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Bcmombcr . . . . . Perl Harbor and put yens" name iuibi those who serve! Bead what services are organized and how yon may register, on this pare today J . register Tuesday "Mobilization day." v Dimcut . . : Saturday snssct 8:23 p.m. Sunday sunrise 8:37 a. m. ; Weather: Thank max. 49, mm. SZ. FrL river 16.9 ft. Kalnfall JS In. Weather data restricted by army request. FCUNDQD ' iCZi imimr-CLcorrD yeaii Golem. Oregon. Saturday Morning. December 5. 1942 Fries te. i:o. no A TVO OWLOl Xfra ... mli.r lVV- .r.'W II II 111 I I I I I I -. f X A ri attacks M Wmmmisi Z I - TKTI T1 TVTl T 1 I i 1 I I I . it'll V JL .IX -. NLj KLAJL LI LI Ked Villages Of S talMgrad Ttviii Offensives Gain Also on Rzhev Front; Nazis Rush Reserves By EDDIE GILMORE I ' - w ........ MOSCOW, Saturday, Dec. 5 - villages in the Stalingrad area river bend west of that city, surrounded a German stronghold near Velikie Luki on the frozen central front, and killed up wards of 2500 nazis in twin offensives that still are gaining ground, the Soviets announced early Saturday. The regular midnight communique ' said the Russians gained 200 to 300 yards inside Stalingrad itself, occupied two important Kaiser Urges Post-War Plan Challenges Industry To Show way to Decent Living NEW YORK, Dec. 4-)-Hen-ry J. Kaiser told a meeting of 4000 . of the country's leading industrial , Jsts Friday night they must show the way to a decent standard of living for the country of "sur render to the social politicians who have little to offer save an ul time bankruptcy. At the -same time the west coast shJpboider painted a shining pic ture of the possibilities for post war America and offered a thumb nail sketch of his ideas which he aid would "need no commissions, no corps of experts, no volumin ous reports." He said at the closing dinner of the National Association of Man ufacturers three-day convention, preparations could be made now for those post-war projects by the pledging and deposit of war bonds. Kaiser called the roll of' the industries and professions which can supply the needs of the . country when peace : comes, ' challenged them to pfan and announce at once their post war products or services and make known their willingness to accept as advance payment on purchases to be fulfilled In peacetime the war bonds into which an enormous volume of publis savings ' was presently pouring. Among the gigantic undertak ings which Kaiser proposed be planned now were nine millions units of housing, a "vast, modern, well-unified daringly designed and audiciously executed highway system," adequate medical care for all health problems with con struction of the necessary , facili ties, work on "our land transpor tation which at the close of the '" war will be hopelessly inadequate through wear, tear and obsoles cence," and fulfillment of the huge vwwit.un riomartri frtr aiitnmohiles. In a rare excursion into theor izing, - the man who has -become country's war production drive, said: a There i a grave and compel (Turn to Page 2) Sprague Backs AP's Defense DECATUR, HI- Dec 4--John Day Jackson, publisher of the New Haven, Conn, Register, asserted Friday the prompt interchange of news, particularly by smaller newspapers within their own States, -would be threatened seri ously by success of the govern ment's anti-trust suit against the Associated Press. . . "It would also mean a serious diminution of our foreign news nd news of the war," Jackson Stated in supporting the stand taken by representatives of 1000 newspapers published outside metropolitan centers who Joined the defense against the govern ment's suit, ; Among others who sent mes sages of support are: Ralph Elackledge, the. Press, Cberidan, Y7yo. Charles A. Sprarae, States man, a.!fia, Ore. Elystus L. Hayes, Mercury Her ald and Tv ening News, San Jose, .Calif. .-'Millard Ccpe, the Herald, Deni fon, Tea ' eize 1 1 West P) - The Red army seized 1 1 more Friday, presumably in the Don points northwest and southwest of the Volga river city, and were beginning "the liquidation of en circled enemy strongpoints" in the area of Velikie Luki, only 30 miles from the Latvian border, i Dispatches said the Germans were throwing reserves into the central front in a desperate effort to stem the red army in the Rzhev-Velikie Luki-Vyazma tri angle northwest of Moscow. The communique said that several more populated places had been seized west of Rzhev, and for several days the Rus sians have reported numerous holes torn in the German lines between that point and Velikie Luki. One German infantry battalion counter-attacking west of Rzhev was smashed, the Soviets said, and another battalion ; was "Touted from a ' height controlling ' an im portant road In the Velikie Luki area. 