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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1942)
i - . . - ,T . ' . . rO-"--? ;"i:'ft"'.r.-'i :"u-s- Tho Insido . Tear - complete morning newspaper. The Statesman, effers yen pertinent com ments en war newt of the day by Rlrke Simpson, Washington analyst. - -DIncut Tuesday suaset 8:"3 r.m. 17ednesday snnrlse S:S1 a-ro. Weather: Eon. max. tern?. 45, mln. 4L Hoa. rlycr 7 J ft. . Weather aU restricted by army request. . J- NINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem. Oregon, Tuesday. Morning, December i iS42 ' Tr!c Sc. x:a. x:: $me 7 A ' ":" " ' 'i,f ' 1 . : . ?. . .J.;-...- ... , .. (Lease R -- e1 - . t i . French Bar Tunisia Counter move; Axis May Skip Tripoli liquor Service License Plea Is Withdrawn Doughton Quits Gty Water Board; Council Members Close Terms The Salem city council Monday night escaped the unpleasant task of passing upon an application for liquor service club license, first of its kind to reach the formal application stage in the business district, when the request was withdrawn. Members of. the council- ex pressed the. belief that the .city's approval would have been denied the application if it had remained on the docket. The applicant, Richard V. Carle son, proprietor of Carleson's cafe, 498 State street, also Withdrew an application for approval of a re tail beer license for the basement part of his establishment. Re newal of a beer license for the main floor unit was approved. ' Monday nifht's meetinr - brontht the resign a 1 1 o n of ' . Mayor-Elect I. M. Oonghton ; from the city water commission and a farewell talk by Mayor. W. W. Chadwtck,. who next month will enter the state house of representatives. ' "We haven't always agreed, but - tluit'a -tho -best way ,ior- : demo cratic, body of" this size anyway,' the retiring mayor said in recall ing his four years in office and expressing ' appreciation for co operation received. Mayor Chadwick offered his as sistance to the incoming mayor. who sat with him on the council rostrum.- - The meeting was also the last for Alderman Frank P. Marshall, who will be succeeded next month by Albert H. Gille, and for City Recorder Hannah1 Martin H a n zen, whose place will be taken by the' present d eputy, Alfred Mundt. ' . 1, - Dough ton's resignation from the water commission was accom panied by a recommendation from that body that Edward Rostein, long-time former member and chairman, be named the new may or's successor. The recommenda tion at the suggestion of Alderman David O'Hara was tabled for two meetings. - The council temporarily -. (Turn to Page 2 F) de- Jap Raiders At Calcutta Hurt Little NEW DELHI, Tuesday, Dec 22 (JPj- Japanese planes raided Cal cutta again early Tuesday morn ing, a Joint British-American com- - munique - announced Tuesday. Preliminary reports, the an nouncement said, indicated : that only a few bombs were dropped and r that .they caused few cas ualties and light damage. It was the second attack on Cal cutta in less than 36 hours, Japa nese raiders having been over the city Sunday night. Damage in that raid also was described as negli gible. , NEW DELHI, India, Dec 21-(ff) Japan's first raid on Calcutta Sun day night, obviously, in ' reprisal for the thrust of Gen. Sir Archi bald P. Wa veil's troops less than 60 miles from Akyab, Burma, was a fiasco, British authorities said Monday. ' The British troops had net yet (Turn to Page 2 II) w i , ij Tricolor Near Coast; Rommel Plan Said To Save Tunisia. By JAMES F. KING IONDON, Tuesday, Dec. 22 (flFrench troops have with stood a strong axis counterat tack less than 60 miles from the eastern Tunisian coast in their continuing effort to drive east ward and block Marshal Rom mel's retreating forces being pursued westward toward Tripoli in Libya, dispatches from North Africa said early Tuesday. The French troops withstood a "powerful counterattack" oj the axis west of Kairouan, presumab ly at the town of Pichon which they captured Monday in their advance toward Sousse, a French communique said. The RAF lent strong support in this fight, it was added. Renters heard the Morocco radio broadcast what it termed a French headquarters com munique s a y 1 n r also that French troops captured posi tions south and southeast of Pont-Dn-Fahs and also took a n amber of prisoners. Pont-Du-Fahs is only 31 miles south of Tunis, and about the same distance from the eastern Tunisian coast, while Pichon is 79 miles south of Tunis. In Libya the British Eighth army i advancing along the Medi- lerranean was within' 250 miles TripfiUamid Increasing, f ens that Rommel's fleeing troops'" in tend -to cross -toto Tunisia for final stand in the battle of Africa. The Morocco radio said the Axis desert 'leader's forces already had T Turn to Page 2 E) Women, Gvil Trainees to Get College WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 Plans are being made for the gov ernment to finance the college schooling of a number of women and civilian men as well as men in ; the service, War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt told a press conference Monday. These would meet the needs of industry, government and the ci vilian population for an uninter rupted flow of trained scientific and professional personnel from the institutions of higher learning, McNutt said, adding that trained women are as important to the country as trained men. The number that will get an education in this way will depend on now much congress appropri ates for the purpose, McNutt ex plained. He declined to say what appropriation the war manpower commission would ask. These students will supplement the 150,000 that McNutt estimated the military services would send to college in uniform to take spe cified courses preparing them for duties In the armed forces. The men among them will come largely from the "more than 150,- oou"; students that McNutt said would be covered by temporary draft r deferment authorized re cently for medical, dental, veterin ary, engineering and other special science students. ' " The deferment provided for stu dents and instructors with certain credits in those fields of study will last until the end of the school term in progress on next March 1 and meanwhile, the program will be perfected and put before congress.- u 'M:lsJ'- , McNutt indicated that students in the civilian program would be allowed to choose the colleges they attend at government expense German Author Dies ' NEW YORK, Dec ,21-6P)iDr. Franz Boas, 84, internationally known , German-born t Columbia university anthropologist whose books were burned by the Nazis in 1833 because they were un- German or marxistic works," died Monday. Actress to Wed LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21-05) Ann Rutherford, 23, film actress. and David May U, 30, of Beverly Hills, filed application Monday for marriage license. No Hope Held For More Gas And Fuel Oil WASHINGTON, Dec 21 An official announcement that there Is "no hope f if lessening of the restrictions up&i the use of gasoline and fuel oil" came Monday from a conference of high government officials con cerned with t he petroleum -problem. , f '-. ' l , The group, meeting ' with James F. Byrnes, director of economic stabilization, i said, however, that steps would be taken to improve rationing me thods and to increase; the sup ply. It was understood 'the in crease of the supplies would be primarily with military or oth er war uses in mind. The announcement was made by Byrnes after meeting with Petroleum Administrator Ickes and Deputy Administrator Ralph Davles, Price Administrator Leon Henderson and Defense Transportation Coordinator Jos eph B. Eastman. Allied Tanks Guinea Japs Falling Back Before Air, Ground Assault - w - ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, Dec. 22- W")-A general attack supported by tanks, artillery and aviation has driven a wedge into the main de fense system of the remaining Japanese positions . in the Buna area of New Guinea while heavy bombers have pounded the harbor at Finschhafen more than 150 I miles to ; the northwests m USed vuiiuiiu j-unue . saia . i. uesaay. . , The offensive, spearheaded by Australian-manned American General Stuart tanks, overran a zone of heayy bunker-type strong points with supporting and inter connecting emplacements -of con crete and steel, General MacAr- thur's noon communique added. In addition one of the ..main airdrome strips was captured. At Finschhafen, on a penin sula Jutting out Just north of Lae and Salamana, which the Japanese hold,- two medium sixed Japanese cargo,, vessels were destroyed, the stern of one being blown off and the other left in flames. ine Duuaing area mere was strafed from low altitude and fifes were started. : ' SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUI NEA, Dec 21-()-With Australian-manned tanks slashing the way through jungles and pill boxes, American infantry launch ed a general attack upon the re maining Japanese positions of the Buna area today after a whooping advance of 2000 yards west of Cape Endairadere. The American - made General Stuart light tanks, with their ma chine guns and 37-millimeter cannon barking, tore through en- (Turn to Page 2 D) Housing Short Even in Jail r PORTLAND, Dec 21-0P)-The housing shortage In t h is jam packed war industrial city spread Monday to the city jaiL Jailers reported that the jail's 107 bunks were occupied and de tention cells were overflowing. Newcomers are being given tem porary quarters in the county jaiL .fvl" ' l::':'l " - Drive Wedg Eisenhower. Commanded- British : Rock By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NORTH AFRICA, , Dec -De-layed)-(ffJ-Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the