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Servico Men Out beys of Salem and vicinity are to uniform with Uncle Sam oer the face at - tha globe Follow them dally la Tba Statesman's Serrlca ilea. column. Dimout j Wednesday sunset .8:27 p. m. Thursday sunrise 1:3$ a. m. Weather: Mob. max. :temp. 49, mia. 44. Toes, fiv er 19 ft. Weather data rep i stricted by army request. v w w t IIINETY -SECOND YEAR Salemi Oregon, Waxlnaaday Meaning. December 2. 1942 Fries 5c. No. 177 Over 5$ In' TjJ)M rfi , s 'POUNDQD 1651 ' ' I Aeriai .Ba a TT T Tl Tl "71 id EiecTaaaiiiec. . Allies !ut. Axis Russians Continue Ad vance Airmen Destroy Nazi Air Transports ; Fighting Fierce By EDDY GILMORE " MOSCOW, Wednesday, Dec. 2-(ff-Russian airmen have de stroyed 50 big: German trans port . planes trying to supply army encirelement in the Stal- . ingrad area and the soviet armies continued to advance in that sector and on the, center . salient, west of Moscow, it - was announced early Wednesday. - The rerular noon mmmuniniic Tuesday and the midnight bulletin disclosed that approximately 6000 more Germans had fallen on 'the snow-covered battlefields in . an increasingly stubborn . effort to bold up the red army. , Twenty of the big tri-motored -Junkers planes were shot down and 30 were destroved on th , ground on Monday alone as the Germans attempted "to bring up supplies and war materials" in the area west - of Stalingrad between the Volga and Don rivers, the midnight bulletin said. Soviet re ; ports on; air activities generally . im ft r?o V lata The Russians still were re ported fighting on the eastern bank of the Don river la their effort: to close a trap on the Germans. Nasi railway com munications to the rear already - bad been , snapped by the Rus . liana both northwest and south- , Tha toll -of 6000 "German - dead lor both the Stalingrad and cen tral front sectors on the basis of previous special announcements. Mo special communique was is sued last night on the continuing operations. f The Russians said their troops (Turn to Page 2) sL. . r anners jlulusi Flant Within 10 per Cent ! WASHINGTON, Dec. l.HV Farmers will have to plant with in 10 per cent of their 1943 AAA : crop allotments in order to obtain maximum benefit payments au thorized by farm legislation. J , This regulation was announced , Tuesday by the -agriculture de partment in a move designed to : obtain a high degree of compli ance with next year's record farm production program. The total amount of payments to be distributed under the 1943 program nas not oeen aeiernuneo. It has been averaging about $750, 000,000 a year. . The department will announce later the rates it will pay farmers for j complying with AAA allot ments for corn, cotton, - peanuts, rice, tobacco and : wheat. The rates usually are set at a certain number of cents per , bushel de pending upon the commodity. Failure to plant at least 90 per cent of these crop allotments will result In payment deductions at a rate five times the compliance rate. This means that a : farmer's crop payment would be wiped out entirely should he plant only 70 per cent of his allotment. V - ; Salem, Aumsville Men Get Purple Heart Award ; WASHINGTON, D e c 1-JP The army conferred decorations Tuesday on 102 soldiers wounded in action against the French in Morocco during the initial Ameri- (TSffOPr.'.'? 3" Girt sf mas Is "nV j . I' IV'li If" ii r i a r m. ,4i.. ljosmnss Mac Alights 1 ..... i I . 1 n i Gen. Douglas MaeArthur (above) steps from his plane at an ad vanced allied base somewhere in New Guinea to direct the assault against the Gona-Buna sector. Associated Press Tele- it. Jap Warships Attempt Help Four Destroyers Off Guinea . Aussie Tighten Grip ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA. Wednesday, Dec. 2 (JFy Despite their heavy losses in previous abortive attempts to re inforce their isolated troops in the Buna-Gona area of New Guinea, the Japanese sent four destroyers toward Buna Wednesday in an other attempt ' to strengthen their "forces. - Allied planes scored hits and near misses on some of the ships, but there was no report whether this latest attempt at reinforce ment had been turned back, a spokesman for Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur S3ri. With MacArthur's airforee smashing repeatedly at Japanese positions, especially in the vi cinity of Buna, American and Australian ground forces were slowly contracting " their grip on the enemy,' according to the allied communique. Wave after wave of allied planes Airacobras, B-26s, A-20s, and B-25s hammered the Japanese lines and started fires in the vicin ity of Buna