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Tlx OnZGOII STATESMAN. Cdftst. Oregon, Thursday Mersing. Dsccnbcr 2i It 12
J. Gallagher
Certified, PO
Independent Voter on
List Displeasing
To Democrats .
' A (Continued " from 'Page 1) A
. meeting undoubtedly will result
in a request for a new examina
v. tion," Pope declared Wednesday.
. Pope expressed the opinion that
. the recent defeat of , Rep. Walter
.M. Pierce, Oregon's only demo
cratic congressman, by Republic-
' . an Lowell Stockman had had or
would have no effect on the post
master appointment. .With the
democrats still holding a majori
ty in the national house of repre
sentatives, custom decrees that
patronage remain with that party.
Examinations for the Salem ap
pointment, all oral, are largely a
matter of verification of appli
cants showings as to their char
acter and qualifications for the of-
fice.
The pending appointment has
more attraction than the position
has offered in other years because
under a 1937 law it will become
a permanent one under civil ser
vice. Postmaster H. R. Crawford
did not apply for reappointment.
Since his second term u the of
- flee expired last July he has
continued in charge of the post
office awaiting designation ef
his successor.
The message from Rep. Mott'i
office read:
"Re Salem postmastership - Jo
seph J. Gallaher the only eligible
have been certified to post office
department for consideration.'
A lawyer and an accountant,
Gallagher had been employed-by
the Oregon unemployment com
pensation commission since, De
cember, 1837. After serving for a
short time as claims deputy at
Ontario and Klamath Falls, he
entered the main office in Salem
as assistant chief of claims. In
August, 1939, he became chief of
claims, a title later changed to
supervisor of benefits. More, than
$10,000,000 in benefits has been
paid out under his supervision.
His staff has ranged from 20 to
100 employes.
t Before entering the unemploy
ment commission's service, Galla
gher did tax analysis work for
the Oregon highway commission
and the federal bureau of public
roads, beginning in October, 1936.
A native of Peekskill, NY, and a
graduate of University of Nebras
ka raw scholl, he served for two
years as cost accountant for the
Fisher Body corporation in New
York and practiced law for our
... years in Omaha, Neb, before mov
ing to Portland in 1936. He is
married and has one son. .
Persons close to Gallagher
say that while he Is registered
as an independent voter, he Is
a liberal and approves of many
"new deal" policies, particular-.-
ly of the administration's social
' security program, with which
. he has been closely associated
for five years.
Other applicants for the post
office job, several' of whom have
; just received 'letters advising them
that they did not qualify, include
T. J. Brabec, chief deputy sher
' iff in . charge '. of tax collections
. in Marion county,' a leader in lo
cal democratic circles; Ira L.
Darby, Salem water department
; auditor; F. Junior Eckley. chief
: accountant and assistant to the
. comptroller, state industrial acci
dent commission; A. C. Gragg,
salesman, Valley Packing com
pany; Paul Lynch, deputy collect
I or of internal revenue; Gordon
D. Thompson, civil service postal
clerk and clerks' union leader;
and Miss Frances L. Welch,
teener. A ninth candidate. Dr.
Estil L. Brunk, withdrew his ap-
: plication several months ago. .
SW Pacific
Heads Lauded
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRM1JA, Thursday, Dec.","24
fl")-Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Al
: lied cornmander-in-chief "in -the
southwest Pacifio, disclosed Thurs-
. day he had received this Christ
mas message from Gen. George
C Marshall, chief of staff of the
' United States .- army:
"You havemy admiration for the
splendid -jrmpa!gnyou have ac-complished.-jL-
You Pfcave seized the
initiaUvejvbch-presages victory
for the future YJTeu can count on
my doing all JnfWjt jxxwex-to bring
this abpit-i i-fi't
' Gen. Sir;ThoraaB4amey, com
mander pf; Allied land forces In
this theatre, received " Christmas
. messages, f rpin LU Gen. Morshead,
commanding Australians in the
middle -east,, aid: from Gen. Wav
eU, corxdndernVchief for India.
Mortbad ald;VWe are watch
ing with, 'jgre'ap admiration andJ
. pride your piendid - achievements
ln New"G.ui.w- . .
