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lli OHEGOIT 8TATESMAXT flfflorn. Oregon. Tuesday Morning February 2, IS43
Civil Defense
Group to Aid
Fire Fighting :
First civilian defense organiza
tion within Marion county not of
' strictly "volunteer nature Is In
" process of formation here this
week, County Coordinator Byron
H. Cooler revealed Monday night
as he outlined plans for the for
est fire fighters' service.
' - Men who -volunteer for th
service may have special train
ing in fire fighting methods if
they are willing to utilize some
spring evenings for class work,
Conley said, and they may be
called upon to work In event of
fire in rural, areu or in forest
sections of the county.'
When called upon to fight for
est fires, the members of the or
ganization will be paid, Dan D.
Robinson . of the state forester's
office, who is now contacting
leaders of Salem civic organiza
tions for help in starting the serv
ice, has told Conley.
Classes are to commence
soon as sufficient interest la the
organization has been shown to
snake possible establishment of a
- training schedule, t- Conley said
.Monday, explaining that probably
one night a week would be asked
oi volunteers. :
'Axis Supply Dumps Go Up in Smoke
Upshaw Named
US Marshal
PORTLAND, Feb. Lt.
Comdr. Frank B. Upshaw, US tia
vy retired, was appointed acting
United States marshal Monday by
Federal Judge Claude McColloch
and James A. Fee
He will hold office until Presi
dent Roosevelt appoints a succes
sor to the late Frank Hamm. Up
shaw said he was not a candidate
for the job.
A former state manager of the
Home Owners Loan corporation,
Upshaw entered active duty in
1940 and returned here under phy
sical retirement September 1.
Khaki Dominates
License Records
Marriage license applications
for January, up approximately
25 per cent from the record of
January, 1943, reflect the pre
sence of Camp Adair In this
area. County Clerk Lee Ohmart
susses ted Monday as he pointed
ut that 31 of the male appli
cants were service men.
In January of last year four
f the 47 prospective bride
grooms were in - some branch
of the service, although many
were shipyard workers and
otherwise enraged in war acti
vities, while in January, 1941,
only one of the 19 male appli
cants wore a uniform.
Axley Services
Today, Portland
Funeral services for James Earl
Axley, auditor in the commissary
department at Fort Stevens, will
be held at 4 p.m. today in the
drawing room chapel of Holman
and Lute, Northeast 14th and
Sandy, Portland. Commitment
will be at the Portland Crema
torium.
Axley was the son of the late
James Axley, formerly a teacher
In the Salem schools. He is sur
vived by his widow, Mrs. Augusta
Axley; three brothers, Rollo, Port
land, Seth, San Francisco, and
Bay, Portland; and an aunt, Mrs.
J. R. Anderson of Salem.
A. "
A heavy black cloud of smoke rises from axis supply daaaps in Tripoli. They were set afire, by
mel's forces fleeing before the British Eighth Army. (This is an official British photo received m
the United States via radio from Cairo.) Associated Press Telemai.
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The War News
By KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Wide World War Analyst for His Statesman
progress to escape a closing red
trap.
Though the terrain and weather
conditioning the battles in the
northwestern Caucasus and in
southern Tunisia are utterly dif
ferent, there is a distinct parallel
in Russian and Anglo-American
French strategy. In both cases the
old military axiom of divide and
conquer is coming into play. The
allies are obviousdly trying to trap
the retreating MarsHal Rommel
before he can join forces with the
axis defenders of the Bizerte-Tu-nis
triangle.
Pastor Selected
MOSCOW, Idaho, Feb. l.-iJP)-
The Rev. Owen J. Beadles, Me
fhodist pastor who came here five
years ago from Chehalis, said
Monday he had been transferred
to the pastorate of the Centenary
Wilbur church at Portland.
Fall Injuries Fatal
PORTLAND, Feb. 1 -(TV-George
W. Hall, 40, shipyard worker, died
Sunday of injuries from a fall off
four-foot scaffold last Thursday.
