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1 1 PAGETWO Onslaught Gains Fury In Mid-Pacific C (Continued from page 1) C the raid earlier, claimed that 20 of the 100 attacking American planes were shot down, a carrier and a heavy cruiser sunk, and two other allied warships dam aged. : The latest report of or m , dersea toll on Japanese mer chant shipping broaght to 51f , the number of enemy ships that have Been sunk' la the Pacific Yesterday's announcement list ed ten freighters and one large tanker as the newest prey of -the submarines. ; Allied spokesmen forecast great er battles next year and specula ted on Japan's ability to profit by her conquests since Pearl Harbor, With the enemy ""reeling from unceasing pressure, General H. H. Arnold wrote in the army and navy Journal, "The offen sive will continue to mount until the axis has neither the will nor the ability to resist." Secretary of the Navy Knox, foreeastinr major naval battles in 1944, asserted In the same Pearl Harbor anniversary issue that while a third of Japan's navy has been destroyed. "Many major elements of the Jap fleet have not yet seen ac tion." Prime Minister John Curtin of Australia warned that Japan would profit by a long war and hoped to become the most power ful military nation in nhe world through five years of exploiting her 400,000,000 conquered peoples. Imperial warlords, he said, were willing to sacrifice 5,000,000 men in a war of attrition. t Aneta, Dutch news agency, re ported from Melbourne that the Japanese had announced a five year self-sufficiency plan for Java and a three-year plan for Borneo. These contemplate heavy cotton production in Java, badly needed for fabrication of her immense rubber supplies, and substitution of rice for much of the Borneo rubber acreage. However long the war may last, Congress showed its intention of seeing that responsibility was fix ed for the neglect that made the Japanese victory at Pearl Harbor possible. Under a measure adopted by the house, responsibility could be fixed as late as a year after the defeat of Japan. Only hi China was the war tunning In favor of the Nipponese-reinforced invaders crossed the Tun river In central China and pushed toward Chaagsha. Capital of Hunan Province. Hea vy fighting was reported near Tehshan an the road to Chang sha from Changteh, which the invaders took last week. Austrailian artillery and infan try broke up three counter-attacks near Wareo on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea while cross Dampier Strait Allied .bombers dumped 63 tons of ex plosives on installations on Cape Gloucester, New Britain. Three, or possible six, Japanese planes were shot down when 25 torpedo and dive bombers made an unsuccessful attack on a con voy near Bougainville, in the Solomons. On the island itself, a Japanese bridge and 40 buildings were destroyed by 95 tons of Allied bombs dropped neart the south end of our Empress Augusta Bay bridgehead. Oddfellows Visit Polk County Lodge v DALLAS About 150 were present when the Polk County Oddfellows Visiting association net at the junior high gym for their regular monthly meeting. Lodges from Falls City, Indepen dence, BaUston, McCoy. Monmouth and Dallas participated. L. T. Parsons, chairman, pre sented the program which includ ed music by the ' Dallas school band under the direction of Mary Martin Bradley; two solos by Pat : Krewsen. Mrs. Bradley, accom panist; Hawaiian dance by Carol Dennis, Lloyd Domaschofsky, ac companist; two numbers by the Junoir high trio and a solo by Don ald Hughes, Mrs. Bradley accom panist The remainder of the ev ening was spent at dancing. C. B. Teats, chairman for the Oddfellows, and Mrs. Clark Lea ner, chairman lor the Rebeccas, were assisted in serving by Albert Fern, E. F. Boyer and Mrs. Ike Hosman. Richard Fischer of the coast guard, hag notified his parents that he is now stationed at Gov ernment Island, Alameda, CalifL. and that be expects to be assigned t oa patrol frigate in the near fu ture. ' - - i. ': . Mr. and Mrs. Laird V. Woods have received word that their son, Aviation Cadet Robert J. Woods, has completed his flight . training at KlngsvfOe, near Corpus Christi, Texas, and has been assigned to a camp in Florida for further train.?! Pvt. F. R, Bradley of Camp White, is spending a 15-day fur lough in Dallas visiting with his wife, Mary Martin Bradley, mu sic director of the Dallas schools. Bradley will return to his station December 15. ; - Heavy rains at its headwaters and continued rains in this vicin ity is bringing the LaCreole creek near to the floor stage. About one year aS9.wb.en the: creek went on a rampage, water cams to the doorsteps of homes along its banks Captain Shows Challenge ''..? i '.