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Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning. November 21. 1942
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No. 13
Poison's " StDiirce
Big Job
No Delay
WmMting Gains . Territory-
Heaw
Allowed
For Mm
I V II II 11.11 U .11
Gas Cut
-t "A
Coloring
Considerable Use Reported
For Fluoride in Insect
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ControlMaiiy Queried
While state police still sought to ascertain the manner
in which a lethal dosage of sodium fluoride cot into a batch
of scrambled eggs at the Oregon state hospital Wednesday,
the state board of pharmacy Friday asked the federal food
and drug, administration to require that the poisonous min
eral compound be colored so that it could not be mistaken
for salt, sugar or powdered milk. -
The board said restaurants and hotels usually had the
poison on hand for the control of insects and declared that
a tragedy such as that at the state hospital might have
occurred anywhere.
Two Prisoners
Escape Here
, Mouthful Brothers
Leave Penitentiary, -Said
Dangerous
Still at large at an early hour
iis morning were two young
convicts who escaped from the
Oregon state penitentiary before
dawn Friday.
Truman Wilson, 16, and Glenn
Wilson, 17, prison cook and wait
er respectively, If ft, the rope they
had contrived from towels hang
ing from the top of the main,
prison, building but no other trace
was discovered of the youths who
had left quietly in the murky
morning hours, officials at the
prison saicL
first to escape from the pris-,
' en proper In, more than 11 years,;
the boys, sent, up last Jane It
from Multnomah county with an'
older brother, all charged with
rape, are dangerous characters.
Warden George Alexander
. warned! They hare caused con
siderable trouble at the prison,
he said, as ' descriptions of the
pair .were broadcast over the
state' and law enforcement of fl
eers Joined prison guards In the
search. y..
Released from their cells at
5:30 to go to work in the peni
tentiary kitchen and cafeteria, the
Wilsons apparently took, their cell
made rope to the top of the main
building, crawled over the struc
ture and lowered themselves to
the ground, scaling a 10-foot walL
They were believed to have
started on foot in an easterly di
rection.
Last previous break from the
prison proper had been in Janu
ary," 193 1, when Lee Duncan and
Luke v Flynn escaped,- to be ap
prehended later in a Jefferson
school building.
PORTLAND, , Not. 20
. ' Portland Detective Herman He
rack described t h e . Wilson
brothers who escaped' from the
state penitentiary Friday as
"young, but dangerous."
- "They would shoot if they get
a gun," he warned. i
He said the brothers, Truman,
16, and Glenn Wilson, 17, Were
convicted in Multnomah county of
rape and sentenced to seven and
10 .years ? respectively ; A third
brother, not involved in the break,
Rassie Wilson, 21, got 20 years.
rape, r robbery, holdup and car
theft crimes, Horack said.
Police ordered a guard around
the homes of -the two Portland
girls the brothers were convicted
of raping." The. police said .the
Wilsons had threatened to kill the
girls for. testifying against them.
Auto Theft
: ALBANY, Ore., Nov. 20-il3)-City
and state police blocked the
Pacific : highway here Friday af
ter they --sighted an automobile
they thought contained .Truman
and Glenn Wilson, brothers , who
escaped from the Oregon peni
tentiary. - A-'V - -' . 'Vy J
' They stopped the" car but "the
"Wilson brothers -were not inside.
Police avrested thp occupants
anyway, " listing, them as Jerome
L. Olaf, 1C; Joseph (A Zinna.J.7;
Neldon F. McCombsv 15, all -of
Seattle. -- - : , 'Vi,
Sgt Earl Houston of the state
police said they . were wanted : in
Seattle on a car theft charge.
Houston said they had switched
license plates with an Oregon car
on reaching Portland.
A
The violently poisonous egg
dish, served to some 467 inmates
of the hospital, had taken 47
lives, the figure remained un
changed Friday night from Thurs
day's count. All of the victims
were patients, seven of them wo
men. .
