The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, October 13, 1943, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Texty . i i 1 i 9 i V . 1 : a it r PAG- TVTO Thunderbolts Take Spotlight Oyer Wewak ' C (CmUnuef from Page 1 C in above Finschhafen, headquar ten said the Japanese were slain . in a aeries of counterattacks. . - Meanwhile, Australians in th Ramu valley, who are moving north within approximately 40 miles of the enemy coastal base at Madang are expanding their holdings by driving Japanese from ' outpost positions in high ground. The Japanese airforce also was n the offensive in both tne i southwest and south Pacific, made three raid against Lae, New Guinea, which were characterized ai ineffective- In the Solomons, Japanese torpedo planes caused shipping damage in a,, raid on -.Guadalcanal. , Off Dutch New Guinea, allied .Liberators sank a small enemy , tanker. ui A spokesman also said one' out of a six-ship convoy- off Buka in the northern Solomons had been , ..damaged by air bombardment.. . i The 32 enemy fighters engaged in the wewak sector were inter cepted . while escorting 12 bomb- . era. No mention was maae oi ios- ses by the allied fighter patroL In the Solomons, where the Jap anese have pulled out of the cen " tral group of islands, American fighter planes attacked" installa ' tions, started ' fires and silenced gun positions in the area of south " ern Bougainville. That is the last big base still held by the Japan- ese in the Solomons. . : ' In nearby Choiseul Island, from 'which some of the ' evacuated troops are awaiting transfer to 'tiougainville, - American medium ' bombers and escorting lighters at tacked barge concentrations used for such transfers. Northwest of Australia, allied medium bombers spread fires along the main wharf at Ambon ' on Amboina island. ' Monday, for the third day in ' succession, an allied patrol spotted P and attacked a Japanese convoy "between " the Solomons and the New Ireland-New Britain area. The plane hit one of the six ships ' which were headed west between '. Buka and Cape St George, New Ireland. The vessels may have been remnants of a force which was turned back the night of Oct. of Vella Lavella by American destroyers which sank an enemy light cruiser and at least two de- ; stroyers. OWI Predicts Further Cut In Gas Ration B (Continued from Page 1) B oaeooaooaooooaooMoaowoooioojoioMOjaoaoioaa without regard to ownership, in - order to avoid lost motion in get , tin? oil from the nearest source to the point of war. consumption; . and to arrange purchases, sales . exchanges and loans of oil prod ucts. . ,'. OWI gave this summary of the 4 supply outlook: v Production in the' midwest has declined from an average of 1, 180,000 barrels a day in Decem ber 1941, to 960,000 barrels' daily Th May, 1943. The petroleum ad- - ministration for war estimates that production will drop another 70, 000 barrels a day by the first Quarter of 1944. Production is on the rise in the southwest, but PAW states that with minor, exceptions the . only remaining oil fields capable of increasing supplies in any size able amount are those in west Texas.- - Prospects for increased output in the Rocky mountain area are good, but the region produces on ly three per cent of the nation's ; total. :- : ' ; On the west coast, crude oil ' production has been stopped up . from 630.000 barrels daily in De- cember, 1941. to 770,000 barrels at present. However, military needs are making large, inroads in petroleum stocks. : . ... 84 Million Oranges Arrive in England , LONDON, Wednesday, Oct. 13.- Citrus-hungry Britain learned today that 84,000,000 oranges had reached this country -for young sters only. i Food Minister Lord Woolton said children up to five would receive . two' pounds of oranges each, and those between 5 and 16 would get ,on pound. Retailers must reserve their supplies for children' for five days after receiving stocks,' then the remainder can be cleared with out restriction." , i MGaOTNG ROOM ' . v 341 CHEMEKETA STREET VCpczizj .Ttsrsday Ilcca - - Ocl. 14 Cafeteria Service From llilS Vx. m. to2 p. m': . Jlegular Dining Room Service- ; " 5:00 to 8:00 p. ni. - ' Sunday Dinner - - 2:30 to 8 p.