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Dimout Tho Insido - Your complete morning - ctTnp:;tr, Tit SUtessaa, ef f era yon pertinent com- ' . mcbU on wnr bows of the day by Kirk Simpson: Washington analyst. ' Friday nwei :! p. m Saturday saw-loo 8:43 a. m. Weather: Wed. cax ten?. It tain. . IH river 5.1 ft Weather 4aU restricted by PCU ND3B, : ICI XRKLT T SECOND YEAR Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning. January 22. 1943 Price 5c Ho. 221 .eaviesU; Snowfall: in Sik 1st Citizen Mm Souihmtmrdl AUies- Said 'I u To Grata Elere; Mercery to Fall . Schools Close, But Most of Roads Open Snowplows Busy; Airport Reports 17.2 Inches Deepest snow in Salem since the last day of January, 1937, when 25 inches fell within 24 hours, covered Salem on Thurs day. At 11:30 pjn. the official measurement at the Salem air port was 17.2 inches, but in parts of the city a thicker and undrifted blanket was spread and in the hills a still heavier snow fall was reported. Combining with gasoline and tire rationing to create a trans portation problem, the snow caused closure of most Marion county schools, brought cessation of air lines traffic in and out of the capital city, delayed trains and busses and left Salem streets almost unused. Working with two bulldozers, city crews scraped streets and moved stalled cars Thursday night. Middle-westerners, to whom the Thursday weather in another state would have been declared "mild," laughed but found incon veniences Accompanying the snow multiplied in a city where a snowplow is a rarity. Railroad workers kept tracks open with, salt andV sweeping, but Southern ,S Paeif ie f north- bound . trains were said to be far behind schedule and" eori . sections were not being made with trains from the north and ' east. Stage service was some . what delayed, but ' connections r with California highways had been reopened by Thursday night. Wire difficulties were few, W. M. Hamilton, district manager for the Portland General . Electric - (Turn to Paso 2 A) Four Enemy Vessels Hit . By Bombers ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN VT AUSTRALIA, Friday, Jan. 22-JP) In two widely separated attacks on Japanese ships, allied bombers Thursday hit a cruiser and at least three merchant Vessels, while ground forces, operating in pour ins rain, continued the final bit ter stages of mopping up around v Sanananda. At Ambon harbor a cruiser was left listing and smoking heavily and a 5000-ton merchant ship was hh by a formation of Liberators, all of which returned after down- ing two out of 20 Japanese fight ers and damaging others. Allied aircraft were intercepted by 'approximately 20 enemy fight ers and shot down two and dam aged - others. "All our planes re- s turned." At RabauL New Britain, med- rham and heavy bombers swooped low over the harbor before dawn. . Two merchant ships, one of 6000 tons, the other of 2000, were -damaged, the communique " re- porting the larger ship was so badly mauled that it was being beached. . '.On the fighting front at Sana nanda. New Guinea, where isolat ed pocket of Japs still are hold iing oat,- 150 of the enemy have Ibeeri alain. ; ' . Most Miners Back .at Work '. WHJCES BARRE, Pa Jan. 21 (A-Stricking Pennsylvania' anth racite miners, obeying ' President Roosevelt's order4 to return at . once to their job of producing , vitally needed coal, Thursday ended their 22-day strike ; for ' a v$2 a day pay increase and a . SO cents a - month : reduction in : union "duea.." - "v ytf-j;t:. -Mr . Of the 12,000 miners idle Wed nesday, all but 2400 were back at : work by or shortly i after ; noon deadline . fixed by the ; president. The White House said President Roosevelt was "confident that the comparatively few who have not returned to work will join their - associates ta the mines.' WlwnWillHe Be a General? BOISE, Idaho, Jan. Everything seemed to be hap pening at once Thursday to Corp. Blaln M. Painter, 24, of Reading, Pemx, who is stationed at Gowen field. At It sm he received notifi cation that he had been pro moted to corporal; very pleased, he was telling friends about it, when he received word that he had been promoted to the rank of sergeant. The time was 11 Sgt. Painter began sewing his chevrons on his sleeve and had just abont finished the stitching when he received word from -the second air force headquar ters in Spokane, that he had been advanced to warrant of ficer. ' Warrant Officer Painter has been in the army little" over a year. Army Replaces 'Sol' Marines ' Leathernecks Rest After Invasion, Hard Fighting , WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-(JPy-The fighting marines who wrest ed. Guadalcanal from the Japs back in August and hung on to it triumphantly through five months of bitter lighting now have turned it over to the army, officials an nounced ; Thursday ' 1 " The navy in a comunique and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson at a press conference disclosed that hard-bitten Maj. Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift of the marine corps had turned over command to Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Patch, jr., 53-year-old infan tryman with 29 years of army service. . Patterson forecast a d d i t ional hard fighting, saying that "While our position in the Solomon is lands has materially imtroved,it is probable that the Japanese will make further efforts to recover lost territory, there." i' He paid high tribute to those dogged leathernecks who battled day and night for months against the Japanese. Now they are en route to a well-earned rest and later there will be other hostile shores to win. They spent more time in the 24-hour-a-day battle of Guadal canal than ever was spent in day-to-day fighting by any other Am erican unit, navy men believe. The first division of the AEF spent 223 days at the front in the first World war but that time included a training period and some battle lulls; But there had been few lulls for the marines since they leaped into the surf and raced into the narrow beaches of Guadalcanal August 7. They battered the enemy back from the airfield the Japanese were constructing and took It for their own. They named -it Hen derson i field : and with the navy carried on the ; construction . job. Now that ; airfield ' Is a base for far-flung attacks on enemy ship ping, and for forays against the Japanese air and naval bases at Munda, on Bougainville and oth er islands. MidlCarrier Weather -Hit . Pity the poor mail carrier. He's really in for it this winter. First the high water and then if the now keeps on falling, prospects will look very dim,-according to Postmaster Henry R. Crawford.: . Only, one delivery .was made in Salem Thursday, that one ; taking all day,! the postmaster "admitted. Parts of . the rural districts, routes and star routes, were ; inaccessi ble, he continued, but mail was picked up at central points such as Silverton, , Woodburn, etc, where there ;, arc - postoffices. - Mails are being , delayed when . brought in by train but due more to uncer tain freight schedules '. than to weather conditions so far. " ' - "People , can - aid materially ! in delivering - mail by clearing their walks, the postmaster suggested. No opinion was ventured as to regularity of service Friday if the snow continues. : ' Oregootes One 1 o : 5 J Wi InduK.iry Hit Power Interrupted At Some Points; Chinook Blows: PORTLAND, Jan. 2MP) The Portland weather bureau warned Thursday night of con tinuing snowfall and ; lower temperatures as most of the state lay. under a white blanket that curtailed war industries, transportation and power ser vices, With one death already attribut ed to the storm.. The weather bureau said that snow would con tinue to fall in Portland and vicin ity unui Friday morning. The mercury -will hover near the freezing point in the area until around midnight Thursday night, then drop to about 18 degrees above Friday morning. Storm warnings still flew along the coast Shipyards and lumbering were hard hit. The only fatality re ported was George Cameron, lumber worker, killed in an automobile accident on an icy road near Engene In the Wil lamette valley where the snow fall was unusually heavy. Three Henry J. Kaiser yards kept on swing and graveyard shifts Thursday night but at about half-force. Steel yards, plate and assembly shops and salvage de partments were off the job. fWuV lamette " Iron & .Steel corporation announced that its hull depart ment would suspend operations. Lumber production was slowed in many sections of the -state as some mills curtailed operations and logging camps were impaired Mills at Klamath Falls, Albany and Portland were among those forced to lay off men, mainly be cause transportation difficulties prevented arrival of logs. Many power interruptions were reported. Eugene's connections with the Bonneville power grid and with its own two hydroelec tric plants on the McKenzie river were cut Half of Grants Pass was without electricity for several hours, but the trouble there, oddly. was caused by a warm wind in stead of snow and several trees and billboards were blown down. Wednesday night's Chinook sent the Rogue river roaring up toward flood stage at Grants pass. Deep snow forced closing of schools at Portland, Salem, Al bany, and numerous other points. Most closures were effective until Monday. New Parity Bill Planned WASHINGTON, Jan. i 21 -UP) The house farm bloc plan to open a new. campaign Friday for up ward revision of the farm parity formula to include the cost of farm' labor. --: :? ,: Chairman Fulraer "(D-SC) aid the house agriculture committee, at its first meeting since the 78th congress- convened, would ! con sider; bills by himself , and Rep. Pace (D-Ga) proposing the parity change, and ho predicted the legis lation soon would be placed on Presidents Roosevelt's desk. The revision, which soma "ex perts estimated would add 10 to 12 per cent to parity price com putations, .was defeated last Sept ember during the writing of the price and wage control bin, after the president expressed "unalter able ! opposition. s ? - However, in December, near the end of the 77th congress, a bill by Pace embracing this proposal swept through the house without a dissenting vote, but the measure died in legislative log jam in tit ! senate. : . First T7ar Year Has : Bumper Baby Crop. NEW YORK, Jan- 2L-P-Arn- erica's first year at war produ ced a bumper crops of babies to taling at least 2,200,000 Statisticians of the Metropoli tan Life: Insurance c o m p a n y pointed out that this 1942 figure tops any other year in the coun try's history, and Is at least 200,- 000 more than the previous high of 2,600,000 In 192 L - , , . Kennli-Ellis photo. ROY HARLAND Roy Harland Wins Honor School Director and Churchman ; Portland Man One of 10 in US The number one, honor of the year for young men in Salem, designation as the city's junior first citizen, was accorded Roy Harland, attorney, school board chairman and churchman, at the annual founders day banquet of the capital city chapter of the US junior chamber of commerce at the Golden Pheasant : restau rant Thursday night v Harland is a graduate of Wil lamette university college of law. Active in the Rotary club, in Community Chest drives, a past president of the Marion County Bar association and a leader in his church, the Knight Memorial Congregational, he was especially commended by the selection com mittee for his work on the city's school board, of which he has been a member for three years. The annual selection of a young man for the' junior first citizen honor ; Is made by j a committee of civic leaders whose identities are .not disclosed. None are mem bers of the junior, chamber. . ? Charles A. Spragne, , editor and publisher of The , Oregon Statesman, who made the. pre- ' sentation of a plaqae and an " honor pin to Harland, expressed the opinion that the "J942 first citizen" measured up to the requirements set ent by the banquet speaker, James Palmer, associate general secretary of the Portland YMCA. Speaking on the subject, (Turn to Page 2E) Ceiling Asked On Army Size WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-P)-A proposal that congress look into the question of putting a ceiling on the size of the armed forces came from Senator Bankhead CD- Ala) Thursday and promptly won strong farm state backing, Bankhead contended the United States could make its greatest con tribution Xo defeat of the axis by devoting itself primarily to the production of food and weapons, leaving; it to the other United Nations to provide any additional fighting men needed :. : : - . Agreeing in principle with this view, Senator .Wheeler, (D-Mont) said be understood Russia needed food-even more than ammunition. He ; declared, that If the : United States tried to raise an army of 12,000,000 and stm -furnish; food andlmimiyons' the United Na tions the national economy would be wrecked. ' s Senators McNary (R-Ore) and Thomas (D-Okla) also expressed favor for such an 'investigation as Bankhead proposed. - 1 ' . Half Million Axis Killed ; . vs.. LONDON.- Janl- 21-rV-More than 500,000 axis troops have been killed . and 200,000 . captured ) on the i Russian front from Novem ber 19; to January 19, a ? Mos cow broadcast - recorded by. the Associated Press said Thursday. The figures-were attributed to Chairman ; Alexander' Sherabakov of the. Moscow, soviet, who made the report at a meeting commem orating the 19th anniversary of Lenin's death. ' . In the same two-month period, it was declared the axis had lost more than 6000 tanks, 12,000 guns and "3500 planes. : ; . , ? The announcement that 500,000 invaders had been killed and 280, 000 captured since November f 19 followed . . a Moscow f ; broadcast which Reuters quoted as saying that German dead,-wounded and missing on the Russian front in the past six weeks totaled 750,000 men, including 250.CC0 killed.. ; Fighting Rommel Falls Back Under Punishment More Fighting French Join; Allies; Axis ' Tanks Gain in West By ALFRED E. WALL LONDON, Jan. 21-(fl3-New advances for the axis forces in Tunisia : in a campaign appar ently aimed at throwing a strong barrier between the allies arid the coast to protect the line of Marshal Rommel's retreat westward from .Libya were ! reported Thursday from allied Tunisian , headquarters as the British Libyan army drove on behind Rommel to within about 30 miles of Tripoli. Another, small forward move- ! LONDON, Friday, Jan. ZZ-(JP) The Dally Mail's Madrid cor respondent, quoting reports there from North Africa, said Friday ? that great fires were' rating i in Tripoli, main axis basis in Libya, and that the British Eighth army's advance units were only five miles out side the city. ment for axis tanks and infantry men into French-held mountain positions ; southwest of Pont ,du Fahs was announced in an allied communique and a headquarters spokesman disclosed as well that German ; 'armored columns were pushing down parallel valleys to ward ! the -town of Ousseltia, ap parently attempting to isolate and then 1 occupy -the - intervening heights. This maneuver, if