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Complete i- r - YeaH find m newspapez cu rlT more real satisfae (lea than real . local more la paper, with Its IVO&LD pin COiI3 COil. tlUNITT NSYl'S. . VTeiaesday icurlse 2:13 to. tun. max. temp. 43, mix St. Toes, river f9 ft. . Weal-cr data restricted by arm rt-.. PCUNDQD inrrmr-crcoin) yeaii Cdgau OrtTcai Tuesday Mcrj, January 12, IS 13 73 1 7 7$ Destrpyeurdti Pacific Action T7aiting Senate ' : (I ' -n."TN . xtn soviels Surge Horth' ; Caucasian Gties Fall ; vH Rommel Still Flees; - French Navy Fixed ; By WILLIAM SMITH WHITE Associated Press War Editor v The Russian forces of the Caucasus, reporting the reoc cupation of three major points on and along the main railroad to Rostov, were moving forward Monday night with such rapidi ty as to indicate that the nazis were now in urgent retreat in an effort to reach and hold that possible door of exit for the Ger man armies bloodily engaged against the primary soviet weight along the lower Don. " -There were indications that the at. . mm . momentum oi inese rea uensives some 60 miles above Rostov, con trary to the position in the Cau . casus, had been materially re "duced by savage and desperate German' counter-attacks,- but the dra wal reflected his fear that these doubtful barriers could not be long maintained. " Red army tanks and motorized ' infantry captured sfac CaacasJan cities Monday, Inclading Geort; ; Ivsk, Mineralnye Vody, and Py - atirorsk, the soviet announced in one of its most impressive ' speeUl communiques. The fighting in north Africa, which in the grand allied plan is Closely related to the majestic mil itary drama now unfolding on the far Russian : plains, was - confined principallytojthe air but there it took on the appearance of a great -correlated American and 'British effensive extending from Tunisia clear to Tripoli in Libya. . Rommel, it appeared in all ac counts, had : resumed his retreat and - was racing westward in an attempt to join up with General , Nehrings forces, presumably 1 leaving Tripoli to be engulfed. It was to prevent such a juncture, or at all events to cut Rommel Gown zar oeyona . rus present strength, that British and Ameri can airmen were in such heavy action. One of the most spectacular air actions reported during; the day was a one-man assault by MaJ. Philip Georre Cochran of Erie, Fa flying alone low over Kalrouan he dropped a big ' bomb, the only one he carried, ' .squarely in the middle of the German military headquarters, smashing it. As to the future of the African campaign. Vice Admiral Glass ford, the head of the American mission to Dakar in French West ' Africa who now is at allied North African headquarters, disclosed that the 35,000-ton French battle ship Richlieu was being put into condition to become within a few months Ma top-notch ship fighting with the allied navies." The bulk of the French fleet 'at Dakar, he said, would be ready French political developments In North Africa appear to bo reaching a climax, and fin a few days yea may hear that heads have fallen and new men Itv" Charles CoUincwood. CBS: eerrespondent, reported : Mon . day night in a broadcast from , Algiers. -. ; V Collingwood said the sin:gle for political control was betreen the "men of Vichy," the royalists who would like to see a king of France again" and the "Fighting French of Gen. Charles De Gaulle. He; reported North Africa has been "swept by intense political agitation" since Adm. Jean Dor ian's assassination, and "those who had him killed did so for a rea son,' and ; that reason is tied up with the struggle for power that is going on now." Service Men W. Harry Wiedmaier, newly commissioned as second lieu tenant : of . infantry in the US army, arrived home la Salem JLZenday for a brief, visit with his family and friends before re turning for additional training. Active in Boy Scent leadership and state civilian defense, Wied maier entered tnijdng as a vol vnteer officer candidate last summer at Camp Roberts, Calif. He completed his schooling, pre paratory to receiving his com-' grJ!