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Salem. Oregon, Wedneaday Z-Iomlng, January 13 18i3
No. 213
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8lh Army Bolstered;
French Battling
Up From South
By The AasocUi ted Press
LONDON, Jan. 12 The
British Eighths army was ore-;
ported about ready for a fresh
'". tpurt toward. : Tripoli Tuesday
night and its Anglo-American
and French allies in Tunisia,
Fighting French in the Fezzan
, wastes of lower Libya and their
air forces dealt many and varied
blows at the axis in the Medi
terranean theatre. t .
The Morocco radio said strong
reinforcements, including t a n k
forces, had arrived in the last
i tew hours to strengthen the for
ward elements of the Eighth army
before Wadi Zemzem, 163 air
line miles southeast of Tripoli. . -This
possible indication t h a t
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montfomery's
. forces were getting ready to re
sume their, advance after" a lull
supplemented Berlin reports of
Saturday night that thousands of
-allied vehicles had been concen
trated to the south of Marshal
Erwin Rommel's positions.
If an attack was Imminent it
bvloasly was in cooperation
with the Fithiinr French of the
. mysterious Gen. Jacques Lee
, lere who were reported within
3lf miles of Tripoli after an
, '; Bonncinz a . complete eonqaest
mt Italy's Fesxan empire of salt
V marsh, oases a n d desert ,h
soothern Libya.
' Among the developments of the
iday" which sharpened the picture
in the Mediterranean were these:
American Flying Fortresses for
the first time thundered into Trip
elitania -out otthe west, and bom
barded - the Italian fort of Gad
ames, 170. .miles ' southwest : of
Tripoli near the Libyan-Tunisian-Algerian
border -. -3 -.
Putting the axis under a two
" way hammering from American
four-motored bombers, the Fort-
- resses Liberator mates from the
Cairo force r slid over Naples on
the Italian mainland by daylight
Monday for their first bombing
of that embarkation point and na-
' val base in 1943.- x
"'In Tunisia, just to the south of
the German perimeter about Tunis
and Bizerte, British and French
patrols were more active than in
days and fought several success
ful actions, a north African, head-
quarters communique reported.
i British infantry, and tanks
rushed the Germans off a ridre.
and settled themselves astride
- the 'arterial Gonbellat road six
miles north of Boa Arada and
rabont 14 miles soath of Med-Jes-EI-Bab.
'
French troops , of Gen. Henri
Giraud drove the enemy- out of a
mountain pass 23 miles south of
Pont-Du-Fahs and reported cap
ture of at least 180 prisoners.
All of this came in the midst
of information from reliable neu
tral sources from Germany- that
- the Germans ' were . engaged , in a
squabble over authority in Africa,
with Marshal Rommel refusing to
accept orders from Gen. Walther
" Nehring in Tunisia, and Gen.
nehring refusing to knuckle under
to Rommel. Failing to reconcile
the two generals, it was reported.
Hitler has appointed a third, Col.
Gen. Juergen von Arnim, as commander-in-chief
in Tunisia.
The Moroeeo radio said Mar
shal Rommel "Now will have to
- divert tanks and armored ears
to meet the threat of Leclere's
eolnmn which may either march
'a Tripoli or into southern Tu
nisia,". - ,
The Flying Fortress assault on
Gadames apparently was related
to this strategy for it is a strong
position built by the Italians to
counter the French system of for
tifications known as the Mareth
line. It is ' opposite the southern
' anchor of that lino at Fort Saint
Judd Leaves UAL
Here for Seattle
; No manager has yet been named
to succeed Oliver Judd at the Sa
lem office of United Air lines
following his appointment as as
sistant station manager for the
lines at Seattle, UAL employes
understood here Tuesday. . Jack
Lowe, Judd's " assistant here, is
serving as manager here until a
new appointment has been an
nounced. -
' Judd," the Salem office's first
manager, came here . last winter
prior to the opening of service
here December 5, 1941. The Se
- attle position is a considerable ad
vancement i " with 5 his company,
other employes at the Salem offi
ces said Tuesday. , Judd took
over bis sew duties last week.
a '
JA. Gen-Kenstantin Sokossovsky.
one of the youngest generals in
"the history of the red army Is
making a bid for immortality
' by his handling of the great Don
offensive against the nazis. He
' Is in command of the drive
sovth of Tsimlyansk, which has
" the, Caacasns key 'city of Ros
- tov'as the altiaaate goaL UN
Phota. ..
