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DIxnout The Inside Your complete morals newspaper. The Statesman, offers you pertinent - Nn meets en - war. news ef . the day by Kirk 8 1 m p s e a , Washington analyst. ' Wednesday sunset 1:2 1 p. ' nft. - Thursday? sirsrise t:33 aim.- Weatheri ZIon. max. . temp. 48, mln. 41. Tues. rain UK in, river 17.9. Weth er data restricted by army request. ' , PCUNDSD inrim'-CECOHD YEAH Salem. Oregon Wednesday Morning, December S3. 1342 tUcm Ic No. at, Lew alili to Vliil Wk ) , it i i i - i i j - v . i lilt '. 1 'ivvxi jtaii v. it i i i i I i i i i i i - ji i j Mees Flour Price Raise!? Bread Prices Hefd By Halt , oil Slicing Revived Touhy Gang Caught JLil JL JLPJa, kjiiaiv Two Convicts Slain '9 In Chicago Battle; FBI Plans Well '. CHICAGO, Dec. 29(JfyAn in genious trap, devised after weeks of 'careful planning and operated by, the nation's top ranking fed eral, agents, .snapped shut Tues- day : on Jtoger Touhy and L Basil "The Owl" Banghart. The coup and I a similar snare ' sprung six hours earlier resulted in the capture of Touhy, Bang hart and Edward Darlak, brought death via gun battle to James O'Connor and St. Clair Mclner ney,and completed" the roundup of the seven long-term convicts who shot and slugged their way out - of the Stateville, 111., peni tentiary 80 days ago. I ; Thus, In two swift, melodra matic maneuvers, the law: smashed the 'revived "terrible s Touhy" rang listed by FBI" v Chief J. Edgar Hoover as . "the - most vicious and most danger--ens the country has ever had." Hoover, , who directed the pick f his "G" man corps in the oper ations,; reported the trap set for , Touhy and his two" confederates probably was , the most elaborate ever arranged. tj . The time was $ vm. The scene was! a six-flat, building : at 5118 n sn bv n nu Kenmore avenue in a north side residential neighborhood. Touhy, Banghart and Darlak slept In one of the apartments on the first floor. Federal agents waited in a suite across the halL Others, car rying machine . guns . and high powered rifles, were stationed on the roof and across the street. . .Floodlights were set in place A loud 7 speaker system was in stalled. Families were moved w to the third floor so they could be evacuated, through a sky light if the structure was filled with tear gas. The street was cleared. . - ai ine zero nour tne spot lights . lighted the - building.' A i . v o ice boomed through the amplifier in a a. a a the stillness of the night: "Come out through the front door. Come out backwards and with ; your hands up. Banghart, you come out first. j The sound echoed eerily. " It roused residents of a square block. For ten minutes the agents fin gered the triggers of their weap ons. - . ' v V" The door of the Touhy apart ment opened. Banghart, hands overhead, backed out cauiious - ly. Strong arms collared him, , (Turn to Page 2 A) Poison Fatal To Three in War Plants WHITE PLAINS, NY, Dec. 29 -VP The fatal poisoning of three war workers from chemicals with which they were working and the illness of approximately 120 other workers, "some so bad ly affected , before ? preventive measures were taken that they may die," was disclosed Tuesday night by Westchester county health officials. ; . Richard McLaughlin, sanitary commissioner for the Westchester county health department, said that two of the persons dead were employed : at the 1 Anaconda -. Wire and Cable company plant, Hast- ings-on-Hudson, NY. The third death was that of an employe of the Havirshaw Cable and Wire corporation in xonlcers, NY, Eugene F. McGillian, health commissioner for . the city of Yonkers, reported. All 120, -some of , whom Mc Laughlin said "may die", were working at the Anaconda plant, lie said they are "off work," but did not disclose how many, U any, were hospitalized. McGillian said be believed an t!fftfrmfned cumber at the Havirshaw plant also had been nnnsed to the chemicals. nf-ciait of both . plants de- . rlirifd to comment. - '-: The r : nies of the dead were not reveal; '. but IXcLaushhn said t'.