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Tho Inside Dimout . Taesday sunset :1S p. m. Wednesday snnrise 1:31 a. m. Weather: 5 Son. max. temp. 44, mln. 28. Mon. rlTer 1-2 feet. Weather daU restricted by army request. - Tear complete morning newspaper. The Statesman, Hers yon pertinent com ments on war newa of tho day by Rlrko Sim poos. Washington analyst. l W W KINETY-SECOND YEAR Salem. C a Tnaaday Morning; February 2. 1943 Price Sc. No. 233 POUNDDB 1651 - - ":- ' Y-- ' : ; ' 1 : -': --v: - f : r i .; Dentists Testify On Bill , 'dean House' Said Society. Goal; Bar Comparison Made Whether the "Oregon state dental association" proposed in a bill backed by members of the present state dental society actually would be comparable to the Oregon State Bar was the bone of contention at a hearing on the measure Mon day night before the legislative committee on medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, Dental society spokesmen said that was their purpose, in order that the pro fession itself might "clean house." Denial that there was any paral lel was made by Frank Lonergan, spokesman for opponents of the LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR Third readings today: House: HB 49, 195, 230, 232, 233. SB 26. Senate: SB 3, 23, 44, 54, HB 29. bill, who emphasized that every act of the state bar was subject to ratification or reversal by the state supreme court, whereas the proposed dental association would be "aJaw unto itself" without pos sibility of effective appeal, since the findings of the association's directors might be reversed by the courts only upon a showing that no evidence had been produced. That the proponents real and only purpose was to "muzzle those who advertise" was Loa ergan's contention; sad he de clared that the present law eon tains all the "teeth" necessary to pnnlsh those guilty of malprac tice. Dr'--'M. C. Harris of Eugene said the bill's purpose was to prevent "mail order dentistry." Dr. A. D. Woodmansee of Salem showed nu merous , X-ray slides illustrating ; what he described as inefficient and harmful dental work but ex plained that he did not know who had done the work, that he in , tended only Ctf prove it prevalence. He also called as a witness Mrs. Bessie Shirtcliff of Salem, who testified she had been advised to have all her teeth out, but re fused; and later X-ray proved all her remaining teeth were sound. Dr. Arthur W. Chance of Port land said the dentists didn't want a "closed shop" but to improve their standards; following Loner ' gan's argument Dr. Chance con ceded that the bill asked too much. Dr. A. T Oberg of Eugene, in criticizing newspapers' interest in the bill, observed that "the custo dians of the sacred ox have be come the milkers of the holy cow." Ralph Campbell, Salem attorney who drew the bill, said that though dental society speakers had been "goaded" into attacks against ad vertising dentists, the bill's real purpose was to protect the profes sion's standards; and he denied that it granted unlimited powers or lacked legal remedies. Allan Bynon, second speaker for the opponents, said there were several "jokers" in the bill, par ticularly the provision that the as sociation's board of directors might make any rules it saw fit, includ ing the fixing of prices. Former Gov. Charles A. Spragne, taking no part in the argument, testified that as gov ernor, he had appointed to the beard of dental examiners the men recommended by the den tal society, and had given the members no instructions. He ap peared after two speakers had said that at a previous hearing before a sub-committee. Dr. Woodmansee had charged that the board of examiners was "po litical" and that no charges ' could be pressed against adver tising dentists. Following ' the ". ex-governor's appearance Dr. Woodmansee said he aparently had misinterpreted a statement he had heard and added that "the governor's word is good enough for me." Harry Schenk, newsaper asso ciation secretary, said there had only been one malpractice case against a dentist, and one unsuc cessful charge of misleading ad vertising, since - the present law , was enacted in 1933., The committee took no immed iate action upon the bill Later it heard some of the persons who ought to be heard for and against proposed changes in the optometry code. - (Additional legislative news to day on page 5.) Planes Pound Japs WASHINGTON, Feb., 1 -VP)-Continued aerial pounding of Jap anese bases in the Solomon is lands was reported Monday by the navy in a communique which al so stated that 62 enemy troops had been killed on Guadalcanal and 2 had been captured. Allied Leaders Make War Plans t N, - r Furrowed brows and grim-set Jaws marked faces of President Roose velt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill as they talked in con ference which has come to be known as the "unconditional sur render" parley. Conversations, which lasted It days, were held at Casablanca, French Morocco, In north Africa, AP TelemaL Roosevelt Guesses Army Of 7,500,000 to Fulfill Need, Reports on Front By JACK BELL WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 -(-President Roosevelt was re ported Monday night to have given a conference of legislators at the White House a rough estimate of 7,500,000 man as the maximum-sized army needed to carry the war to a successful con clusion, " ; " ; i ;The president's mention of this figure