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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.
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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.
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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." ,
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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
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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 ;
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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
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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- "
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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
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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
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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
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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.) ; ' !
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