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-. - j ' - - y . -' ' ; i ! . - , - - , -a-"-.. ,. . - Dlticut Tho Inside Tour, . com Diet moraine newspaper. The Statesman, offers 70V pertinent com ments on war news of tho Tuesday sunset 8:23 pjn. Wednesday sunrise t:53 a.m. Weather: Sua. max. I 1, min. Si. Hon. rain .17 la river 17.2 ft. .Weather data re stricted by army request. 4 r oy turke 8 1 m p s e . Washington analyst. . fight BrM Enemy Staved; French Status Seen Clearing Tealher Breaks to : Bring Fight; Giraud Liked by DeOaulIe By RELMAN MORIN -: LONDON, Dec. 28-(VThe llied right wing in North Afri ca' pursued - Marshal . Rommel's Lybian forces westward Mon day on the approaches to Mi sura ta, ' the strong defensive allied units skirmished with the Germans in the mud of Tunisia. In Tunisia, there was a break at last Jn the heavy rains of many days and an allied communique announced that in vigorous pa "trolling in the forward areas en emy motor vehicles - had been shelled- and forced to retire. In another action in the same een- xal section this on the Medjez- Xl-Bab-Tebourba road along the allied : line before "Tunis and Bi- lerts an enemy detachment suf , fered casualties and lost several men in prisoners. ;' . In still another patrol engage ment the enemy- was driven off - Without allied loss, f T Allied headauartra ? alsn in. , nounced .new and "strong attacks liy the American air force on emy shipping and transport y French reneral headquarters announced that its troops south of Font Du Fahs, inlasfe In cen tral Tunisia, had 'made "effec tive progress,1 taking more than 109 axis prisoners and large quantities of materials, and thai to the south, between Kairouaai and Fichon, French positions had been Improved. Here it was said that the axis suffered eon- hiciuic '. nssci, inciwuns; ' a number of troops captured by the Fnench. 1 ' id that forces of Gaulle driving d contmuedto f Fezzam- 550 Gen. Charles De up from Lake Chad advance soum of Fezzanw 550 miles south of Tripoli in the ex treme southwest corner of Libya. Fighting was reported continuin a s . - 9 - . -. . . ji? au wis was accompmneaby clear signs that a quick clarifica tion of the political status of all the French African territories was in prospect. There wpri reports from well-informed ns that Gen. Charles De Gaulle, - I of the fighting French -ganiza- tion, might go to Washington soon to put before President Roosevelt a plan for a new French govern- ment and that he miAt nrord then to north Africa to talk to Gen. Henri Giraud. the successor to the assassinated Adm. Jean EterW General De Gaulle himself in . . . "T I a broadcast Monday night -to his , homeland paid hlch tribute to General Giraud and said the (Turn to Page 2 B) 'Teens Gang HeId9Beating mnn.ANn n. 9ut f Cdllier, deputy district attorney, p w - w I w wa I aaid Monday night that a gang of teen-age boys had been ar- ' rested after fatally beating sfman I in attempting to steal a bottle, of beer from him. The dead man is Amos Corbett, I 62, , who was attacked on . the ' streets of north Portland , Christ-! mas night. Collier said the boys admitted i knocking Corbett down after trv- - ing to seize a beer bottle he was carrying. Corbett's head struck j a curbing. Colier said Hilttaj Hooker, 17; William H. Martin, 19, and Don- aid Davis,: is, were oemg neid while he prepared charge. j . Three others were turned over to juvenile authorities, and- two others were released after ques- tiomng. 