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I .. - : i Salem, Oregon. Thnxsdor Morning, November 19. 1942 UBIETY-SECOND YEAH Prlc 5c Now 167 P(Q)DgDl Mm Allies Jap Destroyers Hover oiBF Guinea Air Fortresses TakeBigRole. Bizerte Gains Gap Across Libyan Desert Narrows; Fight Growing By WES GALLAGHER : ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Nov. 18 P)-A merican and British ' troops thrusting into Tunisia - from both north and south have battered back German patrols v far dashes foreshadowing the . start of. the battle to decide the Brig. Gen. James H. Doolittle's Flying Fortresses took a hand Wednesday in the all important struggle1 for control of the air by , ut ' ai -r- - a. ' rr setting oil tanks ablaze and de stroying . a German fighter, while the BAF. andi anti-aircraft gun- . . 41 t.:t:.k" nt army, shot, down 11 nazi aircraft in three days near Bone, Algeria. The Germans thus far have lluiwn via tnrllna tinn 1a mt ih Htuiciiu mm - kruuiia in . k i i .m a a a - pitched battle, field reports In dicated. The axis soldiers are . concentrated around the naval' base at Biserte. and the capital .4 Tunis. Advance allied forces wore within 74 aUes of tae ' German "captured"'' Bixerte naval base." i ' .Th fVnnan alert miit run fit. 4empt to land an advance scout unit by air in southern Algeria. This was beaten off by French forces shortly ; before. American and British troops swarmed into the area. American and British parachute troops continued in the van of the - advancing force, operating as , jpround combat teams. American parachute troops ad vanced into Tunisia by automo bile from their last, jumping place In Algeria, while the Brit lsh sky troops also advanced along the ground with the Amer icans, occupying "several strategic places." : Simultaneously fresh resistance to the axis spread behind the . German lines in Tunisia with ? French garrisons fighting off Ger " man attempts to land air-borne troops. ' ' A. headqaarters communique . Wednesday night said that ;. French forces . Joined the allies . ' in penetrating Tunisia "at sev eral points, while at Oran far to the rear other French flght - ing men entrained for the push to the east. . Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, commander of the French allied forces in North Africa, visited his leading units, and the French also . ttawyl n Mnml mrViil "ration or der for the class of 1939. ; "Contacts have been made with ' enemy scouting parties, the com munique said of the allied j ad- vance. - ! I Although the British First army 'under Lt Gen. K. A. N. Ander son was spearheading the attack, . trxwoeinir ntimhm of American troops now are being released to participate. This was made possi (Turn to Page 11) i Anchor Tree LoslyFerry The ancient oak which for years has served to anchor the Polk county-end of the Buenn Vista cable ferry was uprooted Wed nesday and the ferry went out of .operation. A concrete "deadmanT may be " laid in the riverbank to replace the old tree,- Marion County En gineer N. C. Hubbs suggested. Meanwhile, a Marion county road gjf W f? VIX. - assigned to lift the slipped cable . from the river, and help make .fast the ferry. '. !' " Work of rertgging the cable should occupy only a short time, but if concrete is used, time must be given for it to set before the ferry goes back into operation. Marion and Polk counties joint ly pay the upkeep of the ferry which Is south of the Indepen dence crossing. Batter Bac - ' ' I . - ' . - .' : . J " - ; - " - i Japs May Leave This Area m r;n:: iiTNzt . iijt-SMvoLA iHlIIIIIIfllfllllillllllilliiOIIIIIIIIII iiimoresbyIiv sfevpii r .55. awnTs'fliaCMfc I Heavy allied bombers were reported striking today at enemy de stroyers maneuvering off the northeast coast of New Guinea, near Bona, while American and Australian ground troops fought their way ever closer to the Buna base of the enemy. Whether the war ships would aid or evacuate Japanese troops was only conjecture. Associated Press Telemat. KAF Bombs Itaty LONDON, Nov. 19(AP)-Home-based RAF bombers raided Italy Wednesday night for the fifth time this month, it was reported Thursday. In the four previous raids of November, the target waa Genoa, northern Italian naval base and industrial port which has a key part in supplying the axis forces in the north African campaign. Even before the British announcement of the latest raid, air raid alarms in Geneva and Lausanne, Switserland. had indicated that the &AF waa abroad. Swiss anti-aircraft gnns were in action. IBr Year-Qlds to. Register For Draft in December; Deferment Rules Altered WASHINGTON, Nov. lMVAs one more step in a broad program to "insure victory, final and complete," President Roose velt Wednesday ordered the young men who became 18 years old in the last six months of this year to register for military service. . , i Almost simultaneously, selective service headquarters took Russians Beat