-e-rr-
ITuir Greei&Troops
' ' SEATTLE, TAecVt 23-JP)-In ; a
i. .QuistmsvTnessage: to the troops
" under hr cn aad in the north
western i: set or 6t the western de
: fense corr-mand, liaj. Gen. James
-1. MuirJLiaonished Wednesday
that "l :";ra we, can celebrate this
r Christin-,: ? : aar. we?.-wislt ;' V -.' we
must defeit theshintoisra of Japan
end the- atheism of Hitler."1 Each,
he declared, is "obviously both a
materialistic and a religious ene-
Yanks in Neic Guinea Jungle
Get Red Cross Gifts by Air
(The following dispatch from George Moorad, American Red Cross
official in tho southwest Pacific, was distributed by too Associated Press).
'r WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN NEW GUINEA, Dec 23
(-Santa Claus arrived by plane and jeep Wednesday bringing
Christmas cheer in the form of thousands of America Red Cross
gift boxes for American troops
Despite the urgencies of war,
direct orders were gi veil by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur to insure de
livery of packages to every Ameri
can soldier on the scattered .Paci
fic, battle front. Giant transports
were hastily loaded at Port Mores
by to ferry the Christmas cargo
across the towering Owen Stanley
range, thence by jeep and trucks
to ' troops r widely dispersed along
the Gona-Buna sector.
Distribution of the boxes, con
taining hard candy, dried fruit,
cigarettes, stationery, gum,
toothpaste, sewing kits, began
Monday under the supervision of
CoL Henry Degraaf, San Antonio,
Texas, assisted by American Red
Cross field directors James Stew
art, Harry Poague, and George
Moorad, San Francisco.
. Deliveries have been made to
every front line where allied
troops are ? doggedly hammering
at enemy garrisons.
"I've ; never seen such wide
grins on the faces of our men in
the steaming jungle camps when
the boxes were passed out. To
make it even better, a big load of
Christmas mail from home ; ar
rived simultaneously," said Stew
art-;.;. y ": ; :..r;-,.::
: Moorad helped distribute gifts
in the Cape Endaiadere sector
which the Japanese lost on De
cember 18. He was: greeted by
poetic Sgt Narcus Burkholder,
Plattevffle, Wis who recited this
version of "The Night Before
Christmas."
"Twas the night before Christ
i mas on this spot on the . map,
Not a creature,, was stirring, not
-' even a Jap,
Stockings were hung by the slit
. trench with care.
In the hope that Tojo soon would
be there,
The, boys all were sleeping on
wet beds, while visions of
Rations danced in their heads.
When out of the jungle arose
such a clatter.
That I sprang through mosquito
net to see what was the mat
ter,
Then off in the distance came a
familiar sound,
L We knew old Nip would soon be
around,
He was - heading this way,
spreading Christmas cheer,
With plenty of shrapnel, not one
can of beer,
We returned his goodwill within
a few hours,
With . a bulletin saying: "Buna
village is ours."
French Drive
Enemy Back
G (Continued from Page 1) G
ish First army's positions north
and south of Medjez-El-Bab, a
vital point 35 miles southwest of
Tunis, i
Farther south on the French sec
tor. probably in the region of
Kairouan, which is 70 miles south
ofr Tunis, the French were said
to be "in close contact with the
enemy. : -
London sources declared thai
the patrol activity before the Ger
man positions guarding Bizerte
and Tunis "apparently was on the
sharpest scale since the axis aban
doned jabs at the allied Medjez-
EI-Bab positions a week ago."
. : Axis reports suggested the im
minence of the forthcoming bat
tle as Nazi Marshal Rommel 'con
tinued his headlong flight across
western Libya. " -Allied
control of the Medi
terranean waters off north Af
rica was again demonstrated by
announcements that in recent
submarine and torpedo, plane
action eight enemy supply-ships
and one, and perhaps two, ene.
my warships had been stu joru
'damaged in those waterv--L;
And the British admiralty dis
closed that heavy remforcements.
war supplies, and materials'. had
been landed at the British Medi
terranean island of. Malta "with
out, major interference from " Jhe
enemy." t une enemy submarine
was destroyed in this operation.
WAACs to Weaf '
Name on Pocket .
i ATLANTA, Dec " 23 P) The
public relations office of the
fourth service U command- an
nounced- that members of the W--
men's Army Auxiliary corpe wlar
small tags over their left pockets
to; assist newvrecruitl ihbecom-
S . A t . " ' . . t
uig mutually acquamieo.
ine names nave- no. Miss or
Mrs. preceding them. .
