Tli OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oryoa, Tuesday MomSng. November 33, 1343
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Aussies Move
On Vital Jap
Jungle Position
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freighter. On of the destroyers
was reported damaged.
Japanese warship losses have
been mounting steadily toward a
possible new high for a single
month in the face of greatly in
creased American' naval strength
' an "ocean fun" of aircraft car
xiers and other combat vessels.
An enemy cruiser, caught in the
narrow waters of St George chan
nel between New Britain and New
Ireland, was the latest victim of
Hied power. MacArthur reported
'it was hit by a 1000-pound bomb
from a Liberator bomber.
Twenty one Nipponese war-,
ships new have been reported
' sank, and ene probably sank,
so far this month in the battle
for control ef the sooth Pacific
area. In addition, 30 combat
vessels nave been damared or
probably damaged. Virtually all
f the enemy's losses, have been
ta the general area of Rabaul, m
pivotal Japanese base on New
Britain. 1
In strong contrast was the
growing strength of American
naval power. It includes an "ocean
full" of carriers and other- ships,
said Vice Adm. Thomas C. Kin
kaid, new allied naval command
er in the southwest Pacific. A
year ago there was only one allied
carrier in the Pacific and it was
badly damaged.
Admiral Kinkaid, who com
manded the forces that drove the
enemy from the Aleutians, con
ceded that fighting over any route
to Tokyo would be extremely dif
ficult. He added.
"But we are headed toward
Japan and will go through." :
Russians Close
In on Zhlobin
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have already been decimated in
counter attacks between Zhitomir
and Korosten, including divisions
from Italy, Greece and Norway
nd the crack Adolf Hitler SS
'(elite division." CBS recorded the
British broadcast).
Gen. Pokossovsky hit a new
blow from the south seeking - to
topple Zhlobin, seizing Stryeshin
only 12 miles below Zhlobin, and
taking seven other villages be
tween the Berezhina and Dnieper
fivers.
The Germans fought in vain
from fortified points seeking te
stem the push northwest of G
nael, which menaces Zhlobin
from the east and southeast, the
commnniqne said. Many prison
ers, including one entire Ger
man company, were taken as
the pincers closed in apoit the
city astride the Gomel - Minsk
and Leningrad - Odessa rail
roads. Along the lower Pripet river,
the Soviets were said to have
killed a battalion of nazis and
captured more than 100 cars of
grain plundered from the peo
ple. Heavy lashes by Soviet air
planes bled nazi armored strength.
I Thirty German tanks, 200 trucks,
and 10 armored troop carriers were
blasted from the air in the Chern
yakhov and Brusilov sectors,
where the Russian ground troops
exacted a further toll of, 26 tanks
in throwing back nazi assaults,
the war bulletin said.
Southwest of Dnepropetrovsk,
. red army airmen bombed concen-
trations of nazi troops and trains
at Apostolovo in the Dnieper bend,
starting fires punctuated by heavy
explosions.
Thirty-four German planes
were shot down Monday, Moscow
said.
Deeper pushes southwest of
Kremenchug left 300 Germans
. dead, and the nazis suffered ser
ious losses in manpower below
Dnepropetrovsk, the communique
asserted.
The reopened drive into the
Dnieper bend beyond Cherkasy
captured Russkaya-Palyana, eight
miles west of Cherkasy, and four
other towns, the war bulletin said,
with 17 German tanks destroyed
as well as 1500 enemy soldiers
killed. Booty was reported to have
included a battery of 150-millimeter
howitzers and many other
guns.
dtbitnary
Brewn '. ,
Mrs Julia JL Brown, of. route
one, Gervais, Ore, at a local hos
pital. Monday. November 29. Sur
vived by one daughter, Mrs. H.
R. Scheuermaii ' of Monmouth;
two sons, Karl M. Brown of Ger
vais and Leslie H. Brown of For
est ' Grove; Vone brother, David
Hart of Berkeley, Calif, and one
sister, Mrs. Loo Tarrell of Port
land. Announcement of : services
will be made later by Clough
Earrick company. '.''fZf &;-Jux'
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Every now and then, she thrusts
back her shoulders and turns a
calm face to the world, this friend
of a. friend of 'mine. For she has
suddenly realized that ' she is
brave. .
