers, meanwhile, are instructed to sell no coffee be tween November 21, midnight, and November 28. Persons without sugar ration books may secure the booklet which is to serve also as a cof fee ration pamphlet. No such book will be Issued to a person under 15 years of age, nor will a stamp from a ration book issued to a person under 15 years of age be acceptable for purchase of coffee. Stamp No. 27, first of: those dedicated to coffee, is to be good for purchase of one pound of cof- fee or one pound of : coffee-con-taming compound on or atter Sunday, November 29, until Jan uary 23, 1843. is liable to a $10,000 fine or 10 year's imprisonment or both. ' In Salem, public school teach ers arc drridia: the tardea of aaaaliar reaisuratioa at an of -the city's eight eleaaeatary schools between 4 and t njuu, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day. Stayton's rationin g district; where Jefferson, Turner, Aums ville, Stayton Mehama, Mill City and Detroit schools are - to be registration points, and -; teachers are to be registrars, will "operate from 3:30 to 9:30 the same three days. ... - , In the Woodburn area, Aurora, Hubbard, Woodburn, Gervais and St. Paul grade schools are regis tration points, teachers are regis trars and the hours are' from 4 to 9. - . ' (Turn to Page 2) ' TT JJmm Africa Rommel May Try to Stand; British Race Disordered Forces Near Narrows at El Aghelia j CAIRO, Nov. li-(P)-Britain,s Eighth Army closed in swiftly on Bengasi Monday night as the dis ordered remnants of Marshal Er win RommeUs beaten forces raced toward the narrow j passage at El Aghelia for a possible stand to save the face of their commander (reported by Reuters to : be fac ing Hitler's wrath at Munich.) i The important forward air base of Martuba, south f Derna, was occupied by the British Sunday. The vanguard of the fleeing Ger mans and Italians already was be yond Bengasi headed for El Ag heila at the base of the Libyan hump 120 miles southwest of the supply port J -; The haggard enemy forces ? .wo : scattered, all,, along f coastal area front -, ToeraV 'Just5 east of - Bengasi, to Agedabla, and British and American planes were pounding them without mercy, adding hourly to the 75,000 casualties already officially listed. ! Eighth army planes from Malta spanned the 200 miles of medi-.. ..terranean to Tunis, destroying six large grounded German planes and damaging others in a low level attack on the ! airdrome at Dusk Saturday. Medium bombers returned that night j to attack re pair shops and hangars. Their action was in support of the Brit ish first army and! its US allies moving through western Tunisia in a coordinated drive to clear all Africa of the enemy. The British think the ahat tered Africa Corps I may attempt s stand at El Aghepa, 400 miles east of the chief L4byan supply base of Tripoli. There the geo graphy approximates that of the El Alamein line in i Egypt where the British drive started. Practically impassable salt marshes to the south narrow the maneuverable passageway to about 30 miles which Rommel in the past has studded liberally with mine fields. It was 'at El Agheila that he halted the last British of fensive and recoiled to drive the Eighth army back into Egypt Rommel's survivors, however, (Turn to Pige 2) Reds Capture Village Near Lenim MOSCOW, Tuesday, Nov. 17-W) The Russians announced Tuesday that approximately 12000 Germans had been killed in the red army's capture and. continued control of an important village! In the Lenin-? grad siege area, and said that 1500 more were killed lit i repulsed atr tacks at' Stalingrad w h e r e the Soviets themselves gained slightly. The midnight communique also told of another slight russian gain in the mid-Caucasian area south met nt Kalrhilr. anrf described a 2rad firm red army defense of its lines I - PORTLAND, Nov. -1 8-Jfy-Ore-northeast of Tuapse along theL011 reached it scrap metal goal Black sea coast. Other results announced at mid night were the. downing of 19 nazi planes in fighting on all - fronts, the killing " of -sevjeral hundred more Germans at scattered points along the vast front,' and the sink ing of an 8000-ton German transport-tanker in trie Barents sea. The Germans said! the Russian attack on the Volkhov front col lapsed; that further blocks of houses were seized In Stalingrad; and that, two encircled soviet groups -' were annihilated ' In the Caucasus : where counter-attacks were beaten off. - rrrr ' " riri i. n TT a The Yanks Are Coming !UjUM!ll!MfW - -: -mt-! zr& 4 "Jf Tessels of the huge United Nations convojr, carry big American troops "to occupy French north Africa, swing into formation as they near Oran, Algeria. Gunners in foreground man their anti-aircraft. guns in readiness against attack from any quarter. This picture, from a British newsreel, was sent by cable from London Associated Press Telemati, fi , ", hi . Hearing Slated On Milk Bill . Relaxation of. Rules : , Planned by Council ; - Bond Issue Okehed Paving the way toward relaxa-i tion of part of the city's current milk regulations by hearing read the title of a proposed new milk ordinance Monday night, Salem councilmen nevertheless agreed with Alderman