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Dimout Complofo Tool Had no newspaper can give more real satiafae -tion than your local morn toe paper, with Its WORLD NEWS plos HOM2 COM MUNITY. NEWS. Tuesday sunset 5:53 p. m. Wednesday sunrise 8:45 a.m. Weather: Son. max. temp. 39, min. 15. Toes, river 3.9 ft. Weather daU restricted by army request. ll'V - i urn rnmnr-sEcoin) year Salem, Oregon. Tuesday Morning. January 19, 1843 Prlcs 5c No, 213 - 0r :,:'.'. "4 v- Allies Capture Sautanamida; Few Japs Left, 3 Pockets Hold Rest Of Enemy --. .. .1 -, , .. -By C YATES McDANIEL. ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN AUSTRALIA, Jan. 1S (AP) Allied ground forces captured Sanananda point and San ananda village Monday, according to Associated Press reports from the ad vanced operational base in New Guinea. The Allied occupation of the coastal end of the Japanese-held s 1 41 Papuan cornuor icii me em- nants of Lt Gen. Tomitara.Horii's northeastern New Guiner army enveloped by Australian and Am erican infantrymen in three re stricted pockets lying from a half to "two miles inland from the coast. All three are located along 'the main trail. The Australian capture of San- anandra point and the adjacent " village at noon Monday climaxed a series of coordinated attacking movements in which two Ameri can and three Australian infantry units took part. There was no Immediate confirmation- of the faU of Sanan andra point from official sourc es, but a headquarters com munique earlier Tuesday told of . the destruction of strong Japanese defensive positions In . this area and reported "general ' 'Houidatiau of enemy forces was continuing. Sananandra point, lying - be tween previously captured Gona and Buna, was the last remaining Japanese strongpoint in northeast ern New Guinea. With it gone, there appeared little likelihood - the enemy could hold out in strength, and action against the three pockets of trapped forces inland took on the character of mopup operation. Fire Closes Englewood School Here Fire blamed on a timber's being too close to the top of the furnace caused an estimated $G0O loss and the closing for two days of Engle wood grade school, 19th and Ne braska streets, Monday morning. Flames starting from the char red timber crept through to joists supporting the main floor corri dor. -1 - . Arrival of city fire-f i g h 1 1 n g equipment was delayed by a train at one of the 12th street crossings. Fire Chief Harry Huttorv said the East Salem station truck was not sent to the fire because in the case of a school blaze he wanted more equipment than was available at a substation. Supt: Frank B. Bennett said smoke was discovered . coming from cracks in the flooring at o'clock as students were marching in tor classrooms. They were sent outside with a minimum of confn- (Turn to page 2 J) Flood Damage Aid Provided Priority preference for replace ment of hop wire, fencing, build ing materials, hardware, and other articles swept away in the recent Willamette river flood. Is avail able. Justice George Rossman, . chairman of the Marlon county Red Cross chapter, has been' ad' vised. t Application for such priority rating should be made to the Red Cross, which has been made re sponsible for certifying as to the losses. Judge Rossman explained Those who suffered v loss should r e gi s t e r with the Red Cross promptly, as the amount of ma terials covered under the priority extension was established on the basis of an incomplete, survey and the quantities needed may .be in - excess of the allocation. Mel Gardner of the national Red I Cross staff was to arrive In Ore gon early this week to set up pro cedure for this priority assistance. and was scheduled to be in the Marion-Polk county area today and Wednesday. ' . A' New Defense Group Named Salem's new civilian defense council, named Monday . night . by Mayor I. M. Doughton, with approval of. the city ' council, comprises: i , Aldermen Tom Armstrong, David O'Uara, Daniel Fry and R. O. Lewis, with Dr. : Henry E. Morris and V. E. Kuhn. The new council is to serve as governing body for the civil, lan protection program. Coal Strike In FR Hands . ; i J- ' ; . -. . " ;. -- First Group to Walk Out Votes Return; New 3Iines Hit ; WtLKES-BAREE, Pa., Jan. 18 (JP)-Tbe : unauthorized i strike in Pennsylvania's hard coal fields, which has defied every effort at settlement,- was placed in Presi dent