State police before recessing
their investigation after more
than 36 hours of continuous prob
ing revealed Friday night that
approximately 40 persons, both
employes and patients, had been
minutely questioned. A majority
of -them worked in the hospital
kitchen.
"There is no telling how long
we will be at this," Capt Walter
Lansing said of the investigation.
Dist. Atty. Miller B. Hayden
and Coroner L. E. Barrick indi
cated they were awaiting outcome
of the state police studies of the
poisoning. Details of the labora
tory analysis that determined the
nature of the poison Thursday
may be disclosed today, it was in
dicated at the capitol Friday.
Dr. J. C. Evans, hospital .
i perlntendent, said that of the !
kitchen workers on 'duty Wei-;
nesday afternoon only four
were paid staff members. The
. remainder were trusties. The
latter ' were not permitted to
carry keys to the fruit storage
in the basement where
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Half of Jap
Force Slain;
Sea Toll 28
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 JP)
Half of a force of 1500 Japanese
landed on Guadalcanal has been
slaughtered and the rest routed,
the navy announced Friday, and
Secretary Knox declared jubi
lantly that the American hold on
the island prize is "now very se
cure" '
Knox based his statement part
ly on the land action, in which
embattled marines and army
troops apparently crumpled the
eastern jaw of a Japanese pincers
aimed at the vital airfield, and
partly on the great sea victory of
last week.
He J announced definitely that
the toll taken in" the sea fight was
28 .enemy ships sunk, and ten
damaged. There had previously
been some thought that the total
might be slightly lower due to the
possibility of duplication In re
ports from the scene. :
"All told," Knox i said, "the
Japanese fleet has been pretty
badly punished."
"Of course," he added, "they
can bring in more reinforcements
and' fight their way but so far
they have been unable to do it."
He revealed that two American
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Expansion of WA AGs
To 150,000 Approved
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -(fl5)
President Roosevelt authorized
the WAACs Friday, to recruit the
full strength of 150,000 authorized
by congress;! enabling Director
Oveta Culp Hobby to institute
eventually the expanded program
she envisioned - after her recent
trip to England with Mrs. Roose
velt , i ? ; a , -l.; a;: i-r'j . . : :
: Mr.V Roosevelt originally ; had
ordered that the Women's Auxil
iary Army corps be held to 25,000.
In announcing his authorization
t or , the expansion .at "his press
conference, he said it was look
ing , pretty - far to the future in
view of the training which would
be required. Mrs. Hobby said at
Houston earlier that the full 150,
000 could be trained by April,
1944. '
The director reported on her
return from England that she had
BRIG. GEN. W. H. HOGE
Mastermind behind the building
of the Alaskan-Canadian high
way, a vital defense link be
tween the US and Alaska, Is
Brig. Gen. W. H. Hoge, officer
commandnur the US forces
buUdlnc the road. ;
Alcan Highway
Officially Open
DeWitt Calls Road
Great Help in
Pacific Fight
WHITEHORSE YT, Nov. 20
(if) Word of the formal cere
mony, officially opening the 1600
mile Alaska-Canada highway at
Soldiers Summit, overlooking iso
lated Kluane lake in the St Elias
mountain country, was awaited
here Friday.'
The ceremonial clipping of a
red- white and blue ribbon to
signalize the opening of "Ameri
ca's Burma j Road," was set fof
10 a. m.1 but! there was no regular
communications between here and
the dedication scene to ; indicate
the actual opening. -
' Brig. Gen. James A. O'Connor,
commanding! the US army's jaorth
west service command, in his
speech prepared for the ceremony,
thanked the people and govern
ment of Canada for their cooper
ation, and described the highway
as "a real and unique tie" and
said he hoped it would become
"an unbreakable bond of under
standing between our lands."
Lt Gen. !J. L. DeWitt, com
manding the United States west
ern defense command, sent a.
letter to be read at the cere
mony in which he stated the
. Alcan highway gives the Unit
ed Nations! "a tremendous ad
vantage In ; the prosecution of
our operations against Japan
and In assisting Russia."