--!ja, i Fart Censing. Ga SI The TJSS Hornet (above) was announced Monday night by the navy as the aircraft carrier reported lost but not named after the battle of Santa Crus October 2S. The craft, constructed In 1941, was the seventh US naval vessel to bear that name. For pictures of other snips disclosed as - sank; see : page two. x-, 1 -.:' !v Navy Announces Hornet Sunk US and Britain Yield Rights Treaties With China Writes Finish to Extra-Territoriality WASHINGTON, Jan. 1 l-m The United S t a t e s i and -Great Britain, in identical treaties sign ed , Monday in v Washington-- and Chungking, formally relinquishing their extra-territorial rights and privileges in China. In effect, the Anglo-American move applies to China what Sec retary of State Hull has called, "the principle of equality of treat ment among nations." From the Chinese point of view, it constitutes formal as surance that the post-war sov ereignty of China will be free of the fetters of a system which enabled foreign powers to do in China what they could not do normally within the borders of a sovereign foreign nation. Specifically, the United States, in the treaty, signed here by Sec retary of State Hull and Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-Ming, re linquishes its right to maintain troops in China or ships of war in Chinese waters, relinquishes its right to maintain its own court of justice in China, and acknowl edges the principle that Chinese nationals in the United States and American . nationals in China should be on the same footing in respect to legal proceedings, the administration of justice and the levying of taxes. - : ""The treaty, still to be ratified by , the senate, ; will have little practical; effect: until after the war, inasmuch as Japan now con trols much J3f the areas in which extra-territorial rights existed. Its moral significance, however, ; is that it recognizes sovereign China as an equal among the nations. In telegrams to President Roose velt and Prime Minister Churchill, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek said the ) treaties were a "signal proof of solidarity among the United Nations not only for the purpose of war but also winning the, peace." entina Of German BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 11 jp The . Argentine government an nounced Monday night that it had asked Germany to recall Capt. Dietrich Niebuhr, German embas sy naval attache accused of es pionage i after an investigation based on information supplied by the United States. The action followed the German government's, refusal to surrender him to the jurisdiction of the su preme court for trial a necessary step because of diplomatic im munities : enjoyed by axis person nel here.' rv -.X' 1- ..: Opponents of President Ramon Castillo's conservative ' govern ment were given new ammunition by this development in their at tempt to get Castillo to break off diplomatic relations with the axis. (Turn to Pas F) , S Are 3 Cruisers9, 7 Loss Revealed By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON, Jan. ll.-P) The navy announced Monday night that the 20,000-ton Hornet was the American aircraft carrier sunk in the battle of the Santa Cruz island last .October 28, nd identified ' at the-sayeTtSrihTee cruisers and seven destroyers which had heretofore been report ed sunk but not identified. The other vessels named as lost, all in battles in the Solomon is lands area of the south Pacific, and their commanders are: The Northampton, heavy cruiser, Capt. Willard A. Kltta, 3rd, of Oswego, NT. He Is safe. The Juneau, 6000-ton light cruiser, Capt. Lyman Knute Swenson of Provo, Utah. He is missing. The Atlanta, 6000-ton sister ship of the Juneau, Capt Samuel Pow er Jenkins, of San Diego, Calif. He is safe. The Monssen, 1630-ton destroy ,er Lt. Comdr. Charles Edward McCombs, of Martins Ferry,. Ohio. He is safe. "A ' : The dishing, 1465-ton destroy er, Lt. Comdr. Edward N. Parker of Bellefonte, Pa. He is safe. The Benham, 1500-ton destroy er, Lt. Comdr. John Barrett Tay lor, of Churchille, Bucks county, Pa. He is safe. The Preston, 1480-ton destroyer, Comdr. Max C. S tonnes, of San Diego, Calif. He is missing. , The Walke, 1750-ton