- m, A Locrc9, Well Ventilated Dinlnc Room V Vhere Qucdity Foods , and Cleanliness , .: . : : , : ' Predominate. '' ai;d viul. - do ourt eest to fluajss 'Any Uail tor Us?' r - if If there was any qaestlea as to what mall from home means to a soldier, look at the faea of Corp. Clinton Colbert, mall messenger for his outfit est aa Island fa the Sonth Pacific, as ha asks Corp. Tom Cstallni, who'd just arrived aa the mail boat, ."Any mail far asrf j (AP wtrephote from signal corps.)" Draft Quotas May Be Made Nation Wide WASHINGTON, Oct 12.-P)- The house military committee knocked out all allotment and al lowance provisions from the sen ate's substitute for the Wheeler no-father draft bill today and sent the measure to subcommittee which probably will add the Kil- day bill putting draft quotas on a nationwide basis. The revised measure is expect ed to reach the house for a vote next week. The committee eliminated the provisions for allowances .to ser vice ; men's dependents because they already have been covered in a - separate measure which the house will debate tomorrow. The senate's 1 allowances were some what higher than those proposed by the house committee, and an attempt to restore the original senate scale is expected to be made on the house floor. In addition to increasing al lowances, the senate measure tightens restrictions on deferment of childless government workers, provides pre-inducton physical examinations and creates a com mission to consider a possible low ering of army and navy physical standards as a means of getting men now deferred for physical reasons. School Finally Collects on Grange BUT The long-standing account on Salem school district books, some times known as "the grange bill," incurred in the summer of .1940 when state grange sessions were held ; in the senior high school building, has . been 'paid in full, school directors were told at their Tuesday night meeting. Who paid the debt of approxi mately I $200 was not announced, although bom the grange and the Salem chamber of commerce had never argued that it should not be paid. The trouble had lain sim ply in the refusal of either organ ization to consider the account its bilL ! The chamber had promised to provide a .meeting place if the state grange would convene here, Salem grange officials declared. No promise to pay costs of build ing operation during the conven tion was ever made by the cham ber, that organization's represen tatives had maintained. The cham ber did promise last year to see that the account was cleared up. From emergency funds of , the district will come monies to alter cafeteria arrangements at - Rich mond and to make possible cata loguing of books at the Richmond library, to provide additional schools at senior high and Leslie shops, to construct makeup tables for the high school drama depart ment and to provide some sort of heating system for the pre-voca tional shops of the system. Direct ors were told prior to voting the funds ; that the total .would run around $1000 without- the -shop heating system.' ' -V Tfca : r s S.m mf This Is Too Tough forX)ur Doughboys ; By RELMAN'MORTN NAPLES,: Italy, Oct. 0 -(Delayed)- Battle tested American troops have encountered a type of warfare in Naples that is too tough for them, they admitted today. It is street fighting between wo men. V ! : It rages with fair i regularity around the army tank trucks that have been bringing fresh water to Naples since the arrival of: the fifth army. The army has 'estab lished a large number: of truck supplied water points for the re lief of the Neapolitans, whose city has been waterless since its aque duct was destroyed. j - t These are the battlefields. "They never heard of standing in line," sighed Pvt. Gus Lem bares of Chicago. "So there's no thing to do but shove 'em in. And believe me, brother, that is dy namite. ' Each woman, said' Pvt. Lem bares, insists that she was first in line. ' . "Wen," he continued, "First they try and argue with us guards, but, of course, we cant Under stand. They screech and holler for a while, and make signs like they are going to scratch the hell out of us.. But they don't mean it ; ' "That's just to get themselves all worked up kind of like the Indian war dance. When the : women's . combative instincts are fully aroused, they start on each other. They; lower their heads like bulls, fasten their fingernails in each other's : hair and begin to yank, kick, butt and trip. ' "At first," said Pvt.' Frederick Meredith, 20, of Warren, Ohio, "we tried to break 'em up and were we surprised! "It's worse than trying to sep-s arate a couple of bulldogs. You can't pry 'em