Brit ish ; fortress of Gibraltar during tne first days of j the North Afr- can operations. Uius being the first foreigner , in l two centuries to! control. that rock' of British Em pire ;;---v:"- I Securitv : rea- son restricted the"" announcement until today. (Cen sorship further .delayed . publica tion of the dispatch even after it- was " written.) -1 I j',':':-1' -' In the world's safest air" raid shelter: under 1430 feet of solid J. Garson Succeeds Brother Upper House Position Kept in Family of Senator-Captain By STEPHEN C MERGLER John H. Carson, former Mar ion county district ' attorney, was appointed by the county court Monday afternoon to serve as state senator in the seat which his brother, Capt Allan G. Carson, was unable to fill because of a call to army air corps service. The appointment, on the pro tein basis provided for by a 1941 statute, assures Sen. W. H. Steiw er of Fossil of this county's two votes for the presidency of the upper house until and unless his contest with Sen. Dorothy Mc Cullough Lee for the honor goes into a deadlock. , Selection of Carson for the assignment to the legislature , was based on his havinr been overwhelmingly favored among the numerous representations made to the court on behalf of various candidates, County Judge Grant Murphy said. "The court also found consid erable backing for Chandler Brown of Salem and he was giv en very serious consiaerauon. juoge Murpny aaaeo. "mere was from the Silverton area on behalf of T. T. Leonard. But the support! for Mr. Carson was not only from Salem but also generally distrib uted from all over the county ?, Ju4ge,Ju-pj5y said membejsf?f1 the court also felt that rme strong vote for Allan Carson, which was quite decisive in May and Novem ber,, would be duplicated for his brother were this appointment to go to a vote." . Karl Steiwer, who had been seriously considered for the ap pointment as representative of agricultural interests, in a letter (Turn to Page 2 C) RAF Attacks Germany for Second Night LONDON, Tusday, Dec 22 HP) The RAF attacked German again Monday night, it was announced Tuesday, striking at military tar gets in the reich for the second successive night and the sixth time this month. - The target of the British raid--! ers was not immediately disclos ed, but reports from the English south coast said that squadrons of planes had been heard flying eastward during the evening, in dicating that a fairly large force took part. The Berlin radio said that the raid was directed against south west Germany and reported that 11 British planes had been shot down. :, ' i" The RAFs objective the pre ceding night was the big Ger man inland port of Duisburg, which was set alight with great fires in the 52nd attack on the city since the beginning of the war. - - . i ' This raid, which followed - a powerful thrust Sunday deep into France by US Flying Fortress and Liberators, cost the RAF 11 bomb ers a reliable indication that . (Turn to Page 2 G) rock In offices, carved from lime stone, the Allied . staff worked 24 hours a day, under the US commander.-.;; : "Never in say wildest dreanas in my West Point days did I ever think that I an American general would ever command the British fortress ef Gibral tar," Eisenhower declared one ' day at a press conference at his t office ' in, the' reck.; , -- - ' -I Gibraltar, of course, was actu ally under his command only be cause he was Allied commander-in-chief and Gen. Mason MacFar lane, who actually is in charge, was responsible to his orders. ; Weeks before ;the zero hour, American and British advance groups were working secretly at Gibraltar and keeping out of the wav of a daflv influx of 5000 Spanish workers. :They- installedj signal -epparatus and put 4DS of US transport Unloads Men, Supplies 'V r. An American transport unloads shattered tree stumps are mute testimony of the ferocity of the battle that raged alonr this sand spot. But the American marines cleared the area ami transports continue to. bring in men and sup plies for US forces on Guadalcanal. UN Photo. Italy Defense Said Planned Hitler Demands Four Points of France, Including Military NEW YORK, Dec. 21-P)-Elab- f orate clans for a snecial new snr. emana upon rrance mvoiving military cooperation, were the sub- ject of the weekend conference of pAxis leaders at Hitler's headquar ters, according to advices reaching KeaYorKl6nda3hiflgmr front" in formed French and Axis sources. The army would be capable of switching its bases to the Balkans if the Allied nations attacked there, these sources said. An earner official Berlin an nouncement told of the meeting, presumably at Berchtesgaden, and attended by Adolf Hitler, Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Italian foreign minister, and other German and Italian . military leaders, as well as Pierre Laval, chief of the