Board Handles
War Matters
: Business of Schools
Includes Aircraft
And Instructors
Salem ! school j board members
fought the war on the home front
Tuesday night as they handled a
full, meeting's business in which
only two actions were unrelated
to the current world conflict.
- Acts of replacing Elizabeth
Lewiston Wilson and Madeline
Golden and of approving current
expenditures were .the only: non
war deeds , done.' Mrs. . Wilson's
rejgnation ' to 1 allow: her return
to school tfta Tcompleis Work . toi
ward a degree had been accepted
earlier. Mrs. Golden was given
leave because of her health. Mrs.
Neva Cool ey Mun dinger was
elected to teach the second sem
ester at Washington in place of
Mrs. -Golden; Mrs. Elsie Collins
to replace Mrs. Lewis at Engle
wood for the remainder of the
year. ; . ;'
Bids on slabwood tamed over.
to committee were for 1009.
cords of the fael at S5.C? and
9, a rise of approximately Z
over pre-war prices.
Civil air patrol requests for use
of the auditorium in the school of
fices building for a two - hour
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Death Found
Accidental ;
: - ..T-. :
DALLAS, Jan. 12 Inquest
Tuesday afternoon into the
drowning of a state highway em
ploye, Michael Maurer of Stay ton,
near the Southern Pacific bridge
over the Willamette river during
the flood, resulted Tin the Jury's
finding It "an accidental death,"
according to Coroner C. W. Hen-kle.-
i . ' ;
The four witnesses, workmen
who were in the highway i crew
with Maurer,' described the - acci
dent as occurring when all .were
busy working hard and unable
to see what happened.-They were
so busy scrambling for themselves,
the witnesses related, that ft was
difficult tor them to see" exactly
what took place. The examining
physician, Dr. E. C Bossatti, was
the fifth witness to appear. :
-Jurors were E. J. Page, Maurice
Dal ton, C B. Sundberg, Rea Cra
ven, J. ; B. Allgood and J. A
Inglis. ! .
Most notable changes in Salem
senior high school's curriculum
with the institution of the victory
corps there are to center around
the , daily physical education re
quirement and , the addition of a
sixth class hour in place of the
activities period, the student body
of the school was told at. a spe
cial assembly Tuesdayr
The realigned classes commence
with the, beginning of the second
semester, t February 1, and regis
tration is to be carried on at the
school in .' the time intervening.
Explanations of the victory
corps requirements and the sub
jects to be offered in keeping with
those demands ; were made by
Supt Frank B. Bennett, Principal
Fred D. Wolf and Curriculum Di
rector Walter E.' Snyder. , ? "
' : The army, 'toavy and edoca
tional ' Institutions are partici
pating In the program which Is
designed to produce a nation
Victory Corps Set
'A 10 Villages Taken
i In Drive Along 1 :
Rostov Railway
- MOSCOW,: Wednesday, Jan.
lS-iVRussian troops driving
toward Rostov were reported
early Wednesday within artil
lery range of Salsk, an im
portant railway - junction 110
miles to the southeast, while the
Soviets in Moscow announced
the capture of ten more Caucasian
settlements, and the killing of 2,
000 Germans along the lower Don
where the nazis are counter-attacking
night and day.
Six villages. Including Essen
inki, or Yessentakt, xXarras and
BeahUvnit all la the ; ryati
gorsk area fell to the advan
cing Russians, the regular mid
night communique said of the
fighting along the Baku-Rostov
railway skirting the northern
slopes of the Caucasian moan
tains. Another town which the , Rus
sians reported occupying was Le
vokumsy, about 75 nafles north
east of Georgievsk, and the Brit
ish news agency Reuters said that
the Russian troops from the north
Caucasus had joined forces near
there with the Kalmyck j steppes
army which had : been ' driving
southwestward.
To the north the Russians took
four more settlements in the area
of Zimovniki on the Stalingrad
Tikhoretsk railway. The red
army's advance units are already
beyond Kuberle, 150 miles south
west of Stalingrad on this railway,
and less than 50 miles from Salsk.