-t c i employe of Anaconda r' t six wcelis eso and the Economies Ordered in Services; Home Use " Flour Price Up WASHINGTON, Dec. 29-P) The f government authorized Tuesday night an average 10 per cent increase in the price of flour at the mill, but pre vented higher bread prices by discontinuing ' slicing and other services tending to ..increase costs. - i Simultaneous action was taken by the office of price adminis tration on flour prices and by Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard on bread standards. . OPA instituted a uniform schedule of flour prices throughout the country, replac ing ; temporary price ceilings which froze individual mill prices at their September It- . October 2 levels. The prices were standardised according to various types of flour and re gions.; The agency said, "this increase in flour prices should not neces sitate an increase in the present retail bread prices because the higher flour costs will be com pletely j offset by simultaneously introduced savings in the manu facture, packaging and distribu tion costs of bakers effected under a program of the department of agriculture. Wickard revealed that, as far as the ordinary citizen is concerned, the principal economy will be the discontinuance of the slicing of bread sold for home consumption. "Some : housewives," Wickard said, ; "will be inconvenienced by the portion of the order eliminat ing the sale ' of sliced bread for home consumption. However, we believe they will be glad to cut their own bread if thereby they can contribute toward preventing a bread price increase and at the same time contribute to the war effort.", ; M- Other ; economies ordered by Wickard were a discontinuance of the practice of some bakers in selling bread to retailers "on con signment", limitation of the num ber of 1 sizes and varieties any baker makes in a single week, and discontinuance except for certain (Turn to Page 2 C) Chile Debates AxisTBreak SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 29.-JP) -The - senate debated internation al affairs at a secret session Tues day night, 'land jjsuaUy taformed circles j predicted that within a few hours it would approve a res olution for Chile to break off dip lomatic relations with the axis. . Foerign Minister Joaquin Fer nandez; addressed the - upper chamber; before it recessed at 11 p. m. It was believed Fernandez had outlined various reasons why Chile should break off relations with-. Germany, Italy and Japan. A rupture of Chile's relations with the axis would leave Ar gentina the only western hemis phere nation maintaining such re lations.' . i : Meanwhile, the chamber of dep-4 uties Tuesday; night completed action on a law to protect Chile's "external security" and to ' com bat espionage.. . . DeGaulle Visit To ;US Sure . . By Th Associated Press There were many indications Tuesday that Frenchmen in In creasing numbers were forgetting their past differences to come to gether at the side of the allies ev erywhere in French Africa , and amid . these . President Roosevelt confirmed that Gen. Charles De Gaulle was coming to the United States.? , There had been reports that the purpose of the visit of De Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French national committee, was to put before Mr. Roosevelt a plan for a new French govern ment to serve as the hard core of a strengthened and unified French war arzinst the axis. Allies Throw Back Jap Counter-Raid In Buna Sector ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, Dec Se-FWapanese attempts to counter-attack their way out of entrapment In the Buna see tor of New Guinea have been repulsed for the second straight day, Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur announced Wednesday. , ; The noon communique also reported the reduction by the allies of IS bunkers la a strong ly fortified point of the Buna fighting sone. On the aerial war front, .the communique told of a raid Tuesday night on Kavieng, on New Ireland, which started big fires. In the Buna area, Tuesday's communique also had reported the throwing back of a Jap counter-attack which had been loosed after a night time shell ing, supposedly by enemy sub marines of allied forees holding most of the Buna air strip. To 18.1 Feet 1.28 Inches Rainfall Tuesday Puts Total 9 Inches Over 1941 ' Rising slowly throughout Tues day, the Willamette river at Sa lem stood at 18.1 feet at .820 p. m., nearing the 19.5 foot crest an ticipated for sometime -.today. Flood stages were reached at points on the Abiqua