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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. - -
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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.
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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
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on these ho e rafts of wreckaire
endangered when at lfe39 jsaioroay
and beaded downstream beneath
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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
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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.?
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.30.4 feet
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since 1923 apparently had
' began receding Saturday
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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-'
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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
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frcn Tc!:yo that Gm:n vk'.cr
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Sananandq uArea Left
Shorr of Lae
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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
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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
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Hitler Shifts
Amhassadors
LONDON. Jan. : "r a a-ia -
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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; :--?' Adclf !.!"c:i
Mil tke. will take f.j !":i-Jri-I i
ari ;Dr.; llar.3 Jl: : ;
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