Roosevelt's hands Monday by the war labor board. I In previous cases involving la bor or management troubles, this step usually has preceded govern ment ; seizure o f properties in volved. ; - Announcement at Washington that the White House had taken the strike under advisement came shortly after! the first United Mine Workers local to walk out In the 19-day-oId stop page voted by a slim,! four-vote margin to return to work. The local, with a membership of 1200 at the Glen Alden coal company's South Wilkes-Barre colliery, was the first to report of four large mines voting Mon day and Monday night on the back-to-work question.! Altogether about 16,000 miners are idle. However, the second local to vote, the 1600-member Woodward colliery of Glen Alden, decided to stay out. The nearly-unanimous action was taken by voice vote, whereas the South Wilkes- Barre local had taken a secret ballot. Shortly afterward, j the 1500- member Huber j colliery of Glen Alden postponed its vote until Tuesday, to see! if South Wilkes- Barre actually goes back to work. The South Wilkes-Barre local has been regarded by many as a barometer of . workers' sentiment since the strike: began December SO over wages and increased union dues. ; In another sudden move Mon day night, 2500 miners of three Hudson coal company collieries (Turn to Page 2 H) Vote Ban Sought CHEYENNE, Wyo, Jan. 18-P) The Wyoming senate j received a bill Monday which would prohibit persons brought into the state by the war relocation authority or by the army from voting, although they might be in the state the required period of time. Thou sands of Japanese at the Hart mountain relocation center and soldiers at Fort Warren, Cheyenne, would be affected. f Lobby Hobnobber sHras?1- Conflicting responsi bflities threatened to embarrass one of the new state representatives re cently. A state guard lieutenant, the representative, William Nis kanen of Bend, came to Salem bearing demands of the central Oregon section's guardsmen to find out why , they had received no state funds while j other units had. Attending the first meet-; ing of the house miliary affairs committee, he was quickly ad vised by : Col. Elmer V. Wootonj acting adjutant general of Ore gon, that Els question should prop erly be directed to the governor. But the question Njskanen had raised reached additional ears in the house. Other representatives interested in the situation and in backing up their fellow member threatened to kill or at least de lay HB21, the bffl required to be passed immediately if the Stata guard is to be kept jn existence) after Thursday of this , week. Nis-j kanen, not Wishing to be called the man who disbanded the guard, had to do some hurried explain ing that that wasn't his intention-' Governor Remits Bills Consolidations Form Measures; Teachers Discuss Tax Use By rALPH C. CURTIS The spotlight was on Gov. Earl Snell's' office, rather than on either house of the legisla ture, Monday as Oregon's chief executive sent two bills em bodying "official", versions of his bureau-consolidation recom mendations, and four i bills of fering solution to an issue, raised in his inaugural message, to legis lative committees., r Consolidations of the World war veterans state aid commis sion with the state land board, and of the state banklnr de partment with the corporation department, are proposed in two bills handed to the house com-, mlttee on administration - and reorganization, of k which Rep, Alex Rennie : (B-Benton) is chairman. One creates the "de partment of banking and cor-; po rations," the other retains the title "state land board" bat ex pands Its power to Include ad ministration of duties now per formed by tho veterans aid commission. Maintaining the 'highway com mission, liquor control commis sion, sanitary authority and board of barber examiners as three-man boards, regardless of the fact that LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR 3rd Readings Today 4 Bouse: HB 70, 71, 72. Senate: SB 9, HB 21. there now are four congressional districts, is contemplated in four bills placed in the hands of the senate revision of laws committee of which Sen. William E. Walsh (R-Coos) is chairman, j - Present law requires that these commissions' members be appoint ed "one" from eachf -the three congressional districts. Gov. Sneil proposes to resolve the discrep ancy by having the act amended to provide that "no more than