Off Germans, Stalingrad MOSCOW, Thursday, Nov. 19 r(P) German tank and infantry attacks on the factory district of Stalingrad, were. beaten off again Wednesday ' and counter-attacking Russians, seized Several" enemy strong points, the Russians an nounced early Thursday. "In the course of the engage ment more than 600 enemy troops were killed or wounded," the sov iet midnight communique said. "Eight German tanks were burned or disabled, nine guns, 12 mortars, 24 machineguns and 11 dugouts and blockhouses were destroyed. The battle for the factory area of the ruined city; represents the latest German attempt to gain a firm foothold in the -Volga metropolis. Only Wednesday the Russians said the Germans : had lost from 1000 to 4000 men daily for three weeks and from 60 to 75 per cent of the personnel of the attacking divisions in a supreme but vain effort to carry out Adolf Hitler's orders to take Stalingrad by No vember 6. The 'midnight communique re ported slight Russian triumphs -in the general Stalingrad area, and northwest of Stalingrad. It said the Russians dislodged the Ger mans from positions northeast of Tuapse, on the Caucasus Black coast Quake in Turkey Does Damage ANKARA, Nov. l-P-Severe damage and some casualties were reported Wednesday from the re mote eastern Anatolian towns of Turkai, - Bigardich and Sindirgi after an earthquake in the region the night of November 15. V This coming Christmas will be, the e c ond anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake In that sector which killed many ( thou sands and devastated an area hun dreds of miles long. 117- orrvTi iO action to safeguard the supply, of farm labor. Men deferred because engaged in essential' farm work, may not quit the farm for the factory without; the approval of their local draft boards. "If they do, they become liable to immedi ate induction. Selective service also disclosed that local boards had been in structed to reclassify all regis trants heretofore deferred be-: cause of conviction of crimes. "No more deferments are to be made on this :grond unless Use registrants "are completely As, qualified morally 'and are not eligible for a waiver under the new army standards,1 the boards were told. . Waiters have been authorized by the army in meritorious cases for men who have criminal rec ords, even including treason, mur der, rape, kidnaping and other "heinous crimes,!' if their conduct has been fitting, for: at least six months after their . release from confinement. The boards were told to ask waivers for these men and others with! less' serious rec ords, if they are otherwise avail able for military service. ' (Turn to Page XI) Jap Removal Head Honored SAN FRANCISCO, Nov, lt.- (JP) Col. Karl r R. Bendetsen, head of the wartime; civil control administration which effected the evacuation of 110,000 Japanese from strategic areas oJL the; west coast,' has been awarded the dis tinguished service medal, the war department made known Wednes day. , : - A f-1; 'V2? i:i '.'''Cf i . The citation for the former Aberdeen, Wash,; attorney, who at 33 early this year became one of the youngest men ever to gain a colonelcy, said the award was for: - , . ; "Exceptionally . meritorious and distinguished service in the per formance of duty of great re sponsibility as war ' department liaiton officer, as legal advisor: to the government in its operations of Sr Associates, inc., and as a sistaht chief . of staff,' civil affairs division, western defense com mand Fourth ' army , " i 1 ! , -iT T ? n-.AlUJ Dictator , ! PtoJw I 1 1 Planes Strike Enemy Ships May Be Aid or Means of Jap Evacuation ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, T hursday, Nov. lM-ffVUS and Australian J! t". troops closed ir on the Japan ese New Guinea-base of Buna Thursday as heavy bombers streaked ahead to attack eight enemy destroyers "maneuver destroyers ing off the north coast, apparent ly in support of the enemy ground forces," a communique announced. "The advance! Qt our ground forces in. Buna continues with forward . elements now closing in on their objective,"! the communi que said. "Our 'medium units bombed enemy installations and positions. j .J . . "An enemy naval force of eight destroyers, divided, into two groups is maneuvering off the North Coast, apparently in sup port of the enemy ground forces. Our heavy bombers are endeavor ing to engage them." (There also was a possibility that the Japanese destroyers were at Buna in -an attempt to evacuate the remaining Japan- there, ' .wi recalled , that ji Japanes destroyers 'were ' used for that purpose j to save the remnants of the smashed Jap anese landing ai Milne bay last summer on the! southeastern tip of New Guinea,) Gen. ' Douglas is in the field in MacArtnur now New Guinea di recting the Buna cleanup. In the air, MacArthux's bomb- (Turn to Page 11) Hundreds Sign For Gasoline N ' - Lines Move Quickly In Grade