successful, would afford protection for a large ; section of the coastal route over which Rommel's retreat from Libya would take him in the ef fort to join up with CoL Gen. Jorgen : Van ' Arnim's Tunisian army. - - '; Kommel stUl was falling back fast, : bni under heavy punish ment from the porseinx British Eishth ; army of Geo. Sir Ber nard L Montgomery, from the allied air arm, and from light-; ing French columns supporting the advance of the British left. ' It was announced Wednesday that a column from the Lake Chad trbops of Fighting French Gen. (Turn to Page 2 G) Work Disease Law in Bill insiirance against octaipational disease, through extension of the workmen's compensation, program to cover that field, is contemplat ed in a bill sponsored by organ ized labor and introduced Thursday-in the Oregon senate , by that body's industries committee. ' ' The bill is similar to laws now existing in 11 other states includ ing Washington and California, in that it proposes general cover aget of i all : occupations! diseases rather than a .limited schedule of specific diseases such as ft pro vided in 14kof the states. . .. - Labor representatives s a I d it was the 1 experience in "general coverage states that the addition al cost to the industrial accident insurance fund amounted to about 32 per "centTThey said "general coverage" was - especially ' prefer able just: now because rapid dej velopment , of new industries : is bringing to light new occupation al ailments, and a schedule made at this time would be , out ol date in the near future. .. Jap ' Pocket Out - AIXtSD DIA DQUAKTE2S Hi . AUSTRALIA, Jan. 22-4P) One of the fonr pockets of re sistance I still held by the Jap anese in the Sanananda sector of New Guinea has been liquidat ed, the allied high command re- : ported :Friday.r.' .i,-. 'k i One hundred fifty . Japs were slain ia this operation. The pocket was the one about 759 yards ta from the beach near Sanananda road. The fighting was seriously hampered by the ten inches tf rain, falling fin single day, bat the troops slogged on for tie . Wiped Outskirts in Jap Base at it ' k . . ;- -'T- i' ' 1. f Coming in for new attention in the southwest Pacific war Is tho Jap occupied Lae area in New Guinea, Allied bomber sare shown- ever - the port. Chief target is the airdrome, while bombs also burst on the ' port and in the water near a Jap ship, UN Soundphoto. Variable TtatioiQuesiitih 4PP but ears - By "RALPH Tax froblents ''Variable ration of assessment' reared its ugly head injthe legislature Thursday for I the first time, but in a manner which served chiefly as a reminder not keeping sharp watch that appeared. ' j T : Multnomah representatives RAF Attacks Naziland Day, Night LONDON,' Jan. 22-fPy- Royal air lorce Ddmoers aiiacxea uer many during the' night for - the first time since their two raids last week end. on -Berlin, it was stated authoritatively Friday, r Details were .not announced im mediately. LONDON, Jan. 21 H&h 8 warms of RAF fighters and bombers, ineladimr two squad- ' rons of the United States j army sir forces, swept northern France and the lowlands Thurs day without loss fat- raids in Caen, Cherboni Flsoliinr and an .airdrome : near :. Le Havre. Three German planes were des troyed. . - j- ,tM Several German planes crossed the southeast coast of England Thursdays night and - were met by heavy ground fire. Thert were no immediate reports of bombings. The US planes were part of an escort for Ventura modern ' bomb ers and Bostons- which bombed the German airfields at Caen and the airport near Le Havre, i the air 'ministry "said.,: 1 ;' : ,-; . ,i i Other Bostons battered the docks at Cherbourg and at Flush ing, in Holland. Le Havre and Cherbourg are major ;Freneh (Turn to Pag 2Fj ..... Nursed Condition Said Excellent Mrs. Dale Moon, 21, special nurse at Salem General hospital who was accosted and stabbed as she waited for a street bus Wed nesday night at the hospital's Cen ter street gate, was reported In excellent ..condition Thursday night. . h . The wound was not as serious as had at first been feared, hospital attendants said. - M r Meanwhile, police said ' they were not ready to make an arrest, although . they maintained they had dues. Mrs. Moon told the in vestigating f officer Wednesday night she would be able to iden tify her assailant and at the same time she gave a description of frfrna. . . "'- ; -., t : ., ". . Lae Attacked 1 Uhaig tied .tit !;C CURTIS to those few observers who were no bill on the subject has yet '.;:'. just tossed it out as a tentative topic for discussion at a meeting of the house committee on assess ment and taxation. R e p. John Steel hammer . of . . Marion : county suggested that .In the absence of such a bill, discussion was profit less; and the blank silence which foUowed gave" consent to the un spoken agreement that it was in deed profitless, even for the sake of determining "how the land lay." ) For "variable ratio" Is a po UUcal vaulting pole in Multno mah and perhaps lm Clack a map county, s cold potato