"We now have established and
in operation! airways and a high
way from the United States
through Canada to Fairbanks; a
waterway, via the inland pas
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British Raid
Italy Again ,
LONDON, ! Nov. ' il-HifV-British
sources reported that RAF bomb
ers were over Italy again Friday
night.
It was the sixth round-trip
sweep across the .Alps by British
squadrons iri November. 1
The port of Genoa and the ar
senal city oi Turin received at
tention in the previous raids . of
the month, j The Fiat Airplane
Motor works and other objec
tives of Turin, on the river Po,
were bombed Wednesday night
learned from; the British example
innumerable j way s in which
WAACs in this country could re
lease men for combat ' duty. , At
that - time she forecast; immediate
expansion in the size of the corps
and the variety of its duties. -.
- The corps has 10,000 women en
rolled now. Of this number. 7000
have completed their training, in
cluding those graduating , Satur
day from the school at Fort Des
Moines. The! rest are in training
or have been sworn in and are
awaiting orders to ? report for
training. " . '
At the -second training center,
which will open December 1 at
Daytona Beach, Fla several new
specialist courses will be offered.
The WAACs ; started training last
July with four" specialist courses
cooks and bakers, clerical; com
munications and motor corps.
House Members
Urge; Salem Meil
To Check Papers
Washington; Nov, 20
(P) Rubber administr a t o
William M. Jeff ers served
blunt notice Friday that na
tional rationing of gasoline Will
became effective on December
1 despite an opposition cam paign
which, he asserted,- is fi nanced
"by people who should
know better." j
"The gasoline rationing in the
east saved rubber," he said in an
address at New York. "Nation
wide gasoline rationing which
goes Into effect December" 1 is
only a means to an end.
It will go into effect regard
less of the organized opposition
m the west. That opposition is
based on the theory that there is
no shortage of gasoline.
As he spoke a bloc of 175
house members was making a
determined effort to postpone
the rationing date. The group
met' Thursday nicht and unan
imously voted to seek a 90 -day '
postponement Speaker Rayburn ;
disclosed that he was seeking a !
. delay until January 1 at least .
Rep. Jed Johnson (D-Okla), I
chairman of the congressional j
group, said he hoped to confer
with Jeffers soon.'
Jeff ers departed from his pre
pared speech, delivered before the
Grocery Manufacturers of Amer
ica, to state his determination that
rationing shall become effective
December 1, as scheduled, and to
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War Industry
Essentials
To Get Help
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -JPy-
Pre&tdent Roosevelt revealed Fri
day that the manpower control
system now in formulating will
include tighter regulations for ex
empting "necessary war industry
workers from the draft. In addi
tion, he told a press conference
that he had ordered the army and
navy to refuse enlistments and
commissions to government em
ployes. This action he said was
induced by a rush to enlist and
obtain commissions following his
order that the draft deferments
of government workers be can
celled except in unusual cases.
The president said there were
two schools of thought on wheth
er a proposed registration of wo
men for war work would be worth
while. Some, . he said, thought . a
great many would register,, while
others believed the number would
be very small.
On the general manpower que
tion, the president said he was
still uncertain whether .'the "new
system would be established by
administrative action but thought
in any event that little new legis
lation would be needed.
In connection with keeping ir
replaceable skilled workers out
of the army and in the factory,
Mr. Roosevelt said a principal
problem was that of obtaining
uniform action by the many draft
boards.
' Mr. Roosevelt thought the prob
lem of uniformity could be par
tially corrected by closer cooper
ation between employers and the
draft boards. Factory manage-"
ment he said, should certify more
frequently to the boards wheth
er prospective draftees are or are
not essential and Irreplaceable.
Keezer Named,
Post-War Help
WASHINGTON,;Nov. 20 fJPi
-President Roosevelt: named a:
committee of four Friday to work
with the war and navy depart
men ts on steps to enable young
men in military service to resume
their$chooling after the war. f '
He appointed Brig. Gen. Fred
erick H. Osborn chief of the war
department's special services, as
chairman. - - v . . ..' : .
