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Allied Airmen
Strike Rabaul
Three Enemy Ships
" Set Afire; Troops
.Split Japs at Buna .
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tombs. One Zero fightet on the
ir! ground was destroyed. ..
tThe- Japs also lost t two out of
five . fighters which . attempted to
intercept the Rabaul raiders. All
f,J Allied planes returned. ' v
. " Ah ; Allied medium unit also
combed Buin in the Solomons. On
. ; their part, the Japs sent 'a forma
Z, "iJtioh of medium bombers "over
' Merauke In Dutcn Uew ' Guinea.
The enemy has been devoting con
fr siderable bombing attention to this
- sit ! milage ;;0n the south coast.- -1
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: ai nana, tToana troops sup
, ported by tanks and artillery
drove through the Japs near the
xnoath mt Glrepa creek to reach
the 1 coast, splitting the enemy
lines anew. This
part of s
systematic Job of splitting the
" i ' en mopping -them up.
f. Artillery fire reduced at least
. ,vfbe Jap Bunkers. Jap troops were
machinegunned while running
'from them.
U . Heavy fighting continues on the
Allied left but on the right all
the job that remains Is to dispose
uof small enemy pockets in the air
- i,t atrip dispersal area and at other
vv scattered: points. .
Nimitz Calls
B (Continued from Page 1) B
of a submarine and two destroy-
ers for action elsewhere; and a
, . silver star to a submarine gun-'-
ners mate. "' ' ' -
Among the ' navy crosses (was
one to: Lt. Comdr. John C. Alder
: man, of Portland, Ore comman
der of the USS McFarland, a con
verted destroyer which acted as
cargo and troop carrier, escort
- vessel, and seaplane tender in the
Solomons - campaign. Commander
Alderman brought vitally needed
, supplies r into Guadalcanal Octo
ber 18. The stern of his ahip was
blown off in an attack by enemy
dive-bombers buVbecause pf the
.commander's excellent seaman
ship the -McFarland will be able
to return to action.
SHEPPTON, Pa.P)-The East
Union township high school bas
ketball team should, have a good
'season.
The students elected Rev. Jo
seph Baran, a Catholic priest, as
coach, and the Rev. L. P. Kllnger,
a protestant minister, aa manager.
Funniest Thing aa Flint
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J JACK ANN
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Borrors and Howls!
'The Hidden Hand
Plus Bugs Bunny Cartoon
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Last Times Today
1ST XT IS ESS OF
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-CO.UVANIO.V FEATURE
The strange drama of a man
with; two loves . . . two pasts.
To which does he belong?
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Cft
Burgess
MEREDITH -
Claire -TREVOR
Starts
Sunday
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Gen. Heart Heaore GIraad. saeeessor te A dm. Jean Darlaa as high
' eommisslener f French North and West Africa, Is shown as he in
spected American troops In Casablanca, Morocco. This picture was
sent by radio iron London to the United State Associated Press
Telemai.
Roosevelt Calls for Full US
Cooperation Following War
O (Continued from Page 1) C
gestions as to the form that the
post-war international ofganiza-?
tion should take. The details were
unimportant, he said, and the;
main tmng was the objecuve.
Some thought that his ideas on
methods might be presented in his
annual -address to congJtess, next
Thursday.
It was thought possible that he
would follow up with perhaps a
Bombers Hit
African Axis
D (Continued from Page 1) D
about the Sousse railway yards
and a spokesman said match
smoke arose from the yards, the
neighboring dock area to the
north' and storage sheds to the
east. ; -
Fires blazing among buildings
on both sides of the Sousse har
bor after; the second attack.
Two medium-sized merchant
vessels in the harbor of Sfax re
ceived direct bits when Flying
Fortresses , raided the key point
again Thursday, it was announced.
The Fortress crews also reported
hits on the docks and other har
bor installations. They were es
corted by P-40 fighters.
The long-range, twin -motored
Lightning fighters shot up and
destroyed a number of axis cars
and trucks near the Tunisian
Libyan frontier (which Marshal
Rommel must cross if he is to aid
Gen. Walter Nehring in the de
fense of Tunisia).
Hurricane bombers of the RAF
Joined in the attack. With a spit
fire escort they struck at an axis
repair depot southeast of Pont
du-Fahs and the$ destroyed two
trucks on their way home.
The only ground activity Thurs
day, a snokesman sakL was an ar
tillery exchange in frte northern
sector. i
The allied headquarters an
nounced that enemy planes at
tacked Casablanca early Thurs
day morning but that material
damage was "negligible" and there
were few casualties, "largely ci
vflians."
