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PAGZ TWO French Bar Tunisia Move . : Tricolor Near Coast; Rommel Plan Said ' To Save Tunisia E (Continued from Page 1) E reached Misurata, only 100 miles from Tripoli. A Berlin radio broadcast said. Rommel was head ed "for prepared positions," but gave no hint as to where these were1ikely to be. The indications were, how ever, that Rommel was going Into Tunisia, henee the Allied snpported French effort to head him off byv striking through onthern v Tunisia toward the Sousse area. . ' ; Improving weather In Tunisia, the French said, caused a resump tion of widespread Allied air ac tivity "in all : sectors, although the major American and British ground troops in northern Tunisia still limited their action to patrols. The Axis was reported moving men from Tripoli.: last big Libyan base' available to -Rommel, . into , Tunisia, and even withdrawing men and. material from, Its im-j perilled Russian front ' in an ef-j fort to hold toe French protecto rate opposite: Sicily , and the toe of Italy. ' ' '- 1 These moves followed an, im portant Axis strategy conference at Adolf Hitler Vheadguarters, The Axis concentration on Tuni sia as a norbttlegroindrap peared logical because of its prox imity to Axis mainland bases in Italy. Thus far the Axis is believed to have approximately 25.001 men in Tunisia, relnforcinr that : total by air transport at a' rate of 8000 troops weekly. A Daily Mail dispatch also said that a convoy of 150 French ships was massed in southern French ports for an attempt to swell the Tunisian forces. Such a venture would be ex tremely risky because of British sea dominance in the Mediterran ean, but observers pointed out that the Italian navy still Is avail able and Axis land-based planes In Sardinia and Sicily could be used. A Reuters north African dis patch said allied patrols had cap tured Italians from Tripoli who were trying to Join Gen. Walther Nehring's Tunisian farces. There also were Indications, the agency said, that oart of the Italian gar rison of Tripoli was moving-by aea to Tunisia. The allied command in north Africa reported one enemy de tachment in northern Tunisia had been beaten off in a raid on a for ward allied position, and that al lied planes had shot down one axis bomber and one fighter plane In routine patrols in which no al lied planes were lost. A .spokesman said US bomb : ers had dropped mare than a million pounds of explosives on axis-held Tunisian ports in the - week ending December 12, bat that In around operations "both sides are more on the defensive than the offensive now." Nasi planes stin were strafing roads n which the allies "are movlnr np combat equipment for a re newal of battle," he added. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Dec. 21-(P) Allied bombers again attacked enemy-held docks at Bizerte in Tunisia Sunday night, and large scale air activity has been, resumed in all sectors, a French commu nique said Monday night. The regular mid-day Allied. headquarters communique cover ing Sunday's action reported only the repulse of an enemy raid on an Allied ground detachment in northern Tunisia, and the destruc tion by Allied planes of a German Junkers 88 bomber. nd a Messer achmitt 109 lighter plane. Canadian Airliner Missing in Wild - VANCOUVER. Dec. : 21-(CP) Darkness- Monday night grounded aircraft which spent a fruitless day droning low:over the moun tainous, 1 thickly-wooded ; wilder ness northeast of Vancouver searching for a Canadian Pacific Airlines transport , missing with 13 persons aboard. - ! - FOB THE CONVENIENCE OF r t LATE SHOPPERS WE WILL BE , JPHES" TONSIL TUESDAY. Cz Lato Sports BASKETBALL At Berkeley: California 59, San ta Clara 31. : . Loyola 52, Chicago 30. ' Utah 49, Montana State 40. At Pendleton: Pendleton Field 48, Eastern Oregon 44. Court Upholds Nevada's Six Weeks Divorce WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 The supreme court ruled Monday that Nevada's six-week divorces are valid and that all other states in the union must recognize them. Specifically, the court .reversed the conviction for "bigamous co habitation" of two North Carolina residents who went to Nevada in 1940, spent six weeks at the Alamo auto 'court near Las Vegas, ob tained divorces from their respec tive spouses on grounds of cruel ty, married, and returned to North Carolina to set up housekeeping together. The man, O. B. Wil liams, has been married to his previous wife In North Carolina for 24 years and had lour child ren; the woman, Lillie Shaver Hendrix, had been married to her former . husband for 20 years. " Citing the provision of