'Hundreds of enemy dead re mained on the field of battle", in the latter sector, the bulletin said. In the Stalingrad area, the communique said, the Russians still were advancing on the east ern bank of the Don at the rear of Stalingrad. It is this momen tous push that threatens to trap the nazi siege armies anchoraged between the Don and Volga rivers before Stalingrad. Several enemy strongpoints were overrun during Friday and a commanding height was taken after a battle which cost the Germans 600 dead. Southwest of Stalingrad anoth er 1000 Germans were killed, and six tanks, 19 machine guns, two trucks and 30 enemy .dugouts were destroyed in the capture of a strong enemy point. The ; Russians conceded they were meeting stubborn resistance. Young GOP Sessions Here Today " Members of the Oregon Young Republicans federation will start registering this morning at the Sa lem chamber of commerce for the organization's : third annual con vention, to be held there during the afternoon. Opening ceremonies, in charge of Sam F. Speerstra, Salem, con-, vention ; general chairman, are scheduled for 1 p.m. Adam F. Lefor, Eugene, federation presi dent, will preside over the bus iness sessions throughout the af ternoon, to be concluded with election of officers at 4 o'clock. . ! The j convention . banquet is to start at the Golden Pheasant res taurant at 6:30 p.m. with William Bartle, Eugene, serving as toast master. Among state officials and party leaders invited to speak are Gov. Charles A. Sprague, . Congressmen-Elect Lowell Stockman and Harris Ellsworth, State Trea surer Leslie M. Scott, Robert M. FarrelL jr., secretary of state elect; W. E. Kimsey, labor commissioner-elect; . Niel Alien, re publican state chairman; Douglas Elliott, past president of the fed eration, and Alfred T. Sulmonetti, former young republican' national committeeman. Londoners Betting Heavier on Allies LONDON, Saturday, Dec. 5(Jf) The vast improvement in allied positions in November brought; a betting increase as to the war's duration with some brokers wag ering even money it would end by June, 1943, the News Chron icle reported Saturday." ' Lloyds, however, is refusing to lay any odds or take any wagers. .Direct Delivery Wood Price Cut PORTLAND, Dee. 4-(-The price of wood delivered direct from the forest to consumer was cut $1.25 in the Salem area Friday. The Oregon office of price ad ministration . said eeilinff prices for wood yards in Salem would remain the same. The new or der which will affect 40 or 50 fanners near the capital, was issued to prevent drainage of wood from other areas to Sa lem, OPA officials said. : WPAAbolished By President Private Employment Boom Ends Relief ; Deadline June 30 WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-(P)-The works projects administration, which provided depression relief for millions and an- ever bitter controversy for congress, was ord ered out of existence Friday by President Roosevelt. Wartime increases in private employment make the agency un necessary now, he said in a letter to Ma. Gen. Philip B. Fleming, the federal works administrator. Some individuals remain on the rolls, he added, but they can be provided for by the states and localities. Uncompleted building projects are to be taken over by other federal agencies. In many states, the death sentence is to become effective by February 1; in others "as soon thereafter as feasible. The whole is to be liquidated by June SO at the i latest, for Mr. Roosevelt observed there would be no necessity for. WPA appropriations for-tbo next fis cal year, which begins on that date. , ' ' ; r -During its career, WPA spent more than $10,000,000,000, provid ing relief for some 38,000,000 peo ple. To the end, the president stoutly defended the agency, its record, and the policy which guided it. It displayed "courage and deter mination in the face of uninformed criticism," he said. It had "asked for and earned an honorable dis charge." WPA began its existence seven years ago as the works progress administration. It was a successor to the old federal emergency re lief administration. Its program was rooted in the theory that it was better to make work for the jobless than to provide them with an outright dole. Later, WPA was charged with subsidizing elections. WPA super visors were accused of influenc ing WPA workers to vote for administration-approved candidates. Such criticism was a factor in the enactment of the Hatch pure poli tics act, outlawing any such prac tices. . . I" . ' : WPA's foes began clamoring for its liquidation some time ago, on the ground that increased private employment had made it unneces sary. Last spring the house came within four votes of abolishing the agency outright. Mr.' Roosevelt said that expe rience had "amply justified the View' that "providing ' useful work Is superior to 'any kind of m, dole." ' -'""W! - - In further justification, he pointed to the airports, schools, (Turn to Page i 2) pun!.' Ice j Cream Output Cut ' WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 ; The government Friday ordered the manufacture of ice cream cur tailed about 20 per cent in De cember and January in- order , to provide more butter. The war production board di rected manufacturers and restau rants to produce only. 60 per cent of their October output Because le$s ice cream is made In the cold er months of December and Janu ary, however, the cut will amount to only about 20 per cent below the normal production. The order is designed