Schools; Queries Many Hundreds of motorists in Salem stood in line Wednesday at ele mentary schools - of the xity to register for mileage, or gasoline, ration books. Ko one knew just how many were registered and received the 1 book, slightly larger than the" standard holder of US postage- stamps; because there was no tally taken of the first night's work.' ' Lines, although i they stretched through C school hallways many times, moved rapidly as appli cants placed their filled question naires before public school teach er registrars. '' The fact that the teachers, ex perienced in the ration routine because of the assistance they had rendered during the more stren uous registration j for sugar books, farmed a staff of trained workers, was credited throughout the state with me smooth working of the registration machine. War i price and ; ration board headquarters, meanwhile, contin ued to answer the queries of those who were . "exceptions: To the man who said not one of the five tires on his car had a number, ration office personnel said "Look again,"! explaining in an aside that among the hundreds of, tires dealt, with each month by that office less than two, on an average, are minus numbers. - Tires on trailers need not be listed, but no spare is allowed for a trailer; they reiterated. i . Agents of absentee owners may register if they sjw evidence of power of attorney) of the register ed owner or if they- have ;- the written . authority: of such owner. If the agent possesses neither of these authorities I he must .wait until December 2 r or .thereafter and make application directly to his local ration board. . Soldier Decorated i f WASHINGTON j! Nov. 18 (ff) -Sgt. Clarence j D. Leach of Hamilton, Tex, received' m medal Wednesday "for heroism at Camp Adair, Ore., September 2,- when he saved valuable property from destruction in an oil fire. i ; ... samma . - t- Troop In On Buna; ! I J. ..... . . , , , I PIERRE LAVAL ge Favors Total Draft Manpower Matters Cain Principal Discussions WENATCHEE, Wash., Nov. 18 (dP) The National Grange went on record late Wednesday night as favoring universal conscription of manpower and all the resources of the nation "if deemed essential to the winning of the war." 1 'Working far into the night on several dozen important resolu tions, the 76th national conven tion unanimously adopted a reso lution directing its potent execu tive committee to support such legislation if and when that con dition shall exist.. The grange included under re sources: Property, manufacturing, niming, agriculture, capital, la- bor and industry. r The grange resolution declared that "legislation providing -lor universal conscription should automatically terminate six months after the end of hostili ties." In another resolution, the grange reaffirmed Its position i - in snpport- of temperance and sobriety and- noted' that "man- .vfaeturlng, handling and trans porting and dispensing of liqnor uses much needed manpower.'; In addition it stated: "There also is -a great loss of - manpower through the use pf liquor by those employed in war. industries . and producing of food supplies,' all of which reacts to the detriment of an all-out effort.' The resolution demanded that national and state authorities take immediate steps "to prevent these practices which are. materially hindering pur war effort at home and on the field -of action." "j Other adopted resolutions de clared: . ' , ' j r - .j ' That' the war would pile up a national debt which would prove a heavy burden to the people and restated a grange .- position that congress exercise its power to coin money and regulate the value thereof. :- -: - ' ;, That labor for the fanner was regulated by svn time, ' rather than so-called war-tune and that a retarn to standard time . i (Turn to Page 11) Group Tables FR Request On Tariffs WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 (JPt President Roosevelt's j request for broad emergency powers to suspend tariff and immigration regulations to aid the war. effort was : tabled Wednesday by the house ways and means committee amid ! indications that a compro mise would .be worked out by a subcommittee. -A decision to have a sub-com mittee redraft the measure was reached after i 'several members expressed willingness to support the legislation in modified form. : Chairman Doughtoir j (D-NC) said "it seems to be the unani mous opinion that some legislation is desirable and necessary but the pending bill "is broader than necessary." . The action followed a day-long executive session of the commit tee during which (several top ranking government' officials en dorsed the chief executive's re quest for authority to remove ob stacles to the entry and egress of persons, material and information when ;the action is necessary to the prosecution of the war. Attorney General Biddle, in a 'i (Turn to Page 11) i in ukn . .. t in aiiics Dictator Powers r Given Heir; New - Terror Foreseen LONDON, IfovJ 18-(ff-Pierre Laval, who has thrown in his chips for a German victory, was made) fascist - dictator of Vichy France and designated success or to j Marshal Philippe Petain Wednesday night. Observers predicted a new terror reign and a desperate Laval effort to swing France -militarily into the axis fold. , The . 