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Col em, Oregon, lTumdar Morning, December 24. 1842
No. 1C3
M il II II II II
Yankee Troops in JB'&Msw.
Find French Cooperate
Joseph Gallagher Only
.Candidate Certified
For Postmaster Here
Independent Voter on
List Displeasing
To Democrats
By STEPHEN C. MERGLER -
Joseph J. Gallagher, an in
dependent in political registra
tion, is the only candidate
Among a field of eight who has
been certified : to the US post
office department for consid
eration in the appointment of
a postmaster for Salem, The
Statesman learned Wednesday.
' A message to this effect was
received .from the Washington
office of Rep, ' James W. Mott
in response , to a special inquiry.
Mr., Gallagher said Wednesday
that he had' received formal no
tice' that he stood first on the
civil service list. He was not ad
vised of the status of other ap
plicants. The apparent elimination of
the ether seven applicants for
this $4200 a year "plum" In
spite of the fact that normal
procedure is to certify three if
they can qualify caused an
immediate stir of discontent in
state and county democratic cir
cles, which had anticipated that
a party man would certainly re
; eeive consideration. ? ...
'.While the message from Con
gressman Mott's office might, by
splitting grammatical hairs, be
constructed to mean that addition
al "I certifications Twere?t'Pssibler
word reaching ."Carl PopeMar
ion . . county Is iiemocratic ' central
committee -chairman,- was s? that
Gallagher alone was to be certi
fied. ',."-- - i j-'-': , ;
; Chairman 'Pope , heard the bad
news from; State .Chairman Fred
risk at Eugene Tuesday afternoon.
The democratic executive com
mittee of .the county will be call
ed together immediately for con
sideration of this problem, and the
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Jap-terned
oliday Food
SAN FRANCISCO, Dc. 23;-
Fifteen hundred Americans in
terned in Camp Woosung, near
EhanshaL will have Christmas
dinners complete with turkey
pies, under Red Cross auspices, A.
I Schafer. Pacific area Red Cross
manager reported. Wednesday,
Schafer was notified the din
ners would be served to Ameri
can off icers, - enlisted men and
civilian imDrisoned there, m a
message from Edouard Egle, . In
ternational - Red Cross committee
delegate in Shanghai. '':. r j
Egle sent word that the camp is
visited regularly by Red r Cross
representatives, and that jprison
ers have been supplied through
ed Cross - funds with . warm
sweat shirts, socks, winter caps
.nd gloves. He also has sent in
BO stoves ' and is arranging for
heating the barracks, he said. .
At regular intervals, Egle re
ported,: he delivers -to the camp
foodstuffs such ai bread, smoked
sausages, noodles, fresh fruit and
beef extract, as well as medicines,
dental and optical equipment and
tailet articles ' such ' as tooth
brushes and powder, soap, tow
els, etc
prisoners : in t the . Philippines,
too, -should get welcome supplies
this wekt Schafer said, since a
cable received "from Japan via
Geneva 'stated 13,648 cases con
taining 500 tons of Red Cross food,
clothing . and medical supplies
have left Hongkong : and Yoko
hama for Philippine prison campo
;;tirhsft.:a
ar: shiptaentr sent a- we
. f.ri. :-iernatie exchanr' vessels.
0
f ' - ; J
Passes Test
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f7
Joseph J. Gallagher, lone
certified by civil service com
mission for consideration in Sa
lem's postmastership appoint
ment. Kennell-EIUs photo.
French Drive
- Big Tunisian Battle
Seen Shaping Up;
Malta Helped;, .
W)NDON, tec. 23 - (JP) - The
French under Gen. Henri Honor
Giraud have :' driven' the enemy
back in a sharp engagement ap
parently In the Pont Au Fahs area
and have , taken more prisoners
and war material, African reports
said Wednesday night, ' and the
axis hinted a big battle was shap
ing up in the Tunisia corner.
A headquarters spokesman said
the French attacked a position
held mostly by Italians near Pont
Au Fahs, 30 miles south of Tunis.