Nevada's divorce law that "plaintiff shall have resided six weeks in the state before suit be brought," the court said it was ' "clear" that Nevada thereby required a divorce-seeker "to have a domicile as distinguish ed from a mere residence in the state;" that each . state can. .alter "the marriage status of the spouse domiciled there, evert' though the other spouse is absent; and that North Carolina and all other states were required; by the constitution to give "full faith and credit" to Nevada's decrees. The North Carolina court which convicted the couple held that they acquired no actual domicile in Nevada but the supreme court said that this question was not before it and "we must assume that petitioners had a bona fide domicile in Nevada, not that the Nevada domicile was a sham." The vote was 6 to 2. Justice Murphy dissented on the ground that the majority was' applying the "full faith and credit clause" of the constitution with "unreas onable rigidity" and that "the question of policy' should be con sidered. -. " And Justice Jackson wrote, an 11 -page dissent -attacking the" find ing as "a demoralizing decision" which "repeals the. divorce laws bf all the states and substitutes the law of Nevada?; ini the. -case of all marriages wherjtl hus band or wife "can alf erd short trip there." , r J. Carson in Brother's Job Of Senator C (Continued from Page 1) C dated Monday informed the court that he was "in no sense a candi date." Judge Murphy said he believed that both John Carson and Fred erick S. Lamport, the court's oth er, pro tern appointee to the sen ate, would capably represent busi ness as well as the legal pro fession. Decision of the court was unanimous. The appointing or der was signed by Conunlssion ; er Jim Smith at his home, to which he returned over the weekend from a Portland hoi- pitaL s John Carson was born in Salem 48 years ago. A Presbyterian, he received his schooling in the pub lic schools here, at Mt Angel col lege and Willamette , university. His wife is the former Myrtle J. Allbright of Marquam. They have two daughters.? ' The new senator served with the Oregon national guard on the Mexican border in 1916, with the army coast artillery -corps in 1918 and at the , Fortress Monroe ar tillery school. He served from 1933 to 1935 on the state parole board and for Inany years on the board' of bar examiners. Chimneys Blaze . City firemen were called Mon day night to extinguish chimney fires at 330 South 14th street and 2365 Maple avenue. UEDIIESDAY Th Allied Tanks I Drive Wedge Guinea Japs Falling Back Before Air, Ground Assault 1 D (Continued from Page 1) D trenchments and smashed log and concrete strong points one after the other despite the use of flame throwers by Japanese fighting to the last .man.' ! ; . . Beginning with the attack on Cape Endaiadere, which was cap tured Friday, tanks were in use by the allies for the first time in this theatre, and the Japanese had no anti-tank weapons except the flamethrowers. -1, Their position, as a conse quence, was deteriorating rapid ly, and they were reported to have lost their commander, IX. Gen Tomitaro HoriL an expert on amphibious warfare Who Is said to have led many of the major Japanese landings, including- those at Wake, Guam, and Rabaul and at Gona, on New Guinea, last Jolv 22. Everything has gone according to schedule since Gen. Douglas MacArthur 'launched his general attack on all the positions east of Buna village Friday morning. At Sanananda point, where an other force of Japanese is isolated west of Buna village, the allies were closing in slowly from all sides. , ' ' " : 'Allied heavy B-24 bombers Sun day attacked Madang, 300 miles up on the north New Guinea coast, for the first time and shot down three zeros after bombing the wharf with two dozen 500-pound explosives. Two large transports, their decks packed with khaki-clad Japanese troops, were in a con voy attacked there over the week end. Reconnaissance Monday showed a big oil slick and empty lifeboats where a cruiser in the convoy was sunk. Winter Begins Officially, Actually Br The Associated Press The first day of winter blew in on- the nation today in the wake of a frigid spell during which low temperature records were shat tered in the east. With .cold somewhat abated, it was disclosed in Boston that pro verbially taciturn New Englanders had cut 'loose with a flood of weather - prompted tongue-wagging via telephone. Engineers of the New England Telephone and Telegraph com pany estimated there had been a million extra calls an extra 100, 000 hours of phone conversation during a 24 hour period which ended at 6 p. m. Monday. Calls