Mission. The Japanese sent fighters and dive-bombers to strafe the al lied-held airstrip near the north ern coast but two fighters and one dive bomber, were shot down. Albania Fighters Warn Italians JERUSALEM, Dec band ' of 600 Albanian guerrilla patriots crept into Tirana, former Albanian capital, one night re cently and put up posters threat ening to kill ten Italians In re taliation for each. Albanian killed, Albanian sources here reported Tuesday. can landings in North Africa No vember 8.. . LL Gen. Leslie J. McNair, com manding general of the army ground forces, presented the pur ple heart to six officers and 96 enlisted men at Walter Reed hos pital here, reading the brief cita tions personally and congratulat ing each man on his heroism. : Among those who received the award (by states, with name and rank, ; battle area in which each was wounded, and home town, respectively) were: Oregon Robert L. Bethell, pri vate, infantry Fedala, Aumsville; Derylt Butters,- corporal," infantry, Fedala; Eugene; Donald W. Davis, private, infantry, Casablanca, La Grande; John W. Larson, private, first class, infantry, Fedala, Baker; Roy E. Potter, corporal, infantry, Fedala. Salem. " v . ; ; - ' 2 in jifast r' Die From Fluoride Nosen Confesses New Story on Getting Of Fatal Poison PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1-(JF) The same type of poison which took the lives of 47 persons re cently in an Oregon insane asylum was believed responsi ble Tuesday night for the deaths oC two Philadelphians and the serious illness of two others. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Labe, both 49, died an hour apart in a hospital here Tuesday. Mrs. Mil dred G r o f f , 22, and her son. Charles,' 4, who lived with the Labes, were given a chance - to recover because Mrs: Laura An derson, 57, forced them to drink large ' quantities of " milk, which acted as an antidote, when they became ill. Deputy Coroner Matthew A. Roth said a quantity of roach pow der, containing the same deadly poison as that identified as the cause of the Oregon deaths, ap parently became mixed with flour used in preparing a meat pie. How George Nosen, 27, vol unteer Oregon state hospital pa tient from Medf ord, happened to mistake reach powder for pow dered milk, an error that result-' ed In the poisoning of 467 pa tients two weeks ago tonight, was disclosed in a new confes sion made by the Inmate and disclosed Tuesday by Capt. Wal ter Lansing of the state police department. The roach powder, mixed Jhto a batch of scrambled eggs in the, hospital kitchen on November 13, resulted in death to 47 patients and severe illness to 420 others. Nosen, in his new confession, told Lansing that he and A. B. McKillop, assistant hospital cook, went to the basement of the in stitution on November 17 and en (Turn to Page 2) AFL and CIO Committees Harmonious WASHINGTON, Dec. .-JPf- AFL and CIO committees, return ing to the peace table ' after a three-year lapse, explored the possibility ' of a united labor movement Tuesday, reported a harmonious meeting, and agreed to continue their talks Wednes day. Harry C Bates, president of the bricklayers union and chair man of the AFL peace committee, made this one sentence announce ment to newsmen at the end of a two and one half, hour session: ' "W had a very harmonious meeting this afternoon and we will hold another tomorrow at io." - ' ; ' Philip Murray, CIO president, added: "I subscribe." The conferees, apparently la an amiable frame of mind but dodg ing interrogation, left immedi ately. Daniel J. Tobin, general president of the AFL teamsters union, dropped the casual com ment that "we may have some news for you tomorrow, but whether he was indicating signif icant developments ; was ; purely speculative. The CIO leadership, it was learned authoritatively, had pre pared the outline of a peace plan, based on immediate merger of the two movements.' The entity of each of the constituent AFL and CIO unions would ; be pre served, at least temporarily, and they would have .proportional representation on the executive b o a r d. Jurisdictional conflicts would be worked out within the united organization. ," Inmate Suicides At State Prison William de, 55, who was re ceived at the state penitentiary here February 5- of this year on sentence for. larceny of livestock in Curry county, hanged himself by a piece of sheet in his cell at the prison Tuesday afternoon at 450 o'clock! ; Ede, described by Deputy War den ; Eugene Halley as a ."good prisoner," had been morose, Hal ley said. Survivors include the widow at Myrtle Point and his mother, Mrs. M. B. Welch