Captured equipment included two
armored cars.
The spokesman and the official
allied communique reporting' the
French success over their former
axis overlords in Tunisia directly
contradicted a DNB, German
news agency, report that a French
squadron was annihilated in the
fighting and 100 French dead were
left on the field.
Reports from the allied head
quarters tol.d of "vigorous patrol
activity on the British and Amer
ican " sectors in Tunisia, with the
enemy shelling some of the Brit
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Pearl Hfitrbor
Said Lauded
By Finnish
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (JP)
Officials quarters in Washing
ton expressed concern Wednes
day night over reports reaching
here of a Japanese legation party
in Helsinki at which Finnish min
isters were said to have congrat
ulated the Japanese on the anni
versary of Pearl Harbor. !
1 According 'to these reports, dis
closed by authoritative sources,
the party was held December 7
and was attended by Prime Min
ister Rangell and Foreign Minis
ter Witting as well as other Fin
nish officials. Whether neutral
diplomats also attended was not
disclosed, but some of the Finnish
officials i were reported to have
congratulated the ; Japanese on
the anniversary occasion.
Motion pictures of the Pearl
Harbor atUck' were-, shown at the
party,- some- ? reperti aaidV and
Finnihf ' officials were- among
those .who applauded the destruc?
tioR wrought toy Japanese torpedo
Pirfiii - -.i I
i Whether the Japanese legations
and. , embassies in other capitals
besides -Helsinki -gve December
7 parties for officials and- diplo
mats' and, if so, what transpired
at such functions, was a subject
on which little 4 information was
available Wednesday night
No s comment was available
from The state department but it
was recalled that - the American
minister i to Finland, Arthur
Schoenfeld, was ' recently ordered
home , for consultation. It was
considered . likely, he might shed
some light on the incident after
his-arrival here," - j
Enemy Back
: iL
Little Time
Found for
Sight-Seeirig:
Americans Billeted r
With French in
West Africa
By JOSEPH MORTON
DAKAR, French West Afri
ca, Dec. 2 3-(P)-A meriean
troops now are in Dakar, nerve
center of all French West Afri
ca and the port which repulsed
a combined British and Fighting
French attack in September,
1940.
The khaki-clad Yanks arrived
qUietly and went to work beside
their new French allies without
any waste 01 time.
' They came by plane and ship,
and in one case by jeep. Notable
demonstrations greeted their ar
rival, but there was little cheer
ihg, possibly because there was
no marching or suitable oppor
tunity.
The attitude of the French pub
lic officials and army and navy
officers seems to be to receive
the Americans well and courteous
ly and in a spirit of cooperation,
but still ' maintain their dignity
and remember yesterday's dead.
The Americans have come
Just to work," government con
trolled newspapers in Dakar
commented, "and have net very
much time to waste in the city
sifht-seeuig. The population of
Dakar has net had time to
manifest its sympathies."
Quartered as guests of the gov
ernment mission ' are j Admiral
Glassford, Brig. Gen. A. Franklin!
Kibler, Brig. Gen. Cyrus Smith
CoL J. C. Holmes. : Capt, Hush
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Bomb9 Fighter
Planes Strike
In Naziland
LONDON, Dec. 23-i5s)-Boston
bombers escorted by fighter planes
bombed the docks at St. Malo,
France, Wednesday afternoon, the
air ministry announced in a com
munique Wednesday night.
St. Malo is on the northern coast
of France almost directly south
of Southampton.
Other British fighters, unmo
lested by defending aircraft, car
ried out sweeps over Brittany and
Normandy, the communique add
ed. Earlier in the afternoon Brit
ish planes with fighter escorts
bombed targets at Denhelder on
the Dutch coast
. No enemy aircraft were en
countered during the operations,
and. no British planes were lost,
it was reported.
The raids came in the wake of
heavy, and widespread overnight
attacks by fighter-bombers on
German' railway transport in
France and the low countries.
The raid on Denhelder, strategic
Dutch port on the Zuider Zee, was
carried out by Veterans, American
general reconnaissance bombers.