destroyer, Comdr. Thomas Edward Eraser, of Philadelphia, Pa. He is missing. The Barton, 1700-ton destroyer, Lt Comdr. Douglas Harold Fox, of Dowagiac, Mich. He is missing. The Laffey, 1700-ton destroyer, Lt Comdr. William Edwin Hank, of Norfolk, Va. He is missing. In the battles fat which these American ships were sank, the Japanese lost 37 vessels sunk and IS damaged. The navy announcement of the loss, of the Hornet was made in a communique which said the name of that and the other ships had been withheld "for reasons of mil itary security and to avoid caus ing needless anxiety on the part of relatives and friends of the per sonnel who survived ' these ac tions." ""'? - - :- I- !..-', , "Reports of casualties have since been received, and the next of kin of all personnel killed, wounded or missing in . these, actions have now been notified.", ' 1 (Turn to Page 2 D) Talk to Farmers -. Scheduled Todays - WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (flp) The agriculture department an nounced Monday., that James F. Byrnes, director of economic sta bilization, . would present v Presi dent Roosevelt's message to farm ers on farm : mobilization - day Tuesday., ... ' The message, originally sched uled to be delivered personally by the president,: . will be broadcast between 4 and 4:30 pjxl, eastern war time. Leaders of the United Nations will speak from England and Destroyers FR Names 8th Man to Court Westerner Is Choice; Flynii Naming Sets Off Fireworks ; WASHINGTON, Jan, 11 Justice Wiley " Blount ' Rutledge, jr 48, of the District of Colum bia.Qourt, f :appe4Js;l Westerner who takes a liberal view of the constitutional provision that "con gress shall have power to . . . provide for the . . the general welfare," : was nominated for the supreme court Monday to succeed James F. Byrnes. Thus President Roosevelt made his eighth appointment : to the court, more than any . president since Washington, ' but his first from the : lower bench. Rutledge's appointment was favorably received in the sen-" ate and speedy confirmation was Indicated. Senator Gillette CD la) commented that the appoint- ment "recognizes a man coming from west, of the Mississippi river, a" section that has been neglected in court appomt- ments la the recent past." -' A" legal resident of Iowa, Rut ledge was born in Kentucky and has lived in Tennessee, Wiscon sin, Indiana, New Mexico. Colo rado and Missouri. Rutledge was a high school teacher in Indiana when hewas stricken with tuberculosis. On the advice of a physician he moved to Albuquerque, NM, then to Boulder, Colo., where be entered the law school of the University of Colorado. He received his de gree in 1922, practiced law for a time in Boulder and then joined the university faculty there. . In 1926 he went to the faculty of Washington university St Louis, became dean of ' the law (Turn to Page 2 C) Inquest Today On Death of M. Maurer A coroner's inquest Into the death of ' Michael Maurer, Stay ton, employe of the state highway department whose body was found near the Southern Pacific bridge over the Willamette river Sunday, is to be held today in Dallas, District Attorney Bruce I Spauld ing of Polk county revealed Mon day night Conducted by Coroner C " W. Henkle, the inquest is to be held to- determine cause and responsi bility in the drowning of Maurer, for whose body search had been made since the night of Saturday, January ,2, when, with ', Archie Cook of Woodhurn and two other highway v department - employes, he fell through the floor of the old Mellow Moon skating rink intoj the flooding Willamette, f -v One of the men was pulled to safety by use" of ropes; one drift ed, clinging to a piece of debris, drifted to the railroad bridge and dragged himself to shore. Cook's body had not been found Monday night. ' ; .- The body of Maurer was dis covered by two boys late Sunday afternoon.' Budget;,: : : For! .War': ! 