- - : i f H i u j - : V - M fsmmmssssanussiM Fourth Fighter Command Headquarters Sapt. Charles Tucker of La Crescents, Calif, (right), shows to Lt Wymon W. Won. engineer ing officer of the Fourth Fighter command headquarters squadron, a slip of paper he picked up on an American air field in central China, on which b neatly typed a formal challenge from tho flyers of the Imperial Japanese air force to those of the American air force. The challenge suggests that tho American flyers meet tho Japs in a "fair battle" to ascertain tho relative ability of tho two groups. Captain Tucker recently returned to tho United States after flying P-40 fighters against tho Japs for IS month in China. (International.) Big Three Plan Launching Winter Drives A (Continued pressure against the Germans in growing indications that Turkey a direct route into the Balkans, the repeated suggestions that Gen. George C. Marshall might not return to the United States from Teheran but go to London to assume command of the invasion forces. If winter Invasions have been agreed upon, lt means that the Anglo-American high command has concluded that winter weather in western and southern Europe, while presenting serious obstacles, offers no disadvantages that are not heavily outweighed by the desirability of launching one or more major attacks on Europe while the bulk of Hitler's ground forces are pinned down In Russia. Back of this speculation is the fact that tho Russian armies have demonstrated their ability to stage large scale operations in the summer and winter, while in the spring they are usually bogged down in mud. If the winter months pass without Anglo-American invasion of the continent, it might bo necessary to wait until mid summer, giving the German army the spring breathing space. Winter would give the invading armies tho advantage of long nights to cover their landings, and the element of surprise involved in hitting the enemy at the time generally considered the least de sirable. Winter provides serious obstacles, however. Tho storms and heavy overcasts might interfere seriously with allied air operations at a time when complete air superiority would bo es sential. Storms would make landings more difficult. Ia western Europe, rain and mud and cold would hamper movements ashore after a beachhead was established, and in tho Balkans, tho moun tain passes are likely to be filled with snow. Nevertheless, while tho good weather of summer is generally conceded to offer the best chance of success, other factors being equal, so acute an observer as Col. Conrad H. Lanza, analyst for the semi official Field Artillery Journal says it would be "practicable (but less easy) to have an invasion during tho winter season." Lanza was discussing specifically an invasion of the northern coast of France, which he terms "probably as difficult a military op eration as any that can be conceived." WRA Attacked For Jap Lesson Suggestion By HARRY HUMPHRIES WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 - (JP) -A suggestion that Japanese could give lessons in bathing to tenant farmers in Ohio and Michigan reached the ears of Congress to day and, brother, did it get the War Relocation authority in hot water! After angry Congressmen from the two states got through with tho Idea published in a bulletin put out by the Ohio unit if the agency which handles interned Japanese the publication was ordered destroyed by the WRA. Dillon Myer, WRA director, ex plained to a house subcommittee that Everett L. Dakan, Colum bus, WRA officer, had been "over-enthusiastic' in writing the article, which Dakan described as a sales talk to encourage intern ees to come to the midwest to help meet the farm labor short age. Myer said he ordered all copies of the bulletin destroyed and de manded that future issues be sub mitted for review in Washington before distribution. Rep. Clevenger (R-Ohio) read excerpts from the article on the house floor, quoting: "Believe it or not, some few tenants and seasonal workers (in Ohio and Michigan) do not bathe. They think it is unhealthy. We need: you people to change our ideas about this. We have a les son to teach Ohio and Michigan farmers in sanitation.'' " " "Mr. Speaker," the thoroughly aroused Clevenger concluded, "a nr Last Times Tonight r i J. , aS&JSli i I Th Envisages from page 1) A Italy during the last week, tho may join the