Planes of this design have been
put into service on the RAF front
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Castor Oil Lacking
PORTLAND, Dec. 23-CF)-Good
news for kids a castor oil short
age! War production board of
ficials said Wednesday J that "at
the normal rate of consumption
less than a month's supply exists
nationally.
W A A (To IT
By HAROLD V. BOYLE '
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS m
NORTH AIIICA; Per. 33i&y
The arrival of 31-American army
nurse 1 an five WAAC officers
has- croatod a feminine oasis at
allied headquarters, where unto
now the art of war has been prac
ticed on a strictly masculine basis.
The appearance at the officers':
mes of the yeeng women hade
lmmedlaterepercnssions. -When
they first entered the
long private dining roonv looking
as nest and fresh in their mili
tary garb as a Monday- mornina
wash, all conversation halted mo
mentarily. Heads of generals and
second lieutenants alike turned as
if they were on the' same pivot to
watch the women march a jitue
self : consciously, to thejr .table. '
Gray haired eelenels, wke
cisnally gnaw tlei ' rat-'isr Lt ,
.Red.
Western- -
CurFew
Lifted
. , .... . . 1 - . .
Germans Allowed - tf
Travel ;Exclusion:
To Be Individual
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23
(Jpy-The army Wednesday night
lifted curfew . and travel re-
strictions on German aliens in
the eight-state area of the west-
ern defense command
These restrictions, imposed
last March 27, were removed
October 19 with regard to Italian
aliens and no longer are applicable
to Japanese, all of whom have
been removed from the affected
zones.
ine need lor the curfew no
longer exists as other security
measures have been provided,1 LL
Gen. J. Lk DeWitt of the western
defense command and Fourth
army said.
"Among these measures hi
the individual exclusion proce
dure under which persons who
are found, after hearing, te- be
dangerous or potentially dan
gerous to the military security
f the west coast are excluded.
"I desire to make it plain how
ever, that there will be no retard
ation of the program to rid the
west coast of such persons. '
The curfew order applied orig
inally to all German and Italian
aliens and to all persons of Jap
anese ancestry living either in
military area 1, comprising rough
ly the western half of Washing
ton,' Oregon and California and a
southern strip of Arizona, or. in
anv one of 1032 smaller - zon
scattered through . the iemainder
of these four states and - Idaho,
Montana, Nevada and Utah."
The order provided that .these
persons should remain . in their
homes from 8 p. m. to 6 ' a." m.
nightly and should hot travel
more than five miles from their
homes at other hours, except to
and from work, without specific
authority.
General DeWitt made clear,
however, that his order revok
ing the previous proclamations
did not apply to that clause for
bidding the possession of con
traband specifically firearms
r other weapons, ammunition,
short-wave radios, signal devi
ces and cameras by Japanese
anywhere in the eight states.
Furthermore, he pointed out, a
presidential proclamation govern
ing aliens makes unlawful the
ownership of any. of these items
by German nationals, wherever
their place of residence in this
country.
News Deliverers
Get 5 Increase
WASHINGTON, . Dec. 23 -(&)
Some 3000 New York newspaper
delivery workers whose suddenly
called strike last week left the
metropolis news-starved for three
days won a $5-a-week pay boost
Wednesday from the war labor
board, which at the same time
strongly denounced the walkout
"In approving the interim order
and award of the arbitration board
in this case, the WLB order de
clared, "the national war labor
board expressly condemns the ac
tion of the newspaper and mail
deliveries union of New York and
vicinity in calling a strike in clear
violation of the national policy to
elminate the use of economic force
in the settlement of labor disputes
for the duration of the war".
rrllQ A
austerity dusted off
their sanitary ' gallantry " aad
, shamelessly . sabotaged . officers
ef tetsev ranlr t get seats pear
tiMMeW':;;:;:
You know: said a major, '"1
never knew before how much it
can mean to a man just to sit
across .the .table from . a young
woman who speaks ' bin own'- lan
guage.