9 Billions Non-War;! , New TaxesSought ! "' j To Meet Part , By" RICHARD L. TURNER , . WASHINGTON, San. U-P) President Roosevelt told con gress Mond ay of- plans for spending $100,000,000,QOO on fighting the -war" in the next fiscal year- plus $9,000,000,000 to go for other purposes and recommended. $ 1 6,000,000,000 in new taxes! or compulsory loans. ' Submitting . his 1 annual budget and budget message, the chief ex ecutive : outlined a "national ef fort . of gigantic magnitude," reaching all the way from Ameri can ; homes . and factories to far distant battle lines. j- , I Tt reflects," he said, "the de termination of civilians to pass the ammunition." -Talking about the budget and taxes at a press conference, Mr. Roosevelt ' said one of his per sonal : objectives was ' a $25,000 limit after the payment of taxes, on all incomes. Under executive regulations, net salaries are now limited to $23,000. " ' The colossal extent of the contemplated expenditm-es brought a collective gasp from : eongress, which ' quickly made I two things clean First that all necessary war appropriations " will be -quickly forthcoming, and, second, that republicans -and economy minded democrats wilt insist upon a further re . duction in non-war outlays. . Tax receipts will ; have to be they' -are to ; cover half- the " war budget, -Mr. Roosevelt said raised from $33,081,245,000, the es timated net yield of the present law, to around $49,000,000,000. He suggested (and congressional talk immediately centered upon) in creased outright tax payments supplemented by compulsory sav ings, taxes to be refunded to the taxpayer after the close of the war. In addition he urged that so far as possible "taxes be placed upon an "pay-as-you-got basis." He em phasized that in any event the tax program Would require war-time sacrifices, saying: "Total war in s democracy is a violent conflict in which everyone (Turn to Page 2 A) Court Denies Injunction in Labor Hearing PORTLAND, Jan. ll-(ff)-Fed-eral Judge James A. Fee refused Monday-night to restrain the na tional labor relations board from hearing charges of .unfair labor practices against three Kaiser shipyards in Portland ! and Van couver, Wash. . ' Thus the way was cleared for a hearing that spokesmen for mira cle shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser say threatens labor relations in war industries throughout the na tion. ' . - The CIO charged the three yards with making illegal closed-shop agreements with AFL unions be fore a majority of workers had been : hired, f ',...."' " ; . , The NLRB session opened be fore; Trial Examiner Robert N. Denham of I Washington, DC, on the seventh floor of the US court house. Simultaneously on the sixth floor Kaiser representatives countered j with their request 'for a restralner, in the district court. The Kaisers charged a majority of the labor board was prejudiced, that Chairman Harry S. Minis and Board Member Gerard Reilly had already publicly expressed opinion that the AFL contracts violated the Wagner act. '.j " ,. -c Kaiser Attorney Fletcher Rock wood pleaded' for a 10-day re strainer on the ground that the hearing' was; not a labor-management dispute, but rather a fight between two unions which could best be passed on to the war la bor board. An injunction,'' he con tended,' would do this. He: reeled V the , shipbuilding achievements ' of the yards due largely to " harmonious labor re lations,) which, he asserted, would be disrupted if the AFL contracts were scrapped. Be said that KLRB officers had estimated it would take six months to a year to ne- Turn to Pass 2 E) ,: - ! y Strain of a prolonged deadlock in : their battle fosvsbo state senate presidency was noied Monday y. night an the faces of r the two nominees. Sen. Dorothy . MeCnl lough Lee (top) and Sen. W H. ; Stclwer. Neither, however, showed any indication of swerv .1 , ing from stands they had taken ln opposition , to m caucus-like ; conf crtce an ne -qvestiirat la v Mrs Lee s case, or to drawing Uts, u Mr. Stelwer's. " .. get Near Billion , Record Production Of Crops Sought As War Weapon j WASHINGTON, Jan. j ll.