28- r.1inf th? war hnostAa raf-f fic 24 per cent over the 1941 .. c t - I rm o Food Hoarders I Canj Be Curbed. By 2 Statutes WASHINGTON, Dec 28 Food hoarders can be ' prosecut ed under either one of two fed era! acts, OF A officials report- , ed Monday. One, covering false represen tatlon, could be Invoked be cause an Individual recjsterins; for the new - ration book most state . the amonnt of rationed products he has on hand. That statement becomes ; a : part of government records, and any falsification could be prosecuted -' mm as a i iciony, pumsnanie ny a maximom f 10,000 fine or ten years in prison, or both. The second statute, a part of the second war powers act, de scribes as a mindemeanor any violation of rationing regula tions. : The maximum - penalty upon conviction is a $10,000 fine or one year in prison or both. Ration Fails Run Early Announcement Criticized; Many Grocers Favor By '; The Associated Press 1 Ccif of .5- kovcrnment' - rauonmgpro- gram so far in advance came from many sides ' Monday, but fears stores would that runs on grocery result failed for the most nart to materialize. Plans to put a point rationing system into effect for more than 200 kinds of processed foods in February were disclosed SundayJ - j In Chicago, the secretary of the lM.(U..I a Grocers, Mrs. Rose Marie Kief er. asserted, "we deplore government i vaajvus iiuif we unscrupulous I portion of the pubuc a month to do their hoarding." - nouse agriculture committee told newsmen in Washington the pro- cedure was diculous'' and "can only result in a wave f buying result 1x1 8 wave tf buying and hoarding which - will aggra- vate the situation." Reports from nearly every section of the nation indicated no widespread panic buying al though a few grocers reported calls for canned roods in ease lots. : ! Unofficial rationing has been in effect in many stores for several r"8 m re- Z , . 8l0r cxecuttves SgLSKt gT?VXfnWS r22S&E?Z t USf' ,A H??L dlstnbVtor Los Angeles Zlt 4 2X1 Sfi-i JL ev,e Vs t-..10 m BV W OWH iimiXS." I receptions io me no-run reports were noted in Cleveland. Ohio. I To Bring ana rew naven, conn. One the Yangtse river between Han Oevela grocer said that an kow and Kiukiang, a Chinese w rauomng an- r LyL W-TZ "".7 - uuj v uccem- i In New Haven, -where weather broke ; SSaLothr-tahL "t 1 mfles east of Mplsslnfi lean Historical association. Presi conditions discouraged shoppers, l . f which is about midway between dent Roosevelt was consulted in each of about a dozen retail gro- er rennrtja fvn in t im . . - ar""- wm v Aw UI1IJ I from persons wanting to buy can- ned goods in dozen lots. . But In Little Rock, one store manager said there had been no sign of a run, adding: "In fact. Fd like to see a little business. It is dull, very dull! The OPA warned that excess stocks of rationed goods would have to be declared and the -equivalent number of stamps ' surrendered at registratioa time, : with severe penalties awaiting those who failed to comply. However. GeorcA v Tt . ' " I president of the County Retail! Food Merchants" association at ixocnesier, sh x, cauea the an- - (Turn to Page 2 E) TliMtrM Tlrnr?a I YORK,. Dec. 28-(ff-Thel NEW YORK, Dec! 28 -VP) Tlie I T-. .lJirti:.f, -rjr Alle motion Dicture indush-v said Mnn. day the special oromotional effort of 16,000 American .theatres re- n ftflO OnO wnHh nf hra.. SR4 stamps between December 7 and , , ..u I " f eo A To ; . mivMSTLiFaica Allies Repulse Jap Assault, : Drive Wedge Enemy Craft Shells Buna ; Cruiser Hit In Rabaul Harbor By C. YATES McDANIEL ALLIED J HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, Dep. i 29- (JF) -Japanese warships Rhollfvl d ., n . shelled Buna village for five hours before daylight Monday! as allied troops drove dejeper into enemy holdings there. It was the first naval shell - mg resorted to by the Japanese in the war in New Guinea. The enemy craft probably were sub- marines, an official communique said. They began firing upon the allied encampment in the village about midnight and continued the attack intermittently until dawn, goods available under a war econ The communique said there was omy," the order is effective in the no damage inflicted. , second ouartpr of 1043 Thi win i In the Buna airstrip sector the Japanese tried to break . from the stranglehold thrown about them by the. American and Aus tralian troops. But the allied flchters drove them back in bloody , midnight engagements then our troops launched' a counterattack which drove a wedge deep Into the enemy. 