Other committeemen are: "
Y. B. Smith; "dean of Columbia
university's law schooIJ TJr Dex
ter M.' Keezer, former 1 president
of ,Heed r college, Portland,: Ore.,
now assigned to the office of price
administration; - and,; Dr, "-R. " C
Harris," president of Tulane uni
versity at New Orleans. ;
The president told Osborn in a
letter the committee should co-
relate its studies with those of the
national resources planning board,
and make use of - the board's
facilities.
Aed.
Zeros Enter
Combat in "
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New Guinea
Japs Hold Only Small
Buna-Gona Sector,
8 Miles Inland
By C. YATES McDANIEL
A L LI E D HEADQUAR
TERS JN AUSTRALIA, Sat
urday, Nov. 21 (AP) The
heaviest fighting of the New
Guinea campaign raged Sat
urday in the Buna-Gona areas
where r the Japanese, pinned
against the coast, lashed back
at the advancing allies with
light artillery mortars and
machineguns.
A -communique announcing the
allied attempt to shove the
trapped Japanese into the sea
gave no details of the battle which
began Friday except to say that
"enemy air forces have entered
the engagement," '
Bad weather on the lower side
of . the Owen Stanley mountains
was said to have prevented Gen
eral , MacArthur's. airmen from
giving the formidable aerial sup
port which has been such a fac
tor in the allied counter-drive
across the huge island.
US and Australian ground
troops thus bore the! entire brunt
of the attack of low-flying Jap
anese Zeros that thus far had not
snown mucn activity : ;
, The fighting is in a triangle,
the ' basTformed by six-mile
coastal stretch -between Buna and
Gona, and the apex extending
eight miles inland to Soputa.
While the - Australians at
Gona and the Americans at
Bona were encaged in close
quarter fig-BUnr with the, enemy
on the outskirts of (those ham
lets, combined units were at
tempting to smash the only In
land point still held by the en
emy at 8opata. i
A headquarters spokes man
meanhwile said the aerial recon
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Bengasi Goes
To British;
Planes Lead
CAIRO, Nov. 20 -VP)- Bengasi
was sealed tight , in a British trap
Friday as the Eighth army drove
down along the Libyan coast to
the port while its . southern wing
cut the coastal highway 50 miles
to the south and advanced on the
Agheila defile where j narrow axis
defense positions already were be
ing pulverized by allied bombers.
(The ! German high command
said Bengasi was evacuated. The
Berlin radio said Marshal Rommel
has retreated to positions "fairly
far to. the' rear.") ;7,
The eastward drive of the Brit
ish First army in Tunisia ;was
supported again from the east by
Malta bombers attacking hangars
and starting fires at the Tunis
airport, . ;
The northern wing: of Gen. Sir
Bernard Montgomery's steam-roller
mopped up as it advanced on
Bengasi,'" destroying or capturing
28 tanks, 24 guns and: 250 vehicles
between. Martuba and Slonta,- 95
miles from Bengasi. Some of the
tanks had just come from axis
repair shops nd- others had been
picked up by Rommel , on his
flight from Egypt 'where he lost
all . but 15 T his 500 front line
machines.: ' - . j ;; .
US planes were in the vanguard
of advance, pounding the Macrun
air field in the salt marshes 100
miles south of El Agheila and de
stroying six planes. , "T v
Crbwd rAttackspi
Pro-NaziDoriot
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LONDON, Sanjrdaytjv2lMP?
The London Daily. Express in a
dispatch; dated H on the French
irontier quoted Paris reports Sat-
ttraay, mat a crowd armed with
bludgeons attacked Jacques Doriot
and his bodyguard as they left a
meeting of Doriot's popular party.