to save enough butter fat to make 3,300, 000 pounds of butter In December, about 3 per cent of the amount of butter produced last Decem ber. - - . '-. Officials said they consider ice cream a food and not aluxury, and that there is no disposition to stop its manufacture. They added that it might not be as pleniful as formerly and that new fruit flavors might replace some of the chocolate and other flavors made , scarce by the war. Czars' Naming Slated Wickard f or Food and McNutt for Draft Posts Reported By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-) Executive orders naming Sec retary of Agriculture Wickard as food administrator and transferring control over se lective service to the war man power commission headed by Paul V. McNutt were reported Friday night to be on President Roosevelt's desk for action Sat urday. High administration sources who could not be quoted by name said the president planned to confer on Wickard wide authority over the nation's wartime food produc tion, along with power to deter mine what products should be ra tioned and when new rationing orders should be issued. The delegation of selective service policy-making functions to the manpower commission, it was indicated, would be ac companied by transfer of the federal employment service the commission. This would concentrate in McNutt's hands centralized control over man-, power. The decision to make McNutt the chief in this field was said to have been taken after the presi dent abandoned plans for a three way cabinet shift which would have given the post to Secretary of Interior Harold L.. Ickes. ' - Subsequest suggestions J to 2?r Roosevelt that he turn over - the manpower authority to James F. Byrnes, the economic director, were said to have been met with objections from Byrnes that this would place on him administrative tasks conflicting with his full time duties as stabilization policy mak er. Snow Blanket Here Surprise, Melts Quickly Most residents of Salem were surprised Friday morning when they got up and looked out of the window to see a blanket of snow covering the mud holes left by the recent Hood. It was the first snowfall of the season. The rest of the population just slept through the snow which had disappeared before they got up. Hundreds of residents were awak ened before their regular waking hour by more excited members of the family, who were perhaps from sunnier climes and were seeing their first snowfall. .The snow had disappeared be fore noon. Total precipitation dur ing the 24-hour, period ending at 11:30 Friday night was three- tenths of an inch, acc6rding to the airport weather observer. PORTLAND, Dec. 4 -P- Port land got a powdering of snow Friday morning, but most of it melted off during the day. Sev eral other central and southern Oregon and Willamette valley points reported light falls. East ern Oregon escaped the snow. . (Turn to Page 2) Civilian Defense Groups Plan for Incident Day Commemorating the first bomb ing attack of World war II on American shores, Marion county civilian defense council is cooper ating with the state defense coun cil in staging a . Pearl Harbor in cident drill day, Bryan H. Con ley, county coordinator, announced Saturday. ' : '. All groups Included In the cit izens Defense and Citizens Ser vice corps are to make a "com plete and thorough" test, he de clared. Purpose of the drill, - which , La Salem will be accomplished; threuxh a series of four or five, hypothetical incldents," will be ; to test the time required for all services to get to specified posts, test . all communications, . telephone, messenger and chain calls, and to reach given points j with needed equipment and as sistance. -. ; - Why ;. " -. , ; " C " . ' v ' ' ' " f 'i ' i i ; .-n.. ; Heavy j allied bombings left only skeletons of buildings In this debris littered street in Tobruk, Libya. Incessant bombing's of axis positions played a major part in forcing Marshal Rommel to retreat across Egypt and. Libya. This la aa official British phot o. Associated Press Telemat. Argentine Spy Charge Upheld Latin Judge Asserts German Diplomatic Office at Fore BUENOS AIRES, Dec 4 JP) The Sumner Welles charges of axis espionage in Argentina were substantiated Friday by an Ar gentine federal judge who declar ed in the midst of an inquiry that ' spying here was directed from the German embassy and who i made an initial move to punish the offending diplomats or expd firm.. Judge aiiguel Jantuus made the disclosure in ordering the testi mony of six accused spies sent to the supreme court to determine whether the reich's diplomats may be brought, to trial. The supreme court is the only tribunal authorized to try diplo mats but in order to do so it must obtain permission from the Ger man government to have the rep resentatives waive their diploma tic immunity from prosecution. . A court source said if Berlin refused, as expected, to permit the diplomats to stand trial as common - spies, then Argentina would be forced to declare them persona non grata.1 - However, if the supreme court decided to press for the trial, it appeared likely that Germany would withdraw