PACE TWO
ft OrXGOri STATESMAN, ZaLem Oregon. Thuraday Morning. December 3, 1312
Si.-'
Duce Admits
Italy Forced
Coughs Defiance to
Churchill Threat
Of More Bombs
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,Jtaly in history. France always
, Has neen wtvtwib .
la bis speech to the applaud-
- 'liny chamber of corporations and
' to millions of bomb-conscious
' Italians huddled about loud
speakers i. the squares of the
, threatened 1 a a d . Hossollnl
' ranged : from " Justification of
Italy's-entry into the war to a
rather lightly ' considered de
termination to see it through.
At about the same time-in Lon
. don, Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden was telling the house of
commons that an essential pre
liminary ; to a - new,' peaceful
world order was "to restrict for
all time the aggressive power of
Germany and Japan."
I make no mention of Italy
' Eden said. "I do not regard that
as a major problem."' -
Mussolini even acknowledged
that the German high command
had dictated postponement of im
patient' Italy's entrance into the
; war to a few days after Italy's
? , own- intended entry.
He praised Japan's belligerence
and said he was "invincible."
. He admitted that the allied po
sitions in north Africa poised a
- menace over Italy, but said that
with German held Italy would
survive.
He read excerpts from the
speech by Churchill last Sunday
in which the British prime minis
ter gave Italy the choice of quit
. ting or submitting to "prolonged,
scientific and shattering air at
tack" from the allies' African
"springboard' as well as the Brit
ish homes bases from which the
RAF has been flying the trans
Alpine route to shatter Genoa,
Turin, Milan and other arsenal
and port cities.
To this Mussolini replied:
"The Italian people are not
inferior to the British and Rus
sian peoples.' In oar veins flows
the blood of the ancient Rom
ans. We shall held fast."
Almost irr - the same heavy
breath he said the Italians must
learn to hate and must carry
through a "sacred cause."
"We must learn to hate be
cause we cannot . fight without
hating," he said. ... "This war
is not only necessary it is a
sacred cause. We are proud to
participate in this battle of giants
which will transform the world."
He declared the wholes-world
would be "reduced to the status
of India" if the" axis lost, tJat
the peace would be "100 times
worse than Versailles," in which
Italy participated on the winning
side last time.
The premier said he was not
surprised by the north African
campaign, which actually compel
led the axis to 'tnove into unoc
cupied France days after it oc
curred to face the new threat '
"There were many intrigues
between Americans and high
French Officers- There is nothing
glorious in the landing."
I. Tunisian Push
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observers to be entering its" final
phase. -v . . i" "
" Tunis was reported by Reu
ters news ageney to be with la
artillery range of the forward
allied forces. Pout du Fahs, a
strategic point near the capital,
was stormed by French troops
while British parachute . troops
occupied another Important alr
- field in the Bixerte area, forcing
the luftwaffe to resort snore and:'
.more to Sicilian bases. - .
, JNB, thefficial German' news
-agency, reported that a German
tank attack on Teboura was "par
ticularly successful,"- resulting in
heavy ; losses" f for the "retreat
ing" Americans: j:' " .
The alBed - headquarters com
munique Wednesday said allied
bombers were keeping : up their
assaults on the airfields . at Tunis
and ' Bizerte. :. 1 : . c";'
c Light bombers and fighters' also
are operating in suppad of the
forward troops, the communique
aid. It acknowledged the Loss of
five plahes but declared that sev
en enemy aircraft were destroyed.
- Falls From Auto
I - Norman Coote, five-year-old
. son of Mr. i and Mrs. A. L. Coote
. of Dallas, entered Salem Deason-
- - es4- hospital Wednesday for treat
ment of injuries received when he
fell from a moving car. ; His head
1 was injured, with scratches and
: -bruises about, the face. Although
: v. it : is thought he has concussion,
. his- condition is reported fair.
I niib Expszikr and Tcncicr al lis
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Evttjr Bishl this week in a series of lectures on "World
. Conditions in the Light of Prophesy. .
Subject tonight:
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HXrSTSATED TVmi LARGE CHART
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Following a suggestion by President Roosevelt that American Legion
entertain at .parties during December the men responsible for staffing the armed services, Salem's
Capltal post No. 9 will bo host
pictured above on the night of December 7. The recruiting officers (standing, left te right) are Chief
Quartermaster Robert Fallon, navy; Sgt Herman Doney, marines; Sgt Ethan W. Sena, army. The
draft board members are (seated, left to right) W. I. Needham, Romeo Gouley and Ray J. Stumbo
and MareeUa Miller, clerk.
