Dlmcul
1- - .v. '
' TtaU (IsJ no etwTTZTcy
ra tW cor rcaJ satlfae
tisa -tlan year local r ra
Irt fper, wlia Its WC.'.LD
fcvi3 pior nous ecu
V I' 1 "V-s ,
, - . i
, 1 1
Toes iiy sunset 1:0 p.ci.
Y7enesay sunrise tZ2 aoa.
'7tMthen Cua, cax. " temp.
44, inin. tt lion, river 11.2
tL YTeather data restricted
,. by array request .-
am
J
t. t
nzTT-czcoriD tear
Cclsra. Oregon. TumzZsj Ilcnisg. January 5. 1S13
, In W
0 V
i
4
Council
Farm .Iil-FisIM- MeodM
IO
.
o 1
Ma
my
eveireJiv
rffl ,. lift '
' ' --III ' III ' r
Appointed
Near.
If
Above Kosiov
Reds Retake
Caucasian,
: Don Gties
- " By Th Asaoeiated Press --
The Russian offensive south
west oi Stalingrad appeared
Monday night to 'have reached
. a point : only about 30 miles
short of a possible juncture with
the drive down the middle Don,
'. and ; the far southern soviet
forces, also were going forward
: unchecked in th campaign to
cut ioff the German invaders of
the central Caucasus.
This shortening of the gap be
tween the two thrusts down upon
' the approaches to Rostov was in
;. dicated.by a special soviet com
, xnunique announcing ? the recap
ture of the " nazi 'J air - base of
OierniEhkovskaya and the ; rail
road station of Chernishkbv, the
. . latter 100 . miles west of Stalin
' grad and , astride the railway
which runs from Stalingrad to
joiir th- main Moscow-Rostov line
yatlikhaya.
'- The two armies previously had
L been about 43 -miles apart. , ... .
The -Rnssiaa Cavcasm
- sive gathered mementam mamami
. feethllls drenched by torrential
rains as the red army pnrsaed
-the G.ermans. west and north-'
- wst. f . reeptuneA lnsek, W :
BUeaJ from ' the oil center -rnt ",
T; Grozny. ' "("'J.-Ui '' l:-.!'
f This latest ? drive was reported
retaking territory: rivaling in im
; portance that seized in the earlier
pushes on the Stalingrad front, in
the Velikie Luki area and on the.
, middle Don. ; t :; i
Russian- CffeniiVescontinued at
' a slower ? pace on other major
! sectors, where the reds are with
' in 70 miles ofj, Latvia and 100
j miles ol Rostov, gateway to the
whole Caucasus - and ' its : oQ and
-' mineral . treasures. Mozdok and
Velikie Luke are 1100 miles apart
-The Russians declared German
lines were crumbling in the most
important sectors, although the
v enemy .was striving desperately
to stiffen his stand. '
The Germans reported repeated
soviet attacks in the Don area,
at ' Stalingrad and southeast of
A-
Lake- Hmeh.; They made no fur
ther mention"' of Velikie Luki, but
aid only that nazi shock troops
carried out several successful 'ac
tions on the central front V-f
: The neon communique I saldv
Russian troops who - captured
ZXoadok on UM Terek river llb
- (Turn to Page 2 G .
Ship Sturvivbr
Tens About
ParEer Fight
" ' By The Associated Press "
; The submarine sinkings of two
more medium-sized United Na
tions merchantment off South
America and hi : the . South At
lantic was announced by the navy
Monday as a . survivor of one of
the ships belatedly told of how
- another vessel he was on turned
the tables on an undersea raider.
; In an east eoast United .States
f port after surviving the Septem-
ber torpedoing and shelling of a
British craft which tried . to ram
its stalker, frank R. Davis, a ra
dio operator from Cheltenham,
England, described a i meeting
with another submarine in the
middle of the Atlantic on a
bright moonlight .night" in July,
1S41." ... 1 -
' XJavis related how the submer
sible, which he ' believed was
: Italian, took: his ship by surprise
and started shelling It Apparent
ly the submarine had no torpe
does left Davis said, and "it
wasn't long - before ; our gunners
were at their stations.