'positions. . - " -; - -ftieanwrnie,-me communique re - lated,aUied planes ranged frcm ' Meanwhile, the communique re- Timor to New Britain in a ser- ies of damaging attacks. . I These aerial assaults were par - tlcularly successful in the Rabaul I area of New Britain where three direct hits with 500-pound bombs I were scored on a large Japanese I rniiwr lrinff In th. h.rhn. , I Flames enveloped the cruiser and Piio reported they saw it I wniumiiimuc jam ii I probably was destroyed Returning pilots also said that wnaca naa oeen mi oy neavy bombs in a raid on Rabaul the day before still lay to the har- bor, keeled over on one side. Two medium transports hit in the pre- ceding day's raid still were burn- in, ther said. ' The attack on Rabaul harbor was carried out by, B-24 bombers. (Turn to Page 2 D) Massed Japs Drive. Take ta Gty CHUNGKING, Dec. 28--Jap- force3 Hupeh are launching a counterdrive In an in rfr- . r. attempt to clear , out a Chinese - . I concentration in the ? Taniehan mountains on th north hav communique said Monday. Qunese reported that large Japanese forces massed near the xr...k a ni 2 i 3 - . both times, i then wount up reimorcemenis ue- . ma . I p m? v. .Jr 7: I direction of Kwangtsi. The Chinese added that they had smashed . an attack "by 6000 Japanese infantry and artillery troops in southern Shantung pro vince. NEW YORK, Dec. 28 The I - . . ... . I annuuncea aaonaay nignt that the I 17--Japanese occupied the wooden coaches. landing on the coast of eastern It was Canada's wont trf Kwangtung province and the can-t 1 . . . I : " "J "1C "wnj 01 iout towns m astern Hopeh - province. Tommy lilanville Plans Seventli a lulls oeveillll , . j Manville and 5(lmm nM,; Whitney. ' Canadian cotr.! said Monday they plan to wed in th. t v ThA .MH ...: . former Billy Boze. is m Rno iwa., oulue, Uie vw, Aaj uwas AiiVlXW Big Store Inventory ited WPB Control Slated To Guarantee Goods For Smaller Stores By STERLING T. GREEN WASHINGTON, Dec. 2&-(JP) The war v ' production board Monday put a limit on the vol ume of Merchandise that may be accumulated by big stores and wholesalers, in order to insure that smaller and finan-1 cially' weaker stores may cet goods to meet their customer's needs The inventory control order Is meant to hold each store's in- yentorv of mn.,mpr including food or petroleum pro 1 ductsat the same level in" re- lation to sales as the store main- tainpd hfnr Penrl TTarlwr VSnn- 1 which have built up their stocks (to excessive accounts will be I brought into line by WPB con- trols over their buying, Described by WPB Chairman Donald M. Nelson as a move to "assure a fair riistrituitinn tv. limited Quantities of oonsumr Igive merchants a few month- tn I bring their stocks down to "nor mal" size. Not as tough as originally con templated, the restrictions cover only retailers, wholesalers and - (Turn to Page 2 C) rTVeim JLM.4AXkMZr1f XCCiV 1 tti :, ratal lOtl ll . Ano Zn fl 1 VilC JLll VA CJifJll - m. J - - tLuutuxt ore Dec. 28-(P)-An avalanche of mud and snow that thundered down a slope of the I hieh CaadM Simri. t,K I T . 7 J " struck a Southern Pacific passen - I dinina: car steward Mondav ger train claimed the life of a He was Frank R. Pilcher, 85, San Jose,- Calif. He died in a hospital here after failing to re - ftf ..y. t ZZTZZ SS Offered In SS. ffl "f D f! i t 2 J? runk Fractures of both legs were among swept down In . the slide. I Anree otners of 14 injured were I confined to local hospitals Ber- nara i-augniin, 36, Fond du Lac, Wis.; Harry Olson, 37, Chicago, 111., and John Francis Barron, 27. I New York city. The train was a special, the third - section of ' the Klamath, bound from Oakland, Calif- to Portland. Aboard the train were some navy personnel. All of the injured were in the dining car through which 4he tree trunk crashed. Another