allies and thus open single county in my district has probably more bathtubs than the whole Japanese empire." Japs Rtfid Calcutta NEW DELHI, India, Dec. The British announced today that Japanese airmen, in their first daylight air raid on Calcutta yes terday caused "some 500 civilian casualties of which over one-third were fatal." Military casualties reported were one killed and 13 wounded. Santa Clous Bah I LOS ANGELES, Dee. "Santa Claim bah!" comment ed Michael A. Reese, Christmas tree vendor, today as ho re ported to police the theft of 43 tinsled evergreens from his stand. OPENS :45 F. M. NOW SHOWING! Two Big Fan Hits! s"-fi " . '. W HlHtP, HEP , , , tiod that GIHCCD THAT IQYAilt, lAUQBAtll AT THIU XOWlAtllSTI t Editor Q J DW HlHtP, HEP , , , ,5 i find that ff GINGER . is oo MINOR! OREGON STATESMAN Salem. Spli Nazi Forces In Ukraine B (Continued from page 1) B ped with skis and sleds into the conflict ; Seizure of a portion of the 50- mile nazi artery between Semla and Znamenka was accomplished after a powerful soviet artillery and air barrage softened the heavily fortified area, Moscow said. Nine hundred Germans were killed and 17 enemy tanks de stroyed or captured as Gen. Rodlon Malinovsky's troops fought their way through snow drifts, whipped by a howling blizzard. Heavy losses also were inflicted on the Germans in the capture of Alexandriya, and Baidakovka, five miles to the south, tho com munique disclosed. "Our troops captured a great amount of equipment and ammu nition, and prisoners were tak en," it said. Znamenka appeared to bo about to fall. The Russians al ready had been reported only six miles from Znamenka, and about the same distance from Smela after by-passing Cher kasy on the Dnieper in their thrust deep Inside tho river loop. Northwest of Gomel in the drive on Zhlobin and Rogachev, the Russians said Gen, Cons tan tin Rokossovsky's forces in White Russia had smashed German counter-attacks and forged ahead to capture several more localities "forming part of the enemy's de fense system." Hundreds of Germans were killed in stubborn fighting, much of it hand-to-hand, and. the units of one Russian formation alone killed more than 400 enemy sol diers during the day, tho supple ment said. Postponement On Subsidies Strikes Snag WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.--A quiet move by democratic lead ers for a 60-day postponement of the senate vote on the house bill to repeal food subsidies January 1 struck a snag today when War Food Administration Marvin Jones declared such a delay might create confusion and hamper the 1944 food production program. In testimony before the senate banking committee Jones said congress should decide at once whether the billion dollar-a-year subsidy program is to be contin ued or abolished so that price con trol agencies and farmers could lay their plans accordingly for next year. President J. B. Hutson of the Commodity Credit corporation, which pays out most of the sub sidy money, seconded Jones' view and farm bloc leaders support ing the subsidy repeal legislation announced they would press for conclusion of the senate banking committee hearings by Thursday with a view to getting the bill to the senate floor next week. Sen. Taft (R-Ohio) challen ged the authority of tho Com modity Credit corporation to pay a dairy feed subsidy to 3,000,000 dairymen, contending c o n g r e ss "never intended" that this type of payment be made to offset in creased feed costs. He said that milk prices paid to producers should be raised instead through a government price support. E tfme wt tef Twt ei wtj OPENS S:45 P. 1IL, ENDS TODAY CLAUDETTE MELVYN COLBERT DOUGLAS "I MET HIM IN PARIS" BOB MARTHA BURNS RAYS "MOUNTAIN MUSIC Tomorrow! Blazing Action Bogart at His Best! JUaaMlI Co-Hit! . Melody! Mirth! Ding , Crcsby LOUISE CAMPBELL . in "TIIE STAL1 LIED it NEWS - ' ' - . , ! - . I ' ' ( -I !: 4 :' -?v " V Orecjon. Tuosdar Morning, Docombor 7, 1943 ;" " - - . ' "m i i ' " l' il ... 