I - n - """-v I t rr I i . -V -v. s I ' . ! r- .x- v. r - ' i - r n -i ' 'r' - - ' - " ! r- i ii Si I h I7Jtere t7te T7aters Rolled' i1- i v y - I . : . mm . I'l M 111: V' 1 lMl'.. - - . . a if. It 14 1 1 i ! ? ii u II 1 . 1 f f -1 i t t f , i - - iff" s , V . t --- 7 ' ! ' -. I Ufhwajr aepartmcat, examine wreckaxe of the Mellow Moon skat : .: tn rink, j Jammed W&imt the , west approach of the tnier-evvaty bridre, before order iac workers U tear ft np to take off pressure.1 " - Laokina down and assistinr are E. G. Rleketts of the state lub- way department; J. M. Hartley, brtde cnard; HL A. Belensif er of " the telephone company; G&t. Walter Lansing of the state police, . and Llojd Edrell. Statesman photo. - - .1! Trvrkers ai here tearing debris after a dynamite charge. It was that 12 workers lives were stla-bt they suddenly broke loose the shorii bridre pillnts-- Statesman photo. mm rl''X;." t Orderlies of Salem .Deaconess if--'H threatened structure wtth a boat-load of household roods rescued .from flooded homes near the banks of South Mill and Prtngle creeks. Orer four feet of water was standing la the hospital base--snent - late Saturday afternoon Statesman photo. : ;a bridie meets briixebca! This floating wreckage, once aa rrsirtia fcrUje, passes teaeath the Karisa-Pcli eoEjty triixs r i Lxlrtis of Salem pecrla Uae the east task, sf the swcUsa . . lamettev Ctatesmaa c-cto. ' . - - - r 1 .1 from the Mellow Moon skatinc rmk on these ho e rafts of wreckaire endangered when at lfe39 jsaioroay and beaded downstream beneath T 1 X i-?toC 'i. hospital pall i aloarside that flood - - - rny do:n tear - pp ; em TQ) ol mm i ;'t " ' ; ' Search by Boat Unavailing; Many Evacuated in andNear l Salem Before Waters Fall, . Saturday's Willamette Rlvev Readings 9 a. m. . L- - , . 12 noon - , ,. , ... 5 p. m. ; .. " i , 10 p. m. " . ; 12 midnight : . Salem V worst flood claimed two lives after it Two men from a 12-man highway crew engaged in breaking np remains of the Mellow Moon dance ha 11 skating rink where; it. 'had lodged against the Salem West Salem bridge approach were still missing at mid night after the floor of the old structure had suddenly disintegrated. : -A third workman clung to a piece of platform from the old dance floor and clambered to safety when is, came to' a stop against debris piled along the South era Pacific railway trestle a quarter mile downstream. The missing men were identi fied by F. W. Farrar, district maintenance superintendent for the highway department, as Ar chie Cook; Woodburn, and Mike Mauer, Stayton. Farrar and state police; giving up attempts to search the river for the two men by boat, left the highway bridge at midnight to search wreckage along the railway trestle again. William Bush, Stayton, the highway crewman- who escaped after, his ride on the wild waters, was " calm and apparently un harmed when he was rescued from the trestle, Farrar said. He was sent home. Capt. Carol Wallis of Willam ette piloted the tug -Vanda down the main chanel searching trees and underbrush in which the missing men might have lodger, but gave up the search atfer two f trips j far c- below i the railroad bridge No-'- openin&T could be found to get bis vessel through to -the flooded ' ares into which the . men had ; 'floated with r the floor wreckage.' zX " - . ' ": t ' Thr other nine men who were on. the' old. dance ; floor when it brokO up scrambled .up a ladder, and, cables to the bridge deck and safety badly frightened but un hurt. Whether or not life-belts were worn by . the men sent be low was "uncertain. ! . , No other casualties were re ported in the. Salem area, but - a (Turn to Page 2 C) Elooded Ohio Quits lUsing PORTSMOUTH. Jan. 2VP The flooded Ohio river, which already has driven 50,000 persons from homes along its banks and hampered war industries, crested Saturday.jtiight l.l feet from the top ; of a, 62-foot wall protecting this - fanufacturing dty of 40,400 residents j':-, Army, engineers helping ' sand bag the five-mile wall said at 10 p. m. . the river ceased rising at 60 J feet, gj 'feet 1 above flood stage, f They: said the, flood prob ably would recede ; slowly b cause of a full river below here." The men of Portsmouth worked into the night .with US; army troops and . coast . guardsmen throwing sandbags atop the