waajsaid to have been Allied Planes Slash Rabaul, Leave Blazes ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Tuesday, Feb 2-JP) Gen. Douglas MacArthur's airmen carried the fight to vital Japanese air base on Rabaul island in a slashing attack Monday that left more than 22 fires blazing, while intensive allied patrol activity in the ' jungles around Mubo-Wau kept the enemy worried. Flying Fortresses hit hard at Rabaul's airdromes of Lakunai and Rapopo in a night attack, and the noon communique said they caused "heavy destruction of fuel dump and grounded aircraft" Patrols which moved out into the jungle between the allied base at Wau and Mubo maintained con tact with a Jap force estimated at a battalion,' or 900 men. MacAr thur's spokesman said fighting was only in the patrol stage there and didn't approach the sharp engage ment last Friday and Saturday when the enemy drove through in one sector only to be hurled back with a loss of more than 300 dead. The communique mentioned for the first time that the allies in that area had artillery support, used presumably to help smash back the first big Jap attack, there have been no reports that the Japs had artillery. Chileans Moye To Stop Spies SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. l-(flp) The Chilean government took steps Monday to prevent espionage at strategic ports and fninipg areas. The ministry of defense issued a decree forbidding all photo graphing of any of the "zones of emergency" which President Juan Antonio Rios had designated be fore breaking off relations with the; axis. ; ' f" ; One hundred sixty eight Ger mans and 74 Japanese who were suspected of espionage and propa ganda activities . were told, they must register Monday at the towns and resorts to which they had been banished, or go to jail, v . Boat Sinks; 2 Drown ' REEDSPORT, Ore, Feb. 1 Two men drowned Monday as the fishing boat ,Truxcella foundered in a storm off tho North Umpqua river. Coastguardsmen attempted in vain to rescue Skipper Dan Ar kel, Lakeside, Ore, and Mate Max KincarU Reedsport. - : ,w in response to questions of legis- la tors, to whom he had outlined the results of his recent confer ence in Casablanca with Prime Minister Churchill of Great Brit ain. Mr. Roosevelt thus was repre sented as siding with those in congress who have contended that the over-all manpower needs of the country were such that the army ought not to grow beyond the 7,500,000 goal which military leaders have said they expected to reach by the end of this year. With the 2,200,000 man total sought by the navy, this would boost the nation's armed forces well beyond 10,000,000 persons when auxiliary branches are counted. Some of the legislators who at tended the conference but who can not be quoted by name said the discussion of the size of the army was more or less incidental to a lengthy resume by President Roosevelt of conditions on all of the fighting fronts. Mr. Roosevelt was said to have given the legislators an estimate of the number of American troops nowin Africa and the number ex pected to be there by spring fig ures which they declined to re veal as military secrets. Conferees said they understood there was no decision on the ques tion of an over-all allied command at the Casablanca conference, the president " pointing out that none could have been made because of the fact that Josef Stalin of Russia and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China were unable to attend. The president was said to have talked at length about con ditions he found when he in spected American troops in the north African war sone, with reference especially to the thick mud -which delayed offensive moves there. Shifting to a discussion of the transportation problem of supply (Turn to Page. 2 Story II) 30 Patients Die in SEATTLE, Feb. l-P)-Leo Mc Combs, chief of seven north dis trict volunteer fire " companies, said Monday that Sunday's sani tarium fire, in which 30 elderly patients died could be duplicated, potentially, in any . of 50 other nursing and rest homes in King county. One patient still was un accounted for Monday night, Ten of the 17 rescued inmates suffered burns. McCombs told interviewers the board of . county commissioners should have given rural fire dis trict commissioners authority to enforce safety measures in their 0Vur chill Talks In Confident Following Confab on Position . Of Near East Ally j 'By GEORGE TUCKER f CAIRO, Tuesday, Feb. 2-0) Prime Minister Churchill J of Britain, returning here frbm highly important military "and political talks with Turkish leaders: in Turkey, was fin buoyant spirits Monday night; in talking informally of Britain's understanding with that country. - Blowing smoke spirals with his usual cigar the prime minister said he hoped the press would not read more into the agreement, "further strengthening" the bonds between Turkey and Britain, than was outlined in the official an nouncement. - Then he grinned and said "as you know I always avoid pro phesying because it is better ; to prophesy after the event has tak en place." I Churchill was pointed in his re marks on the old, deep-rooted British - Turkish friendship "which was so tragically splashed by tragedy in the last war." f "Now It is filled with the full est strength and sincerity, and I cannot doubt that it will con tinue In the fullest vitality," he Turkey is a non - belligerent ally of