Blind Editor Killed
NEWARK, N J, Jan. 1
Dr. Anton Kaufman, blind pub
lisher of the Newark Jewish
Chronicle, was found dead in a
yard outside ' the Robert Treat
hotel Friday after he fell through
a window of his eighth floor room.
His age was 60.
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Continuous 1-llt p. m.
cvnizs
2nd 'K-
news, cartoon, serial
Sunday - Moiu - Tues.
I It's a merry scream set
to music!
KAY KYSER
"llj Favorile Spy"
i With
Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman
: and Kay Kyser's Band t
, ; f eaturing
rLfJS ACTION FEATURE
The 3 Mcsqoiteers
"T7EST OF
cniannoii"
V" j J
partial endorsement of the "world
council" proposal recently set
forth by Vice President Wallace.
Under the Wallace plan the "coun
cil" would have responsibility 'for
general worldwide conditions,
with regional matters to be ad
justed by the nations of the re
gions affected. '
i One thing seemed certain:
That any specific proposals or
administration Insistence upon
the coarse of action suggested
Friday would draw Into the
open the opposition of those
who opposed his foreign collab
oration policies before Pearl
Harbor. They have been aaletly
preparing to meet this rising
Issae,
Mr. - Roosevelt's statement was
made in observance of the first
anniversary of the signing, on
January 1 and January 2, 1942, of
the declaration of the United Na
tions, a document to which 29
countries have now adhered and
in; which they endorsed the prin
ciples of the Atlantic charter,
pledged themselves to fight the
war through to the end with all
their resources and promised to
make no separate peace.
Military Writer Weds
NEW YORK, Jan. -l
George Fielding Eliot, military
analyst for the Columbia broad
casting system and special writer
on military subjects fori the New
York Herald Tribune, and Mrs.
June Cawley Hynd, were mar
ried Friday.
&os
"Life Begins Andy Hardy"
and
Red Skelton Lionel Barrymore Lew Ayres
"People vs. Dr. Kildare
lomorrow I
Tondelayol
Woman of
Fire ....
After her sensational
Dortravotl in
1 "White Cargo" jP
we'sain present
Hedyiximarr in one'
;of her most autstemd- ?
ling roles.
Iledy Lanarr
Janes Siewari
"Como Live
with
IAN HUNTER TEKA TEASDALE DONALD MEEK
Continoons Show Today Matinee 1:00
OZT CTATEd-IATT, Mem.
New Yer High
K:n A
Water Kills 6
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Many Evacuated as
. Road and Rail 4
Travel Halted .
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1
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to get some trains through Fri
day night.
Aray, f state poUce, Red Cross
and volunteer workers, continued
throughout the. .:day - to bring
stranded families from. Rowland
homef ibT. safety r?toduded were
several" ill; persons who had tor be
carried on'tretehenu ; Receiving
stations 'were -et aup , in Jocalities
around "Eugene NandT In Corvallis.
The crest of tho flood had not
reached Corvallis but some of the
river-bottom country wa4 ' under
water. - , - , .11
-The weather' bureau - at Port
land predicted the flood crest had
passed Eugene for the time being
but would reach the- downriver the flood waters, and the city
?m' Albanyand left a fuR teser
Salem Saturday creating serious However, that I supply was
flooding throughout the valley. lltiieved sufficient it the emer-
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evacuate speedily. .
Several mid-valley towns were
under three or more feet of water
and the weather bureau, said the Thursday from Earl Burk's auto
same fate was in store for others, there. Burk was owner also
Rescue workers said many houses ef the Mellow Moon rink. Among
and barns had collapsed and those moved out of their homes
washed away. was Mary Janzen, 16-year-old ta
in the lower Umpqua near the valid, who was taken on her bed
coast five nouses were swept away to the home of neighbors,
when the Umpqua went out of its From dawn, state police and
banks. Several dairy herds were Red Cross disaster committee per-
reported trapped in barns and
farmyards.
The victims of the Albany
tragedy were Mrs. Marvin H,
Smith ,25, and her Are-months
old son, Howard. Her husband
was saved by Sgt. din ton Lb
Franklin of the Camp Adair
military police, who palled
Smith, unconscious, from the
ear by his hair. The soldier
towed Smith to a tree, where
he regained consciousness. Af
ter making ansvoosasfal : efforts
to save the mother and baby,
they took refuge h the tree. A
farmer, William Peacock.
cued them In a boat a half hoar
later.