French government. - The Italians were represented as objecting to the idea of their military strength being transfer red at this critical period, leav ing the country dependent on its own resources. Laval, the informed sources de clared, orally expressed willing ness to attempt a program of mili tary cooperation as a prelude to peace, but foresaw insurmount able difficulties if granting any Italian territorial claims now German endorsed! were involved. - Hitler was said to have asked Laval that (1) France formally enter the Axis, (2) raise a new army under existing French obli gatory military service rather than by voluntary methods, (3) join the war agaist the Anglo-Saxons, and that (4) the Petain-Laval govern ment be returned to Paris from Vichy. Air Training Praised OTTAWA, Ont, Dec 21-tfP) President Roosevelt described the British commonwealth air train ing ; plan as one of -the grand conceptions of this war, grand both in design and execution, in a letter to Prime Minister Mac kenzie King on the occasion of the third anniversary of the sign ing of the British commonwealth air training agreement. fices in the heart of the rock in shape' for Allied operations. . .. To reach headquarters, one had to pass navy guards and then guards at the mouth of the . tun nel, which was about 'three quar ters of a-mile long. . ; Final British guard more than a quarter of a mile ' inside the tunnel inspected passes before al lowing one to ; enter the North African headquarters, f ; ; 1. 1 - Generals, air marshahv ad-" Jhlrals and privates all had to -walk through the dripping tun nel to headquarters where con Crete casements kept r out the ' water M The privates used to be treated to the unusual sight of their commander-in-chief clad in a field jacket and sprinting the entire length of the tunnel with his staff trailing behind him like the tail of a comet. It was about the only men and supplies for America's fighting forces on Guadalcanal. The Wliere Nazis itSi x--n I soviet Russia! 'eS 'AraiV V. GORKI , ? ? " R IH EyJTWjSJ r -'- statute Mats wMMf jE3gMOSCOW ; , BRYANSK j VJS - J r-rWA VORONEZH . KHARKo VIETsaYA CHCRNYSHCVSKAYAj'vj ' ' I Susslan troops are driving with increasing momentum from the mid dle Don west of Stalingrad (arrows) pointing at recapture of Ros tov, Moscow dispatches reported would trap a million Germans in the Caucasus and before Stalin grad. Points on the Moscow-Rostov railway were already in soviet - hands. Northwest of Moscow, en the Rzhev-YeUkie Luki front, the Soviets continued their offensive despite nasi counter-attacks Associated Press Telemat. OPA Standardize F6 to Prices by Communities" WASHINGTON, Dec. 21-i5Vln a major move to simplify price; regulations, jOPA announced Monday that beginning some time next month, retail ceiling prices for each type of food will be standardized in each community according to the type of store The new plan may change the prices of hundreds of items up or down, but on the average it is expected to leave food prices at their present level. The only purpise of the new order-: is to establish an easier method of determining what , the top legal price is for any. article At present, each store has a dif ferent set of legal prices ordi narily, the highest price that par ticular store charged for each ar ticle last March. Under the - new plan, stores win be grouped as indepen dents, chain stores and super markets. Each store in the same class, in the same community will have the same celling prices. Local meetings and con ferences will be held all ever the country to acquaint grocers with the program and . adjust . (Turn to Page 2 B) chance "Bee": had for, exercise. , Adm. Sir Andrew Browne Cun ningham, the crusty sea com mander, bustled around - head quarters r in a white turtleneck sweater the height of informality of a British admiral. 'i r rrecedent also was broken the womanlesa reck by the ence - of . a - large number of ' WROrSrWho helped cipher sig nals at the efflcc They were the only women at war in the . North African campaign at the ; "time' . " . ' ' -" . . : The harbor bustled with, ships for Gibraltar which was the bot tleneck for the entire Allied ex pedition. British fortress gunners manned their batteries 24 hours a . day. . With each passing . con voy clearly seen from Spain, it was "like money in the .bank' (Here a passage was deleted by the censor). . - f ' 1 ' - ' i i - ' i - - . - -, x. - ' ' - x I I J - i T. . r - -' ' 1 . 