wall which, back in 1838, kept the city dry during a disastrous flood that crippled . Pittsburgh, C Wheeling and othercities up and down the broad river. . . - : I Forecaster-John Ilagan cald at Cincinnati that a lessening flow from nearby tributaries was cas ing the burden on the Ohio, and consequently the stream would not, exceed the predicted crest here. No - one. assuiaed too great an cptimism, thoujh; they agreed, -It will be a tight squeeze.? (Clesiifsdi Crew .30.4 feet 30.2 - .29.9 since 1923 apparently had ' began receding Saturday u Coast Guard Aids Rescue US coast guard men, experienc ed and equipped for rescue work, Saturday joined forces with vol unteers who had labored 24 hours under direction of Red Cross and army engineers to save river re sidents from the Willamette river flood in this area. J ' Operating from Indepedence to Oregon City, a coast guard unit of 25 men from Seattle directed by IA. J. A. Fletcher, captain of the port at Portland, head quarted at the Salem airbase. ... Two coast guard" amphibian planes traveled over: the area to spot - cases for Immediate : rescue, radioing their findings to the ah baser3 Five trucks and eight small beats were in use throughout the day-early this morning the arrival of five : surfboats from , the': coast was . expected, vr m't--: ?:v t . Most serious condlUon , was ' (Turn to Page 2r-D)i Grew Rep Reveals Whffi Boofc W By WADE WERNER WASHINGTON, Jan. (JF) An American white book issued by the state department Saturday night 1 disclosed : that : Ambassador Joseph, C Grew cabled from Tok yo on January; 27, . 1941, that the Japanese had plans for a "sur prise mass attack at Pearl Har bor in case of trouble with the United States." - , 1 1 The; Grew cablegram was one of a series of warnings dating back "to 1932 and growing pro gressively .urgent ""tn the subse quent' years until November 29, 1941, Secretary of State Hull told the British . ambassador that , the diplomatic " part -of our relations TVASRXNGTON, ' Jan. l-VP) state department's White book oa United States foreign ' policy ' la the decade 1531-141 was issued as one of a scries of government documents for sale-, to the puLllc It wia bo sold by the . government superintendent of . documents, Trintliyr ' office, J 7ashiagton, for 25 cents a copy. with .Japan was virtually ' tver and that the matter will now go to the officials cf the army and navy.1 . : -;yQQZl , Moreover, the w Lite book re ported, Cull saiJ tlst it wosU be a eriocs cktzLt tsr 9zx country and other reentries la terested in the racilie sltuatioa Cdoxn, Oregon; Water Rices Keds Drive-Deeply Into : Sout;jWest; ; h 0 . - . . ByRICHARD'llcilUIlRAXt ,? r i Asaocisted Prcw War Editor . i Victorious Russian armies drilling deeper into German and fascist positions southwest and south of Stalingrad have captured the railway station of-Remontnaya, 117 miles southwest pf the ruined Volga city, and: have taken the important district center of SIkhotovo in the deep Caucasus, the Russians announced early Sunday. The regular midnight communi que told of continued successes on all fronts of the red army's win ter; offensives.' :: : Remontnaya is on the Stalingrad-Krasnodar , railroad and is 27 miles beyond the fallen, nasi base city of KotelnikovskL ; The communique 'also said the district center) of Dubovskoye, in the i same region, was ' captured and ; that a large amount , of war material and food and many head of j cattle were taken. ? Elkhotovo was captured 1 by a Red army ' force; which swept around the Germans and broke into the center pf the city. It fell to the Russians after a day long battle, the communique an nounced. :v.;; -'; i The T Russians i also , Indicated that their, men were driving for- ..I (Turn to Page"2-i-F. - orted Japs - to make - plans of resistance without mduding' the possfbn-: r Ity ; that Japan may move sud denly and with every possible element of surprise and . spread : eat ever considerable areas and capture certain' positions and "posts before the peaceful e tHea Interested In the . Pacific 1 ' would have time . to confer and formulate plans." ' i -! The references to . the , Grew cablegram and Hull's ' conversa tion "were contained. In ' the 144 page book entitled ."Peace! and War United States Foreign Pol icy; 1931-1941." A foreword to