at Glen- dale. Gamp "in" CoL T. A. Baumeister, director of supply at Camp Adair, inspects the first pan-ful of GI bread, brought by Pvt. Frank S. Arcadia from an oven of the post's new and ultra-modern bakery. Starting Tuesday soldiers of Camp Adair began eating ail of their "staff of life" as produced in their own plant. Public Relations Photo, (See story on page two). West Joins Boston Clamps on Clubs Inspection of All i Arises Jroni Probe s, Of Fire Deaths - BOSTON, Dec. l-(P)-A ban was clamped Tuesday night an all amusement and dancing in 1161 Boston night clubs, hotels and res taurants as an . aftermath of the Cocoanut Grove fire disaster, while separate city and state probes pro duced testimony that the night club was of "tinderbox construc tion" and that flames had raced like lightning through : draperies that "looked like gauze." While scores of funerals of fire victims were held throughout New England, there were these devel opments: 1. The death toll of the Satur day night blaze was revised down ward by the Boston committee on public safety from 484 to 474, but a number known to be dead were not named on the committee's list and unofficial compilations indi cated the final cost in human life would approach 500. 2. Got. Leverett SaltonstaU (Turn to Page 2) French Sub In Algeria LONDON, Dec l-(P)-The sea going 1379-ton French submarine Le Glorieux joined a sister ship, the Casabianca and . the smaller Marsquin in allied north-African ports Tuesday as the only units of, the French fleet at Toulon to escape capture, destruction or in ternment. The Morocco radio announced Tuesday night the .arrival of Le Glorieux at Or an after a voyage which had taken it to Valencia, Spain. The submarine stopped there less than 24 hours The Casabianca and the Mars quin arrived at Algiers Monday where they put themselves under the orders of Adm. Jean Darlan. i- A fourth : submarine,5" the Iris, which escaped from Toulon, was interned by Spanish authorities at Barcelona when it failed to leave in 24 hours, the normal period al lowed a belligerent ship in a neu tral port under international law. 47 War Prisoners Listed From US WASHINGTON. Dec 1 -UPl The names of 47 Americans held as nrisoners of war. were made public Tuesday by the war de partment. .The erouD included .11 officers and five enlisted men-- of . the ar my," a navy officer and a navy en listed man. 24 merchant ; marine seamen and four members of the American field service which op erates ambulances with the Unit ed Nations forces. The men came from 19 states. and most were reported held in German prison camps. : Adair9 s First Gl : i - s i 1 nrili iiVi'iii if Hi ftf Four Gallon Parade 'Fill 9Er Up Disappears From Scene KANSAS CITY, Dec 1-iJPf Throe little word Till r up" disafpeared from the nsJom-, al language Tuesday as tha west, still kicking and cream ing. Joined the east tn gasoline . rationing. - f . , They'll probably be replaced by "ginunefour" since four gal lons likely will bo the average purchase of the average motor ist wheH part with his ration coupons with all the reluctance of the Russians giving up streets fat Stalingrad. Unlike the east, which was forced Into gas rationing months ago by a shortage, the oil pro duemg west started off wKh ear tanks full, not to mention a Jug and a few beer bottles filled and tucked away in the garage Just for an emergency. ' For' Instance there 'was the motorist at Dallas, TexV who rolled up to a filling station and sal "flM 'er up e a a y." The pump ; hand stopped on three pennies worth. At Winfield. Kan, one sta tion manager, along about mid night, sighed and pointed to a cigarette paper with some to bacco sprinkled an it lying on a tabic i : "I laid It there at noon and haven't had time to roll It yet," he explained. "Haw many, sir?" " In St. Louis automobile traf fic feU of f sharply the first day of rationing but fat Kansas City ' the decrease was slight. : . . i However traffic officials said that as the gasoline gauge point ers in automobiles neared .zero the traffic flow would diminish. - - : Farmers of the country, who had protested vehemently earlier, have been quieted by OPA boss ; (Turn to Page 2) ; ' Darlaii Takes African Lead . LONDON,. Dec 1-(AP)-Adm. Jean Darlan, acting with the as sertion j that Marshal Petain is ' a prisoner of the Germans at. Vichy, has taken over authority as chief of state in French Africa, it was announced Tuesday : night from Morocco.