direr was shoved. SO feet down a slope and six sleepers were derailed. The accident occurred ; near Wicopee BIT Tl Al . . - 'WMnt 01 Dere- ALMONTE, OnL, Dec ZS-UP) Five men were killed Monday in a Canadian National railwav headon freight train collision near North Bay, Ont, as the death toll of Sunday's passenger train wreck here rose to 36. The freight trains crashed on a North Bay and Callander, home I of the Dionne quintuplets. At .. - AaVUUB - ULU111 least four of the dead were crew -. ' I members. Less than 48 hours earfier, a troop-laden Canadian Pacific pas senger train ; splintered , ; three wooden coaches of another pas senger train at the station - here. Besides the 36 dead, at least 117 WM InfiiTwl TM :tl c,-" , SrT "MBS l UiC WI tVA. A m rhew. , : j wrrV rinM 10m .7 - J. Minto Resunics Raid Chief Post c. Return of John D. Minto to the s!f.?f .warden for the city of. Salem, which he had "T1 earlier in the year to Ir5eaea.lncTeasS m.war- Z.T'T . : . "J "V "v uiuuwii. ' Mmln TanTaoa T r?..-1 CT in ":- sk4iFiviyw ' 4a V315. a I tCeienstl COUnrO'S UtilitfM ivicfrm I Lim " t Jap Planes Attack VS Aircraft Carrier These spectacular pictures, taken earner. At ue top, ngnting planes on the carrier careen Into gun emplacements by a blast from bombs which exploded astern of vessel. Below, a Jap dive bomber veers away from its target In face of anti-aircraft fire. Note men diving for cover. Official TJS Navy Photo. Wallace Proposes WorldiArmy Cadre Council to lOn WASHINGTON, Dec 28P Ediicat posed Monday night a world council to preserve peace and pro mote the general welfare after the war, while leaving purely regional problems in regional in .a broadcast commemorating the birthday of Woodrow Wilson, he- made what was rnlMl in , mnitai . I ' : 0 1 administration pronouncement of I post-war plans and policies. He suggested as the guiding principle 1 for international organization af- I ter the war the maximum of 1 home rule that can be maintained tralized authority that must come into existence to give the neces sary protection.' The objective wpuld be four fold: To preserve the Uberty.' equality, security and unity f the United Nations liberty In the political sense;; equality of opportunity in international trade; security against war and business depression due to In ternational causes; and unity of purpose in promoting the gen-: era! welfare of the worloV ; Discussing what to do with the defeated - nations, he advocated only military but "psycholog dude "supervision, or at least in spection, of the , school : systems of Germany and Japan to undo so far as possible the diabolical work of Hitler and the Japanese war lords in poisoning the minds of the "young - Wallace's address was sponsor ed by the Woodrow Wilson foun dation, American Political Science association, American' Society for Public Administration and Amer- advance of it Hli office of , war Information cave notice 10 days ago that it .would be nresnt1. nllin it in im- portant address on questions of (Tara to Page 2 F) Adm. Muselier Seeks Action LONDON, Tuesday. Dec 29-UPt Vice Adra. Emile Muselier. former commander .of .the. Fizhtine French naval forces, declared Tuesday in a letter to Charles de Gaulle that he was "ready to ac cept any active post at sea or on land in the fight aeainst the ene mies of France." - " Muselier asked the Fiehtine French leader to convey his re- quest "to General Giraud nr! tA the French National committee- v Muselier resigned his naval 2.- P ace on x e rencn nauonai commitxee earij.iasi sprmg. ; r ,i . , . . leaaersnip a m m a Hjrl ev vvujt fjs mi ft.A-Ha somewhere In the Pacific, shew Keep Peace J Defeated - rOi - Vice President Wallace pro hands. . FBI Agents Ambush, Kill 2 in Chicago CHICAGO, Dec 28.