Gertrude Lobdell that dairymen should understand the workings of the proposed new city statute and be given an op portunity to express ' themselves before its acceptance. . ; 1 ' t ' The health - and . sanitation committee of the council is cal ling public hearing oa the or dinance, mimeographed copies will be available then for those ' interested. , Tuesday night, No vember 24. at 7:30 hi the city council chambers, Mrs. Lobdell announced. The ordinance is designed, to meet suggestions made ; recently by letter by the surgeon general. Dr. W. J. Stone, county health of ficer, explained. For the duration, the surgeon general has suggest ed, in areas where army needs and farm labor problems threaten a fluid , milk shortage, grades should be abolished, the bacteria count allowed to go as high as under federal regulations for milk to be pasteurized and fluid milk sold simply as "raw or "pas teurized.. V The council suspended the rules and passed for three read ings an ordinance providing -for issuance of $46,000 worth of 1943 refunding bonds. " . : An ordinance which would pro hibit consumptioin of. intoxicants in any public place unlicensed by the Oregon liquor control com mission, introduced by Alderman Tom Armstrong, was referred to committee with the. request that mimeographed copies be prepared for council members. It is aimed at establishments v where beer, (Turn to Page 2) Oregon Hits Scrap Quota ' of 200 pounds per person-Monday and : the : state salvage committee claimed the achievement was the nation's first ; r - . - - New contributions brought the Oregon - total to 110,834 tons, re ported Chairman Claude L Scr sanous, and boosted the per capita average to 203 pounds.' The goal was set by the committee for the n e w a p aper-sponsored collection drivei;,;.:--, ";.")'. Oregon claimed a week ago to have been the first state to reach the quota set by the war produc tion board 100,000 tons for Ore gon. - , ' , " pS, Admiral Victim of PUet Fight J PEARL HARBOR, TH, Nov. toHT-Viee Adm. W. F. Halsey. - rf uiwuurr off the south Pacific - area, 1 reported "Monday - aight ' that Rear Adm. Daniel ' J. Cal-, laghaiv former , naval: aide to President Roosevelt, was kUIed in action aboard the cruiser he Commanded during a successful night j action against; superior fapanese forces off Save bland n November 13. Admiral Callaghaa was com mander of a task force which attacked a group of Jap battle-: $hips cruisers and, destroyers screening a large body of trans-; torts attempting to land, troop : on Guadalcanal, i " " '. Callaghaa's nagship " first, fthelled an enemy cruiser, which , blew bp, and then closed at 2000 . yards' with a batUeship on which she scored IS hits with her main lattery. She .also sank a de stroyer with a secondary bat tery before the remnants of the nemy force could effect a re tirement. - ' j During night -action Admiral OJlaghan's flagship received several 14-iaeh shells froca aa enemy battleship. These wrecked the bridge and other parts of the superstructure. It was in this phase! that Callaghan was killed. e.Gaiillists Balk at Move With Darlan ; JlONDON, Novl l-(P)-The al lied campaign in north Africa be came f rough t with political com plexities Monday night when the Fighting French balked at nego tiation -with Arm. Jean, Darlan, whom i; one of : their spokesmen called he "No. 2 traitor of Fance.,, iDarlan, former Vichy defense chief, Apparently has emerged in the negotiations with ; American military authorities as the ranking French; leader cooperating with, the allies in north Africa. ; r wv A i statement issued by Gen. Charles De Gaulle'a headquarters said : the Righting French i were naking no part whatsoever in, and atwiming no responsibility for ne- gtitiationa in progress in north Af rica.: with representatives of ; Vi chy. I : . '-, A spokesman went on to explain that the Fighting French, were not tryirur jo.throw a monkey wrench intofthe negotiatiomsC or, to spoil arjy subtle plan the Americans may have,- but said wthe pUin Jsxt is the allies are treating on the basis ofj equality with the No. 2 traitor ofj France,' " t - indicating that sta fore compli cations were in the off ing, Reuters reported in a dispatch datelined romjtho French Frontier, that Pierre jEtenne Flandin, a former premier of the republic and a pre war, advocate of collaboration with Germany, had also arrived in allied-occupied north Africa. 1 To Africa '4 Churchill Word HitbyWilllde . Says World Shocked T , Intention to KeenEmpire NEW YORK, Nov. lo-ff)-Wen dell . Willkie sharply criUcized Monday . night -; Prime Minister Winston .Churchill's recent we mean to hold our own" declaration regarding the British 1 empire and asserted it had shocked the world. Urging, the United Nations to develop now .a plan to make the materials - of economic self-de velopment . available to all the world after 'the war, Willkie de-? clared in a speech prepared for the New York Herald ; Tribune forum: " This" cannot be accomplished by m e r e declarations of ' our r leaders, as In an Atlantic char ter, particularly 1 when one" of the two principals to that in-i strument has in the last ' few ; days seemingly j defended the i old Imperialistic order and de- clared to a shocked world: We mean to hold our owau." : ; -' (On . November : 10, Churchill said in an address to the lord mayor's dinner: i TLet me, ' how ever, make this" clear, in case there should be any mistake about it in any quarter: "We mean to hold our own. I have not become the I king's first minister in order . to preside over the liquidation of the British empire.)' j ?r V ' Willkie said that unless the peo ple of the United SUtes, Great Britain, Russia, China and all the other united nations ' agree ; today on their purposes, the .idealistic expressions of hope as embodied in the Atlantic charter "will live merely to . mock us- as did Presi dent Wilson's . 