Britain's in this war and an important British military and political delegation . accompanied Churchill to the conferences at Adana, just over the Syrian bor der, where President Ismet In onu of Turkey, Premier Sukru Saracoglu and Turkish ' military heads were waiting. j The British service chiefs ? all wore civilian clothes, and there was little need of interpreters at the- conference. Churchill and the Turks talked in French." S The prime minister said he had told the Turks of those war stra tegy talks. "The talks which have taken place, he said of the Tur kish trip, "were related ' to .the general world position. We had an important and agreeable dis cussion." Churchill told the correspond ents here that the prodigious blows struck by the Russian army had removed the German threat of invading the middle east from the north. Stalin, he said, was a great warrior with a name which would be one of the most hon ored and long-lived in the history of the Russian people. Of the North African battles the prime minister said "I be lieve the army which started from Cairo will play a notewor thy part in the achievement of the final result in Tunisia, name ly the ejection from Africa of ev ery Italian and German soldier." "We must expect considerable fighting in Tunisia in the next few months, perhaps weeks,' he (Turn to ,Page 2 Story C) FR Retracts Flynn Naming WASHINGTON, Feb. l.-fp)-President Roosevelt withdrew "Ed ward J. Flynn's nomination' as minister of Australia Monday amid overwhelming indications that the senate would not confirm it, and the bitter three-w e e k s controversy subsided. j It was the administration's first outright rebuff from the hew congress and the first time Mr. Roosevelt has had to backtrack on a diplomatic nomination. j The action followed Flynn's statement that he was asking that his name be withdrawn because he was "unwilling to permit my candidacy to be made the excuse for a partisan political, debate. Turkey 'One' Command Said By WES GALLAGHER ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Feb. lkP) With: the British Eight army; al ready in Tunisia and on the verge of joining allied forces driving against the Germans from j the west, the time appeared near Mon day when the Mediterranean must be merged into one vast allied, war theatre under a single command and US LL Gen. Dwight D. Eisen hower seems likely to head ! the show. . " j For all practical purposes, the middle east and north Africa Cam paigns nowl, are one battle need ing a single head to ' direct it. I ; "l '. The recent war conference at , this headquarters attended j by Gen, Sir : Harold Alexander, Yanks Assault Nazi Positions fa Tunisia . Air and Land Action Rises as British Press Westward By ALFRED E. WALL LONDON, Feb. l-(ff-Ameri-can troops have attacked Ger man positions in the tactically important mountainous area of central Tunisia in three limited but bitterly contested sectors and air action has risen in vi olence over nearly the whole of the north African theatre to sig nalize the approach of the major action that will usher in the show down. US infantry supported by ar tillery and tanks, made heavy assaults in an effort t recap ture Faid pass, about 60 miles west of the important axis coastal position of Sfax, and two ether American columns beat against the railroad town of Maknassy, 33 miles inland from the Gulf of Gabes, while the al lied air arm struck hard and effectively' overhead. The French high command ac knowledged the loss .of Faid vil lage . and the height of Faid as wen as the pass before the initial German assault, but said French artillery had knocked out about 12 tanks. Earlier reports had told of allied aerial attacks which left a nazi "dozen tanks afire in Faid pass and a London spokesman said a score of others were destroyed in fighting along the road be tween Faid and Sidi Bouzid, which the French still hold. The Americans counterattacked in an effort to regain the Faid area. But at last report Monday the enemy still held Faid and was being supported by heavy artil lery and dive-bomber fire. To the north of this area, British infantry and artillery stood astride the road leading from Pont du Fahs toward Robaa, and hurled back powerful German attacks headed up by 52-ton Mark VI tanks. Two of these giants were (Turn to Page 2 Story B) 9-Year-Old Girl Takes Giarge of Injured Airmen CASTIAC, Calif., Feb. 1-ypy-A nine-year-old girl, who hiked five miles over mountains and across streams and built a big fire to warm two army air force fliers, injured in a, plane-glider crash, drew hearty praise Monday from the two men. She is Marylynn Winkler, daughter of N. C. Winkler, Rom ero canyon rancher. Reaching the two injured fliers, Staff Sgt. Rob ert Edelman of Long Island City, NY, and Pvt. Robert Nengel of Orlando, Fla., Marylynn watched over them for hours until help ar rived. "She kept scurrying up the hill sides, foraging brush for fire," said Sergeant Edelman. "Even when it got dark, she kept running off for more wood. "When the army field ambu lance got as far as it could, she rustled up some long branches for stretcher poles and helped make emergency stretchers. She was wonderful. But Marylynn took the praise modestly. "I just couldn't leave them there alone and hurt like that," she said. British commander fa the mid dle east, was taken as an indica tion in most quarters that Gen eral Elsenhower is