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PAGE TWO The 02IGOI! STATESMAN, Scdem Oregon. Tueeday Morning, December 8, 1S12 VickanL Hobsier Farmer, Named National Food Czar, With Say About Rationing WASHINGTON, Dec. 7--Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. JWickard, a Hoosier, farmer who says that "good food and plenty of it is nne 01 me oe muuuwim becomes the fourth single director ' Roosevelt's official- family. , The 49-year-old Wickard was named by the president Sunday i to take "full responsibility for and contror over" the nation's food program, The others are: manpower, Paul V. McNutt; rub ber, William M. Jeffers.' and pe troleum, Harold L. Ickes. Supervision of marketing and distribution, formerly exercised by the war production board, comes under Wickard's supervi sion. Included in this is supervi sion of food rationing, although the transfer of authority is not expected to mean any; changes in the present rationing programs of sugar and coffee and the pros pective rationing of meat These will continue to be administered through the office of price ad ministration. Although he receives no new title, Mr. Roosevelt's order placed Wickard on an equal footing with WPB Chairman Donald M. Nel son. In case of conflict, the pres ident will be the final arbiter.; Wickard has estimated that tip to 25 per cent of the nation's 1943 food output will be required for lend-lease and the armed forces. Japan's Turn Coming, Says Churchill LONDON, Tuesday Dec Prime Minister Churchill declared Monday that the "Storm which now lowers over Germany and Italy is spreading to Japan; there will be no softness or respite for her." In a message to British far east era territories on the anniversary of the day Oapan attacked Hong kong and Malaya, the prime min ister asserted that "the growing power of the United Nations will press steadfastly on till she (Ja pan) is stripped of her conquests, punished for her treachery and deprived of her powers of evil." "The years of defense, of stub born, out-numbered, ill-equipped almost miraculous defense, are behind us," the message said. "Ev erywhere the United Nations turn to attack. ,,4-,T. "Keep up your hearts," he ex hortedU "We shall not fail you." ON the HOME FRONT By ISABEL CrHLDS Come over for an omelet! V Now the food page editor will tell you that there are two kinds: Fluffy and French. Any good practical kitchen me chanic knows that, you start out to make a fluffy omelet and you may get either. The variety largely depends on the eggs how old, how cold, you know. And there may be something in the claim that the muscle of the forearm (unless you are a plutocrat who can boast an electric mixer in this year minus electrical gargets) ibas, some ' in fluence on the texture of the fin ished product. Remember the ",' Frenchman, 1 think, in "Jules Remain's "Ver dun," who .Z grieved 7 because he must serve an omelet made , with only two eggs? There are ; those of us ' who think that a genuinely ; good two egg omelet (maderin tee "kitchen's smallest iron 1 skillet) compares favorably with s 13-egg angel food cakeL With eggs at 55 cents, that seems a wise way tojtake a two egg omelet, anyhow.; ' Another way to take' it is with mushrooms not the tomatoey sauce' into which some mushrooms have -. been pounded, ; but " with crisp bits, fresh from a - can or from thf grocer's refrigerator (I'm not a mushroom' picker) sauted in the butter and allowed to form globules through' the thick brown crust of the omelet Tender green onions; pimientos, green - peppers or herbs hely it along the way, too. t - .-".- ' x- ' But to have an omelet you must have eggs and we're all going to have ; plenty--of them pretty soon if all the - people - keeping chickens iseU: the truit lf. they don't, maybe well all eat : chick en, that aovfarmisnamed Vic tery food.' - : - Statisticians- are now compiling records of the number of persons who find they need extnt Igasoltne .to o - home noons to feed the ctijciten. . Eiih Ccnl:rcsc3 Uiir Rev. B r 1 1 1 a Ross,. nightly, (except Monday) rinsT baptist ciiuncn lues. Dee. Sin, The Land ef the Jew" :y, --c'' T7ei Dee. Sth, "The Jew la " ' tie Land" v - Thdrs. Dee. 18th, The. V.orU and Oar Silent - ..... : , . ... iui . .... .v of a national resource in President Airfields Allied Need ' . i v i . .: ... - J i ..... 