. Stockholm reports said that the
Russians already were battling
the Germans dug in northeast of
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Five Indicted
In South on
Lynch Charge
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 12.-VP-A
federal grand jury late Tues
day returned two indictments
charging four private citizens and
a deputy sheriff, all of. Jones
county, Miss., with violation of
federal civil rights statutes in the
lynching of Howard Wash, negro,
at Laurel, Miss., on the night of
October 16, 1942. ; 4 ...
The first indictment named Na
thanial Shotts, Allen Pryor, Bar
ney Jones and William Oscar
Johnson. The second indictment
named those four and in addition
Luther Holder, deputy sheriff and
Jones .county jailor.
Frank Coleman, Roanoke, Va,
special assistant to the US at
torney general, announced the in
dictments and said his depart
ment's investigation indicated the
four citizens were "ring-leaders"
of m mob estimated at , between
50 and 100. ! i . "'
Coleman described the Indict
ments as the first of their type,
involving an officer, in the coun
try's history, and the third j of
their general type on record.
One count of the second indict
ment charges Holder, the deputy,
with refusing to protect the negro
by "using those reasonable means
which were available to him, and
particularly by locking a single
mob-proof door, the key to which
he had in possession. j-
Wash had been convicted in the
local court on October 16 for the
killing of Clint Welborn, a white
resident of the community, and
was awaiting a life sentence when
the mob lynched him by hanging
him from a bridge near the scene
of the crime.
wide ; stadent organisation in
secondary schools, Bennett told
the students. Designed to train
high school stndenta far the war
work that may eome after they
have left school and to provide
active participation of yonng
people in the community's war
effort while they are In school,
the organisation la to assist Its
members by gniding them Into
critical services and occupations,
training wartime citizenship,
making them' physically ; fit,
causing them to become increas
ingly competent In science and
mathematics, providing pre-in-daction
training and by , render- ,
lag eommnnlty service.
At Salem high school refresher
courses are to be offered in sci
ence, mathematics and English. ;
; Dividing the pupil's: elective
wartime or civilian service selec
tions into five main fields: air, sea,
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Nazi Retreat
F'T'"'1''"""""
m C BmmtU mm mninimaiianBaiii ii mi -
German and Rumanian troops, retreating la the Den river area, look
escape a railway which had been effectively ; destroyed by the Russians. Latest dispatches from Mos
cow indicate the advancing Saamians are eon verging apon the key elty of Kestev and are threatenmg
. to cnt off and isolate a huge German army. Above photo was obtained .In London throagh some
neutral source and was transmitted by telephone to San Francisco ever International News Photos. ,
More Held,
Darlan Case
"j:
Giraud and DeCaulle I
ToBIeet Soon,
Says Spokesman
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS;
North Africa, Jan. 12.-0ip)-The
Christmas eve assassination of
A dm. Jean Darlan. the late high
commissioner of North t Africa,"
appears to have been the "result
of a conspiracy reaching in many;
directions" and additional "per
sonages of Algiers' have been ar
rested in the case, a spokesman
for Gen. Henri Giraud, ;the adl
miral's , lueect so r, announced
Tuesday night. , '
A number of those arrested
early in the Investigation have
been released, however, said the
spokesman, who replied that he
could not f orecast the trend of the
inquiry when he was asked if a
French monarchist group headed
by the Count of Paris had figured
in the case.
At the same time another an- ;
nouneement of great political
importance in the future of
North Africa was made by the
spokesman, who said Gen. Gl
rand will meet Gen. Charles .
Do Gaulle, the Fighting French
leader, in the near fa tore in an
effort to reach a working agree
ment for the two French forces.
The official spokesman, who
addressed a press conference aft
er the city of Algiers had seethed
for two days with rumors of the
arrest of many prominent persons
in the Darlan murder, - stressed
throughout that the investigation
was being made by the military
authorities and .was :. proceeding
"without consideration of the
prominence of the persona in
volved, nor their political beliefs."
He made it clear that the new
personages arrested were in addi
tion to the 12 whom Giraud an
nounced on New Year's eve had
been seized in a plot to kill him
self and Robert Murphy, Presi
dent Roosevelfs personal minis
ter to North Africa.