1 i : i- : ONtheHOMEFRONT By ISABEL GHJLD3 In these days of meat rationing, bringing home the bacon, is a genuine accomplishment. - V Young Republicans of Marion county may not have dug into the real pork barreL but they believe they got some political experience. had a good deal of fun and gained everything they asked at Satur day's state convention of YR clubs in Portland. Delegates from Marion obtained the national committee manship (Adam Lef or) ; the state vice pres idency (George Neuner); two places on the executive board (Douglas Yeater and Charles Helt- zel), and the vice chairmanship of the second district (Dorothy Cor nelius). Secretary of State Robert S. FarrelL jr., keynoted the conven tion (which incidentally was on "Looking Forward to 1944), and our own boss and former governor of Oregon, Charles A. Sprague, gave what the returning boys and girls describe as a "humdinger of a speech." V Revitalized Young Republicans expect to start something at home tonight when they hold the first of a planned series of panel dis cussions at the chamber of com merce rooms at 8 o'clock. With State Tax Commissioner Earl Fisher and Economist Robert Fenix of Willamette as paneliers, the subject of taxes as curbs for inflation should get a good airing. No doubt some on the sidelines can toss some questions which might suggest that it is getting a hot-airing. Well, bacon or fuel, whatever it is, bringing it home is an accomplishment. Soldiers in Salem Go Without Rooms Over Weekend Hundreds of soldiers slept in hotel lobbies, doorways or walked about streets of Salem through cold hours of Saturday night and early Sunday morning. Rooms in private residences and cots in ser vicemen's dormitories were taken by 10:30 Saturday night. Greece to Be Free LONDON, Dec 6 -(A Greece will be free before this time next year, Philip J. Noel-Baker, Par liamentary secretary to the min istry of war transport, asserted today in probably the first flat prediction on the length of the war by. any British governmental official. Buy goto TheProsant with o Futor LAST TIMES TODAY Your last chance to see a grand show for you and your gall Judy Van Garland Heflin in "Presenting Lily liars CO-FEATURE "Pirates of the Prairie" with Tim Holt - Cliff Ed war is STARTS WED. WARNER BROSTRIUMPH; PA ,' , Co-Featura ' ' Geraloinb Fitzgerald im TN I HNM VfcsL & St . Council Studies Railroad Stop Sign Setup E (Continued from page 1) E job was not according to them, Davis indicated to the council. Members of the council traffic committee were told to get togeth er with the highway engineers to decide what should be done about the matter after, the current signs have gone. Installation of the signs at the Twelfth street spur near Mill would have cost the city approxi mately $700, according to Davis. Only votes cast against the re solution were those of Aldermen Gertrude Lobdell and Elmer O. Berg, who maintained that the railroad should not only be asked to remove the signs but to replace them with a type satisfactory to the city. Tho council accepted a com mittee report recommending in stallation of a light at the inter section of Pine and Brooks streets, deferment of action on requests for cutting back of corners at 14th and Chemeketa and 12th and Court street intersections until labor and materials should be more easily available. Cost of the corner cut ing would total $445. Requests fox a light at Spruce and Laurel intersection and for repairs on Howard street between 16th and 19th street were referred to committees. Teheran Meet Wins Approval WASHINGTON, Dec. Government figures and many members of congress hauled out their most glowing terms tonight to describe what they thought of the Teheran war conference but some lawmakers, though not cri tical, indicated they had their fingers crossed until more details come along. The general tenor of much of the comment was highly favor able, running the gamut of de- scriptives from "praiseworthy" to "epochal." LONDON, Dec. -P)-The three-power declaration issued at Teheran, promising destruction of Germany's military might through synchronized, coordinated attacks and pledging loyal postwar col laboration for an enduring peace. was viewed in London tonight as a crushing blow to German hopes for a negotiated peace. Likewise there was encourage ment for those who see the fu ture welfare of the world de pendent on British-soviet-Ameri can leadership. The British foreign office withheld comment. i v 1 V M fill O ThriU Co-Hit NMofctlewil EXTRA -TIIODEST BimACLET o NEWS 1 J CONT. FROM 1 P. BL II0T7 PLAYING A Cook's (yW w m av ri i frrrv'u KELLY f 1 mil 1 j,. - turn) n I a Chamber Has 918 Members Inside a gift presented to Frank Doerfler, membership chairman o ti Salem chamber of com-t merce, at the membership dinne Monday night was a note convey ing information that the cham k.. fca4 of that date 918 mem bers, leaving only 82 to go toward th moal at "four figures" before the end of President Carl W. Hogg's Aerm of .office. 