1 - t. K . ' - :.;' 1 ' : Russ Drive Into Nazi ; Defense; Cities Hit In Germany, 'Italy (Continued from Page 1) had attacked without success on the central and northern fronts. The anniversary of the costly Pearl Harbor attack was marked in Tokyo with announcement that powerful i new battleships -and carriers had joined her fleet. Five 40,000-tonners had been known to be building. The Japanese admitted the loss of 49 warships Including a battleship .and' three carriers and 5 t merchant Teasels. Her leases the allied book total '; 129 warships, Including two or aaore battleships and nine car riers and 265 merchant Teasels. US dead, wounded and missing during the year, were announced by the office of war information as 58,307. The day's main allied effort was against Germany and Italy both of which were bombed. Japan's day of bloody reckoning would come after Europe and Africa are cleared of the Hitlerian scourge. Karlsruhe" and Pforzheim in southwestern Germany at the bot tleneck of jailways leading into Italy were bombed by more ; than 160 RAF planes. The hastened silence of the Paris radio indi cated the RAF again was on the wing to Germany or Italy last night. ' By day, the RAF attacked the Germans in France and the low countries, damaging three ships, railways, barges and camps. In support of the allies in Tu nisia and the British eighth army in Libya, planes attacked the Reg gio airport in southern Italy and the Gela airdrome in Sicily.' Tunis, Bizerte and Tripoli likewise were attacked and shipping in the Mediterranean narrows was as saulted. The eighth army opposing the reinforced remnants of the axis Africa corps at 1 Agheila en gaged the enemy with artillery and patrols. The battle for Tunisia still was touch and go, apparently slightly in favor of the enemy. Opposed to the allied - claim of holding dominated heights between Te- bourda and Mateur, the German propaganda machine claimed the hills around Tebourda were firm ly in axis hands; that the allies were retreating westward and fac ing encirclement. Both sides were reinforcing rap idly. The Germans were favored by shorter interior communication lines. They were using their best planes, draining them from Rus sia, France and Norway just what the allies wanted. , The British first army . com mander, Lieut Gen. K. A. N. Alexander, was said to have map ped an all-out drive with his staff in an optimistic candlelight con ference in a farmhouse behind the lines. In four weeks of campaigning in North Africa, the allies said they destroyed 199 axis planes at the cost of 61. The Germans with fields near the front, held , the heavy advantage of being able to employ short range dive bombers over the swirling battles. Earn Bars, England i- LONDON, Dec 7 -(JPh- Forty three soldiers will be commission ed at the first graduation exer cises at the new US officer can didates school , in England Decem ber 9. Those .to be commissioned include Robert ; B. "rlurd, Eagle Point, Oregon. ; yij'i-t-Z-jy Portland Launches 4 Sfcips 1 Including 100th Liberty Since Pearl Harbor ; y-'- J"f '-'L-' i" -;v' i': "i't :' ''' I Z PORTLAND, Dec 7 (yp)-Four ships " went down the ways in Pearl Harbor day launching in the . Portland-Vancouver- area as speakers praised American production and warned that greater effort is needed- for victory. t " - . . ' : , Oregon Shipbuilding corporation launched the SS Charles Wilson Peale, its 106th Liberty ship and 100th since Pearl Harbor, as Ma. Joseph K. Carsoifc, jr of the US engineers said; "I delight that here In my own city there is a" world's champion ship enterprise a championship through teamwork." The yard's construction" and de livery record is unsurpassed , In the nation. ':. J 'y J YtyiW? Z Another Henry J. Kaiser yard launched a tank-landing vessel at Vancouver and Portland Commer cial Iron Works sent its eighth navy , subchaser - down - the ways while - Willamette Iron & Steel corporation launched -, the naval minesweeper : USS Caution - as it raised its second-navy E pen nant for production and the treas ury department's T flag