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'' This Is how it came about: They
were in the lobby of a Portland
hotel, my friend and her friend,
one of them in the sait of dress
a supreme court justice's secre
tary assumes when she is far
away from the court but still
wants to do her own charms jus
tice and the other in the neat
blue and white of the SPARS.
And the face of the middle-
aged-or-almost -elderly lady
glowed as she walked up to the
lass in uniform. Almost as if she
were touching a precious orchid
or an idol, she patted the blue
clad shoulder. "You are a brave
girl," she said in a voice like a
prayer, then added in deeper
tones "God bless you."
V
So the friend of the friend of
mine shivers now and then when
she suddenly realizes how brave
she is, and then she shoves her
shoulders back, sticks her chin
out and turns a calm face" to the
world.
But me, I get all ready to sell
a cartoon on the idea to the New
Yorker and along comes Sgt. Ruth
Bachman of the marines and says
the same thing has happened to
her. She thinks it may even have
occurred in the Portland hotel
might have been the same lady.
What a way to build' morale!
City Water
System Tax
Suit Loams
A (Continued from page 1) A
should again- be held by other
than public ownership.
A committee" from the water
commission and the city council
recently proposed that the county
accept the principal and waive the
interest, a suggestion the court,
after conference with state tax
commission representatives, said
it would accept. Letters notifying
the city of the final date pn which
such payment would be accept
able went out last week . from
county court and tax commission
jointly.
Adriatic
Offensive
Mounts
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northwest of Mignano. Eight nazi
planes were destroyed during the
day and seven allied planes were
missing.
Carrying the war outside Italy,
seven separate waves of American
Mitchell medium bombers made
strong attacks n Dubrovnik. Sibe-
nik and Zara, German-held ports
in Yugoslavia across the Adria
tic. American Liberators flew into
the Alps of northernmost Italy to
bomb a railway viaduct and tun
nel at Dogna, 60 miles north of
Trieste, where the only direct
railway from Germany, aside from
Brenner pass, enters Italy. Hits
were reported on the. mouth of
the tunnel and on the viaduct,
Nazi Port
Hit Twice,
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Meantime, RAT Typhoon bom
bers with a Typhoon escort
streaked out to blast the enemy
airfield at Moorsel, Belgium, and
attacked enemy shipping off
Brest while Mosquitos delivered
a stinging, low-level attack on a
railway center in northwest Ger
many, setting fire to at least one
"mi minesweeper.
Medium Marauders streaked 75
miles inland from Dunkerque with
Spitfire cover to finish the bomb
ing job at the strategic nazi air
field at Chievres, Belgium.
. The daylight attacks followed
raids by RAF Mosquitos last night
on western Germany and mine
laying operations, in which no
planes were lost
The foray by Eighth air force
"umoers was their tenth mass at
tack this month, a month that
cost them 74 planes but which In
addition to the ruin mrAvi
Germany resulted in the shootin
nemy nghter. Both
gures exclude today's American
operations. -
Tonight
Suspsct Has
61 Arrests r
In 40 Cities
When Ernest Wesley Hibdon of
Durant," Okla, goes before Justice
of the Peace Chris KowiU today
for preliminary hearing on a lar
ceny charge he will, in one sense,
be a unique person in the annals
of Salem justice court His police
record is the longest ever viewed
by police here. Sixty one arrests
In 40 4 cities were - for. offenses
ran cine from, narcotic law viola
tion and selling liquor to Indians
to drunkenness and shoplifting.
David . Dennis Humphrey of
Shreveport, La., is booked simply
on a charge of vagrancy, police
declared Monday. Humphrey has
denied having had anything to
do with the theft of an overcoat
from the Montgomery Ward store
here, although Mrs. Mary Becker,
clerk who allegedly identified
Hibdon as the man who had walk
ed out of the store wearing an
overcoat for which he had not
paid, told officers that Humphrey
had apparently attempted the
same thing.
Humphrey, who told police he
had served from 1935 to 1937 in
federal penitentiary at Leaven
worm, Kas . for violation of the
narcotics act, and who later was
returned for another three-year
term because of violation of pa
role, also admitted having served
a sentence in the Missouri state
prison at Jefferson City for grand
larceny.