1 The Ichamber had only about 40 nmtWra when Ho2 b'CCI m nrntirtont two rears aco. it wa mentioned. Sneakers at -the dint ner included Doerfler, King Bing Orval Lama or we uiemanaj, Membership Secretary Lydii Wright, CoL -Mortimer F. Sulli van of the cavalry regiment sta tioned near Salem. Ralph . Nohlf gren, and Emil G. Sick of SeattleL who had been the speaker at tne chamber luncheon earlier in the day. Mrs. Wright presented spej- cial awards to Al Kamseyer, R a 1 d h Camnbell and Linn C Smith! for their work, in soliciting new- members. -President Hogg presided as toastmaster. " Music was provided by a group from the cavalry band. ; Alagnuson Favors; $300 Dependent Pay For Service Men ' ' SEATTLE, Dec. 6 H5)-! RePr Warren G. Magnuson " (D-Wash.) said today he would work fot prompt passage of a bill to proi vide $300 for every man upon his discharge from the armed fori- ces. . . He told the Post - InteUigencejr in a long distance interview from Washington that he had conferred with the majority and minority leaders of the house and both had predicted early passage of the mea sure, which now is before house and senate committees. . ; J Magnuson said Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, head of the veterans' bu reau, , said his bureau was ; being swamped by the increasing numf ber of discharged men. French Repudiate Indo-China Grants ALGIERS, Dec 6 VPh Th French committee of national lib eration today formally repudiated all concessions made in French Indo-China by the Vichy governj- ment to Japan and Thailand and pledged "a new political statusj to the Indo-Chinese after the exi pulsion of the Japanese. I The committee noted in a state ment that France (the London committee) declared war against Japan December 8, 1941, and thei asserted Franco would fight bej side her allies in the orient for the liberation of her far-eastern col ony. . .'. The Present ! 3 ItJS jr'irrmmi VMGmAem '.'" : JrA I TA- VfSw- 1 MMOA I ' f lli t gy. .."Il Vtnttmi fcr Inri OwiIiiml :" . I j --PIOS- 9mmmnmWmMmiiSlijl " :. , j - f The Falcon Ir Daxiget" with ?ofa; Conway STAQTS UEDIIESDAY - -4- THE picture yotiVe waiting for alt your THE picture youMI remem ber as long as you . with 1 DOROTHY HcfiUIRE-EOBERTl vni!"i!.nnirr.r-.,it.i-, V, COMPANION TK1IIIIN9 VMTOIO SIOBYI SMAKIN9 AS A ' tMt-aiArn r St Arriviiig Nov' I Office! In Salem With Christmas stiU 18 days dis tant -18 shopping days holi- day packages!' ate arriving by the i carload at the loal postoffice every day from points; outside of Salem, Postmaster Henry Crawford Said Monday. J. j H ;! .,-1 This has been 'the; rule since De cember 2 and is expected to in crease during1 the jcomhtg ! weeks.t The amount of ipackages received for local residents ' Monday was almost more than the local post office' staff could handle but! all were distributed (before closing time. These packages are labeled "Do Not Open Until Christmas," as most of he packages which Salem folk are mailing are label-' i. S iTli. .-.;..( I Long lines" 'of -1 persons, laden i vfiux pacKages to mau, have been on hand almost! every day for the last two weeks. ; The lines are longer at some (times of the day, dwindle to almost nothing at oth ers, it is observed! u ;i, i ( The postoffice; stiU can use more j men to handle the holiday mailJ Postmaster Crawford said. Every! . i a f.. . ciiui i otlu iiuiue w Keep WS) mail distributed up to date and the help of army men from Camp:: Adair or thei Salem air base has been promised in case of an emer gency.--; Meat May Confront SatemlSoon D (Continued I from page 1) ;D f but mentioned that some of the men in the aimed forces might be used! In various localities where' an acute shortage exists. j Other Salem butchers called -1 attention to the recent request of the Oregjonj state granre fori government I operation of meat j packing plants not producing at f capacity. The grange also rec ommended the lifting of meat rationing for at least thirty dars and listing putter as a separate Item.!:.; " -'J . The state agricultural depart-i ment i disclosed yesterday that in; 1 Oregon there is about 1,000,00Oe1 head of beef and dairy cattle to be tea uus winter, oesiaes ine nog t and sheep population. This is ini addition to 7,00p,000 chickens and: 2,000,000 turkeysto be finished off i umciais said the principal prob-jj lem confronting the feed manu-1 facturer is that of securing high ? protein concentrates. Government ! ceiling price, .they said, has work-? f ed against thej western Oregon mixea ieea manuiacturer. j - f with FMturel been fe 0 1 FEATURE I -"I i r ! tr-- ! is Niohajgei live! 1 1 8 , ii "Hrs. . r, M,r, , 4 l -. .- .' ' , I . ' i ..J : ' "' , - - -