River Drops;
High Water
Recalled
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All were agreed mat "real high
water" only followed melting
snow and no one remembered a
flood of any importance coming
in November.
The real high water mark was
39 feet reached on the last day
of 1861. The second highest mark
was reached February 2, 1890,
when the river stood at 37.1 and
the Marion-Polk county bridge
went out 'r for the third time in
its history, according ' to R. J.
Hendricks, editor emeritus of The
Oregon Statesman and Oregon
historian.
It was in 1861 when the river
stood at 39 feet that a steam boat
was run up the river to the Marion
county court house, according to
the stories told by those who re
member or who have heard it
from those who recall.
The most recent highwater was
in 1927, when the river reached
a height of 32.2 feet and in 1923
when it reached 33 feet and the
Marion-Polk county bridge was
closed to traffic, according to
Hendricks.
Tariff Bill
Faces Walls
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -JP)-A
measure giving President
Roosevelt wartime powers to sus
pend tariff regulations success
fully weathered a death-sentence
test in the house and ways and
means committee Wednesday, but
there were mounting signs that
stiff opposition from the congres
sional farm bloc lay ahead.
The committee voted 13 to 7
against tabling the legislation.
Such tabling, in addition to giving
the measure a slow death this
year, would likely have meant
added difficulties for it next year
when a new congress takes over
with increased republican
strength, j .
The action was followed first
ly by adoption of a motion to
have Chairman Doughton (D
NC) introduce a modified mea
sure, drafted by a sub-committee.
Rep. Jenkins (R-Ohio) said
that it had been agreed to con
tinue the hearings "long enough
to give people from the far cor
ners of the country time to get
here to present their views."
This reopened the possibility
that congressional approval might
be blocked this year for lack of
time. Minority Leader McNary
(R-Ore.) has served notice that
he will insist upon full public
hearings ; when the bill- reaches
the senate. ?
Jefferson Lad Hurt
; Kenneth ' Krebs, Jefferson,
son of : Mr.', and -Mrs.; William
Krebs, was brought to Salem Dea
coness v hospital Wednesday to
have a broken arm set. No report
was given as to the cause of this
injury. : r. '- - :. : ,.: -
1st Aid Class Begins
A standard Red Cross first aid
class, open to those interested ' in
taking the beginners course, opens
this afternoon, meeting' from 2 to
4 - o'clock in room : 301 " of the
school office building j (old high
school building). .-J - :
Law Agents to Meet
1 PORTLAND, Det.J -iffJ- War
problems confronted by peace of
ficers : and enforcements agents
will be studied at concurrent con
ventions here Thursday and Fri
day of. Oregon district attorneys
and sheriffs.
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Legion to Give Them Party
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to members of the local draft board and the three recruiting officers j
First Yank Ace
Missing Three
Days on Might
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2
"Buzz" Wagner, the "one-man air
force" and first American ace of
this war. has been missing three
days on a routine flight from an
army air base in Florida to Max
weU Field, Ala.
A war department announce
ment Wednesday said he took off
from Eglin Field, Fla., November
30 and has been unreported since,
An extended search still is under
way. Wagner, understood here to
be flying a single-engined pursuit
plane, may have been forced down
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Commanding , a squadron of
P-40s in the Philippines when the
war started, Lt Boyd D. Wagner
shot down five enemy planes and
led his squadron in attacks that
destroyed 24 more on the ground
before the conflict was two weeks
old. He and his companions tossed
hand grenades from the cockpits
of their pursuit planes at the in
vading Japanese, carried bombs in
their laps and sank three small
transports by flying over them
time after time and shooting them
full of machine gun bullet holes.
Laval Confers
On New Vichy
BERN, Switzerland, Dec. 2-(P)
French Chief of Government
Pierre Laval has arrived in Ber
lin for discussions on formation of
a new Vichy government, a Swiss
dispatch from .Milan, Italy, said
Wednesday night
Laval already has announced
formation of "a volunteer African
falange" of Frenchmen to fight
beside Germany against the United
States and Britain, and earlier
dispatches said negotiations were
under way in Paris and Vichy
for the formation of a new gov
ernment to organize French ar
mament and food production for
Germany's benefit.
Sources in close- touch with
Vichy affairs also said that the
"new army" of France would have
as its nucleus, the pro-Nazi "Blue
Shirt" organizations of Jacques
Doriot, the Paris collaborationist
who openly preaches for a French
declaration of war against the
United Nations.
