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DimctrV - J Friday sunset . 5:27 pm. Ctturday ranr!.: SZ3 ajn. Weather: - Wed.' xax. temp. C5, snln. 1SJ Than, rain 1.41 faw river ft. Weather data restricted by army re-. aest. .: i ' : ' .. A tew year, offering tcpe far ictory, is here today, carrying less of uncertainty VLzx Cii 1942. Tour dally f ' ' -man will keep yo t .cJ on 1S43i progress. ixzt:-lz2qvs yeah Scdera, Oracjon. Friday Morning. January L 1943 aVtasvcv- Ho. 233 22 B i visions 312,650 of Enemy Killed Or Captured in 3 Drives Still Surging Forward : By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Friday i' Jan. l-ff-The Russians declared offi cially for the first, time Friday-that 22 enemy divisions in the rea of Stalingrad have been tightly encircled by the red army nd-announced. 'that 31650 German and satellite soldiers have fceen killed or captured thus far in the three great drives by which the iron ring was welded around the ruined Volga city in ix - weeks. " - -. . Of the enemy losses, a long spe cial communique said, . 175,000 were filled and 137,650 were cap tured.' -'.;- The communique said the red i amy "completely 'routed 36 cJ : -visions, . including six tank di visions: inflicted heavy losses - on seven other enemy divisions, r and captured or destroyed treat -of materiel. . The communique disclosed that the third phase of the winter op erations accomplished the sealing of the Germans in the Stalingrad zone. "-yt'H:-1: : "During the offensive which be gan December, 12, 1942," the com munique declared, "the red army in a short period of time success fully accomplished the most dif : ficult operation by surrounding in . a tight circle -22 enemy divisions in the area of Stalingrad," it said. -Reports of further progress by the red army: from all fronts indi cated, meanwhile, that the Ger mans were being relentlessly pur sued wherever the soviet forces were on the move. - The long summary of the oper ations around Stalingrad since November 19 reported that - the Russians , have- captured ' or " de stroyed 1791 planes, 3251 tanks, and 5910 guns along with large amounts of other booty. -The saeeesses were .achieved, : the Bussians re pored, during the drives southwest and northeast : . . f Stalinrrad, In the middle Don ares and south of Stalinsrad. : The Bussians lumped off these offensives into one grand oper ation,, the object of which was to liquidate Hitler's forces and allies in south Russia. ; In" the .first stage of the six weeks' ! offensive northwest land southwest of Stalingrad, 85,000. were declared killed and 72,000 captured. 4 j- In the second stage, "in the mid dle Don, the death toll was 59,000 and the captured numbered 60,050. : The third phase was south and southwest of Stalingrad, where the Russians now are within ten miles of the Kalmyck steppe cap- Ital of Elista. - t . , The offensive to the southwest which the Bussians renewed after smashing a desperate German at tempt to cut through to the 22 en circled divisions between the Vol ga and Don, the Russians were flanking the Germans in the mid Many observers believed the Ger Caucasus. southeast of Nalchik, man peril, in the central Caucasus was so great that the . enemy would be forced to withdraw some 200 miles to the northwest to the Kuban plains. - . - 4 - 'ti-: . .r-:l' . . (Theerlin radio admitted that south of the Don "it became nec essary to withdraw systematical 'ty some of our foremost strong points." - " -N :- ' " - (There were the strongest In leatlons and from the Ger mans themselves that the nasi, anchor point of Yellkie Luki northwest of Moscow on the central front was surrounded, tne German eommnnlane re porting; that the Russians "from ' all sides attacked the advanced -. position at Veliile Luki," al ' thocjh claiming that- all these assaults had failed. (As to the Don and Caucasus fronts Berlin acknowledged that (soviet troops held the initiative glihoush again claiming the re pulse cf soviet attacks.) . C 3 vi c to Reenter ddptured'Areas -'OSCOW, Dec, SI (rt-Sovlet rs 'are now reentering the nan-hold Don basin, "the ..i sine and -.White Russian dis ctSf thenewspaper Pravda re rted Thursday in expressing a - Year's wish that 1943 would ,;3a final victory over the Ger- Citing allied North African suc cs against the Germans, , the cle said the nazis . would be cn from Tunis and Tripoli as y had been' from Egypt end ya. , nrv- gradj British Ships Meet Enemy ; Fight in Northern . I Seas ConUnucs ; i Axis Ships Hit ' i By ERNEST AGNEW LONDON,! Dec. 31 -(fl)-British men- o-war f engaged an r enemy naval force i in . northern- waters early Thursday and thus far in the continuing sea fight have