-iP)-Fed- eral agents- late Monday night retained its rental relationship fight in the "coldest winter wea- -shot and killed two men who they with the city until November, ther of ; the eastern front" 13 . said were "desperate men. badly when a new lease was granted degrees below zero Fahrenheit. - wanted," and shortly afterwards FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ar- rived in Chicago presumably to taxe personal cnarge of the case. Hoover, arriving at Chicago! rtu. neaaquarters with several ower ,jbi agenu, saia no . an-1 nouncement would be made "for several hours." Federal agents have been press ing a relentless search for mem bers of the "Terrible Touhy" gauge who shot their way out .of Stateville, (I1L) prison last. Octo ber 9, and indications were that the two men slain may have been members of the gang. . 4 The desperadoes' were led by Rmro Tflnh mnvtrM and onetime a leader of Chicken underworld and Basil nhe Owl" Banghart, described as one of the nation's most desperate crimin-r1"' als. Both were serving 99 year terms for the 1933 kidnaping of John "Jake the Barber" Factor. Although federal ' agents - de-1 dined to discuss the case, town 1 hall police said two men escaped in the shoo ting at an apartment at Sunday morning (Solomon Islands I nao risen six ieei oeiween cun 1256 Leland avenue, in the Wil-1 time). American aerial observers rnln nd Monday night, son avenue shopping district. I The secrecy shrouding the raid j lent credence to speculation that the FBI was closing in' on the Touhy rang.A Lt. Robert. Welling of the town nail poiiee said the slain men were not Touhy or Banghart, but ntr nnt; fn com tv.. I scriptions of the men fitted Wil- aition, the assumption In military Willamette at Salem had risen to liam Smith Stewart, and SL Clair Quarters here was that the array approximately 17.3 feet, an in Mclnerney, two of the group of fliers had ample opportunity-to crease of 6.1 feet! since the Sun- seven who escaped from State-I ville. - - ' - I .Indications were the federal ag ents had prepared an ambush with their customary thoroughness and precautions, i ; - - Oregon Bonds Staff -Plans Mfllion-a-Day - PORTLAND, Dec 28.-H'JP)-Thel Oregon war bond staff Monday j announced a 31,000,000 - a - d a y nouncea sunK in an attack by aitnoush small washouts and sc'l campaign to put the state over its Guadalcanal dive bombers on a and slippery surfaces caused of $1C0,000,CC3 goal for the year. smaH group of Jap vessels last ficials to wsrn motorists to travel The staff said that with three I days tf go the total now is ?37,- CCO.C-J. - f s Jap planes attacking a TJS aircraft At Air Base A1 ' ' jpeucer m uimmanu ?Ar. Salem Airpoll; UAL Still Uses Salem's municipal airport ' is Salem air base to the general public today, with a cadre from above Mill erovo on the Moscow the ' Portland base oonmvfn. th I o..-, , new barracks. Under command I of Cant. Earl A. SDencer. the I i . . . . group arrived here late last week and is in process of "taking" over the field and buildings from army nikovski sector were Gremyacha engineers. r: -ya, railway point 12 miles short In official circles, the port be- of Kotelnikovski, and Kiseleva. came an army air base early this year when . the first army lease was granted and the " engineers moved in to commence preparing it for army occunancr. ' - ' United Air lines, private lessee, I the federal government; the air lines now operate from the port j under army authority, continuing I to pay their fees to the city with-1 out holding actual lease rights. Army guards had been In resi- dence at the . port most of the I time since December 7. 1941'.'