the accused rep resentatives or possibly oust them from the German foreign service in an Attempt to maintain diplo matic relations with Argentina. Senate Approves Panama Pact WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 -flV The senate Friday aDDroved an agreement transferring a number of United States-owned ' proper ties to! Panama. desDite - obiec- tions that the measure was an ad ministration move to by-pass the senate's constitutional say on treaties. The agreement, presented In the form i of legislation requiring - a bare majority vote in both senate and house, was passed by the sen ate 40 to 29. In the form of a tret- ty, requiring senate approval by a two-thirds majority, ft .thus would have failed of ratification. As a . treaty, however, . it would not need house approval. . - December 8 has been set aside as "mobilization day" to empha size to civilians not now engaged in civilian defense activities the need for all to get "in the swing for an all-out war effort on the home, front, Conley said. They' are offered the opportun ity to register in either of the two divisions: - ; The .Citizens' ; Defense . corps, which had its .birth ,in Marion county in July, 1941, is divided in to ' six departments designed for service in protection of civilians in case of emergency, while the Citizens Service corps, . with its 15 divisions, - includes work ": of neighborhood or block leaders, de fense ' housing, - salvage, ' cultural resources, war- savings,-' consumer interest, (rationing), transporta tion, agriculture (exemplified by victory gardens), education, labor (Turn to Page 2) Rommel Left Tobruk Around Oregon By.Th Associated Press The Republican resurgence in the November election was due to the indifference of laboring men and women who frequently forget to vote in times of pros perity, Phil Brady, Porland Cent ral Labor council presoident and Multnomah Democratic represen tative, told the Willamette Demo cratic society in Portland. Harvey Meade, 23, Toledo; Ralph De Kuyper, 25, Lebanon, and Frank Harris, 37, New York, are held by the. US marshal's office on draft evasion charges. Robert Douglas, 13, one of two boys turned over to juvenile au thorities for abandoning' saddle horses near the interstate bridge without r food" or "water, escaped from a Portland detention home Thursday night Discontinua tion of the war projects relief pro gram will not affect Oregon much, (Turn to Page 2) Marshall Says Army Knows What's Doing NEW YORK, .Dec 4--Crit-ics of army planning and opera tions got this answer Friday night from the ' chief of staff, Gen. George C Marshall "We know what we are doing. In an address prepared for de livery to the National Association of Manufacturers, Marshall said that one public reaction to the war had caused him "consider able concern that Is, a feeling in some quarters that we are build ing too large an army that we could not transport it to active theatres even if we had it in short, the belief that we do not know what we are doing or where we are going. t Occasionally, he said, this atti tude may be stimulated by "a willingness to wave the flag but a reluctance to accept the hard ships,' " but usually it was evi dence of a desire to influence the strategical employment of mili tary forces without knowledge of logistical requirements, the mili tary situations, or ; the Interna tional relationships Involved. The army's plans are based on months of study of ; facts not available to the civilian, he said, and "we must have your confi dence, since we cannot spread our cards on the table without haz arding a massacre and the pos sible loss of the war. "It is a comparatively simple thing to cut a program, to check - (Turn. to Page 2) Taft to Back Gov. Bricker ' COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 4-P)-Th Ohio State' Journal said Friday night that US Sen. Robert A. Taft of Cincinnati would support Gov. John W. Bricker for Ohio's favor ite son candidate for the republi can presidential nomination in 1944. - - Taft, ; the favorite son in 1938 and 1940, will announce his stand in a few days and then Bricker will state his own position "which will be, at least, amenable to the idea, the Journal added. The governor said Friday he favored selection of a man from the central west as republican national chairman and indicated that former Congressman John B. Hollister of Cine innati, Taft's law partner, would be' acceptable to him. . -1 :' - Jap Aircraft Drop Supplies Parachutes Sent to - Guinea Garrison After Ship Loss ALT JED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, Dec. 5 (A3 Hard-press ea Japanese, ap parently finding- too ' costly - In ships their repeated attempts to aid trapped forces in the Buna Gona area, were reported Satur- I day dropping supplies by para chute in an aerial attempt to re lieve, their beleaguered comrades. The allied command communi que Issued at noon-said that "the enemy . has -, resorted to supply dropping by' parachute In an ef fort to relieve his beleaguered garrison. . The noon communique told of mopping up of pockets . of oppo sition left behind by the allied spearhead