. But, said the PRO (admittedly
as a tip to aervice men) if the
came is printed in red on a white
background, ; the WAACs single;
if the letters are black, she's mar
ried, r -
Stom 7arx4nss Up v
SEATTLE, Dee.3-JP)-Th US
weather ; bureau here announced
a storm warning at 6:30 p. m. for
the coast 'from Port Angeles j to
Cape Blanco; Ore., with gale winds
due during the night.
Nazis Execute 1500
LONDON, Dec. 3-0fV-The Mos-'
cowj radio, quoting advices receiv
ed througS Istanbul, ; reported
Wednesday that the Germans had
gtimmarily executed J500 persons
in Greece during November for
failing to obey a 5 p. m. curfew.
in this jungle zone.
ffigginsGets
Contract to ;
Build Planes
F (Continued ; from Page 1) F
"the total outlay will involve more
than $5,000,000." The new planes
will be built largely of non-stra
tegic materials, but nothing : was
said concerning their size or ex
pec ted performance.
(Curtiss-W right corporation
has announced that the r Curtiss
Caravan has been selected by the
war department for construction
by Higgins. The . first i military
plane to be designed specifically
for use as an aerial freighter, the
caravan Is described as , being
twin-engined, high-wing mono
plane, largely ' of plastic-bonded.
wood-veneer construction.
Higgins asserted . that his as
sembly line ; would deliver more
than ten planes a day when opera
tions reached full production
schedules, but he declined to pre
dict how soon facilities, which he
estimated would cost about $30,
000,000, would be ready. He said
the plant would employ between
50,000 and 60,000, of who about
80 per cent would be women.
Little Time
Found, Dakar
B (Continued from Page 1) B
Ehaven, Naval Commander John
W. Harris, Lt Comdr. Ralph K.
James, Lt. (jg) L. Allen Morris,
and Lt. James C. Blythe.
Other officers are quartered in
scattered points in the badly over
crowded city. .Enlisted men are
billeted in cantonments with
French troops.
The foregoing dispatch announ
cing the arrival of American
troops in Dakar followed by two
weeks an announcement by Lt
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower,
American commander of the al
lied campaign in north Africa,
that the French West African port
was being turned over to the allies,
Eisenhower said that the right
to use Dakar had been granted by
Pierre Boisson, governor-general
of French West Africa, acting in
cooperation with Admiral Darlan
Subsequently on December 17,
Darlan declared in an interview
at allied north African headquar
ters that formidable French fleet
units at Dakar would , join the
allies, along with other warships
in Alexandria and north African
ports.
relief,. Red Cross, Russian Relief
society, United China relief, and
British War Relief society, each
$100,000; American friends service
committee (PhiladelphiarQuaker),
$20,000r Joint distribution com
mittee (Jewish), $20,000: Greek
war relief, $10,000; Norwegian Re
lief, inc, (Chicago), $10,000; Am
erican friends of Czechoslovakia,
$10,000; American committee for
Christian refugees, $10,000; Cath
olic commitee for refugees from
Germany, $5000 and Unitarian
service committee (Boston), $5000.
A balance of $10,000 was ear
marked for later.
WAVES Entry
Rules Changed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-V
A sign school diploma Is nolohg-
ernecesiaVj: for girls enlistiriin
ana tne toast uuara
Educational requirements have
been lowered to two years of high
school education, the navy an
nounced.Wednesdav. alom? swith
an - estimate that 5000- JttlE
will be on active duty or in ,4rainf
tag by January 1. ;;j Tt
Rear Adm. Randall Jacobs, chief
ef naval personnel, said : regula
tions ' requiring high school grad
uation were considered "unneces
sarily rigid for certain, types of
work now to be done." i f"?
Instead of going directly to d
specialist school, all volunteers
now must attend "boot" camps fdr
preliminary training. There thcyi
will be chosen in aptitude tests
for 'Specialist ' schools. . Henceforth
all future officers will enter train
ing as apprentice seamen. .'
Damages Asked
Of Wire Firm t
NEW YORK. De e. i 23-!)-A
civil action asking $6,000,000 Sanw
ges from the , Anaconda Wire"aa
and five employes. was filed Wed
nesday in Federal court in the
name of the United States by
Moses JB. Sherr, attorney. v . .
The action was aniouterowthrofl
an Indictment voted Monday by" a
federal grand jury at Fort Wayne,
hdL, against the company and the
five employes. r,f;t"''
. Charges made by Attorney Gen
eral Francis Biddle that the de
fendants "conspired ,to " foist ;de-
ecti ve 'wire and cable on the
armed "services were repeated In
the new complaint; ." - ..
