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- 'Taken on March '
- Toward Rostov
. ; By HENRY C. CASSmY
- MOSCOW," Saturday, Jan. 2
7 Velikie Lukl, strwigly held
city on the central front only 90
miles from the Latvian border,
and Elista, capital of the desolate
Kalmyck republic below Stalin
grad have .been capturud ; by .the
Russians in smashing new victor
ies in the northwest and south of
liussia, a special soviet communi
que said early Saturday,
The entire German garrison -at
y elikie Luki, 260 miles northwest
f Moscow, was wiped out ,in
yiew of the fact that the enemy
refused to lay down their arms,"
the Russians saidC . .' t
- . It was one f the . stronrest
" Uitlerian positions m the bread
central front, forming with
Rxhev and Vyazma a great tri
angle of defense. The Rnvsians
.' long have been west of Kxhev ;
4; and at the approximate - center ,
of the triangle at Bely, at a
point only 69 miles north ; of "
. Smolensk in the Napoleonic
. corridor of .retreat. '-"S'.r. ;r M---The
. regular 'midnight ; soviet
communique, repeating the ; an
; noun cement .jf the recapture- of
Velikie: Liiki , and Elista, declared
s well that the soviet off ensives
in the middle Don and southwest
of Stalingrad were rolling on and
that, scores of towns and villages
had been , recaptured "several
dozen": in the latter area alone. .
- " Elista is 170 miles south of Stal
. lngrad,' but the Russians were
well beyond it on, the bank! of
' the, frozen Lake Manych, only 90
" miles short of the major Caucasi-
- an rail center at Salck. The main
Russian weight appeared -directed
at Salck, whence a railway
leads 100 miles to Rostov to the
northwest
' Rostov is threatened by.. other
Russian forces sweeping south
from the middle Don below sur-.-
rounded Millerovo. This force is
less than 100 miles from the city
at ' the mouth of the Don rthe
- gateway to the Caucasus
' The special cotAmunique also
announced the capture of the
.' district centers of Tarmokhln,
, sevthwest of Stalingrad, and
Chlkolo, in the north .Cancasns.
The town and rail way station
' cf - Velikie Luki both were cap
tured "as the result of a decisive
assault", -.the communique said.
? (The Germans claimed ; the
. capture of several places on the
central front and in the Don bend,
' , and , said Russian attacks' in the
Caucasus, at Stalingrad and in
""the Lake "Ilmen region were re
" pelled.)
- The Russian drive in the Kal
myck steppes increased the danger
to all the German forces buried
'deep in the Caucasus before the
oil fields of Grozny in the Moz-
dok and Nalchik areas.
Hitlei- Evades
Nazi Flight,
Sees Victory
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (JF)
Adolf Hitler in his fourth war
time New Year's message to the
German people Friday repeated
his theme that Germany would
riot collapse nor capitulate, and
that in the end she would prove
victorious. - .
- In a special proclamation broad
cast by the Berlin : radio. Hitler
sain discussed some of his favor
its hates international jewry,
President Roosevelt, and the national-oppressors
of a peace-lov-Germany.
- ; - -
. lie had nothing to say about
the Russian campaign, nor Rom
reel's flight in .Libya, nor the al
lied offensive in north Africa.
Instead, he praised the virtues
( ; the German people,- and re-
: : .ved wars of the past which,
1 3 said, were of little consequence
clUier to the victor or vanquished
pared : to ; what Germany's
Uon would be if it lost the
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Thursday night in an order of
3 day to German troops he said:
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, Jan.) l HP)
United States bombing and fight
ing planes ; ended ' the old year
with concerted attacks upon axis
communications and supply fa
cilities, from the 'northern tip of
Tunisia to Tripolitanla, . allied aur
thorities announced Friday.
: I Four American and one RAF
craft were reported lost.
Light Douglas " A-20 .bombers
paced the aerial onslaught; with
two raids on the port of Sousse,
where heavy anti-aircraft fire
knocked down three of the explo
sive carriers but failed to prevent
widespread destruction.
P-38 fighters escorted the first
raidexx; P-40s the second.
;The first group concentrated
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DeGaulle
Elimination
Of Vichy
LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 2 HJPi
A1 spokesman for the Fighting
French asserted Saturday that
holdovers from the Vichy regime
bv north Africa must be 'elimi
nated" before " unification of
French forces can take placed
Negotiations for such unification
are under way,; the spokesman
said. '
MI am optimistic,' he declared,
rbut don't expect any easy ,t or
rapid solution. While General
Giraud is all right, the principal
obstacle is the men underneath
him who "are holdovers from the
Vichy regime. They must be elim
inated." .
