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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Is Withdrawn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withdrawn.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
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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
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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
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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.-
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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
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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-
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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
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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:"-
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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'
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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. ..". ;
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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
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