apart with a crow bar." - : " - "And if you do," put in Pvt. William Brogan of Barberville, Ky, "they turn on you." i : ' The doughboys no longer inter fere In these battles. They call the Italian police. It usually requires a squad of 'six or seven, men, sometimes more, in case relatives and friends come around.. "The funny thing is," said Pvt James O'Connor, 22. of Greely street. Port Henry, NY, "we ne ver', have any trouble at all with the men. But none of us can han dle these dames." Croats to Form New Cabinet - BERN, Switzerland, Oct." 12-(JP) Nicolas Mandich, 74, former mem ber of the old Austrian adminis tration of Bosnia who withdrew from public life after the collapse of the central powers in 1918, has been named by Chief of Govern-! ment Ante Pavelic to form a new ! Croatian cabinet, a dispatch said tonight. : ' "."-,?' v 'I The old cabinet resigned after weeks of indecision following the j capitulation of Italy. - - V ; Your Are- Invited to Attend Portland's ;" 'v:: : GaIa' 3-IIijti. Dancing Ficsla ; ; ". F or the Benefit of Wounded Veterans at the ' PALMS OOYALE ' -. 25tH and West Burnsld. Parflcmd " " " Thursday, Frxia Sdnrtlay, OcL 14, 15;:lG Music by Hal Brown's NaoncdIy-rcnneL AIiina,IIeIIcc!a ' 'cmd Eitsrtlefra i Kaastrba i r - : Both Bands Hot and Sweat Altemcrtin Every Iloli-Iour f All Three IJlghta " Radio rroadcas'j - Itenowned Guests Gaycrncr Earl Sn:li:Ui!l i!:2 Ffcila, Sea' JEAKIHIJE OEUSTUZZZIV AmeAcm XIo Ycrk-IIo Woo GirT l-IAEILYir CAIiOt tZsn SHpbder cf A - Sfm a&ZpMlZZ. Ias WeldeeKs oi America- ; . Il'sll3:D-:3 C:i;!::a c! lis Yczr ' Cisita ol 9 6'Qodt Eaciinjii - Airiden C1.13 Trfi Tex CCC:i STATZ-UUt.CcZxsu RetHs Advance On Yest Bank A (Continued from Page 1) A or destroyed the tanks in a half hour, it was reported. ; Approximately a battalion of German J ' infantry - was ' reported wiped out by Red units in the Vitebsk area to the north. . The Germans did not expand on their report of the opening of the new Russian drive "north of Kiev." j : ' - y.-? ' The soviet daily operational ; eonammlque said the Bed army continued to widen the areas it Is winning back ea the west bank at the Middle Dnieper. t where it is closing In relent lessly ea the Ukrainian' capital f Kiev. --Moscow reported also that sev eral populated places fell to the Russians in a continuing offensive against Vitebsk, where they were last reported about a score of miles away -from their, objective. The only indication of the fe rocity of the fighting was the statement that 50 German tanks were destroyed or disabled on all fronts on Monday alone, and 72 nazi planes brought down. ; Dis patches . to - the Moscow press. however, filled in details. Berlin ' made it clear that , fighting in the Gomel area to ' the north was on a huge scale. One nasi military commentator, CoL Ernst von Hammer, said the Germans bad " succeeded ' in "throwing back strong soviet' forces eastward across the Sosh river.".! " ' On this front, said the commen tator, the Russians ' left behind five 152 millimeter (Yainch) as sault guns unusually large mobile weapons.; - '" '--J'.r-' ' : North of Gomel, Berlin said in another broadcast, the Germans wiped out three Russian bridge heads ' and ' destroyed - two emer gency bridges the Russians had built across the Sozh. Tirpitz Wreck Galled Definite Nazi Defeat LONDON, Oct. 12-(Aimiral Sir William James said tonight that the damaging of the nazi battleship Tirpitz by midget Brit ish submarines marked a definite defeat for Germany's surface threat to allied sea supremacy. The British chief of naval in formation declared in a broadcast that the Tirpitz could have done more harm to our convoys in a night than U-boats have in months if it had .been able to break into the Atlantic '. ' Recapitulating results of allied vigilance against "any develop ments of a German surface threat, capped by the crippling of the Tirpitz by ; midget submarines, which penetrated Alten Fjord in Norway, Sir William said: "The Admiral Graf ' Spec and Bismarck have been sunk. .The Gneisenau. probably is out of ac tion for good. The Scharnhorst, Luetzow, Admiral Scheer, Prinz Eugen and' the Admiral Hipper have all been damaged - more or less severely." . 1,250,000 to Lose US Jobs After War ST. LOUIS, Oct. 12.