slated to be commander la chief of the Med iterranean with Alexander la command of all land f orees. --Eisenhower is the only man the allies have who has had exper ience In directing mixed com mands on a large scale, and it was understood that both President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill are satisfied -with his work-t The' formation of one Meriter ranean war theatre would call for setting up parallel commands for tho land, sea and air. r ; Mostly . prominently mentioned for the air post is Air Chief Mar shal Sir Arthur Tedder, comman rnnn ImJ0U City Council Denies Nejw.. Liquor License . Reiterating a stand taken approximately eight years ago, Salem city council Monday night refused to endorse an appli cation for a restaurant liquor license where none had previously existed. - i '! That placing the council's approval on an application for such a license would be tantamount to allowing establishment of a new beer dispensary within the city, Aldermen C F. French, E. B. Perrine, Albert Gille and David O'Hara indicated as their belief, although the application in ques tion was that of R. V. Carleson, who sought a new type of license for his restaurant which . was al ready selling beer. , No objection to i the person making application was Intend ed, spokesmen for! the opposi tion to the majority report of the license committee declared, but maintained that they were making an effort to hew close to the line in a long-established policy. Not among signers of the majority committee report was Gille.: The license asked by Carleson would allow not only service of beer from bottles at tables but service of wine with meals and mixers to be used by the customer in dilution of hard liquor on the premises, Alderman Tom Arm strong called to the council's at tention. Majority report signers, Alder men Daniel J. Fry and L. F. Lo Garie, maintaining that their rec ommendation was not for a break over from previously-established policy but .merely' fair treatment of a restaurant operator who had been operating with a different type of license and' now wanted to Join several other establish ments of the city in use of the more expensive 'and extensive restaurant license, were joined in the only three votes in favor of (Turn to Page 2 Story E) Japan Claims Sinking Five US Warships By The Associated Press . Japanese imperial headquar ters asserted Monday without confirmation from any non-Japanese quarter that its planes had sunk two American battleships and three cruisers last Friday and Saturday off Rennell island, southernmost of the Solomons and about 100 miles south of Guadalcanal. This wholly unsupported claim was made in a comunique read in both houses of the Japanese diet by Navy Minister Admiral Shimada and was 'broadcast by the Tokyo radio and recorded in New York by the Associated Press. Another battleship and cruiser were reported damaged and three Grumann Wildcat fighters were shot down at the cost of only ten Japanese planes, the communique said. The account was ignored in Washington and London and re called other fantastic claims of Japanese naval . success. Tokyo f propaganda broadcasts termed the "attack" an answer to the Roosevelt-Churchill ''uncon ditional surrender ! conference at Casablanca. Their tone thus sug gested that the Japanese might be circulating the report to coun teract effects of the allied strate gy meeting. Another purpose, pos sibly, was to fish for information about allied naval dispositions in the southwest Pacific, where the Japanese are under increasing pressure on Guadalcanal and New Guinea. Imminent der of the RAF in the middle east. His cooperation with the British Eighth army and aggressive tac tics led to the breaking of the German air power on a battlefield for the first time in this war. To all practical purposes, Brit ish Admiral of. the Fleet Sir An drew Cunningham already is run ning most of the naval warfare, visaged by military experts would ' Such a command set up as ' envisaged ' by military " experts would leave an American on top with three British officers as his chief aides, j - , . This , unity of command would be carried down the line right on through with the middle east, and North. Afrima theatres retaining their identities but under a single command, - - lF0"CnJ0 Taxft.posai; Has Alternate Removal of Abuses - In Properly Tax Exemption Sought By RALPH C, CURTIS As sequel to the radical sug gestion that all property tax ex emptions, be removed, everr those on the property of churches .and charitable , organizations, made ' by Rep. Giles French assertedly only as a means of calling attention to an evil, a substitute bill appeared in the house assessment and taxa tion committee Monday ' which proposes elimination of recognized abuses. Committee members with held its acceptance as a "commit tee bill" but agreed some features had merit One type , of property which would be taxed under this- bill is state property such as the Miner building in Eugene, which is rent ed in part to private firms and thus competes with privately owned real estate. -County and city property used similarly also would betaxed. . There' Js also a more rigid definition of property exempted ; because it is owned by literary, charitable and scientific or ganisations, and a limit upon the area of exempt church and school property. Household furniture would be exempted only If used by