-P)-President Roosevelt submitted to congress Monday a budget rec ommendation calling for the ! ap propriation of $991)96,154 for the department of agriculture in ) the 1943-44 fiscal year, of which $837,000,000 would be used to! fa cilitate a program of record pro duction of war crops. I . i . , Justifying such an appropria tion, the president said:; ' "Food is a primary weapon of war. An adequate food supply is. therefore, a basic aspect of a to tal war program.' L f To facilitate the program, he recommended appropriation of $400,000,000 for soil conservation and crop adjustment payments to farmers; $194,000,000 for parity payments; ' $96,000,000 for expor tation' and domestic consumption of farm products, exclusive; of lend-lease; $64,000,000 for sugar act payments; . $38,000,000 for; the farm security administration, 'and $31,000,000 for reductions in : In terest rates on farm mortgages. The president's budget also es timated that $1,600,000,000 would be needed by the department dur ing the first, half of the 1943-44 fiscal year for lend-lease food and other farm products; These: funds would be available from ; separ ate - war appropriations.:: Lend lease purchases by the depart ment are expected ' to total $1, 700,000,000 during the current; Cs-. cal year. , A ' A-' . The department's over-all bud get recommendation submitted by the president was $991,996,154. It included $150,749,789 for admin istrative and research 'activities, or $31,110,000 less for. these items than last year when the depart ment's over-all appropriation to taled $823,646,665. "j, ': The 1943-44 budget also con tained a request for $58,000,000 to further rubber plant ; develop ment projects. , ! ' Drafting Scheduled ; WASHINGTON," Jan. Il-(flP War Manpower " Commissioner Paul V. McNutt said Monday that drafting of men for the navy, ma rines and coast guard would; be gin by the end of February, cer tainly.' One reason for delay, he told a press conference, was ' dif ficulty encountered, in drafting unif onn rhysical standards, j..' 28 Tie Inaugural Delayed; Time ; Not Yet I&iovn; House Meets McAllister Early 'r' -f: 4&C;;; By RALPH C CURTIS . r ' ; ., Ix)g-jarnmed even more tightly than was apparent from the gallery and jamming still tighter each time the freshet was re leased for another ballot on the choice of their presiding officer, Oregon' 50 senators were no nearer the lawmaking mill at 9:39 o'clock Monday night when an overnight recess, was taken, than they had been 11 hours earlier. Twenty eight .ballots had been taken and each time the count ' 1 " was: Sen., Dorothy Lee 15, Sen. W. H. Steiwer 15. . V Meanwhile a full y-organized house of representatives marked time after electing : Rep. William M. McAllister its speaker and wit nessing thel introduction of four bills; Governor-Elect v Earl W. Snell awaited an already-overdue inaugural; Go v.. Char 1 e s ' A. Sprague held office for an extra day; and hundreds 'of citizens who had, come to attend the inaugural ceremonies had to content them selves with a less colorful "show" which however was much super ior in'the matter of dramatic sus pense. .' ' " ' -:;t - " Ttase of : the Inanrnral still was anybody's gness, though the , hease-' of- representatives - had - passed ' a eenenrrent resolotion ' providing for a joint session for: the purpose, at 16 a. m. today. . It stiU most be passed by the ..senate - and technically there is no seite. ' : Red-faced ; In their realisation of a publifc , reaction put into words by Sen. W. E. Burke laughing-stock of the state" senators tried, or proposed, sev eral devices ; whereby the dead lock might be broken. Early Mon day afternoon,' after the 12th bal lot, Sen. Steiwer orally "releas ed" bis pledges but explained he still was a candidate; they con tinued to vote for him. Two bal lots slater Sen. Lee did likewise. No change. . -; V. le After the 22nd ballot, veteran Sen. W. H. Stray er, temporary chairman, suggested that in order to hold the inaugural, some mem ber be elected president with the understanding j that' he would re sign immediately ..after the inaug ural. This suggestion was, in fact, adopted by' a 16-14 vote, but it ran into snags when Strayer and then Sen. William E. Walsh de clined nomination for; the "pro tem" election. Recess until 7:30 at night was taken after ' the r 23rd ballot 'i- ;-'--;! At the night session Sen. Lee offered, following