which fought its way to the coast near Gona and then turned toward Buna. More than 400 enemy dead have been count ed. In addition, an estimated 40 Japs drowned when two large barges were sunk by bombers of Gen.' Douglas MacArthur's air force. The fighting in sectors other than around Gona was referred to as intermittent. Allied planes bombed airdromes up the New Guinea coast at Lae and Salamaua - and 1 also ranged above New Guinea to New Ire land, setting fires last night among aircraft at Kavieng. Enemy Forces On Island Lack Supplies WASHINGTON,-Dec. 4 -VP)-Japan's latest costly and futile at tempt to deliver; troops and sup plies, to . Guadalcanal island was cited by Secretary of the Navy Knox Friday as evidence that ene my forces there must be running short of material. - Knox' described . the attempt, made Monday night, as a complete failure for the Japs and he called it "round three, in the battle for control of the southeastern Solo mons. An American naval force sank six warships, two transports and a cargo vessel. "They lost a lot of ships, Knox said, "and they went away. They failed to gain their objective. They did not get ashore." The secretary told his press con ference, In fact, that he believed the enemy had been unsuccessful In land reinforcements or supplies for the past three weeks; that is, since their greatest effort to re take the island was smashed by a . (Turn to Page 2) - 8250 for Uniform Allowed in Bill WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 - (k) President Roosevelt signed Friday a bill providing an allowance, of $250 for uniforms and equipment for officers and warrant officers commissioned or appointed in the United States army.. . - Under previous laws national guard officers and warrant offi cers were excluded frcra the bene fits of uniform allowance statutes. The new law grants the (250 allowance to each officer who was on , duty April 3, 1S33, or there after, " . -. Yankees Advance ; In South i . J Fierce Tank Fights i. Leave 7reckage on Important Sector ALLIED FORCE HEAD QUARTERS IN NORTH AF- RICA, Dec. 4 (AP) Amer ican combat troops striking southeast of Tebessa near the Tunisian - Algerian border drove a nazi armored column -back toward the coast Friday in a disorderly retreat, cap turing more than 100 prison ers and taking a town. , r I The Americans fighting with French allies were commanded by Col. Edson Raff, US parachute leader, and included mixed units of infantry, mechanized and par achute troops. Tebessa, Algeria, Is 75 miles from Gafsa, an important Junction in southern Tunisia, and 140 miles from Sfax,- a Mediterranean Iport. A spokesman said violent fight ing still was going on between Tebourba and Mateur in northern , Tunisia on the approaches to Bi zerte and Tunis. . J "By The .Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 4 A series ef terrific axis counterattacks 1 through the mountains between DJedeida and Matear which eaaght the, British First army with Its i ! American armored forces on the flank' at Tebourba were reported Friday nlrht to have left the plains and hills of Tunisia strewn - with the fWTeek&s ex tanks an the sit, nation at Tebourba In doubt. ! "It is now clear that axis troops have recaptured! Tebourba,": .23 miles west of Tunis and about 33 miles south of Bizerte, said the j military correspondent of Reuters, British news agency. , The Germans also were report ed holding to Mateur, 25 miles south of Bizerte, ! An allied headquarters com munique, however, said "our troops in the neighborhood of Te bourba are consolidating their po sitions' without giving the situa tion at Tebourba itself and with out mentioning the situation at the previous - advanced positions ol the allies at DJedeida, 12 miles west of Tunis, or at Mateur, 23 miles south of Bizerte. , ,! ! The implication was plain, how ever, that the allies hadcome up against a stone wall of resistance in ; the i admission that the forces of Lt. Gen. K. A. N. Anderson were consolidating at the rear ward position. . i - .The same implication was evi- dent in the1 earlier statement of an. allied headquarters spokesman that j the advantage in the forth coming test would be the "one who regains his strength more quickly" following the hard bat tles in the Tebourba area. j The Moreeea radio said the Germans had thrown fleet of about SO tanks Into their coun terattack and that the "larger part were destroyed or dam-aged.-- t. The enemy also' was reported by the same source to have sent parachutists into, the attack, but these were said to have been rounded up and made powerless In short order. Berlin claimed that the ruins of 40 allied tanks dotted the bat tlefield after 43 hours of fierce fighting. - ; , The last reports had said the Americans and British were hold- ing doggedly to the western out-, skirts of the little white walled railroad town of Djedeida, while the ' Germans fought : from the eastern half and that the town had changed hands several times. The last official reports also had said that the Allies still were ap plying pressure at Mateur, But (Turn to Pass 2) 1 l . "pT It !r':";'- . twiWifl. ,: . i