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Complcto : You'll Clad no newspaper can give more real satisfac tion than roar local morn lat paper, with Its WORLD news plus no&xs COU- tlUMTY NEWS. , - I n i . , .V I Thursday sunrise ;53 n. Weather: Tees. roar, temp. 52, mla. 23. -Tnes. rata .19 in. Wed. river 15.3 ft. Weather data restricted fcr ' army request fa. - s PSUND3D:; lCi IXXSrCSECGtXD YEAR B- '... -1. I Eclem, Oregon Thursday' I-Iornlncj.- January 7, 1S13 i;o. izi XL -Li. v viy ' A. " . ;.A,..A': vn .1 N ! Ill I 'V i ' ? i N 1 I i . . y i i i ? i ! i 1 i i i ! , , i- i i - '2 . . ... ; . hit S f '(Eons: ire Victory (Gonlrol Narrow v Rayburn Elected, Promises . . . Defense of Legislation, Flays Division Leaders . WASHINGTON, Jan. C-iffVThe 78th congress dubbed the J victory congress" from the rostrum of the house met Wednes-- day in a mood for solemn united action to win the war and for I sharp insistence upon 'writing its own laws on domestic issues, i regardless of the wishes of the White House. inese two aeiernunaiwua OPAMayAid Hop Growers McNary Says Listing Of Essential Sought; Wire Lbsers Advised ; Senator McNary (R-Ore) said Tuesday that consideration is be- ; ing given Oregon hop growers, hit by wartime economic conditions and the recent Willamette valley f floods. .' . , " - '; f-y ; ' The office of price administra tion is considering anamendment to the Price xf - ceiling ' on hops. the scnatnV 5 said, assertinff that Mntial commoditr if enoueh ires- ; sure is , brought ; to 6 bear in Ore gon, Washington and ' California. OP A probably will announce its oecision on ; me price ceuuig amendment within a few days, he said. " ' - - McNary advised growers who lost trellises in the floods to apply to the Portland office of the war production board for wire priorities. The senator also informed Wil , liam M. Tugman, managing edi vtor of the Eugene Register-Guard that the OPA's San Francisco of fice is studying orders proposing sections of the state. -' The regional office, McNary said ' he was informed by OP A, hopes to reach a decision on milk prices within three or four days. Areas involved are Astoria and the lower Columbia river region, Eugene and vicinity. Tugman had urged the senator to seek increases of the ; OPA to -cover increased production " costs and prevent destruction of dairy herds. Davis Doubts Halsey Stand For '43 Win WASHINGTON, Jan. 6GP)-E1-mer Davis, whose job is to .keep the nation informed on the war, took exception Wednesday to i " high-ranking naval officer's flat prediction of victory this year. Asked for comment on the op timistic view recently expressed by Adm. William F. Halsey, the south Pacific commander, Davis responded: T have no information to sup port such, a prediction, , although - On the contrary, the director of war Information asserted, the Germans, to the best of his knowledge, still are building i more submarines than the Unlt 1 ed Nations are sinking and the toll the U-boats aro taklnr of. allied ship ping Is. ereatlna " "heavy losses : In ship and In the cargoes that ge with them, and sometimes trained men on them." ' - - " Although he spoke pessimistic'' ally of i the "continuing serious v rubmarine menace,' . Davis said the United Nations, particularly the United States, for "some months" have been building ships faster than the axis subs ..were sinking them. Of the state department's recently-issued white book detail ing the efforts of the United Elates and , other United Nations to prevent .war in the decade be fore Pearl Harbor, Davis report ed that axis propagandists appar . (Turn to Page 2 F) on uuujumlicu a ymimniQij session of speech-making and of organization for the tragically vi tal period which lies ahead. They were expressed by i republican sDckesmen. conscious of their greatly reinforced strength. And they; came from the democratic side of the political barrier as well, i Last fall's election,, with its wide republican gains, was re flected at the outset in the closest vote for party control of the house in the last decade. The. democrats won. By 217 to 206,: they reelect ed Speaker Sam Raybum. Immediately, the tension of the situation was broken. Re publicans and democrat alike Jumped to their feet 1a a stormy and .prolonged ovation. And when Rep. Martin of Massachu setts, the defeated republican Bomlnee for speaker, said tt was particularly appropriate that this honor should ga to, Ray- ; barn hfaSlst birthdayhej pandemoniam was renewed. - T " Someone among the republicans started chanting "Happy Birthday to You." It was quickly picked up by i others and in a moment the whole house was singing, while Rayburn stood on the dais, smil ing, but . merely overcome with embarrassment and emotion. This was in vivid contrast with a later development. Rayburn, ac cepting the speakership, referred to ; President Roosevelt as the greatest "war leader'' that could have been found for J the present emergency. The democrats shout ed ! and hand-clapped their noisy approval. The big) republican membership sat, stony silent, and bored. i ' The senate, always the; more sedate of the two bodies, mean while went through its historic j (Turn to Page 2 C) Body of Ace Boyd Wagner Found, Plane JOHNSTOWN," Pa Jan. 6 W) The war department late Wednes day notified; the parents of Lt CoL Boyd "Buzz" Wagner, air hero of the Philippines, that his body has been found in his wreck ed plane about 25 miles north of Eglin Field, Fla. Boyd D. Wagner, the father, said the telegram from the war department added that Wagner's 1L.T. COL. BOYD WAGNER , - i ship had crashed during a rou tine flight from Eglin field to Selfridge Field, Mich. , Col. Wagner, only 28, was one of the first American aces of World war It After service in the Phflappines, he went to the south west Pacific and was reported to . - (Turn to Page 2 D)- ar ar w a : P WASHINGTON Jan. S-UPl .resident Roosevelt will appear before a Joint session of the senate and house at 9:30 a. m Pacific war time, Thursday to deliver his annual address.- The address will be broadcast. : It was believed that, among other things, - the : president would touch upon Russia's stand against the naais, the swift eon version of American industry to war purposes, and the contribu tion it j has made la unprece dented production of war ma terial. Produce Price Top Simplified Fixed Margins Set ; ;4 Machinery ; Ready ToHit Shortages : WASHINGTON, J a nv e.-P- Simplified price ceilings for re tail sales, of butter, 'cheese, poul try, fresh citrus fruits and bana nas Were " issued Wednesday night by the office of price administra tion. They became effective Jan uary 14. j j - : The new ceilings prescribe fixed margins ! over the retailer's - net cost and replace price curbs based on the highest prices charged in specified periods in the past. OPA predicted somewhat lower retail prices for I bananas, little change in butter and cheese and slightly higher prices for poultry and fresh citrus fruits. . The ' new markups represent retailer's 'normal margins, but re flect a material reduction from the speculative margins secured, in many cases, during recent months," OPA said.; The 4 fixed markups willJbe .figured ovej" spe cified dollars and i cents prices, previously established for import ers of bananas, and for processors and wholesalers of the other pro ducts, i WASHINGTON, Jan. .-(P)- Secretaryiof Agriculture Wickard reported Wednesday night the food distribution! administration (Turn to Page 2 E) East Forfeits Use of Autos For Pleasure - ' ! f V- 1 WAS H I N GTON, Jan. 6 OPA Wednesday banned pleasure driving ira the east and slashed the amount of fuel oil that schools, churches, stores, theatres and oth er non-residential establishments may consume in the j 17-state area. ! Many such - buildings face the possibility of curtailing their hours or days of operations un der the order. OPA left it to the school boards, store operators and others in charge of on-consuming buildings to determine how they will' meet the reduced fuel ra tions. ; - ' i 'Amusement places were espec ially hard hit The order forbid ding pleasure driving in the east specifically banned motoring to theatres as well as race tracks. ! With this order certain to cut down amusement centers' pa tronage and the fuel: oil order threatening to make theatres and night clabs t cool beyond comfort, continued jeperatioa of some of the establishments seemed it doubt ! Use of fuel oil in non-residential establishments in the east was curtailed 25 per cent below pres ent rations, giving them about 45 per cent of normal requirements. Under the edict j against pleas ure , driving, effective 4 at noon Thursday, any motorist driving to amusement centers or to "purely social engagements faces the can cellation" of all or port of his gasoline ration. " j ' j . , Yamhill Tavern Owner Acquitted v McMTNrrVTLLE, jbre, Jan. 6(vP) Cecil Wright, Newbeg, one of 14 YambiH : county , tavern operators indicted on charges of selling li quor to m minor, was acquitted Wednesday by a circuit court jury after 35 minutes deliberation. Circuit Judge Artie . G. Walker earlier denied a - defense motion for a directed verdict of dismissal based on grounds of entrapment The grand jury indictments were based on charges of a 16-year-old girl.