They fired . first at the flash
from the submarine's gun," Davis
added. "By then we had maneu
vered so that the submarine was
silhouetted in the moonlight We
didn't wait around to investigate,
but we saw nothing more of the
sub.
Davis last vessel found itself
out-maneuvered by .the faster
U-boat which " circled out of the
way "of 'the charging ship and let
1 zzt a a torpedo which exploded
ii the engine room and killed 10
men. , "
The sinkings brought to 583 the
Associated Press count of announ
ced losses of allied and neutral
merchantmen in the western At-I;-tic
since Pearl Harbor. .
Nazi Fighters
Irv
US Bombers Trade 7
For 38 Fighters jp -RAF
Batters
LONDON, Tuesday,' Jan. 5-(ff)
German" fighters used new "vir
tual suicide" tactics Sunday when
US airmen attacking the nazi U
boat base of St. Nazaire In France
lost ; seven big bombers in the
heaviest casualty yet suffered by
the 'Americans in one raid, the
Daily Express said Tuesday.
The Germans lost 38 ; fighters
in trying out their new technique
LONDON, Jan. S-(P-Bomb-ers
from Britain strnck at Ger
many for the second saeeesstve
night Jdonday , night U was
staled , authoritatively Taesday.
Details were not annouBced
tm jerfTttely. '' r
against- the. US bombers,' which
were - identified ' as Flying Fort
resses, the newspaper said." '
At least two of the US bomb
ers were said to have fallen vie
. tlm . to '. German anti-aircraft
fire, tfce-BMrspaper saloV with
out elaborating on the effec
tiveness oT the new nasi fighter
maneuver.
US air force headquarters de
clined to comment on the Express
report which also, said that the
general commanding the Fort
resses flew iqr v aleacSng bomber
that Was battered by arti-aircraft
' The Daily Express 'correspond'
ent said .70 expert American pi-
" j (Turn to Page 2 A)
sffit
By Floods as
en
7 1
. PORTLAND, Jan. 4-(P)-Reced-
ing Willamette river floodwaters
yielded the bodies of two of the
severi known, dead Monday, but
three , more were -missing as vast
areas' :- of fertile farmlands re
mained inundated. .
The J worst of Oregon's most
disastrous flood . since 1927 ' was
over, but high water at Portland
curtailed shipyard production, dis
rupted launching 'schedules and
kept I crews busily clearing log
Jams from bridge piers.
' Hundreds of upper and middle
valley residents were homeless
and.: health , authorities moved
swiftly throughout the area to
avert a' typhoid epidemic. Scores
of communities were warned that
contaminated w a t e r' supplies
would necessitate" bofling drink
ing water for days, even weeks.
At Corvallis, Sheriff W. VL
Harper reported the bodies of
Mrs. Marvin Smith ' and her
seven-months-old son, Howard,
were " ' found In northern . Benton
county less ' than 100 yards from
their 1 automobile which left .a
highway and plunged into deep
water Friday.' ; 4t"
All major highways In west
ern Oregon were reopened to
traffic, but the state highway
- department said many second
ary' roads might be fanpossable
for 1 weeks. The Southern Pa
cific company . reported that
mainline travel north and sooth-bound-
had been restored after
' as day of rerouting because of
floods hi the Oregon City area.
Canada Struggles
With Huge Storm
TORONTO,.: Jan. 4-JP)-Cities
and towns In eastern Ontario and
western Quebec struggled Monday
to clear snow-blocked highways
and patch disrupted communica
tions systems after the worst win
ter storm in 50 years over the-New
Year's holiday.
Some localities were Isolated
and cut off - from electric "power
for days, and Cornwall, a town of
14,000 population on the St Law
rence river, atill had no commu
nication lines open late Monday
night Power lines there failed. .
Censorship regulations withheld
until i today details of the storm
that began with a heavy rain and
then snow
Suicide
Tactics
Shipyard
Reop
totfteixLon Water
f Board; Magazine
Bill Changed
Reelecting all city officials
and naming Edward Rostein
and Dr. A. T. King to fill vacan
cies on the city water commis
sion and as city health officer,
respectively, Salem f council
opened 1943 without argumen
or need for a written ballot
Rostein, early member of the
water commission and one of its
first chairmen, wasi elected to fill
the post from which Mayor I. M.
