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Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning. November 17. 1942.
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Generals in
Field for .
Buna Drive
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KCIETY -SECOND YEAXI : Scdam. Oregon. Tuesday Morning. November 17. 1943 ' i j
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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. - .
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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,
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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
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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,
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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,"
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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
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