These reports said Doriot, pro-
nazi editor, was taken to a hos
pital with four broken ribs and
that he 'might lose the sight of
his left eye. 1 f
Battle Intensity Grows
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American and British legions have clashed with axis forces in a
growing battle for possession of Tunisia, hinging greatly en stra
tegic Bizerte and Tunis (1), which are the last axis holdings in the
French colony. Attacks by planes based In Algeria and on Malta
supplemented the land drive. To . the eastward, the British Eighth
army entered Bengasi (2) without a fight, and was racing closely
behind Rommel's scattered forces for El Agheila, where the Ger
mans are expected to make a stand. The RAF smashed again at
industrial Italy; especially Genoa (3). Associated Press Telemat.
Perhaps 10000 of Enemy
Killed on Guadalcanal;
Services Cooperate Well
' By. WALTER B." CLAUSEN T" - !
PEARL HARBOR, TH, Nov. 20 Perhaps 1 0,000 Japanese
have been killed on Gaudalcanal and the marines are optimistic
ally talking about their ' next j island "objective, said the first
American naval officer to return here since the major United
States naval victory in that area November 14 and 15.
He was Lt. Dweitt Peterkin, 29, of New York, a former
banker assistant to the J. P. Mor
gan partners.
Lieutenant Peterkin left Gua
dalcanal November 16. He was a
ground officer for the famous
carrier torpedo Squadron Eight,
which participated in the Midway
battle, Ensign George Gay, being
the sole surviving member of the
section that -struck the Japanese
carries off Midway in June.
Peterkin said he got to Guadal
canal late in August and reported
that his squadron sank 13 Japa
nese ships and probably got a 14th.
: In the great naval victory last :
weekend, Peterkin's squadron
Joined with other navy, marine
and army fliers In striking one
element of Japan's show-down
.Invasion force heading- toward
' Guadalcanal on the afternoon of
' November 14.
' It sank four transports, set four
more afire, and of five others
fleeing westward three were seen
smoking. ' '
It was during this' period that
Adm. William F. Halsey's naval
forces fought one of the world's
great naval, battles, and crump
led the. Japanese combat force.
Peterkin's squadron' participat
ed in supporting the landing of
the, marines August 7, and began
Operating f rem Guadalcanal itself
late in August Peterkin was on
the Island from that time until
November, 18.
' The marines and other forces
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Prisoner Dies
From Poison :
One investigation Into a death
by 'poison was underway at the
penitenliary here 'Wednesday
when state ' doctors ; were called
away by the 'mass poisoning at
the state hospital, officials of the
prison revealed Friday nighC -
Neither suicide nor,
ter twas : suspected' ia the death
Tuesday night of Thomas O'Con
nor,' about 35ijsent,up from Des
chutes county for larceny, j u.
llalley, deputy warden at the
penitentiary, declared Friday. :
O'Connor was believed to nave
drunk some liquid he had found
at the prison farm, where he was
a workman. vFond , . of - alcohol in
its less- poisonous forms, the trus
ty must, have taken anu-lreeze.
cleanmg fluid or something simi
lar, prison officials think. Early
part of the cusrupiea examina
tion i had borne out this theory.
they were told by the doctor In
charge.
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Half Supply
Of Butter ;
Frozen .
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -P)
The government Friday night, or
dered that half of the butter . in
cold storage in the 35 principal
marketing centers be held for
government purchase, an order
which had the effect ' of freezing
40 per cent of the total m butter
supply in storage in the 'nation.
The war production board, in
issuing the order, said, the! action
was "temporary" and -designed to
insure adequate 'supplies to meet
the needs of the armed forces and
the lease-lend program. Agricul
ture department officials said the
freeze order would result ' in a
sharp curtailment of civilian sup
plies inasmuch as current produc
tion of butter is insufficient o
meet civilian war-needs.
The 35 marketing centers hold
about 80 per cent of the butter
supply.- The balance is scattered
among small warehouses in the
less important producing and dis
tributing " areas. The : order does
not affect stocks on hand in re
tail establishments.
Because of the butter, shortage.
WPB explained the army and
navy have been meeting diffi
culty in getting sufficient- sup
plies, and ships having space for
butter have-been , departing with
other carga, ''-v----::-- y
fThis situation requires prompt
and J drastic, .action, WPB . said.