"After six. weeks of army life In
Africa, you forget there is another
world with women in it as well
as men.? " - '
;The maora reaction was typi
cal but one elderly general mere
ly ; gazed dourly at the fenuhine
contingent and remarkedt :.-
,ri dent know whara . hap-"
penlng t war anyway." T7e
pever had, aaythjr?. Lie tils
before. rlllccat sellers! Tass
t-l-Usa," vT'V :.-"-.
Msi
.-..::.i;.V....wJ..
Wounded In action, a US marine
the south Pacific He was transferred te a waiting transport for
. AF Photo from US navy. : .1 ;.. r-:'"''
US, British Bomb Japs, Burma
US and Mexico
Agree, Trade
Tariffs Reduced on
Many Items ; Quota
On Oil Removed
WASHINGTON Dec. 23 -(JF)
The Uftjted States and lexico-
allies in the war. against' the axis
signed a reciprocal trade agree
ment Wednesday sweeping aside
long-standing, barriers to peace
time commerce and opening the
way to a greater wartime ex
change of goods. . ' '' ' f
Secretary of State Hull, signed J
the bulky document , with: Dr.
Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexi-
can
ambassador, bringing the
15th American republic and the
25th nation into the international
trade program Hull has advocated.
The United States obtained
tariff reductions en 71 items
while the duties on 127 others
were f roaen at present levels.
In return more than 60 Items
exported te the United States
by Mexico are affected by the
agreement.
Among the concessions made by
Mexico are the binding of the
present duty on automobiles,
trucks- and tractors, of which
Mexican purchases in 1940
amounted to " $6,998,000; a reduc
tion of 50 per. cent on. the duty
on machinery and appliances, of
which the United States supplied
70 per cent, of Mexico's Imports
in 1940 valued at $1,895,000; and
17 per 1 cent decrease : in the
rate on radios and radio equip
ment, a $1,482,000 item , in this
country's 1940 foreign trade.
Other, reductions - came on:
Wheat '40 per. cent; IaTd-2T.7: per
cent; refrigerators 20 per cent.
Many : items vital . to the war
figure In the concessions made by
the United States to: Mexico . and
significantly the pact removes all
quotas oh the importation of crude
petroleum and . fuel oQ at the
frozen rate of one-fourth cent per
gallon. ' Previously Mexico's ex
ports of petroleum crude and fuel
oil to . this country , at this rate
were limited: by , quota while all
in excess of the quota was sub
ject to one-half cent a gallon duty.
The WAACs have one privilege
denied . moio officers. .They - can
eat with their military caps, on,
and they do - -Jl
How to in trod u them has been
something of a problem in social
military etiquette.- rellow officers
the first time usually ' burble -out
something like . "Ukr Smith, this
is General Joaeav er, er, I -mean
General Jones, uh, uh, meet lieu
tenant Smith.". ,r- - r '
Both the nurses and the WAACs
have been besieged with -dinner
Invitations ' and- offers jot asdst
anc. . -'. , '. ' ,
The alert American press scor
ed an initial scoop when two for
eign correspondenta took all five
WAACs for their first dinner at
C- French restaurant. - Army- air
corps . officers a 1 s o were taken
along -after they berred to join
tie party aod H tt tLi j would j
-lL!LFgB
Wounded Marine Evacuated
Is carried aboard landing barge
Carrier, Land
Planes Meet
Enemy
NEW DELHI, Thursday, Dec.
24-7v57rcding bombs upon
widely , separated targets, . Ameri
can and British .- .raiders : have
struck: powerful : sew , blows at
lUn'goon andAkyab in softenlng
up raids ahead of British troops
cautiously moving. down the Bur
ma - coast . while V carrier-borne
British naval planes assaulted the
westermost Japanese base in the
Netherlands Indies far to the
south, '.-"-v-"' - ;
These allied attacks, carried
oat . over an ever-broadening
are of the Indian ocean against
only scant enemy . opposition,
caught the Japanese flatfooted
or showed that they now were
surrendering air superiority, or
both.
