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XV- - --,-.. - j, -;.:-t; y.-X X'- XX.-X,;. X, ,XXX", -. .XA X;-X.XX'' ; X.X; :'-aX; ;. I : .,. : - : ' - t ' -. j I t - , XXX Dimout Comploto" . YeaH Clad a nwppe ; tu give more real satisfae- ; Mob than t oat local mora Ins paper, with Its WORLD 1 news plat ; nous com- : UUNITY NEWS. OvCn Saturday sunset B:44 p.m. Sunday sunrise 8:52 a. m. Weather: Than. max. temp. 40, min. 14. FrL river 12.S ft. Weather daU restricted by army request. , - .4 PCUND3C7 1C21 . rHKETY-SECOKD YEAR Salem, Oregon. Saturday Mornlngv January 9. 1943 Price 5cv," No. 210 ;'- SI r I 1 1 - I 1 f I I I I A : I I It ., 1 If. 'I 1111 1 HUT. I 1 e c-x o n Fuel'Lack Ciits NY- . v-- ' -- :' . Schools Licenses Listed on : Pleasure Ban; Coal Supply Said Tight . NEW YORK,! Jan. 8 Closing jof all New " York city public schools for one week be ginning February 1 as a fuel : conservation measure was an nounced Friday as the govern- ment sought rigid enforcement cf its ban on pleasure motoring 'fin 17 Atlantic seaboard states and ' the District of Columbia. ; Meanwhile, it was announced that , merchants throughout much :v' f Rhode Island Friday night were backing wholeheartedly. Gov ernor J. Howard MeGrath's pro posal to close all non-war busi ness establishments Mondays to " save fueL It was reported that , other New England states again were feeling the pinch of dimin ishing fuel oil supplies. , Gasoline ration books were .seized and thousands of license numbers Jotted down for possi ble investigation Friday. Nine ration books were taken up by . office of price administration agents here, and police an- , nounced that 46,237 license nnmbers had been listed. - - Russell H. . Potter, acting OPA district manager, said that , own ers of an additional 50 automo biles will be called in to explain why their cars were parked : Thursday night In the midtown Manhattan theatrical., and night club district. : fe Warning of still further action to avert "serious hardships in many places" during January or February came from Washington. The petroleum industry war coun cil adopted a report of its eco nomics committee saying that ad ditional measures to combat the gasoline and fuel shortage would be inevitable unless more mili tary requirements could be taken from sources other than the east coast, or unless "a few more tank ers can be spared without im pairing our first responsibility, of supplying our military forces and our allies. WASHINGTON, Jan. S-(iP) State west of the Mississippi river are faced with a tight coal supply, principally because f increased demands by war industries and labor shortages, -Howard A. Gray, deputy solid f nets coordinator, Thursday told senators Investigating midwest fuel shortages. - He advised consumers .In ..that area to "store every ton of coal - (Turn to Page 2 A) - Captain Carl, Marine Ace, Takes Bride NEW YORK, Jan. 8(i-p)-Capt. Marion E. Carl, marine corps hero pilot of Hubbard, , Ore., and Miss Edna Kirvin, 10-year-o?d Brook lyn model and "magazine cover girl were married ; Friday at Holy Innocents rector, Brooklyn. - The . marriage climaxed , a six week r courtship, - which began when the couple met at a war morale rally in New York, and ' later, ? with other i marine corps heroes ; toured war plants in an effort to speed up production. The bride's picture was on the cover, of the January issue of the Cosmopolitan - magazine. ' : Capt. Carl, who has 16 Japanese Zero planes to his credit, has received the navy cross twice for his ex ploits in the south Pacific. I , PORTLAND, Jan. Mr-Capt. Marion Carl, the marine corps , flying ace, and his bride, a former Powers model, - are re turning to Oregon for a visit, - Wilbur Carl, the captain's uncle, said Friday night. : ; They are V scheduled to make an appearance - in - behalf of a Wasco county bond campaign- in The Dalles Tuesday. Capt. Carl In his recent leave here made -22 public appearances in behalf of war bond sales. Oregon 1 State college plans a program in Carfs honor at Cor vallis Wednesday. The Hubbard 'flier will leave afterwards to re port for active duty. - . WoodsCliief ! -A LYLE F. WATTS Watts Chosen Head Forester Ex-Regional