for war bond purchases. . ' . . ' ; : J ; MaJ. Gen. G. S. Cook, Caaop Adair .dlvtsleatal" commander,. speaking Jit a chamber of com-.. Sample of Jap gai uaj ii mi ii "o"oo; i n g . ua m m 1 1 L ! . .... This was hew one US army bomber looked soon a fter daybreak over nickam Field. Hawaii, a . year 'age Monday, when the Japanese unleashed their haQ of destruction opon American Installations in :the bUnds. This bomber was knifed In twatby en a bomb. HN phote. . Farm AAA Election Meetings Called for Marion County Added wartime duties and responsibilities demand capable, rep resentative leaders on Triple-A committees, W. M. Tate, chairman of the county committee, said Monday in announcing plans for holding elestion meetings this month to choose AAA committeemen to serve Bad Penny? -W-. - - . . ,m f -. v ' 'v.:.:.:.y.y..y-:-:v... .-.r.- . . , i BOiSS. ' IDAHO IIIIIJ ..J..I.IJIIIIII !. . n niyKwi- r e . ,A Boise Disputes , Morgenthau'8 Interdict BOISE Ida., Dec. 7-(fl3)-Boises paper "victory coupons" will re main in circulation despite Secre tary Morgenthau's pronouncement that they are illegal, at least un til official orders to cease dis tributing 'them are received. Secretary E. G. Harlan of the chamber of commerce said Mon day he has received no communi cation from any government, ag ency that the coupons are illegal. "Apparently there is a misnun derstanding," he said. "We -have issued coupons, not money." The bits of paper are not represented as coins. Each one states on its face that it is iasuued by the merchants association and may be redeemed up to next June. "The US district attorney sanc tioned issuance of such coupons, and we are confident that when the secretary of the treasuury sees one his objections will be with drawn.' Harlan said 100,000 of the pa per coupons were issued. Morgenthau declared Saturday that issuance of paper one-cent and five-cent pieces is illegal. Legion Honors Draft Board , One of the largest social events ever staged by Capital post No. 9, American Legion, was held Monday night at Fraternal tem ple in honor of Salem's draft board. Chairman Ray I Stumbo, Romeo Gouley and W. I. Need ham, and the representatives of the city's army, navy and marine recruiting stations, Sgts. Ethan W. Senn and Herman Doney, and Quartermaster Robert Fallon. Between 500 and 600 Legion naires and guests attended. Governor-elect Earl Snell and Marine Technical Sgt- Donald Wambold, the latter - just having returned frcm "lcanal. were among the guests. merce - forum, said that the : army's : fighting spirit depends pen the spirit . of ; the heme : . front. "The aramy Is what yen make it, what yea expect it te Cook's assistant divisional com mander,' Brig. Gen. H. F. Kramer, former , military attache ;to Ger many, said on : the same program that , the landing of American troops in Africa should , not be taken to mean that the war prac tically is JwonV,-'fsy -"i v. ' . The only? way 'to ; defeat -the nazis, he said, is to carry the fight to their homeland. The Germans have a fanatical urge to see the thing through, he said, describing how the civilian population work ed 12 hours day after day. i. He 'said reports of dissension inside of Germany should be tak en with a grain of salt Destruction at 'Harbof Year Ago o XV in 1943. The chairman asked every farmer in the county who parti cipates in the AAA farm program to plan to attend the election meeting in his community during the week of December 16, 17, 18 and 19, Besides carrying on the 1943 sign-up for participation of farms in the Food for Freedom pro gram, AAA committeemen help administer crop insurance, com- modity loan, seed purchase, con servation materials, production practice and production adjust ment programs. In addition, they are called upon by the county USDA war board to assist in mat ters relating to transportation conservation, machinery ration ing, and farm labor.. At the election meetings, com munity committeemen and dele gates to a county convention will be chosen. The delegates will name the county committee. The schedule of meetings is as follows: Gervai City hall. Friday. Dec. IS Central Howell Scboolhouse, Thurs day. Dec. 17. Jefferson City hall. Wednesday, Dee. IS. Mt, An-Cn