' The British announced .Thurs
day .that Japanese planes raided
two localities in eastern Bengal
province Wednesday. At least
one enemy ; plane was destroyed
and several were damage, a com
munique said.
A small number of bombs were
dropped tin the Chittagong area
Wednesday ' night and casualties
and damage were relatively small
Wednesday, afternoon two bombs
were dropped on Basemi area and
no casualties or damage resulted.
US army air force headquarters
announced that in two destructive
assaults on Rangoon Sunday and
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Adair Sergeant ; :
Hurt in Albany .
ALBANY, Ore Dec. 23 ; (ff)
Albany pollc e investigated
Wednesday night the circumstan
ces under which Sgt. Harold K
Ideker of Camp Adair suffered
severe concussion at a downtown
street " intersection here Wednes
day.'.- t .i - . " ' "
Ideker was found unconscious.
At hospital afterward he told at
tendants he :- slipped ' and fell,
striking his head on a curbing.
Police -said,' however, -that they
X would; investigate.
pay for 'the food, buy", the wine
and. t tho eorrospondento a zrco
airplane ride home "after the wan
: . -Listen, If yem'IT tJijM
daU with that- ft tijr' UiOa
-blonds tho Ueuienant wttk tW
dimples 111 w r a p yon n- -oombor
" right s saJ
rerl m& what's more, IT1 sive
I yeml-a prrraie hangar te keep ,
, It lB '
. " The WAACs wSJ be assigned io
headquarters duty; thua relieving
male officers for combat duty. V
iThe nurses,Tike the WAACs, al
ready have sent out advance pa
trols to "scour tho city, for atock
Inss, which are as scarce here as
one-leced. penguins. ... ,
Til never bo happy again until
we Inyaia Jsran,"- sighed one
young nursfc. Then I'm going to
buy a fciy toxcf t -Y worms and
grow i f es ;
polled VP on Guadalcanal Island In
evacuation from the battle
Allies Breach
Jap Defenses
Australian Corvette "
Sunk ; Planes Win
.. Against Enemy . ,
- By.VERN HAUGLAND
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Thursday,' Dec. 24
JF) Japanese enemy fortifica
tions : have been . . breached in
many -places in the Buna area of
New Guinea by allied troops,
Gen. V Douglas MacArthur " an
nounced Thursday.
"Many hundred of bis (the
Japanese) dead are being bur
' led by onr : troops,' the noon
eenunnniqne said.
"His situation now must be re
garded as desperate.';' v
The location of the breached
fortifications was not stated but
recent communiques have told of
heavy 'fighting between Buna vil
lage and Cape Endaiadere to the
east, both places now in allied
hands. And other fighting has
been reported to the west of Buna
with Japs pocketed in the Cape
Sanananda sector. It Is these
points which General MacArthur
has reported intricately fortified
by the Japs who are understood
to be under orders of their em
peror to fight to the death.
fOur air units were .active in
the" (Buna) area and northward
along the coast", the communique
reported.
The bombing and sinking by
the Japs of the -Australian Cor
vette, HMS Armidale, in recent
action near - Portuguese Timor
was disclosed.
Allied bombers raided the air
drome at Cape - Glouchester in
New Britain island . and at Jac
quinot bay in the same sector a
reconnaissance unit shot down a
Jap fighter " and ' damaged
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two
Gestapo Raids
Nonray Towns
" STOCKHOLM, Sweden Dec. 23
ypy-Gtpo agents in an armed
raid on several towns . al9ng a
100-mile coastline area extending
around the southern tip of Norway
from Arendal to Flekkefjord. ar
rested moro than SO people. It
was reported here -Wednesday
night..:!.; ,'.. :
- Most ' of the "arrests, wero la
Kristiansand,- reports ' from. Nor-
waiy1 said." Tne purpose .'ef : the
raics was noi rjwwnjr -r .