Chief ! At Portland Is i Wickard Choice WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (JP) Secretary of -: Agriculture Wickard announced Friday niitt the' ap poinbnent of Lyle F. Watts, form er, regional forester at Portland, Ore., as chief of the US forest service. - . , :r f : . v In recent months Watts had served as an assistant to Secretary Wickard. His appointment fills a vacancy . in . the forestry . post caused by the death of F. A, Sil cox in 1939. Earle H. Capp had been acting as chief since that time. Watts was born in Cerro county, Iowa, in 1890. He is a graduate of Iowa State college at 'Ames, la. He entered" the-1 rest service in 1931 -as technical assistant on the Wyoming national forest. PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 8 (P L.yle F. Watts, named chief forester Friday, has held numerous western offices for the forest service. He organized the school of for estry at Utah Agricultural col lege in 1928, was assistant chief of forest management and was in charge of silviculture! research at Ogden, and was director of the northern Rocky Mountain forest and range experiment station at Missoula, Mont He also was supervisor of the Idaho national forest, the Weiser national forest in Idaho, and was regional forester at Milwaukee, Wis., before becoming regional forester at Portland in 1939. Continuation Sought for River Work " Requesting no legislation at the 1943 session of the state legisla ture, which opens here next Mon day, the Willamette river basin commission and . representatives of the Willamette valley project committee 'made it clear at their meeting in Salem on Friday4 that they would make every effort to have work . resumed on the val ley's "flood control project imme diately after the close of the war, t Fern Ride dam, on the . Long Tom river near Eugene, and Do rena dam, six miles from Cottage Grove," saved portions of the val ley: from far greater suffering during the recent rampage of the Willamette river, O. M. Plummer, project . treasurer, declared, and the three members of the com mission agreed. :' "X - Ninety five thousand acre feet of - 'water - are heldr in 1 reservoir by the Fern Ridge dam. The two structures are first of seven in the. $55,000,000 Willamette val ley 5 project. V ; O. D. Eby, Oregon City, chair man of the commission; Claude Buchanan of Corvallis and Elmo Chase of Eugene, conducted the meeting, held at chamber of com merce rooms in Salem. Construction of the dams should be one of the first to receive gov ernment consideration at the close of "i the - war , . Buchanan ; advised, pointing out that it would, pro vide! suitable employment for, the oversupply of labor then anti cipated. :" XKsX " Cv ; V; I -" 1 '; Giraud on Inspection x DAKAR, French West -Africa; Jan. 8 -(P)- Gen. Henri Honore Giraud, French high conmiission er, left Friday for an inspection of the principal military. installa tions in other colonies in ' French West Africa after three days in Dakar. . . - . , Russia Cap 20 ture Double Smash Rolls , . Toward Rostov to Snare Germans By The Associated Press LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 9 Russian troops smashing along the lower Don river and rolling up the vulnerable nazi salient deep in the Caucasus captured more than a score of villages and railway points Friday, in cluding Zimovniki, 125 miles southwest of Stalingrad, two So viet communiques announced early Saturday. . A special 'bulletin broadcast by Moscow and heard by the Soviet monitor said Zimovniki, 30 miles beyond Kotelnikovski on the Stal- ingrad-Tikhoretsk railway, fell after a stubborn fight. The regular midnight comma nique that followed said 20 set tlements and railway stations had fallen to other Russian troops pushing westward along the Don river valley, and northward from the Caucasian mountain foothills. The Russians now were be lieved to be less than Ct miles short of ' Rostov at the mouth of the Don river after captur ing Strakhov and posing direct ly westward toward the nasi communications hub whose cap ture would cut off . huge nasi forces retreating in ' the Cau casus approximately 300 miles to the south. Ten more populated places fell to the