. The spokesman saicf that Gen
eral De Gaulle had taken the
initiative in negotiations "trying
to get together" the French fac
tions. ' ... . L
' f A number who have done well
under Vichy" still have key Jobs
in ; north Africa, the ; spokesman
said. Naturally, be asserted, that
would be an obstacle in the way
of unity. ;
General Giraud knowa . the
names of these men, the i spokes
man continued, as "they are quite
obvious.' The men. who must be
eliminated are particularly those
who preached collaboration, and
persecuted their fellow French
men, he asserted. - j
Dimout : : .'
Satarday snnset 87 : p. m.
Sanday sunrise 8:S3 a. m.
Weather: Thar, max. temp. 55,
min. 46. . Thvrs. rain 1.41 in.
FrL river' 29 feet. Weather
data restricted by army
aest.
African
Salem, Oref
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Flood Siccevs Buildintr
Against Bmdae
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Mellow Moon dance hall-skating rink, long the gange of Salem resi
dents for Willamette river's lesser floods, gave way; early Friday
night and floated downstream to' ledge against the .wooden west
- approach to the Salem-West Salem bridge, as seen ju picture above,
taken at S p. to. by AI LIghtner, Statesman sports editor. It pushed
two rows f piling from under the bridge shorted '.the Bonneville
. feeder wires serving the Salem Electrie Cooperative association and
endangered telephone cables on either side or the crmf The big
frame building began breaking up shortly fteswnildughti3? f
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Particip
Post -War Cooperation
- By RICHARD L. TURNER
WASHINGTON, Jan l-r-Presiderit Roosevelt called
with all emphasis Friday for post-war international cooperation
aimed at making another war impossible and at spreading the
blessings of peace to all mankind. ; ' 1 : -j
The united nations must remain, united, he said In a New
Year's day statement, easily his strongest . utterance to date on
post-war plans.;! - The ; "u n;i t y
achieved on the battle line! must
be preserved and applied to the
problems of the years to come..
' "In this as in no previous war,
he said, "men are conscious of the
supreme necessity of planning
what is to' come after-rand of
(carrying 'forward into peace the
common .effort which will1 have
brought them victory in the war.
They have come to see that the
maintenance and safeguarding of
peace is the most vital single
necessity in the lives of each of
us," ' -
; ' By v plain implication. Mr.
Koosevelt's statement pledged
so far as lie was able to give
such a pledge the- United
States to fall participation In
the projected international ef
fort. It was obviously destined
. to have a profound effect upon
pest-war planning . both here"
and In other; capitals.
Mr. Roosevelt offered no sug
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Landis Lauds
Civil Defense
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 (JP)
Civilian defense volunteers in the
flood areas of the Ohio valley and
Oregon won the- r praise -Friday
night of James M. Landis, direct
or of civilian defense. :
. rin the Ohio valley,' Landis
said ' in a - statement, "organized
American civilian defense is now
facing a real test in a large-scale
disaster. The reports X get indicate
that it is meeting ' the test su
perbly." . -;r -s;
"Nor have these volunteers in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, .West Virgin
ia and Kentucky been alone," he
continued. "We have Just receiv
ed word that hundreds of civilian
defense worker ju-e similarly at
work in Eugene,1; Oregon, where
heavy floods at the confluence of
the Willamette and McKenzie riv
ers have driven thousands from
their homes.' ; - V "
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One , of Seven
Fliers Found,
WALDPORT, -Ore Jan. 1
fl-Coasf 1 guardsmen Thursday
night found one member of a navy
PBY v flying boat -which 'sank off
the Oregon coast Thursday night
and were searching the ocean and
shoreline Friday for seven others.
The known survivor is Ensign
Brush, co-pilot. He was found
Thursday night on a cliff ledge
about five miles . south of here.
He told his rescuers, Chief Petty
Officer- Edward Turtle and Sea
man Second Class Dave Roger of
the Waldport coast guard station,
that his companion on a life raft
had been knocked overboard and
disappeared in the Surf. . - ;f
Brush was in semi-delirious
condition and remained so Friday.
He was under army care here.
Roger said he was unable to tell
them the name of his :- raft-companion
or any . details of the crash
or of his fight to reach shore.