necessitated by ; frozen pipes, stalled autos, empty oil tanks were among those that over loaded local circuits, but the offi cials said there were many that were too long for such emergen cies and they suspected many peo ple were just unwilling to go out The mercury dipped low in New England over the weekend, but St Lawrence county, NY, appear ed to hold the record with a registered 47 below zero. Four persons were dead of ex posure, while garages and plumb ers were deluged with work and public conveyances overtaxed throughout New York state. , In Rochester, NY, the temperature climbed to 22 above from a low of 16 below. Syracuse, NY, which reported an all-time low of 26 below on Sunday, had compara tively balmy weather at 15 above late Monday. In New York: city the mercury ascended from minus one at 2 a. m. Monday to 23 above at 2:30 p. m. Some other temperature read ings were .Boston, 5 below; De troit 10 above; Philadelphia, I above; Pittsburgh, zero; Washing ton, 1 above. it' - ' Wartime Cut Destructive To Forests WASHINGTON, Dec 21 -(P) The US - forest service declared Monday that the future produc tivity of the nation's forests is be ing undermined : by destructive cutting to meet wartime needs for wood and forestry materials. In a report to the agriculture department Acting Chief Earle H. Clapp urged action to protect forestry resources for the sake of future generations. 'Developments in the first year of the war,V"he said, ."bring into focus, the inadequacy of the na--tion'r present forestry effort ; and the threat to the security .of rural -people throughout our forest re gions which is inherent, in ' the current situation. - . . L While agreeing that it was nec essary to supply war i require ments for lumber, the i forestry chief said that needs could be met If the forestry industry fol lowed recommended cutting : and restoration practices. CCSGOH STATESMAN, Scdam 600 Turks Killed In Quake, Report BERLIN (From German Broad casts r, Tuesday, Dec 22-(ff-The Berlin radio broadcast an Ankara dispatch Tuesday stating that 600 persons were killed In a violent earthquake centered along '-the Black Sea coast of Turkey. . The quake, described as the most severe registered lately in Turkey, was said to have rocked the tobacco-growing section of Anatolia, - destroying large crops. -me number of wounded was said to have exceeded by far the number killed. Tire Company Charged With FORT WAYNE, Ind, Dec 21 UP). A complaint from Russia and a tipoff from an Indiana citizen led to the indictment here Monday of the Anaconda Wire and Cable company in what Attorney Gen eral Biddle described in Washing ton as one of the most reprehen sible cases of defrauding the gov ernment and endangering the lives of American soldiers and sailors." The indictment returned by a federal grand Jury, accused the company, a subsidiary of the Ana conda Copper Mining company, and five of its officials with sell ing defective wire to the govern ment from its Marion, InL, plant Specifically, it charged conspiracy to defraud the government and conspiracy to present false claims. Eight counts were included. In New York, H. D. Keresy, president of the Anaconda Wire and Cable, company, said none of the responsible officers or execu tives of the company "had any knowledge of failure to comply" with prescribed specifications and that employes at fault had been dismissed.- The justice department said the company had $6,00S,000 in government orders, lnclnding wire and cable for rue by Amer ican armed forces In combat communications. Bat the army some time aro ordered that the wire delivered by the Marion plant be confined to use only In maneuvers and not be sent to flahtina areas. Heresy's statement said, "the company has never received a complaint of failure of the product in service and has no knowledge of any such occurrence. Named in the' indictment be sides the company were Thor S. Johnson, general manager of all Anaconda mills; Frank E. Hart manager of the Marion division; Don R. Carpenter, Marion super intendent; Chalmer Bishop, chief company inspector at Marion, and Frank Kunkle, assistant chief com pany inspector at Marion. Hart said today that Carpenter and Kunkle terminated their connec tion with the company on De cember 1. He had no comment on the indictment Tom C. Clark, chief of the jus tice department's war frauds unit said in Washington that FBI agents conducted the investigation that resulted in the indictment The tipoff came, Clark said, in a letter from an Indiana citizen whom he declined to name. Earlier a re port was submitted by Cyrus Shipp, inspector for the signal corps. The