advancing Russians In the lower Don valley Friday, the mid night communique said, and "ah equal number of 1 points were taken in the Caucasus. Among the latter points were the railway station of Zolski, only 10 miles short of Georgievsk, a large town on the Baku-Rostov linet. Mikolskoye, 45 miles north east of Georgievsk also was taken, representing an 18-mile advance (Turn to Page 2 B) Tax Increase Seen Coming In FR Budget WASHINGTON, Jan. 8-(ff)-The subject of increased taxes or com pulsory loans, or both, was under renewed discussion Friday night as President Roosevelt prepared to submit on Monday his record shattering budget for the next fiscal year. Expenditures in the year are expected to . approximate $100, 000,000,000. A highly placed gov eminent official, who cannot be quoted by name, said Mr. Roose velt might recommend that con gress, through legislation, take steps to increase treasury receipts to $50,000,000,000. This might entail, the official said, not only an increase in 'pres ent taxes but some form of com pulsory loans, by individuals. However, there was no, definite word that Mr. Roosevelt actually had decided to support compul sory loans. ? "! : Some statisticians ; have estim ated that the present tax laws might raise $35,000,000,000 In the fiscal year ending next July 1. This is $10,000,000,000 more than previous official estimates of an nual returns and is based on a department of commerce forecast that national income might go as high as $135,000,000,000 annually. (Turn to Page 2 G) . m Skipper Describes Naval - Bat t lei -iii rclic , By , CUNTON B. CONGER " Vnftcd States Naval ' Correspondent With the British Borne. Fleet (Distributed bjTthe Aaooclated Preac) V A NORTHERN BRITISH NAV AL BASE, Jan." 7 (Delayed) The ' British naval t force! slashed out of the Artie darkness to aid a Russian-bound convoy under at tack from German warships caught one nazi ship squarely with its first salvo and stampeded the remainder, it was revealed today. When the battle was over, one German destroyer had been sunk and a cruiser had been badly crippleo!.?.;i-U4M;-iil;;-si- X The .British force , has returned to harbor intact and 'the-admiral in command, along with the com manding officer of the formation's McNary Reelected j Minority Leader; I Republicans Gain i WASHINGTON. Jan. S i (JP) The senate republican confer-: ' ence unanimously - reelected Charles L. McNary of Oregon as minority leader Friday and republicans on the appropria tions committee pledged Si min ute examination of war expen ditures and efforts to slash rou tine government outlays. Si . "There was an emphatic de termination on the part of all of the members to . get ; the purse strings back in the hands, of congress," ,' said . Senator Nye (R-ND), ranking minority member, after a two-hour ses sion In his office. ji Senator White of Maine was renamed conference secretary. Conference assignments found the ' republicans gaining in creased representation on all committees, averaging two of their number to every three . democrats. In , the house, meanwhile, Sep. Gifford (R-Mass) hinted that President Roosevelt's mes sage of yesterday was a' bid for a fourth term and republicans launched broadsides at the ad-' ministration's domestic' " policies. Hop Growers GaUedHere Oassification Change Sought as Aid to ! OTercome Flood il "Just how serious is it and where do we stand?" is the;; ques tion to be - considered ; by hop growers at a meeting . scheduled forThursday at XXQU n. .in the Salem -chamber of commerce. Two hundred fifty growers from the central valley are expected to attend. ; Realization of the tight spot in which government classification of hops as a non-essential product is going to put growers will de pend greatly upon the extent of damage due to the recent ! high water. As yet reports have failed to come in, due to the fact, , ac cording to the Pacific hop stabili zation board, that flood waters are receding more slowly than was first anticipated. ' Complete extent of the damage should be indicated at the meeting. ! The flood situation has aggra vated the hop classification;; situ ation since growers . were never before faced with loss of crops because