-ff)-A pre diction that about 1,250,000 - fed eral employes .will lose their' Jobs after the war while states and cit ies will increase the number of their employes by about 500,000, was made today by Eliot Kaplan, executive secretary of the Nation al Civil Service Reform league. Kaplan told the convention of the civil service assembly of the United States, and Canada that a heavy share of post-war recon struction work would be borne by states and municipalities, ; creat ing the public employment shift. ' Kaiser Elected Head Of Brewster Aircraft : u NEW IYORK, Oct. 12-ffHShip-builder j Henry J. Kaiser, elected president of Brewster Aircraft cor poration . last Thursday, .said; to day most of the corporation's la-;j bor problems have beem ironed cninG-sfiFF-schs ODSGILES Fcr QafcTs HsS!:! cut; Hi Oreoa, T7dasd 2 'arrisi' -mm OllthenOIIEFRONT : By CAEZL l And they that dwell upon the earth . shall send gifts to one another. Rev., 11:10. . Now, the author "of theBocj of Revelation looked ahead and "saw many 'wonderful " things . which have not yet come to pass, but he merely hinted at others- . ' - In a Salem drugstore Tuesday X stood behind a woman who was doing her Christmas shopping late. From beneath a counter, the proprietor pulled a glass Jar of hard candy, ? smilingly assuring her he had been keeping it just for. her son. v A pair of ox she herself had fashioned would go Into the" box as part of ihe picking; two -bars of woodsy-smelling soap,, a , new strap for his watch, the most re cent Issue of the Reader's Digest and a classic or two "he had al ways liked", in paper i binding these almost completed the al lotted five pounds, almost fUled the permitted space. - - f Trifles, all of them, these gifts would never have appealed for places under the Christinas tree. In the middle east, in Sicily, fa the south Pacffic, they wfll;loom larger than any tree; for they come-from home, the woman who was doing the purchasing pointed - Although there-was a drawn look about her lace,' the eyes glowed, and beside her a younger woman who had come in to pick up a prescription stopped to fin ger a khaki writing kit, asked pleasantly "October v 15th's the last day, isn't it?" bought the kit and some heather-scented soap and went out with a shilling countenance. Accustomed to expecting " the Salvation ' Army's street-comer bell-ringers to remind me that Christmas Is at hand, positive that there , must be green and holly to arouse my shopping instincts even I came back- to the office hastily to write a Christmas list. Now, I suppose I shall always think when the emperor grapes, the green and red peppers, the .fall squash and the sweet potatoes have made their appearance in the grocery stores that it is time to get that Christmas shopping done. Hellcat Proves Great, Fighter WASHINGTON, ; O c t. 12P First combat reports on the Hell cat, newest of the navy's fighting planes, showed today, the navy said, that it is "an excellent fight er, superior in all respects to the Zero and able to hold its own with the best the Japanese have to of fer." , - ' Designed specifically to meet the . maneuverability of the Jap anese Zero, the navy said the Hell cat "Is bigger, faster, more man euverable and a better climber than its predecessor, the Grum man Wildcat. ; - : Initial combats brought destruc tion of 21 Zeros 'and loss' of only two Hellcats. "In short," said a re port from the Solomons where a Hellcat squadron is operating," the pilots expect continued good hunting with this airplane."' ; Air Raid Deaths Lowest in Three Years LONDON, '. Oct. 12 -The number of civilian air raid deaths in September was ihe -lowest." in more than, three . years,witisfive! jouea or missmg ana n nurr. pacuy enough to be settf' to , hospitals, it, was .casclosed. today. ? It :fwas the best 'record since May, 1940, when only-three were injured and none killed vij- " , . -, i TONIGnr.AliP2TliURS. - . J"- ' ?tt:rs tl-ra cf? frr z--trtzi rtr.:n::t ! -' Plas Campaafan Fcaturo , ; .