complaint from Russia, Clark said, was that practically 50 per cent of the wire manufac tured by the company and shipped to that country was found .defec tive in combat use A statement by the Justice de partment' asserted that the de fendants "secretly installed and "manipulated mechanisms that enabled them to "pass inspec tion labels from tested and ap proved wire and cable and . placed them on antes ted ma . terial. - .. " "I can conceive, said Atty. Gen, Biddle, "of nothing more vicious, or treacherous, than deliberately supplying our armed forces with defective war material. Maximum penalties lor defraud ing the government .are two years imprisonment or a $10,000 fine, or both; for ; presenting false claims, ten years imprisonment or a $10,000 fine, or both. -Vv : Several months ago the Marion plant was awarded the navy merit for excellence in production. Steel Workers Strike : CLEVELAND. Dec 21-aVA strike by 1000 CIO unionists Mon day night curtailed production of Ship armor plate at the Cleveland plant of . Republic Steel corpora tion, -Vice President C -M. White of Republic declared in an appeal frr intervention by the war labor board.' " ' - ' Novelist Dies NEW YORK. Dec 21P)-WI1-bur Finley Tauley, 70, a novelist and : member of The-. New York Times staff for 33 years, died Mon day. He was the author of nine novels and a play. 1 Last i mm Tunes Today HOP! jL Fins Second Feature Defrauding Ccwu Tuesday Morning, December 22.' 1242 License Plea Is Withdrawn -1 ' ,' -a' 1 " -i:" '-Or" - ,f. r' V :- -- ' .' , . .. . .i .. .. ". Doughton Quits Gty Water Board; Council Members Close Terms F (Continued from Page 1) F layed action on bill to repeal the present ordinance licensing magazine solicitors, 'whose eon- stitutionality has been question ed, pending ' Introduction of a substitute rernlatory measure. Alderman Lloyd F. LeGarie of the license committee said the substitute measure by a regis tration clause would give the . city seme supervision ever 'out side magazine salesmen, even though they could net be re quired to pay a license fee.4 - Other council actions ' included authorizing repair at cost of $1996 of the fire department pump truck that was badly damaged in a col lision last July; denial of a petTf tion for vacation" of part of an alley in Waller addition; ordering the clearing of Oxford drainage ditch as soon as weather and man power permit and . temporarily tabling an ordinance creating a re volving fund for the park board. OP A to Make Food Prices Standardized B (Continued from Page 1) B the plan to fit each city er town. The standard prices will be of two types either fixed dollar and cents, or percentage markup. The "dollar and cents price will be, for instance, 10 cents a pound, 15 cents a can, or 13 cents a package. Meat and soap will be the first items treated on this basis. Under the markup system, a grocer will find his maximum price by adding to the wholesale price a fixed percentage to cover retail costs and profits. Thus, a can of beans selling at wholesale for 10 cents would be priced in a retail store allowed a ' 10 per cent markup for 11 cents. Sea sonal articles, particularly canned vegetables, probably will be priced in this manner. Maximum prices will be high est for independent stores, next highest in chain stores and low est in supermarkets, in recogni tion of the difference in cost of operating these types of stores. However," any store can charge less than the ceiling price andean meet or undercut its competition if it chooses. This plan isbeing worked eat at present only for feed stores. , However, OPA administrator Leon Henderson said "a number of steps toward simplification, especially In the field of small business, are presently under way m ether retail fields. Henderson promised that the new food price regulations would cut out a lot of reports, other pa per work and confusion for the individual store keeper. Local meetings will be begun soon after Christmas to explain the plan to the storekeepers. Breaght Back By Popular Request 51 - v jez,& tin::? e"Tg l:bxg Om PaotSfc-iLyilW X - V : . A United Nations Stamp Slated WASHINGTON, Dec 21-(ff)-A new two-cent "United . Nations" stamp, to replace the present issue of f two-cent "Defense" stamps, was announced Monday by Post master General Walker.1 - The department said only' that the new stamp would be red and would commemorate some of-the principles of the United Nations. Details on design will be an nounced later. First-day sale will be January 14 at the Washington pos toff Ice t" . The Issue will go on sale throughout 'the country the fol lowing day. .' - j. Jap