Army's Radio
Class Slated
Salem's fourth class of 20 train
ees in radio mechanics s t a r t s
training next Monday, December
7, war production ' training pro
gram offices here announced Wed
nesday. Operated for the United
States army signal corps, the
classes are particularly of interest
to young men who wish to get into
radio and communication work in
me armed lorces and who are
about to be called for army serv
ice, C. A. Guderian, supervisor of
the program, . declares: ''
. Students are paid while in train
ing and will be enrolled in the
Ninth corps area enlisted reserves,
but their enrollments must ; be
completed before notice of induc
tion Is'received. "-
-. jauroument in tne course re
quires considerable time, and men.
interested should take action at
once if they wish to be included in
the new class, Guderian said. In
formation may be obtained from
him at the vocational shop build
ing of the senior high school.
Legislator Fears ,
For AP Future
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn, Dec. 2
(5) Fear Aat government vic
tory in its monopoly, suit .against
the Associated Press would cause
the " cooperative . new$ agency, to
become "amenable to Washington
bureaucracy was expressed Wed
nesday night by Rep.. R. Carroll
Reese of Tennessee's first district
in a statement to the' ; Jphnson
City Chronicle. V '
If the AP should be held to
be a monopoly,' Reece said, :it
might well be held to be 'a pub
lic utUity." , - '
Such an eventuality, the con
gressman expressed belief, would
subject the association -'to govern
ment regulation and pressure.
r
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members throughout the nation
Council May
Gove Allies
Dakar's Use
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ius second in command; Adm. Sir!
Andrew Browne .Cunningham. I
head of the British and Allied
naval forces under Eisenhower:
Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, and
others.
Informed sources believed the
use of Dakar by the Allies was
a certainty with only the extent
to be determined, and naval quar
ters were quick to point out the
advantages. In Dakar's excellent
harbor, they said, small craft such
as corvettes, destroyers and mo-
torboat submarine chasers , could
be based and serviced, since naval
facilities there are in first-class
shape. ,
Furthermore. Allied rnnti-nl of
Dakar would change the entire
balance of sea power in the South
Atlantic, where U-boat activity is
expected to increase along African
supply lines.
Another source declared one
of the best bits of news that could
come from Dakar would be offi- that the obstacles manpower and ior permanent use. These fly
cial information that naval nuits I equipment ; shortages, rationing I ing ships must not be confused
there had come over to the Fiht -
ing French. '
In orsranizin his imnerial rmm-
cil, Adm. Darlan assumed the
functions and title of chief of state
for North and West Africa, nam-
ing Gov.-Gen. August Nnmux nf
Morocco, Boisson, and Yves Cha-
tel of Algeria, and Gen. Giraud
and Gen. Jean Marie Rarffr
his council.
Sailors Lost
On Navy Boat
NEWPORT, RI., Dec. 2-(ifP)-A
navy liberty boat, filled with
men returning from shore leave,
capsized in Narragansett bay ear-
ly Wednesday and between 14 and
21 sailors were feared lost
Two sailors. J. R. KolW ar,A
L. J. Hinson, both seamen second
class, were known to hsv
vived. As many as 23 men may
have been aboard.
Jamestown firmpn rocnviH
five bodies and the boat itself, a
motor whale boat, was found
wedeed between rocks on Cona-
nicut island on which Jamestown
is located.
The navy public relations of-1
fice at Newport said it would ex-
amine a roster in an effort to de- f
termine exactly how many men
were aboard. " I
Subsidies to Help
Export of Wheat
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 JPi
The . agriculture department an
nounced Wednesdav m nw uH
sidv nrncrram HMimHl t I
dite the export of wheat to Mex-
co, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador,
Venezuela and Central America. I
Under the program- it will nav
bounties .to exporters -on sales
made for export to these coun-
m W I
tries. The 'initial. rate will be 20 j
cents a .bushel. It will be in -f f
feet until December 22.
Piano Crashes
By The Associated Press
i Mid-air collisions, one between
iwu uimj iignier snips ? over
southwestern Washington and the
other above Felts Field, Spokane
municipal airport, took the lives
of two men Wednesday,
Second Lt Jack N. Finley, 23,
seanie, former University of
Washington student stationed at
McChord Field, was kuled when
his plane hit another and crashed
near McKenna Field; early .Wed
nesday morning. The pilot of the
second ship Second IX Norman I
W. Jackson, Carter, MontTbailed
out and parachuted to safety.