damaged and chased one enemy cruiser from the scene and left an enemy destroyer severely hit and in sink ing condition- ' The admiralty's terse commun ique said: f "Early today his majesty's ships made contact with an enemy fprce'in northern waters. - During the ensuing engagement an i enemy cruiser was damaged and, withdrew. . fAn- enemy destroyer was .se verely hit and when last seen was m sinking condition-- s "'Operations contlnue.""rtr '!"" .' It wa the first flareup of real naval activity in northern waters, where the German navy . prowls on deadly watch for al-' 'tied convoys to Russia, since last August when the battleship " TIrpita ventured into the eon : voy lanes from her Norwegian fjord hideout and was reported ,; torpedoed and damaged bi a Russian submarine. r i The Tirpitz, which has been re ported lying in her Norwegian lair and repaying her wounds. Is the 35,000-ton twin of the Bis marck,, the Germans battleship which sank Britain's battle cruiser Hood and then was v sunk by massed British air and "sea forces".' United States warships in mid- ; (Turn to Page 2 B) DeGaulle May f Go to Africa; Supply Asked LONDON, Dec 31HaP- Gen. Charles DeGaulle, leader . of ,the righting French, . may go to Al giers, shortly , to confer with' the high commissioner for North Af rica, Gen. Henri Giraud, ; who Wednesday night queUed an In cipient - assassination plot by ar resting 12 highly-placed persons, including - some of GIraud's best friends. " - Theyjvere accused of complicity in a plot against the lives of Gir aud and Roberturphy-.Presi-dent Roosevelt's minister. Observers here declared the ar rests showed that political unity still was nebulous In North ; Af rica." """'i '. ' DeGaulle's associates described themselves as mystified by. the whole affair. , The appointment of Harold Mac Millan ; as minister in Northwest Africa ; was approved widely v in Britain. His function will be to work with Murphy as advisor In solving tangled political problems. The administration of Internal af fairs will be left primarily in French hands, Giraud as a . pressr conference announcing the arrests' pleaded for rwift . supplies and; Bdem arms for 50.CCO Frenchmen now fight big in Tunisia. . . -- Fighting French Advance. NorUi '. LONDON, Friday Jan. Fighting French headquarters an nounced Friday over the Brazza ville radio .that lighting' French forces thrusting up toward .Libya from the - region of Lake Chad were continuing their advance. The communique: ; "Fighting continues to develop favorably. One enemy plane try in3 to oppose the advance cf our elvsiits was shot down. - .River 7 , rr : . 20 Jap Planes Ruined; : 1286 Enemy Craft ? Toll to Date i - By .C.YATES McDANlEI ALLIED HEADQUARTERS DM AUSTRALIA, Friday, Jan. l-J-Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur's airmen, featuring .the speedy, t win-tailed'P-38s knocked nine Japanese out of the air and destroyed 11 Jap anese bombers and' fighters on the ground in a series of smash ing attacks on the: . airdrome at Lae, New Guinea. ' On the ground Australian and American troops closed in heavy action against the enemy on the trail leading inland from Sanan- anda to Buna. ; 1 Sweeping in ahead of attack planes and medium bombers, 11 Lockheed P-38s ; swept the skies clear of Japanese fighters patrol ling over Lae. ; When the sharp air battle was over, only one of 12 Zeros was unscathed. Nine officially wer - reported . shot down. ' and .two more were damaged. Two Lock heed lightnings were damaged but were able to reach home base. Douglas A-20 attack planes then swept over the field in a low level bombing and strafing sweep which caught and destroyed four Japanese- bombers and one Zero on the ground. -4 Earlier reconnaissance planes surprised the destroyed six, enemy planes on the field. The pilots saw two of hese Japl planes blow up and a third burning fiercely. ' W North American B -25s and Martin B-26s rounded off the day's work of ' "destruction - by bombing and strafing dumps and installations around the field. In a day of widespread aerial offense, other allied planes strafed and damaged a 60-foot schooner at Gasmata, New Britain island, and Catalinas unloaded 500 and 250 pounders' and fragmentation bombs on the Buka airdrome in the Solomons. Other allied bomb ers raided Madang and Wewak, Japanese-occupied ports on the New Guinea coast northwest of Buna. ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Friday, Jan. 1 (ff)' Allied airforce headquar ters said Friday a total ' 1286 Japanese airplanes have been destroyed or damaged in the southwest Pacific since the be ginning of the war. Of this huge total, at least 723 planes definitely were destroyed. Two hundred fifty others were listed as probably destroyed, and SIS as damaged. , . These planes all were destroyed or damaged in straight aerial com bat and do not include those de stroyed on the ground, except in such cases as have been defini tel ly confirmed by photographs. Ma chines lost through normal flying hazards also were not included. The airforce announcement said that allied .losses over the same period were comparatively small. , - Norse Ship Sunk' 1 f " : WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 !.-)- The navy announced : Thursday mat: a medium sized Norwegian merchant - vessel 1 was j torpedoed, shelled ' and sunk late ' in August in the Atlantic oft the ' northern coast of South America. Survivors have arrived at a United States east coast port. War's By ISABEL. CKTLDS: ' WhUe wr headlines dominated 1942, Salem made news during the past 12. months, reporters re called as the old year rolled out almost silently ' Of widest interest among capi tal city occurrences was the state hospital tragedy, the death of 47 patients from roach poison erron eously mixed in scrambled eggs. State penitentiary news X was highlighted by a series of flax shed fires, resulting in the loss of more than half the year's, crop of the fibre which had been dedicated to wartime usea. ' f. " Despite 'censorship restric tions, .weather made news at ' the beghtning and the end of li2,'wilh the worst Ice storm since 113 blocking streets and Jiaps o -: MEM - River Invades West Solent Area it1 i V -f f'9- r,-r:';-.-5f !r- m r i i 4 One of few elty dweUers w the. Salem a affected, by the Willamette river; freshet Thursday, Earl C Burk (upper photo), former West Salem alderman and proprietor of Riverside auto park, wasn't taking any chances on the stream's rising stUll higher. Dar ing the afternoon ho-enlisted Carl Gordon to help him move canned fruit and other valuable contents from the basement of 'his house, which stands on the river side of Edgewater street, as water flowed knee-deep across the floor. Lower photo shows river overflow nearby, with wash house for Bark's auto park partly under water. 'The Kid9 Chases 'Gramp As Leaders Warn Year to Be Better, Not Easier Men in Uniform Lead Greeting Of New Year NEW YORK, Jan. l-OF-Young 1943 chased care-worn 1942 right up war-dimmed Broadway Thurs day night, and they were both pretty conspicuous without . uni forms. ' For on this second New Year's eve of the war, soldiers, sailors and marines of "the United Nations constituted a large segment of the millions here , who cheered, sang and sometimes just howled the old year out. - But it wasn't all sound .and fury. " , . , '., In reverent alienee, hundreds , bowed their heads La prayer. at. a holy hour service In St. Pat rick's . cathedral ever which Archbishop Francis J. Spellman presided. Uptown in the gigan tic cathedral of St John The K (Continued from Page 1) K highways, denuding pork of their branches and cutting eoaimnnlcatlons early la Jana ary and high water threatealag ' flood at the close of December. ; January saw appointment of the first ; city V and : county rationing boards here; during 1942, Salem residents felt first - rationing re strictions on cars, tires, bicycles, rubber , boots, sugar, gasoline and coffee. I''x--: "'.S"-,':s -;:Z:ZS The i new - state cigarette tax, collected, and then declared un constitutional, made merchandis ing history. ; Salem, residents experienced several weeks of nervous ' ten sion following the December, 194L blackouU whSe the city's extensive system of air raid sirens was ta process cf tastal UUoa early la 1312. Changes Dmm IT1 oo Stimsbn, Knox See Progress i Toward Victory - WASHINGTON, Decj 31 -VPJ- Secretary ; of War, Stimson. and Secretary of the Navy Knox promised Thursday night that 1943 would bring further military pro gress toward victory but they and other government officials warned of many obstacles and hardships ahead..- - ' - ThWir New Year's statements, issued through the office of war information, follow (the first two textually): . t r . Stimson. fDeapite -some Jiutial defeats in the year just past, America has now firmly set its feet on the way to victory, tIt is a long, hard road, beset with many obstacles. We are fighting enemies who are strong,, and who are de termined to fight to the end. . j 1 Fortunately, our " army ia ; P (Continued from Pago I) F ': Wlllametto university, ' after years of planning for itg ' lPCth birthday,, streamlined ita centen nial observance- the better to fit into the wartime picture.': ; : Two new president occupied the executive's chair, during 1941. Dr. Carl - Sumner Knopf, resign ing before he had served a year at the old nutitution, died, before he had left office, and was suc ceeded in the fall by Dr. G. Her bert Smith. . i Marion county had two clerks: Harlan Judd, called back to army service only a short time after he had taken .office, was succeeded by Lee Ohmart, nailed clerk pro tern. m irr'''"'--:-' . Salem had three health offi cers: Dr. Vernon A. Douglas, re signing to beccme medical offi cer for. the state civilian defense & 6 ; Floods Block Most Roads North-South Travel Halted; Valley . Roads Closed - Flood conditions more ; severe than any since 1927 are .threat ening western Oregon highways, R. .JL Baldock, state highway en gineer, . announced T h u r s d a y night..: . . , y.