the document said: k1! ri-''. -! iirh, fateful decade, 1931-1941, began and ended with acts of vio lence by Japan. . It was .marked by lthe ruthless development of .a determined ; policy 1 of world dom ination on the part of Japan Ger many and Italy. ' . -'. f Accordingly, the: book devotes inuch !sp&ce to the rise of Italian and German ' aggression and the counter-measures adopted by this country;! but . Japan ' dominates, the" report. Japan's . troops move Into ' Manchuria In the opening pages. Japan's torpedo-planes at Pearl Harbor on n December : 7, 1941, write the crashing climax. . - The attack launched by Ja i pan on Iancbsria September 13,'1S31; was wanslcg cnouxh : far Cesry. L. Ctlzssca, thta see : retary cf state and now secre- tary of war. Scadcrj Xlcrzlag. Jaaxuary. 3 j Into Safem l?esidritml 4rea Ration Deadlines Set for January: J FOXTLAXD, Xsav iVPf-Jtm' nary rationing deadlines an nounced Saturday by the OPA: January 2 Using coffee cou pon no. t7. : ;;ij;;-"' January 5 Reristratkos of in- sUtutional and Industrial sugar . users for January aad February lallotmenta, . .. H-i: - V January , IS Obtalnmg j; war ration book Ksv.l,, - - 't January tl Uslag No. t eou poa of A eoupoa books; ob-; tammg temporary T coupons. . from ration boards. -. ;; fc H:-.-January 21 Inspection of auto tires; usiag sugar CW No.' li. -.li o "In February, . 1932,' v say the white book "Secretary ol; State Stimson proposed to the , Briush government that the United States and . British governments issue a Joint statement Invoking the nlnei power - treaty and . the . Kellogg Briand pact in . the far eastern controversy, making clear that the two governments considered these treaties as, fully binding and de daring Jhat they would not recog nize as valid any situation created in' violation of these treaties 11 The Briush government-did not adopt the Pacific suggestion made by Secretary . Stimson.";- H''t ; - A few months later Ambassador Grew called Stimson's attention to the growing,, aniniority; in f Jipaa toward "foreign nations' Ini gen eral and the United States fit par ticular," and ""stated that the Jap anest ; military machine had been built for war;, that it bid- neycr yet been .beaten and possessed un limited self-confidence." j -'. On .December 27,. 1934, Grew reported that things were. being constantly said and written in Ja pan to the effect that Japan's des tiny . was to subjugate and rule the world," and declared it would be 'criminally shortsihted to discard, from calculations the, possibility Of eventual war with Japan." . ' : - ' -. Three years later the United Zizt?. gunboat Tasay ; was tctti by Jtjaatse la, Cilbcrs;; waters, but Jarsn trcIc-Lif , 'and American aiiezilja t-n.:3 Intention r . - . t aurnr i.-. .j, . Hi - v. 'it V Old Man River rose to meet Mr. Pioneer (shown In background -.atop state capitol) as swollen South Mill and Pringle creeks forced dwellers to vacate homes lit the foreground Saturday. (ATI flood photos in today's Statesman by ; Al IJghtner, Statesman sportu editor.) . Lower River J 0 S PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 2 HJD The swollen Willamette river steadily inched Over flood levels at Oregon City and Portland Sat urday night,, immobilizing paper mffls, curtailing shipyard produc tion and routing additional hun dreds, from their' homes. -, ; : ' High waterf swirled over rich farmlands- in the Clackamas bot ton area, near Oregon City. . , i . The weatiber bureau announced, however, . that danger from the flood; wnkh j has- claimed-, seven lives, apparently is abating, . and predicted a cresTof only 19.5 feet at Portland Sjmday -1.5 feet over flood stage and one foot less than forecast ;'earUer.-i5,v'.--r' ''. ': This level would not endanger Portland and Oregon City proper, although low piers and the lower sections of shipyards already have been affected.'. 