one member may be appointed from any of the state's four con gressional districts." ; Other bills in line with recom mendations made in the gover nor's inaugural message, being drafted in the attorney general's office, are near completion and some may be introduced today. The bill, extending leral ex istence of the state 1 guard "for the duration," already passed by the house, was amended in the senate military affairs commit tee but this will scarcely retard its final passage, 'necessary be fore Thursday: fori the house committee will make no objec tion to the. minor Changes. These delete certain previsions in the present law j relative to liability for damages or injury, but committee members say the changes are not vital. The house on Monday : passed three bills which serve to bring the election laws with respect to county office and the; state super intendent of public instruction into line with the state constitu tion. The laws were not changed when the constitution! was amend ed in J920. . 4-U.i.--'-: r The moot question "what sur plus?" in connection with the voter-approved law providing for dis tribution' of surplus, state income tax funds to school districts is to be dropped in the legislature's lap following a series of conferences in which the Oregon State Teach- (Turn to Page 1 2 B) or wish, before the measure was passed by the ' house Saturday morning. The bill, I amended . in minor details, is up for; final pas sage in the senate today. It car ries toe emergency, clausev -Bouse sources say the guard setup may yet be in for seme questioning on the money dis tribution issue when its appro priation bin comes vp for eon ; sideratien. . f.v:v i - The facts are that : the First regiment units, those initially or ganized shortly after December S, 1941, constitute the federally-recognized part of the! state 'guard. They are the ones that received requisition equipment ; from the federal government 1 and limited company funds. None have drill allowances. ' ; Subsequently-form ed units, many in response to local interest and demands more than .to ' determinations of need, supply their : own uniforms 1 and equipment, have no company funds from state sources. " House members have been told that some of the guardsmen claim ' (Turn to Page 2 A) " : Mercury Hits 15 : Mercury in the official Salem thermometer dropped within 15, degrees of aero f Sunday . night, latest pnblishable recording and coldest since January 7 and 8, 1937. On those dates a minimum of seven degrees above xero was experienced here. Release of temperature figures for Mon day is prohibited by army re strictions, j ' Guinea Japs Pushed Back Bomber Sinks Ships; Solomons Enemy Bases Raided ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday; Jan. 19(ff) Allied ground forces pressing in from the west Monday destroyed two strong Japanese positions that' protected Sanananda point, while ' other troops on the east moved forward with artillery. On the west side, General Mac Arthur's men took Cape Killer ton, a mile and a half up the coast from Sanananda, and then proceeded against Wye point, 700 yards ; farther ' along. There they encountered stiff resistance , but overcame it. ' The communique sized up the situation as a continuation of "general liquidation." .; Patrol activity in the vicinity of Mubo village near Salamaua ac- counted for 40 Japanese casual ties. - : ' A bomber on reconnaissance ever the Bismark sea west of New Ireland had good'fortune in finding an 8000 ton Jap cargo . : ship. T The bomber planted two direct hits that set the ship ablaze and It sank in eight minutes. Two formations of bombers and fighters, which the communique rated as large, hit Lae again in two separate daylight attacks, de stroying one fighter on the ground and starting fires among supplies and Installations. WASHINGTON Jan" 18 JP Heavy; bombing attacks on Japa nese nases in - the northwestern Solomon islands were reported (Turn to Pago 3 C) . Gaurt Upholds Conviction Of AMA WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (fly-The supreme court Monday upheld the conviction of the American Medical association and the District of Columbia Medical society on charges that they sought to hamstring a cooperative group health plan and thereby vi olated the Sherman anti-trust act The Medical associations were fined $2500 and $1500, respective ly, on charges that they conspired to "restrain trade" by influencing physicians and hospitals to boy cott Group , Health Association, Inc., a cooperative organization of 3300 government employes in the District of Columbia. Group Health was set up to provide med ical care and hospitalization for its members on a prepayment plan. The decision noted that such a plan "was contrary to the code of ethics" of the AMA. . 