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Service Men ; ,: Men ef Salem and vicin ity are la unif oral with Un cle Sam over the face of the globe. Follow them dally m The Statesman's I Service Men' column on pace s today- - : :i - : vj ' Dimout VC ' Sunday sunset 5:21 p. ia. Xlonday sunrise 8:0 a. m, TVeather: Fri. max. ' temp. 43, mln. 13, Sat. rainfall .13 Ja. Weather, data restricted 7 arm rWnesU ( -r- : - .- ; ,v . KHIETY-SECOKD YEAH Salem. Oregon Sunday Morning. December 6. 1812 No. 1C1 KI Jan? . Ti rVTi rfri V. i r ' ot - - - ' f ' 7 Shinies aw AILORS RESCUED FROM BLAZING BATTLEWAGON A navy laueh pulls up to the blazing USS West-Vn-ainia to rescue sailer (tower circle) from the battered-battleship during: Japanese attack en Pearl Harbor Deev 7, 1941. Neto the- twe men (upper circle) in the US NaTT. (Abe see pictures en pages X and S.) , , 4 , tAILOSS FIGHT BATTLESHIP boats at side of the burning battleship, USS West Virginia, and fight pedoes and bombs' during attack the smoke-blackened sky. (AP llMeMeMBeasCTenuuu"en USS MARYLAND SLIGHTLY DAMAGLD The 3100-ton ! USS '. Maryland, battleship moored, inboard . of the USS Oklahoma, which capslsed (right), 'was damaged slightly la the Jap attack en Pearl Bar : bor. Dee. 7, 1941. and was ene of the first ships to rejoin the fleet.: (AP, Telemat from US Navy.) DESTRUCTION AT PEARL HARBOR A pall of smoke fills the sky ever Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 194L after the Japs attacked. In foreground Is capslsed minelayer, USS Ocale, and to the left Is the USS lit Sena, 19.CS 3-ton cruiser, hit by an aerial torpe-do. Beyond Js the superstructure of the USS Pernn sylv&nia, an J at rlzht Is the USS Maryland, burning. At right center the destroyer Shaw, la ablaae la CrjCitZ CJ? Telemat from US Jary. , . f. t ( . v , BLAZE Despite danger of explosions, US saUorsman hoses from on Pearl Harbor Dec 7, 1941. Telemat from US Navy.) CJpM04&'exe4M superstructure. (AP Telemat frei flames started by Japanese tor Note the Stars and Stripes against 1- A round MigeH Enlistment in Aimed Forces Ended by FDR No More Men Over -38 to Be Taken;, BIcNutt 'Czar' I WASHINGTON, Dec Voluntary -enlistments . In the armed forces were stopped Sat urday by - President Roosevelt, except in, special cases,' and the army and . navy wereJold to get their ' recruits henceforth through the selective service system, which was placed under Paul V. McNutt i . i At the same time the war de partment called a halt to , the in duction of all men over. 38 and opened the . way for the honor able discharge of such men al ready in service if they can serve the war effort better as civilians. The president acter, after weeks of study of the knotty manpower problem, in an executive : order which not-only vested supervis ion ofv military procurement In McNutt as chairman of the war manpower commission 1 but gave him stronger powers as well oyer all government departments con cerned with' manpower.; and over the practices of private industry. McNutt was empowered to di rect that the hiring of workers in any occupation or . area; which he might designate should be done through the United States employ- t wrutpo an fifftmrf: rf mfefc manpower r commission 4 andto channel workers; into the most e senual lobs from those : less es sential. . " . ' '' ' ; " Mr. Roosevelt's order ending voluntary : enlistments,, a " step designed to brinr military and civilian manpower procurement! and disposal under unified su pervision, applied, to men IS to 38. The armed forces thus might continue to receive enlistments of various specialists above that age And the navy was enabled to continue Its recruiting of 17 year olds. The army enlisted ne men below 18. The ban on enlistments referred to "the enlisted personnel of the armed forces, including reserve (Turn to Page 2) Parity-Wage Bill Favored Farm State SoIoqs Insistent; Blckx .Olherv Measures WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. -(ff) Farm state senators united today in an "effort- to prevent passage ot any ' more legislation this ses sion until consideration is given a nouse-approvea dui ooosung parity price levels to include the cost- of. agricultural labor. The' senate, agriculture commit tee, with 11 members v present, unanimously approved the bill in exactly, the form . it passed the house, and Senator Thomas (D- Okla) told reporters: ; 4 If any legislation goes through before the adjournment -of this congress, this bill is going to have consideration. - C His stand was backed by Sen ator Aiken (R-Vt), who said he believed it would be relatively easy for the farm state senators to block any major measures un til they had : obtained action on the parity proposal, t i ; - ; f The proposal" has been fought vigorously, by