86-year-old Marshal :Pe-; tain j named Laval his heir pre- sumptive to replace ' Adm. I Jean Darlan, who 'went, over to " the allied: ' standard. : in French north Africa, and also gave Laval full powers to write his own laws and decrees in a nation completely occupied by axis armies. . Significantly the vesting of full powers in the wily Laval came after j the cabinet had heard a re port from Rear Adm. Rene Platon. a secretary of State in the foreign ministry, on the latter's trip to Tunisia. Admiral Platon presumably , outlined the prospects of rally ing French Tunisians to the axis ; camp at a time when American i and British troops are fighting i their, way into that protectorate 1 from occupied French1 Algeria to the west. German and Italian ' troops already held the BIserte- ! Tunis area apparently la" eoope- ! ratten with pro-axis Vichy ele ments stationed in the Tunisian , Freneh protectorate. ' ka. official Vichy announcement by old Marshal Petain said he was giving full powers to, Laval "to enable him to speedily- deal at any ; hour and in all places with the : difficulties through . which France is passing, . and he de clared he appreciated "the patri otism and ' foresight of Laval in all circumstances.' Petain cancelled a ' previous constitutional article that had ap pointed Admiral ' Darlan as his successor. "The marshal's new de cree said that "in case of perma- net incapacity (Petain's) the cab1 inet shall within a month appoint a chief of state by a majority Six Enlistees Tq Take Part In! Crerembny S i WHITEHORSE; ' YT, f Nov. .18 , (P) Six- army enlisted men were designated Wednesday to play leading roles in the historic wild erness; ceremony Friday which will mark the official opening of ihe highway td Alaska. ; -' Four of them received the hon or' of holding the ribbon which will pe snipped by government officials as the symbolic last land! barrier between the United States and its northwest territory. Col, IE. G. Paules of Los Ange les named Corp. Refines Sims, jr., of Philadelphia and Pvt. Alfred Jalufka . of Kennedy, .Texas, to represent the Whitehorse sector of - the; highway , in! the ; ribbon ceremony. Col. Robert D. ; Ing alls of New York city designated Master Sgt. Andrew E. Doyle of Philadelphia and Corp. ; John T. Reilyjof Detroit as ribbon bear ers for the southern sector crews. The army announcement identi fied Sims and Reily as negroes. Reily j was a ; prominent concert baritone in Detroit before enter ing the army. Jalufka and Sims were the bulldozer operators who met on the Alaska-Yukon border for the final break-through for the highway route. Doyle, a ra dio expert and signal corps man, has been in the army ie years. He is the highest ranking non-com-' missioned officer on the highway sectori . 'i " Earlier to the day Corp;: Otto Gronke, Chicago, and Pf c. Bob BoweJ Minneapolis, were named to .drive the first truck to push through "to the northern; highway terminus after the ribbon cutting. Rand in Hospital John L. Rand, associate justice of the state supreme court,, was taken to Salem Deaconess hospital Wednesday, "critically ill with a cardiac disease", his physician said, j- " Food MlDimneF Thought Cause O f Fatal Illness Invtigalions Launched; Frozen Eggs Served in .Wards Thirty four working, patients at the Oregon state hos pital in Salem had died np to 1 a. m. today and approximate ly 433' other inmates and one woman employe were ill as the result of poisoning which Dr.! J. C Evans, superintend ent, attributed to frozen eggs served for. dinner early Wed-' nesday night, i Patients fai four wards began showing signs of violent gastrie disturbances a few minutes after dinner, Dr. Evans " said, and the first deaths occurred before 8 p. m." The hospital staff of six curses -worked frantically throughout the night administer ing emergency treatment to five wards affected., - Only wards In which the served for Wednesday dinner illness and death which Dr. TheUgg yolks packed in - of a shipment received by from the federal government's surplus ( commodities , con poration about two or three-months' ago, VDr. Evans said. Fire Destroys Barn and Herd Hubbard Dairy Owned By Mother of Air Hero, Solomons: WOODBURN.1 Nov. 18- -Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the barn on Ellen Carl's dairy farm between Woodburn and Hubbard on Wednesday night, and with it one of western Oregon's outstanding Guernsey - herds., v - The mother ;of CapC- Marion Carl, marine air hero, of the Solo mons, could noti be reached for a statement, but j neighbors placed