Alice Roberts
National 4H
Prize Winner
CHICAGO, Nov, 30 Na
tional winners named today at the
national 4H congress chosen on a
basis of their "all around ability
as home makers and farm work
ers included Alice Roberts, 17,
Salem, Ore.
Alice Roberts, who went to the
national 4H congress in Chicago as
one of six Oregon club cham
pions, received the. trip for her
"all around" 4H girls record. Dur
ing eight years in club work she
sewed and remodeled 24 garments,
prepared 153 meals, including 630
dishes, made five home improve
ment articles and canned 1620
quarts of food as well as complet
ed 34 projects and served five
years as assistant club leader.
NY Explosion
Injures 50
NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-(Tues-day)-iP)-Fifty
persons were re
ported injured early today when
an explosion occurred at the
Western Electric company, 395
Hudson street, rocking lower
Manhattan.
A catastrophe unit, carrying
about 20 doctors and 20 nurses,
was dispatched to the war plant
shortly after the blast An alarm
of fire was turned in and three
ambulances, fire apparatus and a
fire department rescue company
was sent to the scene.
Police reported that the 'force
of the blast, which occurred on
the ground floor of the nine-story
plant, shattered windows within
a radius of half a mile. Broken
glass was knee-deep in Hudson
street police added.
Churchill 69 Today
LONDON, Nov. 2-Of) Prime
Minister Churchill will be 69
years old tomorrow, and Ne? 10
Downing street said he would
spend his birthday "working as
usuaL"
The axis radio said Churchill
was in Cairo for a tri-power meeting.
Ttco Wardens
Dispute Post
In7 California
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 29 -()
Julian Alco, member of the state
board, of : prison, directors, told
Governor Warren tonight that
although the board had suspend
ed Warden Clyde I Plummer of
Folsom prison, Plummer has re
fused to surrender control of the
penitentiary. -i;
The governor declared he would
ask Attorney General Robert Ken
ny for an opinion on whether the
prison directors hive the right to
eject Plummer from his office.
The way it was today up there
the guards did -not know who to
report to," Alco said. "We couldn't
get Plummer to move from his
office. It was a very trying sit
uation. James Adam was appointed
temporary warden Sunday and
both he and Plummer sat in the
warden's office all day today, Alco
said.
Alco made his statement at the
first meeting of the committee
which Governor Warren appoint
ed this morning to investigate
conditions at Folsom.
The investigation and suspen
sion of Plummer was prompted by
the discovery that Lloyd Samp-
sell, "yacht bandit serving a long
term for bank robberies, had been
visiting Jacqueline de la Prevo
tiere in San Francisco without
permission from the Folsom pris
on camp at Davis.
Flora Clark
Rites Today;
County Native
Funeral services for Mrs". Flora
Clark, a Marion county pioneer
who died Saturday in a Salem
hospital, will be held today at
1:30 p. m. from the Rigdon cha
pel. Rev. Dudley Strain officiat
ing, with interment in the I OOF
cemetery.
She was born in the Waldo hills
about three miles south of Sil
verton in U853, the daughter of
Austin and Jane Leonard. She was
married to Alexander Clark in
Silverton in 1870 and to them were
bom two children. Miss Nellie
Clark and a son who died in in
fancy. The family moved to Salem
from the Waldo hills in 1869 and
early in this century erected the
Leonard hotel on North Front
street which they operated until
Mr. Clark's death in 1912. Follow
ing that Mrs. Clark retired from
the hotel and moved to 1561 Che
meketa where she lived until her,
death.
She was an active and much
beloved member of the First
Christian church where she was
known to every one as "Auntie
Clark or "Aunt Flora. She was
able to attend all services until
shortly before her last illness
which was the cause of her being
moved to the hospital last Wed
nesday. On her 90th birthday she held
open house receiving more than
200 guests who were friends and
members of the church.
Recently her spare time was
spent in knitting sox and sweaters
for the American Red Cross.
