PAGZ TWO
French Bar
Tunisia Move
. : Tricolor Near Coast;
Rommel Plan Said
' To Save Tunisia
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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. -
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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
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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.
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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.
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Defrauding
Ccwu Tuesday Morning, December 22.' 1242
License Plea
Is Withdrawn
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Water Board; Council
Members Close Terms
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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
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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.
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By Popular
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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
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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
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RAF Attacks
Germany for
Second Night
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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.
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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
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' 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
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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
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