1 "..;. ' Paper mills al Oregon dty - arc closed. A sainWn bMrd feet lot logSTwero' ripped away.ven-' daageiing bridgoa aad : house- ' boats in the lower river.. Super-' (Turn to Page .i ISC back to domestic affairs and the growing threat of a war in Eu- rope; With the . actual . outbreak of war, ; and the ; subsequent ; catastrophic events , of 940, Eu rope dominated ; t h e '. foreign : ' scene and the 'question of' aid for Britain dominated affairs at, B ut in September,' 1940, the threat of, war with' Japan again flashed briefly across the horizon, when Tokyo' signed the tripartite pact with Rome and Berlin' aimed directly at the United States. -: The white ;book records that three; days : after T, the.' signing of this pact secretary Hull, in a con versation .With the British Am basador, characterizied th- tripar tito 'i?act vaa'IIitler's effort ;to divert attention 'from his-' failure to Invade Great ', Britain - and to preserve, his prertjss-py a sensational- annouctrnent of something that already existed." ; , tn the same interview Hull "emphasized , to the . ambassador t h a t the special desire of this government was to see Great Bri tain sucecd In the war, and that its acts and . utterances". With re sect; to the Pacific area would be .more or less affected , by the question of what course would most effectively and legitimately aid Great Britain In winning the ww";-.-'--.,'. ".T..-.i''-;--v : ." 1'': ' : : Ifeanwhile, Grew wzs cslclirj frcn Tc!:yo that Gm:n vk'.cr (Turn to Pers 2::) oasuam no. m If'- : : - - :. Eap EfigMing G ' j Isolated Snipers Busy; Sananandq uArea Left Shorr of Lae ALUED HE A DQUAR- TplS ( IN AUSTR AL Sunday, "Jan. 3 (AP)- The allies have won the patlle of Buna, clearing lljat New Guinea area of all Jap troops, Gen. Doug las MacArthur's spokes -1 if man announce d trium phanlly Sunday. T V iv .This victory Jias been presaged by the announcement in the regu-, lair noon . communique that the Jap forces, which had held 'out so tenaciously in cleverly built Jungle bunkers, had been' cleaned out of all but. one sector that near - the Buna government sta tion. Even there they were being moved on from two sides. ; - The Americans and Australians occupied the - government station late Saturday, clearing the bitterly-contested Giropa point area of all Japs except isolated snipers. 7 ' .complete conquest of V" .a cave the allies the: north- ' et New.: --Guinea jport r.frpni .: . Which the Japs last Jaiy ita.it ed moving across the rugged ' . Owen Stanley . mountains In a move on Port Moresby which backfired. :. -.. With the clearance of the Buna sector the only Jap force of con sequence shorts of Lae, further northwest, is in the Cape Sanan anda area immediately . west ot Buna. ' . .. " At allied headquarters a spokes man said:".;;.:: "Allied ground forces occup the Buna. government stati ' which also hr known as the B Mission area, Saturday aftei Clearing of the Giropa Point followed. Occasional snipers now, are, being, rapidly elimin; m ui, jsuna area, ,ue only re maining -. enemy resistance is a small pocket west of Giropa creeli , where the Japs have been fight ing desperately, and . where tfi battle still is in progress.' . ; - ; The MacArthur spokesman said severe casualties were Inflicted on ' the Japanese. . ' V-. : - Fighting continues- in the , Cape ; Sanaaanda . and . Soputa 'track area to the west of Buna; r There the enemy for seme time ,ha had defenses In depth two , mUes inland ; from Sanananda i pohit,:.v:;i, ;' ' -!!' '.v;--. : The announcement stressed that the Sanananda sector remained to be taken before the Papuan cam paign ia completed; i The fleeing Japs were fired o'n ' (Turn to age 2 A) ; W A. V m - Hitler Shifts Amhassadors LONDON. Jan. : "r a a-ia - w v Hitler haa r replaced and ' called nome nis ambassadors: to Japan and Spain and his . minister t Sweden In a diplomatic shakeup regarded by informed, sources as a reflection of nazl displeasure over the. one-way course of the axis ally, Japan, and .' the coci neutrality of Spain and Sweden. . . The Berlin radio announcement of the changes said. they, were made "within the ambit cf a geh eral -retirement of German- dip lomatic representatives." and that Hitler had acted upon the sugges tion of German Foreizn Ministry Joachim yon .Bifcbentrop. Gen. Euren Ott ambassador t- Tokyo, Prince Viktor Zu Wied, minister to. Stockholm, and Ebcr- hard .Von Etohrer, ambassador i i Lladrid,; were recalled and "will ca . given -new. pes's la 1 tha ,Ccr raan' foreirnv' effice." .2" -s. - nouncement said. .-": ! : Ilenrich : Gccr2 ' Cishner, C;r man. axabssradcr'to 'Japan's' r pet..CL1nese rc-:.-re at N-ki--, is roinj to Tokyo; :--?' 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