and Pud ding rivers Tuesday when rains which began last Saturday brought up more than three feet in Silver creek, but the Willam ette here was ? not j expected to reach ; within 18 inches of flood. Rainfall ; here, ; already this month approximately IVi inch es greater than that recorded for December, 1941, was more than nine inches heavier for the en tire year than the rainfall of the previous 12-months period. Tuesday's ; precipitation of 1J28 inches brought the month's total to 9.95 inches, the year's total to 43.51, in comparison with last December's 8!43 inches and last year's 34.34. Ferries on the river remained out of operation because of high (Turn to Page 2 F) '43 Manpower Need Raised; Farm Assured WASHINGTON, Dec, 29.-P)-The acuteness of the -manpower problem facing the nation in 1943 was emphasized Tuesday when the war manpower commission estimated that a total of 65,000,- 000 workers will be I needed in full-time ; employment "and the armed services by the end of that year. '; -;-"5-.Vf ; 4 ,; These estimates added 2,500,000 to previous official forecasts that the total required would be 62, 500,000. : ; 5 . ,; While there was no-change in the estimate that 20,000,000 would be needed in war industry alone, commission statisticians ex plained the 1943 figure was based on the assumption there . would be a 10 per cent increase in out put per worker, r 4 . - WMC Chairman Paul V. Mc Nutt, said at a press conference that the 200,000 expansion1 in the estimate of total military and labor needs was attributable to greater needs of agriculture, lend lease and supply. v 4 V Although he declined a full ex planation he said, he would "Go as far as ;necessary" to give .ag riculture all the workers needed to plant and harvest the 1 1943 crop 1;' ;rt t t.'-: -; "I think it will require utiliza tion of a good many;. people , who nave not - been t in agricultural Work before," he remarked, I The WMC chief said that! the number1, of persons . engaged in wtar: industry had grown from 6, 900,000 to 17,500,000 during 1942 while the number in non-war in dustry had dropped from 29,200, 000 to 21,100,000. France to Be Bomhed LONDON, Wednesday, Dec SD (-Indication that the allies plan to bomb targets in former unoc cupied France was seen Wednes day in a - BBC warning to the French , to keep away from Ger man headquarters, as well as fac tories and 'railway centers beinj used by the nazis. ' i French Repulse Germ an i Enemy Gains at One . Point in Tunisia; Yankees Attack . LONDON, W e due ida y. Dee. 30 i (AP) German troops counter - attacking south of Pont-Dn-F&ha, 30 miles south of Tunis, were re pulsed by French troops Tues day with the exception of one point where the enemy was able to advance slightly "at the cost of heavy losses," a dispatch from French headquarters- in Africa said Wed nesday. . y By The Associated Press , LONDON, Dec. 29.-Allied troops have withdrawn from a hill six miles northeast of Med- jez-FJ-Bab on the road to Tunis "after inflicting severe casual ties on the enemy," while allied fighter planes striking clear across southern Tunisia blasted and set afire 20 axis troop and supply trucks near, the Libyan frontier, a communique said Tuesday. The withdrawal was believed to be a discretionary move. Dur ing a lively Christmas day bat tle in which the allies captured most of the ridge, the Germans were not dislodged from the top most heights, and the disadvan tages of the inferior positions, coupled with . adverse weather conditions, may have made the ringside positions precarious. A ' delayed disnateh from southern Tunisia said AmerlcaJTrt troops had ; raided Maknassy, ' only about 40 miles from the eastern ; coastal road linking Tunisia with Marshal Rommel's Libyan forces, capturing 21 It alians and killing and wound ing many others. The mission was eomplctod after sharp street fighting and the rednc . tion of numerous sniper posi tions. Berlin acknowledged this threat to its coastal road by announcing that US troops had rolled into Gafsa, about 40 miles west of Maknassy. French troops also were threat ening to cut the axis Tunisian forces into still another segment by continued blows in the Pont-Du-Fahs area, only 30 miles south of Tunis and about the same distance from the eastern Tunisian gulf of