The Springfield victim was Mrs.
Josephine Lee, paralytic, who had
been evacuated from her home
near Glen wood. The
Grove death was that
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Helen Skrebenskr of Portland,
Her husband was thrown from
the car and reached safety. Her
body was not recovered.
There was no danger of flood-
ing at Portland where the chan-
nel is wide and deep. I
Two busses full of holidav nas-
s enters were forced - to soend
Thursday night in a schoomouse and the occupants clung to teie
when the vehicles were marooned phone poles and ropes until help
between Corvallis and Albany.
West Springfield, near Ea-
gene, was the community hard
est hit. All but 5 or 6f of the
approximate 900 persons there
had been evacuated by late Frl
day.
Most of the evacuation : work
LAST TIMES TODAY
Uilh He"
Oregon, Sciturday Mornfao. January 2. IS 3
Flood's High ExpectedJIere
today; Building Jams Bridge
F (Continued from Page 1) F
ji.sr. fMwi ooerations Friday.
All day, "lumber carriers speeoea
from the west end oi me com
pany's docks and properties mov
Ing approximately JJOOO.000 feet
of lumber out of the path of the
oncoming i river, stayit -alwars
"just a UrUe-ahead," and work
men continued through the night
in an effort t beat, the .'rtting wa
ter. : -?r?. r "
In West -Salem,-' Edgewater
- street was turned fnto;a canal
down which a metorboat could
operate for, approximately three
bUcks. By midnight water was
washing across the Tattersoa
sttwtrVmtersecUoa. r stood' ate
feet the basemen of the elty
hall and threatened possible
: shortage of drinking water.
Pump in basement of the
city hall there used to keep the
reservoir filled from wells were
disconnected and raised up out
aencT passed this weexeno.
ulrJLtJln that city Included
regidents in the" river area, who
added to those moved
were
I onnel checked to determine wno
among the lowland dwellers
would need aid in moving xrom
the path of the river. By night
four motorboats nfere working
from Talbot to Buena Vista and
two were operating at Oroville.
No estimate of the number of per
sons moved was available Friday
night, , although boats were not
operated after dark.
Kay Howard, chief of police
at Independence sent oat boats
to evacuate persons soatheast of
that town Friday. Sheep were
being moved oat of. the Oregon
was done oy civilian aexense
workers under direction of the
Red Cross. Police and soldiers al
so took part
Evacuation continued through
out the night although tho river
wh falling in the Eugene area.
The Red cross saia we uooaeo
homes were without arinxing wa
ter, lights or heat and that the
danger of contamination was
I great. Food also was getting
acarce in some communities.
The swirling waters swept trees
and small buildings downstream
and made rescue work hazardous.
I severai ooais were overturned.
arrived. ; None was reported
drowned tin rescue work.
Tdnonnou
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I hf CXAHAM tACXt CtrMtarf if CEOXCf MAXSHVUt
hop ranch by Chris Johnson, ;
manager, and the machinery of ;
' the mil Gravel company ai In
dependence ! was : reported n
der water. Indndedwas a bull
dozer, while 7 truck .was par
tially covered there. It was said.
Mnvin north Friday night, Wgh
wai washing around the
Spongs landing area, Red Cross
Disaster Iri S. McSherry , was In
formed, i '"J? , , - H'- . .
f Aid was offered by Capt.
Fletcher, US coastguard port cap-,
tain, Portland, but, Gov-, Sprague
informed him that state police had
the situation' in hand.1? .
Expected here today Is Dr. Paul
Raver, Bonneville j administrator,
Harry Readv numfger 'of alem
Electric, said late t. Friday ) night,
expressing the ' hope" 'that service
in Salem cut off when the high
pole fell might be resumed early
this morning. ' J
Only bus transportation out of
Salem was to Portland, although
railroad schedules were all in op
eration, made late by mountain
slides and flood conditions.
Soldiers,
Travelers
Hah Here
Soldiers and traveling civilians
marooned in, Salem by flood waters-
took every hotel bed in the
city and slept in the lobbies Fri
day night ,
Although Camp Adair man,
alerted Thursday because of the
flood situation, were Friday or
dered to remain at the post, some
were already here on New Years
leaves and were unable to return
to camp.
More than 500 had registered at
city police offices, under instruc
tions from officers at the camp.