Allies Breach
Jap Defenses
Australian Corvette
Sunk; Planes Win
Against Enemy
C (Continued from Page 1) C
others. Also in that area, allied
pianes straiea a Jap cargo vessel
anchored offshore. ; ; - .
The Armidaie ' went down - 250
miles northwest of Port Darwin
early in .. December. ; Two boat
loads of - survivors about 50
men including the commanding
officer were rescued. One life
raft carrying a small number of
personnel was lost. r
In the aerial battle near Jac
allied reconnaissance plane was
attacked by six to' nine Zero.
In a half honr battle, one ef the
Zeros exploded In midair and
two ethers dropped eat ef the
fight trailing smoke er flames.
Another pair ef Zeros sustained
; slight damares. -
An allied heavy bomber drop
ped 500 pound bombs on a Jan
cargo vessel anchored off the bay,
scoring - damaging near misses.
The shin also was strafed.
Flying Fortresses took part in
tne raid on Cape Gloucester air
dromeon ' New Britain island
Wednesday. Fragmentation bombs
were dropped on the field,
In the Buna area, allied recon
naissance : planes bombed and
strafed the Japanese. Beaufight
ers ; attacked the Bune govern
ment stauon area, strafing oil
drums and barges.
Ground troops invaded the
Japanese fortifications at many
points and made a slight advance
in tne sanananda area.
GanUoii Peals
Bok Dreams of
Better World
LAKE WALES, Fla, Dec 23
(JP) Christmas carols pealing out
at midnight from a carillon tower
in a sanctuary of exotic flowers
and shrubs will keep alive this
year, more than a decade after
his death, the dream of the late
Edward Bok .to "make the world
a bit more beautiful and better
because you have lived in it"
Bok, who emigrated from Hoi
land and rose-to fame in the unit'
ed States as a publisher and phil
anthropist, spent a great part of
his life trying to make the world
better. The sanctuary atop the
highest point in Florida was the
symbol of his efforts.
Visited by thousands annually
since it was dedicated to the pub
lic in 1929 by President -Calvin
Coolidge, the sanctuary overlook
ing Mountain Lake has often been
called the "Taj Mahal of Ameri
ca."
The inspiration for . the sane
tuary and singing tower dates
back more than 120 years when
the Dutch government entrusted
a dangerous sandbar off the Dutch
coast to Bok's grandfather. His
grandparents transformed the
barren island to a haven to which
people came from the world over
for inspiration.
His grandparents counsel to
"make the world a bit more beau
tiful because you have lived in
it" stuck in Bok's mind. One
moonlight evening when he was
walking on the crest of Iron
mountain, a hill near his home,
he found a place for the sanc
tuary. He felt that the spot, once
the meeting place of Seminole In
dians, who gathered there each
spring in reverence of the "great
spirit," was the place for a sanc
tuary for birds and humans, It
was 324 'feet above sea level.
The bells will peal out their
program of carols midnight
Christmas eve and again Christ
mas afternoon.' - -
rees
-. . .
SpecialXRite
BERN, Dec 23 JPy- The Swiss
telegraphic agency reported Wed
nesday from Vatican City that
Pope Pius had issued a special
plenary indulgence for Catholics
who, during aura-oacx, find them
selves in - dangexs bf death and
recite devoutly; - with repentance.
the rosary ' and ? quote "Jesus
misereri mei."-
The text of the decree was is
sued in Italian,- French, English
and German and added that the
rosary can be recited in any other
language. -
CBS in New York Wednesday
recorded thif Rome broadcast: -
: Vatican City: His Holiness, the
pope, has decreed ' that, as long
as ine present war last, ine in
habitants of localities wfuclT are
objectives of air bombings may
recite the t prayer - Christ have
mere yon me; that is if he feels
in danger of dying. He will thus
receive the full plenary Indulg
ence .without ministration of the
holy sacraments?
Corvallis Corporal
Married SpeedUy
WL.UAUU5, O, Dec. IJ-(ff)
CpL James E. Horner of Corval-
Is, Ore- 30-year-old member of
s guard squad at Lockbourne; air
base; obtained license to wed
Tuesday. He intended to marry
Betty BetheL2L New Year's day.