of unavailable materials. A movement Is starting to get a reclassification for hops, at least to get them off the non-essential list, which will give growers a chance - to obtain supplies.: - In line with this, a series of meet- (Turn to Page 2 E) .;! Seattle Gels War Wounded SEATTLE, Jan. 8 -- A con tingent of 487 sailors and ma rines, wounded in the south Pa cific war zone; arrived 'here "by train late Friday night for treat ment at the new US naval hos pital. - p ' W -r . . It - was - the firsts trainlqad . of wartime casualties , ever to be brought here. The 13th naval dis trict reported the .men had been hospitalized for varying' periods at San Francisco, and have been moved out . to provide, room for incoming casualties 'there, ji The train took the men to the naval supply depot on the water- front to avoid crowds at the rail way station. Most j; of the f men were able to walk.:-.. - iX " flagship, told. the full story of the sharp engagement. 'i x (Although the battle force , which went to the rescue suf-r fered no losses in the fight, the . admiralty m London i said a British destroyer in the convoy t was sunk " and r another dam aged.) i. , ... -The German ships had been lured out of their Norwegian hide outs by a convoy enroute to north Russia and launched X their ji at--tack east of Bear island off! the northern tip of Norway. , X ; Gallant ' British destroyers of the close escort were holding! off the attackers when the main Brit ish naval force streaked . out -of the darkness, catching one enemy vessell with the first salvo, x Splendid marksmanship was rm . jl ranspon? Slst EPivision Location R , ' . ; - I" r : , .. . :v V'-'v-.; Guards Force Once Headed N First Mention Made Of Unit Since i Fort Lewis SEATTLE, Jan. 8 ( AP) Commendation of the 41st di vision by Gen.H Douglas Mae Arthur for its role against the Japanese .. in the successful New Guinea , campaign was the -first official - mention of the unit . since it left . Fort Lewis. , x ir The 41st -was composed. of Pa cific northwest national guards men, under command of the late Maj. Gen. George A. White of Portland, when it was inducted Into active service in 1940. It was brought to full strength with in ductees and others during the training period at Fort Lewis. ; During General White's com mand, the unit was described by some military men as the best national guard division in the na tion. - .. : . (Gen. White was a former ; Salem i resident and ; Was adju tant general of Oregon until his death.) ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Saturday, Jan. 9 (FJr-The triumph of Geh. Doug las.- MacArthur's troops in wrest ing the Papuan peninsula of New Guinea from a Jap army of 15.000 brought the general messages of congratulation Saturday. Gen. George C. Marshall, Unit ed States army chief of staff, wired: "Heartiest congratulations for capturing Buna and on entire campaign in Papua. With the very limited means available, the amount thai j you have accom plished is a tribute to your lead ership and to the fighting quali ties of your soldiers. The wonder ful work of your air force was an outstanding feature of the opera tions." ; - : Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, commander of the British forces in India, wired: "Your success in the Papuan campaign elicits my warmest congratulations." For Proposal ' WASHINGTON, Jan j - 0P) H a r o 1 d E. Stassen, republican governor of Minnesota, was- crit icized by a republican and de fended by a democrat in the house Friday for his speech last night outlining a proposed form of United Nations government after the war, . S:-v " : t Representative Hoffman (R Mich.) said it was 1 "all right" if Stassen : wanted , "to ' become a stalking horse for Mr. Willkie and steal another republican nomina tion," : but that he wanted to hear from the people back home on what kind of world they wanted after. the war, x ..a.