Hammamet. French headquarters in Tunis ia said that French troops, backed by allied tanks and planes, had cut an important road south of Pont-Du-Fahs after a fierce dawn battle Tuesday, and that the enemy had been cleared from the area. Foreign legionnaires were credited with a great share of the fighting. V Farther south between Pichon and ; Kairouan where .the French also . were driving toward ' the eastern ; Tunisian port of - Sousse, the French said "we improved our position." U;: v ' ;; ' ? ' Widespread aerial activity was resumed over Tunisia with allied bombers and fighters raining explosives on axis rear' line bases, Including Sousse and Tunis, and strafing- enemy com- ; (Turn to Pago 2 B) - Bombs Hit Bangkok By THOBURN WIANT WITH . UNITED STATES BOMBERS OVER BANGKOK, Dec 26 (Delayed) (ff)Young American airmen gave the Jap anese a good taste Saturday night of what they can expect when the united nations take over airports closer to the "enemy's home is lands. Bangkok was made the ex ample. - The largest force of United States heavy bombers ever to at tack a single target in the China India war theater attacked the Japanese-occupied . c a p i t a 1 of Thailand and poured high explo sives on the naval dockyard, main railroad station, the arsenal and the Conmaung , airdrome In the Bangkok area. v:; i ---Vf The round-trip flight was one of the longest air missions of the war. - - I had a bird's eye . view of thousands of pounds of . bombs blasting the target with devastat ing effect. 1 , One of the five bull's-eye hits cn tLe arsenal Ut up the, wide Former andNew Gen. Henri Bonore Giraud, new commander of all French Africa, confers with Adm. Jean Francois Darlan during an inspection ef military Installations before Darlan was assassinated. This photo. v radioed from London to New York, is the first of General Giraud "Associated Press Tclemat. , GommitteeAskd oration Defense Recreation ; : Needs Discussed ; JiTfo Agency Named Going on record as favoring in corporation of their committee to make it possible to secure fed eral funds under the Lanham act should they be deemed needed for the city's 1943 recreation pro gram, the Salem defense recrea tion committee met Tuesday aft ernoon at the chamber of com merce. Preceding the business session, representatives of the USO coun cil, headed by Tinkham Gilbert, appeared before the committee to urge that the anticipated second soldier recreation center here be USO-operated, . explaining . that organization's system .. for secur ing trained workers with peace time recreation experience and the place it has already made for itself in the Salem community. No recommendation as ' to what agency should operate the second center, if and when se cured, was made by the city (Turn to Page 2 E) 1,800,000 Puts State Near Goal PORTLAND, Dec. 29-J)-The state war bond office reported $1, 800,000 in receipts Tuesday in the campaign to put Oregon over its $100,000,00(1 goal for the year. ' ih Ray i Conway, .state ' bond ad ministrator, told 100 -member of the bond office itaff at a ban quet celebrating the staffs first anniversary, that the total is now $98,800,760. , . - . countryside and even ffluminated the attacking bomber high above. " This . was" the ; second United States ; heavy bomber raid on Bangkok. The first was on Thanksgiving day when a smaller force knocked out' the: electrical system, damaged underground oil pipelines and bit an important re finery. From what I could see. this raid was even more success .The exact number of bombers on the mission must remain a se cret. Neither may it be told how far they flew, but I can say the total distance was more than a one-way trip from New York to San Francisco. (2568 miles). ' The nine members of the crew of the bomber in which I flew represented nine states. Capt Wesley Werner,; 25, of Pocatello, Idaho,- who left the forestry divi sion of the University of Idaho to join the air corps soon after Pearl Harbor; . was pilot Li K. W. Trout, 24, "j- Snoqualinie ; Falls, Wash, who left a plane-building Job at Burbank, Calif, to Cy tbem, was co-pilct. Incorp French Commanders in Africa r Shipbuilders Put Out 750 Vessels, Meet FDR Goal NEW YORK. Dee. 29 - (ff) The American shipbuilding In dustry turned out in 1942 a ree- erd number of 759 merchant