-': ' - ,. , .No north-south, route was open to southern Oregon west of , the Cascades; - central - and southern roads, in $he area were blocked m many cases ' by water or slides, and ' travel across the j North and South Santiam highways to Bend was advised against The Wil lamette highway remained closed by high water between ' Goshen and Dexter. 'The main highway between Al bany and. Corvallis was expected momentarily, to be closed, while Kte secondary route between the two cities was already unaer 12 feet of water. i WsectloH of the east side Pacific highway": immediately south of Jefferson might have to be 'closed today. Six Inches of wa ter was expected across the roadway by this morning. With poles set up to mark; the right, f-way, travel may bo permit ted until, the water reaches a depth of IS inches, he said. The Pacific highway was closed south "of Harrisburg bridge and also between Eugene and Spring field. Water was on the road be tween Cottage Grove j and Rose burg. . ;- &- "The west side Pacific highway was expected 'to be closed by noon today at Monroe, when the crest of waters released Thursday from Fern Ridge dam arrives. Territorial road, only auxiliary route south, between Monroe and Anlauf7 miles north of Drain, remained open to - one-way traf fic, but its availability by. today was in doubt. 'j The ; Siuslaw highway between Junction' City and Florence, closed early Thursday by slides near - Blachly, was cleared later for .one-way traffic j " State police said Thursday night that both the North and South : Santiam highways were open v to one-way i travel, . but1 Y anotorlsts were advised not.; to . attempt these . reads nnless it was absolutely neeessary. C (Continued . from Pago 1) C organization, i was succeeded dty health officer by Dr., John Ramage, who, leaving to eater the service, was succeeded, by Dr. W. J. Stoncv ' county . health Ibffi- In the Cdd of health also; Ura. George R. K. Moorhead, leaving the post as executive secretary of the county's public; health associ ation to take another as field sec retary for the division of social hygiene with the U of O medical school, wasv succeeded by Miss Grace Kingsbury. '" . Two new sets, of state senators were named in Marion county during 1942. Douglas McKay and Allan Carson, asking ' military leave after their election In No vember woe ' succeeded on a pro tern basis by Frederick Lam (Turn ta Page 2A) - MM. TfB -W A : SUveirtonvDam Washed Out; Dallas -Wxiter line Broken; Roads Blocked Flooding Ponndins on toward a 27-foot crest anticipated here Sat-! ttrday night, the usually peaceful Willamette "river had mounted to 212. feet as the this morning:. ; " y:: Fearing no loss of human life in the seven to eight foot flood but preparing for any emergency in an effort to save as much discomfort as possible, Marion county Red Cross disaster relief - committee, remained , on . the v alert through ), Thursday night and Chairman to ' conduct a surrey; with, assistance of committee members scattered over the county." . . Salem's rainfall Thursday was j 1.41 Inches. . (For review of the state's , high water conditions, see other stories on this page and page two. Dallas residents were Instruct ed to boil their drinking water Thursday after city water pres sure had been restored by remov al of a slide, near the mouth of Canyon creek near, the source of the city's water supply. The slide was believed to have broken a water pipe sometime Sunday night . . , Remnants of SUverton's Ab . iaua daaa went out at S pm. Thursday; -Nursed, along since destructive forces . of November, high water had torn out a por tion of the dam, the leg strue ,tr was "to '"'have 'f served "v" as" . founAaUoa.. for the rebuilding at the close of the winter. It had been planned. Water', has been 1 pumped there for , city users since much of the usefulness of the dam was destroyed earlier. Water was over the road on the Cascade highway to - Portland, stood over the pavement west of the