But . he couldnt keep a secret
. ." told his buddies at the base,
t They immediately "rounded tm
the bride-to-be, threw an - im
promptu' party, cornered a chap-
ain. borrowed - a rine and the
corporal found - himself married.'
Pop
Carrie Land
Planes Meet
Fete Enemy
D (Continued from Page 1) D
a third Wednesday attacking Fly'
ing Fortresses were challenged by
only two enemy fighters and the
British naval craft met little or
no opposition In their attack Sun
day night on the Japanese Pil and
supply f base as Sal2anr,..on Ihe
small -island of We off northern
tip of Sumatra in the' Netherlands
East Indies. ' There was specula
tion' that the Sabang raid" was
made by planes.; launched from
the 23,000-ton 1 Illustrious," report
ed two months ago to be operating
in the Bay of Bengal. -
Akyab, on the Bay "of Bengal
some 270 miles northwest of Ran
goon, was " pounded by - day and
night Wednesday and there, as at
Rangoon, military establishments
and shipping facilities were set
on fire, f British forces driving
from the coast are pointing at
Akyab in the t first allied c land
drive designed to win back . Bur
ma and reopen the lifeline to
China. ;' :
The Japanese bombed Calcutta
again for the third night in a row.
but : it was announced' officially
that only three bombers partici
pated and that two of them were
hit by allied night fighters. Twen
ty five persons were killed and
less than 100 injured in the three
enemy attacks.
Labor Board
To Disperse
j.
Authority
WASHINGTON, Dec 23
-The war labor board, it was dis
closed Wednesday, is planning to
speed up and simplify the hand
ling of labor disputes by giving
greatly increased authority to ten
little war labor boards' scatter
ed throughout the country.
Under this centralization plan.
much of the work of settling dis
putes will be done in the field,
with the national board confining
itself largely to hearing appeals
and making policy.
Another major procedural step
will permit the ten regional di
rectors to make final decisions on
voluntary wage or salary adjust
ment cases involving employers
of not more than 100 persons.
By this process of regionalizing
its work, the board expects to keep
nearly all dispute cases and about
two-thirds of the voluntary, wage
and salary cases in the field,
The board also said it is draft
ing a simplified form ofr applica
tion for wage and salary adjust
ments- to make it easier for the
small business concern to apply
for rulings on proposed adjust
ments.
New Plywood
Used, Housing
SEATTLE, Dec. 3-P)-A new
grade of Douglas fir plywood.
known as "Hutment," has been
developed for exterior use in mili
tary housing.
The office of war information
reported Wednesday that 30 plants
in Washington and Oregon are
prepared to turn out the plywood.
The Douglas Fir Plywood associa
tion described.it as water-resist
ant and able to withstand the
rigors of climate from the Arctic
to the Equator.
Sole purchasers of the "Hut
ment" will be the producing agen
cy of the US army engineers. De
velopment of the new grade was
begun more than six months ago.
the OWI said, with experiments
carried on in the laboratories of
the Douglas" Fir Plywood associa
tion and other laboratories in the
east and middle west, in coopera
tion with the army engineers.
Adoption of a special plywood
for temporary military housing
was recommended to the war pro
duction board by the softwood
plywood industry advisory com
mittee several weeks ago when
shortages : of other commercial
grades loomed.
Hurt Vessel
Makes Port
WASHINGTON, Dec. ! 3-JP)
Although blasted by an enemy
torpedo, damaged severely by fire
and abandoned by v part of her
crew, a United States merchant
vessel made port under command
of a junior' third officer, the navy
reported Wednesday. ; J-ry
There, were no deaths and only
few . injuries among the med
ium-sized merchantman's crew of
42 and the navy gun crew of 18.
The navy reported that a tor
pedo 1 struck the ship amidships
and flames roared high over part
of th boat. The captain and eigth
members of the; crew were sur
rounded by the flames and were
forced to take to a life boat. .
Germans Report
Raid by RAF
BERLIN tFROM i GERMAN
BROADCAST) Dec 24 (3--The
German radio reported Thursday
that British bombers carried out
Ineffective J nuisance raids late
Wednesday evening on .. western
Germany. . , . . . .
"Bombs ' dropped sporadically
caused . insignificant damage to
uildlngs'.Uie broadcast said. ,
3 Generals:
Hurt in New
v
Guinea Fig lit
" ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Thursday, Dec 24
(AV The wounding of three Unit
ed States - brigadier ' generals In
the fighting against the Japs in
the -Buna ' area of New -Guinea
was announced Thursday ' by Gen.