vessels, toUllng 8,t00,000 dead weight tons, to meet President Roosevelt's "blueprint - for vic tory" - goal, n. Gerrish Smith, president of the National Coun cil ef Shipbuilders, said Tues day. ' (Axis submarines have sunk 57$ allied and neutral cargo ships in - the western Atlantic since Pearl Harbor In the As : sociated Press tabulation of an nonnced sinkings.) In a year-end statement. Smith asserted that "if we are given, the men, materials and equipment we east and will meet the president's call for 15,000,009 deadweight tons ef merchant ships In -S.". '. . Smith,' saying; his statement ; was approved by the navy and maritime commission, asserted that shipbuilders, rising to meet the challenge of mass-produe- 7 tion. delivered more than seven : times the output of 1941, when 1,989,497 . tons were completed, ; and smashed all standards for monthly production. . The industry buOt 125 mer chantmen, aggregating L110.000 tons, in December. The previous record, set In September, was -93 vessels with a deadweight tonnage of 1,009,800. The yards . turned out 84 cargo carriers of 831,709 tons In November. Smith said that 699 ef the 7S9 ships were ; of .the Liberty - ype. the emergency freighters of approximately 19,500 dead weight tons, which . are- mostly all-welded and constructed in yards designed for that purpose. Casualty list Publication InFuUOIieh WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-ff)-The army and navy said Tuesday that future casualty lists mar be published and broadcast in full reversing a policy effective since a few days after Pearl Harbor. The first list to receive moh treatment was given out for use In morning newspapers of Thurs day, or for broadcast after 8 p. m. in all time zones, Wednesday. . ; fieretoxore, ' both, newspaper and radio stations could use only the i names of those casualties whose, next of kin resided in-the Immediate area.; . ... " This policy had the purpose of preventing ; the enemy ; from de ducing what naval or army units might be operating in rpecific areas from the names contained in full nationally published ualty lists. ..";.-" - - L The new arrangement was worked out by the office of war information, in the Interest of a more complete war news cover age. ' i ; The old restrictions were spe cifically imposed by -the4 army and navy, and had no relationship to the voluntary code promulga ted ty tLs clUce cf cesscreli?.. since his escape to north Afrl Raver Predicts Lack of Power - r... ' . i ' 1 -- '-jV . " ,lckes Praises West's Reclamation Projects In War Contribution PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 29-iff) Bonneville Administrator Paul J. Raver Tuesday predicted" a seri ous power shortage in the Pacific northwest for war production in 1944. - ,: - ' He advocated immediate con struction of' additional dams on the Columbia river. Raver disclosed in his annual report to Interior Secretary Ickes that $1,259,449,000 (B) in . war contracts were placed in the northwest in the fiscal year end ing June 30, 1942. v ; The Bonneville administration turned over 81.4 per cent of its total output directly to plants pro ducing airplanes, ships, ordnance, military and naval supplies, Ra ver said. , . - Because some of the admin istration's power sold to public and private utilities was resold to Industry, Raver estimated that 92 per cent of Bonneville and Grand Coulee dams' power was used in war production. The administrator also urged planning for the post-war period. "Our studies indicate a need of (Turn to Page 2 G) British, Jap Troops Clash Nearer Akvab , , LONDON, Dec 29 yifPi A clash between British and Japan ese troops at Rathedaung In Bur ma, only 25 miles north of Akyab,' indicated to military observers here Tuesday mat Gen. Sir Arch ibald Wavell's Indian army was closing down firmly on that stra tegic city.' : ,;.;: .