Cf. Gordon McCoy, camp com
mander, declared Friday that the
military would cooperate in every
way possible to allay the 'discom
forts and losses from flood. De
tails of men from the camp, un
der supervision of army engi
neers, 'were sent to strategic
points on the river between, Sa
lem and Eugene. ' - i
Meanwhile, to the soldiers .In
Salem, of whom 123 were bedded
at St Joseph's hall, another 100
offered cots at the YMCA, and
still others taken into private
homes, were added hundreds of
motoriss and stage passengers.
Zionist Leader Dies
JERUSALEM, Jan. 1 6P)
Arthur Ruppln, 67, Zionist econ
omist and author died here Frl
day - Born in Germany, Ruppin
came to Palestine in 1908 to di
rect the first Palestine office of
the Zionist organization in Jaffa.
He was among the founders of Tel
Aviv. , 1 r .
Ufcau
Hitler Evades .
Nazi Flight,
Sees Victory
II (Continued from Page 1) IT
"If God Almighty has given ta
strength to overcome the winter
nf 1041-42. then we snau over
come this wintery Friday he said:
"Only " if we exert all or our
strength can we beg oi our iora
to afford us his aid,' as he has
done hitherto.- . : .
ttm reneated.' too. his assertions
that the war was forced oh Ger-
3 He terr4e4 i Germany Vunsult
kble?, for. experiment.with various
plans that have been outlined by
the . Amed-Nations-! In this ; vein
he recalled the aftermath or
World War t termed Wopdrow
Wilson a hypocrite and said, that
Germany w a s J immune against
"repetition ol.anysuch attempis."
Thii winter mar be hard, but
it cannot possibly' be harder than
last winter . . .! one power wui
be the first to collapse in this
struggle. 'This power wiu not oe
Germany. This tune tne uerxnan
people wm remain victorious on
th battlefield. Then, at last we
shall have that long peace which
we need for the great reconstruc
tion of our ' national community.
This will be the only right way
in w h i c b to thanx our aeaa
heroes.''
CurchfflFilla
Office Shakeup
LONDON, JanJ 1 -Pr- Prime
Minister Churchill completed his
shakeup of government posts Fri-1
day with new offices for two I
peers. . . "
The Duke of Devonshire was
made parliamentary undersecre
tary for colonies, which post Har
old MacMillan, who is married to
Devonshire's sister, left on Wed
nesday to become minister resi
dent in north Africa.
The Earl, of Miinster was mov
ed into the Duke of Devonshire's
place as parliamentary undersec
retary for India and Burma. .
Hospital Ships More .
LA LJNEA, . Spain, Jan. 1-UP)
The Italian liners Vulcania and
Saturnia entered i Gibraltar bay.
from the Atlantic Friday under
safe conduct passes with Italian
wounded and non-combatants
from Indian ocean points and de
parted later for Italy. :
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WITH THE UNITED STATES
AIR FORCE IN CHINA, Dec. 53
(DelayedMV-The Japaneso
troop and strpply center of Meng-
tnao, 30 miles west of the Salween
river in western Yunnan prov
ince, was virtually blasted off the
map Wednesday as . US bombers
and fighters continued their
sweeps of the Burma-Yunnan
border area.
. Menemao. a valley town near
' Tnrnieh. was bit in ' two raids
which followed two other Jterriflc
attacks Sunday.' :- .
..Tons of bombs flattened, build-,
hies and set off shattering explo-
sions In gasoline and ammunition
dumps. . - , ;', .: .
One of Seven
Fliers Founds
Oregon Coast
E (Continued from Page J) E
"How he got on that ledge' ITl
never know," said - Roger. ' "But
he probably would have drowned
at high tide if he hadn't, because
the beach is covered at that point
"We .were searching' the- shore
line for survivors when we heard.
a moan and followed it in; the
darkness.- We found the' trail
leading to the ledge j and found
Brush." :nv!;v.,--v: -: -
The coast guardsmen said the
other raft and a . life preserver
also had been found near here' but
there was no way of telling
whether 'any of its personnel had
reached , shore.
NEWARK, NJ VPh-A New
ark man sat fidgeting through
two hours of traffic court waiting
for his name to be called.
.Finally, when he was the only
one left in the court room the
court officers asked: him what he
was waiting for. v'j ; ; i'
He said he had a ticket for care
less driving. , i
Examination showed the sum- -
mons was for Closter, mora than
20 miles away. t
' Vtieran's Hall
640 Hood St.
ouc Knows sux Lac lticks,
natural and supernatural,
on how to charm a man
.and brother, she makes
'em stay charmed!
FraTbna&sIii'i
caciest Hovel!
FREDRIC
MARCH :
VEROfJICA 1AKE
SHE OARED
DEATH
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