- j ;.. ' Democratic Leadre McConnack of t Massachusetts took exception to the - "stalking horse" remark and commented that Stassen had made a contribution to the studies for a post-war order by advanc ing a proposal for consideration. Stassen proposed a United Na tions government of a single house . parliament - and a. seven- man administrative council. the miracle of the ensuing en gagement, which was fought dur ing the rtwilight" mid-day per iod which, with 21 hours of dark ness, makes up the Arctic "day." ! Throughout the x engagement, the German ships . were visible only as silhouettes in the gloom. The fall I of , shot was almost im possible io Judge except when hits were scored, but the admiral sum med up the shooting with: : , '; "German v marksmanship : was 'Very good ours was better!2 ' The same - conditions made P positive lnifeentlf ication . of the German units engaged Impossl ! ble, but" British officers feel al l most certain, judginr from the sllhobettes, that' one ship was the 10,CC3-tsn heavy cruiser, x . The enemy force also included By Gen. White Where the Gen. MaeArthur gave high praise NEW GUINEA IjBllllIll STATUTE MILES hijjjliil . ' P' of New Guinea Including the 41st division of national guardsmen from the Pacific northwest. The allied forces had captured all the Papuan peninsula except Sanananda point, which was nearly over '- run. Deemed next on MacArthur's list Is the area of Lac and Sala , maua, ag Jases to the northwest Three transports of a Lae-boand i ' convoy have been sunk in the past twoTdays and S3 Zero fighters shot downw Associated .Press Corps YankPldrie Day Camel - I -!: - V ,v- v'v... CAIRO, Jan. 8 53 Palermo, . the big axis air base in Si cily and the mainspring of the German and Italian air effort in Tunisia, was subjected to a heavy and destructive bombing by American four-motored planes by daylight Thursday; A great yellow explosion mushroomed up from the harbor installations, an ! American communique said, but otherwise the results could not be observed be cause of clouds low Over the area. - All the raiding force returned safely to middle eastern bases. - (Indicating considerable dam age at this base on the 'northwest A . 0ms At ,1.11 1 I coast ox .oicuy, uic . tmian luau command said high explosive and incendiary bombs fell in the cen tral part of the town and caused a 4arge number of casualties," in cluding at least 46 killed and 272 wounded.) :X .-- X RAF planes also attacked' sul phur factories at; Licata on the southern coast of' Sicily, causing violent explosions,' bombed Tunis and Sousse by night When hits were scored on a Ship and rail way depot and 'large fires' light ed, and raided an airfield on the tiny island of Lampedusa, mid way between Malta and Tunisia. Allied air forces were -being moved up to new advanced air bases in Tripolitania at a rapid rate. RAF ground crews, engin eers and infantry j were not even bothering to clear; away the de bris of wrecked Italian and Ger man planes as they took over these fields. - j ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS' LN KPRTH AFRICA, Jan. 8 . (Turn to page - 4 destroyers of the Narvik-- or Maas type.'::x&.::X;y: xij .xi . - The story of the . battle, or that part of it which can now be told, begins with the sighting of . gun flashes . in the Arctic gloom at 9:40 a. m. on December j 31. ) . The report that the convoy was being attacked: by; surface; ships spread ' rapidly and the 'faces of sailors lighted up. They still con sider an action - against airplanes and submarines .unnatural. In a battle' between surface units they are In - their element and : revel in it, X , - Let the captain of the flagship tell the story of '.what - followed. t:"We had all .the advantages of dawn hght to the south silhouet ting - the I Germans. -. Finally : we (Turn to Pas 2 C) 41st Fights today to his troops In the jungles Telemat. X.' r ;x; Takes Town Auto Traffic Vehicle traffic over .;. the Marion-Polk j county bridge, , damaged by recent flood waters of the Wil lamette may be resuined here at 5 o'clock today, R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer, said Fri- day.'