the administration in the past but the bill was per mitted to go through the house this week without objections. Thief. Trades Teeth For Gasoline; Flees . As Police Arrive Everyone knows gasoline Is worth more than the service stations charge in this year of war rationing, Salem police de- dare, but they think the hlgh-r est price paid to date was or s man who not only was willing but actually did give his' eye teeth for the wanted motor fuel. Frightened away from a car. parked en North Fifth street, where he had started to siphon gasoline Into a can,' ene wculd-. be kief left his upper plate en the car's gas tank, they, said. . Women Saved After Smoke Overcomes Fire of mysterious origin swept through three-fourths of Glen- wood apartments, 343 North Commercial street, Saturday night and threatened the entire busi ness block of which It is a part. Firemen fought the blaze for two hours and . watched through the night - . - -.'-."- ? starting in the unheated ..up stairs storeroom of the Salem Bar gain House & Junk company, the fire' was discovered by a woman tenant, who told firemen she heard the, crackling through the wall as she was taking a. bath 1st 9 o'clock, fled in bathrobe to noti fy them and rescued only a small box of her goods from the south ernmost rear apartment pf the e tablishment - ' V Mrs. Rose Albert, 62, resident of apartment 14, overcome by smoke, was carried from the build-' ing by Fireman Don Morley and taken by the city first aid car to the horn e of friends. Another woman, who fainted, was carried out.. Both rapidly revived." Files, safe and some office fur (Turn to Page 2) Hollister May Be GOP Chief Tail for Schroeder And That May Open Willkie-Tussle ST.' LOUIS, Dec. 5-MVHoping to ' avoid a . fight so - soon' after their' gains in: thi recent national elections; republicans began ar riving today for Monday's meet ing to select a -new national com mittee chairman and map a drive for funds for the" 1944 presiden tial campaign. Approximately a dozen names were - being mentioned for the chairmanship, with John B. Hoi lister, Cincinnati lawyer and for mer congressman, reportedly gain ing strength aa a compromise be tween the so-called isolationist and interventionist ' wings , of the party - . Harrison E. Spangler, Iowa na tional : committeeman, and ' Walt er S.' Hallanan,- member, from West Virginia, also were' among those mentioned. ; - Veteran party spokesmen were striving to avoid a head-on clash between the advocates and ad versaries of Wendell X Willkie, the party's 1940 presidential nom inee and strong believer in Amer ica taking a leading part in keep ing the peace after the war, V -. Senator Robert Taft, upon his arrival here, annouunced he would vote for. Werner ;W. Schroeder, Chicago lawyer and,, Illinois na tional , committeeman, who had strong ; backing among some mid west groups,- for the - national chairmanship. However, friends of Willkie objected to him for what they termed his pre-Pearl Har bor "isolationist views. ' - ; tine Ahead Warns 4 BRADFORD, : England, Dec 5. -(ff)-rEPrime Minister Churchill told : an audience - in this 1 North England industrial center today that ; Very hard fitting. , faces the allies before they will be able to kick the axis out of the last 20 miles in Tunisia. - : ? Reminding his hearers to be on their guard : against overconfi- dence as a result of recent good fortune for United Nations arms, he also warned that fthe hard core of nazi resistance and vil lainy is not yet broken In upon" in Europe, and that the most tense part of the struggle, is only approaching. . - 7 .' - Beaming and smiling as "he strode through Bradford's factor ies, clad in a great blue overcoat and clinching his habitual cigar, the prime minister repeatedly re sponded to cries of "Good old Church illT ; with a two - finger T salute, and then addressed a crowd from the steps of the town hall, - - Blast Kills 50 :. BERLIN (From German broad casts), Dec. 5 (ff Fifty persons were killed in an explosion m a chemical works at Bazlan-Wezel in the province of Antwery, ' a trans ocean , dispatch - from . Brus sels reported today,' - ' ' HardFigh Is Reinforced Rapidly; Foes Strildns Back " Nazis Capture Towns ; ; But Escape Gap Is : ; ? "Jieing Narrowed ' By GAYLE -TALBOT . Associated : Press War Editor .-. -. . -- ' . Although German armored forces 'i have launched three heavy counter-attacks . in , the last four days and have thrown AngJoVArnerican troops out- of wo hotly-contested . Tunisian towns, they have failed to break the allied. cordon being drawn around them, allied headquarters announced Saturday Heavy allied reinforcements were reported rushing into the battle to bring an overwhelming weight of tanks, men, planes and guns ; against the comparatively small ' but fiercely resisting . axis force defending Tunis and Bi zerte. "V . In at least three furious German attempts to break out of the allied cordon In the last four days they lost S3 of their dwindling supply of tanks and an allied spokesman said Lt.