After announcing the new ar
rests, the spokesman said "many
telegrams have been exchanged
between Gen. Giraud : and" Gen.
De Gaulle with, a view to reach
ing an agreement." and he an
nounced their forthcoming meet
ing. . :
He said Gen. De Gaulle "want.
ed to arrange a meeting earlv in
January, ; but. this has been im
possible because Gen. Giraud has
been on a tour - of the provin-
New Canadian
Troops Land -
A BRITISH PORT. Wednesdav.
Jan." 13-(,-niousands of : rein
forcementr for. the Canadian over
seas army have landed at this
British port, it was permitted to
be disclosed Wednesday. . .
Cheerful and hannv at reaching
their .destination safelv and an
xious to complete their training
and find action as soon as possible,
the Canadians already have been
dispersed by several trains to va
rious reeinforcement and recep
tion bases. :r
Although army . p e r lonnel
formed the greater part of the
movement it also included a large
group, of Canadian navy person
nel returning overseas after leave
in Canada.
Reminismht of Napoleon's Treh
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Two Sets of : Proposals
To Break Stymie Tell
Story
of ' Sehate Vote
By STEPHEN
- The story of how the Oregon state senate arrived at; the
breaking of its 44-ballot, two-day deadlock is the story of two
sets of counter -proposals made by Sens. W. H. Steiwer, the win
ner, and Dorothy McCullough Lee, who lost the presidency but
won recognition as "a good sport."
Action-seeking efforts of junior senators and a former
Salem "boy?; serving in his sec
ond session helped. .
. The ; Steiwer , faction , had for
seTeraJjweekf been proposing that
M,0 senators gs into: conference
"caucus," ; the Lee forces dub-
-r it, -unfaycabiy nd seek to
iron out their impasse "with the
press present,'
Mrs. Lee and her 14 male
backers offered instead to draw
lots, as between her and Mr.
Steiwer, for the presidency, a
position that carries with It the
nearest approach to a nontenant-governorship
that the Ore
gon constitution provides.
Neither side would accept the
other's initial plan of action.
Early Tuesday the session's
freshmen senators sought the fac
tion leaders' approval of a com
promise "dark horse", movement.
Nothing happened . Immediately,
but their move may have sown
the seed of agreement that sprout
ed suddenly Tuesday night. It was
a ; spontaneous development and
not the Idea of any one man. Sen.
John H. Carson of Salem, one of
the group, declared.
The "Salem, boy" angle came
from Sou William Walsh, of
Marshfield, who spent several
years here attending Willamette
university and was f t a d u a t ed
from its law school. -'
A staunch Leo supporter "be
cause we got acquainted daring
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Allied Planes
". LONDON, J an 1 2-JP)-Allied
fighter planes swept over the low
countries Tuesday, to disrupt nazi
water and rail transport 3 after
heavy, four-engined bombers
smashed again Monday night at
industrial targets in the Ruhr with
4000-pound "block-buster bombs.
"Many two-ton bombs were
dropped" by the bombers raiding
the Ruhr for the sixth time in
nine days, "and the glow Of con
siderable fires was seen," the air
ministry news service said. ..
One big bomber In the force of
undisclosed size was reported lost.
The Germans' set up heavy anti
aircraft fire, 1 but thick clouds
blunted their probing searchlights.
Nazi night fighters rose to give
battle, , but "no serious encounter
developed,' the news service said.
Meanwhile the ministry of home
security " announced that- 109
civilians , were killed or reported
missing In German air raids dur
ing December, bringing the total
for 1942 to 3221.
From the start of the war to the
end of 1942, the ministry added,
47,860 Britons have been killed
and 56,490 Injured in air raids. :
Park Builder Dies :V
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12-ff)
John McLaren, 88, who built the
world famous Golden Gate park
here' on a 1400-acre site of sand
dunes, died at 820 o'clock Tues
day night -
Sweep
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doblonsly at their best means of
C MERGLER
Shipyard Not
US Property,
NLRB Holds
PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 12-(ff)
Henry J, Kaiser's workers, Amer
ica's champion ' shipbuilders, ; are
not government employes, NLRB
Trial Examiner Robert Denham
ruled Tuesday night. j
In so doing he held that the
NLRB had jurisdiction to hear
charges of j unfair labor practices
against Kaiser's three Portland
Vancouver yards. The CIO claims
the yards, which employe about
75,000 war! workers; violated the
Wagner act ; by signing AFL closed
shop contracts without a certifi
cation vote and before a majority
had been hired.