-: I ; ... ' ! . . ;v- s Wright's was the first y trial scheduled.; a; Tobacco liit'New I Virginia Firm Packs t Soldier 'Smokes' In Salem Plant By STEPHEN C. MERGLER " Salem's newest and one of the city's largest defense indus4 tries, a plant 'assembling to bacco kits destined for US sol diers overseas, received author ization from the army quarter-? master rcorps Wednesday to tell of its operation. i f- Set up - by Larus & Brother, Inc., nationally-known tobacco company located at Richmond, Va., the plant has been running for two weeks on the main floor of the Larmer warehouse at 889 North Liberty street : The o p e r a 1 1 o n represents many hundreds of thousands of ; dollars' worth of goods being brought Into Salem, repacked and reshlpped to embarkation points. Sise of the payroll may ; not be disclosed. We are not permitted to tell the brands or the quantities of smoking tobacco, cigarettes or chewing tobaccos involved in our operation, but we can state that a taxge operation is involved," William H. Howard, manager of the firm's Pacific Overseas As sembly branch, as it is called, said. "We believe that from the Salem plant we can supply all the army's needs in ' the Pacific overseas area." H. B. Iladdon of the Richmond staff of Larus & Brother; who is serving as assistant ' manager of the branch, expect torem?i in Salem as long as the plant Js in service, which will be as long as ' the war lasts, Howard said. Arranged on an assembly line basis, the plant .operation j con sists of packing wooden-cased kits, each representing ' a day's ration for 200 soldiers. Into each kit go three sealed waterproof sacks containing assorted tobac cos of popular brands, and match- ies. rne three sacKs are encloses in : a similarly waterproof and sealed paper liner and the con tents placed in a nailed and wired, wooden shipping case not far from an apple box in size. "At top production rates, we can pack and load around 4800 kits In an eight-hour shift or nearly two full boxcars,' Man arer Howard said. In all probability an additional shift will be added .and there is a strong possibility, that we may go to a 24-hour a day basis. At least two Salem business firms are benefitting from . the plant through sub-contracts. ; .The principal secondary order is for. manufacture of the wooden cases, held by Salem Box company, and the ' other, obtained by the Salem (Turn to Page 2 B) ! Oust Barklcy Movie Balked WASHINGTON, Janl 9-VP)-AA undercover campaign to displace Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky as senate majority leader was re ported Wednesday night to nave1 colapsed but there were indica tions that an effort would be made in the democratic caucus to break the administration's hold on the important steering committee. Barkley called the 57 senate democrats for. a caucus Thursday afternoon to effect their party organization for the 78th congress and appeared likely to be reelect ed leader without opposition. . This result . was " forecast after some senators,' angered by Bark ley's action in forcing the senate to ' order the arrest - of several members last fall in the midst of a filibuster candidates against ; a bill j to abolish state poll taxes, began a move then to oust Bark ley as leader.' Balked in this move, a group of senators critical of the adminis tration met secretly Wednesday and decided to back Senators IBailey of North Carolina, Ma- loney of Connecticut and Overton of Louisiana for vacancies oh the democratic steering committee. Nazi Group in Britain J-UNDON, Thursday, Jan. 7 -VP) The German armistice commission captured by the Allies in Algeria wasj reported Thursday to have arrived in Britain. ' Allied head quarters here said they had no comment to 'make on the report Industry Boats Quit s- - ' p C v ' " i 9 1 :. Like rats quitting a doomed ship, small beats' speed away-from this burning Japanese cargo ship after i : lt had taken aa aerial pasting from United States Flying Fortresses raiding Shortland harbor, at the ' southern end of Bougainville ' a 16 mm. movie clip, was taken a few minutes before; another flight of "Forts scored direct hits en ' the ship. UN Photo. t ' - an! Bombers Slash I in Facilic British Vefe train, lunisia fl Jebel Azzag Taken; I Allied Airmen Hit 1 Axis Shipping , -syt'Tiat .AMditod Press - ": ' ALLIED HADQUARTERSIN NORTH AFRICA, Jan, Veteran British First army troops captur ed Jebel Azzag and nearby points in an attack launched Tuesday to drive the axis enemy from high ground dominating alliedpositions along a road about 15 miles west of Mateur. the allied command announced Wednesday night . It was the first real fighting in two weeks in north Tunisia. "Successful attacks were made on hills north of the road and we captured .Jebel Azzag and other points in. the vicinity, the allied command communique announced. "Our forces are mopping up isolated machine gun posts and have repulsed a counterattack against one of our newly-won po sitions." In the air, a headquarters spokesman said,' Fortress bomb ers scored hits or near misses on a cruiser leaving' the Tunis ian harbor of Sf ax, and left the Sfax power station la flames. ' (The admiralty announced in London that British - submarines had destroyed " a ' large enemy troop transport