Host to FDR
En route home from the historic
Casablanca conference. Presi
dent Ceosevelt paused In Li
beria on the African west coast
to pay his respects to that coun
try's president. Edwin. Barclay
(above), and to review Ameri-
can Negro troops stationed
there Associated Press Tele
mat. - .
By every available portent the month of February, 1943,
seems destined to bring twin crises to a head for Hitler on his
soviet Russian and Tunisian fronts. They could spell the be
ginning of his doom.
On the two far-separated sectors something like a million
axis troops are already dead, cap
tured, or in imminent peril of
sharing the fate of the "suicide"
garrison of the Stalingrad pock
et
Moscow reports, documented by
statements obtained from captured
German staff officers, now set
nazi losses in the Stalingrad clean
up at a third instead of a quarter
of a million men. Another 250,000
or so are reported all but trapped
below Rostov in the northwestern
Caucasus between the Kuban and
the Don, with their backs to Kerch
strait and the Crimean escape
route. Still another 25,000 to 50,
000 appear cut off to the north
by the Russian sweep toward
Kursk.
The excuse offered by Hit
ler's spokesmen for the sacri
fice of the army before Stalin
grad Is that it made possible
preparation of a new defense In
Russia. Just where that front
in the south runs is not yet clear,
bat It Is hourly becoming more
doubtful that it can Include the
Rostov anchor on the Don estu
ary or embrace any part of the
Caucasus.
Just where the main Russian
thrust at Rostov is to fall cannot
be discerned. It seems obvious,
however, that an element of Sov
iet strategy for that crucial drive
to fling the foe back of the Dnie
per and out of the Donets basing
is the attempt to cut off and trap
the remnants of Hitler's army of
the Caucasus below the Don. The
speed of the Russian advance be
yond recaptured Maikop to close
in on Krasnodar suggests nazi re
cognition of that danger A Ger
man flight to. the Crimea via
Kerch strait may already be in
McKenzie Named
Juilge for Union
Appointment of Alex McKenzie
as Union county judge was an
nounced by Gov. Earl Snell Mon
day. He succeeds Judge U. G.
Couch, La Grande, who died re
cently, and will serve the unex
pired term ending in January,
1945.
McKenzie is now serving as
tounty commissioner of Union
county and is a member of the
executive committee of the Coun
ty Judges and Commissioners as
sociation. He was born in Union
county, is 52 years old. and is a
successful farmer. McKenzie is a
republican.
Gabriel Found Insane I
PORTLAND, Feb. l.-tfVAn
alienist pronounced Ennii . Ga
briel, 50, i accused slayer. Insane
Monday, and Circuit Judge Lou
is P. Hewitt committed him to the
state asylum at Salem. Gabriel is
accused of shooting Rollo W. El
lis in Gabriel's confectionery last
August. Judge Hewitt continued
the first-degree murder charge
indefinitely. ' ,.-
Thousands Praise Simple
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Valentine
Mail Heavy
The girls they left behind
them ha vent forgotten. Judging
by the Valentines mailed to ser
vice men overseas during Jan
uary, reports Postmaster Henry
R. Crawford. It's enough to
make the mail, carrier feel like
Cupid, and with the "hearts and
flowers' month Just arrived, a
local boom in Valentine mail is
expected.
January receipts at the post
office showed an increase of
Sl.397.68 worth of business In
January, 194S, over January,
1942. Last year's total was $4L
769.52 while In the month lust
gone by, postal clerks transacted
143,167.20 worth of business.
Two at a Time
PORTLAND, Feb. 1 -(JF)- Ob
taining only $1.99 in ST hardware
store burglary here Sunday night,
a burglar hammered out a wall
section and found himself in a
drug store where he helped him
self to $22.