- t ;v i': , The Morocco radio said Dar lan, who la cooperating with the allies, - had, set up an imperial council to advise him. This was announced, after Darlan had con ferred with Augusta Nogues - and Pierre Boisson, governors general in Morocco and French West Af rica, whiten embraces Dakar. Fighung Frencn quarters in London, who - still regard Darlan as a traitor to France because of bis Vichy- record," said theyXas sumed that Darlan's assumption of his new powers was in an effort to strengthen his political position. Presumably, It was his intention to set up a. full-fledged French government? in north and west Africa. ' ' f . Bread rf' rj. V - ' -1 : .-a Farmers Angry At Rationing " Market May Be Shut ; Bus Traffis Not Up Greatly PORTLAND, Dec l.HPort landers clung to their transporta tion habits for the most part Tuesday as gasoline , rationing went in to. effect, but farmers sup plying the produce market pro tested a lack of motor fuel. - - Hyman H. Cohen, market edit or, of the' Journal, said producers , INDIANAPOLIS. D e c L (AHStrange were the containers which filling station attendants - were asked to fill to the brim aenday night. . A north side dealer reported a woman brought a six ounce perfume bottle to bo filled. A few minutes later a man drove up with a hollow lawn roller tied to the ear. -riease fOl 'tn np," he said. ' were, "fighting mad" over the gas oline situation and were - threat ening to close the East Side Farmers'' market for two weeks. "The claim is made by . the farmers ' that while . the govern ment Is talking about giving them all the gasoline they need, their local rationing boards have not heard of such a ruling, Cohen reported. .." ..r-;-':'-"t, ; Market Master WUliam Garba rinc said the farmers would ap peal . to the Oregon state grange for, assistance . in . obtaining - in creased gasoline allotments. 3 : Otherwise, rationing caused hardly- a ripple. Most motorists apparently. had filled their tanks before the midnight deadline and were using their cars Tuesday. . (The : Portland Traction com pany reported that streetcar and bus patronage was ' about the same as before but President Gor don ' Steele said he expected an increase in passengers to start In two days and develop gradually to a point about 25 per cent great er than at. present. v '"r-- . Some parking lots said ' their business dropped off Tuesday, but others said they noticed no dif ference -V"'.,. ". : -Ration boards, however, were swamped with applications' for B and C rationing books which call for additional gasoline supplies. - Thompson Asserts Farms to Comply PORTLAND, Ore, Dec l-iPi The American farmer is going to increase production despite diffi culties, James H. Thompson, Sa lem, recently named FT A star far mer of America, told the Kiwanis clubrTuesday. , " - "Last year American farmers produced 12 per cent more than they did the year previous and now we have been called to beat that record by another 12 per cent, and well do. it. We're not going to give, Thompson said. r -I A 4 A i I Along CdHast Hitler Rushes Reserves -Into . Africa; 8tlt Army Feeling Out Rommel ' . "- By BLAKE SULLIVAN . " . LONDON, Dec. 1 (AP) An air struggle of an inten. sit j unequalled since the battle ing over Tunisia Tuesday night as Germans and Italians rushed in reinforcements by sea and air j in a frantic bid te keep their footholds on the coastal rim and. British, Ameri cans and French 4rove spearheads forward to slice them into at least lhxte--vototm--:.-'r,?;r.:.'r?y,--..h-. The Morocco radio isaid1 spearheads, composed of Americans and French, already had driven to the east' coast between Gabes and Sfax, cutting out one pocket. In the nofth, the Morocco broadcast added, the allies have driven through enemy minefields and overrun the resistance of Ger man heavy tanks in the drive to divide the Germans in Tunis and Bizerte. 1 1 J Apparently, the radio continued, the British First army now has come up "against the nucleus of enemy resistance." . ', Lt-Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower has thrown everything in his aer ial armory, from Flying Fortresses to twin-tailed fighters, in a vir tually non-stop assault on Bizerte, Tunis, Sfax and Gabes, the four key ' coastal points held by the axis, in the last 24 hours, said dis patches from allied headquarters in north Afrjt .where;a spokes man described the battle as at a critical stage. '-v - i ' - ::. j Wes Gallahher, A s s o c 1 a ted Press correspondent at allied headquarters, who witnessed air battles over Greece and report ed the first great clashes . bc4 tweea the German air force and Amrlcan Fortresses flying from. Britain, said the struggle now taking plaee In North . Africa waa unequal ed In intensity since the assault on England in 14- 4L ' . : ; ;; Round-the-clock