5 Miss Edith Rockwood, labor de partment' employe who is presi dent of Group Health, commented that "the decision will be advan tageous to all groups in the Unit ed States that the planning for medical care." - i The court's vote was to 0. Justices Murphy and Jackson,' for mer attorneys general, did not participate. . - The; opinion, written by Justice Roberts, was devoted chiefly to le gal technicalities. It ; found that the court did not need to con sider . !or decide - the question - of principal interest to laymen raised by the appealwhether a physi cian's 1 practice of his profession constitutes ; "trade" within : the (Turn to page 2 I) Emmons Gains Ralph Emmons of Sale mis em ployed by the state industrial ac cident commission in a newly-created position, that - of "procedure analyst," it was reported Mon-day-4r-X: -s l-f; -yi-4 j: Emmons will, after studying, present routine procedure "in the commission's offices, make recom mendations as to possible changes designed ; to improve efficiency. Chairman C. M. Rynerson said. ;: B Formerly proprietor of a men's clothing store in Salem, Emmons recently has been employed in the secretary of state's offices." He is prominent in fraternal circles. Degrees Berlin : . Bombed Twice - . i .t . RAF and Lnftwaffe Trade Raids on - Capital Cities BERN. Jan. 18 HP)- Air raid alarms were sounded In the Swiss elUes of Bern and Basel at 11:05 p. m. Monday night (3:65 p. m. FWT), indicating British bombers were raiding northern Italy, '.-By EDWARD D. BALI. j LONDON, Jan. 18-C-Ber-lin was battered for the second successive time Sunday night by a strong RAF force which dropped hundreds of tons of,the biggest bombs the world has ever known and set great fires in Hitler's capital with perhaps 100,000 incendiaries. H Thef Joes ; of 22 big bombers, compared with one the night be fore, ;was"a heavy price to. pay for any raid but British observers said it was not prohibitive in view of the large number of aircraft attacking the very nerve center bf the German war machine. ! ' "A' great load of bombs was dropped and, by the end of the attackj large fires were burning," the air ministry said. : . i A ' brief night alert sounded r again in London Monday night when; a few axis planes crossed ! the coast; and; headed up the f Thames. Some were driven back i quickly and those which ap i preached i the capital environs. I caused only "triflinr damage. Crowds scurried to the shelters I however and stayed there after : the all-clear, expecting another alert.! Slight gunfire was heard. : The; Berlin radio said 82 per sons were killed in Berlin in the two RAF raids, 50 of them prison ers of .war. ..'H'r Oner southeast England town was divebombed in the clear moonlight end .. suffered., consider able 'damage. yj,M. V;s;'v Some speculated that the dev astating ' one-two stab at Berlin was part of a softening process behind the nazi lines for the open ing this year of a second front on the continent. German night fight ers which had been concentrated in the Ruhr to combat persistent British attacks "there apparently were shifted hastily back to Ber lin and accounted for the heavier price the RAF paid. - While the explosive and fire bombs; were chewing up the reich capital, the Germans flew over London! in two' comparatively weak! retaliatory raids. "Some damage was done, bat ' it was nowhere on a large scale i and : mainly was confined to (Turn to Pago 2 F) Senate Okehs Brown for Price Job i ...It : I WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. The senate unanimously approv ed Monday President Roosevelt's appointment of Prentiss M. Brown as price administrator and the former Michigan senator declar ed that he would do his best to alleviate, as far as he was able, the wartime "hardships we all must suffer." v Brown prepared to take over immediately as successor to Leon Henderson, resigned. Chairman Wagner (D-NY) brought the Brown appointment before the senate with the state ment that It had been unanimous ly approved by the banking com