7 I LJ I. H' A '"r- -...vN - Are Blitzed today. Red possession of Rostov Phone Cable Across Nation SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 21-tf5) America's first transcontinental telephone cable was opened Mon day. There are four other trans continental telephone lines, but they all have overhead wires. ,- ? , . The underground cable is free from interference by wind, sleet or formation of ice. It was des cribed as "adding greatly to the dependability of transcontinental telephone service which - is es pecially important in wartime.' - In the opening conversation, Walter S. Gifford, president -of the American Telephone and Tele graph 1 company, speaking from New York, told N. R. Powley, president of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company,-in San Francisco, that they were talking over a line which we decided to build three years ago, against .the possibility of war with Japan." More Dormitorieia Otehed, Portland 4 WASHINGTON, D ec 2 1-VPi The national housing agency, ap proved Monday construction of an additional 5040 dormitory accom modations at a cost of $1,950,000 for incoming war , workers in the Portland, Ore.-Vancouver, Wash, area. ..". ; '"i ' v ' ' " -' The new units, expected to be completed 30 days after a site is chosen will be in barrack-type structures. They are intended to serve primarily ' as a reception center and temporary quarters for new male workers in the section. - The additional accommodations will brins to more Vxzn 40.CC3 units ef all types the public war housing authorized for the area. Railway Bo mis Valuable Territory Recaptured in Red ; Drives Westward Bv EDDIE GTLMORE " , . MOSCOW, Tuesday, Dec. 22 gathering momentum south- westward from the middle Don river gained another 15 miles Monday on ' the heels of de--moralized nazi troops who are! fleeing in disorder and "leav ing equipment and military sun- plies on jthe battlefield," the Soviets .announced early Tuesday. . The swift Russian advance was Taken pointed directly at the key cityi : of Rostov at the mouth of the Don whose capture would trap ap proximately 1,000,000 Germans in the Caucasus and before Stalin grad far to the east The Russians were believed to be only about 130 miles short of Rostov. In some sectors the Germans attempted to counteract, hut were beaten back arid wiped Out, the communique said. - The Russians were threaten . ing MUlerovo on the Moscow Rostov railway after capturing Degteva and Sheptukhovka,. the latter on. that railway only 29 miles north of MUlerovo. v , A juncture - of these Russian troops with other red army1 drives inside the Don river bend and southwest of Stalingrad would firmly enclose a noose around the 22 nazi divisions before Stalingrad.- . ,- Several more large populated peaces ";6m well 4 a. big .stocks -of 1 1 German, war material and an un disclosed number of prisoners were taken during Monday, the latest Russian communique said. One soviet unit alone was credit ed with killing 1300 Germans and taking 540 prisoners as well as 11 tanks, 43 guns, 170 trucks' and . 2000 horses. ( ' More than 45,000 Germans have fallen in the snow or have sur rendered In r this single ' six-day old offensive - which is onlyone of three great forward movements initiated by th? Russians. ; The other big red army drives are on -the central front and on extended wings above and below Stalin grad. . The Germans were counter-'-- tacking heavily on . both ' these other " fronts, but the tone of the jKUSSian . communique -; inaicaea that, the red armies in those sec tors' still held the initiative. " Southwest of Stalingrad the Russians acknowledged their troops were pressed back slight ly after an all-day fight for a collective ' farm area which cost - tanks. " On the central front near Vel- the; Latvian frontier, the Rus sians said their troops "contin ued offensive engagements against encircled enemy garri sons, and one soviet unit, re pulsing a counter-attack, "wip ed ont about 201 Hitlerites and destroyed sbt tanks, two artil lery and three mortar batteries. The Germans also were counter attacking northwest of Stalingrad' in the Don-Volga river , pocket where the red army has driven sharp wedges across their rear communication lines. Thirty" nine big nazi transport planes vital to ferry supplies J" and reinforcements to enemy troops caught in this pocket also we declared shot down Sunday. Sporadic fighting between small assault forces and artillery units continued inside Stalingrad's northern factory district. (The German communique said that Jhe Russians broke their de fense front . In embittered tan.' and infantry fitting in the D. j sector-but that flank attacks r rr vented the Soviets from expsr,:! Ing their success. A Russian trc:: throuh on the Tcrek-Caucasuj front also was acknowledged, tut the Germans "said this was re p aire i. On the central front, t! j Germans said they Warded cli violent attacks on , Velikie LuU and west of Torcpets.) A. Juncture - cf the month-cM Stalingrad fiensive with t newest drive below Voronezh r . peared probable if not already ef fected. One EtallnsTad fsree Czlxl r from the northwest t i- railway from tl.s Yc!;a c ;WCCt t3W2ld L!": " v:z V ' . la 1T3 tiles cJ I....:. 7 r : (Turn to Tzz i 2. ) a.