and supply ship; hit and! probably sunk -two other vessels in the Mediterranean, and bombarded the Italian and axis occupied Greek coasts. " (The British and Americans an nounced in Cairo that their bomb ers blasted . the Tunisian port . of Sousse Tuesday. The " Americans said their .heavy bombers put all their explosives within the tar get in a daylight raid and ; bursts were observed on the commercial phosphate and southern quays. The British merely announced that hits were scored' on quays and buildings.) ' Mateur is 25 miles southwest of the naval base of Bizertc J 1 (Reuters, British news agency, said that a British force of com- ' ; (Turn to Page 2 G) FUbert Growers . Plan; Marketing PORTLAND, Jan. 6-i)-North-West filbert growers Wednesday night approved creation of a com mittee to plan . consolidation z of cooperatives into a single market ing agency for Oregon and Wash ington. !L - ?:' : . . A" committee composed I of Claude A. Sersanous, Portland, chairma and .CV R Grelle, Port land, and Fred : Chambers, Eu gene, will be expanded to include a representative membership from filbert districts of the two states. Each group wil be known in the future as the filbert growers' market development committee. ' One of the committee's objec tives will be selection of a name under which northwest filberts will be widely advertised. - v ; Some 100 growers from Oregon and Washington , attended the meeting. . .,- - ' ;' Doomed Japanese: Vessel Island, northernmost of the Solomons. Alert Lockard HaiJ,rjonolulu, Station Again SEATTLE, Jan. f-(ff5i-Lt. Joseph L. Lockard.; the youth who won a'dlstinguished service medal for his alertness : in re porting the sound of approach ing airplanes on a Pearl Harbor detector on thai .fateful Deeem- Vberr 7, Mil Have a' Honolulu sta tion ath..:,.r'-i:'::.4i' -:ile WlU Lave to head north to get! there, and there will be mukluks and parkas galore, but no grass skirts. . j ' This Honolulu is a stop on the Alaska railroad In the territory's' frost-bitten interior. It is south of Colorado and north of Mon tana, other stops about 15S miles north of Anchorage. ' Lockard was commissioned a', second lieutenant last summer aad assigned to the Alaska com munication system as an engi neering officer.' NeBring Said Ousted From Army LONDON, Thursday, Jan. 7.- (JP-A roundabout report, reached London; early Thursday stating that the German' army command er in Tunisia, Gen. Walther Nehr- Ing, has, been replaced: ! ; i , A Reuters dispatch from Stock holm" quoted' the Berlin corres pondent of the Swedish - newspa per Svenska Dagbladet as saying that General Von 'Arnim had been appointed German commander- in-chief in 'Tunisia in place ol Gen. Nehring. ! . - One report was without Imme diate confirmation elsewhere. - Gen. j Von Arnim is relatively little known outside Germany, al though he had figured from time to time in German reports of the African campaign. r j, . : J . .- There have been no recent re ports abroad of Gen. Nehrings be ing in disfavor. On the contrary, his forces have presented formid able opposition to the: advancing allies In Tunisia. , ! . . S ' . Yon Arnim was described in the Reuters dispatch, as a tank commander and "one of Hitler's favorites' I who waa promoted to the rank of colonel . general re cently. - H -1 v A Moscow, report last October said Von Arnim had been appoint ed commander of the 1 13th ! Ger man division known as! the fhair- pinWl division .because of the re semblance of its badge; to a hair pin. ?v i ' '." - H': ' i ' Draft Appeal ' Open ToAll, Says Head , WASHINGTON, Jan, 6-Pf-The selective service director, ! Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.i said Wed nesday that every draft registrant, "regardless of his creed, belief or nationality," is entitled to: full benefits of the selective service's appeal procedure, and j that I each case must be judged on its, own This picture, aa enlargement from Enemy Planes, Ships Wrecked ! Kiska Cargo Vessel Sunk; Navy' Force Batters 3Iunda , . ' ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, - Thursday; - Jan".1: f Jpy-Medium bombers and attack planes of the southwest . Pacific command Wednesday swept over the Japanese airdrome , at Lae in New Guinea, destroying four anti aircraft ! guns positions and a grounded bomber. Meanwhile, al lied ground forces pushed prep arations for the final assault on the remaining Jap foothold in northwestern New Guinea in the Sanananda area. j ' 1 Except ' for an attack on the Gasmata airdrome on New Brit ain island by a Flying .Fortress, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's heavy bombers: were out of the - opera' tional picture Wednesday while B-25s and fighters carried on the Job of softening enemy positions along the Sanananda -trail with bombing! and strafing attacks. Other allied bombers paid an other visit to the airdrome at Gas mata, on New Britain island. i WASHINGTON, Jan. f (AP) Indications that the -Japanese are continuing strenuous efforts to strengthen their base at Kis ka in the Aleutian islands came : Wednesday in a navy report that American ' bombers j . had sunk "one e n e m yj ' cargo ship and. scored a direct hit on another in those waters. . j'-v;.