mittee. When be urged Immediate consideration, . Minority Leader McNarjr of Oregon said that be cause be was informed . the ad ministration was anxious to have Brown assume his duties as Soon as possible, republicans would not stand; on their technical right to force at least one day's delay. McNary announced that Sena tor Tirmaan fR-MichL who de feated Borwn for reelection November: 8; was raismg no ob jection to me nomination. It was confirmed without a dissenting voice, I but I later Senator. - Moore (R-Okla) Issued a statement call ing the appointment "purely po litical land partisan" and asserting that it was "antagonistic to a needed harmonious administration of a vital war measure," the act stabilizing i prices, wages and sal aries. j ;,,.;;; ,Jyft ;-. Brown helped obtain passage of this act last year and Moore com plained, that ; the- former : demo--era tic senator's subsequent inter pretation of the measure was "at variance with the intent of con gress,? ; v V-i'V ' 7?J (Turn to Page 2 K) j ...... Of Akead toe iSeveiii Froets Germans Try to Hold 'JJ??iH7 to aoo The long siege of Leningrad (A) was announced Monday as broken, while Russia's broad offensives put it up to the Gcraua Uab com mand to protect no fewer than five other so-called "strong points" in soviet territory. They are: 2-Smolensk; J-Knrsk; 4-Kharkov; 5-Rostov; 6-Krasnodar. Red fains In the Caucasus (B) continued - undiminished. Shaded area shows Russian gains since the offensive began November 19 Associated Press Teiemat. Council Seeks End To Sfreet-Bldckibs-: Should the Englewood school fore of IMbnday- morning ever be repeated on a larger scale in any east Salem institution there might be considerable loss of life and of property because fire equipment could not cross the 12th street railroad tracks, city councilmen declared Monday night as they i asked for a conference between city officials and Southern Pacific representatives to reach some agreement as to length of time trains may block: specified crossings within the city i limits. A long freight train did delay two city fire trucks en! route to the Englewood fire, Alderman Al bert Gjle, who introduced the question, declared, but that delay might have been longer and more costly had the .train stopped for several minutes, as, he said, long trains have done in recent weeks because of workmen and equip ment on the tracks. j I ' -. -By city ordinance, the halt ing of trains on street crossings Is forbidden and a fits fine b provided, but City Atty: Law- reneo N. Brown said he believed too railroad company's f fran chise included . permission for certain necessary stops! . , The resolution adopted by the council, proposed by Alderman iL. F. DeGarie, calls for negotiation of an agreement by which a five minute time limit would; bo fixed and trains blocking j crossings longer than that period should bo required to uncouple; to allow r:! V- (Turn to Page 2 iO).'vjl" Oregon Officers Direct Cleanup of Jap Defense n WILLIAM F. BONI h ' WITH" ALLIED FORCES IN NEW GUINEA, Jan. 16 j -(Delated) yp) - j The commander lot American - forces who! today smashed at the shattered left side of the main Jap defense "line (of Sanananda track sat back on his cot for the first time in a busy and successful, day and broke out in a broad and contented grin "We accomplished today what we had thought might; take us longer, he said. "Andj we did so at the cost of fewer casual ties than we had in (eases Of heat prostration. -:. ' j ." : P ' "We, used lots of artulery and Mortar ammunition but we did so at a saving of lots of American lives." ; ' " 1 !' The full scale assault opened at 8:57 a. m. with a thundering ar tillery and mortar barrage under which the . Infantry, advanced smoothly as the mortar range was raised. . . - .... ! ,., . By late afternoon United States troops had cleaned up a pocket of enemy resistance between the maslhrSie . RUSSIA Traffic lights To Be Shielded Cardboard louvres, slatted light shields, such, as have been at tached to three bf the traffic lights at , High and State streets, are to be used on all the signaling de vices of the city even i though those on hand are a fraction of an inch too large and must be to fit, councilmen voted Monday night. , - j r" V " The cardboard devices are heav ily waxed ; to meet weather, but the "jamming" process may make them vulnerable to storms, City Engmeer f J. H. Davis , told ' the council. They were, ordered in a job lot almg with, those secured by the state highway commission at a cost of approximately 45 cents apiece and on any other basis, either cardboard the correct size or tin, would cost $2.25 or more. main and advanced 'American holdings; 'had killed well over a hundred Japs; had pushed through and around the left side of what was considered the strongest Jap defenses short of Sanananda point; had outflanked and begun a mop up of the right; side of that line, which has-, a swamp at its back. By that time the advance force, commanded by Maj. W. R. Rankin of Whitehall, Mont, , had pushed along to cut the. road ; to within about a mile and a half of Sana nanda point ' - This task was shared by com panies commanded by Capt. S. - Jack Vanduyn of Eugene, Ore, Robt " Hamilton, B axeman, Mont, Lt John C Boyd and : Capt John Sponenburgh, Olym , pla, . Wash. The task of coordl-. ' nating mortar , and : heavy ma chine gun fire was assigned to Capt Oliver Robinson, for mer, police sergeant of Portland, Ore. ! " , , ' It's of Captain Robinson - that they tell i story. When he first (Turn to Page 2 D) ILiCiLJliLM g U -ilL till, Forge Maikop's Oil, Kharkov and Rostov Near Baltic Strongpoint Under Nazi Threat . For 17 Months By HENRY C. CASSIDY MOSCOW, Jan. 18-(!p-The historic siege which Leningrad, Russia's second largest city, un derwent for 17 months was broken Monday by a red army offensive south of Lake Ladoga that shattered the German ring around the industrial metrop olis, it was announced officially Monday night The ancient fortress city of Schluesselburg on Lake Ladoga east of Leningrad where the Ger mans closed their ring in August, 1941, was recaptured by Russian forces under Marshals Gregory Zhukov and Klementi Voroshilov, the communique said. This news was greeted with rejoicing throughout the soviet union as other Russian troops . operating In southern Russia steadily smashed ahead toward Kharkov in the Ukraine, Ros tov at the mouth of the Don, and toward the Maikop oil fields in the Caucasus. 1 ' Moscow residents , hearing tha announcement shouted with joy ' and hugged each other. .. Workers in Russian arms factories work ing 'day and night to supply the armies engaged in seven great of fensives vori the: bleak snows wept plains and swampstof Russia heard the news over loudspeakers- and kept on working. The Russians battered their way through almost nine miles of tre mendous nazl fortifications, and crossed the Neva river; to end Leningrad's blockade. ' ' In a week of bitter fighting the Russians announced the . Germans left 13,008 dead on the battlefield, and four nasi di visions and remnants of other detachments were routed. More than 1268 prisoners were taken. . Zhukov, the hero who led the red army that rolled back the ixermans rrom me gates oi Mos cow last winter, has now been made a marshal for his work at Leningrad. . Voroshilov was the m I . A m commander of Leningrad's hard fighting garrison during the first months of the city's siege when the nazis threw hundreds of thou sands of men against the strategic city but failed to crack it Leningrad is a vital lever in the defense of northwestern Russia because of its proximity to the gulf of Finland and the Baltic states. Ever since its envelopment the Germans had repeatedly main tained it was doomed. Further striking Russian victor ies were announced from the Vor onezh, Stalingrad, middle Don and Caucasian fronts. ' The Fourth Italian army corps . was reported -smashed' as the Russians fought their way Into Kamensk, 85 miles above Ros tov. The red army spilled across the Donets river in this area and Likhaya, about 15 miles south of Kamensk on the important (Turn to Page 2 E) Oregon Cold; Boats Warned YQ&TLANDt Ore, Jan. lS(ff) The Portland weather bureau Monday . night ordered small craft warnings posted on the coast from Port Angeles' to .' Newport. PORTLAND, Jan. lS()-Tme weather bureau reported Mon day that the temperature drop ped Sunday to 13 degrees, leav ing In its wake scores of frozen automobile radiators and water pipes. Several fire were caused by thawing operations In resi dences -V: LA GRANDE, Jan. 18 -iT) Union county residents shiver ed, in temperatures as low as 20 degrees below tero over the weekend. The official readlcg Li this city Sunday nlsht was 13 below. Nine inches of snow. Which fell Friday nlzfct, remain ed lzUct. 1 S I