-Gen. K. A. N. Anderson's invading forces still held al vital roads and communications in the fluid battle zone between Tunis and Bizerte. leashing out desperately behind a barrage laid down by Stuka dive bembers, nazi infantry : and tank columns were I acknowledged to have thrown the allies back out of Djedeida, 12 miles from Tunis, and to have reentered Tebourba, an other hotly, contested town, " but the importance of this hard-won (Turn to Page 2) Hops Go Under Price Control , Beer Ceiling Pressure ; To Be Relieved, Said Purpose of Order, WASHINGTON, Dec 5-JP)-In a move . to preven "undue pres sure" on present price ceiings, 01 beer, the office of price adminis tration today brought hops under price control for the first time. - OPA said that . prices for hops had "sky-rocketed, to unprece dented levels, and. that any fur ther .rises" unquestionably , would exert undue pressure on present price ceilings of beer." Maximum: dealer prices were set for the 1943 Pacific coast hop crop,, based on tne nignest prices prevailing fro m . November , 30 through ; December ' 4. . The , New York state crop was exempt' from price ' control because most of it already is In the! hands of con sumers.' ; ' r "t-" - .-V ': Freezing of dealer prices for the 1942 Pacific coast crop at levels prevailing during the November 30-December 4 period, OPA said; will assure producers' prices "well above -parity,- as well si above prices existing between January 1 and September 15, 1942. - :.' Set prices for carry-over Pacif ic - coast hops guarantee growers 38 cents a pound on the seeded and 40 cents a pound on the seed less -hops. Grower cooperatives and grower ' dealers are allowed five cents a pound above the lev els ' for- individual growers, while dealer levels are lifted another five " cents - from- cooperative or grower dealer prices, and brewer supply dealers are permitted to sell at -a futher advance of five cents. Remembering , Pearl Harbor . , . - A year- age Monday bitter words - flashed, te the . United States mainland from Hawaii: Pearl Harber has been bomb- ' ed by the Japanese! V ; ' ; Teday VThe i SUtesman pre sents the navy's stary ef thai attack, the damage dorae, te rether with . pictures ef the FiiTig rains; en this page and ea paxes 2. and Si..-'x For. fall . text ef the itayys report, a sammary ef the year of war la the Pacific by Clark Lee, ace Associated Press cor respondent, and a chronolorlcal Usllzg. cf rsajsr events la tie glsiil t&zJZlzt, trra to rr 12. Every Dreadnaught in Havaiian Area Sunk or Damaged in Japs' Sneak AtU.dc One VcSr Ago Monday WASHINGTON, Dee. 5 (AP) The navy, in the first fall report of its losses at Pearl Harbor, revealed Saturday that 'the surprise Japanese blow sank or damaged every American battleship eight ten others ships and a large Yet' the job of raising been rushed at such a furious half have 'rejoined the fleet and only one, the torpedoed, bombed and burned battleship Arizona, is accounted a total - The navy's Pearl Harbor anniversary summary divided the ships hit there into two classes: ' ; " - Damaged but- soon repaired' and whicli rejoined the fleet ."months ago." " ' -. " ' ' . Battleships Peaaaylvaala, Maryland and Teaaessoe. ' Cruisers Helena, Uoaolam eaad Ralelxh.'. ' Seaplane '. tender Cartlss. . ; : . ; Repair ship Vestal. - ' . ' Sunk or damaged "so severely that they would serve no mili tary purpose for sometime." " I , Battleships Arizaaa, Oklahoma, Calif ormla, Nevada and West TIrgiaia. . " ". - - Destroyers Shaw, Cassia and Downs.. , t MlaeUyer Oclala. : : : . . i ' : 1 A large Ioatlaa; drydoek. i' A number of these vessels, the navy said, "are now in full ser vice, but certain others, which intricate electrical overhauling as well as refloating "and hull repairing, are hot yet ready for battle action. Which pf these ships are back in service was not disclosed In the navy summary. It had been the Shaw, for one, was back with the fleet. - The Arizona, as announced in the first week after Pearl Har bor, was listed as ermanently made known that the Oklahoma, side on the muddy harbor bottom. Preparations for the righting process, although final decision as to the wisdom of accomplish ing this work at this time has not been made," the navy said. On this point, it was understood, the question is one of dry- dock space: whether it would and put her In drydoek for repairs or use the limited drydoek space for other purposes. The. eight battleships represented almost half the navy's strength in that category. When had 17 dreadnaughtsv Others have since been added. r Besides ships, losses were given as 80 naval and 87 army air planes and the following personnel casualties:, , 2117 officers and enlisted men of the navy and marine -corps, killed, 960 missing and 87 C wounded who survived. (The navy lists as dead only those whose- bodies are recovered.) 