-'- i The' ship sunk,- a navy commu nique said,' was attacked by Mit chell medium bombers .Tuesday about 110 miles northeast of Kis- (Turn to Page 2 A) - Chained Greeks Taken to Italy CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 6 -ff) Greek officials - announced Wed nesday night that 300 Greeks, in cluding generals, other officers and civilians, had been transport ed to Italy in chains from axis occupied I Greece. s . : i lOn information received from Greece, these officials said guer rilla activities in that country had brought a fresh wave of .terrorism from the Italian-occupying au thorities.- Greeks were said to have been flogged, their 'homes J burned and their , property confiscated in at tempts to make them reveal par ticulars of patriotic organizations offering 'oppoaition,' '.j;'-"-'- Haryard Presideht Emeritus Dies BOSTON, Jan. offt-A. Lawr ence Lowell, 88, president emeri tus of Harvard university, died Wednesday. During his term of, office from ISC3 to 1833 President Lowell saw the enrollment of the uni versity more than - doubled and its endowment multiplied nearly six times, to more than $123,CC0,- CC3. - - L , - ' v i Piucer, Blearer Rostov Caucasus Nazis Run Before Trap Shuts; Don Fight Heavy LONDON, Thursday, Jan.;r ("-Russia announced the cap ture of 21 towns and two mors railway stations Wednesday in the middle Don and Caucasus offensives and said that thesa drives have cost the nazis- mor than 330,150 dead and captured since November 19. Two communiques as broadcast by Moscow and heard by the soviet Monitor here listed oho town as Marinsk, which may be a town of that name on the lower Don about 25 miles south of Isi mlyansk, which the Russians said . Marinsk Is about 92 miles from Rostov, Caucasian gateway whose fall would trap hundreds of thou sands of German troops in the Ponrottit. Another , town was listed as -Krem-Koastantlaovskaya which the soviet monitor here did net locate. The monitor first an- Bounced ft incorrectly as Kon ; stantinovsk. There is a city of that name about 65 miles short of Rostov. . j -, Many of the newly won point were in the Nalchik-Prokhlad-nenski sector deepj in the Cauca sus where the Germans were re ported retreating hastily north westward toward Rostov lest they . be trapped by the Russian col umns '. striking - westward from Stalingrad and southward along the . ,JHoscowrRostov railway . i in the middle Don area The capture of these cities was reported in the regular midnight communique. Before it was issued a special communique said that 26,500 Germans had been killed or captured from January 1 to January 5 on the Stalingrad front, and the regular bulletin added ap proximately 1050 more nazi cas ualties during Wednesday's ope rations to that figure. , The Russians admitted the Ger mans were counterattacking heav ily in the middle Don and south west of , Stalingrad, but did not acknowledge any sustained re sistance in the Caucasus battle zone some 360 miles southeast of v Rostov. (This bolstered the belief of British military quarters that the Germans were withdrawing in that area without' putting up any ' organized fight -there. Moran Flays t HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. t-UPi Capt E. B. "Mike" Moran, com mander of the 'Japdestroying cruiser Boise, reminded a patriotic rally Wednesday night that there are now more than -35,000 inter ested third parties to labor-management squabbles listed as dead or missing. In a prepared address, Capt Moran deprecated delays in the production of materials of war and urged more speed and greater out put : ' - , He , said he could not believe Adm. William L. Halsey had de clared the war would end this year. "I talked with Adm. Halsey Just before I left the south Pacific. Capt Moran ; departed from a prepared address to declare: 'The news has ;been good unbeliev- aoiy gooov put we are not that far-along.- .... "Annihilation is - the only an swer Ja. the Paciflc; - ' Eav the new federal taxes income and victory levies ceafused o worried youT At least they have definitely af fected nearly every Income earner In thsnatlon. To help clarify the tax situa tion and the problems of mak ing out propef returns, The Statesman begins, today two se ries ef articles, .the brief one ackUy eutlizilxg the new levies and , interpreting them, and lEer giving the US lzterns.1 revenue crrirtraert's exilara tlons of iacame taxes sr.J how to make out rttzm tLe gov ernzient Trn ta r '. J 4 arl 13 UZzj." Outpu Delay