the loss at approximately - $30,- 000 while ember from -the; great barn andi were still flowing. Woodburn,. Hubbard Jmd -Moni tor, firemen had -battled, the. blaze four hours. To Hubbard firemen went plaudits of , the more than 200 onlookers, Who" declared the early arrival and skilled work of that aggregation: had saved nearby milk house and machine shop from the flame. ' r ': '- Loss of milk cows was vari ously placed at from 84 to lt? , head. Yonng and not yet pro docing. members , of. . the herd were saved. It was said. Burned with the barn waa 150 tons of hay, 65 tons of straw, and in the attached I silo between 60 and 400 tons: of . ensilage, The building' was ' covered by . insur ance, it was reported at the scene of the fire. " I - - Mrs. Carl, who, since the death several years- ago of her husband. Al Carl, and the departure of her two sons for the war, has man aged the farm, was at dinner when the fire started. With members of her hpusehold, as they rose from the table, she. ' discovered that the roof of the big barn was ablaze. (Turn 'to Page 11) ' US to Fund Mexico Rails i WASHINGTON, Nov,' 18 In a move to speed shipment of war vital materials through Mex ica, the United SUtes has agreed to . finance. rehabilitation, of : key lines of the- Maxican national rail ways, it was officially disclosed Wednesday' night t-:, hv' In an. exchange of note- be tween"; Mexico's -Foreign Minuter Ezequiel Padilla and Ambassador George S.- Messersmith in Mexico City the government i agreed to bear the cost of all necessary ma terials - and equipment, as well as repair costs and the costs of ad ditional maintenance.' The Mexlcan j government, as its share of the; joint rehabilita tion task,' agrees to take all neces sary measures ; to achieve maxi mum efficiency- In operation of the lines. ' - . :; '' Mexico in - addition agrees to follow the suggestions and advice of the technical experts furnished by the United States. . Blamed 4 physicians and eight registered the surviving patients in the V;' ; :'h-- I . r,x frozen egg yolks had been were struck by the wave of Evans termed "a ealamitv.1 30-pound tin cans, were part the tate for institutionalise A part of the shipment had bee used to serve other state institu tions, without 111 'effects, th superintendent jdeclared. The sup ply was kept in the state hospital'! . cold storage room, where a tem perature of from zero to 10 below zero degrees fahrenheit is main- , V tained,. he! said. ;-, ' f. ' j . ! -Additional i deaths may occur among the . stricken patients, Dr. Evans reported . after midnight, but! their chances of recovery j strengthen hourly under the purg ing treatments being administered. "'' Calls' for. m thorough investiga tion were immediate. Dr. L. E. Barrick, Marion county-coroner, hurried to the big in stitution in mid-evening, - v . , y. Dr. Evans said he would per sonally: demand a complete J and conclusive investigation. I . ,Gov. Charlca A. Spragne termed the evening's events a terrible disaster." . ; "I" am deeply, shocked and grieved over the loss of life and want to leave nothing undone ' '. to determine the responsibility," the governor added. Dist Atty, Miller B. Hayden undertooJc an Investigation in Person. . ', : . The bodies of the dead patients were ordered held In'the institu- , tion morgue pending detailed! medical and. laboratory examina tion tidayi Errorta were being made; to reach Dr. Joseph Beeman, state police pathologist, to assist He was out of the city Wednesday night - Of the patients who had died tip to l a. m. today, 30 were men and four were women. They and their ward associates were served scrambled eggs for dinner for constitute , toe working forces of the institution aside from the paid' staff employes, Dr. Evans explained. ; -. Earlier, believing this was the been served on the hospital's ta bles, Dr. Evans was advised early today by his steward, Ralph Bol- ing, that they had been used "pe riodically for some time in con- junction with other foods. Mrs. Mary CHare, hospital cook for 12 years, told Coroner Barrick that five cans of the egg yolks had been, removed from cold storage-, Tuesday night used in part in rice, pudding Wednesday noon and again scrambled for. Wednes day dinner.' 'She maintained the I yolks were still frozen solid when she started, to prepare the latter - meat .. ".Vf"--' '.'!'' . The violent vomiting and oth- . er "extreme " gastro - Intestinal disturbance that struck down 4he working' ward patients led " Dr. Evans to conclude that some form of ptomaine, er botulinos ' poisoning, was responsible. lie said such poisoning generally was the result of decomposition f food. -;- The superintendent was inclined ' to discount other poison theories voiced by staff members and ob-. servers, although the late discov- ' ery uiai weanesuay nigni was not the first time the eggs had been served opened the scope of the in (Turn to Part 11)