a' caucus of her backers, to settle the-entire mat ter by drawing lots. On a motion to recess for , that . purpose, the vote was: Yea 15, no 15. Every senator supporting Sen. Lee voted for the motion, every Steiwer ad herent opposed it. ' ; l : The circamstance making the deadlock seem even more hope less than was apparent from the gallery was that no member of ; the Lee group the opposition claimed j would attend any ' sort of eonferenee with any- of the Steiwer faction. This appar ently prevented any discussion likely to prove fruitful, on the subject of a "dark horse" com promise candidate. Bat no one on either side was willing to talk for publication , on -. that possibility. I u: :i .The member ; most frequently mentioned in .off-the-record dis cussion of a ;. possible compromise was Sen. Howard C Belton. On the first ballot as on the 28th and at all times in between this was the lineup, with the two candidates according each - other courtesy votes: ' - f -For Lee: Best, Booth, Burke, Chessman, Ellis, Fisher, Lynch, McXfcuna, Parkinson, Patterson, Steiwer, Strayer, Walsh, Wheeler, Wipperman. - Tor "l Steiwer: Belton, ; Carson, Cornett, ; Gibson, - Jones, f Kauff man, Lamport,! Lee, .Mahoney, Newbry, Rand, Stadelnoan, Walk er, Wallace, Zurcher. Sen. t Steiwer had been ; nomi nated by Sen. C IL Zurcher; Sen. Lee by Sen, H. C, Wheeler. Red Cross Goal Set WASHINGTON, J a n. : 1 1-T) A goal of $ 123 JC C0.CC 0 for the 1943 Red Cross war fund was an nounced Monday night The cam paign will be held in March. BalhtQ JL CI xurpuuu omp; ; ; US Forces Advance . In Guadalcanal, V Oit Burma Japs ; ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, Jmn. 12.-(A-Australian airmen scoresT their first torpedo hit in :th southwest Pacific area last Satur day . and apparently blasted an other Japanese warship a light cruiser or... a large ; destroyer irom me ocean. Smoke had enveloped the ves sel when the Beaufort bomben participating in the. attack left th scene. -i. , : v. - The next . morning reconnalsf sanse planes returned to the area but close search failed to disclose ary trace of enemy warships.. i The attack took place off Gas mata on the south coast of New Britain. m i' A hit was scored, causing a heavy explosion amidships, en veloping the vessel In smoke," the communique said. "The ship was not visible at daybreak and is be lieved .to have sunk during the night." , .The noon communique, which reported the probable sinking, mentioned other than recon naisanee activity in the north west sector (or the first time In several days. ; "Our medium units bombed the jetty at Dobo," the communique said. Dobo is on Aru island, off the southwest c o as t of. New Guinea. Allied : ground forces Monday closed in further on Japanese en veloped in -the Sanananda corri dor, which extends about a mil and a half inland from the Papu an coast.; Flanking -Japanese positions on the west, strong allied patrols captured a quantity of r i f 1 e s, (Turn to Page 2 B) Goal Industry Asks Return Of Strikers NEW TORK, Jan. 11 iff5) The anthracite coal industry's govern ing committee of 12 members, representing equally the United Mine Workers of America and the mine operators. Monday nieht called upon all striking coal min ers in Pennysylvania to return to their jobs immediately. '. In a telegram which the com mittee dispatched to all union locals In the anthracite region, the committee members stressed the need for maximum production of coal during the war emergency. The committee also advised solid fuels coordinator Harold Ickes of their action. Thomas Kennedy. UMWA In ternational secretary - treasurer, said he was "hopeful" that this action .would bring results in the Wilkes Barre Scraton areas - (Turn to Page 2 G) . Legislative Novs - First of a series of legislative news broadcasts over radio sta tion KCU.I Is schedule J for 7:15 o'clock taught as a Joist psi'Ia service en the part f the ral'9 station and The Oreron States man. The commentator will te Ca2;h C. Csrtij ef Tie C lite 3 Eaan wLa Las trca-cast s!";r jPrograias throELoet tie list .three rrevlacs Btr:.'.:rs cf l"j lc!Lit)ire Planes i -. r