Douglas MacArthurs headquar
ters. . :;
. "The generals , wounded . were
Hanf ordi McNider of r Mason' City,
lav - previously' teported; Albert
W. Waldron of Rochester' NY, and
Clovis E. Byers, Columbus, Ohio.
.... General" MacArthur awarded
the distinguished service cross to
Waldrom f or extraordinary hero
ism in action" near Buna Decem
ber 5. ' ' .- f ;.;Y r "
fWith complete - disregard for
his own safety. " General Wal
dron moved along a line of a
sault platoons under heavy;; fire
from enemy, snipers, machineguns,
grenades and mortars," the cita
tion read. r. --,
"By his personal example, calm
bearing and utter fearlessness, he
inspired the men to greater ef
fort," T"":v
; A headquarters spokesman dis
closed that Waldron was shot
through the shoulder when only
25 yards from the enemy's lines.
Waldron ' and his orderly. Pvt.
James Borrman of Madison, Wis
had been knocked down by. a Jap
anese grenade but got up unhurt
and were pressing forward to
ward the enemy when the gen
eral was hit.
Waldron .now in a hospital in
Australia, praised Borrman for
fearless t action in bindine the
wound on the spot and helping
carry the general from the thick
of the fight to a field hospitaL
Several . weeks ago Waldron
swam- ashore from a small boat
sunk by Japanese aerial bombs
off the New Guinea coast.
Brers, who has been Promoted
to brigadier general since his ar
rival in Australia, had a hand
smashed by a sniper's bullet while
leading an attack upon Buna vil
lage December 16. ; '." ..
The officer carried a tommy gun
into the attack and, when his
trigger hand was disabled, he
gave the weapon to a soldier and
continued to direct ' the assault.
As was announced earlier, Gen
eral McNider was - wounded by a
Japanese grenade near Cape En
daiadere November 23.
Headquarters said all three
generals were expected to recov
er. '
Baruch Gives
Away Millioi
NEW YORK, Dec. 23-GP)-Ber-
nard M. Baruch, a poor boy from
South Carolina who struck it rich
in Wall Street, Wednesday gave
away $1,000,000 in government
bonds to 15 relief societies. ,
The widely known philanthrop
ist and adviser on national eco
nomic matters is believed to have
increased his annual contributions
considerably this year, although
he would not allow himself to be
quoted on his former philanthrop
ies.
Once a friend quoted Baruch.
who is now 72,N as -saying: '
"It has always . been easy for
me to make money, why shouldn't
I give it away." - j
The contributions Wednesday
were: . ,
Army relief, 1200,000: navy re
lief, $200,000; merchant seamen's
Jury Blames
Suffocation
COQUILLE, Ore, Dec 23 JP)
AN Coos county coaoner's jury
found Wednesday night that the
death of John Kenneth Henrdnger,
27, CoquiUe grocer, at a bridge
party Saturday was due to suffo
cation caused by "blood from a
broken nose runnina into' his
throat
-After the verdict was an
nounced, George Lyman May
nard, " Coquille, 48-year-old re
tired marine corps major, who
had been released r pending the
coroner's investigation, was re
turned to jaiL said District At
torney Ben C. Flax el. He said
Maynard's bail had been set at
$3000. . . .
The jury said that Henninger
was pinned down during a scuf-
ue at the Maynard home. An
autopsy i report by : Dr. Joseph
Beaman of the state police crime
laboratory- at Portland said ' that
he probably .would not have died
had he been in a sitting position
or lying on his face. v v "
Daughter Aidveai - :
A daughter, Marilyn Kay, we
born . Wednesday night at Saler
Deaconess hospital' to ' Mr.-, an
Mrs. Harold Douris, until recent
ly of Salem but now residing in
Portland. Both mother and daugh
ter were reported "doing fine."
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First of VAVES;
Applegate Leads -
PASCO, Wash, Dec 23-flP)
The first of the. WAVES rolled
in on the naval reserve aviation
base here Wednesday. .