At Spokane, two private planes
supped together as they cam. In
for landing and the one flown by
Second Lt Tom Lauer of Ohio
crashed, Injuring him fatally. He
was taking private frying lessons.'
The other ship, with two civilians
aboard, made an emergency land
ing In a nearby plowed field and
neither man was believed dan
gerously hurt ,
Lieutenant Finley was the son
of a Seattle dentist The wreck
age of the two planes fell nearly
three miles apart The pilots were
on a routine training flight'
Salary'Limit
Rule Outlined
$67,200 to Be Basic
Topi f or Incomes ;
Some Raises Okeh
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butions to charitable, educational
dr other organizations."
Similarly allowances - may be
made for insurance Dremiuma.
provided the employe cannot pay
them from other Income "without
disposing; of assets at a subatan -
tial financial loss resulting-In tin -
due hardship. The same kind of
allowances , are . permissable for
lixea obugauons which are do -
fined as "any enforceable liabili -
ty of the employ the amount nf
wnicft liability was fixed and do -
I termined on October S, 1942.
Abe, If the employe cannot
et his Income taxes dae on
past Income withoat sacrificing
assets and smffeting . mndoe :
'headship, he may be allowed
safflcloat additional salary to
take care of the taxes. Thas, It
was apparent that la many easea
the gross salary allowed weald
be for above 7.2M.
With regard to 1942 high bracket
salaries, : the regulations provide
that an employe can receive the
same amount he got in 1941, but
cannot got Increases beyond a
"basic" figure of $54,428 unless his
salary is fixed under a bona fidel
contract in effect on October 2, 1
1842.
Concerning other salaries, raises
and decreases will be possible, but
most of them must first be ap- V
proved by the bureau of internal So,' just for a purely utilitar
revenue. Ian point of view, the Army would
17 T
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Said Sound
DENVilR Dec. 2-VSecretarynf7ill H'.TVaM'
of Agriculture Wickard said Wed- TT XlJ. JLM5 X Olil
nesday "there are errors of torn
mission and omission" in the de-
nartment's 194S war crop pro-
gram, but mat in the main it was
sound and provided an unprece-
dented job the American farmer
can and must accomplish.
He told the regional agricultural
conference that criticism of the
program was to be expected, and
land transportation -problenu
I seemed almost, insurmountable.
Wickard added, howeverr that
the production goals were the
farmers war job and carried as
much responsibility as that borne
by every marine in the Solomon
islands. Doubt, expressed by some
speakers from the floor, as to the
feasibility of attaining the goals
j wa nt by Wickard with the as-
sertion that it was the farmers
"patriotic obligation."
Chairman of the agricultural
war boards from each of the 13
states represented sent Wickard a
states represented sent Wickard a
formal statement after the meet-
ing pledging their states to meet
next year's production goals.
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newspaper ' publisher, announced
weonesaay mt in response w
many request? he would permit
J his name to be presented for the
I chairmanship of the Republican
national committee at a commit-1
tee meeting December 7..
Gannett recently resigned as
assistant chairman. If selected
chairman, he would succeed Rep.
Joseph W. Martin of Massachu-
setts, who has announced his
resignation in order to devote hisl
full time to his duties as House I
minority leader.
November Sales
I Of Bonds Short
WASHINGTON. . Dec. 2 - (Jfi
Secretary of the Treasury Mor-
gentnau ) , announced : weanesoay
that sales of war bonds in No-
vember fell $65,400,000 short of
1L A AtftM JIAA A .'' '
uie oow.wu.ouu quota.
Sales of Series E bonds, which
include thosce purchased by pay-
roll deductions, were $541,600,000
as against S587,000,000 in October.
Series F and G sales in November
$193,000,000, compared with
$226,500,000 In October.
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By I3ABSL CXIILD3,
The chamber of commerce
could atart draplngv the t street
with cedar In October and
would postpone Christmas shop
ping until the Salvation Army's
kettles had appeared on the cor
I ners of the downtown business
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L Today the kettles are out and
1 1 rnust commence to think. Now,
f that is putting it a little badly.
1 lor ever-since last Christmas gift
I suggestions have popped out at
I American women from shoo win-
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1 This year the toys are like those
J I remember having played with
1 you see, I was a youngster dur-
lng World War I and now I sud
denly recollect, and understand.
wny our toys were largely wood
en rather than metaL - And Tm
a little unhappy because none
of the nephews or nieces are ex
actly the right size for a pinto
pony rocking horse that much re
sembles the one from which my
brother shaved the mane on De
cember, 28, 1917.