- ;:-' . -.:;.i;;r.x;;: Reopened for pedestrian use Friday morning, the bridge served a number of commuters, although the Southern Pacific Continued to run' Its' special trains. It was closed Friday night,' f January 1, when the Mellow Moon skating rink was washed from its founda tions against the . west approach Previous predictions of a $100,- 000 damage to Oregon State high ways and bridges by the flood were cut to $65,000 late this week by Baldock. Meanwhile, other 'flood esti mates were still; in the making and would .not be completed for another week or -10 days, state police and Red Cross, officials said. . t ; - , , Dragging operations ' near the Marion-Polk county bridge for the , bodies of Archie Cook -and Michael; Maurer, who dropped throughl the . floor of , the skating rink into the flood 'as they work ed there Saturday night. Caucus of House Set Here Sunday. PORTLAND, Jan. 8 (V Repre sentative William M. j McAllister, (Rep), Jackson county, .who said he has been assured election as speaker of the house by pledges of a majority of members, an nounced here. Friday 1 that house members will caucus in the Mar ion hotel at Salem Sunday night on house administration person nel- i - ' 1 , Damage Heavy; Bridg Begin Today Enemy Convoy Slashed, but nded MaeArthur Rewards Commanders of Fighting Units ALLI E D HEADQUAR TERS IN AUSTRALIA, Sat urday, Jan. 9 ( AP) An other transport and 20 Zeros hare been destroyed . in at tacks on the New Guinea bound Jap convoy but some troops reached Lae, Gen.' Douglas MeArthur announced Saturday, j "Our air force of all categories continued' Its ceaseless attacks both by day and night on the ene my convoy during . the 7th and 8th, pursuing it into," the harbor of Lae, said the noon commun que. ' ' ' . ' ! : " "In'- addition - to " yesterday's transport losses,' our. heavy bomb ers scored two direct hits on the stern of a transport and our me dium bombers sank a transport. - "In the meantime our fighters and attack types strafed the : landing area, barges and beach head, causing numerous fires, explosions and heavy personnel losses. Two medium bombers ' and two fighters were destroyed on the (Lae) airdrome. Throughout the operations, our fighters Incessantly engaged the enemy's air forces. . "In addition to his loOs of yes terday, 20 enemy fighters were shot down, i seven probably de stroyed and 15 damaged in air combat " with our bombers and fighters. Our losses were not heavy. Such (Jap) troop elements as were landed by the enemy are believed to have been fragmentary.,;.- . . . vr The destroyed transport raised to three and the downed Zeros to 38 the price paid by the Jsds for the reinforcement effort X General MaeArthur, on re turning to his general head- quarters from the campaign in , the Papua peninsula, where a Jap a r m y of approximately 15,00 now has been virtually" destroyed, highly praised the work of the American 32nd and 41st divisions and the Fifth " American air force. The Jap convoy first was sight ed by an allied plane January 6 when about SO . miles off New Britain, in whose harbor of Ra baul the Japs have been known to 'be concentrating considerable shipping. ' ;.- . x ,. ., . MacArthur's noon communique of January g announced that .two transports had been sunk and a third damaged. - Before the aerial attack was 24 (Turn to Page 2 F) RAF Pounds Reich Again LONDON, Jan. 9 () The Berlin radio reported Saturday that British bombers were over northern and western . Germany again Friday night their second successive night assault on the reich and the fourth since the New Year. LONDON, Jan. 8 (ffj Large formations- of high ; flying fighter planes streaked across the Chan nel in "almost continual shuttle at tacks on France Friday in what apparently was a large-scale day- ngni , zouowup to another night 1 T . 1. . uumomg oi uermany's Ruhr. Most of the daylight assaults appeared directed at the Calais area and beyond, with the . first good, weather in four days facil itating the operations. . The air ; ministry, announcing the night assault on the Ruhr without x retail, said all the a t tacking "v orce- returned safely. The specific targets of the raid were" not announced. ' Roads to Ferry Open xnoependence lerry and the Marion and Polk county roads : it serves carried heavy traffic Fri day as ferry service was resumed following high water on the Wil lamette. . Motorists using the Marion-Polk- county route said both the South River, road .and the Independence approach to the 4 ferry were in good condition. Some La