Doughton resigned ! prior to tak
ing his post as city executive.
, King succeeds Dr. John Ram
age, who. has entered army ser
vice. He is to serve with Dr. W.
J. ' Stone, 'county health officer
who has served the city without
appointment because he could not
qualify in the matter of residence
when he came to the capital city
last summer. A year's residence
is; required. ? -
Councilmem tiidefmltely post
poned action on an ordlnaneo
which would havo canceled or
dinance provisions requiring
payment of fees for license to
'sell magaslne subscriptions,
passed In Its stead an ordinance
requiring he payment bat de
manding written recommenda
tions front specified sources .as
to the Integrity and good moral
character of would-be salesmen.
1 Withdrawn also, with instruc
tions to the city attorney to re
draft it was a resolution which
would have established a per
manent revolving' fund for the
city parks. That such a fund
would be illegal under the budget
law was the contention of Alder
man David O'Hara, Who made the
motion that sent it to the attorney
If the fund were merely that cre
ated by sale of shrubs ?nd tree
herrpnld'f avpr :t:OTlara declar
ed, Tout containing a provision
that unexpended budget funds
should forever remain to its credit
the measure would j be unaccept
able.
Question of whether there is
any city ordinance which would
hinder the placing of benches at
its service stations by the Shell
Oil company for service men
waiting for a ride was referred
to the street committee and city
attorney.
Into the . files went a request
from the Purple Heart Tobacco
trust for a $63 purchase of cig
arettes by the city for distribu
tion to specified groups, of service
men.
A portion of the; $1000 bud
geted for bridge maintenance
has been used. City! Engineer J.
H. Davis called to the attention
of the council as he reported
loos of a bridge on South 14th
street between Leslie and Oak
streets. A temporary footbridge
has been constructed there, bat
no unto traffic can; travel that
" (Turn to Page! 2 B)
!
Few Changes
Made, Gty
Committees
Changes were few on city boards
and commissions for which Mayor
i. bo. .uougnton announced his
appointees Monday j night
His own name, in keeping with
custom, was listed oh the plannin
and zoning commission by the
mayor, who reappointed to that
commission Hedda Swart
The property control board, re
made twice in the past year as re
sult of council resignations, was
the only one-with w new mem
bership. To it Doughton named
David O'Hara, A. G.; Gille and
Alfred Mundt I - -
Mrs. " David Wright was reap
pointed to the public playgrounds
board; D. W. Eyre ahcV A. A. Lee
to the public library board, and
the boxing commission as a whole
was named again. Ok the boxing
commission are Harry Levy, Dr.
H. H. Olinger, J. : H, Nicholson,
Dr. M. E. Gadwa and Cliff Par-
ken l-,vf iV? -'J W '' .
Vetera n Councilman ? David
O'Hara, longtime member of the
ways and means ' committee of
the council was reappointed as
chairman of that body. Serving
with him Will be A.: H. Gille and
L. F. Iarifc; ..
" Chairman again of r the airport
and aviation committee is Alder
man Tom! Armstrong, with O'Hara
and E. Bui Perrine as fellow mem
bers. . ; , . - f . ' , J t
K- O." Lewis, former fireman re
cently elected to the council.
heads the fire deoartment mm.
- (Turn to Pase 3-D)
Edward Rostein (above), member
of the Salem water commission
from 1931 to 193S, was named
agaut to that board Monday
- night by the city council, , re
placing L M. Doughton, now
mayor. j
ton
Plan for Gty j
-
Economy, Efficiency,
Law Enforcement
"Given Stress i
Declaring that', the war effort
demands close attention to local
as well as national affairs Mayor
L M. Doughton outlined a six-
point program emphasizing econ
omy, efficiency and law enforce
ment in his first address to the Sa
lem city council Monday night ii
The ' six main points the new
mayor made were: "i
1. "Wise use of municipal
funds.' n
2. .'Ascertain the feasibility of
ext-viding the city limits" . 4
Tells
liough
T?ame- committeeof H4bbo.f said.
councu, augmented by a citizens7
committee, to conduct studies to
determine whether ' or not the
city's government may be im
proved by alteration of the pres
ent council - mayor system, or
adoption of either the city man
ager or the commission form.