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Lions
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WhUe -wt-cJ-town dogs drew
the big prizes at the Lions club
dog show on Sunday,. Salem en
tries were runners up in the con
tests. J. H. Willett, general chair
man of the show, declared it to
be the second best show of the five
the Lions have sponsored in Sa
lem, in point of entries, proceeds
and attendance.
The Carnation Farm kennels of
Carnation, Washington, entered
the Scottish terrier, Int Ch. Dor
el Black Ncgget which -was ad
judged best dog in show by An
ton Korbel of San Mateo, Calif,
who judged all breeds.. -
The show, staged for Dogs for
Defense, Inc., was sponsored joint
ly by the Salem Lions club and
the Dog Fanciers' Association of
Oregon. There were 234 entries.
Salem owners who entered dogs
in the show were Frank C. Bell,
cocker spaniel; A. N. Duncan, dal
mation; J. H. Deering, German
shorthaired pointer;. Mrs. Sylvia
Levene, cocker spaniel; W. L. Mc
Dougal, jr., Scottish terrier; Da
vid L. Ringland, English bull dog;
Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Rogers, Ger
man shorthaired pointer; Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Rice, cocker spaniel;
Mrs. William G. Stacey, boxer;
and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Willett
cocker spaniel Several entries
came from California and many
from Washington.
Dogs competing with the Scotty,
Dor'el Black Nugget and winners
in the various groups were:
Best sporting dog Irish setter.
Cinnabar of Shadowood, owned
by Wally Rossman, Portland.
Best hound Afghan, . Kerrin
Fachamur, owned by Mrs. Lillian
Miller of Seattle.
Best working dog Shetland
sheep dog, Laurelridge War King,
owned by Mrs. B. S. Cooley, Hills
boro. Best toy Pomeranian, Firland
Yellow Jacket owned by Mrs.
Herbert Ackley of Portland.
Best non-sporting dog Bulldog,
McGrath's Patsie, owned by Jack
McGrath of North Bend, Wash.
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In Ladd & Bush Brancli Baiik
. Promotion of Jacob Fuhrer and Leo G. Page, to positions of
assistant cashiers in Ladd & Bush Salem Brandt of theUnited
States National Bank of Portland was announced Monday by
Paul S. Dick, president of the institution. Both men have been
assistant managers of the branch since consolidation of the US
National and Ladd & Bush banks April 6, 1940. ' .. :
The appointments are made in recognition of long: excellent
service
said as
of these men Mr. Dick
he discussed the promo-
tions. .., -: ;:.;.;." -J - :
Fuhrer commenced bis service
with Ladd & Bush bank 30 years
ago and was its assistant cashier
when it was consolidated with the
Uiu'rt:.ationat' bank; be
coming an assistant manager at
that time." Vice president of the
Salem Lions club, he is treasur
er of the Marion County Civilian
Defense council, and both he and
Page are veterans of World war I
and active in veterans organiza
tions, i "
Page was assistant cashier of
the old US National bank when it
was merged with the larger or
ganization and he became credit
manager for Salem branch of
United States National of Port
land. Along with Fuhrer he was
appointed an assistant manager
when Ladd & Bush entered the
consolidation. Past president of
the Marion County Bankers' as
sociation and past president and
member of the board of gover
nors of the county chapter of the
American Institute of Banking,
Page is also a member of the Mar
ion county war finance commit
tee. He was a member of the Vic
tory loan committee which pre
ceded it and has been active in
Salem's civilian defense organiza
tion. Soft Coal Prices
Boosted at Mines
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-(P)-The
office of price administration
tonight formally raised soft coal
ceiling prices an average of 17
cents a ton at the mines to com
pensate producers for higher la
bor costs. :
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glass 'industry for th& area, uti
lizingCoos bay coal, was visioned
today by Earl K. tiixon,: director
of the state department p . geolo
gy and mineral industries. ;
' Nixon said -executives of. a
glass company, with w h o m he
conferred in San Francisco, may
erect a plant either on Coos bay
or In Eugene. ' j . -
M. D. Curran, president of the
Coal Carbonizing company of
New York, win arrive here soon
to study possible uses of coal by
products, Nixon said. K . ,
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this area, will 'oped their own
restaurant Wednesday a half mile
north , of the) underpass on ' the
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