allied assaults were reported in some dispatches to have made axis air bases at Bi zerte virtually untenable, with Hitler forced to withdraw, some- of his planes to operating bases in Sicily. . ... ' .. ... ; 1 But the Germans were trying desperately to halt the devastat ing, aeries of raids, and American airmen flying twin -motored P-38 Lightnings (Lockheed fighters) encountered Germany's fastest high-altitude fighters, Focke-Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt 109s, for the first time over north Africa.' Hitler was bringing in air re serves from western Europe and , the Russian front . to stem the; tide. One - German pilot shot ' down had been flying over Stal ingrad less than two weeks age ; (Turn to Page 2) Pacific Subs ; Sink 5 More j Jap Vessels 1 WASHINGTON, D e c . 1 - UPi The virtually unsung heroes of America's Pacific fleet, the sub mariners who often stalk their quarry in Japan's closely guarded home waters, have sunk five more Nipponese ships, including a de stroyer, the navy announced Tues day, and damaged two others, one of which, probably sank. $ This bag of seven vessels raised to 148 the number of enemy ships announced as sunk or damaged by American, undersea action in the Pacific since the war started.. Na val officials said this total repre sented one of the greatest contri butions made in the steady cam paign of American ' forces to re duce J span's ability to maintain her far-flung supply lines In the western Pacific and the China sea. The ships announced sunk . in Tuesday's communique were a de stroyer of unidentified . class and size, a 9000-ton tanker and three cargo ships of 8000, 300 and 2000 tons respectively. In addition a 12,000-ton cargo ship was dam4 aged. The, total , tonnage sunk, of damaged was 43,300. ; Prior to issuance of the com- munique Secretary Knox told a press conference that United States submarines in the Pacific "doing a swell' Job." - j of Britain was reported rag Tuesday' night that one of these to 21.5 Feet Here Some Roads Closed; Army Asserts Dams Not Threatened The Willamette river was due to reach, a crest of 21.5 feet hero early this morning but at 11:30 Tuesday night it was still falling and the gauge stood at 19 feet . While it Tiad been predicted earlier that the river , would go to 24.5 fe4, the) Portland Meathtr bureau said at 0:30 Tuesday night that "river conditions had im proved" and it would not go high er than 21.S at Salem. ; This win be the third crest the river will have reached in eight days. Each time It has dropped for a time before start ing to rise again as flood waters . come In from ap the river.,, Rainfall during the month of November totaled 13.38 inches or more than twice the normal No vember figure, 5.89 inches, ac cording -to the Salem observer. The bridge over Sardine creek, on the North Santiam highway ia still i impassable and repairs can not be made until the creek hr lowered to a point where a crew can work. The Woodburn-Molalla secondary highway was reported flooded at I the Pudding river bridge i ' Many persons working in Salem and living in West 'Salem were concerned early Tuesday night as to whether they would be able to get , across the Marion-Polk county bridge this morning. Such concern was relieved by the early rrmrt from th Portland u.'sfhri bureau." V - J ' -- Local river observers said 'that the river would have to reach a height of 28 or 29, feet before traffic over the bridge would be impossible and then it would be because the highway through West Salem, Edgewater street, would be overflowed. ' " PORTLAND, Dec -P)-Col, Donald J. Leebey, district army engineer, Tuesday night denied a rumor that the Fern . Sidge and Cottage Grove dams had burst.';,:;- . " y .. 1 Leehey blamed Willamette val ley radio stations for spreading a false report that "a 20-foot wall of water was sweeping down the valley." He criticized them for making the announcements Monday night without ' investigating the rumor. Leehey said, "Both dams are retaining flood waters and are not full. They have not given the valley full flood protection since (Turn to Pago 2) Tripoli Photos ( Show Damage ; CAIRO, Dec l--A remark able series of photographs taken from United States airforee bomb ers which raided -Tripoli harbor Sunday, , showed Tuesday that damage was more extensive than originally , believed. ; The photographs, taken in suc cession by each the planes lo go over the target area, showed all stages ' of the raid from the tranquil scene snapped by the first plane to the spectacle of smoke and. Came and sinking 1 ships caught by the final bombers' camera.