4. Amend the charter "so as to
provide modest compensation for
the mayor and aldermen succeed
ing those -in office at the time of
the adoption of the amendment'
5. Equalize salary and wage
scales of city employes on the bas
is of like pay for like service, and
consider enactment of retirement
regulations.
6. j Maintain "good order and law
enforcement'
(Text of mayor's recommenda
tions on page 2.)
Air Attacks
e oi
Guinea War
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
Australia, Tuesday, J a n. H-iJP)
With the' Japanese . pretty . well
cleared out of the Buna area of
New! Guinea, warfare in the
southwest ' Pacific area - Monday
was confined largely' to sporadic
air attacks.
Medium bombers (B-26s) drop
ped 300-pound bombs on Lae air
drome, 160 miles up the coast
from; Buna, destroyed three
grounded enemy planes, and de
molished 'another Jap plane that
had . been damaged earlier. The
area around the airdrome also
was strafed by light attack bomb
ers. The combined attacks started
a number of fires. - . '
A l-24 heavy bomber, on a
reconnaissance flight strafed a
freight-laden Japanese supply
boat which was entering Finsch-
Haf en harbor. - Another allied
reconnaissance unit machine
gunned an enemy schooner in
Jacquinot bay on the southeast
coast of New Britain.
Heavy bombers dropped thou
sand-pound '. bombs on ; Gasmata
airdrome, -, New; Britain, " early
Monday, inflicting ' considerable
damage.. . K- .
While the allies regrouped their
troops " preparatory to , attacking
the remaining Japanese on Sanan
anda S point .- northwest . ol Buna,
medium - bombers " dropped 300-
pound;-missiles from a low alti
tude upon enemy - machine gun
nests i and; started fires in that
area. Light attack bombers made
dozen strafing runs along the
Sanananda rack. : , -t
Fifty more Japs were killed In
the intermittent fighting , in the
Buna area. Approximately 700
Japs liave been killed and many
captured in that sector. ?
reaiur
County Road,
Bridge Loss
Not YetKrioivn
114-Foot Bridge Is
Moved by Flood; t
r Roads "Washed f
- 4
? Hope that a complete tally on.
the county road and bridge losses
following last week's flood might
be available -early this week was
expressed " Monday by County
Judge Grant Murphy and County
Engineer N. C Hubbs, who de
clared i they? could not begin Aq
estimate what the cost of the high
water might be to Marion county.
; Most showy piece of chicanery
performed by' rising waters .was
believed tne moving of a 114-foot
bridge which. once spanned Ba-
show creek on market road 39 1
east of Talbot Picked up by the
flood, 1 it "was , deposited a half
mile away in a field. Whet
or not the piling from which it
was lifted remained solid, enough
to ; serve as base ' for another
bridge ''was unknown Monday. '
r The bridge at the tntersee-
.Uon of the, Turner-Aunuville
highway, with cemetery road
Just east of Turner on road S57
was raised and failed to drop
with the falling waters, so Is
-now Impassable.' '
The fill near the railroad tracks
on road 945, which j runs I south
from the North Santiam highway
to the bofomland, which was
Washed out was new; having been
constructed there last summer to
replace : a bridge. Murphy and
on ; Essen road northwest of Mt
AngeL Taking out a corner of a
(Turn to Page 2 C)
Yank Bombers
Blast Crete;
French Hold
CAIRO, Jan. 4.-vT-Huge US
Liberator bombers rained 1000
pound bombs Tn heavy salvos, on
the German ' . fighter . and bomber
base at Kastelli Pediadi, southeast
of Candia in Crete" in their raid
Saturday, it was disclosed Mon
day by a Reuters correspondent
who made the flight '
The correspondent rode in the
28-ton Liberator "Tangerine in
the first relay of bombers smash-
me lusi reiay oi oamoeri smasn-
was announced -by allied head
quarters Sunday.
The' correspondent gave this
eye-witness account:
"Our cargoes had all been re
leased before the ack ack gun
ners b41ow, surprised at ' their
midday I meal, were able to get
the range and open fire."