Harry S. j Morton, Kaiser legal
chief, had moved for dismissal of
the charges. He claimed that
Uncle Sam was the actual owner
of the yards and that Kaiser was
merely his agent. 1 i; -
- The Wagner act does not cover
government: workers.
. Morton put the yards in the
same category- as navy yards. or
federal arsenals. t . '
NLRB Attorney Robert Acker
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Fairbanks Assigned
HAMPTON. VtL, Jan. 12 - W3)
Lt Douglas Fairbanks, jr, USNR,
a movie star before he Joined the
armed forces, has been assigned
to the Norfolk base and attached
to the amphibious force, Atlantic
fleet. Temporarily, Fairbanks'
quarters are at the US Hotel
Chamberlain at uia romu ne en
tered the navy-two years ago' as
a lieutenant, junior grade.
Lobby
Sen. Dorothy Lee," after she
had yielded the presidency to Sen.
Steiwer: iur,"- y:-- V k
"I wanted to do mat yesterday.
but .my delegation' wouldn't agree
to it" -; fep
Mrs. Lee, again, when a dog's
yelp in the galleries had inter
rupted her statesmanlike with
drawal speech:
"I have realized my speeches
were poor, bat 1 dldat think
they were as bad as that!"
. The gallery. laughed- with
her. '- - !.'"-", k'
"You had a hard iob." : Sen.
Strayer was told, as to his tem
porary chairmanship of the sen
ate during 44 tie. ballots, r; t ,
No, it was easy," he replied,
but added, "once in a while it got
tough.-;.. P,r;:::t.-:-:: ,' r ::
The senator from Baker coun
ty is beginning his 23 th year In
the senate. -(,--" . -"H-';.1 '
"Earl Snell will be inaugurated
Wednesday aSterncoa i trrcspec-
Smell Im
: . .. : i i ' ' : ' : v
Ballot
Senator Lee Leaves Contest
te
s-M : By halph c. curtis ,
. William H. Steiwer of Fossil is president of the 'Oregon
senate. ' f : ' - V: ;: ,':': ' .
Earl w. Sneil will be inaugurated Oregon's governor, two
days late, this afternoon in . ceremonies starting at 2 o'clock
in the hall of representatives. -:f" - 1 s
With Sen. Dorothpr, McCullough Lee bowing out of the
picture so graciously as to remove
most of the heat developed
in two days of political battling,
the long deadlock oyer the senate
presidency ended at 9:27 p.m.
Tuesday on the 45th ballot and
Steiwer was elected unanimously
save for his own courtesy vote to
an adversary he characterized .as
"the most worthy opponent I ever
hope to meet, and a grand sport"
- It was solely with Oregon's
best Interests In mud and In
recognitioa of the wartime need -for
an expedited session. Sen.
Lee said, that she withdrew
from the contest and asked the.
14 senators pledged to her sap
port to vote for Sen. Steiwer;
1 and not as a concession of de
feat. At the same time she re
vealed that her ; gronp retired '.
with snbstantial salvage, Idas- '
much r as J committee selections
were .to be made Jointly by
President Steiwer and herself,
with Sen,1 We' ll. Strayer o the
"Leo, group" arbitrating any
differences of opinion between
them. ..' .; ' - A-
This compromise, however,- bad
been one of the solutions to the
deadlock proposed by the five
Steiwer-supporting members of a
conference committee of ten which
had met Tuesdav afternoon. I It
was at this committee's first meet
ing that it became known most
members of the Steiwer . group
were opposed to Mrs. Lee's selec
tion almost solely on grounds hav
ing to do with the lieutenant
governor phase of the senate pres
ident's duties.