It was estimated that 30,000,000 to.
35,000,000 pounds were frozen by
the action, which is effective to
night and will , remain in. force
until March. 1943 - .
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Afterlight JL old
AN EAST COAST PQRT, Nov.
20-(i93)-The sinking of their vessel
by an enemy torpedo after driving
off and . possibly sunk one' subma
marine and won -a hard fought
battle with a North Atlantic gale
was described Friday by 37 sur
vivors of a "medium- sized US
merchantman. ' - ' " - y .y- - -,
Three shipmates died ; ,. one
was washed overboard during the
storm and the others were miss
ing after the torpedoing m the
mid-Atlantic : during the latter
part . d September.
Allies 30 IWiles
From Bizerte
And Tunis
Furious Air Struggle ;
French Drive Wedge
In Eastern Sector
By WES GALLAGHER
A L LIED HEADQUAR
TERS IN NORTH AFRICA,
Nov. 21 (AP) -The battle
for Tunisia mounted in in
tensity Friday night ; aa. the
main forces of the American,
British and French troops ap
proached the German defense
lines about 30 miles from
Bizerte and Tunis while the
RAF and the American air
men slashed at the nazi air
force for control of the skies.
All Tunisia except a-r swiftly
contracting coastal- stretch includ
ing Bizerte and Tunis were re
ported in allied hands ' i Friday
night. i
1 The " destruction of nine axis
warplanes by the RAF in one day
testified ' to the furious air strug
gle in TwhichJ American Flying
Fortresses took an. active part by
bombing Bizerte while, the RAF
blasted Tunis. f
While details of the clashes
between the advancing British and i
American forces .were lacking
immediately, , an- authoritative
spokesman said A certain
that the strugrlff for eohtrol b
.Tunisia ; is Increasing in intensi
ty." ..... ;
French resistance i around the
Galf ef Gabes, In southeast
ern Tunisia, "is driving off Gf r
man attempts t take the coast-'
. al road by . land or air. . It Is
considered especially encourag- i
ing as it drives a wedge be
tween the axis . Tunisian for
CCS and i Marshal Erwin Rom
' mel's troops In Tripoli, leaving
. the- vast majority of Tunisia in t
allied hands or at least out of
German control.
.At the present moment the only
area in Tunisia that the Germans
are known to command is a 30
mile belt around Tunis and Bi
zerte and communication between
the two points.
Unless the Germans are able'
to extend their ; ridgehead and
take positions all along the coast
from Tunis to Tripoli, Rommel is"
in a critical military position. He
faces-the danger of having Brit
ish and American forces burst in
upon -his back while the British'
Eighth army is knocking at his
front. door. - "
A decree, by French Adm. Jean
Darian granting amnesty to those
favoring the allied operation 1 In
north, Africa was looked upon
with, some interest from the po
litical angle as many of these im
prisoned by - the Vichy regime
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Germans Flee
Before Reds
. . By The AsaocUted Press
Some 10,000 Germans were""
killed in the central Caucasus and
on the Volkhov . front, and the
clearcut rout of the Germans from
Ordzhonikidze . grew more disor
derly by the hour Friday. One
German line after , another, j was
taken and the enemy fled to 'the!
Caucasus ' hills and forests. . The
vast amount of booty including
140 'tanks posed a critical logistics
problem for the Germans who
must cart supplies through 1000
miler of hostile, frozen territory.
The: Germans, for the . second
straight day, filled their commu
nique with accounts of determined
Russian attacks and German de
fensive battles. This suggested
that Hitler was losing the initia
tive. , . a
; The Russians improved ; their
positions inside . I Stalingrad - and
captured a height south of the
city". : , --.
Ecuador Gives Bases j
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 23 CSV
President .rroyo Del Rio of Ecu
ador .revealed Friday night that
his country has given the United
States territory for tase3 on the
South - American continent and
sajd she was not only the first
to give land for bases but also the
first to permit continental ones.