haU. Friday. Dec.lB. St. Paul City hall. Wednesday, Dec. IS. Salem Bethel achoolhouM, Satur day. Dec. IS. - North Silverton Silverton. Thurs day. Dec. 17. South Silverton. Silverton city hall, Thursday, Dec. 17. Stayton City hall. Friday, Dec. 18. Turner Turner high school, Wed nesday. .Dec. 16. Wood burn City hall, Thursday. Dec 17. Monday Rains Exceed Inch More than an inch and a half of rain fell in salem during the 24 hours ending at 11:30 Monday night according to the local weath er observer, bringing the total for the 98 hour period since Thursday to 2.71 inches. Some of the percipitation Sun day was in the form of snow. The streets were white for several hours after daylight. The North Santiam highway was open to traffic with an eight ton load limit, the state police re ported. The South Santiam was closed because of washouts about 12 miles west of the junction of the two highways. One-way traf fic was observed in the vicinity of Upper Soda and Tombstone Summit. '., 1 One-way traffic prevails in sec tions of the Willamette highway. Monday's : rainfall . totaled 1J1 inches; Sunday's .71; Saturday's .19; and Friday's JS0. PORTLAND, Dec ?-APJ-Power and transportation services were impaired Sunday by a snow storm that hit the Portland area. ; Power . lines were down for several hours in some sections of the city. Streetcars and busses were off schedule and a toppled tree .halted traffic for a short time at Oneonta tunnel on the Columbia River highway. - Co-eds Lose Dorms? SEATTLE, Dec. 7.-7-Univer-sity of ' Washington women stu dents - received . notice . Monday night that they might be ousted from campus dormitories to make room for members of the' armed forces. Carrier Launched . ' QUTNCY, Mass!, -Dec 7pj-l The mighty USS Bunker. Hill Jone of the (aircraft) carriers we so badly need" slipped Into the water 'Monday on' the first anni versary of Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.' ' . Rags, Riches, Finis SPOKANE, Dec 7 -flV Wil liam J. Harris, 83, who came to Spokane in 1889 with 35 cents, died today, owner of prosperous Spokane hotel property and stock .Ija north Jd'MriH-j. . -v''": yyy- Council Eases Milk Rules NoTtfore 'A'; All Must Li Be Pasteurized ; ; Bonds Sold (Continued from Page 1) that the city had met all re quirements had understood that the traffic lights were part of the state highway system. Oiled card board shields are to be affixed to the 144 lights in downtown Salem and probably to "those at Center and Capitol streets. Possible use for the property purchased for construction of a sewage disposal plant, but now expected to Tie unoccupied .until the close of the war, was foreseen in the request that it be opened to grazing. The request was re ferred to committee. . z, . , . I An ordinance to repeal sections (-or. orcunaces reiemng to licens ing of magazine and book ped dlers was passed for first two readings. ' Presented by the po lice and licensing committee It would do away with a licensing fee. Constitutionality of similar ordinances throughout the nation has been attacked. The council approved emer gency action taken by City Engin eer J. H. Davis in cooperating with, the county, to clear creeks draining into Pringle creek from the Salem air base drainage sys tem. Army engineers at the air port had asked that growths In the ditches be removed but they had not put the request in writing until after the second council meeting in November. When wa ters of the streams rose to extra high levels, the city's excavator and county trucks were put onto the job. The $46,000 issue of city re funding bonds went to Charles N. Tripp & Co., who bid them in at par with the first $26,000 ; group, falling due from February, 1944, to February, 1949, drawing 1 per cent interest; the remaining $20,000, falling due from 1950 to 1953, are to draw IV per cent. Moneys from the issue will re tire the" 1935 warrant funding issue. Plane Crashes COLUMBIA, S. C, Dec. 7-(P) Two officers and five sergeants were killed in the crash of a me dium army bomber six miles southeast of here Monday after noon. The plane was returning to Co lumbia air base from a routine flight,, " : The air base listed' the dead as including: : Pilot, Sec. . Lt, Robert . Earl Thomas - of Tampa, Fla. v ; Co-pilot, Sec . Lt. John David Trimmier of Inman, SC. ; :'' VICTORVnXJE, Calif, Dec 7 (ff)-Two Instructors and two ca dets at the army flying school here were killed late Sunday night in the crash of their training plane 20 miles northeast of the air base on the Mojave desert,, it was an nounced today. ' Names J of the dead were an nounced nszz ; zzz Second Lt. Charles " NV Wake field, 24, Los Angeles, the pilot. ; . Second Lt Richard D. Radmore, 23, Lincoln, Neb, bombardier in structor. , - Cadet William ; W.' Bonner, 24, Butler, Pa. - " - - - . ' -1. r- Cadet Edgar Charles Bessels, jr. 27, Scarsdale, NY. Blows Traded, China v f CHUNGKING, Dec 7-0F-American and Japanese planes ex changed, heavy blows In China Monday, press dispatches re ported. - - Last r Times ! Tonight Plus - 2nd Featare Id Factions hi GOP Bury Ax Harrison Spangler, 3rd on 1st Vote . Named Chairman (Continued from Page 1) "I think we have elected a fine, experienced 'man; one who will be acceptable to all . factions In the party.' ' , i '-r, In New York, Willkie said he believed that Spangler had a great opportunity, lor., progressive public service" - - -My fight,"; he said, "was to prevent the masthead of the Chi cago Tribune from being Imprint ed upon the republican party. I am very happy that the result has prevented that "calamity All business was . concluded Monday and the committee ad journed after filling some .vacan cies on its executive committee I ; The first ballot, with 50 requir ed to win out of 99 voting, gave Schroeder 40 and the .same num ber for the 35-year-old Baker, acting committee member from Washington state. Spangler was next with 15; Frank E. Gannett, Rochester, NY, publisher, had three votes, and Barak T. Mat tingale, Missouri committeeman, one. ; : ; . z . ' . ,, Z , Baker forged ahead of Schroe der 43 to 38 on the second ballot, but 51 was needed as a majority out of the 101 votes cast this time. Spangler again had 15 on his bal lot,' Gannett four,, and Mattingle one. The lone Mattingle vote .was cast by Missouri's woman member. On motion . of the - Schroedef forces, a recess then was taken. , Upea reconvening, Schroeder and Baker (walked toward the rostrum together amid cheers and announced their withdraw al la the . Interest of harmony. , They proposed Spaogler'a elee tlen and this was carried eat promptly and with old-time po litical enthusiasm. : Veteran . committee members said they could, not recall a time when the party had experienced such a contest over the chairman ship. They arrived here Saturday virtually, certain there-would be no rift, but when Schroeder de cided late last night , to make a fight of , it all compromise bets were off. . Taft's resolution asserted the "unity of the American people" on this Pearl Harbor anniversary in their determination to fight to vic tory' and reaffirmed the party's two most recent declarations rec ognizing the United States re sponsibility for world cooperation after th war. This move. was in terpreted as an attempt to remove any, thought that the party was divided now on this issue New Qty Leaiders Attend Council Deliberations Salem city council' chambers wore a 1943 air Monday night as the 1942 council greeted three newly-elected officials. Daniel J. Fry, elected to fill the vacancy in ward seven, which Dr. M. E. Gadwa had held by appointment, was sworn in and cast his first votes at that session. - Seated on the platform with Mayor W. W. ; Chadwick was Mayor-Elect L M. Doughton, who takes office in Januarr iust Chadwick enters the state legis lature. ' Alfred F. Mundt, who as book keeper and deputy city recorded for a number of years has seldom taken a front seat at council meet ings, "pinch-hit? for Recorder Hannah Martin Hanzen at the secretary's table. , Mrs. Hansen. arriving a few minutes after the 1 Cj CiC2iC7(T7CTj K By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst lor The ,' Although both Jaws of the allied pincer attack in North Africa are presently stalled, primarily by the difficulties of bringing up adequate forces, the odds are heavily against the axis on that front That Hitler even hopes to hold the Harrow