ALLIED HEAD QUAKTEK8
IS NORTH AFRICA. Jan. 4.
(i? French , forces using seme
American tank destroying'
equipment among their, wea
pons - smashed back m heavy
tank y attack by Germaus and -Italians
on French positions at
Dendonkv allied headquarters
announeed Monday. '
The axis forces attacked with
30 or' 40 ' German tanks ' after : a
heavy bombardment but were
(Turn to Page 2 F)
Nazi Enemies
Aim of Purge
BERN, Switzerland, Jan, AHPi
A purge of De Gaullists and other
oppositionist elements throughout
France was reported Monday in a
Paris dispatch, and private sources
said six new concentration camps
already had been opened in the
nazi-held .eouhtryVT:
A Paris dispatch to the Geneva
Tribune f said the campaign was
directed 1 ' against - "De s Gaullists.
communism and terrorism.f -..f,A substituting a single ncommis
woman gestapo unit wasjreported si oner for the present three-man
tri tw lnrludd in a new nollce tax cornmission. Along with i the
force acting against saboteurs.'
Subversive activity, against the
Vichy government and occupa
tion -forces - has increased ' since
German troops moved into Vichy
France, and whereas before the
groups lacked ' coordinated ' direc
tion -there was now a general
movement for united "terrorist
activity, the report said.
Salem, West Salem Flood Level
"X.i
t -
f. - ,
u. x -f t j vkufe- C
-I ... v , ' " -
ii 'i..-1K.-.....
In years to come these two "flood pictures, taken ; Saturday by Al
LIgbtner,' Statesman sports editor, from a motorboat will serve to
show how high the flood! of '43
Top photo shows river side of
ber mUl yard In Salem, lower
. water street and Wallace jroad
New Govern
To Raise Wax Question $
Tf W W
l6bseekers
' !'..,;...,..". ...11. ... ,...-W
. By STEPHEN
Answers to one oi the two
the impending assumption of the
incubating at the capitol Monday afternoon as the ex-secretary
of state, "ex by a f ew hpurs, went to work on his legislative
message in temporary offices at the rear of the senate chamber.
What Mr Snell has in store for the legislature willcome
out next Monday, but answers to
the other question, as to whom he
may appoint to various offices
now; held by theSprague-chosen,
are expected to be withheld Until
after the legislators have : gone
home. . . i
Mr. Snell win do the greater
part of the inaugural day's recom
mending, apparently, since the
tiring g o v e r n o r, Charles "A.
Sprague, ' has indicated that
his
and
closing message will be . brief
deal V: primarily with; wartime
emergency needs of the state.
'i The 1 new governor's speech.
also promised to be brief, may
be expected, contrary, to some'
forecasts, not to Ignore the tax
questions of ' which he soade
strong Issue daring his primary
easapaign. . . v ; ! ' ; : .
The opening pronouncement of
SnelFs campaign called for easing
tax burdens, eliminating or con
solidating boards and commissions
and, what he declared would be
one of his first recommendations,
tax commission's revision ne pro
posed thorough revision -.of as
sessment and tax methods to f ef
fect a more realistic and equitable
distribution of the tax 1 load and
in which the home owner J Will
have first consideration.! : : 1 1 'r
' The present three-man tax com
mission, incidentally, is - standing
(Turn to Page 2 E)
i -
FraM Wo
5
5
came In Salem and West Salem.
t
tuBMuuuuiawirn'' in woVil ssfr-rr'T'-vlfTiisii sa
Oregon Pulp A Paper company In
picture the service station at Edge-J
1st West Salem. - . . " ,:
or Expected
- ;-.--,.:.,.i-...,..--:..V,V,. - .I-..'.:'..:
11 f B T7 " "
Must Wait
C. MERGLER
interesting questions posed by
governorship by Earl Snell were
Light Trailer
SinlX
LONDONJan. 4 -P)-The de
struction of the 1260-ton Italian
submarine Emo off the north Af
rican coast by the little, lightly-gunned"-British
, ' naval - trawler
Lord Nuffield was, announced
Monday , nighti by the aamiralty.