. Planes Bomb lupplies for Solomon Japs WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 -VPt I Tb desperate plight of Japanese 1 IOIxes .sxranaea. in the northern i -un;e8 01 i-uaaaicanai island was I emphasized, anew Monday when nav3T cisciosed that .enemy Pne had dropped by parachute I uPP"es which our aircraft quick-1 TV spotted and shot up. I . JThe supplies were dumped on the Japanese-held beach at Tassa - faronga Saturday night or early spotted them there at the dawn I a army Airs cobra fighters, car- rying bombs as well ai their usual I - I guns, bombed and strafed them where they lay, j The navy communiaue did notJ specify the damage Inflicted but I Willamette river were "down", be since the Aira cobra attack ap- f use the river was up. parentlr was made without oroo-l do a thorough Job." . " The communique also reported I the destruction in the Solomon Islands of another Japanese ship of unidentified type, a new dive-1 bomber attack on the battered enemy airfield at Munda, a bomb ing and strafing assault on a Jan bivouac area on Guadalcanal ndjhorn road was removed Monday a strafing raid against the enemy! base at Kiska in the Aleutian is-1 wnos.- . .. J ' , ' I me snip was tne second an- j Saturday. Destrucuon of the first vessel, a SCCO-tonner, was an- Incunced Sunday. - 1 Offen, Closing'., 2nd Trap Rostov Only 100 Milca As Soviets Seize I Towns, Take Toll By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Tuesday. Dec. 23 (JPy-The red army was reported threatening Kotelniko vski, S 3 miles i southwest of Stalirigrad, from three sides Tuesday, and " was only 45 miles shprt;of a union with its middle Don forces to throw a second steel ring around 300,000 Nazis pock eted i before Stalingrad. . A special Soviet communique latest vi a senes on me new ox- fensive-r-said .the Red. army was ' only-12 miles short of Kotelni- Irnvclrl In a frrmtnl nveault anil had . seized points . on both sides of that North-Caucasian railway center, in an onslaught that has cost the Germans 17,000 .dead since December 12. ; ' Verkhne - Kurmoyarskaya, on .the Don river loop about 18 miles above Kotelnikovskt, was seized, as were Krilov and Nikolski, 23 and 38 miles to the southeast in a wide Hanking .'movement. ;' The Red Aarmy's middle Don forces operating down the Moscow-Rostov railway 'were re-j, ported less than 100 miles north - of Rostov, where the Germans . were declared to be tnereasinrly - Jittery, since seizure of that - point .. would trap even larger Nazi forces Inside the Caurasns. 'Our troops in the area of the:1 I middle Don continued to develop tbeir offensive and occupied a number of inhabited localities in cluding the .town and railway sta tion of Chertkov." the regular midnight communique said of that second offensive. Chertkov j Is " about 30 miles has been v surrounded for some The Russians said that amona i Z many villages seized in the Kotel- I This latter point is 80 miles to the I southeast, deep inside the Cau- j casus. V 3 i (German radio reports empha-' ; 1 sized for .the second straight day -; . thzt Nazi troops were forced to' I But Berlin said "pewly arrived I German formations had brought I strong Soviet thrusts to a stand- ! m the middle Don area.) I lour days the Russians said their troops had advanced from 37 'to 53 miles in tho Kotelnikovski region after breaking a series - of desperate Nasi counterattacks aimed at liberating the 22 Nazi divisions trapped in the Don-Volga peket. trapped In the Don-Volga - Since December 12 the Russians said they captured 60 tanks, 153 guns,. 103 trucks, and tw ammuni tion dumps; . and destroyed 270 r ' (Turn to Page 2 A) WTT JJ a.a. TT - Willamette UD I, , ; 1 JL r VM T ? iUvwa. JLVF JL A 11C1U In V W I rConriC I :lflT j ' I Although the Willamette rlvei t every state highway and county "ad In Marion county was pass- able early this morning. In at AV A- . . i ieasi wee cases, nowever, roaas were not in heavy use, since the tnree mter-couniy jerries on iuie At 10:30 Monday night the juay morning reading. neaiiana, independence and Buena Vista ferries were not only out of use, but out of reach; because of the high wat er. County Engineer N. C. XT abbs said. A slide on the often-closed Elk- by county equipment and the road was open ; to normal traffic. On uie south river road a slide wzn removed ana t&e road was in urt slowly there. EHver crcclc rcrs ccr-! Icr l (Turn ta Tz-i -r