coastal strips within which his African armies are now . penned up longer . than necessary to bolster Italy's defenses against a trans-Mediterranean invasion is doubtfuL- Yet to do that and to offer what Is : left of Rommel's once conquering, army In Italian Africa any chance whatever of escape from extermination, it Is obvious the axis must make a delaying stand in northern and eastern Tunisia, i z That probably accounts for the furious nazi defense of the Bizer-te-Tunis triangle. Had the north ern, and eastern Tunisia fallen to the plight of Rommel's remnant m Tripolitania now would have been all but. helpless. ) . ..' The Tunisian foreland, tipped U the northeastward by Cape Bon enly 99 miles ' from the south western promontery of Steily, is the tactical and stra tegic key to the Whole allied Africa -Medlternuseaji cam paign. The fate of KommelSs command U vitally linked with the battle of the Tnnlsiaa trl-. angle. .' '-c ; . It Is possible that General Alex ander's - British veterans, as yet only feeling out nazi defense posi tions in the Agheila narrows 400 miles east of Tripoli, are waiting more for British-American com rades to spring closed the west ern Jaw of the trap than upon their own supply and communi cation troubles, great as they are. From, the outset of his westward drive . in Egypt Alexander has stressed to his troops that anni hilation of the enemy, not merely his defeat and retreat, was their assignment. j. : Once the Tunisian foreland and Its air bases were in allied hands," sea escape for any sub stantial part of RenuneU's still considerable army would be a desperate business. Ships to carry them weald hare aaore than a 390-mile nut to- amake with allied bombers on both flanks, to any Sicilian port of refuge. Thai Is too far -for a one night covcr-of -darkness ran . Including loading and . unload ing. It Is too long a jump for Italian small coastal craft to be able to repeat the amaiing Brit ish success la evaceatmg aa from Dunkirk's beaches. The role of Malta in the Medi terranean has been completely re versed. It was Britain's sole re maining foothold In the central Mediterranean and has endured an agony of axis bombing attacks, but heretofore its value was pure ly defensive. V Now it is a powerful and ideally placed offensive weapon in allied hands. Its hour of vengeance is near. T . " session started, council circle. ' sat outside the AMl lllill t mm mV: irs a swfptmpai irS A SWEETHEART OF A PICTURE! vvSprtkFLiN . . vo tod newsforl KATHtYN I j STARTLING AS A SCREAM! A man In the rfark,..a woman Inv love fighting their very heme I , V Iutermountaiu Area Alerts Army Denies Blackout Order Given; ARP Systems i Tested (Continued from Page 1) Gus BackmaiC eastern sector director of the office of civilian defense, said the control center at Portland ordered him to call a "red alert mobilization" through out the states of Utah, Idaho and Montana. ; . He notified civilian defense di rectors of Idaho and Montana ac cordingly.: 1 . p ' The. alert here! was ordered at 735 p.: m. and lifted at 10 p. m. (MWT). Radio stations in Salt Lake City went off the air and the city blacked out. - i s- Backman said he was not In formed the mobilization was a test until the all clear order was given at 10 p. m. Officials of the army's ninth' service-command said they had no knowledge of the test. "A lot ot people did a lot of fine work! in Salem's civilian de-' fense incident drill Monday night, one of the state inspector-critics who watched and graded the "Pearl Harbor day" proceedings declared at the close of the 45 minute performance. , To , air raid wardens, particu larly, went praises of the inspec tor group. Not receiving orchids was the control - center setup, which judges declared they rea lized , was in process of reorgani zation.". ; Checking; the various services which answered calls to Church and Mill ' streets. Shipping and Winter, 25th and State. ' State street near Cottage and the 100 block on North -Liberty street, were Ed Colby of the state civilian defense office, Clarence Bowes, Marion County Training Director1 Rowena Jones, and Jack Hayes. Continuous from 1:09 P. 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