The trawler . was preparing to
attack with depth charges, the ac
count of the duel said, when 5 the
submarine I suddenly J broke : sur
face only ' a few yards . away.. (
" The Lord Nuffield j opened fire
with every gun as the submarine
tried to crash dive ! and - scored
successive ; hits on the conning
tower as well as knocking out the
after deck gun and crew. ' -
The Emo sank in a few. min
utes and the t victorious trawler
picked up all the survivors. The
Lord Nuf field's only casualty was
one man slightly wounded, ... t
Panama Uegime Kept
raflAMA, Jan. -ifiTtxe Pan
ama administration Of President
Ricardo Adolf o de la, Guardia
which has been cooperating fully
in : matters of hemispheric solid
arity and. with US authorities in
defense; of the Panama Canal-
MoiidayV night was continued in
power for the next two years by a
Z3-to-4 vote of the national as
sembly. .x':v:v i ".-'-.
Loss in Crops
May B e Large,
Report Eere
Bridge Probably Open
For Walking Friday j
Bodies' Unrecovered '
- Estimates of farmers', losses
from the Willamette riverg
New Year flood mounted Mon
day as the waters receded. :
The falling waters, down to
2U feet at 9 p.rh. Monday from
Saturday's crest of 30.5, di
closed increasing numbers of
hop yards devoid entirely of pole-and-wire
trellises, or with the
materials strewn about on the
ground. . -' , "
Logs and lesser debris littered
the land. . ..
Small farm buildings were miss
ing, or discovered at strange loca
tions. ". ': -
Damage to fall-planted crops
is potentially a great loss through
out. the valley, J. D. Mickle, state
director of agriculture, said Mon-
day night
If theae
water any
will be too
crops are under
length of time. It
bad,- ho explained.
"But we can't tell, the outcome
until the soil has had a chance
to dram." j . ; ' .
The mid-valley escaped the se
verest of damage to ' agricultural
lands, ' crops and equipment 'Mr.
Mickle believes, although its hop
yards in particular were hit hard
as zar as wiiicuit-to-obtam wire
for trellises and nearly "US' scarce
labor to put it back in. place are .
concerned. YA ; ".
Livestock losses apparently were
were relatively . light with only
scattering . eary reports of cat
tle being drowned and a little
heavier - casualty list for. sheep,
Mickle said.
Loss of soil by erosion will be
known only when the lands have
drained fully, and In many cases,
one farmers' loss will be .'a gain
for the man downstream. .'
Hop growers in particular" gen
erally were" Of the' opinion .that
silt deposits on their lands by the
floods would offset .losses . to a
considerable degree-. "';'
--.One of the most speetacnlarly y
flood .struck farms was the Min-' .''"' 1
to place near the mouth of the
Willamette slough in southwest
Salem. A "cold dee" containing
5.S0O.00S feet' of hemlock logs
destined .for the Oregon Pulp A
Paper plant nearby floated ovet
the hopyard, i knocked dews
many poles, wrecked a. snug,
orchard and earn to rest in am.
alfalfa field and a . treDised
bean patch, still piled in match
stick fashion. John D. Blinto,
operator of the. ranch,' reported
that 16t head of sheep and six
. horses he had moved to a second
floor level la a barn would have
been lost had the river raised
another foot
There were reports that , one
farmer in the Mission Bottom dis
trict lost M00 sheep, .50 goats and
some dairy. cattle and that Roy
Barker, Polk county fanner, saved
only; 27 of a herd of 47 - cattle-
marooned on an island. -
Lane county farms, food ware-,
houses - and stores suffered much
more -heavily than those below,
the agriculture director reported.
Losses of food ruined by water
were nominal In the Salem area
but severe around Eugene, he said.
Director Mickle's canitatlon de
partment was at work over the
weekend surveying - flood areas .
for possible food spoilage. Sal
vage was to be carefully super-
vised. .
(Turn to Page 2 H)
. a ww w
Flooded "with 1 requests
for extra copies of Sun
day's Statesman with its
spendid coverage of the
' Willamette river flood in
stories and pictures. The
" Statesman has rerun a
portion .of that paper,
which you may now to
- cure at the reiuar street
sale price of 5 cent3.
;'rvl'TIa b Cell izt :i
::":-;":;.'...Yctaf CcIss cl '. :
; )
c