The contingent, numbered only
four, but officers said Ensign Alice
Applegate became the first WAVE
officer to have charge of a unit
of enlisted women personnel at
any established American . naval
base,;A? :':;-f frgi ''t'i:
. The women . were the . topic of
the day at the base from the time
that the ' men's 'eyes popped out
to find them eating breakfast in
the mess hall before the crack of
dawn. ( . ", ' . , - : - - -
By coincidence, Ensign Apple
gate arrived from: the east al-
I -most slnraltaneonsry wtth the
arrival ef three yeomen third
class ' from Seattle,' Ensign . Ap
plegate, a member ef a pioneer
Oregon family, entered the
serriee from a teaching Job in
Venice, -CaliL 1 ; .. i ' ..:
- - The women expressed enthusi
asm over their first day at the
base. Most of the men expressed
the same.-.Vv-Y.r- ' . f ' ' .-: "
"Orders of the day set forth
that "with respect to the salut
ing 1 of and " other military cour
tesies to WAVES and WAVE of
ficers, the same rules govern
which have always governed th
navy. Enlisted women will be ad
dressed by their last name only.
WAVE officers may be addressed
by the title miss or by their rank.
It is correct to say-'aye, aye miss
or aye, aye, ensign.
Drives Reach
Into Ukraine
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unofficial . quarters to have re
gained some 450 miles of railway
in the supreme soviet effort to
clear the invader, from southern
Russia. '
The special bulletin followed a
regular communique chronicling
still other brilliant red army suc
cesses. -.-
The regular midnight eom
mnnlque said the : red army
overcame stubborn resistance
of the Germans in the factory
area , of Stalingrad and dis
lodged the nemy fram 24
blockhouses and a nunber ef
houses. : Here the Russians
wiped ant more than a company
of Germans, captured ene run,"
three mortars,' 21 maehinegnns
and S9 rifles. , v ;
In one sector northwest of
Stalingrad, n group of red army
scouts occupied five nazi trench
es, killing several dozen Germans.,
Southwest of the city, the Ger
mans continued to throw fresh
forces of tanks and infantry into
action, but , failed to break the
Russian resistance. On the con
trary, the communique said, the
Germans Mere dislodged from
two inhabited localities. .
Treasury Calls Bid
WASHINGTON, Dec 2 3-M
Secretary Morgenthau asked bids
Wednesday on $600,000,000 of 81-
day treasury bills to mature
March 31, 1943. The secretary Said
bids would, be received at Federal
Reserve banks and branches up to
pjn Eastern War Time, Mon
day.
Ship Survivors Land
PORT CASTRIES, St Lucia,
BWI, Dec 23-(ff)-Sixeen survi
vors arrived Tuesday after being
in an open boat They brought
ashore their dog. saved at the risk
of their own lives. . ,
Today FrL - Sat
Laughs . . thrills . . spectacle
. . all played against the
magnificent background of
men and women who live
with danger . . , and laugh
at it!
I Fred MacMurray
?3 m w w .
raulette Iroddard
Susan Hayward
A Vary Marry Romp-With Mmk I
J8ZS,
Today emd Xmas
plus - :
Tin licit la
Bomb, Fighter
Planes Strike
In Naziland
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only ; recently. They were first
reported in action in the big day
light raid on the Phillips works
at . Einhoven, Holland, December
-Tuesday night's sweeps, authori
tatively declared the strongest of
their kind In weeks, left many
locomotives disabled, much track
age twisted and jl other transport
facilities ln ruinsi
They were 'carried out by Hur-
ribombers. Whirlwinds and American-made
Bostons, all used now
as intruder craft for sharp and
quick assault action, and among
other targets they hit the railroad
yards near Ghent and at Saint
Lo, Le Ureport,) Saint Pol and La
Chapelle. - ' , . .
Enemy air if elds also were hit:
and from an enemy convoy off
the Dutch Islands two enemy sup
ply ships were set aflame. 1
A single British plane was lost
in these operations.
Victory Loan
Exceeds Goal
WASHINGTON, Dec 23 HJPi
The treasury's Victory loan drive
has gone over the top by $2,200,
00000, Daniel Bell, undersecre
tary of the treasury, reported
Wednesday night
He said preliminary figures, en
subscriptions which close at mid
night on the three major issues
in the drive indicated sales would
total $11,200,000,000.
We hope it may even reach
$12,000,000,000,, he said, j
In opening the drive December
1, the treasury set a goal of $9,-
000,000,000. This was raised to
$11,000,000,000 last Monday after
reports indicated the original goal
would be passed. ,1
Announcing the oversubscrip
tion of the Victory loan securities
at a press conference, Bell said
it was the greatest financing
achievement in history. - ,
"We are well pleased with the
public fesponse,' he said. "We
hope this will set a pattern for us
to follow in future financing."
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