-"V ' 1 J i . j"V: ",. . . ; ! . v -;;A CcUbsx 13. German llcdic few Karl Krager, Berlin (right), a German hospital eerpsman, dresses the wounded hand of another German prisoner in a stockade some rhev l onthen lUlr. Two Yank HP record data- about the eaptlTes. (AT wlrephoto from Clark Poises For RomePusb D (Continued from Page 1) D fighting forces supplied, with food and ammunition. - Fighters' patrolled the skies over tiie eodden battlefront throughout the day, looking for trouble, but the Germans did not aend up a single plane to meet them. Not a ship was lost to the allies in all the day's operations. - For the seventh straight day the air war was carried to the nazis in the Aegean sea and in the is lands off Greece. US heavy Liber ators poured bombs on the Calato airfield in Rhodes and Herakleion airport hi Crete, while bomb-car rying Lightnings attacked the An timachia airport on the island of Cos in the Dodecanese. L Boilermakers Head Defies AFL Ouster PORTLAND, Oct 12-iff)- Tom Ray, secretary and businesr agent of the Portland AFL boOermakers local, today defied an order from union headquarters firing him. Tm still here and I'm staying here fan the time bring at least They haven't any charges against me. My audit is okay, and thafs what really hurts them, Ray said in an interview. . A. Meanwhile Otto W. Mursner, international vice president of the boilermakers, said Ray's duties would be taken over by a com mittee of 21, of which Ray is a member - Mursner - said Ray, whose ad ministration has been under fire of a faction in the Portland union, was removed under regulations that permit headquarters to de pose a local .official for the best interests of the organization. . Ray retaliated, "The internation al wants to move in here and take control like they have in Van couver (Wash.), Richmond -(Calif) and the Sacramento Valley (Cal if.) so they can control the votes tyw9BeafiweB?aaBBeisw,i!iL,i 'omeafB;wgtaMWgwooww nV2Z-aF I I I: " J 1 1 "I strs ! Y Maisie's Latest Bit f Ji T r. ... - " t t ' j "i-iu " v-'- r. rr' anwr 2s?V?nV--.. - .- CnrcSior Hh Ovm signal eorpa.) Here It Is! TheWeather Far and Wide ,. . . - . . By th Associated Press : Now that it is no longer a mili tary secret the nation generally is enjoying typical autumn wea ther, . I . r. . f . '. - There, was snow in the Rockies yesterday, but the sun shone in California. V---' v- 'r New Englanders welcomed high er temperatures after a cool night Rain pelted some areas . in the southwest and midwest ' It's possible to report the vag aries of the weather in all parts of the country now, because the cen sorship restrictions on publication of weather conditions have been lifted. "Improved defense and oth er war conditions' prompted the ("Change, the office of censorship explained. , ; Briefly, here's the weather pic ture: . - . - - West coastWarm in California: intermittent rain in other coast states. ' -. . .. Rockies Snow, with freezing temperatures ojcpected. Soutivr-Mild, dear, with normal temperatures, :rf ,.vr: Midwest Warm. ir- -Unseason ably warm in Chicago, with the temperature hitting 81 degrees, v . Middle Atlantic states . Gen erally cool, clear and windy. New England Warming up af ter a 'cold snap. , in the next international election in -Tanuary. They want yes men." The union fight got into court last-winter when a faction claimed Ray and other' incumbents r- had been voted "out of office, but re fused to allow new officers -. to take over. --; - - ';'v'.. -'!: The Portland AFL-metal -trades council, which , - claims . 200,000 members, today unanimously con demned J. A. Franklin interna tional president of the AFL boil ermakers union, for removing Tom Ray s business agent and secretary of the boilermakers lo cal. -. - r8h JEAU ROGERS ALL EY rsirifX KrTvl?s - r.5f,"T I 'S LO:.TDC:T, Oct 12 -(.TV Th ministry of aircraft production has authorized the tpare-tims con struction of a 123-ton Qu?cn I'ary of the skies for trans-Atlantic ser vice by the Bristol Aeroplane com pany, which builds f.;e Blenheim, the Beaufort and Beaufighter war planes. An article In "London Calling" a BBC publication, said today the plane would be "revolutionary in many ways in structure, motive power and even shape." Most details are secret but some information was passed by the censor. The aircraft's special mo tors will - total 20,000 horsepow er. The plane, will have a cruising speed of about 250 miles, an hour and is expected to carry 150 pas sengers. : (The Boeing 3 14-A trans-ocean ic flying boat among the largest passenger planes now in use. weighs a little over 24 tons and has four motors' totaling 6400 horse power. The clipper carries a crew of 11 and 63 passengers in day time and fan accomodate 33 sleeping passengers." It normal cruising speed is 188 "miles per hour.) ; ' ! Continaens from 1 T. IL 'sir- - minium i -mm STARTS TODAY D'QAUn OP ro cz::j21 a wm i is a a aa o - or- I u Hi II COfifl IE' GILCHRIST IIYEnLF,' with Lare XT!yn ; , jttwi uu uuwHij i " -' " " ."- - j