Rocky four corners early, SEATTLE, Dec 31 -JPy- Th US weather bureau Thursday announced the display of storm warnings along the 'coast front Tateosh- to the Oregon-California line at 4:30 p. m. Thursday night- although motozv Ists still traveled that stretch, was over the Mt, Angel highway from Silverton and the "Pudding river was washing across the old Sil-vertoh-Salem highway putting It out of use. Some Silverton streets and basements Were flooded. On the polk county side of the river, at, the edge of Dallas, La Creole creek was over its banks, its" chief damage by Thursday night haying been to the P. H. Hughes hopyard. Frederick Wiese, a Willamette community - farmer' was believed drowned after his team of horses returned to his home after break ing away from his wagon. Although water stood . over the Salem-Dallas highway east " of Derry station, it was Still passable Thursday night. The month's total rainfall at Dallas early Thursday night was ,1 2.66 inches, of which 6.45 had fallen in the last .week , (Turn to Page 3-D) -. Argentina Astonished AtBritisli t BUENOS AIRES, Dec SlPJ The Argentine foreign ministry expressed , "astorushment Thurs day night over . Britain's official criticism of Argentina's mainten ance of diplomatic relations- with the axia powers, y.-y-..-,r-': : : It. said, th British, government Lhad attacked- -Argentine , foreign policy "m -terms -wnicn are not in keeping with - the friendly rcla- uodi pnween uie iwo countries, h - Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guinazu Issued a communique in answer to Thursday's statement of the British foreign office.de ploring Argentina's continuing re lations with - "the enemies of hu manity." -l;'-- r r ; . ' The British statement asserted that newspaper reports in Buenos Aires and even an Argentine -government official publication had carried 'articles .creating the er roneous impression that 'England was supporting; Argentina's neu trality policy.) . ... .... EDS- : 77 T UM ILoweii' wept little new year was ushered in Irl S. McSherry today was Eastern Flood i;' Upper Itiver Areas - Freed ; Thousands Out of Ilomes . ' PITTdliUltUtV . JJec. Si UiJ Thousands of " workers' ' in the flood-bit industrial area , of uio upper Ohio river, valley, "forego- . "ing .NewVear'g eve festivities, la , bored Thursday night to get Inun dated war plants hack into pro-. duction, while a dozen.. West. Vif gin la ana vmo ciues aireaay ca ly .- flooded glumly awaited the crest moving down me Ohio river. Bulging with overflows . from the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at their Pittsburgh confer- ence, the Ohio rose more than four feet higher than at the steel city, increasing the destruction at downriver points in proportion. Between 17,909 aad 20,009 West . Virginians were driven' from their homes. At Wheeling .the crest wa expected to reach 52 feet, If above flood level. . Water ran It feet . deep In . Wheeling's main street. Wells burg aad the isolated communi-' ties of MoundsvUle . and New atarunsviue report ea severe - damage. . It was the same story in Ohio. which reported 1580 .families homeless. Hardest hit were Mari- - nJ. r : 1 I Steubenville. Seven river-edge steel mills itt West Virginia and Ohio were closed, most of them because employes were unable to travel. ' V The US army ordered a com- ' pany of its engineers to help pro- -tect Portsmouth, O. The troops, stationed at Columbus, i Ind., will arrive in the city by Friday night to bulwark a 62-foot dike which holds ; back , the high Raters threatening a steel mill, shoe fac tories and other plants busy on war orders. ' . As. tne crest snoved below Steubenville, rivermen down stream estimated that the peak ' . - Cincinnati's predicted crest was Revised upward to 62 feet, 10 feet above flood level, and city offi cials began planning emergency measures. A rise to 62y4 feet would put water on Lunken air port, an aerial transportation cen ter; besides flooding lowlands in - northern Kentucky communities -across the Ohio river. " ' Milt Rulings Made Tighter PORTLAND, Dec; ai .--Tho Oregon milk control board Thursw day damped new restrictions ca trade practices to alleviate war time economic losses in the fluid milk -industry. - . - ) . Customer credit was limited to CO days, milk dealers were order ed to charge retail land wholes&la customers for bottle losses, and the exchange or return of unsold milk and cream was' eliminated, f The board advised the industry to reduce delivery schedules wherever possible, standardize a fewer; products land container sizes - and 'restrict deliveries t reasonable minimum orders t j gesting one case at wholesale, t . quarts at retail