Netz Services
Held Monday
i - - - -
A military funeral was held
Monday afternoon In Christ Lu
theran church here for Lt. Stan
ley) G. Netz Of the US army air
corps, who died in a bomber crash
near Alamogordo, NM, on Janu
ary? 24. -: Rev. F. H. Theuer cox
ducted the service for Lt. Netz,
who was. employed by a local
newspaper for 17 years.
The pallbearers, soldiers from
the! state fairgrounds encamp
ment, were: Tech. Sgt. Howard
D. Mete, Staff Sgt. Herman W.
McLaughlin, Staff Sgt. Jay E. Ob-
erxnan, Sgt Harry E Bender, Sgt.
Marlin K. Kelly, and Sgt Charles
K. Askins. LL B.A, Kallonzes ac
companied the body to Salem
Staff Sgt John B. Hoffman di
rected the firing squad which
honored Lt Netz at the Belcrest
Memorial park. Pvt. George Bart
ley; was the bugler.
Army Repairs
Books Here
Salem Is one of six western
cities at which branches of the
army's Ninth service , command
library arc being set up to process,
repair and distribute books do
nated for the use of soldiers, ac
cording to an announcement from
command headquarters received
by The Statesman Monday.
Mrs. Ruth K. Stratton, formerly
of I the city library staff. Is in
charge of the local branch. It Is
operated at the state library,
whose head librarian. Miss Elea
nor Stephens, directed the Vic
tory book campaign in Oregon.
The army library branch takes
the place of a WPA project that
had been set up, also with Mrs.
Stratton in charge, for the same
purpose. The service was stopped
recently when WPA was liquidat
ed.
British Flax
Mills Sought
WASHINGTON, Feb. lHJPh
Possibility that Oregon may get
some unused British flax fabrica
tion machinery Is being investi
gated by Senator' McNary (R
Ore). " " . s- -
-, Q. JL Hyslop, head of the divi
sion of - plant industries at Ore
gon State college, wrote the sen
ator, asking the procedure under
which British machinery might
be obtained under the lend-lease
act He said production of flax
has ' expanded beyond the capa
city of local mills and he believes
a spinning ' and weaving ' plant
might be started If the machine
"ry were available. ; -
Believing that many fiber Car
machines must be idle in Great
Britain, he . thought they might
be made available to the Oregon
Industry. -,:.lyy ; .y -.v: .
v The senator asked Hyslop for
additional data on the tjpe of
equipment needed.'
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Brothers to Qose
Food Store Here
Western Food market 137
South Commercial street, is go
ing out of business, a war causal
tyj the proprietors, Isaak Broth
ers, announced Monday. - Lack of
merchandise was given as the im
mediate reason for impending
closure of the store which they
opened six years ago.
The two proprietors, owners or
homes here, expect to continue to
live in Salem, and plan after the
war to reenter the grocery bus!
neks. Thev oDerated a store in
McMinnville for 11 years before
coining to Salem.
For ihe Deration o! All Merchandise j in Slock
All Advertised Prices Effective While Merchandise Lasts.
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Bulk
Jars. Garden Brand, 2 lbs. 49c
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Campbell's Tomato or
Lynden Chicken Noodle
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SAVES
No. 1 Tall Cans, Packed
In Tomato Sauce
&4
Clara Chowder 190
l omaloes Each
Lg. No. 2Yi cans Per case $3.05
Siring Deans Eh 90
No. 2 Cans Per Case M.49
Raisins 2 Li. 250
Bulk Sampson Seedless
Raisin Bran 2 for m9
10 oz. Pkg. ;
D2Sn 2r.390.
Washing Powder
Dng Gofa Pail wz. 190
Zcchanic Soap 250.
ML Hood Brand, 6 Bars
MIS
Flagstaff Brand
Hard Wheat, 49 lb.
Red, White and Blue
Or Kitchen Queen
49 lb. I;
$.98
Fisher Blend or
Drifted Snow, 49 lb.
$05
indicl Tip Uoa 190
Lge. Ctn.290
PET JEE5. s pus. 270
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