Raiders At Calcutta Hurt Little H (Continued from Page 1)11 faced Japanese opposition slnee advancing miles along the . Alluvial coastal plain eat by dosens of rivers and liberally carpeted with jungle and man grove swamps. The lack of reads' and quick communications fa cilities shrouded their progress. Reports from Calcutta to. the capital said the aerial enemy put on "a very poor show. "I would have thought the Japs would have made an effort to do better in their initial attack, one official said. He reported that the raid failed to panic the people and that casualties were very light Calcutta, chief Indian industrial city and arsenal, has thousands of miles of slit trenches. The- raiders kept very high and stayed only about half an hour.' A few bombs were dropped also at Chittagong on the east shore of the Bay of Bengal about midway between Calcutta and Akyab. Blenheim bombers escorted by fighters attacked Hagwe, 150 miles east of Akyab and, second only to that Bay of Bengal port in importance as a West Burma air base. Many bombs burst on the airport runaways and the British said the results were "good. Co-op Head Resigns McMINNVXLLE, Ore, Dec SI (JPy. George Johnson, secretary- manager of the Farmers Coope rative creamery here since 1939, Monday announced his resigna tion, effective January 1. He will be succeeded by Jack A. Wright plant superintendent ommmm CylHi !iii;inii; f COMPAinOir FEATUTX - J j rsiv'- "' fro n . "ysn I RAF Attacks Germany for Second Night O t Continued from Page 1) G it was carried out by great num bers and "considerable dam age wax officially acknowledged by the German high command. It .was accompanied by wide sweeps over France and the low countries by intruder planes, twin-encined Whirlwind fighters which also ire used as bombers. Nazi transportation f acuities were their principal targets. . : .'x r No fewer than eight enemy trains were shot up, , and every intruder came back safely to base. The air ministry's communique Monday, although succinct, made it plaint that Duisbuxg, which stands at the confluence of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers near Essen In one of the greatest industrial areas in Germany, was hard hit ' The Duisburg attack was the fifth night assault on Germany tM month and was costlier to the allies ' than Sunday's more spec tacular daylight raid Dy Dig us bombers into France. In that great sweep, which was said officially to have cost six American bombers, the. town of Rommilly-Sur-Seine was the; principal objective. Forty f out enemy fighter planes were shot down by US airmen in the raid en RommDly-Snr-Seine, an eighth air force I communique said Tuesday. " "Of this number six were seen to crash, 23 went 'down in flames, 14 disintegrated in the air, and one plane was abandoned by the pilot" the communique said. oMooaaaHaoMaMaawaaoae ' Court Lauds Late Brandeis WASHINGTON, Dec 21 -ff) The supreme court; paid earnest tribute Monday to its great dis senter, the late Justice Louis D. Brandeis, whom Chief Justice Stone termed "one of the influential-men of his time." The courtroom ceremony, which included a tribute from Attorney General Buddie, followed an earl ier meeting of the supreme court bar at which Senator Norris (Ind Neb) said Brandeis lif e wfll al ways be a shining - star in the broad firmament bf American jurisprudence." ' Himself a fighter during his long law-making career, Norris in perhaps his last address in Wash ington as a senator, added of Brandeis, "His dissenting opin SALEM'S LEA01N3 THSATRS 7 1 . For ions have become the law of the land." . . . "... ,l ' Brandeis, whose nomination to the court in 1916 by President Wilson precipitated a bitter nomi nation fight in the senate, died October 3, 1941, at 84. He re tired February 13, 1939, after serving 23 years as the first Jew ever named to the tribunal Rail Points Recaptured A (Continued from Page 1) A southwest wing In. the Kotelnl- ' kovskl region was about 1 the distance away. ' The adjoining, merging offen sives thus were not only increas ing the peril to German troops still doggedly holding to the nar rowing Stalingrad salient but were recapturing great masses of farm lands of the Don Cossacks. Up wards of 65,000 square miles in southwest Russia already . have been seized: In a month and now the coal Iron and hydro-elecfric riches of the lower Don basin are near the charging Russian van guards.) t ; Lost Times Today 7J A7ifrw&rtrpto t ei is sin. bow niiiia m Plus Za. KtgKrry tea Htcrf clo::j ller Lynn Bari - Carole Land is Cesar Romero Starts Wed. - - 2 Hits! ' Readln. 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