They felt; these members said,
it would be inadvisable to elect a
woman to this office to "wartime,
especially since the governorship,
to which she might succeed, in
volves command of 'the : states
armed forces. :""
Futile roll calls were less fre
quent on Tuesday than' on the pre
vious day, the members devoting
much of their ; time to. the series
of conferences which finally led
to agreement In the forenoon
six ballots were taken, the only
new development on the floor be
ing Sen. Steiwer's offer to with
draw from the race if Sen. Lee
would do likewise.' She replied
that she was not free to j do j so
without : consulting the senators
supporting her. , ;
Seven ballots followed in the
afternoon; it was. after the third
of these that the committee of ten
was authorized. After its mem
bers had reported . back to their
respective factions, Sen. Lee an
nounced that inasmuch as the
Steiwer faction had declined to
consider" as compromise icandi-.
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Quips, "Angles'
And Personalities
At The Capitol
tiv of whether or not the, senate
has - M i presiden t," , some senate
members and, representatives In
sisted Tuesday night during one
of the upper house's interminable
"15-minute" recesses. Inclusion of
their "irrespective" became un
necessary when, an hour later, a
president was selected. -:
The governor-elect not only
the "shirie" rubbed off the
ceremony, by , the senate's delay,
but: also on Tuesday found the
surprise element in his first mes
sage dimmed by the doubtless un
intentional disclosure by a Port
land newspaper editorial . writer
of the speech's contents. One edi
tion, which, reached legislative
desks - Tuesday, afternoon ' com
mented at length on Snell's prin
cipal points also on .those : in
Gov. - Sprague's , dosing' message.
That particular section : went to
press Monday night a "pre-date"
in newspaper technical language.
The house plan to proceed with
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77
Is 45th
Session After
Accord
Allied Forces
Push Japanese
Sanananda Pressed ;
Zeros Attack US
, Planes at Munda
f . .- a
ALLTED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, Jan. 13
(-Allied jungle fighters pushed
the Japanese farther back toward
Sanananda point the last 'spot
to which they dung in all the
Papuan peninsula of New Guinea
Tuesday while fighters and attack
planes raided along the trail south
of Salamaua. . , '
-The planes blasted and ma
chinegunned the trail to Komla
tum, J.0 miles south of Salamaua,"
destroying' a bridge while others
peppered the coast" toward Am-"
boga with machinegun fire.
The Japanese at the same time
delivered their heaviest bomb
tag raid on Meraake, colonial
administrative - center ' on the
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Japs Resist
in
Burma Fight
LONDON, Jan. 12.-UP)-Tho
Japanese suddenly have displayed
strong resistance in the defense'
of Akyab against British troops
who have advanced to within
about 15 miles of that Bay of
Bengal port in Burma, and have
landed several thousand . troops
In Indo-China to bolster the Bur
ma front, it was reported Tues
day. A 'British , communique from
New Delhi said the Japanese were
"resisting strongly' against con
tinued pressure of Field ' Marsh
al Sir Archibald P. WaveU's for
ces, and a Reuters correspondent
with the troops said : British pa
bole had penetrated as far as
foul point at the tip of the Maya-
peninsula. . ' v J'
This . peninsula on the west .
side of the Maya river appeared
clear of the Japanese when the
enemy appeared from hiding
places fat the jungles and hills 1
and attacked . hi the region of
Donbalk where fighting is still
going on, the correspondent
said. The tip of the peninsula
is 15 miles or less from Akyab.
Meanwhile, Indian patrols were
reported I working southward near
Rathedaung on the east side of
the Mayu river.
A Chinese army spokesman was '
quoted in dispatches from Chung
king as saying that several thou
sand Japanese reinforcements for
Burma had been landed in Indo
China. . . '
The spokesman said that the
Japanese force at Akyab .was es
timated at. fewer than 2000 men
about a month ago.
Meanwhile, allied air forces fax
India and China were being in
creased ' week by ; week, and the
British communique announced a
new series of raids against the
Japanese in Burma. - - .,
Brig. Gen. Clayton L. Bissell,
commander of United States army
air forces in India. Burma and
China,' said at New Delhi that U3
air strength was increasing every
week: while the Japanese power
was on .the down grade.:1-:
Volcanolosist Dies
NEW YORK, Jan, I2-(.T)-Dr.
Frank Alvord Ferret, 75, world- .
renowned vclcanologsst whose di
rect research of volcano eruptions
dated back to 1CCS, died Tuccdc;-.
Bring
Strongly