its owner. The committee did adopt a bill which would assess personal prop erty .of which the owner holds variable amounts at different sea sons, on an "annual average in ventory" basis rather than on the (Turn to Page 2--Story G) Dies Requests End of Funds For Radicals WASHINGTON, Feb. l--To the accompaniment of applause from both sides of the house, Rep. Dies (D-Tex) called on congress Monday to purge the government of "irresponsible, unrepresenta tive, crackpot and radical bureau crats' by withholding funds from the agencies employing them. The Texan, who is chairman of the committee on un-American activities, made direct charges of communistic affiliations against numerous persons "in government positions. He also declared that persons of un-American views have engaged in a conspiracy to "smear congress and discredit its members." "Devotees of totalitarianism," Dies said, attempt "to pin the nazi label on those who do not agree with all policies of the pres ent administration. Unless a halt is called by con gress, "the only. bulwark of free dom in AmericaVV he contended. we are rapidly approaching a time when the real power will not be exercised in this congress but by bureaucracy. - Dies named approximately 40 government employes after saying he would "make crystal clear just what he meant by Irresponsible, unrepresentative, - crackpot . and radiacl. bureaucrats, - including employes of the federal communi cations commission, war produc tion board and other agencies. Italian General Reported Slain By The Associated Press The Berlin radio reported Mon day night that Brig. Gen. Puilio Martinet, chief of staff of the Eighth Italian army corps, was killed hr action '-on. the . Russian front on January, 26. The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, said that Gen. Martinet had been fighting in the soviet union with .Italian Alpine units since March of last year. It quoted '-. an official .. communique issued in Rome. ... . . ' ICurskalCharkov Threatened by Soviet Gains Nazi Forces Before Stalingrad Wiped Out Completely LONDON, Tuesday, Feb. 1 ()-The soviet army is less than 45 miles from the Caucasian gateway city of Rostov, and only 65 miles east of Kursk, one of the main German bas tions in southern Russia, Mos cow, announced Tuesday in a communique recorded by the sov- let monitor here. v ' The Russians announced they: captured Mechetinskaya, thus de veloping their nearest threat to Rostov. The town is about mid way between Salsk and Rostov on a railway up which the red army is driving. I - On the Voronezh front the town of Kshen fell to the advancing red army, the communique said. This town is midway between Voro nezh and Kursk, and only 65 . miles from the latter on the main railway leading to the Kursk Kharkov line that is the spinal column of nazi communications in southern Russia. MOSCOW, Feb. l-iip)-Th . red army, driving 90 miles west- -ward into theUkraine, has cap- . tared Svatovo on the Kharkov-Kapyansk-Voroshilovgrad rail way to reach a point 34 miles southeast of Knpyansk and 85 miles from Kharkov, a special soviet eommuniQ.Be announced , Monday night. Meanwhile other Russian units were hacking to bits the surviving German remnants trapped in the pockets west of Voronezh on the front north of the Ukraine, and were pounding forward in a swift reconquest of; the Caucasus on the southern and southeastern ap proaches to Rostov. Svatovo apparently fell to the Russian column that had captured Starobelsk several days ago, on the Valuiki-Voroshilovgrad rail way. Valuiki already is in Russian hands, .and red army units last were reported 10 miles of Vorosh ilograd, Donets basin industrial , center. ' ' ' (The midnight Russian com munique recorded by the Soviet Monitor in London announced continued gains on the Voronezh, southern and Caucasian fronts, where about ten more communi ties and railway stations were taken during the day and thous ands of Germans killed or cap- . tured. (On the Voronezh front one German regiment was almost en tirely destroyed, the communique said, 600 troops, 150 trucks, and 15 guns captured. (At Stalingrad, it said, more than 1500 Germans were killed " north of the city. "The number of prisoners rose hourly and Is many times greater than tho (Turn to Page 2 Story A) Duce Assures y Return Into ?Lost9 Libya LONDON, Feb. l-)-Premier Mussolini, in his. first speech since the British Eighth army wiped out Italy's African empire, promised Monday to return there "where our dead wait us and where wo have left indestructible marks of our powerful civilization. Addressing fascist militia "some where in central Italy" on the 20th anniversary of the founding of the militia, H Duce said victory in the war would go to the side "able to hold out a quarter hour longer than tho enemy." The speech was heard in a Rome broadcast recorded by the Associated Press. Also at his first opportunity to comment publicly on the Roosevelt-Churchill unconditional sur render conference in north Af rica, Mussolini said; ; "We and our comrades of the axis and the tripartite pact reply to the mad, criminal propagandist mystification of Casablanca that we shall never give up as long as we are able to grasp a , weapon for combat. . News of the fall of Libya had been received by the Italian peo ple "with virile, Roman calm," Mussolini said, because of their conviction that they would asain return, there. V