Z ThoHUpVVtruck tbvml within
24. hours of a raid by 200 Gestapo
agents on the Norwegian town of
Rjukah; in theTventfloraaien val
ley; in which. .22 . men - were ar-
rested-' and every ( house ja we
town was searched. '
S- " f ,j o.n is in Pin n il v---.-.
Japs Repuhed,- Danha
CHUNGKINU, iec. za-trT-Ilie
high command reported'. Wednes
day the Japanese were' repulsed
last Friday in an attempt to cross
the Nanma' river, tributary, of the
Nankwt in the Kengtucg sector of
northeast Eurma, but said that the
tnerry,. had f oreed a crossir.3 of
e i;all and, were btinj erC5d
IJ tL CLlncse, - -
JTD
Reach
Ukrcdne
8Q00 Nazis Qaimed
Slain in Day of
Fighting Gains
f By EDDY GILMORE
; MOSCOW, Thursday, Dec 24
The red army has beaten for
ward ; across the middle Don
plains for gains of 72 to 103
miles in eight days, the Rus
sians announced early Thurs
day, on a continuing and mas- ;
sive offensive which has cost
Adolf Hitler upwards of 80,000
killed or captured In that sector
alone, 'v .
A special communique said the
Germans were sent reeling back
for another 12 to 18 miles Wed
nesday and that in the day's
LONDON, Thursday, Dec. 24
(JFf-ThK London Daily Mail says'
,Thnrsday in a dispatch dated
from "the German frontier! that
the gravity of the military posi
tion In Russia has brought ord
ers to all German soldiers on
leave from Russia to report im
mediately, at Strasbourg mili
tary headquarters. They norm
ally would not have rejoined
their units- until nexl month.
fighting 8000 nazis were slain in
Tuesday's fighting and that by
Wednesday night the number of
prisoners 'bad been increased by
16,400. J
This brought the prisoner total
in the eight-day period to 36,600,
while, the number of dead nazis
numbered .more than 44,0C0r ;
The latest la a series of spe
cial comnraniqnes reporting un
precedented successes In the
winter offensives said that
towns and villages by the doz
ens were liberated by the red
army. "-
1 The offensive of our troops in
the middle course of the Don is
sontinuing," it said' triumphantly.
Virtually engulfed by the sov
iet tide was the key communica-;
tions center of Millerovo. One '
soviet spearhead had driven to J
Baranikivka, in the Ukraine 31
miles northwest of Millerovo.
Another thrust : 'had reached.
and liberated the town of Volo-1
shina, 25 miles, west of Millerovo.
Among additional larger places
wrested from the nazis were Olk
hovoirog, 18 miles northeast . of
Millerovo, and Bolshinsk, ,' 87
miles to the southeast. - . '
This powerful drive toward ,
Rostov was declared further in
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Higgins Gets
Contract to
Build Planes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 3-()
Formal approval of a contract
with Andrew J. Higgins of New
Orleans for production of an un
disclosed number of cargo planes
for .the army air forces was an
nounced Wednesday by the war
department
Apparently l the planes will be
built at the partially-completed
shipyards at New Orleans. Con
struction on the shipyards stopped
when the maritime commission on
July 18 cancelled its contract with
Higgins ' for construction i of 200
Liberty "ships on tho ground that
insufficient steel was available, r
The war department said its
agreement with the shipbuilder,
negotiated by tho air forces ma
terial center at Wright field, Ohio,
and, approved by Undersecretary
of War Robert P. Patterson, calls
for construction- of tho' pianos- Of
m cooo-piuo-xtxed fee basis.
The only referenca to the size
of the order Was a statement that3
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ine
Notice Heeded
" GStANTS PAES Dee!
Eales of Taleatlnes wero brisk
here..'T7edaesiay bst- net' as
Caristmas presents. ' ' '
Aeeosnnaaytng a &!??lay of
Talentines which r?tfl la a
local 'stare was tLe filial Irx:
r ?Unelo Earn advd
year YalenUne overseas scne
tlzss" sTsrlg ' Christiass ', n t
Tts very' latest . data is Jars-
i