He did mumble that seven oth
ers of the crew were on a second
raft, but since the 13th naval dis
trict headquarters reported 1 only
seven missing, coast guardsmen
presume he miscounted and that
there were six on the second raft.
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Argentina Hot
Is It Possible?
BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 1 (
The . New - Tear brourht - a --
heat wave to Argentina. The
Mercury ' stood at S3 degrees
Fahrenheit: int! e capital.. at
coon Friday.- , -,
It was the hottest day of the
. summer, Just a week eld, . in
this land below the equator.
The capital was deserted by
holiday crowds who sought re
lief in the foothills f the Andes
or beach resorts. ,
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Nimitz Galls
Raid Sample -
Airmen-iWa8ter:5S
.;Isliii;;lP6rlder, tm
- Gains Navy Cross
HICKAM H FIELDf Kbnoiuii
Jan. l-(jP-Adm. Chester Wr Nim
itz declared Friday tne Japanese
could conclude that the US air
raid on Jap-held Wake island was
only a .sample of v-the 'things to
come. . - "
The supreme commander of the
mid-Paicif ic. 'forces . presented
awards to ; navy heroes. . " .
Of the December 24 raid on
Wake, Admiral Nimitz said: "I
am glad, to have this opportunity
of starting the new year by mak
ing recognition of the splendidly
executed mission of our army: air
forces.
"Without warning the . morning
before ChrUtmas. the Japanese on
Wake island were suddenly, pre
sented with 75,000 pounds of aer
ial', bombs, I most of which struck
and damaged military targets. All
our planes 'attacked from low at
titudes and returned to ' base . on
schedule, with neither planes nor
personnel harmed by, enemy ar
tillery Which was finally awak
ened by the visitors. . - .
. "To me, j this) operation epitcK
mizes the ; complete unity with
which all fighting forces In the
PacifijC---the army, navy, marine
eorpa and coast guards are .co
ordinating their strength and skill
against the enemy. ; . y , .;
"Lei the enemy, take such con
solation as he -may from the
thought that this raid was only a
sample of things to come," the
admiral declared. - ..
- Admiral jNimitg presented . the
distinguished" flying cross to six
fliers who participated in the De
cember 24 raid on Wake island;
navy crosses to the commanders
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WPB Boosts
Margarine
W AiiilXN Or 1 UiM . wan i un
ir-Ta alleviate the butter shortage
the war production board author
ized Friday a sharp boost in the
production of margarme."
- Margarine manufacturers -. who
previously were allowed to "use
only; 110- percent of their average
consumption of fate and oils , in
1940 and 1941, were permitted to
raise that figure to 180 per cent
t -WPB described the need of in
creased margarine output as "ur
gent" in View of the butter short
age which has beeiC aggravated
by, the freezing of; 50 percent of
$torage butter, stocks in the 35
main, market cities. '"-p..; 7v
I Af the same time, WPB re
stricted , the use xf fats and oils
in soap production for civilian
Use, to 84 per cent, instead of 3
per cent This will save gbout
70.CC0 pounds of oil.
New
lear
Flood
ft
Blany Evacuated aar
v Road and Rail
Travtedrg
"i TORTLAND, Ore Jan. 1
intot western Oregon Friday on
gritty J -floodwaters ; w'hjch
ciauned at least six, lives, cov
ered thousands of acres of rich
farm lands,, forced hundreds of
families irom their hemes' ini-l
tindated hat a' dozen, villages arid
threatened, several .more.'-; '.
Near -Albany Ore a mother ;
nd r her t five-month-old .'son ;
jdrowned. when their automo
bile skidded off a, flooded road
and was mandated. They were
trapped Inside. ; A J ortland
woman drowned when her ear
struck a .slide near Cottage
;; Grove and plunged late a swol-
.,len ereck.,!' . . . i' ;
. An aged paralytic woman suc
cumbed to j shock at Springfield
after being evacuated j from her
lowlands farm home. Near Wend-
ling, two loggers were-' buried be
neath - an avalanche, loosened by
rain.;-: : ! . ' i s.- 'f,;.. ..:
Those killed were Archie Brooks,
Wendling, and J. W.-Thorn, Cot
tage Grove.; Three others escaped
the slide - narrowly, 5 sr ' '
Rail and bus traffic was bara-
Mil
fyrid1n 4hestralWulameltei7
valleyjand an north-south high
ways were blocked, including the
Pacific and . the Oregon coast
Central Oregon's The Dalles-California
route was open but two of
its majors feeder lines were, crip
pled or block. The east-west Ev
ergreen; highway on the: Washing'
ton ' side of ; the Columbia river
was closed and "the Columbia River
highway "oh theOregon side was
limited to I one-way; traffic , be
tween here and The Dalles. P,--Ur.