most . everywhere else In Oregon and this dichotomy holds good . iwini the legislators as well a ' the eitisens back home. Yet this much more is true, that the Multnomah delegation is not solidly behind " "variable ration." There- was, before the legislature convened, no - agreement among them to sponsor It as a delega tion. Some personally . oppose it but probably are not -anxious - to record a "nq" vote.r : .; .;; t; Though, a bill probably wUl come in, smce certain. Multnomah citizen groups will be insistent, it is unlikely to f meet the . hearty welcome in ; either, "of the two house . taxation committees, ma jorities in both 'of which represent the upstate viewpoint and a con f (Turn to Page 2 D) - - . Farm Machine Boost Ohehed i" ...... : I WASHINGTON, Jan. 21(ff) The war production board author ized a 30 per cent increase' Thursi day in production of farm ma chinery, and at the same time Chairman Donald Nelson ques tioned . the fairness of a senate committee's criticism of the pre vious program. f He did not think it "fair," j Nel son said In a statement, "to exit" ldze the office of - civilian sup- ply for not having acted irivJune in the light of a situation which did not .develop ' until long after the 1943 farm equipment pro gram was formulated." : m r i The senate defense investigat ing committee, headed by Sena tor Truman CD-Ma), had ' taken the OCS severly to task in a re port filed with the senate earlier in the day. It said the agency had "gambled dangerously - and un wisely with our nation's food sup ply" by rejecting agriculture de partment recommendations and approving a smaller , program - of farm machinery production. . (Milined tf Tripoli IVorosliilovgrad of Drive; ten Nazis' 1941 Front In Danger; Rostov Noosing Attempted ' By The Associated Press, LONDON, Friday, Jan. 22-() Red army troops striking west below Voronezh have reached a point only 85 miles southeast of Kursk, thus threatening the entire nazi 1941 front extending from central Russia to the Sea of Azov, according to a mid-i night Russian communion a broadcast by Moscow . and heard by the soviet monitor Friday. The red army already has two columns pushing toward Kharkov, south of Kursk, another threaten ing Voroshilovgrad, and several more, including those in the Cau casus, menacing Rostov, the Ger man communications nee ' for southern Russia. c The latest Russian common!- . quo announced the capture of Golofyeevka, on the Telets-Ku-' pyansk railway only ten miles ' below the -communications cen ter of Stars ja-Oskol, and 85 miles from Knrsk. Sinl LibyagL 109 miles east of Kursk, also fell to the advancing red army. The latter town is 35. miles south west of Voronezh, and 30 miles northeast o f Staraya - OskoV which apparently ' is be ins en-' veloped in this latest westward, ' sweep.y:;;:;'-;:::-.. - Earlier a special 'r communique .had announced the fall of Voroshl lovsk, including Staromaryavka, 10 miles to the east, and Kugulta, 20 miles to. the northeast Other soviet troops driving to ward Armavir are beyond Nevin nomysskaya, 50 miles southeast of that railway junction and 35 miles south of Voroshilocsk. MOSCOW. Jan. The great , .. industrial center of the Donets basin, Voroshilovgrad, was menaced- Thursday night by tha red army which had " advanced within 20 miles of that strong point and appeared to be driving (Turn to Page 2 B) Germans May Lose Half of Gain in East : WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.VPy Tho surging Russian offensives from the Baltic to the Caucasus may hurl the Germans back half Way across the Ukraine to a win ter line along the-Dnieper river. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Pattersn forecast Thursday. In a general review of the war, Patterson found the outlook "de cidedly .'bright for the United Nations -en -all battle fronts, the continued Russian successes be ing : ''particularly h e a r te ning. These other phases of the global war also were discussed by the' undersecretary: " 1 Ship construction new has passed tho rate of sinkings by enemy sabmarines. However, German nnderseas raiders eon- -; tinue te take a heavy toll, cre ating: a heavy drain both on ships and supplies. German Field - Marshal Erwin Rommel's forces apparently in tend to abandon Tripoli without. a major effort to defend the Lib yan: capital against the advancing British Eighth army and , "it would seem very plain that the fail pi Tripoli is only a matter of hours." In Tunisia, there has been a luU In ground fighting due chiefly to bad weather, but considerable air activity has found the allied planet still maintaining a 2-1 combat advantage over axis air-. (Turn to Pago 2 C) little Heroes! V Yenr -paper Is delivered ta yoe today by a home front hero your Statesman carrier. It's no fan and not easy to carry papers from doer to door through the snow. ' , If your paper Is late, have patience with the little hero on your rente. Ce Is dsisg the best he can; and be Is Lr.g very well, indeed, to make delivery at all. . rw rw n towns lal