226 J army x officers and enlisted men killed; 396 wounded "most of whom have now recovered and have returned to duty." All these terrible losses, the navy estimated,, were inflicted by 105 Japanese planes which, winging from carriers at sea, slipped . under the easy peacetime American guard to make their treach- eraus and deadly attack at 7:55 watches were changing on the personnel were at Sabbath services. I Conceding there was a large the Japanese raids were carried dive bombers, and 36 horizontal The navy alone had 202 aircraft on the island and the army had 273, but many were destroyed or disabled on the ground. Thirty-eight naval planes got into the air, including 18 which took off from a carrier which arrived off Pearl Harbor while the attack was in progress. Four were shot down. ; . M How many army planes got aloft was not stated except that they were "few bat shot down "more than 2S Japanese planes. By navy action, the enemy lost tt planes and three small, t wo man submarines. These submarines -also took part in the surprise attack bat are believed not to have inflicted any damare on the fleet. ., - . i (The army issued no separate statement on its Pearl Harbor losses, damage to the ; enemy,' etc., and did not amplify on the navy's references to It.) "-,:v:.::"; r;-v :V-. '' :. r . - Until Saturday's summary, the only official statement on the extent of the losses at Pearl Harbor was that made by Secre tary of the Navy Khbx last December 15 eight days af tei the disaster. . v .-,- 1 v Knox said we had lost" the . battleship Arizona, the destroy ers Shaw, Cassin and-Downes, the target ship Utah, and the minesweeper Oglala with some other ships damaged. The Okla homa,' he said, had capsized. As for the extent of the damage to other ships, he said this information must be withheld as it was of Value' to the 'enemy, , -' : : 1 - j President Roosevelt, discussing in a radio address February 23 what he called "damnable misstatements" about Pearl Har bor,' mentioned no ships by name but said that of all the combat Craft. there," "only threee were permanently put out of commis sion." . . !Very many of the ships of the Pacific fleet were not even in Pearl Harbor," the president continued. "Some of those that were there were hit very slightly; and others that were damaged have either rejoined the fleet by now or are still undergoing rpairs." Mr. Roosevelt In the same speech denied a "report that we-lost more than 1000 airplanes," without disclosing the true number. And he listed casualties as 2340 killed and 946 wounded. The navy's report now lists a total of 2343 army and navy deaths. The additional three probably succumbed to injuries subsequent to the president's speech. The discrepancy between the number of wounded mentioned by Mr? Roosevelt and the 1272 now re ported also may. be due J-o developments. In addition the navy now reports 960 missing, a category not mentioned by the pres ident. i:-:::':'':C' " r:-" '" -' .' ' " ' '" ' ; ' . Both Mr Roosevelt and Knox 'explained that certain details had to be withheld at that time because their disclosure would help the enemy. - How valuable that - information might have been was made crystal clear by Saturday's report. Hawaii, its air defenses rid dled, lay virtually helpless. The Pacific fleet, without a battle line and made up of units which survived the attack and those which were at sea, wasbadly outweighed by, the Japanese main fleet and, had it been engaged, might have been destroyed. , ' : ; Happily, there were some aspects that were not so bad as they might have been., When the Japanese attacked, there were 3 ships of the fleet moored in Pearl Harbor. Two task forces were carrying out missions at sea. i . l,J . ftBe of the vessels In Pearl IXarbor was an aircraft carrier, r an3 these ships, ft has developed, are essential to present Czj naval eperatlons. - "' - Nose of the vessels Tesxl TTarbor wis rs a!rcrsit cirrlrr, (Turn 9 rr ) - s HOC in all in the Hawaiian area, floating drydockv 1 and . repairing , these ships has and successful pace that over required extensive machinery, and announced earlier, however, that and totally lost," and i was which capsized, still lies on her t of the Oklahoma are now In be better to right the Oklahoma : ::ir--; 1 the war Wgan, the United States a. m Hawaii time just as the fleet units and Iwhile many of the possibility of error, it estimated out by 21 torpedo planes, 43 bombers. . , ,