' . .Rail service between here and
' Eugene' and for some distance
south of Eugene was suspended
but the Southern' Pacific hoped
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Japs Stronger
On
Doivri Planes
WASHINGTON, Jan. I "r'VPl
The Japanese apparently i have
strengthened their .hold' on Kiska
in the Aleutians and, inah air
battle r which , may have , fbeen
fought - by the eerie glow of, the
northern lights, have destroyed
two swift and powerful American
P-38 Lightning fighter, planes and
a medium bomber, the navy dis
closed Friday. jV-J;..
' The P-38s j were . downed by
comparatively clumsy float-type
Zero fighters, and the! bomber
was destroyed either by the fight
ers or anti-aircraft fire. One Zero
was lost in the engagement -.
The navy communique; thus re
vealed that the Japanese have
succeeded in "delivering at least
small aerial reinforcements to an
island where their hold had been
believed to be growing; steadily
less secure. : :. -jM -.S- -"V
A few hours after their; first at
tack on the enemy ships had con
cluded with uncertain results, the
medium bombers returned to Kis
ka and scored two hits on one Jap
mrffo shixv and three on : another.
All iJs planes returned from that
action. , " ' I -' x
In the -South Pacific, mean
while, the enemy air ; field at
Munda on New Georgia island in
the central Solomons was heavily
attacked late Thursday afternoon
(Guadalcanal tune). ; . ;
Land action on Guadalcanal is
land, where 'American, patrols are
rapidly backing; away at the. en
emy's hungry and ill-equipped
tmoDL resulted in the: killing-
Thursday of 20 Japanese under
circumstances which ; were not
reported. . ' -' ,
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Nazi Transport Sunk ;.
LONDON, Saturday, wan. a-vn
Th Moscow raaio . announces
Saturday that a soviet submarine
had sunk an 8000-ton German
transport bound for a Norwegian
fjord. "
:'.; ; -.I- Dosens of hemes is the South Mill creek basin lay surrounded
' by water early today and residents -were befinning to worry about
. first floor t urnlshinrs as the Willamette river rise continued. A
trickle ef water from the backed.up stream was flowing across
:; South Winter street and backwater had reached the ground walls
of Salem Deaconess hospital. The eld city ante park was com
pletely under water. .
Salem Lay at the cenler
ing a swirling waters pt the
bridge and high, water stopped all but rail traffic.
; i Weather ; bureau ; predictions gave - no intimation
of tne .high" tb the anticipated here- today when .tne
crest -whicli passed Eugene on Friday should arrive in
this isaturated area. Small ! trbutaries to the river were
swollen and unmeasured, state police declared as they
urged motorists to halt wherever possible. ;..
? WelI above therevibualyvfoicastT.S feet, the
river al midnight; lapped abovejhe 29 foot mark on
the official Salem"gauge, rising to" 29.4 at 1 :30 a.m.
e to
Isljiiril Here
- The Willamette river bridge
that stands this morning closed -to
travel because ef ihlgh water
is the , third structure the city
has had for crossing , to ; Polk .
county. i .: ' :
I" The first, k.yvopden bridge,
was built in .1888 ; and washed
away . by the great flood ef
1899.; The - city's second bridge,
built! following, that flood, was
replaced In 1918 by the present
structure whose main spans are
f steeL with concrete decking.
.The ! long approach from the
West .Salem side'. Is ) supported
by wood pDlnr. i ,
AIBy Airmen ;
Strilte Rabaul '
Tnree Enemy Ships
Set Afire; Troops
Split Japs at Buna
By VERN HAUGLAND
ALLIED . HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Saturday, Jan. 2
(PThe Allied airforce In the
southwest Pacific started the new
year right with daring raids off
New Britain damaging a Jap sub
marine and three vessels while
ground .troops, fighting sagely,
again split the Japanese defenses
along the Buna beach area in
New Guinea.
RabauL which has been the ob
ject ' of a number of successful
raids recently, again was hit at
dawn New Year's, day. Three
waves of B-17s (Flying Fortresses)
and B-24s roared over, dropping
thousand pounders from low level.