I There will be some difficulty
I deciding between the doll In nur
I ae's uniform and that In ruffly
I dress why aren't there two flve-
j year-old girls in my family?
I And the handmade gifts al
ways I am left with unfinished
attempts, and always I start
again, but not until the Salva-
I tion Army kettles have appeared
on tne street
be doing some of us a service if
I " started its Christmas cheer fund
ju' or tw earner.
NEW. YORK, Dec 2-GP)-Henry
Kaiser, west coast shipbuilder.
said Wednesday he would be able
to define publicly in two months
the plans for the giant cargo
planes to be built by him and
nowara uugnes.
we are planning," Kaiser said,
to buHd these huge cargo planes
i witn passenger ships.
j They will be designed to carry
neavy freight and we are building
mem rrom plans to produce the
greatest possible mileage at the
lowest possible cost."
Kaiser, who speaks , here Fri-
day night at the final banquet
of , the 3 National ' Association of
Manufacturers convention, said
j the ships will- """certainly be able
J to fly over the ocean, land cargo
ana he able to fly back without
I refueling.
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lug Jr lunges
CLEVELAND, Dec. 2-P)-In
the worst disaster on treacherous
Lake Ene since 1936, the 94-ton
tug Admiral plunged beneath icy
t a -
wma-swept waves Wednesday,
arownmg ner crew of 14.
Hampered by adverse weather,
iwuasi guara cutters sought mean-
wnue to rescue the 19 crew mem-
bers of the 250-foot barge Cleveco.
The barge was under the Ad-
miral's tow when the tuar went
down a dozen miles northwest of
Cleveland and not far from Avon
I point the same area where the
I Canadian vessel. Sand Merchant
earned is to their deaths six
years ago.
The wood-hulled Admiral was
bum In 1893, and formerly was
named the George H. Meyer. She !
was. 59 reet long and 24 wide. "
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Soviets Push
On 2 Fronts
3800 Nazis Killed in
Day's Action; Reds
take Volga mil
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v (The German radio acknow
ledged local Russian successes"
at Bery, well inside the ? VelOtie
Luki-Rzhev-Vyazma triangle on
the central front, and also at
Demyansk southeast of Lake
Omen, a sector thus far not men
tioned by the Russians. The Ger
mans also suggested another
powerful Russian offensive was
brewing ' southeast of Vononech.
between the present active thea
tres. The nazis told of a heavy
concentration of Russian forces
and equipment in the Buturlin-
ovka-Kalach-Pavlovsk triangle
below Voronezh and said nazl
airmen already were r attacking
tnere. . . .
The Russians said they had
knocked out or captured : a total
of 42 German tanks Wednesday,
and that the red air. force de
stroyed another. 20 on Tuesday
as well as 150 trucks with troops
and supplies.
Northwest of Stalingrad where
the Russian are fighting : their
way down the eastern bank of
the Don river behind the nazl
siege army that has been stale
mated for 100 days before that
Volga city, the communique said
the red army was methodically
destroying enemy gun emplace
ments, dugouts and blockhouses.
One tank 'unit was said to have
killed 200 Germans, crippled sev
en tanks and captured ten mor
tars with their stockpiles of am
munition.
In another sector of this sal-
lent between the Don and Volga
rivers, the communique said Rus
sian troops beat off German
counter attacks and wiped out 600
nazis. '
Southwest of Stalingrad mere
that 5a more Germans fell,
the Russians said, and the red
army also destroyed eight ene
my tanks, 11 guns, 18 tracks
and 16 ammunition wagons.
Inside Stalingrad only artillery
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tory, area, but one enemy infantry
company , was said to have been
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still were clinging to their posi
tions in the city although weakened-
by the withdrawal of some
units to counter soviet advances
elsewhere. The newspaper Red
Star also said that the nazis were
being hammered into gradual re
treat on the central front where
many German, divisions had lost
more than half their men.
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Chile-Axis Break!
Seen Imminent
; SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec, 2
Informed political sources re
garded a Chilean diplomatic break
with the axis as ' inevitable and
Imminent Wednesday night after
Foreign Minster Joaquin: Fernan
dez outlined government policy at
m private session of the senate.
' Chile . and Argentina are the
omy two south American nations
that have not ; broken with the
axis. Chile's President Juan An
ton! Rios recently indicated that
the step would be taken once ha
was convinced that it served Chil
ean and Pan-American interests.
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