- r:.5 "In addition to - depriving ; the Japanese.of a valuable base from which to bomb India, the capture of Akyab would give the allies a good airfield from which to pun ish the enemy along the Irrawad dy river from Rangoon to Manda lay. It was emphasized, however, that the. clash at Rathedaung probably represented no more than a "large-scale raid by Wav ell's troops and - that the main British . offensive to recapture Burma and reopen the Burma road into -free China obviously had not yet begun. - . Observers were inclined to dis count a report by the axis-controlled Paris radio that British troops already had penetrated the Chindwin river valley east of the Chin hills, which lie across a pos sible Invasion road toward Man dalay. Recent communications from New Delhi, however, have mentioned . vigorous patrol action in the China hills. -; ' - "A . In a statement Tuesday Wavell said at New Delhi merely that his army was "getting every day into a better position to fight the Jap anese consistently ' and successfully. jTi enses : i V- - ; ;-; JU VT Rush A t Rostov t Strateigy Goal Blade 22 Nazi Divisions -In Soviet Circle By EDDY GILMORE . MOSCOW, Wednesday, Dec. 3 0-(P)-Russian troops have captured Kotelnikovski, C 9 miles southwest of Stalingrad, in the onrushing effort to reach Rostov on the sea of Azov and trap a V million-man German army stalled in the ' Caucasus and before Stalingrad. A special soviet communique issued early Wednesday an nounced tersely: , ; V "Our troops occupied the town . and railway station of Kotelnikov ski. Large trophies were captur- LONDON. Dec. 19-ifPy-A "British .' military . source said " Tuesday night that Russian . capture of the key railroad cen- . ter of Kotelnikovski meant ex termination of what remained ot.. the members of German's Sixth : "army around Stalingrad. Kotelnikovski was the base from' which the Germans launched an unsuccessful at tempt to release 200,000 of their 1 troops trapped between the Don ' and the .Volga rivers; It is a point which Hitler said Ger ' many would hold at all costs. ed, among which were 17 planes and a convoy of tanks." - The' rrrnlar mldnirht rammn. nlque also announced the cap ture of i Torgovaya, 57 miles, southeast of Kotelnikovski, and " about 49, miles above Elista, pro vincial capital In the Kalmyck ' Steppes of the Caucasus. Thus one of the great goals of Russian winter strategy had been achieved on the basis of addition al information here. The capture . . "mmMm -1 . M. .1 blow to the nazi hope of rescuing 22 divisions which the Russians say are trapped between the Don and Volga rivers north of Kotel- ri mi . V1LU . I . '...ti. ' mxovsxi. uuier rea army umu i v. t,A nn uave Kcdi wuuujciuic meat wvw, 000 nazis from all sides for weeks, , steadily driving wedges into their hedgehog positions and virtually severing all their supply routes save by air transport. Far to the northwest soviet troops that crossed the middle Don and veered southward toward ' Rostov were believed to be near ingl a Junction: with those in the Kotelnikovski sector. It is said such a union would throw a sec-' ond red army ring around the 22 ' nazi divisions. And if these two soviet columns converge , at Ros tov an even greater German army would be cut off in the Caucasus, the Russians said. The middle Don offensive al- - readT has surrounded BXnierovo on the Moscow-Rostov line and , 'has by -passed that town In tho - t "drive-toward Rostov. The Rus- Islan troops . churning through . snow and operating under. sub- . xero temperatures were be-' . KTieved to be within lOO miles of ' Rostov on that town's' northern " ine regular miuniiii, commu nique that followed , the special " bulletin said the Russians had kiUed a total of 3560 naili and had captured 470 Tuesday during the 1 offensives on the middle Don and Stalingrad fronts. , The Soviets al ready had announced the killing of "19,000 Germans southwest of Stalingrad between December 12 and December' 27, and a toll of -upwards of 120,000 nazis had been (Turn to Page 2 D) j 1 Sweden Foresees US Isolation Ban STOCKHOLM, Dec. 29-4 Swedish . political . Quarters took Vice President Wallace's speech Monday night as evidence that the United States does not intend to withdraw from ; European prob lems after the war, and said that this news "will be received with special satisfaction by the Swed- ish people." ! The newspaper Af ton tidningen carried the speech under a bead line: "USA Haj Learned Its Les son; No More Isolationism. RAF Raiib Germany BERLIN, (F r o m German Broadcasts), ; Dec. JO. (.T) - The Berlin radio reported Wednesdsy that a small number cf EritLh bombers had carried out "nuis ance raids' over western Grj many Tuesday r.;-!:t. ' '