14 points In the first World war., j . " - The four freedoms will not be accomplished by the declarations of those momentarily in power," (Turn to Page 2 r Fee Queries DeWittRule PORTLAND, Ore; Nov. 16P) Federal Judge James A, Fee Mon day questioned the right of Lt Gen. John L. DeWtt to impose re strictive regulations on American citizens ' in the western defense area zone in the abseneeV of a de claratioa of martial laws - Ruling on. a test case Involving the alien' curfewi regulation ; Is sued by General DeWitt prior to evacuation of " persons Of Japan ese ancestry Judge Fee ruled that It was valid with respect to aliens, but not-as to' citizens: ''','-1 'Observers here believed that the decision,, if upheld. Will effect many wartime regulations imposed by the defense command. . r ' Judge Fee's decision found Mlf. nori Uasui, 26-year-old American born Japanese of Hood River, Ore., guilty of violating ;the curfew law, but only because he is an alien. Sentence will be j imposed "Wed nesday morning.' i Enemy y Attempt Smashed Four Transports Land Troops to , j Face Marines ,i -' : . - i s WASHINGTON,- Nov. 16. -(AP). In the greatest na val battle since Jutland, United States forces have sunk 23 Japanese ships and thus smashed k tremendous enemy armada which sought to drive the . Americans ' on Guadalcanal into the sea, the navy disclosed late Monday. -" , Backed by MacArthur's bomb ers, surface and air units of the n a vy destroyed 11 Nipponese warships and 12 transports ; and damaged seven other .vessels in a three-day running battle, -much of it a vicious, dose-range duel In the darkness. , . ? - The- only ; American vessels so far reported sunk in the engage ment were two light cruisers and six ; destroyers and, naval men here: said they did not , believe American, personnel, losses were extremely large. r I ' But probably a boat 24,009 Japanese soldiers died when . - eight transports.- part of a largo "' force .headed -for Guadalcaaat were sent to the bottom by air : attack the morning of Novem-- ber 14. Fear others kept mov ing .. toward Gaadalcanat and may have sacceeded In getting men ashore, since the Ameri cans i discovered four carta transports beached at Tassafs . ronga, the next day. and pro--1 eeedea to smash them with a concentration of air, artillery , and naval gun attack. However, only a 'fraction of the huge force dispatched by the im perial ' Japanese command ever reached the - southeastern Solo mons, and it seemed a safe as sumption, that this battle clinched the American dominance of that area... ... . Presumably, r the enemy ' could gather another great force and try again, but with such strategic losses to count it was thought un likely here that the Japs would care to risk what strength they have left in a new attempt to re take the strategic Guadalcanal area,. ; The battle of Jutland, an en gagement in 1918 between the British grand fleet and the Ger man high seas fleet, assured al lied supremacy on the seas. The Solomons battle, while not of course giving the United States dominance In the whole Pacific area, appeared likely to hasten the day when that goal will be attained. In a lengthy communique,' the navy, described the various , ac tions in which j the American for ces had sunk a Japanese battle ship, three heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, five , destroyers and eight, transports, destroyed the four beached cargo - transports, and damaged a battleship and six destroyers. t y : Preparations for a major 4 as sault, by the Japanese to recap ture the southeastern Solomons' became evident early this month, the navy , reported. ? ..The huge expedition got under way the morning of November 10, with Japanese-naval forces approaching . Guadalcanal from the north, while other detach ments, including large, numbers of ; transports, moved southeast ward toward the American posi- tions from R abaul and Buin, whefe the enemy had been as- senibling its expeditionary forces. The navy credited the army bombers of Gen. Douglas Mac-, Arthur's command with supply ing "great assistance" in the ear ly phase of the looming fight, by making - repeated successful at tacks on the invasion fleet at Ra baul and Buin, ' as reported la communiques ' from A u s t r a 1 ia. MacArthur aircraft also gave valuable aid after the naval ac tions developed. 1 The Japanese expedition ' Birred toward Guadalcanal be- , hin a warship spearhead of . (Turn to Tase 2) ' 1 1 '