One large vessel, estimated at ;
10,000. tons, was hit in the cen
ter of the harbor. Ship eiSSOOO
; and 6000 tens' were; bit further
out All three burst in to flames
and were burning fiercely as the
raiders left 5
-Ninety' miles " south of Rabaul
at - Widebay, an AlHed i heavy
bomber - strafed a Jap submarine,
inflicting damage.
-B-17s also raided Gasmata air
drome early New Year's day, plas
tering the area with 1000 pound
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Raging Ohio
Forces 1000
From Homes
'POINT PLEASANT, W. Vo
Jan. l-()-The raging Ohio river
reached: its peak at this little
war-boom t town - shortly before
midnight Friday .night ; several
hours liter the stream . isolated
the community and .forced an es
timated ? 1000 - persons : to : leave
their homes.; ; "'-; '.;;' "
r Mayor, B. 'W, Krodef said the
river would probably ' begin re
ceding early in the morning after
reaching a peak of approximately
55 feet, 1 about 1 5 feet above flood
level. . . " iH 'lA-'r- r. '
Nearly half of the town was
covered,: by; eight ;feeV of water,
while operations came to a, vir
tual standstill at a large boat
building plant and a government
ordnance : works. ;. -;r ;1:':
-:! About 1000 persons were home
less, but 'Krodel reported' that
food supplies were ; ample. ;
Meanwhile, ; communities ; up
stream began clearing away the
muck and wreckage as the stream
began to recede. , , -..
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; iLdgeivciter
of a flood area tbis morn
rising WillametTwashed
neighbors, ; urged
on, and assisted . where necessary,
by Red Cross disaster committee
workers and state police, evacuat
ed unnumbered families from the
lowlands, the capital) city's chief
interest apparently was for . its
sister community across the flood
ing river.
The old Mellow . Moon dance
hall, used in. recent years as a
skating rink, believed , by engin
eers who inspected it Friday to
be secure in the rising tide, rose
from its foundations : at approx
imately 6:30 p.m., swept north to
the inter-county bridge's west ap
proach, knocking two bents in the
timber piling support from be
neath the structure. Holes were
broken in the boardwalk and the
roadway dipped a foot or more in
two. places but did not" tilt .' to
either side. . . r- . :
' Threatened a second time be
fore -midnight when. log rafts
from the Oregon.PulD JTaper
company mill's boom reportedly -broke
loose at 10:30, the bridge
stood solid at an early hour
this morning, while the skating
rink structure .was- believed
close to the breaking point
Meanwhile, the sag in the ap
proach grew greater.
Toppled into the river by the
impact of the building, one of the
high feeder line poles of the Sa
lem Electric company used to de- .
liver Bonneville power to the
capital city pulled wires across
the bridge to add to the hazard,
and 'pedestrians were' forbidden
use of the span.
A Southern Pacific switch en
gine was called into service to
haul several loads of persons to
and from West Salem early Friday
night before cautious railroad of
ficials j reportedly : ordered that
bridge closed., .
A Bonneville administration
crew of three men made their
way onto the west end of the
highway bridge at 10 p. m. in an
outboard motorboat - to ' attempt
salvage of the Salem line. J. C
Murphy, lineman for the Salem
Electric' Cooperative association, -said
service was restored to West
Salem street - lights and to resi
dences and businesses . served by
the association after only a short
Interruption,' but the Bonneville
crew; along with state highway
department)' crews, ' later an
nounced they would wait until
daylight because of dangers I in
volved,!' j - .;..- ; '
Gov. Charles A. Sprague had
directed the highway-department
early Friday night to take all
possible steps; to save the West
Salem bridge approach, dynamit
ing the Mellow Moon building
if necessary. --
1 don't think there's much
we can do," K. IL Baldock, chief
highway engineer, said at 10:39
P. m. "The 'building Is wedged
; under the bridge. We are going "
out at dayllrht and fry to tear
It down or blow it up." lie ex.
; pressed the belief the approach
- would stand during the nUht
Early this morning, it seemed
possible that the river itself
would destroy the building.
Log rafts from the paper mill
were "caught" and tied, it. was
understood early this morning, al
though men in the mill at the riv
er's bank explained "Only the
men on the river actually know
what's happening , there." '
Meanwhile, in addition to the
paper mill proper, . down since
Thursday when water rose rap
idly, in the basement1 the Oregon
Pulp & Paper company's lumber
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Sunday I
Watch your Sanday Statrs
man for "Scorchy , Smith," torn,
le strip airman whose : adven
tures will ' thrill . you. Tie's . an
alive; keen minded, authectls
American character.